Editor Lisa Bromwell on Cutting The Surrogate

Posted on January 28, 2012 by admin

If any single movie can be identified as the toast of Sundance 2012, it might be The Surrogate, which arrived with little fanfare to tell the bleak-sounding story of the late journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, a quadriplegic polio survivor spending much of his time in an iron lung. But O’Brien had, against the odds, a successful writing career that makes his story inspirational. One of the pieces he left behind dealt with his experience seeking a sexual surrogate. Writer-director Ben Lewin, himself a polio survivor, drew heavily on that piece for a film that made a big Sundance splash, selling to Fox Searchlight for $6 million days after its first screening. Oscar nominee John Hawkes plays O’Brien, Helen Hunt his surrogate, and William H. Macy his priest.

The Surrogate was shot on the Red One MX and edited on a software-only Avid Media Composer system by Lisa Bromwell, A.C.E., an Avid veteran who took on the film as a rare unpaid gig because she believed in the material. When we spoke to her this week, she had just returned from the film’s world premiere in the cavernous Eccles Theater in Park City and was already back at work cutting two episodes of Criminal Minds, but she said The Surrogate represented a satisfying departure from her normal mix of editorial jobs. “I wanted to work with a filmmaker that had a story they cared about,” she told StudioDaily. “That’s what this film is, and I’m really proud of it.” We asked her about working with Lewin, Hawkes’ performance in the film, and how she really feels about Final Cut Pro.

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IPad down to 58% of tablet sales as Android catches up

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When asked if the emergence of new, lower-cost tablets was affecting the success of the iPad this week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook said he wasn’t seeing it.

“I looked at the data, particularly in the U.S., on a weekly basis after Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, and I wouldn’t — in my view there wasn’t an obvious effect on the numbers plus or minus,” Cook said.

But one clear minus was Apple’s declining share of the growing tablet market. Despite gang-buster sales last quarter, the iPad has lost more than 10 percentage points of market share to rival Android tablets since the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics.

The iPad dropped to 57.6% of the tablets sold during the most recent fourth quarter, from 68.2% a year earlier, while Android rose to 39.1% from 29.0% a year ago, the report said. While Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads during the quarter, Android makers shipped 10.5 million tablets, more than tripling the 3.1 million they shipped a year earlier.

The Android surge was led primarily by tablets from Amazon and Samsung, according to Strategy Analytics’ Neil Mawston.

“Android is so far proving relatively popular with tablet manufacturers despite nagging concerns about fragmentation of Android’s operating system, user-interface and app store ecosystem,” Mawston wrote in a release attached to the report.

The report also noted that global tablet shipments rose to 66.9 million units in 2011, nearly quadrupling the 18.6 million shipped in 2010. Devices “shipped” are those that manufacturers sell to retailers, and do not always represent final consumer sales numbers, especially when tablet makers overestimate the

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Ex-Palm Chief Says Goodbye to HP, WebOS

Posted on January 28, 2012 by admin

When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald’s, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

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AT&T Posts Q4 Loss, But iPhone Sales A Bright Spot

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A record number of iPhone sales — 7.6 million — helped ATT’s fourth-quarter revenue rise nearly 4 percent to $32.5 billion from the year-earlier quarter. That number, however could not offset the impact of ATT’s failed T-Mobile merger plan: ATT reported a net income loss of $6.7 billion, of which $4 billion was attributed to that deal’s failure.

The iPhone sales figures were impressive in light of increased competition from other carriers, most notably industry behemoth Verizon.

“We came out of 2011 with each of our key growth platforms, mobile broadband, strategic business services and U-verse, all growing at strong double digits. That means better than three-quarters of our total revenues now come from wireless data and managed services and those have a combined growth rate above 7 percent. We had really strong mobile sales throughout the year. In fact, we had a blowout holiday season. And in the fourth quarter, we sold 9.4 million smartphones; that’s 50 percent above our previous record,” said Randall Stephenson, ATT chairman CEO, during a conference call. “In the year when our competitors began selling the iPhone, we outsold them in every single quarter.”

IPhones have given the mobile cell sector a boost in general: Verizon on Wednesday reported record revenue and said that it had sold 4.2 million iPhones and 7.7 million smartphones during the same period. However, Verizon added more contract subscribers in that time frame, and its total subscriber base of 108.5 million is still 5.5 million greater than ATT’s. And the iPhone maker itself annihilated Wall Street’s estimates and is reaping the benefits of its enormously popular product; earlier in the week, Apple reported first-quarter revenue of $46.33 billion, a 73 percent increase from last year’s first quarter.

ATT’s iPhone sales were a large part of its record 9 million smartphones sold; fourth-quarter smartphone sales were 50 percent greater than the company’s previous quarterly record. Further, sales of branded computing devices rose nearly 70 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, totaling 571,000 and reaching 5.1 million total subscribers. Tablets accounted for 311,000 of that figure. While strong, analysts said those

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Guitarist Ramiro Cavazos reflects on long career in tejano music

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On South 23rd Street in McAllen, you will find a small charming music shop named RyN Music Store. Upon entering the music shop, you’ll see it packed with a varied selection of regional Spanish music. You’ll see the walls covered with photographs, posters and even some musical instruments. The first person who will probably greet you is the legendary Ramiro Cavazos.

Born Feb. 16, 1927, in Garza Ayala in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, Cavazos would eventually become a historical figure in regional Spanish music thanks to his success in South Texas. Before Tomas Ortiz and Eugenio Abrego were even named Los Alegres de Terán, he collaborated with them on various platforms in the 1940s and early 1950s in Mexico.

Cavazos eventually found his way to the United States, where he met accordionist Mario Montes in Donna. He still fondly recalls the first time he met Montes. Cavazos had moved from Raymondville to Donna in the late 1940′s and was riding his bicycle one day when he saw two men playing music. He went up to them and one of the men asked him if he was a musician. Cavazos told them he could play the guitar and sing. That man turned out to be Mario Montes thus forming a lifelong friendship and musical partnership.

Cavazos and Montes went on to do their first recordings for the McAllen based Discos Falcon in 1947. These early recordings featured Cavazos on the guitar as opposed to him using the bajo sexto, which he would be more famous for doing in later years. The two men will forever be associated with the name Los Donneños and Cavazos credits the name to one person. After completing their initial recordings, Discos Falcon owner Arnaldo Ramirez decided to give Cavazos and Montes the name Los Donneños based on the fact that they were now residing in Donna.

Both Cavazos and Montes were perplexed, they thought to themselves, “why would we be called this considering we’re from Mexico and had just recently moved to Donna?”

But the name stuck and he’s now proud of the legacy that he has

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