[scifinoir2] Sean Astin making '24' debut in 4-hour opener
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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * 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] Re: Nollywood Convention
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. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * 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] Re: FW:August Wilson,American playwright ill
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 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
[scifinoir2] Re: DVD format war escalates as talks fail
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. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * 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] 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 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * 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: Brock Peters, Sisko's 'Father', Dies at 78
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 _ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS *Visit your group scifinoir2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2 on the web. *To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * 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/
