I've come to know a fair number of bootleggers & home producers over the last few years, & to a person they all began mixing because of their love for music. Many have the gleam of potential money in their eye; a useful state to be sure. Some even have ambitions of a fame of some sort. Lots come into mashing by way of being a live dj. Many discovered bastard pop while surfing the net. I myself had production experience recording symphony orchestras that increased my interest in home studio recording. I couldn't do what I heard mash makers doing (yet), but I was intrigued.
Like so many before (after) me did, we gathered some mp3's & whatever mixing programs we could obtain with the lofty goal (lol) of making grafted tunes we could play & share with others. I got advice early on from a strong woman in my life to focus less on the music & more on the music-makers. She told me to place a large emphasis on the people themselves, & I'd reap friendship as well as inspiration. I've not always been the most social creature. It took some adjusting & much patience. Sure 'n it was about the best instructions I ever got. I've established warm friendships with the best people you can imagine. Only a few chumps.
All of us on the net want the same things-something interesting to do with people you enjoy 'hanging' with. Perhaps some prefer to do it with less clothing. LMAO. Bootleggers aren't making money posting tracks for you. It actually costs them money, yet I've only seen a few ask for contributions. The manner of reward for making mashups is when you find out people played them. This means comments, & let me tell you they are not flowing most of the time. I've seen even the best bootleggers get only 1 or 2 comments. Lately, there's a lot of competition & if you don't post regularly, the new audience doesn't even know you. My personal dj slogan of 'not mandatory' came in useful in keeping me from being a pest about asking people to check out my new creations. Whether a track gets comments or not, you keep on plugging away with the tracks you like best.
So it's not exactly easy to hit the bootleg scene, but there's always room for more as due to the above-cited conditions there's a high attrition rate for mashup mixers. So many I've met depart when lack of response, real world hardships, or outright hostility from goons on the net eat away at their creativity to the point the joy is gone. So many leave taking with them their personal talents along with the mashups that might have been. I've been involved in the world of graphic art where there exists a similar state of burnout. Art comes from the heart where hate lives as well. Take some happy painters, or bootleggers & start harassing them & the art will cease to flow.
To sum up this discussion of mashup motivation I urge you readers to leave some comments sometimes. It's cheating yourself to withhold your presence from our posts. You don't even have to be a bootlegger to say something. And to all you bootleggers, at the stage where you need some time off, please rest, recuperate, and when you feel like it, come back, cause there's a place for you. Anyone who perceives musical tones through auditory transitions I welcome comments and contributions from. The best part of commenting usually comes after since many mixers translate positive communication into more posted material. Then we all feel the benefit & you assume your true role in the mashup world as a music motivator.
Thanks for reading, & may your mashup experience be fruitful.
Mojo Flucke: A Chat with James Hunter (bullz-eye.com)
I was only dimly aware of what the Grammys were, only that it was a fairly big deal, really. I was quite surprised. Our manager had that in mind from the start, that was a particular target of hers, to be nominated and win one. It wasn't particularly galling to lose to Ike Turner - because if there was no Ike Turner I'd probably never be doing what I'm doing.
20 QUESTIONS: Thomas Dolby (popmatters.com)
I gave up smoking when I was 28. When I met Kathleen, she said she would never kiss me if I smoked. I really wanted to kiss her. So that did the trick.
Dominick A. Miserandino: Interview with Bryan Adams (thecelebritycafe.com)
Bryan Adams has been entertaining fans for thirty years with his rock music. With the release of his latest album, 11 (his 11th Studio Album), Adams talked with TheCelebrityCafe's Dominick Miserandino about making music, revealing his true self, and changing how he promotes his work.
Jenn Danko: Surviving House (newcitychicago.com)
A twenty-year trek through house music can throw any producer for a twist. Luckily for John Larner and Slater Hogan, the duo has been able to ride the kind of turns that have kept their sound relevant.
