A multi-layered biography of Alexander Graham Bell that explores not only the invention of the telephone but Bell’s work with eugenics and a thriller about industrial hacking are the two projects receiving Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowships from Sfffilm. Sffilm, the parent organization of the San Francisco International Film Festival, awards these grants — funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation — biannually and will provide each filmmaking team with script development support, a $35,000 cash grant and a two-month residency at FilmHouse, Sffilm’s suite of production offices for local and visiting independent filmmakers. Filmmakers will be connected with scientific […]...
- 8/7/2017
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
John Oliver attempted to recap the week of White House chaos on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, answering four important questions: "What the fuck is going on?, "How big a deal is this?," "Where do we go from here?" and "Is this real life?"
Oliver appeared exhausted even before beginning the massive segment, asking viewers, "Can you even remember how this week began?" From there, he summarized the biggest headlines, including leaks that President Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting and that former FBI...
Oliver appeared exhausted even before beginning the massive segment, asking viewers, "Can you even remember how this week began?" From there, he summarized the biggest headlines, including leaks that President Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting and that former FBI...
- 5/22/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Save the date…or not. The series premiere of Second Wives Club kicked off Thursday night finally introducing club members Shiva Safai, Veronika Obeng, Tania Mehra, Katie Cazorla, Shawna Craig and Morisa Surrey, who are all in relationships with wealthy men who've been married at least once before. The tension in the debut episode started building right from the beginning as Tania announced the date of her wedding to movie producer Dean Bornstein over brunch. But the other women were shocked to learn she hadn't yet invited them with only several months to go. "Once one invitation goes out, it's going to be like when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone," Tania said....
- 5/5/2017
- E! Online
A key "on this day" we forgot this morning. March 7th was the date, way back in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell got his patent for the telephone. So let's gawk at sexy photos of movie stars with telephones. It's really the only appropriate way to celebrate because who talks on the telephone anymore? Movie stars don't employ them much in photoshoots anymore either. ...
- 3/7/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Mysteries at the Museum: Pompeii, who really invented the telephone and how did Hoover save Belgium?
Mysteries at the Museum’s Don Wildman looks into the mysteries of Pompeii, the invention of the telephone and President Hoover’s efforts to save Belgium during World War I. Pompeii in Italy is a large Roman town that was the victim of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79 Ad, covering the unfortunate town and many of its inhabitants in volcanic ash. This action left hollow casts of the people in the positions they died in, a discincerting sight but the town’s burial also gives us an unpresedneted look at Roman life. Scottish born immigrant Alexander Graham Bell was granted a United States patent for a...read more...
- 11/17/2016
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Maybe it’s time for a new HBO series: “Media Titan: The Alexander Graham Bell Story.” It would be a story full of crazy twists and turns, with the most recent ones leading Ma Bell to the verge of taking over the cable network that rewrote the rules for TV. All but cave dwellers now know that At&T — the successor conglomerate to the company founded in 1877 by Bell, inventor of the telephone — over the weekend made an $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner, the U.S. media stalwart whose lucrative properties include HBO, home of “Game of Thrones,” “Westworld”...
- 10/25/2016
- by Scott Collins
- The Wrap
The rise of millennial cord-cutters has now made its most definitive mark on corporate America: The $85 billion marriage of telecom giant At&T and media juggernaut Time Warner. And reverberations of the deal unveiled Saturday will resonate the most in corner offices across Hollywood’s biggest television and film lots. The company established by inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1879 that survived radical changes in the telephone industry has just come rushing into the modern media age. At&T’s acquisition will provide a massive amount of content to beam to its wireless, broadband and satellite TV customers. Buying Time Warner —
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- 10/22/2016
- by Joe Bel Bruno
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eddie Redmayne is set to star in "The Imitation Game" director Morten Tyldum's "The Last Days Of Night" for Black Bear Pictures.
Graham Moore penned the script about the battle between industrial age titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and their rival plans to electrify America. Redmayne will play famed lawyer Paul Cravath in his first major career-making case, representing Westinghouse whom Edison is suing.
Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Stanford White and other technological titans of the late 19th century are also involved in the story. Shooting begins late January in anticipation of a fall 2017 release.
Source: Deadline...
Graham Moore penned the script about the battle between industrial age titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and their rival plans to electrify America. Redmayne will play famed lawyer Paul Cravath in his first major career-making case, representing Westinghouse whom Edison is suing.
Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Stanford White and other technological titans of the late 19th century are also involved in the story. Shooting begins late January in anticipation of a fall 2017 release.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/26/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Director Morten Tyldum and writer Graham Moore, the team behind "The Imitation Game," are attached to a film adaptation of Moore's upcoming novel "The Last Days Of Night" which is currently out to financiers. Also onboard are Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky as producers.
The film will deal with the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over plans to bring electricity to America, with the film essentially working as a courtroom drama. With Edison winning the race to the patent office, he sues his only remaining rival George Westinghouse for the unheard of sum of one billion dollars.
To defend himself, Westinghouse hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath who must go up against the formidable, wily, and dangerous Edison and so takes greater and greater risks. Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Stanford White and other technological titans of the late 19th century...
