| Pataki was a friend to North Country | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:15:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | As George Pataki completes his last week as governor of New York, he is being pummeled by pundits around the state who judge he hasn't been an open and responsive chief executive. To the North Country, though, he has been the next thing to a doting parent, seeing to it we have had our greatest needs fulfilled. In his three terms as New York governor, Pataki earned the reputation as the most North Country-friendly governor in history. But it was more than his numerous visits (we lost count after 50 about five years go) and piles of cash he showered on the region. In the summer of 1996, during a visit to the Press-Republican for an Editorial Board meeting, the governor showed us his human side. The visit came just a day after the newsroom lost longtime Northern Tier reporter Steve Manor to a heart attack and just a few weeks after another longtime reporter, Mitch Rosenquist, suffered a serious brain aneurysm.... | |
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| | | VH1 to Launch Its Own Syndicated Video Player With a New Broadband Comedy Series Featuring Stars From 'Saturday Night | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:10:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Home shopping commentary has never been so funny and so easy to share! Tom Calderone, Executive Vice President and General Manager, VH1 announced today plans for the launch of VH1's VSPOT syndicated player and new broadband series, "Home Purchasing Club," a new eight-episode series that will be seen exclusively on VSPOT, VH1's broadband channel and its companion syndicated player. The series and syndicated player will both launch on Monday, November 27. The VSPOT syndicated player offers users and Web publishers the ability to "snag" the player and VSPOT content for their own sites. A standout feature on the player, which differentiates it from most, is its ability to be dynamically updated with new content. If a user snags an episode of "Home Purchasing Club," for instance, a new episode will automatically update in the player the following week and will be available alongside the originally "snagged" episode.... | |
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| | | The film title we can t print | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:13:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | The F word is coming soon to a theater near you - in a manner of speaking. The actual title of the new documentary from ThinkFilm Co., a common four-letter word, is sure to offend some people, and that highlights the curious challenge facing the company's chief marketer, Mark Urman. .... | |
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| | | TV on DVD: 'Big Love, Season One,' 'Whose Line Is It Anyway? Season One' | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:14:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | There's no denying that HBO airs some of the most complex shows on TV. Why are its DVD boxed sets, which always come with a premium price tag, so skimpy on extras compared to other DVD releases? "Big Love" ($99.98, HBO Video), the network's polygamy drama that premiered early this year, is a smart show about a culture most Americans know nothing about. It's the perfect opportunity for adding interviews with the show's creators on why they chose this setting, how they plotted the first season, etc. But the DVD has one measly 12-minute featurette about the making of the opening credits, as husband Bill (Bill Paxton) ice skates with his three wives. An audio commentary on the first season finale by stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin contains many applause for their fellow actors, but few revelations.... | |
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| | | `Whose Line' still hilarious on DVD | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:15:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | DVD pick of the week: The Drew Carey-hosted version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? was consistently among the funniest things on television, and it's still hilarious on DVD. A new Season One, Vol. 1 set (Warner, 10 episodes, two discs, $26.98) is now in stores in both censored and uncensored versions, with the uncensored version including some raw language and content during the special features. Those features include some unaired bits as well as a blooper reel. Still, the improvised comedy -- featuring Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Brad Sherwood and others -- is the real joy of this spontaneous and silly show. The box, by the way, refers to ``the first 10 episodes of Season One,'' while the numbering of the shows indicates they were not aired in the order they were made.... | |
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| | | Rock 'n' roll 'Fingerprints' | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 11:12:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Times' younger readers may know Peter Frampton for the two songs he recorded in 2000 for the Disney Records children's album, "Tigger Mania," or for his appearances on "The Simpsons," "The Family Guy" or "The Drew Carey Show" early in this decade.But most people know Frampton as the guy who, in 1976, gave the world the landmark concert recording, "Peter Frampton Comes Alive," which became and remains the best-selling live album of all time. Looking back on his three-decades-plus in the music business, Frampton cites his biggest thrill as the day in 1970, when he served as a studio sideman to George Harrison when the ex-Beatle recorded his landmark debut solo LP, "All Things Must Pass." "He said, 'Hello