[scifinoir2] [Fwd: turn off your lights...]
--- Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] turn off your lights... Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:53:43 -0600 From: Nnedimma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; *Just want to pass this on: Will You Turn Off Your Lights for an Earth Hour?* http://sfist.com/2008/03/28/will_you_turn_o.php Today, March 29, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. millions of people will turn of their lights to make a statement about climate change. It's all a part of Earth Hour, a green event conceived by the World Wildlife Fund. Over 100 U.S. cities are participating in the do-goodery, including Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, and, of course, San Francisco. While this won't do much insofar as saving the planet--which is doomed!--it will make a dark and profound statement about conservation and the environment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Ten amazing facts about your brain
Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light The brain uses 12 watts of power, about the same amount of energy as in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it's an energy hog. It is only 3 per cent of the body's weight, but consumes 1/6 (17 per cent) of the body's total energy. Most of its energy costs go into maintenance; the added cost of thinking hard is barely noticeableFrequent jet lag can damage memory Jet lag is not simply annoying; in repeated doses it can be dangerous to your brain's health. People who often cross many time zones can experience brain damage and memory problems. This probably results from the stress hormones released during jet lag that are known to damage the temporal lobe and memory. You probably don't need to worry because, unless you work for an airline, few people fly across multiple time zones more often than every two weeks. Shift workers are more likely to be at risk. Like repeated jet travel, frequent drastic changes in working hours are likely to cause stress on the body and brain. Why you can't hear phone conversations in a noisy room Talking on your mobile phone in a noisy place can be difficult. Your mobile makes the brain's task harder by feeding sounds from the room you're in through its circuitry and mixing them with the sound it gets from the other phone. This makes it a harder problem for your brain to solve because your friend's transmitted voice and the room noise are tinny and mixed together in one source. Cover the mouthpiece when you're trying to hear your caller and you'll stop the mixing. Shoot-'em-up video games can help you to multitask Sustained multitasking increases your ability to pay attention to many things at the same time. A significant source of practice is playing action video games where the aim is to shoot as many enemies as possible before they shoot you. These games make you distribute attention across the screen, and quickly detect and react to events. Playing Tetris (an early puzzle-based video game) doesn't have the same effect, perhaps because you have to concentrate on only one object at a time, rather than multitask. Does this mean that you should encourage your kids to play shoot-'em-up action games? We wouldn't go out of our way to expose kids to violent images, but at least you can take heart that video game-playing has positive effects. The brain has a joke centre Humour is hard to define, but we know it when we see it. One theory suggests that humour consists of a surprise - we don't end up where we thought we were going - followed by a reinterpretation of what came earlier to make it fit the new perspective. To make it a joke instead of a logic puzzle, the result needs to be a coherent story that isn't strictly sensible in everyday terms. Some patients with damage to the frontal lobe of their brain, particularly on the right side, don't get jokes at all. Typically, this is because they have trouble with the reinterpretation stage of the process. For instance, given a joke with a choice of punchlines, they can't tell which one is funny. There's a reason you remember those annoying songsHaving a song or, more often, part of a song stuck in your head is incredibly frustrating. But sequence recall has a special and useful place in our memories. We constantly have to remember sequences, from the movements involved in signing our name or making coffee in the morning, to the names of the exits that come before the motorway turn-off we take to drive home every day. The ability to recall these sequences makes many aspects of everyday life possible. As you think about a snippet of song or speech, your brain may repeat a sequence that strengthens the connections associated with that phrase. In turn, this increases the likelihood that you will recall it, which leads to more reinforcement. You could break this unending cycle of repeated recall and reinforcement - which may be necessary for the normal strengthening and cementing of memories - by introducing other sequences. Thinking of another song may allow a competing memory to crowd out the first one: find another infectious song and hope that the cure doesn't become more annoying than the original problem.Sunlight makes you sneeze Many people sneeze when they look into bright light. Why would we have such a reflex and how does it work? The basic function of a sneeze is fairly obvious: it expels substances or objects that are irritating your airways. The sneezing centre is located in the brainstem, in a region called the lateral medulla; damage to this site means that we lose the ability to sneeze. Sneezing usually is triggered by news of an irritant that is sent through brain pathways and into the lateral medulla. This information gets to the brain from the nose through several nerves, including the trigeminal nerve, which carries a wide variety of signals from the face
[scifinoir2] Battlestar's Olmos OK If All Die
Edward James Olmos, who plays Adm. William Adama on SCI FI Channel's series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that it's not inconceivable that all of the characters will die by the end of the upcoming fourth and final season--and that would be OK with him. Not that that is in any way a spoiler for the upcoming season. But Olmos said it would be fitting for a show that he called a commentary on our times and the most worthwhile piece of television he has ever done. Basically, if it?s true to form, no one makes it, Olmos said in an interview at SCI FI's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York earlier this month. Producers have been tight-lipped about their plans for the show's climax and denouement, though it's believed that the fourth season will take up the sudden reappearance of Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and her revelation that she's been to Earth. Meanwhile, four people must deal with the sudden knowledge that they are Cylons. If everyone were to die? I think that people would be shocked, and they'd be hurt, and they would be totally, totally frustrated, Olmos said. But I've got to tell you, that's a truth that people have to realize. We may do it to ourselves [in real life]. It all depends on us now and what choices we make. Battlestar Galactica will kick off its fourth season on April 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with the episode He That Believeth in Me. --Ian Spelling http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=51211 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Eureka Strikes Gold with Season 3
The magic of season one did not have the magic of Season Two. I hope they rediscover the magic of season one with the new season Eureka Strikes Gold with Season 3 When will the new season air? by Scott Collura http://tv.ign.com/articles/861/861654p1.html March 25, 2008 - The SCI FI Channel's whimsical comedy/drama Eureka has already had two seasons of episodes air since its debut in the summer of 2006, which is a relatively speedy run compared to how the network unrolls some of its other series. And while a third season of the show has been ordered by SCI FI, the recent Writers Guild strike has impacted the timing of when the new batch of shows will be produced. IGN TV recently caught up with series star Joe Morton to discuss the status of Eureka and get the lowdown on the whens, wheres, and how-manys to expect from Season 3. I actually don't know, the actor told us when asked what his character Henry Deacon will be up to in Season 3. Because the strike sort of happened the way it happened, the writers have just gotten back to work. So I have no idea what's going to happen. There're all kinds of things that I could imagine. I'd love him to get involved in space exploration. I'd love for him to get involved with politics. I'd love to get him involved with a sort of global idea about how we can make the planet a better place. I'd love for the science fiction to become a greater metaphor for what's kind of going on in the real world today. The good news to come out of the strike, says Morton, is that the show has gotten an increase in the number of episodes greenlit for production. We were supposed to start in March; now we'll start in May, he says. We will still go on air in July, from what I understand. I know there is now an order, instead of the usual 13, of 21 [episodes]. But I don't know how that's going to split up, whether it will be just for the third year or it will be the third and fourth year. But I do know that strike sort of hit us in a hard way in terms of when we would start. Morton says that he enjoys the lighter tone of his show when compared to other SCI FI staples like the dark Battlestar Galactica, though he isn't concerned that Eureka is in danger of ever becoming too lightweight. I don't think it will, one because of the actors that are involved and two because of the writers that are involved, he says. To further become a sitcom or even just a murder mystery is not what this thing is going to turn into. Additionally, now that Galactica is heading towards its finale and SCI FI is down to just one Stargate series (for the moment), Morton believes the network is beginning to rely on Eureka as a flagship series more and more. I think for the time being, says the actor. We seem to be the number one show on the network. For as long as that will be, fine. That's who we are. You know, but we're a show on a television network. We'll see what happens! Morton, who has been doing sci-fi films and TV for decades now, is perhaps most recognizable for his portrayal of the creator of the Terminators, Miles Dyson, in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. As such, we couldn't help but geekily ask him if he's tuned into the new Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles show, which has featured his character's wife (and his tombstone)! He hasn't seen the show, but he was delighted to hear that Mrs. Dyson is alive and well… Oh, really? That's great, he laughs. Because actually, when we did the movie, one of the first things I thought of was there's this woman and my son, who we kind of left and who don't know what happened. So that's great!
[scifinoir2] 'Jericho' Ending Leaves Door Open
By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: TV Guide Mar-26-2008 This story contains MODERATE SPOILERS of the series finale of Jericho. While Tuesday's series finale was meant to provide some closure to Jericho fans, there was an effort to at least keep some storylines at bay in case another network or cable channel decides to pick up the series. I've always said that the alternate ending doesn't wrap up the series, executive producer Carol Barbee told Matt Webb Mitovich of TV Guide. It just lets you know that everyone is OK and it closes out this seven-episode arc. But we could definitely keep it going. And keeping it going is exactly what Barbee is trying to do by shopping the series around, which reportedly has earned some interest from SciFi Channel which is airing reruns of the show. In the finale, Hawkins (Lennie James) goes face-to-face with John Smith (Xander Berkeley), who has been feeding him information on the new government all season long, and who was identified the previous week as the mastermind behind the September attacks, as they are called. Both Hawkins and Jake (Skeet Ulrich) grab a private plane and are able to get into the Republic of Texas, but that's not how it was originally supposed to play out. I can tell you that in the original ending, Hawkins has to sacrifice himself to let Jake get away with the bomb and get it to Texas so it can be tested and prove that they were telling the truth, Barbee said. Texas would then swing their support to Columbus and defeat Cheyenne. A civil war between the two countries with Texas taking the side of Columbus was alluded to in the series finale when what happens next was briefly explained to Jake. Of course, when Barbee says that Hawkins sacrifices himself, she doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing his life. He gets captured and he's also shot ... he's pretty messed up, and Jake feels like he's leaving him for dead, she said. So we show you where he's taken and you see that the mission for the next season is, 'We have to go rescue Hawkins and we have to stop these [bad] guys.' When they see the alternate ending, it certainly completes the story from this season and tells you everything you need to know to have understood Season 2. It just doesn't point to that next mission. http://syfyportal.com/news424868.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] SyFriday: Please Do 'Children Of Men' Right
By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Mar-28-2008 It's easy to be guilty by association. I know that because one time when I was like 8 years old on the mean streets of Johnsonburg, Pa., a bunch of my friends thought it would be great to start throwing rocks. So they did, and they ended up hitting someone's mom, who obviously got angry and called our parents. I didn't throw a single rock, but my dad looked me straight in the eye and told me that it didn't matter if I threw a rock or not. I was still guilty by association. In Hollywood, there's no such thing as being guilty by association. Instead, like everything else in the world of television and movies, it's the exact opposite. You're not guilty by association, but you can gain success and acclaim simply by being associated with something. Sometimes, I wonder if that is what's happening with David Eick. Don't get me wrong, I really do like what Eick -- who is an executive producer with Battlestar Galactica -- has done, and I agree with him on many things he says during his numerous interviews. Eick has achieved a lot of attention thanks to the critical success of Battlestar Galactica, and maybe a lot of it is deserved. But then I see the episodes that Eick has written, like the very forgettable episode Hero, and I'm not sure if I have the same confidence the industry has given him. And then I see Bionic Woman, and I get even more worried. Because Eick is associated with Battlestar Galactica, a lot of doors to some very sensitive projects have opened for him. One of them was Bionic Woman, which could've been fascinating and entertaining if done right, and now we have learned he is going to be taking on a television version of Children of Men. Please, leave Children of Men alone. The 2006 film, co-written by Alfonso Cuaron and a host of other people loosely based on the novel by P.D. James was an amazing story (and some amazing work of cinematography). In a future world where humans can no longer have babies and where xenophobia is at its zenith, one man is tasked with protecting what could be the future of the human race: an immigrant who is very pregnant. Now to Eick's credit, he wants to concentrate more on the James novel than the film, so we don't have to worry about any damage taking place to the film, but I really want to wait and see who else Eick brings in to help him pull this off. One of the amazing things about Battlestar Galactica is that while Ronald D. Moore was the creative genius behind the show, it was Eick who was more of the marketing genius, and also was the person who knew how to keep the network happy on the business side (something very hard to do). If you removed either Eick or Moore from the equation, Battlestar Galactica would've easily stumbled if it didn't have someone like the two of them putting it together. But Eick figures he can strike it solo, and I just don't think it works. While he might have a good handle on the business side, he still needs an amazing creative balance to make it work. And I worry that he won't bring in the right balance, and once again, another Eick project will go up in smoke. I hope that doesn't happen. Because as much as I disliked Hero and as much as I could've done without the time Bionic Woman sapped from my life, Eick really is a key factor in the success of Battlestar Galactica, and he has done some tremendous work. For every Hero, there is a two-parter like Home, that I thought Eick did wonderful job writing. So don't take this as Eick bashing in any way. I want to see Eick earn his due as a great producer (and someday, maybe even as a passable writer) just as we know Moore will, but please figure out that it does take a formula to make it work, and figure it out before you get too knee-deep into Children of Men. Because I want a good show to watch, that will leave me just as satisfied as I was with the movie, and almost as satisfied as I am with Battlestar Galactica. http://syfyportal.com/news424876.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Hillary Says 8-Year-Old Bosnian Girl Was Actually Sniper - SATIRE
March 26, 2008 - SATIRE Hillary Says 8-Year-Old Bosnian Girl Was Actually Sniper - SATIRE Bouquet of Flowers Hid Semiautomatic Weapon Accused in recent days of embellishing her story of a brush with sniper fire in Bosnia, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today said “don’t be fooled” by photos showing her being greeted at the airport by a pony-tailed 8-year-old Bosnian girl with a bouquet of flowers. “That was no little girl,” Sen. Clinton told reporters in Gary, Indiana. “That was a covert ops midget sniper.” The New York senator said that moments after the “so-called little girl” presented her with the flowers, she revealed what the bouquet had been hiding: “a tiny semi-automatic weapon.” “Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to use some of the Tae Kwon Do techniques I had learned in preparation for the Northern Ireland peace talks,” she said. Defending his wife against charges that she had yet again fabricated her exploits while First Lady, former President Bill Clinton told CNN’s John King that “Democratic voters have a clear choice this election: do they want a liar or a plagiarist?” “Hillary tells some real whoppers, but at least they’re original,” he said. In response to a question about whether he believes his wife’s account of the events in Bosnia, Mr. Clinton said, “All I have to say about that is Reverend Wright Reverend Wright Reverend Wright Reverend Wright Reverend Wright.” www.borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=RkXhUyGM7s10403ecd0a[EMAIL PROTECTED]rec=6853 Sign up today for your own Borowitz Reports, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=uq1xxEghai10403ecd0a ***Andy in Montreal – April 8*** Andy makes his first-ever appearance in Canada on Tuesday, April 8 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. 7:30 PM, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine; admission free. ***Andy’s Only West Coast Appearance – April 24*** Andy makes his only scheduled West Coast appearance Thursday, April 24 at University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 PM at Campbell Hall. Tickets available at http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=VQ3mzwzzhA10403ecd0a ***Andy with Calvin Trillin, Susie Essman and Jonathan Alter – May 13*** Andy hosts Countdown to '08 on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM at the 92nd St. Y with his special guests Calvin Trillin (bestselling author, The New Yorker), Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek, MSNBC). The Y is located at 92nd St. and Lexington Avenue. For tickets, go to www.92y.org. ***Andy at Mark Twain’s House – May 28*** Spend “An Evening With Andy Borowitz” at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday, May 28. Event begins at 6 PM. For tickets and information call Janet Youmans at 860-280-3113 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may unsubscribe from this list by visiting the following URL in your browser: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=J78GOztmDYc10403ecd0a Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] 'Jericho' too cynical for the times?
What do you think? 'Jericho' too cynical for the times? http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/03/27/jericho_too_cynical_for_the_times/ By Joanna Weiss Globe Staff / March 27, 2008 In the series finale of the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho, in an offhand conversation, a couple of characters voiced one of the show's underlying points: Don't mess with the Second Amendment. more stories like this That's notable not just because it's a departure from typical Hollywood politics, or because the episode aired shortly after the Supreme Court heard a landmark case on the right to bear arms. It also speaks to an ongoing theme of the show, the notion that the government can't always be trusted. And if that doesn't sound especially radical, think of how it was received by viewers. Even amid an unpopular war, in a country with no shortage of cynics, a show this doubtful of the government's intentions can't seem to draw a mainstream audience. Jericho, which ended its run on Tuesday, did have a small, fervent base of support, but it never managed to break through. The show was canceled for low viewership by CBS last spring, then resurrected for a seven-episode trial run after fans sent nuts to the network offices. (It was a reference to a we-won't-back-down slogan in the show, as well as to the Battle of the Bulge.) This season's arc - which drew even fewer viewers than last year's episodes - played out as a cautionary tale about the perils of a government that gains too much power. Like HBO's brilliant The Wire, which ended its fifth and final season this month, it was one of few TV shows to take a decidedly cynical view of the people in charge. Most of the time, on TV, we get the opposite message. The detectives, lawyers, and forensic scientists of the enduring Law and Order and CSI incarnations are universally good. The fighting forces of CBS's The Unit sacrifice greatly to save us all. Even the corrupt cops on FX's The Shield are softies at the core, skimming off the top to pay for family essentials, such as private-school tuition for autistic kids. And though each season of Fox's 24 has its fair share of government high-ups gone bad, the traitors are always exceptions, destined to be caught. To the end, Jericho made no such promises. If The Wire was a real-time look at corruption and fatal compromise in Baltimore, Jericho was a worst-case-scenario fantasy, spelled out with intriguing detail. It began with a dread attack: 23 American cities destroyed by nuclear bombs. It asked what would happen next from the perspective of regular folks, represented by the good-hearted citizens of a Kansas town. This season, the good people of Jericho were occupied by an army loyal to a corrupt pretender government, which was intertwined with a Halliburtonesque company called Jennings Rall. The small-town heroes had proof that the government was covering up the true source of the attacks, and may have had a hand in the plot. (In a nice touch, they had to prove their case to Texas, which had formed an independent republic and revived its Alamo spirit.) Yes, there were elements of crazed conspiracy theory here, but the premise wasn't entirely unrealistic; the vision of an encroaching military was clearly built on fears of post-9/11 government overreach in the name of national security. Maybe because this season was so short, Jericho didn't fully live up to its what-if potential. The show ended up going the easy 24 route of fingering a single, dastardly mastermind. (Could it be an accident that he was played by Xander Berkeley, who was prominent in the early seasons of 24?) And despite considerable pressure, the core of regular folks got through with their principles intact. Still Jericho didn't end on an entirely happy note. The finale offered a hint of what would have come if the show had won a third season: a civil war between the forces of good and corruption, and a decent chance that corruption would still prevail. Perhaps it's no wonder it got so few takers; on TV these days, we still prefer to focus on the good. It's much easier, after all, to sell a show about charitable giving or cheerful redemption, preferably set to uplifting music. On ABC's Dancing With the Stars the other night, contestant Steve Guttenberg gushed about how nice this show was for America. And on American Idol this week, on-the-bubble contestant Kristy Lee Cook made a decent effort to have save herself by crooning Lee Greenwood's uberpatriotic God Bless the USA. That song has a widely perceived Second Amendment message, too. It's just a message that doesn't require quite so much thinking. Joanna Weiss can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more on TV, go to viewerdiscretion.net Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional
[scifinoir2] 'Jericho': Who -- or what -- is to blame?
