[scifinoir2] Sean Astin making '24' debut in 4-hour opener

[KeithBJohnson]

Astin making '24' debut in 4-hour opener 
By Kimberly Speight2 hours, 32 minutes ago 
Sean Astin, who starred in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is joining the cast 
of Fox's real-time drama "24," which will again kick off its season with four 
episodes screening on two consecutive nights.
Astin will portray a new addition to the Counter Terrorist Unit in the drama 
series, which stars Kiefer Sutherland as agent Jack Bauer.
The fifth season will premiere with two episodes from 8-10 p.m. January 8, 
followed by two from 8-10 p.m. January 9 (the second episode January 9 will be 
the show's 100th). On January 16, the fifth hour of "24" will air in the show's 
regular 9 p.m. Monday slot.
The scheduling strategy is designed to let viewers watch an entire season on a 
weekly basis without repeats or pre-emptions.
Season 5 will pick up 18 months after the fourth season ended, with Jack 
presumably dead but actually living a new life with Diane (Connie Britton) and 
her son Derek (Brady Corbet). Jean Smart ("Frasier") is set to play first lady 
Martha Logan.
Astin is shooting Columbia Pictures' feature film "Click" opposite Adam Sandler 
and Kate Beckinsale and has wrapped the upcoming Lions Gate film "Borderland."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter 

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[scifinoir2] Nollywood Convention

[Amanda]

http://www.nollywoodconventionusa.com/home.html  John Singleton will 
be the Guest of Honor.  I remember something about Danny Glover 
working to help the African Film Industry.  I don't know if it was 
Nollywood or just the continent in hole.




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[scifinoir2] Re: Nollywood Convention

[g123curious]

Thanks for posting this! Very interesting. I had no idea: "In recent 
years the Nigerian Film industry has grown rapidly to become the
third largest film producing industry in the world after the renowned 
Hollywood of the United States and the prolific Bollywood of India."

George
Captain
The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.nollywoodconventionusa.com/home.html  John Singleton
will 
> be the Guest of Honor.  I remember something about Danny Glover 
> working to help the African Film Industry.  I don't know if it was 
> Nollywood or just the continent in hole.




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[scifinoir2] FW:August Wilson,American playwright ill

[Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\)]

-Original Message-
From: African-Americans in Higher Education
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RODNEY COATES
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [AFAMHED] fwd: August Wilson,American playwright ill


I am so saddened to tell you that great American, descendant of the
slaves
playwright, August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer  and is
very
ill, but not bedridden. If you know his work or know the man he laughs
in
the face of truth and finds comfort.  I am so glad that I was able to
meet
him, touch and know him through his wonderful family and his stories.
Stories which bind me to myself, my history and to the depth of my own
truth. I am thrilled that Imani will be able to grow up to say that it
was a
Gus Wilson play that made her first thrill to adult theatre and
playwright.

Gus has chosen to not to seek a curative treatment and in Stage IV .
His
sister Freda is joining him in Seattle this week and to help him
through the
many decisions that he has to make. There is more than you can do than
go
for medical intervention to be treated.  I hope that he finds one of
these
to lift him beyond the illness and provide a quality of life that I am
sure
he would appreciate and make use of while he is ill.

What an American treasure and his writings have been to this country.
I am
so saddened. His favorite critic and niece is a member of this list and
we
want Kim to know that we are here for her.  The word cancer has such
power
over a family and a family's love.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.awilson.html
His poetic plays about African-American life offer plainspoken truths
that
transcend race



You will find that the media will be reporting it in the news on
tomorrow.

Please join me in prayers for Gus and his family. He has given us so
much.
His genius and a reminder of "what our ancestors gave . . . the hope
and the
faith of the slave."


Tuesday, May 20, 2003

A moment with...playwright August Wilson

By JOE ADCOCK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

August Wilson is arguably America's greatest living playwright. Time
magazine has said so and I agree. The man is a sort of industry. He
lives in
Seattle, but his works are produced all over the world. He is the
subject of
conferences, lectures, essays and syllabuses. He is even the subject of
an
e-Bay "collectibles" niche.