Pete!,' and I thought maybe Pete Townsend of The Who had walked in or something," mused Frampton of that memorable day. "You just don't figure that a Beatle knows who you are."It has now been 30 years since "Frampton Comes Alive," hit the retail racks and made the one-time musical cult hero the world's biggest rock star for a while.At 56 years old he may no longer sport the shoulder-length, sandy blonde curls that made him a pin-up idol, but Frampton can still wail on his six-string.And he does so often, spending almost a third of every year out on the road thrilling fans with deliveries of such perennial Frampton classics as "Show Me The Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do" and "Baby, I Love Your Way."Frampton is excited days about his brand new album, "Fingerprints," which is his first-ever, all-instrumental release."This is the album I have been waiting my entire life to make," exclaimed Frampton, a British expatriate, who was born in Beckenham, England, and now resides with his family in Cincinnati."Fingerprints" is a collection of 14 impressive guitar tunes of varying styles that includes funky R&B, fiery hard rock, rootsy blues, jazz and country finger-picking."I never wanted to sing," Frampton reflected on his early years starting out. "I always wanted to be the guy behind the singer playing solos. I'd listen to Elvis (Presley) songs, but my focus was on (guitarist) Scotty Moore."Frampton released his "dream album" worldwide on Sept.... | |
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| | | Envelope on the Go | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 1:27:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | "It's such a flagrant breach of the law!" cried Michael Perly, executive director of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco, about Sean Penn firing up ciggies while conducting a press conference touting "All the King's Men" at the Sutton Place Hotel during the film fest in obvious violation of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. Toronto health authorities are now investigating the "crime" and are likely to issue Penn the standard $305 fine. Big deal. Most of Sean's bar tabs are bigger than that and, come on, the dollar amount is Canadian. Penn hasn't been totally insensitive to others while in town, but he still caused outrage over his nicotine reliance. At a few parties he attended, he rushed past the hosts at the door to get out to patio areas where he could fire up. Even before he got a drink! Meantime, there's no uproar about, or word of a pending fine against, Tim Robbins, who puffed away while giving an interview about "Catch a Fire" at the Park Hyatt.... | |
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| | | NFL teams trim rosters to 53 | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 11:28:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | ARIZONA CARDINALS-Released FB James Hodgins, TE Eric Edwards, OT Jeremy Bridges, WR Carlyle Holiday, RB Damien Anderson, FB John Bronson, LB Mark Brown, DT Tim Bulman, CB Dyshod Carter, S Chris Harrell, CB Darrell Hunter, LB Isaac Keys, DE Tyler King, WR Greg Lee, C Shawn Lynch, S Jay McCareins, OT Alan Reuber, WR Michael Spurlock, WR Todd Watkins and CB Justin Wyatt. Waived-injured S Jack Brewer and LB Lance Mitchell. Reached injury settlements with DE Kenny King and DE Aanton Palepoi. .... | |
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| | | A Super-Wedding Happens This November - Season 4 Announced | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:33:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | In their final season, they finally get married. There are a few roadblocks along the highway to marital bliss: a worlds-at-war battle with Lord Nor; an adventure-packed encounter with the Wedding Destroyer; and even wedding-night interruptus compliments of time-traveling H.G. Wells. But before or after the shoes and rice, all 22 fourth-season episodes zing with Lois & Clark's action/comedy blend. Warner Bros has announced the fourth, and final, season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman for release on November 14, not October 24 like Columbia House has listed. The 6 disc set will contain the final 22 episodes, and will retail for $59.98. The set will include Full Frame video (1.33:1), along with English Dolby Surround audio (subtitles in French and Spanish). We hope to have information on bonus material soon.... | |
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| | | Carey's exuberance exceeds excess | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:10:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | For all her diva posturing, Mariah Carey is just another giddy fan inside that curvaceous body she likes to display at all times. And the best moments during Monday night's 95-minute installment of Carey's current tour -- ``The Adventures of Mimi: the Voice, the Hits, the Tour" -- at the TD Banknorth Garden were when she let that exuberant music lover out to play alongside the bombshell with the glass-shattering voice. Whether it was the offhand, almost unconscious, rapping along with video of duet partners like Jay-Z and the late ODB, the teasing of her band and dancers, or the singing of a sincere ``Happy Birthday" to a devoted sign-waving fan, Carey was at her most likable when she seemed to be enjoying herself as opposed to counting in her head how many hip shimmies she had to do during ``Shake It Off." Of course those hip shimmies (Carey's and those of her considerably more rhythmically gifted sextet of dancers), the peek-a-boo costumes, the mammoth silver- and-white stage dotted with a quintet of video screens, and the big hair were all part of the spectacle one expects.... | |
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