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'Anderson' Sweepstakes
Anderson Cooper Giving Facebook Fans Chance To Win Tickets To Live Talk Show
By Kris HoltAugust 25, 2011 -- 6:01 pm EST
Anderson Cooper is giving you the chance to attend a taping of his new daytime talk show “Anderson” through a sweepstakes on Facebook.
The talk show, which premieres on Sept. 12, will cover a wide range of topics from social issues and pop culture to human interest and events. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive round trip airfare for 2 to New York City, 2 nights in a hotel and tickets to attend the taping. The winner will also have the chance to meet Cooper and the team behind the new show.
To enter, you will have to Like the “Anderson” Facebook Page and then fill out your details in the form. You can check out the contest rules here.
Meanwhile, if you see Cooper being featured in a magazine article or ad, you might be able to have a photo of you added to the Spot Anderson photo album on Facebook. All you have to do is take a photo of yourself with the image of Cooper and tweet the photo using the #SpotAnderson hashtag
'Anderson' Ad Is Intense
Anderson Cooper's Intense New Times Square Ad (VIDEO)
First Posted: 8/25/11 -- 03:51 PM ET | Updated: 8/25/11 -- 04:11 PM ET
What's so intense? Well, the ad for Cooper's new talk show is a giant, moving LCD display that takes up a big chunk of turf, with lots of changing colors and multiple shots of a towering version of Cooper. Plus, there's a very tall, regular non-moving billboard perched on top of this behemoth.
Any bets on how much this whole thing cost? Of course, Cooper's other commercials feature him doing little things like, say, biking around the entire city, so there's a large-scale pattern here.
(The show, of course, starts Sep. 12.)
WATCH:
'Anderson' Ad In Times Square
(00:25 min.)
From: Anderson
Added: Aug 25, 2011
Description: Have you seen Anderson around town? If you spot Anderson in a magazine, snap a picture of yourself with the article or ad and tweet #SpotAnderson to @Anderson.
We'll add you to our "Spot Anderson" photo album on Facebook. http://andr.tv/nE80lm
"Anderson" premieres September 12. To find out when it's on in your town, go to AndersonCooper.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mARsWBU4KyM
Primetime and Daytime
Anderson Cooper: from prime time to daytime
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News | August 25, 2011 -- 3:05 PM
Anderson debuts on CTV and CTV 2 Sept. 12.
Photograph by: Aaron Lynett, Postmedia News
Anderson Cooper is not a beach kind of guy. He's restless by nature, frequently anxious and feels a constant need to know what's happening halfway around the world. Vacations grate on him. After two or three days of soaking up the rays and chilling out on a tropical beach somewhere, he finds himself scanning the local news headlines and wondering if he should be jumping onto a plane somewhere. He laughs easily -- it's a quiet, gentle laugh, more a silly giggle than a guffaw -- but he's serious by nature. He's quick to anger at perceived injustices. He was a witness to the Rwanda genocide when he was a young reporter embarking on a career in news, and he has seen the evil people can do. He's passionate about journalism and journalists, especially war correspondents. His weeknight CNN news program, Anderson Cooper 360, demands a lot of his time, but he'll tell you straight-up that he'd be lying if he said it is all-consuming.
On the face of it, hosting and producing a syndicated, hour-long daytime talk show might seem the least of his priorities, but Cooper -- or Anderson, as he insists he be called -- wants to reach as many people as possible. The audience that watches Anderson, his daytime talk show that bows Sept. 12 on CTV and the newly rebranded CTV Two, is unlikely to be the same audience that watches AC360 on CNN.
And forget any concerns about his workload -- even if, technically, he's doubling down on his daily routine.
"How does this cut into my news time?" Cooper asked, rhetorically. "I don't think it will. I have the nighttime show on CNN, and I think I'll still be able to do that -- in fact, I know I will."
He'll still find time to do the occasional news feature for CBS' 60 Minutes. "I only do about six a year," he told Postmedia News with a wry laugh.
"I've already shot two this summer for this next year."
He's energized by 60 Minutes' self-imposed discipline and rigorous demands, in which correspondents are allowed just 12 minutes to tell an important and meaningful story, and it's not hard to imagine that, as he nears retirement -- next century, perhaps -- he'll consider 60 Minutes as a full-time gig.
For now, though, he has Anderson on his mind. And while he would be the last person to be tempted to slow down or slack off, a new daytime talk show will afford him the opportunity to kick back and show a different side of himself than his CNN viewers are used to seeing.
"You will see a lot more of me than you do on the newscast," Cooper said. "I don't think you can plan these things. I think it's most compelling and most interesting when things happen organically and authentically. One of the interesting things in this program, I think, will be the surprise of seeing different sides of myself, me learning about the viewers and the viewers learning about me more. Where that goes, I don't really know, but we'll see.
"In everything I've done, I've always tried to just be authentic and real. If I know something, I'll say I know it. And if I don't know it, I'll say I don't know it and try to learn about it. I want to bring that to daytime. I want to grow with the viewers and just see where it goes from there."
Anderson will be taped daily in front of a live studio audience at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center Allen Room, with its views through a 15- by 27-metre (50- by 90-foot) floor-to-ceiling glass wall overlooking Columbus Circle in Central Park.
"We're shooting and taping in the same building where I work at CNN in New York, so I think it's all very doable," Cooper said. "I manage my time really well. It's going to be a lot of work, but I like working hard. I've been working hard for a long time now. And as long as I'm learning new things and trying new things and kind of using different parts of my brain, I find it energizing, as opposed to tiring.
"Besides, it's TV. It's not like it's real work, you know."
