His publicist, Stan Rosenfield, resigned immediately afterwards
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Oscars Audience Down
Telecast widely panned
Television audiences for Sunday's Oscar ceremony fell about seven percent compared to a year ago, according to early ratings data on Monday from major U.S. cities, acccording to Reuters.
Television critics widely panned the Oscar telecast, which was hosted for the first time by actors Anne Hathaway and James Franco in what was seen as a bid by organizers to attract younger viewers.
But the 3-/2 hour show, which awarded royal movie "The King's Speech" best film honors and three other Oscars, held up well in the 18-49 demographic most coveted by advertisers, according to Nielsen figures.
The number of total U.S. viewers will be released later on Monday by Nielsen. But Sunday's ceremony broadcast on ABC was already the most-watched TV show of the night, with more than double the audience of other TV networks combined.
Last year, the Oscars were watched by 41.7 million viewers in the United States -- the largest TV audience for the ceremony in five years.
Reviews of Sunday's efforts by Hathaway -- at 28 the youngest host in Oscar history, and Franco, 32, the Oscar-nominated star of "127 Hours" -- were harsh.
The Hollywood Reporter said the ceremony "could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history."
Read more here.
Television audiences for Sunday's Oscar ceremony fell about seven percent compared to a year ago, according to early ratings data on Monday from major U.S. cities, acccording to Reuters.
Television critics widely panned the Oscar telecast, which was hosted for the first time by actors Anne Hathaway and James Franco in what was seen as a bid by organizers to attract younger viewers.
But the 3-/2 hour show, which awarded royal movie "The King's Speech" best film honors and three other Oscars, held up well in the 18-49 demographic most coveted by advertisers, according to Nielsen figures.
The number of total U.S. viewers will be released later on Monday by Nielsen. But Sunday's ceremony broadcast on ABC was already the most-watched TV show of the night, with more than double the audience of other TV networks combined.
Last year, the Oscars were watched by 41.7 million viewers in the United States -- the largest TV audience for the ceremony in five years.
Reviews of Sunday's efforts by Hathaway -- at 28 the youngest host in Oscar history, and Franco, 32, the Oscar-nominated star of "127 Hours" -- were harsh.
The Hollywood Reporter said the ceremony "could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history."
Read more here.
Oscars: Watch Deleted 'Grease' Salute
An expecated homage to 'Grease' never made it to the air. It ended up on the cutting room floor. However, The Oscars released the deleted scene today. Why was it cut? Probably because cohost James Franco can not sing...but you vue and then decide!
Bubba Sounds Off On FL Governor
Shock Jock Bubba the Love Sponge is now doing commentary for WTSP in his home market of Tampa-St. Pete, FL.
Politico Reporter Accused of Flacking For FLOTUS
According to a story by Matthew Boyle, at dailycaller.com, Parnes’s fawning coverage of the first lady has inspired Betsy Rothstein of FishbowlDC.com to launch a “Parnes-o-Meter,” which ranks Parnes’s pieces about Michelle Obama on a scale of 1 to 10 kisses. “People have asked me, over and over again, for the past three weeks, ‘Why do you hate Amie Parnes? Why do you have such a personal thing against her?’” Rothstein told The Daily Caller. “The fact is that I’ve never met her. I don’t know her and this isn’t personal. It’s totally professional. I’ve watched her work, I’ve read her work, day in and day out, and there is never anything, not even slightly, critical of the first lady. It’s absurd coverage. As a media reporter, I don’t know how I couldn’t point that out.”
Parnes’s latest piece, which ran as the lead story on Politico’s website last Friday, frames the first lady as a victim of conservative attacks from figures like Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. This criticism from the right, Parnes suggests, is hard to understand, given that Michelle has spent the last two years “primarily focusing on childhood obesity, military families and the arts.” Parnes makes no mention of the first lady’s many and varied political activities. She does point out that, “for conservative critics, it is open season on the first lady.”
Read more here.
Insulting Boss, Not Abuse, Gets Sheen Sidelined
From David Carr, The Media Equation, The New York Times:
GERALDO: Charlie Sheen Will Never Work In Television Again
For eight very successful seasons, Charlie Sheen has been the star of “Two and a Half Men” which is produced by Warner Brothers and which is owned by Time Warner, and broadcast by CBS. Let’s ignore the mountains of cocaine that Mr. Sheen has admitted doing along the way — CBS and Warner Brothers certainly did.
In addition to wreaking all manner of havoc on himself with drugs and alcohol that has put him in the hospital and the show on hiatus, Mr. Sheen has done a lot of damage to the people around him, women in particular.
In 2006, his wife at the time, Denise Richards, filed a restraining order, charging that Mr. Sheen had pushed her down, thrown chairs at her and threatened to kill her in person and on the phone. The couple eventually divorced.
Mr. Sheen then had a series of very public relationships with sex film stars, which is certainly his prerogative — talent is as talent does — but he also continued to exhibit a pattern of violence toward women.
Mr. Sheen was charged with a felony for an incident on Christmas Day in 2009 in which he threatened to kill his wife, Brooke Mueller, while holding a knife to her throat. According to the police report, Mr. Sheen “started to strangle Mueller then he pulled out a knife he always carries on his person and held the knife to Mueller’s neck and threatened, ‘You better be in fear. If you tell anybody I’ll kill you.’ ”
Last fall, Mr. Sheen went on a rampage in the Plaza Hotel in New York. A hired escort who had locked herself in the bathroom claimed he had put his hands around her neck and threatened her while his former wife Ms. Richards and his children slept down the hall.
