Party night today

I looking forward of the party tonight. Madness and his girlfriend is here they did show up yesterday.. alot of ppl are coming. And I guess we will have a awesome time..

Time to get ready for it.. I will fill u in later ;)

Dawny's Birthday

It's Dawny's B-day today and it started really early for me at least. I got up at 6.30 to do my show on eve-radio. But first time i got up at 5.30 for some reason so i did go back to sleep 1h more.

I got up and did my show and then head back to get 2h sleep before Dawny got up.

Laura and Simon come over and we had a good meal, lost of presents and a good cake after it.

Have been having a good time here. Cant belive its just 1 week left before I have to go home again *sniffs*

Following Whitey to work

It's monday and freaky early in the morning. I got up at 4.30 to take a shower and pack my stuff I needed to pack. Today I was going to follow whitey around at work and then go to my friend Phil in York for a week.

Was going to sit in a lorry for around 6-7h so I was happy we was bringing lunch with us.

I remember when I was going for almost a whole summer in a lorry with my friend Pelle and I enjoyed it then and even this day.

But after a long day I was really tired when I finally come to York that I totaly crashed on the sofa for 3-4h before Phil come home from work.

His place is really nice and quiet. I could not hear a pip in his place from ppl that lived around him.

Tarot Cards

I can get someone to read tarot cards for me and i almost did think of doing it. So far none have been able to do it on me for many diffrent reason and maybe this one can. Here they dont know me at all and then maybe the cards will actualy tell something hehe

It cost £20 for 3 diffrent ways to tell my past, present and future..

In Sweden it cost far much more then that...

*thinking of it*

On Facebook

OMG i have facebook..
And trust me it's confusing...

Noone isn't feeling weel

I woke up and feeling a bit better my knee is still swollen on the backside and its hard to bend it so i tryinging not too. Laura was feeling sick at work and had to go to the hospital, poor Laura.. She is cominh here on friday. I looking forward to see her again.

Sam seems to have the sneezes and Blacklight been poorly. Baggins was sleeping the day away and woke up with a mayor headache. Dawny woke up and feeling really bad, she went up for a nap and come down 30min after it to take a tea and some painkillers and went back up again.

Noone seems to feeling okay today and i feel sad for it. Even Whitey been sick. I think i getting my cold or infection or what to call it that i had for 5 weeks andhad just gone away when i legft sweden. But atm it feels is coming back, and i hope i have wrong... *sniffs*

Nite nite world

Nite nite i was gonna update more but im to tired atm

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Devil May Cry 4

Gameplay in Devil May Cry 4 is similar to previous games in the series. The player must fight through levels called "missions", occasionally solving puzzles or gathering items. Performance in a mission is graded from D being the bottom grade through C, B, A, and S being the highest grade. Grades are based on items used, Red Orbs gathered, time taken, and the amount of Style Points accumulated. Each Style Point grade has its own tag-word. For example, the SSS grade shows up as "Smokin' Sick Style" on the side of the screen when achieved.

Stylish combat is the main focus of the game, which is conveyed through unbroken combos of varied attacks while avoiding damage. The player must avoid attack enemies to continue performing combos, often by memorizing attack patterns.

The Devil Trigger is a super state that enables the player to become more powerful adding a slow but steady health regeneration, with increased damage done. Devil Trigger can be activated by pressing the button to trigger it when the minimum amount on the gauge is filled or when the player is near death during combat, and also through items called Devil Stars.

Some changes introduced into Devil May Cry 4 are the presence of two playable characters, Dante and Nero, and a slight modification to the shop system. A new currency, Proud Souls, is used to buy new abilities while Red Orbs are used to buy items. Proud Souls are rewarded at the end of missions and the amount varies depending on how well the player performs with S rank. Cost of abilities also increase with the purchase of other abilities, though all abilities can be sold back for the original price.

The player plays as Nero throughout most of the game. He starts and ends the game with his Red Queen sword, Blue Rose revolver, and the powers of his Devil Bringer (his demonic right arm). The Red Queen features an Exceed Gauge that can be charged up, allowing for subsequent attacks that are more powerful than regular slashes, until the gauge empties. The Exceed Gauge can also be filled by pressing the rev button at the peak of each slash, which allows for more powerful combos capable of breaking the opponent's guard.

Nero also has the powers of his Devil Bringer, and can use it to pull himself towards enemies or vice-versa. The Devil Bringer may also be used for context-sensitive throw attacks, leading to high damage and various effects depending on the enemy. Nero's Devil Bringer also gains new abilities during the course of the game, such as being able to detect secret missions or caches of Red Orbs. Nero eventually gains the ability to use Devil Trigger after getting Yamato, which increases his Devil Bringer's power, thus changing his Devil Bringer attacks into more powerful versions with different animations.

The player plays as Dante through seven missions, taking over halfway through the game. His gameplay is similar to that of Devil May Cry 3, with him having access to multiple melee and ranged weapons which he gains after boss battles, and being able to cycle through them freely in combat, being no longer limited to equipping two weapons of each type as he was in the previous game.

Dante also starts with his four styles (Trickster, Royal Guard, Sword Master, Gunslinger), each of which grants him different abilities, but he may now switch them at will with buttons or pads on the PlayStation 3 controller or the Xbox 360 controller, unlike in Devil May Cry 3. He also gains the Dark Slayer style near the end of his appearance, which only has one style level and can be accessed by pressing a direction button twice. Styles do not level up through experience as in the previous game, but must instead be upgraded in the shop screen in between missions or at statues. Dante can also enter Devil Trigger; in his Devil Trigger he gains most of the benefits that Nero's Devil Trigger has, though, as he does not have the Devil Bringer, he gets animation and property changes on some of his normal attacks instead.

Dawny and me have been playing this on Xbox for some days now and have just 2 missions left... wohoo.. hard as hell... but we will get to the end...

Hard to wake up

Today i woke up with a hurting knee and back.. I so had no power to wake up at all, but i was crawling down anyway. It's so hard to waking up atm but I have do it sometime hehe.

I where getting into bed at 4am and its now 11ish so i got sleep anyway. I have got me and Dawny a tea and we sitting in the sofa just chatting about everything thats going on for the last year *smiles*

Todays event: I going to the store to buy potato and milk.. and Dawny will make the food. Thats it i guess. Whitey is working poor guy...

Ok time to fix more tea to Dawny brb

Xscape

Today we have been out to a place called xscape that hade a lot of fun things to do. We was out for 2 persons birthday. One 5 years old and one 32 years old. It was most for the 5 years old boy. They was going in to a snow world and was going to jump around and having fun. The snow was fun for them but a bit wet and cold.

I was just watching but it looked fun. I have travel from Sweden to UK and here is where i see the snow, it's really wierd, but true. They haven't got snow back home but here they have it outside as inside. The xscape is a place where they have snow inside, but thats not all they have. The have a wall ppl can climb on and a lot more fun things to do.

After we watch them all get wet tumbeling around in the snow it was a party 1 floor up for all the kids. They got food and icecream. It was nice but the things that i really wasn't liking was that they had a other party going on at the same time that was for a boy that was 15ish and they was breaking ballons and really loud. And that they even come up with the idea to share a room with a lot of 5 years old kids with a bunch with 14-15 years old kids i have no idea.

After this we went to my friends sister. Her sister wasn't living far from this place we was at and we was stopping there on the way back. And when we got back home we had the 5y old boy and his family over for a cup of tea. I have been playing with him and his small cars he got as a present for an hour. But now I wanted to play with my toy.. this laptop to write this down.

Ok im off for more tea and maybe be a bit social with them also...

The party

The Halloween party was really fun. All those outfit. I know that JJ have add some of them on his facebook not that i have a site there so i cant look at it but i know he took a lot of pic to add to the site. I was thinking of getting a facebook site again but i don't know. Im really bad in checking my sites on a daily basic.

I was dressed up as a vampire on the party, blacklight was a cowboy, paul was the hammer man and jj dr fear. He even had a freeze gun. We had catwoman there, some witches, stormtrooper, reaper, the hulk, crazy doctor and lord dracula himself. We had a awesome time and a fun time.

We had ppl playing guitarr hero and singing haha it was awesome. The prize for best cosume went to the hulk that was awesome, he was green and really looked alike as the real hulk.

The price for most drunk was almost tie between the hulk and blacklight the cowboy, but in the end blacklight got the price to be most wasted and the hulk to trash the most lol...

What can i say it was fuuuunnnn!!!!

Halloween Party Schedule

Halloween Party
at JJ's Haunted House
Part 1

08.30 Breakfast at Wallderns Cafe or what its called.. Stressful as hell, they was standing next to me waiting for me to eat up so they could grab the plate... omg never going here again.