KERRY TRUEMAN: "'Take Out': A Story of Stir-Fried Servitude" (huffingtonpost.com)
The film is perfectly cast and its cinema verité approach makes its message all the more compelling. While the Broken Borders brigade is fixated on erecting barriers, Take Out asks us to step outside of our individual fortresses, just for an hour and a half, and see the view from the other side of our front doors. It's a powerful ploy; as Nathan Lee writes in his review of "Take Out" in Friday's New York Times, "I'll tip more, I promise!"
Cary Darling: Current TV and its interactive Web site are getting attention (McClatchy Newspapers)
Before Current TV hit the air in late summer 2005, programming president David Neuman heard rumblings of an approaching apocalypse from all corners. No way could a fledgling network, even one with a famous co-founder named Al Gore, be constructed on the unreliable, shifting sands of viewer-generated content.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (athensnews.com)
Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, and the other members of the band take education seriously. Mr. Martin and his band mates attended London University. They declined to sign a contract that made them release any Coldplay records or tour before they had completed their final exams. Mr. Martin received a first - a top British honor - in ancient world studies. He and the other members of Coldplay became rock gods after their final exams.
zEN mAN (observing the Rapper "Fifty Cent" wearing a huge and creepy christian crucifix all covered with diamonds and Ramona from "Real Housewives of New York" with her "Christian Dior" dismond covered cross....shame on them...Jesus died for their sins?)
mj was first, and correct, writing:
If I remember what I saw
On the History Channel, it was E, self-defense.
Alan J responded:
Self-Defense
Sally answered:
John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers of the Boston Massacre by using the premise of Self-defense (E).
Yes, just as it is today, the military will always defend itself against ordinary citizens standing up and demanding justice against tyranny. (Now it's called the "Patriot Act!") (No one in NY will ever forgive the NYPD for their actions at the 2004 REPUBLICAN Convention!) (Thank you Mayor Bloomberg you Capitalist Pig!)
"Adams called the crowd, 'a motley rabble of saucy boys, Negroes and mulattos, Irish Taigs (Catholics), and outlandish jack tars (common English term used to refer to seamen of the Merchant or Royal Navy, particularly during the period of the British Empire).'"
(Just as it is today, when anyone killed in the Mideast by our solders, is always described as having ,'TALIBAN' connections' even if the dead is merely a child!"
Grrrrrr,
PS Since it was 82° here at 5:45 AM with unbearable humidity I am in a fowl mood that (even if I had) AC could not reverse.
PPS, Kudos' (again) to Charlie, "The Brain" for yesterday's only correct reply! (Though Charlie must live in a real cool climate to have the brain power he so often displays.)
Charlie replied:
E: Self-Defense
It went like this:
John Adams spent much of his closing argument educating the jury on the law of self-defense. He recalled the testimony about the "people crying kill them! kill them! knock them over! heaving snowballs, oyster shells, clubs, white birch sticks." Adams then asked the jurors to "consider yourselves, in this situation, and then judge whether a reasonable man . . . would not have concluded they were going to kill him."
Adams referred to Pvt. Montgomery, the first to fire. "He was knocked down at his station," Adams continued. "Had he not reason to think his life in danger?" As for Pvt. Killroy, Adams pointed out that no one had testified that he had aimed at Samuel Gray rather than at the mob in general.
John Adams concluded by stating the law at the time: "If an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had the right to kill in self-defense . . . ." Adams conceded, however, that if the assault "was not so severe as to endanger their lives . . . [then] this was a provocation, for which the law reduces the offense of killing down to manslaughter."
PURPLE GENE responded:
JOHN ADAMS WAS NO JOHNNY COCHRAN ("IF THE GLOVE DON'T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT") AS A DEFENSE LAWYER BUT HE WAS CLEVER, THOROUGH AND COMPASSIONATE.
THE EIGHT BRITISH SOLDIER WERE ON TRIAL FOR FIRING INTO A MOB.....JOHN ADAMS USED TESTIMONY TO PROVE THAT THE CROWD WAS, IN THE MIND OF THE SOLDIERS, THREATENING TO KILL THEM.......THUS HE USED "SELF-DEFENSE" AS THE REASON THEY FIRED INTO THE CROWD,
THE ANSWER IS E....."SELF-DEFENSE"
Tony In Philly answered:
E: Self Defense
Marian the Teacher said:
Self Defense.
