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Hug It Out With Jeremy Renner!

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:50:56 +0000

‘Why haven’t YOU hugged me yet. C’mere!’

Deanne Bray Moving to LA to Appear in a Play

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:23:20 +0000

Heroes actress Deanne Bray announced on her Facebook page that she will be moving to LA to be a part of a play called My Sister.

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Gold Dust-Off

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:49:35 +0000

Adam of Club Silencio with a few after-Oscar thoughts…

Mo’Nique rightfully wins Best Supporting Actress and preciously says, “First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics.” Mo’Nique doesn’t advertise, but she has been officially branded with Oprah’s seal of approval, and prefers to be called “Tyler Perry’s Mo’Nique.”

Each one of us is “a brain, an athlete, and a basket case. A princess and a criminal…” Someone help me decide which was which during that John Hughes tribute.

The cast of Twilight: New Moon reminds us that the horror genre never gets any respect. Their presentation of said montage is horrifyingly valid proof of that. Included in the clip: Edward Scissorhands (because he resembles someone you’ll get at Super Cuts?), Leprechaun (because he’s taller than most actors), and The Texas Chainsaw Masscare: The Next Generation (because Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey still managed careers after such drivel, up to and including more drivel).

Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress win is unexpectedly and harmoniously balanced by her Razzie win for Worst Actress. Her grace and good humor certainly did soften the blow to our collective Blind Side.

Sandy Powell wins Best Costume Design for The Young Victoria and wants you to know that you were wrong in even nominating her for dressing Monarchs. Contemporary fashion is where it’s at, she says. And besides, she already has two Oscars. Poor, poor Sandy. After tonight she goes back to the dredges of period costuming, and wallowing in the inevitable winning of even more Academy Awards.

Music by Prudence wins Best Documentary Short. Elinor Burkett reminds co-creator Roger Ross Williams that one only has a short time to get to the heart of a subject. Thus she proceeds to heartlessly cut him off and fill the entire time.

Kathyrn Bigelow becomes the first female to win Best Director! We celebrate the win because it’s deserving, it’s a historical triumph, and there are so many cutaways to Jeremy Renner.

Avatar loses Best Picture. I see you, James Cameron, returning to your studio to digitally create a cast of thousands to weep just for you.

Sendhil Ramamurthy Cast as Series Regular on Covert Affairs

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:31:10 +0000

As most of you know by now the mystery of what happened to Mohinder in Season 4 was something that many were curious about.

Well whether Heroes returns for Season 5 or not will most likely happen with even less or no Mohinder because he was just cast as a series regular on the USA show Covert Affairs.

Of course anything is possible and it will depend on the filming schedules for both shows, but at this point who knows.

Here is the full story:

Thanks to Susan for the heads up

The USA Network handed out a series order for a new show back in January and the cast is starting to fill out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Heroes star Sendhil Ramamurthy has signed onto Covert Affairs as a series regular.

The series centers on Piper Perabo’s character Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who is suddenly promoted to field agent after breaking up with her mysterious boyfriend that the agency seems particularly interested in. Ramamurthy will play a fellow CIA agent in the series.

Other cast members include Christopher Gorham, Peter Gallagher, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek and Eion Bailey. The fate of Heroes still hasn’t been decided upon by NBC, but with Ramamurthy signing on as a regular in Covert Affairs, it seems he won’t be seen in Heroes if the show is picked up for a fifth season.

Source: Movie Web

Oscar 2010 – A Diamond Debbie Downer

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:43:05 +0000

Now that I’m re-hydrated from my champagne overload and Oscar 2010 has bid his farewell, there are a few lingering thoughts I’d like to get off my chest before we close the book on this awards season.

While many of the fashion gurus this morning threw around words like ‘diamonds galore’ ‘daring’ and ‘out of the box’ in their roundup coverage, I am wondering if we all saw the same telecast?

The jewelry tweeps and I were in full agreement last night as we dished our way through the red carpet coverage that not only was there little to NO jewelry to speak of – the styles we did manage to spot didn’t do anything for us in the ‘wow’ department.

The telecast gave us Demi Moore in perhaps the night’s most beautiful ensemble (minimal bling- of course), and ABC featured Kathy Ireland with the entire Cullinan mine on her chest as she screamed her way through their lackluster coverage, but I didn’t gasp aloud like I did in years past. I didn’t spit-take my bubbly. I didn’t covet. Or croon.

And is it me or did everyone from Amanda Seyfried to Jennifer Lopez and beyond choose silver Armani Prive frocks? Silver is the new gold – I get it – but the look worked last year on Anne Hathaway and Gaga took it to the Grammy Awards this year. Let’s move on, shall we?

