Cameron Diaz helps Justin Timberlake land a role in Shrek 3? |
December 25th, 2006 under Justin/Cameron. [ Comments: none ]
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HE promised to bring sexy back to the pop charts, now Justin Timberlake – or at least an animated version of him – is taking on the big screen in the upcoming Shrek the Third. With the first two films of the blockbuster franchise having amassed $US1.5 billion worldwide, everyone’s favourite ogre will return for a third time in June 2007. When King Harold (John Cleese) falls ill he leaves the kingdom of Far, Far Away in need of a king, but his son-in-law Shrek (Mike Myers) refuses to trade in his beloved swamp for palatial surrounds. Not willing to assume royal duties, Shrek, Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) set off in search of a suitable successor to the throne. Their royal quest leads them to a high-school playground, where they meet Princess Fiona’s (Cameron Diaz) cousin Artie (voiced by Timberlake), more formally known as Arthure Pendragon. Realising Artie is sorely lacking in proper palace etiquette, Shrek and his entourage subject their rebellious charge to an extreme royal makeover. Meanwhile, back in Far, Far Away, Fiona is forced to defend the kingdom against jilted suitor Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), who has banded together an army of fairytale villains to launch a coup. But the spirited princess and her mother, Queen Lillian (Julie Andrews), assemble an all-girl cavalry of their own, made up of storybook favourites Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. In addition to Timberlake, Monty Python star Eric Idle and Saturday Night Live alumni Amy Poehler and Cheri Oteri will lend their voices to Shrek the Third. Timberlake’s addition to the celebrity-heavy cast is his most high-profile acting job to date and marks his first starring role alongside long-time girlfriend Diaz. His previous attempts to parlay his huge success as a musician into an acting career have amounted to television cameos and a role in the straight-to-video thriller Edison. Shrek’s producers have denied Timberlake’s relationship with Diaz contributed to him being cast in the film, insisting his public persona made him a perfect fit for the role.
The Dialy Telegraph
Who thinks he would’ve gotten the role if they weren’t dating?
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Merry Christmas!!! |
December 25th, 2006 under Awesome Videos. [ Comments: none ]
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Jingle Bell Rock
(Sorry there is no music with the WPIX Yule Log, but you can add your own and still enjoy it!)
I just wanted to wish all my new friends a very Merry Christmas and I that hope Santa brings you everything you want!!!
Merry Christmas,
Seriously? OMG! WTF?
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RIP The G-dfather of Soul James Brown |
December 25th, 2006 under Obits. [ Comments: none ]
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James Brown, the dynamic Godfather of Soul” who was one of the biggest influences on American music in the last 50 years, has died. He was 73.Brown died at 1:45 a.m. Monday after being taken to Emory Crawford Hospital in Atlanta with pneumonia, according to his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. However, authorities have not yet stated the official cause of death. Brown’s “Say It Loud -I’m Black And I’m Proud,” energized a generation during the Civil Rights Era. With a raspy voice and revolutionary rhythms, Brown’s stage antics — which included dancing on his toes, sliding across the stage and calling for his cape after falling to his knees, inspired performers such as Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and others. Songs such as David Bowie’s “Fame,” Prince’s “Kiss,” George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog” and Sly and the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” were clearly based on Brown’s rhythms and vocal style. “James presented obviously the best grooves,” rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told The Associated Press. “To this day, there has been no one near as funky. No one’s coming even close.” His hit singles include such classics as “Out of Sight,” “(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine,” “I Got You (I Feel Good).” “I clearly remember we were calling ourselves ‘Colored,’ and after the song, we were calling ourselves black,” Brown told AP in a 2003 interview. “The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society.” He won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (best R&B recording) and for “Living In America” in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.) He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, along with Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers. He triumphed despite an often unhappy personal life. Brown, who lived in Beech Island near the Georgia line, spent more than two years in a South Carolina prison for aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer. After his release on in 1991, Brown said he wanted to “try to straighten out” rock music. From the 1950s, when Brown had his first R&B hit, “Please, Please, Please” in 1956, through the mid-1970s, Brown went on a frenzy of cross-country tours, concerts and new songs. He earned the nickname “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” Brown’s work has been replayed by the Fat Boys, Ice-T, Public Enemy and a host of other rappers. “The music out there is only as good as my last record,” Brown joked in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. “Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I’m saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me,” he told the AP in 2003. Born in poverty in Barnwell, S.C., in 1933, he was abandoned as a 4-year-old to the care of relatives and friends and grew up on the streets of Augusta, Ga., in an “ill-repute area,” as he once called it. There he learned to the tricks of his trade. “I wanted to be somebody,” Brown said. By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 3 1/2 years in Alto Reform School near Toccoa, Ga., for breaking into cars. While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B. In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later “Please, Please, Please” was in the R&B Top Ten. While most of Brown’s life was glitz and glitter, he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne. In September 1988, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. Police said he asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom. Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck. Brown received a six-year prison sentence. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state. Soon after his release, Brown was on stage again with an audience that included millions of cable television viewers nationwide who watched the three-hour, pay-per-view concert at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Adrienne Brown died in 1996 in Los Angeles at age 47. She took PCP and several prescription drugs while she had a bad heart and was weak from cosmetic surgery two days earlier, the coroner said. More recently, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Raye Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr.Two years later, Brown spent a week in a private Columbia hospital, recovering from what his agent said was dependency on painkillers. Brown’s attorney, Albert “Buddy” Dallas, said singer was exhausted from six years of road shows.
BET (Thanks Becca)
What sad news to wake up to on Christmas. He will be missed, but his music will always live on.
BTW you can read a much more detailed obit at The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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Casino Royale is the top grossing Bond movie of all time! |
December 24th, 2006 under James Bond. [ Comments: none ]
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"Casino Royale" has shot past the worldwide record for a James Bond movie, thanks mostly to strong international performance over the Christmas holiday weekend. Sony’s "Casino" cashed in overseas with $14.5 million at 6,300 during the weekend through Sunday, lifting the foreign total to $304.4 million — the 41st biggest international gross of all time. It’s only the fourth 2006 pic to clear $300 million, joining "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest," "The Da Vinci Code" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown." With domestic gross near $144 million, "Casino" has a worldwide total of $448 million — $17 million better than "Die Another Day," the previous best Bond performer. It opened solidly in South Korea with $2.3 million at 350.
Variety
When this movie started production I thought it was going to be lowest one, boy I was wrong!
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Marilu Henner marries college friend |
December 24th, 2006 under Weddings. [ Comments: none ]
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Actress Marilu Henner, best known for her role in the hit TV series "Taxi," has married a former college classmate who proposed from his hospital bed after surgery for cancer. Henner, 54, married Michael Brown, also 54, before 100 people in Henner’s home in Los Angeles on Thursday, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. Henner, who made her Broadway debut in the musical "Over Here!" in 1974, wore a pale peach Escada gown and was given away by her sons Nicky, 12, and Joey, 11. Brown’s twin brother, a Universal Life minister, officiated. The two met when they were students at the University of Chicago. He had dated her roommate, and even after the couple broke up Henner didn’t pursue him because she didn’t want to break the "girlfriend code," she told the Times. In 2001, a mutual friend gave Henner’s telephone number to Brown and they went on a dinner date. Within a couple months, Brown was diagnosed with bladder and lung cancer. When Brown awoke from surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung in November of that year, Henner was sitting at his bedside, smiling and holding his hand. He proposed on the spot. It was Henner’s third marriage and the second for Brown, who has three children.
Fox News
That is such a sweet love story! Sounds like it will make a great TV movie, doesn’t it?
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