Friday Items
ABC wins its fifth straight Thursday
Averages a 4.0 in 18-49s, topping reruns on CBS
ABC won its fifth straight Thursday with ease last night, opposite a lineup of mostly reruns on CBS and Fox’s surging baseball. ● More from: Media Life Magazine
ABC tops ratings with ‘Grey’s,’ ‘Private’
Fox, CBS solid with baseball, repeats
Behind the strength of No. 1-rated “Grey’s Anatomy” and spinoff “Private Practice,” ABC took the Thursday night primetime race. Fox, which aired the fifth game of the American League Championship Series, was second, and CBS, despite airing two repeats, came in third. ● More from: Variety
Bill for Glenn Beck Day stuns Mount Vernon
Glenn Beck Day in Mount Vernon was an expensive lesson for this small town, as it found out the cost of hosting a controversial celebrity.
It’s on the hook for $17,748.85, mostly for 239 hours of police overtime. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Amazon stock surges after blowout 3Q results
Shares of Amazon surged about 25 percent Friday after the Seattle Internet retailer reported a 68 percent increase in its third-quarter profit to $199 million and issued an upbeat outlook. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Stern Says Vote on Proposed Nets Sale to Happen This Year
The proposed sale of a controlling stake in the Nets to a Russian billionaire will be put to a vote of N.B.A. owners by the end of the year, according to Commissioner David Stern, who spoke positively Thursday about the deal. ● More from: NYTimes.com
Soupy Sales, famed comedian from the Golden Age of Television, dead at 83
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced, pie-in the-puss comic beloved by the Baby Boomer generation, died Thursday night. He was 83.
No true fan can forget the New Year’s Day 1965 live broadcast on WNEW.
Sales, miffed at having to work the holiday, signed off by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their pants and pocketbooks.
“Put them in an envelope and mail them to me,” Sales instructed. “And I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!”
He was then hit with a pie. ● More from: nydailynews.com
The Nation preps book mocking Palin
Editors from the progressive magazine The Nation are pulling together a book to be released the same day as Sarah Palin’s with a similar title and cover mocking the former Alaska governor’s memoir. ● More from: POLITICO.com
FX’s ‘Anarchy’ is first basic cable series to beat Leno
Forget broadcast, now NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show” is fighting off a challenger from basic cable.
For the first time, NBC’s Leno experiment was beaten in the ratings by a non-sports program that wasn’t airing on the Big Four networks. ● More from: THR
Fortune Magazine to Cut Number of Issues
Capping a tumultuous year for business magazines, Fortune is planning to publish about one-quarter fewer issues annually and make other changes, joining the ranks of publications scrambling to reinvent themselves in the advertising downturn. ● More from: WSJ.com
‘Amelia’ Reviews
The critics have mixed opinions of Hilary Swank’s new movie. I will be seeing it this weekend and expect a big old fashion sweeping epic with no deep of examination of Amelia Earhart’s life or motivations. Hey, it’s not documentary! These days most critics (most of them are under 40 years of age) want to see explosions, thrilling chase scenes and raunchy blue humor. Then there are those (I am not naming names) who have to trash any movie about a strong woman. My complete coverage is here.
Big-screen ‘Amelia’ isn’t as compelling as the real Earhart
There’s a tiny moment in Mira Nair’s “Amelia” that has the unfortunate effect of making everything else in the movie seem overblown and sentimental: It’s a brief, undated film clip of the real Amelia Earhart, jumping out of a cockpit (really, she’s practically springing) and beaming with unselfconscious joy. Something about the looseness of her movements and the simple happiness on her face makes the moment both irresistible and poignant; she would, before too long, vanish forever. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Review: ‘Amelia’
The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film.
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with “Amelia,” a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart. The pioneering aviatrix lost in flight is a figure so iconic, and director Mira Nair so tentative with her legend, that all the reverence and tiptoeing around grounds a film that should have soared. ● More from: Review: ‘Amelia’ — latimes.com
An Adventurer Takes Flight, Blinding Smile and All
Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in 1937 while trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe, didn’t wear bodices, as far as I can tell from the new biographical movie starring Hilary Swank. If Earhart had, it’s a good bet that Richard Gere, who plays her sensitive, supportive, quietly suffering husband, George Palmer Putnam (G. P.), would have ripped or, rather, politely removed an unmentionable or two amid the civilized yearning and the surging, swelling music. ● More from: Movie Review – Amelia – NYTimes.com
Thursday Items
CBS’ ‘Minds’ leads Wednesday ratings
Numbers climb for NBC’s ‘Mercy,’ ‘SVU’
CBS drama “Criminal Minds” stood out from the crowd on Wednesday, ruling as the night’s top show and helping the Eye earn a share of the demo lead with Fox. Also of note on a night when most shows dipped a bit were increases for NBC dramas “Mercy” and “Law & Order: SVU.” ● More from: Variety
CBS and Fox tie for No. 1 on Wednesday
Average a 2.9 in 18-49s, with ‘Criminal Minds’ the top show
Wednesday has become one of the most competitive nights of the week between Fox and CBS. Last night they tied for the lead for the third time in three weeks, though CBS can boast it had the night’s highest-rated show. ● More from: Media Life Magazine
In Google and Microsoft Deals, Hints of Revenue for Twitter
Twitter gets 55 million monthly visitors, it has raised $155 million in venture capital, and it has generated intense interest from Hollywood to Iran. But it hasn’t earned much revenue and certainly no profit. ● More from: NYTimes.com
Largent rips Redskins for Zorn treatment
Hall of Fame receiver Steve Largent said during a radio interview Tuesday that Redskins coach Jim Zorn considered resigning when owner Daniel Snyder decided Zorn would no longer call Washington’s plays. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Hef: We’re slashing Playboy’s rate base
Men’s title will drop from 2.6 million to 1.5 million
There was a time, decades ago, when Playboy was not just the leading men’s magazine but in many regards the only men’s magazine. It was so much bigger in all ways than any of its competitors. ● More from: Media Life Magazine
Dan Savage Interviews Frank Rich
On October 26, Frank Rich of the New York Times will interview musical-theater genius Stephen Sondheim in Seattle. In advance of that interview, Dan Savage interviewed Rich. ● More from: The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
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