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The president-elect had a successful career as an entertainment celebrity. The question, of course, is: Will Trump's war on entertainment celebrities be successful? Meanwhile, we have to recall that 20th century kinds of censorship of entertainment celebrities did kill careers. MORE
TV inspired Fun Stuff Entertainers Humor If you missed this Saturday Night Live Sketch with Nasim Pedrad playing Heshy Farahat, you are missing out on some pretty darn motivational speaking. I''m ready to sign up! MORE
Another entertainment legend has passed over. Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on "Perry Mason," has died. She was 94 years old. Here is the coverage from Daily Mail. It was "Perry Mason" which got America hooked on legal drama. MORE
Entertainers Programs The Business of Speaking TV inspiredBillboard Daily Blog Are you a fan of "Grace and Frankie," the hot Netflix series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin? MORE
An American sport is watching the ship go down. That version of the Titanic could be Tiger Woods's career or 2 girls delivering the news everyone already knows through a medium no one cares about. The watching, as in today's coverage of Diane Sawyer's first night on ABC, is all about hoping to be there to catch signs of the slow-motion breaking of the ship apart, then into pieces. As with all sports, the athletes are well paid. MORE
Binge watching whatever is becoming a preferred way to be entertained. Reduce stress. And hang out with bros and sistas. On the influential "Gillmor Gang," the panel predicts that phenomenon is helping keep television, in all its forms, very much alive. MORE
A red flag is that his latest altercation, this time on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore, was videoed and recorded by entertainment media property TMZ. The media look to him for entertainment on an off-news day. MORE
Having raised the question of whether BBC's Question Time has lost its way through its selection of post-Robin Day chairmen and addition of a fifth guest ( previous post ) should enjoy this version from the Not the Nine O'clock News team. MORE
I've nothing against Sissons or Dimbleby, other than that they are too straight and predictable to make the programme anything like as entertaining as it was when Day was in charge. Different from Day, yes, but both with a degree of eccentricity and unpredictability of the kind that used to make Question Time so very entertaining. MORE
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, "I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus the slide attached. As you will see the slide utilizes animation, music, Shapes, and Power Clip Art from Animation Factory.I MORE
And, as Epstein notes, "Gossip can be wildly entertaining." No matter how serious or how animal-house the setting, all ears will perk at the first mention of gossip. MORE
The issue is: Will Trumpism reduce Hollywood to mere entertainment. In essence it depends on how much the world needs the kind of entertainment Hollywood conjures up. The conservative Drudge Report might be considered the text version of Fox News. MORE
With $15 million funding from Turner Broadcasting, Mashable is dropping hard news and focusing on entertainment and video. Like so many other media properties, Mashable has to change to survive. MORE
… Performance Understand your Audience Audience Connection featured inspiration Interaction Making it Memorable Practice Role Models street entertainersThere’s a 36 year old guy, married with a mortgage and 3 kids. He stands on a cobbled street in London, asking tourists for money. MORE
Reporting has become a form of entertainment. From its graphics to its headlines, the DrudgeReport.com remains with its initial formula: News, hold the entrainment. Unlike the Huffingtonpost.com and Gawker.com, the web site is graphically bare. The most it ever had was a blue siren to signal breaking news. And its headlines are austere, communicating just the facts. MORE
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Posted: August 5, 2007 by Gary in Dealing with People , Humour & Laughter , Image and Impressions , Networking & Small Talk , Public Speaking , The Shy Speakers Guide , Videos & Podcast 0 Everybody wants to be entertained. And when I mean entertained, I do not mean entertainment in the Russel Peters or Jerry Seinfield sense! Entertainment is not necessarily confined to the field of humour. Then there are other forms of entertainment media too. MORE
A new entity is created: Comcast Entertainment Group. GE got lucky. It unloaded 51% piece of its old-economy/old-technology holdings on Comcast. That bundle is NBCU. But this could turn out to be as jinxed at AOL-Time Warner. The payoff, if there is any for Comcast, depends on its ability to create content that can be recycled on the web, e.g. YouTube. MORE
The Drudge Report knows exactly what news internet surfers want. So, of course, it has curated Variety's coverage of the low ratings for both Megyn Kelly's "Sunday Night" and for her old home Fox. Glam Girl Kelly and the House Roger Ailes built are the ones many love to hate right now. They had been hot, influential and rich. Now they seem to be racing to has-been status. The game is to watch them scramble. It's in a downward trajectory that dumb mistakes are made. MORE
