When Greg Smith saw the rising floodwaters outside his Houston apartment on Sunday, he knew instantly that his pregnant wife Andrea Smith would go into labor that day. He did not, however, know that a dump truck would rescue his family while his wife was about to give birth.
Greg and his wife, both doctors, arrived in Houston in late July to do advanced medical training in their respective specialities. Greg is a pediatric anesthesiologist and Andrea specializes in geriatrics.
“We’re very new to Houston — and new to hurricanes,” Greg tells People. But hurricane-savvy neighbors and co-workers agreed that...
Greg and his wife, both doctors, arrived in Houston in late July to do advanced medical training in their respective specialities. Greg is a pediatric anesthesiologist and Andrea specializes in geriatrics.
“We’re very new to Houston — and new to hurricanes,” Greg tells People. But hurricane-savvy neighbors and co-workers agreed that...
- 8/28/2017
- by Susan Keating
- PEOPLE.com
With Rookie Blue returning this Thursday night with "Different, Not Better", we got to speak with Greg Smith about his alter ego, Dov Epstein.
Greg let us in on the challenges of directing, what happens after Dov's bathroom hookup, and the shockingly intense season to come.
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TV Fanatic: You directed an episode last season. Will you do any more directing during Rookie Blue Season 4?
Greg Smith: Yes, I direct episode 12 this year which is part one of a two-part season finale. It's a really intense episode. I think it's going to blow people's minds.
How much of a challenge is it to act and direct in the same episode?
It's quite a challenge. It's very overwhelming, especially at first. The first day or two, there's just so much coming at you at once. As an actor and a director, they require the two polar opposite sides of your brain.
Greg let us in on the challenges of directing, what happens after Dov's bathroom hookup, and the shockingly intense season to come.
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TV Fanatic: You directed an episode last season. Will you do any more directing during Rookie Blue Season 4?
Greg Smith: Yes, I direct episode 12 this year which is part one of a two-part season finale. It's a really intense episode. I think it's going to blow people's minds.
How much of a challenge is it to act and direct in the same episode?
It's quite a challenge. It's very overwhelming, especially at first. The first day or two, there's just so much coming at you at once. As an actor and a director, they require the two polar opposite sides of your brain.
- 6/27/2013
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (Christine Orlando)
- TVfanatic
Melbourne, Jan 3: A small town in north Queensland is on full UFO alert after strange lights were sighted in the night sky.
Cardwell businessman Greg Smith told The Townsville Bulletin, that he and his son watched the lights for 15 minutes and are convinced that what they saw was some sort of UFO, News.com.au reported.
Smith said that the father-duo watched the lights from the front of the Lyndoch Motel on the highway towards the northern end of the town.
He disclosed that there were two large orange lights with no beam or noise and they were absolutely silent as they moved slowly across the sky towards the north-west.
He said that he thought it must have been one or two helicopters, but discounted the.
Cardwell businessman Greg Smith told The Townsville Bulletin, that he and his son watched the lights for 15 minutes and are convinced that what they saw was some sort of UFO, News.com.au reported.
Smith said that the father-duo watched the lights from the front of the Lyndoch Motel on the highway towards the northern end of the town.
He disclosed that there were two large orange lights with no beam or noise and they were absolutely silent as they moved slowly across the sky towards the north-west.
He said that he thought it must have been one or two helicopters, but discounted the.
- 1/3/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
London — It was a spectacular exit.
A well-known British DJ reacted to news that his show had been canceled with an extended on-air rant against what he called the "pinheaded weasels" running the BBC.
Danny Baker joins a roster of disgruntled employees who have decided – like Peter Finch's unhinged news anchor in the film "Network" – that they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
Baker blamed the decision to ax his afternoon show on BBC London local radio on cost-cutting middle management "who know only timid, the generic and the abacus."
"I hope their abacus comes undone and they choke on the beads," he said.
Listeners took to Twitter to support Baker, who has been a respected broadcaster for 30 years. Comedian Stephen Fry called him "the best" and slammed the BBC's decision.
The BBC confirmed that Baker was due to leave the show at the end of the year,...