Wilson's epics of African American life include two Pulitzer Prize
winners,
"Fences" (1987) and "The Piano Lesson" (1990). Each of Wilson's nine
major
plays chronicles a 20th-century decade as experienced by struggling
Pittsburgh ghetto dwellers. His most recent play, "Gem of the Ocean,"
deals
with the 1900s. That leaves one more decade to cover, the 1990s.

But Wilson, 58, has taken a sudden detour. He has written for himself a
solo
performance piece, "How I Learned What I Learned." It begins
production
Thursday as part of the Seattle Repertory Theatre's annual new plays
series,
running through June 2.

I talked to Wilson Saturday at the Mecca Cafe, a Lower Queen Anne
coffee
shop that is smoker-friendly (Wilson is an avid smoker).

Why the sudden shift of focus from writing to performing? Sharon Ott
(the
Rep's artistic director) asked me to do a 45-minute show as part of
their
40th anniversary celebration. I said no, but I'll do an hour. At
yesterday's
rehearsal, I'd talked for 54 minutes and I hadn't even gotten to the
first
story. The show is made up of eight or nine stories, anecdotes about
things
that happened to me when I was 20, 21, 22 -- stories I've told 100
times.
But they come out different every time.

What kind of stories? Like the time I was put in jail for breaking into
my
own apartment. I hadn't paid my rent. I got home and found a padlock on
my
door. I talked to a lawyer I knew. I asked him if I could break the
lock. He
said yes. The landlord has to give 30 days notice. So I broke the lock
and
went to bed and fell asleep. Next thing I knew two cops were standing
over
me, 'Get up buddy, you're coming with us.' There was no charge, though.
I
was acting on advice of counsel. That's a valid out. But in fact the
lawyer
was wrong. He didn't know that this was a furnished apartment. With a
furnished apartment you can't break the lock.

Previous performing experience? None. Well, no speaking parts.

Non-speaking? That's another story I can use in the show: my first
kiss.
This was in the seventh grade (of a Pittsburgh Catholic parochial
school).
Sister Mary Eldephonse hated me. I was one of the best readers in the
class.
But she gave me a non-speaking part in the Christmas pageant. 'You'll
play
the cymbals,' she said. You know, 'And, lo, the wise men came unto the
manger and ... ' CRASH! I bang the cymbals together. When I went to get
the
cymbals, Catherine Moran was waiting for me in the cloakroom. There was
this
light around her. I'd never seen anything like it before -- and never
since.
I was astonished. I kissed her. I was really disconcerted. I was so
disconce

[scifinoir2] Re: Nollywood Convention

[Amanda]

Here is an article about it 
http://www.tailslate.net/articles/articles.asp?ID=66

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "g123curious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Thanks for posting this! Very interesting. I had no idea: "In recent 
> years the Nigerian Film industry has grown rapidly to become the
> third largest film producing industry in the world after the 
renowned 
> Hollywood of the United States and the prolific Bollywood of India."
> 
> George
> Captain
> The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
> 
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > http://www.nollywoodconventionusa.com/home.html  John Singleton
> will 
> > be the Guest of Honor.  I remember something about Danny Glover 
> > working to help the African Film Industry.  I don't know if it was 
> > Nollywood or just the continent in hole.





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[scifinoir2] Re: FW:August Wilson,American playwright ill

[Kelly Wright]

I am saddened to read this.  Did Mr. August finish his project of 
writing a play commemmorating each decade of the past century?

~rave!