Jericho': Who -- or what -- is to blame? 10:25 AM PT, Mar 25 2008 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/03/jericho-who-kil.html?cid=108346366 Now that we officially know that tonight's second-season finale of Jericho will also be the series finale, it's tempting to try to find someone or something to blame for what went wrong. How did such a hyped achievement -- CBS' decision to un-cancel the series due to overwhelming fan response -- result in a return that faded away so unspectacularly? Let's look at the prime suspects: The strike Conventional wisdom reckoned that the WGA strike and the resulting dearth of scripted shows during the winter would help Jericho stand out among weakened competition. But the winter's reality-heavy environment might have made it even more difficult for Jericho to connect with audiences. Viewers were tuning out in droves and CBS took one of the biggest ratings hits among all networks, leaving a limited audience to promote the Jericho return to. Even freshly written episodes of Late Show With David Letterman struggled due to the overall decline in CBS viewership. The time slot CBS moved the series out of the family-friendly 8 p.m. hour to 10 p.m. and there's the possibility that many of the original viewers were unwilling to follow. In defense of CBS, part of the plan was to give Jericho an established lead-in. Unfortunately (due in no small part to the strike) that established lead-in was the sleaze-tastic reality show Big Brother 9, which had never before aired outside of the low-expectations summer season. The audiences were, to put it kindly, completely incompatible and for a few weeks Jericho wound up with slightly better numbers than Big Brother anyway. The network Everyone's favorite scapegoat. Clearly everything that went wrong with Jericho was entirely CBS' fault! Never mind that they took a big, and welcome, risk by bringing the show back in the first place. Let's face it, a serial drama was always going to have a rough go of things on the network's current schedule. Jericho didn't repeat its plotlines every week, or solve a problem within the hour, and that seems to be the only way to find success as a scripted drama on CBS right now. Hopefully the experience doesn't discourage the network from taking similar chances in the future, but stepping back and looking at the whole picture I'd say that both the network and the producers tried their best to make an unlikely marriage work. Some couples just aren't meant to be ... Alternative means of viewing Some people will point to how popular Jericho is with TiVo users, or how high it ranks among iTunes downloads, or how well the Season 1 DVDs sold on Amazon.com. That's all great as an after-market for a show that draws an audience to its ad-supported broadcast airings. CBS isn't HBO. The amount of people who watch on live TV (and the age and income level of those people) really does matter. And if you downloaded Jericho through BitTorrent, it's really not a good idea to go crying to CBS about how much you'll miss the show. The fans A controversial argument to be sure. But if only the Jericho fans had shown a little bit of passion ... oh forget it, no one's gonna buy this one. The ratings Last season, Jericho averaged 9.5 million viewers and a 2.8 in the 18-49 demo. This season, the show averaged 6.8 million viewers and a 1.9 in the 18-49 demo. The defense may raise mitigating factors, like the shady way Nielsen measures the audience or everything else mentioned above, but the bottom line is that those numbers are barely acceptable on NBC. On CBS, they'll get you a death sentence. Case closed. -- Geoff Berkshire == A Los Angeles Times blogger yesterday attempted to examine the various reasons why Jericho — the nuclear-aftermath drama CBS canceled and then brought back for a second try this spring to appease rabid fans — finally imploded and aired its series finale (for good this time, we mean it, really) last night. The writer discusses myriad business issues — the strike, the time slot, network decisions, etc. — but utterly ignores the one thing we too often overlook in these discussions, and the one thing that really matters when it comes to ratings: the story. This kind of practical analysis is fine for the business pages, but there are artistic elements to the entertainment we can't get into the habit of ignoring. Simply put, the story on this new season of Jericho was weak. The show was beloved in its first go-round because, I think, it was a tale of true patriotism and America's core values (and it creeps me out a little to write those phrases, given how they've been so commonly co-opted by the right wing as rhetorical weapons). It had (again, shudder) family values. It was a story of what really matters in people's personal lives; the political stuff was a vehicle for that. But when it came back, the political vehicle was a
[scifinoir2] Hillary Says She ‘Misspoke’ About Wrest ling Bin Laden
Original Message Subject:Misspeaking Shocke Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:30:14 -0400 From: borowitzreport.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: borowitzreport.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 25, 2008 Hillary Says She Misspoke About Wrestling Bin Laden Was Greeting Students in Orlando, Clinton Admits Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been accused in recent days of padding her foreign policy resume while First Lady, admitted today that she may have exaggerated about an encounter she said she had with al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998. In an appearance on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday, Sen. Clinton told host Tim Russert, I wrestled bin Laden in his cave in 1998 and had him pinned to the ground before the bastard got away. But a review of Sen. Clintons official White House schedule from that period revealed that the then-First Lady was nowhere in the vicinity of Mr. bin Laden on that day, but was instead greeting a group of honor roll students at Disney World in Orlando. I may have misspoke about what went on that particular day, Sen. Clinton said today. But it was a very busy time for me, what with having that knife-fight with Kim Jong-Il and all. Reporters peppered Sen. Clintons new press spokesman with questions about another purported exploit of hers, in which the senator claimed that she and a ragtag team of blue-collar drillers deflected an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. Everything Hillary Clinton says is true, said her new spokesman, the author James Frey. www.borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=A9nDGeXIdE10403ecd0a[EMAIL PROTECTED]rec=6852 Sign up today for your own Borowitz Reports, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=VSeKch1Bya10403ecd0a ***Andy in Montreal April 8*** Andy makes his first-ever appearance in Canada on Tuesday, April 8 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. 7:30 PM, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine; admission free. ***Andys Only West Coast Appearance April 24*** Andy makes his only scheduled West Coast appearance Thursday, April 24 at University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 PM at Campbell Hall. Tickets available at http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=pecXe1HPxA10403ecd0a ***Andy with Calvin Trillin, Susie Essman and Jonathan Alter May 13*** Andy hosts Countdown to '08 on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM at the 92nd St. Y with his special guests Calvin Trillin (bestselling author, The New Yorker), Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek, MSNBC). The Y is located at 92nd St. and Lexington Avenue. For tickets, go to www.92y.org. ***Andy at Mark Twains House May 28*** Spend An Evening With Andy Borowitz at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday, May 28. Event begins at 6 PM. For tickets and information call Janet Youmans at 860-280-3113 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may unsubscribe from this list by visiting the following URL in your browser: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=6i5PSRnuNcc10403ecd0a [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Galaxy Quest
I absolutely love that movie. I can not tell you how many times I have seen it and it never fails to make me laugh. I sure wish it had been more successful at the box office so that they could have done a sequel. It is one of my all time favorites ravenadal wrote: I had the pleasure of watching Galaxy Quest yesterday (it was on satellite). A spoof of the original Star Trek series and the twenty years its stars spent in the acting wilderness, appearing at comicons and supermarket openings, Quest is delightful in its many conceits. The main conceit is right out of the Star Trek playbook: an benign alien race has intercepted television transmissions of the original Galaxy Quest program and has misinterpreted them as historical documents. They have recreated everything from the series and have come to retrieve the original cast members to save them from annihilation at the hands of the Sarris, a scaly-skinned evil-doer. Galaxy Quest is clever and amusing and makes great use of its excellent cast which includes Tim Allen as the starship commander, Sigourney Weaver as the hot communications officer, Alan Rickman as the alien science officer, Tony Shalhoub as the head of engineering, Daryl Mitchell as the child navigator who has since grown into a man and Sam Rockwell as the crewman with no last name who always gets killed. As they have proven in other venues, Richman and Shalhoub are superb in their respective parts. Trivia note 1: Mathesar, the eternally blissed alien leader, is played by Enrico Colatoni - Keith (Veronica Mars' daddy) from the Veronica Mars series. Trivia note 2: Galaxy Quest also marks the first big screen appearance of Justin Long, the Mac guy from the Apple Computer ads. Long plays a teenage Galaxy Quest fanatic who's encyclopedic knowledge of the show's arcane details plays an integral part in saving the day. I have seen Galaxy Quest many times and still find it a pleasant way to salt away a couple of hours. ~rave! Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Children of Men Comes To TV
Eick Adapts Children For TV Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film of the same name. It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus, Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line? Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively, he said. It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue. Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM.) --Ian Spelling http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=50711 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] BSG
Well Put!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSG was a glorious attempt...but the realities of limited resources and a viewer base that was both starved for more yet too critical of this flawed but groundbreaking show. I for one applaud the effort if not always the execution and hope this show is the platform that launches us into the next generation of realistic portrayals of the human experience in sci fi fantasy. - Original Message - From: Martin Date: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:55 pm Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] BSG To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Bosco, entirely IMO, you're standing almost at the pinnacle of the run. Season 2 had a few moments for me, a few more let- downs. The absolute summit of the series, for me, was Exodus, Part Two, specifically *because* it's a military-intensive ep. Hope I haven't poisoned the well for you. Bosco Bosco wrote: So I am almost finished with the first season of BSG and I am torn. There are moments which flash upon potential greatness and there are moments which make me wanna burn the discs. I've never been a big fan of military Sci-fi for the most part. I am sure there are exceptions which my pre-coffee brain is not pulling to the front and center of my conciousness. I've heard raves about this show. I had high hopes. There are enough good ideas being explored to maintain my interest but the intrigue/espionage/infiltration aspects seem weak, almost laughable and the high school Poly-Sci classroom exploration of politics is at times frustrating enough to make me want to tear out my hair. Does it even out? Do the melodrama aspects shrink? Are the more interesting ideas about humanity, conciousness and choice become bigger parts of the equation? Bosco __ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Children of Men Comes To TV
After seeing what Eick did to Bionic Woman, I'm terrified They are going to destroy a classic Daryle Lockhart wrote: It's time once again to play Ruin That Sci-Fi idea! today's contestant is: Sci Fi Channel! How many episodes will it take for SFC to ruin THIS idea? I have money on... one. Anybody else? On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:23:27 -0400, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eick Adapts Children For TV Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film of the same name. It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus, Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line? Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively, he said. It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue. Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM.) --Ian Spelling http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=50711 Yahoo! Groups Links ⤽We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.� -- George Santayana Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] [Fwd: Now Big Dog Next the terminator]
Original Message Subject:Now Big Dog Next the terminator Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:31:14 -0700 From: Chris de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'julia demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'paul demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww amazing – remember this thing is self controlling – there is no human operator driving it from a video consule somewhere – it is operating itself Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Now Big Dog Next the terminator]
I kind I cringed when the testers kept kicking the dog down to watch him get up Martin wrote: Not that I want to instill any undue fear or panic in anyone here, but this brings to mind an e-mail I got a couple of years back, about a Guv'mint AI project trying to teach 'bots how to escape and evade capture and detection, for use as battlefield scouts . These 'bots were so good that they escaped from their cages. *Twice*. And their creators are *still* trying to figure out how they did it. Seriously, folks. Now, pair that tech with this... Martin (will be halfway under his bed, watching Bender's Big Score tonight) Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Subject: Now Big Dog Next the terminator Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:31:14 -0700 From: Chris de Morsella To: Tracey de Morsella , 'julia demorsella' , 'paul demorsella' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww amazing – remember this thing is self controlling – there is no human operator driving it from a video consule somewhere – it is operating itself Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [scifinoir2] Caprica Very Different From Battlestar
The word Eick... I mean... Ick comes to mind. However I thought Battlestar ws going to be dumb, so I'm going to keep an open mind Martin wrote: Eick compared it to the feature film American Beauty, while Moore referenced the TV soap opera Dallas. Martin is not liking *either* of those comparisons. Martin suspects that he will be sorely disappointed by the resulting product. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Caprica Very Different From Battlestar http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=50670 David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, executive producers of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that their upcoming prequel Caprica will be a markedly different series. Eick compared it to the feature film American Beauty, while Moore referenced the TV soap opera Dallas. Caprica is a story that Ron Moore and I concocted with [co-executive producer] Remi Aubuchon, and we're casting as we speak, Moore said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. I'm very excited about that. If Battlestar Galactica is Black Hawk Down, I would say that Caprica is American Beauty. Caprica is all about the inner lives of the people on a planet and how their personal relationships as well as their professional relationships inform what will become the creation of the Cylons. Moore, a former Star Trek writer and producer, said that Caprica is not a show along the lines of any Trek spinoff series. It's a different animal altogether, he said in a separate interview. Unlike those shows, which are all riffs on the same notion of what Star Trek was, Caprica is really a completely different kind of genre. We're trying to do something different. Instead of Galactica's action-adventure space-based war show, Caprica will tell a story that takes place before any of the wars happened. This is really more of a sci-fi Dallas, Moore said. It's a political story, a family story. It's about the creation of the Cylons, and it's about a company. It's planet-based. It's very character-oriented, very serialized and very much about the characters. It's a whole different genre, and that's what makes it exciting. Production will begin this spring on a two-hour backdoor pilot. Moore said he will be very involved with the pilot, but stressed that it's too soon to say whether he'd remain on board if SCI FI Channel gave the green light for a weekly Caprica show. If it goes to series, it kind of depends when that happens and what I'm doing, he said. We'll just wait and see. --Ian Spelling Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Iron Man and X-Men Return to TV
Iron Man and X-Men Return to TV Cable network gears up for mighty Marvel mayhem with mutants and machines. by Travis Fickett http://tv.ign.com/articles/860/860844p1.html March 19, 2008 - It was only a matter of time before The X-Men and Wolverine returned to animated television, and with an Iron Man movie coming to theaters, a series based on the character is now fait accompli as well. Enter the Nicktoons Network, who is bringing the marvel properties to the air in two new series, Wolverine and the X-Men and Iron Man: The Animated Series. According to the Hollywood Reporter, both shows have a series commitment of 26 episodes, set to debut in the first quarter of 2009. Each show will consist of half hour episodes. No comment yet from the other X-Men about the clear preference given to Wolverine in the title. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] SyFy 101: Bring Out Your Dead
By DAN COMPORA Source: SyFy Portal Mar-20-2008 Deadly viruses and plagues have been spreading across the airwaves and multiplex theaters. The trend is certainly not new, but during the first part of the century, our media has flooded us with the fear of diseases — both real and imagined. Recent film releases such as Doomsday, I Am Legend, 28 Weeks Later, and Resident Evil: Extinction illustrate that filmmakers currently have disease on their minds. Plague films and plague literature do tend to be apocalyptic in nature. In my previous article This is the way the world ends ... Again, I ascribed the current wave of popularity in apocalyptic work to the pessimism that is currently dominating our culture. I am tempted to credit the recent plague of virus tales to recent pessimism, the current war and failing economy. However, tales of insidious viruses don’t seem to be as closely tied to current events as the other popular apocalyptic device: nuclear war. The threat of disease is always present, regardless of our current enemy. The deadly power of disease was depicted in H.G. Wells’ 1898 masterpiece The War of the Worlds. When all traditional means of combat failed, a common germ proved capable of stopping the horrific attacks which nearly destroyed humanity. Wells demonstrates not only the limited nature of warfare, but also the destructive power of nature. A microscopic organism can eliminate a threat that man and military cannot. Stephen King has killed the populous a few times with viruses. His Captain Trips virus, first featured in the short story Night Surf, becomes the agent of death in his apocalyptic epic The Stand. Originally published in 1978, The Stand does contain some frightening parallels to the real-world disease AIDS. While Night Surf is quite bleak, The Stand is a bit more optimistic, depicting the re-formation of society and a struggle of good vs. evil. In his 1986 short story The End of the Whole Mess, King tells the tale of the Fornoy brothers and their misguided cure for aggression which renders the entire population senile. Adapted into an episode of the 2006 miniseries Nightmares and Dreamscapes, this program featured brilliant acting performances by Ron Livingston and Henry Thomas (of E.T. fame) as the well-intentioned, but short-sighted, brothers. Like the recent film version of I Am Legend, this tale reflects the fear of good intentions going horribly wrong. that kills only women. The White Plague contains all the hallmarks of Herbert’s style seen in Dune: complex politics, sweeping social change, and intricate plot development. Published in 1982, this overlooked masterpiece may be the first work of literature to connect the spread of disease to terrorism, even if it’s in a tangential fashion. A wave of virus and plague movies swept through the 1990s. 12 Monkeys and Outbreak were the box office highlights, while Contagious, Pandora’s Clock, Carriers and Virus brought death to the small screen. Certainly, the fears of chemical weapons in Iraq during the first Gulf War may have fueled the paranoia at this time. In a similar fashion three decades earlier, Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel Andromeda Strain, intentionally or not, brought to mind the use of Agent Orange and other chemicals during Vietnam. The most recent film iteration of I Am Legend deals primarily with the aftermath of a disease and changes that have rendered most of humanity, well, not human. It contains some of the bleakest apocalyptic imagery I’ve seen in quite some time. While the scenes of a devastated New York and the infected victims dominate the screen, at its core, this film essentially is about loneliness and personal responsibility, and should not be missed. And it’s not just the big screen that has caught the virus bug. One highlight of the disappointing and abbreviated season of “Heroes” was the memorable post-plague imagery which, unfortunately, was cut short. Sadly, this element was introduced far too late in the season. Aside from a few glimpses into a dismal future, Heroes fans never got to see the story play out to its intended conclusion. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424837.html Similarly, Jericho incorporated the virus storyline into its abbreviated season. The imaginary Hudson River virus was depicted not by the suffering of the victims, but by the images of men in Hazmat suits and a Ham radio conversation. Again, the virus storyline was given very little time to evolve, but considering the circumstances of Jericho’s limited run of seven episodes during its second season, this is understandable. The terrorist attacks and Anthrax scares during the early part of the century certainly have contributed to the fears of an uncontrollable outbreak of disease. The fears of real-life viruses like SARS and the Avian Flu, not to mention the shortage of flu vaccines in 2004-05, make such concerns seem more possible than ever. If that
[scifinoir2] Bale Interested In Third Batman Film
Bale Interested In Third Batman Film http://www.syfyportal.com/news424824.html By WAYNE HALL Source: Dark Horizons Mar-18-2008 The release of The Dark Knight, the first sequel to Batman Begins, isn't far away, but already there's talk about a third film in the series, according to the Dark Horizons website. The big question is, of course, would Batman actor Christian Bale don the cape and cowl for another time? Let's wait and see, Bale said. I would, knowing the 'Dark Knight' story, like very much to complete a trilogy. And I think that knowing the story of 'The Dark Knight,' it leaves you anticipating something that really can get very, very interesting for a third. Now, the question would be: Is Chris [Nolan] going to be doing it? Because to me I find it tricky to imagine working on it without it being a collaboration with Chris. That's a promising sign because when Batman Begins was put together, a story treatment for two further films was created by director Chris Nolan and writer David Goyer. Also, Bale's deal for the 'Batman' franchise covered three films. All this means it is very likely that another Bat-sequel will happen, and it probably would be released in the summer of 2011. Who would the Caped Crusader face in that movie? Indications are that Two Face would vex Batman in the film (although if that character had anything to do with it, he would have appeared in the second movie). Other possibilities include the Mad Hatter (done as a psycho bad guy who likes to torture both mind and body), the Penguin (portrayed as an arms dealer from Great Britain), Killer Croc (a wrestler with terrible skin) or Poison Ivy (an eco-terrorist attempting to fight polluting businessmen). The Dark Knight premieres in theaters on July 18. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Iron Man and X-Men Return to TV
While Wolverine was one of my favorite characters, I do not like the idea of a whole series focused on him. I realize they are doing it to maximize the impact of the franchise but, doing so could severely diminish the quality of the show if you ask me. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: Iron Man and X-Men Return to TV Cable network gears up for mighty Marvel mayhem with mutants and machines. by Travis Fickett http://tv.ign.com/articles/860/860844p1.html March 19, 2008 - It was only a matter of time before The X-Men and Wolverine returned to animated television, and with an Iron Man movie coming to theaters, a series based on the character is now fait accompli as well. Enter the Nicktoons Network, who is bringing the marvel properties to the air in two new series, Wolverine and the X-Men and Iron Man: The Animated Series. According to the Hollywood Reporter, both shows have a series commitment of 26 episodes, set to debut in the first quarter of 2009. Each show will consist of half hour episodes. No comment yet from the other X-Men about the clear preference given to Wolverine in the title. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Dolphin rescues stranded whales
See the video http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/nz.whales.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A dolphin swam up to two distressed whales that appeared headed for death in a beach stranding in New Zealand and guided them to safety, witnesses said Wednesday. The actions of the bottlenose dolphin -- named Moko by residents who said it spends much of its time swimming playfully with humans at the beach -- amazed would-be rescuers and an expert who said they were evidence of the species' friendly nature. The two pygmy sperm whales, a mother and her calf, were found stranded on Mahia Beach, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northeast of the capital of Wellington, on Monday morning, said Conservation Department worker Malcolm Smith. Rescuers worked for more than one hour to get the whales back into the water, only to see them strand themselves four times on a sandbar slightly out to sea. It looked likely the whales would have to be euthanized to prevent them suffering a prolonged death, Smith said. They kept getting disorientated and stranding again, said Smith, who was among the rescuers. They obviously couldn't find their way back past (the sandbar) to the sea. Along came Moko, who approached the whales and led them 200 meters (yards) along the beach and through a channel out to the open sea. Moko just came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales, Juanita Symes, another rescuer, told The Associated Press. She got them to head toward the hill, where the channel is. It was an amazing experience. The best day of my life. Anton van Helden, a marine mammals expert at New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, said the reports of Moko's rescue were fantastic but believable because the dolphins have a great capacity for altruistic activities. These included evidence of dolphins protecting people lost at sea, and their playfulness with other animals. We've seen bottlenose dolphins getting lifted up on the noses of humpback whales and getting flicked out of the water just for fun, van Helden said. But it's the first time I've heard of an inter-species refloating technique. I think that's wonderful, said van Helden, who was not involved in the rescue but spoke afterward to Smith. Smith speculated that Moko responded after hearing the whales' distress calls. advertisement It was looking like it was going to be a bad outcome for the whales ... then Moko just came along and fixed it, he said. They had arched their backs and were calling to one another, but as soon as the dolphin turned up they submerged into the water and followed her. After the rescue, Moko returned to the beach and joined in games with local residents, he said. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/nz.whales.ap/index.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Bionic gives ITV2 record ratings
The star has a following over there, so I think the drop off might be a little slower. Maybe the 3 or 4 episode :) Martin wrote: Hadji madji! Are they really *that desperate* for TV over there? Can't wait to see the Ep 2 drop-off, when they realize what kind of crap they've been saddled with. Lockhart, Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL...I love it. So then maybe Fox in the US should have a show starring Paul Darrow and it will be a big hit! On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:44:14 -0400, Brent Wodehouse wrote: And from the Mirror World... --- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7292135.stm Bionic gives ITV2 record ratings The first episode of US TV drama The Bionic Woman has given ITV2 its largest ever audience, initial figures suggest. The show, starring former EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan, was watched by an average of 2.2 million viewers, according to overnight figures. The digital channel's previous best was 1.9 million viewers for Footballers' Wives: Extra Time in 2005. But the remake of the 1970s favourite is expected to be axed by US network NBC after just one series. The first episode was a hit in the US, attracting 13.9 million viewers when it made its debut in September. But it has since suffered in the ratings. Only eight episodes were aired before the writers' strike affected production and it has yet to be recommissioned. The show's UK debut at 2100 GMT on ITV2 beat Channel 4's The Woman Who Stops Traffic, which attracted 736,000 viewers. BBC One's Hotel Babylon was the most watched programme at that time, with five million viewers. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] On the Web, Obama Is the Clear Winner
The Primary Race March 5, 2008, 12:46PM EST On the Web, Obama Is the Clear Winner He is miles ahead of Hillary Clinton when it comes to online organizing and fundraising. But does that translate into votes? http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008035_280573.htm by Catherine Holahan Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has another place where she needs to catch up: the Web. Long before Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) began his impressive winning streak in the Democratic primaries, he was trouncing his opponents in their online efforts. Clinton's wins on Mar. 4 in Ohio and Texas may have staved off for now Obama's march to the candidacy. But he still has more than triple the number of supporters on social networks MySpace (NWS) and Facebook, according to techPresident, a nonpartisan blog that covers the 2008 candidates' Web presence. His YouTube (GOOG) videos, with more than 24 million plays a day in March, grab nearly three times more daily views than Clinton's own. Perhaps most importantly, Obama's fundraising is outpacing Clinton's efforts, thanks largely to online donations. In January Obama raised $36 million, with about 80% coming from online (BusinessWeek.com, 1/17/08). Clinton raised $35 million in the same period, but didn't break out the online component. Pundits project Obama's yet-to-be released February figures will beat the $35 million Clinton raised in February, of which $30 million came from online, according to Peter Daou, the Clinton campaign’s Internet director. Obama Campaign: Early Adopters It's clear that this digital advantage is paying dividends. In prior Presidential elections the Web served as little more than another channel for candidates to broadcast their positions and collect donations. This year, however, social networking sites and new Web tools are enabling candidates to mobilize large groups to take action online, on the phone, and on the streets. The tools are more powerful and there are more of them now, says Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet American Life Project. This is a more robust environment than ever before. Obama's campaign decided early on that the Web needed to play an instrumental role in helping to organize large numbers of supporters, particularly as a counter to the influence the Clintons already had within the Democratic Party's inner circle, including with key delegates. If we were going to do this and be successful it had to be from the bottom up, says Joe Rospars, director of new media for the Obama campaign. Rospars is the founding partner of the Washington (D.C.)-based Internet strategy firm, Blue State Digital, and worked on the Howard Dean campaign in 2004. Obama has multiple teams involved in his online effort. There's a technology team that handles infrastructure and another that manages his new-media efforts, such as the design of his Web site and the tools provided to its users. He has a video team that shoots his speeches and interactions on the campaign trail and posts them to YouTube and Obama's blog, which is written by campaign members. Rallying the Social Networks There is also a person who manages the thousands of regional, demographic, and issue-oriented social networks on My.BarackObama.com, where users can start their own blogs about his campaign, organize regional events, and raise funds (BusinessWeek.com, 6/18/08). Another person manages the pro-Obama groups on Facebook and MySpace—more than 970,000 people have signed up between the two sites. The campaign itself has tried to tap into the power of social networks but equally as striking is the way his supporters have self-organized and taken the initiative to support him, says Rainie. Obama is himself actively engaged in the social networks. Before Super Tuesday he solicited opinions on business social network site LinkedIn about how the next President could help small businesses and entrepreneurs thrive. He received nearly 1,500 responses in a week, says Kay Luo, LinkedIn's director of corporate communications, who helped organize his campaigns efforts on the site. Lower the burden of federal regulation, and simplify the tax code so American small business owners don't have to face the hidden tax of preparing our taxes, wrote Allen Fuller, a managing partner at a technology, strategy, and marketing firm, in response to the question. Later, a LinkedIn poll showed more than 50% of Democrats on the site said they supported Obama vs. Clinton's 36%. The Obama campaign has learned how to navigate the new political media ecology better than anyone in the 2008 election, says Andrew Rasiej, co-founder of techPresident. Jeremy Snyder, a 23-year-old Portland (Ore.) resident, says he would not have become so active in the campaign were it not for pro-Obama groups on Facebook and My.BarackObama.com. After signing up, he met people in his area who organized debate-watching parties at local pubs,
Re: [scifinoir2] Torchwood is anigram for Doctor Who
have you seen the second season episodes? I think the show has improved a lot Martin wrote: I really didn't care for the conceit. Then again, since Torchwood itself has yet to win me over... ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like anigrams so I find it amusing that Torchwood is an anigram for Doctor Who. An intentional one that was used to camouflage a new season of Dr. Who plot twists a couple of seasons ago. ~rave! There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] [Fwd: Launchpad Workshop accepting applications]
Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Launchpad Workshop accepting applications Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:17:35 -0500 From: KTBradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case you're all not aware, the Launchpad Workshop is open for applications again. Some info: Launch Pad is a free, NASA-funded workshop for established writers held in beautiful high-altitude Laramie, Wyoming. Launch Pad aims to provide a crash course for twelve attendees in modern astronomy science through workshops, guest lectures, and observation through the University of Wyoming's two large telescopes. This year's guest instructor is writer and amateur astronomer Jerry Oltion. Other lecturers include University of Wyoming professors Michael S. Brotherton, PhD and Jim Verley. Applications are now open for 2008's workshop, and will be accepted until March 31st, 2008. Attendees will be notified as soon as possible and no later than April 15th. I attended last year's workshop and it was really, really wonderful. It's basically the science/astronomy class many SF writers wish they had in college. Plus we got to look through some big ol' telescopes and see really amazing stuff. (I've never seen Jupiter through a telescope before. I saw 4 moons! It was amazing.) Writers of every level are encouraged to apply. They're looking mostly for writers who have a publishing track record, but they also consider neo-pros with potential. Mike is also committed to getting female and POC participants (really and for true). Check out the website and apply, even if you think you have a slim chance, because your chances might not be so slim! http://www.launchpadworkshop.org/about.html Tempest [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Huge Changes Coming To 'Doctor Who,' 'Torchwood'?
