http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com Observations and Musings of NBC Feature Correspondent Mike Leonard Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:17:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For twenty-seven years I have been a reporter for Today on NBC, a job I wouldn't have if it weren't for an incredible series of events that were set in motion in 1969. Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/86 My wife and I went to our last parent's weekend at Providence College. Brendan is a senior and will be graduating in May. He's in a band called The Biltmores. They weren't performing during our stay so Dan Baxter, Brendan and John Pitts entertained us in the basement of their ... http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/85 It's been a while since I updated this. Those parole officers aren't very nice. Just kidding. It's been busy. Here's episode one from my Golden Globes Red Carpet Adventure. It's also been posted on our family website www.campjinx.com Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/84 I was nominated for a Quill Award in the "Debut Author of the Year" category. It was a flashy event, held in New York City and I wasn't the only one to feel out of place on the red carpet as seen on this recent Today show feature. Click on ... http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/82 Get it right. It's not that difficult. If you are going to make a movie about a hockey player - find an actor who can skate. If you're going to focus on TV news - plug the damn camera in. (This also appeared on Camp Jinx, our family website) Click ... http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/81 It's been three and a half decades and the wound is still raw. Let's go back to 1970. My wife and I were sitting in a Phoenix movie theater. It was packed. Ali McGraw's character in "Love Story" was near death. People were sobbing. Not me. I was steaming. Here's ... http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/80 This Today show story aired on January 1, 2002, a palindrome year where numbers read the same backwards. That inspired a search for backward thinking people. Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/78 This is the architectural standard setter for “thinking out of the box.” Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/77 Tired of arrogant, mouthy, chemically altered athletes muscling their way into the headlines? If so, you will really like John Brookfield. Who? Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/76 To be immortalized in plastic, isn’t that your dream? Long after I have left this earth my legacy will live on I the form a green and yellow action figure that never saw much action. Click on image below to play movie.Quicktime | Windows http://mikeleonard.pictureshowfilms.com/index.php/archives/75