Years ago, in the pages of Men’s Journal, I confessed to a psychotic obsession with the NFL draft. I dreamed of leaving journalism and being allowed to turn around a wayward team like the Jacksonville Jaguars using ideas like, “Always pick the guy who falls in the draft after a positive weed test.”
But Jaguars owner Shahid Khan never returned my calls. Moreover, I’m beginning to think the NFL won’t exist 20 years from now, because of that minor problem of the sport being physically lethal to its employees.
But Jaguars owner Shahid Khan never returned my calls. Moreover, I’m beginning to think the NFL won’t exist 20 years from now, because of that minor problem of the sport being physically lethal to its employees.
- 6/22/2017
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
The Academy Awards (or the Oscars, as they shall now forever be known) have always struck one as an insidious cabal that has been hellbent on promoting mediocrity; to put in another way, they are like a bad sports team owner. Instead of picking Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, the Academy seems to pick Danny Ferry, Sun Mingming and Tony Parker.
Many great films have been snubbed due to the poor choices of the Academy, however there have also been incredibly strange nominations for “Best Picture” throughout the history of the Oscars. In fact, these choices are so odd, it is necessary to give a short overview of the top 10 egregiously strange nominations in no particular ranking (since they all are deserving of being number 1 for a myriad of reasons)…
10. Trader Horn (1931)
Based on the real life escapes of Alfred Aloysius “Trader” Horn and his memoirs this film...
Many great films have been snubbed due to the poor choices of the Academy, however there have also been incredibly strange nominations for “Best Picture” throughout the history of the Oscars. In fact, these choices are so odd, it is necessary to give a short overview of the top 10 egregiously strange nominations in no particular ranking (since they all are deserving of being number 1 for a myriad of reasons)…
10. Trader Horn (1931)
Based on the real life escapes of Alfred Aloysius “Trader” Horn and his memoirs this film...
- 2/25/2013
- by Marvin Lee Dupree
- Obsessed with Film
They were hard to miss as they hurried around Boulder on Friday evening and Saturday, sporting various costumes, carrying props and camera equipment.
The 19 film crews seemingly popped up out of nowhere Friday, then disappeared just as quickly a day later. The frenetic filmmakers were this year's entrants in the Shoot Out 24-Hour Filmmaking Festival, an event in its ninth year in Boulder.
The challenge is cinematic creativity, on deadline. Participants are challenged to create a seven-minute film using only linear editing and incorporating at least five elements from a list of 11 distributed to teams at the beginning of the event -- all in the time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
Judges on Saturday night selected the top 10 films, which will be screened at noon Sunday at a public event at eTown Hall.
"As a filmmaker, I thought it was something that would be fun to do, and it just took off,...
The 19 film crews seemingly popped up out of nowhere Friday, then disappeared just as quickly a day later. The frenetic filmmakers were this year's entrants in the Shoot Out 24-Hour Filmmaking Festival, an event in its ninth year in Boulder.
The challenge is cinematic creativity, on deadline. Participants are challenged to create a seven-minute film using only linear editing and incorporating at least five elements from a list of 11 distributed to teams at the beginning of the event -- all in the time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
Judges on Saturday night selected the top 10 films, which will be screened at noon Sunday at a public event at eTown Hall.
"As a filmmaker, I thought it was something that would be fun to do, and it just took off,...
- 10/21/2012
- by The Boulder Daily Camera
- Huffington Post
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