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June 6, 2007
Wednesday Links
Via Ted Z: A Variety article on Regal Cinemas' decision to equip one patron per theater with a pager to alert theater management to problems. The pager will have four buttons, with one each for picture and sound quality. The other buttons are for piracy and for "other disturbances," which presumably is a way of regulating unruly theatrical audiences, including, I'd imagine, viewers who are texting too conspicuously.
Via Filmmaker Magazine, a VideoNation web documentary on the Iraq Veterans Against the War street performance, :Operation First Casualty" (OFC), over Memorial Day weekend. This mini-doc was made by producer Laura Hanna and Zizek! director Astra Taylor. Taylor reports that she will have a second clip, on industrial food pollution, posted soon. My Flow column on OFC should appear over the next few days.
And, it's official: the fan campaign to convince CBS to renew the post-apocalyptic TV series Jericho has succeeded. After hearing that the show had been canceled, fans sent over 50,000 pounds of nuts to CBS headquarters in New York and Los Angeles. I'll have a short commentary on this topic on MediaCommons sometime next week.
Posted by chuck at June 6, 2007 6:40 PM
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