Self-plagiarism is style. | | | | The Twilight Zone episode, The Masks.1963.
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| | rantnrave:// OK. FARGO on FX. Last night's episode. BILLY BOB THORNTON narrating PROKOFIEV's PETER & THE WOLF during masterful vignettes. Absolutely awesome. NOAH HAWLEY is on a tear. Who's introducing me?... In today's climate, Monday's greatest story idea doesn't even make the bench by week's end... One of the great things about video and the internet is the availability. I can find almost every show or movie I want to watch. The product and rights ecosystem is still a mess. It’s all over the place. On OTT apps, I can watch a new episode of a show on the day of release on STARZ. AMC lets me watch BETTER CALL SAUL after it airs on the east coast. FX doesn’t let me watch the new FARGO until it’s been aired on the west coast. With so many OTT apps in an unbundled world single search is key. Yet, on some streaming boxes you need to enable for each app. Other networks don't want to join yet out of fear of their brand being subjugated. Most TV networks only allow a rolling 5 episodes which I’ve ranted about often. The ad serving can be slow and repetitive. Licensing, product teams need to get together, step away from deal memos and windowing spreadsheets and think about the user. Dare I say some cross company collusion on a good user experience? One of the godfathers of TV EVERYWHERE, TIME WARNER’s JEFF BEWKES thinks his product people know best and the audience doesn't. I'd say great if he were STEVE JOBS. Or if he played with TW's own OTT apps. Not great. Alfred HITCHCOCK once said: "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." He meant the thrilling narrative. It's the wild west out there. Availability, in general, is excellent, but it's a minefield UEX-wise... You know that I love ANTHONY BOURDAIN’s PARTS UNKNOWN. Travel is a personal passion I don’t indulge enough in. While the food porn is stellar on the show, it’s really about people, places and connecting. Given all the places I’ve gone (and many more Bourdain visited) my take is that people are basically the same even with tons of differences. They want a roof over their heads. Food in their bellies. Prosperity and health for their families. This show opens your eyes to the world. I’ve watched every episode at least 37 times. Same for his last show NO RESERVATIONS. I favor some episodes as I’m sure others do. Could be the food, or the sights, or just the convos. But mostly based on food (an incomplete list): SAN SEBASTIAN (mouthwatering), CROATIAN COAST, LISBON, TANGIERS, MARSEILLE, MOROCCO (TANGIER), LYON, IRAN, AUSTIN, MELBOURNE, BEIRUT (I went to a farm-to-table place he recommended called TAWLET. One of the best meals I’ve ever had), and VENICE. I treasure this show. It literally lifts my mood... I get ill watching cable news. I like news magazines. But when the talking heads get up and debate TRUMP that's it. My entire day goes out the window. I can go from euphoric to downright dark in seconds. It's not the same when I read stories. It's really specific to the moronic pundit and politicians who lie without fail. KELLYANNE CONWAY is my botulism... I have so many issues with APPLE TV lately but I absolutely love the screensavers featuring an aerial view of cities. They're my new fish tank. I can veg and watch for hours... Friends doing well: Congrats to JIM LANZONE on being honored as THE CHEGG HEART & HUMANITY CHAMPION at COACHART 2017 CHILDREN’S BENEFIT. And JOE MARCHESE moving up at FOX. I've emailed Comms Chief JULIE HENDERSON to please make sure Joe gets another head shot that is less, well, less... Happy Birthday to JESSICA LESSIN, KATERINA HANTAS, YVETTE ALBERDINGKTHIJM, JAMIE HOROWITZ, JENNY GALLUZZO, DAVID KINES, and LYNDA MURRAY. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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