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Jul 5, 2004, 01:40 PM
 
I too have seen these reality shows with AL PB's and other assorted apple stuff. I really wonder though how much influence did apple have or where they truely Mac users?
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Jul 5, 2004, 03:22 PM
 
Jonathan Ross on his film review show typically had a Ti-book on his desk. I never saw him touch it though, it was just a prop.

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Jul 5, 2004, 04:43 PM
 
Edina Monsoon seems to keep up with Mac trends in Absolutely Fabulous. The last series was an LCD iMac in the kitchen, the series before that it was a23in Cinema display and a cube!
     
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Jul 5, 2004, 04:47 PM
 
Homer has a suspicoiusly iMac looking computer at one point in The Simpsons. Also his Mr X web site runs on an OS8 like screen. Many computer screen shots in the simpsons look like simplified OS8 screens. Bizarrely so do screens in Futurama, and this is the 30th Century. So much for the migration to OSX!!
     
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Jul 5, 2004, 05:23 PM
 
The Royal Tenenbaums has loads of different macs in it as Chas as his family establish their business

Vanilla Sky features a 23" Cinema Display in a scene where he's participating in a video conference from home

I don't think either features a Powerbook though, so this post might be considered off-topic. If anyone has these on DVD, maybe you could post a screen shot? I couldn't find any on the web

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Jul 6, 2004, 01:41 PM
 
For those who cover their logos, Apple did not pay ad fees. Yeah like people can't tell a Dell from a Powerbook

Originally posted by alex_wlu_82:
i never understood why, in movies and television, some cover up the apple logo and some don't. Anybody have any insight into this?
     
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Jul 6, 2004, 02:04 PM
 
Originally posted by Andrew Stephens:
Edina Monsoon seems to keep up with Mac trends in Absolutely Fabulous. The last series was an LCD iMac in the kitchen, the series before that it was a23in Cinema display and a cube!
They used to have a 1st gen iMac in the kitchen in an earlier series.
     
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Jul 12, 2004, 10:57 PM
 
Just saw some pictures of John Kerry on CNN, one had him using a 17 inch powerbook in his personal library. The photographer said it was the first thing he did after getting dressed in the morning.
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Jul 12, 2004, 11:06 PM
 
Originally posted by drg:
Just saw some pictures of John Kerry on CNN, one had him using a 17 inch powerbook in his personal library. The photographer said it was the first thing he did after getting dressed in the morning.
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another reason to vote for him. i bet bush uses a dell, or some other piece of crap.
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Jul 13, 2004, 10:34 AM
 
Originally posted by rag on a muffin:
another reason to vote for him. i bet bush uses a dell, or some other piece of crap.
You mean Bush can use a computer?
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:33 PM
 
That one works, and here I am searching google for a laptop bubblegum dispenser.
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Jul 18, 2004, 12:50 PM
 
Here's a photo of CB Hudson, lead guitarist for the rock band Blue October (recent hit single "Calling You") using his PowerBook G4 on the band's tour bus after a show. CB is a dedicated Mac user and loves to rave about his PowerBook.

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Jul 18, 2004, 02:23 PM
 
Dark Angel is probably the TV show where I saw the more
Macs. Logan has a Cinema display (the old ones obviously),
a cube, and a pismo which he then changed for a Titanium.
The apple logos were always clearly visible, sometimes in
the foreground...

In Charmed, Phoebe's got a pismo which she upgraded to a
Titanium later on...

Oh and by the way, it was Meg Ryan who used a Mac in
"You've got mail". I think Tom Hanks had a Thinkpad,
but I don't remember very well...

Oh and please, believe me, I don't really watch all of these
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Jul 18, 2004, 02:31 PM
 
Originally posted by rag on a muffin:
another reason to vote for him. i bet bush uses a dell, or some other piece of crap.
He's a Mac user. Maybe THAT's why we still have a one-button mouse!
     
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Jul 20, 2004, 10:37 PM
 
i've seen several pictures of Dubya either using a Pismo or a Lombard.

in the movie Lost in Translation, Giovanni Ribisi's character has an iBook in the hotel room, and there is at least one Albook (i believe a 17") shown during the Santori ad that Bill Murray's character films.
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Jul 20, 2004, 11:20 PM
 
There was an older iMac in the movie 13 Going On 30 in the main character's bedroom.
     
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Jul 21, 2004, 12:49 AM
 
In the movie about conjoined twins "Stuck On You", Matt Damon uses a 12" Powerbook G4 while his brother gets some action on the other side of the bed!
     
