Baron Dave Romm
Fringe Videos
By Baron Dave Romm
Friend
me on Facebook
Mention Bartcop-E in the Friend
Request
Watch short and idiosyncratic (!) videos on Baron Dave's You Tube Channel
The 2010 MInnesota Fringe Festival
The 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival runs from Aug. 5-15, 2010CE, and the showcases and prep started a long time ago. Here are the next batch of video of excerpts and interviews from my coverage of the Fringe. My reviews start with Day 0- (containing the reviews of these shows), and go from the dress rehearsals and continue (links at the bottom).
SlapDash video
<
Link to YouTube if this doesn't appear in HD: SlapDash dress rehearsal. Listing on the Fringe site: SlapDash
Bad Deeds Done Bad video
Link to YouTube if this doesn't appear in HD: Bad Deeds Done Bad dress rehearsal. Listing on the Fringe site: Bad Deeds Done Bad
2010 Fringe Day 1: Three Interviews
Link to YouTube if this doesn't appear in HD: Day 1: Three Interviews
A bunch more interviews are in the can and will be live in a few days.
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia who produces Shockwave Radio Theater, writes in a Live Journal demi-blog maintains a Facebook Page, plays with a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. Dave Romm reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E. Podcasts of Shockwave Radio Theater. Permanent archive. A nascent collection of videos are on Baron Dave's YouTube channel. More radio programs, interviews and science fiction humor plays can be accessed on the Shockwave Radio audio page.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
roger ebert's journal: Mary we crown thee with blossoms today!
My grade school couldn't get state approval today. The teachers were unpaid and lived communally. Two grades were taught in one classroom. There were no resources for science, music, physical education, or foreign languages except the Latin of the Mass and hymns. No playground facilities. The younger students were picked up by the single school bus; as soon as we were old enough, we rode our bikes to school, even in winter.
Jacqueline Kravette: Waiting in Vain for "Superman" (huffingtonpost.com)
Davis Guggenheim, also known for "An Inconvenient Truth," shares a gripping and thought-provoking story in his new film about the plight of this country's educational system.
Jacob Weisberg: A Grand Unified Theory of Palinisms (slate.com)
Why Sarah Palin says all those stupid and ridiculous things.
Matt Miller: Lower the voting age to 10 (washingtonpost.com)
What this country needs is a movement to lower the voting age to 10. Hear me out.
Barry Koltnow: Most overrated movie comedies of all time (The Orange County Register)
As I see it, the world is divided into two distinct camps. There are those who believe that the 1980 film "Caddyshack" is the funniest movie ever made, and then there are those who did not stagger through the 1980s in a drunken stupor.
Bob Westal: A Chat with Chloe Moretz of "Kick-Ass" (bullz-eye.com)
Rather than returning to more typical roles for young girls, like her highly praised, extra-cute performance as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's relationship-wise sister in the indie hit, "(500) Days of Summer," she's following up her work as a kill-crazed vigilante with the lovelorn but literally bloodthirsty Abby in "Let Me In," the American version of the Swedish film and novel, "Let the Right One In," a tale of vampiric sick-puppy love internationally revered as the un-"Twilight."
PATRICK GOLDSTEIN: "Big Picture: Hollywood killing 3-D golden goose faster than expected" (latimes.com)
When the studios realize how much they've cannibalized their audience by rushing films into a 3-D release, they will be cutting back.
Tom Vanderbilt: Dude, Where's Your Car? (slate.com)
How not having a car became Hollywood shorthand for 'loser.'
David Bruce: "The Funniest People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes"
A Kindle Book: $1.
This column will change your life: The art of remembering (guardian.co.uk)
Want to improve your memory? Oliver Burkeman reveals how.
Lucy Mangan: Beyond the threshold (guardian.co.uk)
'Dad's ankle is twice as wide as his head and his lips have gone blue... Maybe it's time to get his bank details out of him.'
The Weekly Poll
Update
I'll be back August 17th with a two week long Emmy Contest with a prize! Yes! A nice one, too! Details will be posted beforehand to whet yer interest, so stay tuned! Until then, thanks to all... Yer the Best!
BadToTheBoneBob
wrote:
("In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
~~ Lenny Bruce) answered:
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Suggestion
Sharon in Texas
Reader Comment
Re: See-Thru Skirts
Hi Marty,
I was much relieved to read that, 'painted panty' skirts will not soon be invading this country, and that in fact the story is a hoax... That being said, and in my defense, is it so difficult to believe such a story from a country who chooses a day to WORSHIP THE PENIS?? I think not...
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
This is disgusting
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and cooler than yesterday.
