Meanwhile, in the City of Big Shoulders, Chicago, where I lived for a few years, and where unlike Miami's local TV stations, the News divisions often make their news stories fully embeddable for blogs and websites... the growing anti-Rahm Emanuel for Mayor coalition continues to grow in some rather unexpected ways. GOOD!
If Rep. Danny Davis and Rep. Luis Gutierrez and some friends want to talk about things at a diner, like I often do with friends or local civic activists or elected officials, what's the harm?
Jay Levine of WBBM-TV connects-the-dots on the latest developments.
WBBM-TV - Political Heavyweights May Be Forming Anti-Rahm Alliance
http://video.chicago.cbslocal.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=5215717&h1=Political%20Heavyweights%20May%20Be%20Forming%20Anti-Rahm%20Alliance&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=156067&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&rnd=65438093
My previous posts on Rahm Emanuel are here:
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rahm+Emanuel
See also: http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Rahm_Emanuel
The latest news on Emanuel is here:
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22Rahm+Emanuel%22
One of the many great videos that I featured here on the blog in the past in conjunction with the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid was this one, which gives you a really clear overview of some of the things that make it such an interesting place to live and work.
Chicago surprises!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTcFaAs8Sk
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
A nation's prayer is answered -'Hawaii Five-o' returns!; TV Barn's Aaron Barnhart: The awesomest ‘Hawaii Five-o′ marching band video ever
HAWAII FIVE-O 2010: "OPENING THEME"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKzrwOjwalAWell, after months of waiting, and with CSI Miami shuffled off to Sunday night at 10 p.m.. Hawaii Five-o returns to network TV tonight, with bells and whistles and a full-court media PR schmooze-fest orchestrated by CBS-TV, with gleeful assistance from hundreds of websites and blogs that have been chronicling the return for months.
For awhile, I thought I'd do that, too, but why be the fifth-wheel when the first four are already working, so I've been sitting on this for months. But first, to appreciate how much people have longed for a QUALITY re-make of this show, it's important to see what came before.
From the banal to the brilliant: Surfside 6 to Hawaii Five-o in the blink of an eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqxpGgXdU0
Hawaii Five 0 - Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w
Theme from Hawaii Five-O. University of Notre Dame Marching Band
Sept. 18, 2010, at Michigan State University, East Lansing MI., USA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxrBbyKZ3A
TV Barn
The awesomest ‘Hawaii Five-0′ marching band video ever
by Aaron Barnhart
September 20, 2010
Remember when NBC, the fourth-most-watched network on TV (unless USA is having a good night), told you they were remaking “Bionic Woman” and “Knight Rider” and then you tuned in and realized that these were just signs that NBC had hung on entirely different shows that happened to have a cyborgian female and a cyborgian internal-combustion vehicle in them?, CBS is taking a different tack with its remake of 1970s police staple “Hawaii Five-0.”
True, it’s been turned into a buddy action show rather a procedural starring Jack Lord and his hair. But in many ways, as you’ll see tonight, there are attempts to honor viewers’ memories of the show — which makes sense, since at least some of “Five-0′s” run was seen by millions of boys who are now men in Nielsen’s 25-to-54-year-old demo.
Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.tvbarn.com/tv-barn/the-awesomest-hawaii-five-0-marching-band-video-ever/
http://www.tvbarn.com/
Hawaii Five-0 - Rebooting the Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Loyy7MmwY
Hawaii Five-0 -Meet the Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZ3vuYP-iY
Hawaii Five-0 - Riding the Wave
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/video/?ttag=mktg_hawaiifive0
Hawaii Five-0 - Hollywood Meets Hawaii
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/video/?pid=nv7w3YgZ3bXJH_p_c_n32uZiQTshGqZj&vs=Default&play=true
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
New York Times
For ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ a Music-Filled Push From CBS
By Stuart Elliott
There have been police dramas on television called “Hawaii,” “Hawaiian Eye” and “Hawaiian Heat,” but the biggest gangbuster was “Hawaii Five-O,” which appeared on CBS from 1968 to 1980. Lush scenery in living color, a catchy theme song and a memorable catchphrase, “Book ’em, Danno,” all contributed to a successful run in prime time.
