date:20220701

It’s such an old stunt I did it at my college station nearly 30 years ago…
my song of choice was the Brady Bunch theme… played for nearly 18 hours.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:09 AM Mark Jeffries  wrote:

> Vancouver's CKKS, owned by Canadian media giant Rogers, did the old stunt
> of playing one song over and over and over earlier this week (said song
> being Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name") as a transition
> from hot adult contemporary "Kiss FM" to alt-rock "Sonic."  Because the
> firing of some veteran DJs was part of it, social media went crazy and
> legacy media who don't really cover radio anymore thought it was some sort
> of rebellion at the station, especially when they put on the air phone
> calls with people talking to the engineers about the stunt.  Suckers! (Link
> is from trade site and columnist Sean Ross, hence more industry-oriented,
> but is genuinely shocked that this old gambit actually worked, especially
> when the kids are supposedly glued to their Spotify and TikTok):
>
> https://radioinsight.com/ross/230775/the-greatest-radio-stunt-ever/
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[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Media Falls for Hoary Old Radio Stunt

Vancouver's CKKS, owned by Canadian media giant Rogers, did the old stunt 
of playing one song over and over and over earlier this week (said song 
being Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name") as a transition 
from hot adult contemporary "Kiss FM" to alt-rock "Sonic."  Because the 
firing of some veteran DJs was part of it, social media went crazy and 
legacy media who don't really cover radio anymore thought it was some sort 
of rebellion at the station, especially when they put on the air phone 
calls with people talking to the engineers about the stunt.  Suckers! (Link 
is from trade site and columnist Sean Ross, hence more industry-oriented, 
but is genuinely shocked that this old gambit actually worked, especially 
when the kids are supposedly glued to their Spotify and TikTok):

https://radioinsight.com/ross/230775/the-greatest-radio-stunt-ever/

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Good podcast on Norm getting fired from SNL

2022-07-01 Thread Steve Timko

It's already a couple of weeks old.

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tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Those of us who won't deal with Apple will have to, to paraphrase John
> Landis, check their favorite platforms next Wednesday. B
>
> Steve Timko, June 30th:
>
>> The “Fly on the Wall” podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade has merit.
>> I’ve listened to a handful of episodes and liked them, although the one
>> with Bob Odenkirk had too much log rolling (“You were great!” “No, YOU were
>> great!”).
>>
>> The one with Jim Downey was especially interesting to me because he added
>> more insight to the O.J. Simpson-Don Ohlymayer saga and Norm MacDonald
>> being fired. If any of that interests you, it’s worth a listen.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-downey/id1603639502?i=1000560441349
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Elvis streaming channel débuting on multiple platforms

2022-07-01 Thread Tom Wolper

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:23 PM Kevin M.  wrote:

The Beatles movies were on par with the Elvis movies, but the Beatles
wisely seem disinclined to recirculate those theatrical train wrecks.
Sinatra had some bad movies, too, but as the examples you referenced
illustrate, either he or his handlers tried to put him in films with some
gravitas. That said, “4 for Texas” starring Sinatra, Dean Martin, a Bond
girl, AND the Three Stooges is, in this writer’s humble opinion, so bad it
is good.

A Hard Day's Night is exactly the type of movie one would want Elvis to
make. The producers got Dick Lester to direct and he wasn't beholden to any
Hollywood tropes. He put together a documentary style movie that got to
show The Beatles having fun and being cheeky and self-deprecating. And he
got the requisite amount of musical numbers in. Help didn't reach those
heights. I'm trying to imagine an Elvis version of Yellow Submarine and
um...

As a mental exercise I've been trying to think of what would have happened
if a good director of the Elvis era movies had made a movie with him.
Someone like Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, or John Frankenheimer. First, I
think Tom Parker, or whoever handled these things in Elvis's management,
would have sent back the script and said "no way." If they did manage to
get it to the shooting stage the director would probably get rid of Elvis
within a week for not being up to the material. Hollywood wanted cheap and
easy Elvis movies and that's what they put together for him.

