Doogie Howser, the awkward teenage bright bulb who became a very young doctor was nattily played by Neil Patrick Harris on the small screen.
As an adult, Neil Patrick Harris has made some of the most memorable cameo appearances on the big screen in the hilarious and irreverent Harold and Kumar comedies.
(Caption: Come laugh with me!
Photo credit: Neil Patrick Harris by Jeff Minton for ew)
An appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the official barometer to tell if a star is truly a star in every sense of the word.
Two women whom I saw on Jay Leno who easily are the smartest and brightest actresses of their generation are Kate Winslet and Elizabeth Banks. Both women appeared on Jay Leno's show (on different occasions) and they are both eloquent, have unsurpassed sense of humor, don't take themselves too seriously (TRANSLATION: feet firmly planted on the ground!) and -- MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL! -- can tell the studio audience a good story!
(Caption: Come, wanna make a porno with me?
Photo credit (Elizabeth Banks = mugshot): picture by Jeff Vespa for Wireimage.com on http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20186838,00.html)
(Caption: Come sit with me!
Photo credit (Kate Winslet seated): picture by James White on http://images.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060928/104125__kate_l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1540471,00.html&usg=__341CXEmiryEKdKN2pn-lomlNN0o=&h=400&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=12&um=1&tbnid=Yt9W74bSqEwbrM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKATE%2BWINSLET%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)
I am a great fanof all things German and I am most happy to report that Angela Merkel is the most powerful woman in the world. As leader of the third biggest economy in the world, she has held the country together very well, keeping it on its moral trajectory (yes, yes, Siemens has paid for its corruption charges), and has poise and confidence in addressing world issues.
Angela Merkel has taken Germany to places that Germany has never gone to in the modern era: to the very top of global public esteem. I salute this wonderful woman!
(Caption: Powerful in the eyes of the beholders.
Photo credit: picture from: http://nazret.com/blog/media/blogs/new/angela_merkel.jpg)
Hahaha (instead of the more Christmassy Hohoho!) -- Bernard Madoff (pronounced "made-off", the Wall Steet crook has gloriously lived up to his name indeed -- and has "Made-Off" with billions of his clients' money!
(Caption: Here's looking at your billions, kid!
Photo credit: picture from http://business.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00450/Madoff_450787a.jpg)
Quantum of Solace has put paid to the notion that Daniel Craig is a one-note actor in playing James Bond. What a disappointing film Quantum of Solace was.
Thankfully, the action quota for the year has now been wonderfully fulfilled by Transporter 3, the Jason Statham vehicle. The script is not a masterpiece, no surprises there. But the it does have many moments and the cast are good and the characters decently written and fleshed out.
What? A powerful man's daughter has been kidnapped? He shows us why he is powerful -- while cleverly buying time in abiding by the demands of the thugs, he dispatches his people to track down the baddies and comes to know who exactly is pushing the baddy buttons. The next time the baddy calls with instructions -- he refers to the baddy by name! And that's just one of the side characters!
Jason Statham, is charismatic as ever and it says a lot indeed that when the audience cares whether our hero lives or not! And in the meantime, with his signature black transporter, the gorgeous Audi, he takes action to its ridiculous heights -- one minute he is a terminator in a suit and the next he is peddling his bicycle like an ace X-gamer! Not to mention, he drives like an F1 driver who'd popped a bucketload of Ecstasy!
The car chase scenes in Transporter 3 are breathtaking and heart stopping.
It is enough to say that Jason Statham's hero is meant to transport a woman who was taken hostage by the baddies and he is hell bent on making the baddies pay the price for their bad hand. The combination of his impeccably sharp suits, beautiful cranium and the devilish Audi will take the audience for a spin they will delight in!
Oh, and the repartee between Jason Statham's Frank Martin and his pal the French Inspector Tarconi (played by the lovable Francois Berleand) about Russians and why they are always depressed is priceless and easily one of cinema's greatest highlights!
Go watch this if you like action films! Transporter 3 does not pretend to be anything it is not. It is pure adrenaline-rush fun.
(Photos: Jason Statham mugshot from http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24077310-5003420,00.html, Jason Statham in Transporter 3 movie still by Magali Bragard for Lionsgate)
Irreverence, humor, a good script, a likable cast, good (if intentionally cheesy special effects) -- there are plenty of all these on my favorite television show, Reaper.