Topics will range from the provocative to the personal, his producers say, and will touch on societal trends, social issues, pop culture and human-interest stories. Like Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey before him, Cooper will encourage his studio audience to become involved in the discussion of the day. As with Donahue and Winfrey, Cooper will invite experts in various fields to provide information that will help daytime viewers through their own day-to-day lives, and help real people overcome actual life challenges.
Also like Donahue and The Oprah Winfrey Show before it, Anderson will be directed primarily toward a female audience -- Cooper says his aim is to provide a fresh, unique perspective on issues that affect women's lives -- but that doesn't mean men aren't welcome.
"There are plenty of (daytime hosts) I've watched over the years whom I have huge respect for, and there are things I love about what they did. I will say, though, that I'm not trying to emulate anybody. You don't really want to follow in somebody else's footsteps. You want to try to create your own path. And if this show works -- and I assume it will, and I will work very hard to make sure it will -- it will work because what we're doing is authentic to who I am and what I'm interested in. I have a wide variety of interests, you know, from serious social issues to ridiculous pop culture, which I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of, for some reason. We want to cover the full spectrum, from the serious and important to the silly and fun. We want it to be entertaining, but also informative and compelling."
Anderson premieres Sept. 12 on CTV Two at 3 p.m. ET/PT and CTV at 5 p.m. ET/PT.
C 337 Skymaster : VC night lighting
Anderson, Piers & Mariah Carey
Anderson Cooper comes clean about the Mariah Carey affair
The trouble with Twitter
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News | August 25, 2011 -- 12:05 PM
Anderson Cooper.
Photograph by: Handout, Warner Bros. Television
VANCOUVER — Take Anderson Cooper, add Piers Morgan, Twitter, and a rumour about Mariah Carey, and what you end up with is a moment of delirious pop-cultural lunacy.
"OK, OK," Cooper said, when reminded of a recent on-air faux pas that was both playful and provocative.
"This is what happened," he said sheepishly. "I was doing a little thing on Mariah Carey being on the Home Shopping Network, and if you haven't seen it, you should. She was on for two hours, and it's worth the entire two hours. I was condemning HSN for not offering her her own full-time show, because she is genius television, she really is, and she deserves a nightly program to express that genius.
"So, in the course of that, I jokingly said I haven't really been following her lately, but that I knew she got married to somebody on America's Got Talent. I assumed it was Piers Morgan, and that if I was wrong, he'd correct me on Twitter, because he tweets every five minutes and it's been five minutes since his last tweet.
"Sure enough, there was a tweet five minutes later from Piers Morgan saying, 'I am not married to Mariah Carey, and I resent the implication.'
"And then he was like, 'I have a million Twitter followers, and I will soon surpass you.' And I was like, 'Ooo-kay.' So I repeated it. Once I got that tweet, I was like, 'I'm going to repeat this.' Piers Morgan is married to Mariah Carey, in case you haven't heard."
For the record, Carey is married to America's Got Talent host Nick Cannon.
Tweet that, kids.
Anderson on Pix 11
Anderson Cooper On New PIX11 Show 'Anderson'
Posted by SHELLEY NG
PIX11.com
August 24, 2011
His new show kicks off on September 12th right here on PIX11 and we got the inside scoop from Anderson Cooper himself. We also found out some of his fave things in new York City.
Anderson Talks To The PIX11 Newsroom
Summary
Anderson Cooper always wanted to be on PIX11.
Storch Fieseler : Hot test
FSX. After the british short take-off Lysander, Simon Smeiman has designed its german opponent [sort of], the Storch Fieseler. This aircraft can take off on 50 meters length and land in less than twenty. Born in WWII, this "STOL" started a second life in France, in Morane-Saulnier factory. Today, dozens of passionates still take care of this vintage aircraft.
FSADDON+ THE STORCH FIESELER
Version tested : FSX V.1
Compressed file : 197,6 MB.
Manual : Yes. 38 pages.
Installation : very easy.
Framerate : negligible.
Where to find it : FSADDON+ official sim-shop : Silvercloud-store.com
Back in Europe darkest times. The Fieseler is used on every front ; liaison, directing artillery fire, spy and recon missions and even ambulance. The aircraft developed here has many options to simulate these operations ; a monted machine gun, a co-pilot reading his map, stacked beds for wounded soldiers etc. All in all, ten models and variations, most of them under german Luftwaffe liveries or ambulances. (maybe next time for the Morane-Saulnier livery).
Easy to fly, this aircraft will give you formidable restful times between two long flights on liners.
On my first test, i was immediately amazed by the number of animated parts. How many ? A hundred, possibly, if you count all the external moving parts, the virtual cockpit levers, pilots and special effects etc. There are also some rare animations like the famous wing folding (see the video below) or the flare box. I was also impressed by the windshield glass reflexion effects.
To my knowledge, FSADDON+ doesn't plan a FS9 version, considering the time needed to develop this one. The FSX version might be completed (it still not decided but possible) by some new DDS format textures and some custom missions.
The Bad :
* Lack of civilian liveries. Among the dozen of collectors in the world, maybe some of them have repainted their Storch. I would have liked some original liveries.
* The machine gun don't work (for those who want things realistic).
The Good :
* Impressive number of animated/moving parts.
* The combination : restful aircraft + STOL capability. This aircraft can take off from almost everywhere and will land every where.
* A 38 pages manual with all the details ; history, variants, functions, how to activate animated parts etc.
A dozen of models, with wheels or skis.
A monted machine gun at rear seat.
Virtual cockpit at night.
Co-pilot reading a map.
Wings folding animation
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