…inspired by images taken from comic books, blockbuster movies, television shows and ultimately from the plastic creations shoved onto the shelves of toy stores everywhere—is more than just an attempt to cash in on the swelling interest in nerdy art. For [Robert Xavier Burden], it’s an exploration of nostalgia and the sense of lost wonder that comes with leaving behind childish pursuits.
more.
ABC’s Scandal continued its gravity-defying ratings ascent this season, leaping 23 percent this week to its best rating ever.
more.
Kiefer Sutherland is in early talks with Fox to reprise CTU agent Jack Bauer in a “limited event series”…it sounds like a higher budget mini-series rather than a 24-episode/hour ninth season of television.
more.
[Flip] Wilson was a more troubled person than his easy and attractive onstage demeanor would suggest. But he was also a more serious and committed one, who studied comedy like a science and performed it as an art. Part of the first wave of black comedians to break the color line, he arrived during the sociocultural crack in time we call the mid-’60s. He straddled that crack for a while, and then it swallowed him.
more.
The weekly Punjabi broadcast of “Hockey Night in Canada,” as venerated an institution for Canadians as “Monday Night Football” is for Americans, is the only N.H.L. game called in a language other than English or French. The broadcast marries Canada’s national pastime with the sounds and flavors of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of ice hockey.
more.
Urban manhunts have captivated cities and provided fodder for a frenzied 24-hour media. But at what cost?
…such contradictions must constantly be negotiated: public versus private, virtual versus real, active versus passive. On one hand, millennials consume so much media they can’t concentrate, torn as they are between texting, posting on Facebook, and watching YouTube. And yet they also have an astonishing ability to focus on elaborate videogame play for six-hour stretches or to watch complex, multistranded television dramas in binge sessions that can swallow a weekend. They are experts in driving games like Gran Turismo 5, but they’re not that interested in actual driving.
‘What no CBS commentator has ever alluded to, even in passing, even during a rain delay, even when there was time to do so, is Augusta’s history of racism and sexism. Even when people were protesting just outside the grounds—forget about taking a side—never acknowledging it. So not only will I never work the Masters because I’m not at CBS, but I’d have to say something and then I would be ejected.’ —Bob Costas
The man behind Desperate Housewives, Marc Cherry, is coming out with a…new show this summer…Devious Maids, based on the telenovela Ellas son la Alegría del Hogar, will premiere on Lifetime June 23…The show tells the ”upstairs-downstairs” story of a group of maids ”as clever, witty, outrageous and downright devilish as their employers.” Housewives‘ star Eva Longoria is also one of the show’s executive producer.
more.
![[Flip] Wilson was a more troubled person than his easy and attractive onstage demeanor would suggest. But he was also a more serious and committed one, who studied comedy like a science and performed it as an art. Part of the first wave of black comedians to break the color line, he arrived during the sociocultural crack in time we call the mid-’60s. He straddled that crack for a while, and then it swallowed him.
more.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/68deefff1d62dbe0c10052e7d04fb1d9/tumblr_mmapyv3fku1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
![[meaningful glance]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/549f7ab44da72559ace9d43cfadb7e1e/tumblr_ml1s0njlcf1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
![[meaningful glance]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/70efc17de9bf025f749cfddd6c0340ad/tumblr_mkr0mtXbPJ1qcwnv4o1_500.png)
Twitter
LinkedIn
Subscribe via RSS
Follow on Tumblr
Mobile version
Random post
