Friday, December 31, 2010
2010. Unannotated.
Big Screen"The Ghost Writer"
"The Social Network"
"I Love You, Phillip Morris"
"Black Swan"
"The Town""Toy Story 3"
"Inception"
"Let Me In"
"Tangled"
"City Island"
Little Screen"Morning Joe"
"The Middle"
"In Treatment"
"The Big Bang Theory"
"The Soup"
Actors Acting Bale ("The Fighter")
Portman ("Black Swan")
Brosnan ("The Ghost Writer")
Leo ("The Fighter")
Eckhart ("Rabbit Hole")
Heaton ("The Middle")
Byrne ("In Treatment")
Murphy, voice ("Tangled")
indelible moment: Wilder's "The Apartment"
"Ring out the old year, ring in the new. Ring-a-ding-ding" - Fran Kubelik, forelorn on New Year's Eve.- From Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" (1960), an apt quote to end 2010.
Some final questions as we wrap up this year
How fitting to end the year with questions. What’s yours?
Matt starts with a follow-up question about the "how did we handle drinking on CHEERS" post:
Were the actors actually nursing beer?
They were drinking “near-beer”, 3.2 alcohol content, and it was warm. I don’t know George Wendt guzzled all that swill each week.
However, the Heinekens in the writers room were real.
VP81955 asks:
At times I see sitcom episodes directed by cast members, which I presume is one of the "perks" of their contract. What's your experience been like in those situations? Are they looking for diversifying their resume in later years -- in other words, are they genuinely interested in directing as a future endeavor -- and do you assist them when they have to act in a scene?
Some actors are excellent directors. Three that I have worked with are Alan Alda, Kelsey Grammer, and Adam Arkin. There have been other times when actors have directed and the results have been, uh… “less than stellar”. In one case, and I won’t name the actor, anytime he directed it was bizarre. Normally he was the nicest guy in the world, but the minute he stepped onto the stage as the director he became a tyrant, even snapping at his fellow cast members. The next week he was just an actor again and went back to being the sweetest guy on the planet. How the rest of the cast didn't kill I do not know.
On multi-camera shows, when actors direct they pretty much leave all the camera blocking and technical stuff to the camera coordinator. And of course, if you’re blocking a scene without regard to just how you plan to shoot it, you may block it in such a way that is hard or impossible to shoot. Actors are too close to walls, upstaging each other, in spots where the camera can't find them, etc. Those camera blocking days can be total nightmares.
Kelsey was the only one I saw who really studied the cameras and participated in that aspect of the job.
Generally, when an actor directs an episode it’s one in which he’s very light. Some will ask for an objective eye like the first AD and others won’t. Of course actors in long-running series generally know their characters so well that they don’t need much guidance.
Do you know which actor was also a director? Someone I bet you wouldn’t expect. Nick Colasanto, the Coach on CHEERS. He directed tons of episodes of HAWAII 5-0 (the good version), COLUMBO, STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, and even BONANZA.
I wonder if Ron Howard ever asked the producers of HAPPY DAYS if he could direct an episode and they told him to just stick to acting.
From Cedric Hohnstadt:
I'd love to know your thoughts, Ken: Is it possible to train yourself to be creatively "in the zone" when needed or is inspiration something that always strikes on its own random schedule?
If you write for television, especially on staff, you cannot afford to wait for the muse to come along and inspire you. You must train yourself to write on demand. Morning, night, late night, when you’re tired, have a cold, dealing with family issues, ducking a drug cartel – it makes no difference. You’re expected to be productive. This takes discipline, experience, and fear (I mean, “motivation”).
A large part of the job is being able to perform under pressure. During filming nights on multi-camera shows, when a joke bombs the writers quickly huddle and with the cast and crew waiting and two hundred people in the audience impatiently looking on, you’re expected to come up with that new killer line. You can’t say, “Let me go up to my cabin in Arrowhead for the weekend, pour myself some nice Swiss Miss, light a cozy fire, put on my “Pat Boone Sings Heavy Metal” CD, and work on it. I’ll have the joke for you on Monday.” You need it now. Just like the drug cartel.
Phillip B wonders:
Have you ever been approached -- or tempted - to work on an "unscripted" show?
I have an idea for an unscripted series. It’s one of those outdoorsman-type shows, where everyone wears hats and totes around rifles. HUNTING THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS. What do you think?
Happy New Year to everyone. Drive carefully tonight.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wikileaks: Condoleezza Rice cable confirms Israel destroyed Syrian reactor
Right here it says so:
What will come next? Something like:
The text of the cable, published on Friday by an Israeli Daily Yediot Ahronoth, sent by then US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice says “On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea’s help.”Wow... I am gobsmacked... speechless and awed...
What will come next? Something like:
Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king, / And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: / For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? / Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.”No more, please... I cannot hold my breath anymore.
