Fri 2 Sep 2016
A TV Series Review by Michael Shonk: PUSH, NEVADA (2002).
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by Michael Shonk
PUSH, NEVADA. ABC / Touchstone Television / LivePlanet Productions, 2002. Cast: Derek Cecil as James Prufrock, Scarlett Chorvat as Mary, Liz Vassey as Dawn, Melora Walters as Grace, Larry Poindexter as Well Dressed Man #1, Steven Culp as Well Dressed Man #2, James Patrick Stuart as Well Dressed Man #3, Raymond J. Barry as Sloman, and Conchata Ferrell as Martha. Created by Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey. Executive Producers: Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Co-Executive Producer: James Parriott.
***SPOILER WARNING*** All seven episodes are available on YouTube and linked below. You may want to watch the episodes before reading my spoiler filled review. The YouTube copies are not perfect but they are watchable.
PUSH, NEVADA was an interactive mystery contest meets TWIN PEAKS. Dramatically the series was a conspiracy thriller set in the small town Push, Nevada. As an added gimmick each week the audience could collect clues (one each episode) that would help viewers win over a million dollars.
In the 5/20/02 issue of “Broadcasting,” their look at the upcoming new fall 2002 season tried to describe the PUSH, NEVADA interactive game, finally writing, “Frankly, ABC couldn’t seem to explain exactly how it works.â€
In the first episode of PUSH, NEVADA co-creator and movie star Ben Affleck spent more time trying to explain the interactive game than the plot of the series. According to Realityworld.com, over 200,000 game players interacted with the series two websites. No links here as the PUSH, NEVADA information is gone from ABC’s website and the pushtimes address is no longer associated with the series.
If the game didn’t interest the viewer there was the conspiracy thriller, a genre popular at the time with the networks (ALIAS, VERITAS: THE QUEST, and JOHN DOE) but not as much with the mass audience.
“The Amount.†(9/17/02; rerun 9/19/02.) Written by Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey. Directed by John McNaughton. Guest Cast: Jon Polito and Armand Assante. *** IRS agent Jim Prufrock receives a fax from an unknown source revealing there is money missing at a Casino in desert town Push, Nevada. It leads Jim to a shadowy conspiracy and murder.
Episide Clue: 1,045,000. The meaning of the clue was to reveal the amount of the now missing money stolen from the Casino and the amount of the grand prize for the contest.
Ratings: The September 17th showing finished 16th place in the ratings and rerun on September 19th finished 66th.
It didn’t take long for the series to inspire memories of TWIN PEAKS as we watch the casino vault be robbed by a naked man with a body temperature too low for the thermal camera to see him. But the show lacks the charm and David Lynch to pull such scenes off. Instead PUSH, NEVADA settles for a mix of bizarre characters and a plot that settles into a mystery procedural. While the series mystery is who is behind the corruption in Push, it is the odd characters and their secrets that receive most of the attention.
There are an endless number of eccentric characters with a secret, but let’s start with the hero, small time IRS agent Jim Prufrock. Obsessive over finding answers, Prufrock succeeds because he won’t stop even when others pay the price. It is hard to care about our hero when he is a self-involved, insensitive, morally righteous, naive, clueless idiot.
The major characters included Mary, the town femme fatale/whore who works at the Slo-Dance Bar run by local crime boss Dwight Sloman. Sloman answers to big evil company Watermark represented by the three Well-Dressed Men. Jim stays at extremely maternal Martha’s boarding house that is hiding something in a forbidden to enter part of the house.
My favorite character of the series was Grace. Jim’s devoted secretary and expert on all that is IRS. Grace made Della Street look like a slacker. The acting style for these TWIN PEAK-like conspiracy shows can take the reality out of the character leaving a fictional plot device. Melora Walters’ performance was able to keep Grace human but with the secrets and oddness each character in PUSH, NEVADA required.
“The Black Box†(9/17/02) Written by Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey. Directed by Charles McDougall. *** Jim reports the murder of Silas to the police who with the help of the Well-Dressed Men rule Silas’s death a suicide. Mary seduces out the location of the money and leaves a man to die. The Well-Dressed Men try to understand why the robbers took only some of the money and a bible.
Episode Clue: television
This episode aired in the series time slot of Thursday at 9pm. It followed the rerun of episode one and finished 46th in the ratings.
Episode three has the series settled into it Thursday 9pm time slot opposite its normal competition – CBS’ CSI, NBC’s WILL & GRACE and GOOD MORNING MIAMI, FOX’s movie, UPN’s WWE SMACKDOWN, WB’s JAMIE KENNEDY and OFF CENTRE, and PAX’s DIAGNOSIS MURDER.
“The Color Of…†(9/26/02) Written by James Parriott. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. *** Grace discovers no one in Push has filed taxes since the casino was bought 17 years ago. Jim confronts Casino Middle Management Guy with the fact the Casino is paying out 62% of the time. Jim finds the dead body of the man who killed Silas and is arrested for murder.
Episode Clue: orange
Ratings fall to disastrous levels with this episode finishing 83rd.
“Storybook Hero.†(10/3/02) Written by Tom Garrigus. Directed by John Patterson. *** Jim is in jail for murder until someone unknown pays his bail. Sloman learns Mary was involved in the Casino robbery and wants his money back. Grace is suspended for the help she did for Jim. The Well-Dressed Men hunt for the missing bible.
Episode clue: peter pan
Ratings continued down with this episode finishing in 91st place.
Disney had just bought ABC and ESPN, and they had a plan for quirky PUSH, NEVADA. Broadcast networks were starting to use their cable networks to help market the broadcast network shows. Fox had used FX to rerun 24 and increase viewers’ awareness of the series, something many believed was the reason for 24’s success.
In “Broadcasting†(10/7/02) Disney head Michael Eisner explained how they wanted to do the same with PUSH, NEVADA by rerunning it on ABC Family. Some of the ABC affiliates objected and with the collapsing ratings it surprised no one when PUSH, NEVADA was cancelled (“Broadcasting†10/14/02).
This was an era when it was common for TV series to end without answers or closure for the audience. But there was a twist that made PUSH different – it was a game and legally the game had to finish and award its promised prizes. PUSH, NEVADA and ABC used their websites to help set up the game’s quick ending.
“The Letter of the Law.†(10/10/02) Written by John Serge. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko. *** Grace discovers who bailed out Jim – evil Watermark’s competition. Jim continues to endanger others as he blunders into discovering the secret purpose of the Casino. Clueless Jim is unaware of the missing bible, its apparent importance to some, or that it is now hidden in his room. Mary gives Sloman the money back but Daddy wants more.
Episode clue: g
This episode was 93rd in ratings.
“…….†(10/17/02) Written by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. Directed by Rodman Flender. *** How Jim’s Dad died and the effect it had on Jim is revealed. Mary has the Bible. The Treasury’s sting to nail Sloman is threatened when Sloman decides to kill Jim. Watermark’s faces exposure by Jim’s relentless efforts.
Episode clue: morse code
Ratings: 100th.
“Jim’s Domain.†(10/24/02) Written by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. Directed by Nick Gomez. *** Bad guys in Push defeated, Jim returns home a hero but still a naïve idiot. He is surprised to find himself promoted and his wife begging for another chance. But something still haunts him, a question unanswered – who sent him the fax that started all of this?
Episode clue: www.toyota18.com
Ratings for this final episode to air proved relatively few people cared as it finished 90th.
In the final minute of the last episode the series made a horrible dramatic choice. The fourth wall was broken and Derek Cecil told the audience that what he and the producers thought was just a story for a TV show had turned real and now Watermark was after everyone connected to the PUSH, NEVADA TV series. He claimed he was on the run and gave the clues from the last unaired six episodes. Written on a piece of paper were the words:
FIVE
LONGITUDE
UNDERWEAR
SOUTHEAST
BODNICK
ELIOT
The final instructions on how to put the clues together appeared October 28th on ABC’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL at halftime.
The instructions were: spaces and punctuation count. Don’t count the first episode. Then 5th place, 1st, 9th, 1st, 5th, 7th, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 7th, 5th, and 2nd in that order. Actor Derek Cecil says, “I am going to have to disappear for awhile. We are being manipulated. Keep up the fight. Good luck.â€
If you take the correct letter from each clue it forms a word. For example the fifth letter from second episode’s clue “television†gives you the letter V. Putting the letters together spelled VONGEYELNAIL. Replace the EYE with I as the sign in MONDAY NIGHT FOOTALL clip’s background suggested and you have VONGILNAIL or phone number 866-445-6245. First to call that number won the million and forty-five thousand dollars prize.
It took two minutes for the prize to be won. According to RealityWorld.com over 10,000 people solved the puzzle within 24 hours.
The story’s fourth wall destroying ending betrayed loyal viewers with a cheap gimmick that left unanswered most of the questions and failed to resolve many of the characters’ secrets. But one can forgive the writers who had the impossible task of jamming six episodes of twists, discoveries and surprises into the last moments of the seventh episode and a minute during halftime on MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.
Today, loyal viewers are being treated with more respect. Shows such as FOX’s FRINGE, NBC’s CHUCK and CBS’ PERSON OF INTEREST are given a short extra season to bring closure to the series. But this was 2002. It took two minutes for someone to solve the puzzle but those watching PUSH, NEVADA for the story are still waiting for some answers.
FINAL NOTES:
All ratings information came from “Broadcastingâ€:
http://www.americanradiohistory.co/Broadcasting_Individual_Issues_Guide.htm
September 2nd, 2016 at 11:29 am
Actor Jon Polito who played Silas Bodnick in PUSH, NEVADA as well as several film roles with the Coen brothers has died.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-polito-dead-coen-brothers-925159
September 2nd, 2016 at 12:34 pm
He also played Jerry’s landlord Sylvio on SEINFELD, but yes most well known for his roles in Coen brothers movies.
September 2nd, 2016 at 12:42 pm
The puzzle seems way too complicated for me, but it’s good to know that enough people stayed with it long enough for there to have been a winner. IMDb says the person who won was Mark Nakamoto, of West New York, New Jersey.
I can’t see anyway for a series like this to be a success. If offered to me as a proposed series, supposing I had that kind of power, I’d have said no immediately. Viewership could only have gone down. Who would start watching after missing the first couple of episodes, for example? Only if the story line was interesting in itself, which it doesn’t sound as though it was. But I never watched X-FILES, LOST or TWIN PEAKS, so what’s true for me certainly isn’t true for everyone.
September 2nd, 2016 at 1:31 pm
3. Steve, the what if the viewer missed an episode was why Disney wanted to show a rerun on ABC FAMILY. FOX’s 24 was not a success until the network reran that week’s episode on FX. If people missed an episode they watch the rerun on FX. The audience sampled it and were hooked.
This is a series that was ahead of its time in many ways (too many ways). The year before (2001) LivePlanet sold an interactive chase game to ABC. It was called THE RUNNER and never made it to air due to production problems. This July THE RUNNER, basically the same game from the same people, finally aired on Verizon’s digital network go90.
I would love to get my hands on scripts for episodes 8-13. The mystery was nothing special but I wish I could learn the motives and answers to characters secrets. There was more to Grace and Job than was revealed. What happened to the Bible and why was it important? Who was g, Watermark’s competitor?
November 18th, 2016 at 10:37 pm
I would like to put my 2 cent in on this subject.
This is Only my Guess. ONLY my Guess.
1) Disney buys ABC at a cheap price because NO one is watching ABC. Michael Eisner know people at Disney are mad at his because the Stock price is LOW.( But shortly after PUSH Nevada ABC become a POWER HOUSE and Stock of Disney hit highs.)Mr. Eisner look and finds Affleck and Damon (Live Planet) to write a script. Mr. Eisner wants something new, something to like ABC interactive. BUT how, The internet. LivePlant to get a internet website pushtimes.com
(Everything I write is a guess)
People post stuff on PushTimes, and Yahoo posting webboard, This is way before facebook. At the webboard the view can write stuff, Disney and LivePlanet do not know whats going happen. As the story (posting went on) Eisner lean how to adjust ABC programming into a cliffhangers tv series network.
2)Watermark is Disney.
3)The Bible is the story of how Push Nevada ends.
4)the last movie Affleck was in was called “The accountant”
I would write more but i’m not sure anyone cares.
November 19th, 2016 at 5:18 pm
Disney reasons for buying ABC can be found here at a NY Times article from the time. Notice ABC stock was worth more than Disney and both went up after the purchase.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/01/business/media-business-merger-walt-disney-acquire-abc-19-billion-deal-build-giant-for.html?pagewanted=all
ABC was in rating trouble and according to Broadcasting magazine many of those who owned ABC stations worried that Disney was more interested in ESPN and cable than ABC and broadcasting networks. Sharing a broadcasting network series with cable network added to those fears.
In my comment 4 I discuss THE RUNNER that was LivePlanet first attempt at interactive television. LivePlanet with Affleck, Damon and friends are interested in developing TV shows centered around interactive games. Eisner was interested in getting two major movie stars to TV. I find it interesting Affleck, Damon and friends gave up on finishing PUSH but continued trying to do THE RUNNER, finally getting it on the air in 2016, fifteen years later.
Watermark was evil. Disney would not have made themselves the villains. Nor would they have made themselves “g†Watermarks competition. I think Grace was an undercover agent for some yet known government agency and “g†was a part of the government that led to raids saving Jim and Dawn in the desert. Remember the doubt they were IRS agents in the helicopters?
No doubt the Bible held the final solution. But what was Job role and why wouldn’t he even touch the Bible when Mary asked for his help.
Grace and Job were just two of the series characters that to me made the town of Push seem like The Village in TV series THE PRISONER.
Affleck’s latest movie THE ACCOUNTANT had nothing to do with PUSH.
The show’s focused was more on the game than the plot so once the game was solved I think those behind the series didn’t really care about the rest. Reportedly, PUSH was to be a four-part mini-series but ABC asked for 13. It should have stayed a four-part mini-series.
November 20th, 2016 at 3:21 am
Michael,
I will not disagree with you at all. I’m nobody. My spelling is bad, my writing is bad, but that’s life.
This is my guess.
I think Mr. Eisner went looking to by a TV network. I think Mr. Eisner told some story how he got a ABC on a golf course.~
http://nypost.com/2006/07/13/a-bite-with-mike-eisner-recounts-abc-deal-at-mogul-fest/
But at the time of Push Nevada, ABC was in last place. Disney stock was not moving up fast because they blame ABC low rating. Mr. Eisner looks around and see a new startup called LivePlanet. Who has Affleck, Damon, Moore, and Sean Bailey.
Here let me give you a Mystery.
Because Push Nevada was so bad. Disney gives Sean Bailey a Movie deal “Tron” and Bailey becomes Disney President of Production.
As for Mr Affleck movie “The Accountant” is the start of one big circle.
I did read The Runner was in Production about June~.
As for Watermark, my Guess Disney need to limited liability.
As for the Bible from Push Nevada. Disney will keep the story in a vault, because is showed how write cliffhanger stories, and once it out, you can’t get the magic genie back in the lamp (or pandora’s box)
Its kind of late…
But like I said, I’m nobody, and I’m Ok saying that. Life goes on.
November 20th, 2016 at 3:41 pm
First, disagree with me. Its no fun if you listen to only those you agree with. And this is a place that welcomes all point of views just in case one of us might stumble over the truth 🙂
November 20th, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Michael,
I do not work for Disney, ABC or livePlanet.
Here is my take, my guess.
LivePlanet paid money for someone to write
https://www.amazon.ca/Push-Nevada-Experiment-Unlocking-Mysteries/dp/0786888644
Why would LivePlanet pay for someone to write a book if “Push Nevada” if the winner is a phone # ? So I took a chance.
Disney wanted something new, Disney and Liveplanet a internet type game.
The problem is everyone was there was tooo many people, alot of people reading “Pushtime” website but no one was writing. (Everything i write guess)After a few months ~10 people were was on PushTime (Yahoo messageboard). SO I took a chance, I started writing my story of Push. Most of my post were only one page every month. Writing for me was verrry hard. Every post (one page long) had spelling error and other problems. The story took ~ 3 years or longer to write. I think is was a good story. Did I win, no, but that’s life. Sometime you have to take a risk, it did not pay off but it least I tried.
I do not think Disney wanted a normal screen writer and did not want professional writers or screen writer to write the ending because they wanted a something new, or something old. Disney wanted the good old days of cliffhanger full show.
I would put a link of the story but the message board is gone.
November 21st, 2016 at 3:03 am
I didn’t know about the book, thanks for the link. Book tie-ins are common and date back to the fifties. It was a way to promote a series. Paperback series with new stories for such shows as MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. help keep viewers interested in the series during summer reruns. The PUSH NEVADA book was needed to help explain the complicated story that even confused the TV critics and network.
TV series with cliffhangers were not new nor ending them without an ending. CORONET BLUE (CBS, 1967) is one of the most famous example.
The ending shown I doubt was the original ending. But they had to fit 13 episodes into 6 and there was not enough room or time to fit all the clues and twists to get to the original ending. Could the characters had gone on the run if they had survived for a second year? Its possible but the break of the fourth wall (the actor abandoning character and talking to the audience directly) and have the actors and producers go on the run would and did not make any sense.
The show would have been removed sooner if the contest involving money had not legally forced ABC and the producers to finish the game. Watch the introduction by Affleck in episode one. The contest was about finding the money from the bank robbery. The plot and mystery was just a gimmick to show the clues.
All the writers were professional writers and had worked on other TV shows before and after PUSH, NEVADA. It was a staff written show which means they weren’t interested in buying stories from anyone but those on the staff. And actually that was not that many writers and producers for a network TV show.
I am less interested in the end (Jim wins) than I am the answers to all the loose ends. Who or what was in the forbidden to visit room at the boarding house (rumor is it was Jim’s late dad who was not dead and he was the one that sent the fax to Jim that started Jim on the case)? Why was Grace an expert on IRS rules and an expert in firearms? Who was Job? What was inside the Bible?
One of PUSH goals was to see if the internet could be a way for broadcast networks to promote its TV series. While today we take for granted how involve the internet has become with TV, but then it was too early to connect with enough TV viewers for ABC.
November 21st, 2016 at 9:36 am
Michael,
Here is my guess.
LivePlanet had some actors of the show interact on the Pushtime Yahoo messageboard. This is my guess. The internet was new there was no Facebook…. it was ~2002. Or paid someone to write stuff on the website.
The story I wrote on the message board seem to close most of the gaps.
Eben Barlow was one of the person on the messageboard. He seemed to write like he know what was going on or seemed like he was in charge. The other person on the messageboard seemed to be Oswald, and Mary.
The story I wrote had Jim’s dad was murdered. The story start with Eben Barlow pissed off at a guy that is dead… Barlow find Jim in that grave yard by his dad’s grave. Jim talks to Barlow about what happened and Barlow is a man of action, and or death. Barlow and Oswald are mercenary.
Barlow goto Push shoot up the town,and finds out that Watermark is Vary big and need more time to destroy Everything. (Also if Push Nevada end at that time frame there would be no TV show.)
The Bible told the killings in Push, who killed the people in Push. Job was the honest person in Push. Barlow need to get everyone help to carry out the end of Push. Job was the hold out. The Bible was the proof.
( A side note.As for the Bible for LivePlanet, it showed how to write a story and Ideas for how to add product placement ads into TV shows to get max money.)
Jim goes back to Push with guy named “Leon from legal” In one of the shows Jim call Ira and ask for help from a guy named “Leon”.
That’s the start of my story. My guess is Grace works the FBI. She is there to watch Ira Glassman. Ira knows Barlow. Ira and Barlow are killers or ~ mercenary. Ira is like Clark Kent but Ira has no special powers. Only a man that knows how to get the job done. Barlow is the same way.
November 21st, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Who was g?
November 21st, 2016 at 8:44 pm
My story did not address that fact much, But maybe this exchange might help.
When all is lost, you call Barlow. Oswald works for Barlow. If someone is buying your company, Barlow or sends Oswald to fix the that problem.
So, how Oswald would answer the Question is:
First you have to get behind someone before you stab them in the back.
The story does not address that fact,but Barlow is not a person to be played with. I wish I wrote that G is one of Barlow’s company, BUT that would be a lie.
I wish I could tell you I addressed that fact but my story did not address that.
November 22nd, 2016 at 1:20 am
Was Barlow in the TV show? I don’t remember the character.
It was a time when TV was trying to understand where cable, video-games and the internet fit in TV’s future. I was involved in some messageboards or groups but for comic strips. It was fun time to play when it wasn’t taken so seriously.
I feel the series would have been more of a conspiracy thriller if they had gotten the full 13 episodes. I was expected several government agencies battling each other – heck, there are enough different agencies under the Treasury department to add to lots of confusion, twists and surprises. I also felt g would turn out to be an ancient evil group such as the Illuminati who controlled the World.
Grace could have been with the FBI but her loyalty to Jim made me think she was there to protect him. Why was the fax sent to Jim? Who in PUSH knew Jim well enough to send him the information?
Frankly, no one including the PUSH writers could have tied up all those loose threads. Similar to THE X-FILES, a show that still has unanswered questions. There would have been some to turn out to be red herrings there to distract us from the real clues and answers.
I thought BRB and his wife was a red herring that had little to do with who or what was being it all.
One of the things that makes me curious about episodes 8-13 is the clues each had. In episode 13 the clue was eliot. Who or what was eliot?
November 22nd, 2016 at 6:20 pm
Michael,
After a great deal of time read stuff on PushTimes Yahoo Messageboard, I thought the only way anyone was going to win was to join them and start writing. Like I said my writing skills were and are bad. That just my problems in life, but life goes on.
I have read post after post, and No ONE was not will to give any info about anything. Because Everyone want to win, and come out 1 million dollar ahead. Well, my guess is ~500,000 after taxes.(ha)
If you watch the last video on your website you will see Jim talking. He says ~
The instructions were: spaces and punctuation count.
As for a person who can’t spell or write, what is the words you never want to hear?
The instructions were: spaces and punctuation count.
The other thing you might see on that video is a ~EYE = I
So, as you know guy name Mark used the word
VONGILNAIL or phone number 866-445-6245 and won.
That made everyone leave the Messageboard.Everyone but ~5 people, One guy screen name was Eben Barlow,Oswald, Mary, I think a guy named Steve, (Me) Leon (or Foundrunner) (not my real name). So, I started my story.
The Name Eben Barlow came from the Messageboard. Barlow seemed to be in charge.
The last clues on Jim’s paper …
FIVE
LONGITUDE
UNDERWEAR
SOUTHEAST
BODNICK
ELIOT
I could not come up with anything. Like this clue.
“The Letter of the Law.†=G
I have no idea how “G” is the “The Letter of the Law.â€
But I do know after “push Nevada”, ABC start to get better shows. AND Sean Bailey becomes Disney President of Production. so it seems a failed show called “Push Nevada” made Bailey Disney’s President of Production, that worked out real good for him.
