Archive for January 23rd, 2008

Jill Sobule’s next album

By at 23 January, 2008, 4:37 pm

Chantootsie incomparable Jill Sobule is trying an experiment: She is turning to the internet to raise the funds for her next album. On her website jillsnextalbumcom she posts this: MESSAGE FROM JILL on her website I have always had trouble asking for help, so I have asked… my mother to do it: Hi, I’m Elaine, […]

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Jill Sobule’s next album

By at 23 January, 2008, 4:37 pm

Chantootsie incomparable Jill Sobule is trying an experiment: She is turning to the internet to raise the funds for her next album. On her website jillsnextalbumcom she posts this: MESSAGE FROM JILL on her website I have always had trouble asking for help, so I have asked… my mother to do it: Hi, I’m Elaine, […]

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Jill Sobule’s next album

By at 23 January, 2008, 4:37 pm

Chantootsie incomparable Jill Sobule is trying an experiment: She is turning to the internet to raise the funds for her next album. On her website jillsnextalbumcom she posts this: MESSAGE FROM JILL on her website I have always had trouble asking for help, so I have asked… my mother to do it: Hi, I’m Elaine, […]

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Jill Sobule’s next album

By at 23 January, 2008, 4:37 pm

Chantootsie incomparable Jill Sobule is trying an experiment: She is turning to the internet to raise the funds for her next album. On her website jillsnextalbumcom she posts this: MESSAGE FROM JILL on her website I have always had trouble asking for help, so I have asked… my mother to do it: Hi, I’m Elaine, […]

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COMEDY TONIGHT: MEL BROOKS AT THE AERO

By at 23 January, 2008, 11:00 am

Mel Brooks will be appearing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica tonight — and I am intending to go.   Last year Turner Classic Movies (TCM) aired “The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks” (a re-staged revived for this episode edition of the Dick Cavett Show directed by Robert Trachtenberg). I was lucky enough to […]

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Jeff Zucker cuts costs at NBC by killing pilots; LA Times seeks to cut editorial costs

By at 23 January, 2008, 10:13 am

Jeff Zucker announced that NBC will no longer follow standard pilot development practice. (See NY Times). At the same time the LA Times lost yet another editor over the question of editorial budgets (LA Times).     I do not dispute that the current TV development season is an inefficient process and that newspapers have grave […]

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The New York Times-Google

By at 23 January, 2008, 10:03 am

Here’s a provocative idea: What if Google offered to buy the New York Times?Here’s the story as it appeared on Poynter yesterday (from RealClearMarkets): Poynteronline Romenesko TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008 Will Google eventually own the New York Times? RealClearMarkets The company that has the most to gain from buying the New York Times is Google, […]

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