By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: Sci Fi Pulse Mar-04-2008 This story contains possible MAJOR SPOILERS for upcoming seasons of Doctor Who and Torchwood. This story also contains rumors that have not been independently corroborated by SyFy Portal, so treat them as you would any rumor. Like Torchwood the way it is now? Like its original source show, Doctor Who? Well get ready for some changes. Despite the fact that Doctor Who and Torchwood remain two of the most-watched scripted programs on British television, it appears that BBC is getting ready to make some wholesale changes to both shows, including the replacement of both stars. According to Dr. Phibes, a source for British genre site Sci-Fi Pulse, both David Tennant and John Barrowman are set to leave their respective programs, along with a number of other cast members. Tennant, who is about to premiere in the show's fourth season on BBC later this spring, will apparently work through the 2009 specials leading up to the annual Christmas episode, where he will regenerate and be replaced by another actor. According to Sci-Fi Pulse, filming for the Doctor Who specials in 2009 is already under way, with a wrap planned for as early as the end of this month. While Carlyle is not signed to play the role as the 11th Doctor, Dr. Phibes says that the BBC is in negotiations to sign the actor. It won't just be Doctor Who getting a makeover, however. Remember that experiment BBC Two was doing where it was watering down episodes of Torchwood to make it more family friendly? If Dr. Phibes is correct, then it seems that they were warming up audiences to a new version of the show which will launch in the third season. So far, only five episodes have been commissioned out of the standard 13, and gone are actors Burn Gorman (Owen Harper), Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato) and Capt. Jack Harkness' John Barrowman. In, however, is former Doctor Who companion Freema Agyeman, who will join the show full-time in Season 3. Eve Myles, who plays Gwen Cooper, is expected to return as well, and Barrowman is reported to be making guest appearances in the third season. The show itself will lose some of its adult-themed content, and will be geared more toward Doctor Who style audiences. The goal is not to have two different series running at the same time, but instead to work as sort of a filler series for off periods of Doctor Who, which only films a handful of episodes each year. With the changes, Torchwood will move to a Saturday timeslot where Doctor Who currently airs. If true, these would be some very significant changes to the Whoniverse by BBC, and a bit head-scratching as ratings for both shows in their current formats have been phenomenal. Sci-Fi Pulse stands behind its source on this, saying he has been accurate in his reports in the past, but even that site warns this is nothing more than rumor, and should be treated as such. Torchwood is currently airing on BBC Two and BBC America, while Doctor Who is preparing to premiere its fourth season in the spring. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424775.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Huge Changes Coming To 'Doctor Who,' 'Torchwood'?
I'm sure i will adapt, but it seems to me that they built the show around Harkness. Barrowman is a hard act to follow. As much as I like Martha Jones, I believe the show that is left will be a shell of what it was . It is too bad. I think the new season is much better than the first season. ravenadal wrote: As someone who thinks Naoko Mori is hot and Captain Harkness is a hoot, suspenders and all, I am not at all excited by this news. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: Sci Fi Pulse Mar-04-2008 This story contains possible MAJOR SPOILERS for upcoming seasons of Doctor Who and Torchwood. This story also contains rumors that have not been independently corroborated by SyFy Portal, so treat them as you would any rumor. Like Torchwood the way it is now? Like its original source show, Doctor Who? Well get ready for some changes. Despite the fact that Doctor Who and Torchwood remain two of the most-watched scripted programs on British television, it appears that BBC is getting ready to make some wholesale changes to both shows, including the replacement of both stars. According to Dr. Phibes, a source for British genre site Sci-Fi Pulse, both David Tennant and John Barrowman are set to leave their respective programs, along with a number of other cast members. Tennant, who is about to premiere in the show's fourth season on BBC later this spring, will apparently work through the 2009 specials leading up to the annual Christmas episode, where he will regenerate and be replaced by another actor. According to Sci-Fi Pulse, filming for the Doctor Who specials in 2009 is already under way, with a wrap planned for as early as the end of this month. While Carlyle is not signed to play the role as the 11th Doctor, Dr. Phibes says that the BBC is in negotiations to sign the actor. It won't just be Doctor Who getting a makeover, however. Remember that experiment BBC Two was doing where it was watering down episodes of Torchwood to make it more family friendly? If Dr. Phibes is correct, then it seems that they were warming up audiences to a new version of the show which will launch in the third season. So far, only five episodes have been commissioned out of the standard 13, and gone are actors Burn Gorman (Owen Harper), Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato) and Capt. Jack Harkness' John Barrowman. In, however, is former Doctor Who companion Freema Agyeman, who will join the show full-time in Season 3. Eve Myles, who plays Gwen Cooper, is expected to return as well, and Barrowman is reported to be making guest appearances in the third season. The show itself will lose some of its adult-themed content, and will be geared more toward Doctor Who style audiences. The goal is not to have two different series running at the same time, but instead to work as sort of a filler series for off periods of Doctor Who, which only films a handful of episodes each year. With the changes, Torchwood will move to a Saturday timeslot where Doctor Who currently airs. If true, these would be some very significant changes to the Whoniverse by BBC, and a bit head-scratching as ratings for both shows in their current formats have been phenomenal. Sci-Fi Pulse stands behind its source on this, saying he has been accurate in his reports in the past, but even that site warns this is nothing more than rumor, and should be treated as such. Torchwood is currently airing on BBC Two and BBC America, while Doctor Who is preparing to premiere its fourth season in the spring. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424775.html Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Bush Lets Red Phone Go to Voicemail
March 3, 2008 Bush Says He Lets Red Phone Go Straight to Voicemail ‘Baffled’ By Clinton Campaign Ads, President Says President George W. Bush commented on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s controversial “red phone” campaign ads at the White House today, telling reporters, “When that red phone rings, I just let it go straight to voicemail.” Mr. Bush rarely comments about the Democratic presidential contest, but he said that he had to speak up about Sen. Clinton’s red phone ads because he found them “so confusing.” “If I answered the red phone every time it rang, I would never get any sleep,” Mr. Bush said. “Sometimes it starts ringing at 9 PM, and I am already tucked in by then.” Mr. Bush said that “there’s nothing so important that it can’t wait until tomorrow, or whenever I remember to check my voicemail.” In a rebuke of Sen. Clinton, Mr. Bush added, “If she doesn’t know about letting your calls go straight to voicemail, I don’t think she has the experience to be president.” Campaigning in Houston, former President Bill Clinton took issue with Mr. Bush’s remarks, telling reporters, “When I get a call at 3 AM, I always pick up, if you know what I mean.” Pressed to explain exactly what he meant, the former president said, “Three o’clock in the morning – come on! Odds are we’re talking about a booty call.” Shortly after his “booty call” remark, the Clinton campaign said that they were revising the former president’s itinerary to focus on states that had already voted in February. Elsewhere, Sen. John McCain released a new series of campaign ads, showing him answering a telegraph key at 3 A.M. www.borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=OF47XnuYT210403ecd0a[EMAIL PROTECTED]rec=6840 Sign up today for your own Borowitz Reports, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=dEz6qdJ8aG10403ecd0a ***Andy in Montreal – April 8*** Andy makes his first-ever appearance in Canada on Tuesday, April 8 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. 7:30 PM, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine; admission free. ***Andy’s Only West Coast Appearance – April 24*** Andy makes his only scheduled West Coast appearance Thursday, April 24 at University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 PM at Campbell Hall. Tickets available at http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=yJqJg46lHM10403ecd0a ***Andy with Susie Essman and Jeffrey Toobin – May 13*** Andy hosts Countdown to '08 on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM at the 92nd St. Y with his special guests Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jeffrey Toobin (CNN, bestselling author of The Nine). The Y is located at 92nd St. and Lexington Avenue. For tickets, go to www.92y.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may unsubscribe from this list by visiting the following URL in your browser: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=TRXntMtPu4c10403ecd0a Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] SNK Drops Comedy Format for Endorsement Format
March 5, 2008 ‘Saturday Night Live’ Abandons Comedy Format to Focus on Endorsements Change in Mission for Venerable Late Night Show Basking in the success of its endorsement of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president, NBC’s late night warhorse “Saturday Night Live” announced today that it would abandon comedy to embrace its new role as a political kingmaker. Lorne Michaels, executive producer of the venerable late night show, said that the election returns from Tuesday night were enough to convince him that the show should stay away from comedy altogether and focus its energies on making political endorsements. “We want to be able to do one thing well,” Mr. Michaels said. “And if it’s a choice between doing comedy and choosing the next President of the United States, we’re going to drop the comedy part.” Mr. Michaels said that the decision to get out of the comedy business and move towards full-time political endorsing should come as no surprise to its viewers: “We’ve been gradually moving away from comedy for years.” The Emmy-winning producer added that NBC viewers who are disappointed by his show’s format change and want to look elsewhere for laughs “can always watch Tim Russert.” Arguing that fans of the show will ultimately be “delighted” by its new mission, the late night pioneer touted what he called “a really exciting” lineup of future guest hosts leading up to the Pennsylvania primary: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and musical guest George S. Clinton. Elsewhere, presumptive GOP nominee John McCain accepted a congratulatory call from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and then immediately changed his phone number. www.borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=mIyh2HDJKq10403ecd0a[EMAIL PROTECTED]rec=6841 Sign up today for your own Borowitz Reports, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=eM50Y5zl2W10403ecd0a ***Andy in Montreal – April 8*** Andy makes his first-ever appearance in Canada on Tuesday, April 8 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. 7:30 PM, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine; admission free. ***Andy’s Only West Coast Appearance – April 24*** Andy makes his only scheduled West Coast appearance Thursday, April 24 at University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 PM at Campbell Hall. Tickets available at http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=0hnofv1t3k10403ecd0a ***Andy with Susie Essman and Jeffrey Toobin – May 13*** Andy hosts Countdown to '08 on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM at the 92nd St. Y with his special guests Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jeffrey Toobin (CNN, bestselling author of The Nine). The Y is located at 92nd St. and Lexington Avenue. For tickets, go to www.92y.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may unsubscribe from this list by visiting the following URL in your browser: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=SyYnmcxgVEc10403ecd0a Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Roush Answers Terminator Ratings Questions
Question: Even taking into account the cost of making a Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode, why is Fox not happy with the ratings the show has been getting? Its ratings are stronger than its lead-in (every week) and it's competing against game shows and reality shows that started the hour before (90-minute episodes), and viewers from those aren't going to change the channel once the 9 pm/ET slot starts (when Terminator airs). I think Fox had unrealistic expectations of how the show was going to perform during the strike, when fewer serial dramas were airing, and in fact Deal or No Deal and those other reality shows are even tougher competition. Getting 8 million viewers plus every episode is nothing to sneeze at, and when you add in its high number of DVR, iTunes, Amazon, etc. views, its numbers total easily above 10 million every week. What are you hearing about the chances for it returning next season?— J. Matt Roush: I still think it's too early to know how or if Terminator will fit into Fox's game plan for next season, whether for fall or midseason. You may be right that if the show is doing well in the off-network marketplace, as genre shows like this tend to do, that could make it a better candidate for renewal than its decent (but hardly spectacular) numbers might suggest. With a new Terminator feature film also on the horizon, I'm a bit confused just how this series fits into the franchise's overall scheme. But I've been enjoying it and am looking forward to tonight's two-hour finale. http://www.tvguide.com/Ask-Matt
[scifinoir2] Disney Plans A Bumper 2011
Zephyr', our regular monitor of release date changes, is back today with word that Walt Disney Pictures is planning a rash of sequels of sorts in 2011. The Mouse House has generally cut back in recent years to become more focused on its core demographic and give fewer titles better coverage. It's a move that's worked extremely well, so much so that other studios are keen to copy the plan in this post-strike and pre-economic recession environment. Now according to 'Zephyr', the studio is filling up its schedule again with big sequels and franchise entries. Most exciting is that the studio plans to release a sequel to 80's sci-fi classic Tron in Digital Disney 3D in the Spring of 2011. Previous reports had Joseph Kosinski in talks to direct. The studio also has Cars 2, National Treasure 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4 scheduled for that year as well. The most surprising listing is the Cars sequel. Despite it being John Lasseter's baby, Cars is generally considered Pixar's weakest effort to date and economically struggled to keep up with other films from the beloved studio. Another National Treasure sequel isn't surprising as the first two have both been quite successful for the studio. Reports last month had the story following the Gates family to Easter Island in search of Atlantis and the natural clean power source that the lost empire relied on. The biggest question mark right now is the fourth Pirates. Reports say the franchise may try the Wolverine route - a more contained affair focusing on one character to downsize the budget. Other reports talk of a hyper-budget, ultra-fantastical feature, meaning anything from dinosaurs to Jules Verne-esque floating fortresses. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080302a.php Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Roush on Whether Jericho is Imploding?
http://www.tvguide.com/Ask-Matt Question: Last year, I was one of the avid Jericho fans who petitioned for its return. I thought the idea of a show based around survival in an apocalyptic society was intriguing. I loved watching the scientific as well as the emotional sides of the situation, and I overlooked much of the mediocre acting in doing so. But as it started to turn into a complex espionage-laced quagmire, I became very disenchanted. With all of the procedural military, FBI and police shows out there, why couldn't they leave well enough alone and let the average viewer watch as a town relearned how to get out of the fetal position and organize itself? When I watch it now, I find myself confused by the many new characters, acronyms and conspiracies. Is there hope that it will someday get back to its roots, or is this what we should expect for as long as the show can survive?— Kerensa R., Clifton Park, Penn. Matt Roush: Given the lackluster ratings upon its return (last week's ratings spike probably had something to do with NBC's unfortunate decision to expose Quarterlife to an audience beyond the Internet), I'm not sure Jericho will get a chance to go beyond this seven-episode miniseries and make any course corrections. As I've noted before, I'm with you that this season of action-packed conspiracy seems a lot more ordinary to me than the community-focused show it developed into around the first-season midpoint (when I started getting interested in Jericho). But I will use this as an opportunity to remind even the casual Jericho fan that this week's episode is a pivotal one in the battle between the town and the sinister Jennings Rall. There's a lot of talk about revolution this week, and while Stanley (Brad Beyer) at first cautions, This is not Red Dawn, by episode's end, he'll have changed his tune. To me, this is the make-or-break episode of this shortened season. If what happens this Tuesday doesn't spark interest in the show, it's probably just a matter of counting down episodes until the series finale on March 25.
[scifinoir2] Roush on Attacks on Dexter
Question: While I have read the books, I'd never seen Dexter before as I'm not a Showtime subscriber. So I was ecstatic when CBS launched it in reruns. And the show was amazing! But now the Parents Television Council is trying to get CBS to take it off the air. It's not a family show and I agree that it's not appropriate for children. But it airs at 10 pm/ET, so if any kids are up watching television at that time of night, shouldn't their parents be responsible for saying, No, you can't watch this? Is there an anti-PTC out there that I can join up with and flood CBS with letters about how much I love Dexter and can't wait to watch more? Help me, Matt. I'm just trying to enjoy watching TV!— Terry Matt Roush: Terry, we are all anti-PTC who believe in freedom of expression, the right of every viewer to choose for themselves what they want to watch and the right of network TV to push the adult envelope with risky, challenging — and, yes, even offensive to some — content as long as it is labeled with suitable viewer advisories and airs at a suitably late time period. The puritanical tunnel vision these watchdog groups have over language, nudity and violence would be laughable if the result wasn't so chilling to the creative process in the wake of arbitrary FCC fines. (They're still wrangling over NYPD Blue, for crying out loud.) In the case of Dexter, you could see this coming a mile off. The premise is so scandalous, presenting a serial killer as a series hero, but the execution is so marvelous, when you take into account the psychological depths of Dexter's tragic backstory, as well as the stunning complexity of Michael C. Hall's brilliantly shaded, witty performance. It's not as if CBS had turned the torture porn of Saw or Hostel into a series, which really would be something to object to. Aesthetics matter little to these tiresome scolds. Still, they have every right to complain, just as we have every right to go about our business of being entertained. Thankfully, CBS is sticking to its guns with this one. And guess what? Society will survive. Question: During the strike, I had the chance to watch Dexter on DVD, and I have to say I was kind of disappointed after all of the critical raves. Don't get me wrong, I watched multiple episodes at a time and enjoyed the premise, the character of Dexter, the cinematography and the acting... for the most part. That's what ruined it for me. From the first episode, I thought there were a few weak performances — most notably his sister, Lt. Laguerta and Sgt. Doakes, although the former two progressed along the way. The actor who plays Doakes, however, made me cringe every time he was on-screen, to the point where I had to force myself not to fast-forward through those scenes. There were multiple points in each episode where I hoped that his character would be killed off. None of the reviews I read after watching the show mentioned this issue, and I've desperately searched for validation. Now that it's airing on CBS (which I haven't caught), I wonder if you've gotten other mail regarding this, or if you had a similar problem with it. Doakes' relationship to Dexter fascinates me, but the actor's overacting and stilted dialogue makes the writing look bad, so much so that I'm apprehensive about wasting my time on the second season, just because I can't stand this one guy. Does he get any better? Or is Season 2 so amazing that I should suck it up and work through the pain? (Spoiler alert) I already know that I finally get my wish, so maybe I should just pick up again next season.— Peter Matt Roush: Doakes (as played by Erik King) isn't exactly subtle, is he? Complaints about Dexter's uneven supporting cast are pretty common, but I don't think it should be enough to damage one's overall enjoyment of the show. I highly recommend Season 2, in large part because of the Dexter-Doakes dynamic and the way it plays out, especially in the incredibly suspenseful second half of the season. Do I wish Doakes had been drawn a little less cartoonishly? I guess, but I also got a kick at times out of how over-the-top Doakes would get while Dexter tried to maintain his surface cool. http://www.tvguide.com/Ask-Matt
[scifinoir2] Pras Michel's 'Dark Oz' to be screen trilogy
By WINTER MILLER Pras Michel Pras Hip-hop artist Pras Michel of the Fugees has optioned film and TV rights to comic series Dark Oz, originally published by Caliber Comics. Storyline follows an older Dorothy Gale in a gothic and more macabre setting as she journeys through Oz with the characters known to millions via Frank L. Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Screenplay was adapted from the work of original comic creators Aaron Denenberg, Ralph Griffith and Stuart Kerr with plans to begin production at the end of 2008. Pic will be a live-action version of the comic trilogy, which Michel intends to produce as three separate films. In addition to producing duties, Michel plans to star as the Scarecrow. Michel produced upcoming release The Mutant Chronicles with John Malkovich and Thomas Jane, and a 2007 docu on homelessness, Skid Row, in which Michel lived as a homeless man in Los Angeles for nine days. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981726.html?categoryId=16cs=1query=Pras+Michel++Dark+Oz Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Supernatural and Smallville Get Early Renewal
Supernatural and Smallville Get Early Renewal Other CW shows coming back include Gossip Girl, Top Model. by IGN Staff March 3, 2008 - The CW has announced early pickups of six series today, including Smallville and Supernatural. Smallville will return for Season 8 and Supernatural for Season 4 this fall. Supernatural fans should be particularly happy to hear about that show's early pickup, as previous years had the show much more on the bubble with the decision to pick it up made later in the season. The other pickups include the next two installments of America's Next Top Model (Season 11 and 12), a second season for Gossip Girl, a sixth season for One Tree Hill and a fourth season for Everybody Hates Chris. http://tv.ign.com/articles/856/856388p1.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] New NBC Fear Anthology
NBC Unveils Fear Mongers NBC announced a list of well-known directors, actors and writers for its upcoming horror anthology series Fear Itself, including John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Darren Bousman (Saw II, III and IV) and Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason). Other filmmakers who will contribute to the 13-episode series include Brad Anderson (The Machinist), Breck Eisner (the Creature From the Black Lagoon remake), Mary Harron (American Psycho), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and Ernest Dickerson (NBC's Heroes). The upcoming suspense and horror anthology series comes from Lionsgate, in association with Industry Entertainment. Cast members include Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Shiri Appleby (Roswell), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Cynthia Watros (Lost), Eric Roberts (Heroes) and John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise), among others. The show's writers include Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Dan Knauf (Supernatural), Lem Dobbs (The Score), Matt Venne (White Noise 2: The Light), Richard Chizmar and Johnathan Schaech (Masters of Horror), Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers), Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet), Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan (Masters of Horror), Kelly Kennemer (The Music Within) and Max Landis (Masters of Horror). Fear Itself will premiere in the summer. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=49651 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Disappointment of the Dead
Disappointment of the Dead IGN's horror columnist Axelle examines George Romero's new film and his legacy. by Axelle Carolyn Marshall, IGN UK UK, February 28, 2008 - Diary of the Dead, George Romero's fifth living dead movie, is hitting UK theaters in a few days, and I bet you're all expecting the good horror girl that I am to tell you how great the master's new work is. But I won't. As a matter of fact, I'll tell you frankly: it's a big disappointment, lightyears away from the qualities that made his first films staples of the horror genre. I'll even say this: Diary of the Dead doesn't fit into the career of a man who has proved repeatedly that he was an innovator and a brilliant entertainer. Released in 1968, Romero's Night of the Living Dead was a product of its time. Dark, hopeless and uncompromising, it wasn't then known for its subtle parallels with Vietnam or the plight of the African-American, but for its taboo-breaking scenes of cannibalism (the little girl eating her mother shocked a whole generation), and for its realism. Filmed in black and white, like the TV news, it wasn't set in the Gothic ruins of a Transylvanian castle but in an American suburb like any other, in present day, where the dead came back to life without warning, in broad daylight. The movie also introduced a new kind of creature, a decaying undead named after its voodoo counterpart. In one film, Romero set the ground rules for nearly every living dead flick to follow: they move slowly, eat human flesh and must be shot in the head to be stopped. 'Stick around!' - Zombies, Romero-style. This template would be followed for three decades, in a deluge of low-budget productions from filmmakers as different as Lucio Fulci, Jess Franco and Peter Jackson. Romero himself would direct two sequels during that time: Dawn of the Dead in 1978 and Day of the Dead in 1985. Critics today like to stress the importance of Dawn's satire of consumerism, but first and foremost, the movie's strengths were its gore, its action scenes, its solid characters and the originality of its concept. In other words, it was simply good storytelling; and although it is largely considered a lesser film nowadays, Day had many of the same qualities. The film also featured revolutionary special effects by make-up wizard Tom Savini, who would inspire thousands of horror fans to create their own dead with Karo syrup and latex. In the nineties, zombies seemed to have reached the end of their possibilities. The slow flesh-eating creature formula had been exploited by so many filmmakers in so many ways, that for a full ten years, the sub-genre was as good as dead. But in 2002, two films dragged the living dead back into the spotlight: videogame adaptation Resident Evil, and Danny Boyle's sleeper hit 28 Days Later. If the former simply used the Romero zombie in a slightly different context, the latter built on the master's heritage but changed the very nature of the monster. Boyle's infected were the human - breathing victims of a virus which made them blindly aggressive, blood-thirsty and contagious, like Romero's zombies. Dead living rather than living dead, if you will… They could run, and so could the undead in Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. From that point on, zombies no longer had to attack in packs; they could be dangerous individually. They were also based on a horribly real explanation: a disease, just like SARS or Avian flu. In a couple of films, zombies were reinvented for a new generation, and for the first time they were the stars of big-budget movies watched by mainstream audiences. Romero's 2005 Land of the Dead - also a much bigger production - did not incorporate those changes and lost the plot in a succession of action pieces and political comments. It was a critical and commercial disappointment. Enter Diary of the Dead, a low-budget, smaller-scale reaction to the excesses of Land, on which the director felt he hadn't had full control. Shot in just 23 days, Diary was intended as a return to the origins, both in terms of filmmaking - a throwback to Night - and of story: the beginning of the zombie invasion. But in his effort to recreate the magic of his first success, Romero somehow forgot to concentrate on the characters and the storyline. Diary is neither innovative nor entertaining; just patronising. Filled with in-your-face social commentary, its dialogue and situations are mere excuses to rehash the director's obsessions (the authorities are lying to us; we're no better than the zombies; we're not worth saving.) That's not to say that the satire elements of his early work didn't greatly contribute to their success, but there's a huge difference between telling a story and letting some social or political comment filter through, and beating the audience on the head with an opinion; between giving viewers something to think about, and telling them what to think.