09.00 Watching Hallmark and som crime series and laying in bed half sleeping.

10.30 woke up of the workers drilling the wall

11.45 woke up again for the drilling and painting guys

13.30 Got up to get dressed, packed my laptop and walked over to JJ

14.05 Standing outside JJ's place and noone was in, called him and got to know they was out shopping.

15.30 Set it all up before my show, fixed me a drink etc

16.00 Show on ER, covering for Wiggles and doing a warm up show before JJ

18.30 ppl start dropping in

19.00 JJ's Show

22.00 Radio shows done and party time

23.00 Guitar hero competition

01.00 Karioke time

02.00 ppl are waaaaaaaaaay to much drunk and falling over etc

03.15 Going back to the B&B
I will add all info soon but i will need more time to write this hehe so u have to wait for it...

Firealarm went off again

*sucks* Here we go again.. no sleep for the wicked..

Sooooo tired...

I need water.. hangover 4tl

Pub Quiz night

Today is the traditional pub quiz night I normaly goes to when Im in UK. For some reason I have every single time been going to JJ's Pub quiz when Im over here and this time isnt diffrent.

We have been in the same pub all the time except this time. Now we are going to a pub called Druids and its a smaller pub in the town. I liked it. Normaly we go to the pub by car but this time we walk. Awesome for my feet and legs that is allready soor after all the walking from before.

Anyway it was alot of fun. I teamed up with Jon, Paul and a guy more I can't remember the name of. First part was pictures of horror movies and when it comes to horror i ace it hehe. The pic was from: Carrie, Halloween, Freddy, Omen, Saw, Poltergiest and more. We got full pot on that one. Then the tricky part comes, we had questions about books, sports, and general uk question. The horror part of them i could like "who wrote an interwiev with a vampire" etc. But the rest was something the other was knowing more about then me.

But after a lot of fun and many drinks the team i was in "Batmen & Robin" we won the pub quiz.. omg WE WON!!! Happy happy joy joy...

After it we walked our way home and was stopping at a other pub for more drinks.. yay drunk i was *dancing around* my knee feels really bad at this moment but hey I have fuuuuunnnnn!!!

Firealarm went off

Secound day here.. I woke up by the firealarm at 6am.. WTF... Went down to see what was going on, they had some malfunction on the firealarm and was trying to fix it.. omg.. I went out for a smoke and then up to my room to get some new clothes on... No fire here just enoying sound as hell.. I went out for a breakfast while i was up, I couldnt stay there in that noice anyway.

The personal that work on this hotel cant a single world english as it seems... okay one of the guys can but not the girls. I guess its family buisness kind of company. They boss that could english wasnt there.

The B&B

Phoenix Lodge
284/286 St Albans Road,
Watford, Hertfordshire,
WD24 6PE
Mob: 07853 134226
Tel: 01923 818940
Fax: 01923 818940

Quality Bed and Breakfast accommodation at a reasonable price.

• 14 bedrooms
• Prices from just £30.00
• 7-day discount (please phone)
• Weekend Special Offers (please phone)
• SKY SPORTS in every room
• FREE Wi-Fi 24/7 for all guests

Phoenix Lodge
Phoenix Lodge is a small family run Bed and Breakfast offering excellent quality accommodation with a mixture of twin, double and treble rooms, at reasonable prices, close to the centre of Watford and within easy reach of main line rail links and M1 and M25 motorways.

Local Attractions
Cassiobury Park is about ten minutes walk from Phoenix Lodge. This is a beautiful park ideal for leisurely walks, fishing, jogging, or simply relaxing with a book and sunbathing. The Grand Union Canal runs through the park and is frequented by many barges particularly in the summer months.

Top Golf driving range. Approximately 5 minutes drive away you will find a Top Golf driving range. This may be the ideal destination for the golf enthusiasts amongst you!

Cinima Complex. In the opposite direction and only 5 minutes away by car, are some fantastic restaurants and also a cinema complex.

Watford town centre is within walking distance and only a couple of minutes by car or Taxi. The Harlequin Centre will cater for most of your shopping needs, you may also wish to visit Queens Road and the High Street for more 'local' shops. Watford boasts numerous Night clubs, Bars, and Restaurants to suit all tastes, and 'The Parade' gets very busy at weekends and has a real buzz!

Leavesden Film Studio is close by where the Star Wars films, some James Bond movies, and also some of the Harry Potter films were made. Unfortunately these are not open to the public at the moment.

Please ask us for further details on any attractions or activities and we will be happy to compliment your stay with some local advice!

Ps. I was staying in room 10 ;) Ds.

Dinner with Blacklight

After i tried to sleep some and woke up of workers drilling in the walls i was still tired as hell. Blacklight a friend of me was coming over and we went out for a walk. It's fun to meet ppl in person and just talk about everything we think of.

We walked in to town and found a pizza hut to eat at, and it was relaxing to just eat, drink and talk. I enjoyed it alot after all running here and there.

Thx Blacklight i really enjoyed the evening *bows*

Sitting on the Phoenix

Okay maybe wrong title but yeah I am now in Watford at a B&B that called Phoenix Lodge. It's the cheapest place I could found in the area I was going to. It's not that bad and I have been staying at far more crappy places then this.

My day has been very very long and It feels like I have been up for 2 weeks atm. I was going up at 6 am and then went to the airport at 8 am. My plane was lifting off at 10 am. I was comeing to the airport in time and it was okey. I was standing in line to checkin but the line didnt really move. Then I had 2kg to much stuff with me so I had to pay 280Skr for it.. buhu... but what could I do..

I landed 10 min before the expected time and it was ok, I have sleeped most of the time anyway. When I walked all the way from the plane and to the place my bag would come my legs was hurting, part from sitting on a plane for 2h but also part for walking for a while and climbing the stairs all over the place.

I found my bag direct and notice it was totaly soaked, oh joy... Took it and walked outside. It was 2 degree plus here and the sun was shining, lovley. Smoke time. Took up my travel plan to get to watford. The train was going in.. 2h.. oh crap.. went down to the info desk to change the time and that was totaly ok.

Awesome.. A train was standing there and was leaving in 10min, found a seat and sat down. This train took me 20min to get me to Tottham hall where i would travel by tube for 15min and then switch to a other train.

When i took a smokebreak a guy did where stop beside me and asked for a cigg, and i gave him one. For the first he was suprised that i so easy just gave him a cigg, the other he asked havent even seen at his direction. Strange but it seems normal here that just /ignore ppl ?! This guy looked ok around 35 and seemes to be as any other normal worker guys in that place. Last part of todays travel i took a cab. I dont wanna walk more and its just 6-7min by car. That cost me 4.20.. not to much i think..

Anyway im at the B&B now and its feels good to sit down and that i dont have to drag my bag around more... *lays down and close my eyes for a while*

Loong day

I am going to UK today and I can tell it gonna be a long day.. Woke up after 2h sleep at 6 am and was packing the last things. I have a friend driving me to the airport and im happy about it. If i was going to take the but i had to go with the bus at 04.30 am and then had to sit at the airport for 5 hours.. freaking hell.. no way i was doing that..

Adnyway its all packed now and I hope i got all with me.. Time to run down to take the car to the airport.. will write more when i come down there.. *waves*

Stargate Origin Beta

This is a game I'm trying atm and its a webbased game like maybe many others



http://www.stargate-origin.com/

Future of EnB

Welcome to the future of EnB.

To keep it simple, the main goal of our little project here is to get a fully working Earth & Beyond emulator. We have a dedicated team of individuals who currently work on the emulator whenever their spare time dictates, and we also have a great community that is dedicated to seeing their game back in action.

Currently the project is still in very early development as we have just begun to figure out how the client/server interaction should work. However with that being said we have made considerable progress of which can be read about throughout our forums.

If you would like to help out with server-based development, see if your skills fit into one of these categories, via the Application forms.

If you are interested in reading/compiling/or adding to our code, click here to view the thread about SVN location.

If you would like to work on content driven work, please direct your attention to this thread. Hopefully this thread will answer your questions about how you can help.

We are focusing mainly on Multiplayer Capabilities, and are in"CLOSED BETA" Stage. This means, to the public, Multiplayer is "OFFLINE!"

Since we are still in development this portal will serve as our makeshift website. We have decided to put off an official website untill we are able to offer a working server or able to provide a specific service. When the time comes, we will upgrade the website and forums accordingly. Untill that point, the portal and these forums will serve as our home during development.

If you are new to the forums, and would like to install the emulator, check out this thread for help.

Your Community Admin is Ayusaki, he can help you with virtually anything except installation of the emulator, so please do not bother him (or any other devs) with install questions.

Recently the forums have undergone some changes, please keep updated, this thread should help a bit. Please visit it if you have the time.

