Here is QPORIT's Daily Newspaper, built from tweet news by paper.li
WARNING -- SOME VIDEOS MAY AUTOSTART.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
SNL really up tonight. Jesse Eisenberg doing great. Most of the writing better than normal.
Can't tell which is which... the real Zuckerberg or the real Jesse. Both on SNL. Twins.
What restraint! Jesse & Mark together & a "Social Network Revolution" in Cairo and not one social network joke on SNL. (Well, maybe one, when Mubarek appeared on the "news.")
Some almost classics:
The early Science Show sketch was terrific up until the end, when it needed a real ending and just sort of wimped out.
The opening hit some of the necessary jokes but left out the opportunity to tell some bad-history jokes. A "JayWalking" segment would have been an appropriate way to highlight our Congresswoman's level of historical uncomprehension.
Some highlights:
The "Creepy" SNL Digital Short.
The Spa ... Remember... Pamper and refresh!
Mubarek was one of the best visitors to the news desk, ever.
The closing home-made "Penis Shriveler" commercial.
Jesse Eisenberg was very good (and in lots of sketches), and Nicki Minaj was the rare musical guest who aced a role in a sketch, as the booty favored Wife of Blackenstein.
SNL - Saturday Night Live
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/index.shtml
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
WE PUBLISHED A SPECIAL ROUND-UP OF NEWS FROM TWITTER ON THE GOLDEN GLOBES:
QPORIT GG SPECIAL -
http://paper.li/QPORIT/1295242855
See also our round-up of nominees and winners. (There's also a link here to an older round-up of news about the GG. )
QPORIT: GOLDEN GLOBES 2011
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2011/01/golden-globes-2011.html
Ricky Gervais was funny, but very nasty -- almost evil in some remarks. Nasty can be funny, but that doesn't make it less nasty.
DeNiro was very funny. (Too bad some of what he said was not just bleeped off the air, but totally silenced.)
Robert Downey Jr. almost had a good routine about sleeping (or not) with the female actress nominees. But Natalie Portman totally nailed the story about who wanted to sleep with whom. (And he did, and she's expecting.)
Michael Douglas wished there were an easier way to get a standing ovation.
I'm glad Aaron Sorkin & Social Network won. They were terrific. Jesse Eisenberg should have won also. That was an amazing acting job.
Black Swan, Barney's Version, and The King's Speech, GG winners all, were all shown -- in fact, featured -- last year at the Hamptons International Film Festival. (http://qporit.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-preview-2010-hamptons.html)
Here's the current list of Health Department ratings for restaurants in NYC...
http://a816-restaurantinspection.nyc.gov/RestaurantInspection/SearchBrowse.do
The Golden Globes are the first of the big award shows on TV. It looks like one of the most fun to attend.
The Golden Globes are the awards of the Hollywood Foreign Press. So they are a little different from the Academy Awards, but usually they give a good indication of the leading contenders (and provide a powerful suggestion) to the Academy voters.
The Golden Globes Web site is very good:
Live in HD on NBC
Sunday, January 16, 2011
8:00pm - 11:00pm (EST)
5:00pm - 8:00pm (PST)
We created a twitter consolidation page for the Golden Globes with paper.li:
QPORIT - GOLDEN GLOBES SPECIAL
http://paper.li/QPORIT/golden-globes
2011 Miss Golden Globe
GIA MANTEGNA
(Each year the Golden Globes selects the child of a distinguished actor to be the official "Miss Golden Globes".)
This year's categories...
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Best Animated Feature Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Director - Motion Picture
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Best Television Series - Drama
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
THE NOMINEES...
