Blackman Cruz Receives the Entourage Nod of Approval - Posted August 10, 2007
We're still playing TiVo catch-up from the weekend, so it was just last night we managed to watch this week's episode of "Entourage" where a desk procured from LA's premiere antiques, furniture and oddities emporium, Blackman Cruz, is a major character. The episode is even named "Gary's Desk" (as in Gary... [UnBeige]

ClearPlay Gets Rid of Sex, But Keeps Plenty of Hubris Around - Posted May 8, 2007
ClearPlay is very, very proud of itself. After distancing itself from companies that create "family-friendly" versions of hit films, the DVD manufacturer sent a press release with this headline: ClearPlay 1, Steven Spielberg 0 Powerful words, little company. The press release goes on to tout ClearPlay as the stick-our-fingers-in-your-eye victor of a Congressional... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 05.02.07 - Posted May 2, 2007
Good morning Washington. Dana Perino on life at the top. An ABC release announced that "World News with Charles Gibson" was "the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Households and Adults 25-54 for the week of April 23." Averaging 8.20 million Total Viewers, "World News" outperformed NBC's "Nightly News" by 310,000 Total... [FishBowlDC]

Look Middle Eastern? Movie Roles Galore! - Posted April 11, 2007
Actors who look Middle Eastern and don't mind playing villains can work steadily, according to Nick Timiraos in the WSJ. Allegedly this is a problem for those who don't want to be stereotyped or seen as "perpetuating a negative image of Middle Easterners". FBLA recalls the old joke--wanna hear an actor... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted February 26, 2007
Blow-By-Blows Kinda Blow: We are puzzled by the pervasiveness of online minute-by-minute accounts of awards shows. Is it really important to note that at "5:35 p.m. -- The nominees stand up in the auditorium, a record 177 artists and craftsman, applauding themselves and one another"? We don't think so. But, if... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades - Posted February 22, 2007
Parties, parties, parties--and the Motion Picture and Television Fund rakes in the cash, funding the industry's foremost resource for help and care--Taking Care of Our Own is their motto. Martin Scorsese will direct Brian Selznick's children's mystery The Invention of Hugo Cabret. He's also slated to direct Silence, about two 17th... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades: Charity, Diversity - Posted February 22, 2007
Parties, parties, parties--and the Motion Picture and Television Fund rakes in the cash, funding the industry's foremost resource for help and care--Taking Care of Our Own is their motto. Martin Scorsese will direct Brian Selznick's children's mystery The Invention of Hugo Cabret. He's also slated to direct Silence, about two 17th... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades: Scorsese Wins, Whedon Ankles - Posted February 5, 2007
Martin Scorsese won the DGA award for directing The Departed, making him the one to beat for the Oscar, which he should have won eons ago. In the Best Documentary category, Lithuianian filmmaker Arunas Matelis won for Before Flying Back to the Earth, which got an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades: Scorsese Wins, Whedon Ankles - Posted February 5, 2007
Martin Scorsese won the DGA award for directing The Departed, making him the one to beat for the Oscar, which he should have won eons ago. In the Best Documentary category, Lithuianian filmmaker Arunas Matelis won for Before Flying Back to the Earth, which got an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign... [FishBowlLA]

DGA Nominates Scorsese, Condon, Inarritu, and Sunshine Team - Posted January 9, 2007
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Bill Condon for Dreamgirls, Martin Scorsese for The Departed, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Steven Frears for The Queen are the DGA's nominees for feature film directors. Conspicuous by his absence is two-time winner Clint Eastwood. Scorsese has... [FishBowlLA]

DGA Nominates Scorsese, Condon, Inarritu, and Sunshine Team - Posted January 9, 2007
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Bill Condon for Dreamgirls, Martin Scorsese for The Departed, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Steven Frears for The Queen are the DGA's nominees for feature film directors. Conspicuous by his absence is two-time winner Clint Eastwood. Scorsese has... [FishBowlLA]