For more info and installing help go to forum.enb-emulator.com

I played the real game before from the beta to the day they closed it down and I miss the game... This is a cool thing that makes me play it again and i LOVE it <3

1 day left

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg!!!!

Vacation time is NEEEEAAAARRRRR

RRRAAAAWWWRRRR !!!!!!!!

Two More Nights

Now it's just 2 more nights before I have 5 weeks off.. omg I can't wait.. what shall I do under 5 weeks.. hmm I am going to UK.. Going to a Halloween party near London and then I am going up in then country and going to meet up a lot of crazy friends there.

The thing is that I sooooo need to think of packing and sort out what to have with me to UK.. I have found my passport.. but is that enough?

Top Position to Max Payne

Voodoo chants paid off for 20th Century-Fox this weekend as their latest release Max Payne broke a long-running spell of flops and disasters by taking an estimated $18 million at 3376 video-game parlors, enough to put it ahead of Bees, Chihuahuas and soon-to-be ex-Presidents for the no 1 slot in the nation’s top ten.

After the debacle of last summer’s The Happening, Mark Wahlberg restores a smidgeon of credibility to his portfolio with an action-fantasy thriller few people outside of video game fanatics seem to have ever heard of. The trailer rings bells of familiarity with Constantine, promoting as it does a smart look with nifty effects and plenty of gunplay. An opener of $18 million for this kind of PG-13 movie is nothing to get over-excited about, but for Fox it must seem like manna from heaven in the wake of implosions such as Meet Dave, Space Chimps and The Rocker.

Buzzing into third place came The Secret Life of Bees, pollinating an estimated $11 million from 1591 hives. Following in the wake of similar entries like The Divine Underpants of the Travelling Whatever, this Oprah Winfrey-style sanctioned genre of chicks-bonding-together over time/space/race/generational gaps seems to attract a dependable crowd, though rumors of ticket-buying wasps lured in by the title are as yet unfounded.

Over in the Oliver Stone corner of the box-office ring, there was no beating around this bush with his presidential bio W raising $10.5 million at 2030 conventions. For Mr Stone, once the enfant terrible of mainstream cinema, this represents a comeback of sorts after the universally derided Alexander and the soppy World Trade Center.

Mainly good reviews, apart from those suggesting it should have been retitled Y, oscar talk for Josh Brolin, and a sensible budget could mean healthy returns for a genre not exactly renowned for melting ticket machines The other “major” new release of the weekend, Sex Drive, was to be found lurking at no 9, having stalled in neutral for a flaccid $3.5 million at 2421 pitstops. Free Viagra at the box-office might have helped, but as College proved not so long ago, familiarity breeds contempt for those foisting flogged-to-death cheapo efforts such as these on an increasingly indifferent audience.

Amongst hold-overs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua having lost its top position to Max Payne continued its puppy-dog love-affair with the public by dropping only 36% to come in second for a haul of $11.2 million (total to date - $69 million), Eagle Eye short-circuited by 32.7% for $7.3 million (total - $81 million), last week’s surprise hit Quarantine plunged an expected 55.7% for $6.3 million ($24.6 million to date) while Body of Lies, last week’s unfortunate big-budget loser lost even more by terrorising a mere $6.8 million out of a 46.6% decline.

Sandwiched uncomfortably either side of Sex Drive, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Nights in Rodanthe fell by 39.3% and 41% respectively to grab $3.9 million and $2.6 million en route to the lower depths of the top ten next week.

Why do I work with this?

Thats something I keep asking myself night after night these days. I get so much crap from all and it's just feels so wrong. The swedish socity is bad and I guess its because of economy and november depression. But it's really bad how angry and depressed the ppl are today.

I have by the way moved my blog from LJ to here and Im gonna update this with some old blog post that I have missed but still keep on write of what do happen around me as normal. I like this blog better then LJ I don't know why, I just do.

3 nights left on the job.. then i have 5 lovley weeks off from all.. Going to UK at the 28th this month and going to stay there until the 26th of Nov. Atm I just waiting for this 3 night to pass...

lalallaaaaa

Jury Deliberates in Britney Spears License Case

At issue is Spears’ residency in either California or Louisiana

The jury in the case involving entertainer Britney Spears allegedly driving without a valid license began to deliberate Friday night, and the determination of her guilt or innocence will depend on which state she’s considered a resident of—California or Louisiana.

If her peers decide Louisiana, Spears’ childhood home, she will be off the hook. If they decide California, she will be in violation of a law requiring new residents to get a California driver’s license within 10 days and face possible, though unlikely, jail time of up to six months and a fine as large as $1,000.

Spears held a current Louisiana driver’s license on Aug. 6, 2007, when she hit a parked car, and her defense team has argued that since she pays income tax to that state, owns property there and is registered to vote there, she should not legally be considered a California resident.
The prosecution claimed that since Spears has lived fulltime in the Los Angeles area for several years and allegedly began, but did not complete, an application for a California driver’s license, she was actually a California resident, making her Louisiana license void.

The trial spanned only two days before jury deliberations began, including Friday, when Spears’ father, Jamie, testified. He is currently the co-conservator of Spears’ estate—a position to which he was appointed on Jan. 31, following his daughter’s two hospitalizations for psychiatric evaluation.

An attorney for Spears originally attempted to delay the trial by claiming that since her personal and professional lives were still under the control of her father, she was not fit to stand trial—a claim that was rejected by the court.

50 Cent new reality show

50 Cent recently announced his new reality show would be airing next month on MTV.

In typical reality show format, Hit Rap artist 50 Cent: The Money and the Power, will focus on 14 competitors vying for the chance to be next to the rapper, reports Yo!Raps Magazine. The contestants will be shacked up in a warehouse called “Camp Curtis” where they will compete in various “mogul-related” challenges presented by 50.

One contestant will face the reality show guillotine during the show’s ten episode run with the winner cashing a $100,000 check.

The Money and the Power will premiere on November 6 at 10 p.m. It will feature appearances by LL Cool J, Aubrey O’Day, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.

In other 50 Cent news, the rapper will be releasing his fourth solo album on December 9.

Madonna Spreads her “Filth and Wisdom”

NewYork - On the tail of the recent divorce announcement of pop queen Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie — following months of rumors about her liaison with star Yankee third- baseman, A-Rod — the Material Girl makes her directorial debut in the off-beat film “Filth and Wisdom” that hits theaters across North America today.

“Filth and Wisdom” is the story of three roommates who delve into the dark side of city life, trying to make a name in London. The film boasts a jamboree of eclectic characters turn social misfits; the pill-popping pharmacy assistant; a wannabe ballerina forced through poverty to work at a lap-dancing club; and a Ukrainian punk-poet who earns a few bob humiliating masochists while wearing ex-Soviet military garb in his ratty bedroom.

Following its premiere the film received promising reviews from the London Times saying; “Madonna has done herself proud” and “Her film has an artistic ambition that has simply bypassed her husband, the film director Guy Ritchie”. According to its distributor IFC Films, “Filth and Wisdom is every bit as erotic and playful as it is poignant and touching, revealing the universal struggles we all face in our pursuits of happiness.”

The film, written by Dan Caden is also co-written by the pop singer and stars Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure and Richard E. Grant. Filmed on location in London last year, it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival nine months ago, receiving mixed reception from critics.

But not everyone has jumped on board that train yet. A critic at the Telegraph described the film as “not an entirely unpromising first effort” but added “Madonna would do well to hang on to her day job,” while another Brit critic says “”Filth and Wisdom is a good-humored, averagely average vanity project” and “a cheap and cheerful comedy,” but states that “Madonna simply cannot direct actors.”

But will bad reviews be the downfall to the pop singer’s future film projects? Don’t count on it. Captivating the world with her many personas and her wild productions, Madonna’s success has been unparalleled with an estimated 250 million albums and 150 million singles sold world-wide; founding her own entertainment company, Maverick, consisting of a record company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), and also music publishing, television, merchandising and book-publishing divisions.

Most likely, she will go down in history as one of the greatest divas of postmodern pop, involved in charitable causes, including volunteering with organizations that help orphans in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, by providing water, food, medical care and schooling. Not to mention the greatly controversial adoption of her Malawian son David, finalized last year.
This is a tough cookie. No matter what the critics say, it is likely that fans will stick by her side.

Release Date: 17 October 2008 (USA)
Rating: Film is not yet been rated
Distributor: IFC FilmsPhoto AFP

Strange things happen dreaming of vampires

“Jazz first introduced herself to me about three years ago and the other witches soon followed,” says ‘Hex Appeal’ author Linda Wisdom. “It took me about six months total to write ‘50 Ways to Hex Your Lover’, although it was tweaked along the way, and a little over three months for ‘Hex Appeal’.”

