The Us doctor who survived Ebola after contracting it in Liberia in July, 2014, has returned to work in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Kent Brantly began quietly practicing medicine in the United States around a year ago. He sees patients at a community health clinic, teaches family medicine residents and works one day a week in labor and delivery at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Star Telegram in Fort Worth.
Brantly says his experience in Liberia has helped shaped him into the man and doctor he is today.
“There are innumerable lessons we could draw from that experience,” Brantly told the newspaper.
Dr. Kent Brantly began quietly practicing medicine in the United States around a year ago. He sees patients at a community health clinic, teaches family medicine residents and works one day a week in labor and delivery at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Star Telegram in Fort Worth.
Brantly says his experience in Liberia has helped shaped him into the man and doctor he is today.
“There are innumerable lessons we could draw from that experience,” Brantly told the newspaper.
- 12/27/2016
- by caitlinkeating89
- PEOPLE.com
Sofya Tsygankova, the Texas mother charged with murdering her two children, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, People confirms. Tsygankova, 31, is the estranged wife of renowned Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, 29. The bodies of the young girls, 5 and 1, were discovered by Kholodenko when he went to pick them up the morning of March 16 at her suburban Fort Worth home. Kholodenko found his daughters dead in their beds while Tsygankova was covered in blood with stab wounds and rocking back and forth, an arrest affidavit obtained by People states. According to the affidavit, Kholodenko called police to report the murder and described his estranged wife as "going crazy.
- 3/24/2016
- by Harriet Sokmensuer, @HGSokmensuer
- PEOPLE.com
Sofya Tsygankova, the Texas mother charged with murdering her two young children, seemed confused about what had happened the morning their bodies were discovered, according to an arrest affidavit from the Benbrook Police Department. The bodies of 5-year-old Nika Kholodenko and 1-year-old Michela Kholodenko were discovered last Thursday morning when the girls' father, renowned Ukrainian-born pianist Vadym Kholodenko, arrived at the home for a scheduled pick-up. The couple had filed for divorce last year and were living separately. After he got to the house and saw the tragedy, he called police and said his estranged wife was "going crazy," states the affidavit obtained by People.
- 3/23/2016
- by Darla Atlas
- PEOPLE.com
Sofya Tsygankova, the Texas mother charged with murdering her two young children, seemed confused about what had happened the morning their bodies were discovered, according to an arrest affidavit from the Benbrook Police Department. The bodies of 5-year-old Nika Kholodenko and 1-year-old Michela Kholodenko were discovered last Thursday morning when the girls' father, renowned Ukrainian-born pianist Vadym Kholodenko, arrived at the home for a scheduled pick-up. The couple had filed for divorce last year and were living separately. After he got to the house and saw the tragedy, he called police and said his estranged wife was "going crazy," states the affidavit obtained by People.
- 3/23/2016
- by Darla Atlas
- PEOPLE.com
Playwright Jonathan Tolins author of Buyer amp Cellar and Twilight Of The Golds coined the phrase 'The Last Sunday in June' and turned it into a landmark play which debuted in 2003 at the Rattlestick Theater starring Arnie Burton, Donald Corren, Jonathan McClain, Susan Pourfar, Mark Setlock, Peter Smith, David Turner and Matthew Wilkas and directed by Trip Cullman.BroadwayWorld.com reached out to him this week as we face the most historic Pride in American History...
- 6/28/2015
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Thomas Gilbert Jr. looked like he had it all - but friends of the 30-year-old, who was charged yesterday with murdering his father, say he suffered from mental illness. On Sunday, police responded to a 911 call from 20 Beekman Place in New York City, the NYPD told People. When they arrived, they found 70-year-old Thomas Gilbert, founder of hedge fund company Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, with a gunshot wound to the head. Gilbert Jr., known as "Tommy," arrived at his parents' house around 3 p.m. and asked his mother to leave the apartment so he could speak privately to his father,...
- 1/7/2015
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Thomas Gilbert Jr. looked like he had it all - but friends of the 30-year-old, who was charged yesterday with murdering his father, say he suffered from mental illness. On Sunday, police responded to a 911 call from 20 Beekman Place in New York City, the NYPD told People. When they arrived, they found 70-year-old Thomas Gilbert, founder of hedge fund company Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, with a gunshot wound to the head. Gilbert Jr., known as "Tommy," arrived at his parents' house around 3 p.m. and asked his mother to leave the apartment so he could speak privately to his father,...