Because, as Fred Allen once said, imitation is the sincerest form of television, it is not surprising that CBS is remaking the series; the new version will be broadcast at 10 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) on Mondays, starting on Sept. 20. The revived “Hawaii Five-0”— with a zero in place of the “O,” perhaps to signal it is version 2.0 — is one of five new series that CBS plans for the 2010-11 season.
Read the rest of the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/business/media/30adco.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykByH7wpsi8
http://www.youtube.com/user/cbseyelab
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/video/?ttag=mktg_hawaiifive0
Hollywood meets 'Hawaii Five-0' w/ USC Trojan Marching Band (video)
http://www.rbr.com/media-news/advertising/27583.html
Saturday, August 28, 2010
USA Today commercial from mid-1980's reminds me of the girl who got away: How I (Almost) Met Your Mother -and she was a newspaper industry executive
La Bilson is very definitely the Gold standard with me... Rachel Bilson
USA Today commercial from mid-1980's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3LiURnoFzk
I was living in Evanston Illinois, just a few blocks from Northwestern University and Lake Michigan when this USA Today commercial was heavily promoted on TV.
A few years later, after I moved to the Washington, D.C. area and was living in Arlington County, VA, where I remained for 15 years, I constantly lived within three miles -and often eyesight of- the twin towers in Rosslyn at 1100 Wilson Boulevard, formerly called the Gannett/USA Today building, with its great views of D.C. and the Potomac River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn,_Arlington,_Virginia
That is, until they foolishly moved away from being only one block SE of an underground D.C. Metro train station, which was incredibly convenient for employees and people needing to go over there, and headed west to auto-centric Tyson's Corner in Fairfax County.
http://www.gannett.com/http://www.usatoday.com/
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
After doing some research projects for the paper starting with a 1988 election project, I eventually fell in love with a Gannett middle-manager whom I constantly kept running into in the morning and at lunch at one of the many little stores and restaurants located in the lobbies adjoining the huge escalators.
These stores made the building feel more like a small city, unlike so many of the bland office buildings with atriums I've seen in South Florida that are SO uninviting and have a bad retail mix.
The object of my affection bore a striking resemblance to an actress I particularly liked, and had a very friendly and endearing voice on the few occasions I'd heard it, so my radar was finely tuned whenever she was nearby.
I was absolutely convinced I could recognize her laugh from across a crowded room!
Plus, she loved college basketball!
Like the way an IU or UK fan loves college basketball, but she didn't go to a big sports school, which made it all the more endearing.
One fall morning I swung by one of the small stores in the building I frequented on my way to the area I worked out of when I was there and the owner noticed me subtly looking around while I had some newspapers under my arm, and was trying to decide what sort of drink to buy -cold or hot.
Yes, Mr. Obvious!
He looked at me and said, "I think I know who you are looking for."
Then, like he'd been rehearsing it for hours, he handed me a business card with her contact info on it, with a note in an envelope attached by a small black metal binder clip, like the millions of them I had in my desk drawer and would toy with while talking on the phone.
On the note she had written that she'd been doing some detective work on me and heard some very good things about me from people she trusted, would be going out-of-town for about a week for some newspaper industry-related shindig, then would be visiting her family... and, oh by the way, would I be interested in going with her to the big Eagles-Redskins game at RFK in two weeks time?
You could have knocked me over with a feather!
And the rest is history... well, at least for a few years anyway.
Yes kids, that's how many great romance stories start in Washington -with an educated and calculated move- he said, sounding like Ted Mosby doing the voice-over narration from an episode of "How I Met Your Mother."
That doesn't seem to be the style down here, which is a pity for all concerned.
Fickle fate is nobody's friend.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/
The "How I Met Your Mother" season premiere is Monday, September 20th at 8 p.m. Eastern. (The ESPN Monday Night Football game that night is Saints at 49ers.)
I genuinely hope there's much more Rachel Bilson in the show's future other than a few minutes here-and-there, as Hallandale Beach Blog loves, loves, loves La Bilson!
