Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"ESPN said Monday that its film unit would co-produce with Robert Redford and others a theatrical movie about Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier. ESPN Films joins the biopic that Robert Redford has been working on for several years. Thomas Carter is attached as director. The biopic was announced in the spring of 2005. Redford will play Branch Rickey, the team's general manager whose vision it was to make the statement and whose teamwork with Robinson off the field made it successful. The as-yet-untitled film will be developed by Redford's Wildwood Enterprises and Baldwin/Cohen Prods." (TheHollywoodReporter)

"Moby becomes a blog hero by playing MusicSnobbery’s birthday party after The Teeth broke up and left Mr. Snob high and dry without a headliner!" (AlacksDanceHall)

"The 6,000 are a scattered lot. Americans know about President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI. But how about Wu Xiaoling, who controls $1.3 trillion worth of foreign reserves from her post as deputy governor in the People's Bank of China? It's a hoard that Communist Chinese leaders have hung over the head of the world's financial markets. Then there's Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian writer who has sold more than 100 million copies of his books. And Rex Tillerson, head of Exxon Mobil. Know about them? Rothkopf takes pains to show in 'Superclass — The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making' that he has long experience with members of, and aspirants to, this 'superclass.'" (SeattleTimes)

"Kate Moss is quite the popular subject for the art world. Three renditions of the British supermodel by Tracey Emin, Banksy, and Albert Watson will be sold at Bonhams Vision 21 in Knightsbridge on April 16. Emin produced a polymer gravure etching of Moss estimated to fetch between $1,200 and $1,600, while urban graffiti artist Bansky's screen print of Moss (produced in 2005) is estimated to bring in $59,000 to $98,000." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Addressing the kickoff of the 2008 National Assn. of Broadcasters confab in Vegas, (Tim) Robbins at first hesitated over whether to deliver the speech he had prepared, thinking he might serve the audience better by submitting to a Q&A session with a moderator. But after some back and forth with the audience, which encouraged him to go with the speech, Robbins obliged. He launched into an apology to conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly 'and Laura whatshername,' noting that all had labeled him traitorous or unpatriotic for having called for more time to be given to U.N. weapons inspectors before deploying military force against Iraq. 'They said I was a dupe of left wing appeasement.... and how right they were,' Robbins quipped. 'Had I known then of all the smiling faces' that now populate Iraq, 'the wildfire of democracy that is spreading throughout the Middle East,' he would have not spoken as he did, he said. He added that he can see now that his words were indeed 'traitorous, unfounded and irresponsible, so I apologize to the talk radio geniuses.'" (Variety)

"More fashion-forward (i.e., gay) boys are going for dark tones and lines that are big and bold. A gray t-shirt, rocker belt, slim jeans, and oversize faux-fur coat seems like a pretty straightforward look from afar. But just when you think you’ve got his casual-goth thing all figured out, WHAM! He takes it to some weird postapocalyptic zone with the Rollerball gloves. Throwing some medievalism into the mix is a classic Quebecois maneuver that we have yet to understand." (Viceland)

"CBS Corp.'s television ratings for the final round of golf's Masters Tournament fell from a year ago as Trevor Immelman beat Tiger Woods by three shots. Immelman's victory over Woods, the world's No. 1 golfer, drew an average 8.9 rating and reached 18 percent of U.S. television households yesterday, New York-based CBS said today, citing Nielsen Media Research. Last year's final round got a 9.1 rating and reached 21 percent of households." (Bloomberg)