November 22nd, 2016 at 11:24 pm
One of the fun parts of the early internet period was it often was like the Old Wild West. Lawyers and studios paid little attention so you got to have fun and play.
There was a place called Comics Edge where one of the syndicates showed the comics new artists had submitted to be bought by the syndicate. It would put them on the site and we would all comment. None made it but at least one artist does a nationally syndicated comic strip now, Cartoonists would join us and we would discuss the art and business of cartooning. It was fun. When the syndicate stopped the site they didn’t bother to close comments so I and some others started creating our own comics. It took awhile and some R-rated comics before we got closed down. Two of those people at the site are still facebook friends with me.
PUSH NEVADA was ahead of its time, from its use of interactive contest and the internet to promote the series. It sounds like you had more fun than most of the viewers.
November 23rd, 2016 at 8:45 pm
Michael,
Yeah it was kind of fun. It gave me something to do. I met a few people that were cool, a few not so cool.
It passed time for me, also it help me write better. Its still a problem but I can say my writing skills got better.
Have a nice Thanksgiving.
Oh,wait, what do you draw?
November 23rd, 2016 at 11:07 pm
I can’t draw so I wrote a comic strip script as a writer does for the artist. And I can’t remember what I did. Of course it was just for fun and has vanished from the web.
When one of my e-friends there started her own website of webcomics she hired me as the submission editor. It was call Full Tilt. I think it has vanished from the internet as well.
You have a nice Thanksgiving too. And feel free to comment anywhere here at Mystery File. We judge on content not grammar.
November 30th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Michael,
Just to add a few things to the website.
Here is a link to the book that LivePlanet wrote.
https://www.scribd.com/document/30925562/Push-Nevada-The-Experiment
Here is a few link before Push Nevada started,…
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jun/14/bz/bz09a.html
Here is why Push had problems in the time slot.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/arts/television-radio-taking-a-chance-when-there-s-nothing-at-stake.html
Let face the facts Disney and LivePlanet wanted the TV show to be canceled.
http://www.ew.com/article/2001/08/01/
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=604051
December 1st, 2016 at 3:15 am
Thanks for the additional reading. The stuff was interesting. The link to ew.com doesn’t work but most likely due to age.
December 1st, 2016 at 5:35 pm
Michael,
3:15AM
Wow, I see you can’t sleep.
I’m sorry about the bad link.
Here is link how LivePlanet (my guess) how they set up Push Nevada.
https://books.google.com/books?id=fqvpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=%22push+Nevada%22+radio&source=bl&ots=c-aZDUVbRr&sig=gQh67PayLiz-QhLk9spfZe58cnk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRpPy9hdTQAhXK5oMKHQIADa44ChDoAQgkMAI#v=onepage&q=%22push%20Nevada%22%20radio&f=false
December 19th, 2016 at 12:14 am
Michael,
Oh, one other thing Affleck drives this car.
http://www.dailydriverproject.com/ben-afflecks-1966-chevelle-ss-396/
And Mary drives the same car. ~31:58 into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op52Ms8H-3I&list=PLkn8WWhJ55SSCgJfSeW3W3Kd28jc6tSot&index=5
Here is Affleck’s Tattoo
http://www.famefocus.com/news/jennifer-lopez-isnt-fan-of-ben-afflecks-tattoo/
December 19th, 2016 at 2:48 am
Neat.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:19 pm
Michael,
Just a quick note. Are you a Star Wars fan?
I went and saw it the other day. It was good BUT!! the surrounding of the set was ALL OUT OF FOCUS. Disney spends millions of Dollars and on props, settings, … people sitting in the background, costing MILLIONS and ALL OUT OF FOCUS. Don’t goto the 3D one because 3D DONOT FEEL REAL IF THINGS are out of FOCUS!! DISNEY,MR JJ ABRAMS FIX IT, I HATE OUT OF FOCUS SCENES!!
February 11th, 2017 at 3:57 pm
I take a completely different point of view and that is the game is not over. A single phone number is not the answer, you need to find where the money is. The clues are alot more complicated and so was the solve. Some clues were actually hints. I will not tell you how to solve the game as I am still waiting for news to break as to the real game winner, the answer behind the game and the real amount of money involved. My guess is nine zeroes, remember, the nine will finish it. See my twitter for alot more @PushNevada and yes, I made the call and gave the answer. The lady on the other end admitted to me, it was the Push Nevada solve line, but guess what, they didn’t expect anyone would call and no one else ever has. That is why we are still waiting for the real answer….
February 11th, 2017 at 6:08 pm
24. Leon, like the original Star Trek and look forward to the new CBS attempt but not a fan of the rest.
25. Here is an article about the end of the game, who won and how much.
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/1045000-winner-of-abc-push-nevada-game-announced-753.php
February 12th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Mark Nakamoto, the winner, was a red herring. Was he ever interviewed or seen on ABC anywhere? No. There is a much deeper, more complicated game still going on for the super sleuths.
Why are you even resurrecting this? Your clues are all wrong. The code is 1234, all clues have 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters.
I’ve given you enough information.
February 12th, 2017 at 10:21 pm
Here is his picture and interview with Nakamoto after winning…http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2385881/article–Push–makes-WNY-man-wealthy-Short-lived-game-show-a-boon-for-one-resident?mobile_view=false
You are a fun troll.
February 27th, 2017 at 6:24 pm
Terry, and Michael
If Mark Nakamoto does not have the money that people are looking for, then the lawyer have the money. Its been ~15 years old now. As everyone knows when two want a divorce when is the divorce finalized? When all the money is gone, and the two lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.
Let look at Michael Eisner with the problems he had with ABC. ABC was not in the top 4 at the time Eisner really put his force on how to get ABC moving to #1 status. Eisner pushed all in on Afflecks,Damon, Moore, and Sean Bailey show Push Nevada. ABC has lost its chemistry and Eisner know that and need to fix it. The Internet was just starting out and Eisner want to be on top.Thats when Liveplanet came in and wrote a show to link ABC to internet. “Push Nevada” had a bad time and did not have the right chemistry. But the Show built how the Game was going to be done.
Script, chemistry, Music, …. ate part of a good show and Movie.
Let look at the chemistry between Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon. I can see a movie with those two, maybe add Steve Martin (and or) David Letterman and you have a movie.
The problem is the script. The Movie must have the same kind of one upmanship (I’m getting even, I’m better than him) and must tell a story. Here are a few links I like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5n60AXNupU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjLMWS3U4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GeyGIZIwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nPuZ9chE7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfoF6MhgLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIyLHsk2h4
So why does Kimmel don’t get along,
Maybe because Damon took Kimmel line ~’how about those apples’ or Damon got the movie Kimmel want to do, or how Kimmel got a TV show why ,Damon was sent to Siberia to do a movie but there was no movie.
Yes, Damon did have a bad movie, Its hard to know what people want. I watched Damon’s movie. It was lacking in a few areas, but put that kind of a movie in outer space like guardian of the galaxy and you might have a hit. China in space, 100 million people in China might love to see the what the future of technology China will make and have.
So, Who has the money, Lawyers.
February 28th, 2017 at 1:47 am
Kimmel and Damon is a gag feud similar to the old feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen. Real feuds are kept out of the public eye, the fake one are for laughs and PR.
February 28th, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Michael my man,
My guess is Kimmel would like to do a movie and Damon needs to be in a good movie some time.Would you watch a movie?
Still Can’t sleep. 1:47AM
February 28th, 2017 at 2:32 pm
I wouldn’t watch it for them. They would need a good story.
Damon needs to stop producing bad TV series such as SYFY’s just cancelled INCORPORATED. But he is still a very good and active actor, just one that doesn’t interest me.
Kimmel is a stand-up comic not an actor, at least not until he proves himself. His talk show is a full time job and would only allow a bit part. Maybe Damon could kill Kimmel in a walk on part. Problem there is the cute inside joke could distract the audience from the movie.
What they are doing now seems best.
March 1st, 2017 at 2:17 am
I did not watch INCORPORATED, I googled it and watch the Trailer. It seems OK, The main actor seemed to move on to a better part in Xman movie . So that good for him.
As you know judge Wapner died a few days ago. Here is him on Jonny Carson show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4yXkDHXgds
I agree the script must be good otherwise time for both of them is wasted.
A good out line of the Story and script, If the out line of the script is bad then kill the project. I hate going to a movie and saying to my self who approve this movie. It was a waist of time for the actors, money spent on a film unwisely.
March 23rd, 2017 at 7:23 pm
Hey Michael,
Are you still around?
March 23rd, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Yeah, just posted a new review on radio series BRIGHT STAR. This thread is basically dead. Can’t think of anything new about PUSH to discuss.
March 23rd, 2017 at 8:36 pm
35 comments (now 36) is a lot of comments for any topic on this blog. But I see people are still coming here. If you’re one of them and have anything to say, please don’t hesitate!
March 23rd, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Would you like to read how I wrote the ending?
It does have a few problems, spelling grammer….
March 24th, 2017 at 3:03 am
Go for it. If you are worried about spelling try spell check or use google search to find a dictionary or spelling of the word. And don’t worry I haven’t had any English teachers attacking me here.
Have fun.
March 24th, 2017 at 7:11 pm
To set some of the stage
Eben Barlow- Eben Barlow showed up shortly after Jim’s dad die. He found Watermark was too large to take down. (The way Barlow thinks ~ if it take more than one MP5 {Gun} it might take a while). Barlow would rather shoot than talk. But In the story Barlow must take his time, to remove all everything Watermark has.
Oslwald Wilkes- Is Barlows friend, If Barlow had a friend, (But I think the only friend Barlow has is his MP5) Wilkes talks too much. He is not in this post so I’ll stop about him.
Mary- She works now for Barlow. She is stressed out, moves back to Push Nevada.
Mary is drunk, Mary knows Barlow going to kill her dad, She just want out. Barlow is winding down Push Nevada.
Here is ~ the ending of Push Nevada
***********************************
Mary “thought of just running away.”
Jim “I need to get you home.”
Mary “I’m running on empty, my nerves are shot Jim, I need out. I
can’t even shoot straight any more. But one thing I know. I’m in
love with you.”
Jim “That’s just the alcohol speaking.”
Mary “Your drunk to, ,,Before you showed up in my life I thought I
wanted more time by myself.,, But now I rather spend my time with
you. Please just let your feelings come out. I need someone to
tell me how beautiful I look.”
Jim (as the alcohol starts to kick in)”I’m not good with words but
you could win a Hawaiian beauty contest hands down. Mary you are
vary drunk.”
Mary “So what? Jim if you hung around with people I did, I think
you would be drunk most of the time. You also wound find it hard
to fall asleep most nights.”
Jim “What kind of people do you hang out with?”
Mary “What would you do if one day you were sitting in a park
minding your own f * c k i n g business. And a person just
starts talking to you. He tells you he’s a mercenary, and he wants you to
write a story about .. things. What would you do?”
Jim “I’m not sure.”
Mary (First word said loud) “THOSE are the kind of people I hang a
round with.”
Jim “Mercenary? Your are drunk. Do you know Wilkes?”
Mary “I rather not talk about him. I would rather talk about you.
I’ve been around Jimmy, I was trained to look into peoples minds,
to read people. All I see is your kindness. I need someone to look
over me. I need a shoulder to cry on. Jim, (pointing at the gold in the
briefcase) I want out, I need out. I need you. (With a tears
flowing down her face) Don’t you thing I’ am beautiful? I’ll give this all
to you,.. I have more and even more this to offer you. …I have
cried myself a sleep, praying for someone would marry me,, I have
dreamed for someone that would kiss me, touch my heart and sole
each day. Would you like that feeling also Jim. Would you like a wife
that would make you feel like this? (She kisses Jim) Did your feel
your body melts into my life? Tell me Jim, how much you need me.
Tell me Jim, How much you want me now… Because I can’t waste any
more time on someone who will not love me, hold me in their arms
and tell me how much you love me.”
Jim “Mary we are both drunk, and you are the loveliest lady I have
ever talked to in my life. And until I came here, I never thought
I could love anyone.”
Mary (Takes Jim’s hand) “Good Jim. Then lets go this way.”
(They walk into a building)
{Back at the casino}
Barlow “I think Jim will be fine with Mary. But then again she
does get real emotional when she is drunk.”
Ira “Taken over the world yet?”
Barlow (swishing his ice around in his glass) “Not yet. But there
is always tomorrow.”
Ira “Leon you are looking at the most dangerous person in the
world.”
Barlow “You flatter me too much.”
Ira “Barlow and Wilkes range from business deals, to world trade.
Even the fall of some governments.”
Barlow “Cheers (lifting his glass)”
(Leon starts to finish his drink)
Ira ” Are you ready Barlow.”
Barlow (as Barlow and Ira’s eyes lock on each other)”I’m ready, as
soon as Leon puts down his glass okay.”
(A second later Leon finishes his drink and sets his glass onto
the table. Both Ira and Barlow bolts up, pulling their guns. Barlow’s
gun is pointing at Ira’s head, and Ira’s gun pointing at Barlow’s
head.
{as the TV breaks for a commercial and after}
(The sound of two hammers making one click, as both gun hammers
hit empty chambers…… Half a second later)
Ira “Did you see the look on Leon’s face?” (…..)
Leon “Very funny guys, Your both lucky Leon just don’t kick both
yours guyes a$s.”
Barlow “Leon believe me Mr. Glassman would rather put a bullet in
my brain more then any thing else. Isn’t that true?”
Ira (taking a drink just like nothing happened in a pissed off
voice) “And Barlow would do the same to me. Ya its one great
f*cking
life.”
(Barlow looks at his watch, Slips his gun away.)
Barlow “Right on time.(Barlow stands up on a table, in a loud
voice)
People, People As you all know this is the last night in Push
Nevada. The great Watermark is pulling the plug. Tomorrow everyone
must be out of town by 7:00. You are all invited to watch the show
at 10:00 am. I will personal hand out your money in cash. Do not
try to deposit that money for two or more days. As you all know it
takes time for all paper work to though the system. If you have
your
money stolen in that time frame. I will personally make it up.
Don’t do anything stupid with your money like … invest in the stock
market. For the lucky few of you will receive a bonus. They will
be given VIP Air plane tickets. Thank you all for your help. Your all
welcome to watch the show. Bartender, Please put all drinks on my
tab.”
Someone in the crowd “I don’t think that’s fair.”
Barlow (looking for that person)”Who said that. (He sees the guy)
Oh, I assure you. You are one of the guys that will receive a VIP
ticket. Like I said drink up. The drinks are on me. Thank you all.”
(Barlow looks at his watch, he gets off the table, With a smile)
Barlow “That will piss off Wilkes.”
Leon “What will?”
Barlow “Free drinks of course. Follow me.” (Glassman ,Leon and
Barlow walk out and down the road)
Glassman “Why are you here Barlow?”
Barlow (in cold looked at Glassman) “Its very personal reasons.
From Prufrocks Dad, to the greed of making money… Leon do you really
think you put a dent into Watermark’s bottom line. Watermark
writes off 100 million is not uncommon for this organization. This is a
world wide group. A organization dealings range from paying off
world leaders, control world trade, even the World Court is
controled by this company. The company charter even states the
control the world’s wealth. If it takes the in slave of the
masses all the better. In the words of Pres. Bush One World Order. That
is the actions of this company.”
Grassman “You finally lost it Barlow. One World Order. You have
been with Wilkes too long. Have you gotten tired of being a mercenary?”
Barlow “Oh, no. I just think its time for a little payback. As a
mercenary I did not fight for money, we fight for ideas. But many
times the greed of others made my group fight for things that were
not worth dying for. I was fighting for freedom, but looking back
I wonder. Maybe someday I will have someone write a book about
secrets kept in the world. Maybe I will share names, places and
other things. Let them cry for mercy, I’m done fighting for things
that are not worth dying for.”
Glassman “So the mercenary is the good guy.”
Barlow “Oh, look Mr.Sloman (Barlow looks at his watch, slipping
out his gun, they all walk over to the building that Mary and Jim
entered a few minutes before. Barlow opens up the door slightly so
Sloman can look in. In a soft voice) One word, one sound,
anything,,
your funeral will be a closed casket.,, Mary always wanted her dad
to be there when she needed you, You weren’t, but your here, at
her wedding.”
(Jim and Mary are facing each other.)
{Note to self, Witch one is first?}
Priest “Do you take Mary for your wife….. ”
Jim “I do”
Priest “Ring”
Jim “Do you have ring? (Mary Pulls out a ring gives it to Jim, she
places a ring on Jim’s finger.)
Priest “Do you Mary take Jim …..”
Mary “Yes, I do” (…. Jim places a ring on Mary’s finger)
Priest “You may kiss the bride.”
(The door start to shut, Break for commercial)
{Director “and cut”
Derek ‘What the H*ll, I’m sure the scene reads that I’m kissing
Mary.’
Scarlett ‘No, I don’t read it that way, beside it might help if
you
didn’t eat so many onions.’
Derek ‘Now I agree with Bodnick. Who is writing this sh!t. Aff!ec,
Se@n give me a break.’
Director ‘I think he’s going for a PG rating.’
Derek ‘he’s going for a PG. You got to be kidding. Come on lets
just change this part. Wait, where is my script. What the?,, No
freeking way!,,Come on! What,, I passout? Son of a *itch. ‘}
Sloman “I can’t believe it.,, my little girl married.,,And to
little Jim Prufrock. I can remember Jim’s dad would never let Jim visit
here. Hundreds of time he said ‘I would not let my own son marry
anyone in this god forsaken place.’ I even ask him if that
included my Mary. He said “That be the end of the world if my Jim Marries
Mary.”
The priest
Priest “I need help, The couple that got married,, just passed out.
(as Leon,Ira,Barlow, Sloman and the Priest walk into where Jim and
Mary are) I get drunk people all the time here,, Sometimes I get
one passed out but this is the first time both people pass out at
the same time. (as they look at Jim and Mary) I said kiss the
bride and they both passed out. Drunk as a skunk I guess.”
Barlow “I’ll take Mary, Leon and Glassman you take Jimmy.”
Sloman “I will help you with Mary.”
Barlow “No, You just make sure your on that flight . Mary has been
in my group for a long time. I think its time you reflected on your
life. Your little girl needed you when she was younger, Not now.
(As Barlow picks her up tosses her over his shoulder) Its not the first
time Mary got too drunk. Glassman, make sure he drinks a lot of
water when he wakes up.”
(The next morning. At the viewing place Barlow is looking over the
town)
Banker “Here is all the money.”
(The Banker opens up A trunk of a car showing a group of
envelopes.
Each envelope has a name written on them. Another person hands
Barlow a box~ 12” by 12” by 1”, Reaches into his coat.
Slipping
out a large knife. He cuts open the box. Barlow pulls out folder.
With a quick glance inside the folder. He takes out one paper.)
Barlow “Good,, everything is here. (Barlow pulls out a loop. He
looks at some letters on a page) The type setting is,,, good.(He
looks at the guy who gave him the box.) Fine Work.”
Darksuit guy “Are you Barlow. The Presid*nt is looking for you?”
Barlow “I’m busy. When I’m done passing out some of these envelope
I will be ready to see him.”
Darksuit guy “I don’t think you understand, I’m with the secret
service and he wants you now.”
Barlow (a look that would make anyone think twice, Soft tone
voice) “If you were sent to find me. You have been briefed who
I’m…Wait your turn. I will be ready in less than 1 minute. ”
(A few people come up to Barlow they state their name. Each of
them sign a paper. Barlow hands each of them a envelope.)
Barlow (he turn to the banker) “When the other show up. Tell them
to wait. Where is the he?”
Dark suit guy “Before we go any further. Do you have any weapons?”
Barlow “That depends? Are you looking to buy or sell weapons?”
Dark suit guy “Buy? Sell? I mean on you. Besides if your selling
you need a license to sell and export weapons.”
Barlow “I don’t have weapons on me. As for license, one of my
organization fills out so much paper work a forest is cut down
(with a wink of his eye). All forms are filled out with the NSA,MI6, and
so many other governments you wouldn’t believe.”
Dark suit guy “Before you see him. Put your arms up in the air. I
must make sure.”(Barlow lifts his arms up, Dark suit guy starts to
frisk Barlow. Barlow arm’s quickly comes down and inside the
dark suited guy coat.)
Dark suited guy “The Great Barlow is ticklish.”
Barlow (in a cold look)”Are you done! I have many things to get
done, don’t waste my time.”
Dark suited guy (He finds the knife) “I thought you said you didn’t
have any weapons.”
Barlow (in a statement voice) “That is a tool. Not a weapon.”
Dark suited guy “Sure, Where is your car?”
Barlow “Over there.”
(They get into a old blue(? Or gray) car {Jim’s old car})
Dark suited guy (In a smirk)”Nice car.”
Barlow “It’s not mine, it’s another guy I know. It runs. (They
both get into the car. They drive to the pres. They both get out of the
car)
Bodyguard “You must be Barlow.”
Barlow “And you must be Bozo the Clown.”
Bodyguard “You know the routine. Arms up.”
(Barlow lifts his arms up, Bodyguard guy starts to frisk Barlow.
Barlow arm’s quickly comes down and inside the dark suited
Bodyguard coat.)
Dark suited guy “He’s ticklish.”
Bodyguard “He’s clean. The Pres is over there.”(Barlow gets into
the president. car.)
(****** At the end of my story George Bush was president ***** So this needs to be changed to Trump ****)
George “Well, we finally meet again. I went though your file. It’s
more like a warehouse. Where’s Wilkes?”
Barlow “It’s hard to say. It (looks at his watch) Well it’s about
9:50 about 2 beers into a six pack.”
George “And I thought I had a drinking problem. Isn’t it too early
to start drinking?”
Barlow “I’ll settle for him picking up his emptys.”
George “Have you been in the wh!te house?”
Barlow “Wilkes was just there a few years ago. He use to feed a
white looking squirrel”
George “Really”
Barlow “How do you think the White water papers got into the map
room.”
George (rolling his Eyes)”Sure Barlow… Wilkes did that. Also I
forgot thank you for delivering Florida. At first when Wilkes told
me his idea I was skeptical.”
Barlow “I told you that I could deliver Florada.”
George “Barlow your a real pro. It is one of Oswald’s best ideas
he came up with. Who would have guest getting a kid named Gonzalez
from Cuba smuggled into the states. Would make more Cuban’s voting for
me. Making me the winning the president office…. If he only won
his own state he would have one. I think it didn’t help that he turned
his back on his own state. I guess he should have kept planting
tobacco. ”
Barlow “Mr. Wilkes does come up with some unusual plans.”
George “Where’s Wilkes?”
