Haven gets picked up for Season 2
great! I am into it now and we need to try and support ANY scifi/fantasy that makes it onto cable!
LiveFeed has it short and sweet:
Syfy’s “Haven” has been renewed for season two, with 13 episodes planned for a summer, 2011 premiere…
More about the show from TVSeriesFinale-
This supernatural drama is loosely based on Stephen King’s novel, The Colorado Kid. The series revolves around an FBI agent who arrives in town to work on a routine case and finds the community is a refuge for people with supernatural abilities.FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) is shrewd and confident and has a lost past. To solve the murder of a local ex-con, she heads to Haven, Maine. Thanks to her natural curiosity, she gets pulled into the middle of the activity of this curious town. Haven ends up being just that, a haven for a society of people with strange abilities.
Dry-humored Nathan Wuornos (Lucas Bryant) is a local cop who partners with Audrey after her arrival. His father is the Chief of Police (Nicholas Campbell), meaning Nathan isn’t always in a comfortable place in his job. He’s the yin to Audrey’s yang, as they complement each other well. His calm demeanor is put to the test as events in Haven begin to unfold at a rapid pace.
Mysterious jack-of-all-trades Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour) is a charming free spirit. He lives on a boat and doesn’t intrude on anyone but his calm demeanor could be hiding something much darker.
Before long, Audrey is pulled deeper into discovering the secrets of Haven and its residents. As the townspeople’s dormant abilities begin to express themselves, Audrey works to keep these forces at bay and discovers that she has her own surprising connection to this extraordinary place.
High Season for Horror Flicks kicks off…
Here's Johnny!' Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining' Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
The NYDaily News has a great wrap up of its top 10 horror flicks of all time to kick-off this weekend’s Halloween scream season launch.
I have to go with their pick for number 4 as the one that scared me the most, even the trailer which just shows the elevators is scary IMO:
No. 4: “THE SHINING” (1980)
All work and no play made Jack anything but a dull boy.Director Stanley Kubrick’s masterful adaptation of another Steven King classic (though not very loyal to the source material) divided critic, but left plenty of spilled popcorn on the floors of movie theaters across the country. The story of a writer who is possessed by demons and driven to murder as he and his family are trapped by a snowstorm in a haunted Overlook Hotel, was impossible to overlook due to the meticulousness of the film’s director. One scene was reportedly shot with 148 retakes, easily a world record.
But the final print is worth it: a ghoulish, visually stunning masterpiece that, when paired with Bela Bartok’s creepy score, evokes a terrifying mood.
Two YARM flicks open tonight: Halloween 2 and Final Destination 3D open today marking busy season for we horror fans…
As “Halloween 2” and “Final Destination” are on the verge of slashing their way through theaters this Friday, fans are split on just where today’s horror movies rank against the all-time greats. Is Rob Zombie’s Mike Myers a new, improved model over John Carpenter’s iconic slasher? Did meek (sp) Norman Bates overpower “Friday the 13th’s” Jason Voorhees? Does “Rosemary’s Baby” or “The Exorcist” possess a spot in our rankings? Do zombies or vampires scare us more?
In honor of the recent surge in movie body counts, the Daily News takes a stab at our list of the top 10 horror movies of all time.
Click on … if you dare!
Shining (1980) official trailer courtesy of cofthegs
Update: 2009 government deficit $1.086 Trillion this year SO FAR…..Make A STAND…
Scroll down for update from WSJ…
Breaking CNBC Chyron
2009 Government Budget Deficit at $1.086 Trillion SO FAR this fiscal year
CALL YOUR CRITTERS, STOP THE SPENDING!!!
The Stand with Crowded House courtesy of nefertitisheir
Stephen Kings miniseries about a plague (sp), its survivors and the battle between good and evil. I just love it! Song by Crowded House called “Don’t Dream It’s Over”.
Update: WSJ:
The U.S. budget deficit broke past $1 trillion in June, a grim testament to the recession and financial crisis. The federal government spent $94.32 billion more than it made in the ninth month of fiscal 2009, the Treasury Department said Monday in its monthly budget statement.
With that latest spill of red ink, the budget gap, for the first nine months of fiscal 2009, widened to $1.086 trillion. A year earlier, the deficit was $285.85 billion for the same nine months.
In June 2008, the government ran a surplus of $33.55 billion.
Fiscal years start Oct. 1. The White House has predicted the deficit will climb to $1.841 trillion this fiscal year. The biggest deficit for any fiscal year on record is $454.8 billion, which was rung up in fiscal 2008.
A survey of economists by Dow Jones Newswires forecast a June deficit of $97.0 billion. June federal government spending totaled $309.68 billion, compared to $226.37 billion in June 2008….
Moderate in the Middle 