Adam in NoHo replied:
Umm...Mistaken Identity.
The soldiers heard 'fire' from somewhere and thought it was their
commander giving the order to fire on the crowd.
Vic in AK responded:
John Adams defended the Troops from shooting into the " motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs" who had thrown SNOWBALLS at the troops, by using E: Self-Defense , not all were acquitted tho.
Shades of cops getting a "good shoot" for blowing someone away i.e. 'American Skin (41 Shots)'
Sorry, being from Massachusetts it's still a little too soon....damned RedCoat Curs!!!...I need to drink a Sam Adams now...
And, Buzzcook wrote:
I read the David McCullough bio of Adams a couple years ago. McCullough
fell in love with Adams and Abigail and that love seeps out of the pages
of the book.
Adams defended the officers and men in separate trials. Adams benefited
from under-zealous prosecutors and a certain ambivalence amongst the
Sons of Liberty. So in spite of the willingness of colonial witness' to
perjure themselves, Adams got an acquittal for the officers on the
grounds that they didn't order the shooting and for the men on the
grounds of self defense.
Wish I hadn't missed that this was for a set of DVDs.
Results of the John Adams DVD contest:
Charlie got 5 out of 5 questions correct.
Alan J got 4 out of 5 questions correct.
Marian the Teacher got 4 out of 5 questions correct.
Purple Gene got 4 out of 5 questions correct.
Sally got 4 out of 5 questions correct.
Vic in AK got 4 out of 5 questions correct.
Adam in NoHo got 1 out of 3 questions correct.
Tony in Philly got 1 out of 2 questions correct.
Baron Dave got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Buzzcook got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Jim in CA got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
joe b got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Joe S got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Judi in Chattanooga got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Mike in des Moines got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
mj got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
Sandra in Bangor got 1 out of 1 questions correct.
PURPLE GENE'S MINI REVIEW OF THE NEW NBC SHOW "NASHVILLE STAR"
OR AS I LIKE TO CALL IT "AMERICAN "HILLBILLY" IDOL
"NASHVILLE STAR" IS A CORRAL OF CHRISTIAN KIDS CROONING CREEPY CRAP IN A CONSUMATE CLICHE' OF TRADITIONAL HICK, SHIT KICK, DUMB ASS LYRICS, YODELLING WITH DESIGNER COWBOY BOOTS, COTTON DRESSES, PRESSED LEVIS AND PLAID SHIRTS....
BILLY RAY CYRUS AS THE HOST GETS TO SAY....EVERY TIME..."THAT'S A GREAT JOB" (TO THE PERFORMER)....AND "WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK" (REFERING TO THE JUDGES. AND HE SAYS IT EXACTLY THE SAME WAY...EVERY TIME (IT'S A GOOD THING HIS DAUGHTER (HANNAH MONTANA) IS DOING SO WELL WITH DISNEY.
JUDGE JEFFREY STEELE (SONGWRITER TO THE COUNTRY STARS) IS LIKE RANDY JACKSON WITHOUT THE "WHAT UP DAWG"....BUT WITH THE "YOU SMOKED IT!"
JUDGE JOHN RICH (OF "BIG & RICH") AIN'T NO SIMON COWELL....(I WANT TO PULL HIS MUSTACHE OFF AND STOMP HIS BIG COWBOY HAT.
JUDGE JEWEL (ALASKAN SINGER MARRIED TO A BULL RIDER) AINT NO PAULA ABDUL...SHE'S TOUGH ON THE CHICKS...BUT ADORING TO THE GUYS
ALL IN ALL, IT WAS GLITZY AND BORING WITH NO REAL TALENT....YET !
I SUPPOSE I'LL TUNE IN NEXT MONDAY NIGHT AT 9PM AND SEE IF ANYONE GETS BETTER.
I WAS INITIALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS SHOW BECAUSE MY FRIEND AND SONGWRITING PAL, JEFFREY STEELE, WAS ONE OF THE JUDGES....BUT HIS MAKE-UP WAS BAD AND THEY CURLED HIS HAIR.....OH THE PITFALLS OF STARDOM!