‘Hex Appeal’ is the second book in the Hex series. Jazz and her hot Vampire lover Nick have dreams that are becoming almost too real. Have they been hexed? If so, they must find out who’s doing it and how to fix it before it’s too late!

“What’s really exciting for me is that a producer optioned the Hex series to pitch for TV and movies,” says Wisdom. “So, who knows? Jazz and her sister witches could show up on the big or small screen!”

“The best for me is doing the research and even checking out historical facts for the witches,” says Wisdom. “For this book I researched spells to banish nightmares and cleansing a room which had to do with Jazz and all her bad dreams.”

“I recently finished the third book, ‘Wicked By Any Other Name’, which stars another witch, Stasi, and am now working on the fourth book, title to be determined, which features Blair,” says Wisdom. “There are thirteen witches in the class that was banished and Jazz has had an extra book and another coming, so I could end up with more than expected in this series.”

“I’ve always written, but didn’t start seriously writing until 1978 and I sold my first two books in 1979,” says Wisdom. “My friends would say I’m the same, just a tad crazier. I’m doing what I love and that makes such a difference.”

Linda Wisdom is a Southern California beach girl who’s moved to the desert. Wisdom has 85 books published, and in many different genres, traditional romance, paranormal, humorous, action/adventure romance, and romantic suspense. Many of her books have been bestsellers. She’s been nominated for Romantic Times awards and a Romance Writers of America Rita Award.

You’ll love this charming book. It’s a fast and funny read. The dialog will keep you laughing and moves the story along. The characters are well developed. The cast of characters that help Jazz and Nick are just as entertaining and well written. The sex scenes are very descriptive. You can read this book without having read the first book in the series.

Both ‘Hex Appeal’ and ‘50 Ways to Hex Your Lover’ will be available at TARGET stores starting October 1st and in stores everywhere soon after.

Hex AppealPaperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release date: Oct. 1, 2008
ISBN-10: 1402214006
ISBN-13: 978-1402214004

We dont have Nynas Taxi anymore

From the 1st of Oct we don't have them anymore...
Why u may ask..

Even if i want too.. I can't tell u :P

Springsteen Born to Run in 2009 Superbowl

Boss to rock at Superbowl XLIII


2009 will be a day for music as well as football fans as Bruce Springsteen and the NFL have announced the Boss will rule the Superbowl XLIII halftime show.He comes on the heels of some celebrated - and notorious - Superbowl presenters from the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Prince and Tom Petty to various members of the Jackson family.


The most-watched TV event of the year, with about 150 million viewers in the U.S., the Superbowl will see Springsteen and his E-Street band perform for 230 countries, and is the biggest musical performance on the planet, outstripping Grammys, Oscars and other worldwide broadcasts - wardrobe malfunctions notwithstanding.

Ghost Town

A misanthropic dentist, Bertram Pincus, (Ricky Gervais) gains the ability to communicate with ghosts after a near death experience in which he dies for seven minutes during a colonoscopy and is then miraculously revived. Ghosts begin to pester him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who wants him to break up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).

This proves rather hard, as Bertram has snubbed Gwen on many an occasion, including when he closes the elevator on her and gets her in trouble with the super. However, since he displays his dental expertise to her one day in the elevator, she recruits him to look at a mummy's teeth, and Pincus redeems himself in Gwen's eyes when he identifies the cause of the Pharaoh's death. She invites him to dinner along with her fiancee Richard (Billy Campbell), whom Frank says is after her money but seems to Pincus like a nice man, as he is a human rights lawyer.

Pincus gets to know Gwen more and finds himself falling in love with her. He mystifies her when, out for drinks one day, he knows information about Frank, and Gwen reveals to them both that she had found out Frank had been cheating on her. Pincus ends up inadvertently breaking off her engagement to Richard, information he got out of Richard by drugging him with laughing gas. After that, Pincus vows never to interfere in her life again.

Frank doesn't understand why he is still on earth if he was supposed to break up Richard and Gwen. Gwen, not being engaged to Richard any longer, says yes to a proposal that would send her to the Valley of Kings for six months. As a going away present, Pincus gets her a new keychain, which she had before mentioned she desperately needed. But when he mistakenly reveals more information about Frank only Gwen knows, she demands the truth, and Pincus tells her the whole story with ghosts. Gwen doesn't believe him and demands to know what Frank's worst nightmare was. Frank tells Pincus a fake nightmare, and Gwen, thinking Pincus is toying with her, walks away. Frank tells Pincus he doesn't want Gwen to be with another selfish person.

Back at the office, Pincus asks a fellow dentist (Aasif Mandvi) for medication that will help him forget Gwen. Pincus decides that he will help the ghosts. He helps almost all of them, and finds out that one of the ghosts is an especially annoying patient's deceased husband. While helping these ghosts, Pincus discovers that the reason why Frank can't leave is that Gwen hasn't let go of him. He rushes to the exhibition at the Met, only for Gwen to blow him off. She asks him to ask Frank why she wasn't enough for him, and Frank says he's sorry, which Pincus tells Gwen. Gwen is incredulous that after his infidelity, all Frank would have to say was 'sorry' and thinks that Pincus is making it all up. He rushes after her and while trying to persuade her to believe him, gets hit by a bus. Pincus comes back as a ghost and is comforted by Frank, who gives him advice in case he goes back. Richard comes and tries to revive Pincus. Frank is finally allowed to leave, as Gwen is now crying over Pincus, not him.

Pincus wakes up back in the hospital, having been revived. He goes back to the office only to find Gwen, who needs dental work. Pincus tells Gwen the real nightmare, which Frank managed to tell him somehow, and then assures her 'he found his way home.' The movie ends with Gwen saying 'it hurts when I smile,' to which Pincus replies 'I can fix that

It was released on September 19, 2008.

It has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some strong language, sexual humor and drug references.

Moving day

OMG packing.. draging.. moving... and pack more...

Today i got poor.. really poor...

Had to move all in 1 day and I haven't really packet it all...

Never i will do this again....

The Other

One of the other companies we are having is starting to be better but at the night/morning they are really bad when they switching ppl that have the night and morning shift. It can be 1-2h where it not existing any ppl out there.

They saying it will be better.. we can hope...

Its created

I have under the night on my work created a full Intraweb whit all info that we that do work there maybe will be needed. I was bored and I have been missing something to do, so why not.. Create it and have something to build on for the rest of my life lol

We having 2-3 companies to keep an eye on atm and time to time it can be stressed as hell, but it's keep the night to go faster.. =0)

Duchovny admits he is sex addict

I found this picture and just had to add it here...
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Duchovny admits he is sex addict

X-Files star David Duchovny has admitted he is triple XXX.

Turns out sex-obsessed character on cable TV’s “R-rated” “Californication,” has entered a sex addiction rehab, as life imitates art, or the other way around.

Duchovny, best known for “X-Files” has been rumored to be a sex hound for years. Yet now, he admitted it and said he entered rehab voluntarily.

In a statement from his attorney Stanton Stein he said “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”

Showtime Network, which airs “Californication” said “All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time.” The second season begins Sept. 28 and should prove quite ironic.

He and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have been married 11 years and have two children.

By Jeffrey Jolson (www.hollywoodtoday.net/)

We taking over Nynas Taxi full time

What ppl don't know is that we now also have this company and answer thier phones etc. Sure they still have thier own cab's and one of thier personal is here with us.

I think this can be a interesting co-work *smiles*

Check up

Today a lady was here at 14 and was checking up my appartment.. They doing this when ppl move in and out. She couldn't find any bigger problems that she had to mark it on her papers. She was new on her work I could tell. But it was okej.

Staring to pack some stuff today.. I notise it will take 3 years to pack it all... *suck*

Boxes everywhere

My mum was here before with boxes for me to pack all my stuff in beacause I am going to move soonish to a new appartment. Today she was bringing me 40 boxes.. omg this will be totaly okay when I will move.. I will have enough boxes hehe...

Cult Classic Remake Planned by MTV

Did you ever dress like Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Eddie or Janet and yell funny lines (to you, anyway) at a midnight screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show?” Well, tens of thousands did.

Every weekend, in towns across America and around the world.
In a move that will either delight or appall its notoriously dedicated fanbase, MTV has decided to redo the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” as a made-for-TV film spanning two hours, Variety reported Wednesday. The same gender-bending screenplay, co-written by original cast member Richard O’Brien, will be used, though a little wiggle room will be allowed for added musical numbers.

The first movie, initially a financial flop, has aired continuously in movie theaters around the world since its initial release, earning nearly $140 million and attracting scores of costumed and vocal enthusiasts to special midnight screenings, where amateur performers often mimic the onscreen action and audience props are abundant.

