Here is where I'd like to embed the video about this story, but it doesn't seem to work. Instead, here's a long link.
I'm not going to air my personal views on this issue as I feel it has not played out to it's completion yet. I do want to clarify one of the points raised by Karen Meredith. One of the games she referenced, Shock And Awe, is real. Sony to cash in on Iraq with 'shock and awe' game On the day after the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sony did copyright the name "Shock And Awe" for use in a video game. It appears that this project has since died as I can find no other substantive article about it. I sent an e-mail to Fox And Friends on Monday.
To friends@foxnews.com
From: Redertainment C.O.A. (redertainment@live.com)
Sent: Mon 8/16/10 7:49 PM
To: friends@foxnews.com
Dear Fox and Friends,
I viewed the video pertaining to your discussion of the upcoming Electronic Arts video game Medal Of Honor after finding out about it on Twitter. Near the end of this segment, the host, Clayton Morris, talked about the need for a wider discussion of this game to take place. I was wondering if such a discussion is scheduled to take place, and if so when and involving whom?
Thank You For Your Time
Hunter Red
I have yet to receive a response but I do look forward to such a response.
Revolution Is The New Fuck You
The Introduction Of Rodger Red and The Firing Of Seifer Kinneas
Hunter Red is working away in his office when Liz calls to him over the intercom.
Liz- Hunter, Rodger Red is here to see you.
Hunter- Yes, show him in.
Rodger Red enters Hunter's office. Hunter rises from his chair, hugs him, and says-
Hunter- Grandpa, good to see you.
Rodger- It's good to be back in my old stomping grounds.
Hunter- Please sit down.
Rodger looks around and says-
Rodger- Where?
Hunter looks around his office and says-
Hunter- Oh. Well, you can sit in my chair.
Rodger- No, I'll sit on the window sill here.
Hunter- Okay, just don't fall out.
Rodger- Will do. So, you called me here to ask me for money for that wedding you're having in November?
Hunter- No.
Rodger- But you said you wanted to talk business.
Hunter- Yes. You own The Redertainment Corporation Of America, you still hold a leadership position in it as the CEO, that is the business I want to talk to you about.
Rodger- So, what are we discussing?
Hunter walks over to the door to his office and closes it.
Hunter- I need you to fire Seifer Kinneas.
Rodger looks at Hunter oddly.
Rodger- The President of The Redertainment Corporation Of America, your boss?
Hunter- Yes, him.
Rodger- Why?
Hunter- Have you been reading my blog lately?
Rodger- Yes, every week.
Hunter- So you are aware of the sexual jokes Seifer has been making lately.
Rodger- I thought that was satire.
Hunter- No, that is real. The sex jokes Seifer Kinneas tells are real and have been going on as long as I've been dealing with him.
Rodger- So Seifer Kinneas tells sex jokes. And?
Hunter- A boss telling sexual jokes in the workplace constitutes sexual harassment.
Rodger- Are you sure?
Hunter- Yes, that is what the woman you pay to come here and tell us about sexual harassment on an annual basis tells me on a yearly basis.
Rodger- So Seifer Kinneas is telling sex jokes, knows it's illegal, and still does it.
Hunter- Yes.
Rodger- And I should care... why?
Hunter- Because Robin has been talking about going to the EEOC about Seifer telling sex jokes and filing an official complaint.
Rodger- He has?
Hunter- SHE has. Robin is a woman.
Rodger- Oh. Sorry, I just remember you and Christopher and the relationship you have.
Hunter- Rodger, you're straying from the point.
Rodger- What is it?
Hunter- Robin is on the verge of filing an official complaint to the Federal Government about the treatment she gets from her superiors here, and the only thing preventing her from doing that is me promising her I would talk to you and get Seifer's ass fired.
Rodger Red gets up off the window still.
Rodger- Well, I guess I know what I have to do.
Hunter- Fire Seifer Kinneas?
Rodger- Exactly.
Rodger walks over to Hunter's office door, opens, and passes through it. He walks across the way to Seifer's office, enters, and closes the door behind him. Several minutes of muffled yelling comes afterward, Rodger yelling. After the yelling is done, Seifer walks out of his office, looking like a man defeated, and leaves the offices of The Redertainment Of America. Rodger appears in Seifer's office door and says-
Rodger- So, who wants to help me throw all of Seifer's shit out of his office window?
Liz raises her hand and yells-
Liz- I do! I do!
Rodger points to Liz and says-
Rodger- You, I choose you to help me young lady.
Liz gets up from her desk and goes into Seifer's office where she and Rodger begins literally throwing all of the objects in Seifer's office out of the office window. While this is happening, Robin comes out her office, looks at Hunter watching all of this go on, and asks-
Robin- What's going on?
Hunter- Seifer just got thrown out on his ass.
Robin- Why?
Hunter- I got tired of all the sex jokes he tells and got my grandfather to fire him.
Robin- Oh.
There is a short pause.
Robin- You're really bad at ending sketches, aren't you?
Hunter- Yep.
