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New Russian movie download site follows AllofMP3's lead
Although it is apparently not related to the music download site that was the bane of the music industry's existence, a new site is promising cheap downloads of movies. Called ZML, the new site offers about 1,500 different titles for download that are free of any digital rights management restrictions. Among the titles available include recent hits 300 and Transformers, as well as classics Apocalypse Now and Aliens. .
Radio & TV Talk
If you have Comcast Cable, no worries. While Channel 7 becomes Peachtree, Channel 39 is going to take the nataional TBS feed. ABC Family, which used to be on Channel 39, moves to Channel 54. Oxygen, formerly on 54, goes to 198. (If you have analog cable, that means bye bye to Oxygen.) You'll also get both feeds if you have Direct or Dish TV. Peachtree TV will air a film every night at either 8 or 9 because the station execs said research showed Atlantans were bigger movie watchers than the national average. During the day, comedies include "The Nanny," "Mad About You," "Cosby Show," "All in the Family," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Sanford & Son." Over time, Peachtree TV will start adding local content besides the Braves. There will be a community affairs show on Sunday mornings (as required by the FCC for broadcast networks.) There will be a locals-only special of the Dave Matthews concert at Piedmont Park in mid-September on October 24.
The Man Who Did It All
Big, tall, good-looking guy, easy-going. He had it all going! He was smooth. He was a great addition to the human race. He could have been a fight trainer, a fight manager! He could have done whatever he wanted. All the good guys have got to go. Jay McInerney, author:
Arriving in Manhattan as a young writer, nothing was more thrilling or daunting than attending my first Paris Review party at George's townhouse on East 72nd in the fall of 1984. Realizing that I probably didn't know anyone, George took me around the room to introduce me to his guests—William Styron, Norman Mailer, Robert Stone, and Gay Talese among them. I thought I'd died and gone to Olympus. Somehow George had gotten it into his head that I was on the verge of becoming a pharmacist before he had called me up a year earlier to tell me the Paris Review was publishing a story I had submitted—perhaps because of the pharmacological bent of the subject matter.
A TV News Hen Runs Afowl of the Law
It has been way too long since I blogged on something as inconsequential as a television news anchor making the news instead of reading it. But the saga of Alycia Lane — who allegedly punched a cop in the chops, which is against the law, and made an all around fool of herself, which isn't — is too juicy to pass up. Lane, who co-anchors the news at Philadelphia's CBS3 and CW Philly, was arrested early Sunday morning in New York City after she allegedly punched a female police officer in the face after yelling "I don't give a f— who you are, I'm a f—ing TV reporter, you f—ing dyke." Lane, who is 35, and her current squeeze, Philadelphia radio station Q102 morning host Chris Booker, and another couple were in a cab behind a slow-moving unmarked police car at 17th Street and 9th Avenue in lower Manhattan, the New York Post reported.
UP blasts: Cops hot on heels of email threat senders
New Delhi: Just minutes before terror struck in Uttar Pradesh on November 23, an email was shot off to television channels. A day later, another email was sent, this time threatening a series of explosions across India including an attack on the visiting Pakistani cricket team. Both the emails are warnings investigating agencies are trying to trace back to their senders. "We use a lot of cyber forensics to arrive at the picture as to who was or which computer was used. But as you know, there are several service providers who do not keep records properly, then there is a problem," says S P K Singh, Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch. The email ahead of Friday blasts was sent from the ID guru_alhind@yahoo.fr. Now this French domain name could either belong to someone in France or someone sitting anywhere else.
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