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with all of the pending good news on the horizon (completed audit, Dish, possible expansion through TW/RCN/Cox, new fall lineup starting monday) its only a matter of time before the pps starts to reflect the progress the company is making. Next couple of weeks should be exciting.
thanks. hey, if the pps starts to improve you might be able to afford both!
I request the Q through dish network every month. this is the first reply where they mention "in negotiations"!!! this is great news!!!!
q_me_up
Finally got Dish Network reply!!!
Dear Mr. XXXX,
Thank you for your interest in Q. We are currently in negotiations to provide these channels. We are hopeful of reaching an agreement in the near future.
Please understand we are not at liberty to discuss negotiation details. We continually strive to provide all our customers with a large variety of diverse programming choices.
We appreciate your continued support and patience during our negotiations to secure Q.
Your business is greatly appreciated and we thank you for allowing us to be of assistance.
Your business is greatly appreciated and we thank you for allowing us to be of assistance to you. If you have any further questions or concerns, please refer to www.dishnetwork.com or reply to this e-mail.
Sincerely,
Donna B.
DISH Network eCare
this is just speculation on my part, but i request QTN through email for Dish Network every month. they are quick to respond, usually 3-5 days with a generic "thank you for your interest, your request has been noted". the last email i sent was at least 2 weeks ago and no response yet. i'm wondering if they haven't responded because they don't want to give me a "no" answer because an agreement has already been struck but they can't tell me until the news is official. either that, or my email was trashed. wow, this stock and wishful thinking can really warp ones ability to think rationally.
wow, i think these premarket buys might be a signal for a really big day today... seems like somebody knows something and wants in!
if you're throwing out just your opinions, then maybe you should take your own advice and respond with "INTELLIGENCE", maybe after you post something, anything, you should preface it with "for entertainment purposes only" because that's all you are is a vegas performer... oh, btw, iggied.
you know VD, if i keep telling everybody that today is Thursday, today is Thursday, well guess what, at some point during the week i am going to be right. you continue to throw around you're "pie in the sky" bs with no basis whatsoever... and maybe at some point in time it will happen but you won't get any credit for it because all you do is squawk like a damn parrot.
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
Hedwig director tests boundaries with sophomore film about sex
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NEW YORK (AP) - The scene inside the cavernous warehouse on the banks of the East River looks something like a bohemian circus.
Perched in front of makeup mirrors are lesbians with dreadlocks, ripped jeans and knee-high boots, drag queens wearing violently coloured wigs and a man in a fleshy fat suit covered with plastic doughnuts. A buxom blonde in a floor-length evening gown adjusts the pink flower pasties under her top, while members of a marching band mill about warming up their trumpets and trombones.
It's just another day on the set for director John Cameron Mitchell, who glides through the crowd in a spray-painted leather jacket, kissing hellos and making final preparations for a party scene in his sophomore film, Shortbus.
Regardless of what the actors are wearing on this day, it's what they're not wearing in much of the film that has generated all the early buzz. Four years after Mitchell put on a blond wig and punk rock T-shirt as an East German transvestite singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the director is pushing new boundaries with an unfiltered look at sexual relationships that promises to make The Brown Bunny and Mysterious Skin look tame by comparison.
Despite initial problems getting money for the project and the prospect of being slapped with an NC-17 rating, the 42-year-old filmmaker says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision - to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible.
"I wanted to make a film about sex that had humour, emotional weight and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."
"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. . . . Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it."
To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors - "stars don't have sex" - and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.
The film revolves around a Gertrude Stein-style salon from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities - or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "short bus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.
Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist, has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.
"It travels the fence between tragic and comic, and that's where my life teeters," Mitchell says.
To make everyone comfortable from the start, Mitchell says he kept the improv sessions light, playing "spin the bottle" to help the cast open up. He formed the movie's couples by having the actors watch each other's audition tapes and vote on who they were most attracted to.
Although the cast knew what they were getting into when they signed up, some still had trepidation about having sex in front of a movie crew, let alone a camera.
One actress, who goes by the name Capital B and plays opposite her real-life girlfriend in the movie, says before shooting began earlier this year that Mitchell allowed them to state their own boundaries.
"It was an interesting quandary of mine," she says, adding that initially she didn't see a problem but then didn't want anyone to see her naked.
Adds PJ DeBoy, who plays part of the gay couple exploring an open relationship: "We're lucky because it is a small crew, and we've known each other for over two years, so there's a real great comfortability between all of us."
