1965: Peyton Place's Connie learned of Allison's accident.
1986: Search or Tomorrow's Suzi crashed her car.
1986: Pat proposal was rejected on Ryan's Hope.
2005: Guiding Light's Olivia confessed to Bill."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1947: On radio soap opera Lora Lawton, Joe visited Lora (Jan Miner) at her London flat. She told him she was going to communicate with Peter through a series of pictures she drew for him.
1965: On Peyton Place, Dr. Michael Rossi (Ed Nelson) called Connie MacKenzie (Dorothy Malone) to tell her that her daughter, Allison, was injured in a hit-and-run accident.
1986: Search or Tomorrow's Suzi crashed her car.
1986: Pat proposal was rejected on Ryan's Hope.
2005: Guiding Light's Olivia confessed to Bill."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1947: On radio soap opera Lora Lawton, Joe visited Lora (Jan Miner) at her London flat. She told him she was going to communicate with Peter through a series of pictures she drew for him.
1965: On Peyton Place, Dr. Michael Rossi (Ed Nelson) called Connie MacKenzie (Dorothy Malone) to tell her that her daughter, Allison, was injured in a hit-and-run accident.
- 10/14/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Feature David Menzies 12 Apr 2013 - 07:00
Would we have had Mutant Enemy or Bad Robot without Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert's Renaissance Pictures? David thinks not...
After 1992's Army Of Darkness, another Sam Raimi feature film wouldn't emerge in theatres for another three years. What Raimi did with the time in between is anybody's guess - perhaps he wandered the world; maybe he dug through a peculiar collection of Spider-Man comics with most of the dialogue cut out. But what he certainly did with his Renaissance Pictures partners was bring to light a new frontier of genre TV (cue heroic music and a narrator saying, "This is the story of a time long ago – a time of myth and legend. When the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering, only one man dared to challenge their power...")
While Hercules may be one...
Would we have had Mutant Enemy or Bad Robot without Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert's Renaissance Pictures? David thinks not...
After 1992's Army Of Darkness, another Sam Raimi feature film wouldn't emerge in theatres for another three years. What Raimi did with the time in between is anybody's guess - perhaps he wandered the world; maybe he dug through a peculiar collection of Spider-Man comics with most of the dialogue cut out. But what he certainly did with his Renaissance Pictures partners was bring to light a new frontier of genre TV (cue heroic music and a narrator saying, "This is the story of a time long ago – a time of myth and legend. When the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering, only one man dared to challenge their power...")
While Hercules may be one...
- 4/12/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Lucy Lawless News
» Pleasuredome Artwork by MaryD
» Lucy Friday Concert - Photos by Kathy
2009 Xena Convention Photos - Friday
» Photos by Claudia - Jennifer Sky Band
» Photos by Claudia - Jacqueline Kim2009 Xena Convention Photos - Saturday
» Photos by Claudia - Bitch Slap Panel (including Sister Batril)
» Photos by Claudia - Cabaret
» Photos by Claudia - Hudson
2009 Xena Convention Photos - Sunday
» Photos by Claudia - Legend of the Seeker Panel
» Photos by Michelle - Legend of the Seeker Panel
» Photos by Michelle - Lucy (and Claire)
» Photos by Michelle - Renee
» Photos by Michelle - Lucy and Renee
» Photos by Michelle - Vicki Pratt...
» Pleasuredome Artwork by MaryD
» Lucy Friday Concert - Photos by Kathy
2009 Xena Convention Photos - Friday
» Photos by Claudia - Jennifer Sky Band
» Photos by Claudia - Jacqueline Kim2009 Xena Convention Photos - Saturday
» Photos by Claudia - Bitch Slap Panel (including Sister Batril)
» Photos by Claudia - Cabaret
» Photos by Claudia - Hudson
2009 Xena Convention Photos - Sunday
» Photos by Claudia - Legend of the Seeker Panel
» Photos by Michelle - Legend of the Seeker Panel
» Photos by Michelle - Lucy (and Claire)
» Photos by Michelle - Renee
» Photos by Michelle - Lucy and Renee
» Photos by Michelle - Vicki Pratt...
