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Category Archives: Television
A National Kazoo Day Tribute to Alan Alda
Today, January 28, is actor Alan Alda’s birthday. It is also National Kazoo Day. To hear the tribute to Alan Alda, please click:
TCS: It Was the Best of Times – Rocky and Bullwinkle
Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Television, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Charles Dickens, It Was the Best of Times, Mahatma Gandhi, Rocky and Bullwinkle, TCS, The Ford Edsel
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Professional sports have been defined by its media, pay its participants and let students remain so.
By ann summers Brackets and rankings help set betting odds, and should those revenues get taxed also to benefit the participants besides the bettors. But in terms of the collegiate sports industry, it shouldn’t be about pie-slicing envy, … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Corruption, Labor Movement, Media, Politics, Society, Sociology, Sports, Television, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Tagged Media, NCAA, Sports
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Trump is more Doris Day Presidential than Modern Day Presidential
By ann summers While on the campaign trail, Trump said he didn’t want to act presidential “quite yet,” but promised at that he would become “so presidential that you people will be so bored.” “At some point, I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Government, History, Media, Movies, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Television
Tagged Media, movies, Politics
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post-Trump, how should the cinema treat #TrumpRussia
By ann summers The NSA analysis does not draw conclusions about whether the interference had any effect on the election’s outcome and concedes that much remains unknown about the extent of the hackers’ accomplishments. However, the report raises the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Celebrity, France, Germany, Government, History, Movies, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, Television
Tagged Art, cinema, Donald Trump, film, Media, movies, Politics, television, trumprussia, Video
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it’s always about Lord Dampnut, even if he wasn’t at the Oscars
By ann summers A LITTLE SAD! 5 A.M. BOWEL MOVEMENT AT BREITBART Lord Dampnut was so trolled by Hollywood tweeters that he instead chose to use Breitbart, an exemplar of FakeNews, to exercise his post-Oscars spew about the show … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Celebrity, History, Media, Movies, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Television, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, movies, Oscars, Politics, twitter
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Lady Gaga half-time shows how patriotism is greater than patriots … or falcons
By ann summers “In a Super Bowl performance that spanned her entire discography, Lady Gaga opened her act with a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” which has become a popular anthem at rallies protesting President Trump … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Folk Music, Immigrants, Media, Music, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Rock and Roll, Society, Sports, Sports, Television, Texas, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged lady gaga, Media, Music, Politics, Sports, superbowl, television
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Prezident Kozyr’s diplomacy as reality-TV genre
By ann sunmers Reality-TV rather than Realism … Nikolai Volkoff is known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and also with Boris Zukhov as The … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Civil War, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Media, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Society, Television, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Iceland, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Media, News Media, Politics, reality TV, Ronald Reagan, television, WWE
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Twitter capitalism: a waterfall of cockroaches
By ann summers Wall of zombies in World War Z (2013) … The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic. … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Economics, information Technology, Media, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Science, Silicon Valley, Society, Television, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, Politics, Ronald Reagan
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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient
Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony. The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, Big Brother, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Civil Liberties, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Genocide, Government, Government Propaganda, Heroism, Imperialism, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Nanotechnology, Neoliberals, New York, NSA, Oligarchy, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Science, Socialism, Society, Technology, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Military
Tagged CBS, jonathan Nolan, Media, person of interest, television, television series
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