[scifinoir2] Angel Writers Join Whedon's Dollhouse
Angel Writers Join Whedon's Dollhouse Joss Whedon turns to previous collaborators for new series. by Eric Goldman http://tv.ign.com/articles/855/855581p1.html February 28, 2008 - Joss Whedon will be working with more familiar collaborators on his new series Dollhouse, as the duo of Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain join the writing staff. Craft and Wain first worked with Whedon as writers on Angel during the last two seasons of that series. They then joined The Shield, before leaving to work as the showrunners on ABC's recent Women's Murder Club. However, the two left that show just last week – According to Aaron Barnhart's TV Barn blog, the two were told they no longer had their Women's Murder job last Monday. Craft and Fain have an overall deal with 20th Century Fox, and were offered a new project at the studio the day after. But Fain tells Barnhart that on Wednesday, Joss emailed and said 'I'm really sorry — and is it too soon to ask you to work on Dollhouse?' Dollhouse is being produced by 20th Century Fox for the FOX network, meaning Craft and Fain could join the show as part of their deal. Craft tells Barnhart that Whedon's email came, Literally as we got home from cleaning out our offices. It cushioned the blow. According to Variety, Craft and Fain's exact titles on Dollhouse are still being worked out. Dollhouse stars Whedon alum Eliza Dushku, as one of a group of secret agents whose minds are wiped clean after every mission, only to be reprogrammed with temporary new memories for each new assignment. The series follows what happens as Dushku's character begins to remember things she's not supposed to.
[scifinoir2] FOX Going Forward with Spaced Remake
FOX Going Forward with Spaced Remake Pilot ordered for new version of British cult series. by IGN Staff February 29, 2008 - FOX is going forward with their remake of the British cult series Spaced, ordering a pilot for the new incarnation, says Variety. Since the project was announced last fall, director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz) who directed every episode of the original -- which was created by and written by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson -- has been vocal with his displeasure over the remake, saying he, Pegg and Stevenson were not consulted on it. Wright has said that since he went public with his issues, producers did approach him, but that essentially, it was too late. The new Spaced is being executive produced by Adam Barr (The New Adventures of Old Christine / Will Grace), along with McG and Robert Green. Fox is also ordering another pilot based on a British series, Outnumbered, about a family struggling to raise their three overly intelligent children. Larry Levin (Seinfeld / Doctor Doolittle is writing and executive producing the new pilot. http://tv.ign.com/articles/855/855913p1.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Angel Writers Join Whedon's Dollhouse
Third degree burns over here Bosco Bosco wrote: AM I the only person who is on fire because Joss Whedon is making a new TV show?? I feel like I need to pinch myself B --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angel Writers Join Whedon's Dollhouse Joss Whedon turns to previous collaborators for new series. by Eric Goldman http://tv.ign.com/articles/855/855581p1.html February 28, 2008 - Joss Whedon will be working with more familiar collaborators on his new series Dollhouse, as the duo of Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain join the writing staff. Craft and Wain first worked with Whedon as writers on Angel during the last two seasons of that series. They then joined The Shield, before leaving to work as the showrunners on ABC's recent Women's Murder Club. However, the two left that show just last week ⤠According to Aaron Barnhart's TV Barn blog, the two were told they no longer had their Women's Murder job last Monday. Craft and Fain have an overall deal with 20th Century Fox, and were offered a new project at the studio the day after. But Fain tells Barnhart that on Wednesday, Joss emailed and said 'I'm really sorry ⤠and is it too soon to ask you to work on Dollhouse?' Dollhouse is being produced by 20th Century Fox for the FOX network, meaning Craft and Fain could join the show as part of their deal. Craft tells Barnhart that Whedon's email came, Literally as we got home from cleaning out our offices. It cushioned the blow. According to Variety, Craft and Fain's exact titles on Dollhouse are still being worked out. Dollhouse stars Whedon alum Eliza Dushku, as one of a group of secret agents whose minds are wiped clean after every mission, only to be reprogrammed with temporary new memories for each new assignment. The series follows what happens as Dushku's character begins to remember things she's not supposed to. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Disney Plans A Bumper 2011
You must be a parent. My daughter loves Lightning Mc Queen. We have the race track, 10 cars, The Truck, the helicopter, a spelling book, a number book, a coloring book, and a story book. The only reason we do not have the DVD is because it is almost always Starz on demand, which tells me we are not the only parents being tortured. While I do not talk to many parents of girls as into Cars as Kira, most parent of little boys seem to face the same fandom issues. Based on what I have seen at the toys stores, Cars is a cash cow for Disney. Worst case scenario they are at least going to make a direct to DVD. Lockhart, Daryle wrote: The author of this piece obviously has no children under the age of 8. Cars has been a merchandise cash cow that is JUST startring to dry up. The surprise of this list is Tron 2.0. 2011? Wasn't this greelighted in 2005? On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:11:24 -0500, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zephyr', our regular monitor of release date changes, is back today with word that Walt Disney Pictures is planning a rash of sequels of sorts in 2011. The Mouse House has generally cut back in recent years to become more focused on its core demographic and give fewer titles better coverage. It's a move that's worked extremely well, so much so that other studios are keen to copy the plan in this post-strike and pre-economic recession environment. Now according to 'Zephyr', the studio is filling up its schedule again with big sequels and franchise entries. Most exciting is that the studio plans to release a sequel to 80's sci-fi classic Tron in Digital Disney 3D in the Spring of 2011. Previous reports had Joseph Kosinski in talks to direct. The studio also has Cars 2, National Treasure 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4 scheduled for that year as well. The most surprising listing is the Cars sequel. Despite it being John Lasseter's baby, Cars is generally considered Pixar's weakest effort to date and economically struggled to keep up with other films from the beloved studio. Another National Treasure sequel isn't surprising as the first two have both been quite successful for the studio. Reports last month had the story following the Gates family to Easter Island in search of Atlantis and the natural clean power source that the lost empire relied on. The biggest question mark right now is the fourth Pirates. Reports say the franchise may try the Wolverine route - a more contained affair focusing on one character to downsize the budget. Other reports talk of a hyper-budget, ultra-fantastical feature, meaning anything from dinosaurs to Jules Verne-esque floating fortresses. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080302a.php Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] [Fwd: [CarlBrandon] Re: British Fantasy]
--- Original Message Subject:[CarlBrandon] Re: British Fantasy Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:19:34 - From: Carole McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Nick! -C --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear CBS List, For anyone who might be interested in British fantasy, the first part of a three part series 'The Worlds of Fantasy' (BBC4) is available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b0090blv.shtml This is available to view for another 6 days. Regards, Nick - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] More Genre Pilots Are Coming
Which ones work for you/ Which ones do you think stand a chance of making it? By ED LEFT Source: SyFy Portal Feb-28-2008 Last time out, we took a look at the new series ordered by the broadcast and cable networks that should be showing up on our television screens in the next 12 or so months. Today I’d like to take a look at the genre related pilot projects in the works. These concepts have not been ordered to series, and there’s a good chance we’ll never see them reach the light of day. But here they are. Based on the U.K. series of the same name, Eleventh Hour has been ordered by CBS, and is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The show revolves around Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell) as a science advisor to the government. He and his bodyguard work to save people from abuses of science. I’ve enjoyed the U.K. version on BBC America, and if this version is half as good, it’s a keeper. The Bruckheimer name only helps its chances. J.J. Abrams has created Fringe, a drama for Fox. It’s about an FBI agent played by Anna Torv who finds herself dealing with unexplained phenomena, and has to work with an institutionalized scientist whose life’s work may be at the center of the problem. Abrams has a good track record, considering his involvement in both Lost and Alias. However, the leaked script of the pilot has been severely bashed on the Internet. It didn’t sound good, but with a rewrite, and actual performances attached to it, who knows how it will turn out? Given its pedigree, I am hopeful about this pilot. Another British import with a decent pedigree is Life on Mars. It’s being produced for ABC by David E. Kelley. This show is about current day detective Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) who finds himself working as a cop in the 1970s after a car crash. Also starring are Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt and Rachelle Lefevre as Annie Cartright. The U.K. version of this show was a television masterpiece. Kelley hiring Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt is inspired casting, and I can see him capturing the essence of the character. This pilot has been taking forever to get off the ground, and given that it’s been on the shelf so long, I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten stale. I loved the original, but don’t see this idea taking off on American TV. I think it would be too confusing for the average viewer. The Meant To Be’s is a pilot ordered by CBS about a young woman who dies, but before she can cross over, she has to return to Earth and help people. Every few years a series pops up with a similar concept, and you’ll notice, there aren’t any on TV right now. That’s because they don’t tend to last. This one has a nice twist in the fact that it’s a formerly dead person who has to do the life fixing. I don’t see a long future in this one, if it even manages to make it to series. The Oaks is a pilot ordered by Fox. It’s a drama about three couples who live in the same house in three different time periods -- 1967, 1987 and 2007. Their stories are tied together by the ghosts who haunt the house. The pilot is fully cast and shot. I am intrigued by this one, just because I want to see how they will make the concept work. I look forward to seeing the pilot. BO has ordered a pilot for Patient 2344, a story set in a medical research institute in the near future. It seems like the short-lived CBS drama Century City a couple of years ago, except with doctors instead of lawyers. Since it’s HBO, if it moves forward, we’ll see all the episodes ordered. I don’t see it moving forward myself. Revolution is a pilot ordered by the SciFi Channel. Let me quote directly from the Sci Fi Channel press release for this one: New America is a colony settled by the now-named 'United State of America' on a planet resembling our own, located 50 light years away. Echoing many contemporary issues and themes, it is a futuristic version of a new world's passionate fight for freedom. The expansive drama centers on the Hart family one of the founding families of New America. Tom, a former military man turned industrialist, is the patriarch of the family facing great pressure from the government to increasingly tax the colonists already heavily burdened. His two sons have struggles of their own with one rebelling against his industrialist grandfather and the old America, the other more radical one heading toward revolution. His 16-year-old daughter is simply trying to find her way in this world. Add to this a new local governor torn between her allegiance to the colony and her desire for peace, and a young ambitious bureaucrat looking to bring the colony back under control. I like the concept, and my feeling is this is meant to take over the dark and gritty niche left open by the conclusion of Battlestar Galactica later this year. There’s a lot of story in that synopsis, and I hope it gets the chance to tell it. Cost might be the only detriment to this making it to the air, given how tightly Sci Fi watches the
[scifinoir2] Top 10 Futuristic Films With Cautionary Tales
http://blogs.takepart.com/2008/02/13/top-10-dystopian-future-films-telling-us-to-act-now/ There is an entire genre of film out there that examines the darker side of humanity and what the future looks like if that darker side continues to thrive. It seems to me that these films offer us a great opportunity to turn a negative into a positive and thus I present you with the Top 10 Dystopian Future Films Telling Us to Act Now! The films below are the best of the dystopian bunch, each one offering us a great cinema experience as well as insight on how to make the world better today! 1. Metropolis : My # 1 dystopian adventure is also the oldest. Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent, Metropolis, is about a society in 2026 (so soon!) that is split is two, with the rich living above ground and the workers below. When one of the elite goes underground, he falls in love and those above use technology to keep their delicate class system in order. The story’s simple and the messages it provides are abundant. __ 2. Brazil : Terry Gilliam’s futuristic tale finds us all in a world of bureaucracy, where the tiniest clerical error, as our hero Sam Lowry will find out, can make you an enemy of the state. Full of images of the future and of fantasy, along with great performances from Robert DeNiro, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce and especially Michael Palin, Brazil shows us how the real villain is an inefficient government. __ 3. Children of Men : Alfonso Cuaron’s movie finds us one year later than Lang and paints quite a different picture of life. Children of Men’s 2027 is a world of fear and a world without children, as women have stopped having babies (it’s also a well photographed world, with amazing cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezki). Countries are crumbling and immigration policy is beyond tight, with folks having no chance to seek a better life. The film is dismal to say the least, but if you’ve seen it, there is some hope. And of course it isn’t 2027 yet. __ 4. Code 46 : Michael Winterbotton takes us to a world of rules and regulations in Code 46. His future is filled with 2 worlds in a sense, there are cities and to live in a city you must have the proper paperwork, if you don’t, you live on the outside, in a world seemingly left behind. Our heroes are played by Samantha Morton and Tim Robbins and even though they aren’t supposed to, they fall in love and violate Code 46, a rule that speaks to the genetics of reproduction. __ 5. The Matrix : There probably isn’t much I can say about The Matrix that you don’t already know. Beyond amazing special effects and action moves, the hugely popular film gave us a glimpse 0f a future that wasn’t real - or that is, most folks in the world of The Matrix weren’t really experiencing the actual future. __ 6. Blade Runner : Ridley Scott’s world of the future finds humanity fighting a group of human-like robots they created called replicants. Harrison Ford’s Deckard is one the folks given the task of destroying the replicants that have escaped their off-world colony. Deckard and the replicants play out a fantastic film noir-esque story where the state of the planet and those on it suggest a world where An Inconvenient Truth never got released. __ 7. Fahrenheit 451 : Of all of the dire future scenarios this one somehow seems the worst to me. Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film finds us all in a world without books and it is the job of Oskar Werner’s Guy Montag to burn any books found. When Montag meets a subversive young woman with a collection of books, he finally realizes the power of them and sets off to escape his oppressive society. __ 8. THX 1138 : This cautionary tale finds a city underground where people watch sex and violence on TV, while taking drugs that control them. Beyond this, George Lucas’s future is one without real love and without sex. When Robert Duvall’s THX 1138 stops taking his drugs, falls in love with his roommate and they make a baby, they are then both taken to jail. From here on, the film follows THX as he tries to find his lost love and escape to the surface of the earth. __ 9. A Clockwork Orange : Stanley Kubrick’s violent future tells the story of Alex, a Beethoven-loving young fellow, who along with his pals, engages in a bit of ultra-violence every night. When Alex is caught and sent to jail, he receives aversion therapy to shorten his sentence and upon his release finds that he now hates violence - although his old groups of friends doesn’t share his new opinions. __ 10. V for Vendetta : The Wachowski Brothers film is a world where the government is scared and are using that fear to detain people and control everything. One of their detainees, Natalie Portman’s Evey, is able to escape and joins with V - a mysterious fellow that rescues her. Together they begin to work on a plan to take down their totalitarian government.
[scifinoir2] [Fwd: The Oscar’s Minority Report: In visible Blackness Continues]
--- Original Message Subject:[AFAMHED] The Oscars Minority Report: Invisible Blackness Continues Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:25:28 -0500 From: S. E. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: S. E. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Oscars Minority Report By Judith Mahoney Pasternak http://www.indypendent.org/?pagename=author_searcha=Judith%20Mahoney%20Pasternak From the February 24, 2008 http://www.indypendent.org/?pagename=issueissue=2-24-08 issue of the Indypendent * When Hollywood gathers Feb. 24 to hand out the 80th awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a.k.a. the Oscars millions of people around the world will be watching. While some believe the awards actually go to the best films, others will know that whoever gets an Oscar is guaranteed a more lucrative future in the movie business than those who dont.* And that night some significant names will be missing from the lists of winners. Having been completely passed over in the nominations, Denzel Washingtons /The Great Debaters/ and John Sayles /Honeydripper/ wont be getting any Oscars, nor will Washington for /Debaters/ or /American Gangster/ or Danny Glover, or Lisa Gay Hamilton. /The Great Debaters, Honeydripper/ and /American Gangster/ are all about African-Americans, and movies about African-Americans dont win Oscars nor, by and large, do the black actors appearing in them. Oscar is white at heart and, although anatomically neuter in appearance, male. Hes also pretty entrenched in the upper class. So in 2008, as always, the overwhelming majority of the awards will go to white men, and the overwhelming majority of recognized films will be about white men. * Best Picture: A White Male Preserve* Not once, in 80 years of supposedly rewarding moviemaking merit, has the academy named as Best Picture a film about African-American life. Two Best Pictures In the /Heat of the Night/ in 1968 and /Driving Miss Daisy /in 1990 were about black individuals living and working in a white world (and in both cases, the white co-star got the acting Oscar). Of course, for much of Oscars life, Hollywood didnt make many movies about black people. But even when that changed, those movies didnt win Academy Awards. Only three movies actually about African-Americans have even been nominated for Best Picture: /Sounder/ in 1973, /A Soldiers Story/ in 1985, and /The Color Purple/ in 1986. All were directed by white men. In 1992, John Singleton became the first and only Black nominee for Best Director, for /Boyz N the Hood/, bypassed in the Best Picture nominations. (That was the same year Oscar ignored Julie Dash, whose /Daughters of the Dust/ had just become the first full-length feature film in general release directed by a black woman.) None of the films of Spike Lee, arguably the countrys most prolific and creative filmmaker, has been nominated as Best Picture, nor has he been nominated as Best Director. (In 1998 a movie of his did get a nomination as Best Documentary: /4 Little Girls/, about the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four Black schoolgirls. It didnt win.) *Thelma, Louise and Oscar* Movies by white women have fared marginally better: One woman-directed film has been nominated as Best Picture Barbra Streisands /Prince of Tides/ in 1992 but Streisand wasnt nominated as Best Director. Two years later, Jane Campion did get a Best Director nod (for /The Piano/), and in 1994, Sofia Coppola was nominated for /Lost in Translation/. None of those pictures or women won. To date, the Best Directors title is still as safely male as it is white. It gets worse: Few films about women have won the Best Picture title, and only one about a relationship between two women: the 1983 mother-daughter tearjerker /Terms of Endearment/. Remember /Thelma and Louise/? It never had a chance. Merely being named for a woman let alone two seems to substantially decrease Oscar chances. Of the 80 best pictures since 1927-28, only six won carrying that burden: Rebecca, Mrs. Miniver, All About Eve, Gigi, Annie Hall and Driving Miss Daisy. (Three times as many 18 were named for men.) Maybe if the movie had been called Thelma and Her Car It wouldnt have helped. The odds against a film plummet more steeply yet if it not only bears a womans name, but was adapted from a work by, or written by, a woman (as was /Thelma and Louise,/ created by screenwriter Callie Khoury). Only two movies on the short list of woman-named Best Pictures were woman-originated: /Rebecca/ (from Daphne DuMauriers novel) and /Gigi/, from stories by Colette. Pictures about women but not bearing their names dont win, eitherthink of /Funny Girl/, /An Unmarried Woman, Coal Miners Daughter, Sense and Sensibility, The Hours and The Queen/, to name just a few. Even a strong womans role
Re: [scifinoir2] White Men Hold Key for Democrats
Makes me not to ever want to look up friends from my wild youth. How
depressing.
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just
got confronted with this on a personal level that's making me
feel like I need a bath and a brain scrub.
Recently on My Space, I caught up with some old
friends from the Punk Rock days of the early 80's and was confronted
with the fact that they had become Conservative Republican
Christians. I need a psychic enema.
Please note that I am not Anti Christian. It's not my faith but I
don't have any qualms with it per se. However the folks that tend to
identify as Conservative Republican Christians seem to lack a clear
understanding of the teachings of Jesus in my mind. The seem to be
constantly saying something like Jesus: Wrong on Forgiveness, Wrong
on Tolerance, Wrong On Compassion, Wrong on the Poor, Wrong on The
Sick. Something about the basic message eludes them and yet they
insist that they understand Christianity better than anyone.
They kind of make my skin crawl.
B
--- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the America I know. It disgusts and terrifies me.
Original Message
Subject: White Men Hold Key for Democrats
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:31 -0600
From: Skee OuiZy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/*THE DECIDERS*/
*White Men Hold Key for Democrats*
Contest May Hinge On Blue-Collar Vote; Opening for McCain?
By *JONATHAN KAUFMAN*
February 19, 2008; Page A1
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- In a Democratic presidential nomination race
that
pits a black man against a woman, the victor may well be determined
by
white men.
The working-class white men who toil in the steel mills and auto
plants
here are part of a volatile cohort that has long helped steer the
nation's political course. Once, blue-collar males were the bedrock
of
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. They became Reagan
Democrats,
helping to propel Ronald Reagan into office in the 1980s. Bill
Clinton
won many of them back to the Democratic Party in 1992. Two years
later
they were angry white males, resentful of affirmative action and
the
women's movement, who helped Republicans capture Congress.
[photo]
'/It seems like someone else should be there,' says Dan Leihgeber,
a
smelter in a Youngstown steel plant./
Now this group of voters is set to help determine the Democratic
nominee, and the next occupant of the White House. Working-class
white
men make up nearly one-quarter of the electorate, outnumbering
African-American and Hispanic voters combined. As the Democratic
primary
race intensifies, some of these white men are finding it hard to
identify with the remaining two candidates, Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton
and Sen. Barack Obama.
It seems like someone else should be there, says Dan Leihgeber, a
smelter in a steel plant here, who is supporting Sen. Clinton.
It's
like there's someone missing.
As the Democratic race moves toward primaries in blue-collar
strongholds
-- today in Wisconsin, Ohio on March 4 and Pennsylvania on April 22
--
the allegiance of blue-collar men is up for grabs. While Sen.
Clinton
runs strongly among working-class women, she and Sen. Obama are
perceived equally favorably among working-class men, according to a
January Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The two candidates have
seesawed among blue-collar men in the primaries: Sen. Clinton won
them
in Georgia, Missouri and New York, while Sen. Obama captured the
working-class male vote in New Hampshire, California, Maryland and
Virginia.
Blue-collar men could also emerge as an important swing
constituency in
November -- either backing the Democrats' eventual nominee, or
shifting
to some degree toward Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican
nominee, whose war record and straight-talking approach could make
him
appealing to many working-class men.
Marc Dann, Ohio's Democratic attorney general, frets about the
reluctance of some of these blue-collar Democrats to embrace either
of
his party's candidates. I worry about [the appeal of] McCain,
says Mr.
Dann, who lives in Youngstown. It's not like watching an episode
of
Archie Bunker -- but there are real issues that white male voters
here
have with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.
