I will have to DVR it. I would love to see her perform again (and again).

yea she did get robbed, but personally i can't see a 10 year old perform in vegas for some reason. she still will make a name for her self.

I think that's precisely WHY she lost. I think a lot of voters figured that she's going to be a success no matter what, but that the older contestants needed the win.

I don't watch AGT, but I've seen pieces of it, most recently a week or two ago, so I remember the Top 4 acts. I also just watched them on the site.

The Top 4 were all amazing, and Michael Grimm was a forerunner of mine and should've been on American Idol instead. Jackie Evancho is incredible (but too young). But for a Vegas show I thought Prince Poppycock or Fighting Gravity would have been more appropriate (and therefore ultimately more successful as a Vegas act). But good for Grimm, and Evancho will be just fine with more experience (tho I thought she sounded better than Sarah Brightman lol).

Big Album Sales for 'Talent's' Kiddie Opera Singer By Hunter Walker
Published: August 13, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

Jackie Evancho's 2009 album "Prelude to a Dream" is climbing the charts in the wake of her breakout appearance on "America's Got Talent." Evancho's CD is currently one of the top-selling items on both Amazon and iTunes. Her record label has sold out of copies of the CD and is in the process of printing another run.

Evancho entered the public eye when she sang Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro" on "America's Got Talent" Tuesday night. Her performance earned rave reviews from the judges and captured the attention of the country.

Two different views on the film subsidy program in Michigan.

Movie Incentives in Michigan

Across the street from a landscape of vacant houses and overgrown front yards, homicide detectives gather to investigate a murder. They analyze clues and debate how best to interrogate the key witnesses. Then, the director yells "Cut!" and everyone heads to a catered lunch of shrimp scampi and beef tenderloin.

The set of the gritty cop show "Detroit 1-8-7" is one of more than 100 film and television productions that have flocked to Michigan in the last two years, the result of generous tax rebates. Producers have spent nearly $350 million in the state so far, a figure expected to reach $650 million by year's end, up from $2 million in 2007, according to the Michigan Film Office. About 80% of these shoots take place in and around this iconic but much-maligned city, sprinkling a little stardust, optimism and controversy along the way.

Workers who used to build cars are learning to build sets. The entertainment sector is "a lifeboat as the auto industry adapts and restructures," says Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano.

Signs of activity are everywhere. Hip-looking film-school grads on bicycles run errands in an empty warehouse that once served as a Chrysler distribution center and is now a cavernous 166,000-square-foot production studio for "Detroit 1-8-7." Sets for the show, premiering on ABC Sept. 21, include a city morgue and a homicide unit with cluttered police desks and corkboards covered with mug shots.

The dilapidated Michigan Central Station, once a transportation hub, with marbled floors and Corinthian columns, has served as a symbol of urban ruination for years. It's now a key location for productions including "Transformers 3" and HBO's "Hung." On Tuesday "Hostel: Part III" and "Vamps," a horror-comedy with Sigourney Weaver, both shot in the city's neo-Gothic Masonic Temple. When "Harold and Kumar 3" finished a scene this summer that required turning a downtown street into New York City at Christmas, set designers left the fake subway entrance intact, knowing another production would soon need it.

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Michigan’s film subsidies may be enhancing the state’s image and producing pockets of new economic activity, but they’re unquestionably a net loser for state taxpayers, according to a report by the Senate Fiscal Agency released this morning.

The state Treasury doled out $37.5 million in subsidies in 2009 and is expected to distribute about $100 million to the makers of TV and film productions in 2010. But the estimated additional state tax revenue generated by film-related economic activity comes to only $3.7 million in 2009 and $10.3 million in 2010, the report found.

An analysis of movie and TV job creation by the agency found that the average cost to the state per full time job in 2008 was $186,519, and $193,333 in 2009.

Senate Fiscal Agency Director Gary Olson said the new report, the most comprehensive examination of the credits to date, said the subsidies are so generous (up to 42% of production costs) that it is virtually impossible for the program to have a net positive effect on the state budget.

“That’s not to say there aren’t positive effects,” Olson said. Obviously, there are benefits to those who gain film and TV employment, he said. And the report doesn’t account for increased property and income tax revenue to local governments, he said.

But the cost of providing the subsidies falls entirely on the state, Olson said.

“It’s very hard to see how it ever benefits the state’s bottom line,” he said.


Film Subsidies cost taxpayers

On Katy Perry's new No. 1 album "Teenage Dream," she sings about adolescent milestones like beach parties and Friday-night dates, and earlier this week she lived out many teens' real-life fantasy: standing in front of a huge, adoring crowd and calling out a crush who never gave her the time of day in high school.

On Tuesday, the 25-year-old pop star returned to her alma mater, Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California (which she attended her freshman year before earning her GED) for a homecoming concert. With an acoustic guitar strapped around her neck, Perry started talking about the difference between teen boys and girls, and unrequited love. "It's like, don't break my heart, because I'm going to go and write a song about you," she said. "I'm so thankful that God gave me that gift."

Pointing out into the audience, she identified one specific member of the crowd and asked, "Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular kid in my class, but you never wanted to date me, it was always Amanda Wayne." As the crowd laughed and cheered, she adopted a bit of swagger and added, "Oh yeah, you really chose right, honey. What's up now, playa?" Becoming an international, Grammy-nominated pop star evidently does wonderful things for your self-confidence.