From Moscow with love
The place: center of Moscow. The date: December 2010 (according to EXIF info on the image). The text: "Kikes - out of Russia!".
I hope I don't have to explain the swastika, the 14-88 etc... business as usual.
Do ya'll think it's Photoshop?
The Council Has Spoken..New Years Eve Edition
Here are this week’s full results, the last this year:
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 votes! – The Glittering Eye --Domestic sitrep
- Second place *t* with 2 votes –Joshuapundit- Standing Upright
- Second place *t* with 2 vote – Right Truth – When Illusion Meets Reality
- Third place *t* with 2/3 votes -The Colossus of Rhodey- Latest “torture”: hard blankets
- Third place *t* with 2/3 votes -The Razor- Because 27 Year Old Aspiring Models Drop Dead All the Time
- Third place *t* with 2/3 votes -GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD- FM 3-24 – v2.0
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Discriminations- Journalistic History Lessons (Or Not)submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Glen Greenwald – The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Third Place with 1 1/3 vote – Doug Ross – So The Democrats Finally Want Fiscal Responsibility? Great.Let’s End Their Disastrous War On Poverty submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -The Propagandist – On The Twelve Evils Of Christmassubmitted by Simply Jews
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Big Lizards -The Turn of a Friendly Card submitted byRhymes With Right
- Fifth place with 2/3 vote - al Hayat – President Obama’s First Two Years in the Middle Eastsubmitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote Planck’s Constant- - Muslims Persecuting Christians As Usualsubmitted by Right Truth
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote Planck’s Constant- -How Can a Liberal Defend Israel submitted by VA Right
Best of 2010
A lot of craft bloggers are recapping their year in crafting with a "favorites" post, so I thought I would share my Top Five from 2010. There is nothing scientific about these and they are in no particular order...just my favorite projects from the past year :)
It was hard to choose :)
According to my statistics, YOUR favorite project (based on the number of hits the post received) was...
Thanks for your support during 2010! Here's to a CRAFTY New Year!
It was hard to choose :)
According to my statistics, YOUR favorite project (based on the number of hits the post received) was...
Thanks for your support during 2010! Here's to a CRAFTY New Year!
The guy who built the MASH set comments for this blog
A few weeks ago I posted photos of a MASH set built in someone's backyard. The person who did that very graciously left this anonymously in the comments section, but I felt it was worth re-posting because as unbelievable as this might sound, not everybody reads the comments. Thanks much to this person, whoever he is.
I sold it over a year ago. It's now in a museum.
These pictures were not posted by me. I did not want this attention. Mainly because I could write the "wayyy to much time on his hands" comment in my sleep. These pictures were first posted on a blog I had never heard of by a friend that was last here 2 years ago.
It was something I wanted to build, and I did. Nothing more,nothing less.
I ask you. Has your hobby, or "obsession" been asked to be in a museum? If not. Maybe you need more time on your hands.
Thanks very much to all of you who made kind thoughtful comments.
I sold it over a year ago. It's now in a museum.
These pictures were not posted by me. I did not want this attention. Mainly because I could write the "wayyy to much time on his hands" comment in my sleep. These pictures were first posted on a blog I had never heard of by a friend that was last here 2 years ago.
It was something I wanted to build, and I did. Nothing more,nothing less.
I ask you. Has your hobby, or "obsession" been asked to be in a museum? If not. Maybe you need more time on your hands.
Thanks very much to all of you who made kind thoughtful comments.
My favorite quotes of 2010
Elton John -- "I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems".
"If vibrators could light the barbie and kill spiders in the bathtub, would we need men at all." -- Kathy Lette, novelist, wonders whether marriage has had its day.
"Meryl Streep looks like an unmade bed”. -- Sharon Stone.
Shaquille O'Neal, asked about becoming the fifth NBA player to score 28,000 points: “I got a call from my father and he said, ‘I'm not going to congratulate you, dummy, because if you had hit your free throws, you would have made 33,000.'”
Lil Wayne -- "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex/ Cuz you don't want that late text, that I think I'm late text"
"I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me." -- Sarah Palin, on writing notes on her hand during her Tea Party convention speech.
LPGA star Christina Kim, referring to Japanese player Sakuta Yokomine before the final round of the U.S. Women's Open: “Phew. I'm glad I don't have to play behind Yokomine today. She's slower than trying to bake a pie with a lighter.”
"We thought we could put it to better use." -- Yigal Palmor, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, on his country's purchase of Twitter account @israel from Israel Melendez, a Spanish owner of a porno website.
"A lot of people say, 'I would rather have a heart attack at the height of sexual passion'. I think I would prefer to be killed by a bookcase." -- Tom Stoppard, on the ideal way to die.
James Franco -- "I spend a fair amount of time alone, especially when I travel . . . So, when I'm alone, I do masturbate a lot."
