Extra! is a monthly magazine of media criticism published by the media watch group FAIR. First published in 1987, its first full-time editor was Martin A. Lee. Since 1990, it has been edited by Jim Naureckas. The magazine covers a wide variety of media issues in the form of analytical essays, features publications on media commentators, and book reviews.
Extra! was published six times a year until January 2009, when it switched to monthly. Contributors include Peter Hart, Janine Jackson, Julie Hollar, Laura Flanders, Howard Friel, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Maher, Michael Corcoran, Seth Ackerman, Beau Hodai, and Edward Herman.
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene). War films and epic films often employ background actors in large numbers: some films have featured hundreds or even thousands of paid background actors as cast members (hence the term 'cast of thousands'). Likewise, grand opera can involve many background actors appearing in spectacular productions.
On a film or TV set, background actors are usually referred to as "background talent", "background performers", "background artists", "background cast members" or simply "background" while the term "extra" is rarely used. In a stage production, background actors are commonly referred to as "supernumeraries". In opera and ballet, they are called either "extras" or "supers".
Casting criteria for background actors depend on the production. It has been said that background cast members often require little or no acting experience. This is not entirely true, as any type of unrealistic portrayal must include some form of imagination and acting. Punctuality, reliability and the ability to take direction also figure prominently for these cast members. Background actors are often selected on short notice, after all other preparations for the shoot have been finalized.
Extra (originally titled Extra: The Entertainment Magazine from 1994 to 1996) is an American syndicated television newsmagazine that is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution and premiered on September 5, 1994. The program serves as a straight rundown of news headlines and gossip throughout the entertainment industry, providing coverage of events and celebrities; however, since 2013, it has also placed an even greater emphasis on interviews and insider previews of upcoming film and television projects.
As of 2014, the program's weekday broadcasts are currently anchored by Mario Lopez, Tracey Edmonds and Charissa Thompson; its weekend editions are co-anchored by Lopez and Renee Bargh, who also serves as a correspondent for the weekday editions.
The series was developed in the fall of 1993, for a planned launch during the 1994–95 television season. The program was developed under the working title Entertainment News Television; however due to claims that it too closely mirrored its own name, cable channel E!: Entertainment Television filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television and Telepictures Productions to bar them from using the title; although E! lost the lawsuit in a summary judgment hearing allowing Warner Bros. to continue to use the ENT title for the series, Warner Bros. decided to change the name of the program to Extra: The Entertainment Magazine in May 1994, four months before the series made its debut, with Warner Bros. executives citing that the abbreviated ENT title was too similar to that used by Entertainment Tonight (which is commonly known simply as ET), possibly leading to viewer confusion and hurting ratings in the process.
Actors: Valter Americo (actor), Floyd Anderson (actor), William Ayers (actor), Kira Barnum (actor), Daniel Bettencourt (actor), Shor'Ty Billups (actor), Reza Breakstone (actor), Verdine Casimio (actor), Jener Medeiros Collage (actor), Mary Cradock (actor), Patricia Cunha (actor), Frank Czarnowski (actor), Lucas De BuenosAires (actor), Eric Dunklee (actor), Sunny Abakwue (actor),
Plot: Radio Personality, Michael Washington, known as "DJ Mike" makes fun of people's lives with prank phone calls on his radio show, JAB STAB. His jokes make his show #1 of all morning talk show in the state. However, behind the scenes of the radio show, many unpredictable events develop in Mike's personal life. It leads to an adventure that brings him to the brink of disaster, fighting for his own survival. Will he persevere?