The film will deal with the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over plans to bring electricity to America, with the film essentially working as a courtroom drama. With Edison winning the race to the patent office, he sues his only remaining rival George Westinghouse for the unheard of sum of one billion dollars.
To defend himself, Westinghouse hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath who must go up against the formidable, wily, and dangerous Edison and so takes greater and greater risks. Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Stanford White and other technological titans of the late 19th century...
- 5/3/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With examples of the way music has served such films as Rain Man, Major League and the Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of Hollywood studios on Wednesday asked a federal court to reject a lawsuit that contends Hollywood is violating various laws by refusing to provide more captioning or subtitling of song lyrics. Members of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing filed the lawsuit in California in October. Their legal action follows a quarter-century of Congressional action, FCC rulemaking and past litigation over a campaign to provide those with hearing disabilities, estimated
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- 1/21/2016
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The most disturbing thing that happened to me in comics – non-violent, that is – occurred more than 30 years ago during the early days of the real First Comics. In fact, it didn’t even happen to me directly. It happened to then-associate editor Rick Oliver. That’s how disturbing it was to me.
We had published a story, damned if I remember what it was, about evil robots doing what evil robots do – murdering humans and generally raising a ruckus. That’s been a popular theme over the years, and if you think about it that’s just what Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were talking about last August when they were talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence. As an aside, any time that kind of brain trust agrees on anything, I pay attention. But I digress.
A gentleman called us quite perturbed that we published such a story.
We had published a story, damned if I remember what it was, about evil robots doing what evil robots do – murdering humans and generally raising a ruckus. That’s been a popular theme over the years, and if you think about it that’s just what Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were talking about last August when they were talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence. As an aside, any time that kind of brain trust agrees on anything, I pay attention. But I digress.
A gentleman called us quite perturbed that we published such a story.
- 11/11/2015
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
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The Assassin's Creed series moves to London for the next outing, so we don top hats and grab our cane-swords...
It's safe to say that Assassin's Creed: Unity didn't go down too well with many. Ridden with bugs, frame rate issues, and some of the most hilarious glitches yet seen, Ubisoft was on damage control for a long time, a task many would say it's still deep in the midst of. With Unity now a distant memory for a lot of gamers, who moved on to other titles quickly, we come to this year's outing of the annual franchise, and this time it takes us to 1860s London.
In this new setting, we see a London that, although far from the city it is today, is still the most advanced urban sprawl in the world, and one that lies at the heart of the British Empire. As is stated in the game,...
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The Assassin's Creed series moves to London for the next outing, so we don top hats and grab our cane-swords...
It's safe to say that Assassin's Creed: Unity didn't go down too well with many. Ridden with bugs, frame rate issues, and some of the most hilarious glitches yet seen, Ubisoft was on damage control for a long time, a task many would say it's still deep in the midst of. With Unity now a distant memory for a lot of gamers, who moved on to other titles quickly, we come to this year's outing of the annual franchise, and this time it takes us to 1860s London.
In this new setting, we see a London that, although far from the city it is today, is still the most advanced urban sprawl in the world, and one that lies at the heart of the British Empire. As is stated in the game,...
- 11/1/2015
- by aaronbirch
- Den of Geek
Those who follow the gaming industry, or simply game regularly, are surely aware of the shit storm that resulted after last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity released in a buggy and problematic state. The unexpected glitches, errors and general frustrations created a public relations nightmare for Ubisoft, and put a black mark on the company’s record, not to mention the popular series itself.
Although we were lucky and didn’t encounter much in the way of notable issues during our review sessions, others weren’t so lucky and took to message boards to vent their frustrations. This flood of complaints led to a public apology, alongside the removal of the game’s paid, season pass add-on. Free Dlc was given to all, but it wasn’t enough for many.
Fast-forward to today, just one calendar year later, and Ubisoft is looking to turn a new page with a new,...
Although we were lucky and didn’t encounter much in the way of notable issues during our review sessions, others weren’t so lucky and took to message boards to vent their frustrations. This flood of complaints led to a public apology, alongside the removal of the game’s paid, season pass add-on. Free Dlc was given to all, but it wasn’t enough for many.
Fast-forward to today, just one calendar year later, and Ubisoft is looking to turn a new page with a new,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Chad Goodmurphy
- We Got This Covered
Keltie Ferris Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC Through October 17, 2015
A screenwriter bursts into his agent's office. "I have a great idea for a new picture," he enthuses. "We do a remake of The Wiz. Only with white people!" Clichéd Hollywood joke, sure, yet pretty much on point with regard to current trends in art and music. The mash-up, dub, remix, redux, or whatever you want to call it, has replaced the "appropriation" strategies of the 80s. It has morphed into something called Zombie Formalism that for better, or worse, is now seen as a legitimate art movement.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is showing the paintings and works on paper of Keltie Ferris. These very large, high-keyed, color-filled canvases are warmly inviting on first viewing. Bright reds and blues dominate. The arching motif is brushy passages of paint, checkerboard squares, and general noodling around with the brush over airbrushed planes of color. The press release notes,...