Working-class men are generally defined as those without a college
degree, including union members and workers with service and
technical
jobs, typically making less than $50,000 a year. They are
especially
crucial in Ohio, where they make up about 28% of the vote, as well
as
other battleground states including Michigan (about 27%), West
Virginia
(33
[scifinoir2] White Men Hold Key for Democrats
This is the America I know. It disgusts and terrifies me. Original Message Subject:White Men Hold Key for Democrats Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:31 -0600 From: Skee OuiZy [EMAIL PROTECTED] /*THE DECIDERS*/ *White Men Hold Key for Democrats* Contest May Hinge On Blue-Collar Vote; Opening for McCain? By *JONATHAN KAUFMAN* February 19, 2008; Page A1 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- In a Democratic presidential nomination race that pits a black man against a woman, the victor may well be determined by white men. The working-class white men who toil in the steel mills and auto plants here are part of a volatile cohort that has long helped steer the nation's political course. Once, blue-collar males were the bedrock of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. They became Reagan Democrats, helping to propel Ronald Reagan into office in the 1980s. Bill Clinton won many of them back to the Democratic Party in 1992. Two years later they were angry white males, resentful of affirmative action and the women's movement, who helped Republicans capture Congress. [photo] '/It seems like someone else should be there,' says Dan Leihgeber, a smelter in a Youngstown steel plant./ Now this group of voters is set to help determine the Democratic nominee, and the next occupant of the White House. Working-class white men make up nearly one-quarter of the electorate, outnumbering African-American and Hispanic voters combined. As the Democratic primary race intensifies, some of these white men are finding it hard to identify with the remaining two candidates, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. It seems like someone else should be there, says Dan Leihgeber, a smelter in a steel plant here, who is supporting Sen. Clinton. It's like there's someone missing. As the Democratic race moves toward primaries in blue-collar strongholds -- today in Wisconsin, Ohio on March 4 and Pennsylvania on April 22 -- the allegiance of blue-collar men is up for grabs. While Sen. Clinton runs strongly among working-class women, she and Sen. Obama are perceived equally favorably among working-class men, according to a January Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The two candidates have seesawed among blue-collar men in the primaries: Sen. Clinton won them in Georgia, Missouri and New York, while Sen. Obama captured the working-class male vote in New Hampshire, California, Maryland and Virginia. Blue-collar men could also emerge as an important swing constituency in November -- either backing the Democrats' eventual nominee, or shifting to some degree toward Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, whose war record and straight-talking approach could make him appealing to many working-class men. Marc Dann, Ohio's Democratic attorney general, frets about the reluctance of some of these blue-collar Democrats to embrace either of his party's candidates. I worry about [the appeal of] McCain, says Mr. Dann, who lives in Youngstown. It's not like watching an episode of Archie Bunker -- but there are real issues that white male voters here have with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama. Working-class men are generally defined as those without a college degree, including union members and workers with service and technical jobs, typically making less than $50,000 a year. They are especially crucial in Ohio, where they make up about 28% of the vote, as well as other battleground states including Michigan (about 27%), West Virginia (33%), Missouri (27%), Minnesota (27%), Pennsylvania (27%), Wisconsin (29%) and Iowa (34%). In Youngstown, many working-class men say they will vote according to issues, especially economic ones including health care, free trade and the loss of manufacturing jobs. But in conversations in union halls, bars and factories, race and gender are never far from the surface. I don't think the country is ready for a woman president yet, says Duane Tkac, a burly vocational instructor at a prison here and a member of the local branch of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union. The country is in too much turmoil. I don't think she can handle the pressure, the terrorists. He plans to vote for Sen. Obama. Don Pompelia, retired from the Air Force, supports Sen. Clinton. I'm hoping Hillary gets the nomination. But if she doesn't, I'm not voting for that guy. I'm going Republican, he booms as he picks up his morning coffee at McDonald's. There are going to be a lot of people crossing over to the Republicans because he's black. *Back Into the Fold* After decades in which Republicans often successfully wooed blue-collar men, many Democrats see 2008 as a chance to bring them back into the fold, motivated by the worsening economy and their disaffection with President Bush. In the 2006 midterm election, union members and other working-class men voted for Democratic candidates by a margin of almost two to one, helping the Democrats win control
Re: [scifinoir2] New Bourne to Make Four
Amen! Bosco Bosco wrote: Someone please stop them. Like RIGHT NOW before they spawn this pointless atrocity. Bosco --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New Bourne to Make Four By Natalie Finn Universal is opting to keep Jason Bourne on the run. http://tinyurl.com/yrrg5r Their ears ringing with the sound of three Oscar wins for the Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass have reportedly committed to add a fourth film to the critically acclaimed action franchise. Per Daily Variety, Damon and Greengrass, who took over from Bourne Identity director Doug Liman to helm the second and third installments in the series, are on board but because of prior commitments it could be a few years before cameras start rolling. That should give producers time to figure out Bourne's next step, considering late author Robert Ludlum penned only three bestselling novels about the amnesiac secret agent on the hunt for the shady figures who turned him into a steely killing machine. Two sequels by Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Betrayal, haven't been reviewed quite so kindly. Damon, for one, didn't seem too excited about his character's future prospects after Ultimatum's mystery-resolving (yet helpfully open-ended) denouement. I just don't see what story you could do that would feel right,'' the 37-year-old actor told Entertainment Weekly in August shortly after the third film hit theaters. ''It's not like you can bump him on the head again and give him amnesia. Someone suggested we could do one where Bourne loses his car keys...If that's what they're coming up with, maybe a break isn't a bad idea. The reigning Sexiest Man Alive and Sarah Silverman's video boy-toy said that if there was another Bourne movie it should come after audiences have had a chance to catch their collective breath. Or raise children. ''I think the way you could do a number four is to do it in, like, 10 years, Damon, who at the time also joked on The Daily Show that the next film would have to be called The Bourne Redundancy, said. ''The studio obviously wants to keep it alive. I mean, look, Universal is owned by GE. When they sell a refrigerator that works, they want to try to sell more of them. But from the creative side,this is definitely the end of the story of this guy's search for his identity.'' Greengrass said it would be the audience that ultimately decided whether another film should get made. And moviegoers acted accordingly, shelling out $443 million to bring the franchise box office total to $945 million worldwide. Critics have also been particularly kind to the franchise, singling out Damon's performance, the direction and other fine qualities that have made the films stand out in Hollywood, where big-studio action movies usually mean noise, violence, crummy dialogue and little else. At Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, Christopher Rouse took home the statute for film editing for The Bourne Ultimatum, while the teams of Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis and Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg won for sound mixing and sound editing, respectively. Damon also snatched the Favorite Male Action Star crown away from perennial pirate Johnny Depp at this year's People's Choice Awards. But long before Jason Bourne dries off from that swim in the East River, Damon will film the corporate thriller The Informers for director Steven Soderbergh. He is also in talks to star in Clint Eastwood's next project, The Human Factor, a look at Nelson Mandela's life in post-apartheid South Africa. Greengrass, meanwhile, will be busy prepping his Vietnam War drama They Marched into Sunlight and putting the finishing touches on Green Zone, based on journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book about the CIA's hunt for nuclear weapons in Iraq, Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Damon stars in the thriller, along with Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan. Yahoo! Groups Links I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. You know these things that happen, That's just the way it's supposed to be. And I can't help but wonder, Don't ya know it coulda been me. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo - Satire
February 26, 2008 Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo Outbids Microsoft for Internet Giant Flush with cash after a deluge of online donations, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) stunned the business world today by outbidding Microsoft for the Internet giant Yahoo. The purchase of Yahoo is believed to be the largest acquisition of a multibillion-dollar company ever by a Democratic presidential candidate, industry experts said. A spokesman for Microsoft at the company’s Redmond, Washington headquarters acknowledged that the company was “disappointed” to lose Yahoo to Sen. Obama, but added, “We can’t really be mad at him, because we love him so.” The news of Sen. Obama’s $48 billion offer for Yahoo sent a shudder through Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)’s campaign, which for the past six weeks has been subsisting on Ramen noodles. In his televised debate in Cleveland, Ohio with Sen. Clinton, Sen. Obama said that he was able to purchase Yahoo because his campaign was reaping online donations averaging $1.8 billion a day. Mr. Obama also offered to “personally hire” 2 million Ohioans to do odd jobs around his campaign headquarters. “People say, can we really come up with enough errands for 2 million Ohioans to do?” he said. “Yes we can.” Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick praised Sen. Obama’s plan, telling reporters, “His campaign is more than just words, he is offering people a real opportunity to go on a Starbucks run.” Sen. Obama later added, “My campaign is more than just words, I am offering people a real opportunity to go on a Starbucks run.” Elsewhere, President Bush said that the economy was not in a recession, leading economists to conclude that the economy was in a recession. www.borowitzreport.com Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=fkiSOeXPuK10403ecd0a[EMAIL PROTECTED]rec=6838 Sign up today for your own Borowitz Reports, click the link below or paste it into your browser. http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=g60OCB3xnU10403ecd0a ***Andy in Montreal – April 8*** Andy makes his first-ever appearance in Canada on Tuesday, April 8 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. 7:30 PM, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine; admission free. ***Andy’s Only West Coast Appearance – April 24*** Andy makes his only scheduled West Coast appearance Thursday, April 24 at University of California, Santa Barbara. 8 PM at Campbell Hall. Tickets available at http://email.borowitzreport.com/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=Ur67PKxchs10403ecd0a ***Andy with Susie Essman and Jeffrey Toobin – May 13*** Andy hosts Countdown to '08 on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM at the 92nd St. Y with his special guests Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jeffrey Toobin (CNN, bestselling author of The Nine). The Y is located at 92nd St. and Lexington Avenue. For tickets, go to www.92y.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may unsubscribe from this list by visiting the following URL in your browser: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=HmqZiLlHVYc10403ecd0a Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Clinton Supporter Stabs Obama Supporter
In-Laws' Political Dispute Ends In Stabbing UPPER PROVIDENCE, Pa. (CBS 3) ― The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office is investigating a politically motivated stabbing that left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison. Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honey Locust Court in Upper Providence. Authorities said Ortiz, a registered Republican and Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed Shurelds, an Obama supporter, in the stomach. Ortiz told police Shurelds began to choke him, so he grabbed a knife and stabbed him. Shurelds was flown to an area hospital and was listed in critical condition. He is expected to recover from his wounds. Ortiz, 28, was jailed on $20,000 bail. He is facing charges of felony, aggravated assault, and other related offenses. It is a very serious charge, we see people fight over many things; some of them very frivolous, some of them serious, the fact of the matter is that this is the kind of argument that takes place in households across the region, across the state, across the country, but it never turns violent like this, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Veti Ferman said. According to Pennsylvania Voting Rights, if convicted of a felony crime, he will not be able to vote in the upcoming election. http://cbs3.com/topstories/Political.Stabbing.montgomery.2.662239.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Comcrap Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
Newer subscribers have received better deals than me. Back in philly, I was with them for years and was always discovering everybody else had better packages. I wonder, do they offer better packages when you mention how new subscribers have better deals and that you plan to leave because of it? Since most of you (not you Maurice) are very upset by the telecom situation, I found out the following recently. In 1996 a Telecom Act was passed that accomplished the following: ~deregulated cable rates. Between 1996 and 2003, those rates have skyrocketed, increasing by nearly 50 percent. The Act permitted the FCC to ease cable-broadcast cross-ownership rules. Ninety percent of the top 50 cable stations are owned by the same parent companies that own the broadcast networks, challenging the notion that cable is any real source of competition. ~The Act gave broadcasters, for free, valuable digital TV licenses that could have brought in up to $70 billion to the federal treasury if they had been auctioned off. The Act reduced broadcasters' accountability to the public by extending the term of a broadcast license from five to eight years, and made it more difficult for citizens to challenge those license renewals. ~Lifted from 12 the number of local TV stations any one corporation could own, and expanded the limit on audience reach. Together, just five companies - Viacom, the parent of CBS, Disney, owner of ABC, News Corp, NBC and AOL, owner of Time Warner, now control 75 percent of all prime-time viewing. ~it lifted the limit on how many radio stations one company could own. - Born from this was Clear Channel. One of the consequences of the 1996 Tele-Com Act has been the reduction in female and minority ownership of media, which has also resulted in a `decrease in women's and minority voices in news coverage. Astromancer wrote: Comcrap(HIS) Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, that's where Comcrap hoses us all. My new neighbors have a package similar to the one Tracey describes, and they just signed on seven months ago. I've been with this outfit since they bought out MediaOne. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't get why your Comcast On Demand is so much more robust than mine here in Atlanta. I can't get anything meaningful from Boomerang (Justice League, for example), Nick (Avatar) or any of the other channels. The things you can get On Demand, i've had to get by paying for a more expensive package -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've have started watching on Comcast on Demand Astromancer wrote: Stupid numbers...probably not figuring out who the target audience is and, therefore, they take it out on the fans... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted an e-mail the day the show was returning, then posted a follow up asking if anyone here was watching. Only one reply, and that was from Gymfig, who doesn't watch the show at all. Is anyone here watching it? I also have to repeat my complaint at CBS' not showing the entire series again in the weeks leading up to the return. That irritates me. I watched the whole series, but missed the last three eps and didn't want to watch them on my laptop. I was waiting and waiting, just *knowing* that CBS would rerun the series again, in order to build up more interest. But they didn't. I guess they were too busy selling it to SciFi. I don't get that strategy. ABC did the same thing with Lost, which is maddening. Too bad. Maybe my fantasy billionaire will pick up the show! :) -- Original message -- From: Justin Mohareb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuts. JJ Mohareb On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sources: 'Jericho' To Wrap It Up By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 It looks like the Jericho experiment is about to come to an end. Sources have told SyFy Portal that CBS is gearing up to air the series finale version of the post-apocalyptic series on March 25, one of two endings shot that would either allow a cliffhanger going into a third season, or a proper amount of closure for Jericho fans who fought hard to force CBS to reconsider its previous decision to cancel the show. There are a lot of people here who really care about what happens to 'Jericho,' and I think we all wanted to see it succeed, the source, who asked not to be identified, said. Numbers are numbers, and [CBS] had to do what [CBS] had to do. Ratings for the first two episodes were well below even some of the worst numbers the show experienced at the end of the first season which helped prompt network officials to move toward cancellation. Although it is competing in a post-American Idol scheduling environment, Jericho struggled to compete with shows that were either in reruns, or not part
[scifinoir2] Obama Would Pick Will Smith To Play Him In Movie: He Has The Ears!
WASHINGTON — Britney Spears takes a backseat to Barack Obama on an upcoming Entertainment Tonight as the Democratic presidential candidate chats about his favorite movies and stars. His top films are three Oscar winners _ The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II and Lawrence of Arabia. Obama says his favorite actors are Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon and Angela Bassett. Actor Will Smith is Obama's pick to play him if a movie is made about his life, something the two have discussed. Will and I have talked about this because he has the ears! the Illinois senator said in an interview slated to air Tuesday and Wednesday. But campaigning doesn't leave much time for him to watch movies. It's hard enough eating three, healthy meals a day, he said. Sometimes when you're out in remote areas, there's not much you can do, Obama said. You go for a burger, that's safe. If you start getting fancy you could get into trouble. If you're in a place like Iowa or Wisconsin there's gonna be cheese on just about everything. If you start eating too much junk you'll never survive. ___ On the Net: Entertainment Tonight: http://www.etonline.com/
Re: Comcrap Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
knew I would get a chuckle out of you Reece Jennings wrote: Since most of you (not you Maurice) are very upset by the telecom situation, LOLLOL!!! Maurice Jennings Have you or someone you know been threatened with foreclosure? KEEP your home and Stop Foreclosure in its Tracks! Get a Free, No Obligation Evaluation = http://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:50 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Comcrap Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho Hooray Deregulation! :P Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com aladvantage.com wrote: Newer subscribers have received better deals than me. Back in philly, I was with them for years and was always discovering everybody else had better packages. I wonder, do they offer better packages when you mention how new subscribers have better deals and that you plan to leave because of it? Since most of you (not you Maurice) are very upset by the telecom situation, I found out the following recently. In 1996 a Telecom Act was passed that accomplished the following: ~deregulated cable rates. Between 1996 and 2003, those rates have skyrocketed, increasing by nearly 50 percent. The Act permitted the FCC to ease cable-broadcast cross-ownership rules. Ninety percent of the top 50 cable stations are owned by the same parent companies that own the broadcast networks, challenging the notion that cable is any real source of competition. ~The Act gave broadcasters, for free, valuable digital TV licenses that could have brought in up to $70 billion to the federal treasury if they had been auctioned off. The Act reduced broadcasters' accountability to the public by extending the term of a broadcast license from five to eight years, and made it more difficult for citizens to challenge those license renewals. ~Lifted from 12 the number of local TV stations any one corporation could own, and expanded the limit on audience reach. Together, just five companies - Viacom, the parent of CBS, Disney, owner of ABC, News Corp, NBC and AOL, owner of Time Warner, now control 75 percent of all prime-time viewing. ~it lifted the limit on how many radio stations one company could own. - Born from this was Clear Channel. One of the consequences of the 1996 Tele-Com Act has been the reduction in female and minority ownership of media, which has also resulted in a `decrease in women's and minority voices in news coverage. Astromancer wrote: Comcrap(HIS) Martin truthseeker_ mailto:truthseeker_013%40yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, that's where Comcrap hoses us all. My new neighbors have a package similar to the one Tracey describes, and they just signed on seven months ago. I've been with this outfit since they bought out MediaOne. KeithBJohnson@ mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net comcast.net wrote: i don't get why your Comcast On Demand is so much more robust than mine here in Atlanta. I can't get anything meaningful from Boomerang (Justice League, for example), Nick (Avatar) or any of the other channels. The things you can get On Demand, i've had to get by paying for a more expensive package -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com aladvantage.com I've have started watching on Comcast on Demand Astromancer wrote: Stupid numbers...probably not figuring out who the target audience is and, therefore, they take it out on the fans... KeithBJohnson@ mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net comcast.net wrote: I posted an e-mail the day the show was returning, then posted a follow up asking if anyone here was watching. Only one reply, and that was from Gymfig, who doesn't watch the show at all. Is anyone here watching it? I also have to repeat my complaint at CBS' not showing the entire series again in the weeks leading up to the return. That irritates me. I watched the whole series, but missed the last three eps and didn't want to watch them on my laptop. I was waiting and waiting, just *knowing* that CBS would rerun the series again, in order to build up more interest. But they didn't. I guess they were too busy selling it to SciFi. I don't get that strategy. ABC did the same thing with Lost, which is maddening. Too bad. Maybe my fantasy billionaire will pick up the show! :) -- Original message -- From: Justin Mohareb justinmohareb@ mailto:justinmohareb%40gmail.com gmail.com Nuts. JJ Mohareb On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: [scifinoir2] Let's all become friends on Netflix
Hey Bosco, I guessed you rating of some movies on Netflix. This could
be fun.
Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote:
Thanks! I just accepted
Gerald Haynes wrote:
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Subject: [scifinoir2] Let's all become friends on Netflix
Earlier today, Bosco put us onto Netflix friends.
You can be come my Netflix friend by clicking on the following link:
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friends. First you invite friends to connect with you and when they
accept, they are part of your Friends list. With Netflix friends, you
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movies them and add comments next to films that will help your friends
choose movies or avoid those you didn't enjoy.
So lets see if those of us who get films from Netflix, can all come
together via Netflix to make recommendations to eachother, share
reviews, and who knows what.
You can be come my Netflix friend by clicking on the following link:
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Re: [scifinoir2] Let's all become friends on Netflix
Ok Maid Marian. I just guessed correctly which movie you gave 4 stars. Time Bandits. I really like this. We should have done this long ago Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: I agree. I 'm glad you brought this to the group. Thank you Bosco Bosco wrote: This becoming really fun. B --- tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier today, Bosco put us onto Netflix friends. You can be come my Netflix friend by clicking on the following link: http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PBZceQv3iPVDEm3v4oWm Netflix Friends allows you to share movie ideas and notes with your friends. First you invite friends to connect with you and when they accept, they are part of your Friends list. With Netflix friends, you can see what each of your friends think about specific movies, suggest movies them and add comments next to films that will help your friends choose movies or avoid those you didn't enjoy. So lets see if those of us who get films from Netflix, can all come together via Netflix to make recommendations to eachother, share reviews, and who knows what. You can be come my Netflix friend by clicking on the following link: http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PBZceQv3iPVDEm3v4oWm I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. You know these things that happen, That's just the way it's supposed to be. And I can't help but wonder, Don't ya know it coulda been me. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
So, Martin, what do you think is the real story? We heard rumors that they are getting rid of her, They deny them only to tell us that she is leaving who to visit Torchwood for three weeks and then return for four weeks with the new companion. Then we hear... no doctor for a year. then we hear, Catherine Tate is out as the companion and that Billy Piper is in. You are the Dr. Who expert here. Can you tell me what you think happened? in happening? and what you think will happen. and while you are at it, do you know anything about Primeval? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808096/ I read that is is a sort of Torchwood with Dinos. Martin wrote: Gymfig, the BBC is capitalizing on her unexpected popularity by split-tining her between Torchwood and DW. She'll be in those eps on Torchwood, then return to be the Doctor's co-companion with Catherine Tate for the rest of S4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/22/2008 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. I love Torchwood. I heard about this on the sci fi channel. I am glad that she is back but I am sad that she is only back for three episodes. I still don't understand what is the big deal with Capt. Jack. He does not seem to be that cold leader his character is supposed to be. It is quite laughable to see him be threatening. **Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
You guys are not really different than Chris and I. While we have always gone out of our way not to say things that would hurt each other, we both can be marathon fighters. Our circumstances forced us to do another way. We had Kira. When she was an infant, we would go in another room and argue in low tones. (or at least try to). But it was still good practice with learning not to yell. Can't say that I have mastered it. Then with that horrible situation in Mexico with our lives falling apart and both of us getting sick, a couple of things happened. We were arguing all the time because of our dire circumstances, she was older and harder to keep away from the fray. She could see that I seemed to be dying. She asked me if I was going away sometimes and started having nightmares. I was in so much pain that her normally extremely affectionate Mom, winced she touched me. Not a great situation for her. With the situation so bad, we had to do something about what was in our control. So we started discussing way to better handle our disagreements and to really talk to each other when we were not angry. Separating and coming back seemed to be the best way. Our true nature is to come out swinging and win, but in the end you get nothing. So this stepping back approach, while less rewarding in the very short term, usually has us talking it out and making up so we can be the laughing, teasing, silly and affectionate parents Kira is used to having around. Sounds like even without a kid around, you guys are working to do the same thing. When are you going to see Jumper? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's good to know. i unfortunately can argue and debate for hours, literally, if really passionate about something. My wife and I are admittedly both a bit sensitive and stubborn, so we can go for a while. I long ago learned to figure out when it's time to just leave the discussion for a while in order to go somewhere and cool down, then come back and talk. If she's being recalcitrant or even hurtful, I have to make an effort to remind myself she's not intentionally hurting me, and once i can remember that, i can discuss things more rationally. Same with her. I have a really bad temper, which i'm sure is genetically inherited from my birth mom, so I have to be sure not to take stuff personally too quickly. Combine that with my love for talking and my desire to understand all sides of an issue, and whoo boy! Back when i was home for my mother's funeral, my older brother jumped me about a comment I made about Mom that he felt was disrespectful. That led to all kinds of stuff being aired in a five hour discussion from 1 am to sunrise. At the end, he was amazed that I was still able to discuss and debate with vigor, though dead on my feet. -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] We fight now and then. Its rarely serious. It happens with two people who both are right :). One of the reasons I married him, is he does not like prolonged battles nor misunderstandings. I'm the same way, I hope. When I came home, we talked and made up. We are cool. thanks for asking :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, that helps a great bit. Yout two cool now? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, that is why I did it. Chris and I had a fight. When that happens, we try to walk away and come back together after we cool off. I needed to kill a few hours, and take my mind off stuff, so I drove up to the theater. Jumper was about to start, so I chose it. It took my mind off of stuff. I know you got more serious stuff going on, but it is just what the doctor ordered. I went with very low expectations so I enjoyed it and went home to make up with Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've had several people tell me to stay away from this movie at all costs. But I really need a fun time waster to take my mind off some things. Is it at least a good popcorn flick Phyllis and I can lose ourselves in for a couple of hours without feeling regret? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2
Re: [scifinoir2] Bionic Woman Laid to Rest
Keith, you are making my heart hurt. Odyssey 5, The Dresden files, Franks place and exo-squad in the same sentence. If only Don't you have Exo-squad on DVD? Martin wrote: Keith, again we're on the same wavelength. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i often have this silly fantasy that a really rich billionaire could create a cable channel and fund shows that draw small-but-dedicated audiences for their quality. In this fantasy world, the billionaire would underwrite shows like Threshold, John Doe, Odyssey 5, Space: Above and Beyond, The Dresden Files, Karen Sisco. We'd get another season of Exo-Squad and Samurai Jack. The like of Coto would get a chance to really see their projects to fruition. Frank's Place would return. Yeah, yeah, a fantasy indeed. No one would do that, and even if they did, the backer would likely not have the same taste as mine, and still cancel good shows. But in a world where billionaires buy boats big as apartment complexes and fund science fiction halls of fame, i can dream, can't i??? -- Original message -- From: Lockhart, Daryle Jason Cahill and Manny Coto should do a show together. They are both great at saving failed projects. On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:42 -0500, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: It's now official: The Commander in Chief award for the most spectacular freshman flame-out of the 07-08 TV season goes to... Bionic Woman! Although NBC isn't talking, I'm told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled. That means no spring relaunch under new show-runner Jason Cahill ⤠which is too bad. Cahill's a talented guy (see: The Sopranos), and I was anxious to see what he would do with the show. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. At least now the first stage of grief can get under way. No, not shock ⤠the snarky postmortem! What do you think felled Bionic Woman in the end? Was it the lackluster pilot? The absence of a clear, creative vision? Not enough Starbuck? Too much Isaiah Washington? All of the above? Sound off in the comments section below! http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/70049 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] What's Coming Up In Genre TV?