> The Fleming Bond novels were pulp fiction. They functioned well as mens’
> adventure stories when they were written though they have comic book
> characters and plotting. The Goldfinger story in the book is exceptionally
> stupid. Getting a good movie out of it is always going to be difficult and
> they built the franchise by concentrating on gadgets and special effects.
>
> Whatever you think of Dr. No, at the end of the movie (spoiler alert) Bond
> takes out the stronghold by turning off the coolant to the nuclear reactor
> core, causing a meltdown. Of course in the movie it just causes a
> conventional explosion and not the apocalyptic effect of a molten reactor
> core entering the Caribbean Sea.
>

Considering how little money was spent on those early Bond films, we should
be grateful any explosion was featured at all. Sean Connery had to pay for
his own hairpieces back then.

The more I think of Bond, both in the novels and the movies, the less I
like him. I'll grant there's a limit to how much we can judge characters
from another era by today's standards but Bond is drawn to appeal to
adolescent boys. He embodies the worst of white attitudes at the end of the
colonial era and he is an out-and-out misogynist.

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[TV orNotTV] Amazon and sports this side of the pond

2022-07-01 Thread Adam Bowie

Amazon has just acquired one game a week in the UK for the Champions
League. This is the pan-European club soccer competition that airs on
Paramount+ (and occasionally CBS) in the US.

Prior to this deal, BT Sport was the home of all games. It's essentially
the second sports channel to Sky Sports in the UK. However recently BT and
Discovery Warner Media entered into an agreement that would see BT merge
with the Discovery owned Eurosport.

The fact that BT did renew its deal exclusively suggests another bit of
Discovery Warner curbing their spending.

Amazon only gets one game a week - but it's the first pick of Tuesday
games. UEFA schedules games evenly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, alternating
the day teams play. So a Manchester United or Liverpool will play evenly on
both days.

Also announced was the BBC will get Champions League highlights airing on
Wednesday evenings at 2200. Highlights are still a popular way to watch
games in the UK outside of big tournaments, so this isn't incidental. That
means some fans will be sated with a live game on Tuesday via Amazon, and
highlights of the rest free on the BBC. If they already pay for Prime they
maybe won't also need BT Sport. I'll definitely think about that!

Amazon already has a limited number of Premier League games in the UK, but
it's just two rounds (of 38) so they all happen in a very short window each
season. This is a much bigger move for Amazon, perhaps bigger in a sense
(though not financially) than the Thursday NFL game they've got. Amazon's
ambitions are clear...

Adam

Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:43 AM Jim Ellwanger  wrote:

> One of those daughters is famous in her own right (Riley Keough).
>

I had to Google her.



>
> On Jul 1, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Kevin M.  wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:31 AM Tom Wolper  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...but the other week Lisa Marie Presley and *awl* her daughters
>>> handprinted in the 'crete in front thereof...
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what this means. It is like announcing the Stanley Cup has
>> been awarded to a horse.
>>
>
> They immortalized their hands in cement because they share chromosomes
> with someone famous. Makes sense to me.
>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

2022-07-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger

One of those daughters is famous in her own right (Riley Keough).

> On Jul 1, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Kevin M.  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:31 AM Tom Wolper  > wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV 
> mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
> 
> ...but the other week Lisa Marie Presley and awl her daughters handprinted in 
> the 'crete in front thereof...
> 
> I don't know what this means. It is like announcing the Stanley Cup has been 
> awarded to a horse.
> 
> They immortalized their hands in cement because they share chromosomes with 
> someone famous. Makes sense to me. 
> 
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:31 AM Tom Wolper  wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> ...but the other week Lisa Marie Presley and *awl* her daughters
>> handprinted in the 'crete in front thereof...
>>
>
> I don't know what this means. It is like announcing the Stanley Cup has
> been awarded to a horse.
>

They immortalized their hands in cement because they share chromosomes with
someone famous. Makes sense to me.


