is the Senior Writer for CNNMoney.com and I was so happy to see him on Headline News Friday afternoon. He was offering his insight on the financial crisis.
Paul R. LaMonica and myself, Joyce E. Brewer, were on the short list of people in the class of 1991 who were adamant about the use of our middle initials. We went to junior high and high school together, played in the band together, and had several classes together. Most importantly, Paul graduated at the top of our class and earned lots of respect from his classmates.
I last emailed him a few years when I found one of his articles online. Here's another clip CNN I found of Paul doing his "thang":
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Mississippi's "Debatal Debate"
Mississippi was primed and ready to make history Friday with it's first presidential debate at Ole Miss. Then Senator John McCain announced he wanted to delay the debate so we and Senator Obama could return to Washington to work on the $700 billion bailout plan.
Watch our breaking news coverage from Wednesday:
I can't get into the political debate on whether the debate should be rescheduled or not. But every media outlet in the state and thousands of journalists from across the world are either here or on their way to cover the event. Ole Miss also raised more than five million dollars from private donations to accomodate the debate. The logistics of cancelling this will be immense. Something tells me it will go down to the wire on whether we'll really know what's happening Friday.
Monday, September 22, 2008
I didn't watch the Emmy's...and others didn't either
I spent Sunday night enjoying turkey meatballs and spaghetti, while watching re-runs of Lost.
I'd rather see the fashions online instead of spending three hours watching the whole show.
That's where I saw Heidi Klum's fab silver dress!
I flipped to the Emmy's for a second but that's all.
Guess I wasn't alone according to http://www.eonline.com/ :
Reality bit for the Emmys.
If ratings estimates hold, last night's show could go down as the least-watched Emmy telecast on record.
From 8-11 p.m., the ABC telecast averaged 12.2 million, down 6 percent from last year's Nielsen-challenged affair, and on par with the record-low 12.3 million who caught the show in 1990.
This year was the fourth straight year of ratings decline for the Emmys, which last topped 20 million viewers in 2000.
Judging by the numbers, slightly more people were interested in this year's Emmy telecast than last, at least until the show started.
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel-hosted red-carpet preshow, which aired from 7-8 p.m., averaged 4.6 million viewers, up a tick from the 4.4 million Fox scored for its preshow in 2007.
Last night's show took hits from critics, and even Emmy winners, for its emphasis on reality TV as embodied by its squadron of reality TV hosts: Survivor's Jeff Probst; Project Runway's Heidi Klum; American Idol's Ryan Seacrest; Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron; and Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel.
If ratings estimates hold, last night's show could go down as the least-watched Emmy telecast on record.
From 8-11 p.m., the ABC telecast averaged 12.2 million, down 6 percent from last year's Nielsen-challenged affair, and on par with the record-low 12.3 million who caught the show in 1990.
This year was the fourth straight year of ratings decline for the Emmys, which last topped 20 million viewers in 2000.
Judging by the numbers, slightly more people were interested in this year's Emmy telecast than last, at least until the show started.
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel-hosted red-carpet preshow, which aired from 7-8 p.m., averaged 4.6 million viewers, up a tick from the 4.4 million Fox scored for its preshow in 2007.
Last night's show took hits from critics, and even Emmy winners, for its emphasis on reality TV as embodied by its squadron of reality TV hosts: Survivor's Jeff Probst; Project Runway's Heidi Klum; American Idol's Ryan Seacrest; Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron; and Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
MOVIE REVIEW: The Women
I made a horrible mistake in choosing a weekend movie to see. My loving and energetic mother saw "Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys" and gave it rave reviews. She called when she left the theater and said “See it, see it, see it!” (You really should listen to your mother!) Earlier in the week, I talked to my co-worker, Faith, about going to see Meg Ryan’s “comeback” movie, “The Women”. So we kept our agreement also because Faith had gone to see The Family Saturday and loved it, but I didn’t want her to spend money seeing it again. Another coworker, Perna, joined us to see The Women.
The “dollar store version” of the Sex and the City movie had an array of problems and had pretty high expectations, from the public and me, since it had a great female cast: Annette Bening, Debra Messing (who I loved in Will & Grace), Jada Pinkett Smith, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler, and Candice Bergen. Oh and there were no men in the entire movie, which I think is pretty stupid.
Faith and Perna weren’t impressed either. We whispered the film’s problems to each other - like how unrealistic it is for THIS group of women to BE friends and have a BLACK friend like Jada’s character. May I add – a forgettable character – like Jada’s character whose name in the movie I don’t even remember. Wait - I don’t remember any of the character’s names really. Jada played a lesbian author. She was loud and outspoken, but that’s really all.
I was sickened when Meg’s character, Mary, took time to “find” herself. TOTALLY UNREALISTIC. Real, everyday people aren’t rich and don’t have months to dissect why their rich, businessman husbands cheated on them with “the spritzer girl at Saks.” Like seriously! I’m over the rich people in my movies. Can we see some real women with real problems and real ways to deal with that crap?!