A screenwriter bursts into his agent's office. "I have a great idea for a new picture," he enthuses. "We do a remake of The Wiz. Only with white people!" Clichéd Hollywood joke, sure, yet pretty much on point with regard to current trends in art and music. The mash-up, dub, remix, redux, or whatever you want to call it, has replaced the "appropriation" strategies of the 80s. It has morphed into something called Zombie Formalism that for better, or worse, is now seen as a legitimate art movement.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is showing the paintings and works on paper of Keltie Ferris. These very large, high-keyed, color-filled canvases are warmly inviting on first viewing. Bright reds and blues dominate. The arching motif is brushy passages of paint, checkerboard squares, and general noodling around with the brush over airbrushed planes of color. The press release notes,...
- 9/30/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Groucho Marx in 'Duck Soup.' Groucho Marx movies: 'Duck Soup,' 'The Story of Mankind' and romancing Margaret Dumont on TCM Grouch Marx, the bespectacled, (painted) mustached, cigar-chomping Marx brother, is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 14, '15. Marx Brothers fans will be delighted, as TCM is presenting no less than 11 of their comedies, in addition to a brotherly reunion in the 1957 all-star fantasy The Story of Mankind. Non-Marx Brothers fans should be delighted as well – as long as they're fans of Kay Francis, Thelma Todd, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Allan Jones, affectionate, long-tongued giraffes, and/or that great, scene-stealing dowager, Margaret Dumont. Right now, TCM is showing Robert Florey and Joseph Santley's The Cocoanuts (1929), an early talkie notable as the first movie featuring the four Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo. Based on their hit Broadway...
- 8/14/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
S1 E14, 'The Nerdvana Annihilation'
If we in the geek community can have but one fault, it would be that we are extraordinarily passionate about the things we love. Not only do we love watching television shows, movies and reading comic books, but there are the various collectibles that go along with those mediums. Action figures, costumes, apparel, statues, props reproductions, etc. I personally have several totes filled with collectible action figures of comic book characters, Star Wars, movies and so forth. We are driven by that passion to go out and purchase more of these items than we really need, but really want.
Leonard bids on what he believes to be a miniature prop from the 1960 film The Time Machine online. He begins by bidding the full $800 that the seller is asking, doing it simply on impulse. Howard tries to calm him, telling him that in the world of online auctions,...
If we in the geek community can have but one fault, it would be that we are extraordinarily passionate about the things we love. Not only do we love watching television shows, movies and reading comic books, but there are the various collectibles that go along with those mediums. Action figures, costumes, apparel, statues, props reproductions, etc. I personally have several totes filled with collectible action figures of comic book characters, Star Wars, movies and so forth. We are driven by that passion to go out and purchase more of these items than we really need, but really want.
Leonard bids on what he believes to be a miniature prop from the 1960 film The Time Machine online. He begins by bidding the full $800 that the seller is asking, doing it simply on impulse. Howard tries to calm him, telling him that in the world of online auctions,...
- 5/1/2014
- Shadowlocked
New Delhi, April 4: Jokes on Indian cinema icon Rajinikanth are a rage on social networking sites, but his daughter Soundarya doesn't mind. Read on, enjoy and laugh a little.
* Once Rajinikanth's leg fell on banana skin and the earth slipped from below.
* Rajinikanth's cricket team beat Australia by an innings and 44 runs in a One-Day International.
* The world experienced tsunami Dec 26, 2004 because Rajinikanth sneezed.
* When Graham Bell invented the telephone, he found two missed calls from Rajinikanth!
* Only Rajini sir knows the exact number of stars in the sky.
* Rajinikanth.
* Once Rajinikanth's leg fell on banana skin and the earth slipped from below.
* Rajinikanth's cricket team beat Australia by an innings and 44 runs in a One-Day International.
* The world experienced tsunami Dec 26, 2004 because Rajinikanth sneezed.
* When Graham Bell invented the telephone, he found two missed calls from Rajinikanth!
* Only Rajini sir knows the exact number of stars in the sky.
* Rajinikanth.
- 4/4/2014
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
Identical/Identity: Villeneuve’s Doppelganger Thriller a Kafkaesque Dead Ringer
You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve, when you sit down for their latest release, Enemy (which was actually filmed first). In the fine tradition of doppelganger cinema, this is certainly a spectacular standout. And if any evidence is needed to point to Villeneuve as a director at the top of his game, look no further. Certain to confuse, perplex, and even irritate, it’s a beautiful, nightmarishly warped universe ripe for multiple readings and psychological explanations concerning hidden desires and oppositions.
A history professor at a Toronto university, Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal), seems to be living a lackluster existence, his life a series of repetitive instances mired in work and an unenthusiastic relationship with his girlfriend (Melanie Laurent). A co-worker recommends that Adam see...
You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve, when you sit down for their latest release, Enemy (which was actually filmed first). In the fine tradition of doppelganger cinema, this is certainly a spectacular standout. And if any evidence is needed to point to Villeneuve as a director at the top of his game, look no further. Certain to confuse, perplex, and even irritate, it’s a beautiful, nightmarishly warped universe ripe for multiple readings and psychological explanations concerning hidden desires and oppositions.