Keywords: boston-radio-show, cell-phone-jammer, guerilla-shooting, leon, massachusetts, prank-phone-call, radio, radio-show, talk-radioActors: Levi Burdick (actor), Kyle Cattrell (actor), Christopher Collins (actor), Sean Freeland (actor), Grant Henry (actor), Paul Jenkins (actor), Graham Kicklighter (actor), Shinji Kobayashi (actor), Christopher Marrone (actor), Nishiki Nagonka (actor), Ronald Ogden (actor), Ryan Presley (actor), D. Shimamoto (actor), Steven Teuchert (actor), Davis Abbott (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Harrison Aaron (actor), Moses Aaron (actor), Phillip Aaron (actor), Sarah Aaron (actor), Chris Bates (actor), Jason Bickel (actor), Melissa Bickel (actor), Charles Borowicz (actor), Trevor Brown (actor), Jc Bryant (actor), Dave Charles (actor), Rick Clark (actor), Curtis Cole (actor), Pat Eberle (actor), Barnaby Aaron (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,Actors: Harrison Aaron (actor), Moses Aaron (actor), Phillip Aaron (actor), Sarah Aaron (actor), Chris Bates (actor), Jason Bickel (actor), Melissa Bickel (actor), Charles Borowicz (actor), Trevor Brown (actor), Jc Bryant (actor), Dave Charles (actor), Rick Clark (actor), Curtis Cole (actor), Pat Eberle (actor), Barnaby Aaron (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,Actors: Harrison Aaron (actor), Moses Aaron (actor), Phillip Aaron (actor), Sarah Aaron (actor), Chris Bates (actor), Jason Bickel (actor), Melissa Bickel (actor), Charles Borowicz (actor), Trevor Brown (actor), Jc Bryant (actor), Dave Charles (actor), Rick Clark (actor), Curtis Cole (actor), Pat Eberle (actor), Barnaby Aaron (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,Actors: Harrison Aaron (actor), Moses Aaron (actor), Phillip Aaron (actor), Sarah Aaron (actor), Chris Bates (actor), Jason Bickel (actor), Melissa Bickel (actor), Charles Borowicz (actor), Trevor Brown (actor), Jc Bryant (actor), Dave Charles (actor), Rick Clark (actor), Curtis Cole (actor), Pat Eberle (actor), Barnaby Aaron (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,Actors: Ivan Andreassen (actor), Hâvar Austli (actor), Lars Markus Verpeide Bakke (actor), Pawel Baranek (actor), Thomas Berg (actor), Even Løken Bergan (actor), Kenneth Berger (actor), Daniel Bratterud (actor), Nicolai Cleve Broch (actor), Lars Jonas Carberg (actor), Zach Cohen (actor), Anders Kile Cronningsæter (actor), Eirik Daleng (actor), Jérôme Dassier (actor), Christian Aaslie (actor),
Plot: A Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan is taken captive by the Americans after killing an American soldier and two contractors. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.
Keywords: 2000s, afghanistan, allegorical, allegory, alone, anti-hero, arab, bazooka, beating, behind-enemy-linesActors: Ron Asheton (actor), Anthony Caselli (actor), James Croteau (actor), Dave Dixon (actor), Robert Dole (actor), Therle Dregansky (actor), Ken Earl (actor), David Emge (actor), Eric Kingston (actor), Emile Levisetti (actor), Jeff Nurmi (actor), David Peters (actor), Jeff Rector (actor), Jim Riethmiller (actor), Larry Aagesen (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Leo Abbey (actor), Charles Abraham (actor), Boyd Ackerman (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Jesse Adams (actor), George Agawa (actor), David Ahdar (actor), Richard Aherne (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Benny Ahuna (actor), Fred Akahoshi (actor), Carlos Albert (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Emil Alegata (actor), Abdullah Abbas (actor),
Plot: When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, acrobat, adventurer, american-indian, animated-credits, around-the-world, around-the-world-in-80-days, balloonActors: Leo Abbey (actor), Charles Abraham (actor), Boyd Ackerman (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Jesse Adams (actor), George Agawa (actor), David Ahdar (actor), Richard Aherne (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Benny Ahuna (actor), Fred Akahoshi (actor), Carlos Albert (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Emil Alegata (actor), Abdullah Abbas (actor),
Plot: When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, acrobat, adventurer, american-indian, animated-credits, around-the-world, around-the-world-in-80-days, balloonExtra, extra read all about it
I don't care about you no more
Put your words to the test
Compromise it all
So ashamed about taking the fall
Extra, extra ordinary
Extra ordinary circumstances are shot... shot
Extra, extra stimulation
Means that chaos will uproar
Hollywood & Vine, we're running out of time
Clashing... rants, sins & lies
All those flashes, might make you see
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