Which ones are you guys looking forward to/? You think any will actually survive?/ Martin wrote: Left left one out. (Pun utterly intended, and welcome.) There's a series slated to air on AE later this year, called Cleaner. It stars Benjamin Bratt, once of Law Order, playing a guy who dies of a drug overdose after he loses his son, and is resurrected to help others beat their addictions, by any means necessary. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980708.html?categoryid=14cs=1 Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By ED LEFT Source: SyFy Portal Feb-18-2008 The Writers Guild of America strike has ended, and the networks are making their plans for the remainder of the season and beyond. And because of the strike, we didn't have a normal pilot season. Instead, the networks started ordering series directly instead of ordering a pilot, or even ordered foreign series. Here's a look at the new series coming to your screens in the next twelve months or so. Dollhouse will air on Fox, was created and produced by Joss Whedon, and stars Eliza Dushku. It's about men and women imprinted with different personalities and skills for different assignments, and then having those personalities wiped clean when the assignment is completed. When between assignments, they live like children in the Dollhouse, their dormitory/laboratory. They live with no memories of which they are, until Echo, played by Dushku, begins to remember. I like the concept behind this show. If it was airing on a cable network, I think we'd have a winner. However, it will be airing on Fox. Joss Whedon is a genre fan favorite, but let's face it, he hasn't really had a hit show. Although Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel had long runs, they ran on minor netlets. Neither show would have lasted on a major network. Firefly did air on a major network, and it was a ratings failure. Dushku previously starred in genre series Tru Calling, and it also failed in the ratings. Combining Whedon, Dushku and Fox does not spell success. I think we'll only see the seven episodes contracted, if that. Fear Itself, a horror anthology from NBC, promises be much like Showtime's Masters of Horror, providing 60-minute telefilms by name horror writers and directors. Anthologies don't work on network television anymore. This one is doomed before it starts. The Listener is being produced by CTV in Canada, and has been bought by NBC to air this coming summer/fall. Paramedic Toby Logan, played by Craig Olejnik, has the power to listen to people's most intimate thoughts. With the help of his friend and partner Osman Bey (Ennis Esmer), they save lives and solve mysteries. Borrowing from Heroes, they take the most lame of abilities and build a show around it. It could work, but it would depend on the strength of the writing and the acting. I don't hold out much hope. Middleman from writer-producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach of Lost fame, stars Natalie Morales as a struggling artist recruited by an agency to fight comic-book style villains. Matt Keeslay co-stars as Middleman, her superhero guide and mentor. It's on ABC Family, so expect it to be pointed at the family crowd, and it will probably have a Kyle XY look and feel. It seems on ABC Family, cast and chemistry is the most important aspect. If they're likeable, the show will probably stick around. Sanctuary, the Web series picked up by the SciFi Channel, stars Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus. Magnus runs the Sanctuary, which is a home to various creatures of myth and legend, who must be tracked down and protected. Dr. Will Zimmerman, played by Robin Dunne assists her in her quest. It's cheap to produce, and airs on SciFi. It's a match made in heaven. It also has Stargate SG-1 connections, which will bring in a ready-made audience. This show could have legs. Section 8 has been picked up by ABC for a six-episode order. The premise is a group of everyday people with advanced neurological abnormalities who work for a secret government agency. This sounds like a very thinly veiled Heroes homage. Or maybe it's more like Misfits of Science? We'll find out. True Blood is brought to us by HBO, and is based on the Southern Vampire book series by Charlaine Harris. It features Sookie Stackhouse, played by Anna Paquin, a mind reading barmaid in Louisiana who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton, played by Stephen Moyer. Vampires are no longer a secret, and can feed on a synthetic blood developed by the Japanese. It's HBO, so you know they will be spending some money on it. But I wonder if vampire fans will tune into another vampire series so soon after the demise of Blood Ties and the fate of Moonlight still up in the air. Getting Anna Paquin to star was a good move, and it guarantees I will check out the pilot, at least. Wizard's First Rule is a new
Re: [scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
No episodes online? Martin wrote: Tracey, I've been told that it is, by folks watching it. I can't, because I'm a poor man. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone here what Torchwood? Scifi addict that I am, you know I have been checking it out. So far, I think this season is better than last season. Exclusive: 'Torchwood' Hub Means A New Martha By ALAN STANLEY BLAIR Source: SyFy Portal Feb-20-2008 This story contains MODERATE SPOILERS for Season 2 of Torchwood and the upcoming fourth season of Doctor Who. Her name is Martha Jones, and last year she saved the world. But at the end of her 13-episode stint as The Doctor’s companion, BBC bosses announced that Freema Agyeman would be giving up her full-time role on the series to make way for the return of Catherine Tate. The news both disheartened and elated Martha Jones fans, because although the character will have a reduced part in the upcoming fourth season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. This announcement caused quite a media stir within the British press as tabloids had already made a variety of outlandish claims about her future with the series. However, in an exclusive interview with SyFy Portal, Agyeman set the record straight as to why she’ll be stepping into the Hub instead of the Tardis. The decision was character based 100 percent, Agyeman told SyFy Portal’s Alan Stanley Blair. In this business, no one has to do anyone any favors, and if they weren’t happy, I’d be completely away. The rumors of my departure came five weeks before the press announcement on the future of the series and it happened without any of the facts. I was hugely pleased with the decision to go to ‘Torchwood.’ And gosh, going back to ‘Who’ as well. There was no scandal, no ill feelings in any way. The tabloids put two and two together and came up with five and a half. So, beginning with the sixth episode of “Torchwood,†the now fully qualified Dr. Martha Jones will take on the weird, the wacky and the paranormal from Cardiff Bay as part of Team Torchwood. But don’t expect to see a darker Martha, especially since the BBC believes she’ll attract a slightly younger audience. They are very mindful that I’ll be going between the two shows, Agyeman said. We know Martha has a large youth following so we’ve been mindful that we’re not having sex or swearing in case some of the younger fans tune in. Even though there is a pre-watershed edit we can’t control who will tune in. In the episode, Martha (who is now working for alien specialists UNIT that was established in the original run of Doctor Who) receives a call from Capt. Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) following a string of unexplained deaths. As a UNIT operative, she has also been looking into the events and has more information than Torchwood does making her a valuable asset to solving the case. There is a really nice arc in those three episodes actually, she said. Jack calls Martha to give them a hand in Episode 6 and because Martha is in UNIT now, she has a little bit more information that he needs. And the consequences of that ends in a great cliff-hanger leading into episode seven so it’s really like a good two-parter. By the end of Episode 8, she’s part of the team. It is a very natural progression of the character that I’m really pleased with.†Of course, with both shows being such different entities, how much of the old “Doctor Who†dynamic crosses over with Martha? When Barrowman initially returned to “Doctor Who†for its final three episodes last season, we saw a lighter side to him than what was the norm for the Torchwood leader. And Agyeman confirmed that the same holds true for Martha. “You take this character into a different environment and you wonder how people take to that,†she said. “These are all new experiences for an all-new character in a new environment. She’s harder, more qualified and able to do things alone without looking to The Doctor. She’s very different and she’ll be very different again when she’s about him. Because when you are with different people you behave differently. That’s how I perceived it and that’s how I tried to play it.†And as a result, fans can only expect a few references to their history over the three-episode arc. It’s touched on but not discussed -- mostly in a lovely moment between the two characters,†she hinted. “It would be weird if they didn’t talk about it, but the team don’t even know where he [Jack] went when he vanished. In ‘Torchwood’ he is a much more mysterious character
Re: [scifinoir2] More Toys Going to Movies - HELP
OK now that I've calmed down :) What is the gathering and magic? Hasn't Clue been done? Don't we live and breath monopoly? Martin wrote: I'm going back to bed now... 8-O Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No good can come from this. Universal Teams With Hasbro http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=48950 Universal Pictures and Hasbro have announced a six-year strategic partnership to produce at least four feature films based on some of Hasbro's best-known game and toy brands, including Monopoly; Candy Land; Clue; Ouija; Battleship; Magic, the Gathering; and Stretch Armstrong, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hasbro will partner exclusively with Universal for feature films, with the exception of Transformers and G.I. Joe, which are already at DreamWorks and Paramount. The first film emerging from the deal will be released in 2010 or 2011, and Universal will release at least one film a year after that. Hasbro is co-financing script development with Universal and has the option of co-funding production of the films. Hasbro will retain all merchandising rights to the brands, and the companies will share in consumer products revenue generated by the movies. Shmuger said Universal and Hasbro still are working out which brand will be the first project developed, but sources said it's likely to be Monopoly or Ouija. Hasbro COO Brian Goldner said Michael Bay and his Platinum Dune production company are signed on as producers for a Ouija project, and David Berenbaum has signed on to write a draft of a script. He said Hasbro is in negotiations with Ridley Scott on Monopoly. Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.com. Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
That sounds like a good...er bad one. anybody else brave enough to shae? Martin wrote: Okay, I'm in... Crossworlds, starring a pre-Sports Night Josh Charles, who plays an aimless college student who gets picked up at a party by a hot blonde in a mini-skirt. (That was the first clue for me.) Said blonde turns out to be a warrior from another dimension, who's after our hero because of a necklace he has, the last thing he has to remember his dead father by. Said necklace is actually a talisman that can, if wielded properly, allow the user to shape the Cosmos to his or her fancy, travel dimensions at will and other fun stuff. The blonde takes our hero to her mentor, played by Rutger Hauer, whom we're *supposed* to see as a famed and nigh-invincible warrior. (I might've bought it, if not for the fact that I was in better shape than he was, one lung and all.) Anyhoo, the adventure just speeds- uh, *meanders* along to its utterly predictable climax. Watchign it, I was grateful for both the ending and the fact that I only paid six bucks for the video. tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So gang. It seems like it is a given that some us go to or rent movies we pretty much knoware going to be bad. So lets make it a confession time and open up about other bad flicks we saw knowing they were going to to be bad. I have to think on it, but most recently, I saw Wild Hogs. Don't kick me off the list, but I thought the first half was hilarious. I watched a really bad one star movie, Cyber Wars also known as Avatar or Matrix Hunter. It starred Joseph Lau, David Warner (Jack the Ripper, Hog Father), and Joan Chen (twin Peaks) The Plot: In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose Okay, your turn tracey --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give 'em time, Tracey. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE nehesi@ wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote: There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen it) SPOILER ALERT!! where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane Karina on his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, where he has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with great power! It was right in keeping with how his character was established in the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might think of using his abilities for good. Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception. How the hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers? Its one thing if you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of one who is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your stun-wand, how are you gonna get him? In less than three minutes, my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation power offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up with, no normal human would have a chance against a jumper. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man
Re: [scifinoir2] McCain hopes Castro to meet Marx soon
Obviously. what an ass Bosco Bosco wrote: You admired an image that had absolutley nothing to do with reality. He's idependent when it's convenient and he's not when it's not. Bosco --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't believe I used to admire this guy for his indepence. He is truly scary Martin wrote: John McCain, USNA '58. We're so proud of him. :P Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By Jason Szep Fri Feb 22, 11:34 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080222/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_politics_mccain_castro;_ylt=AmvlgDEPu9NzP1gcKIAEaHztiBIF INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader. I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon, McCain told a town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to communist theoretician Marx who died on March 14, 1883. Castro, 81, announced on Tuesday he was stepping down as president and commander-in-chief of Cuba's armed forces after 49 years in power. His brother Raul Castro is expected to be named Cuba's new head of state on Sunday. Apparently he is trying to groom his brother Raul, McCain said. Raul is worse in many respects than Fidel was. Castro has not appeared in public since undergoing stomach surgery and handing power temporarily to Raul in July 2006. McCain, a four-term Arizona senator, has an almost insurmountable lead over his last major Republican rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. McCain's approach to Cuba has generally echoed that of U.S. President George W. Bush, who has tightened a decades-long trade embargo and has rejected easing sanctions without a transition to democracy. McCain, who is popular among conservative Cuban-Americans, also has said that if he wins the November 4 U.S. presidential election he would keep up pressure for political change in Cuba's one-party state. That includes a travel ban and trade and financial sanctions enforced a few years after Castro's 1959 revolution on the Caribbean island. McCain, 71, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, has accused Cubans of participating in the torture of some of his fellow prisoners in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. (To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters Tales from the Trail: 2008 online at http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/) (Editing by Bill Trott) Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. You know these things that happen, That's just the way it's supposed to be. And I can't help but wonder, Don't ya know it coulda been me. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] McCain hopes Castro to meet Marx soon
I know they make jokes about his age all the time, but his speeches, jokes, quotes and interviews have a different, off kilter ... wacko. Sorry I saw him on the daily show and a few other interview shows last summer and he did not sound so nutty. I did not agree with anything he said, but he seemed to be sane. Now he looks frail and really sounds out there. Is it possible he has dementia or is he just dementia and no longer afraid to let his demented side out. Martin wrote: It's not safe to have this man anywhere inside the Beltway. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't believe I used to admire this guy for his indepence. He is truly scary Martin wrote: John McCain, USNA '58. We're so proud of him. :P Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: By Jason Szep Fri Feb 22, 11:34 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080222/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_politics_mccain_castro;_ylt=AmvlgDEPu9NzP1gcKIAEaHztiBIF INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader. I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon, McCain told a town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to communist theoretician Marx who died on March 14, 1883. Castro, 81, announced on Tuesday he was stepping down as president and commander-in-chief of Cuba's armed forces after 49 years in power. His brother Raul Castro is expected to be named Cuba's new head of state on Sunday. Apparently he is trying to groom his brother Raul, McCain said. Raul is worse in many respects than Fidel was. Castro has not appeared in public since undergoing stomach surgery and handing power temporarily to Raul in July 2006. McCain, a four-term Arizona senator, has an almost insurmountable lead over his last major Republican rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. McCain's approach to Cuba has generally echoed that of U.S. President George W. Bush, who has tightened a decades-long trade embargo and has rejected easing sanctions without a transition to democracy. McCain, who is popular among conservative Cuban-Americans, also has said that if he wins the November 4 U.S. presidential election he would keep up pressure for political change in Cuba's one-party state. That includes a travel ban and trade and financial sanctions enforced a few years after Castro's 1959 revolution on the Caribbean island. McCain, 71, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, has accused Cubans of participating in the torture of some of his fellow prisoners in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. (To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters Tales from the Trail: 2008 online at http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/) (Editing by Bill Trott) Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
a...flashback.. OK. good enough. Astromancer wrote: I would join in, but you've all heard the Star Crash story...Can't get any worse than that... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm in... Crossworlds, starring a pre-Sports Night Josh Charles, who plays an aimless college student who gets picked up at a party by a hot blonde in a mini-skirt. (That was the first clue for me.) Said blonde turns out to be a warrior from another dimension, who's after our hero because of a necklace he has, the last thing he has to remember his dead father by. Said necklace is actually a talisman that can, if wielded properly, allow the user to shape the Cosmos to his or her fancy, travel dimensions at will and other fun stuff. The blonde takes our hero to her mentor, played by Rutger Hauer, whom we're *supposed* to see as a famed and nigh-invincible warrior. (I might've bought it, if not for the fact that I was in better shape than he was, one lung and all.) Anyhoo, the adventure just speeds- uh, *meanders* along to its utterly predictable climax. Watchign it, I was grateful for both the ending and the fact that I only paid six bucks for the video. tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So gang. It seems like it is a given that some us go to or rent movies we pretty much knoware going to be bad. So lets make it a confession time and open up about other bad flicks we saw knowing they were going to to be bad. I have to think on it, but most recently, I saw Wild Hogs. Don't kick me off the list, but I thought the first half was hilarious. I watched a really bad one star movie, Cyber Wars also known as Avatar or Matrix Hunter. It starred Joseph Lau, David Warner (Jack the Ripper, Hog Father), and Joan Chen (twin Peaks) The Plot: In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose Okay, your turn tracey --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give 'em time, Tracey. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE nehesi@ wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote: There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen it) SPOILER ALERT!! where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane Karina on his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, where he has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with great power! It was right in keeping with how his character was established in the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might think of using his abilities for good. Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception. How the hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers? Its one thing if you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of one who is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your stun-wand, how are you gonna get him? In less than three minutes, my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation power offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up with, no normal human would have a chance against a jumper. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels
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You essay made me wish he had been one of my professors. I hope your sent this to your mom so she can share this with his family. It is a beautiful tribute. In the meantime, can we have the link to your my space site? Might I suggest you go rent something he was in? When somebody I got to know during my brief acting/music career stint died, I went out and rented a movie he had a part in. When I miss find my self reminiscing about the old days going on casting calls with my cousin, I check out Trading Places. She was only in it for five minutes - probably less, but its my way of having her back for a while. Tracey Bosco Bosco wrote: I blog on My Space. I generally just do it to mark little places that interest me in my life. Today was a little different and I wanted to share with the class A Man Of Influence Current mood: sad In the early 1980's my Mother was in graduate school getting a Doctorate in English. When she graduated, she took a job at a small college in Durant, Ok and I spent my last year of high school there. After dropping out, I got a GED, failed my first semester of college, joined the army, got discharged from the Army after basic, and basically kind of lived aimlessly for a couple of years. In the mid 80's, I returned to Durant to make another run at college. I enrolled in a course taught by one of my mother's friendliest colleagues. On the first day of class, Dennis Letts walked into the room, and slammed a gigantic stack of books on the desk. With a pointed and wagging finger and a voice focused in an even a more pointed half growling tone, he pronounced to the class, Everything you know is wrong! It was the most dramatic entrance by a teacher I have ever observed. Dennis spent the rest of the semester showing us that he was right. I have known quite a few good teachers in my life. I remember great lessons, great lectures, great insights and great inspirations that have been offered me by those teachers. Not one among them had more impact or influence on me than Dennis Letts. The memory of that first day of my first class with Dennis has lived in my mind, brilliant and cherished, for more than two decades. I was raised almost from birth to think critically and to examine thoughts and ideas. From Dennis, I learned why questioning my own opinions and beliefs to determine their value was important. He showed me again and again that until my opinions and beliefs have the weight of well measured reason behind them, they are by nature valueless because they are purposeless. Dennis Letts also recognized in me a talent for writing of which I was completely unaware. His encouragment and initial direction provided me with a tool that has given me more self confidence and strength than he was probably ever aware. Singularly, writing has served me well over the years in defining thoughts and feelings. Through writing I find a uniquely satisfying way to navigate the world when I find it overwhelming, absurd or hilarious. I would never have found the way without Dennis Letts. I think back now over my experiences with Dennis and I am amazed at the way one person's influence continues to resonate through me even though it has been literally years upon years since I have seen or spoken to him. A couple of months back my Mom reported to me that Dennis was very very ill. and his time was short. In typical Dennis fashion he spent the last bit of his time among the living working creatively. He had started an acting career in the 80's and had pursued it with determination. I counted 46 different credits under his name on the Internet Movie Database. Not too shabby for a guy who began his professional acting career in the middle of his life. I am told he had dreamed for many years of appearing on Broadway. This year a play called August Osage County, written by his son Tracy Letts, debuted there and Dennis Letts achieved that dream. It opened to critical acclaim and praise. I literally danced when I heard the news of how well they had done. Over many years now past, I have kept up with Dennis primarily through my mother. We've been seperated by time and geography but that has not kept kept me from gleefully enjoying tales of his exploits and achievements and giggling at the tales of his silliness. I was glad to know that he had remained true to his passions and his art and that he had lived the life he wanted. This morning I got an email from my mother that Dennis had passed on. Thoughts of him have flooded my mind. In between tears and chuckles, I remember a man who has gifted me with more than he probably ever knew. I remember a man who's influence has permeated me to my core. I can say readily and easily that I am the person I am today in no small measure because of Dennis. I will always remember him as the man who taught me why to be right and when to be wrong. I don't know if he understood that he