Based on the stage musical of the same name, the 23-year-old motion picture followed two straight-laced fiancés, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, as they became stranded at a remote gothic castle and were taken prisoner and subjected to sexual debauchery by the building’s inhabitants: a transsexual alien bent on world domination, his bevy of twisted servants and his genetically engineered, muscle-bound sex slave. It starred Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, Meatloaf and Susan Sarandon.

There hasn’t been any word as to the newer feature’s casting (or release date), though the movie’s subject material makes it unlikely the usual set of stars familiar to the youth-oriented cable network’s primary viewers (e.g., Zac Efron or Ashley Tisdale) would be considered.
MTV has already been doling out a bit of milder sexual decadence...

David Duchovny happy to be back as Mulder

After waiting six years, Duchovny returns in film based on the popular TV series

I thought I would fall back into Mulder very naturally, but at first playing the character felt a little odd,” says ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ star David Duchovny. “I didn’t want to make any drastic changes in the way I played Mulder because the character is so well-known. But of course I’m older now, and so is Mulder, so some things had to change.”

The film reunites series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson under the direction of series creator Chris Carter, who co-wrote the screenplay with Frank Spotnitz. ‘The X-Files 2’ encountered delays. Carter and Fox fought a court battle over royalties from re-runs of the television series, then the WGA writers strike hit.

“I’d say David was as responsible as anyone for getting this movie made,” says ‘The X-Files 2’ director Chris Carter. “He campaigned for it. He wanted to do it. David was really the key cheerleader in sustaining our interest in doing another film.”

David Duchovny says that presenting Mulder and Scully as they are today was a critical decision. “It was important to allow time to go on in the world of The X-Files as it’s gone on in the world at large,” says Duchovny. “I think one of the most interesting things we do as actors is to try and embody the same character as time goes by, working with the changes of life or consciousness that happen to us with time.”

“I think the reason The X-Files series was so successful was that Chris imagined a beautiful universe, perfectly devised,” says ‘The X-Files 2’ screenwriter Frank Spotnitz. “He created two very powerful characters, perfectly cast, with opposing views of the world, one a believer, the other a skeptic. Mulder and Scully dealt with the limits of what we understand about life and about the universe. It really is an incredibly rich and diverse universe, and an endless source of storytelling. I think the voice of this movie is still very clearly the voice that Chris defined in the series pilot, sixteen years ago.”

Duchovny has wanted to return to Fox Mulder and The X-Files since the show ended its long run in 2002. “I always felt that The X-Files as a movie franchise had real life in it,” says Duchovny. ‘The X-Files’ television series aired from 1993 to 2002. It won five Golden Globes. When Fox released the first ‘The X-Files’ movie in 1998, it grossed $187 million worldwide. For its first five seasons the televisies shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, before moving to Los Angeles. ‘The X-Files 2’ was filmed in Vancouver.

Release Date: July 25th, 2008 (USA)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Earthquake Rocks Hollywood, Disneyland Evacuated

5.8 magnitude earthquake shakes studios

Angelenos were stirred but not shaken by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake at 11:42:15 PST today. The quake had an epicenter 4.4 miles southeast of Diamond Bar, California. Diamond Bar, located 27 miles east of Los Angeles, is known for being the home town of rapper Snoop Dog.

Disneyland rides were evacuated, according to KABC. There are no initial reports of damages. The quake shook Irvine and was felt in San Diego.

Data Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Suspicious 9 Story Fall Death

Cover girl Ruslana Kazakhstani dead after fall from Manhattan apartment building

The life of successful fashion model Ruslana Korshunova was cut short Saturday afternoon after the young Kazakhstani fell from the balcony of her apartment in Lower Manhattan to the pavement below. According to an anonymous police source cited by local newspaper Newsday, Korshunova’s death, which occurred just four days before her 21st birthday, was being treated as a suicide.

It isn’t always psychologically easy for models who are suddenly flush with money and attention at a very young age. Drugs and a decadent lifestyle are always a temptation. Yet there was construction underway on the balcony which could mean it was accidental. And a cut in the temporary netting could indicate something more nefarious.

Korshunova dropped from the ninth floor of the Water Street building, which was under construction, at approximately 2:30 p.m. According to the New York Post, there was a gap (apparently cut) in the construction netting covering the balcony. Additionally, both publications reported that police found no obvious signs of struggle inside the model’s home.

Korshunova, who was represented in New York by IMG Models, had previously appeared on the covers of major magazines, including international versions of Elle and Vogue, and had done extensive work for a variety of major designers, including Vera Wang and Libertine.

‘Harry Potter’ Actor Stabbed to Death

Robert Knox killed in senseless act of violence outside bar

“Harry Potter” fans were forced to deal with somber news Saturday, when young actor Robert Knox, who will appear as Hogwarts student Marcus Belby in this fall’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” was stabbed to death outside a London bar.

“We are all shocked and saddened by this news, and at this time our sympathies are with his family,” read a statement released by Warner Bros., the film’s distributor.

The 18-year-old was defending his younger brother in an early-morning argument with the 21-year-old suspect outside southwest London’s Metro, according to U.K.-based Web site Times Online. Paramedics attempted to revive Knox at the scene, but were unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital.

Principal filming on the penultimate “Potter” film (third-to-last, if the two-part “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is counted twice) finished just days earlier on May 17. The movie was the native Londoner’s first big-screen feature, Knox having appeared twice before on English television.

“Iron Man’ Downey Says ‘I’m Back’

“I’m making a hell of a comeback,” says Robert Downey, Jr. who has the starring role in the Paramount’s summer tentpole, ‘Iron Man’. “What I’m loving lately is hearing that Iron Man was always a second-tier superhero…operative word, was,”

Downey met with director Jon Favreau at Marvel. “In the hallway on the way out I’m looking these posters films they have that have done fairly well,” says Downey. “I’m thinking, this could be cool. I said, Jon, I think I’m really the guy for this role. He says, I think you’d be perfect, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. I said, well I think it’s going to happen. Let me know if it comes down to a screen test or something. It would be a pleasure. And, that’s how it went down.”

“The hardest part was trusting that all this gack and gear was going to balance out with how we do the acting,” says Downey. “It was $165 million, or something like that, that was going to go down the tubes if we didn’t try to make something entertaining. My feeling about when I’m working is it’s an athletic endeavor. I’m trying to make or beat a time. The hardest part of this is it was a really big science project.” That was the mental part. The other challenge was physical.

“It was a physically demanding part,” says Downey. “I figured, if I was going to look like I could be in shape, I might as well do it before I’m too old to have it be feasible. Sometimes you just train in order to be able to survive what you’re going to have to do on the job.”

“The coolest for me was John and I at the end of a 12-hour day got into some cars in Seoul, Korea, went out to the military base and did an impromptu screening for the soldiers and some of their kids,” says Downey. “That was something else! That really gave us a shot in the ass.”

“I think that mythology and science are practically the same thing these days,” says Downey. “We’re getting on the plane to come here and it says Popular Mechanics ‘The Real Iron Man’ and it’s talking about these Raytheon super-soldier things that they’re building. They say that by 2020 we’ll have these things.”

Downey compares his comeback to Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco. “There’s this tank of crabs and you pick them out,” says Downey. “Every once and a while this crab will flit to the top like it’s going to get out. Every time one of them gets to the top, one of the other crabs will pull him back down. So, you’ve got to try to get out of the tank.”

‘Iron Man’Rating: PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content

Distributor: Paramount

Running Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes

Release Date: May 2, 2008 (wide)

CSI Star Arrested Long List of Drugs

Perhaps not content with a common DUI like other actors, CSI’s Gary Dourdan arrested for crack, smack, X and more...

In a scene reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” and his bag full of mixed drugs, CSI star Gary Dourdan was arrested for a remarkable slew of substances after being found “slumped unconscious” in his car upon leaving the Coachella Music festival.

Police found substances believed to be crack cocaine, heroin and ecstasy in the vehicle and various prescription-only drugs, said by police to be “a virtual pharmacy’s worth of prescription and illegal drugs” as well as “items relating to drugs.”

The 41-year-old was held after being found “asleep” or “unconscious” according to police was found in a parked car in Palm Springs, California.

The Palm Springs PD said the actor was busted at approximately 5:12 a.m. when officers approached his vehicle and found him “asleep” or “unconscious” in the vehicle’s drivers seat, “parked on the wrong side of the road with the interior lights still on” according to the police report.

The actor - whose character, Warrick Brown, has battled an addiction to pills on the crime drama was taken into custody at the scene and booked at the Palm Springs jail for possession of narcotics and possession of dangerous drugs. He was held for several hours and ultimately released at 10:30 a.m. on $5,000 bail.