- 2/8/2009
- Ausxip.com
Blogging the 14th Annual Xena Convention -- to see all Xena Con posts, click here.
In case you're looking around your hometown and wondering where all the lesbians have gone, they're in Los Angeles at the 14th Annual Xena Convention.
Proving that geekiness is always in fashion, hundreds of fans of the groundbreaking female-centric action/adventure/fantasy series starring Lucy Lawless as a warrior with a dark past and Renee O'Connor as her soul mate and sidekick will spend the weekend loving on the show and its stars.
Unlike the last two years, I wasn't able to be in Los Angeles this weekend. My mother is ill and not even Xena matters more to me than my mom. But AfterEllen.com's KT Jorgensen, who has photographed the convention for the last two years along with me, is phoning and texting in reports, and will be uploading photos all weekend. She'll...
In case you're looking around your hometown and wondering where all the lesbians have gone, they're in Los Angeles at the 14th Annual Xena Convention.
Proving that geekiness is always in fashion, hundreds of fans of the groundbreaking female-centric action/adventure/fantasy series starring Lucy Lawless as a warrior with a dark past and Renee O'Connor as her soul mate and sidekick will spend the weekend loving on the show and its stars.
Unlike the last two years, I wasn't able to be in Los Angeles this weekend. My mother is ill and not even Xena matters more to me than my mom. But AfterEllen.com's KT Jorgensen, who has photographed the convention for the last two years along with me, is phoning and texting in reports, and will be uploading photos all weekend. She'll...
- 1/30/2009
- by christiekeith
- AfterEllen.com
Screened
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- If director Ernest Dickerson and writer James Gibson (adapting a story by cult novelist Donald Goines) missed a cliche of the urban gangster genre in "Never Die Alone", it wasn't for lack of effort. Inspiring walkouts at a festival where virtually no one walks out, "Never Die Alone" will do exactly that by its second weekend.
Routinely but unconvincingly directed by Dickerson, the movie possesses not a single character with the brains to get through a day without creating a huge mess. The hopelessly contrived plot has heavy-drinking white writer Paul (David Arquette), living in downtown Los Angeles to "research" his tales from the dark side of life, witness a brutal knife attack outside his favorite bar on a much-hated drug dealer named King David (DMX). For absolutely no reason, Paul climbs into the dying man's car and rushes him to the hospital.
We are next asked to believe the dead man's last act was to bequeath to Paul his car, which contains stacks of drug money and audiotapes of him reciting the sorry story of his crimes and murders. While Paul listens to these tapes -- and we witness David Life's in flashbacks -- hoods ruled by drug kingpin Blue (Antwon Tanner) set out to eliminate not only Mike (Michael Ealy), the knucklehead who finished off David, but also Paul.
As we watch David Life's unfold, we learn that when not selling drugs, he amused himself by enslaving his lovers to drugs by sneaking heroin into their cocaine. If a girlfriend threatened to go to the police, he made certain she went nowhere. The pattern began a decade before on the East Coast with Edna (Keesha Sharp) and continues in Los Angeles, first with TV actress Janet (Jennifer Sky) and then college student Juanita (Reagan Gomez-Preston).
The actors tear into each scene with terrific energy, but these roles are so hollow that it might have been better if at least one or two chilled. Arquette is lost in this nonsensical role, but who could make sense of such an idiot? DMX struts through the movie like the rap star he is. Ealy manages to convey a modicum of introspection, but given what is later revealed about his past, his hotheaded approach to a man he detests seems like very poor judgment.
Matthew Libatique's gritty, kinetic cinematography gamely tries to convince us that "Never Die Alone" lies within the rich tradition of film noir. Alas, this is just film ugly. At the end of the movie, when an editor finally gets a look at Paul Story's about King David, he slams the manuscript shut and says, "I don't believe a word". Amen to that.
