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Flying the Friendly Skies
Ok. I can admit it. The end of the world freaked me out. That outdated Mayan calendar threw everything out of whack for the Media Guy. I mean who didn’t have December 21st circled on their calendar? Yes, I was afraid. Words no longer flowed freely from my fingertips. Writing was at a standstill. The words simply dried up. I was so afraid that I lost days. I lost the ability to tell the difference between day and night, breakfast and dinner, my head and my arse. I was afraid that I was...
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I Killed Sheherazade
I hope you’ve had a chance to page through a copy of I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (from Lawrence Hill Books available at amazon.com) by award-winning Lebanese journalist Joumana Haddad. Dubbed “the Carrie Bradshaw of Beirut” by the Sunday Telegraph, she’s leading the charge with a spirited call to Arab women to stand up for themselves. From the upheaval in Tunisia to the rebellions unfolding across Syria, Lebanon and beyond, 2011 and 2012 brought a wave of change...
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The Handwriting Sensei: PART TWO
OK. Here comes the shameless plug. The new book is coming soon. Landscapes of Life: behind the lens. The photographs in it are an embodiment of me and the words I am creating are from my soul. My fourth book is about Crazy Experiences and that's how I met Theresa Ortega, The Handwriting Sensei. In part one of this blog, I told you a little bit about her Crazy Experience and while she was telling me, she agreed to analyze my handwriting as well. Here’s the setup for a quality analysis: ...
The Handwriting Sensei: PART ONE
ALERT: This entry of the Media Guy Struggles is an unreserved exchange that intermittently touches on mature subjects and language. Let’s just say this: I have too many books in the works. The photography book. The Media Memoirs book. The English Diplomat Book. And…the Crazy Experiences book. For the Crazy Experiences book, I wanted sent this query around the industry: Have you ever been on a talk show? How about a game show? Do you have a behind-the-scenes story that will excite? If...
Tangentmakers and the Dreaded Key Card
Who knows what evil lurks inside the plastic hell? As always, my client looked a little cross-eyed after five-and-a-half hours of SEO, PPC and CRM talk. Marketing buzz words layered with endless rationale will do that. Shoot, hearing about website analytics will bore the best of us, but this is what pays bills and clients usually go with your gut feeling as long as you have your act together backed by this boring details. Life can’t always be chatting with movie stars, Miss USA’s and football...
MGS Chat: UFC President Dana White
It seems that the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been a media darling since it was founded. President Dana White is everything the pundits want. From straightforward answers, to matching the best fighters to organizational transparency, White is the complete package. But event disaster struck this week as the UFC 151 card cancelled its lucrative pay-per-view event for the very first time in its history. I was part of the drama-filled conference as White explained his decision...Dana White:...
Dreaming of a Career in the Movies?
Hollywood Director Offers Tips for Hopeful Writers, Actors, Cameramen Film and TV director/writer/producer Guy Magar has worked for more than thirty years in the industry with some amazing credits: “La Femme Nikita,” “The A-Team,” “Dark Avenger” and “Blue Thunder.”. Recently, he published his Hollywood memoir, “Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the Lights of Hollywood and True Love.” From the box-office smash “The Avengers” to the summer hit “Madagascar 3” reigniting the...
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The Chuck Norris Chat
Q&A: CHUCK NORRIS TALKS ABOUT 'EXPENDABLES 2'By the way, he's not 72: 'I'm 39 years old with 33 years of experience' WASHINGTON – "The Expendables 2" opens in theaters nationwide and some of the mega-action stars are talking up the movie. But arguably the biggest action icon internationally gave his first exclusive interview on the project to his favorite news source – the one that serves as the flagship for his weekly political column and his weekly health column. That would be Chuck...
QUICK HITS: Uniform Advertising
The allure is there. The commercialization of sports. The money grab. The spontaneous dismissal of tradition. I've heard it all this week in response to the National Basketball Association’s announcement that they will soon sell advertising on their jersey—a move the league says could generate an additional $100 million. The outrage is borderline comical; after all, we live in the land of product placement. You can’t go through an hour of television without seeing an iPad or Pepsi...
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Sheesh!
Random thoughts from the road… For the tenth summer in a row it’s the summer of super heroes at the box office. We’re right in the middle of it now…Avengers ($1.5 billion worldwide so far), Spiderman ($140 million domestically so far), and Batman coming in week. With all of this this box office smashing record business, it brings the debate, just who is the best super hero. If there were a March Madness kind of round robin, who would you go with? Thor vs. Captain America vs. The Hulk vs....
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MGS CHAT: MISS USA 2010 RIMA FAKIH
A QUEEN SPEAKS OUT: One-on-one with former Miss USA Rima Fakih Article can also be read at ALO magazine story link These days, Rima Fakih has one rule for her life: Don’t put encumbrances on her. And who can blame her! The first Arab-American queen in the history of the Miss USA pageant was put under clamps by the Miss Universe organization when she later ran for that title. She was restricted from speaking her mind about her culture and heritage. She was hounded by the media on a daily...
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Can We Bury the Ghost of Marty McSorley's Stick?
May 30, 2012 enters uncharted territory for Los Angeles hockey. Never before has a Kings squad entered the Stanley Cup Finals as the favorite – – ESPN’s “experts" picked L.A. to take the Lord Stanley’s Cup home 10 to 3. Heck, they have only been in the Finals once. (Sheesh once? Why do I waste my time? I always say…) Never before has an eight seed taken the top slot and the best post season in all major sports. The Kings are riding the wave like never before, 12 wins and only two losses and...
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Internet Killed The Book Store
Kathleen Kelly just shed another tear.1998’s You’ve Got Mail saw Meg Ryan’s surprising convincing turn as the second generation owner of The Shop Around The Corner whose spirits sank as she secretly fell in love while her dreams were getting bulldozed by Tom Hanks’ Darth Vader-ish Fox Books. …now it seems the same thing is happening to book stores in general across the nation. Yesterday, I passed by my once-favorite Borders in Northern California. The massive parking lot was desolate and the...
Las Vegas in the Oh-Tens
Back in Los Angeles, I was sitting at The Media Guy’s field office [read: Starbucks] when the good folks at the home office decided it was a good idea to send me back to Vegas. It’s only been 18 years since the whole Desert Inn incident and since the court documents incident reports are sealed and they boarded up the old landmark, I was open to the idea.Thank good the Desert Inn Incident was sealed away.I was there last June for a quick 14 hours to hang out with the 2010 Miss USA Rima Fakih....