This is a show that has classic and cult written all over it and the audience demographic is one of the most influential in TV-land (20s to 40s). The appeal of the show is global.
(This is my favorite Reaper photo of the cast from http://www.tv.com/users/PKtechGirl/profile.php?action=show_blog&entry=m-100-25365766&print=1)
Can anyone honestly say that they are not instantly in love with this chunk of metal hunk? This is the BMW Z4 coupe and it has set many hearts afire! A dream car if ever there was one. Sigh!
AMERICANS MAKE THE BEST MUSCLE CARS. And that is the truth. Just look at this beauty from Dodge -- the 2009 Challenger and see the jaws drop!
Oh, besides its muscular body, the round headlights are winners. Round headlights are simply beautiful!
One look at the sheer class is each Steuben Glass piece is enough to convince you that it is all you need to make this yearend holiday complete!
Here, have a look at some of Steuben Glass' latest creations and judge for yourself!
Google is the best thing since sex. And that's the truth of it! With Google, knowledge is at everyone's fingertip. And the global map is accessible to everyone -- true democratization of knowledge and information has arrived.
Even more important than all that jazz -- you can now Google friends and see if they are on Facebook so that you can drop them a line and hook up with long lost pals.
(Google logo as interpreted by modern pop artist Jeff Koons)
Oh wow, until I got onto the Facebook bandwagon, I never realized how magnificent it really is! Facebook is a virtual behemoth that has brought long lost friends together and expanded the universe of friends for everyone and is one of the most amazing phenomena to have washed over mankind. The future is here folks!
The man who now wears more gold medallions than black hip hop stars is, officially, Michael Phelps. This young American captured the imagination of the world when he won 8 gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the swimming events.
In person and in interviews, Michael Phelps has won audiences with his charm and sweetness and gentle nature. Michael Phelps' appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after his superhuman Olympic feat in Beijing 2008 proved that he's the real deal when it comes to America's Sweetheart.
(Photo of Michael Phelps from people.com)
Our collective imagination was set on fire by the feats of Jamaican Usain Bolt at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Usain Bolt shows that people do not care what the skin color of a person is -- TALENT IS TALENT, and great talent will be celebrated regardless of everything else.
(Photo of Usain Bolt by Anja Niedringhaus for AP, as seen on guardian.co.uk)
One of my favorite comediennes is Kathy Griffin. She is the funniest comedienne working on TV today.
Kathy Griffin has an Emmy-winning My Life of the D-List -- one of the most hilarious side-splitting shows on tv.
Kathy Griffin has appeared on Larry King and was so good that Larry King had her host an episode of his show (the topic was on paparazzi and Kathy Griffin ripped through it in the funniest manner imaginable. Does CNN have the episode stored anywhere online? I am sure people who love comedy would love to get their hands on it!) Kathy Griffin also has appeared on Jay Leno and always has the audience in stitches -- although sometimes it looks like she is just too sharp for the audience to catch some of the nuance/speed of her jokes!
She is one of the best things working on TV today and brings much needed laughter into the world.
She has her own website: http://www.kathygriffin.net/
(Photo of Kathy Griffin from EW)
Jay Leno is the most popular talk show host on the planet today.
He is a heroic celebrity interviewer to the global audience because he is witty, has a great sense of humor, has a great capacity to empathize with his guests, and displays a level of decency and morality that is in sync with people every where.
His recent kind and gloved handling of the extremely shy and modest Robert Pattinson, the star of Twilight, is a brilliant case in point. (Robert Pattinson appeared on the show along with goddess of gorgeousness Heidi Klum and her super-talented husband Seal.) And when his guests are completely confident and self-assured, like the brilliant interview with Elizabeth Banks a few weeks back (just after Halloween), he takes the interview to fun places!
(An excellent photo of Jay Leno by Peggy Sirota for Corbis Outline on ew.com)
I confess I didn't like the first Madagascar film, except for the times when Sacha Baron Cohen's King Julien appeared n screen.
But the second Madagascar film -- is a great second helping indeed! It is a case of the sequel being better than the first one. Madagascar 2 is funny, cheeky and engaging and it has the level of irreverence that the Dreamworks studio is so famous for (remember the first Shrek film?).
And the additional voice talents like Alec Baldwin (Makunga), Will.I.Am (Moto Moto) -- are insired choices indeed!
