- The original was a movie spanning nearly three hours and
transporting viewers back to mid-to-late
19th century New York and the world of rival gangs vying for control of the
city. Now, Martin Scorsese's 2002 epic is moving in the opposite direction as
most entertainment franchises these days. While a litany of current or former
TV shows are making their way from the small screen to the silver screen, “Gangs
of New York” is downsizing from a feature film to a series that doesn’t yet
have a cast or a network, but is in the development process. Miramax announced
the development on Thursday, saying the show will reach beyond New York City
and include organized crime in cities like New Orleans and Chicago at the turn
of the century. As interminable as it seemed at times, the three-hour
extravaganza of vintage crime and chicanery that was “Gangs of New York” didn’t
have time to expand its scope beyond Manhattan and instead devoted plenty of
screen time to Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. Scorsese
clearly feels there is more story left to tell. “This time and era of America’s
history and heritage is rich with characters and stories that we could not
fully explore in a two hour film," the award-winning director said in a
statement. "A television series allows us the time and creative freedom to
bring this colorful world, and all the implications it had and still does on
our society, to life." Scorsese will also have help from Graham King, who
co-executive-produced "Gangs of New York," in converting the movie to
the episodic format of broadcast television. There is no official launch date
yet and no cast announcements have been made so far…….
- The price of gas is up, the price of food is through the
roof and there isn’t a product, good or service on any market that doesn’t cost
more than it once did. Go ahead
and count cows as a part of that trend because if a cow is selling to anyone,
anywhere for more than many people pay for their first home, than bovine prices
have gotten out of control as well. Karlie
the Jersey cow is proof of this reality, as the New York-born cow became the
most expensive Jersey cow ever sold at auction this week when Arethusa Farm in
Litchfield, Conn. purchased her for a record-breaking $172,000 at a show cow
auction in Syracuse on Monday. That staggering amount was almost twice the
previous record high for a cow and while paying that kind of cash for an animal
that is going to have to crank out a heck of a lot of milk to justify the cost,
Matt Senecal of Arethusa Farm said his farm was willing to pay such a high
price because Karlie has the potential to be a great cow for breeding.
Additionally, she is only 2 years old and the farm hopes to have some of her
daughters to show. Arethusa Farm is both a breeding and showing operation with
a worldwide reputation and the walls of its barns are decorated with awards. "It
does sound like a lot of money," Senecal said. “But she actually sold as a
package. She already has three pregnancies in surrogates coming in September
and we also have more calves coming in December." Karlie sounds like a
real breeding machine and she commanded a high price because Senecal was
impressed by her udder, her body structure and how much rib she has. "When
you start getting into these types of cattle you can really tell which ones go
right to the top, and she's one of those cows that people love to look
at," Senecal said. Finding a cow that people enjoy looking at truly is
what makes the world go ‘round……..
- Finding your friends using your iPhone should become a
little easier courtesy of an update released this week by Apple for its Find My
Friends app for the iPhone. While calling or texting your friends to see where
they’re at or checking to see if they’ve tweeted, uploaded an Instagram photo
from their current location or updated their Facebook status in the past five
minutes remain viable options Find My Friends is Apple's own location-based app
and service for seeing where your friends and family are and it shoots users a
notification when those people are nearby. The version 1.2 update allows individuals
to be more specific in their use of the app by setting exact locations for
notifications, as well as distances from those locations, which comes in handy
when you’re creeping/stalking, er, want to know when someone arrives at or
leaves a specific location such as work or school. That could be a definite
benefit for overprotective parents who want to make sure their child is where
they say they are or an overly suspicious and distrusting boyfriend or girlfriend
who wants to make sure that their significant other really is going to work or
making a run to the grocery story and not having a covert rendezvous with that
hot blonde they may or may not be fooling around with. If only Apple can be as
on-point and accurate with its location notifications from Find My Friends as
it has been with its oft-maligned mapping service that leaves people staring at
the end of dead-end streets or lost in the middle of nowhere when they’re
supposed to be right in the middle of a large city, then there is no doubt that
this app is going to be extremely beneficial for one and all……
- Pittsburgh
Steelers safety Troy Polamalu has a beef with the powers that be in the NFL.
After NFL owners passed a new rule against delivering forcible blows with the
crown of the helmet outside the tackle box, a move that should – in theory
anyhow – appease defensive players, Polamalu was neither appeased nor pleased.
He believes that if the league plans on continuing to pass new rules on an
annual basis with the aim of making football safer, players should have a
chance to vote on those rules.
"There's rule changes every year," Polamalu said. "I do
wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether
it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee
on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk, we're the
guys on the field." In (mild) defense of the NFL, its competition
committee did ask for player input on that rule before presenting the change to
the owners, even if that input has no chance of preventing the rule from being approved
by a vote of 31-1. Like other big hitters playing on both sides of the ball,
Polamalu knows he has no choice but to adjust to the new rule or face penalties,
fines and suspensions for noncompliance. Still, he echoed the sentiments of
players such as Tennessee Titans safety Bernard Pollard in worrying that the
game is changing too much. "We're professional athletes, so we can adjust,
but we grow up understanding instinctively how to play the game of football,
and it's really hard to say, 'OK, eventually I'm not going to be able to use my
head, or wrap with my arms' or whatever it may be," Polamalu said. "I
think you can only do so much to the game before you really start to change the
essence of our sport. In other words, the NFL is walking the fine line between making
the game safer and making it soft. Pollard is convinced that these changes will
continue to the point that the NFL doesn’t even exist 30 years from now, an
extreme Polamalu hasn’t reached quite yet………
- Time to class it up, South Korea. It may not be to a
point of K-Pop girl groups being forced to abandon their microshorts
or The Man lurking outside clubs in Gangnam with rulers to ensure that
miniskirts aren't too mini, but the times are definitely a-changin’ on the
non-Communist end of the Korean Peninsula, where a revised "overexposure
law" went into effect this week. President Park Geun-hye's regime approved
the new law during its first Cabinet meeting earlier this month, imposing a
fine of 50,000 KRW (US$45) on those deemed to be "overexposed" in
public. In the wake of the new legislation being announced, many South Koreans
thought it meant restrictions on revealing outfits that are prevalent on the
streets of Seoul and other South Korean cities. The "no pants" look
has become commonplace, with women eschewing pants and skirts for leggings,
stockings or über-tiny microshorts. Women are on board with the look and most
men are likely behind it as well (only partially for the view), plus the
aforementioned affinity for the look displayed by K-Pop artists. The South
Korean government has even hit a few music videos with 19-and-over-only viewing
restrictions. After the new “dress code” was announced, South Korean sex
symbols (yes, they do exist) expressed concern over what it might mean for
them. "Is the overexposure fine for real? I'm so dead," tweeted Lee
Hyori, the country's most famous sex symbol. Critics have likened the new law
to to similar restrictions imposed by Park Chung-hee (the current President
Park's late father), who ruled the country from 1963 to 1979. Those rules led
to a dark period in the 1970s when skirts that ended 20 centimeters above the
knee or higher were prohibited in South Korea. Critics have derided the law as an
infringement on freedom of expression. "Why does the state interfere with
how citizens dress?" Democratic United Party member Ki Sik Kim tweeted. "Park
Geun-hye's government gives cause for concern that we are returning to the era
when hair length and skirt length were regulated." Police have argued that
the overexposure fine doesn't pertain to skirt length or revealing outfits in
general, but rather involving public nudity and public indecency. Authorities
plan to make an effort to increase awareness of the amendment's true purpose,
but the entire concept does seem decidedly shady on some level………
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