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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
CBS' "60 Minutes" was the fifth most watched television program last week, its highest in-season weekly rank since March 22nd. The program drew 15.98 million Total Viewers and benefited from a Patriots vs. Jets lead-in, which averaged 20.61M viewers in the 7-7:30pmET hour, according to TVbytheNumbers . Bob Simon interviewed the Newsweek reporter who was released from an Iranian jail, Steve...
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I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Morley Safer of 60 Minutes gets the first look at how Titanic Director James Cameron created his $400 million 3D fantasy Avatar. The movie is set on a moon somewhere out there, a fantasy eden which earthlings want to explore. I can't wait to watch it in the cinema.
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Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I guess when a movie costs as much as Avatar , the real price tag - whether it's $250 or $300 million, or $400 or $500 million - really isn't the point. It would be nice to know a total, either with or without the oft-hidden marketing expenses, but we've heard just about everything from a quarter-billion to a half-billion. Avatar and James Cameron were featured on 60 Minutes last night, and the number...
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Screenhead (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Watch CBS News Videos Online I am impressed with James Cameron’s handling of Morley Safer’s cutting questions against Cameron’s obvious creative and ingenious talent. The overall segment is quite good, offering background information about Cameron, which I already knew, it’s presented well. Related PostsAvatar Scheduled for Three-month IMAX RunHype-o-Meter Goes Up: Avatar Runtime...
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
James Cameron appeared on 60 Minutes last night, where he gave Morley Safer—and us—a behind-the-scenes look at how he went from being the director of "the very best flying piranha movie ever made" to the creator of the $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar . "This is the film I think I always wanted to make when I set down the path of being a filmmaker," said Cameron. He...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I haven't watched this yet, but it's the talk of the Internet as Morley Safer gets the first look at how James Cameron created his $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar on "60 Minutes." And yes, those are the exact words being used, dollar figure and all. I have included the video directly below. It runs for [...]
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Want an early look at James Cameron's "Avatar"? You'll find it this weekend on "60 Minutes" in a report by Morley Safer. "I've been working up to this for a long time. This is the film that I always thought...
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
They say the worst thing you can do to a painter is to examine their latest work and say, "Very nice...is it finished?" It's true that artists and designers, after finally settling on a concept to pursue, can spend forever tweaking it into its arbitrarily finished form. Tel Aviv-based furniture brand Godspeed takes this into account, and goes in the other direction: They only design furniture...
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Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
*** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick ***I'm Morley Safer. They told us they needed $787 billion to fix the economy -- $2,500 for every family in America. But unemployment continues to skyrocket and many wonder: what happened to the hundreds of billions of dollars? When we investigated, we found that no one really knows. And the corruption, graft and
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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Molly Ivins was the most popular liberal commentator of the last 25 years. Bill Minutaglio, author of a new biography of the tangy Texan, on why her voice is needed now more than ever. There was Morley Safer, in a scrum of old hardball Texas liberals...
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Austinist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Image from CBS CBS journalists must appreciate the University of Texas; the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History already holds papers from the careers of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather , and today it was announced that Morley Safer is donating his papers to the same Center. Safer says the Center's journalism archive "has no equal. It is a gateway to learning the eyewitness history of who...
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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
L-R Matthew Bishop and Bill Gates. Photo by Joyce Culver Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sat down with The Economist ‘s Matthew Bishop last night. Adam Ostrow from Mashable was there and offers a recap . He writes: Bishop asked Gates about comments that the Microsoft founder had previously made about the relative stinginess...
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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and his wife Melissa believe child deaths worldwide can be cut by almost 50% in the next 15 years—if funding from the United States continues: Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world,” Melinda Gates said...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
CBS newsman Morley Safer is 78. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 60. Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart is 59. Actress Alfre Woodard is 57. Actor Leif Garrett is 48. Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith is 42. Actress Parker Posey is 41. Actress Tara Reid is 34. Actress Dania Ramirez is 30. TV personality Jack Osbourne is 24.
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