Une comédienne française imite Céline Dion à l’émission On n’est pas couché. Elle est hilarante mais elle doit cependant retravailler son faux accent québécois. On croirait entendre La Sagouine par moment!

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-Stephen Frears est un de mes r�alisateurs pr�f�r�s depuis Sammy and Rosie get laid. Il ne m’a pas d��ue avec The Queen, que j’ai beaucoup appr�ci� pour les performances et la retenue dans la direction d’acteurs. Mais comment arrive-t-on � faire un film sur la reine sans jamais la montrer en train de faire son discret bye-bye de la main? �a m’a manqu�.

-C’est pas pour vous d�primer mais les lumi�res de No�l sont d�j� install�es sur McGill College.

-Je r�ve de prendre des cours de surf depuis longtemps. Je devrais peut-�tre simplement me faire installer une piscine comme celle-ci dans ma cour.

-J’ai vu un Oralien, un vrai, avec la grosse t�te orange et tout, fumer une cigarette � l’ext�rieur d’un bar sur la rue Rachel samedi soir. Toute une apparition que je n’ai malheureusement pas bien r�ussi � capturer.

-Je pense qu’on devrait lancer une p�tition pour que Lightspeedchick publie une photo d’elle v�tue de son costume de Wonder Woman achet� � Edmonton.

-Christiane Charette a r�ussi � faire rougir Patrick Lagac� � la radio ce matin en lui disant qu’elle le trouvait cute. �a se sentait � travers les ondes (pas qu’il est cute mais qu’il rougissait).

-On dit que l’ONF veut cesser la diffusion de courts-m�trages sur Silence on court. Quelle tristesse, alors que la vid�o sur le Web n’a jamais �t� aussi populaire. On recueille commentaires et protestations sur un blogue du Voir.

-C’est Yulblog mercredi soir, le 1er novembre. Sortez de votre tani�re avant qu’il ne fasse trop froid et venez prendre une bi�re ou essayer le cocktail tartopom, tr�s de saison.

Dans La Presse d’aujourd’hui, la chroniqueuse télé Louise Cousineau offre une critique très positive du livre Lance et Compte, les dessous d’une grande réussite.

Elle dit même que “le livre pourrait inspirer un excellent téléfilm sur les hauts et les bas d’un producteur.” À quand un Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip à la sauce québécoise? J’offre mes services de scénariste, bien entendu. ;-)

J’ai un ami qui vient de s’acheter un nouveau PC et il a un probl�me tr�s bizarre d’affichage de site Web. Il a souvent besoin de se rendre sur le site de Revenu Qu�bec pour son travail mais une partie du site n’appara�t pas dans son fureteur (Internet Explorer, version la plus r�cente). J’ai v�rifi� sur tous les pc et Mac de la maison, sur Internet Explorer, Firefox (mac et pc) et Safari et je n’ai pas ce probl�me. Je lui ai fait t�l�charger la plus r�cente version de Firefox. M�me r�sultat. Les onglets dans le haut de cette page (avec les �tiquettes Accueil, Particulier, Travailleur autonome, etc) n’apparaissent pas du tout.

J’ai pens� que c’�tait un probl�me avec le code du site de Revenu Qu�bec mais ce probl�me ne semble �tre pr�sent que sur le nouvel ordinateur de mon ami. Est-ce que quelqu’un a une id�e g�n�rale de la source d’un tel probl�me d’affichage?

Apologies for the odd look of my blog right now - at least on some browsers. It’s been slow loading all week and now some graphics have been missing since Blogger came back on after its outage.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon. It’s just another kick in the butt to move the whole thing to Wordpress…

And to say that I bought my new computer with the hope of making short films again…

“One of Hollywood�s top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting out up-and-coming creators of Internet content � particularly video � and finding work for them in Web-based advertising and entertainment, as well as in the older media.

The move by the United Talent Agency amounts to a bet, albeit a modest one, that Web video is on a growth curve similar to that of cable television a generation ago. It is also a return by Hollywood�s core talent representatives to the sort of new-media business they tested, without great success, at the peak of the dot-com boom.

The goal this time around, executives say, is not only to recruit the next generation of television and film writers and directors from the relative obscurity of sites like YouTube and Revver. It is also to help the major Web portals that are hungry for original content to find the creative people they need � just as movie studios have long turned to talent agencies when looking for new directors, screenwriters and actors.”

