Local filmmaker gets "Exposure," Yuletide greetings, and Jessica pulls an Ashlee at the "Kennedy Center Honors."
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Local filmmaker Jason P. Hunt was the ninth weekly winner in the “Exposure” contest, a talent search for new filmmakers sponsored by the SciFi and Sundance channels. Hunt's eight-minute film, “Species Felis Dominarus,” which he wrote, shot and completed in three weeks, earned him a spot in the next round of “Exposure,” a “Project Greenlight”-like competition in which online voters determine whose entry that week is worthiest. Hunt, 36, a UMKC graduate, currently produces commercials for KCWE-TV. His work will be featured on SciFi sometime in January; until then you can watch “Species Felis Dominarus” online at scifi.com/exposure. It stars local actors and two cats, and let's just say the kitties get the last word.
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MONDAY
Christmas traditions abound, starting at midnight when various choirs sing in the Christ child on “The Sound of Peace” (KCTV-5), “Christmas Eve at the Crystal Cathedral” (KMCI, “38 the Spot”) and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on PBS (KCPT and KTWU). Then fall asleep in front of the fireplace -- don't worry, it's on TV! The “Yule Log,” celebrating 40 years as maybe the darndest Christmas tradition ever, returns 1:30 a.m. on WGN and in high definition at 6 a.m. on INHD.
In another holiday tradition, shopping channels QVC and HSN take the day off.
TUESDAY
“The Kennedy Center Honors” (8 p.m., KCTV-5). This year, the nation's capital toasts the lifetime achievements of producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, conductor Zubin Mehta, director Steven Spielberg and pop stars Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson. Tune in to see how much of Jessica Simpson's performance of Parton's “9 to 5,” actually makes it to air. According to the always-lurid TMZ.com, Simpson flubbed the lyrics to the song, which she was reading off cue cards, then stopped mid-song and “awkwardly hurried off with a few mumbled words to Parton.”
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