Well, this is intriguing:
Company: Tribune Company
Location: US-CA-Glendale
Base Pay: N/A
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Industry: Broadcasting – Radio – TV
Manages Others: No
Job Type: Media – Journalism – Newspaper
Req’d Education: 4 Year Degree
Req’d Experience: Not Specified
Req’d Travel: Not Specified
Relocation Covered: No
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Reports on City Hall.
First off, is it a newspaper gig or a broadcast gig? And if it’s a newspaper gig, who covers City Hall from Glendale?
Also of interest: Jobs in sunny Florida, Hawaii and Texas.
Someone explain to me why Roseanne is getting its second season on DVD already, when there’s no plans at all for Ed to be released on DVD. Are there really people who miss the vintage comedy stylings of Roseanne Barr that badly?
And where the heck are my Max Headroom DVDs?
The Perfect Storm
is a great example of Hollywood taking a true event that needs no embellishment or standard schmaltz to make it engaging, adding the embellishment or schmaltz anyway, and ending up with a weaker product for it.
The storm of 1991 grabbed the attention of the nation for a reason. I watched all the reports of the storm from hundreds of miles away, spellbound and horrified.
This film, which purports to put us in the center of the storm, fails to do the same. The problem is that we’ve been lulled into “it’s a typical Hollywood movie” coma by the ridiculous speeches put into the mouths of all the actors, particularly George Clooney, who is forced to act as though being the captain of a small commercial fishing vessel isn’t work, but a higher calling akin to being a priest or a brain surgeon or a kindergarten teacher. Every character gets their moment in the sun so that we’ll feel their loss when it happens, and as a result, the movie takes FOREVER before we get anywhere.
Ironically, the storm is somewhat skimped on: There’s a brief scene which utterly fails to explain what the storm is, how it occurred and why it’s noteworthy. Instead, we get every possible disaster at sea aboard the Andrea Gail first. Of course, since no one from the ship participated in the filming of this movie — for obvious reasons — the fact that the whole sequence has been made up out of whole cloth makes it even less engaging.
And for all the talk of how much money was involved in creating the special effects, it all looks remarkably like a Hollywood invention, not a real ship at sea — unless ships at sea are now lit like Hollywood sound stages.
The poor actors trapped in this film do excellent work with the too-standard material, and make the film more watchable than it ought to be. But ultimately, I found myself wanting to watch Jaws again, or re-read The Old Man and the Sea, the two stories the filmmakers desperately aped and swiped from, coming up with a product that measures up to neither.
This is a renter.
The Dungeons & Dragons movie isn’t a great movie, but despite the complaints you’ll hear about it, it’s certainly not the worst of a lackluster genre.
OK, the sound man should be flogged — I couldn’t understand a word in either the beginning or ending segments with the dragons — and the script needed to be something beyond a first draft, with recognizable motivations, less exposition and decent dialogue added. And someone wake Thora Birch up: She seems to have slipped into some sort of sleepwalking coma.
Having said that, the Dungeons & Dragons movie wasn’t as horrible as I’d heard it made out to be. It was surely better than Krull or The Sword and the Sorcerer. I’d rank it right below Willow and around the level of Dragonheart: amateurish, kind of cheesy, but not offensively so.
There was some neat stuff in the movie. Well, neatish. Many of the characters, most notably Ridley certainly looked the part, and the computer-generated capital city was pretty excellent in all the pointlessly fast flyby shots. And I thought the dungeon sequences were handled reasonably well.
Courtney Solomon put Dungeons & Dragons together without the benefit of a real grounding in film, other than “parents in the film industry,” which qualifies him to work at Starbucks, honestly. And it shows. But the film, if clumsy, also shows a real love of the source material that redeems most of its flaws.
You want to see a really bad fantasy movie? Check out First Knight. Compared to that, this is Shakespeare.
Worth renting for families looking for light entertainment, and maybe owning for someone REALLY passionate about the Dungeons & Dragons game.
After getting slapped around all last season in the Survivor Fantasy League, I’m in the lead, for now, with my tribe (Ellis Truss) with 349 points.
It’s all about loading up on the people guaranteed of lots of airtime and betting that one of them will speak first at tribal council. Stephenie rarely disappoints in that regard.
My team is Gary, Margaret, Bobby Jon and Stephenie.
Frankly, this part of the season is my least favorite. It’s hard to get to know who’s who and the team competitions are either interchangeable (if the teams are roughly equal) or feel like bullying (because once one team starts to win, they typically tend to keep on winning).
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