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is the perfect antidode to the sterile and nauseating animation that Pixar keeps churning out from its production line.
Over the centuries, thin has always been in! And there's good reason for it -- thin people are sexier, most are nice people, many a stylish and the most important thing is that thin people take pride in how they look and make the effort to keep the pounds off.
And the best gift that a lean/thin guy van give himself is a Levi's skinny jeans. It even comes in everybody's favorite 501 mould!
Check out this gorgeous Red 501s (picture is from the Levi's website of course!
I confess that I have never really been a fan of Beyonce. But her sit-up-and-take-notice-boy! kinda performance of "Single Ladies" at the 2008 American Music Awards cannot be ignored. It was a hot and sizzling performance and everyone who enjoys a good live performance MUST look it up on youtube.com and watch it repeatedly.
(Photo of beyonce from Sports Illustrated)
In 2008, Pink came out with "So What", a catchy and memorable song that best sums up the best of the music industry. Pink has attitude, chutzpah and an in-your-face attitude that has always been infectious -- all these combined with an excellent song produced one of the biggest songs of the year!
It helps also that she is a superb live performer. Anyone who saw Pink at the American Music Award would have gone down on their knees at her solid performance! She has a voice very few singers have. Pink has the voice and range that surprised me. And when she sang with Sarah MacLachlan, the two sang flawlessly!
(Pink photo from Reuters)
Best movie of the Year 2008: Twilight.
Never has the casting for movie -- and it does not matter that this is a teen-vampire-romance flick -- been so perfect and by Jove Twiight has got it precision perfect. Robert Pattinson as the lead vampire is riveting on the screen every time he appears and his lady love Kristen Stewart is immensely watchable in Twilight with her depth of character.
Watching her, Kristen Stewart reminds me of a young Sigourney Weaver and Twilight makes it very clear that both Kristen and Robert are going to go places. It says a lot indeed about these two's star pulling power (and -- let's not be coy about it -- sex appeal!) that a vampire movie can open at the top of the box office so near around Christmas time!
The movie is simple enough to be a teen romance but the script, performances and direction combine in ways that are aces! Both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have that rare quality amongst movie stars: global appeal.
(Photo of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart from http://www.mtv.com/movies/photos/m/2008_movie_awards/twilight/01_robert_pattinson.jpg)
Barack Obama has announced his new political team and he has gone for experienced and capable people. It is one of the best moves he can make.
Selecting Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State is the right move. She is a very capable woman and has the experience (and access to the experienced) that is crucial for her role.
Considering that Barack Obama is going into office while the economy is self-pulverized by American businessmen's misguided notion of what pure capitalism should be (i.e. unfettered and unmonitored way of making vulgar profits), he needs able and experienced hands to give ONE-TIGHT-SLAP to the system when the system (and greedy businessmen!) need it.
In life, Barack Obama knows I am sure, intervention is needed so that the less able are taken care of and looked after. Otherwise, the money-begets-money monster squad will leave the disadvantaged behind and you will have a state of union that will be absolutely unacceptable.
It is a challenging time also for Barack Obama because, disturbingly, with the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, it is also a time when the United States is reminded to be ever-vigilant against nutcases who hide behind dubious religious tenets for license to carry out their shitty, murderous work. These religious zealots should be dealt with severely and wiped off the face of this Earth.
(Photo of President-elect Barack Obama's new team by Jim Wilson for New York Times, and photo of Hillary Clinton by Chris Keane for Reuters)
One of the most remarkable persons in the Bush Administration has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In my opinion, she has done an incredibly admirable job as Secretary of State and deserves to be praised and celebrated.
As the first female African-American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has tirelessly traveled around the world in her mission t broker peace and attend meeting and I am very proud of the work she has done.
She has never complained about anything, she has always maintained a dignified front and has given her all to the work she has been entrusted with. That is my perception from the sidelines anyway. And I am very sure it is an accurate observation of Condoleezza Rice.
President George W. Bush and the rest of his honchos, on the other hand, have been nothing but disappointment. President Bush's people, especially the utterly evil and remorseLESS Dick Cheney, have mostly been a curse and a bane to the world at large. All semblance of morality and accountability has been flushed down the toilet not only in the US (where the woeful state of of the corporate entities clearly bear this out!) -- but the trickle effect around the world has been profound.
