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Monday, January 7, 2008
SXSW volunteers
South by Southwest film-music-interactive needs all you work-for-free volunteer peeps for SXSW version .08 in March.
Say they: “Jobs range from festival production to conference activities including registration, information, trade show, technical support, and much more. Day and night positions are available during the conference. Volunteers must be able to work a minimum of 30 hours or four nights during the event, depending on their crew type.”
Applications HERE. Make sure you read details about the Jan. 20 Volunteer Call at the Hilton Hotel.
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Golden Globes telecast canceled
There goes one giant awards show, thanks to Hollywood’s long-running writers strike. The Golden Globes telecast — set to air Sunday on NBC and considered “Hollywood’s biggest party of the year” — has been canceled, according to several news sites.
The show was deep-sixed after weeks of sour rancor between striking writers, Globes organizers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and broadcast partner NBC.
“Instead of a televised awards show, the HFPA will instead make an announcement of the winners, which will be broadcast on NBC News as part of a ‘stripped-down’ ceremony,” reports MTV.com, which continues:
“As a news event, this will presumably allow for winners to accept their awards and then head over to a press room for interviews and photos. … The announcement comes after weeks of failed negotiations between the WGA and Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes for NBC. Dick Clark Productions had been trying to reach an independent agreement with the Guild, similar to the one brokered several weeks ago between the WGA and Worldwide Pants Inc., which allowed late-night talk-show hosts David Letterman and Craig Ferguson to come back to TV with writers.”
The decision is deemed a “big win for the writers,” although “the deal may ultimately give the writers less leverage, writes The New York Times, which reported that the ‘guild risks violating federal labor law if it refuses to deal with companies on an equal basis.’ “
None of this kind of love this year.
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TCM picks a Rose
Today’s Cognitive Dissonance Award goes to Turner Classic Movies, which has announced that that mighty font of brain wattage Rose McGowan — the Paris Hilton of B actresses — will co-host the cable station’s “The Essentials” program.
Wow. Rose McGowan, star of her fiance Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse,” introducing a roster of golden films she’s likely never heard of. I can picture it now: “Hello, I’m Rose McGowan. What you are about to watch is this wild war flick that’s kind of boring but was directed by some famous dude named Stanley Rubric, er, Kubrick. It’s called ‘Paths of Glory.’ A lot of people love it, but I like Michael Douglas better than Kirk Douglas and so I think he should be in it instead. I wonder if they’re related? (Index finger planted cutely in cheek.) Anyway, it would be all right if it wasn’t in totally old black and white. I mean, really!”
Actually, they gave McGowan this canned line to say about Kubrick’s flawless masterpiece: It’s “not a war film, but a horror film about a man’s ego.”
Explain that, Rose, please.
She co-hosts with TCM’s Robert Osborne starting March 8. TCM is cable channel 64.
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New film series and ‘Nobelity’ benefit
A new film series in Bastrop, presented by Upstart and the Bastrop school district, starts Jan. 13 at Upstart Media Arts Center (1800 Linda St.).
Shows are at 5 p.m. Sundays. The first round of films is “Surfing the New Wave,” a survey of key movies from the European film influx of the 1960s: “The 400 Blows,” “The Knack and How to Get It,” “La Dolce Vita” and “The Exterminating Angel.”
Discussions with Sidney Brammer and attendees follows each show. $5. Info: Sidney at 916-0001.
And don’t miss THIS:
For those who can not decipher the above flyer, check out a brief preview on The M.O.
