Head of the SF Film Commission Stephanie Coyote -- who makes $132,000 a year to lure film companies to shoot their movies in our fair city -- got wacked fired yesterday. While Gavin may cite the fact that Coyote wasn't doing her job as well as she could, we (and Matier & Ross ) suspect there was a little more to the surprise firing. Coyote is the wife of actor Peter Coyote, who came out vocally...
Peter Coyote is probably best known today for his film acting as well as his narration of various documentaries and nature programs. You might remember him as "keys" in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or possibly from his narration of the program The National Parks: America's Best Idea . Over the years, Coyote has amassed over 100 film roles . What is less widely known is that Peter Coyote led...
"For the benefit and enjoyment of the people." - President Theodore Roosevelt Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing and directing films for nearly thirty years and is most recognized for his...
There are two documentary films available about American Folk legend Woody Guthrie. The first released in 2005 is called Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists. The other is a PBS documentary from the American Masters series that was released in 2007 called Woody Guthrie – Ain’t Got No Home. Both films are pretty similar, obviously sharing [...]
[SPOILERS] Bad title aside, this was a marked improvement for the beleaguered series. Pertinent questions were asked, new relationships were revealed, the investigation took a notable step forward, the melodrama was excised, and an imperative threat was unleashed. It still had some problems (like the fact Joseph Fiennes sleepwalks through his scenes), but "Gimme Some Truth" was a decent hour...
San Francisco Chronicle reports the death of Lenore Kandel, belly dancer, beat poet , Digger and radical: 'Lenore Kandel hung out with Beat poets and was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote a book of love poetry banned as obscene and seized by police, and believed in communal living, anarchic street theater, belly dancing, and all things beautiful... "I met Lenore in 1965 at a citywide meeting...
This week, the agents go to Washington to testify before a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee in order to justify the funding for their Mosaic project. You see, just like in the real Senate, FlashForward ’s senators will, even in the face of an unprecedented national crisis, just hold contentious hearings and bitch about where all the money's going, all the while approving trillions...
Episode Title: "Gimme Some Truth" Written by: Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin The Story: The Mosaic Team — including Agents Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes), Demetri Noh (John Cho) and Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) — heads to Washington, D.C. to speak before Congress about their investigation into the blackouts and resulting flash-forwards, culminating in difficult choices...
(S01E05) FlashForward took us to Washington, DC to see the political ramifications of the blackouts, as well as some of the maneuverings that the city is made of, at least in this reality. Also in this reality, Peter Coyote is President. I've always liked him, and I like how he plays the characters as a very regular and relatable guy. We were introduced to a new character in Senator Joyce Clemente...
I don't understand why people are attacking Heather Graham for being in an ad supporting the public option. She has a right to support her beliefs as does Peter Coyote who narrates the ad. She's wrong, in my opinion, but it doesn't make sense to me to use attack her for appearing in the ad. It strikes me as the same kind of rhetoric the left uses to attack a person's cause by belittling the person,...
Raid proof that Bush administration's 'cowboy diplomacy' a failure, House Rep. says An October, 2008, US military raid inside Syria that killed seven civilians may not have eliminated a senior al Qaeda operative as anonymous Pentagon sources claimed at the time, says a new investigative report. On October 26 of last year, a squadron of US military [...]
The Murders at al-Sukariya On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border in order to assassinate leading al-Qaeda operative Abu Ghadiya. One year later, the authors report from Syria that the raid may have been botched, and the lives of seven innocent civilians were mistakenly taken instead. By Reese Erlich and Peter [...]
“Gimme Some Truth” - Mark finds himself on the defense while being questioned about the details of his flashforward during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, which will decide whether to continue funding Wedeck’s team. Meanwhile, Janis wonders how her flashforward will affect her current romantic relationship, and Olivia receives an anonymous message relating to Mark’s flashforward, on “FlashForward,”