My old pal, Coastal Eddy, is parked offshore, keeping it cool and pleasant.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a RERUN'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Zooey Deschanel and Jakob Dylan.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Stockard Channing, Bill Engvall, and Griffin House.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Circus'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dana Carvey, Spencer Breslin, and Priscilla Ahn.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Mark Wahlberg, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tristan Prettyman.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap', followed by a RERUN'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kathy Griffin, Josh Peck, Esperanza and Spalding.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Farmer Wants A Wife'.
Faux has a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY has a FRESH'Under One Roof', followed by a RECYCLED'In Living Color', then the FRESH'Dad's Funniest Moments'.
AMC offers the movie 'Navy SEALs', followed by the movie 'Dracula 2000', then the movie 'Species'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 14
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 2 Glass House
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 22 Shepton Mallet 10
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 15
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 16
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Super Skinny Me - Super Skinny Me
[9:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 4 Road Trip
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Super Skinny Me
[12:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 4 Road Trip
[1:00 AM] Super Skinny Me - Super Skinny Me
[2:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 4 Road Trip
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 4
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 5
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 22 Shepton Mallet 10
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 31 Burdett
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 32 Hinchcliffe
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Rick Shenkman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is David Hadju.
FX has the movie 'Batman Begins', followed by the movie 'Hellboy', then the movie 'Hellboy', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', followed by a FRESH'MonsterQuest', and 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[07:20 AM] Bread and Roses
[09:20 AM] Chinese Box
[11:05 AM] I Heart Huckabees
[01:00 PM] L'Auberge Espagnole
[03:05 PM] Chinese Box
[04:50 PM] I Heart Huckabees
[06:45 PM] Town & Country
[08:30 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #8
[09:00 PM] Havoc
[10:30 PM] Igby Goes Down
[12:15 AM] Havoc
[01:45 AM] Igby Goes Down
[03:30 AM] Town & Country
[05:20 AM] I Heart Huckabees (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Donnie Darko
[07:00 AM] Being Julia
[09:00 AM] Episode 4
[10:00 AM] The Last Mogul
[11:45 AM] Southern Belles
[01:30 PM] Choking Man
[03:00 PM] Up At the Villa
[05:00 PM] Being Julia
[06:45 PM] Mary, Queen of Scots
[09:00 PM] Episode 2 - New York
[09:30 PM] (Episode 2)
[10:00 PM] U-CARMEN eKHAYELITSHA
[12:15 AM] Episode 4
[01:15 AM] Episode 2: Didn't Mean To
[02:00 AM] Love
[03:35 AM] Fridays at the Farm
[04:00 AM] Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons, Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot
[05:00 AM] Southern Belles (ALL TIMES EST)
In this photo released by World Hunger Year (WHY), musician Elvis Costello performs after being awarded the ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award, Monday, June 9, 2008, in New York, which was presented to him for his activism on behalf of the poor and the hungry, at the annual WHY-Chapin Awards Dinner in memory of the late Harry Chapin, who was a co-founder of WHY. WHY fights hunger and poverty in the United States and abroad.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
US actress Mia Farrow on Tuesday described the Central African Republic (CAR) as a virtual "collapsed state" where human rights violations are rife, following a trip there last month.
"I don't think President Francois Bozize has very much jurisdiction outside of Bangui (the capital) except those towns that he now holds in some fragile fashion," she said in an interview with AFP.
"I don't know what the technical definition of a collapsed state is but I can't imagine it would very different from what we're seeing there," said Farrow, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The 63-year-old, who is also well known for speaking out against abuses in Sudan's Darfur region and Chad, gave a chilling account of her swing across CAR last month, saying many civilians have been killed, kidnapped or raped amid fighting between government troops and rebel forces.
An 800-word hand-written story by bestselling author J.K. Rowling, which she describes as a prequel to the Harry Potter boy wizard books, sold for 25,000 pounds ($49,000) at a charity auction on Tuesday.