"Most people get self-conscious being naked in front of other people, but we're really concerned with the story, what's going on within these characters," DeBoy says. "The fact that we're naked having sex in front of each other, it's just a variable that's very easy to deal with."
It wasn't so easy for potential financial backers to deal with, though. Mitchell says he initially approached about 50 to 60 investors, with little luck. Even envelope-pushing HBO, which filmed parts of the audition process, eventually backed away from the project.
"Regular financing companies were scared because they have parent companies," he says. "A lot of investors said they were interested, but they didn't trust their guts."
In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at up to $2 million US, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television, which will retain the film's cable rights.
The next hurdle will be finding a distributor, which Mitchell hopes won't be difficult after Shortbus premieres in 2006 at a film festival, such as Sundance or Berlin. He's going to allow the film to be unrated, rather than take a chance on receiving a potentially stigmatizing NC-17 rating.
But Mitchell believes there's an audience for his film. He says many people around the country are concerned about the recent influence of conservative mores on arts and entertainment and would welcome a movie to challenge that.
"There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country," he says. "The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it."
ok, my bad, '82.
wow, you were in pretty good shape back in 1972. lol
whoever they are, they sound like they receive and enjoy the programming, however, and i wouldn't be surprised if you posted the negative ones and you've probably never even see the programming! loser.
you are just a constant rehash of trash talk, Spud... here's another review from the same site regarding On Q Live:
I have to say I completely disagree with the previous review. I watch On Q Live most nights, and although the production quality was a little iffy early on, its now seamless, and very professional. Doing 2.5 hours of live programming every night is no easy feat. Believe me, I have worked in the entertainment industry and i know how much work and prep has to be done for something like this, and to pull it off in the professional manner that these people continue to do on a daily basis is nothing short of incredible. The hosts, Chrisanne, jack, Cassian etc really keep the pace moving along with sometimes hilarious views and opinions on whatever is happening right now in gaydom! This truly deserves to be the flagship show on Q Television, and sits amongst many other great shows. I cant think of any other place where anyone from the GLBT community is as well served. It is about time our voice was heard, and listened to and WATCHED, and that time is now.
From the CTAM newsletter.
Cable, satellite providers increase multicultural offerings
As the nation grows ever more diverse, providers are offering an increasingly wide variety of multicultural programming. Comcast recently added eight Spanish-language channels along with VOD content for Hispanics, while EchoStar Communications' Dish Network added 50 international channels in the past year.
how about adding one little gay network?
hey, KillBid, sorry for calling you KillBill. my bad.
nice, KillBill, you rock. great reporting!
great report KillBill. all-in-all, which of the networks do you think shined the brightest. Did the Q receive the most attention? Did the other networks offer/present themselves in a way that overshadowed the Q? Are they priming up for some big things in the future too? just curious. thanks.
ahhhh, .0018 much better. nearly passed out in my chair.
for the same reason why i wouldn't put a bid on a house if i didn't want to buy it!
q_me_up
i think skunks answered that one for me... thanks skunks.
well that's not to say that i frolic in the streets hand in hand with gay sweaty men but i'd sure like for my investment to pay off.
i don't think that Cox would have signed an agreement with Q for potential coverage if their wasn't some interest in the near future. it just doesn't make sense otherwise. Cox is interested, and we will be covered by them in areas of the nation that desire our network. end of story. its only a matter of time now.
exactly, i think that somebody will pick up atlanta sooner or later. hopefully sooner. its the gay mecca of the south!
while i wish Cox would broadcast the Q in atlanta it looks like they are only available in middle Georgia. This area is far south of atlanta... mainly the Macon-Warner Robins region. This location is less than accepting of the gay community. Atlanta really needs Dish or Comcast coverage.
Lets not forget about the MAIN EVENT!
Stuart Elliott of the New York Times
on Television's New Gay Networks
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
6:30 - 9:00pm
That's tonight... now we'll really have something to tout. This should get the word out there!!!!
q_me_up
lol, lets hope its a good omen.
Parade Award Reception and Volunteer Appreciation Event
The Parade Award Reception and Volunteer Appreciation Event will be held on Thursday, August 25th, at Club Cafe (209 Columbus Avenue, Boston), 6-8 p.m. Invitations Only.
2005 Pride Parade Nominees
All votes have been counted, and here are the Nominees for the 2005 Boston Pride Parade Awards!
Nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners will be announced at a Reception in August (details coming soon). Congratulations to all Nominees!