A history professor at a Toronto university, Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal), seems to be living a lackluster existence, his life a series of repetitive instances mired in work and an unenthusiastic relationship with his girlfriend (Melanie Laurent). A co-worker recommends that Adam see...
- 3/10/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Warner Bros. Pictures
Every single thing you use today – from food to electronic devices – had to be have been invented by someone, somewhere. This process of developing something new usually involves a painstaking method and lots of time. First you have to identify that a problem even exists. Then you have to go through a laborious period of testing various solutions and developing prototypes.
It is no surprise that some of the most important inventions of all time have come from some of the cleverest people to have ever lived. People like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, who used their intelligence and dedicated their lives to making your life that little bit easier. Because things like telephones, electricity, light bulbs, and television weren’t invented overnight.
Yet there are a few exceptions to this rule. Sometimes a glorious invention will be the product of a quick moment of improvisation.
Every single thing you use today – from food to electronic devices – had to be have been invented by someone, somewhere. This process of developing something new usually involves a painstaking method and lots of time. First you have to identify that a problem even exists. Then you have to go through a laborious period of testing various solutions and developing prototypes.
It is no surprise that some of the most important inventions of all time have come from some of the cleverest people to have ever lived. People like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, who used their intelligence and dedicated their lives to making your life that little bit easier. Because things like telephones, electricity, light bulbs, and television weren’t invented overnight.
Yet there are a few exceptions to this rule. Sometimes a glorious invention will be the product of a quick moment of improvisation.
- 2/27/2014
- by Nathan P. Gibson
- Obsessed with Film
When we first heard about Channel 4's new winter sports show The Jump, we were intrigued. And then they announced the cast, and we could not wait. There is nothing about Sinitta in a snowsuit that doesn't appeal to us, so we've been counting down the hours until today, when the 12 celebrities will compete and face a live ski jump for the first time.
The show's already lost two - Sam Jones went out after injuring himself in an over-exuberant celebration, and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson decided the whole shebang wasn't for her. Now we're actually going to lose a celebrity in competition - let's just hope no-one breaks any bones in the process. So join Digital Spy from 8pm when the show kicks off on Channel 4...
21:00So, what did you think of The Jump? Will you be tuning in to watch the women take on the slalom? Let us know below.
The show's already lost two - Sam Jones went out after injuring himself in an over-exuberant celebration, and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson decided the whole shebang wasn't for her. Now we're actually going to lose a celebrity in competition - let's just hope no-one breaks any bones in the process. So join Digital Spy from 8pm when the show kicks off on Channel 4...
21:00So, what did you think of The Jump? Will you be tuning in to watch the women take on the slalom? Let us know below.
- 1/26/2014
- Digital Spy
The BBC will build on its digital success at London 2012 with extensive TV and digital coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Laying down a marker for the broadcaster's coverage of all major sporting events in 2014, including the football World Cup and the Commonwealth Games, the broadcaster has announced that it will deliver over 650 hours of live action from Sochi across digital platforms. There will be 200 hours on network TV, and also two red button streams.
The Winter Olympic Games live page on BBC Sport will be the hub for audiences who want to follow specific events how and where they like, via smartphone, laptops, tablets or connected TVs.
Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards will lead TV coverage of the Winter Olympics.
Balding will host the opening ceremony, which takes place on February 7 on BBC Two. She will also front the closing ceremony on February 23.
2010 gold medallist Amy Williams and former Olympians Graham Bell,...
Laying down a marker for the broadcaster's coverage of all major sporting events in 2014, including the football World Cup and the Commonwealth Games, the broadcaster has announced that it will deliver over 650 hours of live action from Sochi across digital platforms. There will be 200 hours on network TV, and also two red button streams.
The Winter Olympic Games live page on BBC Sport will be the hub for audiences who want to follow specific events how and where they like, via smartphone, laptops, tablets or connected TVs.
Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards will lead TV coverage of the Winter Olympics.
Balding will host the opening ceremony, which takes place on February 7 on BBC Two. She will also front the closing ceremony on February 23.
2010 gold medallist Amy Williams and former Olympians Graham Bell,...
- 1/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Sir Steve Redgrave, Sinitta and Amy Childs are among the stars who have signed up for Channel 4's new celebrity competition The Jump.
The show - hosted by Davina McCall and Alex Brooker - will see 12 celebrities competing against each other in six winter sports.
Five time Olympian Redgrave will be joined by cricketer Darren Gough, comedian Marcus Brigstocke, hairdresser Nicky Clarke, socialite Henry Conway and Flash Gordon star Sam Jones.
Meanwhile, Sinitta and Childs will be joined by four other female competitors - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, Anthea Turner and Melinda Messenger.
The 12 famous faces will be trained by Olympic skier Graham Bell and Olympic skeleton star Amy Williams, as they take part in Skeleton, Bobsleigh, Speed Skating, Skier Cross and Slalom.
Legendary Olympian Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards will also coach the stars, and suggested that the competition is about "mental strength" as much as "physical...
The show - hosted by Davina McCall and Alex Brooker - will see 12 celebrities competing against each other in six winter sports.
Five time Olympian Redgrave will be joined by cricketer Darren Gough, comedian Marcus Brigstocke, hairdresser Nicky Clarke, socialite Henry Conway and Flash Gordon star Sam Jones.