Cecil B. DeMille Award - Robert De Niro
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Black Swan
Protozoa Pictures & Cross Creek Pictures & Phoenix; Fox Searchlight Pictures
The Fighter
Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media; Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media
Inception
Warner Bros. Pictures UK LTD.; Warner Bros. Pictures
The King's Speech
See-Saw Films and Bedlam Productions; The Weinstein Company
==> The Social Network
Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesDrama
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Halle Berry – Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
=> Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesDramaActress
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
=> Colin Firth – The King's Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg – The Fighter
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesDramaActor
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Alice in Wonderland
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Burlesque
Screen Gems; Sony Pictures Releasing
=> The Kids Are All Right
Antidote Films, Mandalay Vision, Gilbert Films; Focus Features
Red
di Bonaventura Pictures; Summit Entertainment
The Tourist
GK Films; Sony Pictures Releasing
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesComedyMusical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
=> Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway – Love & Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie – The Tourist
Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone – Easy A
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesComedyMusicalActress
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Johnny Depp – Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp – The Tourist
=> Paul Giamatti – Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal – Love & Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey – Casino Jack
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesComedyMusicalActor
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Mila Kunis – Black Swan
=> Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesSupActress
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
=> Christian Bale – The Fighter
Michael Douglas – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Jeremy Renner – The Town
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesSupActor
Best Animated Feature Film
Despicable Me
Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment; Universal Pictures
How To Train Your Dragon
DreamWorks Animation; Paramount Pictures
The Illusionist
Django Films, Ciné B and France 3 Cinéma; Sony Pictures Classics
Tangled
Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
=> Toy Story 3
Disney * Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesAnimatedFilm
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful (Mexico, Spain)
The Country of Mexico and The Country of Spain
Menageatroz, Focus Features International; Roadside Attractions
The Concert (France)
The Country of France
An Oï Oï Oï Productions, Les Productions Du Tresor, France 3 Cinema, Europacorp, Castel Films, Panache Productions, RTBF (Belgian Television), BIM Distrubuzione Co., Canal +, Cinecinema and France 3; The Weinstein Company
The Edge (Russia)
The Country of Russia
(Kpaй) Rock Films, Teleshow, Channel One Russia, with the support of Russian Railways
I Am Love (Italy)
The Country of Italy
(IO SONO L’AMORE) First Sun; Magnolia Pictures
=> In A Better World (Denmark)
The Country of Denmark
(Hævnen) Zentropa Entertainment; Sony Pictures Classics
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesForeignLanguage
Best Director - Motion Picture
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
=> David Fincher – The Social Network
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
David O. Russell – The Fighter
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesDirector
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Christopher Nolan - Inception
Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko - The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler - The King's Speech
=> Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesScreenplay
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech
Danny Elfman - Alice in Wonderland
A. R. Rahman - 127 Hours
=> Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network
Hans Zimmer - Inception
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesScore
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Bound To You" – Burlesque
Music By: Samuel Dixon
Lyrics By: Christina Aguilera and Sia Furler
"Coming Home" – Country Strong
Music & Lyrics By: Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey and Troy Verges
"I See The Light" – Tangled
Music By: Alan Menken
Lyrics By: Glenn Slater
"There's A Place For Us" – The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
Music & Lyrics By: Hillary Lindsey, Carrie Underwood and David Hodges
=> "You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me" – Burlesque
Music & Lyrics By: Diane Warren
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesSong
Best Television Series - Drama
=> Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions, HBO Entertainment
Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
The Good Wife (CBS)
CBS Television Studios
Mad Men (AMC)
Lionsgate Television
The Walking Dead (AMC)
AMC
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVDrama
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife (CBS)
Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men (AMC)
Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs
=> Katey Sagal – Sons Of Anarchy
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVDramaActress
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
=> Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVDramaActor
Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
30 Rock (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Warner Bros. Television
The Big C (Showtime)
Showtime, Sony Pictures Television, Perkins Street Productions, Farm Kid, Original Film
=> Glee (FOX)
Ryan Murphy Television, Twentieth Century Fox Television
Modern Family (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Nurse Jackie (SHOWTIME)
Showtime, Lionsgate Television, Jackson Group Entertainment, Madison Grain Elevator, Inc. & Delong Lumber, Caryn Mandabach Productions