Category: Most Spirited Marching Group
Chicago ROTC
GOAL New England
Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley
Unitarian Universalist group
Category: Best Float
Avalon/Axis/Embassy
Boston Prime Timers
In Newsweekly
Q Television Network
Category: Best Adaptation of Theme
Fenway Community Health
GLSEN Boston
Multicultural AIDS Coalition
The TJX Companies
http://www.bostonpride.org/
of course we also display our logo (as sponsor), nice and prominently, on the right side of this page.
nicely said, niiiiiicely said!
looks like XCESS/ACCESS starts airing tonight on QTN at 10:30 PM... actually at 7:00PM and then again at 10:30PM
We Have Our Own Networks. Get Used to It
By Elizabeth Birch -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/15/2005
As the world of Washington continues its march into the modern dark ages, there are refreshing pinholes of light on the media horizon. Even as we are seeming more like a nation fashioned in the image of [Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia, three gay networks were born recently. That fact alone creates some basis for the hope that our nation eventually returns to a more balanced and honest vision of our own diversity.
It is well-settled that we are in the middle of a “gaybee boom.” The 2000 Census tells us that gay and lesbian couples are living in 99.7% of the counties in the United States. One of five gay men is a dad, and three out of five lesbians are moms. The right of gay men and lesbians to marry is clearly the social issue of our times. All of this is anathema to official Washington.
But media conglomerates and entrepreneurial upstarts are going boldly where no one has gone before.
Here TV, where I have a new show, is a gay channel put together by a group of entertainment executives who concluded that the relative lack of enthusiasm by local cable providers to provide a gay network had more to do with bandwidth than with bias. Here TV opted to fly over the system as a hybrid premium/video-on-demand service and now has a deal with every major cable provider. It’s available in 42 million homes. Q Television launched more conventionally, as a premium channel.
Meanwhile, backed by the formidable muscle of Viacom, Logo TV has taken a more traditional route, steadily gaining access as a linear channel. Logo launched with 17 million homes. With Viacom and MTV Networks behind it, that number will likely grow rapidly.
There’s an old joke about the Chicago doyenne who tells the manager of Marshall Field’s, “I love your store, and I adore shopping here, but must you employ so many homosexuals?” He answers, “Ma’am, without homosexuals, there wouldn’t be a Marshall Field’s!”
The same can be said for television. In the past decade, television has been changed dramatically and comedically by mainstream shows with both an implicit and explicit gay sensibility. But that’s not enough for a generation that grew up on Will & Grace and The L Word.
Having our own networks requires a different set of responsibilities. It’s not enough to sneak a joke past the network watchdogs anymore.
On Birch & Co., I hope public figures such as Pat Buchanan, Rosie O’Donnell, Al Gore and the great civil-rights leader John Lewis will address issues that have so profoundly affected gay life in America. It’s great to hear from our friends like Rosie and Al, but it’s equally important to hear how people not aligned with our struggle, like Buchanan, view these issues.
While we continue to get beaten up politically, we must take heart from our significant cultural achievements. Those of us who have been in this battle many years know that the pendulum will swing back our way and we will begin to replace vitriol and intolerance with real wisdom and lasting change.
Birch is the former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA634727.html?verticalid=311&industry=Editorials&in...
nice find KillBill, that's definately Nick... be interested to read what the article is all about. the Q is definately getting the word out there! only a matter of time now.
wow, someones buying the shit out of this stock. volume just keeps going up!
someone needs to email the webmaster and let him know so that he can fix this problem.
i can't remember the last time we closed two whole ticks up... would love to see that too.
just go in... i'm guessing that everybody has seen the "QTN at CTAM Summit Philadelphia!" on the Q website... including the photo gallery?
hey, its good to speak your mind. frank needs to react to this situation and i hope that he does so soon. as for the bashers, don't waste your time with them. they are just full of hot air. best to put them on ignore.
orafuk, their is a huge difference between you, a common lowlife basher, and daddydog, along with the rest of us. we share a common belief in this company and its true potential... at the moment that potential hasn't been realized but it will be soon! yes, some of us might be frustrated because we expect a little more. we know what this company has to offer and currently its being abused badly by the MMs. Frank needs to fight back and bring this stock to its true worth. when this stock does take off, i'll be happy to leave you behind.
q_me_up
can you still trade/sell your shares readily when your shares are locked up?
lets hope that something is on.
irregardless of whether you think the PR was fluff or not, over 500 million shares were sold. obviously a lot of people were interested in the news... so why are we still stagnate.