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Are you tired of TV providers advertising one price, but charging another thanks to hidden fees? You might not have to put up with that practice for much longer. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a requirement that cable and satellite TV services “clearly and prominently” display the true cost of service both in their marketing and on subscriber bills. Companies couldn’t mask programming costs as fees that only show up on your bill, hiding them behind vague or potentially misleading terms.
The measure is intended to help would-be customers make truly informed choices about TV subscriptions, including comparisons with streaming services. The move could also help boost competition between providers and help cash-strapped families avoid unpleasant surprises, FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel claims.
The proposal comes months after President Biden called on government agencies to fight “junk fees” and otherwise demand more transparent pricing for services and events. The FCC itself recently said it would require broadband “nutrition labels” that display prices and typical performance. In that light, the TV price transparency effort is mainly an extension that could outline exactly how much you’ll pay for a multi-service bill.
The proposal doesn’t come at a great time for conventional TV giants. Streaming TV viewership in the US (including live and on-demand) overtook cable for the first time last summer. While internet-only services aren’t always better deals than cable and satellite equivalents, the increased transparency could prevent traditional companies from artificially minimizing the differences.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cable-and-satellite-providers-may-have-to-advertise-the-true-price-of-tv-service-164929621.html?src=rss
There’s a reason Resident Evil 4 is still talked about to this day. The game marked a massive departure from the traditional Resident Evil formula, heralding a new approach to survival horror from which developers have been taking inspiration for years since. It’s slick, scary, and as fun to play now as it was when it was first released.
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AN UPCOMING Anna Nicole Smith biopic will bare all on the 90s icon’s wild life – and is set to include a scene where she has phone sex with a close gay friend.
Smith’s two close pals, Gown And Out In Beverly Hills reality show stars Pol Atteu and Patrik Simpson, are overseeing the script about her life.
Anna Nicole Smith is seen at the World Music Awards in Las Vegas in September 2004[/caption]
Patrik Simpson and his husband Pol Atteu pose with their dog Snow White at the Beverly Hills Cinémoi Oscars party on March 12[/caption]
Anna Nicole Smith is seen with her husband J. Howard Marshall, who she married when she was 26 and he was 89[/caption]
And they say it will not hold back on addressing the late Playboy cover girl and actress’s controversies while showing the world what she was really like.
Speaking at the Beverly Hills Cinémoi Oscars party, Patrik exclusively told The U.S. Sun that the movie will debunk claims she was a “gold digger” and show how her 89-year-old billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall was her “one true love”.
He also said they are currently pitching the movie to major stars including Lily James and Andrew Garfield.
The designer, 54, said: “I will tell you that one of the key scenes in our movie is going to be when I had phone sex with Anna Nicole.
“I cannot do this movie and not put that in the movie.
“She had an outrageous life.
“She lived it the way she wanted to live it.
“She didn’t give a f”*** about what anyone said or thought.
“Maybe it’s going to be an R rating, I don’t know.
“But it’s going to tell the real story of the Anna Nicole Smith that we knew and loved”.
Pol and Patrik have almost finished a script, based on their memoir about the Naked Gun actress Portrait Of An Icon.
Smith died aged 39 of combined drug intoxication in 2007 at a casino in Hollywood, Florida.
A coroner found that the sleeping medication chloral hydrate was the “major component” which led to her death.
Openly gay Patrik detailed how the sex call with Houston-born Anna Nicole went down.
He explained: “We were in Los Angeles driving and the phone rang and Pol was talking and he gave me this weird look and he goes: ‘Here, it’s for you.’
“He hands the phone to me and Anna Nicole is on the other line. She goes: ‘Hi baby, I have my hand in my p****!’ Yes, she said it. ‘I need to get off – help me.’
“So I did. I had phone sex with Anne Nicole and I got her off.”
Laughing he continued: “And we’re going to show it in the movie.
“We’re going to go deep.
“We are really going to open up the doors and tear up the curtains and the covers and show what Anna Nicole really was to the world.”
Her biggest controversy came when she married oil magnet Marshall in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89.
She was sued by Marshall’s family to prevent her from inheriting much of his wealth after he died the following year.
Defending his friend, Patrik said: “Anna Nicole had one true love and it was Marshall, believe it or not.
“She told me many times, and we had many deep conversations about this, but one of the things she had told me multiple times is he was the only one that truly loved her unconditionally.
“And that’s why she loved him back.
“So she didn’t care if he was 90 years old, 89 years old, whatever it was.
“She absolutely loved and adored this man.
“It was absolutely true love.
“And the one thing that I think our movie is really going to prove is that Anna was not a gold digger.
“Everyone thought she was only after the money. Not true at all. She was an independent, strong business woman, very smart.
“She played dumb in the movies and on TV, but she was very, very smart.
“She knew what she was doing.
“She pulled every single string. And we’re going to show that in the movie. “
Patrik explained that such was Anna Nicole’s love for Marshall that some of his ashes were buried with her in her coffin.
He said: “Many people don’t know this, his ashes are in the coffin with Anna. Right.
“My husband Pol, the designer, made a little tuxedo for the urn and we put that in the casket with her. “
Patrik also told how offers for roles have gone out to major actors, including Pam and Tommy star Lily James for the lead.
He said: “Lily James is the perfect person to play Anna Nicole.
“She didn’t win the Emmy for Pamela so we think she’s going to come on and win the Oscar for Anna Nicole.
“Andrew Garfield – we’ve got stuff out to him.
“It is going to be a great movie. Kathy Griffin’s going to do a little cameo in the movie playing herself.”
He added Bai Ling, Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen will also make cameos.
Explaining the goal in making the movie, Patrik said: “I feel that what I’m doing for our friend Anna Nicole is telling her story the way she would want it to be told.
