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AP - Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months.
AP - Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months.
Reuters - R&B singer Alicia Keys is enjoying
a successful worldwide tour, a chart-topping album and will act
in an upcoming movie, but it might not have happened, she said,
were it not for a near breakdown two years ago.
Reuters - R&B singer Alicia Keys is enjoying
a successful worldwide tour, a chart-topping album and will act
in an upcoming movie, but it might not have happened, she said,
were it not for a near breakdown two years ago.
"Beast, from Sony, centers on an unorthodox but effective FBI veteran (Swayze) who trains a new partner ([Travis] Fimmel) in his hard-edged and psychologically clever style of agenting while being pursued by a secret Internal Affairs team.
"In a statement, Swayze did not address his health, but network execs confirmed that his doctors have cleared him to resume work."
"'I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this mutilayered, unpredictable and downright entertaining as well as a project this current and cutting-edged,' he said." [The Hollywood Reporter]
[omgowned]
Reuters - Moviegoers across North America
were in a fighting mood during the weekend, cheering the family
cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" to the top spot at a box office packed
"The testosterone-bursting speculative adventure begins – literally – with a Russian gang rape and submachine gun fire from the capitalist hero and rescuer of women, Danny Fare. Sellers' immediately exposes the reader to the grim near-future realities of an America under the occupation of the 'Reds' or, as they are frequently referred to, 'Ivans.' The protagonist (Fare) spirits the damsel-in-distress, Fran Wilson, from the scene of her defilement to safety, but not before finding time to disfigure his own treasonous wife, Marta, for sleeping with an 'Ivan.' Fare brands Marta's pretty face – the tradition of the new American resistance – with the same knife blade that he has just used to kill her Soviet sugar daddy (for good measure, he slits the Russian's throat while the thug is in mid boot-knocking coitus with Marta)." [Conelrad via BoingBoing]
Disfiguring Marta is where this Danny Fare fella went wrong. Everyone knows no American gal would bed a Commie of her own free will!
[via CrooksAndLiars]
"Hollywood Babylon was an instant best-seller with its seamy tales and explicit photos of movie stars' secret gay flings, sex orgies, murder and suicide. In the 1980s, Anger wrote Hollywood Babylon II, which had a hog-fat Elizabeth Taylor on the cover. Porter had hoped Anger would see his remake—which includes dishy tales about Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, James Dean, Elvis Presley and Ronald and Nancy Reagan—as a tribute. No such luck.
"Anger, now 81, was also a lifelong friend of Anton Szandor LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan. Last year, he disclosed he is suffering from prostate cancer and predicted he will die this upcoming Halloween. Calls to his reps were not returned.
"'I'm going to have to be careful from now on,' Porter told us. 'I want to wish Kenneth well, but I'm going to be there for his funeral to make sure he's really gone so he can't bring me harm.'" [P6]
"We love to teach, move, share, and learn. We would be happy to speak about sharing our skills wherever we stay. Not only can we cook, clean, love animals, but we also do personal training, health coaching, meditation and more. There’s really a lot we can offer to you.
"Beth has been involved with health and fitness for most of her life on many levels. She is a Holistic Health Counselor focusing on each individual need for nutrition, life balance, emotional well being, conscious choices, environmental well being as well as (digestive issues, allergies, overall wellness; eating for optimum energy, stress reduction and weight management). Beth is also a certified Yoga Instructor and focuses on aligning one’s body and posture, connecting one’s mind to body through breath, and creating balance in strength and flexibility.
"Alex’s interest is in raising awareness, especially through raised awareness of movement and exercise and meditation. He has experience from a variety of physical and mental disciplines including strength and conditioning, yoga, breath and freediving, snowboarding, self defense and martial arts (he’s taught hundreds of men and women practical hand-to-hand skills), and Latin dance. He founded The Epic Workout as a way to transform our notion of exercise, based on the hero’s journey. He coaches beyond strength and conditioning, kettlebells, movement, combat/self defense, teaches meditation, breath-holding (he’s held his breath for 4:33 and dove to 100ft on a single breath) and more."
Please note: They're looking for something, "Walking distance from SOHO, though we would be happy to look farther out." [Alex's Home Page]
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
AP - NEW YORK (AP) Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: "They're all gone."
Library's summer reading program expands, targets adults Bowling Green Daily News - By JUSTIN STORY, The Daily News, jstory@bgdailynews.com The Bowling Green Public Library’s 2008 Summer Reading Program starts Monday, and this year the library wants to see participation expand beyond children. Daley launches city's environmentally themed summer reading program Summer Story Time |
 NY1 | A Flag Multiplies in Time for a Parade New York Times - By DAVID GONZALEZ More stars seemed to be on the streets of New York last week than in the entire cosmos. Stars on T-shirts, key rings, boxing gloves, towels, even bikini bottoms. National Puerto Rican day fest to be celebration of success City To Enjoy Puerto Rican Day Parade |
 United Press International | Spike Lee jabs back at Clint Eastwood New York Daily News - By MICHAEL SHERIDAN And the war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood is going for one more round. After the 78-year-old Hollywood legend lobed a Dirty Harry-esque one-liner at the pint-sized director - telling him to "shut his face" over ... Clint Says Go Ahead Spike, Make My Day and Shut Your Face Spike to Clint: "We're Not on a Plantation!" |
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