| Focus on the Family blasts antiChristian HBO film | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:12:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | (OneNewsNow.com) - An attorney with the legal defense coalition Alliance Defense Fund says a string of lawsuits and demand letters along the Eastern seaboard is evidence that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is continuing with aggressive strategies to restrict religious -- and specifically Christian -- free speech in the public arena. ADF senior legal counsel Mike Johnson says his organization is winning a large percentage of its cases in state and federal courts, along with other Christian legal defense firms and coalitions. So he is not surprised of evidence of a new arena of litigation that appears to be in play from the ACLU. ""It appears that the ACLU has made it a new target to go after the practice of opening public meetings with an invocation," the attorney states.... | |
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| | | 9 P.M. TODAY ON HBO: `Thin' and eating disorders | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:12:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | One of the most revealing scenes in "Thin," an unflinching new documentary that chronicles the experiences of four young women being treated at a Florida center for eating disorders, occurs when a patient named Alisa Williams draws her shape on a white wall for her art therapist. The result is a fun-house distortion: hulking and masculine, nothing like the real Alisa, the therapist notes, tracing the actual contours of her slim, petite body well inside the line she has drawn. But articulate, engaging Williams, the veteran of multiple hospitalizations for bulimia, apparently does not recognize how skewed her perceptions have become. After 23 years of struggling with her weight -- she was put on her first diet as a chubby 7-year-old -- she tells filmmaker Lauren Greenfield with chilling calm, "This is what I really want: to be thin.... | |
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| | | Diebold demands HBO cancel film on voting machines | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:19:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Diebold Inc. demanded that cable network HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. The program, "Hacking Democracy," is scheduled to debut on Nov. 2, five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results. "Hacking Democracy" is "replete with material examples of inaccurate reporting," Diebold Election System President David Byrd said in a letter to HBO President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht posted on Diebold's Web site. Short of pulling the film, the Oct. 30 letter asks for disclaimers to be aired and for HBO to post Diebold's response on its Web site. Inaccuracies in the film include the assertion that Diebold, whose election systems unit is based in Allen, Texas, tabulated more than 40 percent of the votes cast in the 2000 presidential election, according to Byrd's letter.... | |
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| | | HBO: Countdown To Mayweather/Baldomir | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 11:11:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | 18.10.06 - HBO Sports is presenting a thirty-minute special analyzing the upcoming HBO pay-per-view welterweight championship fight between Carlos Baldomir and Floyd Mayweather. This intriguing showdown at 147 pounds features the compelling storyline of a largely unknown welterweight king whose stock has soared in the past eight months. In his past two fights, Baldomir has gone into the lions den twice and beaten both Zab Judah and Arturo Gatti juxtaposed against the premier fighter in the world as the undefeated Mayweather is widely regarded as the sports pound-for-pound finest performer.. The special "COUNTDOWN TO BALDOMIR-MAYWEATHER," which will feature fighter profiles, expert analysis and forecasts for the pay-per-view showdown in Las Vegas, will premiere Friday night, Oct. 27 at 12 midnight ET/PTon HBO.... | |
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| | | Barrett can't come up big vs. Valuev | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:15:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | ROSEMONT, Ill. -- This was not must-see TV last night on HBO. This was shut off your TV. World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev continued his unbeaten streak, stopping outgunned Monte ``Two Gunz" Barrett at 2:12 of the 11th round with a barrage of wild punches that twice sent Barrett to the floor and had him reeling more from exhaustion than anything else after a long night spent wrestling with a 328-pound opponent who if he didn't have crude skills would have none whatsoever. Truth be told, the massive champion's most impressive moment came when he stepped over the top rope to enter the ring, his 7-foot-2-inch presence towering over an opponent he outweighed by more than 100 pounds and outreached by 7 inches. Yet, for much of the night, Valuev seemed ponderous and unsure, seldom using the jab that had been far more effective the night last December he won the title from John Ruiz.... | |