- 1/7/2015
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Almost two months after Marlise Munoz, age 33 and then 14-weeks pregnant, was declared brain dead at John Peter Smith Hospital in Forth Worth, Texas, and her husband and parents fought to have her removed from life support, a judge has sided with her family. In a widely debated and watched case that put Texas's Advance Directives Act - stating that life sustaining measures could not be removed from a pregnant patient - front and center, resolution may have come for Marlise's husband, Erick, with whom she has son Mateo, 16 months, and her parents Lynne and Ernest Machado in Tarrant County District Court.
- 1/24/2014
- by Alicia Dennis
- PEOPLE.com
A heartbroken Texas family – who are fighting to have a pregnant wife and mother they say is brain-dead removed from life support – has received more devastating news on the condition of her unborn fetus, according to their attorneys. Marlise Munoz was approximately 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed on Nov. 26 at her home near Fort Worth, Texas, and was found unresponsive by her husband, Erick. Marlise, 33, had gotten up to check on their then 14-month-old son Mateo and never returned. "We don't know how long she was on the ground," Marlise's mother, Lynne Machado, 60, told People. "One doctor said she was...
- 1/23/2014
- by Alicia Dennis
- PEOPLE.com
Molly Ringwald is juggling a lot of hats these days. Unlike many former teen stars, she’s moved gracefully into adult roles, currently starring in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She’s a published author of fiction, having just released a novel, When It Happens to You. Her debut album, a collection of standards entitled Except…Sometimes, drops in April. And Tuesday night she made her New York City cabaret debut at the popular new club 54 Below. Performing with an expert jazz trio led by pianist/musical director Peter Smith, Ringwald, looking elegantly gorgeous, displayed enough vocal
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- 1/16/2013
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Broadway, audiences have embraced her as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, as well as in Enchanted April and Modern Orthodox. Off-Broadway, she received rave notices for her work in Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... Boom and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, and she toured the country as Charity Hope Valentine in the Broadway National Tour of Sweet Charity. Now, join Broadway leading lady and icon of the 1980s Molly Ringwald for a musical tour de force, accompanied by The Peter Smith Trio. Television audiences remember Molly from Diff'rent Strokes and the subsequent spin-off, The Facts of Life. Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles. Some of Ringwald's most famous films include The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Currently, Ringwald stars in the ABC Family network series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Cover charge 25-40. 25 food amp beverage minimum.
- 1/16/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roger Savage; photo by Zorro Gamarnik
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Sound Guild has announced the winners of.the 2012 Assg Awards.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
- 11/25/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Toronto -- Cineflix Media has named former NBCU International president Peter Smith as CEO of Cineflix Studios, the Canadian factual TV producer’s expanding scripted division. Based in London, Smith will continue the indie producer’s move into scripted fare in the U.K., U.S. and Canada on the heels of its first drama series, Copper, debuting successfully on BBC America this month. Story: NBCU Int'l President Peter Smith Steps Down Smith joins Cineflix Studios after completing a one-year consulting gig at NBCU International as part of a March 2011 departure agreement in the wake of the Comcast-nbcu merger. “I
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- 8/30/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Telegael, the Galway-based film and television production company, are to co-develop an animated pre-school TV show based on the popular children's characters 'Impossimal'. The series will be made with California's SupperTime Productions, with Telegael serving as the lead producer and SupperTime taking a development role from a Us perspective. The characters, created by Peter Smith and his wife Jayne, currently feature on over 1.6 million art prints and two million greeting cards, which have generated more than €15m in sales.
- 3/20/2012
- IFTN
It seems controversy leads to awards. The two big winners at last night.s inaugural Aacta Awards were thriller feature film Snowtown and TV drama series The Slap. Both renowned for their controversial nature, the film and TV series netted four and five gongs respectively.
Snowtown, about Australian serial killer John Bunting who befriends a 16-year-old, was honoured in the Best Direction (Justin Kurzel), Best Adapted Screenplay (Shaun Grant), Best Actor (Daniel Henshall) and Best Supporting Actress (Louise Harris) categories.
The last two awards were particularly impressive as neither actor had appeared in a feature film before. While Henshall had previously acted in such shows as Out of the Blue, it was Harris. first ever acting role.
The four gongs awarded last night at the Sydney Opera House brings the film.s tally to an impressive six Aacta Awards after receiving Best Editing (Veronika Jenet Ase) and Best Sound (Frank Lipson Mpse,...
Snowtown, about Australian serial killer John Bunting who befriends a 16-year-old, was honoured in the Best Direction (Justin Kurzel), Best Adapted Screenplay (Shaun Grant), Best Actor (Daniel Henshall) and Best Supporting Actress (Louise Harris) categories.
