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Podcast Host, Michelle Obama: How Podcasting Became A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

10Dec

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Podcast Host, Michelle Obama: How Podcasting Became A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

“You kind of fail your way to success,” observed Matt Lieber, head of podcast operations at Spotify, at this year’s Audiocraft festival, an annual weekend of panels about podcasting. Normally held in Sydney, this year, thanks to COVID-19, the festival shifted online. Lieber was talking about StartUp, his podcast about establishing Gimlet Media in 2014. Lieber and his business partner, Alex Blumberg, wanted to develop a podcast studio that would become “the HBO of audio”. Last year, Gimlet hit the jackpot. It was acquired by Spotify for US$230 million (A$322 million). While podcasts have been alive on the internet since 2004 (“But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?” asked the Guardian), 2014’s Serial is largely credited with starting a new boom for the form. Seria...

Regina King Has A Habit Of Keeping Her Eye On The Prize

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Regina King Has A Habit Of Keeping Her Eye On The Prize

Regina King A Los Angeles, California, native and an utter sensual delight, has a habit of keeping her eye on the prize. This driven star has refused to look back since achieving her first onscreen success as Brenda Jenkins on the 1985 television series 227. After giving emotionally wrenching and erotically charged performances as Sahlika in Boyz N the Hood (1991) and Iesha in Poetic Justice (1993), Regina became a face and figure of note in big-budget extravaganzas ranging from A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) to Mighty Joe Young (1998) and Daddy Day Care (2003). Love and Action in Chicago (1999) gives us some idea of how not to maneuver Regina into bed. Playing couch polo with a shirtless man, King allowed her blouse to be unbuttoned, but the dude, perhaps overeager at the sigh...

The Mechanics Of Crafting One Of The Most Memorable Voices Of All Time – Gilbert Gottfried

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The Mechanics Of Crafting One Of The Most Memorable Voices Of All Time – Gilbert Gottfried

Though Gilbert Gottfried’s voice has alternatively been described as “shrill,” “annoying” and “grating,” you can’t say it isn’t memorable. Gottfried, who died on April 12, 2022, didn’t naturally sound this way. Watch him perform as a cast member during on the sixth season of “Saturday Night Live,” and you’ll hear a voice that sounds downright angelic by comparison. Gilbert Gottfried’s brief run as a cast member on ‘Saturday Night Live’ occurred before the development of his signature voice. But as he developed his comic persona, that distinctive sound made its way into his performances in stand-up comedy, advertising, television and film – perhaps most famously as Iago in “Aladdin,” Mr. Peabody in “Problem Child” and as a squawking duck in advertisements for the insurance giant Aflac. Cl...

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Celebrity Status: Shayne Oliver

Shayne Oliver is a fashion designer, musician, and creative director, based in New York City. Oliver is the co-founder and design director of Hood By Air, a fashion brand he established together with designer Raul Lopez in 2006. In 2013, Oliver was named among The 25 Greatest Black Fashion Designers by Complex. Early years and education Oliver was born in 1988, in Minnesota. After spending several years in Trinidad as a child, he then moved to Brooklyn in 2000. From the age of thirteen Oliver began going to clubs and attending DJ nights. During this time he met and engaged with many people he would later collaborate with, including many of the queer artists who would influence his creative output in years to come. As a teenager, Oliver attended the Harvey Milk High School, an East Village...

How The Much Lampooned Paris Hilton Has Rewritten The Celebrity Script

10Dec

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How The Much Lampooned Paris Hilton Has Rewritten The Celebrity Script

Paris Hilton — model, reality TV star, actor, pop singer and DJ — gained worldwide notoriety in 2003 because of a leaked sex tape. Over the years she has been viciously parodied and lampooned, famously on South Park and in World of Warcraft. But she has endured — and this week launched a new podcast, This Is Paris. Want Free Access to Paris Hilton Nude Pics & Clips? Click Here In the first episode, Hilton and her co-host, US television personality Hunter March, discuss love, commitment and hard work. Hilton’s fiance, Carter Reum also appears — apparently as a favour to her “because you know I hate this stuff”. The episode ends with a modern advice column in which Hilton responds to fan voicemail questions, including “how do I look hot on Zoom?” In her recent tell-all documentary of t...