Hope, as always, springs eternal, and the world again looks to the United States for leadership and it looks like great promise is held by Barack Obama!
(Photo of Condoleezza Rice by Stephen Crowley for New York Times)
(Illustration of Condoleezza Rice by Nathan Fox for New York Times)
I am an ardent fan of Angela Merkel. She is the only female politician, next to Hillary Clinton, whom I would give any respect to as a leader. (Yes, I am an uber sexist and think women should not be allowed to move up to the top of the political or corporate ladders, because they will inadvertently ruin the country or the business they are entrusted to lead.)
Anyway, Angela Merkel was re-elected as the leader of Germany's Christian Democrats with a resounding vote of more than 95 per cent.
She is a capable leader of Germany and Angela Merkel also inspires confidence amongst the global elites and observers on her potential to contribute greatly to the greater global good.
Photo of Angela Merkel by Michael Kappeler for New York Times.
OH GOD! I cannot stay silent on this anymore: QUANTUM OF SOLACE IS THE CRAPPIEST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR!
Wow! That felt good. I have always maintained that Casino Royale was interesting mostly because of Eva Green. She magnetized the screen and had such good chemistry with Daniel Craig. Eva Green carried Casino Royale in equal measure as Daniel Craig.
On his part, Daniel Craig was excellent in Casino Royale because he was so refreshingly thuggish. I had gotten sick of the "wimpification" of James Bond by Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig was so refreshing as the devil-may-care-if-I-break-every-bone-in-my-body-doing-these-insane-stunts Bond.
Now, in Quantum of Solace, the James Bond franchise has hit a new low. Quantum of Solace is crap in terms of it storyline. It is crap in the constant stream of can-I-trust-you-Bond? pathetic lines from M. And it is crap in terms of bad direction.
Daniel Craig (no thanks to the double whammy of a lame-ass script and lousy direction in Quantum of Solace) is in serious danger of being a one-note-wonder type of James Bond.
(Photo from http://teaser-trailer.com/2008/09/quantum-of-solace-trailer.html)
Oh wow! Twilight is a perfect movie. This is the first movie that, when it ended, I could not find a single fault with. Twilight is a targeted-at-teens movie. The casting is perfect. The direction is perfect. The pacing is perfect. The special effects are perfect. The script is perfect.
Good grief! It is so good that I plan to see it again.
Director Catherine Hardwicke helms the film expertly. She takes her time to develop the story and build up the characters. And she does it in a way that makes the audience want to sit quietly and see where Catherine is going to take us. She does try to give us visual originality, but is still a bit of a novice in this department -- but I expect a visually stunning second chapter (AND THE STUDIO HAD BETTER BE SMART ENOUGH TO RETAIN HER AS DIRECTOR!!!!!!!)
This film is of course based on the teen fantasy novel written by Stephenie Meyer. It is a teen-romance vampire story.
The perfectly understanding and a very attractive Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves out to let her mother enjoy her life with her new husband and Bella moves in with her father. In the constantly cloudy small town where her father lives, she enrolls in a new school, makes new friends and meets the handsome teem vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and the two fall in love.
The love between these two young ones is sweet and it is nice to see Edward's vampire family deal with their love as well as to see just how protective Bella is of her parents. The school life also rises above cliches and all the kids get along well.
There is a little bit of excitement brought on by some bad vampires. And of course, there is a celebratory prom night to help Bella, Edward an the audience to enjoy some good-to-honest love.
You don't feel the time passing at all! The film runs for just over two hours.
In my book, Manohla Dargis is the best movie reviewer in the world. She writes very well and engagingly and says things that are spot on. Oh, and her mastery of the English language is sheer delight! Mmmmmmm (that's an orgasmic "mmmmmm", in case you wondered!)
Anyway, the glorious Manohla Dargis writes movie reviews for the venerable and venerated New York Times.
And here, without wasting any more time, here's Manohla Dargis' review....
