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4 Jan, 2008 3:00 am
... end-of-year wrap up ... Here are what I consider to be some of the "best" media and entertainment posts from 2007. Again, some of these
posts are academic, some are trivial, some ... they do represent what interests me and what I have posted on this blog in 2007. Television:
Several posts on Big Brother, including You must watch Big Brother!, ... videos of Dave Hughes from 2007 and Joan Rivers from 2006. Sunday morning television - celebrating ABC's Insiders. Jessica Rowe boned - the Channel Nine saga ...
1 Jan 11:00 am
... my end-of-year wrap ... Here are what I consider to be some of the "best" media and entertainment themed posts from 2008. Again, some of
these posts are academic, some are trivial, ... blog during the year, there were not as many media or entertainment themed posts as in previous
years. Television: Potential Big Brother housemates turn to Facebook - some ... list of the best videos of 2008. Freedom to Dither Finally, if
you want more media and entertainment posts, check out my tumblelog Freedom to Dither ...
5 May, 2007 6:52 pm
... where Barrie Cassidy hosts an excellent current affairs discussion and analysis show that is far superior to anything offered on commercial television or even the 7:30 Report. Insiders is followed at 10am by Inside Business, and although I find Alan Kohler's segment ... his interviews not only
dull but far less probing). At 10:30am it is then back to the ABC for Offsiders, a complete and entertaining look at and analysis of the latest sports news. So if you crave
intelligent news and discussion on a ...
13 Oct, 2007 5:48 pm
... However, the Federal Communication Commission often steps in and creates regulations that prohibit foul language on television. The recent
Academy Awards cut away from a thank you speech by Sally Field to a black screen as a result of the topic of her speech. A new documentary,
entitled "The War", is to air on PBS in ... § 398 (2007). [10] Mark Harris, A War of Words, Entertainment Weekly Sept. 21, 2007, [www.ew.com].
[11] Fox Television Stations, 489 F.3d at 454. [12] Harris, supra ...
18 Jan, 2008 1:36 pm
... overall talent deals with producers and writers. Dubbed "Black Friday" and "Black Monday" by the
trades, virtually every major television production arm terminated deals this past Friday ... , CBS Paramount Network TV, Universal Media
Studios, 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. TV followed suit with their own cuts. The studios' ... (generally) does not include
"human acts" such as labor strikes. Modern entertainment contracts, however, need not rely upon the historical "force majeure" legal ...
14 May, 2008 11:24 am
... ; Bill Silva of Bill Silva Management, $1,000. Also contributing were Clarence Avant, owner of Interior Music Corp., who gave $500; Zev Braun, a television producer for Braun Entertainment Group, contributed $500; Michael Forman, the COB of Pacific Theatres,
donated $500. ... sale of counterfeit CDs and DVDs," Yaroslavsky told (.pdf) his fellow board members. "The black market for these goods
diverted $2 billion from the legitimate retail sector in Los Angeles. These ...
13 Nov, 2008 11:00 pm
... and communications firms-and through the years has handled the biggest names in entertainment, sports, business, and politics from Miles
Davis, Eddie Murphy and Johnnie ... encourage American youth. Terrie's fourth life-transforming book entitled Black Pain: It Just Looks Like
We're Not Hurting, is published by Scribner ... School of Economics and the Democratic National Convention. He has appeared in dozens of television, radio and newspaper interviews and has been the national spokesperson for American ...
4 Jun 11:15 am
... get up and hang their heads in shame, it's just wrong." In keeping with the expectations of our foreign readers, who know that as an American I spend my television viewing time alternately watching and having conniptions over ephemera such as exposed nipples, I have censored portions of the quoted ... to just
what made last night's The Chaser's War on Everything … so … offensive. You'll have to read it for yourself. I'll simply observe that he who lives by black humor must walk a fine line indeed.
15 Jan, 2008 6:04 pm
BET's Robert Johnson is revealing Consider the following report: "Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson says he was talking about Sen. Barack Obama's work as a community organizer -- not about the ... of Senator Clinton. His
disgraceful, cynical, dissembling reveals a duplicitous, puerile personality that should not be tolerated. Although well-known as an entertainment mogul, Mr. Johnson emerged from the political shadows just recently and would be wise to withdraw just as quickly. ...