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so what aare you going to watch, Blood Suckers from Outer Space http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086980/ , Passenger 57 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/ , Cast Away http://www.imdb.com/title/tt016/, or something else? Bosco Bosco wrote: Thanks, I did send it to my Mom and some mutual friends. You can find me at http://www.myspace.com/boscoworld B --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You essay made me wish he had been one of my professors. I hope your sent this to your mom so she can share this with his family. It is a beautiful tribute. In the meantime, can we have the link to your my space site? Might I suggest you go rent something he was in? When somebody I got to know during my brief acting/music career stint died, I went out and rented a movie he had a part in. When I miss find my self reminiscing about the old days going on casting calls with my cousin, I check out Trading Places. She was only in it for five minutes - probably less, but its my way of having her back for a while. Tracey Bosco Bosco wrote: I blog on My Space. I generally just do it to mark little places that interest me in my life. Today was a little different and I wanted to share with the class A Man Of Influence Current mood: sad In the early 1980's my Mother was in graduate school getting a Doctorate in English. When she graduated, she took a job at a small college in Durant, Ok and I spent my last year of high school there. After dropping out, I got a GED, failed my first semester of college, joined the army, got discharged from the Army after basic, and basically kind of lived aimlessly for a couple of years. In the mid 80's, I returned to Durant to make another run at college. I enrolled in a course taught by one of my mother's friendliest colleagues. On the first day of class, Dennis Letts walked into the room, and slammed a gigantic stack of books on the desk. With a pointed and wagging finger and a voice focused in an even a more pointed half growling tone, he pronounced to the class, Everything you know is wrong! It was the most dramatic entrance by a teacher I have ever observed. Dennis spent the rest of the semester showing us that he was right. I have known quite a few good teachers in my life. I remember great lessons, great lectures, great insights and great inspirations that have been offered me by those teachers. Not one among them had more impact or influence on me than Dennis Letts. The memory of that first day of my first class with Dennis has lived in my mind, brilliant and cherished, for more than two decades. I was raised almost from birth to think critically and to examine thoughts and ideas. From Dennis, I learned why questioning my own opinions and beliefs to determine their value was important. He showed me again and again that until my opinions and beliefs have the weight of well measured reason behind them, they are by nature valueless because they are purposeless. Dennis Letts also recognized in me a talent for writing of which I was completely unaware. His encouragment and initial direction provided me with a tool that has given me more self confidence and strength than he was probably ever aware. Singularly, writing has served me well over the years in defining thoughts and feelings. Through writing I find a uniquely satisfying way to navigate the world when I find it overwhelming, absurd or hilarious. I would never have found the way without Dennis Letts. I think back now over my experiences with Dennis and I am amazed at the way one person's influence continues to resonate through me even though it has been literally years upon years since I have seen or spoken to him. A couple of months back my Mom reported to me that Dennis was very very ill. and his time was short. In typical Dennis fashion he spent the last bit of his time among the living working creatively. He had started an acting career in the 80's and had pursued it with determination. I counted 46 different credits under his name on the Internet Movie Database. Not too shabby for a guy who began his professional acting career in the middle of his life. I am told he had dreamed for many years of appearing on Broadway. This year a play called August Osage County, written by his son Tracy Letts, debuted there and Dennis Letts achieved that dream. It opened to critical acclaim and praise. I literally danced when I heard the news
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He is on TNT and Oxygen today with Fire Down Below and Where The Heart Is Bosco Bosco wrote: Thanks, I did send it to my Mom and some mutual friends. You can find me at http://www.myspace.com/boscoworld B --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You essay made me wish he had been one of my professors. I hope your sent this to your mom so she can share this with his family. It is a beautiful tribute. In the meantime, can we have the link to your my space site? Might I suggest you go rent something he was in? When somebody I got to know during my brief acting/music career stint died, I went out and rented a movie he had a part in. When I miss find my self reminiscing about the old days going on casting calls with my cousin, I check out Trading Places. She was only in it for five minutes - probably less, but its my way of having her back for a while. Tracey Bosco Bosco wrote: I blog on My Space. I generally just do it to mark little places that interest me in my life. Today was a little different and I wanted to share with the class A Man Of Influence Current mood: sad In the early 1980's my Mother was in graduate school getting a Doctorate in English. When she graduated, she took a job at a small college in Durant, Ok and I spent my last year of high school there. After dropping out, I got a GED, failed my first semester of college, joined the army, got discharged from the Army after basic, and basically kind of lived aimlessly for a couple of years. In the mid 80's, I returned to Durant to make another run at college. I enrolled in a course taught by one of my mother's friendliest colleagues. On the first day of class, Dennis Letts walked into the room, and slammed a gigantic stack of books on the desk. With a pointed and wagging finger and a voice focused in an even a more pointed half growling tone, he pronounced to the class, Everything you know is wrong! It was the most dramatic entrance by a teacher I have ever observed. Dennis spent the rest of the semester showing us that he was right. I have known quite a few good teachers in my life. I remember great lessons, great lectures, great insights and great inspirations that have been offered me by those teachers. Not one among them had more impact or influence on me than Dennis Letts. The memory of that first day of my first class with Dennis has lived in my mind, brilliant and cherished, for more than two decades. I was raised almost from birth to think critically and to examine thoughts and ideas. From Dennis, I learned why questioning my own opinions and beliefs to determine their value was important. He showed me again and again that until my opinions and beliefs have the weight of well measured reason behind them, they are by nature valueless because they are purposeless. Dennis Letts also recognized in me a talent for writing of which I was completely unaware. His encouragment and initial direction provided me with a tool that has given me more self confidence and strength than he was probably ever aware. Singularly, writing has served me well over the years in defining thoughts and feelings. Through writing I find a uniquely satisfying way to navigate the world when I find it overwhelming, absurd or hilarious. I would never have found the way without Dennis Letts. I think back now over my experiences with Dennis and I am amazed at the way one person's influence continues to resonate through me even though it has been literally years upon years since I have seen or spoken to him. A couple of months back my Mom reported to me that Dennis was very very ill. and his time was short. In typical Dennis fashion he spent the last bit of his time among the living working creatively. He had started an acting career in the 80's and had pursued it with determination. I counted 46 different credits under his name on the Internet Movie Database. Not too shabby for a guy who began his professional acting career in the middle of his life. I am told he had dreamed for many years of appearing on Broadway. This year a play called August Osage County, written by his son Tracy Letts, debuted there and Dennis Letts achieved that dream. It opened to critical acclaim and praise. I literally danced when I heard the news of how well they had done. Over many years now past, I have kept up with Dennis primarily through my mother. We've been seperated
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I saw her movie last year and enjoyed it Bosco Bosco wrote: His Wife wrote the Novel Where The Heart Is. The movie is based on the book. Oprah made the book one of her book club picks. They're a talented Family. I'm gonna hang with my oldest son tonight so a movie may not be on the agenda. I've seen them all. I'll probably just dwell on my good memories --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He is on TNT and Oxygen today with Fire Down Below and Where The Heart Is Bosco Bosco wrote: Thanks, I did send it to my Mom and some mutual friends. You can find me at http://www.myspace.com/boscoworld B --- Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You essay made me wish he had been one of my professors. I hope your sent this to your mom so she can share this with his family. It is a beautiful tribute. In the meantime, can we have the link to your my space site? Might I suggest you go rent something he was in? When somebody I got to know during my brief acting/music career stint died, I went out and rented a movie he had a part in. When I miss find my self reminiscing about the old days going on casting calls with my cousin, I check out Trading Places. She was only in it for five minutes - probably less, but its my way of having her back for a while. Tracey Bosco Bosco wrote: I blog on My Space. I generally just do it to mark little places that interest me in my life. Today was a little different and I wanted to share with the class A Man Of Influence Current mood: sad In the early 1980's my Mother was in graduate school getting a Doctorate in English. When she graduated, she took a job at a small college in Durant, Ok and I spent my last year of high school there. After dropping out, I got a GED, failed my first semester of college, joined the army, got discharged from the Army after basic, and basically kind of lived aimlessly for a couple of years. In the mid 80's, I returned to Durant to make another run at college. I enrolled in a course taught by one of my mother's friendliest colleagues. On the first day of class, Dennis Letts walked into the room, and slammed a gigantic stack of books on the desk. With a pointed and wagging finger and a voice focused in an even a more pointed half growling tone, he pronounced to the class, Everything you know is wrong! It was the most dramatic entrance by a teacher I have ever observed. Dennis spent the rest of the semester showing us that he was right. I have known quite a few good teachers in my life. I remember great lessons, great lectures, great insights and great inspirations that have been offered me by those teachers. Not one among them had more impact or influence on me than Dennis Letts. The memory of that first day of my first class with Dennis has lived in my mind, brilliant and cherished, for more than two decades. I was raised almost from birth to think critically and to examine thoughts and ideas. From Dennis, I learned why questioning my own opinions and beliefs to determine their value was important. He showed me again and again that until my opinions and beliefs have the weight of well measured reason behind them, they are by nature valueless because they are purposeless. Dennis Letts also recognized in me a talent for writing of which I was completely unaware. His encouragment and initial direction provided me with a tool that has given me more self confidence and strength than he was probably ever aware. Singularly, writing has served me well over the years in defining thoughts and feelings. Through writing I find a uniquely satisfying way to navigate the world when I find it overwhelming, absurd or hilarious. I would never have found the way without Dennis Letts. I think back now over
[scifinoir2] [Fwd: RE: Surprising nature flick ~ amazing and unexpected finish]
You got to see this! Original Message Subject:RE: Surprising nature flick ~ amazing and unexpected finish Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:26:41 -0800 From: Chris de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'paul demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'julia demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rae [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Loyd Atwood' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/02/lions-versus-buffaloes-and-elephants.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
The last three or four episodes of last season that have Martha and Capt Jack in them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what ep or eps do I need to see to get the scoop? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something happened when Jack died and at the end of the episode you saw, he was still alive. Now he can't die. In fact, he and Rose have met him when they travel to the future. They just do not know it is him. I can not tell you more because it is a spoiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the premise of Torchwood? I only just now caught up on the eps of Dr. Who were Rose was trapped on the alternate Earth with her mom, sometimes boyfriend, and alternate reality father. I saw the first four or five eps of the season with Martha, but that's it. I remember some references to Torchwood in the show. But didn't Captain Jack die in Dr. Who? How is he alive, what is Torchwood, and how did it come to exist in our time? -- Original message -- From: Martin Gymfig, the BBC is capitalizing on her unexpected popularity by split-tining her between Torchwood and DW. She'll be in those eps on Torchwood, then return to be the Doctor's co-companion with Catherine Tate for the rest of S4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/22/2008 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. I love Torchwood. I heard about this on the sci fi channel. I am glad that she is back but I am sad that she is only back for three episodes. I still don't understand what is the big deal with Capt. Jack. He does not seem to be that cold leader his character is supposed to be. It is quite laughable to see him be threatening. **Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
I do not remember which episode he died in, but I think it was one of the Bad Wolf episodes with the reality tv theme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what ep or eps do I need to see to get the scoop? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something happened when Jack died and at the end of the episode you saw, he was still alive. Now he can't die. In fact, he and Rose have met him when they travel to the future. They just do not know it is him. I can not tell you more because it is a spoiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the premise of Torchwood? I only just now caught up on the eps of Dr. Who were Rose was trapped on the alternate Earth with her mom, sometimes boyfriend, and alternate reality father. I saw the first four or five eps of the season with Martha, but that's it. I remember some references to Torchwood in the show. But didn't Captain Jack die in Dr. Who? How is he alive, what is Torchwood, and how did it come to exist in our time? -- Original message -- From: Martin Gymfig, the BBC is capitalizing on her unexpected popularity by split-tining her between Torchwood and DW. She'll be in those eps on Torchwood, then return to be the Doctor's co-companion with Catherine Tate for the rest of S4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/22/2008 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. I love Torchwood. I heard about this on the sci fi channel. I am glad that she is back but I am sad that she is only back for three episodes. I still don't understand what is the big deal with Capt. Jack. He does not seem to be that cold leader his character is supposed to be. It is quite laughable to see him be threatening. **Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
The first episode I saw discussing Torchwood is the episode in which the Doctor and Rose go back in time and meet Queen Elizabeth and encounter a werewolf. The queen set up Torchwood after that encounter Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: I do not remember which episode he died in, but I think it was one of the Bad Wolf episodes with the reality tv theme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what ep or eps do I need to see to get the scoop? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something happened when Jack died and at the end of the episode you saw, he was still alive. Now he can't die. In fact, he and Rose have met him when they travel to the future. They just do not know it is him. I can not tell you more because it is a spoiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the premise of Torchwood? I only just now caught up on the eps of Dr. Who were Rose was trapped on the alternate Earth with her mom, sometimes boyfriend, and alternate reality father. I saw the first four or five eps of the season with Martha, but that's it. I remember some references to Torchwood in the show. But didn't Captain Jack die in Dr. Who? How is he alive, what is Torchwood, and how did it come to exist in our time? -- Original message -- From: Martin Gymfig, the BBC is capitalizing on her unexpected popularity by split-tining her between Torchwood and DW. She'll be in those eps on Torchwood, then return to be the Doctor's co-companion with Catherine Tate for the rest of S4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/22/2008 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. I love Torchwood. I heard about this on the sci fi channel. I am glad that she is back but I am sad that she is only back for three episodes. I still don't understand what is the big deal with Capt. Jack. He does not seem to be that cold leader his character is supposed to be. It is quite laughable to see him be threatening. **Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2]netflix
What do you mean? Provide a link, I will join Bosco Bosco wrote: Aloha I'm looking for netflix friends. Drop me a line if you're interested Bosco I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. You know these things that happen, That's just the way it's supposed to be. And I can't help but wonder, Don't ya know it coulda been me. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
I've have started watching on Comcast on Demand Astromancer wrote: Stupid numbers...probably not figuring out who the target audience is and, therefore, they take it out on the fans... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted an e-mail the day the show was returning, then posted a follow up asking if anyone here was watching. Only one reply, and that was from Gymfig, who doesn't watch the show at all. Is anyone here watching it? I also have to repeat my complaint at CBS' not showing the entire series again in the weeks leading up to the return. That irritates me. I watched the whole series, but missed the last three eps and didn't want to watch them on my laptop. I was waiting and waiting, just *knowing* that CBS would rerun the series again, in order to build up more interest. But they didn't. I guess they were too busy selling it to SciFi. I don't get that strategy. ABC did the same thing with Lost, which is maddening. Too bad. Maybe my fantasy billionaire will pick up the show! :) -- Original message -- From: Justin Mohareb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuts. JJ Mohareb On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sources: 'Jericho' To Wrap It Up By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 It looks like the Jericho experiment is about to come to an end. Sources have told SyFy Portal that CBS is gearing up to air the series finale version of the post-apocalyptic series on March 25, one of two endings shot that would either allow a cliffhanger going into a third season, or a proper amount of closure for Jericho fans who fought hard to force CBS to reconsider its previous decision to cancel the show. There are a lot of people here who really care about what happens to 'Jericho,' and I think we all wanted to see it succeed, the source, who asked not to be identified, said. Numbers are numbers, and [CBS] had to do what [CBS] had to do. Ratings for the first two episodes were well below even some of the worst numbers the show experienced at the end of the first season which helped prompt network officials to move toward cancellation. Although it is competing in a post-American Idol scheduling environment, Jericho struggled to compete with shows that were either in reruns, or not part of mainstream viewing habits. At the same time, audiences in key demographics of 18 to 49 -- a demo that isn't typically attracted to CBS for many of its other programmings -- were noticeably absent from the first pair of viewings from the show, and there is little chance they'll suddenly return in the coming weeks. But the decision isn't quite final yet ... network executives still have room to change their mind. If the audience can come back to the show in the next two episodes, and I mean a lot, [CBS] may reconsider, the source said. Fans definitely have a say, and they had a say last summer [with the 'Nuts to Jericho' campaign], but I think the final decision this time is going to come down to hard numbers, and they're just not there for 'Jericho.' Please note that none of this has been confirmed by CBS, and should be treated as any rumor would. Jericho airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424744.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
You have to remember that I could barely walk or work for the longest time, and we just moved to the Seattle area, so I got a special rate on an expensive package because I could not do anything for so long. That included phone, Internet and two premium channels set with movie channels. Either that or the Seattle line up is more robust. I definitely get more here than I got when we were in Philly. I have to see if we get boomerang. I do not even know where that is. The only network channel we get is CBS. I wish we got others. What do they provide with your on your on demand line up? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't get why your Comcast On Demand is so much more robust than mine here in Atlanta. I can't get anything meaningful from Boomerang (Justice League, for example), Nick (Avatar) or any of the other channels. The things you can get On Demand, i've had to get by paying for a more expensive package -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've have started watching on Comcast on Demand Astromancer wrote: Stupid numbers...probably not figuring out who the target audience is and, therefore, they take it out on the fans... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted an e-mail the day the show was returning, then posted a follow up asking if anyone here was watching. Only one reply, and that was from Gymfig, who doesn't watch the show at all. Is anyone here watching it? I also have to repeat my complaint at CBS' not showing the entire series again in the weeks leading up to the return. That irritates me. I watched the whole series, but missed the last three eps and didn't want to watch them on my laptop. I was waiting and waiting, just *knowing* that CBS would rerun the series again, in order to build up more interest. But they didn't. I guess they were too busy selling it to SciFi. I don't get that strategy. ABC did the same thing with Lost, which is maddening. Too bad. Maybe my fantasy billionaire will pick up the show! :) -- Original message -- From: Justin Mohareb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuts. JJ Mohareb On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sources: 'Jericho' To Wrap It Up By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 It looks like the Jericho experiment is about to come to an end. Sources have told SyFy Portal that CBS is gearing up to air the series finale version of the post-apocalyptic series on March 25, one of two endings shot that would either allow a cliffhanger going into a third season, or a proper amount of closure for Jericho fans who fought hard to force CBS to reconsider its previous decision to cancel the show. There are a lot of people here who really care about what happens to 'Jericho,' and I think we all wanted to see it succeed, the source, who asked not to be identified, said. Numbers are numbers, and [CBS] had to do what [CBS] had to do. Ratings for the first two episodes were well below even some of the worst numbers the show experienced at the end of the first season which helped prompt network officials to move toward cancellation. Although it is competing in a post-American Idol scheduling environment, Jericho struggled to compete with shows that were either in reruns, or not part of mainstream viewing habits. At the same time, audiences in key demographics of 18 to 49 -- a demo that isn't typically attracted to CBS for many of its other programmings -- were noticeably absent from the first pair of viewings from the show, and there is little chance they'll suddenly return in the coming weeks. But the decision isn't quite final yet ... network executives still have room to change their mind. If the audience can come back to the show in the next two episodes, and I mean a lot, [CBS] may reconsider, the source said. Fans definitely have a say, and they had a say last summer [with the 'Nuts to Jericho' campaign], but I think the final decision this time is going to come down to hard numbers, and they're just not there for 'Jericho.' Please note that none of this has been confirmed by CBS, and should be treated as any rumor would. Jericho airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424744.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
I forgot. I'm sorry Astromancer wrote: Pleasedon't mention the 'C' word...(spit! spit! spit!) Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've have started watching on Comcast on Demand Astromancer wrote: Stupid numbers...probably not figuring out who the target audience is and, therefore, they take it out on the fans... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted an e-mail the day the show was returning, then posted a follow up asking if anyone here was watching. Only one reply, and that was from Gymfig, who doesn't watch the show at all. Is anyone here watching it? I also have to repeat my complaint at CBS' not showing the entire series again in the weeks leading up to the return. That irritates me. I watched the whole series, but missed the last three eps and didn't want to watch them on my laptop. I was waiting and waiting, just *knowing* that CBS would rerun the series again, in order to build up more interest. But they didn't. I guess they were too busy selling it to SciFi. I don't get that strategy. ABC did the same thing with Lost, which is maddening. Too bad. Maybe my fantasy billionaire will pick up the show! :) -- Original message -- From: Justin Mohareb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuts. JJ Mohareb On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sources: 'Jericho' To Wrap It Up By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 It looks like the Jericho experiment is about to come to an end. Sources have told SyFy Portal that CBS is gearing up to air the series finale version of the post-apocalyptic series on March 25, one of two endings shot that would either allow a cliffhanger going into a third season, or a proper amount of closure for Jericho fans who fought hard to force CBS to reconsider its previous decision to cancel the show. There are a lot of people here who really care about what happens to 'Jericho,' and I think we all wanted to see it succeed, the source, who asked not to be identified, said. Numbers are numbers, and [CBS] had to do what [CBS] had to do. Ratings for the first two episodes were well below even some of the worst numbers the show experienced at the end of the first season which helped prompt network officials to move toward cancellation. Although it is competing in a post-American Idol scheduling environment, Jericho struggled to compete with shows that were either in reruns, or not part of mainstream viewing habits. At the same time, audiences in key demographics of 18 to 49 -- a demo that isn't typically attracted to CBS for many of its other programmings -- were noticeably absent from the first pair of viewings from the show, and there is little chance they'll suddenly return in the coming weeks. But the decision isn't quite final yet ... network executives still have room to change their mind. If the audience can come back to the show in the next two episodes, and I mean a lot, [CBS] may reconsider, the source said. Fans definitely have a say, and they had a say last summer [with the 'Nuts to Jericho' campaign], but I think the final decision this time is going to come down to hard numbers, and they're just not there for 'Jericho.' Please note that none of this has been confirmed by CBS, and should be treated as any rumor would. Jericho airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424744.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] I am me, said the stranger, and I work for the ones who pay my fee...and that's not you. - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Let's all become friends on Netflix
Thanks! I just accepted
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Subject: [scifinoir2] Let's all become friends on Netflix
Earlier today, Bosco put us onto Netflix friends.
You can be come my Netflix friend by clicking on the following link:
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Netflix Friends allows you to share movie ideas and notes with your
friends. First you invite friends to connect with you and when they
accept, they are part of your Friends list. With Netflix friends, you
can see what each of your friends think about specific movies, suggest
movies them and add comments next to films that will help your friends
choose movies or avoid those you didn't enjoy.
So lets see if those of us who get films from Netflix, can all come
together via Netflix to make recommendations to eachother, share
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[scifinoir2] 2nd Moonlight Leader Slayed!