A well-known British DJ reacted to news that his show had been canceled with an extended on-air rant against what he called the "pinheaded weasels" running the BBC.
Danny Baker joins a roster of disgruntled employees who have decided – like Peter Finch's unhinged news anchor in the film "Network" – that they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
Baker blamed the decision to ax his afternoon show on BBC London local radio on cost-cutting middle management "who know only timid, the generic and the abacus."
"I hope their abacus comes undone and they choke on the beads," he said.
Listeners took to Twitter to support Baker, who has been a respected broadcaster for 30 years. Comedian Stephen Fry called him "the best" and slammed the BBC's decision.
The BBC confirmed that Baker was due to leave the show at the end of the year,...
- 11/2/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Greg Smith, the ex-vice president of Goldman Sachs who resigned last spring after publishing a scathing op-ed about his former employers in the New York Times, has a new book out ("Why I Left Goldman Sachs") and appeared on "60 Minutes" last night to talk to Anderson Cooper about it. But there were some segments that didn't appear on the show that CBS posted only on the web. Take a look at the clips after the jump.
- 10/22/2012
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Greg Smith raised eyebrows, blood pressures, and many questions when he publicly resigned his gig as a vice president of Goldman Sachs with an op-ed piece in the New York Times ("Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs") criticizing the ethics at the investment bank. Now Smith is back with a new book detailing his issues with the bank and also with an interview with "60 Minutes" that aired tonight. Watch the video.
- 10/22/2012
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
London, October 19: A book written by former Goldman Sachs executive director has ousted the life of excess and drunken debauchery at the firm.
Greg Smith's book, Why I Left Goldman Sachs, details how in 2005 Goldman Sachs executives partied in Las Vegas by sharing a hot tub with a topless woman they dubbed 'Ms Silicone,' the Daily Mail reported.
Smith, who publicly quit the firm, wrote that during a bachelor weekend with colleagues they stayed at the five star Mandalay Bay Hotel where they drank.
Greg Smith's book, Why I Left Goldman Sachs, details how in 2005 Goldman Sachs executives partied in Las Vegas by sharing a hot tub with a topless woman they dubbed 'Ms Silicone,' the Daily Mail reported.
Smith, who publicly quit the firm, wrote that during a bachelor weekend with colleagues they stayed at the five star Mandalay Bay Hotel where they drank.
- 10/19/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
On tonight's Rookie Blue, Chris is thrown into a situation that could change everything for him and his fellow cops.
In anticipation of "Every Man," Travis Milne talked to TV Fanatic about his character's love life, who he'd love more scenes with and when Chris Diaz reaches his boiling point.
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Before this season Chris had always been more of a one woman kind of guy. But since his breakup with Gail we've seen big changes in his behavior. Were you surprised?
I feel like the viewers are surprised, but from an actor's point of vi but I was kind of hoping that my character would experience something of authenticity. I feel like what Chris has gone through is really relevant to a lot of young men... It's usually never the breakup with the high school sweetheart or the first love that really rocks your boat. You usually jump into...
In anticipation of "Every Man," Travis Milne talked to TV Fanatic about his character's love life, who he'd love more scenes with and when Chris Diaz reaches his boiling point.
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Before this season Chris had always been more of a one woman kind of guy. But since his breakup with Gail we've seen big changes in his behavior. Were you surprised?
I feel like the viewers are surprised, but from an actor's point of vi but I was kind of hoping that my character would experience something of authenticity. I feel like what Chris has gone through is really relevant to a lot of young men... It's usually never the breakup with the high school sweetheart or the first love that really rocks your boat. You usually jump into...
- 8/30/2012
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (Christine Orlando)
- TVfanatic
Robert Connolly
Filmmaker Robert Connolly has ended his term as Screen Australia board member early.
The writer, director, producer was due to sit on the board until December 2013, but he finished early due to film-making commitments.
While on the board, Connolly received Screen Australia funding for his project Paper Planes, and also for his adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning.
At the time, Screen Australia denied that there was a conflict of interest.
“We have a clear working conflict of interest policy that works,” a spokesperson said. “We don’t exclude working film-makers from our board as we need that expertise. But we have a system in place that works.”