Meanwhile, Sinitta and Childs will be joined by four other female competitors - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, Anthea Turner and Melinda Messenger.
The 12 famous faces will be trained by Olympic skier Graham Bell and Olympic skeleton star Amy Williams, as they take part in Skeleton, Bobsleigh, Speed Skating, Skier Cross and Slalom.
Legendary Olympian Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards will also coach the stars, and suggested that the competition is about "mental strength" as much as "physical...
- 12/11/2013
- Digital Spy
The BBC has announced its broadcasting plans for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Over 200 hours of network TV coverage will be led by a presentation team of Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards working from 7am to 7pm on BBC Two and BBC Two HD.
Director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater said: "The Sochi Winter Olympics kicks off a huge year of major events for BBC Sport in outstanding style.
"The extensive coverage across TV, radio, digital and online, coupled with our superb presenting line-up, offers audiences the unparalleled coverage of a major sporting event that they expect from us.
"I'm delighted that we are once again able to bring every moment live to audiences, building on the success of our coverage of the Summer Games in London."
Balding will also front a daily highlights programme on BBC Two/BBC Two HD from 7-8pm each night, while Matthew Pinsent,...
Over 200 hours of network TV coverage will be led by a presentation team of Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards working from 7am to 7pm on BBC Two and BBC Two HD.
Director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater said: "The Sochi Winter Olympics kicks off a huge year of major events for BBC Sport in outstanding style.
"The extensive coverage across TV, radio, digital and online, coupled with our superb presenting line-up, offers audiences the unparalleled coverage of a major sporting event that they expect from us.
"I'm delighted that we are once again able to bring every moment live to audiences, building on the success of our coverage of the Summer Games in London."
Balding will also front a daily highlights programme on BBC Two/BBC Two HD from 7-8pm each night, while Matthew Pinsent,...
- 12/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Sometimes, modern life can be such a nuisance. We live in a world of quick-fire communication available to us at our fingertips, social media has completely revolutionised the way we interact with people on a daily basis. The planet is much smaller than it was twenty, or even ten years ago – speaking metaphorically, it’s not shrinking, please don’t worry. It’s now an intense and concentrated hub of activity, with texting, tweeting, and status updates, we’re constantly broadcasting our lives to anyone who can tolerate listening.
I love technology, any new gadget or gizmo makes me feel like a giddy child inside – if it’s got bright flashing lights, even better. It’s all part of evolving and creating things that will advance our lives and make them easier and more efficient. It’s a good and worthy cause. The progress it’s created in our society is astonishing,...
I love technology, any new gadget or gizmo makes me feel like a giddy child inside – if it’s got bright flashing lights, even better. It’s all part of evolving and creating things that will advance our lives and make them easier and more efficient. It’s a good and worthy cause. The progress it’s created in our society is astonishing,...
- 11/16/2013
- by Steven Caine
- Obsessed with Film
As the world once more turns its attention to Apple—praising it for finally adding the fingerprint scanning that Alexander Graham Bell shortsightedly left off his “telephone,” if you can even call it that—Fast Company has compiled an accompanying oral history on the company’s design, so at last you can read a discussion of Apple products on the Internet. But it does have one unexpected insight concerning The Simpsons, and therefore actually piques our interest: According to Scott Forstall, former senior vice president of iOS software, you can credit the the iPhone’s keyboard to a gag from ...
- 9/19/2013
- avclub.com
The saga of Steve Jobs is as familiar to the present generation as the lore surrounding such historic figures as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. That places even greater pressure on the people behind this film to engage us and—even more important—illuminate key elements of the story. Sorry to say, they don’t. The film works best early on, because the genesis of a great idea is always the most interesting part. Watching how the young, ambitious college drop-out uses his wits and his wiles to develop an exciting idea and bring it to life—with his pal Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad) and a motley team of recruits in his parents’ garage—is great fun.But as soon as the film leaves...
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- 8/16/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Exclusive: National Geographic Channel has greenlit a docu-drama series American Genius from the producers of The Men Who Built America and Sons of Liberty. This time, Stephen David Entertainment will spotlight Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, among others. “In an era where America is not always credited as leading ingenuity, this show will remind us that this country has always been a global hotbed for genius, and we will celebrate the way they changed the world we live in,” NatGeo Channel president Howard T. Owens explained. Ngc is billing the multi-part series as the natural extension of its series Brain Games, which sizes up the human brain using an intricate string of experiments, optical illusions, brainteasers and hard science, and The Numbers Game, which looks at how science and statistics may hold the keys to a longer, wealthier, calmer life. Both Brain Games, which...
- 7/22/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
3) Towards Felix the Cat
“Invention breeds invention.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we climb into the family car we don’t think too much about it. We slip behind the wheel, turn the key, are happy it starts, and off we go. If we think about cars in a more expansive sense, it’s probably not all that expansive. When we start musing about how the old clunkers our parents used to drive evolved into the nifty little numbers with their sleek “airflow design” that we’re driving now, our musings probably don’t go very far. Our idea of automotive history may only extend back as far as Heavy Chevies from the ’50s, or maybe Model Ts from early in the century.