Barlow “He’s working.”
George “Taking over another country, or is he look for aliens with
his telescope still?”
Barlow “Oswald likes his telescope. That reminds me to ask how
much does it cost to send up a satellite.”
George “I’m not sure, maybe about the cost of some radio stations.
I heard you were selling a few radio stations, is that why you
asked.”
Barlow “I was just thinking out loud.”
(the car door opens, Barlow looks at his watch)
Guy1 “Mr. Pres. Here is some papers for you to sign.”
(Barlow, in pissed of look, the guy tries to hand Barlow some
papers for him to give to the pres. Barlow takes the papers and places
those paper on top of the folder that Barlow is holding. Barlow
turns back to the pres. In a pissed of look and a pissed off
voice.)
Barlow “The only reason why I’m talking to you is (jabbing his
finger into the George’s chest) tell Noriega to stay out of
center American politics and people’s life’s in Central America.
Otherwise he will not in joy the good life.”
George “I’m not sure what your talking about.”
Barlow “That’s because you have been on vacation too long. Maybe
you should spend more time talking to the NSA and not the CIA so much.
By the way China has the password of the satellite system because
of a stupid political decision. But the good news now it is cheaper
and safer for company to send up satellites into space from
China.”
(Barlow hands George the stack of paper)
George “I don’t know what your talking about.”
Barlow “Then why don’t you find out. (Leaning back into the car
seat) What are those papers?”
George “I’m really not sure I just sign a lot of them each day.
Let see,,, oh they all look like Presidential pardons.”
Barlow “So another group of rich bastards get pardoned while other
poor people live there life tarnished. Don’t tell me, Martha
f*cking Stupid.”
Body guard “Don’t talk to the president that way!”
Barlow (leaning forward pounding his finger into the body guard
chest)”F*ck off you little puk, We are talking business here. If
you want your arm stuff up you a$s, keep talking Bozo”
(The body guard pulls his gun pointing his gun toward Barlow)
Barlow “Where the f*ck did you find this guy. Kid your not scaring
me. I had hundreds of gun pointed at me. Let me help you out. You
must pull that slide back before it works. So go back to school
and leave the gun play to us mercenaries.”
Bodyguard “Shut up, you don’t know what’s go on.”
Barlow ” Why don’t you tell bozo the F*cking clown what’s going in
the world. Tell him about South America, Africa….(Waiting for
George to say something).GWB tell him why there isn’t much
drilling in the states. Tell him GWB because the land owners
learned that his former employer might not have be paying a fair price of
oil they pumped out of their land. Only cents on the dollar. Did
that stop them No, No, No then they started drilling in other
countries. The ones us mercenary help free from communist
control.
When I look back want happened I feel cheated. Those governments
that I helped set up are turning into Fascist dictatorships.”
Bodyguard “Shut up Barlow!”
Barlow “You are talking loudly and too much. So pull the f#cking
trigger, or shut the f#ck up prick.”
(Bodyguard pulles the slide and then the trigger, Click. The
hammer hits an empty chamber)
Barlow “You know you need a clip and bullet in that gun to make it
work. Keep that in mind A gun without bullets is called a stick.
Oh, (holding up two clips he took off the two bodyguards) as you know
I’m Arms merchant and you seem like you need to buy… Is this
what you need?” (Barlow tosses the clips to the bodyguard)
George “Vary funny Barlow. Well at least those countries are
free.”
Barlow “You right. But a rose by any other name is still a rose. A
Dictator is an upgrade name for the word King. Is the oil revenue
being used to raise his population to a better life. F*ck no”
George “Barlow, Wilkes is starting to rub off a little. You need
to take a deep breath and relax. Where’s Wilkes?,, did you finally
gotten rid of him?”
Barlow “No one can get rid of Wilkes. He is a boomerang.”
(Newspaper in right next to the Pres!dent. Headlines Greenspan Dies. Barlow
starts to read the article. The other article Saying about Mary
and Jim’s wedding.)
George “You wouldn’t know anything about this?”
Barlow “God works in mysterious ways. (in a pissed off voice)
Right now I’m not sure he’s helping.”
George “Looks like I need to find someone to replace him.”
Barlow (Barlow looks at his watch) I have to move I’m running
late. Can I take this Newspaper?”
George “Sure.”
(Barlow starts to get out of the car. The guy who gave him the
papers)
Guy1 “Could you reach in, hand me those papers the pres. just
signed?”
Barlow “Are you done signing?”
(As president signs the stack of paper )
Barlow “The people at FEMA really screwed up. By the way, when my
leaders F#ckup. I make them pickup the body of are dead. Maybe
you and him should do that. Then your will understand why you only put
leaders into places of power, not friends or political hacks.”
(The President hands Barlow the papers. With a quick fan of the
paper, and a quick movement of Barlow’s hand some papers are moved
from the stack of papers to the folder Barlow holds. Barlow then
hands the guy the stack of papers. Then Barlow gets into jim’s
car, Starts to drive away)
Barlow “That’s F*cking great, At any second Prufrock’s program
will become active, Greenspan dies. (Barlow pick’s up his phone) You
have 30 seconds to find Wilkes. I’ll wait…. ”
Guy on phone “He’s should be in landing Brazil.”
Barlow “Brazil, Who’s in Brazil?”
Guy on phone “Wait,,, Carson. Phone ##########”
Barlow “Thank you. I’ll call Carson but you call him back and give
him flight # of Wilke’s plane, and also the flight of the VIPS.
Make sure Carson knows these two flight #.”
(Barlow hangs up. Barlow dials Carson’s #) This is Barlow.”
Carson “…. I’m doing my job Barlow so get off my back! ”
Barlow “You will be getting another phone call in a few minutes.
You
will be given flight # of Wilkes’s plane and Another flight # Make
sure Wilkes is on that Flight. Keep Wilkes away from all
Newspapers and US news.”
Carson “No way. Last time Wilkes showed up he took me for 10k in
poker, ate all my food, besides I’m sure he was tossed out of
Brazil and can’t return.”
Barlow “I’ll make some phone calls. You just show him a good time.
Make sure he pays for all the drinks. I’ll call you later to
update you on what to do with Wilkes if plans change. KEEP WILKES WAY
FROM ALL NEWS!”
Carson “I did nothing wrong why is Wilkes showing up here. Sh#t
Barlow I will not be responsible for any of Wilkes’s action here.”
Barlow “Send me the bill. Keep Wilkes away from all US news
reports.”
Carson “Mr. Cheap, Are you feeling all right.”
Barlow “I don’t need this right now. Keep your phone open for
orders. Tell Wilkes nothing, just meet Wilkes at the Airport. Also make
sure he doesn’t get toss in jail. I need him on that flight with some
VIP going to the Antarctic.”
Carson “Sure Barlow. But can’t be responsible for him. You know
the guy.”
Barlow “If Wilkes isn’t on that flight you better be. You have
your marching orders. If your orders change I will call you.” (Click of
the phone. Barlow pulls up the Banker, gets out, Walks over to the
Banker, and picks up hand out envelope and some VIP Airplane
tickets.)
Banker “Prufrock’s program is working better then anticipated. We
are up 50 mill just on the options a lone.”
Barlow “Long term Capital had a good run for a time.”
Banker “I have never heard of Long term Capital?”
Barlow “Never mind.”
Banker “What did you do with that old painting?”
Barlow “It’s still in my office. It must have slipped my mind. O
well. You can have it if you want.”
Banker “You wouldn’t care if I also use your car. My car is
indisposed.”
Barlow “Sure, Here.(Handing out Jim’s key to the Banker, Walks
over to Jim’s old car)”
Banker “I’ve seen this car before.”
Barlow “I’m sure you have. Are you sure you want to spend your
time getting that priceless art work? Do you have enough time?”
Banker ” Sure, Just give me your keys. (the banker looks at his
watch) I have plenty of time. About 55 min.”
Barlow “Oh, (Barlow looks at his watch) shoot yourself.” (Hands
over Jim’s key, The banker drives off. About 5 seconds latter Leon
pulls up with Jim. Ira also pulls up in another car. All of them get
out,
and walk over to Barlow.)
Leon “So, why are we here, I was told there was a show here, moab?”
Jim “Why is there so many cameras here? Was that my car?”
(cut to the President watching over Push waiting for the moabs to
go off)
Bodyguard “We got a car driving on the range… Is that Barlow’s
car.”
(President grabs the binoculars. Camera shot from the look out of
the President binoculars)
Bodyguard “Sr. The jets are only seconds away. Your orders Sr.”
George “I see no car.”
Bodyguard “Left of the large tree.”
George “I don’t think you understand, I see no car. (jabbing his
finger into the bodyguard chest) And neater do you. You understand
right?”
Bodyguard (in a smirk) “I see no car. (in a soft voice) Good by
Barlow.”
(Jets pass over head with the three large bombers)
(Cut back to Barlow. Putting his arm around Jim, the Bombers are
over Push, the noise of the engines are heard.)
Barlow “Jim a long time a go we met. You talked to me about you
dad.
(Barlow’s phone rings, Barlow picks it up with a smile on his face)
Banker “You Son of a B*tch Barlow.”
Barlow (talking to jim)”I need to take this call please.”(Barlow
walks away)
Barlow “Oh great to hear from you.”
Banker “Tell the jets to stop. I’m here. Don’t drop them. Call it
off!”
Barlow “Now, why would I do that? What time zone was it set for 10
or 11 am? You made the decision to drive down there. You were the
one who killed Jim Prufrock’s dad. You lived your life better than
99% of the people. If I had my way your life would have ended a
long time ago. (Barlow Looking in the binoculars) Don’t bother trying
the doors I made sure they are all locked. But you do have the
keys to Jim’s car trunk. But oh, let’s just see what Jim wants to say
to his dad’s killer.”
Banker “Your sick Barlow.(as the banker runs to Jim’s car)
Barlow “I want to show you something Jim. If it was in my power to
let you see you dad’s killer receive justice would you.(Barlow Is
about to hand Jim the binoculars)”
Jim “I don’t know… I think it time for me to just let go… I
don’t think I really want to know. And I don’t think I want any
party of it. What do you want to show me?”
Banker (Banker is climbing into the trunk) “He has forgiven me.
Call it off.”
Barlow “Oh, Jim you see your car down there. I decided to buy you
a new car.(Walking away from Jim fast. Talking to the Banker) Jim
was in that trunk when you killed his dad. How’s it feel? I don’t
forgive. You signed your own death sentence. When you get to H*ll,
give the devil a big kiss for me. Tell all my friends I said hi.
Tell them Barlow sent you there. When the other show up ask them
it they have any ice left. Because where you are going they don’t
serve popsicles.” (Barlow pushes a button witch pops open the trunk of
Jim’s car. The Banker can see one of the bombs just over head.)
Banker “NOOOOOOOOOOO”
(as three Moabs explode over Push Nevada. Nothing but dust is
left.)
(Mary shows up, walks over to Jim.)
(Barlow walks over to Ira)
Leon “No how in the h#ll did he do that. One guy could just
bloooow the shit out of a town.”
Barlow “No town, no case. Nothing. Thanks for coming. My job is
almost done. Thanks to Jim and Mary it’s a lot easier now.”
Ira “How.?”(Mary walks over to Barlow)
Barlow “You will see.”
Mary “I don’t think you understand. I can’t go on with out my dad.
Please don’t let him get on that flight.”
Barlow “No Mary. The town’s people have decided his fate. He has
to be judged….Mary you have a new life. Your married to Jim.”
Mary “I don’t understand. What are you talking about?”
Barlow “It seems you married Jim last night. (he pulls out the
newspaper, She can’t believe what’s written) Isn’t that your face
with Jim getting married?”
Mary “No, Let me think….. It’s coming back now….”
Barlow “You and Jim both signed the marrage papers.(pulling out a
paper)”
Mary “Let me see that (She looks at it) Wait,,, My handwriting is
not this good when i’m drunk. You must have doctored this paper.”
Barlow (in a smugged voice) “It is your and Jim’s signature.”
Jim “How? Why? ”
Barlow “Didn’t you win a large some of money. (In a smirk smile)
Don’t you read papers that you sign? As for the why, because it
was the only way to fix some of the worlds problems.”
Jim “What are you talking about?”
Barlow “Your dad was a programmer. He developed a program to
predict out comes. The program would scan news events and make trades
depending on everything. The catch is it you ever married Mary it
would go into a self-destruct mode…No part of your dad’s program
could be modified. The program had hundreds of checks. Because
Watermark could lose millions. Back when your Dad made that
program memory could go bad. I had hundreds of programmers looking over
his code. After years of work we could not change one part of his
program. Finally Wilkes said ‘F*ck THIS lets just send Jim a
fax.’. ”
Jim “Wilkes sent that fax?”
Barlow “We also have other things we have in the works in insure
the outcome. It isn’t called juggling if you don’t have 3 balls up in
the air.”
Jim “What are you talking about?”
Barlow (opening up a beer) “The sweet taste of revenge.”
Mary “Please! Barlow”
Barlow “The big man upstairs made his decision.”
(Now Prufrock’s dad’s program starts losing money for Watermark.
Mostly in trades of options. One trade, would make the other loose
more and more. Then Barlow’s (and Wilkes) plan starts. One Country
announces they are no longer linking US dollars to their money. So
others announce they are going to use US dollars and no longer
Euros. (Who can say what Barlow said to who. When panic sets in
nobody can stop panic)) Other Countries switch from gold, to
dollars.
Some country’s announce that there are defaulting on loans. As the
market moves down, sometimes up then sharply down. The words that
the main players of the World Traders used more then any other
was ‘F*ck you Barlow’ because they are on the wrong side of
trades.
Panic is the driving force now. Please show the Panic of the
market.
The pain, for 3 min. )
(Back at the Airport Barlow makes sure everyone who had done
Things wrong to the people of push get onto the airplane. Sloman (Mary’s dad) is the
last.)
Barlow “Wilkes will be sleeping on the seat next to you in Brazil.
Stay next to Wilkes all the time. When you land at the South pole.
Wake him up. Hand him this paper.”
(Sloman gets on the airplane,long Hours later)
Oswald “Man, I got to stop drinking. (He looks around Sloman is
sitting next to him) What the F*ck? The last thing I can remember
is drinking some cold ones with Carson. Where am I?”
Sloman “Barlow told me to give you this.”
Oswald “So marry got married. (He read about Greenspan death) Son
of a B!tch. Greenspan die.”
Sloman “So what?”
Oswald “If I know Greenspan would die, all I had to do is sell the
market more. Now I know why Barlow sent me here just to stop me
from driving the market down farther. Well I guess Barlow should have
asked me what I was up to. With the things I have lined up who
knows where the market will be at.”
Sloman “Why is Greenspan so important?”
Oswald “Well, Greenspan would have called a few people and after a
few days everything would back to normal. I’m not sure who will
step up and fill Greenspan’s shoes.”
Sloman “How do you sleep with yourself”
Oswald “On good days a handful of double stuff cookies, a box of
Cereal and a bottle of beer.”
Sloman “And on bad days”
Oswald “A bottle of Jack, a Ak47, and a box of Twinkies.”
Sloman “Where did you meet Barlow?”
Oswald “That’s a long story. Let just say it involves
dingleberrys, the city of troy. And unfinished business in a liveplanet fiasco
at Tollhouse.”
Sloman “What?”
Oswald “Like I said, It’s a long story, never mind.”
(The market sinks more and more)
(The airplane lands at the South pole. Everyone gets off they look
around. Finding nothing but Snow. They relies that they have be
tricked. After a time they find a large box. They find a Note :
From the people of Push Nevada. Each of you will be given a copy of
Prufrock’s Bible. It shows the things you did, a map and a compass
to save your life. May God have mercy on your soles.)
Oswald “Who knows how to read a map?”
Rich woman (looking at her map) “This is too easy. Here’s the
south pole here is where we are We need to go this way.”
Oswald “That rich woman can’t be wrong. She’s rich. The problem
with rich people is they think because their rich they are smarter than
other people.”
Rich woman “He works for Barlow. Don’t listen to him.”
Oswald “Didn’t you inherent your money? Or did you marry into
money?”
Rich woman “I think I know how to read a compass. (Pointing)
North, This way.”
Oswald “Your right. Lets all follow the rich woman. Come on.”
(As they pass a sign “Welcome to Push Nevada (Nevada is Spanish
for Snowflake )”
{***Do you know how to read a map? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Because it d@m
cold at the south pole.***}
Wilkes and Sloman are in the back. Wilkes (grabs Sloman’s
shoulder)”Don’t F@cking move. Wait …. (Everyone just like
lemmings all the others keep walking)
Sloman look at your map. (Sloman looks at his map.) What way would
you go (Wilkes pulls out his Mickey Mouse compass)”
Sloman “The South pole is here, we are here, your Mickey Mouse
compass shows this way.”
Oswald “You see the south pole is not magnetic south. 5 degrees
this way.”
Sloman (making small talk)”It hard to believe my litter girl is married…”
(cut to Barlow drinking with Mary)
(On TV showing the down of the market.)
Ackerman “What did the pres. Do today. ..As the market felling the
pres. Signed Pres. Pardons. They are sealed and will not be open
until his term is up.”
(Barlow open’s up a folder, Giving Mary the papers. As Mary looks
at the paper, Yes these are the paper that Barlow took) (he also rips
the people paper who he does not like up)
Barlow “I never like him, or him, not her, Oh, yes that a copy of
your dad’s pardon of crimes he might have done, that’s your. And
other copy of people that need pardons. I guess like you he should
have look what he was signing before he did…. Cheers”
Mary “Will my dad live?”
Barlow “You know me Mary. What do you think….Like I said Oswald
is a boomerang.”
(the end)
> © 2005 Foundrunner (Leon)
March 25th, 2017 at 1:23 am
The ending was creative but for another story. There are rules for mysteries such as PUSH. First, every loose end needs to be explained (or at least as many as possible). You abandon the group of characters the story established. What was in the secret room of the hotel? Who was “g”? The audience had been waiting for answers. There is something called the Chekhov’s gun and is a major dramatic principle. If you show something like the hotel’s hidden room or the Bible you must solve the mystery or problem. Check out “Chekhov’s gun” at Wikipedia.
Your main character needs to be the center of the solution. Jim needed to be the center of action not Barlow. Barlow would need to be established in the story before the ending.
Too much dialog but if you replace some of the speeches with description of some of the action (show don’t tell is what they call it) you would be fine.
If you are interested in writing keep at it. The only way to get better is to write and write some more. Find a fan fiction place with a community to respond to your ideas. Find a writer’s group – some friends or others who want to write and you all meet and share criticism and ideas.
March 25th, 2017 at 10:29 pm
Michael,
You are right. This is the ending of the story. The story I wrote started ~Nov 2002. Each month I would write one page. This ending was wrote ~2005.
The way I saw the story, Why did Mary leave the book for Job? Because he need to read, or to hide it. Mary know Job would read it. If Mary could have used it, she would have kept the Bible.
In the TV show Mary knows how to use guns and have acted like she could use it at no hesitation. She works for Barlow. So, to keep the story (“Chekhov’s gunâ€) Eben Barow had to be “The voice” or Armand Assante the Guy that Silas Bodnick talked to in his office.
What was in the secret room of the hotel?
In the PDF (The Push Nevada Experiment) everyone was monitored by Watermark. The PDF book also talked about Jim Dad role in the start of Push Nevada. The start of Push Nevada was 1984. The same year Michael Eisner took over “The Walt Disney Company”.So, why did Afflack and Sean Bailey’s put that date in? Maybe because of “Chekhov’s gunâ€, who knows. The PDF also talked about a killer code. One page of the PDF was a page that looked like a old computer punch card, also in the TV show it shows Jim looking in a mirror, Could that be a “Chekhov’s gun” for mirror website or Pushtime to Yahoo usergroup?(Years before Facebook). The secret room was the usergroup Live planet set up. (My guess) In my story it at 9:00pm(?) Watermark had to turn off the Video Cameras because of thing people were doing at 9:00pm (or 7PM?).
You asked “Who was “gâ€? ” G was Live Planet’s Project Greenlight.When I watched the show I thought it was “C” C for Copyright. Or Could it be C for Comedy Central. At the time frame ABC was in last place, cable companies programming was taking market share.ABC was pulling down Disney’s stock price. Eisner and Bob Iger need a HOT HIT to turn around ABC. So they got Live Planet. In 2002 sitcoms ruled the 7pm time slot. ABC wanted drama tv shows. The problem was writers of TV shows did not know how to write drama shows. You wrote I had too much Dialog. And you are right, BUT Drama shows are dialog.
ABC had problems pulling down Disney’s stock. At this time ESPN is pulling down Disney’s stock a little. ABC could use product placement to help the bottom line. ESPN has “Name Recognition”.So, to make ESPN worth more I would tell Bob Iger to set up a meeting with ESPN with Walmart and sell up scale productions with ESPN name on those products. Walmart need higher price GOOD product and ESPN means not cheap but great quality. Who knows maybe Walmart will advertise more on ABC. It seem like a win win for ABC, Disney, ESPN and Walmart.
Lets get back to the story.
Let look at the main character Jim. Could Jim be like Clark Kent? No.
How about secretary, Grace? She has gun skills. In the TV show Grace worked hard to get a job in Jim’s office. Why would Grace want a job in Jim’s office because she was working for the Government to watch Ira Glassman. Grace was Ira’s secretary. I picked Ira to save the day but he’s was too old right now. If “Chekhov’s gun†was to be held up, who was left Leon from Legal, “The Voice(Armand Assante)”(Eben Barlow), Mary, Oswald.
The story start out with Jim calling Leon. (Leon from Legal) They encounter Eben Barlow, and Oswald.
The TV show has a few problems. When the bartender said the line about Mary bleading for 7 days and not dying. That need to be fixed. The other problem was keeping with “Chekhov’s gun†Mary Sloman, Silas Bodnick, and Shadrack All talked about Jim’s Dad.
That led to
March 25th, 2017 at 11:52 pm
Not sure why you think the writers didn’t know how to write TV drama. All were experienced professionals. The problem the writers had was ABC kept changing the number of episodes. It was first meant to be a mini-series, then expanded to 13 episodes. When it was cancelled early and the episode number shrank the writers were forced to shove several episodes into one or two. The pacing was destroyed and the time to expose answers was gone. That forced the focus to shift to the game that the series was legal bound to end.
I am no fan of the Jim character but as the protagonist I preferred him to your character Barlow. Barlow was too powerful, almost a walking ex deus machine, who I never cared about.
Once Mary killed the man in cold blood (pun intended) she was a doomed femme fatale. The odds of her surviving the story fell to almost zero. Her relationship with Jim mirrored dark noir novels. Jim could have failed or died at the end but it was his journey the series was about.
