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“We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production,” the premium cable network says of a Season 1 scene that featured the 43rd president’s likeness.
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Conservatives online lash out at the former governor, calling him a Republican in name only.
via POLITICO Top Stories http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo
Twitter’s court stand is winning the respect of its followers.
Lawyers for the social-media site appeared in Manhattan criminal court yesterday to challenge a court order to turn over the tweets of a user being prosecuted as part of an Occupy Wall Street march last year.
Manhattan District Attorney…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/twitter_doesn_sing_in_ows_court_h5Vx068BQNx4CgqQlJAUpM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
This Tinseltown tussle would be a hit on the big screen.
Two of Hollywood’s biggest power players — producer Peter Chernin and super-agent Ari Emanuel — have fallen out after a battle over money and turf.
The heavy hitters are at odds, executives close to them say, because just two weeks…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/chest_pounding_htDtlaw70IySsxqoQQJUYM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
Cat Marnell, the drug-addicted beauty columnist for Jane Pratt’s Web site xoJane.com, has parted ways from the site after refusing to get clean…
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SPLIT A TAXI? Hail yeah! Taxi riders may soon be able to find a cab to share using a tech firm’s smartphone app. A would-be passenger can punch in the nearest intersection and neighborhood they’re traveling to, and GetTaxi will help find someone else headed in the same direction with its Ride Share feature, the company said.
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A prominent Russian newspaper journalist fled the nation after what his associate says was a death threat from one of the top law-enforcement officials delivered during a menacing walk in the woods.
via WSJ.com: Media & Marketing http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303410404577464582155562486.html?mod=rss_media_marketing
From UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, “How an Agency Builds a Brand–The Virginia Slims Story.”
In an interview with Alan Sepinwall wrapping up the latest season of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner said, “We were always interested in this early Virginia Slims thing. We loved the fact that it was a small, undesirable product for everybody, and it of course became a pretty big success. But that’s such a famous campaign written by such a distinctive person that I would never do that.” But what’s the real story behind Virginia Slims? As Hal Weinstein of Leo Burnett asserts:
Cigarettes have gender, as everyone knows. It was a study by Pierre Martineau, I am told, that first pointed out that cigarettes are either masculine or feminine but never successfully neuter.
Seven long, anxiety- and excitement-ridden days since Django Unchained‘s first trailer hit, the wait till December has been given the salve of an international clip for Quentin Tarantino’s next film. Herein you’ll receive: Christoph Waltz’s bounty hunter character’s name, Dr. King Schultz, and a visual gag that remains great after many viewings; at least 50 percent more shots of Waltz and Jamie Foxx blasting folks; the same Johnny Cash/James Brown soundtrack segue; a smidgen more of Lost‘s Mr. Friendly; a single glorious second of Tarantino mainstay Samuel L. Jackson; a reminder that it’s fun to live in America, land of the free Django Unchained being released on Christmas 2012 rather than this trailer’s vaguely heralded “next year.”
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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/django-unchained-international-trailer.html
Italian prosecutors are looking into it.Â
via Daily Intel http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/gomorrah-filmmakers-may-have-paid-off-mob.html