"I thought it was gum." -- Paris Hilton, denying responsibility for packet of cocaine Las Vegas police found in her bag.
"Life is such a fuckin' rollercoaster then it stops/But what should I scream for, this is my theme park" – Lil Wayne
Chris Snyder, Pittsburgh Pirates catcher, after dropping a throw that led to a one run loss: “That's a play I make 99 times out of 100. Well, I guess now it's 98 times.”
Julia Roberts on why she won’t get Botox -- "Your face tells a story - and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office."
"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree." -- Sarah Palin, Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.
Tweet from Paris Hilton -- "So scary. Just got woken up to a guy trying to break into my house holding 2 big knives. Cops are here arresting him."
Al Michaels, NBC Sunday Night Football announcer, on how lucky he is to be living his current life: “I don't want to come back in the next life because I'll be in Mongolia in a sulfur mine working the night shift.”
"To the passenger who called me a motherfucker, fuck you., I've been in this business for years and that's it I've had it." -- Air steward Steven Slater, who grabbed two bottles of beer and slid down the emergency chute after being abused by a passenger.
Lady Gaga -- "I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina." Yeah, what guy wouldn't want a piece of that?
Ned Colletti, Dodgers general manager, on having seen free-agent Chien-Ming Wang throw only in a parking lot before the right-hander signed with the Nationals: “He had good command, though. He didn't hit any cars or anything.”
"It's a good thing to be old, because that means you haven't died yet, right?" -- Penelope Cruz. Uh, yes, Penelope. You’re right.
"Refudiate. English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it." -- Sarah Palin, who created the word 'refudiate', compares herself to Bard.
Doc Rivers, Boston Celtics head coach, after Glen “Big Baby” Davis suffered a concussion in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals: “I don't know what kind of test they can give him. He's delirious half the time anyway.”
"You have the honesty of Abe Lincoln and the charm of the guy who shot him." -- Dane Cook, comedian, pays tribute to departing American Idol judge Simon Cowell.
Ethan Hawke, who married his nanny after having an affair with her -- "I liken my situation to The Sound of Music, not to Jude Law."
Ringo Starr, on Vatican newspaper editorial praising band on 40th anniversary of breakup -- "I think the Vatican - they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."
"Listen, he's a nice person, but he couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down traffic." -- Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Barack Obama.
"We used to hustle on over the border for health care...And I think, isn't that kind of ironic now." -- Sarah Palin, admits her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment when she was a child. Canada has a single-payer system, which Palin opposes.
"I want you to know, Mrs Obama, that I'm your husband's No 1 fan. And not just because he's a black man. He's mixed. And I wouldn't really know what that looks like anyway." -- Stevie Wonder greets Michelle Obama, wife of US president.
Women Foot Owl Tattoos
So, you’ve decided that you want to get a tribal owl tattoo, but you aren’t sure where to begin? The owl has risen in popularity as a choice for a tribal tattoo lately. It’s easy to see why. The symbol of an owl represents wisdom and has been embraced by many cultures throughout history due to the fact that they are birds of the night. Owls have also been associated with the mystical, and are often depicted in association with wizards and magic. The Cree, a Native American religion, believes that the call of Boreal Owl was a summoning to the entrance of the spirit world. Many cultures around the world have placed spiritual significance upon the owl, and that is why it has increased as a subject in tribal tattooing.
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Women Side Body Owl Tattoos
Owls have also been associated with the mystical, and are often depicted in association with wizards and magic. The Cree, a Native American religion, believes that the call of Boreal Owl was a summoning to the entrance of the spirit world. Many cultures around the world have placed spiritual significance upon the owl, and that is why it has increased as a subject in tribal tattooing. Getting an owl tattoo should be done with prior research though. This symbol will be a permanent feature on your body, so you should take time to do the proper investigation into the artwork before you commit yourself to this tattoo.
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Ex-President Katsav guilty of two counts of rape and sexual assault
It was a shame and at least it's over now.
Women Shoulder Owl Tattoos
Owls have also been associated with the mystical, and are often depicted in association with wizards and magic. The Cree, a Native American religion, believes that the call of Boreal Owl was a summoning to the entrance of the spirit world. Many cultures around the world have placed spiritual significance upon the owl, and that is why it has increased as a subject in tribal tattooing. Getting an owl tattoo should be done with prior research though. This symbol will be a permanent feature on your body, so you should take time to do the proper investigation into the artwork before you commit yourself to this tattoo. It is ideal to use an online tattoo gallery to give you ideas and comments before it is time to be inked. The added bonus is that an online tattoo gallery can also recommend a safe shop and artist to get your new tattoo. Also, choosing the placement of your tattoo is a tough decision as well, as not many employers want to see an owl tattoo displayed on your forearm.
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