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December 2011
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Dear HBO
newsweek:parislemon:
First and foremost, I love your content. You’ve produced several of my favorite shows over the years, and the hits keep on coming. I’d love to watch Game of Thrones now, but I can’t. You see, the only way to get your service is to be a cable subscriber, and several months ago I cut the cord.
The recent news that you’ve reached agreements with Cablevision and Time Warner...
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Reconstructive surgery
In the near future we’ll probably have the technology to enable auto-tune, except for video. Like, people on camera or on TV will have their facial aesthetics instantaneously “improved” to remove blemishes or stray hairs or wrinkles, freckles, bags under eyes, fixing it all in the blink of a perfect eye. Auto-tuned people on TV or computers (webcams with built-in auto-tune)...
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“Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to...”
– Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)
Anonymous asked: I work a lot with advertisers. I can tell you that they will bow to any sort of pressure when it comes to REMOVING advertising from programming. If anyone complains about anything, they pull their advertisements. The complaints can be racist, prejudiced, close-minded, but on the flip side, I have seen it happen when the complaints are that the programming is racist, prejudiced, and close-minded....
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My Feature Script Made the 2011 Black List →
chriscantwell:
Number 16: THE KNOLL.
Awesome!
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“But above all, as the department’s rallying around Leslie showed, it shares a...”
– James Poniewozik on my favorite show (at least until Doctor Who comes back next year and hopefully makes River Song less pathetic [I have a lot of feelings]) Parks and Recreation, and its ties to Friday Night Lights (which I have never seen [I know]) and Frank Capra (at the end of this episode I...
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