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Jul 21, 2004, 09:54 AM
 
Originally posted by Jwylie:
On the Chappelle show, the skit "When keeping it real goes wrong" with the women who answers the phone and its the wrong number blah blah blah, anyways she uses a powerbook to print out a map and whatnot.
Chappelle did a great parody of the switcher ads centering around the fact that he loved his Powerbook, and used it to hmmmm....view porn and pleasure himself.

The best line was: "I don't know what they use to make the keys, but they never get sticky. I am Dave Chappelle, and I am a switcher"
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Jul 21, 2004, 02:18 PM
 
Josh Hartnet uses a Pismo in 40 Days and 40 Nights (still running OS 9).
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Jul 21, 2004, 03:14 PM
 
There's a Blue Dalmatian iMac prominently featured in the office of the hosts of the UK edition of "What Not to Wear."

Reese Witherspoon uses a toilet-seat iBook in "Legally Blonde." It's a funny scene, she's in a classroom full of dull black laptops and she proudly opens up her shiny tangerine iBook.

The Showtime version of "Queer as Folk" is lousy with Macs - PowerBooks, CRT iMacs, G4 iMacs, G5s. They're everywhere, it's almost distracting.
     
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Jul 21, 2004, 06:14 PM
 
They use a PowerBook in Panic Room
     
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Jul 21, 2004, 07:04 PM
 
Lt. Disher on "Monk" used a PB...but this season it looks like they replaced it with a Dell laptop. What's up with that???
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 01:37 PM
 
Originally posted by Jwylie:
On the Chappelle show, the skit "When keeping it real goes wrong" with the women who answers the phone and its the wrong number blah blah blah, anyways she uses a powerbook to print out a map and whatnot.
anybody seen his switcher spoof?

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oh, and Just Shoot Me was loaded with Macs.
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 01:47 PM
 
there are a few different macs in paycheck and if you notices the machine that tells the future in that movie when it gives that error it is actually a common error on mac os 7
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 02:16 PM
 
there's Powerbook action in School of Rock (and iMacs too)
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Jul 23, 2004, 06:43 PM
 
Peter Gabriel has always been a Mac fanatic. I noticed a TiBook in the sound booth at his concerts. On stage it looked like the computers were running a sequencing program on Windows. Hopefully I am mistaken.
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 06:56 PM
 
In the movie Coyote Ugly, the main character Violet is told that if she is really serious about composing music, she needs to buy a Mac. She ends up will an older iBook.
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Jul 23, 2004, 06:59 PM
 
Don't forget zoolander. When they try to get the files inside the orange imac.
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 07:01 PM
 
TRL on MTV.
Dr phill a imac and a isight.
The Wayne Brady show powerbook.
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 07:03 PM
 
tones of japanese shows have the frutie imacs with the flowerpot and dollmations. Lots of g3's and g4 towers as well and lots of powerbooks
     
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Jul 23, 2004, 07:57 PM
 
The group Underworld uses two PowerBooks while on stage. They're there to let the group store and queue up the various samples they use while they're playing.
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Jul 23, 2004, 08:17 PM
 
IBM may be an official tour sponsor of Cirque du Soleil, but they use 17" PowerBooks in their directors booth to control the show.
     
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Originally posted by yoyoman:
Don't forget zoolander. When they try to get the files inside the orange imac.
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Jul 23, 2004, 10:36 PM
 
its probably been known for awhile, but tony hawk had an article in the recent sports illustrated and he admits that he loves his 17" pbook and G5
     
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Jul 24, 2004, 12:39 AM
 
O yea las vagus hard rock they have like short video clips on a g3 with a g3 flat pannal every wehre like 8 of them all threw out. Ozzy when I seen him on mtv in his own studio no one was able to touch I saw a apple there and few other mtv shows.
     
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Jul 24, 2004, 12:52 AM
 
I thought I saw Lance using one the other day on the Lance Chronicles. However, they use PCs in their engineering lab/wind tunnel at Trek Bicycles. They use a TiBook and a 15" AlBook in the DirectWay satelite internet commercials all the time.
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Jul 24, 2004, 03:01 AM
 
Originally posted by Nawus:
Was it Tom Hanks or Meg Ryan who uses a powerbook in "You've got mail"?
Meg Ryan.