One of the reasons fan fiction is popular on the internet is fans have become so attached to the characters or stories they create their own versions of the series’ reality. So there is nothing wrong with your different take, but I preferred the flawed original. It was more dramatically satisfying.
April 3rd, 2017 at 10:25 pm
Martha also know Jim’s dad.
“Chekhov’s gunâ€
Some other major parts in the show take place in the first video.
At (Episode 1) 13:45 Jim meets Mary. She is the only one in the show to want Jim to stay in Push Nevada and find out about the town. Mary wants to keep a arm length away from Jim. Mary in the Yahoo website is also the same way. Why because its her job.
At 19:04 Jim meets Silas Bodnick.At ~19:47-19:59 ~I’ll get cracking on my end and figure out what STORY we are going to go with.”
Michael you wrote at the top of this
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In the 5/20/02 issue of “Broadcasting,†their look at the upcoming new fall 2002 season tried to describe the PUSH, NEVADA interactive game, finally writing, “Frankly, ABC couldn’t seem to explain exactly how it works.â€
In the first episode of PUSH, NEVADA co-creator and movie star Ben Affleck spent more time trying to explain the interactive game than the plot of the series.
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Was this place in the show by Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey keeping with “Chekhov’s gun†telling people about what they need to do?
But Where are people going to write their story? Enoch Yahoo group
At 21:10-21:28 Silas Bodnick lets it slip about who he works … for people who owns Jim’s Father. In the book “The Push, Nevada Experiment” we learn Jim’s dad help set up Push Nevada town.
At ~25:19-27:54 Jim calls Ira Glassman, Ira telling him to come back soon. We learn the website Live Planet setup “Pushtimes.com”(I think I read that that website was taken by someone so I think they had to buy that name back from that person before the TV show got to ABC airing) Also as Ira hangs up the phone there are two guys standing in Ira’s office as he talks to Jim. So Keeping with “Chekhov’s gun†Ira must know the two guys. In my story those two people were “The Voice Armand Assante Eben Barlow” and Oswald Wilkes.That is why my story had TWO major people. We also learn PUSHTIMES.com is the website is the place to write the story. (The Pushtimes website has a link to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enochpushdialectic/message/17679
Both Pushtimes.com and Enoch Yahoo group are a dead links.
This is were I wrote my story. Well ~ 90% of the story the other part I had to write it on another Yahoo group ~Sloman’s. Both website had a lot a spam. Some people came to the website posted a few things and was attacked by people. Those people got mad and posted stuff mean spirited and were kicked off. I know of one person that had ~ 6-12 different screen names.)
28:50-31:21 We see Mary is talking to Oswald Wilkes. Maybe to kill Silas Bodnick. (In my story he is the First one taken to the South Pole.) Jim talks to Mary. One of Mary’s first lines “What can you do for me?” You can tell Jim does not pick up women a lot and Mary can also hear that in her voice. To show Jim she is a kind person she gives Jim a dance. She know Jim is not up to the task of setting things right. All Mary’s lines are focus on problem Jim will encounter in Push Nevada. (Note on the website was setup that way). Mary line ~”life is a long walk up hill, Drop the rock, Go home Jimmy”
32:19-36:00 “The voice Armand Assante or in my story Eben Barlow talks to Bodnick. Why is he upset? Money, the Bible No because of the IRS. Who at the IRS does Barlow know Ira Glassman. The same person that Grace got the job to watch Ira Glassman for the Government. Does Barlow want Jim killed? No, Barlow ~” to take steps to rectify the situation”
36:28-36:53 Bodnick is going to run. Bodnick planed his fake death.
38:49- Bodnick ~”… There are 3 bird on a wire one desides to fly away how many birds on the wire?….” … then we see Bodnick stabbed, and burned does that make him dead? Later we see Bodnick buried in a casket.Now thats a mystery, he’s already burned up in the house. Bodnick found away to escape, but ends up at the South Pole.
Pushtimes.com was Live Planet’s website. We know ABC was going to use the internet. What is one of the way to Search for stuff on the internet GOOGLE.com. Look for stuff I think I found Live Planet and Google had the same company address, but I could be wrong.
Im still not sure if any one cares, so Michael should I go on?
April 4th, 2017 at 12:02 am
I admire your love for the world of PUSH NEVADA. Your interest in a TV show is not unusual, ask people involved with DOCTOR WHO, STAR WARS, STAR TREK and FIREFLY, just to name the most obvious. Books have the same connection to readers thus the endless number of Sherlock Holmes books.
When I was trying to sell a script to REMINGTON STEELE I did a writers guide for the producers. It would get up to 100 pages. After the series was cancelled I promised them to do a final Book but never got around to it. I would even do an outline for a possible return of the series, but never sent it anywhere. I probably should send it to a fan fiction site but why. Michael Gleason (Showrunner for RS) died recently and so did his possible book series involving the characters and any hope for the series revival.
People can devote their lives to a show and that is ok, but I moved on to find other shows to get involved with.
Should you go on? I can’t tell you, but I am exhausted just reading that last comment. This much work and thought belong more on a fan fiction website dedicated to TV shows. Find one you enjoy and start writing about your world in Push Nevada. What you describe above about a group taking over a site to share fiction and ideas is very much like the fan fiction site.
This is beyond my interest in a forgotten TV series I didn’t like (the network was at fault for PUSH flaws and death). Trust me there are others out there interested in PUSH, I hope you find them. And try to expand your interest to other shows and visit here when we look at them.
April 7th, 2017 at 8:41 pm
Michael, I really liked Doctor Who (the one in the ~1970’s-81),Star Wars, and Star Trek. Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone was great. I did not read the Sherlock Holmes books. The one mystery show I like watching was Columbo with Peter Falk. As for loving Push Nevada, it was a very good show. It is real hard to know what people will watch. I read some where, the writers got the name Alfred Prufrock from TS Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Eliot was one of the Clues.
Here is TS Eliot reading “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
(I’m not sure how it comes into play in Push Nevada.)
I do remember watching REMINGTON STEELE. ~ It seems to me REMINGTON STEELE was on going good and then it seemed to just not on any more. What other shows did you have a hand in?
I agree with you some people devote their live to shows, I think its because they ~ relate to things going on in the shows and like the Actor’s characters in those shows. As for Push Nevada I’m just in it for the money.(But its a TV show worth watching). The other thing I liked about Push Nevada, it let me write a good story on Enoch Yahoo Group.
Let tell you about Enoch Yahoo Group. It seem right after Mark Nakamoto stole the money with his phone call, the Enoch Yahoo Group went from ~200 users to ~20,then 10 and by ~Dec 2002 there was maybe ~8. Some of those eight users was really just one person using other names. Know one was helping anyone on that . When I started my story there were only ~4-8 people. My guess is there was only 2 people reading my story. How is ABC (Disney),Live Planet going to set up how to win the ~1,0040,000 (more or less). Are they going to take the easy way out or the hard way. My guess its depends how Live Planet makes their waffles.
Episode 2
00-1:47 Recap of Episode 1. In Ep1, does Jim call the fire department or the police? No, but that might be implied.
2:22-4:20 Jim make a phone call back to the office. Finds out that Ira is upset, and Mary wants to talk to him at Sloman’s.
4:20-4:53The Into of Push. You see DMVF.com, Another website. It was a first letter of ???? of 4 people but I forgot 4 peoples name. The Name of the Episode 2 is “The Black Box” is it TV?
4:56-5:11 The 3 men in Black suits talk,~ “… He’s not happy…”. Who is He? In my story “The Voice (Armand Assante as Eben Barlow)” is the who the three black suits are talking about. Eben does not like them and they do not like him.
5:24-7:35 The three men go to the safe to see what happened to the money. They find out low body temp might not be seen by the IR camera. Are they upset? a little.
7:35-8:16 The three men also find out someone stole a Bible along with the money. The three men in black also find out that the Bible has been place in there 2 two weeks ago. The three black suits guys are now upset. Why would they be so upset about a Bible was also taken. What is in the Bible? Later we learn Mary gives it to Job. In my story Barlow (“The Voice Armand Assante as Eben Barlow”) has the talk some people into sending the Bible to safe in Push Nevada. Bible is one part of “Chekhov’s gunâ€. If you read my story ending you will find out why the Three men are so upset. My Post #39
8:18-9:09 We see a TV. ~”… we should have wrote that one….”. Jim see Deputy Dawn Mitchell Liz Vassey (she was in a movie called “The Tic”). When Jim see Dawn he uses his best pick up line ~”…you look like a beginning of a new day”
9:09-9:46 Jim and the Take a ride to Bodnicks’s burn up. It seem strange things happen all the time in Push Nevada.Jim ~”… should you be writing a report?” Sheriff Gaines ~” First we have to know your not a pranker”. On the Enoch Yahoo group it was hard to tell who were “Pranker” or not “Prankers”
9:46-11:49 Jim~”My story check out..” Also we see the three men in black showing up, they say they are part of the “the gaming commission”, Are they the people who are going to judge for Live Planet analogy or symbolism Internet Enoch Yahoo group? Hold on, all stop, Sean Bailey oversees all aspects of live-action development, film production and physical production for Walt Disney Pictures. Sean Bailey is now the “President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production”. A failed TV show for ABC writer in now one of the heads of Disney’s Studios Motion Picture Production. Now that a great Mystery.
13:06-14:01 The men in black start look for the Bible and money. The money and the Bible are not in Bodnicks’ safe.
15:50-19:33 Jim tries to find out about who killed Bodnick. Jim sees Job’s tattoos and uses logic so find who is the local tattoos artist. Jim does his best Peter Fox Columbo impersonation to ask Job questions.
21:13-23:51 Mary meets with Moore to find the money and the Bible. Mary asks Moore to whisper in her ear where he put the money. Handcuffs Moore to the bed. Mary leaves Moore handcuffed to the bed. Mary also need to meet Jim at Sloman’s.
24:10-25:57 We see Mary talking to Shadrack. Mary introduces Shadrack to JIM Prufrock. Shadrack ~”any relation”. In “The Push, Nevada Experiment” PDF we learn Jim’s dad work setup Push Nevada. That tells us that Shadrack know Jim’s dad. Shadrack ~”There is a price floor (or did he say “war”)”
26:01-29:18 Mary seem to want to get close to Jim. Mary turns on the charm Mary~”You saw my note” , Jim “You set me up”.
[I did not like to back ground sound in this cut when Sloman enters the room.]
29:19-30:36 The three men in black find out that the money is in Demonhead Flats. On the internet there was a Map of Push Nevada and the map in also in the PDF. Demonhead wait,,, Matt Damon is part of Live Planet. Did Affleck and Bailey add his name in the show? I don’t have clue because I do not work for them (Disney, Live Planet, ABC).
30:36-31:49 Caleb Moore is killed by chipped ice. Who killed Caleb Moore, Oswald. If you watch the seen Mary does not kill Moore but some guy. (side Note: Chris Moore is one of the Owner’s of Live Planet.)
31:55-34:23 Jim is driving. He has a call-list or thing to do list. First on Jim’s list is going to “Recon Demonhead Flats”, interveiw Caleb Moore, Find Man with serpent tattoo. Jim start his investigation at Demonhead Flats. Jim starts search, he finds people in the dark landscape of Demanhead Flats, looking for something. 100’s of people with Flash light looking. In the TV show they are looking for the money, on the Internet game people are Google, Seaching for LivePlanet’s ~$1,040,000. Google …. Googling … It is like looking (or searching) in a dark room for something with no flashlight. The internet game that livePlanet has gives the viewer clueS were to find the money.
34:23-35:36 We see a TV. ~”television is the word” another answer to the Clue? for the name of the Ep 2 The Black box?
35:36-37:32 Jim travels to Caleb Moore house and finds Caleb on killed on ice.
38:41-42:49 Jim’s driving to find out the name of the person with serpent tattoo. [I do not like the tilted camera shots.] I have read on the internet, that Mr. Affleck has many tattoos. Maybe Jennifer Garner star of ABC’s hit series Alias (2001-2006)knows something about Mr Afflecks tattoos. In Episode 1 12:17 on the television you can see the work “ALIAS”. As Jim gets a Tattoo on his back the peyote starts to kick in and repressed childhood memory start to show them self. We find out the name of the serpent tattoo is Oswald Wilkes. Jim tattoo labels him “Death & Taxes”. People label people every day for thing people do for a living.
Wait, I’m sorry, Michael I forgot to ask What other shows did you have a hand in?
April 13th, 2017 at 11:49 pm
On Yahoo messageboard Oswald Wilkes (as I remember) seemed to get under people skin the wrong way. Mary or Alfie she seem to be nice, but she had ~ 4 (or alot more) screen names. It seemed there at time teams of people setup people against people how posted on the website. One person would post a comment and seen 4-6 people would attack what they wrote.
Ep 3 “The Color Of…â€
00-0:48 Sharack pickup cans and the Three men in black suits watching over what he does, drinking orange drink.
Wait, the show open with Shadrack picking up cans?
I could not prove the actors were on the Pushtime Yahoo messageboard, but the Internet was one of the best possible of the interactive game. There was no case law on how Broadcasting Networks could use messageboards, it more like the wildwest. If LivePlanet (and ABC) wanted a interactive game they must use the internet Pushtime Yahoo messageboard or another website.
0:48-1:16 (Ep 2)Mary sent Sharack to dig up the money and the Bible. Shadrack could not go at night because lot of people from Watermark would be looking at night at Demonhead flats. Ep3 is set in the morning,(EP 3)Shadrack digs up the money, with a army shovel (“Chekhov’s gunâ€)
1:16-2:38 Jim call Grace on his wireless phone. (was it me but did the Spint Wireless spoke man look like JJ Abrams, the writer of ABC hit show of Alias?) Jim ask Grace to find infor on people of Push. Grace ~”Your in box is getting full”. E-mail was the new mediam of sending message to people, and my guess is thats one more clue, “Pushing” people to use the internet.
2:38-4:32 To be a good interrogate or detective you must get on the good side of people. So they will open up to you. To be kind Jim hand over a embroidery handkerchiefs with his initials (JPA or JAP). In remembrance of his dad Jim keeps THREE (not 2) at all times. One is given to Delilah (BRB wife) other one is given to Mary.
4:32-5:01 As the people leave a smoke screen is push up in front of Jim, as Shadrack, walks by Jim with the money and Bible walks.
5:01-5:30 Jim find out he has a flat tire. Jim walk to the back of his car to open his trunk of his car he remembers he was locked in the trunk of his Dad’s car when his dad was killed. Jim’s car is another “Chekhov’s gun†prop. It is use at the ending of my story.
5:30-6:30 …
6:30-8:50 TV ~” blood on a book its going to be scary, a new mystery” Jim go to the sheriff and deputy about who killed Bodnick. He tell them Oswald Wilkes killed Bodnick. Does the Sheriff and Deputy care? No, Maybe because they Bodnick and Moore got what was coming to them or they are told to over look each killing in Push Nevada. My thoughts are that Moore’s death was Mary’s payback. Mary had Oswald kill Moore. Both the Sheriff and Deputy do not care just another Label Death by suicide. On the Yahoo messageboard i do think death by suicide was one way people left the messageboard, But I can not prove that fact.
8:50-10:02 Knowone has file a income tax form in 17 years.
10:02-11:00 Shadrack leave the money in Badnick’s casket right next to Bodnick body. The body is not burned up. Why? What a mystery, I thought Bodnick burned up in the house when the house burned to the ground. It might be a problem in the TV show or the writer problem. Like I said earlyer Badnick was the fist person that was sent to the South Pole. Shadrack leaves with the Bible.
11:00-12:01 The Three men in Black suits ask them search the inventory for a Bible. The intercept phone call from Bodnick phone ~”… and our insurance policy… He took everything… and I think this book is more than a insurance policy it could be the mother load”…one of the Men in Black Suits says”Its a simple connecting words ….”. BIBLE, One more “Chekhov’s gun†prop used at the very end of my story.
12:01-12:35 Those images were in the internet.But they were inverted so the images were hard to see. By using Micosost Paint you and invert the image,changing the image to the normal picture quality. I could not get any info off those images.
12:35-14:54 Jim walks to sloman’s bar to talk to Mary. Jim talks to bartender. I read Casey Affleck played the bartender and Oswald Wilkes. He has one line that turn off alot of views. Bartender ~”…bleeds for 7 days and doesn’t die…” That need to be fix so, in my story I told why he said that line. It this point in time the writer changed from wanting view ship TO NOT wanting views watch the show. I believe that the writers and livePlanet wanted the show to be cancaled. Disney need update their company, Disney need something Big. And Disney ABC gambled on a loosing show to hit the motherload. Do you love when a plan comes togather, Waffles anyone?
14:54-15:42…..
15:42-18:10 Jim walk back to Martha’s Boarding House ( Martha is played by Conchata Ferrell one show she was in Two and a Half Men.) Jim seem to think of his dad alot. Jim and Martha do some small talk, as Martha cleans Jim’s Tattoo. The point in time when Martha relize she know Jim’s dad is when Martha hold up the two embroidered handkerchiefs (or hankie) on with AMP. Jim’s has third hankie: Mary, Delila and Martha has one of Jim’s hankies.
18:10-18:14 Jim has a dream lock in a car trunk.
18:14-21:04 Ira wake up Jim from a dead sleep. To tell Jim the gravity of the situation and tells Jim to go home. Two more people are standing in Ira’s office as he talks to Jim.
21:04-24:18 Jim walk to Job’s gas station to get his car. Job has Jim’s Flat tire fix. Jim calls Grace and (21:36-21:48) We learn that Ira got a phone call from Washiton, so those two men in Ira’s office were people following up with Ira about Jim.
24:18-26:21 As Jim start to drive back home, he hears On the radio ~” … do not be seduced by gambling….” (Don’t take the risk of Gambling to make money ) Jim stops at the casino, pull out his note book and watches how the casino is rigging the game. In his surprise the casino is paying out more money than a normal casino.
(The Middle Management Man played, Stennis by Jim Ortlieb)
26:21-28:54 Jim ask to see the casino’s boss.Jim confronts Stennis with the facts that 62% of the time the casino is loosing. The three men in black confirms that fact.55-81% pay out, WOW by a casino. Jim ask Stennis to do the right thing, become deep throat do the right thing and tell Jim what he knows.
28:54-30:00 Jim tell Stennis he is going home. Jim states to Stennis that he is WRITING A FULL REPORT….BRICK BY BRICK.
30:00-31:51 Mary is lurking watching Jim get in his car drive home. As Jim drives he finds one of his hankies with a map drawing of a map to something with a big red X. This drawing on Jims Hankie was also on the internet. This might be the map of where LivePlanet placed the money but I could not relate it to any place, but to the website Liveplanet setup.
31:51-33:11 Jim ” …can i borrow one of your shovels…” because everyone knows when you have a map with a X on it the treaser needs to be dug up.
33:11-34:33 [ I do not like the background music sounds] Jim start diging where Shadrack was digging, because the army military shovel (33:18)is shown by where Jim is digging. The sheriff says~”maybe you should show us what you are looking for…Go on son finish your JOB”. My thought are the writers are thinking ~WOW we dug ourself in to one big hole, how are we going to get out. Jim finds a arm with a serpent tattoo.
34:33-34:58 Jim pass out and see himself being burned up. Jim must be thinking how did I get into this mess, and I need to get out of here.
34:58-35:53 ….
35:53-36:30 Jim tried to do the right thing and look at me now, i can’t get a break. LivePlanet is using Jim charator for analogy (or metaphor) of people playing the interactive internet games. Does the hankie show where LivePlanet hid the money? It a hankie with a map drawn on it with a red X. A map of what? As I said there was a picture on the Internet you could look at. Could the hankie be showing the players need to be doing something on the website? or maybe somewhere to go. LivePLanets game just too large to find the money?
36:39-36:56 Bodnick body and money is place in the ground, for safe keeping.
36:56-37:21 Jim is dreaming of the day his dad die, just like today, its one of his worse day. Jim is lock up and can’t get out, stuck with no hope.
38:00-38:45 Jim is woken up to find out good news and bad news. He has a lawyer, bad news his bail is 900,000 dollars and the lawyer is a Morty (for the TV show of Rick and Morty).
38:45-39:20 Jim calls the office to talk to Ira Glassman. There is alot of phone # in the TV show. They view of the show could call the #. The 866 # was a good # to call, I think you had to put in Ira’s ext# then you leave a message or listen Ira’s message. I can’t remember. There was ~ 3 phone #… but I’m not sure.
39:20-39:58 Jim ask to speak to Ira. Who does Jim ask for help from? Jim~”Ira I need Leon from legal…”. To keep with “Chekhov’s gun†who is going to help Jim fix Push = “LEON FROM LEGAL”. In my story Jim finds a Diamond inside of Jim’s dad’s hankie that Martha gave him. In my story, Jim call Leon to help him solve “the mystery” and bring down the downfall of Push.
38:58- Ira inform jim that he is in trouble, But Ira “…we leave no man behind…. we will get you out of there.”
That the End of Push Nevada’s Episode 3
Steve, If im using too much of your website, Im sorry. I will stop if you want me to.
Michael, I hope this helps you to understand my Ending story Push Nevada. I have read many of your posting on Steve’s Mystery website. They are very good. I wish I could write like you but that’s my problems in life.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:45 pm
Episode 4
Storybook Hero
00-00:33 Jim is in jail, a new Lawyer shows up. We know in the last ep #6,7 Jamison Jones works for Watermark, also the “The Push Nevada Experiment” pdf also tell us Jim’s dad worked with Jamison Jones. Jamison Jones help Al Prufrock set up Push Nevada.
Link to the book “The Push Nevada Experiment” By T. S. Griffin’s, Amazon list the Author T. Solomon Griffiths (other books by Griffiths shows A History of the Calvinistic Methodists in Utica, New York 1991) and Keith Quinn
Link to the book “The Push Nevada Experiment”
https://www.scribd.com/document/30925562/Push-Nevada-The-Experiment
In “The Push Nevada Experiment” there is note from Jones to Al. The goes in to why they need to take over “PushTime”(.com?) newspaper, in which giving Jones and Al control over Push Nevada. That is why the Liveplanet push people out of the Enoch Yahoo group. With smaller # made it easier to controlled how the story went. One other point Jones, and Al both had computers and the Push Experiment book talked about Al Killer code (Chekhov’s gun) to shut down Watermark. The book also wrote about
Jones states ,~He works for the provo office. Did Ira call Jones or did they listen in on Jim’s phone call and send Jones? The fact Watermark listen to all phone calls, and are trying to move Jim out of Push, so Jones role is a troubleshooter or a person you call to fix problems that need to be fix. In this case to find a way to get Jim to find out what Jim knows.