Maybe there are just too many awards shows these days. It was hard to top this year’s Golden Globes with all of the Oscar nominees plus red carpet stars like Kate Hudson, Drew Barrymore, Marion Cotillard – not to mention all the TV folks we love to gawk at.

In short – I was afraid of a snorefest and - save for the Kathryn Bigelow win and a few diamond divas (Mariska Hargitay, bless your heart) – I got a flatline.

What did you guys think? I fear I am being a ‘glass half empty’ jewelry hound. Where’s that champage again?

Last Minute Jitters

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:47:09 +0000

I would just like it to be known that I suddenly feel like there are going to be a ton of surprises and that AVATAR is going to win

UPDATED: I am glad that my jittery pre-drunken prophecy did not come to pass. But my party was already hopping when I posted this and I really just posted it to say how thrilled I was that there was so much color in the dresses. So much color with few ladies opting for basic black.

Oscar Winners

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:36:06 +0000

Fuller commentary coming over the next 48 hours but for now, I must sleep.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS

Picture The Hurt Locker
Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Screenplay The Hurt Locker
Adapted Screenplay Precious
Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Supporting Actress Mo’Nique, Precious
Cinematography Avatar
Editing The Hurt Locker
Art Direction Avatar
Costume Design The Young Victoria
Animated Feature UP
Score UP
Sound Editing The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing The Hurt Locker
Make Up Star Trek
Visual Effects Avatar
Original Song “Weary Kind” Avatar
Foreign Film Argentina El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Short Film, Animated Logorama
Short Film, Live Action The New Tenants
Short Film, Documentary Music by Prudence
Documentary Feature The Cove

Biggest Winner: The Hurt Locker took home 6 statues, Avatar 3
Empty-Handed Best Picture Nominees: Up in the Air, District 9, An Education and A Serious Man
Nathaniel’s Predictions: Not bad. Definitely not great. I wasn’t psychic this year, that’s for damn sure. I scored 16/24 all categories… messing up terribly in the little discussed categories of short films. I also biffed it and doubly so on both screenplays and sound categories. Otherwise I was spot on. (Should’ve trusted myself about that Precious screenplay surprise. I almost went there).

Hope you had a great time wherever you were watching it from! More commentary coming over the next two days.

Oscar Jewelry Fashion – Is Less More?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:12:01 +0000

Jewelry fashion and Oscar – they usually go hand in hand, right? But as I expected, jewelry hounds, there wasn’t an Angelina Jolie emerald moment to speak of on the Oscar red carpet this year. My lower jaw didn’t drop once, truth be told.

The big trend we jewelry bloggers agreed on appears to be the ‘less is more’ minimal earring look to complement the statement dress. From Jennifer Lopez in Armani Prive to Sandra Bullock in metallic Marchesa – the A-list worked the ‘wow’ factor with bejeweled dresses that could only support a small earring or a layered cuff in the ice department.

Sarah Jessica Parker worked Chanel Couture – with built-in diamond necklace bling. Cameron Diaz rocked gold bejeweled Oscar de la Renta with simple circles on the ears. And everyone from nominees Anna Kendrick and Mo’nique to awards season starlets, Diane Kruger and Amanda Seyfried, sported just a splash of diamonds to make their Oscar debut.

(insert rasping gasp for air here)

To make up for the diamond draught, we jewelry hounds had to turn to our gaudy goddess, Mimi, who sported 43 carats of Chopard diamonds on the ears, and the ageless Helen Mirren, who carried 125 Chopard carats around her neck.

The night’s big award winners are still unkown, but the jewelry champs in my book are Kate Winslet in a gorgeous diamond pendant necklace and Rachel McAdams in Elie Saab Houte Cuture and statement chandelier earrings. Nicely done.

More jewelry dish tomorrow. But for now? Back to the champagne.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:35:10 +0000

What happens when Dinosaurs ask about the meaning of life and want to learn that where did life come from? One of the wittiest and allegorical scripts that refers to religion for a kid TV show, I’ve ever seen.

You can only watch last 10 min. online. For the full show, the links below.

PS Thanks to our blog user who reminds me this good old show.

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Video Length …….: 00:23:27
Video Codec Code …: XVID
Video Codec Name …: XviD MPEG-4 codec
Resolution ………: 512 x 384
Framerate ……….: 23,976 FPS
Audio Bitrate ……: 132 KB/s (VBR)
Channels ………..: 2 Ch
Sampling Rate ……: 48000 Hz

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Christopher Hitchens on Q TV

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:49:52 +0000

Christopher Hitchens talks about atheism, God and the Ten Commandments adding three new ones.

http://rapidshare.com/files/359464517/Christopher.Hitchens.on.Q.TV.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/359491514/Christopher.Hitchens.on.Q.TV.part2.rar

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