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[TV orNotTV] Re: Good podcast on Norm getting fired from SNL

Those of us who won't deal with Apple will have to, to paraphrase John 
Landis, check their favorite platforms next Wednesday. B

Steve Timko, June 30th:

> The “Fly on the Wall” podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade has merit. 
> I’ve listened to a handful of episodes and liked them, although the one 
> with Bob Odenkirk had too much log rolling (“You were great!” “No, YOU were 
> great!”).
>
> The one with Jim Downey was especially interesting to me because he added 
> more insight to the O.J. Simpson-Don Ohlymayer saga and Norm MacDonald 
> being fired. If any of that interests you, it’s worth a listen.
>
>  
>
>
> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-downey/id1603639502?i=1000560441349
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

2022-07-01 Thread Tom Wolper

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

...but the other week Lisa Marie Presley and *awl* her daughters
> handprinted in the 'crete in front thereof...
>

I don't know what this means. It is like announcing the Stanley Cup has
been awarded to a horse.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Universal calls on fellow Comcast properties to rescue "Magnum"

Why?

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 8:10 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> NBC takes the deal: two years, ten episodes each...
> https://deadline.com/2022/06/magnum-pi-renewed-season-5-6-nbc-1235055173/ 
> (Nellie)
>B
>
> Moi, June 6th:
>
>> Nellie sez talks are underway for NBC and/or USA to resume the Jay
>> Hernandez version, which unlike the classic original is co-owned by
>> CBS/Paramount...  which since the latter holds the domestic post-network
>> rights, is gonna create one complicated sitch...
>>
>>
>> https://deadline.com/2022/06/magnum-p-i-saved-nbc-usa-network-season-5-renewed-canceled-1235037385/
>>  (link)
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[TV orNotTV] Buddy Valastro bolts WBD for A+E Networks

The "Cake Boss" (yes, he still has multiple locations, including the Shops 
at Wind Creek in Bethlehem, PA) reaches agreement with the competing 
reality outlet for at least 60 hours of original programming, including... 
a Lifetime Christmas movie! *(A...)*

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cake-boss-buddy-valastro-lifetime-holiday-movie-ae-deal-1235306924/
 (link)

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[TV orNotTV] ‘Why Women Kill’ Canceled at Paramount+ Despite Season 3 Renewal

2022-07-01 Thread Diner

My friend Kerry O'Malley is a semi-regular on this show. She just posted on 
Facebook: "I was on my way to Vancouver on Tuesday to shoot three 
episodes Heartbreaking. I love these people and this show. We did table 
reads of 301 and 302 this week and I was so delighted with this season’s 
premise and the cast they put together. This business is just so hard."

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/why-women-kill-canceled-paramount-plus-1235307752/

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[TV orNotTV] NBCU to close Olympic Channel

We'll let you figure out where all that content is headed...

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/nbcuniversal-olympic-channel-shut-down-sports-1235307756/
 (link)

B

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[TV orNotTV] "Field of Dreams" series strikes out at Peacock

"The Good Place" creator Michael Schur had developed the effort with 
Universal and original movie producer Lawrence Gordon, and even had a 
straight-to-series order from almost a year ago, and already had a cast and 
scripts ready to start filming in a month... the property will be shopped 
to other outlets...

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/field-of-dreams-series-scrapped-peacock-1235307551/
 (link)

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[TV orNotTV] 'Duncanville' Gone at Fox After 3 Seasons

This was after supposedly a fourth season was ordered for the Amy Poehler 
animated series--six completed episodes will stream on Hulu later this year:

https://deadline.com/2022/06/duncanville-canceled-fox-3-seasons-1235054886/

The series, co-owned by Fox with Disney's 20th and Universal (and animated 
by Fox-owned Bento Box) was an attempt to revitalize the aging Sunday 
Animation Domination block, still carried by those long-running shows that 
Disney now owns ("The Simpsons," "Family Guy," "Bob's Burgers").They keep 
trying, though, with Dan Harmon's "Krapopolis" scheduled for fall, so Marc 
Berman will still be able every Monday to call for Fox to cancel the shows 
already.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] The CW is on the block