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella \(formerly 
Tracey L. Minor\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: African-Americans in Higher Education
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RODNEY COATES
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [AFAMHED] fwd: August Wilson,American playwright ill
> 
> 
> I am so saddened to tell you that great American, descendant of the
> slaves
> playwright, August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer  and 
is
> very
> ill, but not bedridden. If you know his work or know the man he 
laughs
> in
> the face of truth and finds comfort.  I am so glad that I was able 
to
> meet
> him, touch and know him through his wonderful family and his 
stories.
> Stories which bind me to myself, my history and to the depth of my 
own
> truth. I am thrilled that Imani will be able to grow up to say that 
it
> was a
> Gus Wilson play that made her first thrill to adult theatre and
> playwright.
> 
> Gus has chosen to not to seek a curative treatment and in Stage IV .
> His
> sister Freda is joining him in Seattle this week and to help him
> through the
> many decisions that he has to make. There is more than you can do 
than
> go
> for medical intervention to be treated.  I hope that he finds one of
> these
> to lift him beyond the illness and provide a quality of life that I 
am
> sure
> he would appreciate and make use of while he is ill.
> 
> What an American treasure and his writings have been to this 
country.
> I am
> so saddened. His favorite critic and niece is a member of this list 
and
> we
> want Kim to know that we are here for her.  The word cancer has such
> power
> over a family and a family's love.
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.awilson.html
> His poetic plays about African-American life offer plainspoken 
truths
> that
> transcend race
> 
> 
> 
> You will find that the media will be reporting it in the news on
> tomorrow.
> 
> Please join me in prayers for Gus and his family. He has given us so
> much.
> His genius and a reminder of "what our ancestors gave . . . the hope
> and the
> faith of the slave."
> 
> 
> Tuesday, May 20, 2003
> 
> A moment with...playwright August Wilson
> 
> By JOE ADCOCK
> SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
> 
> August Wilson is arguably America's greatest living playwright. Time
> magazine has said so and I agree. The man is a sort of industry. He
> lives in
> Seattle, but his works are produced all over the world. He is the
> subject of
> conferences, lectures, essays and syllabuses. He is even the 
subject of
> an
> e-Bay "collectibles" niche.
> 
> Wilson's epics of African American life include two Pulitzer Prize
> winners,
> "Fences" (1987) and "The Piano Lesson" (1990). Each of Wilson's nine
> major
> plays chronicles a 20th-century decade as experienced by struggling
> Pittsburgh ghetto dwellers. His most recent play, "Gem of the 
Ocean,"
> deals
> with the 1900s. That leaves one more decade to cover, the 1990s.
> 
> But Wilson, 58, has taken a sudden detour. He has written for 
himself a
> solo
> performance piece, "How I Learned What I Learned." It begins
> production
> Thursday as part of the Seattle Repertory Theatre's annual new plays
> series,
> running through June 2.
> 
> I talked to Wilson Saturday at the Mecca Cafe, a Lower Queen Anne
> coffee
> shop that is smoker-friendly (Wilson is an avid smoker).
> 
> Why the sudden shift of focus from writing to performing? Sharon Ott
> (the
> Rep's artistic director) asked me to do a 45-minute show as part of
> their
> 40th anniversary celebration. I said no, but I'll do an hour. At
> yesterday's
> rehearsal, I'd talked for 54 minutes and I hadn't even gotten to the
> first
> story. The show is made up of eight or nine stories, anecdotes about
> things
> that happened to me when I was 20, 21, 22 -- stories I've told 100
> times.
> But they come out different every time.
> 
> What kind of stories? Like the time I was put in jail for breaking 
into
> my
> own apartment. I hadn't paid my rent. I got home and found a 
padlock on
> my
> door. I talked to a lawyer I knew. I asked him if I could break the
> lock. He
> said yes. The landlord has to give 30 days notice. So I broke the 
lock
> and
> went to bed and fell asleep. Next thing I knew two cops were 
standing
> over
> me, 'Get up buddy, you're coming with us.' There was no charge, 
though.
> I
> was acting on advice of counsel. That's a valid out. But in fact the
> lawyer
> was wrong. He didn't know that this was a furnished apartment. With 
a
> furnished apartment you can't break the lock.
> 
> Previous performing experience? None. Well, no speaking parts.
> 
> Non-speaking? That's another story I can use in the show: my first
> kiss.
> This was in the seventh grade (of a Pittsburgh Catholic parochial

[scifinoir2] Re: DVD format war escalates as talks fail

[Kelly Wright]

If I was a betting man - no, wait, I AM - I would cast my lot with 
Toshiba.  The inferior format always wins.