What we don’t think about are all those years and lines of unrelated research that eventually crossed and produced what we know of as a car. We...
“Invention breeds invention.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we climb into the family car we don’t think too much about it. We slip behind the wheel, turn the key, are happy it starts, and off we go. If we think about cars in a more expansive sense, it’s probably not all that expansive. When we start musing about how the old clunkers our parents used to drive evolved into the nifty little numbers with their sleek “airflow design” that we’re driving now, our musings probably don’t go very far. Our idea of automotive history may only extend back as far as Heavy Chevies from the ’50s, or maybe Model Ts from early in the century.
What we don’t think about are all those years and lines of unrelated research that eventually crossed and produced what we know of as a car. We...
- 6/21/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
In the world of telecommunications, Walter Shaw was probably the most important inventor after Alexander Graham Bell. A Bell Telephone lineman turned engineer who eventually had 39 patents to his credit — among them call forwarding, conference calling, touchtone dialing and the voice-activated speakerphone — he died penniless and forgotten. With the documentary Genius on Hold, opening in limited release, director Gregory Marquette unearths a story so intensely emblematic of American corporatism that its significance is self-evident. Shaw’s experiences speak loud and clear about the devastating greed of monopolies and the hypocrisy of elected officials who do
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- 3/1/2013
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Washington — The Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan Wednesday to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing historic recordings as has happened with those by George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.
About 14,000 public and private institutions hold sound recordings, according to one survey. The plan carries 32 recommendations as a blueprint to coordinate their efforts and enlist commercial recording studios and private copyright holders in preservation efforts. Congress called for a plan in a 2000 law on preserving audio recordings.
The Library of Congress already saves some key historic recordings each year, but researchers say many others are being lost due to a lack of storage capacity, changing technology, inadequate funding and disparate copyright laws.
"As a nation, we have good reason to be proud of our record of creativity in the sound-recording arts and sciences," said Librarian of Congress James Billington in announcing the effort.
About 14,000 public and private institutions hold sound recordings, according to one survey. The plan carries 32 recommendations as a blueprint to coordinate their efforts and enlist commercial recording studios and private copyright holders in preservation efforts. Congress called for a plan in a 2000 law on preserving audio recordings.
The Library of Congress already saves some key historic recordings each year, but researchers say many others are being lost due to a lack of storage capacity, changing technology, inadequate funding and disparate copyright laws.
"As a nation, we have good reason to be proud of our record of creativity in the sound-recording arts and sciences," said Librarian of Congress James Billington in announcing the effort.
- 2/13/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Ricky Gervais won’t be hosting the Golden Globes this year (sensitive celebrities, sigh in relief!), but there’s at least one comedically compelling reason to tune in. Make that two. 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Parks and Recreation’s Amy Poehler are teaming up to emcee the 70th installment of the awards show that celebrates film, television, and, er, alcohol. (The ceremony airs live Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. Et on NBC.) You can read EW’s interview with the longtime friends — who co-anchored SNL’s “Weekend Update” and co-starred in Baby Mama and Mean Girls — in this week’s issue,...
- 1/9/2013
- by Dan Snierson
- EW - Inside TV
Using the new Doctor Who Limited Edition Gift Set, your noble author will make his way through as much of the modern series as he can before the Christmas episode, The Snowmen.
Rose decides to do something very emotional and foolish. The results of her actions are dour indeed, and all because she chose to have a…
Father’S Day
by Paul Cornell
Directed by Joe Ahearne
“An ordinary man – that’s the most important thing in Creation”
Seized by memories, Rose asks The Doctor to take her back before her father Pete died. He died in a road accident when Rose was only a baby, and Jackie has gone to great lengths to tell her daughter what a fine man he was. The Doctor agrees – they attend Pete and Jackie’s wedding, where he gets her name wrong in the vows. Rose, thinking he’d be “taller”, is already...
Rose decides to do something very emotional and foolish. The results of her actions are dour indeed, and all because she chose to have a…
Father’S Day
by Paul Cornell
Directed by Joe Ahearne
“An ordinary man – that’s the most important thing in Creation”
Seized by memories, Rose asks The Doctor to take her back before her father Pete died. He died in a road accident when Rose was only a baby, and Jackie has gone to great lengths to tell her daughter what a fine man he was. The Doctor agrees – they attend Pete and Jackie’s wedding, where he gets her name wrong in the vows. Rose, thinking he’d be “taller”, is already...
- 12/12/2012
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
He can fight terrorists atop a train, jump off a cliff into the cockpit of a plane, jump out of a plane with no parachute and wrestle one away from someone else and he still knows what type of wine to order with fish. He's James Bond and, yes, he is irresistible to women, unstoppable when it comes to saving the day and, let's face it, impervious to logic when it comes to his personal risk-taking.
Here's something else you don't know about the guy: he, and his films, trade a little more in geekdom than you might think. Oh, I don't just mean there being an early laser in "Goldfinger" or using a giant brick of an Ericsson phone to (somehow) control a car in "Tomorrow Never Dies." I mean some little glimpses of hardcore nerdery you'd think wouldn't exist from a guy more prone to play baccarat than Warcraft.
