Advertising critic Leslie Savan has an interview on Alternet with Carrie McLaren about the New York Ad Map action I wrote about on Tuesday, May 23rd.Mediachannel.org has a feature, Rewriting The Book Business which gathers together a bunch of articles on changes in the publishing industry.
Ms. Magazine has put up some content from their June issue including a story on marriage by Lisa Miya-Jervis, the editor of Bitch magazine (which I've written about). She's co-edited an anthology on marriage, Young Wives' Tales, which will come out next year from Seal Press.
posted by steve rhodes 6/1/2000 12:14:15 AM
Clerks The Cartoon Series. debuts on ABC tonight at 9:30 pm ET. It has been getting some bad reviews, but I'll check it out. There are six episodes, but ABC might not air them all unless ratings are relatively good.Plus Kevin Smith was pretty upset when the show didn't debut in March and posted a profane rant about ABC after he found out about it from an article in Variety. Indiewire has an interview with him about the show. There's also a longer interview at Ain't It Cool News (but it is hard to read because of the color of the text). And there is lots of info at Newsaskew.
I rented the DVD of Clerks recently to see the film again. The website has an interesting Production Art section which shows how a couple of scenes were created. It has storyboards, scripts, the rough animatic and the final scene.
posted by steve rhodes 5/31/2000 1:59:18 PM
Matthew Mirapaul has his annual look on the New York Times website at this year's mostly lame movies sites, Summer Movie Sites Lack Hollywood's Digital Magic. The most interesting site seems to be for The Perfect Storm which has an original 13 minute long documentary on the events that inspired the book and film.Dreamworks usually partners with a company like reel (for Chicken Run) or amazon (for the horrible Small Time Crooks site). And the NYT fails to provide links to Mirapaul's previous summer movie site columns which offer some historical perspective. And if you click on the links you get a sense of how many sites either have vanished or haven't been updated since they launched (even though all of them are now available on video).
- Summer Movie Sites Fall Short of Blockbuster Status 1999
- Summer Movie Sites Finally Exploit The Web's Multimedia Potential 1998
- Click, Click, Bang, Bang: The Summer Movie Wrap-Up 1997
- Razzle-Dazzle of Summer Movies Is Lost on Hollywood Web Sites 1996
posted by steve rhodes 5/29/2000 2:30:44 AM
Every Tuesday, American Movie Classics, features Reel to Reel which is a documentary followed by a related movie or movies.This Tuesday, May 30th at 8 pm eastern, AMC will be showing Reel Models: The First Women of Film. It was produced by Barbara Streisand's production company. It focuses on directors Alice Guy-Blache, Lois Weber and Dorothy Azner and screenwriter Frances Marion.
It is followed by a number of films.
- 9 pm Elain May's A New Leaf
- 11 pm Nocturne, a film noir produced by Joan Harrison
- 12:30 am Algie, the Miner - a silent short by Alice Guy-Blache
- 12:45 am How Men Propose, a silent short written and directed by Lois Weber
- 1 am Pollyana, a silent film written by Frances Marion
Then Reel Models repeats at 2 am and a New Leaf at 3 am.
A related book by Cari Beauchamp is Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood.
posted by steve rhodes 5/28/2000 7:52:09 PM
The WNBA starts their 4th season on Monday, May 29th. Here is the first week of televised games.New York at Houston, Monday at 3 p.m. ET (NBC)
WNBA 2000 Season Preview, Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Indiana at Miami, Thursday at 8 p.m. ET (Lifetime)
New York at Washington, Sunday at noon ET (NBC)
posted by steve rhodes 5/28/2000 7:42:03 PM
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