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| | | Best man-love on 'Boston Legal' | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:10:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's the best love story on television. Not Homer and Marge. Not that cute married couple on "Medium." Not the HBO polygamists. It's Denny Crane and Alan Shore in the ABC Tuesday-night hit "Boston Legal," now in its third season, tonight at 9 p.m. Each episode of the two-year-old dramedy, a spinoff of ABC's "The Practice," ends with lawyers Crane (played by William Shatner) and Shore (James Spader) relaxing on the high-rise balcony of their Boston firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt, recounting their day and their lives thus far. Sometimes, the two puff cigars. Sometimes, they enjoy a Scotch. Always, they express their love in ways circumspect, tough and touching. One exchange, in which the characters confessed their many faults to each other, created a signature moment for the pair: Denny: "I'm unfaithful."Alan: "Never to me." Really, that's all a guy can ask.... | |
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| | | NBC, HBO, Fox Clean Up Emmys | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:17:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | (Broadcasting & Cable) _ Emmy host network NBC--whose flagging ratings fortunes were roasted by host Conan O'Brien in a snappy opening--proceeded to win the first two awards, then went on to collect a shelf-ful of biggies. In fact, NBC and HBO were the biggest winners of the night, NBC for comedies, HBO for dramas. Fox also picked up some big awards. ABC and CBS were relatively quiet on the night. Mariska Hargitay won for best actress in a drama in her third successive nomination for NBC's Law & Order. Lead actress in a comedy series went to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for heCBS series, the New Adventures of Old Christine, breaking the Sienfeld curse big time. She said she didn't believe in curses, following that with: "Curse this, baby," in triumph. NBC's The Microsoft Office Student & Teacher 2003 for Windows.... | |
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| | | "Stuart" goes forward at HBO, BBC | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:11:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO and U.K. channel BBC Two have teamed for "Stuart: A Life Backwards," a TV movie based on the true story of an unusual friendship between a homeless man and a writer. Tom Hardy plays Stuart Shorter, a young, homeless, aggressive alcoholic and drug addict whose life took an unexpected turn when he met writer/charity worker Alexander Masters (Benedict Cumberbatch). Responding to Masters' request to write his biography, Stuart agreed but only if he could tell the story backward. Over time, Alexander got a glimpse into an alien world and began to understand how Stuart's life spiraled out of control. a telefilm executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes. .... | |
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| | | Trade Round-Up: Sarah Michelle Gellar Just Taking What's Out There ... | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:13:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | · Starz, the movie channel your local cable provider helpfully packages with HBO, Showtime, or the Black Inches On Demand Network, we forget which, plans to produce 12 movies a year for all platforms. [Variety] · THR generously explains Sarah Michelle Gellar's signing on to star in the low-budget-sounding, South Korean thriller adaptation Addicted as her "hoping to continue her winning streak in the genre business," rather than "taking the only kinds of roles she's offered anymore." [THR] · Anna Faris to go blonde, dumb in a Paramount comedy about a former centerfold who becomes a sorority house mother. Excuse us, a house mother "at UCLA's lamest sorority." Prepare yourselves for the obligatory, giddy makeover scene in which Faris tarts up some of her mousy charges. [Variety] · Celebrity Duets leads Fox to a Tuesday ratings win.... | |
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| | | James Gandolfini is sticking with HBO | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 11:13:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | James Gandolfini will extend his relationship with HBO beyond next year's final episodes of "The Sopranos." The Emmy-winning actor has signed a three-year production deal with the premium-cable network, under which he'll develop projects exclusively for HBO and its specialty movie division, Picturehouse. " 'The Sopranos' is a landmark in TV, and the gifted James Gandolfini is one of the reasons for the show's remarkable success," HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht says. "I'm delighted that he will continue to work with the network after the end of the series." Among Gandolfini's first projects as a producer is the biopic "Hemingway," in which he will also star. .... | |
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