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Lights, Camera, Action!

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Radknowski

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This whole sordid mess has become great theatre and fodder for aspiring writers, commentators and pundits. What a treasure-trove of material! It's true: Truth is better than fiction. I strongly advise the better writers and contributors to this board to start working up scripts for Hollywood and Broadway.

Just remember where you got the idea, because like those thugs, pimps and scheming weasels, I want my cut, which I will report to the IRS, not wanting to share a 6x10 foot cell with a guy named Bubba.

It seems this is the perfect time to post the bastardized line from Hunter S. Thompson
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"The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."</font>
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For every three decent people in the business, there's one free-loading scam artist, two-bit extortionist doing his best to become the next Tim Rigas, giving a bad name to all the hard-working, decent people in the business.

The image of that pinhead who has to be booked in a second floor room because he's afraid of heights cracks me up. In the movie, he'd be the guy guy Vito and Chickie hold upside down from the top of a 50 story building to "motivate" him to add their record. He calls in on his cell phone, gets his assistant to add the record and report it to the trades, then Chickie and Vito drop him like a grape... oooooops... the scene has a funny ending.

BTW, I'm hoping to pitch the script to SONY Pictures.



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<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Mike Radknowski on 07/28/05 10:28 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: Lights, Carmera, Action!

> Speaking of which, it seems this is the perfect time to post
> the bastardized line from Hunter S. Thompson
>
> "The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a
> long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and
> good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
>

One of my favorites. Here's another: Peter from "Office Space," suitable for use by any underappreciated radio peon:

“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.”

> The image of the weasel in Albany who's afraid of heights
> still cracks me up. In the movie, he's the guy Vito and
> Chickie hold upside down from the top of a 50 story building
> to "motivate" him to add their record. He calls in on his
> cell phone, gets his assistant to add the record and report
> it to the trades, then Chickie and Vito drop him like a
> grape... oooooops... the scene has a funny ending.

Didn't the above actually happen to Vanilla Ice once?
 
Ownership limits?

This thing will know doubt keep the board chatting for some time to come..It will be interesting to see just how this whole thing will unfold, and what other names will come up...I* sense this might have some bearing on how congress will act about setting new limits on ownership.. Does anyone feel this will impact how they approach the whole thing? If it does cuase them to rethink the limits, this will really send the whole industry into a tailspin!! Hell they will have to make this thing into a mini-series!! And to think it sorta started rate here in little old buffalo!!

Actors for parts-
Dave U- played by Marky Mark
Eliot Spitzer- played by Gene Hackmen ( I know hes old but it fits)
Chrissy Covatta- played by Rikki Lake

Please add to the list....<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by majicrockstar on 07/28/05 07:11 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: Ownership limits?

As for ownership limits, major broadcasters will go to court to fight to prevent the number of stations a single company can own from being reduced.

As for "Payolagate: The Miniseries", chances are exterior scenes would be filmed in Buffalo, but the rest of the miniseries would be shot in Toronto. Lower costs, you know.

And a miniseries on the Dave Universal/payola scandal could be good sweeps-week material for a major broadcast network.

BTW, years ago, I saw a theatrical movie titled "American Hot Wax", which was mainly the story of Alan Freed. I saw it only once, but I think very little of that movie dealt with the payola scandal that ultimately short-circuited Freed's career. I think the film's climax was a riot that broke out around 1958 in Brooklyn at a concert Freed was promoting.
 
> not wanting to share a 6x10 foot
> cell with a guy named Bubba.

SLANDER, I say!

Signed,
Bubba Jones, Buffalo's first black redneck
 
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