Thirteen writers and illustrators donated original short stories on notebook-sized pieces of card to Waterstone's book store chain which sold them to benefit English PEN, which champions freedom of expression, and Dyslexia Action.
Rowling's tale accounted for more than half the night's proceeds of 47,150 pounds, although it could yet be considered a literary bargain.
Other contributors to the charity auction included Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, whose story fetched 3,000 pounds, playwright Tom Stoppard (4,000 pounds), illustrator Axel Scheffler (2,700) and novelist Sebastian Faulks (2,500).
In this photo released by idrinkwell.com, model and actress Molly Sims holds a summer cocktail, Tuesday, June 10, 2008, in New York, during an event to unveil the results of 'The idrinkwell.com 2008 National Survey of American Culture, Attitudes and Trends.' idrinkwell.com, an online drinks guide issued by Zagat's, rates bars and restaurants across the country committed to serving quality drinks.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Sotheby's has sold the short white dress that Jerry Hall wore for her Hindu wedding to Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger 18 years ago.
The British auction house sold the lace dress for 2,420 pounds (almost $5,000) Tuesday to vintage store owner Steven Philip. The amount is five times the estimated price. The wedding dress was sold with a photograph of Hall at her wedding ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, in 1990. Jagger annulled the marriage nine years later.
U.S. officials are facing a potential glitch in a program designed to help television viewers make the switch to digital TV next year.
A Commerce Department official told House lawmakers that more money might be needed to mail out all the $40 government coupons that will be available to subsidize converter boxes that some TV owners will need for the February 2009 switchover.
Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, associate director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said at a hearing that it was possible the agency "would have to get more money, basically to buy more stamps to send out coupons."
The transition is being closely watched because owners of analog televisions will be unable to watch television unless they subscribe to satellite or digital cable, replace their TV with a digital television by that date, or get a converter box.
Hollywood is bringing the adventures of "The Smurfs" to life in a film aimed at introducing the cartoon little blue creatures to a new generation of fans, it was announced Tuesday.
A statement from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation said they had obtained motion picture rights to the Smurfs, who first appeared as a Belgian comic strip in 1958.
A hybrid live-action and animated film would now go into production, with the writers of the phenomenally successful second and third "Shrek" films, David Stem and David Weiss, tapped to write the screenplay.
Actor Leonard Nimoy makes an appearance at the Licensing International Expo at the Jacob K. Javits convention center Tuesday, June 10, 2008, in New York.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
A consumer alert for the millions who have seen the "Sex and the City" movie: There is no such book as "Love Letters of Great Men," which Carrie Bradshaw reads while in bed with Mr. Big.
The closest text in the real world apparently is "Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day," first released in the 1920s and reissued last year by Kessinger Publishing, which specializes in bringing back old works.
In "Sex and the City," an early scene shows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) poring over the imaginary collection, although citing real letters by Beethoven and Napoleon among others. Big (Chris Noth) later takes passages from the book as he expresses his love, by e-mail, to Carrie.
Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott are parents again.
The "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum and McDermott welcomed their second child - 6-pound, 8-ounce Stella Doreen McDermott - at a Los Angeles hospital Monday, her publicist, Meghan Prophet, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
(John) McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain's three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain's first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam's infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
People walk past artist Chris Burden's 65-foot tall skyscraper sculpture, constructed out of toy parts, in the plaza at Rockefeller Center, in New York, June 10, 2008.
Photo by Chip East
CBS Corp on Tuesday said it received U.S. anti-trust approval for its $1.8 billion acquisition of web media company CNET Networks Inc.
On completion of the deal, expected in the third quarter, CBS's digital properties would be home to 54 million unique monthly users in the United States and about 200 million users worldwide.
A stuntman filming John Woo's new movie in Beijing was killed in a bizarre fire when a small boat rammed into the set of an ancient warship, state media said on Tuesday.
At least three people were injured in the accident during the shooting of the battle epic "Chi Bi," or "Red Cliff."
"The fire broke out early Monday morning when the crew were shooting a scene in which a small, smoking boat crashed with a large ancient war vessel," Xinhua news agency said.