The arresting officer described Dourdan (identified on his California driver’s license as Robert Gary Durdin) as “disoriented” and appearing to be under the influence of either drugs or alcohol.
Earlier this month, CBS and Dourdan confirmed he would not be renewing his contract or returning as the pill-popping Warrick Brown on the smash crime procedural after the show’s May 15 finale.

Perhaps he was looking for the escaped giant floating Pink Floyd Pig that was accidentally released or did he merely stop to “top off” and then pass out?

Pink Floyd Giant Pig Lost – Reward Offered

Water’s giant inflatable Pig escapes and flies somewhere in California‘ desert

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters closed his Coachella music fest set with the release of the equally famous, trademark giant inflatable pig but this one flew away! Now the question is…Did a school bus-sized inflatable pig land on your backyard?

Coachella organizers are offering $10,000 and four lifetime passes to anyone who returns their pig. The pig balloon was released during Roger Water’s performance on Sunday at the Coachella festival. The pig was covered with graffiti from famous street artist, Slick.

The graffiti had slogans that read: “Don’t be led to the slaughter,” “No Blood for Oil”, and even included Obama’s name with check box next to it.

To collect the bounty, please contact lostpig@coachella.com.

Wesley Snipes Sentenced to Three Years

Snipes, famous for his tax protest stance and “Blade” franchise, paying the price

The Beatles said “Tax man don’t take it all” and the IRS wanted $18.5 million for back taxes from action star and tax protester Wesley Snipes. After a trial over these affairs, they are now taking three years of freedom and trying to send him to prison, pending his expected appeal.

On Thursday, he was sentenced to the maximum three-year sentence for not filing tax returns.

But judging by the sentence, his pleas for leniency – and the thirty-odd character references from such Hollywood luminaries as Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington (’Wesley is like a tree - a mighty oak’, the latter rather curiously suggested) – have clearly fallen on deaf ears. Snipes’ lawyers are complaining that it’s unfair for the courts to make an example of him just because he’s famous (’Mr. Snipes was sentenced because he’s Mr. Snipes,’ one said, which seems unarguable on a number of levels), but that’s obviously the plan here.

Prosecutors had requested the sentence, one year for each of Snipes’s convictions, saying the star of Blade 3 and Demolition Man had “engaged a campaign of criminal tax conduct, combining brazen defiance with insidious concealment”, telling the US District

Rock stars are usually not in this situation, for obvious reasons

Rockett, partner of Bret Michaels, arrested for rape. Excuse us, rock stars are usually not in this situation, for obvious reasons

Rikki Rockett, drummer for 80’s hairband Poison, was arrested for rape this week in Los Angeles after getting off a flight from New Zealand. Rockett was held on a rape warrant stemming from Neshoba County, Missisippi.

Rockett - real name Richard Ream - was held after a woman filed a complaint claiming she had been raped at a casino in Neshoba, Mississippi.

A police spokesperson said prosecutors were deciding whether the star would be sent back to Mississippi.

The 46-year-old musician, who was unavailable for comment, has been released from police custody.

The band, who are best known for releasing the song Talk Dirty to Me, was founded in the 1980s by Rockett and singer Bret Michaels.

Media reports from TMZ say the the warrant stems from an incident that occurred on September 23, 2007 at a casino in Mississippi. TMZ says Rockett was released in Los Angeles because Mississippi law enforcement decided not to extradite him, pending official charges from the Neshoba County district attorney. Neither law enforcement nor Rockett have yet issued any official statement on the matter.

Washington Post put on FBI “Do Not Contact” list

Origins of how entertainment divisions were used to control news: J. Edgar Hoover tried to use his power over 60s-70s’ megahit “The FBI” series to fire anchorman at ABC over “Untouchables” comment, Washington Post put on FBI “Do Not Contact” list

J. Edgar Hoover was furious. ABC News anchor Frank Reynolds had just mocked him on the 6 o’clock evening news, and the network let him do it. Someone was going to have to pay for this. Reynolds would be investigated, and if ABC didn’t fire him, Hoover would yank one of their most popular shows off the air. It was Thursday, Nov. 19, 1970, a week before Thanksgiving. Nixon was in the White House, John Mitchell was Attorney General, and Watergate was just an apartment building and office complex in Washington, D.C.

In those days, Hoover wasn’t just the most powerful man in law enforcement; he was a powerful force in the television industry, as well. From 1965 until his death in 1972, Hoover controlled one of ABC’s top-rated shows – “The FBI,” which starred Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as the straight-arrow FBI Inspector Lewis Erskine.

And Hoover didn’t just control the show figuratively. As revealed in 5,000 pages of FBI memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Hoover controlled the hit TV show literally, having final approval over every word in every script and over the hiring of every cast member, writer, director, producer and crewmember. He even approved the show’s sponsors.
And now an angry Hoover was threatening to cancel “The FBI,” which had been a consistent ratings winner for the network, regularly finishing in the top five of the Nielsen ratings. And to make things worse, ABC had just that morning put out a press release saying that the show had been renewed for a seventh season.

Hoover had been in the news that day because former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark had just come out with a new book titled Crime In America. Clark, a longtime Hoover critic who had refused to allow Hoover to continue wiretapping Martin Luther King when Clark was Attorney General in the late-1960s, wrote in his book that the FBI suffered from “the excessive domination of a single person, J. Edgar Hoover, and his self-centered concern for his reputation…”

That alone, however, didn’t make much news. It wasn’t until an enterprising reporter at the Washington Post got Hoover’s response to Clark’s comments that the long-simmering feud between Hoover and Clark made headlines.

The Washington Post was on Hoover’s secret “Do Not Contact” list – meaning that no one in the Bureau was supposed to talk to anyone at the Post without his express permission. Not unlike Nixon’s famous “Enemies List,” Hoover’s was a list of newspapers and reporters who were considered “unfriendly” and uncooperative.

But Ken Clawson was a different kind of reporter at the Washington Post. At 34, he was a little older than most of the young Turks there, and his politics ran to the conservative side – he was a Republican and a staunch Nixon supporter. Even so, he was a rising star at the Post, and he’d been personally assigned to the Justice Department beat by editor Ben Bradlee.
Clawson had been trying to get a sit-down interview with Hoover for months, without any success. But when Clark’s book came out, Attorney General John Mitchell urged Hoover to talk to the reporter.

Hoover relented and gave Clawson 25 minutes – and some juicy quotes.

Clark, Hoover told Clawson, was “a jellyfish” and “a softie,” and the worst attorney general in Hoover’s 45 years with the FBI – even worst than Bobby Kennedy. “At least Kennedy stuck to his guns, even when he was wrong,” Hoover said.

By contrast, Hoover said, John Mitchell, who was then the Attorney General, was an “honest, sincere and very human man. There has never been an Attorney General for whom I’ve had higher regard.”

Five years later, Mitchell would be found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury in the Watergate break-in and cover-up scandal. Nixon’s White House tapes confirmed that Mitchell had participated in a meeting to plan the Watergate break-in, and that he had met at least three times with Nixon in an effort to conceal the White House efforts to cover-up the Watergate crimes. Mitchell would serve 19 months in a federal prison, becoming the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned.

Ironically, Clawson, would also go down with Nixon. Fifteen months after interviewing Hoover, Clawson stunned his colleagues at the Washington Post by accepting a job as the White House deputy director of communications, and in January of 1974, at the height of Watergate, became White House communications director and chief spokesman for Nixon. “I’m just one of Richard Nixon’s spear-carriers, and proud of it,” he said at the time. He died in 1999.

Clawson’s interview with Hoover in November of 1970 propelled the rift between Clark and Hoover onto the front pages of newspapers, and into the evening’s six o’clock news.

There was a lot going on in the news on Nov. 19, 1970: the Charles Manson murder trial was in session, as was the My Lai massacre trial. There were 280,000 troops in Vietnam, and the Paris Peace talks were underway in what would prove to be a failed attempt to end the war; but anytime – then or now – that an FBI director calls a former Attorney General a “jellyfish,” that’s news, and newspapers all across the country picked up Clawson’s story, as did the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, which ran a 30-second story on the Hoover-Clark feud that night. But it was Frank Reynolds’ commentary on ABC that blew Hoover’s top. (In those days, it was not uncommon for network news anchors to deliver an occasional editorial comment at the end of the evening’s newscast.)

And that’s what Reynolds did that night. “Clark tells us Hoover does not welcome criticism; few of us do. But in Hoover’s case, he seems to regard it as insubordination. Even when it comes from someone to whom he is, or was, subordinate” the anchorman said in his commentary.
Here’s where it hit Hoover in the gut, dealing with matters that would seem to the FBI chief the very core of his early legacy.