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVComedyMusical
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Toni Collette – United States Of Tara (SHOWTIME)
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie (SHOWTIME)
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
=> Laura Linney – The Big C (Showtime)
Lea Michele – Glee (FOX)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVComedyMusicalActress
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
Steve Carell – The Office (NBC)
Thomas Jane – Hung (HBO)
Matthew Morrison – Glee (FOX)
=> Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GoldenGlobesTVComedyMusicalActor
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
=> Carlos (Sundance C)
Film En Stock and Egoli Tossell Film, Sundance Channel
The Pacific (HBO)
Playtone and DreamWorks in association with HBO Films
Pillars Of The Earth (STARZ)
Starz, Tandem Communications, Muse Entertainment Scott Free Films
Temple Grandin (HBO)
A Ruby Films, Gerson Saines Production, HBO Films
You Don't Know Jack (HBO)
Bee Holder, Cine Mosaic and Levinson/Fontana Productions, HBO Films
Follow this category on Twitter using #GlobesTVMiniPic
Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hayley Atwell – Pillars Of The Earth (STARZ)
=> Claire Danes – Temple Grandin (HBO)
Judi Dench – Return To Cranford
Romola Garai – Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Client List
Follow this category on Twitter using #GlobesTVMiniPicActress
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Idris Elba – Luther
Ian McShane – Pillars Of The Earth (STARZ)
=> Al Pacino – You Don't Know Jack (HBO)
Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship
Edgar Ramirez – Carlos (Sundance C)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GlobesTVMiniPicActor
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hope Davis – The Special Relationship
=> Jane Lynch – Glee (FOX)
Kelly MacDonald – Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Julia Stiles – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Sofia Vergara – Modern Family (ABC)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GlobesTVMiniPicSupActress
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Scott Caan – Hawaii Five-O
=> Chris Colfer – Glee (FOX)
Chris Noth – The Good Wife (CBS)
Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family (ABC)
David Strathairn – Temple Grandin (HBO)
Follow this category on Twitter using #GlobesTVMiniPicSupActor
Saturday, January 15, 2011
QPORIT: Quick Previews & Daily News
http://paper.li/QPORIT/qporit-daily-2
I first discovered this site in The Ensemble Studio Theater's tweets. Thy've put together a very interesting daily collection of theater news:
http://paper.li/ensemblestudiot/Beyond-Broadway
Some notes about paper.li :
- It has very primitive selection criteria. You make some basic choices and for everything in your scope it accumulates everything that has a link. Then it formats a page.
- You can set the frequency of publication: Daily; Morning & evening; or Weekly.
- You have little or no ability to customize the resulting page.
- I don't know whether it checks links for viruses. Use at your own risk. (I'm using only sites that I hope are trustworthy as sources -- but still it is a little risky. Use at your own risk!)
- Given improvements and enhancements in the site, it seems like the best way yet to view the scope of twitter information.
- The site is still in alpha!
- They are pre-alpha in developing an accumulation page for Facebook.
- The company is based in Switzerland.
THE QPORIT SITE:
QPORIT: Quick Previews & Daily News
http://paper.li/QPORIT/qporit-daily-2
THE ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER SITE:
Beyond Broadway Daily
http://paper.li/ensemblestudiot/Beyond-Broadway
PAPER.LI HOME PAGE:
http://paper.li/
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Photo by ©Sabrina Lantos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Photo by ©Sabrina Lantos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Photo by ©Sabrina Lantos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Photo by ©Sabrina Lantos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Barney's Version is a serious, extremely well acted drama.
Paul Giamatti (Barney) was nominated for a Golden Globe. (Note 1/17 -- in fact, he WON!)
Dustin Hoffman has an unforgettable role as Barney's father.
Rachelle Lefevre, flames briefly and spectacularly as Barney's disturbed first wife.
Rosamund Pike, as the love of Barney's life, is transcendent.
Also, Jake Hoffman (Dustin Hoffman's son) plays Barney's son, and he's very good.
Indeed, the movie has many transcendent moments of love, and a fascinating portrayal of a very difficult man.
The film is also, and there is no warning in the previews, so this is buyer beware -- the film is also very depressing and downbeat.
The film derives from a novel by Mordecai Richler. In the book, Barney is suffering from Alzheimer's, and the book is a flashback, his version of the events of his life, told from his own point of view, an unreliable narrator, already suffering the beginnings of dementia. The movie, however, is plotted essentially linearly; though flashbacks fill in part of the story, there's the barest suggestion that these events are "his version" of the events.
Giamatti said the book is so different from the screenplay, that he didn't read it until after he made the movie, so it would not confuse his portrayal.
LINKS:
OFFICIAL SITE
http://www.barneysversionthemovie.com/#/home
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423894/
WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%27s_Version_(film))
This movie can be strongly recommended, as long as you understand that it is a very serious, somber drama about the life and love life of a disturbed and disturbing man.
Or perhaps savers, if you were expecting to see a happy film about true love.
WARNING
A synopsis goes something like this: Shit happens. Worse shit happens. Something wonderful happens for decades, so we'll skip over that in a few moments of screen time. More shit happens. Terrible things happen. He loses his mind. He dies.
The Cape is an exciting TV superhero/avenger/crimefighter/corruption-buster show, stylish, and deriving, of course, from a comic book, (which has a vanity/tribute role in the show).