Film financier Greg Smith, who has sat a full term, will also step down from Screen Australia’s board.
Screen Australia chair Glen Boreham said on their departure: “For all their complementary strengths, Robert and Greg both shared one thing: passion.
Filmmaker Robert Connolly has ended his term as Screen Australia board member early.
The writer, director, producer was due to sit on the board until December 2013, but he finished early due to film-making commitments.
While on the board, Connolly received Screen Australia funding for his project Paper Planes, and also for his adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning.
At the time, Screen Australia denied that there was a conflict of interest.
“We have a clear working conflict of interest policy that works,” a spokesperson said. “We don’t exclude working film-makers from our board as we need that expertise. But we have a system in place that works.”
Film financier Greg Smith, who has sat a full term, will also step down from Screen Australia’s board.
Screen Australia chair Glen Boreham said on their departure: “For all their complementary strengths, Robert and Greg both shared one thing: passion.
- 7/10/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The government has appointed producer Richard Keddie and actor-producer Claudia Karvan to the Screen Australia board.
Keddie 's recent credits include feature films such as Matching Jack and Little Fish as well as telemovies Hawke and Curtin. He is also a producer of upcoming musical feature Goddess.
Karvan has had a long career as an actor and is currently filming new ABC drama The Time of our Lives in Melbourne. She has also appeared in recent films such as 33 Postcards and Daybreakers. She was also a producer of TV series Spirited and Love My Way, in which she also starred.
Arts minister Simon Crean said Keddie and Karvan would bring a strong mix of business skills and creative experience to the Screen Australia board.
.Mr Keddie and Ms Karvan have both made a major contribution to Australia.s screen industry,. he said in a statement. .As an award-winning film and television documentary producer,...
Keddie 's recent credits include feature films such as Matching Jack and Little Fish as well as telemovies Hawke and Curtin. He is also a producer of upcoming musical feature Goddess.
Karvan has had a long career as an actor and is currently filming new ABC drama The Time of our Lives in Melbourne. She has also appeared in recent films such as 33 Postcards and Daybreakers. She was also a producer of TV series Spirited and Love My Way, in which she also starred.
Arts minister Simon Crean said Keddie and Karvan would bring a strong mix of business skills and creative experience to the Screen Australia board.
.Mr Keddie and Ms Karvan have both made a major contribution to Australia.s screen industry,. he said in a statement. .As an award-winning film and television documentary producer,...
- 7/10/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Rookie Blue has been renewed for a fourth season.
But Traci Nash is too focused to celebrate this exciting news. The officer kicks off her first day as a detective on tomorrow night's new episode, and actress Enuka Okuma is here to preview what's ahead for Traci, including upcoming challenges and wardrobe issues...
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In "Girls Night Out" it looks like Traci is finally getting her own major story arc. Can you tell us a little about that?
Enuka: I think it's been really interesting what's happened with the writers. I guess because it's been three years on the air, that they're starting to spread the story lines out a little bit. It's becoming quite an ensemble show. Yeah, it was exciting to have my own story line and you'll see that with other characters as well this year. It was great. It was fun.
Will moving up to detective change her relationship with Jerry?...
But Traci Nash is too focused to celebrate this exciting news. The officer kicks off her first day as a detective on tomorrow night's new episode, and actress Enuka Okuma is here to preview what's ahead for Traci, including upcoming challenges and wardrobe issues...
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In "Girls Night Out" it looks like Traci is finally getting her own major story arc. Can you tell us a little about that?
Enuka: I think it's been really interesting what's happened with the writers. I guess because it's been three years on the air, that they're starting to spread the story lines out a little bit. It's becoming quite an ensemble show. Yeah, it was exciting to have my own story line and you'll see that with other characters as well this year. It was great. It was fun.
Will moving up to detective change her relationship with Jerry?...
- 6/27/2012
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (Christine Orlando)
- TVfanatic
The Great Muppet Hunt has concluded at Goldman Sachs.
Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino, citing "people close to Goldman," reports that, after an extensive internal investigation of companywide emails, Goldman has concluded that 98 percent of the "Muppet" references were about a Muppet movie.