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Jul 24, 2004, 06:40 AM
 
Originally posted by rag on a muffin:
another reason to vote for him. i bet bush uses a dell, or some other piece of crap.
Only a narrow minded, LIBERAL Democrat could try to turn a discussion of Macs on TV and movies into a political discssion. Move it to the lounge or keep your opinions to yourself OR maybe you can help Kerry find the medals he accidently threw away!
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Jul 24, 2004, 08:59 AM
 
I think my hand would cramp up throughout a week if I tried to keep tabs on all the places that macs show up on screen, big and little.
Even on the ESPY awards in the beginning when Jamie Foxx is playing around on stage. They are just everywhere.
     
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The DVD set for the first season of 'Millennium' (Chris Carter's 'other' show) just came out a few days ago. I rented a few discs and took a screenshot of what obviously is Mac OS 8:

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Not a PowerBook, but Steven Seagal sends a fax using a Newton in "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory."
     
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Jul 25, 2004, 03:34 AM
 
Not a powerBook sighing, but Eyes Wide Shut had an early all-in-one Power Mac (Performa 5K or whatever it was called). I recall reading that Stanley Kubrick was an Apple user, an he was thrilled with the HAL 9000 Y2K commercial which was released a few months before his death. Later his image was used in the Think Different ad campaign.
     
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Originally posted by junebug630:
Sinbad (what ever happened to him ?) was a big mac geek back in the day according to interviews I read about him.
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Jul 25, 2004, 05:49 AM
 
Originally posted by alex_wlu_82:
i never understood why, in movies and television, some cover up the apple logo and some don't. Anybody have any insight into this?
I think the producers of such shows don�t intend and/or were not paid to endorse the product � the computer is just a prop to them.

I notice the same thing with cameras used in the movies: usually when an SLR is used, the camera brand is painted over so they wouldn�t endorse Nikon or Canon (rarely the brand is specifically mentioned; I recall Robin Williams in �One-Hour Photo� praising his customer on her Leica Minilux). I wonder if an Apple product was specifically mentioned by name in a movie? Anyone who knows, please advise.

In the show �24� � at least during the first 2 seasons, don�t know about the last season since I�m waiting for the program to come out on DVD � the good guys and those who collaborate with them use Macs, the villains almost always use PCs.

Actually, some viewers and almost all movie critics abhor product placements in the movies. They refer to the practice as �hidden commercials� of everything from cars to soft drinks and name brand logos prominently displayed. Some master directors have used product placements in their movies; the most famous example I can think of now is Kubricks �2001�: the movie pitched PanAm, Bell Labs, Hilton and the most famous (or controversial) one: IBM. Many have commented about the HAL = IBM + 1 placement (accidental according to the movies screenplay co-author A. C. Clarke).

The makers of booze and cigarettes, which are not allowed to be advertised on TV in the US and some other markets, pay movie producers for the products to be displayed on the big screen, and eventually the images make their way to the small screen. The James bond movies are full of such placements (Martini, anyone?). On the other side of the spectrum, you have directors who go an extra mile to make the viewers look at obvious props: sometimes soft drink cans are just marked �Pop� or �Soda�, Quintin Tarantino uses an imaginary brand of cigarettes (�Red Apples�?) in his movies.
     
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Jul 25, 2004, 09:00 AM
 
Originally posted by newellvw:
Only a narrow minded, LIBERAL Democrat could try to turn a discussion of Macs on TV and movies into a political discssion. Move it to the lounge or keep your opinions to yourself OR maybe you can help Kerry find the medals he accidently threw away!
Yeah, and see if you can find Bush's military records while you're at it.
     
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Jul 25, 2004, 09:59 AM
 
I think The O.C. had Titanium Powerbooks, and a PMG4 if I remember correctly.
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Aug 9, 2004, 02:33 AM
 
There's what looks like a 15" TiBook in the movie The Girl Next Door, along with a G4 PowerMac.
     
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Aug 9, 2004, 03:06 AM
 
Originally posted by ThisGuy:
anybody seen his switcher spoof?
Haha, awesome

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Aug 9, 2004, 05:42 AM
 
Originally posted by Nawus:
Was it Tom Hanks or Meg Ryan who uses a powerbook in "You've got mail"?
they both did. oddly enough, it was the same.

hey guys in "40 days and 40 nights" the main character works at a dot com company.. a dot company that uses nothing BUT macs! the whole movie just screams out macintosh. everywhere you look

oh and also the net flix commercial. the guy orders a movie from a pbook.

I saw dr. phil using isights, a 20inch flat monitor with G5 for his interview people and a 17inch pbook witth isight for his office.

in freaky friday, the teachers in the teachers lounge uses pbooks.

its kind of sad that its one of the main things I notice in movies now....
     
 
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