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Monday, July 23, 2001
Peter Jennings writes in his email newsletter: And finally tonight, we start a series that is a source of some pride. In this day and age we try constantly to find new ways to bring you the news -- in particular the news from faraway datelines that are difficult and expensive to reach. Some time ago, our longtime foreign correspondent Mike Lee came to us with an ambitious proposal. "Send me around the world," was essentially what Mike said.
Thursday, July 19, 2001
so we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Sunday, July 08, 2001
Some upcoming shows of interest on tv:
Time has a pretty funny story about the making of The Score staring Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Angela Bassett (who is ignored in the article) and directed by Frank Oz. It sounds like a Hearts of Darkness style behind the scenes documentary would have been more interesting than the film itself. The New York Times has a related story (the link will be good for about a week) by Patricia Bosworth on her attempts to interview the actor for a biography. From the article in Time (with fuck and ass complete since this is the web):
The July 8th New York Times has an article, Intellectual Science Fiction Is Hollywood's Orphan (the link will only be good for about a week). Despite all the hype over AI being a rare intelligent SF film, true films about ideas are rarely made. Octavia Butler's Kindred has been optioned, but no producer has been able to raise the money to get it made. The article does neglect to mention that the Scifi channel will be making mini-series of Ursula K. Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Earthsea books (and their website did an audio version of Kindred). And the very debasement of science fiction on film helps prevent the situation from changing. From the article:
Wednesday, July 04, 2001
I have sort of a tradition of going to the opening show of the San Francisco Mime Troup on July 4th in Delores Park. I then go towards the end of the season in late August or early September. It has almost always changed (to reflect some of the events that have happened over the summer) and improved.
Tuesday, July 03, 2001
I have a letter on John Stossel's special on the enviroment at medianews.org (it is the first letter under July 2, 2001, so you have to scroll down a bit). |