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Monday Items
Football lifts CBS, NBC in ratings
‘Housewives’ cleans up for ABC
Football lifted NBC to the top spot among adults 18-49 in primetime Sunday, while also boosting the overall numbers of CBS, which saw its late-afternoon game run more than an hour into primetime on the East Coast. ● More from: Variety
Easy Sunday win for NBC with football
Averages a 4.8 in 18-49s, with CBS No. 2 with a 4.0
It will be some months before Sundays aren’t dominated by the NFL. For now, the networks carrying football continue to score touchdowns. ● More from: Media Life Magazine
I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course. ● More from: Gawker
Jay Leno’s new time slot wreaks havoc for NBC affiliates
NBC’s decision to move the talk show king to 10 p.m. is undermining viewership of local late-night newscasts, which are a crucial source of revenue for the network’s affiliates. ● More from: latimes.com
Alex Rodriguez is the main reason why New York Yankees are up 2-0 in ALCS
Never mind that Angels closer Brian Fuentes threw one of the worst 0-2 pitches in baseball history, right in Alex Rodriguez’s danger zone, practically inviting the Bombers’ slugger to pop one into Yankee Stadium’s short right-field porch. ● More from: nydailynews.com
Vin Scully’s is a rare voice
In the late innings of a long and distinguished career, the Dodgers’ master storyteller is once again keeping fans glued to the radio. ● More from: latimes.com
Heterosexual couple booked on a gay cruise sues cruise line
So, you saved all your money
For a cruise with your honey,
And when you get there,
You notice something funny.
“It’s not that there’s anything wrong”
So they say,
But everyone else on your cruise ship is gay. ● More from: Gadling.com
New chapter for Elliott Bay?
Seattle’s iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive ● More from: crosscut.com
Another ‘Amelia’ Review
The Hollywood Reporter’s review of Amelia is more postive than Variety’s saying the “top-flight portrayal of the aviator by Hilary Swank is an instant bio classic.”
Amelia — Film ReviewFreckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank’s depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair’s biographical film “Amelia” is of a high order. It ranks with recent real-life portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound. ● More from: hollywoodreporter.com
‘Amelia’ Review
The first major review of Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, which opens next Friday.
Read Variety’s Analysis Of The Movie AmeliaTo say that “Amelia” never gets off the ground would be an understatement; it barely makes it out of the hangar. Handsomely mounted yet dismayingly superficial, Mira Nair’s film offers snazzy aerial photography and inspirational platitudes in lieu of insight into Amelia Earhart’s storied life and high-flying career. Prestigious packaging, led by Hilary Swank’s gussied-up performance as the iconic aviatrix, portends friendly commercial skies for the Fox Searchlight release, at least initially. But critical disdain is unlikely to be countered by much audience enthusiasm, even among admirers of this kind of old-fashioned, star-powered bio-mush. ● More from: variety.com
Sheriff Says “Balloon Boy” Incident Was A “Hoax” And A “Publicity Stunt”
Larimer County Colorado Sheriff Jim Alderden Says “Balloon Boy” [Richard/Falcon Heene] Incident Was A “Hoax” And A “Publicity Stunt” – 10/18/09
Sheriff Says “Balloon Boy” Incident Was A “Hoax” And A “Publicity Stunt”
Larimer County Colorado Sheriff Jim Alderden Says “Balloon Boy” [Richard/Falcon Heene] Incident Was A “Hoax” And A “Publicity Stunt” – 10/18/09
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