First Look: Rachel Bilson Heads Back to HIMYM For Season 6http://www.buzzsugar.com/Rachel-Bilson-Pictures-From-How-I-Met-Your-Mother-Season-6-Premiere-10528284
New York Post's Page Six MagazineThe Fashion Issue starring Rachel Bilson
By Amy Spencer
Rachel Bilson's Divine Inspiration
On The O.C. and in real life, Rachel Bilson launched a million fashion crushes with her unique but subtle sex-bomb style. Now the actress—who talks to Page Six Magazine about everything from Coco Chanel to Hayden Christensen—is making it easy for copycats to steal her look, in her new role as a designer.
The photos are great, oui?
ooh la la la Bislson
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Ineptitude reminiscent of HB City Hall! WCBS-TV: Comedy Of Errors - Cameras Didn't Work At Newark Airport
WCBS-TV, New York
Comedy Of Errors: Cameras Didn't Work At Newark
The mistakes made at the airport give new meaning to the term "domino effect." It was a cascading series of missteps that cry out for action.
The sign at the Transportation Security Administration screening post at Newark read: "Premises Under Constant Video Surveillance."
What is should add is: "If We're Lucky."
Read rest of story at:
http://wcbstv.com/local/newark.airport.continental.2.1407062.html
Video at:
http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=136879@wcbs.dayport.com
Reader comments:
http://wcbstv.com/local/newark.airport.continental.2.1407062.html#addComments
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Ineptitude reminiscent of Hallandale Beach City Hall!
You know, the Broward city where the Police Chief,
Thomas Magill, actually shrugged and said at a 2009
HB City Commission meeting that the pitch black
public parking lot in front of City Hall AND the
Police Dept. HQ, which has been that way for a
good part of the past two years, wasn't that big a deal.
And the City Attorney, David Jove, just sits there
on the dais, dreaming of his pension, ignoring the
self-evident public safety and liability issues for the
city's taxpayers.
Who's their boss?
City Manager Mike Good.
That explains it.
Tonight, like last week, last month and last year,
three of the four parking lights closest to the public
entrance to HB City Hall have been out.
Much like they have been for the past six months,
and most of the past two years, but fortunately for
air travelers, the City of Hallandale Beach doesn't
have operational control of an airport!
Comedy Of Errors: Cameras Didn't Work At Newark
Sources Tell CBS 2 That TSA Surveillance Cameras Were Inoperable At Time Of Terminal C Security Breach
TSA Apparently Didn't Know Number For Continental To Get Other Footage
It's a tale of shocking ineptitude: CBS 2 has learned a series of missteps unnecessarily added to the mayhem at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday. The six-hour delay stranded thousands of people, creating extreme crowding and chaos.The mistakes made at the airport give new meaning to the term "domino effect." It was a cascading series of missteps that cry out for action.
The sign at the Transportation Security Administration screening post at Newark read: "Premises Under Constant Video Surveillance."
What is should add is: "If We're Lucky."
Read rest of story at:
http://wcbstv.com/local/newark.airport.continental.2.1407062.html
Video at:
http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=136879@wcbs.dayport.com
Reader comments:
http://wcbstv.com/local/newark.airport.continental.2.1407062.html#addComments
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Ineptitude reminiscent of Hallandale Beach City Hall!
You know, the Broward city where the Police Chief,
Thomas Magill, actually shrugged and said at a 2009
HB City Commission meeting that the pitch black
public parking lot in front of City Hall AND the
Police Dept. HQ, which has been that way for a
good part of the past two years, wasn't that big a deal.
And the City Attorney, David Jove, just sits there
on the dais, dreaming of his pension, ignoring the
self-evident public safety and liability issues for the
city's taxpayers.
Who's their boss?
City Manager Mike Good.
That explains it.
Tonight, like last week, last month and last year,
three of the four parking lights closest to the public
entrance to HB City Hall have been out.
Much like they have been for the past six months,
and most of the past two years, but fortunately for
air travelers, the City of Hallandale Beach doesn't
have operational control of an airport!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
¿Ya es lunes? Dear Dolphins: Do we have to wear our orange sombreros, too? Me gusta Lana Parrilla!