00:33-1:45
Jones~”The legal situation around here is a little muddled”. I’m sure if Liveplanet setup the Game on the internet the legal situation would be a around muddled. Jones~”This town is populated with confederacy of dunces… “. If you were to start reading the post at the Enoch Yahoo user group website people were looking for clue where to find the money. The attitude was why should I write anyone anything to help anyone find ~$1,040,000, but maybe someone will write something could use. The problem was they did too good of a job and remove everyone.
1:45-2:04 Jim ~” I received a fax….” In my story Oswald Wilkes sent Jim the fax. To Keep with Chekhov’s gun the FAX need to one key piece of Liveplanet story line. In the “Push Experiment” talked about Al killer code. I worked on this code problem for sometime and I could not figure out what the “Code” was and (or) how to use that code. So, I figured that if I could not crack that code maybe Oswald and Barlow could not crack that code. To close the story line about the Fax (and Al’s computer)sent to Jim and the end of my story has Al’s computer (also to keep with Chekhov’s gun)wipe out all money from Watermark company.
2:04-3:33 Jones~”Who is do you think is in it? “Jim list a group of people. Could this people be the people on the Yahoo message board, along with the three men in black suits? The only way its work out for me is, if LivePlanet (or ABC, Disney) has setup Yahoo message board for the game. My guess is Jim is describe how LivePlanet is game is set up.
3:33-4:19 Who set Jim up, Well we do know that Delilah (or BRB wife)gives back her Hankey to Jim. So, it either Mary or Martha.
4:19-5:31 This scenes really turn off people, and need to be fixed. In my story ~9:00 (in this case 9:15) all Watermarks camera need to be turn off because this kind of event were going on at people homes. Also Watermark need to reset their system.(It been a long time since I reread my story). There was a lot of focus on Clocks in the TV show. If my memory servers me right I think I read, Push Nevada was shot in high definition TV camera. I just Google it, but I can’t find any link say that.
5:31-6:15 Mary at the bar looking in a mirror, showing a bruised cheek. On the Message board a lot of people felt bruised and beat up.
6:15-8:51 Sloman’s ~”….Take my seat”. Let me float a idea, ABC is in third place, ABC has push all in on Push Nevada, Disney need a idea how to develop TV drama series and want to link the Internet to TV. Eisner has sent Bob Iger to fix the problems at ABC. When Eisner loved telling about his think tank. I think Eisner called it the “Gong Show”. People would toss out show ideas and some would be good other would be “Gonged”. My guess Eisner was look for something great to come out Push Nevada, but not knowing what they would find.
8:51-11:50 As I remember the Yahoo Message board, this shoot sums up how people felt on the website. Jim and two other guys playing Chess(Chekhov’s gun). In my story Jim young is at his dad’s grave crying, this is when Jim meet Eben Barlow (Armand Assante) for the first time, he was hunting down a guy that seems to die before he could send him to hell just like the other people he hunted down. Eben sit plays Jim a game of Chess (Chekhov’s gun linking the TV show to my story)and talks to Jim’s dad. Eben loose most of his piece but still wins…….
11:50-13:59 Jones~”Who paid you bail?”
SG~ “You can’t leave with out you slipper… ” HOLD on “Story Book Hero” slippers,Cinderella, Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, or was it Disney? Or could the clue be what kind of a person LivePlanet sent to find for Disney?
13:59-15:50 ~”… fall line up…” Grace “Bail!??” She’s think who in the world could someone put up that much money in such a short time. Grace was to watch Glassman for the FBI she knows the system, know one gets that kind of money this fast. Two guns are place on the display counter, one black and one white (forecast). Two people going back to Push Nevada to solve the problems. Jim and Leon. I pictured someone like ~ Eddie Murphy as Leon. I real like the first Beverly hills cop movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWjZM780lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGXMBt64MVM
That’s is the kind of person I see in Leon in my story.
15:50-19:42 You hear Miss Blackwell talking to Oswald. In my story Oswald was buried in the hole but he is still alive. My guess Oswald is drunk and want sleep off the cold one he was drinking, also being buried alive took up his drinking time. The best place to sleep without people wanting to talk to you is a funeral home.
In 1984 a lot of people die in Push Nevada, Jim’s dad died in 1986 (ep3 time ~16:30) Soon after Jim’s dad die, Eben Barlow sit down talks to Jim about who killed his dad. Eben is mercenary or the hand of Death. (Missionary Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Q3cp3cp88
19:42-22:50 The tape are being burn up as Jim talks. ABC is start the process to remove “Push Nevada” from the TV and move it to the Internet.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/eisner-touts-national-duops/94064
Eisner
“There is no way a quirky new kind of show like that can get sampled on Thursday night,” up against all the formidable network competition. But give it “multiple plays on ABC Family, and you find ways to bring attention to it like HBO and other cable services bring attention to their product. Then you can bring it back on the network once you start to build a cult following.”
But where is Eisner moving “Push Nevada”? The Internet.
22:50-24:15 Jim takes a walk and every house seem to have 2 kids, one wife, and one dog. A typical make up family in the United State.
24:15-25:34 Grace ~”Who bailed out my boss?” In my story is does not say Eben Barlow bail out Jim but my end of the story must have out of jail and getting to married to Mary.
25:34-27:23 Mary seems to hang out at Sloman’s bar. When the Yahoo Message board was being remove, someone set up another message board called Sloman. Part of the story had to be wrote there because the message board list on the Push times website was close down. Spam was a real problem on the message boards. Mary ~” I told you to leave,.. now we are both stuck here” If LivePlanet had some of the cast interact with people in the Message board I place Mary, Job and Jim (Bodnick, Affleck, Bailey) high on that list.
27:23-30:10 Sloman~”Golf it helps me relax” A lot of people like Golfing, Eisner ~ did a deal to buy ABC on a Golf course. Sloman~ “You find a groups of random bullet hole you paint a target around them to prove they were made intensely” Well, If LivePlanet, ABC, Disney want to go out as winners then the story of “Push Nevada” is not just random TV plot mystery show. If LivePlanet, ABC, and Disney just walked away for “Push Nevada” then I think they walked away from a good story. Life Goes on, I played the card I was given, life goes on.
30:10-31:19 ….
31:19-32:16 The Three men in Black suits (Who look like Affeck and Bailey, Chris Moore)are handed a report, telling them Mary is at Bodnicks grave. Too bad there was no LAMPPOST[HA, HA,How that Mr. Affeck for getting Chris Moore word into this post?] help Mary see better.
32:16-32:55 ….
32:55-33:57 As the three men watch pear through the green looking glass. As people know LivePlanet had a TV show on HBO called Project Greenlight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAuxKDamxh8
A few years ago HBO did not renew the show. Affleck ~ said they were going to move Project Green light some where else. I only watch a the show a few times because I could not afford HBO. The problem with the show was it showed everyone in a bad light. The TV show, showed all the chaos making a script into a movie. If people saw all the bad drama making the movie that would turn off people from going to that movie. Bad press means, NO people will pay $8.00 to watch a bad film. The bad event seen back stage on the making of that movie, pushes down movie box office tickets sales.
The three men in Black suits see the missing money, but not the Bible. “….NO, The Book is better risk…” I risked my story to hope LivePlanet is look for a story, hoping Mark Nakamoto is not the only winner of LivePlanets money. Its been over 15 years and the outcome does not look good at this point in time.
33:57-34:45 As the music box plays Shadrack looks at Al Prufrock Bible.
In the book “The Push Nevada Experiment”, the book has a image of the page Shadrack is looking at. The image has small black rectangle. If you cut out the small black rectangle you have a something that looks like a OLD computer punch card.If you cut those small block out they look like a computer punch card. The book “The Push Nevada Experiment” it talked about Al’s code that would take down Watermark. I could not place the card anywhere to make any hidden words appear. So keeping with Chekhov’s gun, a OLD computer need to be add to my story.
34:45- Jim locked into his own car trunk, just like the time he was hiding in the trunk when his dad was killed. Was Dawn (Liz Vassey, she was in the movie The Tick)was she one of the people on the Internet Yahoo message board? The shows leave on a TV cliffhanger mystery.
A good mystery is, What Apple and Disney are doing. Is Apple buying Disney. I’m not sure if that’s a good Idea. My thoughts are they are better to go into a joint venture, Apple would make and sell the hardware of a virtual reality and Disney would make the content of the VR system. That would make a win win for Apple, Disney. Games made by Apple and Disney, it sounds a little cool.
Michael, and Steve,
I hope this helps you to understand the End of the story I posted here.
April 27th, 2017 at 9:48 pm
EP 5 The Letter of Law.
00:00-3:03 Dawn~ “No one pony up 900 grand for a number 2 pencil pusher like you” Hold on, would Liveplanet or ABC(Disney) pony up ~ $1,040,000 for someone to call a phone # or would Liveplanet pay out that much more money for a #2 pencil “Pusher” to write (and fix) a ending for their failed TV show. If Liveplanet did use the internet for the actors to interact with people, Dawn would be one of those people.
3:03-3:06 Intro of Push Nevada. The 7 deadly sins list. Last word “Wrath”.
3:06-5:17 Dawn “We could only grab one men”
5:17-6:34 Mary is looking for a BOOK, Mary~”I know it is the only thing to get me out of here and keep me safe… I will get that book”. We know at Ep7 ~(9:28) gives the Bible to Job. Let just take time and dream up how Sean Bailey pitch a idea to ABC (Eisner, Iger). Let me pitch a Gong show idea to Eisner. LivePlanet writes a show that is open ended. We have the people who watch the show write the ending. Now, If everyone knows that LivePlanet wants people to write a script it would not let a the kind of person Disney was after. What Kind of a person ~”A story book Hero” someone who hides from the world, a Clark Kent, …. who knows?
6:34-7:27 Jim ~”that happens when?”,Jim drive by a billboard sign. Another sign pushing people to write on the Yahoo MessageBOARD?
7:27-9:27 Grace looks for the person who wrote the check to the bonds man. The address of the person listed to jet. The person owns a jet and travels the world. Keeping with Chekhov’s gun the story must keep with Eben Barlow. My story tell how he started working for Watermark and why he did take job. The Ending show why he needed to bide his time. The story also tells the death of so many by the hand of Barlow made Bodnick the head of the casinos.
The object Grace holds up a object that has a (C) Copyright? Just before Grace gets done peeing. Nice one, another turn off for viewers. Now we are sure LivePlanet is winding down the show.
9:27-10:53 Grace calls Jim, a letter on the payphone “G” This is why people took hint “The Letter of Law” for “G” it seem (C) or copyright would be a better symbol of law then “G”. My guess is Push Nevada had also phone # for people to call, maybe Melora Walters (Grace) took some of those phone call. I don’t have a clue. “G” letter of the law. I have no idea.
10:53-11:17…
11:17-14:40 This part of the TV is really turning off people from watching.
14:46-16:25 The three men in black suit must give a report of the missing money and book. When the BOOK is talked about, the higher ups all whisper to each other. That tells us that they know what in that book why it is important to get back the book soon. The other problem is and why it is important who bailed out Jim. Who Paid it (C)symbol,A cold chill wind seems to enter the room. A dark name of Eben Barlow enters the mind of people listen the report. A strong apprehension chills the hearts of everyone. No one like Barlow.
16:25-18:34 As waffles get cooked, Smoke come out waffle maker (Chekhov’s gun)Jim~ “Companies build a certain % for of their *PRODUCTS to FAIL* ….” waffles any one? Did LivePlanet just write a TV show for Fail?
18:34-18:59 ….
18:59-21:06 Flash back to when Jim got into his dad’s car. Please NOTE(20:39) this is the same(Type) car (Chekhov’s gun) Jim drives to Push Nevada.
21:06-21:45 Shadrack ~”I have to install it”
21:45-23:10 Grace uses her skill to find out about Dawn.
23:10-24:24 Shadrack~”You have to see it all but you have to see the pieces it all has meaning…” To place the book is save hands Shadrack places AL Prurock’s Bible into his sons hands. We also know that Shadrack knows Jim’s dad. The art sculpture is symbol how the game,TV Liveplanet was setup? The book is in your hands, its up to you, to tell the viewers the ending of Push Nevada.
24:56-24:58 The three men in black suit are looking for the Bible. Wait to read what would be posted on the Yahoo messageboard.
24:58-25:37 Jim draws out, how the mystery is plotted out.
25:37-25:58 Jim thinks about looking behind the curtain, who is pulling the strings. The puppet masters, Live planet is my guess.
25:58-29:13 Mary,~” you don’t know what you are up against” The Yahoo Messageboard website was set up that way.
29:13-31:09 ….
31:09-31:59 Jim walk in to the bank and want to see the bank paper work.
31:59-32:49 Mary drives up in her car. This is the same model of car Ben Affleck drive I wrote about in post 22 on this website. Mary walks with a gun toward Shadrack house. If you watch her walk she walks with the gun very confidence, Just like she has done this thousands of time before, very confidence walk. In my story Mary also works for Eben Barlow. Mary is taken away by Barlow from her father just after Barlow talked to her dad. That event happen shortly after Barlow went to Push Nevada after talking to young Jim at the grave yard. Her nerves are shot, She is good women, want out from Barlow, she just want the whole thing to be over.
32:49-34:26 Jim~”….You have to, by Law….” Please watch this clip over a few times. Then lets break it down. OK, As you know the casinos pays out ~62% of the time. The casinos shows it as a lose. Where does the money go to, THE BANK. Does THE BANK have the paperwork showing it a real bank. NO. Does the people of push take the money out of the bank? Jim finds out NO one take out that much money. So, local stores {Ep 7 time 5:28-6:41} do not get most of the money THE BANK holds most of the money. Where is LivePlanet’s ~$1,040,000? IN THE BANK. But lets get back to the story. To Keeping with Chekhov’s gun who’s the bad guy? The Banker. The Ending of my story has the banker locked in to Al’s car trunk. “The Letter of the Law.†The Bank’s paperwork. No Paperwork not a real bank. Watch this clip over a few times. As you can see now, all the piece of the puzzle of the TV show and my story are lock in they all fit Chekhov’s gun format. If you watch Ben Affleck’s last move “The Accountant” it shows a kid putting to gather a puzzle. If you watch that clip, the puzzle is upside down, why because its harder to do. Why did I write a my story, because no one tried and it was VERY hard for me to write, that is why I wrote my story.
34:26-35:29 As soon as Jim gets close to the money alarm bells goes off. Jim~”…People are spending money like it is night before dooms day….” What is the time frame that Liveplanet sets for the ending of Push Nevada? Within a few days. My story ends with in days.
35:29-36:14 Who is watching over Jim? Dawn, Liz Vassey.
36:14-38:11 Mary brings in the money to Sloman. Another TV scenes that turned off people from watching this show. Mary had a hand in killing Bodnick and Moore so it seem Sloman would have been on her top of the list to be killed. Why not, because he is her dad. The ending of the my story has Sloman walking with Oswald at the South Pole. It seem everyone who almost dies, they have changed in someway. Does Mary’s dad live, that up to Sloman, how depends on how much he wants to live.
38:11- 38:59 …..
38:59-39:51
39:51- Grace is talking about Dawn. Could it be that Grace is also talking about thing on the Yahoo Messageboard? I can’t prove it but maybe.
Michael, If you watch the show knowing that the TV show want people to write a TV show ending it makes more sense. That my take on Push Nevada game that ABC, Sean Bailey and Ben Affleck wanted to make. Does the mystery of how Liveplanet got a deal with Disney seem to be a little clearer now? Only my guess, I can’t prove that, that all depends on how the waffle maker is made.
May 5th, 2017 at 11:17 pm
Ep 6 Morse Code.
00:00-00:54 Recap
00:54-01:17 Some Dream are the apprehension of life’s problems.
01:17-05:20 (Morse Code)Dawn and Jim walk the highways pick up trash. Could this also be Liveplanet subtle (subtext) hints for the super highway called the internet highway?
05:21-07:13 Jim write out a E-mail for someone to help him. This E-mail was also on the Web for people to read. Jim needs more help, so he grabs a list of E-mail address of people looking for anyone to help him find solve the problems he’s in. ANYONE willing to take the time so solve LivePlanet’s “THE MYSTERY OF PUSH, NEVADA”
07:13-08:07 Roll intro, There is a few Morse code here. Like …—… SOS, (an international code signal of extreme distress, “Send Our Succor†or ” Save Our Ship”)Rating of this show is dropping like a rock. Like a wrote ABC and Push Nevada is in last place. They have ran up the white flag and sending out SOS for anyone to help.
08:07-10:11 ….
10:11-11:04 People read Jim E-mail.
11:04-12:42 Jim mails a package to his Lawyer. What type of town is Push Nevada? Let look at Push’s post office. ~”Name your own price” This is product placement advertising(Another product placement advertising was when Jim was using a Cell phone.) This is another pieces of the puzzle that the writers and Liveplanet
showing the viewer to use the Internet.
12:42-13:02 People monitoring what people are doing in Push Nevada.
13:02- 15:08 Jim holds up a Wooden (board)sign, that shows a message in Morse code — — .-. … .
(MORSE) -.- — -.. . (KODE, the C is -.-. in Morse code) Another Message board. A message in the Art work, something that can’t be talked about. But there are 3 men in black suits lurking around watching what is talked about. Michael you asked “What was in the secret room of the hotel?” This the were watermark was
watching the people of Push Nevada. In my story I wrote about why Mary left the book for Job to read. Job was the only hold out in the fate for the people who worked for Watermark. In my story a Vote took place what would lead to the end of Watermark and the people how killed the good people of Push Nevada before Watermark took over the little town. As for the Game my guess is Liveplanet and Disney were watching the Yahoo messageboard.
15:08-17:57
17:57-19:30
19:30-22:13 Jim does some research on the three dark suits guys. We also find out how Grace got her job. Why does Grace need a job? She is sent in by the FBI to watch Ira Glassman (~that fit my story). How is LivePlanet and Disney are going to pick someone to win the ~$1,040,000 they might be look for some standout person that would gather all the clues and make a good judgement in how those facts fit the sTroy line. Who is going to pick that person, maybe lawyers, lets keep watching the show. Jim works out the gaming Commission was part of Watermark. Maybe Liveplanet or Disney was part of the gaming commission on Liveplanet Mystery show called Push Nevada. My guess would be Yes. Why would I say that, because of before Push Nevada was showed on TV Liveplanet talked about the game “Push Nevada”
Michael wrote earlier
In the 5/20/02 issue of “Broadcasting,†their look at the upcoming new fall 2002 season tried to describe the PUSH, NEVADA interactive game, finally writing, “Frankly, ABC couldn’t seem to explain exactly how it works.â€
22:13-22:20 The Three men are linked to Watermark. As for the Game on the internet I would pick Mr. Affleck, Sean Bailey, maybe Chris Moore or Executive Producer James Parriott. Who is James Parriott, Google him. He also did ABC hit show “LOST”.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH0P-CA7ntE
I like two parts in this clip ~”Lamp post station” {that’s for you Moore}and ~”I can’t change the past” If you look at that show “Time Travel”(going back to the past) would have linked all events that happened in LOST. Change the Past and Ben fixes the problems he encountered. IF scary smoke monster was events that Ben Linus went back to the past to fix his problem. The scary smoke monster would be filtering out things now, that Ben did in the past. That how I would fix LOST, if ABC would bring back Lost for one more TV network season]
22:20-23:08 Jim looks at Shadracks sculpture. The sculpture symbolizing the jigsaw puzzle Game that LivePlanet setup.
22:08-26:19 We see shadow cast by Mary~”… boss has a tight rein on us girls” What does this tell us about Mary? She will Lie, and keep a journal about everything told to her. Waiting ….(Just like the Yahoo Messageboard.)
26:17-26:23 Now we learn why Mary comes to Jim’s room. Not to help Jim but to get the BIBLE. Mary only has one goal, to get the BOOK. To find get the BIBLE, its worth more that the money($1,040,000) how much more? Only LivePlanet knows.
26:23-27:35 Here is the twist, Jim’s Lawyer works for Watermark. We also knows that the post office works for Watermark….
27:35-28:32 More product placement ad for sprint.
28:32-29:10 Jamison Jones {Jim’s Lawyer} (played by Rick Worthy) takes charge. I see him like a Bob Iger type person. Size up the problems, take charge, fix the problems that need to be fixed and move on. The way I saw Disney’s problem was too many people were scared, they were a flag drifting in the wind, not knowing what to do. Just
like LivePlanet’s Internet game.
29:10-30:50 This is part tells Jim’s history of his childhood. Why because it tell us what kind of person what makes up Jim. It tells the view what kind of a personality (or character), and what thing he might do. These are the kind of person LivePlanet and Disney is looking for.{Oh like I said before, this is my guess. I do not work for LivePlanet ABC or Disney. This is ONLY my thought how I THINK LivePlanet set up the Internet Game. IF there was a Internet Game. ABC has stated Mark Nakamoto has the money, and I have not got one cent or even one mountain dew, but its nice to output another idea how Liveplanet could have made game of Push Nevada.}
30:50-33:21 ….
33:21-34:24 Jim ~”… getting information are a bit of a art form” It’s like the FBI reading a Mad Magazine to solve political scandals. How are the people going to be pick by LivePlanet?
Dawn~”You made a impression onto a legal pad” Like I wrote ~How has the money LAWYERS. On the Yahoo messageboard I think I wrote, the lawyer wore black or blue sox, its been too long ago.
34:24-35:12 ….
35:12-35:41 Mary drives in to the desert, away from everyone to read book (the holy book) that will keep her safe. Only to find, the Holy Bible is holes cut into the pages. In “The Push Nevada Experiment” It talked about (Jim’s dad)Al Prufrock’s Bible with a killer code to take down Watermark. The TV show has holes cut out, that one form of a code. The message can be seen using the hole in the slots and a message wrote by someone. I could not make that kind of a code work on anything wrote on the PushTimes website or Yahoo messageboard. Life goes on. Knowing the facts that Al Prufrock used computer, and in ~”The Push Nevada Experiment” Al’s stated had a way to take down Watermark with that code (program) that needed to be added to my story. As you know Push Nevada started with a FAX going to Jim Prufrock. The main question was WHO SENT JIM THE FAX. My story show why Oswald sent Jim that fax. It started the even of Jim re united with his childhood girl he meet before his dad was killed, and would leave the destruction Watermark IF JIM married Mary. Al’s killer code could not be cracked and the only other chose was Jim to marry Mary. Jim gets the beautiful Mary(Scarlett Chorvat) That’s why the FAX was sent to Jim leading to the fall of the Great Watermark. The company that is too big to fail. ~ The company that owns people who own people that own your dad.
35:41- Sloman~”God laughs at those who plan” How did Liveplanet set up their Internet game?”God laughs at those who plan” They had no plan, just a hope that someone would step up and take a chance.
