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February 25, 2009
BYOB - Catching Up...
The days after the Oscar season end feel a bit like the first days getting back to school after months of summer vacation... waking up on a different schedule... new people, many familiar, but different... work to do but somehow, not as quick to get out the pen... even the feeding schedule (and the food itself) is different.
It's a hangover, but not unpleasant that same way. Just an "Oh yeah... there is something else other than the Oscars and Watchmen going on...."
Then there is the real downside… seriously considering the ugliness of the media business right now and how many people are still about to head out the door… and it’s not just cocktail chatter now… now we are looking right at it.
I like to think I will have a week to just stop thinking much after The Awards… but my hopes were dashed when hard reality turned up, multiple times, in the couple of days since we went to bed late, late Sunday night after leaving 8 Oscar winners at One Sunset. (Nine, if you count the extra award handed to the good folks at Fox Searchlight as distributor.)
And so it goes...
Posted by dpoland at February 25, 2009 10:24 AM
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Hey, how about that President Obama last night?
The GOP is officially dead.
Posted by: christian ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 25, 2009 11:16 AM
Just like the Democrats were November 3, 2004, right?
Posted by: Blackcloud at February 25, 2009 11:53 AM
Any thoughts on Chernin leaving Newscorp? Good for Fox? Bad for Fox? Will things be better from the creative end? More accommodating to artists' visions? Will things continue as before?
I heard the guy has a G-4. Is that his or a company jet? Think he'll rent it out for small jaunts down to Ensenada?
Posted by: Triple Option at February 25, 2009 12:13 PM
Who said the Democrats were dead on 11.3.2004? Bush barely won re-election. That led to the Republican ouster in 2006, followed by 2009. ALIVE!
THIS parrot is bleedin' dead, Jim.
Posted by: christian at February 25, 2009 12:39 PM
Seems the embargo on Watchmen reviews has been lifted, probably because Harry Knowles made a big fuss about it.
So far, sounds pretty good.
Posted by: LYT at February 25, 2009 01:49 PM
Or Devin made a big fuss. I do love how it could not give a film a 10 out of 10. THINK IT OVER FARCI! GIVE IT A 10! DON'T LET IT GO DOWN THERE WITHOUT A 10!
Posted by: IHeartThatCurtis! at February 25, 2009 01:55 PM
Speaking of News Corp., Liz Smith is gone from the NY Post for budget reasons.
No great loss -- she had long been a media whore for Michael Jackson and Harvey Weinstein. Maybe she can become Harvey's in-house PR flack so she can explain away why he buys awards yet can't run a moneymaking business.
Posted by: Chucky in Jersey at February 25, 2009 03:37 PM
That speech last night was boring, just like all his boring, no-charisma speeches. Duller than Carter.
Will any of this "stimulus" shit result in me getting a $600 check like THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER sent out?
Basically I'm just pissed that that bore-fest pre-empted American Idol.
Posted by: LexG at February 25, 2009 05:31 PM
"Will any of this 'stimulus' shit result in me getting a $600 check like THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER sent out?
Basically I'm just pissed that that bore-fest pre-empted American Idol."
Wow! Thanks for pretty much summing up every attitude that put the country in the crapper in the first place! Greatest LexG post EVER!
Posted by: Hallick at February 25, 2009 06:52 PM
Lex G: HE'S A REPUBLICAN AND PROUD OF IT! Poor dumb bastard.
Posted by: IHeartThatCurtis! at February 25, 2009 09:38 PM
When Bush sent out 600 dollars, it wasn't socialism, right? More like a bribe for Lex...
Posted by: christian at February 25, 2009 10:07 PM
Christian: it helped Lex buy his own sibian. Sure; it's sitting in a corner covered in dust, but K-Stew may ride it one day! AS GOD AS LEXARD'S WITNESS... K-STEW WILL RIDE HIS SIBIAN, AND SHE WILL LIKE IT! GLORY BE TO THE ALL HOLY ALBA!
Posted by: IHeartThatCurtis! at February 25, 2009 11:41 PM
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