“This may seem a terrible joke, but (Hoover) has been, for these many years, the real ‘Untouchable’ in Washington. Eliot Ness himself would not have dared pulled the plug in the Hoover bathtub had it been found full of gin during the Prohibition years. Unquestionably, he has been a good cop and a useful public servant. He is not, however, above reproach.”
The next day, Nov. 20, 1970, Milton A. Jones, the FBI section chief who oversaw “The FBI” series circulated a memo to the top echelon of the Bureau.

“At the conclusion of the Reynolds/Smith ABC News Program last evening, Frank Reynolds, ABC News Correspondent from New York, commented concerning the Director… He indicated that Mr. Hoover is the ‘real Untouchable in Washington’ and in a sarcastic vein commented that ‘Eliot Ness himself would not have dared pull the plug on the Hoover bathtub had it been found full of gin during the prohibition years.’ “Reynolds’ comments were … certainly in very poor taste. Bufiles (Bureau files) contain no pertinent information concerning Reynolds.”

At the bottom of this memo, Hoover wrote ominously, in his angry, child-like scrawl: “Keep this in mind about ABC.”

The next day, Jones wrote another memo after getting his orders from Clyde Tolson, Hoover’s right-hand man at the Bureau.

“It is noted that Mr. Tolson has instructed that the American Broadcasting Company be advised that the Bureau will not cooperate in the filming of ‘The FBI’ television series for an additional series,” Jones wrote in a memo dated Nov. 21, 1970 – two days after the airing of Reynolds’ commentary.
At the bottom of this memo, Hoover told his subordinate to tell ABC why Hoover had decided to cancel one of their top shows.

“Point out it is due to vicious denunciation by ABC News commentator,” Hoover scrawled in a hand-written note. “I cannot approve further portrayal of FBI TV series on ABC in view of this attitude.”

ABC executives, who had been in the Virgin Islands attending a network convention when they got word of Hoover’s displeasure, flew home in a panic.

Martin Pompadur, the network vice president who worked with the FBI on a regular basis clearing advertisers for the show – all advertisers had to be personally approved by Hoover – got on the phone with FBI Assistant Director Thomas E. Bishop and apologized for the “viciousness” of Reynolds’ behavior. Pompadur then said that even before he made these remarks about Hoover, Reynolds had been notified that he was being taken out of the anchor chair, and speculated that Reynolds had lashed out at Hoover as a form of revenge.

“Pompadur noted that Reynolds has been a continuing problem for ABC insofar as the content of and the manner in which he handles his news broadcasts,” Bishop wrote. “As a consequence, according to Pompadur, he is being dropped from the ABC news staff as of December 7th and is being replaced by Harry Reasoner. Pompadur noted that following Reynolds’ notice of dismissal from ABC he has shown his displeasure in a number of ways that have created problems for ABC.

“Pompadur advised that he fully shares the Director’s feeling concerning this matter and he deeply regrets the concern caused the Director and the Bureau by Reynolds’ viciousness and unwarranted activity.

“Pompadur further advised that he has always respected and admired the Director and the Bureau and is conscious of the fine relationship had by ABC and the FBI. He said that he intended to immediately contact other ABC officials and get to the bottom of this matter.”
According to the memo, “Pompadur indicated that while he can only speculate at this time, that since ABC had made a news release on the same date, Thursday, 11-19-70, regarding the renewal of ‘The FBI’ television series for a seventh season, Pompadur feels, Reynolds may have taken an advantage of this opportunity to embarrass the ABC television network and the Bureau by doing what he did.”

In an interview for this article, Pompadur was asked why he would say that Reynolds might have been trying to sabotage ABC’s relationship with the FBI. Pompadur, who is now an executive vice president of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and chairman of News Corp Europe, admitted: “I may have said that to score some points.”

A few minutes after he hung up with Pompadur, Bishop received a phone call from James C. Hagerty, vice president of ABC’s corporate relations. Hagerty, who had been a reporter at the New York Times from 1934-42, and who later served as President Dwight Eisenhower’s press secretary and spokesman during all eight years of his administration, had known Hoover for years. He told Bishop that he had cleared his schedule and wanted to come to Washington immediately – that day, if possible – to talk to Hoover about this situation.

Hagerty flew down from New York the next day and met with Hoover in his office at the Justice Department. After reminiscing about the good old days when President Eisenhower was their boss, they got around to talking about Reynolds.

Hagerty noted that “while his current responsibilities involve Corporate Affairs, he is himself essentially a newsman, and that he tries when he is able, to oversee the activities of the ABC News Department.” In that dual capacity, a memo about that meeting states, he told Hoover that Reynolds “was being removed as anchorman on the ABC News team and being replaced by Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith effective 12-7-70. Hagerty said that if they could, ABC would get rid of Reynolds entirely and will do so when his current contract expires. Hagerty noted that his contract notwithstanding, they were doing the best they can with him at the present time by getting him out of the public eye as much as possible, since he has been a source of problems and embarrassment to the network.”

Hagerty told Hoover, “Reynolds is bitter and upset over this development and is capable of saying almost anything at the present time to embarrass the ABC network. Hagerty said that it is his feeling that Reynolds’ (remark) may well have been designed by Reynolds to generate a rift between the Bureau and ABC.”

Hagerty went on to butter up Hoover, telling him that “the FBI was the most prestigious law enforcement agency in the world, and that the organization was the end product of the vision, diligence and dedication of one man – Mr. Hoover.”

After that, Hoover relented. As long as Reynolds was out, ABC could keep “The FBI” on the air.
According to the memo about their meeting, Hoover told Hagerty that “the Bureau was shocked at the malicious attack made by Reynolds,” but that “in view of the fact that Reynolds was being removed as anchorman on the ABC News team, and in view of Mr. Hagerty’s personal interest, the Director would approve participation of the Bureau in the telecasting of ‘The FBI’ for a seventh season (1971-72).”

With that settled, the FBI memo notes that Hoover and Hagerty then had “a lively discussion concerning the caliber of newsmen we have in this country today,” with Hoover singling out Walter Cronkite, the Washington Post and the New York Post as being particularly bad representatives of good journalism. The memo notes that the two old friends then “had a brief discussion concerning…the fine job being done by Vice President (Spiro) Agnew” – who would resign in disgrace three years later after pleading no contest to accepting $29,500 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland.

And that was it. Hoover and Hagerty said their goodbyes, and Hagerty rushed to a phone and called his bosses at ABC to tell them the good news – the show could go on.

Frank Reynolds was removed as anchor a few weeks later, but stayed on as a field correspondent for ABC. He returned as co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight in 1978, and died in 1983 at the age of 59.

His son, Dean Reynolds, who is now a correspondent for CBS News, was outraged – and bemused – by the network official’s “craven” attempt to save their highly rated TV show at the cost of the news division’s integrity.

Shown the documents, he said: “It’s clear that Hoover had the ABC Entertainment people by the nuts because of ‘The FBI’ show. This would be very embarrassing to the network if something like that were to happen today. I don’t think people would recover from it. There’s no Hoover out there today, but who knows what Dick Cheney is doing.

“Hoover was dangerous on many fronts. He had things on people and they couldn’t get rid of him, and he played that card all the time. What in the hell was ABC doing giving Hoover carte blanche on this show? They could have done ‘The FBI’ without him. They were perfectly in their rights. But the use of the word ‘vicious’ to describe my old man…I’m sorry he’s not around. He would have loved this. It’s quaint that they thought they could do this, but I come back to the suspicion that stuff like this may still be going on today.”

Next: Part 3 of The Secret Files of ‘The FBI’: J. Edgar Hoover vs. Martin Luther King.

David Robb is a former labor, legal and investigative reporter at The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. This series is a follow-up to his 2004 book Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies.

Michael Ravnitzky uncovered the documents and provided research for this series.

Internet TV-driven ‘Quarterlife” On Life Support at NBC?

Ben Silverman’s gamble taking Herskovitz and Zwick’s made-for-Internet series to NBC is looking very risky for everyone involved after the show premiered poorly despite huge promotional efforts.

The disappointing Nielsen ratings for the premiere Tuesday of “Quarterlife” on NBC don’t portend well for a series billed as a breakthrough. This was to be the bold step pushed by NBC co-CEO Ben Silverman to help re-charge NBC, but instead may be a misstep. The 1.6 rating was the worst for any show in that time period in at least 17 years.
Silverman was hired to shake things up. He aggressively made the deal with “30something” and “My So Called Life” creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for the program to transfer from initial showing on the Internet to primetime on his (and G.E.’s) broadcast network.

If it flops, it would also be a blow to the ambitious plans of Herskovitz and Zwick who broke the number one rule in Hollywood: Always use OPM: Other people’s money. The pair have invested millions of their own money to seed the series, a web site and social networking community, with plans that include a program to place interns in creative businesses at Herskovitz and Zwick’s expense.