Man With An Opinion
Spike Lee
Filmmaker Spike Lee is calling a "lie" a U.S. government report that 75 percent of the spilled Gulf Coast oil is gone.
Speaking to a meeting of the Television Critics Association on Saturday, Lee said journalists should expose what he called the real story. He argued that it's unlikely that "abracadabra, presto chango" the vast majority of the oil has vanished from Gulf of Mexico waters and coastal wetlands.
Federal scientists said last week that nearly three-quarters of the oil has been removed by various artificial or natural means, but that the spill's effect on wildlife will long continue.
Lee was promoting his new documentary about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," a follow-up to his 2006 film about the hurricane, debuts Aug. 23 and 24 on HBO.
Spike Lee
HBO Ending Next Summer
'Entourage'
HBO has made it official: "Entourage" will end next summer.
The cable network will order a shortened final season of its longest-running series, possibly only six episodes, which will bring the show to a conclusion in 2011.
HBO programing president Michael Lombardo said Saturday at the Television Critics Assn.'s press tour that creator Doug Ellin still might write a feature-length "Entourage" film, but he also noted that Ellin is pitching new projects to the network and that it's likely the writer-producer soon will be involved in another show.
As for the network's other long-running comedy, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," it has no end in sight. It is expected to return sometime next year.
'Entourage'
Kazakhstan Plans Homegrown Sequel
'Borat'
A director in Kazakhstan is set to shoot an unofficial sequel to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's unflattering 2006 send-up of the ex-Soviet state, media reported on Saturday.
Filmmaker Erkin Rakishev will direct "My Brother, Borat", a follow-up to Baron Cohen's hugely successful mockumentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
The film -- which centres on the travels of an American Borat superfan who arrives in Kazakhstan expecting a post-Soviet wasteland but finds instead a prosperous petro-state -- will combat negative stereotypes, the director said.
"We want to ride on the wave of success of Borat, to take advantage of this popular image in the West to show people the real Kazakhstan, not Baron Cohen's Kazakhstan," Rakishev told Kazakh tabloid Kazakhstanskaya Pravda.
'Borat'
Wedding News
Field - Williams
British pop singer Robbie Williams has married U.S. actress Ayda Field in his Beverly Hills mansion.
Spokesman Murray Chalmers said in a statement Sunday that the pair held a ceremony on the grounds of their home in Los Angeles on Saturday.
People.com reported that a small group of 75 guests attended the 36-year-old singer's wedding.
Field - Williams
Set To Challenge Campbell Diamonds Testimony
Mia Farrow
Supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial is likely to be challenged on Monday when a Hollywood film star and a modelling agent take the stand.
Both Mia Farrow and Carole White are liable to contradict Campbell when they take the stand at the "blood diamonds" trial of the former Liberian president at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.
Court documents suggest that White will testify that Campbell knew in advance she would get diamonds from Taylor after a dinner in South Africa in 1997 -- and that she seemed disappointed with the "pebbles" she had received.
Farrow, who also attended the dinner, has told prosecutors that Campbell had told her and other guests an "unforgettable story" the day after the event.
Mia Farrow
Garage-Sale Find Debunked?
Ansel Adams
Questioned At Israeli Airport
Donna Shalala
A former secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department says she was interrogated at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel last month.
Donna Shalala, who is of Lebanese descent, is now the president of the University of Miami. She was visiting Israel in July as part of a delegation of university leaders invited by the American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange. Shalala stayed after the convention to meet with a group setting up a new medical school in Israel.
University spokeswoman Margot Winick said in an e-mail that Shalala was delayed as she was leaving Israel with security questions and a luggage search that took nearly 3 hours. But she didn't miss her flight.
Israeli airport authority officials said there was no record of the search.
Donna Shalala
Art Work To Auction
Lehman Brothers
Art works that once adorned the British and European offices of former banking powerhouse Lehman Brothers are to be auctioned off next month, the bank's administrators said Sunday.
Works by the likes of Lucian Freud and Gary Hume and the sign that adorned the company's offices in London's Canary Wharf financial district will be among the pieces up for sale, said PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which is in charge of the collapsed bank's main European operations.
The bank filed for bankruptcy in September 2008 with debts of $613 billion, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, deepening a global economic crisis and temporarily paralyzing markets.
The diverse selection of items include post-war and contemporary pieces, maritime pictures and sporting works of art, PwC said.
Lehman Brothers
Hong Kong Porn
'3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy'
A group of Hong Kong filmmakers have started shooting what they claim will be the world's first 3D pornographic film, a report said Sunday.
The 3.2 million-US-dollar '3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy', set for release in May, has already generated interest in a host of Asian film markets, as well as Europe and the US, the Sunday Morning Post reported.
