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Elf (Oct 23 2003 06:59 GMT) - Film Reviews: Will Ferrell graduates to his first solo leading role with flying colors in a holiday comedy about a clueless innocent who saves Christmas and fosters a renewed sense of family in his reluctant father. Sweet-natured outsider fantasy neither skimps on nor overplays its sentimentality, which should make it a major family audience draw through the holidays. |
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- : In programming the upcoming jazz season for the Disney Concert Hall, Grammy winner Dianne Reeves hopes "to create a little bit of heaven for the jazz enthusiast as well as a warm welcome to those who have been -- until now --reluctant to wade into these waters." |
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- VPage: 'Notorious' kid just says no to reality Robert Evans said it was "hallucinatory" seeing himself portrayed in Comedy Central's animated ""Kid Notorious" series that screened Tuesday at the Mann Chinese Theater 6. |
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- VPage: Evening had relaxed air, drew FCC-banned words & laughs The real party at the Hollywood Awards on Monday may have been backstage at the BevHilton. Once again a heavy-hitter crowd turned out for the banquet, which closed the Hollywood Film Festival. |
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- VPage: Mouse pic takes a bow Tina Turner took the stage at Disney's Monday night preem for "Brother Bear" at the New Amsterdam Theater, with an after-bow bash at Roseland. |
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- VPage: Org raises money Lou Gehrig's disease Project ALS held their fundraising dinner in Gotham on Monday. |
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- VPage: Frauds Christensen & Sarsgaard talk about pic, careers The similarity between a journo who fabricates news stories and a thesp pretending to be someone else on film wasn't lost on "Shattered Glass" stars Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, who explained the appeal during a Q&A session following pic's unspooling in Variety's screening series Monday night. |
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- VPage: Pic, preem bash see parallels Paramount's "Beyond Borders" begins when Clive Owen's character, with an emaciated African child in tow, crashes a international aid dinner benefit and lambastes the guests for the number of starving children they could have saved by giving up the event's niceties. |
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- VPage: Zucker takes humor seriously at bow Although Monday's "Scary Movie 3" preem started with an interminable will-call line and more chaos than usual inside the Avco -- call it "Scary Seating" -- the pic played well and the after-party crowd at the W was upbeat. |
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- Disney Concert Hall: Reeves, night of music to highlight venue's acoustics In a night meant to define the Disney Concert Hall as the new cultural center of Los Angeles, the Sonic LA inaugural gala will go down Oct. 23. |
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- Disney Concert Hall: Salonen salutes city at celebration The Living LA inaugural gala, the second of the Disney Hall opening galas, will highlight the art and music of the modern age Oct. 24. |
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- Disney Concert Hall: Williams to co-conduct selections, present 'Soundings' On Oct. 25, the final opening gala for the Disney Concert Hall, Soundstage LA, will present film scores in celebration of the creative heartbeat of Los Angeles. |
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- TV News: Writer to develop, pen, exec produce laffers Veteran comedy scribe Bob Kushell ("3rd Rock From the Sun") has inked a two-year, low seven figure overall deal at NBC Studios. He'll also continue as exec producer on "The Tracey Morgan Show" next fall, should the NBC/SNL Studios/Carsey-Werner-Mandabac laffer snag a second season greenlight. |
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- TV News: Mischer: Skeins' producers into show, networks not The cold, hard reality of network competition has put the kibosh on exec producer Don Mischer's inaugural Reality Awards. ABC and Mischer called off the planned kudocast Wednesday, one month before the two-hour special was set to tape on the Sony lot. |
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- Film News: Prod'n on the lookout for scribe "Daredevil" director Mark Steven Johnson has scared up an MGM pitch deal for "Succubus," a horror film with comic elements that Johnson will direct right after he completes "Ghost Rider" with Nicolas Cage. |
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- Film News: Pollack, Minghella, Rudin to produce Kenneth Lonergan, the writer-director of "You Can Count on Me," is in negotiations to bring his newest project -- a coming-of-age drama titled "Margaret" -- to Fox Searchlight. |
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- Film News: Pic still looking for helmer, likely to see release in 2005 Sony Pictures Animation is moving forward with plans to turn its Oscar-winning animated short film "The Chubbchubbs!" into a full length CGI feature, hiring scribes Dan Wilson and Dave Gilbreth to pen the script. |
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- Film News: Book to be published next September Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to a comedic first novel by Marc Acito in a six-figure deal with Laura Ziskin attached to produce. The project was brought to Sony by director of development Shannon Gaulding, who will oversee the pic with co-prexy of production Matt Tolmach. |
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- Film News: It's a 'Lonesome' time for actor-director Thesp-turned-helmer Steve Buscemi will undertake his third feature stint behind the camera with "Lonesome Jim," a dysfunctional family comedy-drama starring Liv Tyler and Casey Affleck to be produced by Buscemi and Galt Niederhoffer's Plum Pictures. |
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- VPage: Event fetes late, 'outrageous' comedian Comedians paid colorful tribute to the late Buddy Hackett at an Oct. 15 gala benefiting Singita Animal Sanctuary, a Hackett charity, at the El Capitan. |
