Tweet Above: Screengrab from BarackObama.com; Bill Thompson, running for Mayor of New York this week on Nov. 3rd; Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2008 campaign page; Anthony Woods, who lost his campaign for Congressional House district, CA-10; James Perry, running for mayor of New Orleans in 2010. Any that I’m missing? The issue of websites borrowing, um, liberally [...]
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Atom Egoyan: “Artists Don’t Always Do What Their Communities Want Them to Do”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 30th, 2009
Tweet Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Adoration) has, over the course of three decades of movie-making, probed such disparate characters as strippers and comedians in provocative and artful ways. Egoyan further demonstrated his artistic curiosity at The Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday during a public conversation with curator Michael Taylor commemorating the recently [...]
The Tender Same-Sex Moment in Levi’s “O Pioneers!”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 29th, 2009
Tweet Levi’s Jeans “Go Forth” ad campaign (dir. Sin Nombre‘s Cary Fukunaga for the firm Wieden+Kennedy) has been gaining some fans, most notably Slate’s Seth Stevenson. I’m not sure how popular the vid is on YouTube; between all the reposting it might have views in the low hundred thousands. I certainly stopped and paid attention [...]
Babelgum Aims to Bend Genres, Rule Phones This Halloween
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 29th, 2009
Tweet My first blog post for the Wall Street Journal looks at a few new series on Babelgum: Looking to build up its roster of Web series, online video site Babelgum, best known to Speakeasy readers for its online and mobile release of Sally Potter’s “Rage,” have announced three new sci-fi and horror comedies. The [...]
For Wanda Sykes, George Lopez, Success Not Guaranteed
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 28th, 2009
Tweet UPDATE: George Lopez’s show Lopez Tonight also started strong on TBS (and TNT, TruTV), so it looks like we have hit a temporary POC (people of color) late-night trifecta. UPDATE: The ratings for Wanda Sykes were good; not, SNL good, though. UPDATE: Fox has the site up, with promos and such. With the (apparent) [...]
Mo’Nique, Shilling and What An Oscar Means
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 27th, 2009
Tweet UPDATE: Mo’Nique has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, praising the Academy for putting “the performance” over “politics”! Go ahead, girl! UPDATE: Mo’Nique has addressed the controversy, saying: “Baby, people gonna talk. It comes with the territory. But didn’t they talk about Jesus? Then they killed him. So, what makes me think I’m [...]
"White Collar" White Hot, USA Wins My Love
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 27th, 2009
Tweet UDPATE (11/4): Mike White confirms to Queerty he and Bomer were lovers. UPDATE (10/31): There’s been some speculation — okay, really, revelation — that White Collar star Matt (Matthew) Bomer is openly gay. Queerty seems certain he is and has been out within the industry (like Anderson Cooper) for years, but now that White [...]
“The Crew” Season Two Opens and Hilarity Ensues
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 27th, 2009
Tweet Original at Ronebreak. The web has been fertile ground for shows more quirky and less genre-specific than what makes it onto television. The Crew, written and directed by young filmmaker Brett Register, is a perfect example of that kind of show. Best understood as a blend between The Office and Star Trek, The Crew [...]
Reckless Speculation: Are Women’s Shows Doing Worse This Fall?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 26th, 2009
Tweet UPDATE: TVbtN’s Bill Gorman quickly explained why the numbers look this way. Thanks, Bill! So TVbytheNumbers, the best TV blog on the Internets, has published a chart on the returning fall shows that aren’t doing so well, and the few that are (Fox is up, the rest are flat or down). Below is what [...]
“New York I Love You” in Five Minutes
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 24th, 2009
Tweet I had high hopes for New York, I Love You. My friends know what kinds of movies I fall for easily, and this is it: pretty people, New York City, romance, set in autumn, bourgeouis pretension. I eat it up: You’ve Got Mail, As Good as it Gets, Auntie Mame, All About Eve, the [...]