May 21st, 2017 at 1:16 am
Ep 7 Jim’s Domain
(As you read this post, Please click on the YOUTUBE LINKS, the video, it seems to setup things)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
00:00- 4:48 Sloman~”We can stand here all day shooting at each other….” It seems the Yahoo messageboard was setup for people to write about the mystery, but there was always someone pressing buttons. Making people mad and they would write something bad. This kind of ill will would let the moderator of the Yahoo messageboard to remove that person. BUT if you got a new name and log on as a new person on to the messageboard you could re enter the Push Yahoo messageboard. This is also the wine down of the show. This is where we find out that the money was taken by someone. Mary got the money from Bodnicks grave. Mary took the money and had to give that money to her dad. We know by the actions of Sloman, that he trusted know one. As you can remember he wants to make sure the winning Loto tickets are winners. That tells us Sloman would have made sure Mary would have gave him all the money. That also tells us that Sloman must have kept the money, Mary could have taken the money from her dad, or the people who rescued Jim has the money. In our case Mark Nakamoto.
4:48- 7:09Jim tells one way how they money is laundered. Jim said the winners in the casinos Push Nevada people are buying goods from the mobsters stores making the profit in to good money. The only way that would work is IF the Items were VERY over priced. The way I saw a better way to launder the money was for all the winnings would be place in a bank. The bank now could use that money as a loan to Watermark or to companies that Watermark made and controled to get loans from that bank. In Ep 5 32:51 -34:28 the Bank is more like a shoebox of cash.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/money-laundering1.htm
If you look at the top of the image you will see the Bank is at the top of the list.
As for Liveplanet and Disney. (my guess) Disney needed new ideas to raise money. The Pushtimes.com (Yahoo Messageboard)website was a place where ideas could be tossed out, the great Gong show in the network cloud. The town of PUSH NEVADA was the internet. A place any one with a computer could logon onto the internet and type PushTimes.com and play along with other people looking for LivePlanets money. ~”somewhere off the radar” where Disney could look for a Diamond in the ruff, a place to get new ideas to fix problems they had. That is my take on Push Nevada was not then thats life. In life you play the hand that God gives you. The story I wrote was the clue or story line of Push Nevada. I was betting that Liveplanet and Disney wanted a fairy tail drama story not a “cop out” phone call. I started a ~5 year one page a month quest to finish Liveplanet story of Push Nevada.Let back to TV show .
7:09-7:11 ~”You are looking for these” The name on the TV screen shows Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Matt Damon, and Chris Moore they were Watermark Consolidated. That is the Clue that told the viewer who was Watermark Liveplanet Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Matt Damon, and Chris Moore. There was also two web consultants producers Doug Tennapel, and Steve Edwards. Here is a interview that Doug did. I’m not sure if this is real interview but here is that link
http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/12/08/chat-with-doug-tennapel-of-push-nv/
7:11-7:52 one more website. The Pushtimes website
7:52- Jim shows the Fax. Why would someone send Jim a fax. Could Jim take down Watermark? Let face the Facts that Jim was not a person to bring down the Mob or Watermark. In my story the Fax made Jim come to Push Nevada.
8:40-10:04 Mary leave the book with Job. Why? Because Job needed to read what was in that book. In my story Job (and Mary) was the only hold up in the fate the killers in Push Nevada and the people who worked for Watermark. As for the book “The Push, Nevada Experiment:Unlocking the Mysteries” It talked about Al’s Bible, and also gave a dossier of people in the story. This was to help the writer. To me, it seemed alittle flat. SO, I wanted to make Mary’s character better. Mary was taken away for her dad when she was little. Mary has worked for Barlow for years. Mary had done many good deeds but when those deeds are on the fringe of society, they could be taken as bad deeds.This song seem to tell you Mary’s Life with Barlow and Wilkes.Mary comes back home, her nerves are shot,….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcdYBh3hgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC2Fp7IT7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo
10:04-13:30—-
13:30-13:46 Jim wanted to see “the man behind the curtain” but stops short. My Guess “the men behind the curtain” were Lawyers. The writers were watched by those Lawyers along with the cast, Affleck , bailey and Moore. What were they looking for? This is what I tried to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teAvv6jnuXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_L4Rixya64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1hgVcNzvzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R8_2nJtjg
This is how I see myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ULKpkLNc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFRkpvvop3I
I posted My story under the name FOUNDrunner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFg_8u87zT0
13:46-14:27
14:27-15:00 This is where Jim’s dad’s hankie gets place into Jim shirt pocket. A subtle hints to come back to Push Nevada.
15:00-17:49 Jim goes back to talk to Mary. This is how Mary feels about Jim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiSfTyrvJlg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk
17:49-18:36 Jim ~”I have all the pieces….” What is LivePlanet trying to tell the viewer? You have watch the show now make a ending of our TV show. You (the viewer) have all the pieces of the story, how are you going to write the ending. (waffles anyone) What more do you want Liveplanet to tell you? Maybe ~ spaces and punctuation count. What is the last piece the writer needs to be incluted in the story? The BIBLE. The Bible on the Yahoo message board was the story I wrote. Yes, with alot of spelling and errors.
18:36-26:03 Jim gets a new position in at the IRS. LivePlanet and Disney gives you a place to write a story the Yahoo MessageBoard. (MY Guess)Also how LivePlanet got their deal with Disney.
26:03-27:54 Jim asks for help from Grace. On the Messageboard their was very little help. The ONLY form of help was knowing one person was reading my story. And the only reason why I’m still writting this post is that only one person might be reading what I wrote.
27:54-28:24 Jim starts his report.
28:24-32:42
32:42-33:18 The three men in black make sure Jim is happy and more willing to drop his thoughts about Push Nevada.
33:18-34:20 Like I wrote before “Dreams are the apprehension of life’s problems.”
33:18-34:47 Jim looks into a mirror, hint to a mirror website?
34:47-35:29 ~”…morning sunshine I hope you like WAFFLES…” Remember the Waffle maker that was broken? So, ABC, Liveplanet, and Disney made a TV show that they know it was going to fail. Why, Because the Time slot was bad, and THEY WANTED IT TO FAIL. Giving them (ABC,DISNEY AND LIVEPLANET) to pull off the greatest gimmick of all times. A TV story wrote by ONE viewer. That is my thoughts of PUSH NEVADA. If not, well then don’t believe what you see on TV then. DO you like Waffles, or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZPWkNY6x8
35:29-37:39 Ira “… File the report…and forget about it” Write the ending of the story then forget about it. Another HINT.
37:39-40:16 Jim ask Grace to come back. As I started writing my story I took Grace as being a FBI person watching Ira Glassman. As you know Jim asked for help from a guy named Leon from Legal.
40:16-41:48 This is where my story starts. ~ I think my story starts with a Diamond falling out of Jim’s dad’s hankie.
41:48- “… we got these documents anonymously…””we thought it would make a good story” Liveplanet WAS LOOKING FOR A GOOD STORY.
~”there are Powerful people who do not want the FULL story to be told…” SO what would people do if they did not want the story to be told. Tell them the money is gone, go way. someone has called the winning # and the money is gone. ~”The doc are on PUSHTIMES” As this Mystery gets bigger why post them at Pushtimes.com IF the winner just has to call a phone #?
“Come on Bob”, who is Bob? Well the only Bob at ABC was Bob Iger.
The Final Clue.
00:-00:14 The first part of this clip was cut off.
The final clue given during Monday Night Football was “Spaces and punctuation count. Don’t count the first episode.” Liveplanet had “Project greenlight” Now they have “Project Push Nevada”
This is my Finnal Report. I have nothing more I can write.
Roll credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_L4Rixya64
Here is my Guess.
Michael Eisner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI
Bob Iger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOUsxR7NWs
Watermark = LivePlanet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmyzFsYEdco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-JoW_8qw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWRaAF6_WY
Ben Affleck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fBdpreJiU
sean bailey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
Eben Barlow Armand Assante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDch1p4c_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE
Mary Slomam Scarlett Chorvat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcdYBh3hgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1hgVcNzvzY
Derek Cecil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glb2U6y-GdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsXJitaiVo
Ira Glassman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDch1p4c_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ
Oswald Wilkes casey affleck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
May 22nd, 2017 at 4:50 pm
I’m sorry Steve and Michael, it seem my last post did not show up. Is it under review? Should I resend it? I think I sent it ~ Sun 21 about 1am.
May 22nd, 2017 at 4:59 pm
Found it!
May 22nd, 2017 at 6:36 pm
Steve,
Thank you for letting me post here.
I’m sorry for all the bad spelling and grammar in my post. I think I wrote all my thoughts on this subject. I’m not sure if any one cares but I put my 2 cent in this subject.
Michael, I’m sorry that Grace did not have too much to do in my story in Push Nevada. But I like the characters of Leon, Ira Glassman, Eben Barlow, and Mary. Thank you for starting this Subject on Steve’s Website.
If anyone has any questions for me, I’ll be here for a little while longer.
May 22nd, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Leon
Glad to provide the space. I’ve enjoyed having you here. I apologize for not joining in on the discussion myself. I’ve never seen the show, and odds are, I probably won’t. But who knows?
June 23rd, 2017 at 11:15 am
Hey Steve and Michael,
How’s life?
Have you heard that Twin Peaks has started up, with David Lynch? I know you guys love a Mystery.
Remember Laura Palmer found dead in plastic bag? That plastic bag is not a normal plastic bag. Its like a lab bag or something like that.
If I was talking to David Lynch I would us that to solve the mystery of Twin Peaks.
Michael, are you still around?
December 6th, 2017 at 10:15 am
Here is the link to “The Push Nevada Experiment”
http://gizex.com/jimprufrock/pushnv.pdf
Page ~4
The book tells how Al Prufrock setup his new company. The time frame was ~1984 about the same time as Michael Eisner was put in charge of Disney. I will let you read the book and maybe then you could post your own thought on the book.
The start of Push Nevada felt like living in a desert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2naehMUQpQY
You have to have a reason to live, because you might also have to have a dreamers disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
In the Yahoo message board I came across a few people like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb450Alpps
Alexondra Lee as Delilah (Mary, alfie, Steve …..?) Here is how I see Delilah part in Push Nevada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0BWlvnBmIE
In the 1970 the mail order catalog was controlled by Sears. When the Internet started to take hold Sears did not
see the writing on the wall that business was moving to the Internet service. Amazon took over from Sears. Let look at how Disney could going to take over more parts of the internet Video, and Music part of the Web.As it is now Youtube has a strangle hold on posted video. Its only a matter of time before Disney starts to round up that talent. Just like movies and TV took vaudeville talent. That talent need a place to move up level to a Disney service web channel, and Disney new service could be that new web channel. Its only a matter of a short time before other networks sees the light and pounce. Also the internet is a great place to place all those film that never made it to the big screen. Sure those movie were not up turn in to block buster and never should have been turned into a movie in the first place BUT it could be a new source of revenue. The other part Disney should look at is Music. Is there a Internet channel (website) for people with talent to place their music, yes YOUTUBE.com. My thoughts are Disney Music center website would attract people’s attention more people would join. You might notice that I have posted a lot of link to music videos. By Disney making a place to let people post video on their website let the talent come to them. It also let Disney the fist chance to sign them. Place a few ads a few product placement things on that website and BOOM you have a money winner. But maybe it time to Let it go? I don’t care any more, because I have be out in the cold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
But I’m OK because that life. Most of the time people have to deal with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-AmedKfRc
Lets look at the NFL and ESPN (Disney’s) problem. It’s not a problem but another great opportunity. As of today the NFL is broken goods. This is also should be the way how Disney should negotiate with the NFL . Sure in a few years the NFL will come back but who knows when the same problem might happen again. So the approach ESPN (or
Disney) should take is the NFL is damaged goods, or quarterback without a tight spiral pass. Why should we pay for premium pay for something that might cost us money. Why should we pay the NFL so much if Disney could just show movies and make more money? Always be One Jump ahead of everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbOGaJqJmg
Ps: At the end of guardians of the galaxy Yondu dead. I thought the Yondu character was great. So, it seem to me if you want to being back that kind of character you could have his twin brother take over. Because there is always a Better days to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOp4NAq6EHI
December 13th, 2017 at 10:04 am
Steve, It seem my last post (12-12-17) did not make your website. Here is a better copy. I did have a few spelling problems, and errors with that one, Could you add this one please. If you see any spelling errors or please edit my post. I’m sorry for my spelling and grammar posts.
*****Sharpshooter Fallacy of Random dots******
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cl7cxopNjg
As you know you can find anything on the internet, and can make any kind of a relationship those things. It does not mean the conclusion you made are right but on idea of facts could someone come up with that conclusion. Like in Rick and Morty, Rick say there are infinite realities. Since we on the Mysteryfile.com website (Thanks Steve for let me post here), lets act like Columbo. Lets put on the Columbo’s trench coat for this Post.(lets have a little fun)
Lets take a Picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MAHQhKe7Q
Let look at the very end of EP7 41:51-… Massive conspiracy
One project that Bailey did was Tron for Disney.~Bailey,”The idea of a man going inside his own video game was just mind-blowing….”. Could “Push Nevada” be that man inside that video game? But right now, let go down the Massive conspiracy idea.
Its a wasteland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXWNSb4nUDY
Lets look at Michael Eisner unveiled a plan that merges the management of the broadcast network with Disney
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/eisner-touts-national-duops/94064
After reading that we know Mr Eisner has pushed all his card in on (soon to be cancaled show) Push Nevada. The question is did Eisner let the show die, after it was cancelled or did he want the show to be canceled. As Peter Falk would say, Just one more thing Mr. Eisner, Do you like waffles and have you eaten Waffles with Rupert??
Anyone for Breakfast At Tiffany’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
There is no Rupert in Push Nevada.
Lets use the Sharpshooter Fallacy of Random data or dots.
Who wrote some parts of the “The Push Nevada Experiment”
Page~35 “We unearthed this code so that we would have the option to use it against Watermark. The trick would be that both of us would need to agree to use the codes together, so that one of us could not act alone and act foolishly…. I suppose at the height of the Cold War and in the age of nuclear weapons, such a “two key†approach seemed a clever safeguard to us.”
Are those two people “Ben and Sean OR Michael and Rupert”. The time frame is ~1980s with Two heads of major companies.
Lets look at Eisner Book
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-eisner-on-his-new-book-working-together
According to Eisner’s perfectly logical argument, however: “If there’s a pre-negotiated exit, which most people have, it doesn’t force you at the end of the day to make it work. You can just push a button to end it. It’s a negative way to start a relationship.â€
Lets look at the Massive conspiracy angle.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?53677-1/information-highway-ceo-summit
(Time Frame of Eisner)
9:00-10:10 Eisner ~I’d rather decide what the ending are at least have our people decide”
36:10-40:00
46:26-47:15 Eisner~”You know the story is first second third and fourth fifth and six is making sure that somebody can sees the story.”
(Oh,the New pipes or the new Cable company is the Cell Phones.)
Whats going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc
What was the date 1994. Eisner does not know how this Internet thing is going to work. Fast forward to 2002. Eisner has problems a ABC look for a new angle in a TV show. What does Eisner and Iger come up with Massive conspiracy angle LivePlanet’s “Push Nevada” using the Internet. A few year later Eisner has Disney rocking and make money. Mr. Bob Iger takes over and gets Disney moving faster and Faster. One of the best things that Mr. Iger did for the Disney family was to trade Al Michaels for Oswald the rabbit.
Iger~ “George,” he said, “I’d be willing to let Al Michaels go if you can get us the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC.”
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/12750497/how-espn-traded-al-michaels-oswald-rabbit
I know what you are thinking how does a guy named Rupert fit in to this story? Well,Let look around Dec 2017. What is Disney working on now?
To link Fox with Disney. Yes, Rupert Murdoch’s Empire.
No White Flag here, only Massive Destruction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Hv2ZVYm7A
December 13th, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Leon, You’re right. Your previous comment went straight to spam. I don’t know why. I’ve retrieved and approved it, but deleted it in favor of this one you’ve just left. My apologies!
December 25th, 2017 at 5:54 am
Before I start this post. I would like to say. This is ONLY a Guess on my part. I’m nobody. I do not work for ABC,Disney, or Live Planet ….. I do not own any of the videos. I have only just posted links to those songs or videos. With that said lets put on our Columbo’s peter falk trench coat and get to work.
Lets look at the title of the book
“The Push, Nevada Experiment” 1979-Present” Wrote by T.S Griffin Ph.D. Cader Book Hyperion,Touchstone Television Productions,Phone #212-456-**** That phone # makes you call another #. That is Disney switchboard 818-5**-1****. There is only two people at Disney that has a link to Push Nevada. Sean Bailey, Bob Iger, I’m sure they have better things to do than talk to me. The book points to Disney. ABC is own by Disney and this book is wrote by some writers at Disney.T.S Graffin is not a real name. My guess is Live Planet (or Disney) made that name up. Amazon does have the book for sale but “This book is not currently available”. There is one review of the book.
With a title like “The Push, Nevada Experiment” 1979-Present”, Disney might not sell too many copies of this book. This book came out (or hit the web for downloading) after a West New York, N.J., resident Mark Nakamoto, 24, dialed a phone #. basically, Live Planet (ABC, Disney) paid for a book to be wrote and became junk because Mark won the money. Is this another mistake by Live Planet. The first one was Live Planet did not get the domain website of “Pushtimes.com”, but later it did keep the “Pushtimes.com” website. Great spoiler alert by Live Planet. (It felt like being kick in the b?lls for all the people on the Yahoo message website.
On the Message board people were being Pushed out. This is how most of the people felt, after we were “Push”ed around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6AEbMqh18
A lot of people dropped off the message board) Why would anyone read this book? Maybe only a fool believes ….., wait lets look at the date on the cover of the book, this might help,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_FvK51wOQ
As I read the book, I wanted to rise above the rest to understand how Live Planet hid the money people were looking for, the money that Mark won. I could not find any part I could understand. The book did not answer ANY of my questions(in the first few readings) or did not put any light on where someone could discover the prize the money that Live Planet had hidden.
In the title the word “Experiment”. A “Experiment” is what someone does to find an answer to a question.
In this book it starts with “Introductory Material”.Oct 19-2002 ~page 3
“The time has finally come for me to deliver to you a ONCE-IN-A LIFETIME MANUSCRIPT….. I do rely on your talents as an accomplished editor, and you familiarity with me throughout the pass three decades, to construct a CLEAR STORY LINE OUT OF THE HODEPODGE OF DOCUMENTS……..”
The “Experiment” is to write a CLEAR STORY LINE. Also this was spoken my the actor Derek Cecil (or Jim Prufrock)in the last episode, a clue to brake the “breaking the 3rd wall”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall
A better way of thinking was to “Breaking down all the walls.” Having NO limit and have NO rules. That’s how Live Planet ran the Yahoo message website. Mr. Michael Eisner was worried about in his C-Span talk in 1994. (See video in post above) Eisner sent his best man Mr. Bob Iger to ABC. With Mr. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, and President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production Sean Bailey (LivePlanet)new show called “Push Nevada”. Most of people at ABC, Anne Sweeney, Susan Lyne, Lloyd Braun Both of them were out of the loop. Google “push Nevada Disney wars Susan Lyne” Page ~392.The Book Disney Wars talked about problems at Disney in the early 2000s. When you read “Push Nevada book” you could read between the line and here the problems that Eisner and Iger were having. I really thought about Disney’s problems. New technology were starting to be formed. The same thing happened when TV took over Radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_pU80mGXk
From the book Page 3.”Let there be no confusion about my intent and my instructions: Publish these documents any way you can, and do it quickly… as you work to assemble the story…. between their lines…” In 2003 there was no easy way to write a book and get it published. Now there are a few ways. I would rather not do that but it might be a option. The story in ~ start of 2003. In hindsight it does seem like I was wrong.
Next page. In the PDF page # are NOT the same.
Page 3 right side
The next page does not seem like it links to page 3, it might have been wrote by another person. There are two people named on this page Al Prufrock, and TS Griffin. Why did they use the name “Griffin”. It comes from Greek mythology, Griffins are known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions. The person that holds the money for LivePlanet?
Page 4 Left side
“… Flaw in our fail-safe plan … bring Watermark down”. Griffin is dying and hoping to find Al. In my story Jim’s dad is DEAD. So there is no way to stop Watermark. That is why my story ends with Barlow killing the stock market and the hole town. There is a reason why I started posting on Steve’s website but I will not share that with you right now. It has to do with my personal life. By the way there were a lot of people (in real life) who were in the show who have died.
“Watermark has already begun to unravel The Push Nevada Experiment” Yes ABC canceled the TV show.
Page 4 right side
“…as a publisher and businessman-for this work I will ask no royalty, behond your faith that publication is worth the risk….” It still seems like this person wants a story to be written about the down fall of ‘Watermark’.
Page 5
“A Note to the Reader” by Otis B. Miller. A quick google of Otis Miller does not pop up anyone from Disney, LivePlanet or ABC. Another dead end, I could not find any links to that person. I did find links to a guy that lives in Australia, and he seems to have horses.
The book “….Pentagon Papers… private plane in McCarran Airport in Nevada, while I was returning from the coast to New York…” ABC is out of New York and Disney ( and livePlanet) are in california. The people that work at LivePlanet are not in the age group of the 1970 (1980s). Griffin could have worked for a major news paper. Could this person be Bob Iger, no he was a weather man I think at this time. Maybe we need to read between the lines a little. “…Griffin told me just enough at the time to let me know that he was involved in the operations of a closed-market Experiment on human behavior, using unwitting people as his “lab rats†(although he never put it that way). ” Where is this Closed Market Experiment Griffin wrote about. The Yahoo Message board. The new technology that all tv advertisers marketers wanted to understand. Let me take you by the hand …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoW3bqnr7tw
In the TV show there was a few product placement ads. One of them was for Cell phones. Cell phones is the new Cable company for distribution of programming, TV, Movies, games!!!! The trick will be to keep those people who log in to Disney’s website and to keep those people on Disney’s web system. Maybe with some kind of Disney’s web credits that people can get by playing games on Disney’s website, watching a movies on Disney’s website. Those credits (or points) will make people stay on Disney’s site, basically having fun. Its a way to tell people thank you for your supporting Disney. The credits(or points) are use for watching movies, playing games, stay at hotels… Its discounting products but still making money on the user. Think as if its like frequency-flyer miles on a Air line but its Disney’s points.
Page 5 Next page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8
~”… but at the same time he seemed worried about what playing this card might mean.” On the Yahoo message board NO one was helping anyone. Everyone wanted to win. So Everyone was keeping there cards or ideas to themselves. The problem was, even the people that were working on the Yahoo message board did not want to share any ideas of the Experiment. Could it be that Mark was one of those people?
