Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. | | | | Being John Malkovich. 1999.
(USA Films) | | | | |  | “Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”
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| | rantnrave:// What if some of the best independent television production companies banded together and withheld some of their best new content and pooled it to launch their own streaming service? Online seems to be winner take all these days? Or almost. My beloved NETFLIX is at around 100 Million subs. More players needed? In a deal world that's rapidly changing to the cost plus 20% or so model, some should start thinking of creating some asset value for themselves with their only weapon: their creations... Innovation in television tech has happened as fast as I run the marathon (Hello, TV EVERYWHERE). CABLELABS has tried for years. No more frustrating than in advertising. Channels were hamstrung with NIELSEN measurement. Specifically around the ability to provide a cross-platform metric for advertisers. This inability drove many of those companies not to embrace streaming early on even when they owned stakes in streaming services. in 2010, I gave a series of talks at these same companies about creating their own metric. Why not? They are big, have credibility, massive research resources and they can offer their advertisers the ability to audit. Well, they really didn't do much. But It's 2017 now and an alliance has been announced between FOX NETWORKS GROUP, TURNER and VIACOM to create OPENAP, an advanced audience platform standard for cross-publisher audience targeting and independent measurement. Not exactly the same, but maybe an innovation (it's not cross-platform yet). If NETFLIX taught us anything. It's not just the content. Innovate and disrupt yourself. Congrats to SEAN MORAN and JOE MARCHESE... Yay! For BRIAN STELTER and RELIABLE SOURCE on winning the WALTER CRONKITE AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TV POLITICAL JOURNALISM for the national network program category... Oh, RACHEL MADDOW... "Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys" is a column, written by KATHLEEN TARRANT for THE STRANGER, about exactly what you think it's about. Dating, rock and roll and compromise. It's some of our favorite music writing anywhere, and we want to collect them all... Deliver what you promised when you promised it or eat the extra bill... My nieces are obsessed with PANIC! AT THE DISCO. Anyone know their manager?... When the guilty are sensitive about you pointing our their guilty... Happy Birthday to SCOTT BROMLEY, GREG WATKINS and PETER MOORE. A belated to my dear friend MIKE EISNER who refuses to join FACEBOOK so I forgot to mention it here yesterday. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| The off-price retailer U.A.L. is largely unknown outside the South, yet it is a regular pilgrimage site for fashion insiders looking for high-end designer wear at dizzying markdowns. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Why do people vent such toxic opinions online? Filmmaker Kyrre Lien spent three years travelling the world to find out who these anonymous ‘internet warriors’ are and why they do it. | | |
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 | BTIG Research |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| An elaborate hoax based on forged documents escalates the phenomenon of “fake news” and reveals an audience on the left that seems willing to believe virtually any claim about Trump's bad deeds. | | |
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 | A.V. Club |
| The implied raunch of "Three’s Company" was its main selling-point in 1977, and always remained a central part of what the show did every week. | | |
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 | Variety |
| FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said that the agency is studying restrictions on media ownership, characterizing a number of the rules as “quite antiquated.” In an interview Monday (Mar 13) with "Variety," Pai said that an easing of such restrictions “is one of the issues that is under consideration. We haven’t made any firm determinations there, either.” | | |
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| With so many recent shows mining laughs, violence, or romance from the past and/or future, we decided to take our own trip through the ages to look at the notable time-travel shows from yesteryear and today -- but not the future. We don’t have that technology yet. | | |
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