Orange you glad I reminded you?
Below, excerpt from a recent email
I received from the Dolphins.
Actually, I have quite a lot of orange
t-shirts, but this makes as much marketing
sense as having IRL drivers in Davie at
Dolphins HQ, and the Herald mentioning
that the drivers were photographed next
to the Dolphins Super Bowl trophies
from 35 years ago, plus the the racing
trophy.
But be sure to call me if you spot
Lana Parrilla of CBS-TV's upcoming
drama Miami Trauma before kickoff!
Her I adore!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663469/
Ever since Boomtown seven years ago.
(Per Lana's show Miami Trauma,
where she'll play surgeon Eva Zambrano,
-"It could be paradise.
But even paradise needs its angels",
see http://twitpic.com/32l5u
and
http://www.jbfilms.com/archive/home.html -
some of the well-informed people
I hear from regularly in LA, plus,
the plugged-in folks at The Wrap,
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/cbs-says-yes-more-flashpoint-8265
have suggested it could air in a few
months on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. after
NCIS:LA's time slot if the Juliana
Margulies vehicle The Good Wife
is eventually axed.
Personally, I think there are other CBS
shows that really ought to get axed before
Good Wife, which I really enjoy because
of its excellent cast and nuanced intelligent
approach to a situation seldom dealt with
well on TV -family life after a political
scandal.
Plus Margulies is not only a very talented
actress, but is also very, very likable and
someone that other talented people enjoy
working with.
That still counts for something, even in the
Hollywood of 2009.
Personally, I think NCIS: LA is a better
idea for a TV series than reality has proven
thus far, since it leaves me cold so far,
even though I'm a big fan of NCIS,
having watched it from the very beginning.)
Don't want to even think about the 1,001
ways the Herald and Sun-Sentinel will
use the word "siesta" on Tuesday if los
Dolphins lose to los Jets.
If so, I will have todo sobre ESPN
using Spanish in particularly galling,
over-the-top ways throughout the
ballgame.
Which Hispanic celebs will they interview
at halftime?
What's the over-and-under on someone
on the broadcast team using the words
"salsa" or "caliente"?
What sort of ridiculous and cringe-worthy
things will new owner and celebrity groupie
Stephen Ross or possibly Dolphins
Enterprises CEO Mike "Hanging Sox"
Dee say about the Dolphins trying to
're-connect' with South Florida's Hispanic
population?
(Re-connect? Where did they go?)
It could get very bad very quickly when
they start spouting their marketing nonsense,
something which plagued all the early media
stories about both men, esp. Ross' very
dopey comments about his making the
Dolphins more Miami-er, read,
they were too Broward under Huizenga.
excerpt from June 26, 2009
Miami Herald
by Daniel Chang and Adam H. Beasley
MIAMI DOLPHINS:
SINGING WITH THE DOLPHINS?
Win games -period!
Why does the Herald continue their
absurd policy of asking people -and
the very same people at that!-
with a clear economic interest in a
subject what they think, like Jose
Cancela, above?
Or like continually quoting former
Miami Beach mayor and current
lawyer/lobbyist Niesen Kasdin,
who's also the Vice-chair of the
Downtown Development Authority.
He was quoted for what seemed like
a week straight on Miami 21.
Question never asked of him:
If he and his business pals with
their castle-in-the-sky condos
were as sophisticated and dynamic
as they claim to be, why wasn't
there a single general interest
bookstore within the Miami
city limits?
(For more on Kasdin, see this
July 2, 2007 Eye on Miami post
titled, Niesen Kasdin and Dan Ricker,
polar opposites by gimleteye
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2007/07/neisen-kasdin-and-dan-ricker-polar.html
and see his Akerman Senterfitt bio, too
http://www.akerman.com/public/attorneys/aBiography.asp?id=1083)
Were there no savvy business professors
to be found in all of South Florida?
Just wondering, how many Dolphin players
do you think live in Miami-Dade now?
A handful, maybe?