Yet none of these incidents got Mr. Sheen fired from his lucrative day job as a sitcom star, not even suspended. What did? He insulted his boss.Read more here.
GERALDO: Charlie Sheen Will Never Work In Television Again
Tom's Take: Sheen might have less leverage than he obviously thinks he does, since the studio does not need to continue to pay him a salary to make money off of his work in 177 episodes already in the can.
'King's Speech' Wins Best Picture
"The King's Speech" reigned supreme at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards Sunday night, winning four Oscars, including for best picture, best director and best actor.
Directed by Tom Hooper, the British historical drama stars actor Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as his unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue. Heading into Sunday's ceremony, "The King's Speech" led the competition with 12 nominations.
Hooper won for best director, and Firth for best actor. "I have a feeling my career has just peaked," Firth said, upon receiving the award
Best original screenplay went to "The King's Speech," written by David Seidler, who spent many years trying to write the screenplay. He could not begin work in earnest until after the death of the Queen Mother in 2002, when he received access to the notebooks of speech therapist Lionel Logue, detailing his treatment of the king.
The ceremony featured few surprise wins, with front runners taking nearly all the major prize categories.
According to a story by Ethan Smith and Michelle Kung at wsj.com, the telecast was positioned to determine not only if predictions held that "The King's Speech" would be named best picture, but also if the show's producers and backers could successfully court a new generation of viewers.
The Academy enlisted a pair of attractive young actors, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, to host the ceremony.
Read more here.
List of the 83rd Annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday:
- Best Picture: "The King's Speech"
- Actor: Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"
- Actress: Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"
- Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, "The Fighter"
- Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"
- Directing: Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech"
- Foreign Language Film: "In a Better World," Denmark
- Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"
- Original Screenplay: David Seidler, "The King's Speech"
- Animated Feature Film: "Toy Story 3"
- Art Direction: "Alice in Wonderland"
- Cinematography: "Inception"
- Sound Mixing: "Inception"
- Sound Editing: "Inception"
- Original Score: "The Social Network," Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Original Song: "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3," Randy Newman
- Costume Design: "Alice in Wonderland"
- Documentary Feature: "Inside Job"
- Documentary (short subject): "Strangers No More"
- Film Editing: "The Social Network"
- Makeup: "The Wolfman"
- Animated Short Film: "The Lost Thing"
- Live Action Short Film: "God of Love"
- Visual Effects: "Inception"
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Oscars 2011: Anne Hathaway, James Franco fulfill hosting duties, but youthful spark fails to excite.
CNN Revises Its Prime-Time Lineup
A new beginning awaits CNN this evening.
According to a story by Lauren E. Schuker at wsj.com, in yet another reworking of the cable-news network's prime-time lineup, the Time Warner Inc. unit will on Monday unveil a revamped version of its"Parker Spitzer" show—minus co-host Kathleen Parker.
CNN says its new 8 p.m. program—"In the Arena"—will be an ensemble show, with former New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer and other commentators.
The course correction comes as the network considers other changes to its evening lineup to reverse steep audience declines. According to people familiar with the situation, CNN is looking closely at its 7 p.m. hour, which features a political program hosted by John King. The network also continues to express interest in "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, whose deal with CBS Corp. expires near the start of June.
CNN lost more than one-third of its evening viewers in 2010. It has trailed two rivals, News Corp.'s Fox News and Comcast Corp.'s MSNBC, by significant margins in the evening for years.
"Parker Spitzer" began in October as part of a broader reinvention at CNN that also included a new 9 p.m. show, "Piers Morgan Tonight." Mr. Morgan, a former tabloid editor, succeeded Larry King, whose show ended after 25 years on CNN. "Piers" has drawn about 943,000 total viewers on average since its launch in January, up 44% from Mr. King's fourth-quarter average, according to data provided by CNN.
Read more here.
According to a story by Lauren E. Schuker at wsj.com, in yet another reworking of the cable-news network's prime-time lineup, the Time Warner Inc. unit will on Monday unveil a revamped version of its"Parker Spitzer" show—minus co-host Kathleen Parker.
CNN says its new 8 p.m. program—"In the Arena"—will be an ensemble show, with former New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer and other commentators.
CNN lost more than one-third of its evening viewers in 2010. It has trailed two rivals, News Corp.'s Fox News and Comcast Corp.'s MSNBC, by significant margins in the evening for years.
"Parker Spitzer" began in October as part of a broader reinvention at CNN that also included a new 9 p.m. show, "Piers Morgan Tonight." Mr. Morgan, a former tabloid editor, succeeded Larry King, whose show ended after 25 years on CNN. "Piers" has drawn about 943,000 total viewers on average since its launch in January, up 44% from Mr. King's fourth-quarter average, according to data provided by CNN.
Read more here.
Keith Olbermann Launches News Website
Former MSNBC prime-time host Keith Olbermann launched a new Web site Friday night, giving new life to his "Worst Person In the World" feature and going after FOX News, according to a blog by Emi Kolawole at washingtonpost.com.
The site is called the "FOK News Channel," a crude wordplay on the FOX News Channel, which Olbermann has frequently gone after, and a group of Olbermann's supporters who use the acronym "FOK" for "Friends of Keith."
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