Long-Lasting Love on Ice, and Coco
Love was in the house, as were a lot of cameras, as rapper Ice-T and his swimsuit model wife Coco Austin renewed their wedding vows after 10 years of marriage. The ceremony and reception at Hollywood’s W Hotel was shot for the couple’s upcoming reality show on E! Entertainment, “Ice Loves Coco.” It featured tearful tributes from family members, long-time friends and celebrity guests, including Snoop Dogg and...
The Gracie Awards Honor the Best Women’s Work–In the Media
Gracie Allen would have been proud. This 36th annual edition of the awards bearing her name, the Gracies, went off without a hitch – and with a lot of laughter and applause along the way. Hosted by Patricia Heaton and presented by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and title sponsor Dove, the Gracies honor exceptional programming and individual contributions of those who create portrayals of women in all forms of media,...
The Good Wife, Men of a Certain Age and Justified Score New Gold
Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now. The co-executive producer and costar of TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes awarded in New York at the 70th annual Peabody Awards presentation. Just days earlier, at the technically challenged TNT/TBS upfront held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Romano was one of the network’s talent– along with...
Unlikely Fans for NBC’s New Music Competition Show ‘The Voice’ Join Teams
Having never been a consistent fan of reality shows, reality competition shows or music competition shows like, um, the pop-culture dominant for a decade “American Idol,” we are surprisingly entranced with “The Voice,” which premiered to great hype on NBC. Having succumbed to some of that hype, our plan was to sample the first few minutes and then move on to other pursuits which would surely be more productive....
Would You Pay $30 to Rent a Movie–For Two Days? A Month Before Its DVD Release? Didn’t Think So.
Thursday was the first day of an experiment in home entertainment that is likely to fail, at least the pricing element of it. You probably know that box office receipts and sales and rentals of DVDs are way down—as much as 40%–so the movie studios are looking at other ways to maximize their profits. Some of them banded together with satellite provider DirecTV to launch premium video on demand. The first offering: the Adam...
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