Meanwhile, the bloodbath continues at the C-Dub, with the update of "Tom
Swift" gone after six episodes:

https://deadline.com/2022/06/tom-swift-canceled-by-cw-one-season-1235055092/

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> No word on 'GN, but this Deadline piece from Wednesday suggested the
> Nexstar acquisition (75%, with Paramount and WBD splitting the remainder)
> is "nearing the finish line"... *"The strategic plan moving forward will
> be to run the CW as a fully sustainable broadcast network, rather than
> optimizing it for streaming"...*
>
>
> https://deadline.com/2022/06/nexstar-deal-to-acquire-control-of-the-cw-nears-finish-line-1235054433/
>  (link)
>B
>
> Mark Jeffries, to moi, Jan 6th:
>
>> If NextStar buys the C-Dub, that will probably mean that WGN in Chicago
>> will once again become an affiliate.  About four years ago, WGN while still
>> owned by Tribune dropped the affiliation under the view that they'd be
>> carried in prime time by the live sports schedule, including the Cubs,
>> White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks.  Almost immediately half of the OTA end of
>> the Cubs contract went to ABC's WLS (even though they could only preempt
>> prime time once a week and daytime games meant no "Jeopardy!" at 3:30 p.m.)
>> and then right before the pandemic all of that OTA went to cable (NBC
>> SportsNet Chicago except for the Cubs, who started with Sinclair the
>> Marquee channel) and what was left for WGN was the Fire MLS team and
>> sitcom reruns in prime time ("black-ish," "Young Sheldon," "Last Man
>> Standing," "The Goldbergs").  Chicago's Very Own will be glad to have The
>> CW back.
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[TV orNotTV] New COVID protocols: Masks on, Hollywood

“With new hospital admissions reaching more than 8 per week per 100,000 
population, they will resume indoor masking requirements, along with 
several other safety measures,” L.A. County health officer Barbara Ferrer 
said of film and TV productions in a media briefing Thursday...

Trouble is[tm], the county's directive references a website not run by 
them, whose figures may not match those the county might announce!

https://deadline.com/2022/06/los-angeles-film-tv-productions-masks-1235055066/
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[TV orNotTV] Re: Universal calls on fellow Comcast properties to rescue "Magnum"

NBC takes the deal: two years, ten episodes each... 
https://deadline.com/2022/06/magnum-pi-renewed-season-5-6-nbc-1235055173/ 
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Moi, June 6th:

> Nellie sez talks are underway for NBC and/or USA to resume the Jay 
> Hernandez version, which unlike the classic original is co-owned by 
> CBS/Paramount...  which since the latter holds the domestic post-network 
> rights, is gonna create one complicated sitch...
>
>
> https://deadline.com/2022/06/magnum-p-i-saved-nbc-usa-network-season-5-renewed-canceled-1235037385/
>  (link)
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Re: [TV orNotTV] The CW is on the block

No word on 'GN, but this Deadline piece from Wednesday suggested the 
Nexstar acquisition (75%, with Paramount and WBD splitting the remainder) 
is "nearing the finish line"... *"The strategic plan moving forward will be 
to run the CW as a fully sustainable broadcast network, rather than 
optimizing it for streaming"...*

https://deadline.com/2022/06/nexstar-deal-to-acquire-control-of-the-cw-nears-finish-line-1235054433/
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Mark Jeffries, to moi, Jan 6th:

> If NextStar buys the C-Dub, that will probably mean that WGN in Chicago 
> will once again become an affiliate.  About four years ago, WGN while still 
> owned by Tribune dropped the affiliation under the view that they'd be 
> carried in prime time by the live sports schedule, including the Cubs, 
> White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks.  Almost immediately half of the OTA end of 
> the Cubs contract went to ABC's WLS (even though they could only preempt 
> prime time once a week and daytime games meant no "Jeopardy!" at 3:30 p.m.) 
> and then right before the pandemic all of that OTA went to cable (NBC 
> SportsNet Chicago except for the Cubs, who started with Sinclair the 
> Marquee channel) and what was left for WGN was the Fire MLS team and 
> sitcom reruns in prime time ("black-ish," "Young Sheldon," "Last Man 
> Standing," "The Goldbergs").  Chicago's Very Own will be glad to have The 
> CW back.
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

Meanwhile, most of the Arclights have been taken over by AMC.  The Chicago
one has reopened with very little changes as to the interiors, except that
the wonderful schedule board has been turned off and of course, Maria
Menunos, Perri and the Black guy who holds his clipon mike instead of
wearing it before the shows instead of the pretty light shows to film
soundtracks.  And Nicole Kidman right before the movie saying "they AH."