Why did Live planet let Mark win, because that helped remove most of the people from the website. There was too many people and I’m sure they thought it seemed like they were trying to heard cats, onto the merge lane of the I405 highway.
To Mark Nakamoto here is a song for you. Has anyone talked to Mark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6L2NG6x9dI
Hey Mark, have you been R rolled before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
” Along the way we agreed that at some future date,… Starr report.” In my story (I think not sure)there is a part where Oswald is talking to the banker about paying off people. That is why that part is in my story.
“I got a package with the contents described in Griffin’s cover letter: files, letters, images, documents, written and compiled mostly by T. S. Griffin, but also from and about other figures in a town called Push, Nevada. Essentially, when pieced together the files tell the story of the origin of The Push, Nevada Experiment; its early successes; the split between the two founders of the Experiment and their corporate parent Watermark; the fate of the two men after they split from Watermark; the people involved in the Experiment and affected by it; and some strange and unsettling new developments in Push, Nevada, unfolding at the time of publication.” Push Book page (pdf page #) 37-77 are the images and document that Griffin is talking about. On the Yahoo website I could not pick out these people. My guess is that just wanted the hold “Push Nevada” story to die.
“…In the age of Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson, et al. one does not say this lightly—but in this case people were robbed not simply of money, but of their very souls…” As you read (and in the TV show) the book, you can see that “Watermark” is very large. If you use a little logic, if Jim went back to Push with Grace, how would Jim have taken down a VERY large company? Jim could have put about 10 people in jail. In the TV show it talks about a VERY VERY LARGE company. Knowing Watermark was large there was no way that putting ~10 people in jail would close down Watermark’s company. Enter Eben Barlow, (Armand Assante)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
The name came from the Yahoo message board. He seemed to be in charge. I’m not sure why, but I liked his name. The first time you see him in the TV show was talking to Bodnick.
Page 7 “The Experiment”
“This document, The Experiment, is my manifesto that started the entire enterprise in Push, Nevada. In it, I laid out a plan for a truly closed-market study, where I could control all the elements that had traditionally thwarted researchers. There was a great deal at stake— lack of evidence about the effectiveness of advertising threatened my company’s main revenue source, which in turn threatened the existence of the Network.”
What “Network”, ABC. In Disney Wars you can read the problems at ABC Disney.
“The question “Does advertising work?†” As I said before the TV show had product placement ads inside the show. All networks, and movies are set up to make some money to pay for the making of the show or movie. This money helps add money to the project of the artistic elements of each film and movie. If you watch the credits at the end of a Disney movie it seems to take ~ 10 minutes. Each one of those people have a family and they need to be paid. That is why the cost of movies (TV) cost is earthshaking. Add about on MILLION dollar film stars and soon you can’t sleep at night. Let me get to the point “Does Advertising work” for marketing administrator they need to know that they will sell more products than the cost paying to the show. Nothing new. The trick is how does one do that. !!!The point of advertising is to tell people to buy my product. 1)The point of PRODUCT PLACEMENT is to validate why the consumer purchases that product 2)To show why the consumer need their products, and why they must pick that product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLl1OOwIh0
3) With the new digital technology, it has great potential to add Products to movies(and TV) and to remove outdated products from that movie TV show. This lets the content provider to clean up on advertising dollars. In other words the Content provider (Disney) could control products placement elements. To switch out consumer products in and out. Let me give you a example, like a box of breakfast cereal on a table could be switch from one bran to another.
“…current technologies make it possible that we will entirely lose control of viewers, as well as control over our copyrighted programming…Big challenges call for BOLD SOLUTIONS…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puleXDhW34s
Some users have taken small clips of Disney’s shows and place them at Youtube. Most of them are 10 second or 3 min clips. Yes it does break copyright. But people want to watch those kind of clips. Why doesn’t Disney make those kind of clips? I found its much easer to swimming with the stream of current trends then swimming against current trends. Lets think about it, a 2 hour movie would could show ~30 ads. In that same movie if that movie is broken into small clips (only good parts), add on a ad for each small clips and now you have ~300 ads. The ads could be text, or video or maybe a part of a Product placement ad in that show. Maybe in a outtake (not in the movie) a character picking up product (Product placement) tossing it around….. something funny and fun to watch. Yes, it make a few cents per viewing but Who care its making a little money, that small amount is turning in to a large pot of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiP-u8JPW00
Page 13
“… Please thank your superiors for quick processing of the initial fee—it hit my bank account yesterday….” Well, at least someone is getting rich off this adventure
Page 14-15
The setting up the town. As you know, there is no town called “Push Nevada”. At the time I thought it had to be some where everyone could find. Where could “Push Nevada” be found, on the internet. There was NO facebook, no twitter., just a small little place on the internet. A place where marketing people could watch people and learned, some where people could tell marketing big wigs the answer to how to make them rich. To be one step in front of the others.
Page 16
“… In the 1960s Disney said, “EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry…, it’s reasonable to suspect that Disney ideas to ours in the area of closed-market testing…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACMi7D6970
Page 20
“…Further, online services such as CompuServe, which many people can dial into using their TRS-80 or Commodore personal computers, will in time make the newspaper a leak in our media tight atmosphere.” This points right to the internet. Where the only place LivePlanet put links to, the Yahoo Message board.
Page 21
If you look at the “Watermark” logo it looks like a Film strip on its side.”Watermarks Lawyers….” Well I have one thing to tell Lawyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC1NR7AL_9s
Page22
“..In a defective grantor trust, a donor gives value to beneficiaries, but makes a mistake in the process…” I do not work for LivePlanet, Disney or any other network. I have not been paid, or promised money. I have not even gotten even a hill of beans for my work or time. As far as I know Mark has won the money.
Page 23
1984 is the date Mr. Michael Eisner started and took over at Disney. At that time Disney was in big trouble. Some people wanted Disney to be broken up. As a large company it takes All parts of a company to become great. Parts of a company are like muscles, brains, and vital organs. Each one depends on the others. Eisner knows that , and now Bob Iger knows that. Mr. Iger has been shown the light and has not looked back. Mr. Iger has updated Disney. Soon Disney will up date their teen parks. I would hope they update there roller coaster to mimic a space ship flying around space with lots of turns. Placing a few objects by the flying coaster to roll by fast. Huge amount of money is used to raise the roller coaster higher and HIGHER but could it be that the next format will be turns and spins…?? I was just thinking out loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yii2rM2gvJU
Page 24
“…right kind of people…†On the Yahoo message board there a lot of good people and some not so nice. Also they rulers of the website would try to (my guess) make people mad so they would leave and other time send people to other websites. Some people were just removed, and blocked, then people had to get a new name if they wanted to be back on to the message board.
Page 28
“….The item then becomes a household good. Our most successful test on this has been the launch of the CD player in Push, which now has penetrated 88% of homes in the town….”After reading that, people, gave up trying to figure out were the money was placed. My guess is that LivePlanet (Disney) paid their marketing department to write this book. (In 2017 the CD players dead. The Internet has taken over. )
Page 30
“…The Push Nevada Experiment has begun to demonstrate that it will protect the advertising market, which is expected to grow to over $2 billion by the turn of the century…”Thats great news for content providers. Disney is grown by ~ 400%. Lets give Mr. Iger and workers a hand. Mr. Iger has taken Disney to greatest heights.
Page 31
“…3. Watermark should consider rolling out other Push, Nevada towns in the USA to test one population against another. Other towns could be identical to Push, or they could simply have the same media delivery as Push, without the monitoring that accompanies it. If something passes the test in Push, Nevada, it can be applied without hesitation in a new market…” NO, keep these ideas. Keep it in house.(Oh could you wait a few days so I can print out this website, please)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PNc9KN50M
Page 35″I suppose at the height of the Cold War and in the age of nuclear weapons, such a “two key†approach seemed a clever safeguard to us. Who knew that it would cause so much difficulty down the road?”
Page 35 “and he would not stand a chance with a wife and child in tow.”
In the TV show it Jim is locked in his dad’s car trunk. Jim’s nightmares rules his life thoughts. So the only thing I could reason why Jim keeps having nightmares is his Dad die while he was lock up in the trunk of the car.
My story (post) has Jim meets Eben Barlow in a cemetery.
~ Page 36
““You have to die, Prufrock.†Faking Al’s death would be the only escape (and at this point, we were experts on faking things!). He could slip away from the Experiment and Watermark and take on a new identity. “In my story Jim’s dad is killed, he did not escape. if AL (Jim’s dad) escaped then Jim would not keep having his nightmares
I have wrote my peace. I’m Done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aVHLL5egRY
For the actors of Push Nevada
Liz Vassey,Melora Walters,Scarlett Chorvat,Conchata Ferrell,Derek Cecil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7it5wioGixA
PS
As you know Disney is a world wide company. One slight problem that all film companies have is getting their film to be shown in China. I heard that China only lets some films in to china. One way that might work is have two similar movies made. One for US and EU the other one would be Chinese actors that would replace the US actors. In other words swop the main actors with chinese actors. (Yes there is a cost, but does benefit of getting in to china overtake the cost?)Maybe digital editing switch the faces of the actors. This is a way to get movies into china. The characters are both US then chinese actors in the same movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
Pss Ps: At the end of guardians of the galaxy Yondu dead. (use the same actor) His brother looks just like Yondu but Yondu brother dialog is insulting people. Thats the kind of a person I thought Yondu was.
PSSSS Disney, could you please bring back Futurama to Fox?
Oh, merry christmas
May 7th, 2018 at 11:17 pm
Turn up the sound and let start. Lets have some more fun 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCmSWw1gLrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5bnnagxt38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY
To help the reader to understand what I thought Liveplanet was trying to do with Push Nevada lets break down Push Nevada one brick at a time. I’m not saying in this post or and other post I hold the answers to Push Nevada, but ONLY my guess. I do not own any of the songs or any links to other websites. This is ONLY my opinion of how LivePlant made the massive conspiracy theories. Maybe at the end of this we might come up with somekind of arrangement. So,~ “come in, you look cold and wet.” I was never good at writing foreshadowing elements. Push Nevada’s goals was to change TV viewing from sitcoms to drama type shows. With a switch from sitcoms to drama type shows would hook people into coming back next week for more. The problem in Push Nevada was the show took too long to develope the story line. That is why most TV dramas end in a 1 hour episode. Push Nevada did not fit that model. It was a game show with hidden clues to guide the viewer to find the missing money. These “CLUES” were placed in the drama TV show by Doug Tennapel and Sean Bailey. There was going to be 13 episodes therefore 13 clues. Watch “Push Nevada” and win the money. The marketing TV professional looked at Push Nevada to be the next big thing. Using the Internet and TV was the idea. To make this concept work , LivePlanet needed a victim to fix their problems in linking Internet and TV network drama shows. SO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
The concept that LivePlant was going to use was the “Infinite Number of monkey theorem”. All Liveplanet needed to do is find some way to round up thousands of Monkeys typing on typewriters until one monkey writes a screen play for Liveplanet. The challenge for the victim was they were kept bline folted wareing a aluminum foil hat with a wet paper bag over their head, pushing a boulder up a mountain. This theory was talked about in the old sci fi radio show “The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy”. The Internet Yahoo messageboard was used for writing that script. The overseer of the internet was Steve Edwards. In a interview with Doug Tennapel said that there were another group of people that ran the Internet part. Steve Edwards was the only other consulting producer. I did find out that Sean Bailey and Doug Tennapel worked on Push Nevada for about ~1.5 years before ABC picked up that show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYqJxlSv-Y
The TV show started with a huge conspiracy. With in that conspiracy “Push Nevada” characters had the feeling of being lost. For Mary its the lost of a child hood. For Jim its the lost of his dad. To fix those problems every story needs heros. The only characters that were in the TV show was Barlow and Wilkes. They are the fly in the ointment in Watermarks plan. It does not take a rocket science to figure out that the only way to remove all this conspiracy was to join the conspiracy. You might ask about Grace role in the TV show. This is how I see Grace’s relationship with Jim. She is a woman that has done her best at everything and time and time again she has failed. Not for working hard but for being too smart. She likes working for the FBI working undercover watching Ira Glassman, but she rather be shooting guns at the gun range. The best part of the job is knowing Jim. This is how she feels about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HGwRbMiVY
The Internet part was used to Unravel the mystery of Push Nevada. They were hoping to unearth something new, but what they found was, a untenable situation of a pandora’s box. For this post we will open the Pandora’s box once again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLBk6Bj2Ja4
As I wrote earlier Mr Eisner sent his best man Mr Bob Iger. How is Mr. Iger going to fix ABC programming. The game plan was to build on a Hit Drama TV show. ABC wanted a hit show to help build the networks base. Mr Iger had a hit show back in the 1990’s. Mr Iger Greenlighted a show called “Twin Peaks”. The show started with a simple conscept mystery, “Who killed Laura Palmer”. This show was great at the start but then started spiraling out of control. The TV show slowly “Pushed” itself into the TWILIGHT ZONE. I think the problem was, Twin Peaks did not have a “Clear ending”. When I started my story of the ending of Push Nevada, I told a few people on the website the type of ending I was working toward. This gave a heads up and affirmed the ending concept was sound and believable. I know it would take about 2 years to finish, and Im not sure IF anyone would keep reading if they did not belive that the story would ever finish. (Oh the it took ~ 4 years to finish) I told them that the ending was Antarctica. The Story would be a adventure story like Ernes Shackleton. Thats how I saw the TV(Game) of Push Nevada. In post above # ________, you can read the ending, but It does not tell the whole story, the events that led up to the end. The reason why I put the ending the story in Antarctica,was because “Nevada” is a Spanish word for SnowFlake. Lets not over-analyze or Crush
my story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8rmZOgQL0
As everyone knows a snowflakes are built on small droplets of water. If that snowflake falls on a piece of paper (Or legal pad) it makes a small “WaterMark” impression. The snowflake is a watermark transparency like an image. If you put a snowflake under a microscope you can see all it small parts that makes up its structure. In corporate america the structure elements are more complex. In Disney’s case its entertainment, network, programming, hotels, Music….. In 2002 Disney had a slight problem with ABC. With new technology comming out Disney wanted to expand growth programming and advertising dollars. The new techonlogy could also cut revenue. This was their problem. At the time ABC revenue was melting fast. It was like a snowflake in the middle of the Nevada desert. That prompted them to find a monkey to give them the answers they seek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdHCec23BKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcldRUkgcA0
Those small elements started with Walt Disney. Mr.Disney started building Disney movies, Disneyland…..One of those Disney movies was Mary Poppins written by P. L. Travers. (My guess) Why did P. L. Travers sell her story to Disney, because she wanted to keep her hard work to be kept alive, and not forgotten. For Mr. Bob Iger acquisitions were Pixar, from Steve Jobs (Wait, there was a character in Push Nevada named Job), Star Wars from George Lucas, Marvel, 21st Century Fox…(the list goes on). I think the reason why people want to sell to Disney is because they want to park their assets (Babies) in a place they could grow and not wither on the vine or be forgotten. That is why more other entertainment assets(works) will be sold at a fair price to Disney. Some acquisitions take time to grow. Mr. Eisner acquisition of ABC took some time to grow, but the reason why Eisner acquired was to lauch Disney to a new level. But he did not find what he was looking for, he wanted more. Welcome to the Story of “Push Nevada”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3-5YC_oHjE
Another show Mr. Iger greenlighted was in ~1999 was “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (Game?). The show was a Hit,but soon the show losts its appeal after brodcasting too many times in a week. In the late 1990s, ABC was competing against Sitcoms. Eisner and Iger found a new type TV show by Liveplanet in a show called “Push Nevada”. The show “Push Nevada” had a TV show and a Internet Game link. With the help of Doug Tennapel,and Steve Edwards. The show told a story about the people on the interactive stories online. “Push Nevada” had a few main characters. I will start with “The Three men in Black Suits”. In the TV show, they were played by Larry Poindexter, Steven Culp, and Tom Gallop. Could it be that, the three men in Black suits on the Internet might have been Affleck,Bailey, and Iger? Why Iger because his job proformance was on the line. More than likely it was Steve Edwards. Steve Edwards only have “Push Nevada” listed on his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJoBWii2lNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2puvI4IfG0
Lets look at what livePlanet wanted to do with “Push Nevada”. They wanted to make a game, people would interact with a TV show.This type show was inconceivable (in many ways) in network programming. This would promote the TV show and promote the websites that Liveplanet and Disney wanted. The Game of “Push Nevada” was to ~unravle the mystery of “Push”. maybe just like Twin Peaks. A TV show that makes the watchers (viewers) **** solve the mystery then write the ending, that would be INCONCEIVABLE. (Then call a phone # and win the Million???).In one of the epasode 5 time ~13:48-13:57 “I see you for what you are” at this point “Push Nevada show seemed to have moved into a ~TWILIGHT ZONE type show. If you were on the Yahoo messageboard you would read ~ (as I remember it) some people were waiting for the writer like “Rod Serling” to show up, and fix the problems that ABC and Disney were having. Part of the problem was story telling, some was perceived problem within the company. The website was very lonely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc
(Whats east of omaha?)
That led me to the writers of “Push Nevada”.Doug Tennapel, Sean Bailey (He works for Disney now), Ben Affleck, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Tom Garrigus, Jame D. Parriott, John Serge, Veena Sud, and I will add Bob, and Steve Edwards. All of those people know the some type goal of “Push Nevada”. Lets pretend that “Push Nevada” town was a metaphor for Disney problems in the early 1980s. The characters in the TV show were the same type of people on the website. To me, the TV show was supposed to be use to help guide the viewer in the workings of “Push Nevada” but to me it seem guided the viewer into a trap down a dark alley, or more likely a dead end alley. WHY?? Lets us look at the Start of “Push Nevada” When Ben Affleck use the words Push, Nevada – Episode 1, 00:00-00:30 ~”Push Nevada is about a massive conspiracy…” The only way to open a conspiracy is to shine the light on that conspiracy. This post is my thoughts on that conspiracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3vPxKdj6o
Massive Conspiracy! How is LivePlanet going to explane to the people that it was not just a Phone #? The clues were in the TV show itself. The problems of the Clues were they did not progress the main story line. Like the EP “Story book hero”. Was it The Long Ranger, Peter Pan, or Tinker Bell. In a interview Doug Tennapel said ~”Peter Pan was our clue that Disney/ABC was a bit involved with Watermark”
http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/12/08/chat-with-doug-tennapel-of-push-nv/2/
One of the jobs of Doug TenNapel was to place props onto the show. It was hard to tell what were the props and what was a Clue of the puzzle. Lets look at Ep #5 time 31:22 It shows a piece of a puzzle missing at the bank. Was that just a picture or a clue that Mr TenNapel added? I think the problem of “Push Nevada” was it was too complex. It was a head of its time, and a WRONG TYPE of a show. Like all networks, each one of them need to find a script, or a concept of a show that viewers would want to watch. This is not easy. The low point of ABC programming was “Dinosaurs television show”. (Oh I like the show)It seems hard to believe that that was the best script that ABC could find. Maybe that was the best they could do. Im sure Bob Iger wanted something better. What kind of a show was Bob Iger looking for, well lets look at where Mr Iger came from. Bob’s college years was in up state New York, Ithaca college. He took a class from a teacher Named “Ron Serling”. It just happen to be Bob Iger was going to the same college that Ron Serling was teaching. Who was Ron Serling you might know his well knowed TV TWILIGHT ZONE. Coincidence or maybe Mr. Iger was in a Twilight Zone story. I have read Mr. Iger is a hands on type of a person just like Jack Benny. Bob needed some new writers to get ABC drama off the ground.
Youtube “Rod Serling”(this is Very long, Not a song, Can skip if you want)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BlQ9jXoxA
Mr Iger wanted to restart ABC programming. That is why Mr Iger wanted to do “Push Nevada”. It was something new. ABC and Disney would promote and hipe up the show. With actor writer Ben Affleck on the job of writing the TV show and having over a million dollars prize people would flock to the TV. This type of show (If it worked out) could redefine television programming. The viewers would be like lemmings falling over a cliff looking for the money. Making the network rich. As it is now, I have read that Mr. Iger is looking for a LARGER annual salary and bonuses. Now what would Iger have to do to justified a huge bonus,? Maybe something like redefining a new type of TV programming. Hold ON,Hold ON !! after all the work I did on this “Push Nevada” thing, WHAT do I want to say to MR.IGER!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY
🙂
After the money was stolen by Mark. The game was pushed into a impasse. How could Iger move pass this impasse, Maybe we could come up with some kind of arrangement. As a kid, I can remember watching morning TV game shows,like “The Price is right, Big Bucks no whammies….., The Gong Show ….and shows that were made by Chuck Barris. Even ABC did a game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”. Lets take a hard look at why people watch these shows. Lets do a Chuck Barris Columbo analysis of game shows. I believe people watch these type shows is because they want to know how they stack up to the contestant of the game show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSx3zNZOaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
In todays world people are using the Internet. This is taking down viewer ship from all TV networks. “Push Nevada” was trying to use the Internet to drive people to ABC’s websites. Why, Because marketing analysis showed people love using their computers, CELL PHONES and website were becoming the way of the future. The trick is to drive people to Disney’s websites. SO, wake up and sober up the lawyers and lets start thinking what Chuck Barris would do. Lets do my best Chuck Barris elevator pitch.
Lets Break the untenable situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRgFeZa_I48
1) People (viewers) want to participate in TV Games shows,
2) In a Mystery movie, or TV show people always wants to figure out who did it, or solve the Mystery….
