Emmy Nominations for Hemingway and Gelhorn

SF Show Biz News

• Emmys 2012: Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen celebrate award nods
• HBO Dominates Emmy Nominations with 81, Led by 'Hemingway & Gelhorn' with 15
• NICOLE Kidman plans to celebrate her Emmy nomination with "popsicles after school".
• Emmys 2012: 'Game of Thrones,' 'Borgias,' 'Hemingway' Costume Designers React to Nominations
• Emmy nominations 2012: The complete list
• 'Postcard From Morocco' review: Merola Opera
• 90th Anniversary Celebration of San Francisco Opera Begins Friday, September 7th
• Puppet trots into audiences' imaginations
• The Master Trailer
• Over-Analyze This: A Deep Dive Into Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' Trailer
• 'The Master' Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson's Maybe-Scientology Film Gets Sparkling Trailer (VIDEO)
• First Poster For Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master
• E-Meters and Liquid Schisms: Auditing the First Poster for The Master
• The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion?
• Cruise has 'issues' with Scientology film - report (+trailer)
• Is ‘The Master’ Based on Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard?

Only in San Francisco - "But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist. The lobsters, clams, crabs. Oh, Cat, what food for you. And all the people are open and friendly." - Dylan Thomas, poet

• San Francisco Street Food Festival Local Forager Contest: Choose The Next Street Food Star (PHOTOS)

Bullitt

SF Show Biz News

• T-shirt commemoration of opera night wins contest - "It was 1983 Opening Night at the opera and the patrons waited patiently for three hours for the lead singer's replacement who was being flown in from New York. (The lead singer had lost his voice!) In the opera house staircase several gentlemen had hoisted me into a window from where I could see, with my high-powered binoculars, the police-escorted arrival of Placido Domingo. When finally I saw the approaching entourage I reported to the gentlemen below, who quickly ran to shout the good news over the balcony - Placido had saved the day! - "I HAD to have a T-shirt commemorating that event. It's my favorite. ... I will cherish it always along with this story and memories of the San Francisco Opera."
  
• Merola Opera Program brings the future to the present again
  
• SAN FRANCISCO BALLET THRILLS A SOLD-OUT AUDIENCE IN SUN VALLEY, IDAHO
• ‘The Scottsboro Boys,’ a review
• 'Les Misérables' review: Smaller, stale
  
• Know Your Beef: Tom Cruise and Scientology vs. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master
• For whom the bell tolls - Review of Hemingway and Gellhorn - The Himalayan
  
• You decide: Will 'Game Change' win Best Movie/Miniseries race at Emmys? - Hemingway and Gellhorn, The Hour, Hatfields and McCoys, Sherlock: Scandal in Belgravia, American Horror Story, Game Change, Emmys, TV

Only in San Francisco
Bullitt: Look, you work your side of the street, and I'll work mine.  - Steve McQueen, Bullitt - Trailer - Clip

Bay Bridge, fake Cable Cars, Potrero Hill, the real crookedest street, Twin Peaks, barge at where? pier 80? wonder how the neighbors reacted to this one.

• Streets Of San Francisco Star In Rally Car Viral Video
• Ken Block, on the Making of ‘Gymkhana 5’
• Visiting on the Set of "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen

Peter Barsotti

SF ShowBiz News

• Kochetkova blogs about S.F. Ballet tour to Bolshoi
• Actor JC Montgomery's lesson in racial injustice
• The Magic of Kerouac: On the Road and Teenage Experience
• Adaptation of Jack Kerouac novel won't hit UK cinemas until October...
• Paul Thomas Anderson’s `The Master` gets new life post TomKat split  
• Social Cinema Roundup: Prometheus, The Master, & Box Office Predictor
• The Master - Facebook page

Only in San Francisco - "Kids are fed up paying twenty-eight bucks to see one band." Peter Barsotti, on the Lollapalooza tour.

• Peter Barsotti, Bill Graham's right-hand man, dies
• Peter Barsotti's Memorial will be held on Sat. July 14th in Groveland's Mary Laveroni Park from 1-3p.m.
• Peter Barsotti - The Last Waltz (documentary) (production coordinator: FM Productions) 
• One of Peter's jobs for Bill Graham - In the portentous, fog-bleary summer of 1980, just before the presidential election of a man whose mug once graced movie posters (a time when the nation agreed: greed is good), dance-hall keeper Bill Graham made plans to commemorate two upcoming concert runs he was producing for his favorite band, the Grateful Dead, with two special-edition posters. These posters weren't for advertising purposes but would be sold to show-goers--"vanity" posters, as they're called in the collecting trade. Graham assigned Peter Barsotti, who worked for the impresario (and who still works for Bill Graham Presents, or BGP), and artist Dennis Larkins to design the new posters, which trumpeted a three-week series of shows across late September and early October by the Dead at the gaping old Warfield Theater on Market Street and a following similar series at New York's venerable Radio City Music Hall.
• RIP Peter Barsotti
• Hard on the Ears, easy on wallet 
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Safe Sex Wheel of Fortune and Wake Up George Bush Test of Strength FM built for the first Lollapalooza for Peter Barsotti.

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San Francisco Opera's Nixon in China, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master

SF Show Biz News

• San Francisco Opera serves up a brilliant staging of Adams’ problematic “Nixon in China”
• Nixon as opera in San Francisco: A dazzler without depth
• Jun Kaneko's 'Magic Flute' Is Stunningly Visual
• Stern Grove: Revered Festival Hits a Major Milestone in San Francisco
• San Francisco ballet comes to Sun Valley next week
• 'The Scottsboro Boys' review: Song, dance, tragedy
• Green Day’s American Idiot the Musical
• Olivia Newton-John Plays SHN Golden Gate Theatre, 9/13
• What Do We Know About Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Scientology Film? I think I climbed into that torpedo bay 5 or 6 times plus down to the dock and up to the flight deck twice during the last 2 hours I was out there at the Hornet on Alameda, that pipe on the floor behind the camera, turned out great didn't it.
• The Master: a master of disguise
• New racy photos of Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund from 'On The Road'
• George Lucas Donates Engine to Calif. Department
• Filmmaker George Lucas donating land for public park in downtown San Anselmo

Politics

• SIGNS & SCHOOL TIES: Murase’s pro-Yee window signs on Clearview Street are competing with Morningside Street neighbor and District 7 candidate F.X. Crowley, who missed out on fellow SI (St. Ignatius) alum and terming out D7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd’s endorsement of Board of Appeals President Mike Garcia as his successor.
• Tight Races in Districts 1 and 7
• fxcrowley.com
• Report: State film tax credit doesn’t deserve sequel
• State film tax credit extension clears a hurdle but is scaled back
• California film tax credit lottery draws only a few lucky winners
• Film industry tax credit extension moves in CA Senate
• Milken Institute study: Strengths, weakness in California film tax credits

National Politics

• Obama campaign call affirms money anxiety
• barackobama.com
• IATSE PAC

Only in San Francisco - Thank You Nancy Pelosi

As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one — it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means. To The Agribusiness Club of Washington (July 24, 2006) - Nancy Pelosi

• Pelosi celebrates Supreme Court ruling on 'ironclad' healthcare law
• AP News - Pelosi: GOP repeal of Obamacare is 'unrealistic'
• Nancy Pelosi's lucky shoes