6 Jul, 2007 5:01 pm
... he would have faced the same public outcry had the students he prosecuted been poor, black and from, say, North Carolina A&T rather
than being wealthy and from Duke ... who actually served time and lost their whole youth to jail?" Ed Wiley, of Black Entertainment Television: "The speed at which 'justice' kicked into high gear for the three White men accused of
committing crimes against a Black woman is dazzling. But for many African Americans, including lawyers who have represented Black men ...
25 May, 2008 5:43 am
... was "highly transformative". But there is some very very bad precedent out there. Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc., 126 F.3d 70 (2d Cir. 1997) involved a television production that had a poster in a background shot. The poster was made by the High Museum in Atlanta. On the poster was an image of artist Faith
Ringgold's Quilt. In the television show, the poster was never clearly visible, one could see up to 80% of it in the background during ...
10 Dec, 2007 6:22 am
... . It's true if you're Bill Gates of Microsoft, Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, or Oprah Winfrey of Harpo Entertainment. Page is no
exception. Yes, the rich really are different from you and me. For most people, a wedding is ... it had been written on a napkin and she hadn't had legal representation. A judge tossed
it out; Irving got $100 million. The prenup of Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment
Television, held up, but it still cost him plenty. He agreed to a deal with his wife, ...
28 May 7:35 am
... in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs," Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station. Buchanan, who succeeded
former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership's termination ... look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The "J" is Robert
Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a
heavy Democratic contributor. While the evidence appears to be coming in, I think what is missing is a more fundamental question: ...
19 Jul, 2007 1:11 am
... , Conn., firm of Feinstein & Herman. Pro Bono Attorneys Fight for Client Trapped in Immigration Black Hole The Recorder At first
glance, the story of Thailand-born convicted drug pusher Yuttasak Simma fits the ... Md.-based firm known as Alexander, Bearden, Hairston & Marks had 37 lawyers and a client roster
that included NationsBank, the D.C. Housing Finance Agency and Black Entertainment Television. But the firm collapsed in 1997. Now without a law license, Alexander is hoping to rebuild ...
28 May, 2007 2:00 am
The IRS has named Terri McField Special Counsel to the Chief Counsel (Legislation). From IR-2007-107: Since 2001, McField has served as the Vice President and General Counsel for
Black Entertainment Television's subsidiary, BET
Interactive. In this position she was responsible...
24 Jan, 2008 9:05 am
... . In October, Carter and several other rappers were named in a federal lawsuit filed by music publishing companies, accusing them of sampling other artists' songs without paying
licensing fees. Rapper Birdman and LilWayne won a viewers' choice award for their song "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" at Black Entertainment Television's 2007 Hip-Hop Awards.
1 Jan 2:46 pm
... and playfield of the pinball machine) are never fully visible and are either out of focus or obscured. Indeed, an average observer would not recognize the Designs as anything other
than generic designs in a pinball machine. Background reading: Ringgold v Black Entertainment
Television, 126 F.3d 70 (2d Cir 1997). Also: Lebbeus Woods v Universal City Studios, et al, 920 F. Supp 62 (SDNY 1996).
1 Jan 11:57 pm
... plausible claim for copyright infringement here" and "Because Gottlieb does not amplify its trademark claim with factual allegations to rise 'above the speculative level' [ ] its
trademark infringement claim is hereby dismissed. Two cases to compare are Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc., 126 F.3d 70, 75 (2d Cir. 1997) and Sandoval v. New Line Cinema Corp., 147 F.3d 215,
217 (2d Cir. 1998). Copyright Litigation Handbook (West ...
19 Jan 8:37 am
... on Barack Obama's Life CHICAGO - The national grassroots group CatholicVote.org has released a new ad that will air repeatedly Tuesday on Black Entertainment Television in Chicago during coverage of the
presidential inauguration. The :30 spot is the first in a series of ads to be released this year as a part of a new educational campaign titled Life: Imagine the Potential. "Our message
is simple: Abortion is the enemy of hope. ...
19 Jan 10:20 pm
... !" produced by CatholicVote.com (a project of Fidelis Center for Law and Policy). The video, to be aired during today's presidential Inauguration on Black Entertainment Television in Chicago: begins with ultrasound image of
an unborn baby. "This child's future is a broken home," the overlying text states, with music playing in the background. "He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will
struggle to raise him."" ...
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