This isn't 1973 when few Dolphin players
lived north of Miami Lakes or the county
line, and Pembroke Pines and Miramar
were treated by folks in NMB like they
were small obscure Arctic fishing villages,
largely beyond the reach of civilization:
out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
And where is the Dolphins training camp
and HQ located now?
Nope, not 330 Biscayne Blvd. anymore,
where once upon a time, I could actually
run into Joe Thomas on my way in to
pick-up some more of those Dolphin decals
that used to be ubiquitous down here on
cars, and he'd talk to me for ten minutes
about what he liked about IU.
'Nuff said about Ross and his concern
about the Dolphins not being sufficiently
Miami-centric.
By the way, does anyone know why
no stories about Ross ever include a
mention of when he first became a
Dolphins fan, or what big games he
actually attended in person at the OB?
Or was he just a TV fan in NYC as
many rightly suspect?
He's no Bob Kraft, that's for sure.
¿Ya es lunes?
See also:
NFL Latino Effort Pits Jets Fan vs. Dolphins Fan
Monday Night Game Centerpiece of League's
Hispanic Heritage Month Campaign
Posted by Laura Martinez, October 9, 2009
http://adage.com/bigtent/post?article_id=139573
This column features the line,
"Who says Latinos were only into
soccer?"
That's a straw man, especially down here.
Nobody says that.
Except when the Toros were here,
Miami area sports fans were told in that
same condescending marketing B.S.
way that Cubans weren't just into beisbol,
and would flock to the Orange Bowl.
Except that it never happened.
The Toros home games at the
Orange Bowl were largely populated
by kids like me from North Dade
-NMB, Miami Shores, Palm Springs
North, Norland- and the
Karl Kremser-influenced duchies
of the Kendall area around Dade-South,
which is why the Toros moved to
Fort Lauderdale and became more
European-centric in their player
selections as the Strikers and the
rest is history...
By the way, Donald Trump ruined
the NASL for everyone, including
my friends on the IU soccer team,
who weren't really too interested
in playing the bastardized indoor
soccer after Trump ruined the
competitive financial structure of
the NASL.
Below, from my South Beach Hoosier
blog, which I've really neglected the
last few months and plan on revamping
in time for IU's basketball season
in a few weeks
http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/ 
Below, excerpt from a recent email
I received from the Dolphins.
Is It Next Monday Yet?
Fresh off the big win against AFC East rival Buffalo Bills, the Miami Dolphins face another rival, the New York Jets, next Monday, October 12th at 8:30 p.m. at Land Shark Stadium.
Be here to see live:
- Dolphins players wear ORANGE jerseys for only the third time ever. The last two times the team wore orange jerseys resulted in Dolphins’ victories!
- The Dolphins along with the NFL celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Among the festivities is Latin Grammy award-winning Jesse and Joy performing live at the Land Shark Tailgate Stage, Marc Anthony singing the national anthem and a special “Celebration of the Americas” halftime show with participation by Gloria Estefan and a live performance by Jocelyn Rivera.
So be here for what promises to be an unforgettable night in South Florida in this Monday Night Football game. Wear your Dolphins ORANGE and come ready to FIESTA!
---------------------Actually, I have quite a lot of orange
t-shirts, but this makes as much marketing
sense as having IRL drivers in Davie at
Dolphins HQ, and the Herald mentioning
that the drivers were photographed next
to the Dolphins Super Bowl trophies
from 35 years ago, plus the the racing
trophy.
But be sure to call me if you spot
Lana Parrilla of CBS-TV's upcoming
drama Miami Trauma before kickoff!
Her I adore!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663469/
Ever since Boomtown seven years ago.
(Per Lana's show Miami Trauma,
where she'll play surgeon Eva Zambrano,
-"It could be paradise.
But even paradise needs its angels",
see http://twitpic.com/32l5u
and
http://www.jbfilms.com/archive/home.html -
some of the well-informed people
I hear from regularly in LA, plus,
the plugged-in folks at The Wrap,
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/cbs-says-yes-more-flashpoint-8265
have suggested it could air in a few
months on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. after
NCIS:LA's time slot if the Juliana
Margulies vehicle The Good Wife
is eventually axed.