END SCENE
This Is Why Newspapers Are Dying
This is an actual column that made it into the Deseret News. Not the online edition of this newspaper, nor the blog of the guy who wrote it. The actual paper. The one made of paper that gets thrown on my doorstep every morning. Seriously.
So why aren't more Garner works on DVD?
JAmes Garner received an award for career achievement last week from the Television Critics Association. And it was well deserved.
Garner is a terrific actor with a lot of personality. For more than 50 years in movies and television he has excelled in both comedy and drama, and he has the kind of charm that, as the cliché goes, the camera loves.
It's interesting that Garner is thought of as a television actor … not that there's anything wrong with that. And TV is indeed where he gained his greatest fame. But he has also made a lot of successful movies and earned an Oscar nomination.
And, perhaps ironically, many more of his movies are on DVD than his TV series.
Garner starred in six TV series and had a supporting role in a seventh, but only "The Rockford Files" and one of his seasons on "8 Simple Rules" are on DVD.
It's easy to see why L.A. detective Jim Rockford is Garner's most popular character. It was a perfect fit for both Garner and the mid-1970s, as the show observed cultural changes with tongue in cheek while tweaking private-eye clichés. Rockford lived in a rundown beachside mobile home/office and each episode opened with a funny answering-machine message, which led into that great Mike Post theme music.
Hey, you can find all six season sets among my DVDs, along with the first four of his eight reunion movies, which followed the series a decade-and-a-half later. (By the way, Universal, fans are ready for those final four movies.)
But that wasn't Garner's only big hit. The glaring question is, where's "Maverick"?
The black-and-white Western was Garner's first series, in which he played (mostly for laughs) an itinerant professional card player. "Maverick" began its run in 1957 and almost immediately made Garner a star.
There are a scant three "Maverick" episodes on a DVD titled "Television Favorites," which was released five years ago, and there's one as a bonus feature on the movie "Unforgiven" (because Clint Eastwood is in the episode).
Garner was on "Maverick" for only half as many seasons as "The Rockford Files," but he made such an indelible impression that when he revived the character in a 1978 TV movie titled "The New Maverick" (also on DVD), the ratings were high enough to surprise network executives.
But the movie was actually a pilot for a series titled "Young Maverick," with Garner only appearing briefly in the premiere to hand over the reins to a younger actor. And when people realized Garner would not be around, the show was canceled after a handful of episodes.
In the early 1980s, Garner revived the character again for a series titled "Bret Maverick," but that one lasted only one 13-episode season.
Many other Westerns from the 1950s are on DVD, at least one or more seasons of "Cheyenne," " Have Gun — Will Travel," "Gunsmoke," "Rawhide," "Wagon Train," "The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp" and many more.
So how about "Maverick"? Heck, I'd settle for "Bret Maverick" at this point.
Garner's other series were "Nichols," another one-season Western (1971-72); "Man of the People" (1991-92), a sitcom that ran only 10 episodes; and "First Monday" (2002), another 13-episode single-season show with Garner as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind seeing some of those again.
And while Garner's most famous movies are on DVD — "Sayonara," "Up Periscope," "Cash McCall," "The Great Escape," "The Thrill of it All," "Move Over, Darling," "The Americanization of Emily," "Support Your Local Sheriff," "Skin Game," "Victor/Victoria" and "Murphy's Romance," among others — it's surprising how many are not.
Chief among the missing is "Marlowe," with Garner as the oft-filmed private eye (well before "The Rockford Files"), and martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who, in one memorable scene, kicks Philip Marlowe's desk to pieces.
Other Garner films I'd like to see back in circulation are "A Man Could Get Killed," a funny James Bond spoof with Melina Mercouri and Sandra Dee; "The Art of Love," a Carl Reiner-written comedy (he also shows up onscreen) set in Paris, with Garner promoting the work of painter Dick Van Dyke after he fakes his "death"; "The Wheeler Dealers," a very funny farce with Lee Remick and a bevy of comic supporting players; "Mister Buddwing," an amnesia thriller with Suzanne Pleshette, Jean Simmons and Angela Lansbury and a few others.
For that matter, although Garner's TV movies "Decoration Day," "Promise," "My Name Is Bill W.," "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Legal?ese" are on DVD, how about "Heartsounds," "Breathing Lessons" and "The Glitter Dome"?
By the way, in case you're wondering, Garner earned his only Oscar nomination for "Murphy's Romance." He fared better on TV, of course, with no less than 13 acting nominations, including five for "The Rockford Files" and one each for "Maverick" and "Bret Maverick."
His only acting Emmy was won for the third season of "Rockford."
So, yes, it's nice that Garner was honored by the TV critics of America, but it would be great if DVD makers would allow us to again enjoy the reason he was honored.
The Black Robin Christmas Carol Summary
In every workplace there is a person. A person who doesn't talk to anyone, has walled themselves socially, and seems openly hostile to everyone. Every workplace has this person, even if you don't know of such a person, they're there. The Black Robin Christmas Carol is the story of one of these people. It delves into who this person is, why this person is, and how this person can change for the better.
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