I n case you missed the last edition of Have I Got News for You , here’s the sequence showing how much more interesting the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson can be when he forsakes the awful slides he usually inflicts on us: You might also like to compare this with some of the following: BBC Television News: produced for or by morons? MORE
As I watch USA TODAY video footage of a female receiving a knockout from behind, it seems like we will have to wear rear-view mirrors in cities. That could prevent the new teenage street game, boasted about on social media. No, there's no need for even a gun. MORE
Entertainers Quick Fixes Taking Risks TV inspired“I was so happy with how Freaks and Geeks came out, that in my head I thought 'my career is basically over.' I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, and everything else is gravy. And so nothing else matters. I can experiment. MORE
Whenever a celebrity—whether actor, singer, athlete or other entertainer—takes the opportunity at an awards ceremony or other public event to speak out about a political issue, certain segments of the public immediately begin scolding and lashing out. We pay you to act and entertain us!" MORE
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Watch Loren Lott''s Hollywood Week performance here: American Idol Entertainers The Business of Speaking In 2012 I wrote a post harshly titled, " I don''t care about your dreams." MORE
As Kate Summerscale tells that true story in the 2016 book "The Wicked Boy," what screams out is this: It's nothing new that murder is a source of great entertainment as well as a platform for half-baked theories. In 1895, a 13-year-old boy in England, Robert Coombes. murdered MORE
Comedians Engaging the Audience Entertainers Humor Public Speaking Techniques and StrategiesComedians are some of the best teachers of language and rhythm. MORE
I''ve taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right? Not any longer. MORE
It could provide a great deal of entertainment and if the recovery continues many will pop for the purchase price. NEW YORK Magazine provides details on the coming book by Monica Lewinsky. MORE
SimilarWeb reports that in June, that media outlet had more page views from desktop and mobile than did Google, Yahoo, Fox Entertainment, or The New York Times. Drudge Report remains where we go for our news, including the latest in politics. MORE
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
I’ve noted before that the Financial Times — the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal — isn’t reticent about treating readers as adults and using four-letter words when appropriate. MORE
Here are details and how to apply. careers MORE
Instead of the body slams from wrestling as entertainment, there are now verbal slams and BigMedia such as POLITICO are dutifully recording them. Could it come to the game changer that we simply bypass BigMedia and recognize that we will get our entertainment elsewhere. MORE
The public welcomed the literary crowd to be entertainers and outsized public figures. Gore Vidal, like Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, came of professional age when typewriters were still an option. MORE
The entertainment business is obviously hard on the heart. Ricky Harris follows George Michael in death. Both apparently died of a heart attack. Both were in their 50s. Like Michael, Harris was a giant in his niches. Those were acting and stand-up comedy. MORE
Entertain Your Audience After you create the content for your presentation, the next step is to sprinkle entertainment throughout. Because the entertainment grabs the attention of your audience and makes it easier for them to listen to and digest the morsels of content. The more dry and boring the content might seem to your audience – the more important it is for you to include the entertainment. Don’t entertain for the sake of entertainment only. MORE
Entertainers Quick Fixes The Business of Speaking MORE
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You can tell a boring message in a creative and exciting way. MORE
Senator Jay Rockefeller is reprimanding the news business for positioning and packaging itself as entertainment. Then and now I take "delight" to mean entertain. Naughty naughty. Unfortunately, this head of the Commerce Committee seems to have no sense of history. We English majors in college read a lot of poet John Dryden [1631-1700.] According to Dryden, the purpose of the arts was to inform and delight. MORE
Entertainment Related Topics Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
JULY 31, 2018
I’ve noted before that the Financial Times — the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal — isn’t reticent about treating readers as adults and using four-letter words when appropriate.
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
… Performance Understand your Audience Audience Connection featured inspiration Interaction Making it Memorable Practice Role Models street entertainersThere’s a 36 year old guy, married with a mortgage and 3 kids. He stands on a cobbled street in London, asking tourists for money.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 24, 2016
The president-elect had a successful career as an entertainment celebrity. The question, of course, is: Will Trump's war on entertainment celebrities be successful? Meanwhile, we have to recall that 20th century kinds of censorship of entertainment celebrities did kill careers.