"Sources at Goldman also say the malicious Muppet use in emails involves name-calling among colleagues," Gasparino said on Fox Business on Wednesday. "Apparently at Goldman they call each other Muppet ... The firm finds no evidence so far to substantiate [Greg] Smith’s claims that people were talking about clients.”
Goldman's Muppet hunt started in late March, according to Reuters, one week after a former Goldman Sachs vice president, Greg Smith, penned an explosive op-ed in The New York Times accusing the firm of fostering a "toxic and destructive" environment and alleging that he had seen "five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail.
Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino, citing "people close to Goldman," reports that, after an extensive internal investigation of companywide emails, Goldman has concluded that 98 percent of the "Muppet" references were about a Muppet movie.
"Sources at Goldman also say the malicious Muppet use in emails involves name-calling among colleagues," Gasparino said on Fox Business on Wednesday. "Apparently at Goldman they call each other Muppet ... The firm finds no evidence so far to substantiate [Greg] Smith’s claims that people were talking about clients.”
Goldman's Muppet hunt started in late March, according to Reuters, one week after a former Goldman Sachs vice president, Greg Smith, penned an explosive op-ed in The New York Times accusing the firm of fostering a "toxic and destructive" environment and alleging that he had seen "five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail.
- 4/11/2012
- by D.M. Levine
- Huffington Post
Greg Smith's blistering New York Times op-ed about his years at Goldman Sachs made him a pariah on Wall Street, but burning all those bridges is about to net him a very big pay-day. The former investment banker nabbed a $1.5 million advance from Hachette Book Group this week for a memoir based on his time at the firm, according to a report in the New York Post. A spokesperson for the publisher did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Smith's agent Peter Fedorko declined to comment. The Post reports that...
- 3/30/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
A scathing op-ed about Goldman Sachs by exiting executive Greg Smith netted him a stunning $1.5 million deal from Grand Central Books for a memoir about his time with the company. Photos: The Scene at Occupy Wall Street Smith, who ran a division of Goldman Sachs' derivatives business, resigned in spectacular fashion by penning a harsh piece in The New York Times that ran March 14. He criticized the company's greed and immorality, calling Goldman's culture "toxic and destructive." He said the only question that concerned junior analysts was how much money they made off their clients
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- 3/30/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Muppets read The New York Times. Or they use Google alerts. After former Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith alleged in his resignation letter published as a New York Times op-ed piece that he’s witnessed colleagues refer to their clients as “muppets,” some fabricated fuzzy Americans are striking back. In a Funny or Die video set in dim boardroom, the Anti-Muppet Defamation League confronts suits played by Kyle MacLachlan and Neal McDonough (who dials down his Justified character Quarles for the occasion — we approve). Personally, I think they should have sent in Miss Piggy — that would’ve been a fair fight.
- 3/28/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
When Greg Smith posted his Op-Ed about leaving Goldman Sachs in the New York Times, he probably didn't expect for his comment about managing directors referring to clients as "muppets" to get as much attention as it did, but alas, the Internet loves a silly story.
But what do the Muppets think of all this negative publicity? Where can they turn to give their side of the story?
Luckily, Funny Or Die gave them a chance to set the record straight.
But what do the Muppets think of all this negative publicity? Where can they turn to give their side of the story?
Luckily, Funny Or Die gave them a chance to set the record straight.
- 3/27/2012
- by Christine Friar
- Huffington Post
When Greg Smith posted his Op-Ed about leaving Goldman Sachs in the New York Times, he probably didn't expect for his comment about managing directors referring to clients as "muppets" to get as much attention as it did, but alas, the Internet loves a silly story.
But what do the Muppets think of all this negative publicity? Where can they turn to give their side of the story?
Luckily, Funny Or Die gave them a chance to set the record straight.
But what do the Muppets think of all this negative publicity? Where can they turn to give their side of the story?
Luckily, Funny Or Die gave them a chance to set the record straight.
- 3/27/2012
- by Christine Friar
- Aol TV.
Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Breaking 7:30 Pm… Exclusive… More Details… Whistleblower Craig E Simmons today filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer, the Screen Actors Guild Pension & Health Plan. And the fired high-ranking executive makes explosive allegations against CEO Bruce Dow who is still apparently employed there. These accusations have been informally leveled against Dow and the SAG P&Hp for months now, but for the first time Simmons puts them into the record via his legal complaint. (Read the 19-page lawsuit here.) If true, they beg for a complete and independent investigation as well as housecleaning at SAG P&Hp which governs more than $2 billion in assets on behalf of SAG members. Simmons was executive director of Sagp&Hp human resources and held other top titles, and is a lawyer. One of his attorneys on this lawsuit is the well-known Greg Smith, who...
- 3/23/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline TV
Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Breaking 7:30 Pm… Exclusive… More Details… Whistleblower Craig E Simmons today filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer, the Screen Actors Guild Pension & Health Plan. And the fired high-ranking executive makes explosive allegations against CEO Bruce Dow who is still apparently employed there. These accusations have been informally leveled against Dow and the SAG P&Hp for months now, but for the first time Simmons puts them into the record via his legal complaint. (Read the 19-page lawsuit here.) If true, they beg for a complete and independent investigation as well as housecleaning at SAG P&Hp which governs more than $2 billion in assets on behalf of SAG members. Simmons was executive director of Sagp&Hp human resources and held other top titles, and is a lawyer. One of his attorneys on this lawsuit is the well-known Greg Smith, who...
- 3/23/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
A day after Greg Smith rattled the financial sector with his New York Times Op-Ed, "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs," claiming that "the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it," Deadline's Mike Fleming reminds us that Wall Street was pretty toxic and destructive long before Smith even began his 12-year run at the company. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio "are committing to make The Wolf of Wall Street their fifth collaboration. The film is based on the Jordan Belfort memoir of his days as a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch. Shooting will begin August in New York." The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth posts a 2007 interview with Belfort.
Also at the Playlist, Jagernauth reports that Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala) will likely direct Michael Fassbender in J Mills Goodloe...
Also at the Playlist, Jagernauth reports that Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala) will likely direct Michael Fassbender in J Mills Goodloe...
- 3/15/2012
- MUBI
With the world still low on sympathy for Wall Street titans Goldman Sachs, the long teeth of satire came out quickly on Wednesday when a long-time, mid-level employee of the bank published a scathing letter of resignation in the New York Times. Greg Smith ripped his former employers, saying that the company's environment had become "toxic" and "destructive," and that he could no longer work there in good conscience. But his insistence that the firm was once a place of integrity with dedication to clients and a positive culture the "secret sauce" to its success -- as well
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- 3/15/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last June, when Yoda, a 15-year-old, 1.8-pound Chinese Crested/Chihuahua mix, won the 23rd Annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest, dog owners everywhere thought to themselves, “When 15-years-old my pooch reaches, look as bad she will not.” The time for such Star Wars-related puns is sadly over because Yoda’s hometown newspaper reports that the mutt died in her sleep Saturday.
When Hanford, Calif., resident Terry Schumacher first saw her pet, abandoned behind an apartment building, she thought the scruffy little dog was a rat. Yoda’s blotchy coat, bald patches, crooked teeth, and raggedy ears, made her look...
When Hanford, Calif., resident Terry Schumacher first saw her pet, abandoned behind an apartment building, she thought the scruffy little dog was a rat. Yoda’s blotchy coat, bald patches, crooked teeth, and raggedy ears, made her look...
- 3/15/2012
- by Christian Blauvelt
- EW.com - PopWatch
“I quit!” Are there any two words more fantasized about in the English language? (Wait, don’t answer that.) While most people only daydream about making a dramatic exit at their job, executive Greg Smith made it a headline-grabbing reality when he told his bosses, The New York Times, and the world “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.”
In his unflinching and brutally honest op-ed piece, Smith, who had been with the company for over a decade, explained that “the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it,” and continued: “The firm has veered so...
In his unflinching and brutally honest op-ed piece, Smith, who had been with the company for over a decade, explained that “the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it,” and continued: “The firm has veered so...
- 3/15/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
Stephen Colbert couldn't believe his eyes when he read the now-infamous New York Times op-ed "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs," in which ex-employee Greg Smith offered a blistering takedown of the investment firm. Where Colbert comes from, you simply don't say such things about your boss, no matter how "toxic and destructive" you might find it.