The last two awards were particularly impressive as neither actor had appeared in a feature film before. While Henshall had previously acted in such shows as Out of the Blue, it was Harris. first ever acting role.
The four gongs awarded last night at the Sydney Opera House brings the film.s tally to an impressive six Aacta Awards after receiving Best Editing (Veronika Jenet Ase) and Best Sound (Frank Lipson Mpse,...
- 1/31/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
The Hunter has lead the Aacta Awards with 14 nominations including best film.
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
- 11/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Does Donnie Darko Hold Up? On its tenth anniversary, we reassess the cult phenomenon. by Rick Paulas and Peter Smith Donnie Darko Does Not Hold Up By Rick Paulas When Donnie Darko first came out ten years ago, it earned a scant half-a-million dollars, covering about one-ninth of its budget. It wasn't until DVDs of the film started getting passed around college campuses and high school lunchrooms the following spring that its underground cult audience was unearthed, eventually leading to a 2004 director's-cut theatrical re-release and phrases like "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion" entering the pop-culture vernacular. But cult films like this are a tricky bunch. When one that's unique and stylistically impressive — as Darko is on both accounts — sneaks through by way of word-of-mouth raves rather than multi-million-dollar publicity campaigns, it's not always held to the same standards normal movies [...]...
- 10/23/2011
- by Rick Paulas and Peter Smith
- Nerve
AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); Pearl Jam vs. Nirvana On the 20th anniversary of Nevermind, we settle things once and for all. By Alex Heigl and Peter Smith Pearl Jam is better than Nirvana by Alex Heigl, Nerve writer Chuck Klosterman makes a great point about Pearl Jam in his book Killing Yourself to Live: "Pearl Jam was seen as the people's band; Nirvana was seen as the band that hated its own people." And that's really the best distillation of the difference between those two bands, and why Pearl Jam, despite not having the cult of personality that Nirvana does, is ultimately a better band. Pearl Jam always trafficked in raw, soaring emotion: you can point out all the people that took Eddie Vedder's vocal style to the bank (as I have), but the [...]...
- 9/23/2011
- by Alex Heigl and Peter Smith
- Nerve
Big few days for geeks here on Nerve, apparently. In addition to the back-and-forth between Peter Smith and myself, we now have the trailer for the Larp-themed action comedy Knights of Badassdom. (LARPing, in case you don't know, is live-action role-playing, which is like historical reenacting but with made-up history. And more huzzahs.) The cast the producers have lined up looks pretty stellar: Ryan Kwanten, Summer Glau, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, and Danny Pudi play our heroes whose fantasy fighting turns bloodily real when they accidentally summon a demon — a sexy demon, natch — to the day's fake battle: I have to say, after stuff like Darkon, Role Models, and this, LARPing is looking... kinda fun? Like the sort of fun I might try? It does seem like a lot of commitment — the closest thing to a sword I have lying around is a steak knife — and a [...]...
- 7/25/2011
- Nerve
Five Reasons to Celebrate Geek Culture Who runs the world? Nerds. By James Brady Ryan Last week, my coworker Peter Smith used ComicCon 2011 as an opportunity to take down geek culture. And while I may or may not be less than geeky than he is — I'm not the one who has a model Starship Enterprise sitting on my desk at work — I felt the need to step up and defend the harbor that has sheltered me so many times. Here are five reasons to love all things geeky. 1. It rewards investment Geek culture is indulgent, sure. You couldn't watch the final episode of Lost, or see the third Matrix film, or read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, and understand what was happening. And that's a good thing. We shouldn't discourage anyone from learning everything there is to know about a subject that interests [...]...
- 7/25/2011
- by James Brady Ryan
- Nerve
Five Reasons Geek Culture Should Go Away Someone should go to ComicCon and give everyone in attendance a wedgie. By Peter Smith ComicCon 2011 is this week, and as I look over its announced offerings — retrospectives on Planet of the Apes, screenings of Captain America, panels on whether vampires or zombies would win in a fight — I feel a deep weariness for which there's probably a long German word. Disreputable genre pieces that once would've gone direct-to-video now command hundred-million-dollar budgets, which means they completely dominate our cultural landscape. Me, I used to have twenty books about Star Trek; I own the Alien series on DVD and Blu-ray; I went to computer camp, for God's sake; and I never want to hear about any of this stuff ever again. Here are five reasons we were all better off when geeks were getting beaten up: 1. Geek culture is [...]...
