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I’ve been told that I should write more about industry news and not just reflections about what is currently airing. “Nightly News” (which absolutely will NOT be nightly) will be my attempt to do this. Here are tonight’s old headlines:

Using a key to gouge expletives in another’s vehicle is a sign of friendship.
Actually, this is movie news, but when dozens of Lite-Brite-esque Ignignot and Urs bring the city of Boston to its knees it’s worth going back to the root. It makes me laugh thinking about the bomb-squad detonating a 2-D alien shooting the bird, but maybe that’s just because I’m sitting here in my apartment in good old terror-free New York City. Had I been in the Boston area, I’d probably be thinking differently. “Sean” a commenter on Engadget’s post about the story said it best:

…The media wanted this to [be] another terrorist attack, and was trying to scare people into thinking this so they will watch the news. After seeing what was really posted around the city I shouldnt have been scared at all today. I hate the media for sensationalizing everything…
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The city of Boston is obviously annoyed. And yet had I seen one of these in a tunnel while riding the subway I’d probably think to myself, “Ha, that’s funny” and then go back to my DS. Still, it wasn’t the media that was shutting down the T.

Why can’t you be more like Lloyd Braun?
Gail Berman, who recently resigned from her job as president of Paramount Pictures, and Lloyd Braun who many of us know as a character on Seinfeld or as the voice that says, “Previously… on Lost” (as well as being the head of Yahoo!’s media group until this past December), have teamed up to start their own production company. BermanBraun will initially focus on TV, the internet and films.

While at Yahoo! Braun was suppose to turn the now-struggling portal an edge as a content producer, but was never able to make it happen (one could probably argue that YouTube got in the way).

The new company has yet to find a studio to partner with.

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