Casting Call from MTV: C,mon. You Must Know Someone Who Is MissBehaving.

Casting Call: MTV is casting for a new reality series MissBehaving (wt) from the producers of The Apprentice and Wife Swap, and is looking for bold, out-spoken, party-hearty girls who want to be transformed into proper ladies. If you fit this description and are interested in making a change, send an email to Twinsworld1@aol.com. Include name, age, contact telephone numbers, where you live, a photo and a description of yourself and details about your party habits and why you should appear on the show. Applicants must be 21 years or older. Candidates may also be nominated. (Thank you, Cynopsis!)

New Media News: Daily Candy Sweetens Up Comcast. Microsoft’s Latest Attempt at Cool –CrowdFire — to Launch At Outside Lands Fest.

Media junky favorite, Cynopsis, reports the following tidbits this week:

Women’s fashion and lifestyle email newsletter DailyCandy was acquired by Comcast for a reported $125 million. The site sends out daily emails to some 2.5 million readers in 12 U.S. cities and London, England. Guru’s Note: This simple announcement does not do justice to Daily Candy’s pioneering role in spreading juicy new products, sites, styles, and do gooder causes to a vast network of lifestyle-hungry readers.

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Federated Media Publishing and Microsoft teamed up to launch CrowdFire, a social networking platform for uploading, sharing and remixing music and musical performances with the festival scene as a sweetspot. Federated Media CEO John Battelle describes his vision of it as a happening enabler of sorts. Users are encouraged to send SMS, email and uploads of media directly into the CrowdFire database and media jockeys will create streams of CrowdFire imagery in real time, sent back out into the festival grounds through a network of digital screens. Groovy.

Crowdfire will be on full display at the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco on Aug. 22-24. Guru’s Note: Naturally, Guru & company are already planning to attend Outside Lands (Favorites Andrew Bird and Wilco are playing on the 24th, and rumor has it that Beck may show up all three days) so uber-cool ticket holders (and me) have already been pinged by Crowdfire.

Granddaddy of web video news shows Rocketboom was acquired by Sony Pictures Television for a seven figure guarantee plus a share of future revenues generated from the show. Sony plans to distribute the show across multiple digital platforms including Crackle and its syndication network, the PS3, the PSP and Bravia internet video link televisions. Rocketboom is already one of the most widely distributed video blogs on the net, available via iTunes, Tivo, Apple TV, Pando, TVTonic and multiple web video portals including YouTube, Metacafe, blip.tv and Vuze.

WALL-E Packs A Real Wallop for Grown-Ups.

Like a gazillion other Americans trying to beat the heat this weekend (and in our case, the smoke from the Big Sur wildfires), I had to go see the latest Pixar mechanical-marvel, WALL-E. The critically praised film is now a box office wonder as well, with domestic grosses of $103,876,000 a mere 8 days after release.

I knew I would fall madly in love with the 2008 version of E.T. and R2D2, all digi-designed into one heart-rending creature who babbled adorably electronic coos, blips and bleeps. I also knew I would love the sweetly weird love story between the cutely-clunky WALL-E and ever-so-estro-oval EVE.

But what I didn’t expect was the absolute wallop of its powerful environmental message, delivered by a chilling look at what passes for humankind 800 years in the future. Not only did I want to sprint out of the theater and head for the closest treadmill but I also wanted to crush any cup in the vicinity.

And then there were my feet. I wanted to rush out and buy new shoes, simply to reassure myself that I still wear them.

I am fantasizing a dream triple bill at my local theater:

WALL-E
An Inconvenient Truth