- 7/21/2011
- by Peter Smith
- Nerve
AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); The Smiths Vs. The Cure On the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Queen Is Dead, we finally settle the oldest dispute in mope rock. By Mike Dibenedetto and Peter Smith The Smiths' Morrissey and The Cure's Robert Smith have been at each others' throats since the early ‘80s. Given that both of them were mopey, sexually ambiguous English boys who sang melancholic ballads over jangly guitars, the whole thing must've seemed pretty odd to your average Wham fan. But if we look closer at the two bands, we can see that one is awesome and one actually is totally lame. We're just divided about which one's which. So today, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead (and also because we've wanted to do this for a [...]...
- 6/16/2011
- by Mike DiBenedetto and Peter Smith
- Nerve
Two old ladies in a thrift store open boxes to reveal dismembered body parts. Nick (George Eads) arrives on the Cs with Sara (Jorga Fox) this time and not Ray, (Laurence Fishburne) as is the norm; who is busy with his own personal issues. Det Frankie (Katee Sackoff) tells them his head and foot were found. Sara admits to shopping at this thrift store, as they have some good things. Sara doesn't find any leakage in the boxes and Nick believes the rest of the parts must be in the boxes. They were dropped off by a truck on a pick-up route. Nick wonders how much the killer thought the Db was worth, "times are tough." That was the supposedly funny line. Nick takes Gloria (Tracee Ellis Ross) to see Ray who's conducting an experiment with Hodges (Wallace Langham). Nick comments he looks more like "Dr Dre than Dr Ray.
- 4/26/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Don Browne is the latest veteran NBC Universal executive to take his leave since the Comcast takeover. NBCUniversal announced his retirement today after 30 years with the company, effective June 3. Following an extensive career with NBC News in New York and Miami, Browne has served since 2005 as president of Spanish-language Telemundo Communications Group after arriving at Telemundo as CEO eight years ago. Under the new post-merger organizational structure of NBCU, Telemundo was put under the purview of Lauren Zalaznick, with Browne reporting to her. Browne joins other prominent executives from the NBCUniversal side of the new company to depart since the merger, including chief diversity officer Paula Madison (who announced her retirement yesterday), Angela Bromstad, John Eck, Peter Smith and Roma Khanna.
- 4/12/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Another long-time NBC executive is leaving the company following the merger with Comcast. Paula Madison, NBCUniversal's Evp diversity, said today that she will retire from the company May 20, after the first Joint Diversity Advisory Council in Philadelphia with Comcast and NBCU, to work for her family's investment business. Madison joined NBCU in 1989 as assistant news director at Wnbc-tv. She served as president and general manager of Knbc-tv before becoming NBC's first chief diversity officer in 2007. Madison is the third top NBC executive listed in Steve Burke's November memo outlining the post-merger organizational structure to exit, following Angela Bromstad and John Eck. On the international TV side, high-profile departures include Peter Smith and Roma Khanna.
- 4/12/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The ramifications of Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal continue to be felt overseas too. Roma Khanna, president of Universal Networks International, has decided to quit NBCU International. Kevin MacLellan is moving from Los Angeles to London having been named president, international television. He’s a Comcast guy, and the move underscores the cable TV giant asserting its grip internationally under new NBCUniversal International chairman Jeff Shell, formerly president of Comcast Programming Group, whose appointment prompted last month's exit of Peter Smith, the popular president of NBCU International. Khanna denies that her decision to quit has anything to do with MacLellan getting the top job. "I think Kevin is a great choice," she tells me. "Jeff Shell offered me a role and we had a really great conversation about it, but it wasn't something that I wanted to do." Belinda Menendez, president of NBCU international TV distribution, is also relocating from La to London.
- 3/29/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Ranked: Top Chef Seasons from Worst to Best Eight seasons, 109 cheftestants, one astonishingly conclusive list. By Ben Reininga and Peter Smith The finale of Top Chef's eighth season airs on Bravo this Wednesday. We're a couple of die-hards, so in celebration, we took it upon ourselves to rank the eight seasons. This was not a good thing to attempt before lunch. 8. Season Seven: Washington D.C. By the seventh season, the Top Chef formula was getting stale. In an effort to spice things up, the producers devised some of the goofiest and most contrived challenges the show had ever seen. Chefs were forced to make baby food, cook while tied to one another, and trade dishes halfway through cooking them. And after the heavy hitters of Season Six, Season Seven saw a serious dearth of talent; it ended only months ago, and yet you can't remember [...]...