Personally, I think there are other CBS
shows that really ought to get axed before
Good Wife, which I really enjoy because
of its excellent cast and nuanced intelligent
approach to a situation seldom dealt with
well on TV -family life after a political
scandal.
Plus Margulies is not only a very talented
actress, but is also very, very likable and
someone that other talented people enjoy
working with.
That still counts for something, even in the
Hollywood of 2009.
Personally, I think NCIS: LA is a better
idea for a TV series than reality has proven
thus far, since it leaves me cold so far,
even though I'm a big fan of NCIS,
having watched it from the very beginning.)
Don't want to even think about the 1,001
ways the Herald and Sun-Sentinel will
use the word "siesta" on Tuesday if los
Dolphins lose to los Jets.
If so, I will have todo sobre ESPN
using Spanish in particularly galling,
over-the-top ways throughout the
ballgame.
Which Hispanic celebs will they interview
at halftime?
What's the over-and-under on someone
on the broadcast team using the words
"salsa" or "caliente"?
What sort of ridiculous and cringe-worthy
things will new owner and celebrity groupie
Stephen Ross or possibly Dolphins
Enterprises CEO Mike "Hanging Sox"
Dee say about the Dolphins trying to
're-connect' with South Florida's Hispanic
population?
(Re-connect? Where did they go?)
It could get very bad very quickly when
they start spouting their marketing nonsense,
something which plagued all the early media
stories about both men, esp. Ross' very
dopey comments about his making the
Dolphins more Miami-er, read,
they were too Broward under Huizenga.
excerpt from June 26, 2009
Miami Herald
by Daniel Chang and Adam H. Beasley
MIAMI DOLPHINS:
SINGING WITH THE DOLPHINS?
...Ross emphasized that the Dolphins' priority remains winning games, but he said the team is serious about reaching out to Hispanics, even in a community, Miami-Dade County, where more than half the population identifies as Hispanic.
Jose Cancela, principal of Hispanic USA Inc., a Hispanic market communications firm, said the union of the Dolphins and two of Miami's best known entertainers was a long time coming.
"This is the home of [Spanish-language TV networks] Univision and Telemundo, the home of some of the most famous stars of Latin America," he said. "This is really the Spanish-language Hollywood . . . and it's been sitting at the Dolphins doorstep for a number of years, and it was smart to take advantage of it."
While most marketing efforts in South Florida will naturally reach Hispanics, Cancela said the Dolphins will benefit by personalizing the pitch with recognizable faces and in Spanish.
"You want to do it in language, in culture he said of marketing efforts that target Hispanics. "If you go in language and nuanced correctly, you'll reach them even deeper and create a deeper bond."
BILINGUAL DUET
Ross said all team press releases will now be issued in Spanish and English. A Spanish-language website for the team will launch Aug. 15. And Gloria Estefan and Hank Williams Jr. will debut a bilingual duet of the Monday Night Football theme song, Are You Ready for Some Football, on the Oct. 12 telecast -- the night the Dolphins host their archnemesis, the New York Jets, at LandShark Stadium.Why, do they give an attendance award?
Mike Dee, the Dolphins' chief executive, said the team wants to motivate more Hispanics to become "active fans" who attend games.
And although home-game attendance is about 37 percent Hispanic, according to Dolphins marketing director George Torres, Dee said that's not good enough.
"We're not where we want to be," he said. "We want to be the best in the NFL."
Ross first approached the Estefans shortly after acquiring the team in January from H. Wayne Huizenga. Ross' mediator was Miami condo developer Jorge Perez, a friend and business partner.
Perez said Ross had the "laid-back Anglo" demographic covered with Buffett, and wanted to broaden the team's appeal to the largest ethnic group in Miami-Dade.
Perez immediately thought of the Estefans, and he arranged a meeting.
"Steve has been looking to make the Dolphins a totally integrated team," Perez said. "There needed to be great outreach and inclusion in the Hispanic community and not just token representation."
Win games -period!
