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Film Productions Leaving the Coasts
Fewer yellow signs are popping up in Los Angeles this spring. Those placards, which direct cast and crew members to a location shoot, normally sprout like wildflowers in March and April, as pilot production reaches full bloom. But despite an uptick in broadcast pilot orders this year, Los Angeles -- and New York, too -- is ...
'Designing Women' Actress Dixie Carter Dies at 70
Dixie Carter, best known for her role on “Designing Women" died Saturday at 70. Publicist Steve Rohr, who represented Carter as well as her husband actor Hal Halbrook, would not disclose where she died or the cause of death. “This has been a terrible blow to our family," Holbrook said in a written statement. “We would ...
Lagging Libraries Shift Hollywood Mindset
How fitting that when “Alice in Wonderland" is the top draw so far at the box office this year, Hollywood itself is starting to feel as if it's fallen down a rabbit hole. The industry is waking up to a topsy-turvy world where everything it's gotten used to for decades has again changed -- perhaps forever. ...
Subprime Goes Hollywood
The Wall Street wizards who gave you credit default swaps want to turn the movie industry into their next casino. If you thought the mortgage-backed securities and other complex financial instruments that crashed the economy were risky, you'll love Wall Street's latest brainwave: a new financial market in which players can gamble on whether upcoming Hollywood ...
Should the Beatles Have Worked It Out?
Looking back after 40 years, that seems like a ridiculously short lifespan for a band as important as the Beatles, who were, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Seven years and seven months. That's how long the world officially knew the Beatles as a recording act, spanning from the date they ...
"SGT. Pepper's," "Rubber Soul" Remasters Due in Sept.
On September 9, 2009, after a nearly 22-year wait, digitally remastered versions of all of the Beatles studio albums will be released. Each album will feature the track listings and artwork as it was originally released in the U.K. and come with expanded booklets including original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a ...
Raabe, Munchkin Coroner in 'Wizard of Oz,' Dies
Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was “really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94. His caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, said Raabe died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla. He was one of the few ...
Apple Goes Where the Portals Failed: It's the Hardware, Stupid
Six months ago an Apple analyst told me he thought the company's long-term goal was to become the internet's cable TV company. I didn't get it then. I really get it now. Most think of Apple as a computer or consumer electronics company. I think that's becoming a means to a much bigger end: becoming a ...
Privacy Groups Want Feds to Investigate Targeted Ads
A trio of privacy groups want federal regulators to take a close look at ad networks that track web surfers' and sell targeted ads. The groups want the Federal Trade Commission to open an inquiry into whether these networks, including Google and Yahoo, are unfairly tracking Americans and profiting from their data. The World Privacy Forum, ...
15 iPad Apps You Should Download Today
The iPad's got a big screen, zippy performance and a decent web browser -- but its real potential lies in the thousands of apps -- more than 3,000 already -- that use that hardware in new and interesting ways. But as significant of an advancement as the iPad may be compared to its smaller predecessors, one ...