Saying he was "disgusted" by the op-ed that has caused waves in financial sectors, he defended Goldman Sachs against the claim that they don't spend any time thinking about clients' needs, focusing only on their own profits. "Time is money! And they don't want to waste their clients' money by spending time thinking about them."
But Colbert was most outraged by Smith's attack on the often-attacked Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who Smith blames for the current atmosphere of the company. Colbert especially noted Blankfein's claim that the bank is "doing God's work," which Colbert saw no problem with.
Saying he was "disgusted" by the op-ed that has caused waves in financial sectors, he defended Goldman Sachs against the claim that they don't spend any time thinking about clients' needs, focusing only on their own profits. "Time is money! And they don't want to waste their clients' money by spending time thinking about them."
But Colbert was most outraged by Smith's attack on the often-attacked Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who Smith blames for the current atmosphere of the company. Colbert especially noted Blankfein's claim that the bank is "doing God's work," which Colbert saw no problem with.
- 3/15/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
Greg Smith’s op-ed in the New York Times explaining his resignation from Goldman Sachs–and taking a few shots at his former employer–went viral soon after being made public. It also gave Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert a new source of comedy. “When you work on the Street, there’s sacred trust,” Colbert joked. “You never go public with complaints about your bosses. And in exchange, one day they will explain to you what it is you do for a living.
- 3/15/2012
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The New York Times published a resignation letter today by Greg Smith, an executive director at Goldman Sachs and the head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Smith lambasted the company for behavior he described as unprincipled at best and wholly uninterested in the well-being of their clients at worst.
The letter has set the business world ablaze with controversy and handed the firm a major public relations challenge. But Smith is not the only one fed up with his employer's changing ways.
Darth Vader is apparently also sick of the deteriorating culture at the Empire. The Daily Mash has published a letter in which the masked man rails against the Empire's changing focus. "To put the problem in the simplest terms," he writes, "throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.
The letter has set the business world ablaze with controversy and handed the firm a major public relations challenge. But Smith is not the only one fed up with his employer's changing ways.
Darth Vader is apparently also sick of the deteriorating culture at the Empire. The Daily Mash has published a letter in which the masked man rails against the Empire's changing focus. "To put the problem in the simplest terms," he writes, "throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.
- 3/14/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Film on Tap is a column about the many ways that beer (or sometimes booze) and cinema intersect in Austin.
Film and beer have not intersected as much in the Austin community as they have in the past month. Two film crews recently made the rounds to brewpubs and breweries in Central Texas to document the history, culture and challenges of our local brewing industry.
Chris Erlon, founder of local post-production audio studio Digital Domain of Austin, is sharing his love of craft beer by documenting Austin's growing microbrewery movement in his film project Brewed in Austin. You can see him in the above photo interviewing two of Adelbert's Brewery founders, brewer Scott Hover and general manager Greg Smith. The local production will cover the Austin craft beer movement from the history of craft brewing in Austin to a new brewery on the block, South Austin Brewing Co.
The student filmmakers behind Beer Culture,...
Film and beer have not intersected as much in the Austin community as they have in the past month. Two film crews recently made the rounds to brewpubs and breweries in Central Texas to document the history, culture and challenges of our local brewing industry.
Chris Erlon, founder of local post-production audio studio Digital Domain of Austin, is sharing his love of craft beer by documenting Austin's growing microbrewery movement in his film project Brewed in Austin. You can see him in the above photo interviewing two of Adelbert's Brewery founders, brewer Scott Hover and general manager Greg Smith. The local production will cover the Austin craft beer movement from the history of craft brewing in Austin to a new brewery on the block, South Austin Brewing Co.
The student filmmakers behind Beer Culture,...
- 1/19/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
CBS has announced the 18 castaways who will be competing on "Survivor: One World," which premieres Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on CBS.
In this 24th season of the popular reality competition show, the castaways will be on two different tribes (men vs. women) but will live on the same beach, where they'll have to decide just how much of their resources and intel they want to share with the other tribe.