Loosely based on a piece of classical Chinese erotic literature, The Carnal Prayer Mat, the movie will star Japanese adult actresses Yukiko Suo and Saori Hara, the Post said.
The film chronicles the story of a young man who, after being introduced to the erotic world of a duke, realises his ex-wife is the love of his life and features "orgies, swinging and some very graphic sex scenes", the paper said.
'3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy'
Ancient Bison Kill Site Uncovered
Montana
Archaeologists working on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwestern Montana say they have uncovered a vast former hunting complex where bison were stampeded over a cliff at least 1,000 years ago.
Researchers say the 9-mile-long area contains a well-preserved "drive line" system used to funnel bison to their deaths, along with bison bones and the remnants of campsites with hundreds of tepee rings.
The site is on a remote plateau overlooking the Two Medicine River. Researchers say it could become one of the largest and most significant Blackfeet heritage sites in the region.
Plains Indians harvested bison hundreds of years ago by stampeding them over cliffs. John Murray, the Blackfeet Tribe's historic preservation officer, says research at the new site will help tribal members better understand their history.
Montana
Weekend Box Office
'The Other Guys'
"The Other Guys" are the main guys at the box office, knocking off "Inception" to take the No. 1 spot.
The buddy-cop parody starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg made $35.6 million in its opening weekend, according to Sunday estimates from Sony Pictures.
The other new movie opening nationwide this weekend, the dance sequel "Step Up 3-D" from Disney and Summit Entertainment, came in third place with $15.5 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Other Guys," $35.6 million.
2. "Inception," $18.6 million.
3. "Step Up 3-D," $15.5 million.
4. "Salt," $11.1 million.
5. "Dinner for Schmucks," $10.5 million.
6. "Despicable Me," $9.4 million.
7. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," $6.9 million.
8. "Charlie St. Cloud," $4.7 million.
9. "Toy Story 3," $3 million.
10."The Kids Are All Right," $2.6 million.
'The Other Guys'
In Memory
Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84.
Neal was already an award-winning Broadway actress when she won her Oscar for her role as a housekeeper to the Texas father (Melvyn Douglas) battling his selfish, amoral son (Paul Newman).
Less than two years later, she suffered a series of strokes in 1965 at age 39. Her struggle to once again walk and talk is regarded as epic in the annals of stroke rehabilitation. She returned to the screen to earn another Oscar nomination and three Emmy nominations.
The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center that helps people recover from strokes and spinal cord and brain injuries is named for her in Knoxville, where she grew up.
She had the female leads in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead," the classic 1951 science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and Elia Kazan's 1957 drama "A Face in the Crowd."
She made a grand return to the screen after her strokes in 1968, winning an Oscar nomination for her performance in "The Subject Was Roses."
In 1971, she played Olivia Walton in "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," a made-for-TV film that served as the pilot for the CBS series "The Waltons." It brought her the first of her three Emmy nominations.
In 1953, she married Roald Dahl, the British writer famed for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach" and other tales for children. They had five children. They divorced in 1983 after she learned he was having an affair with her best friend and he died in 1990.
Neal was born in a mining camp in Packard, Ky., the daughter of a transportation manager for the South Coal & Coke Co. After leaving Knoxville, she attended Northwestern University and then struck out for Broadway.
Her Broadway credits included "A Roomful of Roses," "The Miracle Worker" (as Helen Keller's mother, Kate) and a revival of Lillian Hellman's drama "The Children's Hour."
She made her screen debut in 1949's "John Loves Mary," that also starred Jack Carson and Ronald Reagan.
Her three Emmy nominations were all for roles in notable drama specials: Besides "The Homecoming," they were "Tail Gunner Joe," a 1977 drama about Sen. Joe McCarthy, and a version of the tragic World War I story "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Among Neal's children is Tessa Dahl, who followed in her father's footsteps as a writer. Tessa Dahl's daughter is the model and writer Sophie Dahl.
The statement from Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy Dahl and others said that the night before her death, Neal told them, "I've had a lovely time."
Patricia Neal
In Memory
Bruno Cremer
French actor Bruno Cremer, best known for playing the role of Inspector Jules Maigret, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday at the age of 80, his agent France Degand told AFP on Sunday.
Cremer played Maigret, a pipe-smoking French police detective created by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, in 54 episodes produced by French public television from 1991 to 2005.
Cremer studied at the Paris Conservatory alongside the likes of Jean-Paul Belmondo, and appeared in many films and stage plays in a career that began in the 1950s. He had been living with cancer for several years.
He had two daughters with his wife Chantal, who he married in 1984, as well as a son from an earlier marriage.
Bruno Cremer
| CURRENT MOON lunar phases |