- 3/28/2011
- by Ben Reininga and Peter Smith
- Nerve
AudioPlayer.setup("http://nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); Eight Perplexed Thoughts on the Disappointing New Strokes Album A dedicated fan scratches his head. By Peter Smith I've always really liked The Strokes. (I even played guitar in a not-especially-tight Strokes cover band in college.) So I've been waiting impatiently these five years for a new album from them. After a long hiatus, numerous solo albums, and a critical drubbing for their last record (which I also liked), they've finally released a new album, Angles, this week... and it's damn strange. 1. Whatever Rolling Stone may say, this is not a "return to form." Critics who are calling Angles a return to form must have forgotten what Is This It sounded like. Angles is a lot closer to their last album, the hyperdense First Impressions of Earth, than to their [...]...
- 3/25/2011
- by Peter Smith
- Nerve
The high-level departures continue at NBC Universal. Just one business day after NBC programming exec Mitch Metcalf stepped down from his position, Peter Smith, president of NBCU International, is also departing the company, according to widely published reports. Smith, who was appointed to his position in 2007, will step down at the end of the month in order to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. According to numerous reports, Smith, who's based in London, will remain on as a consultant to NBCU International chairman Jeff Shell. Related Articles: ...
- 3/7/2011
- The Wrap
In other sexy, funk-related news, Chromeo has a released a steamy new video for its single, "Hot Mess." Steamy being both literal and figurative: the two men of Chromeo are seen boogie-ing down in a hot sauna with some even hotter synchronized-swimming women, who sometimes wear sexy cop outfits and, at other times, nothing at all. In other words, this video is the reason why any guy has ever played in any band. Except, of course, for Nerve editor Peter Smith, whose Prince cover band only wins him the tepid applause of polite [...]...
- 11/12/2010
- Nerve
File photo Hey NY-based Nerve readers: do you like Prince? And do you like Nerve editor Peter Smith? (Why wouldn't you?) If so, come to Arlene's Grocery tonight at 11:30, where Pete and the Game Blouses will be covering the entirety of Purple Rain. Attendees of previous shows have raved, "Amazing!" and, "That man should not be wearing tights in public!" Judge for yourself. Once again, that's: Game Blouses Arlene's Grocery (95 Stanton St. on the L.E.S.) Friday, November 12, 11:30 Pm Show to be followed by [...]...
- 11/12/2010
- Nerve
Improve Your Taste With... Shari Springer Berman The co-director of American Splendor and The Extra Man on con-man romance and space-age bachelor-pad music. By Peter Smith In their early careers, filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and her husband Robert Pulcini won acclaim for their documentaries, including Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's and The Young and the Dead. Their first feature, American Splendor, was a warm adaptation of the respected comic-book series by Harvey Pekar; it received widespread acclaim (including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay). This Friday sees the release of their newest film, The Extra Man, starring Kevin Kline and Paul Dano and adapted from a novel by Jonathan Ames. Berman spoke to Nerve about the pop culture that's influenced her filmmaking, reeling off a dazzling and apparently off-the-cuff tribute to underappreciated works from the British cult comedy Withnail and I to the futurist [...]...
- 7/30/2010
- by Peter Smith
- Nerve
London -- L.A.-based television producer Michael Edelstein is packing his passport and relocating to the U.K. to head up international television at NBC Universal International.
Edelstein has been appointed president, international television production at NBC's overseas operation by Peter Smith, president, NBC Universal International. Edelstein will report to Smith.
He replaces former Hat Trick co-founder Denise O'Donoghue who quit four months after she took the job to return to the independent sector.
O'Donoghue had taken up the reins from NBCU's former international production head Angela Bromstad, who moved back to L.A. as president, NBC primetime Entertainment, last year.
Tasked with driving growth through increased local TV productions, expanding NBCU's international TV production footprint and building an internal creative team of talent and launching new business ventures, Edelstein is expected to arrive "in the coming weeks" here, Smith said.
Smith said Edelstein's hire is on partly on...
Edelstein has been appointed president, international television production at NBC's overseas operation by Peter Smith, president, NBC Universal International. Edelstein will report to Smith.
He replaces former Hat Trick co-founder Denise O'Donoghue who quit four months after she took the job to return to the independent sector.
O'Donoghue had taken up the reins from NBCU's former international production head Angela Bromstad, who moved back to L.A. as president, NBC primetime Entertainment, last year.
Tasked with driving growth through increased local TV productions, expanding NBCU's international TV production footprint and building an internal creative team of talent and launching new business ventures, Edelstein is expected to arrive "in the coming weeks" here, Smith said.
Smith said Edelstein's hire is on partly on...
- 6/1/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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