Sunday, November 7, 2010

born 7 November 1970

Ana Cecília, Jequié, Brazil, actress

Anthony Mingilino, Chicago, Illinois, actor

Chris Winters, state of Virginia, actor

Darlene Caamano, birthplace unspecified, American producer

Heather Baker, Takoma Park, Maryland, actress

Hee Jung Ryu, Busan, South Korea, visual effects supervisor

Henry Burrows, Brighton, England, short filmmaker

Juli Sándor, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian actress

Latasha Iva “Coquie” Hughes, Chicago, Illinois, writer/director

Morgan Valentine Spurlock, Parkersburg, West Virginia, documentarian

Neil Hannon, Derry, Northern Ireland, musician

Simone “Syang” Dreyer Peres, Brasília, Brazil, singer/model/erotica writer

Steve Pfiester, Jacksonville, Florida, fitness trainer

Tim Sherrod, Aurora, Illinois, actor/air traffic controller

Vilis Daudzins, birthplace unspecified, Latvian actor



Today’s Winner has made the most of his big break, or he’s made a great deal of it at least. Super Size Me was the great stunt documentary of the decade just past: like a Jackass bit in slow motion. I guess, to some degree, it accomplished some part of its aim. We now have posted calorie counts in the city where the film was assembled. And McDonlad's, I guess, is well on its way to extinction. Or, you know, unless, not.


His most bankable asset, I think, is his voice. I enjoyed his TV documentary series pretty well. But I think he belongs in radio.


Actually, I think National Public Radio belongs on television. I guess the Al Gore channel has partly tried to ape the NPR style of non-fiction storytelling, with slovenly results. But I feel quite strongly that the cutting edge of the next decade in television “news”, whatever that will amount to ten years from now, is going to be provided by people honing their skills in public radio today. I suppose this point is obvious. Still, Ira Glass aside, why is this process taking so long? I really do think NPR-on-TV-with-commercials is going to make somebody a lot of money, and soon; I just with they’d get it going already. George Soros, David Geffen, Mike Bloomberg, somebody? Anybody?


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