Why does the Herald continue their
absurd policy of asking people -and
the very same people at that!-
with a clear economic interest in a
subject what they think, like Jose
Cancela, above?
Or like continually quoting former
Miami Beach mayor and current
lawyer/lobbyist Niesen Kasdin,
who's also the Vice-chair of the
Downtown Development Authority.
He was quoted for what seemed like
a week straight on Miami 21.
Question never asked of him:
If he and his business pals with
their castle-in-the-sky condos
were as sophisticated and dynamic
as they claim to be, why wasn't
there a single general interest
bookstore within the Miami
city limits?
(For more on Kasdin, see this
July 2, 2007 Eye on Miami post
titled, Niesen Kasdin and Dan Ricker,
polar opposites by gimleteye
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2007/07/neisen-kasdin-and-dan-ricker-polar.html
and see his Akerman Senterfitt bio, too
http://www.akerman.com/public/attorneys/aBiography.asp?id=1083)
Were there no savvy business professors
to be found in all of South Florida?
Just wondering, how many Dolphin players
do you think live in Miami-Dade now?
A handful, maybe?
This isn't 1973 when few Dolphin players
lived north of Miami Lakes or the county
line, and Pembroke Pines and Miramar
were treated by folks in NMB like they
were small obscure Arctic fishing villages,
largely beyond the reach of civilization:
out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
And where is the Dolphins training camp
and HQ located now?
Nope, not 330 Biscayne Blvd. anymore,
where once upon a time, I could actually
run into Joe Thomas on my way in to
pick-up some more of those Dolphin decals
that used to be ubiquitous down here on
cars, and he'd talk to me for ten minutes
about what he liked about IU.
'Nuff said about Ross and his concern
about the Dolphins not being sufficiently
Miami-centric.
By the way, does anyone know why
no stories about Ross ever include a
mention of when he first became a
Dolphins fan, or what big games he
actually attended in person at the OB?
Or was he just a TV fan in NYC as
many rightly suspect?
He's no Bob Kraft, that's for sure.
¿Ya es lunes?
See also:
NFL Latino Effort Pits Jets Fan vs. Dolphins Fan
Monday Night Game Centerpiece of League's
Hispanic Heritage Month Campaign
Posted by Laura Martinez, October 9, 2009
http://adage.com/bigtent/post?
This column features the line,
"Who says Latinos were only into
soccer?"
That's a straw man, especially down here.
Nobody says that.
Except when the Toros were here,
Miami area sports fans were told in that
same condescending marketing B.S.
way that Cubans weren't just into beisbol,
and would flock to the Orange Bowl.
Except that it never happened.
The Toros home games at the
Orange Bowl were largely populated
by kids like me from North Dade
-NMB, Miami Shores, Palm Springs
North, Norland- and the
Karl Kremser-influenced duchies
of the Kendall area around Dade-South,
which is why the Toros moved to
Fort Lauderdale and became more
European-centric in their player
selections as the Strikers and the
rest is history...
By the way, Donald Trump ruined
the NASL for everyone, including
my friends on the IU soccer team,
who weren't really too interested
in playing the bastardized indoor
soccer after Trump ruined the
competitive financial structure of
the NASL.
Below, from my South Beach Hoosier
blog, which I've really neglected the
last few months and plan on revamping
in time for IU's basketball season
in a few weeks
http://southbeachhoosier.
NASL - Ft. Lauderdale Strikers
& Miami Toros/Gatos
I think it's fair to say that from 1971-'76, there were few people in South Florida who attended more Miami Toros/Gatos NASL soccer games at the Orange Bowl than yours truly, including their game against Pelé at F.I.U.
I first started going when they were the Gatos in 1971, as a ten-year old, and kept going after they were re-christened the Toros, a much better name.
I witnessed all their great FEISTY games against their arch-rival Tampa Bay Rowdies.
I even witnessed their heart-breaking loss in the 1974 NASL title game to the Los Angeles Aztecs in penalty kicks, after two over-times.
Somewhere, I still have the Toros game programs, esp. the ones that on the cover proclaimed Kyle Rote, Jr. of the Dallas Tornadoes as the American Pelé.