The tribes are named Salani and Manono, named after islands in Samoa. Here are the 18 castaways:
Salani
Nina Acosta
Age: 51
Current Residence: Clovis, Calif.
Occupation: Retired Lapd Officer
Monica Culpepper*
Age: 41
Current residence: Tampa, Fla.
Occupation: Ex-nfl player's wife
Kate Edorsson
Age: 22
Current residence: Orlando, Fla.
Occupation: Timeshare rep
Chelsea Meissner
Age: 26
Current residence: Charleston, S.C.
Occupation: Medical sales
Kourtney Moon
Age: 29
Current residence: Austin, Texas
Occupation: Motorcycle repair
Alicia Rosa
Age: 25
Current residence: Chicago, Ill...
In this 24th season of the popular reality competition show, the castaways will be on two different tribes (men vs. women) but will live on the same beach, where they'll have to decide just how much of their resources and intel they want to share with the other tribe.
The tribes are named Salani and Manono, named after islands in Samoa. Here are the 18 castaways:
Salani
Nina Acosta
Age: 51
Current Residence: Clovis, Calif.
Occupation: Retired Lapd Officer
Monica Culpepper*
Age: 41
Current residence: Tampa, Fla.
Occupation: Ex-nfl player's wife
Kate Edorsson
Age: 22
Current residence: Orlando, Fla.
Occupation: Timeshare rep
Chelsea Meissner
Age: 26
Current residence: Charleston, S.C.
Occupation: Medical sales
Kourtney Moon
Age: 29
Current residence: Austin, Texas
Occupation: Motorcycle repair
Alicia Rosa
Age: 25
Current residence: Chicago, Ill...
- 1/18/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
A little person, a gay Republican, and not one but two men obsessed with Tarzan are among the 18 new contestants vying for a million dollars when Survivor: One World premieres Feb. 15 on CBS. It is a season filled not only with entirely new contestants, but several format changes as well.
The biggest change will be that both tribes will live together at the same camp. The show experimented with this format briefly during a fake merge on Survivor: Thailand (and also had 20 contestants live together at the start of Survivor: Palau before splitting them into two tribes) but this will...
The biggest change will be that both tribes will live together at the same camp. The show experimented with this format briefly during a fake merge on Survivor: Thailand (and also had 20 contestants live together at the start of Survivor: Palau before splitting them into two tribes) but this will...
- 1/18/2012
- by Dalton Ross
- EW - Inside TV
Emily VanCamp on Revenge's Fall Finale, a 'Scary Story,' the Proposal and More: 'Things Get Sticky!'
Revenge, as fans of ABC’s frothy new drama can attest, is a sweet indulgence, and a heaping new bit will be served this Wednesday at 10/9c in the fall finale. Will the fake “Amanda” get under Emily’s skin by wooing Jack? Have we not come close to seeing Tyler at his worst? Shouldn’t Daniel be popping the question soon? And who was that dead on the beach in the pilot?
Series lead Emily VanCamp visited TVLine’s Times Square office to field those burning questions and others — including which Everwood resident she’d like to see visit the Hamptons.
Series lead Emily VanCamp visited TVLine’s Times Square office to field those burning questions and others — including which Everwood resident she’d like to see visit the Hamptons.
- 12/7/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com
Question: Now that Lisa Edelstein has opted not to return for House‘s eighth season and Jesse Spencer appears to be a lock to come back, should we be prepared for any other long-term castmembers leaving? —Melinda
Ausiello: The only remaining question mark is Olivia Wilde. Although she’s under contract for Season 8, her flourishing movie career will likely translate into another leave of absence — if not a permanent exit altogether. Exec producer...
Question: Now that Lisa Edelstein has opted not to return for House‘s eighth season and Jesse Spencer appears to be a lock to come back, should we be prepared for any other long-term castmembers leaving? —Melinda
Ausiello: The only remaining question mark is Olivia Wilde. Although she’s under contract for Season 8, her flourishing movie career will likely translate into another leave of absence — if not a permanent exit altogether. Exec producer...
- 5/24/2011
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
The Collider just released some new images of two highly anticipated films screening at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The first set of images is for Jason Eisener’s Hobo With A Shotgun. We’ve reported on the film in the past and the trailer for the movie made our top 10 trailers of 2010. You can watch it here.