November 21, 2008
The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs
By MANOHLA DARGIS
It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set. Based on the foundational book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling multivolume series, “The Twilight Saga” (four doorstops and counting), this carefully faithful adaptation traces the sighs and whispers, the shy glances and furious glares of two unlikely teenage lovers who fall into each other’s pale, pale arms amid swirling hormones, raging instincts, high school dramas and oh-so-confusing feelings, like, OMG he’s SO HOT!! Does he like ME?? Will he KILL me??? I don’t CARE!!! :)
And, reader, she doesn’t, the she being Bella (for Isabella) Swan, played with tremulous intensity and a slight snarl by Kristen Stewart. A sylph with a watchful, sometimes wary gaze who’s often cast in daughter roles, Ms. Stewart transformed from an appealing actress into something more complex with her brief, memorable turn in the 2007 movie of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild.” As the child-woman whose longing for the ill-fated wanderer Christopher McCandless is largely expressed through piercing looks and sensitive strumming, Ms. Stewart gave form and feeling to the possibility that the search for freedom and authentic experiences can be found in the embrace of another human being. This was a girl worth living for, if not for that film’s lost soul.
Since living really isn’t an option for Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), the moody, darkly brooding vampire who catches Bella’s eye and then her heart, she becomes the girl worth fighting for, a battle that, as in the book, involves not just malignant forces, but also ravenous appetite. Like all vampire stories, “Twilight” is about repressed desire and untamed hunger and the possibility of blood, the blood that flows from violently pierced necks and that, from John Polidori’s 1819 short novel “The Vampyre” to Alan Ball’s new HBO series, “True Blood,” represents ravishment of a more graphic kind. This is the ravishment that, in its pantomime of seduction and surrender, transforms innocence — like that of Bram Stoker’s sacrificial virgin, Lucy, in “Dracula” — into “voluptuous wantonness.”
Ms. Meyer’s contribution to the vampire chronicles, the trick that transformed her into a best-selling brand, has been to stanch this sanguineous emission, turning a hot human flow into something less threatening and morally sticky. Edward, you see, burns but doesn’t bite. As in the book, he leads a numbingly quiet, respectable life with his vampire family in Forks, a small Washington town under a near-permanent cloud cover. His father, Carlisle (Peter Facinelli), a doctor with a ghostly pallor and silky gait, tends to the living, while the rest of the brood, including his monochromatic mother and siblings, strike pretty poses, play baseball (in thunder and lightning) and occasionally hunt for animals. We think of ourselves as vegetarians, Edward jokes.
It’s no wonder he looks famished. When Edward first meets Bella, who has moved to Forks to live with her father (Billy Burke), he glowers at her threateningly, his hands clenching into fists. Bella is mystified, and you might be too, if Melissa Rosenberg’s screenplay didn’t turn up the volume as the teenagers grow closer and Edward hints at his true nature. “What if I’m the bad guy?” he asks. (Cue the shrieking virgins.) “I still don’t know if I can control myself,” he later confesses, as someone’s guitar gently weeps. A self-described monster, he has all kinds of cool, superhuman powers (running, leaping, mind-reading), but nothing compares to how he masters his universe: he keeps his fangs in his mouth.
That may make him catnip to anyone with OJD (obsessive Jonas Brothers disorder), but it also means he’s a bore, despite the efforts of the capable and exotically beautiful Mr. Pattinson. (The actor first broke hearts as the martyred Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter cycle.) Though her filmmaking can be shaky, the director Catherine Hardwicke has an eye for pretty young things and a feel for the private worlds that younger people make for themselves. But she’s working in shackles here. In her best movie, “Lords of Dogtown,” about the birth of the modern skateboard movement, a teenage boy sneaks out at night by slaloming off a roof while holding a surfboard. It’s a blissful declaration of freedom, including freedom from the big parental no.
Though Edward and Bella reach certain heights in “Twilight,” notably during a charming scene that finds them leaping from piney treetop to treetop against the spectacular wilderness backdrop, the story’s moral undertow keeps dragging them down. If Ms. Meyer has made the vampire story safe for her readers (and their parents) — the sole real menace comes from a half-baked subplot involving some swaggering vampires who like their steak saignant and human — it’s only because she suggests that there actually is something worse than death, especially for teenagers: sex. Faced with the partially clad Bella (who would bite if she could), Edward recoils from her like a distraught Victorian. Like Ms. Hardwicke, the poor boy has been defanged and almost entirely drained. He’s so lifeless, he might as well be dead — oops, he already is.
“Twilight” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Some violence, little viscera.
TWILIGHT
Opens on Friday nationwide.
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke; written by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer; director of photography, Elliot Davis; edited by Nancy Richardson; music by Carter Burwell; produced by Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan and Wyck Godfrey; released by Summit Entertainment. Running time: 2 hours 1 minute.