Here's something else you don't know about the guy: he, and his films, trade a little more in geekdom than you might think. Oh, I don't just mean there being an early laser in "Goldfinger" or using a giant brick of an Ericsson phone to (somehow) control a car in "Tomorrow Never Dies." I mean some little glimpses of hardcore nerdery you'd think wouldn't exist from a guy more prone to play baccarat than Warcraft.
- 11/8/2012
- by Jordan Hoffman
- NextMovie
The Earp home near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, is now a B&B – perfect for wannabe gunslingers
It's 131 years since the gunfight at the O.K. Corral but Tombstone is still milking that most famous of western shootouts – between the Earps and the Clantons – for every cent. And the latest piece of Earpsploitation is Virgil's Corner. Now a boutique B&B, it was once the home of Virgil Earp. Virgil was the kingpin of the Earp family. When things reached a head with the Clanton gang, he deputised his younger brother Wyatt and his friend "Doc" Holliday to help him sort things out. We have heard of Wyatt because, unlike his brothers, he lived to a ripe old age, long enough to spin the tale.
Virgil was senior lawman in Tombstone and built a house a couple of blocks from the O.K. Corral in 1880. The More...
It's 131 years since the gunfight at the O.K. Corral but Tombstone is still milking that most famous of western shootouts – between the Earps and the Clantons – for every cent. And the latest piece of Earpsploitation is Virgil's Corner. Now a boutique B&B, it was once the home of Virgil Earp. Virgil was the kingpin of the Earp family. When things reached a head with the Clanton gang, he deputised his younger brother Wyatt and his friend "Doc" Holliday to help him sort things out. We have heard of Wyatt because, unlike his brothers, he lived to a ripe old age, long enough to spin the tale.
Virgil was senior lawman in Tombstone and built a house a couple of blocks from the O.K. Corral in 1880. The More...
- 10/13/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Imagine looking out of the window of your high-rise apartment building and seeing a blast of nuclear hellfire coming your way. After having your breath taken away, what would you do? In a post 9/11 world, your reaction should come naturally: You would get the heck out of Dodge.
You make for the stairwell and are greeted by fellow tenants making their way to the ground floor. As you reach the ground floor, the door flies open, exposing you to heat that feels like the force of a thousand suns. Oh crap, now what? Head for the basement! Lucky for you, there is a basement, and only a few of your fellow tenants have made for the basement door. By the skin of your hair you force your way into the basement. You have made it to salvation as the metal door shuts behind you.
You are safe, but for how long?...
You make for the stairwell and are greeted by fellow tenants making their way to the ground floor. As you reach the ground floor, the door flies open, exposing you to heat that feels like the force of a thousand suns. Oh crap, now what? Head for the basement! Lucky for you, there is a basement, and only a few of your fellow tenants have made for the basement door. By the skin of your hair you force your way into the basement. You have made it to salvation as the metal door shuts behind you.
You are safe, but for how long?...
- 1/13/2012
- by Rod Paddock
- Slackerwood
It's a sad, sad night as we reflect on the genius of Steve Jobs, who left us today at the just-too-soon age of 56.
Many of us grew up hearing stories of the wonders of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell and wondered "what was life like before a light bulb or a telephone." But we were lucky enough to experience that change first hand as Jobs and his wizards at Apple created products that not only changed the way we lived everyday, but the way we saw the world.
As the news broke across Twitter, we stopped and realized that everyone in the newsroom had either an iPhone, iPod or iPad at the ready. White headphones were everywhere. One editor yelled "my first mixtape to a girl was actually a playlist on an iPod." Someone with a few years on him had made a mixtape on an actual cassette but...
Many of us grew up hearing stories of the wonders of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell and wondered "what was life like before a light bulb or a telephone." But we were lucky enough to experience that change first hand as Jobs and his wizards at Apple created products that not only changed the way we lived everyday, but the way we saw the world.
As the news broke across Twitter, we stopped and realized that everyone in the newsroom had either an iPhone, iPod or iPad at the ready. White headphones were everywhere. One editor yelled "my first mixtape to a girl was actually a playlist on an iPod." Someone with a few years on him had made a mixtape on an actual cassette but...
- 10/6/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Hemp History in the News! Google Doodle makes people ask the question, "Who is Henry Ford?" [Feb. 11] On Friday, February 11th, a well known name from history began to trend thanks to a Google Doodle -- the daily drawing of the Google logo that changes every day to draw attention to a special person, place, thing, or idea. The doodle featured a moving sketch inspired by great inventors Thomas Edison (who invented the light bulb), Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone), and car man Henry Ford. You know the name Henry Ford because he was a major innovator in the world of cars. But did you know his first products were made with hemp and designed to use hemp as fuel? In 1941, Popular Mechanics magazine noted that Henry Ford had produced a car that had fenders made of hemp that were (See the video on YouTube) ten times stronger than steel.
- 2/11/2011
- by Helium
- Green Celebrity
I was just about to go for my bubble bath when Graham Bell’s invention demanded my attention. This time it’s a parinda from Versova, pleading to share a snippet on Eesha Koppikhar. The actor who married restaurateur Timmy Narang earlier this year, will start learning Korean sword-fighting in a few days. Seems like it’s a gift for her 34th birthday on September 19. Already, she knows Taekwondo and now wants to expand her martial arts skills. Not a bad idea, me thinks. But I just hope Eesha’s not learning martial arts for Timmy. ...