At the point of collision, at which machines let out smoke, an unchoreographed flame jumped 30 meters (yards) into the air, the Beijing News said, citing crew at the northern Beijing location.
Disney will stream full-length movies on its Web site for the first time, as part of its "Wonderful World of Disney" series on ABC. The films are scheduled to stream through August.
"Finding Nemo" is available at www.Disney.com/WWoD through Friday, after the film's airing Saturday on Disney-owned ABC. "Monsters, Inc.," "Haunted Mansion," "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," "Princess Diaries 2," "Freaky Friday" and "Peter Pan" also will be available on the site this summer.
A Disney spokesman said the decision to stream movies for free marks an "evolution" in the company's online strategy. Fox, Universal, Lionsgate and MGM have all previously placed titles on Hulu, the NBC Universal/News Corp.-owned site, while Disney has gone the pay route and kept its films, for the most part, on iTunes.
The movies will be on Disney.com from Monday through Friday after their ABC broadcast the preceding Saturday night as "Wonderful World of Disney" presentations. "Peter Pan" will be the last movie to stream, ending its run August 8.
In this photo provided by the National Park Service, the Hamilton Grange National Memorial makes a slow turn from Convent Avenue onto 141 St. Street in New York, Saturday, June 7, 2008. The two-century-old house that once belonged to founding father Alexander Hamilton was moved to a new spot in a park located in Harlem section of New York City.
Photo by Mindi Rambo
Hundreds of the late "Godfather of Soul" James Brown's instruments, awards and stage costumes will go under the hammer in New York next month, Christie's auction house said Tuesday.
The lot of 320 items being auctioned July 17 includes a wide range of memorabilia, from letters to a moon-shaped couch and a black cape emblazoned with the R & B legend's name, valued between 15,000 and 20,000 dollars.
Other items include the jeans outfit Brown wore before the historic boxing match between Mohammed Ali and George Foreman in Zaire in 1974, valued between 5,000 and 7,000 dollars.
A 350-year-old debt left by King Charles II to a clothes company has finally been paid by the Prince of Wales.
Prince Charles handed over the sum of £453.15 during a visit to The Commandery History Museum in Worcester.
The Clothiers Company of Worcester had never forgotten the Royal Family owed them money after King Charles II failed to pay when he commissioned them to make uniforms for his troops in 1651.
As he presented the money in a gaming purse made by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Prince Charles joked that he was glad he didn't have to pay back any interest - which would have pushed the sum into thousands of pounds.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for June 2-8. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) NBA Finals Game 2: L.A. Lakers vs. Boston, ABC, 13.5 million viewers.
2. (X) NBA Finals Game 1: L.A. Lakers vs. Boston, ABC, 13.38 million viewers.
3. (15) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 9.81 million viewers.
4. (22) "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.81 million viewers.
5. (46) "Million Dollar Password," CBS, 9.62 million viewers.
6. (9) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.61 million viewers.
7. (53) "So You Think Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.56 million viewers.
8. (13) "House," Fox, 9.44 million viewers.
9. (28) "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 9.36 million viewers.
10. (53) "So You Think Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 9.25 million viewers.
11. (25) "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.11 million viewers.
12. (13) "NCIS," CBS, 8.93 million viewers.
13. (15) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 8.91 million viewers.
14. (67) "Swingtown," CBS, 8.57 million viewers.
15. (22) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.27 million viewers.
16. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Thursday Special," CBS, 8.21 million viewers.
17. (32) "Rules Of Engagement," CBS, 8.12 million viewers.
18. (32) "Cold Case," CBS, 8.08 million viewers.
19. (79) "Dateline NBC-Sunday," NBC, 7.99 million viewers.
20. (94) "48 Hours Mystery Tuesday," CBS, 7.78 million viewers.
A lioness licks a frozen block of cow blood at the National Zoo in Washington June 9, 2008. Temperatures neared the 100-degree farenheit mark (37.7 degree Celsius) today as the Washington area continues to feel the effects of a heat wave.
Photo by Kevin Lamarque
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