THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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THE NE PLUS ULTRA IN RENDELLISM! (posted in full)
While PA-backed movie plan flops, private Phila studio is a hit!!!!! [Hooray for Phillywood!!!!! overemphasis added]
While plans to create a 100,000-square-foot movie studio at a Norristown shopping center with $10 million in Pennsylvania taxpayer funds have languished and the very idea of state subsidies for Hollywood is under attack, a King of Prussia developer has turned an empty Philadelphia factory building into a larger "studio filming space" that's already attracted an A-list project, and interest from others, without a dime of government money.
Director M. Night Shyamalan and Paramount Pictures are filming parts of "The Last Airbender" at a 180,000-square-foot former Budd Co. warehouse in East Falls, says Nicholas P. Cannone of landlord Preferred Unlimited Inc.
"Paramount and M. Knight's team are currently constructing massive sets, some close to three stories high, making use of the staggering 35-foot ceiling heights and 75-foot column bays" where Budd used to build stainless-steel railcars and auto parts, Cannone told me.
Filming starts this spring, with a sequel on the drawing board. "We hope to have Paramount and M. Knight on site for a few years." Cannone says Sony Pictures and other "major studios have toured our site in hopes to reuse the remaining warehouse space on site as studio space."
Preferred, owned by developer Michael O'Neill, has rehabbed other parts of the Budd complex as a 260,000 square foot office building for Temple University Health Sytem [Hooray for Phillywood SIC!!!!!] on Hunting Park Ave. and a 30,000-square foot Fresenius Medical Dialysis Center. And it donated 12 acres to the Salvation Army "to be developed into a Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center," funded by the late McDonald's founders' foundation, where construction began last month.
IN SHORT: A bad-movee shoot maybe one month of the year, and most of the rest of the space rented to non-profits. Add in the twelve-acre tax break and that not-a-dime-of-government-money talk is baloney. We wouldn't expect otherwise from a paper making noises about its own handout.
Give yourself a hand, EDDIE!