People are voting emotionally.
... View MoreFantastic!
... View MoreIt really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
... View MoreThis is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
... View MoreI use to watch the Today show every morning rain or shine.. When it came to the presidential elections all they did is talk crap about about Trump. I was looking for some positive things to hear about him, but all there was bad things said. They did not say anything about Hillary Clinton's email scandal. She looked like a saint when it came to Donald Trump. They are still at it to this day. They have lost me and a lot of people that use to like this show. My god look at the reviews. I was a Democratic but this election has turned me Republican now. I know the news media is in the back of the Democrats pockets. Shame on you Today show, and all you negative news media channels.. I will stick with FOX news for now on. I give the Today show -0 .
... View More. . . a 5 minute, 30 second bit presented by Paul Cunningham on the Sept. 26, 1975 TODAY SHOW and included on Disc One of the 2014 Criterion DVD set for MY DARLING CLEMENTINE. This piece is somewhat informative, but suffers from poor production values and slip-shod journalistic practices. For instance, there are no printed attributions of which local residents Mr. Cunningham is interviewing. When he talks to a settler named "Bernie Meyer" who came to this part of "John Ford Country" in 1928, TODAY does not indicate with which of the 28 most common ways Bernie spells his surname. Worse yet, when Mr. Cunningham interviews his second and final local--a Navajo--the name of his subject is not even mentioned orally! However, viewers do learn the names of a handful of these "monuments," and they find out that each local Native American child is considered "a God" when they're born. We also learn that ONE of the six film versions of the "shootout at the O.K. Corral" was filmed in a particular scruffy dirt patch shown here, but Mr. Cunningham does not specify which.
... View MoreSomeone suggested the show go to a 1 hour format, because that would be plenty of time to get what they wanted in. Well, how about going to a 15 minute format. That's about how much substance there is on any given show.Even the weather primarily consists of Al Roker joking around on the plaza. I actually like him, but they should stop the charade that he's giving a forecast and just say "Here's Al Roker, who is going to schmooze a bit on the plaza and then unhelpfully gesture toward a map the United States and mention that in some part of the country it will rain. Or not rain."
... View MoreAs you can imagine my opportunities for watching are limited to my all too infrequent trips to the US. But I did for one hectic week actually help produce this show, albeit in a very minor capacity. Apart from Wimbledon coverage for HBO this was my first real experience working for American TV, and it was quite an eye opener. In July 1989 the French 'celebrated' their bicentennial of their revolution, and while pretty much every British broadcaster ignored it, the 'Yanks' came over in force.Presumably the language barrier was thought to be too great for the French to overcome and so NBC hired a British truck, (bizarrely, staffed by Swedish technicians) and hired British operators and engineers of whom I was one. The shoot was on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre Dame. Just a few yards down from us were ABC with their Good Morning America show, similarly equipped, and fortunately quite friendly as we had to borrow some lighting equipment from them! This was the swansong of Jane Pauley who turned out to be a real lady. Sadly she was about to be stiffed by NBC she was soon to be replaced by a younger, blonder presenter (who guested during the week with us) Shame, as Pauley was a hit with the audience, us, and the many, many, passers by who she treated with respect and courtesy. Bryant Gumbel in contrast, hid what charm he had under a steely, cold exterior, and left me at least in no doubt who was in charge of that particular production.We also had the pleasure of the company of Willard Scott, who turned out to be a laugh a minute and defused many a tense situation with his easy going humour. Scott has even less hair than I and confused the hell out of me when I saw him later on that year in the studio, with apparently flowing locks. It was only after watching for a few days I realised that he was expected to wear a hairpiece in the studio, but excused the wig, in the blustery conditions of outside work! The real star for me was the director. He's not credited here, but is elsewhere on the IMDb, but forgive me for not naming him. Those in the business will have heard of the $500K+ a year he was making then, and know who I mean. In contrast to the almost fawningly polite style of British Television (I still remember being told on my BBC induction course in the 1970's that we were expected to hold open the doors as we walked around Television Centre, for other members of staff) Americans were direct, and utterly ruthless. One mistake and you were bawled out, two and you were cut, no argument. Remarkable then that I survived the full week although I did learn one or two new swear words. Credit though, when the show was over he walked to every person on that crew and thanked them by name - something a few British directors could learn. I still have a tape we recorded of the show with the his tailback on an extra audio track - and it still makes me blush! The British claim to have invented TV, and well we might, but the Americans have largely perfected it - and they're at their best in this genre of live News and Features. The slick one-two presenter style with throws to specialist sports/weather/news headlines presenters is now adopted by all of our domestic channels, and we know what imitation is
... View More