These 5 Shows Bring Everyone Together Both Liberals And Conservatives With Wildly Different TV-Viewing Habits

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These 5 Shows Bring Everyone Together Both Liberals And Conservatives With Wildly Different TV-Viewing Habits

There’s been a lot of concern about how conservatives and liberals consume their news from sources that merely confirm their preexisting beliefs. The result, supposedly, has been a disintegration of a shared reality and a fracturing of the nation’s political life. But does this trend extend to the shows we choose to watch on TV to relax and unwind? Since 2007, the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California has been tracking how Americans’ favorite TV shows are connected to their attitudes on a host of hot-button political issues. In each of these studies – including our most recent one – we found that people with different political beliefs seem to be drawn to different types of TV entertainment. But in the most recent study, there was also a distinct overlap: certain ...

James Bond A misogynist? He Doesn’t Have To Be Connery, Moore Or Even Craig’s Vision Forever

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James Bond A misogynist? He Doesn’t Have To Be Connery, Moore Or Even Craig’s Vision Forever

On September 29, Bond’s 25th adventure No Time To Die had its world premiere. All the necessary credentials to signify the franchise’s new crowd-friendly feminism were present: Daniel Craig sporting a hot pink dinner jacket, Lea Seydoux paraded as the first Bond girl ever to return in a 007 movie sans the male gaze, and director Cary Fukunaga deriding Connery’s Bond as “basically” a rapist. It appears to be part of a coordinated plan, one that can only be described as the woke-washing of Daniel Craig’s Bond, especially when it comes to the character’s famed sexism. I don’t mean that No Time To Die has gone full-feminist. Like most of us in Australia, I have yet to see the film — and as a lifelong fan, I’m excited to see. No, I’m talking about the carefully curated revisionist history att...

A 2020 Pandemic Story ‘Sell Me This Pen’

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A 2020 Pandemic Story ‘Sell Me This Pen’

During one of my home-alone lock downs, I watched The Wolf of Wall Street for the third or fourth time and became fixated by the scene at the end of the movie. A presumably reformed Jordan Belfort is introduced to a crowd of wannabe tycoons eager for advice from the bad boy of fast fortunes. Belfort, convincingly played by Leonardo DiCaprio, walks on stage in an un-tucked dress shirt and new blue jeans to a round of applause. He stops, sighs and studies the room much like a hungry carnivore, surveying meat. He quietly steps down from the stage and approaches several anxious attendees in the front row and holds up his pen. "Sell me this Pen," he asks. As they stumble with various pedestrian responses, "Um... it's an amazing pen," "Well, it's a nice pen," and "I personally love this pen."...

How Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner Was So Different From Other Sitcom Dads

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How Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner Was So Different From Other Sitcom Dads

Bob Saget, who died on Jan. 9, 2022, is probably best remembered for his role as Danny Tanner on the popular sitcom “Full House,” which aired from 1987 to 1995. I think fans of the show have such fond memories of this character because Danny exemplified what it meant to “be there” as a parent. A single dad whose wife had passed away, he was eager to lend an ear to daughters D.J., Stephanie and Michelle, offering them support and reassurance through the twists and turns of childhood and adolescence. Why heap so much praise on a sitcom dad? It’s easy to disregard TV as mere mindless entertainment. But entertainment media can both reflect and reshape culture – including how fathers interact with their children. They can influence how viewers think about fathers, regardless of the accuracy o...

Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

10Dec

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Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

The ‘B’ in Michael B. Jordan must stand for “beautiful”, because he’s one handsome guy! In fairness, it's probably to keep him from getting mistaken for his airness, but that doesn't mean it's not true! People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2020, Michael grew up modeling as a kid, before hitting the TV screens in episodes of The Sopranos and Cosby. Still young, he joined Keanu Reeves in the inner city baseball flick Hardball (2001), RIP G-Baby, before he really became a star as the teen drug dealer Wallace on The Wire. Few remember the absolute A-lister had a long run as, get this, Chadwick Boseman's replacement as Reggie Porter Montgomery on All My Children but everyone remembers Michael's work as the lightning fast juvenile delinquent turned star running back Vince Howard on Friday N...