One hour and 33 minutes into the film I leaned over and said to Faith and Perna, “I hope this movie is over soon.” I/We weren’t so lucky. It lasted another 40 minutes with the typical, victorious, “cheated on woman” ending. No need to dissect it.
The only people who could have enjoyed this were: Saks, Lexus, and Dove thanks to the “over the top” product placement.
This film lacked character development and laughter. Plus it ended with a wannabee funny labor scene when Debra Messing’s character gave birth. This was soooo not even close to the level of SATC (previous review: http://joycebrewer.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-saw-sex-and-city.html) because I didn’t give a who-ha about the broads in this movie and never will. What a waste of $6.50 and two hours of my life.
Meg Ryan – you should have picked a better movie to make your “comeback” movie. Better luck next time!
The “dollar store version” of the Sex and the City movie had an array of problems and had pretty high expectations, from the public and me, since it had a great female cast: Annette Bening, Debra Messing (who I loved in Will & Grace), Jada Pinkett Smith, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler, and Candice Bergen. Oh and there were no men in the entire movie, which I think is pretty stupid.
Faith and Perna weren’t impressed either. We whispered the film’s problems to each other - like how unrealistic it is for THIS group of women to BE friends and have a BLACK friend like Jada’s character. May I add – a forgettable character – like Jada’s character whose name in the movie I don’t even remember. Wait - I don’t remember any of the character’s names really. Jada played a lesbian author. She was loud and outspoken, but that’s really all.
I was sickened when Meg’s character, Mary, took time to “find” herself. TOTALLY UNREALISTIC. Real, everyday people aren’t rich and don’t have months to dissect why their rich, businessman husbands cheated on them with “the spritzer girl at Saks.” Like seriously! I’m over the rich people in my movies. Can we see some real women with real problems and real ways to deal with that crap?!
One hour and 33 minutes into the film I leaned over and said to Faith and Perna, “I hope this movie is over soon.” I/We weren’t so lucky. It lasted another 40 minutes with the typical, victorious, “cheated on woman” ending. No need to dissect it.
The only people who could have enjoyed this were: Saks, Lexus, and Dove thanks to the “over the top” product placement.
This film lacked character development and laughter. Plus it ended with a wannabee funny labor scene when Debra Messing’s character gave birth. This was soooo not even close to the level of SATC (previous review: http://joycebrewer.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-saw-sex-and-city.html) because I didn’t give a who-ha about the broads in this movie and never will. What a waste of $6.50 and two hours of my life.
Meg Ryan – you should have picked a better movie to make your “comeback” movie. Better luck next time!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
My Sister/Niece's Wedding
I'm just getting the hang of creating photo shows, so bear with me.
My sister/niece, Cherie got married August 29th and here's the photo show I created thanks to pics from my big brother, Vernon and my camera phone:
Congrats to Cherie and Mike!
My sister/niece, Cherie got married August 29th and here's the photo show I created thanks to pics from my big brother, Vernon and my camera phone:
Congrats to Cherie and Mike!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Funny phone call on my first day back on the job...
I answered the phone in the newsroom around 2 p.m. Tuesday and this is what happened:
CALLER: Can you tell me what happened to that black girl who anchored the news with Scott Simmons at 6 o'clock?
ME: You mean Joyce Brewer?
CALLER: Yeah
ME: This is Joyce!
CALLER: Oh I thought something happened to you!
ME: Today is my first day back. Be sure to watch tonight, OK?
CALLER: O.K. I will
I couldn't make this up if I tried!
Go Away Gustav!
I made it back to Mississippi safely and just in time to face the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav.
Tuesday was my first day back on the air. What made this so weird is that Gustav came so close to the Hurricane Katrina anniversary. So the comparisons of the storms were endless. But Gustav was not as powerful, THANK GOD, but seemed to linger in Mississippi and Louisiana for awhile and brings lots of rain.
Thousands of people will be returning home to the Gulf Coast today and later this week and who knows how much damage they'll find at home or whether they'll have power and water. Louisiana folks will have to wait a little while longer before they get the green light to return home: http://www.wapt.com/weather/17373086/detail.html.
So please keep those folks in your prayers! Most of them have already been through Katrina, now Gustav. Plus, Hannah is headed to the East Coast, followed by Ike and Josephine. So we're probably in for a very active season.
Tuesday was my first day back on the air. What made this so weird is that Gustav came so close to the Hurricane Katrina anniversary. So the comparisons of the storms were endless. But Gustav was not as powerful, THANK GOD, but seemed to linger in Mississippi and Louisiana for awhile and brings lots of rain.
Thousands of people will be returning home to the Gulf Coast today and later this week and who knows how much damage they'll find at home or whether they'll have power and water. Louisiana folks will have to wait a little while longer before they get the green light to return home: http://www.wapt.com/weather/17373086/detail.html.
So please keep those folks in your prayers! Most of them have already been through Katrina, now Gustav. Plus, Hannah is headed to the East Coast, followed by Ike and Josephine. So we're probably in for a very active season.
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