By Frank Barron
When getting together at press conferences for PBS programming I’m always happy to catch up with Susan Lacy, an old friend who has been creator and executive producer of the American Masters series since forever… (well, 1984 it was created).
It’s rough times for funding for shows like […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Back when personal computers were new, motherboards were relatively simple devices that simply served as kind of a parking garage for all the circuit boards needed to complete a computer’s functionality.  Key functions like graphics, sound and even connecting to printers and other computers required its own dedicated “card” that slipped […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
The heart, or more accurately, brain, of any computer is a chip called a CPU (Central Processing Unit).  In some ways you almost have to discuss the CPU and motherboard (the board that houses pretty much all of a computer’s circuitry) as a single unit because modern motherboards have so many […]

By Margie Barron
My cheers for Kathryn Bigelow to win the Academy Award for Best Director have nothing to do with her being a woman. Sure, I would have an enormous amount of gender-pride for her to be the first female director to get the Oscar. But Bigelow doesn’t deserve the honor just because she wears […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Last summer, I posted my specs for what I considered to be the ideal computer – one with plenty of speed, memory and storage to handle not only day to day things like web browsing, writing, etc., but also resource-intensive usage like editing HD (and ultimately 3D HD) video, graphics and […]

Oscar-worthy movies need distribution too!
March 2nd, 2010
By Frank Barron
Around Hollywood there are stories circulating about some of this year’s Oscar nominated films that might never have seen the light of day. Whether they are up for Best Picture, or other films that have Oscar-nominated performances, some of the most acclaimed were so close to being […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
If you’re a working professional, a good printer is one of your most essential tools.  At CES earlier this year, one of my quests was to find a multi-purpose printer that give great performance at a modest price – and just as importantly, was inexpensive to use in terms of consumables […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Sometimes ya gotta be able to pull rabbits out of your hat when you’re on set, especially in the independent world.  DP Paolo Cascio was on location in New York, shooting the low budget feature “The Big Shot-Caller.”  He was shooting in Times Square and had been given permission to shoot […]

By Margie Barron
Movies for Grownups got their own awards show thanks to AARP the Magazine, which held a ceremony and handed out trophies. It was cool to see the best films of the year, which features the over 50 crowd, being honored .
Actually, the mature stars and movies had quite a year. Bill Newcott of […]

by Frank Barron
I remember when television shows had one or possibly two writers. Now there are at least a dozen on every program, half hour or hour.
So with great anticipation, I went to the Writers Guild of America West awards event at the Century Plaza Hotel to find out why so many scribes? The answer, […]