“I’m sure there’s going to be some backlash, but I think that overall we’re telling the truth and the truth is what needs to be out there and be seen.
“And I think people are going to love it and see all the layers of Anna Nicole they didn’t know.
“The script is almost done and we’ll be at the Oscars in two years.
“One of the promises I made to Anna Nicole before she died is that I would tell her story.”
Pol and Patrik, who oversee Pol’ Atteu Beverly Hills couture design store, will appear as contributors in an upcoming Netflix documentary about Anna Nicole’s wild life.
The reality stars plan to make a documentary about creating the movie too.
Patrik, Pol and their dog Snow White joined guests at the lavish Oscar viewing party at the home of Daphna Edwards Ziman of Cinémoi in Beverly Hills.
The fundraising event was to benefit Justice for Women in Africa.
Anna Nicole Smith is seen at a gaming awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California[/caption]
True crime podcasting is a place of murky, ethically gray areas. For every rigorously researched reporting of a murder mystery, there might be dozens more where amateur sleuths dabble in plagiarism, wild speculation, and unchecked conspiracy theories, all while cracking jokes or refilling wine glasses. Such true crime fans turned content creators might see themselves as heroes for forgotten victims. But the slippery and sophisticated documentary Citizen Sleuth exposes a dark underbelly to these altruistic ambitions.
The protagonist of Citizen Sleuth is so on-the-nose of true crime podcasting cliches that she initially seems like a caricature. Emily Nestor, the host of the Mile Marker 181 podcast, is a young white woman who projects alternative cool with her messy bun, oversized eyeglasses, and smattering of tattoos, some of which were inspired by her passion for true crime. You could say she wears her love of the genre on her sleeve, but her tat of a heart wrapped in a banner that reads “true crime” is actually on her leg.
She showers praise on popular documentary shows like Making a Murderer and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, but Nestor’s passion for crime-solving was originally inspired by fictional FBI agent Clarice Starling of Silence of the Lambs. In that story of underestimated rural girl makes good, West Virginian Nestor saw a path toward her own passion for justice. So, when a bizarre death sparks rumors of murder, conspiracy, and cover-up, Nestor saw her chance to make her dream come true. Never mind that she has none of the training of an investigator or the boundaries of a journalist: She’s got a microphone and passion, and that’s enough to podcast.
On November 19, 2011, a 20-year-old Black woman from Marietta, Ohio, was found dead on the side of Interstate 77 in West Virginia. Authorities would determine a car crash to be the cause of Jaleayah Davis’s death. But speculation began to rumble that the friends Davis partied with earlier that night might have a role to play in her tragic end.
Curious details about the condition of Davis’s body, the placement of her clothes, and the location of her car spurred Nestor into action, launching a podcast that aimed for uncovering dark truths. “I read the case files,” she shares with Citizen Sleuth‘s filmmakers. “I was like what the hell? Murder. Cover-up. This needs to be handled. So, why not me?”
For 23 episodes, Nestor pursued the possibilities, interviewing Davis’s mother, questioning police officers, unfurling her pet theory, and sharing personal stories of her own. Citizen Sleuth begins up with Nestor as her podcast is on the rise, making her an emerging luminary at true crime conventions and podcast meet-ups.
Eager for attention, Nestor welcomes documentarian Chris Kasick into her home and DIY podcasting studio, which includes her yarn wall and a modest foam box to improve the sound quality of her recording. Her family warmly regards her show as a helpful hobby and brag about her “gumption” in pursuing this passion without a college education. However, in an aim to impress, Nestor begins to spill information about the victim that is embarrassing and not remotely relevant to the case. This twisted version of name-dropping serves as an early red flag that this will not be a tale of sleuthing heroics.
As Kasick accompanies Nestor to a true crime convention, where podcasters giddily line up to have footage shot of them smiling with their merch and props, Citizen Sleuth steadily slides away from glorifying these ambitions. Amid a sea of fame-seeking fans, actual detective Paul Holes — renowned for his work cracking the Golden State Killer case — seems a beacon of reason. So, when Nestor scores an interview with him for her podcast, where they compare notes over what they think happened to Davis, it could be a moment of victory for the aspiring Starling. Instead, it’s where Citizen Sleuth takes its pivotal turn.
In the third act, Nestor has fallen into a problematic pitfall of true crime: exploitation. Her quest for the truth has yielded inconvenient answers. To tell them could risk ending her podcast, which would also mean an end to the sponsorship deals that allowed her to walk away from waitressing, not to mention her newfound role as idol to a growing — and demanding — fandom. The documentary crew presses her on the ethical dilemma while addressing their own burgeoning concerns, because a revelation from Holes calls into question their project as well.
The tension of the final act of Citizen Sleuth comes not only from worrying about what Nestor will do but also wondering how her being filmed impacts her decision. With the cameras in her face, does feel she pressed to perform? Is this what sparks a flurry of (white woman) tears when questioned about her benefitting from the violent death of a Black woman? Or does the edit being out of her hands push her to ruthless self-evaluation? And within these edits, the viewer might well wonder, what debates the filmmakers had in making — or even continuing — their project after some particularly damning information comes to light.
Some of the most striking moments in Citizen Sleuth are when Kasick steps beyond Nestor and interviews her suspects, people who’d (understandably) never agreed to be on her podcast at all. Within these interviews, a sobering slap hits the giddy thrill of amateurs dabbling in true crime. While the documentary centers on Nestor — and certainly does her few favors — it doesn’t suggest she is an outlier in this booming industry. Over the end credits play true crime podcasters chattering away in a cacophonic audio montage, urging the audience to think critically about their next listen.
Riveting and unnerving as it is uncompromising, Citizen Sleuth is a must-see for true crime fans.
Citizen Sleuth was reviewed out of its World Premiere at SXSW 2023.