Tag: Hypomania

You know what happened to me this weekend? I watched a show on TV — a rerun of Glee, actually.

And suddenly, this weird feeling came over me. It started in my fingers, a kind of tingling sensation. It went up my arm and into my chest. Then, through my whole body. I felt like I was on fire. My heart started pounding and I began sweating all over. I felt terribly dizzy so I lay down to try and get a grip.

And then, suddenly, it stopped. As quickly as it began. I ran to the mirror and looked at my reflection staring back at me. And then I realized…

That TV show had turned me gay.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-shapiro/tv-made-me-gay_b_1697643.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

I’ve complained numerous times in this space about the endless claims from media pundits that “TV is dying.” Despite pronouncements by experts like David Carr and miscounted viewership by Nielsen, I can assure you, TV IS NOT DYING. That said, despite a current heyday of creativity and originality — Television does have something wrong with it.

Yes, as Carr pointed out and Nielsen reported, “traditional TV viewing” has eroded. However, it has not been replaced by something other than TV, it’s been replaced by more TV, just on other platforms. In some cases, those other platforms are legal; in other cases they are not. As Brian Stelter demonstrated last week, many twenty-somethings are using their parents’ HBO GO account to watch Girls, without a TV. As TorrentFreak points out, many others are simply stealing TV.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-shapiro/tv-cord-cutters_b_1568919.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

APPARENTLY the big news following Anderson Cooper’s publicacknowledgment that he is gay is that it’s not news at all. “And the TV nation seemed to shrug,” in the words of one report on the noncontroversy.

 

Fifteen years ago, when the star of a popular TV comedy decided to come out of the closet, it was big news. Not just big: It was the cover of Time magazine; a major story on Oprah, Primetime Live, and CNN; and the subject of a New York Times editorial that took her to task for her ”ostentatious display of affection with her lover in front of President Clinton.” At the time, it scarcely mattered that Ellen DeGeneres protested that she’d ”never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community.” That role was automatically assigned — by both the news media and a gay population desperate for high-visibility representatives — to any famous person who took such a rare public step. It was not to be relinquished for months, or perhaps years. She’d be expected to weigh in on everything from civil unions to ”Don’t ask, don’t tell” until the next willing celebrity came along.

 

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/07/02/anderson-cooper-new-art-of-coming-out/

Neil Smit, executive vice president of Comcast, joined Anne Sweeney, president, Disney/ABC Television Group, on stage at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference for a discussion about the future of television, moderated by Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta. 

 

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/17/neil-smit-anne-sweeney-transcript/

Nine years after she played a Lesbian character in the movie “Gigli,” Jennifer Lopez is developing an hour-long show for ABC Family about a lesbian couple with kids.

According to Deadline.com, the new series centers on a lesbian couple with kids (one biological son and adopted teen twins–one a boy, the other a girl), whose household is turned upside down when a wayward teenage girl moves in.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/jennifer-lopez-lesbian-show-abc-family_n_1666862.html?utm_hp_ref=lesbian

Imagine that you’re an entrepreneur running a chain of coffee bars and you want to raise capital to open up in new locations. You meet a potential investor, and he says, “I’d love to finance your business, but only the chai latte operation, not the coffee, and only to support drinks you sell in Cleveland next year.”

It might sound absurd, but this is the kind of thing that people running nonprofit organizations hear all the time. Whether they are providing housing or preschool or vocational training services, social organizations typically find their funding restricted to specific programs, locations and time frames. That doesn’t make it easy to grow.

 

From gay pride promotions in six cities to piggybacking on the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, Warner Bros.’ marketing campaign for Magic Mike has relied on unconventional means to whip up interest in the male striptease dramedy.

So far, it seems to be working. Many box office observers say they won’t be surprised if the film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, overperforms when opening at the domestic box office on June 28, much as Warners’ big screen adaptation of Sex and the City far exceeded expectations on the strength of females.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/magic-mike-stripper-channing-tatum-box-office-341507