From the New York Times, Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars.

And you can see them here.

Yes, Patrick, they are ugly and I promise not to get out of the house with them.

Allow me to quote myself:

“I thought I’d splurge for a Macbook Pro, even though I find them way too expensive, but like a lot of people, I’m waiting and waiting for Apple to upgrade them and it’s not happening. […] I also know that the week after I buy one of their laptops, Apple will come up with a much improved model for a lower price.”

I bought my new iMac about 10 days ago. (I know, it’s not a laptop, but still.) Look who just launched their updated MacBook Pro?

It’s hard being right all the time.

Le producteur Claude H�roux, mon co-auteur pour le livre Lance et Compte; les dessous d’une grande r�ussite, a �t� interview� dimanche dernier � LCN.

L’entrevue est disponible en vid�o sur le site de LCN. (Note: Il faut trouver son nom dans la liste des interview�s pour acc�der � l’entrevue.)

Week 2 of the move from the old Dell machine to the iMac. Things are getting better and while I’m not a power user yet, I’m quite comfortable already. My biggest disappointment was the awful look of the Palm Desktop on the Mac OS and I knew that I had to give it up. I installed Missing Sync and was able to synch my Zire 72s with Apple’s address book and iCal almost on the first try (had to cancel a couple of old conduits still trying to talk to the Palm Desktop). Turns out that now that my data is all gathered in iCal, I quite like the look and feel of it and that’s a big step towards feeling comfortable on the iMac.

Unfortunately, I’m still unable to sync via Bluetooth so I have to use the USB cable. Not a huge deal, but it’s annoying. I’m tempted to buy a Bluetooth mouse just to do something with Bluetooth! I bought a Mac because I had been convinced that networks and communication between devices were much easier to set up than on a PC and I have to say that it hasn’t been my experience yet.

The iPod/iTunes move went quite smoothly, thanks to my LaCie external drive where all my music was stored. The songs I had bought on iTunes all made their way back into the iMac without problems.

It’s still too early for me to be able to tell if the platform is such a huge advantage over Windows XP, which was quite stable on my old Dell. I guess it will be more apparent when I start playing with video editing and other more complex tasks which were so frustrating on the PC.

Overall, I’m happy about the move but a few things bug me:

-Firefox seems a lot more unstable on the Mac. It “hung” 4 or 5 times in the last 10 days when I visited sites with interactive applications (Flash or other). That had never happened on the PC. What’s up with that? Is Safari more stable?

-I can see why the hand-holding and the integration between the various applications can be convenient, but it can become quite frustrating. When I plug in my digital camera, iPhoto pops up and seems to be my only choice of accessing the content on the camera (unless I buy a card reader). It starts building up a bunch of folders for me and makes extra copies of photos in a different location. Isn’t that taking a bit too much space on the hard drive? What if I have my own filing system? To keep doing things my own way, I have to take the time to disable the automatic features of iPhoto.

Also, if you want to use the integrated e-mail function from iPhoto (which is cool because it makes reducing the size of the pictures quick and easy), your options are limited to using Mail, Eudora and AOL. I’m using Thunderbird… so that’s a lost feature for me. (If there’s a solution to that, let me know.)

-The design of the iMac is beautiful and sleek, but why on earth would you put the USB ports in the back? If you want to plug in something, you have to get up from your chair, walk around the desk, hold the screen to keep it from tilting while you push in the USB cable. It would have been much smarter to put those USB ports on the side of the unit. And why are the two USB ports on the keyboard only USB 1.1 and not USB 2.0 ?

-One of the weirdest things to get used to for an old-time PC user is the changing menus at the top of the screen. I have a 20″ screen. When I’m working on a window that’s located at the bottom right of the screen, I have to go all the way back up to the top left of the screen to access the menus (I don’t know all the keyboard shortcuts yet). You also have to remember to highlight the window whose menu you want to access. Small stuff, but it takes some getting used to.

Still to come:

-Setting up a wireless network for the printer.
-Installing my screenwriting software, which, I hear, has a few bugs on the Mac OS.
-Finding a good, free FTP application for the Mac and getting it to work.
-Move my blog to Wordpresss.