[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
Update, 12:25 Pm: HBO CEO Richard Plepler says he thought the video spoof by scribes Jim Mahoney and Zach Lewis “was funny” and “a nice compliment”. Speaking to Huffington Post while in Paris this week, Plepler said “If you’re on Saturday Night Live or parodied on Facebook you know you’re part of the cultural landscape” and the video indicates that HBO is “part of the global conversation”. “The guys who did this did great work. I laughed. I take it in the same manner in which it was intended, with a lot of humor,” Plepler said. (Watch the short after the jump.) Previous Exclusive: When you are a new writing team trying to sell a spec, your priority is 1) to get noticed, and 2) don’t alienate anyone powerful. Well, Jim Mahoney & Zach Lewis have at least accomplished the first part. Their Apa agents and Luber Roklin are out...
- 9/13/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
Update, 12:25 Pm: HBO CEO Richard Plepler says he thought the video spoof by scribes Jim Mahoney and Zach Lewis “was funny” and “a nice compliment”. Speaking to Huffington Post while in Paris this week, Plepler said “If you’re on Saturday Night Live or parodied on Facebook you know you’re part of the cultural landscape” and the video indicates that HBO is “part of the global conversation”. “The guys who did this did great work. I laughed. I take it in the same manner in which it was intended, with a lot of humor,” Plepler said. (Watch the short after the jump.) Previous Exclusive: When you are a new writing team trying to sell a spec, your priority is 1) to get noticed, and 2) don’t alienate anyone powerful. Well, Jim Mahoney & Zach Lewis have at least accomplished the first part. Their Apa agents and Luber Roklin are out...
- 9/13/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
A horse is a horse, of course, of course as Fox 2000 confirms they will develop the 1960's TV sitcom "Mister Ed" as a big screen comedic feature, to be produced by Jim Mahoney.
The original Filmways, CBS TV series, featured 'Mister Ed', a palomino horse (Bamboo Harvester) who could talk (Allan Lane) and his owner, eccentric architect 'Wilbur Post' (Alan Young).
The show was derived from a series of short stories by author Walter R. Brooks ("Freddie The Pig"), that debuted in the September 1937 issue of Liberty Magazine with the story "The Talking Horse".
Most of the humor stemmed from the fact Mister Ed would speak only to Wilbur, a concept also similar to a series of low-budget 1950's "Francis the Talking Mule" features.
Legend had it that the crew were able to get Mister Ed to move his mouth by applying peanut butter to his gums in...
The original Filmways, CBS TV series, featured 'Mister Ed', a palomino horse (Bamboo Harvester) who could talk (Allan Lane) and his owner, eccentric architect 'Wilbur Post' (Alan Young).
The show was derived from a series of short stories by author Walter R. Brooks ("Freddie The Pig"), that debuted in the September 1937 issue of Liberty Magazine with the story "The Talking Horse".
Most of the humor stemmed from the fact Mister Ed would speak only to Wilbur, a concept also similar to a series of low-budget 1950's "Francis the Talking Mule" features.
Legend had it that the crew were able to get Mister Ed to move his mouth by applying peanut butter to his gums in...
- 10/5/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Fox 2000 has plans to bring the 1960's sitcom Mister Ed to the big screen, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . The original series, which ran for six seasons, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its pilot broadcast last Saturday. The show starred Alan Young as Wilbur Post, an architect who winds up owning a talking horse, Mister Ed (voiced by Allan Lane) that tends to speak only to him, constantly putting Wilbur in embarrassing situations. Jim Mahoney is set to produce the adaptation, of which few details are currently known outside of the fact that Ed will be a real horse with CGI lip movements.
- 10/4/2011
- Comingsoon.net
With the superb documentary Project Nim out now in cinemas, we caught up with one of its main subjects, primatologist Bob Ingersoll…
On the surface a simple documentary about a chimpanzee raised as a human, director James Marsh’s Project Nim quickly unfolds into something far more intriguing and complex. Detailing Professor Herbert Terrace’s attempts to teach a chimpanzee sign language in the 1970s, the story takes in academic rivalries, cruelty, violence, and moments of extraordinary tenderness.
If you haven’t seen Project Nim yet, we’d recommend that you try to find a screening of it as soon as you can – along with Senna, it’s one of the very best documentaries of the year, and an uplifting companion piece to this summer’s sci-fi flick, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
One of the most engaging subjects in Project Nim is Bob Ingersoll, a primate studies...
On the surface a simple documentary about a chimpanzee raised as a human, director James Marsh’s Project Nim quickly unfolds into something far more intriguing and complex. Detailing Professor Herbert Terrace’s attempts to teach a chimpanzee sign language in the 1970s, the story takes in academic rivalries, cruelty, violence, and moments of extraordinary tenderness.
If you haven’t seen Project Nim yet, we’d recommend that you try to find a screening of it as soon as you can – along with Senna, it’s one of the very best documentaries of the year, and an uplifting companion piece to this summer’s sci-fi flick, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
One of the most engaging subjects in Project Nim is Bob Ingersoll, a primate studies...
- 8/9/2011
- Den of Geek
Photograph Courtesy of Novomer
Novomer's innovation cuts most of the oil and guilt.
Photograph Courtesy of Novomer
Plastics are a favorite target for environmentalists because they're slow to biodegrade, typically require petroleum to create, and eat up a lot of landfill space. But imagine if the material actually helped reduce greenhouse gases. That's the type of product that Novomer, a startup spun off from Cornell University, has created. Its plastics are made largely from CO2 captured from factories and are suitable for everything from disposable utensils to industrial coatings.
This sounds too good to be true, and in a way, it is. For now, Novomer's plastics still require some molecular building blocks known as epoxides, which are derived from oil, and are only "50% to 65% carbon dioxide," says CEO Jim Mahoney. But researchers are working on developing plant-based epoxides, so Novomer could eventually eliminate oil entirely.
Another question is whether the company's plastics should be biodegradable.
Novomer's innovation cuts most of the oil and guilt.
Photograph Courtesy of Novomer
Plastics are a favorite target for environmentalists because they're slow to biodegrade, typically require petroleum to create, and eat up a lot of landfill space. But imagine if the material actually helped reduce greenhouse gases. That's the type of product that Novomer, a startup spun off from Cornell University, has created. Its plastics are made largely from CO2 captured from factories and are suitable for everything from disposable utensils to industrial coatings.
This sounds too good to be true, and in a way, it is. For now, Novomer's plastics still require some molecular building blocks known as epoxides, which are derived from oil, and are only "50% to 65% carbon dioxide," says CEO Jim Mahoney. But researchers are working on developing plant-based epoxides, so Novomer could eventually eliminate oil entirely.
Another question is whether the company's plastics should be biodegradable.
- 11/19/2009
- by Tim McKeough
- Fast Company
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