WITH: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Billy Burke (Charlie Swan), Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen), Nikki Reed (Rosalie Cullen), Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Cullen), Kellan Lutz (Emmett Cullen), Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen), Cam Gigandet (James/Nomad Vampire), Taylor Lautner (Jacob), Anna Kendrick (Jessica), Michael Welch (Mike Newton) and Justin Chon (Eric).
(Click on the photo for a bigger version of the Twilight poster.)
One of my latest craze is cars -- as someone who is just re-learning to drive, cars have suddenly taken on a more sexier turn and I am beginning to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to auto-erotica.
While reading about the recent Los Angeles Auto Show on my information-bible New York Times (www.nyt.com), I spotted two gorgeous muscle merries indeed: the Porsche Boxster and the Nissan 370Z. Never mind that I cannot afford these things on my pathetic third-word reporter salary!
Here, have a look at these two beauties and see if you agree that these sexy beasts are drool-worthy.
(Photos are from NYT)
BEST BLOGS IN THE WORLD
The 2008 BOBs Winners Have Been Decided: Generación Y Wins Best Blog of 2008
The jury for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards has announced the winners in all 16 of the competition's categories.
Of the 11 finalists in the Best Weblog category, Generación Y, a Cuban blog written by Yoani Sanchez, claimed the Jury Prize for Best Weblog.
The jury said the Sanchez gives voice to an entire generation of Cubans and provides the world with a window into Cuba through her clear and poetic writing.
In addition to a slew of other obstacles in her way, Sanchez can't even post her own entries to the the blog. Instead she is forced to e-mail them to friends outside of Cuba in order for her words to go online. Despite the challenges she has to overcome, she's managed to keep in contact with her readers and create a huge international community around her work.
A dual award for the Special Prize from Reporters Without Borders went to Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, and 4equality, a Persian blog that fights for women's rights in Iran.
Placed under house arrest, Zeng Jinyan's blog describes life under constant surveillance by the Chinese authorities. The Persian Weblog 4equality is working to gather 1 million signatures on a petition for increased women's rights in Iran.
(The above text is from: http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=en)
For a list (with description of winners) of Jury Prize WInners, go to: http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=en&s=1154893190771544ZWFAYZBB
For the list of People's Choice Winners, go to: http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=en&s=1154893245576112ILZBADHZ-NONE
Ooo, I am a great fan of good photography and I must say that one of the best celebrity photograph out there today has to be Gwyneth Paltrow's ad campaign for Estee Lauder's Christmas promo.
The play of colors and the complete charm and ease the stunning Gwyneth exudes make this photo a keeper!
Have a look and enjoy!
(Click on the picture to see the glorious large version of it!)
The list that the whole world has been waiting for with bated breath (YAWN!!!!!!!) is finally: People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 2008 list. At the top in numero uno is Hugh Jackman. This Aussie actor stars in Baz Luhrmann's Australia. Somewhere in there, are also James Bond Daniel Craig and Twilight star Robert Pattinson.
(Photos are from people.com)
Ooo, the new STAR TREK movie trailer looks very interesting. I watched it and it seemed very exhilarating indeed. I confess it was mostly due to the music and excellent editing of the trailer -- the clips (and I mean the shots/scenes shown) don't seem outstanding. But with the release date set for May 2009, there is plenty of tweaking and fine tuning that the filmmakers can still do and for all I know, the new Star Trek movie might as well be an explosive phenomenon.
Star Trek, directed by Hollywood golden boy J.J.Abrams, stars Chris Pine (co-starred with Lyndsay Lohan in 2006's Just My Luck); Zachary Quinto (our famous SYlar from TV series Heroes); Eric Bana; Simon Pegg; Winona Ryder; Karl Urban; John Cho (yes, the Harold from the Harold & Kumar films fame); the gorgeous Zoe Saldana; and even an appearance from Leonard Nimoy (the orginal Spock.
Chris Pine plays Kirk
Zachary Quinto plays Spock
Eric Bana plays Nero
Simon Pegg plays Scotty
Zoe Saldana plays Nyota Uhura
John Cho plays Hikaru Sulu
Those who want to catch the trailer can go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/
or Google Star Trek + trailer.
(These wonderful images are from http://star-trek--trailer.blogspot.com/2008/07/star-trek-poster.html)