Rote was a tremendously talented player who understood his unique role as an ambassador
for the sport, but putting things like that on the cover of game programs was FAR TOO MUCH pressure for a kid just barely out of college!)
When Joe and Elizabeth Robbie relocated the team to Ft. Lauderdale and Lockhart Stadium for the 1977 season, much closer to my friends and I in North Miami Beach, we were ecstatic.
The drive to Lockhart up I-95 was so much quicker, as we joined other "Striker Likers", eager to literally yell ourselves hoarse watching their exciting brand of soccer, esp, against the dreaded Rowdies and N.Y. Cosmos!
Oh, did we ever hate them!!!
For more info, see http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dulyjs/strikers/strikers.html
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Monday Night Mashup - CSI: Miami's Horatio Caine & HIMYM's Barney Stinson
Monday Night Mashup
CSI: Miami's Horatio & HIMYM's Barney have a night
out on the town, but they soon find out that they're
not compatible as friends.
Originally posted: 4/22/2009
Horatio & Barney?
Much more spot-on than I would've ever guessed.
Sorry, contains absolutely no Eva Larue.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Blake Lively: A Smile That Can Fill a TV Screen!
A SMILE THAT CAN FILL UP A TV SCREEN!
Screenshot of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively on CBS-TV's Late Show with David Letterman, March 24th, 2009.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Amazing Race Casting Call March 14th at Mardi Gras in Hallandale Beach
LOCAL CASTING CALL OFFERS OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE IN CBS HIT SERIES, "THE AMAZING RACE"
WHAT:
Here's an opportunity to take the first step towards competing on one of television's most exciting reality series. CBS4 and Mardis Gras Casino are sponsoring an open casting call for "The Amazing Race," the highly-rated CBS reality series that pits two person teams - friends, couples or relatives -- against one another as they race through exotic locations around the world.
WHERE:
Mardis Gras Casino
831 N. Federal Highway
Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
WHEN:
Saturday, March 14,2009, 10 AM - 2 PM
HOW:
* CBS4 photographers will be on hand to shoot audition video and submit application packages for each team that applies.
* Each candidate/team member must audition and team members must audition together. In addition, each person must fill out a complete application. The Amazing Race applications and eligibility requirements can be found on CBS.com.
* Each team of two should plan to speak for two minutes at the most. There is no minimum time amount for a submission.
Contact for the public: Deborah Lile, 305-514-4104 or log on: check out http://www.cbs.com/primetime/
CBS-TV's Amazing Race is by far my favorite reality TV show, and a show I never miss, just like Lost, Medium, 24, Criminal Minds and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Actually, it's the only one that I faithfully watch the night it airs, and have ever since the show's premiere.
It's also the only reality show I'd actually like to appear on since I'm great with geography, logistics and languages, and have very good intuition.
I also always watch Survivor every week when it's on, but often I don't see the new episode 'till early Saturday morning over breakfast, before the first Premier League soccer game from England airs on Fox Soccer Channel.
Does anyone recall what happened four years ago when the teams found themselves in Little Havana on the final episode and needed to find a particular tienda to get the final clue to win a million dollars, and then had to get up to a park in Fort Lauderdale? Think about it.
That was Amazing Race 7, the great year that featured Uchenna & Joyce and Rob & Amber battling week-after-week 'till they wound up in the no-man's land of South Florida.
Why yes, to the great amusement of so many millions of people across the country, it's the famous Lost in Little Havana episode! ¿Habla Inglés?
Honestly, is there anyone on TV who does a better job than show host Phil Keoghan of doing the raised eyebrow, when a team jumps on a pit stop mat?
My second favorite season, after The All-Stars two years ago, was probably the one that featured families, though I know a lot of media people didn't particularly like that change of pace from the two-person team format.
Personally, I thought it was a genius move which only further cemented the show's already large popularity and appeal to families on Sunday night, in order to peel them away from Fox-TV's animated fare.
Check out Phil Keough's video diary at:
I have a strong feeling I'll be there and shoot some photos.
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