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LBJ AND PG-13

WilliamsProjects wrote 2 months ago: March 31st in history: On this date in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced on live television t … more →

Tags: Today in History, Trivia, March, President, broadway, Movies, lyndon johnson, New Hampshire, The Music Man

Hands-off My Music CDs!2 comments

Shy Alter wrote 3 years ago: The music industry is cheating you out of your right to own CDs! Yes, you heard it here first. They … more →

Tags: Digital Domain, Music - CD's, online music sales, Music Industry, EPS, streaming music, iTunes

Best writing advice: "Keep it short, sharp and punchy"

Tim Mantyla wrote 3 years ago: This may be the single best piece of writing advice I have ever heard (and which I cannot find any r … more →

Tags: Communication, Technical Communication, Editing, writing, publications, Writing Advice, quotation

Dem's Got Race; Republican's Got Religion

kavips wrote 4 years ago: Naturally one should expect the two most divisive divisions of America to surface during a heated ca … more →

Tags: Patriotism, professional advice, Competition, Religion, Mike Protack, Martin Luther King, racism, Minorities, Mitt Romney

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Jordan Richardson wrote 4 years ago: There is a lot to like about Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It is punchy … more →

Tags: Documentaries, Trailers, 2006, Entertainment, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Kirby Dick, mpaa ratings, IFC

Stolen, The Truth About Piracy

Eric wrote 4 years ago: Who is the real Online Pirate, YOU or THE STUDIOS? This is a documentary about piracy made solely fr … more →

Tags: Documentary, Short Film, News, Piracy, MPAA, npr, lazy sunday, Mark Pesce, Battlestar Galactica

Stolen, The Truth About Piracy (An Essay)1 comment

Eric wrote 4 years ago: Walk down Canal Street in southern Manhattan on a Sunday afternoon and every direction you look loom … more →

Tags: News, Piracy, MPAA, npr, lazy sunday, Mark Pesce, Battlestar Galactica, FOX, studios

This Time This Place by Jack Valenti - A review

ardentiaverba wrote 4 years ago:  Saint Jack? I don’t think so. One must be a very dedicated movie or Jack Valenti watcher to p … more →

Tags: Disconnected jottings, vatican, Sicilian, MPAA, Humble Oil, Luftwaffe, WWII aerial combat, Columbia Pictures, British Board of Film Censors

Movie Ratings: "C" for Censorship?

ctddd wrote 5 years ago: Lots of luminaries shuffling off this mortal coil over the past few weeks–Ray Nasher, Kurt Von … more →

Tags: Ray Nasher, Kurt Vonnegut, MPAA, Dallas Movie Board, Movie Reviews, JFK

Sometimes, you just get a little down...

ersie37 wrote 5 years ago: The damn home computer has been giving me fits the last three weeks. Initially, I thought it was a f … more →

Tags: blogs, Alan David Doane, Night They Raided Minsky's, Computers, Egomania

Jack Valenti (1921-2007)

Joanna wrote 5 years ago: Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for 38 yea … more →

Tags: Tributes

China Film Personality: Han Sanping3 comments

chinafilmbiz wrote 2 months ago: by Robert Cain for China Film Biz March 7, 2012 This week Hollywood welcomes one of the Chinese film … more →

Tags: General News, Rob Cain, China Film Group, zhang yimou, Feng Xiaogang, robert cain, aftershock, Liu Cheng, Han Sanping

Many moons.3 comments

readjack wrote 3 months ago: Time to Settle Accounts February 11, 2012: Many moons. “Here’s what’s troubling about what Newt Ging … more →

Tags: Time to Settle Accounts, Barack Obama, academy awards, Newt Gingrich, Oscars, Moon, Moon Colony, moon statehood, birthright

In LOL STFU News

Whitney Phillips wrote 4 months ago: The ghost of Jack Valenti would be proud Oh no you guys, the MPAA doesn’t approve of today … more →

Tags: Spotlight On, sopa, SOPA & Protect IP, MPAA, SOPA blackout

SOPA and the new era of Censorship.

Wesley James Rands wrote 4 months ago: As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is th … more →

Tags: Rant, Interesting Links, Video Games, Politics, facebook, league of legends, sopa, MPAA, esa

Ideological State Apparatuses

Whitney Phillips wrote 6 months ago: Normally I’d just roll my eyes about this, maybe make a snide comments about how cybercriminal … more →

Tags: Spotlight On, FacePalm, Intellectual Property, fucked up and bullshit, SOPA & Protect IP, Drugs and Crime, eric holder

The True Intent of SOPA37 comments

theagilepanda wrote 6 months ago: The Great Firewall of China has been an inapt metaphor for the entirety of its existence. Its purpos … more →

Tags: technology, sopa, MPAA, Michael O'Leary, great firewall of china

Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation 1 comment

Whitney Phillips wrote 8 months ago: As usual (and weirdly, I swear I’m not doing this on purpose), the thing I wrote yesterday is … more →

Tags: Oh my god EXAMS, digital culture, Darknet, J.D. Lasica, don't tell me what I would and would not download

We is Terrorists2 comments

Soraya wrote 10 months ago: For the past 10 days or so, I was researching how Arabs are stereotyped. Has the stereotype changed? … more →

Tags: iWrite, Thoughts of a Human Goldfish, Research, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, stereotyping, Misconceptions, Hollywood, Reel Bad Arabs


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