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- TV News: Pic reteams prolific prod'n pair Lifetime has greenlit von Zerneck/Sertner Films' original two-hour "Gracie's Choice," toplining Anne Heche and Kristen Bell (HBO's "Deadwood"). |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes "Cuban writer-poet- librarian Raul Rivero Castaneda and the Sierra Leone PEN Centre were given the Freedom to Write Awards by PEN West on Monday. http://www. pen-usa-west. org/03_litfest. |
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- Anna writes "Today there was an entire segement [RealAudio] on the Marketplace Morning Report about using libraries as a free business resource. "Where's the best place to go job hunting, get business information and career counseling for free? It just might be your local library. Despite huge funding cuts, many libraries are struggling to grow as a business resource -- and it might be the best way to ensure their existence. Judy Martin reports. |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes "With the November 6 issue The New York Review of Books celebrates its fortieth anniversary. In the spirit of the occasion we have cast aside our usual practice of highlighting selected articles from the current issue, and present below the full contents of this special issue. To take part in the celebrations, be sure to attend the remaining lectures in our series at the New York Public Library. All events are held in the Celeste Bartos Forum (in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue), at 6:30 pm. |
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- Both Darci Chapman and Katie have been reading Career Journal: Corporate librarians are seeing demand for their services increase from last year's rock-bottom levels. As 2003 has progressed, recruiters say they've been filling more openings for mid- to upper-level corporate librarians than in 2002, when headcounts in corporate information centers were being reduced. Some of the hiring is for librarians to work in such industries as biotechnology that weren't badly hurt by the recession. Other librarians are being recruited to replace staff members who were laid off to cut costs during the downturn. |
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- An odd story out of Malaysia, where More than 2,000 books, used to adorn the tallest book tower as a tribute to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Putrajaya Convention Centre, are missing. A Putrajaya district police headquarters spokesman said that police would view footage from a closed-circuit camera television to identify those who had taken the books, which have a face value of about RM70,000. Full Story, And More, And One More. |
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Competence (Oct 23 2003 06:58 GMT) - Just in time for Rumsfeld's famous memo to hit the press, Parameters, the magazine of the US Army War college, publishes this article - "Strategic Leader Readiness and Competencies for Asymmetric Warfare." (pdf, requires free... |
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- Et demandaran si ho dius. (Qu s spyware? Xec S'Illot 23/10. Qu significa xec? s un anglicisme que no t res que veure amb diners. |
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- The winning logo design for the Santa Paula Visioning process came from a 5th grader at McKevett School. The drawing by Tony Pardo, the son of Jose and Asuncion Pardo, was selected from a total of 66 student entries. The logo will be used on posters and handouts. The winner was chosen by the Visioning process Steering Committee from 12 finalists. Tony is a student in Jorge De La Os class at McKevett. |
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- When Chief Assistant County Counsel Noel Klebaum notified Santa Paula Memorial Hospital last week that it was releasing correspondence regarding affiliation negotiations, the memo noted that two redactions - a fancy word for blacking out information - stemmed from proprietary information of SPMH for which it claims trade secret protection. |
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- The Limoneira Company board of directors today announced that Harold S. Edwards has been named President and CEO of the 110-year old global, vertically integrated agribusiness leader. An agribusiness executive with broad international experience, he will assume the position on November 1. |
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- The annual Halloween Parade sponsored by the Optimist Club of Santa Paula will be held Saturday, October 25th. |
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- The City of Santa Paula Community Services Department presents the 14th Annual Halloween Carnival Friday, October 31 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Community Center, 530 W. Main Street. Carnival fee $1 for 10 tickets. |
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- A Santa Paula High School student, Samuel Reeves was tragically killed last week. The death of Samuel has deeply affected many students on the Santa Paula High School campus. |
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- The dead are again the stars of the show for the 10th annual Ghost Walk 2003. |
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- Entries are being sought for the 54th annual Optimist Christmas Parade, which will be held Saturday, November 29th, at 10:00 a.m. on Main Street in Santa Paula. |
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- The strike of grocery workers for the most part is keeping shoppers out of Vons, but there have been some confrontations between shoppers and picketers, according to a Santa Paula Police Department spokesman. |
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- The annual Methodist Church Bazaar and Soup Kitchen will be on November 8th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p. |
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- Much talk and a few judicial rulings have been made about the impact of the first amendment on the Do Not Call law. Even Edward at Zonitics gets it wrong this time! The important part of the law is not about the speech, it is about the circumstances under which... |
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