- 9/17/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
I was just about to go for my bubble bath when Graham Bell’s invention buzzed. Turns out to be a khabru telling me that Urvashi Sharma was initiallyselected to shooting for a cold cream commercial with Shah Rukh Khan. Huh? Apparently, the superstar didn’t identify her as the endorser of the brand, much to her shock and surprise. Obviously, Sharma didn’t make any fuss about him not recollecting her association with the brand… and instead preferred to build a rapport with Khan. Of course, the thorough professional that he is, he interacted with her just as cordially, I’m told. Hmmph! ...
- 9/11/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Hi da hi my mint ki golis! How goes it with you this sunny Friday morning? It’s been buzzing for moi, thanks to Graham Bell’s invention, which has been demanding incessant attention as my sources have been calling to give me some of the most chatpati news of the day. Read on dahlings… For a change, let me start with Lara Dutta. Seems like a long time since we last heard about her. No? Khair, point is that the former Ms Universe has lost her voice. Nah, it has nothing to do with house-hunting woes with beau ...
- 7/16/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Update 5: Now onto Q&A with Twitter's COO, Dick Costolo, whose talk you can read about in the previous update. People have a lot of questions about how "resonance" will work and be tracked--looks like Twitter will have to work on clearing up their message. One person asks, How should "resonance" decay? Costolo gives the example of an April Fool's promoted tweet, saying that it's difficult to figure out when they should stop promoting it--the day after? When should something no longer be promoted, he wonders.
"We got to figure that out," Costolo just responded to another question, which basically sums up most of his answers. Question: Does one get paid if retweeting a promoted tweet? No, Costolo says, Twitter doesn't want to incentivize this behavior. Question: Is this Twitter's long-term revenue model or Twitter's response to market demand? "We've been pretty good at not responding to market demand,...
"We got to figure that out," Costolo just responded to another question, which basically sums up most of his answers. Question: Does one get paid if retweeting a promoted tweet? No, Costolo says, Twitter doesn't want to incentivize this behavior. Question: Is this Twitter's long-term revenue model or Twitter's response to market demand? "We've been pretty good at not responding to market demand,...
- 4/15/2010
- by Austin Carr
- Fast Company
Fox
Greetings! Howdy! Or as Alexander Graham Bell would say, “Ahoy, ahoy!”
Glee saluted us with a welcome-back party full of melodrama.
Fresh off their win from Sectionals, the Glee Club members milk their win by strutting like Bmoc’s, thinking they’ve got it made in high school. Fame’s just around the corner, yeah, but they encounter thrown slushies instead.
Coach Sue comes back, vengeful as ever. Her ingenious return comes via putting a roofie in the principal’s drink at dinner, and upon waking up, taking a picture of the two of them in bed. He, without clothes. She, still in her track suits. We find Finn, now playing basketball, ambiguous as ever as to his intentions of what to do with Rachel. He can’t keep his eyes off his ex, preggy Quinn. He’s not exactly thrilled with Rachel’s domineering view of their relationship,...
Greetings! Howdy! Or as Alexander Graham Bell would say, “Ahoy, ahoy!”
Glee saluted us with a welcome-back party full of melodrama.
Fresh off their win from Sectionals, the Glee Club members milk their win by strutting like Bmoc’s, thinking they’ve got it made in high school. Fame’s just around the corner, yeah, but they encounter thrown slushies instead.
Coach Sue comes back, vengeful as ever. Her ingenious return comes via putting a roofie in the principal’s drink at dinner, and upon waking up, taking a picture of the two of them in bed. He, without clothes. She, still in her track suits. We find Finn, now playing basketball, ambiguous as ever as to his intentions of what to do with Rachel. He can’t keep his eyes off his ex, preggy Quinn. He’s not exactly thrilled with Rachel’s domineering view of their relationship,...
- 4/14/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Morning my salsa-dipped natkhat nachos! How goes it with you in your duniya? Mine is going pretty crazy, I tell you. Blame it on Graham Bell’s invention that’s been buzzing since the crack of dawn. All these teams want moi to put in my special appearance at their matches in the ongoing, but I refused them. Now, I can’t be lucky for two teams playing against each other na. Anyway, let’s get to your dose of daily goss… that’s a lot more interesting than this bat-ball khel any day. So read on sweetums… For starters, it looks like Shahid ...
- 4/8/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Morning my mushy mushroom quiches! I’m so glad to be back after a day’s break. I’m being bombarded with calls from the crack of dawn. Exasperated, I’ve put Graham Bell’s invention off the hook. Vyjjy’s packing for Beijing and I’m chilling out in between my gulabi satin sheets, updating you on all that’s hot and happening in tinsel town. So read on dahlings. For starters, my birdy from Bandra wants to meet Salman Khan to complain against his bodyguard Shera. Reason: Shera is taking advantage of his closeness to the star and painting the town every shade of red. Matlab? Birdy explains ...
- 1/29/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
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