The show has some weaknesses. It seems to have a lot of the too-familiar superman/batman/etc gotham-city-type crime milieu; the plotting stoops from time to time to events that are cringingly implausible, even for a comic book turned TV show; and, while the men are interesting actors and characters, the women are kind of lame.
In terms of level, it is more intense than a comic show like Chuck, but not really a serious, gritty drama. It had, I think, one joke.
I'll watch it again, but it will take some momentum to really get off the ground, I'm afraid.
Note (1/15): How to invigorate THE CAPE with the magic of MAGIC!:
I was thinking about this show, and I realized that it has -- within its own basic premise -- the means to be really exciting, different, and successful. "The cape" itself, that physical cape, is important because it is at the center of the magic that the hero is supposed to be a master of.
Yet little was done with magic. Oh, he goes POOF from time to time and disappears in a cloud of smoke, and he uses the cape like a tricky whip, but that doesn't come close to exploiting the possibilities of magic and illusion in telling truly original stories. The Hero should have some truly inventive skills, to foil some inventive villians, described by the show with brilliant style!
THE CAPE should get itself some master illusionists to invent real (or illusionary, through the magic of television) magic illusions that enable the hero to escape the ordinary crime drama in which he is now mired.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Rapidly rising actress Robin Singer, makes a hilarious appearance as an SNL host on the lam in a new webiseries,
Photo by Eric Roffman
Robin has a sharp sense of comic presence, and looks terrific too.
The webiseries, Public Relations, has great promise, and marks a trend toward fine acting, fine writing, and fine visuals on the web.
To be a little more specific:
First of all, I enjoyed the whole show -- seven mini-episodes that, put together, mark a complete story, perhaps 23 minutes long. (It tells tales of one personal and one professional crisis in the lives of two young PR Pros, in the course of a long hard Saturday.)
Except for the first, which I found a bit implausible in the way it ended, each mini-episode was sort-of mini-complete with a sort-of mini-cliff-hanger ending. Whether it makes more sense on the web to present the whole episode as seven mini-episodes, rather than one complete story, is a judgement call. My guess is, that it really is easier to watch (and easier to get people to watch) small pieces on the web than one longer story.
Almost all the casting, acting, writing, and directing is excellent. (There was at least one minor character -- not to be named here -- that was less fine than the others -- the rest were each finer than the others!)
The cinematography was excellent, good looking and sharp; though at some resolutions, there was occasional jerkiness when there was a lot of movement in the frame.
The writer/producer/actresses Elisabeth Hower (blond and beautiful) and Sarah Paige (brunette and cute) both did a good job in each of their three jobs. They did seem to be having the most fun during the dominatrix portions of the story, and the more they relax and have fun with everything, the better the show will be.
It's a great start on which to build. The premise -- PR follies -- is a rich one. This is a web series that I'll be looking forward to and following.
LINKS:
HOME PAGE:
http://www.publicrelationstheseries.com/
EPISODES:
www.publicrelationstheseries.com/episodes.html
TWITTER:
http://twitter.com/PR_TheSeries
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Public-Relations-The-Webseries/183372678341986?v=info
ROBIN SINGER'S NEXT SHOW IN NEW YORK
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Polish_Cultural_Institute_Presents_A_COUPLE_OF_POOR_POLISHSPEAKING_ROMANIANS_20110105
Sunday, January 9, 2011
At the Hamptons International Film Festival, 2009
Photo by Eric Roffman
Showtime led off the Winter Season with three premieres.
The Season Premiere of Californication was as wild and wacky as we've come to expect from this continually surprising and entertaining show.
Episodes was not too appealing. Neither the characters, nor the actors, nor the jokes, nor the story, nor the script were particularly compelling. Matt LeBlanc, "Joey" from Friends, who will be on the show as himself, had more face time in the previews than in the story. The most interesting moments of the show came when an old fat British actor played a scene as himself -- and it worked -- then played the same scene in an American accent and it did not work. Comedy is indeed mysterious.
The Series Premiere of Shameless was quite extraordinarily complex, surprising, depraved, and interesting. Acting was excellent -- Emmy Rossum gets better and better each part she plays: she's in Emmy territory here. Top billed William Macy, though, had little to do but snore. He literally slept through most of his appearance. (NOTE: Irrelevant, but I like how the tilt of the "l" in "shameless" shifts from the beginning to the end of the show.)
Two out of three... Pretty good! Sundays are now committed.
Here's a video interview we did with Emmy Rossum at the
Hamptons's International Film Festival in 2009 --
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