UPDATE: Herskovitz had this to say on Thursday: “I am happy to say that the reports of Quarterlife’s demise are exaggerated. We’re deeply grateful for NBC’s efforts to make Quarterlife a success on network television. However, I’ve always had concerns about whether Quarterlife was the kind of show that could pull in the big numbers necessary to succeed on a major broadcast network. It is important to remember that Quarterlife has already proved itself as a successful online series and social network with millions of enthusiastic fans. We live in a media world today where many shows are considered successful on cable networks with audiences that are a fraction of those on the Big Four. I’m confident that Quarterlife will find the right home on television as well.”

“We broke the Hollywood rule,” Herskovitz told me last week before the show premiered. “We broke a bunch of Hollywood rules. We shot in our own offices, we asked favors of our friends, we put up our money. What can I tell you, we believe in this. We love it and we believe in it and we can’t wait to see what going to happen.”

Now that we have seen its weak debut, all of the dreams are on hold at least until Sunday evening at nine when the next episode of “Quarterlife” airs on NBC. The network soothsayers will be watching to see if there is an uptick, a buzz, signs of life; or another dreary performance dragging down NBC’s ratings which could lead to an early cancellation.

Remember, this was an experiment. Some experiments fail. The pre-show hype was that this was the first time content would start online, at multiple web sites, and then migrate to a major broadcast network. This was Ben Silverman trusting his gut instinct that it was time for a multi platform approach that also embraced a social community of artistic types. It didn’t hurt at the time the deal was made NBC was in the middle of the writer’s strike, and this show was already written.

Silverman gave Herskovitz and Zwick unusual creative control. However, they were also rolling the dice by investing their own money in the shows, and then licensing them to NBC for a much lower than usual fee. They were counting on the NBC exposure to feed their web site, and grow their new social networking community, which in turn would provide a flow of audience and a font of new creative ideas.

“We also produced it for less (than the usual network show) but we are still in the red,” Herskovitz said last week. “We’re still in a deficit. We’re still trying to figure out how to monetize what we’ve done but we’ve done very well and we are creating an asset we hope will have value for years t come.”

What was discounted was how many people had already seen the episodes. And who would watch in the network universe? All of the episodes that aired on NBC had already been seen on My Space and YouTube, so many potential audience members may have felt they had seen that, and could make another choice. There was also a special preview on MTV just before the NBC airing.

Adding to their struggle Sunday, “Quarterlife” will be on at the exact same time as the highly publicized and hugely hyped premiere of “Oprah’s Big Give” on ABC, which is expected to be a powerhouse driven by all things Oprah, and the lure of watching people figure out how fast and how well they can spend money. Viewers choice will be the Oprah event where she gives away millions to good causes, and it’s likely the talk of the water cooler the next day; or they can choose to watch the sensitive but realistic drama on the Peacock network with no stars that is available anytime online with more realistic language than the sanitized network version,
Things looked a lot brighter when I spoke to Herskovitz last week before the show premiered.
Since the show has no name performers, Herskovitz had been given the assignment of doing press, getting out the word, making noise about the launch of “Quarterlife” on network TV, and heralding a new business model. Remember, this was Marshall Herskovitz who I was talking to.
It was Herskovitz who famously announced in an Nov. 7, 2007 op ed in the Los Angeles Times that he and his partner would no longer develop series such as “30something,” despite having become rich and famous from it, and “have — for the time being at least — stopped producing television programs.”

Herskovitz wrote that since the end of the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules in the 1990s, all of TV has been concentrated among a small number of large conglomerates. In the years since the rules changed the networks have used their clout to force producers to work with their subsidiaries if they wanted to work at all. The result was an oligopoly that could not only control prices but also interfere in the creative process. Per Herskovitz: “The most profound change resulting from that ruling is the way networks go about the business of creating programming. Networks today exert a level of creative control unprecedented in the history of the medium.”
But now Herskovitz was back on network TV. “Here I am with a show going to television where I own the negative and I have creative control,” says Herskovitz, “How could I say no to that. It’s thrilling.”

Herskovitz told me that he takes advice, but doesn’t like being given orders by the suits. “There are notes and there are notes,” he explains. “When people have advice for me, I listen, and I take it if I want to take it. It’s different from when they say, ‘we need you to do this.’ That they are not allowed to do. They don’t have that control (in the Quarterlife deal).”

Ben Silverman has made “Quarterlife” his special project. He even appears with Herskovitz in a promotional video discussing the show that was released just before the premiere.
“He’s fantastic,” Herskovitz said of Silverman. “I can’t say enough about him. I love the fact he is bold. I love the fact that he is willing to trust his own judgment. He doesn’t rule by committee. And he respects creative people. Look, he was willing to make a deal with us, where we retain creative control over our product. That’s important in network television today.”

However the cruel lesson that is emerging from the over hyping of new media is that expectations are dramatically different on the network level. An audience of a certain size would be a hit on the Internet, or even cable TV, but that can be a flop by the standards of NBC and its advertisers. That appears to be what is happening with “Quarterlife.” The high expectations created by its early hype on the web, and the business model of the future spin have not been met by actual performance.

Actually, the numbers on the Internet haven’t been all that great either. Although Herskovitz, who refuses to provide any numbers for the web site or social networking site, insists it is a hit, the reality is that it peaked early and has never recovered. When the first eight minute long episode of Quarterlife went up on YouTube three months ago, with a promo on the front page of the site, it got a strong 789,000 views. However, the latest episode to air got only 1,200 views.
Quarterlife.com has an Internet percentage of 0.00225% compared to social network Facebook with 5.7 percent of the Internet’s traffic while the top portal Google, had 27 percent of the daily traffic.

Now comes the TV show. In the most important age group, those 18 to 49, it pulled only 4 percent of the audience watching TV at that time to place a distant third in the time period. Even when you only look at females 18 to 49 it was weak, pulling a 2 rating that made it second among women in the time period.

An even worse measure is how much of the audience lead in it was given that it lost. In this case it was roughly half. The show that preceded it, “The Biggest Loser,” had a 3rating and eight percent of the available viewing audience, or about 8.1 million people. .

On Wednesday, Silverman was saying it was worth the try and that it did drive a lot of web traffic. He noted it didn’t cost them much but admitted he was disappointed.

Herskovitz and Zwick have no reason to give up their web play even if it is a flop, and have elaborate plans for their social networking community to not only share their art with each other, but to also become contributors to Quarterlife, and to create new series.

“We’ll be placing advertisements saying we are going to take user generated content to the next level,” says Herskovitz. “In the next season of ‘Quarterlife’ all of the music on the show, all of the art you see on the walls in the characters apartments, the designs for the costumes, hopefully even some scripts, a lot of story lines, will come from our (online social networking) community.”
The site is specially designed as a place for artists of all types, and those with an artistic temperament. They encourage members to exchange their art, poetry, videos and more. But they discourage trash talking and hurtful comments on the message boards. “There’s none of that meanness you see at so many other sites where when people comment on things they just rip it to shreds,” Herskovitz told me. “There’s none of that on our site. “

Like the show (the title is a play on the idea your 20s represent one quarter of your life overall) the site and social network are aimed at arty twenty-something’s. “Those in their twenties define themselves as creative more than any generation in history,” says Herskovitz.
As of last week, there was also a budding plan for an intern program, but not to staff the Quarterlife offices. According to Herskovitz, they will take applications from members of the social networking community and see if they can place them with likeminded professional artists in key media markets. The interns would work for a photographer, architect, designer or Internet film, but their salary would be paid for a period of time by the Quarterlife backers, primarily Herskovitz and Zwick.

What’s the payoff for that? Herskovitz at first insisted that it was to give back. Then he added that they hoped it would help them inspire and build the online social networking community. `”There is this idea we didn’t make up that if you give people something of value then they will value you in what you do,” says Herskovitz. “That’s supposed to be what media companies do. I’m trying to give people something of value in their lives so then they’ll want to be on our site and they’ll support our advertisers and they’ll tell their friends to come on the site. I mean it is my self interest, but I believe we have a responsibility as grownup s in the society to contribute something and contributing something to society doesn’t necessarily exclude also benefiting from that. That’s what doctors do. All of us theoretically are contributing in the careers we have. “
That may not include hedge fund managers or career criminals, but it is a nice sentiment. The problem is that in the real world it is the success of the big distribution engine, the network TV shot, that has given them the opportunity to dream big. Right now that shot is on life support, hoping for an infusion of audience. If the show doesn’t make it on NBC, it will still be on the web, but like some of its characters, it will once again be looking for its purpose in life.