Hobo With A Shotgun tells the story of a vigilante homeless man who pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city’s crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how – with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
Hobo With A Shotgun tells the story of a vigilante homeless man who pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city’s crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how – with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
- 1/2/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Many of you will remember the short film Hobo With A Shotgun, directed by Jason Eisener which won the Grindhouse Trailer Contest put on by the SXSW Film Festival & Robert Rodriguez. It all began with an announcement on Ain’t It Cool News, about a contest that gave a three week deadline to come up with a “grindhouse” style trailer for a fake movie and would later appear in between Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof.
Well ever since the Dartmouth filmmakers’ (Jason Eisener, Robert Cotterill and John Davies) won the notorious Trailer Competition in Austin, they have become a favourite among fans of the gore-action-comedy genre garnering more than 500,000 Internet hits. After much anticipation, the talented trio was ready to give Hobo With A Shotgun feature-length treatment and officially announced their plans to do so when they screened their award winning short film Treevenge at the 2008 Fantasia Film Festival.
Well ever since the Dartmouth filmmakers’ (Jason Eisener, Robert Cotterill and John Davies) won the notorious Trailer Competition in Austin, they have become a favourite among fans of the gore-action-comedy genre garnering more than 500,000 Internet hits. After much anticipation, the talented trio was ready to give Hobo With A Shotgun feature-length treatment and officially announced their plans to do so when they screened their award winning short film Treevenge at the 2008 Fantasia Film Festival.
- 12/9/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Gone are the days when a decent education alone lured college applicants. Now it's all about who's got the best gadget giveaways. Below, five college campuses with the goods to get the geeks.
The University of Notre Dame
As part of a year-long study of e-readers, Notre Dame is debuting the university's first paperless course. The Project Management class, which began on August 24, is being taught using iPads as a replacement for textbooks. All 40 students will get to use iPads for the duration of the class, with one caveat: They have to give them back at the end. Ultimately, Notre Dame hopes that its experiment can help generate an "ePublishing ecosystem," where faculty and students can quickly share electronic texts.
Stanford University
Stanford recently bought 100 iPads for this fall's incoming class of medical students. IPads hold a particular advantage in medical coursewords, according to Charles Prober, the senior associate dean for medical student education.
The University of Notre Dame
As part of a year-long study of e-readers, Notre Dame is debuting the university's first paperless course. The Project Management class, which began on August 24, is being taught using iPads as a replacement for textbooks. All 40 students will get to use iPads for the duration of the class, with one caveat: They have to give them back at the end. Ultimately, Notre Dame hopes that its experiment can help generate an "ePublishing ecosystem," where faculty and students can quickly share electronic texts.
Stanford University
Stanford recently bought 100 iPads for this fall's incoming class of medical students. IPads hold a particular advantage in medical coursewords, according to Charles Prober, the senior associate dean for medical student education.
- 9/3/2010
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
The stars of ABC cop drama Rookie Blue have explained that their fresh-faced characters will continue to struggle in their new jobs as the series continues. Greg Smith, who plays Dov Epstein, made the comments about the show to Entertainment Tonight. Smith said: "I almost shoot myself. I have to strip-search a transsexual. I get stuck with a lady who's about to give birth and is agoraphobic and is afraid to leave her house in the middle of a power outage and all the ambulances are all backed up." His co-star Missy Peregrym - Andy McNally on the show - added: "I bust an undercover officer, thinking I'm making the most incredible arrest ever, and I screw up." (more)...
- 7/22/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
TV fans first took notice of Greg Smith during his four-season starring role as Ephram on Everwood. But his days of teenage angst are behind him, and he.s moving on to something a bit more high-stakes. In Rookie Blue, Smith stars as Dov Epstein, a police officer fresh out of the academy. I spoke to him about police training, the show's twist on the police procedural, and why Canadians are awesome.
What drew you to the script for Rookie Blue and to the character of Dov?
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What drew you to the script for Rookie Blue and to the character of Dov?
When I read it, the... More >>...
- 6/24/2010
- by Louis Peitzman
- TV.com
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