Posted on October 7, 2012 at 3:44 pm
You may not know his name, but you know his face. He’s this guy:
Bing!
Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in movies from “Spaceballs” to “Thelma and Louise,” “Memento,” and “Freaky Friday” and television series like “Glee” and “Deadwood.” He is best remembered as the obnoxious Ned Ryerson in “Groundhog Day.” He has written a new book about his adventures in acting called The Dangerous Animals Club
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 10:35 am
Tonight at 8pm on Epix, a tribute to 50 years of James Bond:
And in honor of James Bond Day, Amazon has the James Bond novels
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:00 am
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the recording of the Beatles’s first single, “Love Me Do,” the new Kindle ebook written by insider Bill Harry is free on Amazon until October 9. Find out how Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best (but did not play the drums on the final version of the song that was released), how George got a black eye, how John stole his harmonica, and how Paul was a last-minute substitution on vocals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCU-JM6sPxU
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:55 pm
This week, as we prepare for President Obama and Governor Romney to have the first of their three scheduled debates, the University of Chicago is making available an ebook about the history of the debates written by my dad, Newton Minow, and his colleague Craig LaMay.
Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
Sadly, the marriage of television and politics in our country has been mostly a history of disappointment. In 1952, television stations — which are licensed by the F.C.C. to serve the public interest — began selling commercials to political campaigns. Other democracies have rejected this idea, and instead provide public service time to candidates during campaign periods. Over the next 60 years, more and more political commercials flooded the airwaves, forcing candidates to raise more and more money. Many of the slurs and slogans in these commercials — which are often fact-free and misleading — are now paid for by “super PACs” financed by secret donors. I believe it is unconscionable that candidates for public office have to buy access to the airwaves — which the public itself owns — to talk to the public.
The debates are one of the few features of our political campaigns that are still admired throughout the world. Candidate debates are still new in most democratic countries, even in Western Europe. Britain, often held up as a model for how to hold a proper election, only in 2010 began to have televised live debates among the party leaders vying to be prime minister.
Let me suggest that after you watch the debate on Wednesday night, you turn off your television set and do your best to avoid the spin that will follow. Talk about what you saw and heard with your family, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers. You are smarter than the spinners. It’s your decision that matters on Nov. 6, not theirs.
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I’m delighted that the first three books in my new Must-See Movie series are now available as ebooks. The first is #1 and and all three are in the top 20 of Amazon Kindle’s movie guides and reviews best-seller list. You don’t need to have a Kindle — the free Kindle app works on just about any computer or tablet or smartphone. If you buy 101 Must-See Movie Moments
The three books are:
101 Must-See Movie Moments
50 Must-See Movies: Mothers
50 Must-See Movies: Weddings
