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maybe the nicest people ever on 3/23/2011 4:15:00 AM by The Lost Nomads
(Editor's Note: For today's world premiere of Gigi: Almost American, I asked the series creators, The Lost Nomads (Josh Gad, Tyler Moore, Ty Clancey, Kevin Larsen and Ida Darvish) if they would guest-blog for us and they graced us with just about one of the nicest notes anyone has ever written about us. So you'd better watch their show. Not just because it's really, really good-- but because I want them to keep liking us. Welcome to the Damn Fam, guys! -- Maria)
The Lost Nomads have had a number of partners through the years, but none has come close to being the kind of brilliant, forward thinking collaborator that My Damn Channel has. As we prepare to launch
Gigi in the coming days, we can safely say that there is no better home for this series and for our brand of comedy. We are ecstatic that Rob Barnett and his team of resident geniuses saw the same promise in our concept that we did and allowed us to go crazy with it. And now, in conjunction with the BBC and My Damn Channel, we are ready to share our baby with the world, or at least a few hundred thousand people in the world.
Sincerely,
The Lost Nomads
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Duncan Moore on 8/15/2009 10:58:56 AM by Rob Barnett
Randy & Jason Sklar are the stars and Exec Producers of the Emmy-nominated "Back on Topps" on My Damn Channel. It's the best sports comedy series in the history of the interweb.
The Sklar Brothers are in town for weekend live shows at Comix in NY. Two more shows tonite. Be there. Info here.
They hit the My Damn Channel NY offices yesterday for interviews with Grace that you'll start seeing next week & throughout the race to the cliffhanger of Season 2.
We're now officially in awe of these two men. They're funny as hell. You'll witness their death-defying comedy on our rooftop on video next week.....or defy death by coughing up lungs and other organs LIVE with Jason & Randy TONIGHT.
Thanks to our friends at Vuguru - especially Ryan Barlow for letting us in on da fun. To Michelle Vargas for being beyond. To Charlie Singer! And to our DAMN intern, Duncan Moore for the headzuppedness!
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LeRoi Moore,
Dave Matthews Band on 8/20/2008 4:33:36 AM by Rob Barnett
from Dave's website:
08/19/2008
We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.
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Taxi to the Dark Side on 2/25/2008 7:45:00 AM by Rob Barnett
Alex Gibney is an Oscar winner! The man is a friend, an inspiration, and a soulful warrior. His films are completely dedicated to telling the truth.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
Here's the LA Times:
'Taxi to the Dark Side': A look at torture
"Taxi to the Dark Side" provides the night's most overtly political commentary.
By Mark Olsen
February 25, 2008Winner for outstanding documentary feature, "Taxi to the Dark Side," a painfully clear-eyed look at the United States policy on torture in Afghanistan and Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, provided the night's most overtly political commentary -- Jon Stewart's monologue notwithstanding.Directed by Alex Gibney and produced by Gibney and Eva Orner, the film features photographs and video footage from Abu Ghraib prison, as well as interviews with military personnel.In accepting the award, Gibney said, "Here's to all doc filmmakers," and then went on to dedicate the award to Dilawar, the Afghan cab driver whose death provides the film with its throughline and title, and to his own late father, a former Navy interrogator, noting "his fury about what was being done to the rule of law."
"Taxi to the Dark Side" was one of three nominees that touched on the war in Iraq, but Gibney's feature was the one that beat out the sizable cult of celebrity around filmmaker Michael Moore, a nominee for his look at the American healthcare system, "Sicko."Gibney was also an executive producer of the nominated feature-length documentary "No End in Sight."
"Taxi to the Dark Side" was originally scheduled to be broadcast on television by the Discovery Channel, but was recently picked up by HBO when Discovery made it clear they would not show the film this year. Gibney very much wanted the film on television prior to the November elections.
Gibney concluded his acceptance speech by saying, "Let's hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light."
ALEX GIBNEY:
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Anne DeBevoise & husband Alex at the big show:
