Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010

Celebrity Gossip - A Peep in Wonderland

The world of celebrity gossip columns are not just stories that you read. It's also a sneak peek into a life that is very different from the one that you are living. I'm not being judgmental here and saying that the lifestyle that the celeb gossip sites propagate is something that I endorse. I'm saying that the life and times that you read about in the pages of entertainment news sites is different to your and mine. It's the lifestyle of the rich and the famous. It's the life we like to read about and know more about.

The celebrity gossip sites offer you a trip to the personal lives of the celebs. You have always wondered how the relationship is between the celeb and his significant other. You have always wondered how they behave when they come across their exes at parties and other events. Celeb gossip sites put a stop to your speculations. On the entertainment news portals you can read all about these relationships and their changing dynamics. The way celebrities interact with their near and dear ones is another matter of curiosity for the common folks.

Celebrity gossip site tell you about the special occasions in their lives. Their fairytale weddings, their lavish banquets, their lush green gardens- it's a different world altogether. Celeb gossip sites bring you exclusive pictures and paparazzi scoops about their marriages. These pictures are sold by the celebs for millions of dollars. The money is sometimes good enough to sponsor the entire wedding! The coming of the internet has ensured that you get real time updates about marriages and break-ups. Similar incidents happen when the stork visits.

The celebrity gossip sites follow the pregnant celebrity like a trusted companion! Her diet, her day care, her other activities during the day and her advice to would-be mothers like her are documented exhaustively in the celeb gossip columns. You have many women drawing inspiration from her if the celeb happens to be a single working mother. Entertainment news sites also publish inspirational stories about their courage and resilience. Life is hard for these celebs as well, what with money and fame as their chief worries. They are stalked and harassed as well. Their stories of fighting for right do light the flame in a number of souls.

If you are a celebrity gossip lover, you'd surely be interested in their fashion. What the celebs wear becomes high street fashion, forget the fashion weeks! Celeb gossip sites splash snaps of the celebs turning out for events or other mundane activities and you get blown away by their clothes, their cars and their elegance. The entertainment news channels go the whole way in helping you indulge in your pursuit of fashion.

Jeebas Entertainment Blog has everything that you might want to read about celebrity gossip or Hollywood rumors. Jeebas redefines what you took to be celeb gossip and entertainment news. The paparazzi scoops on this blog are as close to real time as possible.

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Movie Review - Zombieland (2009)

We have heard it all before. A global plague. Everyone is turned into a flesh eating zombie. A small band of humans crisscross the countryside looking for the proverbial Valhalla, where humans can live free and in relative safety from the fallen world.

Zombieland is not as boring as Stephen King's book, the Stand, but it is not as suspenseful as 28 Days Later. I will say that its a pretty entertaining movie if you have 2 hours to kill and have nothing to do. In walks Woody Harrelson and three unknowns (at least to me) and throw in a cameo appearance by Bill Murray and, of course, hundreds and hundreds of zombies out to eat them all - and you've got the makings of a decent movie.

There is romance, the sadness of loss as Woody cries over his lost son, an amusement park somewhere in California and, best of all, Twinkes. No zombie movie would be without a good, old fashioned, Twinkie obsession.

So there you have it. If you are bored, just been kicked out of the house by your girlfriend, or want to waste time at work and abuse your company's network access, this is the movie to watch. I won't say its one of the great, epic, movies of the 21st century, but it will have you screaming, "Get out of there before they eat you! Run! Run!" Well, it had me yelling that. But I happen to like zombie movies. Some of them anyway.

Steven Veach is a freelance writer and a published author with four books in print and a new fiction thriller in the works call The Preparation. You can check out more about Steven at http://www.stevenveach.net or order his books online at Steven's Storefront.

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How to Become a Professional Film Actor

Many individuals desire to become professional actors and wish to take their names into limelight. Of course, acting is a lucrative and glamorous career option, but it also needs lots of hard work and preparation. One must have a burning aspiration to perform on the stage before audiences. Taking sufficient time to work on strategy will help one greatly improve his chances of becoming an actor. While the vision of becoming a performer is absolutely fine, it will also aid to pay bills and permit one to improve his talent for that big try-out which may hurl his career into big time.

Become professional film actor in five easy steps:

Education and career duties of a professional film actor: Professional artists often perform in films, television, theater and various other venues. In fact, they portray fictional or real characters to convey ideas, tell stories and for the purpose of entertainment. Most performers get official training by acting coaches, earning degrees in some associated fields like fine arts or theater, or attending any acting school.

Experience: Aspiring performers can take part in college or high school performances, join some local community theater groups or attend some theater camps in order to gain experience in the acting field.

Professional training or degree: Various degree courses in drama, theater, communication and even in film provide formal training programs. Basically, students in these training courses learn voice control, movement, singing and improvisation in addition to dramatic literature, script interpretation and theater history.

Taking the help of agents: Agents help professional actors to find work, manage careers and negotiate contracts. They can also help actors to prepare for upcoming auditions. Often, these agents earn a specific proportion of contracted payment of actor, for each role obtained.

Auditions: In order to try out luck, performers should be well acquainted with probably audition opportunities. They can keep themselves up to date by going through theater magazines or daily newspapers.

The aforementioned five easy steps will certainly aid professional performers to get closer to their acting goals.

Important tips

Most production houses want performers to be well prepared to act on any short monologue while others may just videotape their responses to apparently random questions. One should always bear in mind that directors and producers always look for specific theatrical and physical qualities during audition. Hair and makeup sections can repair minor flaws usually, but actors should be able to exhibit a deep understanding of character during audition process. Typically, audition is a 'one step' process, but one needs to be well prepared to revert for more careful scrutiny and more call backs.

One must be a keen onlooker of even smallest details that many individuals may not become aware of, like body language and facial expressions.

Article written by Mr. N.C. Bansal, founder and chairperson of RKFMA, Journalism college Delhi offering mass media, journalism and animation courses in Delhi.

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Entertainment Award Ceremonies

Entertainment award shows generally provide great television entertainment. Everyone's favourite stars come together to reflect on the industry they have been such a huge part of. It gives the public a taste of the real personalities of the stars that they have come to idolise, as well as providing a few hours or so of some really entertaining television. Remember when Kanye West made a fool of himself not too long ago? Classic.

The stars themselves already have more money than they'll ever need, so is it really necessary to award them with yet another gold sculpture to take home? Of course not! Traditional yet elegant glass trophies are more than enough to provide elation from the recipient without being patronising.

Indeed, bespoke awards are commonplace in all fields of industry. Nothing boosts morale more than holding an annual award event for your company. Glass corporate awards make those who work their hardest feel appreciated, as well as provide a great night for everyone involved in the ceremony.

Let's have a brief look at some of the more famous award shows presented on television. First we have the ever-popular Golden Globe awards, presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). These bespoke awards ceremonies recognise outstanding domestic and foreign achievements in the entertainment industry. Their aim of course is to focus wide public attention upon only the very best in the industry of motion pictures and television.

The performers with the most Golden Globes include Sigourney Weaver of Alien and Avatar fame, Joan Plowright for her performances in Enchanted April and Stalin, and more recently Kate Winslet for her roles in Revolutionary Road and The Reader.

Moving onto the Emmy awards, which were first established in 1949, we have awards that are split into area-specific ceremonies. The most notable of awards here are the Primetime and Daytime Emmys. The former is held in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. Many of these awards are presented to behind-the-scenes personnel, including art directors, costume designers, casting directors, and sound editors. No glass corporate awards here, then.

The Daytime Emmys are similar but held to recognise those in the daytime television programming area. These first began in 1972, a few decades after the first Emmys, as television became more and more mainstream. Instead of glass trophies the recipients receive trophies shaped like an angel holding high spherical rings that shape a globe.

Of course, we're missing what is arguably the king of all award ceremonies - The Oscars. But we'll get to that later...

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Documentary Review - Planet Earth - Episode 6 - Ice Worlds

I've long been fascinated by science and the structure and nature of the world. In our modern, technologically advanced age, it is a sheer blessing that we can circumnavigate the globe from a recliner, while eating pizza, in short, hour long segments, whenever it is we have a liking to do so. This is what the BBC Documentary Series: Planet Earth does. And there is no shortage in Episode 6 - Ice Worlds, of the tremendous gravity and stark totality of the carnal nature of life.

Watching this episode, I'm struck with the impression of nature's unrepentant cruelty. A polar bear literally starving to death because he's had to swim for days to find food, and doesn't have the strength to kill his prey. A massive giant to us, this bear looks so tiny against the backdrop of enormous walrus, who stab him with their tusks for trying to steal their young. You can't blame the walrus, but you also can't help but to feel for the starving bear, who has lost half of his body weight in less than three months. Half. Can you imagine what that must be like? I weigh 300 lbs and whenever I get even a twinge of hunger, I leisurely stroll into the kitchen and grab something to eat (which is why I weigh 300 lbs). After discovering that this bear has literally been starving for months, his roar seems like desperate and frustrated cries of agony, as he starves to death.

I ask again and again: why is nature so cruel? If God created the universe and the world we live in and everything in it, why did He create such a horrible system of death and torture and depravity. Of course, He didn't. The bible says our fallen nature has been subjected onto the world and everything in it. The ground has been literally cursed because of man. So in the end, as I defy the curse of Adam by no longer living off the land that he was shackled to, as I live and breath and the world draws closer to the end, I am - mankind within me - is responsible for this carnage.

But there is such joy and beauty mixed together with the unthinkable tragedy. The penguins, as they find their mates, and copulate, raising their young - mother passing off her egg to the father who brunts out the terrible winter with his brothers - only for the woman to return with food in the spring. The mothers who have lost their young, fighting to adopt the motherless chick.

There is no science fiction, in my mind, that can touch the strange and peculiar world found in our oceans. Those massive hump back wales, how grotesque they are, but also how utterly fascinating and captivating they are. The great expanse of the earth - how microscopic our lives are in comparison. How minute we stand against the backdrop of history - of nature. It begs to question, who are we, when all of us - every last one of us breathing in and out right now - will be long in the dirt in 200 years. And yet, science tells us that the earth is billions of years old.

That man has been here for 50,000 or more? Even the young earthers claim the earth is over 6000 years old. that is 60 one hundred year generations. In 100 years, you will be nothing more than history. Something for someone to maybe read about if you are lucky - most of us (as has most of humanity) will drift away into eternity without any record to account for us. How many people have been born, have lived and have died, without even the acknowledgment that their life amounted to anything but a brief instant in time? How many more animals? Creatures? Insects? it is an unthinkable number.

The arctic fox raises her young in the snow. The birds scare away the threats from above and below. We humans in the western world do not think beyond our stomachs or our refrigerators or our WiFi, BlueTooth enabled, convoluted, self-gestating lives. The imperative to procreate has been all but lost on humanity. It is sport now, while our children are tossed aside on the State run trash heaps to be raised and educated and put to the mill to mass produce our consumer plethora. It is a terrible tragedy words cannot adequately describe. Existence. But this episode of Planet Earth, captures the very essence of that tragedy, without words.

Steven Veach is a freelance writer and a published author, with a new fiction thriller out in April 2010 called THE PREPARATION. You can find out more about him at http://www.stevenveach.net or you can order his books by clicking here.

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