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Why TV is (Sometimes) Better Than The Movies
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Awards », Fandom », Home Entertainment »
OK, take a deep breath -- I know what I'm about to say is heresy on a movie site, but have you noticed that TV has gotten pretty damn good lately? So good that sometimes it's better than going to the movies ...almost. The Emmys may be long over, and those golden totems to ad revenue are already being displayed in the trophy cases of the winners. But if you were watching the show, you might have noticed a running theme throughout the telecast: the death of broadcast television. Well I'm going to have to respectfully disagree, because while I totally get that the TV landscape is changing, and the networks may not know how to milk this whole newfangled Internet thing for every dollar its worth, audiences are still tuning in (whether its on cable or broadcast TV) for some of the most innovative entertainment in history.
Not since the days of Seinfeld has talk about TV dominated water cooler chat and flooded the Internet forums and chat rooms. When you arrive to work in the morning, are you talking about last weekend's blockbuster, or are you and your co-workers talking about last night's LOST, Mad Men, or True Blood? Now don't get me wrong: I always have, and always will love going to the movies. There will always be something about sitting in the dark alongside strangers with state of the art sound and images that makes it my favorite pastime. But, I still have to hand it to the small screen for managing to finally make TV cool again. So in honor of our friends at TV Squad, I'm going to throw a little love at the small screen - here are just a couple of reasons why I think TV is (sometimes) better than the movies.
After the jump: in defense of the boob tube...
'Levees' Wins Big at Creative Arts Emmys
Filed under: Documentary », Awards », Home Entertainment », HBO Films », Cinematical Indie »
The big ceremony for the Emmys isn't until Sunday night, but the Creative Arts awards, which include nonfiction programming, have already been announced, as Variety has reported. Several documentaries that originally played film festivals took home Emmys, including Spike Lee's look at post-Katrina New Orleans, When the Levees Broke. The HBO-produced film won three awards for directing, exceptional merit in nonfiction filmmaking and picture editing. I own the DVD myself and highly recommend it, although you'll want to have a box of tissue close at hand.Other Emmy-winning documentaries included A Lion in the House, which shared the exceptional merit award with Levees, and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which won for best nonfiction special. As usual, filmmaker/blogger A.J. Schnack, who keeps a close watch on all documentary-related news, has the best roundup of Emmys given to documentary films, so you don't have to pick through a longer list of all the Creative Arts awards for guest appearances on TV dramas and so forth. He's also posted a photo from the awards ceremony of the producing teams from Lion and Levees together. I love seeing Spike Lee with his Emmy statuette and hope it's a sight we'll enjoy again with future projects.
Actress Maureen Stapleton dead at 80
Filed under: Classics », Obits »
Oscar-winning actress Maureen Stapleton
died
today at the age of 80. Stapleton was nominated for Supporting Actress Oscars three times - in 1959 for
Lonelyhearts, 1970 for Airport, and 1978 for Woody Allen's Interiors, before finally winning
the prize in 1982 for Reds. In her Oscar-winning performance, Stapleton played left wing anarchist-writer Emma
Goldman, a journalist who covers the Bolshevik revolution.
Stapleton was nominated for multiple Emmys, with a win in 1967 for Among the Paths to Eden. She also found success in theater, earning Tony Awards for her role as Serafina Delle Rose in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, and again in 1971 for her role in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady.
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