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 29, 2009
Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, "I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus the slide attached. As you will see the slide utilizes animation, music, Shapes, and Power Clip Art from Animation Factory.I
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 29, 2016
As Kate Summerscale tells that true story in the 2016 book "The Wicked Boy," what screams out is this: It's nothing new that murder is a source of great entertainment as well as a platform for half-baked theories. In 1895, a 13-year-old boy in England, Robert Coombes. murdered
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 9, 2017
The issue is: Will Trumpism reduce Hollywood to mere entertainment. In essence it depends on how much the world needs the kind of entertainment Hollywood conjures up. The conservative Drudge Report might be considered the text version of Fox News.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 26, 2016
The entertainment business is obviously hard on the heart. Ricky Harris follows George Michael in death. Both apparently died of a heart attack. Both were in their 50s. Like Michael, Harris was a giant in his niches. Those were acting and stand-up comedy.
TJ Walker Interactive
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
Uncategorized conservative David Frum Entertainment Complex Exploited Lied republicans
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 28, 2017
Binge watching whatever is becoming a preferred way to be entertained. Reduce stress. And hang out with bros and sistas. On the influential "Gillmor Gang," the panel predicts that phenomenon is helping keep television, in all its forms, very much alive.
Speak to Lead
OCTOBER 1, 2014
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN
Speak to Lead
OCTOBER 1, 2014
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 12, 2016
SimilarWeb reports that in June, that media outlet had more page views from desktop and mobile than did Google, Yahoo, Fox Entertainment, or The New York Times. Drudge Report remains where we go for our news, including the latest in politics.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 8, 2016
With $15 million funding from Turner Broadcasting, Mashable is dropping hard news and focusing on entertainment and video. Like so many other media properties, Mashable has to change to survive.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 28, 2017
Another entertainment legend has passed over. Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on "Perry Mason," has died. She was 94 years old. Here is the coverage from Daily Mail. It was "Perry Mason" which got America hooked on legal drama.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 22, 2010
Reporting has become a form of entertainment. From its graphics to its headlines, the DrudgeReport.com remains with its initial formula: News, hold the entrainment. Unlike the Huffingtonpost.com and Gawker.com, the web site is graphically bare. The most it ever had was a blue siren to signal breaking news. And its headlines are austere, communicating just the facts.
Executive Speech Coach
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
You can tell a boring message in a creative and exciting way.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 8, 2018
Here are details and how to apply. careers
TJ Walker Interactive
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Uncategorized banned Coverage lindsay lohan Media
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Senator Jay Rockefeller is reprimanding the news business for positioning and packaging itself as entertainment. Then and now I take "delight" to mean entertain. Naughty naughty. Unfortunately, this head of the Commerce Committee seems to have no sense of history. We English majors in college read a lot of poet John Dryden [1631-1700.] According to Dryden, the purpose of the arts was to inform and delight.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 4, 2011
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right? Not any longer.
Executive Speech Coach
JULY 14, 2011
Entertain Your Audience After you create the content for your presentation, the next step is to sprinkle entertainment throughout. Because the entertainment grabs the attention of your audience and makes it easier for them to listen to and digest the morsels of content. The more dry and boring the content might seem to your audience – the more important it is for you to include the entertainment. Don’t entertain for the sake of entertainment only.