UPDATE: According to trade reports, exec producer Joel Silver, along with what's left of the Moonlight writing team, will oversee production of the show's four remaining episodes. If Moonlight gets renewed for a second season, a new show-runner will be sought at that time. We now return you to the original story More backstage drama at Moonlight — and the timing couldn't be worse. I'm told that Chip Johannessen has been let go as show-runner just as the freshman drama is fighting for a second season. The search is on for a replacement. This is the second major regime change for the cult fave; over the summer Johannessen replaced David Greenwalt, who vacated his post for health reasons. The behind-the-scenes upheaval may explain why Moonlight was conspicuously absent from CBS' litany of renewals last week. It's unclear what impact this will have on the four post-strike episodes that the network just commissioned, which are slated to begin airing on April 11. But rest assured, when I know you'll know. In the meantime, weigh in below with your thoughts on Johannessen's exit. I'm guessing you're not happy about it. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Ausiello-Scoop-Moonlight/800033835
[scifinoir2] Bionic Woman Laid to Rest
It's now official: The Commander in Chief award for the most spectacular freshman flame-out of the 07-08 TV season goes to... Bionic Woman! Although NBC isn't talking, I'm told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled. That means no spring relaunch under new show-runner Jason Cahill — which is too bad. Cahill's a talented guy (see: The Sopranos), and I was anxious to see what he would do with the show. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. At least now the first stage of grief can get under way. No, not shock — the snarky postmortem! What do you think felled Bionic Woman in the end? Was it the lackluster pilot? The absence of a clear, creative vision? Not enough Starbuck? Too much Isaiah Washington? All of the above? Sound off in the comments section below! http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/70049
Re: [scifinoir2] Bionic Woman Laid to Rest
I love Coto. Isn't he a show runner on 24? Lockhart, Daryle wrote: Jason Cahill and Manny Coto should do a show together. They are both great at saving failed projects. On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:42 -0500, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's now official: The Commander in Chief award for the most spectacular freshman flame-out of the 07-08 TV season goes to... Bionic Woman! Although NBC isn't talking, I'm told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled. That means no spring relaunch under new show-runner Jason Cahill ⤠which is too bad. Cahill's a talented guy (see: The Sopranos), and I was anxious to see what he would do with the show. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. At least now the first stage of grief can get under way. No, not shock ⤠the snarky postmortem! What do you think felled Bionic Woman in the end? Was it the lackluster pilot? The absence of a clear, creative vision? Not enough Starbuck? Too much Isaiah Washington? All of the above? Sound off in the comments section below! http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/70049 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Weapons Screening Stopped at Obama Rally
Original Message Subject:Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:37:56 -0800 From: Chris de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'julia demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'paul demorsella' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/486413.html *Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally* *By JACK DOUGLAS Jr.* *Star-Telegram Staff Writer* Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at a Democratic rally in Dallas' Reunion Arena. Police were told to stop screening people for weapons before the rally began. http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2008/02/21/05/416-324450-268988.standalone.prod_affiliate.58.jpg STAR-TELEGRAM/RODGER MALLISON Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at a Democratic rally in Dallas' Reunion Arena. Police were told to stop screening people for weapons before the rally began. DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena. The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security. Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on. Sure, said Lawrence, when asked if he was concerned by the great number of people who had gotten into the building without being checked. But, he added, the turnout of more than 17,000 people seemed to be a friendly crowd. The Secret Service did not return a call from the //Star-Telegram// seeking comment. Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., an order came down to allow the people in without being checked. Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection. They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event. How can you not be concerned in this day and age, said one policeman. JACK DOUGLAS Jr., 817-390-7700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
We fight now and then. Its rarely serious. It happens with two people who both are right :). One of the reasons I married him, is he does not like prolonged battles nor misunderstandings. I'm the same way, I hope. When I came home, we talked and made up.We are cool.thanks for asking :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, that helps a great bit. Yout two cool now? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, that is why I did it. Chris and I had a fight. When that happens, we try to walk away and come back together after we cool off. I needed to kill a few hours, and take my mind off stuff, so I drove up to the theater. Jumper was about to start, so I chose it. It took my mind off of stuff. I know you got more serious stuff going on, but it is just what the doctor ordered. I went with very low expectations so I enjoyed it and went home to make up with Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've had several people tell me to stay away from this movie at all costs. But I really need a fun time waster to take my mind off some things. Is it at least a good popcorn flick Phyllis and I can lose ourselves in for a couple of hours without feeling regret? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote: There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen it) SPOILER ALERT!! where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane Karina on his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, where he has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with great power! It was right in keeping with how his character was established in the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might think of using his abilities for good. Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception. How the hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers? Its one thing if you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of one who is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your stun-wand, how are you gonna get him? In less than three minutes, my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation power offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up with, no normal human would have a chance against a jumper. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Bionic Woman Laid to Rest
They would have to retool and replace the lead Martin wrote: I'm surprised that Skiffy didn't pick it up, since they're under the NBCUniversal umbrella. Mike Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a show that Sci-Fi should buy and produce. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: It's now official: The Commander in Chief award for the most spectacular freshman flame-out of the 07-08 TV season goes to... Bionic Woman! Although NBC isn't talking, I'm told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled. That means no spring relaunch under new show-runner Jason Cahill --- which is too bad. Cahill's a talented guy (see: The Sopranos), and I was anxious to see what he would do with the show. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. At least now the first stage of grief can get under way. No, not shock --- the snarky postmortem! What do you think felled Bionic Woman in the end? Was it the lackluster pilot? The absence of a clear, creative vision? Not enough Starbuck? Too much Isaiah Washington? All of the above? Sound off in the comments section below! http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/70049 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Bionic Woman Laid to Rest
Yikes!!! Martin wrote: And *there*, Tracey, is where it gets scary. Kristanna Loken, anyone? 8-O Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They would have to retool and replace the lead Martin wrote: I'm surprised that Skiffy didn't pick it up, since they're under the NBCUniversal umbrella. Mike Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a show that Sci-Fi should buy and produce. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: It's now official: The Commander in Chief award for the most spectacular freshman flame-out of the 07-08 TV season goes to... Bionic Woman! Although NBC isn't talking, I'm told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled. That means no spring relaunch under new show-runner Jason Cahill --- which is too bad. Cahill's a talented guy (see: The Sopranos), and I was anxious to see what he would do with the show. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. At least now the first stage of grief can get under way. No, not shock --- the snarky postmortem! What do you think felled Bionic Woman in the end? Was it the lackluster pilot? The absence of a clear, creative vision? Not enough Starbuck? Too much Isaiah Washington? All of the above? Sound off in the comments section below! http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/70049 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] More Toys Going to Movies - HELP
No good can come from this. Universal Teams With Hasbro http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=48950 Universal Pictures and Hasbro have announced a six-year strategic partnership to produce at least four feature films based on some of Hasbro's best-known game and toy brands, including Monopoly; Candy Land; Clue; Ouija; Battleship; Magic, the Gathering; and Stretch Armstrong, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hasbro will partner exclusively with Universal for feature films, with the exception of Transformers and G.I. Joe, which are already at DreamWorks and Paramount. The first film emerging from the deal will be released in 2010 or 2011, and Universal will release at least one film a year after that. Hasbro is co-financing script development with Universal and has the option of co-funding production of the films. Hasbro will retain all merchandising rights to the brands, and the companies will share in consumer products revenue generated by the movies. Shmuger said Universal and Hasbro still are working out which brand will be the first project developed, but sources said it's likely to be Monopoly or Ouija. Hasbro COO Brian Goldner said Michael Bay and his Platinum Dune production company are signed on as producers for a Ouija project, and David Berenbaum has signed on to write a draft of a script. He said Hasbro is in negotiations with Ridley Scott on Monopoly. Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.com. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] News For Martha Jones Fans - Dr. Who/torchwoord
anyone here what Torchwood? Scifi addict that I am, you know I have been checking it out. So far, I think this season is better than last season. Exclusive: 'Torchwood' Hub Means A New Martha By ALAN STANLEY BLAIR Source: SyFy Portal Feb-20-2008 This story contains MODERATE SPOILERS for Season 2 of Torchwood and the upcoming fourth season of Doctor Who. Her name is Martha Jones, and last year she saved the world. But at the end of her 13-episode stint as The Doctor’s companion, BBC bosses announced that Freema Agyeman would be giving up her full-time role on the series to make way for the return of Catherine Tate. The news both disheartened and elated Martha Jones fans, because although the character will have a reduced part in the upcoming fourth season of Doctor Who, she will have an additional three-episode run on the adult-themed spinoff for BBC Two and BBC America, Torchwood. This announcement caused quite a media stir within the British press as tabloids had already made a variety of outlandish claims about her future with the series. However, in an exclusive interview with SyFy Portal, Agyeman set the record straight as to why she’ll be stepping into the Hub instead of the Tardis. The decision was character based 100 percent, Agyeman told SyFy Portal’s Alan Stanley Blair. In this business, no one has to do anyone any favors, and if they weren’t happy, I’d be completely away. The rumors of my departure came five weeks before the press announcement on the future of the series and it happened without any of the facts. I was hugely pleased with the decision to go to ‘Torchwood.’ And gosh, going back to ‘Who’ as well. There was no scandal, no ill feelings in any way. The tabloids put two and two together and came up with five and a half. So, beginning with the sixth episode of “Torchwood,” the now fully qualified Dr. Martha Jones will take on the weird, the wacky and the paranormal from Cardiff Bay as part of Team Torchwood. But don’t expect to see a darker Martha, especially since the BBC believes she’ll attract a slightly younger audience. They are very mindful that I’ll be going between the two shows, Agyeman said. We know Martha has a large youth following so we’ve been mindful that we’re not having sex or swearing in case some of the younger fans tune in. Even though there is a pre-watershed edit we can’t control who will tune in. In the episode, Martha (who is now working for alien specialists UNIT that was established in the original run of Doctor Who) receives a call from Capt. Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) following a string of unexplained deaths. As a UNIT operative, she has also been looking into the events and has more information than Torchwood does making her a valuable asset to solving the case. There is a really nice arc in those three episodes actually, she said. Jack calls Martha to give them a hand in Episode 6 and because Martha is in UNIT now, she has a little bit more information that he needs. And the consequences of that ends in a great cliff-hanger leading into episode seven so it’s really like a good two-parter. By the end of Episode 8, she’s part of the team. It is a very natural progression of the character that I’m really pleased with.” Of course, with both shows being such different entities, how much of the old “Doctor Who” dynamic crosses over with Martha? When Barrowman initially returned to “Doctor Who” for its final three episodes last season, we saw a lighter side to him than what was the norm for the Torchwood leader. And Agyeman confirmed that the same holds true for Martha. “You take this character into a different environment and you wonder how people take to that,” she said. “These are all new experiences for an all-new character in a new environment. She’s harder, more qualified and able to do things alone without looking to The Doctor. She’s very different and she’ll be very different again when she’s about him. Because when you are with different people you behave differently. That’s how I perceived it and that’s how I tried to play it.” And as a result, fans can only expect a few references to their history over the three-episode arc. It’s touched on but not discussed -- mostly in a lovely moment between the two characters,” she hinted. “It would be weird if they didn’t talk about it, but the team don’t even know where he [Jack] went when he vanished. In ‘Torchwood’ he is a much more mysterious character and the team aren’t privy to all the details of his past. They don’t know how he knows Martha. But the audience do and so can enjoy it.” When she joined the series, Agyeman felt she had a good idea of what to expect with regards to production, writing and acting – unfortunately she wasn’t quite prepared for John “The Prankster” Barrowman who welcomed her to the series in his own special way. And he did it with a song. “There is always something with John, but half of it is rude
[scifinoir2] It's Over for Jericho
Sources: 'Jericho' To Wrap It Up By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 It looks like the Jericho experiment is about to come to an end. Sources have told SyFy Portal that CBS is gearing up to air the series finale version of the post-apocalyptic series on March 25, one of two endings shot that would either allow a cliffhanger going into a third season, or a proper amount of closure for Jericho fans who fought hard to force CBS to reconsider its previous decision to cancel the show. There are a lot of people here who really care about what happens to 'Jericho,' and I think we all wanted to see it succeed, the source, who asked not to be identified, said. Numbers are numbers, and [CBS] had to do what [CBS] had to do. Ratings for the first two episodes were well below even some of the worst numbers the show experienced at the end of the first season which helped prompt network officials to move toward cancellation. Although it is competing in a post-American Idol scheduling environment, Jericho struggled to compete with shows that were either in reruns, or not part of mainstream viewing habits. At the same time, audiences in key demographics of 18 to 49 -- a demo that isn't typically attracted to CBS for many of its other programmings -- were noticeably absent from the first pair of viewings from the show, and there is little chance they'll suddenly return in the coming weeks. But the decision isn't quite final yet ... network executives still have room to change their mind. If the audience can come back to the show in the next two episodes, and I mean a lot, [CBS] may reconsider, the source said. Fans definitely have a say, and they had a say last summer [with the 'Nuts to Jericho' campaign], but I think the final decision this time is going to come down to hard numbers, and they're just not there for 'Jericho.' Please note that none of this has been confirmed by CBS, and should be treated as any rumor would. Jericho airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. http://www.syfyportal.com/news424744.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] What's Coming Up In Genre TV?
By ED LEFT Source: SyFy Portal Feb-18-2008 The Writers Guild of America strike has ended, and the networks are making their plans for the remainder of the season and beyond. And because of the strike, we didn't have a normal pilot season. Instead, the networks started ordering series directly instead of ordering a pilot, or even ordered foreign series. Here's a look at the new series coming to your screens in the next twelve months or so. Dollhouse will air on Fox, was created and produced by Joss Whedon, and stars Eliza Dushku. It's about men and women imprinted with different personalities and skills for different assignments, and then having those personalities wiped clean when the assignment is completed. When between assignments, they live like children in the Dollhouse, their dormitory/laboratory. They live with no memories of which they are, until Echo, played by Dushku, begins to remember. I like the concept behind this show. If it was airing on a cable network, I think we'd have a winner. However, it will be airing on Fox. Joss Whedon is a genre fan favorite, but let's face it, he hasn't really had a hit show. Although Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel had long runs, they ran on minor netlets. Neither show would have lasted on a major network. Firefly did air on a major network, and it was a ratings failure. Dushku previously starred in genre series Tru Calling, and it also failed in the ratings. Combining Whedon, Dushku and Fox does not spell success. I think we'll only see the seven episodes contracted, if that. Fear Itself, a horror anthology from NBC, promises be much like Showtime's Masters of Horror, providing 60-minute telefilms by name horror writers and directors. Anthologies don't work on network television anymore. This one is doomed before it starts. The Listener is being produced by CTV in Canada, and has been bought by NBC to air this coming summer/fall. Paramedic Toby Logan, played by Craig Olejnik, has the power to listen to people's most intimate thoughts. With the help of his friend and partner Osman Bey (Ennis Esmer), they save lives and solve mysteries. Borrowing from Heroes, they take the most lame of abilities and build a show around it. It could work, but it would depend on the strength of the writing and the acting. I don't hold out much hope. Middleman from writer-producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach of Lost fame, stars Natalie Morales as a struggling artist recruited by an agency to fight comic-book style villains. Matt Keeslay co-stars as Middleman, her superhero guide and mentor. It's on ABC Family, so expect it to be pointed at the family crowd, and it will probably have a Kyle XY look and feel. It seems on ABC Family, cast and chemistry is the most important aspect. If they're likeable, the show will probably stick around. Sanctuary, the Web series picked up by the SciFi Channel, stars Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus. Magnus runs the Sanctuary, which is a home to various creatures of myth and legend, who must be tracked down and protected. Dr. Will Zimmerman, played by Robin Dunne assists her in her quest. It's cheap to produce, and airs on SciFi. It's a match made in heaven. It also has Stargate SG-1 connections, which will bring in a ready-made audience. This show could have legs. Section 8 has been picked up by ABC for a six-episode order. The premise is a group of everyday people with advanced neurological abnormalities who work for a secret government agency. This sounds like a very thinly veiled Heroes homage. Or maybe it's more like Misfits of Science? We'll find out. True Blood is brought to us by HBO, and is based on the Southern Vampire book series by Charlaine Harris. It features Sookie Stackhouse, played by Anna Paquin, a mind reading barmaid in Louisiana who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton, played by Stephen Moyer. Vampires are no longer a secret, and can feed on a synthetic blood developed by the Japanese. It's HBO, so you know they will be spending some money on it. But I wonder if vampire fans will tune into another vampire series so soon after the demise of Blood Ties and the fate of Moonlight still up in the air. Getting Anna Paquin to star was a good move, and it guarantees I will check out the pilot, at least. Wizard's First Rule is a new first-run syndication series set to air this fall. Produced by Spider-Man director Sam Raimi, this series is based on the Sword of Truth book series by Terry Goodkind, and follows the extraordinary transformation of woodsman Richard Cypher into a magical leader who joins with a mysterious woman to stop a blood-thirsty tyrant. It has guaranteed coverage on the Tribune stations, so it will air in the major U.S. markets. Straight fantasy has never done well on the tube, but campy fantasy has. It remains to be seen which this will be. So there we have it, the new genre series coming to our TV in the next 12 or so months. This
[scifinoir2] SyFy 101: I Robot? Not Exactly
By DAN COMPORA Source: SyFy Portal Feb-21-2008 Growing up during the 1970s, I watched Lost In Space with the same fervor that children today get absorbed in Spongebob Squarepants. Fascinated by The Robot, I tried building my own. Discarded boxes and duct tape were often the building blocks for my creations, but my crowning achievement in adolescent robotics was a miniature R2-D2, made out of a D-cell battery, a roll-on deodorant lid, and blue and white electrical tape. Needless to say, my creations only looked like robots and didn't function -- it's not surprising why I became an English professor. The symbiotic relationship between people and machines is a popular topic in science-fiction, and robots and humans have been connected since the concept of artificial life was first imagined. The connection is so strong that Isaac Asimov permanently joined them in the Three Laws of Robotics, made famous in I, Robot. Inevitably, a marriage of man and machine would yield a creation resembling both parties. The robots of yesteryear were infused with modern technology yet imbued with humanistic personality traits. This trend wasn't always positive. I've spent the better part of three decades trying to forget Twiki from the poorly conceived Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Not even the vocal talents of legendary cartoon master Mel Blanc could save this anthropomorphic disaster. Modern robotics has evolved in a fashion quite different from what speculative artists depicted. While robots, androids and cybernetic organisms still dot the science-fiction landscape, the idea of humanoid robots has been replaced, in reality, by a reliance on small, personal electronic devices. My boys have adopted my interest in science-fiction, but not my interest in robots; I'm the only one who plays with our Robosapien. Growing up, machines were external to my existence. I never felt a relationship with my alarm clock or stereo. Yet people today have the ability to merge their personality with their machines. They personalize computers with photos, sounds and movies. Cell phones and iPods become an extension of self, depending on which faceplates, ringtones and pictures are selected. Robots and androids with personalities are independent creatures, though like us, remain separate from us. The personalization of electronic devices serves as an extension of personal identity. Despite this trend in reality, the concept of humanoid machines remains alive on television. In Battlestar Galactica, the line between Cylon and human is so imperceptible that it took three seasons to identify the remaining Cylons. In 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah has to become more like a machine to perform actions that better serve mankind, while selected cyborgs become more human as they evolve. Both series blur the line between humanity and machines, with great effect. In each case, cybernetic organisms are designed to infiltrate human colonies, bringing about their destruction. Sometimes, the attempt to mingle human characteristics with machine technology produced interesting but inefficient results. The Lost In Space robot stood 7 feet, had pinchers for hands, and arms resembling dryer vent coils. The hydraulics to operate the legs alone may have weighed a ton. For a robot designed to test atmospheric conditions and analyze soil samples, the awkward inclusion of hands and arms served little purpose. Consider what the Mars Pathfinder's robot, Rover, has accomplished with a more compact design. The ovular globe that was the Lost In Space robot's head served no apparent purpose, except to allow Dr. Smith to call him a bubble-headed booby. His mouth also was disproportionately large. Assuming it was used to transmit Morse code, it could have done so at a fraction of its size. That's not to say the robot was a total design failure. The Department of Energy would surely love to possess the power packs that powered the robot. The human body is an elaborate self-running organism, but the design doesn't always translate well to robotics. Data, the android on Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica represent the high end of this spectrum, illustrating the near-perfect marriage between man and machine. But in retrospect, was it necessary for C-3PO of Star Wars to have a humanoid appearance? As a translator and protocol droid, C-3PO's head was the only necessary component. When C-3PO was nearly destroyed in The Empire Strikes Back, he still performed his primary duties once his head was re-attached to his torso, which presumably held the power supply. C-3PO's movements were slow and herky-jerky at best. Considering the tasks he performed, C-3PO was designed quite inefficiently. Of course, a humanoid appearance makes robotic characters life-like, therefore it's easier to think of them as characters. By definition, an android resembles humanity and possesses
[scifinoir2] China Bans Horror Movies?
China Bans Horror Movies? By Alan Stanley Blair There has been some interesting news about the state of affairs in China with regards to horror movies over the last few months, notably the banning of Will Smith’s apocalyptic drama “I Am Legend.” Well, it looks like that was only the beginning as China has now banned all horror movies altogether. Apparently, the country is planning on cleaning up its image a little before the Beijing Olympics which means horror has now been outlawed. Horror Movies is reporting that Producers have been granted only tree weeks to locate offensive material and turn it in to the authorities. What is classed as offensive? Anything featuring “wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror,” the administration said. New entertainment guidelines are being introduced as a way to “control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents’ psychological health.” In December when news first hit about the release of “I Am Legend” in the country, sources close to the China Film Group – essentially the Chinese equivalent to Hollywood – insisted that the film was banned not because of any scary or questionable content, but because it is an American movie filmed in America. The organization announced that they were implementing a full ban on all American movies in the country in order to create a bigger market for projects produced by the China Film Group. http://www.rabiddoll.com/index.php?p=316
[scifinoir2] Agent Smith Becomes The Wolfman
With del Toro and Weaving, you know I will be there. Weaving starred in Transformers as the voice of Megatron, as V in V for Vendetta, Elrond, King of The Elves in Lord of the Rings and Agent Smith in The Matrix. In which role did you like him the most? http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981295.html?categoryId=1970cs=1 'Wolfman'Actor will play detective in Johnston remake By DIANE GARRETT Hugo Weaving will join Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt in Universal's upcoming redo of The Wolfman. Weaving, best known for his appearances in The Matrix movies, will play Det. Aberline. Del Toro will play the hirsute title character and Anthony Hopkins his dad. Blunt has been cast as the female lead in the project, which Joe Johnston will direct. Lensing begins next month in London. David Self did a rewrite of Andrew Kevin Walker's script. Pic's produced by Scott Stuber, Mary Parent, Sean Daniel and Rick Yorn. Remake is slated for a Feb. 13 release. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] McCain hopes Castro to meet Marx soon
By Jason Szep Fri Feb 22, 11:34 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080222/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_politics_mccain_castro;_ylt=AmvlgDEPu9NzP1gcKIAEaHztiBIF INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader. I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon, McCain told a town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to communist theoretician Marx who died on March 14, 1883. Castro, 81, announced on Tuesday he was stepping down as president and commander-in-chief of Cuba's armed forces after 49 years in power. His brother Raul Castro is expected to be named Cuba's new head of state on Sunday. Apparently he is trying to groom his brother Raul, McCain said. Raul is worse in many respects than Fidel was. Castro has not appeared in public since undergoing stomach surgery and handing power temporarily to Raul in July 2006. McCain, a four-term Arizona senator, has an almost insurmountable lead over his last major Republican rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. McCain's approach to Cuba has generally echoed that of U.S. President George W. Bush, who has tightened a decades-long trade embargo and has rejected easing sanctions without a transition to democracy. McCain, who is popular among conservative Cuban-Americans, also has said that if he wins the November 4 U.S. presidential election he would keep up pressure for political change in Cuba's one-party state. That includes a travel ban and trade and financial sanctions enforced a few years after Castro's 1959 revolution on the Caribbean island. McCain, 71, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, has accused Cubans of participating in the torture of some of his fellow prisoners in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. (To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters Tales from the Trail: 2008 online at http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/) (Editing by Bill Trott) Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: talking about your women
you would think he would not want to put any ideas in my head. ravenadal wrote: This is funny because A)apparently your husband(?) sent it to you and B) it is true! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you guys are always discussing your women, I thought i would forward this to you Chris de Morsella wrote: The FBI had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there were 3 finalists; two men and a woman. For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. 'We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair . . . Kill her!!' The man said, 'You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife.' The agent said, 'Then you're not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home.' The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for a bout 5 minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, 'I tried, but I can't kill my wife.' The agent said, 'You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home.' Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, wiping the sweat from her brow. 'This gun is loaded with blanks' she said. 'I had to beat him to death with the chair.' MORAL: Women are crazy. Don't mess with them Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote: There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen it) SPOILER ALERT!! where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane Karina on his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, where he has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with great power! It was right in keeping with how his character was established in the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might think of using his abilities for good. Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception. How the hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers? Its one thing if you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of one who is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your stun-wand, how are you gonna get him? In less than three minutes, my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation power offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up with, no normal human would have a chance against a jumper. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Maurice is Back?
Welcome Back Maurice! Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
Actually, that is why I did it. Chris and I had a fight. When that happens, we try to walk away and come back together after we cool off. I needed to kill a few hours, and take my mind off stuff, so I drove up to the theater. Jumper was about to start, so I chose it. It took my mind off of stuff. I know you got more serious stuff going on, but it is just what the doctor ordered. I went with very low expectations so I enjoyed it and went home to make up with Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've had several people tell me to stay away from this movie at all costs. But I really need a fun time waster to take my mind off some things. Is it at least a good popcorn flick Phyllis and I can lose ourselves in for a couple of hours without feeling regret? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw it. It definitely was not theater worthy, but I think it would be a great TV show. I love the teleportation concept and some of the mythology and laws were good too. Unfortunately, it came across like a pilot movie for a scifi tv show. To mad it is not a tv series ravenadal wrote: To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all superpowers. Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets there), or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote: There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen it) SPOILER ALERT!! where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane Karina on his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, where he has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with great power! It was right in keeping with how his character was established in the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might think of using his abilities for good. Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception. How the hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers? Its one thing if you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of one who is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your stun-wand, how are you gonna get him? In less than three minutes, my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation power offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up with, no normal human would have a chance against a jumper. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Scientists Create a Black That Erases Virtually All Light
Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery Scientists Create a Black That Erases Virtually All Light By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 20, 2008; A01 Black is getting blacker. Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made -- about 30 times as dark as the government's current standard for blackest black. The material, made of hollow fibers, is a Roach Motel for photons -- light checks in, but it never checks out. By voraciously sucking up all surrounding illumination, it can give those who gaze on it a dizzying sensation of nothingness. It's very deep, like in a forest on the darkest night, said Shawn-Yu Lin, a scientist who helped create the material at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Nothing comes back to you. It's very, very, very dark. But scientists are not satisfied. Using other new materials, some are trying to manufacture rudimentary Harry Potter-like cloaks that make objects inside of them literally invisible under the right conditions -- the pinnacle of stealthy technology. Both advances reflect researchers' growing ability to manipulate light, the fleetest and most evanescent of nature's offerings. The nascent invisibility cloak now being tested, for example, is made of a material that bends light rays backward, a weird phenomenon thought to be impossible just a few years ago. Known as transformation optics, the phenomenon compels some wavelengths of light to flow around an object like water around a stone. As a result, things behind the object become visible while the object itself disappears from view. Cloaking is just the tip of the iceberg, said Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and an expert in the fledgling field. With transformation optics you can do many other tricks, perhaps including making things appear to be located where they are not and focusing massive amounts of energy on microscopic spots. U.S. military and intelligence agencies have funded the cloaking research for obvious reasons, said David Schurig, a physicist and electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who recently designed and helped test a cloaking device. In that experiment, a shielded object a little smaller than a hockey puck was made invisible to a detector that uses microwaves to see. The first working cloaks will be limited that way, he said -- able to steer just a limited part of the light spectrum around objects -- and it could be years before scientists make cloaks that work for all wavelengths, including the visible spectrum used by the human eye. But even cloaks that work on just a few key wavelengths could offer huge benefits, making objects invisible to laser beams used for weapons targeting, for example, or rendering an enemy's night goggles useless because objects would be invisible to the infrared rays those devices use. The Defense Department did not fund development of the new blacker-than-black material, created by Lin and his colleagues. But military officials were among the first to call after a description of the work appeared in this month's issue of the journal Nano Letters, Lin said in an interview. Substances that absorb every smidgeon of incoming visible light could complement existing stealth coatings that absorb radar waves, Lin said. He and others emphasized, however, that there are also peaceful and more immediate applications for the blackest stuff on Earth. Solar panels coated with it would be much more efficient than those coated with conventional black paint, which reflects 5 percent or more of incoming light. Telescopes lined with it would sop up random flecks of incident light, providing a blacker background to detect faint stars. And a wide array of heat detectors and energy-measuring devices, including climate-tracking equipment on satellites, would become far more accurate than they are today if they were coated with energy-grabbing superblack. That helps explain why Lin has been fielding queries from solar-energy companies such as SolFocus of Mountain View, Calif., and the European Space Agency. The more black the material the better, said Gerald Fraser, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that specializes in fine measurements and industrial standards. That agency offers scientists a chemical mix it calls standard black, which for years has been the defining measure of blackness. Photographers and printers use it to calibrate their gray scales. Industrial radiologists use it to calibrate X-ray imaging systems that detect radiation or hidden defects in building materials. That black reflects about 1.4 percent of incoming visible light, and in recent years it has become somewhat outmoded. In 2003, scientists
[scifinoir2] talking about your women
Since you guys are always discussing your women, I thought i would forward this to you Chris de Morsella wrote: The FBI had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there were 3 finalists; two men and a woman. For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. 'We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair . . . Kill her!!' The man said, 'You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife.' The agent said, 'Then you're not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home.' The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for a bout 5 minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, 'I tried, but I can't kill my wife.' The agent said, 'You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home.' Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, wiping the sweat from her brow. 'This gun is loaded with blanks' she said. 'I had to beat him to death with the chair.' MORAL: Women are crazy. Don't mess with them Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