NEVER DIE ALONE
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight and ContentFilm present a Bloodline Films productionin association with White Orchid Films
Credits:
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Screenwriter: James Gibson
Based on the novel by: Donald Goines
Producers: Alessandro Camon, Earl Simmons
Executive producers: Edward R. Pressman, John Schmidt, Angelo A. Ellerbee, Rudy "Kato" Rangel, Marc Gerald, Dion Fearon, Cameron Casey
Director of photography: Matthew Libatique
Production designer: Christiaan Wagener
Music: George Duke
Costume designer: Marie France
Editor: Stephen Lovejoy
Cast:
King David: DMX
Mike: Michael Ealy
Paul: David Arquette
Blue: Antwon Tanner
Edna II: Drew Sidora
Moon: Clifton Powell
Jasper: Luenell Campbell
Janet: Jennifer Sky
Juanita: Reagan Gomez-Preston
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- If director Ernest Dickerson and writer James Gibson (adapting a story by cult novelist Donald Goines) missed a cliche of the urban gangster genre in "Never Die Alone", it wasn't for lack of effort. Inspiring walkouts at a festival where virtually no one walks out, "Never Die Alone" will do exactly that by its second weekend.
Routinely but unconvincingly directed by Dickerson, the movie possesses not a single character with the brains to get through a day without creating a huge mess. The hopelessly contrived plot has heavy-drinking white writer Paul (David Arquette), living in downtown Los Angeles to "research" his tales from the dark side of life, witness a brutal knife attack outside his favorite bar on a much-hated drug dealer named King David (DMX). For absolutely no reason, Paul climbs into the dying man's car and rushes him to the hospital.
We are next asked to believe the dead man's last act was to bequeath to Paul his car, which contains stacks of drug money and audiotapes of him reciting the sorry story of his crimes and murders. While Paul listens to these tapes -- and we witness David Life's in flashbacks -- hoods ruled by drug kingpin Blue (Antwon Tanner) set out to eliminate not only Mike (Michael Ealy), the knucklehead who finished off David, but also Paul.
As we watch David Life's unfold, we learn that when not selling drugs, he amused himself by enslaving his lovers to drugs by sneaking heroin into their cocaine. If a girlfriend threatened to go to the police, he made certain she went nowhere. The pattern began a decade before on the East Coast with Edna (Keesha Sharp) and continues in Los Angeles, first with TV actress Janet (Jennifer Sky) and then college student Juanita (Reagan Gomez-Preston).
The actors tear into each scene with terrific energy, but these roles are so hollow that it might have been better if at least one or two chilled. Arquette is lost in this nonsensical role, but who could make sense of such an idiot? DMX struts through the movie like the rap star he is. Ealy manages to convey a modicum of introspection, but given what is later revealed about his past, his hotheaded approach to a man he detests seems like very poor judgment.
Matthew Libatique's gritty, kinetic cinematography gamely tries to convince us that "Never Die Alone" lies within the rich tradition of film noir. Alas, this is just film ugly. At the end of the movie, when an editor finally gets a look at Paul Story's about King David, he slams the manuscript shut and says, "I don't believe a word". Amen to that.
NEVER DIE ALONE
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight and ContentFilm present a Bloodline Films productionin association with White Orchid Films
Credits:
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Screenwriter: James Gibson
Based on the novel by: Donald Goines
Producers: Alessandro Camon, Earl Simmons
Executive producers: Edward R. Pressman, John Schmidt, Angelo A. Ellerbee, Rudy "Kato" Rangel, Marc Gerald, Dion Fearon, Cameron Casey
Director of photography: Matthew Libatique
Production designer: Christiaan Wagener
Music: George Duke
Costume designer: Marie France
Editor: Stephen Lovejoy
Cast:
King David: DMX
Mike: Michael Ealy
Paul: David Arquette
Blue: Antwon Tanner
Edna II: Drew Sidora
Moon: Clifton Powell
Jasper: Luenell Campbell
Janet: Jennifer Sky
Juanita: Reagan Gomez-Preston
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 2/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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