The Shy Speaker's Guide to Succes on Stage
AUGUST 5, 2007
Posted: August 5, 2007 by Gary in Dealing with People , Humour & Laughter , Image and Impressions , Networking & Small Talk , Public Speaking , The Shy Speakers Guide , Videos & Podcast 0 Everybody wants to be entertained. And when I mean entertained, I do not mean entertainment in the Russel Peters or Jerry Seinfield sense! Entertainment is not necessarily confined to the field of humour. Then there are other forms of entertainment media too.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
Instead of the body slams from wrestling as entertainment, there are now verbal slams and BigMedia such as POLITICO are dutifully recording them. Could it come to the game changer that we simply bypass BigMedia and recognize that we will get our entertainment elsewhere.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
As I watch USA TODAY video footage of a female receiving a knockout from behind, it seems like we will have to wear rear-view mirrors in cities. That could prevent the new teenage street game, boasted about on social media. No, there's no need for even a gun.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 27, 2017
The Drudge Report knows exactly what news internet surfers want. So, of course, it has curated Variety's coverage of the low ratings for both Megyn Kelly's "Sunday Night" and for her old home Fox. Glam Girl Kelly and the House Roger Ailes built are the ones many love to hate right now. They had been hot, influential and rich. Now they seem to be racing to has-been status. The game is to watch them scramble. It's in a downward trajectory that dumb mistakes are made.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 7, 2012
A red flag is that his latest altercation, this time on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore, was videoed and recorded by entertainment media property TMZ. The media look to him for entertainment on an off-news day.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 1, 2012
The public welcomed the literary crowd to be entertainers and outsized public figures. Gore Vidal, like Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, came of professional age when typewriters were still an option.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 3, 2009
A new entity is created: Comcast Entertainment Group. GE got lucky. It unloaded 51% piece of its old-economy/old-technology holdings on Comcast. That bundle is NBCU. But this could turn out to be as jinxed at AOL-Time Warner. The payoff, if there is any for Comcast, depends on its ability to create content that can be recycled on the web, e.g. YouTube.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
It could provide a great deal of entertainment and if the recovery continues many will pop for the purchase price. NEW YORK Magazine provides details on the coming book by Monica Lewinsky.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 27, 2012
And, as Epstein notes, "Gossip can be wildly entertaining." No matter how serious or how animal-house the setting, all ears will perk at the first mention of gossip.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 22, 2009
An American sport is watching the ship go down. That version of the Titanic could be Tiger Woods's career or 2 girls delivering the news everyone already knows through a medium no one cares about. The watching, as in today's coverage of Diane Sawyer's first night on ABC, is all about hoping to be there to catch signs of the slow-motion breaking of the ship apart, then into pieces. As with all sports, the athletes are well paid.
Speak Schmeak
JUNE 21, 2018
Entertainers Quick Fixes Taking Risks TV inspired“I was so happy with how Freaks and Geeks came out, that in my head I thought 'my career is basically over.' I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, and everything else is gravy. And so nothing else matters. I can experiment.
Speak Schmeak
AUGUST 15, 2016
Entertainers Quick Fixes The Business of Speaking
TJ Walker Interactive
MARCH 26, 2012
Uncategorized contributors obama super pac
Speak Schmeak
JANUARY 21, 2017
Whenever a celebrity—whether actor, singer, athlete or other entertainer—takes the opportunity at an awards ceremony or other public event to speak out about a political issue, certain segments of the public immediately begin scolding and lashing out. We pay you to act and entertain us!"
Speak Schmeak
MARCH 31, 2017
Entertainers Programs The Business of Speaking TV inspiredBillboard Daily Blog Are you a fan of "Grace and Frankie," the hot Netflix series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin?
Max Atkinson
JUNE 16, 2009
I n case you missed the last edition of Have I Got News for You , here’s the sequence showing how much more interesting the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson can be when he forsakes the awful slides he usually inflicts on us: You might also like to compare this with some of the following: BBC Television News: produced for or by morons?
Max Atkinson
OCTOBER 27, 2009
I've nothing against Sissons or Dimbleby, other than that they are too straight and predictable to make the programme anything like as entertaining as it was when Day was in charge. Different from Day, yes, but both with a degree of eccentricity and unpredictability of the kind that used to make Question Time so very entertaining.
Speak Schmeak
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Watch Loren Lott''s Hollywood Week performance here: American Idol Entertainers The Business of Speaking In 2012 I wrote a post harshly titled, " I don''t care about your dreams."
Max Atkinson
OCTOBER 28, 2009
Having raised the question of whether BBC's Question Time has lost its way through its selection of post-Robin Day chairmen and addition of a fifth guest ( previous post ) should enjoy this version from the Not the Nine O'clock News team.
Speak Schmeak
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
TV inspired Fun Stuff Entertainers Humor If you missed this Saturday Night Live Sketch with Nasim Pedrad playing Heshy Farahat, you are missing out on some pretty darn motivational speaking. I''m ready to sign up!
Speak Schmeak
JANUARY 30, 2017
Comedians Engaging the Audience Entertainers Humor Public Speaking Techniques and StrategiesComedians are some of the best teachers of language and rhythm.
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