These are the two things to exploit. For the Marketing guys, can you say Jack pot! (We are in the money,or in Ben affleck, Doug, and Sean Bailey words “yahtzee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7I1nCcwJP0
The problem with Push Nevada was it should have been more like a Mystery drama Game, a who did it. The structure of Push Nevada show was more like the movie called “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” where people find the money under a big “W”. The type of TV show i’m talking about would be a Mystery drama. A WHO DONE IT. The show would be similar to Columbo TV episodes. Someone is killed. The viewers look and find the clues. The TV Mystery episode will end in a one hour time slot. That would ensure closures of the mystery program show, and could be rebroadcast. The viewers fills out (durning the show, in real time) a form who was killer, and all the CLUES that made the person to name the killer. This for would be on Disney’s (ABC, or FOX) website. The form would be filled out live durring the TV show. (In Push Nevada the “Push Puzzle Kingpin” was (writer) consulting producer Doug Tennapel. He was the one that put the clues on to the tv show.) From the winners of the “who done it” one of those people are then randomly drawn out to find the ONE winner (grand winner) they win (lets say?) ~$50,000. To entice a larger tv ratings viewership, fifty random people who picked all the clues and pick the killer (~one from each State)those people are also so winners but only get $1,000. The last episodes Grand winners of the $50,000 are sent to Disneyland to participate in the last tv seasons episode show mystery Story (Who done it). That show could be made in to another unscripted mystery tv series spin off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRPtg0kmJU
Push Nevada was about breaking the mold of TV programming. I think this type of a show will redefine tv networking programming. A TV show that would make people what to watch the show. And most important is to drive people to the websites, driving up TV ratings.Just like when Rod Serling TV redefine tv to sci fi. This would cut the some of the cost of high price TV stars. The main money would go to the network producers of TV shows and ABC, Fox. This would also put pressure on the writers to develop better scripts for tv shows. This type of a concept of TV programming should be used on other type shows. These type of show would strengthen the over all entertainment portfolio of ABC,and FOX (Disney).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_f7Df2-oM
The next idea is the replacement for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (Game?). The game show would be the viewers could be on that live TV show. The Internet makes that possible. As in the Mystery show I talked about above, there should be away for other Viewers could play and win money. Login on ABC (and Fox) wesite and Maybe using a webcam if they are selected. The Game show host could ask questions. Some questions would be only people who could see the TV screen would know the answers. This would make the viewer win and not the people who used google only. Maybe asking questions about a tv commercial break produce (this would be build into the TV Game show). As the TV is on live the viewers would also be also playing on the website that ABC (or Fox) made for that game show. By keeping the Game show interactive with the viewers this would maintain a personal touch of the game show. The viewers could also win. The top 100 viewers (players)would also win money. This could build talk at the water cooler, Driving up viewership. Driving up the SHARE of the network audience. One of the reasons why people watched the Oprah TV show is because she gave away new products to the audience. I believe that more people would watch a TV show IF they could win those prizes of TV Game show. This could be first started on daytime TV maybe ~9am then moved to ~7PM, or go for broke and start at ~7PM just like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFoLBcNyKI
Lets get back to the story of Mary in Push Nevada. As you watch the show the writers made Mary character the ring leader. There is one seen that Mary went to Shadrack’s house. She slowly slids herself out of her car with no worry in the world. She holds a pistal in her hand , without even thinking about it she racks around as she comely walks, just like she did it hundreds of times before. She naturally holds her gun like its part of her, like the gun belongs in her hand. How did she get those skills, working for Eben Barlow. Knowing that she would used her gun at a drop of a hat, how long would have her Dad lived, if he was hurting her,my thoughts are only tenths of seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Oa6WOGG_4
One of the person that received some of the stolen money was James (Jim) Prufrock. Jim purchased a art piece by Shadrick(played by W.Eearl Brown). The sculpcher was constructed with (At least) two one hundred dollar bills. The sculpcher only costed Jim only $5, so Jim seemed to have at least $200 of the million dollars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlPzrX8u0A
Mr. Iger’s favorite Disney’s character was Tinker Bell. One of the character in the show was Delilah played by Alexondra Lee. She was BRB (Be Right Back)wife.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315701/
BUT the website also says Lynn Collins was BRB’s wife. I will say that I do remember seeing the name “LEE” on the Yahoo message board. But anyone could be anyone on the web. That was one of the problems. My guess is that LivePlanet placed at least one person to help move the story along, but others were there to Push people out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY48BqCiyzo
Asfore who has the real money that people are looking for, Bob Iger or Steve Edwards. because he was the head of ABC programming. Derek Cecil talked about at the End of ep 7 (Breaking the fourth wall) was guy named BOB. The only person that had some part in “Push Nevada” was Bob Iger of Disney. What would make up the greatest conspiracy theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzr7HKyHubk
Since we are talking about Bob Iger when was he born?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boAv-Bu4MrI
Now for a laugh, Hey Mr. Iger did you goto this hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6gCW7zX_gQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5UI3uo60Y
Hold on, What State was Doug Tennapel From?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi_5G_rKKTE
Here are my final thoughts that might help you to understand the massive conspiracy theories or the great secret told in public that knowone heard was the story of Push Nevada. Some old expressions seems to come up like, what does one hand clapping sound like? Push Nevada. If a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound? Mary in the show said Episode 1 15:31-16:30~ “..there is a secret… not quickly told… “. My thoughts about the massive conspiracy secret inconceivable would be letting a viewer have a conversation with the heads of network programming. The jester would share his ideas, for the sake of the amusement. I would be the fly in the ointment to influence ( with symbolic) common sense (and of honesty) to the powers above. As the Jester I would say stuff like we need more innovation. Thats easy to say harder to find a idea. Then I would say something like, Disney first animation was Oswald the lucky Rabbit. Right now Disney is making a new app for the phone. Why not add Oswald to that app. Could you say to that Disney phone app ~”Oswald find me Iowa Football on ESPN” 🙂 or maybe ~”Oswald play pirate of the caribbean movie”. My thoughts were, if they were reading then why not put in my 2 cents in.(thats is how my first post started here 🙂
Well I think I wrote all my thoughts about this subject.
Have a nice week. 🙂
As for Derek Cecil,Bob, (and Steve Edwards) on the run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiFZGzYvYL0
When you swim against the current. You can never stop swimming even if they is no hope. Until Barlow and Wilkes shows up. Times up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7U00i6WGQ
Let me end this with,
To Mary, Oswald, Eben Barlow,the Lawyers, and Steve Edwards on the Yahoo board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvxxdZpMFHg
Sometime I wake up early, only because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94
Thank you for taking me on this journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs
A Hero hides for the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6KVNt-1Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwCP2hX2FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QL0L9fgbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TizlHxAUgA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjDh8M6enT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGg1bzfSys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves
Thank you LivePlanet 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qbnsk2_F5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oWfHcl94k4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwqUEelQjE
I’m sorry, I have to go feed my cat, Thanks for all the Fish. 🙂
July 26th, 2018 at 1:41 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxvpd3kYro4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHk2I-sNoGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEorgJBBTwU
Thank you dad for all your help.
Steve, I’m sorry this does not have to do with “Push Nevada” but this is where I feel at home on the Internet. With that said, I do not own any of the videos, songs, movies, I do not work for Disney or ABC, Liveplanet or …., I’m nobody.
I have read Bob Iger put out the “batman distress signal” for some great meeting with all the movie heads. In other words Bob Iger decided to use a “who wants to be a millionaire” and used a phone a life line to his friends to fix Star Wars problems… After ‘Star Wars Solo’, Bob Iger started to understand that Disney had some problem in movie making. Its VERY Hard to get people to agree on how the next film should be steered. All movie should be made with a “know your audience” point of view. {When I was a kid my family use to vacation in northern Minnesota. To pass the time at night, my dad use to make up stories to share with me and my brothers and sister. Each chapter of the story was about 30 min to an hour long. My dad would always end on a cliffhanger. I learned from him that each part of a story is an element that drives the adventure forward. It is like putting icing on a cake or multiple sound tracks in songs. Those elements makes the story feel real and believable.}
My review of Solo can be summed up in three words. “That was different”
fortunately for us, Disney does have two paid movie critics. (you can skip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I
!!!!!!!!This post is a made up conversation!!!!!!!!
Now with that out of the way. Lets see if we can get Mr. Iger on the right road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK58i2r6dc0
Oswald walks in to Kathleen’s office, holding a small bag.
Oswald
“Good Morning”
Kathleen
“Can I help you? Are you in the right place.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWNKHi2joJE
(this song introduces Oswald)
Oswald
” (Holding and shaking his head, He walks around like he owns her office…..)
(Looking around) Nice Dress,…That’s all depends on if you have a cork screw, or some means to open this bottle of wine, (Said Softly Shaking his head) I hate my life, (Oswald sounds upset a little ) I need a cork screw,(He looks right in to Kathleen’s eyes) I think you know why I’m here. I was told you were upset. Let me show you the path you should take, and lets figure out how to turn this thing around. But right now I need a cork screw,(talking to himself) I told Barlow, I should just take a few cans of beer, but NO, one bottle of wine.”
K
“I think you should leave now. Hold on how do you know I’m upset”
Oswald
“Its not my fault that I’m here. (talking to himself) I told you Barlow I should just bring beer, but no, ONE bottle of wine, one bottle, I said three, But no, one bottle.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFOdkBFzX50
K
“I think we are done here”
Oswald
(In a dumbfounded look, still looking for the cork screw, in pissed off tone )”Do you think I want to be here, I could be drinking with some people who know me, friends of mine who want me dead. (He finds the Cork screw in a vase)Finally, (Holding it up with a big large smile)”
K
“I’m starting to see now why they want you dead.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fcb5T1pcM
Oswald
“You need to get in the back of the line,…. wait are you a lawyer?”
K
“No”
Oswald
“Barlow said you would have glasses, (He looks around) right here, we are almost good, (as Oswald opens up the bottle of wine, pouring the wine), Barlow said you have a projector and Internet in your office”
K
“Hold on, Hold on why are you here?”
Oswald
“I guess you did not get the memo, I’m here to tell you ‘the emperor has no clothes’, I’m here to put you on a path, or some idea how to move forward.”
K
“I think we know how to make movies”
Oswald
“Lets look at what Iger was trying to say to the movies heads in a few words. Disney, needs to investigate why people enjoy some parts of movies and exploit those elements. The first problem you have is character developments, and dialog. Lets look at the start of this movie ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1ikwQ5Zgc
Oswald
“Did you have something to do with this movie? Do you remember the opening of SOLO. The main character must be seen at the start of the movie as a “Bigger than life” type character. . Now Lets look at the opening of this movie”
K
“…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuk9bHW5Pgw
Oswald
“I watched this hole movie, then said to myself I rather have been watching the book she was writing then the movie they made. In Solo , When ‘Woody Harrelson’ showed up in SOLO I said I rather had Woody Harrelson played Han Solo at the start of the movie.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twC6FvDubLk
K
” …”
Oswald
“Can you tell me, would have Solo been better if Woody Harrelson played the part of SOLO. The scrip would have changed a lot.”
Oswald
“Do you remember the first time you saw Han Solo in the first Star wars film, Here”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo
Oswald
” Lets fast forward to 5:06-…., as you watch the scene and doing some analysis, you can see (in the past)Greedo and Solo know each other and they do not like each other. Later this scene was changed to Greedo shooting first. BUT now there is a chance to tell why Han Solo fired first. There is a reason why Han shot first, here is the back story of Han SOLO. Now lets watch this ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFrl5rpXMg
Oswald
“Lets look at 02:27-02:50. Now if a person watched your movie SOLO first would you thought Han Solo character, would have helped Luke? I think not. The writers must write great characters in the movies that Disney makes. My analysis of Han Solo is He is a Hero, he thinks Luke is a nobody. Han has seen and done a lot, and came out on top all the time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69NCLxwLEY
Oswald
“The writers must stay with the characters. In your film it does not fit the 1977’s Star wars characters. Harrison Ford always wanted better dialog, because Harrison Ford knows Han’s character was a take control character . He was a hero but he was placed in a minor role. Lets answer the question why his name is SOLO. The road I would have laid out was he was the last man standing being a smuggler and a mercenary. That would answer the reason why he was on Luke’s planet. The character the writer of SOLO made Han appear more like a character like ‘Howard the Duck’. ‘Howard the Duck’ is a character but I do not want to see that Duck in Star Wars.”
K
“…”
Oswald
“Iger wants to make sure Disney makes movies that people want to buy, to talk about, A film people want to watch 3 or 4 times. Disney has given a king’s ransom for you to make Epic movies. The audience needs to feel like they are watching the over the shoulder view of the movie adventure. They should feel part of the movie. That is your job to make sure that the king’s ransom, ultimately turns in to a diamond, not a diamond in the ruff. Here is a epic scene in a movie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1TMWxHBZsg
Oswald
“Write down what you noticed about this scene, Lets watch it a few times…. Write down what you noticed….. I’ll wait”
….
….
Oswald
“The scene tells everything about Bilbo’s character. The scene also tells us that Gandalf has come across both him and his dad. Lets notice the subtext of this scene. Lets look at each words that were spoken, and the movement of the characters in this scene.”
Oswald
“Watch how Bilbo moves and the way he talks ’00:00-00:16 Good morning’, ’00:16-00:34 What do you mean….’, ’00:34-00:45 Can I help you’ Notice that Bilbo just started to remember who this person is, ’00:45-00:54′ I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure Keep in mind that Gandalf has traveled a great distance to find a Master Burglar. Who is this master burglar Bilbo Baggins. ,’ 00:54-01:22 Bilbo knows he is caught, ’01:22-01:27 …. good morning by belladonna Took’s son’, Gandalf knows his dad, and knows what his dad has done for a living and what he has taught his son….’ 01:27-01:37…, Gandalf is trying to appeal to Bilbo’s life before he retired as a burglar, he wants him to come out of retirement and join him.01:37-01:48 Gandalf is saying we have not met but you might know my name.01:48-02:00 Now I remember, My dad and I have outwitted you once before, and now I’m making fun of you Gandalf.02:00-02:24, Gandalf Yes Bilbo is the right person for the job.02:24-02:44 I’m not coming out of retirement, find someone else.”
k
“….”
Oswald
“This is the kind of magic that Mr. Iger wants in Disney’s movies. The actor’s body language tells part of the story. The body language of the actors controls the scene. This is the directors job to make sure the actors incorporate those movements into the story line of the movie. The subtext gives clues of the story line.”
Oswald
“Now lets look at this part in Star Wars”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sj89xgnl4
Oswald
“Lets do some analysis on this part of the movie. This is where your story writers are missing. The writers are confined with what George Lucas has wrote. AND EVERY writer who adds to the story will limit each writer afterwards. After Solo I would not like the part of Lando Calrissian. With that said DON’T write the franchise into a corner. DO NOT write things that turns off people, Don’t kill off people that people bonded to the story line. With that said here is my analysis. Growing up Luke wanted his father to be a hero. He was told by his uncle and aunt that Luke’s dad is or was a hero. Luke as always done the right thing. If you watch the first (1977) show of Star Wars you can see Luke was always helping, Luke has always done the right thing even though it places himself in a worse position. Luke wanted to show his dad the type of person he became. But all is lost. So, lets get back to the scene. This is writers gold for the franchise. 00:00-01:01 Luke’s dad does not want to kill him. 01:01-01:26 we find out the civil war is braking apart the galaxy.01:26-01:45 Luke finds out Vader is his father. 01:45-02:09 Life has just ended for Luke. Luke just found out his dad was Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin all wrapped into a black helmet. Luke has always thought of his dad as a Hero, but as it seems as of now Vader has chose the wrong side of life.02:09-02:16 In this statement the writer has painted himself (or Herself) into a corner. The writer has told us Luke’s destiny. But there is some good news, it gives a path to the path of how Star Wars must be wrote. Mark Hamill is getting older and it seems to be where Star Wars must be wrote.02:16-02:37 Vader sees away to rule the galaxy with Luke’s help.(‘Writers Gold’ show the path to what will come next). 02:37 Luke sees only two ways out Death or away to save himself.02:37-02:59 away out..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZJui3aPoQ
Oswald
“Now that gets us to Star Wars Episode 7 – Rey Finds Luke Skywalker. Did the writers paint Luke into a corner once again? Luke wants to be left alone, just like the “Ruler of the Universe” in the “Hitchhiker’s guide to the Universe”, Yoda and Old Ben. But why???
Because 100s of Trillions of people have died and soon 10s of Trillions of people will once again will die. Why is Luke on this planet alone? His dad is dead, Luke has lost faith in humanity. Here are a few Clips, These clips might help the writers, and could helped to understand why Luke has placed himself exiled from people.”
The Gunfighter – Gregory Peck 1950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVfBTE9erwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6Obp0rcuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjrUAimzZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1DQtz1_ekw
Jeremiah Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QvWlaGXjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrGf03jRHSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeURt5VTJJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k_BW8iLkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOe5ig4l9tI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CyPF9xupsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbT1fCHOjfI
Oswald
“This is the type of Star Wars movie Mark Hamill dreamed about (my guess). But It still needs more action!!! GO BIG or go home add more icing on the cake, and DON’T write the franchise into a corner, Star Wars is not a comedy, its not a love story, it is not a franchise for 12 year olds. George Lucas wrote Star Wars as a CIVIL WAR, Planet against Planet, Solar system against Solar System. I think Mr. Iger wants to direct the studio to find a path every movie viewer can experience the adventures. With that in mind you need to find movies scenes in other movies that inspire an emotional response, and add those type scenes in to each movie made.”
K
“…..”
Oswald
“Lets look at this movie clip”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfI_HT39eeM
Oswald
“I’m sure you know this movie ‘Brian’s Song’, did you cry the first time you saw that movie? If your dad was dying how would you feel? Luke feels the same way about his dad, {My thoughts on Vader is, maybe he was fighting against the Empire all the time. The ‘Zorro’ in the dark mask. Vader always wanted to rule with his son}. When you read any book, there is a point in time within the story becomes an adventure. The story is no longer a story. Bob wants to know, how Disney can add those kinds of emotions roller coaster events in to Disney’s movies. If the main character gets killed, the audience must be in ’emotional state of mind’ to cry. If that state of mind is not at the crying state then the director must find a better setup to insure the need to cry. Otherwise it is junk.”
K
“…..”
Oswald
“When people attend a ‘horror movie’ the audience feel scared in parts. Mr. Iger wants to know why do people feel scared. In a adventure movies why do people feel like a member on the adventure. In a sporting movie what makes the audience want that team to win. The actors are that glue making the audience feel part of the film. In movies that audience do not like the audience would all way analyze the scene. The audience would be confused and say that makes no cents, why didn’t you just do …. .Please FIX those problems before you start filming. Where is the Story board? Didn’t anyone say this is JUNK. . If the scene in the movie does not feel real, FIX IT, DON’T do it again. Iger wants everyone to bring their ‘A’ game when making movies. If you need inspiration then go to the internet, write down the scenes you liked in other movies. What makes those movie scenes great? Bring your ‘A’ game for movie making. We ARE MAKING DISNEY MOVIES not a Miramax Film. Action scene should advance the plot, Advance the character of the story. Starting now Disney does not make movies to make movies. Disney will only make movies that deliver quality outcomes to meet objectives goals, that is done in with good writing planning, story boards, Story structure, characters, foreshadowing, subtext, Great Dialog…Right now there are record box office sales for some movies. Why because if the movie story is well put together people will spend their hard earned money, other wise they will watch youtube videos for free. The movies that Disney makes have great advertisement marketable revenue in the secondary sources, but only depends on the quality of our product. ”
K
“….”
Oswald
” Lets look into Vader’s past,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4gqJzlIvc
Oswald
“Maybe something like this, Vader life story?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01sy410NaUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5PixgTAjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uvEuNwUj4
star Wars Episode VI Return Of The Jedi Opening Scene HD720p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQB2NXfJev0
Oswald
“Lets look at 01:32-02:34 Why is he scared, Because of sabotage, and work slow downs.”
K
“(in a laughing tone)Hold on Vader is Zorro, now that’s a stretch. Come on really?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKsQef477U
Oswald
“Lets look at the Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The Vader character is a nice kid. To keep with that character, it seems to me there is going to be a point in time Vader realized that he was tricked and on the wrong side. In ‘Star wars A New Hope’ Vader is treated as a second rate person. He seems to be a body guard of the Emperor. He is the enforcer, The people in the room treat him like the Emperor’s gofer and treat his powers of the force just a parlor trick? If Vader shows that he is on the other side he will be killed. So what path should Vader take? Vader takes the path of kill the cancer from the inside. know one would suspect what side he was on. ”
K
“Well, good luck with that.”
Oswald
” Story structure of Vader’s ZORRO movements needs to be woven inside some elements. (Oswald looks at his watch, walking toward the door). One other thing, could ‘Star Wars Clone wars’ become a real movie. Well, I’m done. If you see any Lawyers looking for me could you play this for them.”
K
“…..”
Oswald
(looks at his watch)” Well, I have to drop some kids off at the pool” (He walks out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5X5zh00rdg
Oswald walks out of her office. 30 seconds later.
Two people come running in to Kathleen’s office, breathing heavy.
Lawyer one
“Did any one come in here, Kind of a short guy”
K
” a lot of people come in to my office”
Lawyer two
“Did he talk to you, and did you want to strangle him after he left?”
K
“Yes,”
Lawyer one
” (In a pissed off tone)That is just great, I hate Wilkes”
Lawyer two
“NO,No ,NO …,, SH*T, did he say were he was going”
K
“He said he had to drop some kids off at the pool”
You can see the Lawyer’s minds thinking, Gears turning Thinking, in unison they say
” He’s headed to the bath room”
They run toward the bathroom,
Lawyer One
“I’ll corner him in here”
Lawyer Two
“It’s a unisex bathroom”
They both enter and look around finding no Oswald.
Lawyer One shaking his head
“Jane,He’s gone,We just missed him,(Shaking his head), I hate Wilkes, I got to take a piss”
Lawyer Two
Entering the stall “Me two”
Lawyer Two
Closing the door behind her, sitting down on the toilet, She sees a pair of stockings made in to sock puppets with a beer inside.
Lawyer Two Jane
“Hey John, in here there are a pair of sock puppets and a beer”
Lawyer One John
(He grabs the handle and flushes the urinal. Looking at a second set of sock puppets next to him. A second later) “Jane can you get off the toilet, because It seems my hand is super glued to the handle”
Lawyer Two Jane
(Trying to stand up, finding herself stuck on the seat.)”Sh*t, Talking about foreshadowing, We should have seen this coming. Didn’t Barlow and Wilkes do this super glue thing to Leon?”
Lawyer one
“I hate Oswald Wilkes, He’s making our life hard.”
Lawyer Two (Jane)
“He shows up late all the time, Always when things are finalized, and (shaking her head opening up the beer) what are we going to do?, …. so do you want to make the call to the head guy before we drink our beer or after we are done drinking? …. I hate Wilkes.”
On the inside of the stall she sees a few website Addresses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l_1JAHM7og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep0gtkmsuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOUY1Z_XOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3Khusq_8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7ggi1T1Tw
Well, I was done with this project back in Dec…. This month is a sad month for me, because my dad passed away last year in July. He taught me a lot about story telling. How dialog of characters and the actions of the characters would be the foreshadowing of things that would come later on. How to grow a story into a adventure. He help me in so many ways, most of them I did not understand until I was much older.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiweDGsfJT0
PS. Let me pitch a idea. Movie Staring Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel They are professional reality tv contestants. They are paid to come on reality tv programs. It seems they both end up on the same reality tv shows , One of them was Naked and Afraid….. Ending reality tv shows the scene, Matt and Jimmy are on the Maury Povich show “YOU Are not the father” They find out that Matt’s kids are not his, Jimmy’s kids are not his, They find out that DNA shows Matt and Jimmy are brothers, and (Matt and Jimmy) their kids are ……Ben Affleck’s kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxhueyC70cU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jW8_2Us5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFOdkBFzX50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdU6migsqQ