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 7:33 PM Kevin M.  wrote:

> The CineramaDome will reopen… eventually. The original owners managed to
> hold onto the property during the bankruptcy process.
>
> The thing I like most about that location are the clean, easily accessible
> restrooms inside of it. That better not change. Hollywood has a shortage of
> bathrooms.
>
>
> https://variety.com/2022/film/news/cinerama-hollywood-liquor-license-1235306558/?fbclid=IwAR2JS-aPTznBPut4KYg9JDWiVq-ucagcxXBmQ6nXXxQIB4tIenEqL8zS-8w
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 8:37 PM Kevin M.  wrote:
>
>> The bidding war process has begun
>>
>>
>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/arclight-cinerama-dome-sale-suitors-1234948628/?fbclid=IwAR2ofwwNXFPkW0ZarFQV08zYg3cb6Uu-prln3GEUSlXi69XL0JoRRyvfGEg
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:24 AM Mark Jeffries 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In Chicago, the Arclight opened up a location a few years ago and I
>>> didn't mind paying for the lack of ads, only two or three trailers, the
>>> soundtracks they played in the theaters and the human introductions.  And
>>> damn good popcorn and a bar.  It will be missed.
>>>
>>> Mark Jeffries
>>> spotligh...@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:49 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <
>>> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>
 I've been going to the Dome since 1963 or 64, when I saw "It's a Mad,
 Mad, Mad, Mad World." (That night has always stuck in my mind because we
 had dinner at a long-gone diner across the street and I spilled a glass of
 milk all over my sister.) I saw everything from "2001" to "1941" there (so
 my track record for lousy movies is pretty strong).

 I would imagine that either another chain or, especially, a streaming
 service will purchase the place, as it would give them a nice opportunity
 to showcase their own product and make nice with the other studios and
 indies by playing their stuff. My ideal scenario, though, would involve
 Netflix selling the Egyptian back to the Cinemathque and buying the Dome
 complex.

 --Dave Sikula

 On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 7:24:12 PM UTC-7 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:

> Arclight includes the famed CineramaDome (I used to work across the
> street from it and saw two Star Wars movies there) which years ago was
> expanded to include a multiplex (with the cleanest and most accessible
> restrooms in all of Hollywood... if you’ve never been to Hollywood, the
> importance of such amenities cannot be overstated, and to me losing the
> restrooms is a harsher blow than the actual theater). This article makes 
> it
> seem like the end of cinema itself, but I suspect it is part of a new
> cinema experience which will unfold and unravel in the next few years. Not
> all chains or physical structures will survive.
>
>
> https://variety.com/2021/film/news/arclight-cinemas-closure-la-movie-lovers-in-mourning-1234949843/amp/
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NoTV: Arclight and Pacific theaters closing in SoCal

Meanwhile, no news is bad news as to the supposed redevelopment of TCL 
Chinese Theatres aka Grauman's on **ze Boolahvahd**, but the other week 
Lisa Marie Presley and *awl* her daughters handprinted in the 'crete in 
front thereof...
https://twitter.com/LisaPresley/status/1540047045817298945 

https://www.noise11.com/news/the-presleys-honor-elvis-with-hand-prints-at-hollywoods-chinese-theatre-20220624
 

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The *r*eturned *P*eace *C*orps *v*olunteer, June 30th :

> The CineramaDome will reopen… eventually. The original owners managed to 
> hold onto the property during the bankruptcy process. 
>
> The thing I like most about that location are the clean, easily accessible 
> restrooms inside of it. That better not change. Hollywood has a shortage of 
> bathrooms. 
>
>
> https://variety.com/2022/film/news/cinerama-hollywood-liquor-license-1235306558/?fbclid=IwAR2JS-aPTznBPut4KYg9JDWiVq-ucagcxXBmQ6nXXxQIB4tIenEqL8zS-8w
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[TV orNotTV] Your 2022 Primetime Emmy nominations...