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Good for her, Lilo.

On a related note, I'm a full generation removed from her music, and her hit "Califonia Gurls" does sound like so much "bubble gum." But the video absolutely cracks me up, because you know that Snoop is tappin that ass .

Sorry, Russell Brand .

Geez, part one of the story sounds so good until part two tears it down. I am not good at figuring all these numbers out, but I still can't believe it's not a "plus" to film there. At least it IS something right?

TIS

Believe it or not I know which song/video you speak of. Mostly because there was a lawsuit questioning the use of "California Girls" (Gurls)in the song brought by the record producer I think?

TIS

Yeah, that's the one, Tis. I only know it because I'm blessed/cursed with having 18 and 22 year old daughters .

Try "blessed/cursed" with 5 daughters. I'm just now realizing again that I am entitled to a life.

Ouch. And I thought I was stressed!

But in my case, to top it all off, my youngest is my son (he's 14 now). It shoulda been the other way around, so he could look out for them!

Cause I'm getting too old for this shit .

The really ironic thing is that many of the most vociferous defenders of the tax subsidies for movie production (i.e. Mitch Albom) tend to be people who would otherwise be skeptical or hostile to the idea that marginal tax changes make huge differences and some of the people that are most opposed to the tax subsidy program are people who usually never met a business tax break/subsidy they didn't like.

I think it's still a little early to tell if the program has been successful or not. The cold numbers say no but there are also studios and post production work opportunities opening up locally. The rubber will meet the road when the tax breaks are reduced and we see if the studios still find other reasons to work in Michigan or if they pack up and head elsewhere. Other businesses say with some justification "why not give everyone a tax break" while some politicians say in current environment the state simply can't afford to be cutting services for Michiganders while writing checks to Hollywood...

Hopefully though it does put Michigan on the map and change the national perception of the state. Time will tell.

USMagazine, September 18, 2010

Kelly McGillis has found someone who takes her breath away!

The actress, who romanced Tom Cruise on-screen in 1986's "Top Gun," wed girlfriend Melanie Leis in a civil union on Wednesday in Collingswood, NJ, the New York Times reports.

McGillis and Muzak sales executive Leis, 42, met in 2000 in Key West, Fla.; Leis was a bartender at a restaurant owned by McGills and her second husband Fred Tillman.

Time catches up with everyone.

I saw McGillis not too long ago in a tv movie and thought she looked so much older. I knew nothing of her personal life, let alone that she is gay.

Back to the Detroit 1-8-7 tv show. I see them advertise it's premiere and are playing "Ball of Confusion" in the background. It would be a great theme song. I hope they keep it. AND, I hope it's not opposite any of my favorite shows.


TIS

Lilo,

(I say Lilo cause he is from Michigan as am I, BUT for anyone interested)

The producers of Detroit 187 said they'd love to have Eminem on the show. Not that I am a fan of his (as most know), but it may certainly boost the ratings no??



http://www.hotfeeder.com/entertainment/d...he_show_2662079

It certainly would help in ratings. I would bet though his managers/handlers want to see if the show can stand on its own and/or is edgy before they agree to show up.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- A judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Lindsay Lohan after the actress acknowledged failing a drug test.

The 24-year-old actress could wind up back behind bars if she is found to have violated probation.

Superior Court Judge Elden Fox issued the bench warrant in Beverly Hills, but Lohan will remain free pending a Friday court hearing, according to officials from Los Angeles County Superior Court.

I almost ejected 9 (2009) when I realized it was animated (CGI), but I decided to give it a chance. The CGI quality dragged me in, and kept me in. The attention to detail was awesome! The story itself wasn't anything new/special, but it's worth a Netflix rental....

What did CGI ever do to you?!?

Katy Perry can't seem to keep her parts private.
Days after her fiance, Russell Brand, was arrested for attacking a photographer who aimed a camera up her dress, Perry's "Sesame Street" promo video has been yanked for being too racy.
After several complaints, the show's producers have opted not to air the segment that features the 24-year-old singer singing a duet with Elmo while dressed in a low-cut yellow-green heart-shaped dress, a sheer piece of material covering her ample cleavage.

Duet with Elmo cancelled-article & video

We should worry less about cleavage on TV and more about the constant violence that our children are exposed to - in TV, in video games, in comic books, and so on.

So, does anyone watch Dexter? I recently found out it was about a serial killer? I never saw the show, but I always thought it was a comedy.

I heard a while back that they were selling Dexter dolls and that's how I found out what it was about. They were suggesting it wasn't appropriate to sell dolls of a serial killer. Boy, ya think??

Anyway, today I heard a preview of the show on the radio with Dexter obviously calling 911 saying, "I just came home and found my wife dead." Sounds creepy, but intriguing. Does anyone watch it? Is it good? And what season is it in?

TIS

It's filmed in Miami, Tis. Great scenery, but a little too "dark" for my taste. It's very popular, though.

Dexter very popular over here as well but it is a show i have never gotten into.

I have been watching an LA cop thing called SOUTHLAND which is very good.

Yogi - Just remember, NBC cancelled SOUTHLAND because of Jay Leno. Anyway good that TNT picked it up.

I didn't know they canceled Southland. I don't know exactly why, but I never watched it believe or not, and I live in the Southland.




TIS