~rave!

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Wodehouse" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7886
> 
> DVD format war escalates as talks fail
> 
> 13:10 23 August 2005
> 
> NewScientist.com news service
> 
> 
> Japanese electronics giants said on Tuesday they would go ahead with
> incompatible formats for next-generation DVDs after talks to reach a
> common standard failed.
> 
> The decision presents consumers with a choice much the same as when 
video
> cassettes came out in the 1970s. The duelling HD DVD and Blu-ray 
formats
> parallel the battle between Betamax and VHS and - a fight which 
Betamax
> eventually lost.
> 
> Next-generation DVDs, expected to hit the mass market late in 2006, 
are
> billed as offering cinematic quality images and new possibilities 
for
> interactive entertainment.
> 
> Sony's Blu-ray disc is expected to have a greater storage capacity 
but
> also be more expensive to make, at least in the short term, as the 
format
> has greater differences from current-generation DVDs.
> Software schedule
> 
> Toshiba, maker of the HD DVD (High Density Digital Versatile Disc), 
said
> it was still in talks with Blu-ray designer Sony to find a common 
format
> but in the absence of an agreement it was going to push ahead with
> production of its own format.
> 
> "[We are] planning to launch our first HD DVD products by the end 
of 2006.
> To do that, we have to start production of software for it by the 
end of
> August," a Toshiba spokeswoman said.
> 
> "We have not set a time limit for the talks" on a common standard, 
she
> added, "but we have not reached any concrete agreement yet". A Sony
> spokesman said future negotiations would be held if there was "an
> opportunity for it".
> 
> But the Sony spokesman was bullish about Blu-ray becoming 
the "single
> standard". He said: "We have focused on improving our format with 
many
> technological breakthroughs. It is desirable that the market has a 
single
> format for the next-generation DVD. So Blu-ray has improved itself 
so that
> all firms will support the format."
> Multi-functional hardware
> 
> After three years of fighting, the two sides agreed in April to 
study
> compatibility to prevent a scenario in which future Sony discs do 
not work
> on Toshiba players, or vice versa.
> 
> But even if consumers have headaches when next-generation DVDs 
first hit
> mainstream stores, analysts note that the electronics industry has 
become
> more sophisticated since VHS and Betamax.
> 
> "In the digital era, it is easier for hardware to become multi-
functional.
> It is different from the analogue period, like with video formats," 
said
> Osamu Hirose, an analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Center.
> 
> "The difference between the two formats are things such as pickups 
and
> laser wavelength. Eventually, multi-functional DVD players should 
be able
> to overcome the difference. Consumers will only have to wait a 
little
> until that time comes," he said.
> 
> Some electronics firms, including Paris-based Thomson, have said 
they
> would support both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats. Supporters of the 
Blu-ray
> technology include Apple Computer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Samsung
> Electronics.
> 
> Among the Hollywood studios, Walt Disney and Sony Pictures 
Entertainment
> back Blu-ray, while HD DVD supporters include Paramount Pictures,
> Universal Pictures and Warner Brothers Studios.




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[scifinoir2] Re: Brock Peters, Sisko's 'Father', Dies at 78

[Kelly Wright]

Now, see, this is what EYE am talkin' about!  So far this (SFN) is 
the only source that has mentioned Peters stint as Sisko's father.
Thanks Brent!

~rave!

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Wodehouse" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-08-23-peters-obit_x.htm
> 
> Brock Peters, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' actor, dies at 78
> 





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RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Brock Peters, Sisko's 'Father', Dies at 78

[Keith Johnson]

Entertainment Tonight and my local NBC affiliate did mention he'd been
in Star Trek movies...

-Original Message-
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kelly Wright
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 17:25
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Brock Peters, Sisko's 'Father', Dies at 78


Now, see, this is what EYE am talkin' about!  So far this (SFN) is 
the only source that has mentioned Peters stint as Sisko's father.
Thanks Brent!

~rave!

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Wodehouse" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-08-23-peters-obit_x.htm
> 
> Brock Peters, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' actor, dies at 78
> 





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