Music
First impressions are a mother and the one you get when you meet Krys Ivory lies some where between sweet pixie and future star. The protege of Ryan Leslie has a story to tell and you need to listen…
From her tumultuous teenage years to battling cancer (and winning!), the Los Angeles native has made an art out of persevering through hardship by leaning on music. “I struggled with a lot of stuff,” Krys explains. “But one thing I always pride myself with is that I’ve never compromised who I am.”
Apparently being a crappy film was no problem for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as it made a very solid $56M for its first weekend, good enough to make it enter the Top 1000 club in just three days and make it the fourth biggest opening weekend ever in the month of August.
Opting for something better than mindless action were those who picked Julie & Julia over the action-fest, with nearly 70% of the audience being female this one really played to its strengths and made about $20M, a great thing considered it was produced for less than $40M. Look for this one to enjoy some healthy legs.
G-Force continues to position itself to break past the $100M mark, as it made nearly $10M this weekend nearly cracking the all-time Top 500.
While, at fourth, with about $9M grosses was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which is now the 40th highest grossing movie ever in the U.S. and a domestic finally tally of about $300M could certainly result. Overseas the kid wizard continued performig greatly as the global total stands at about $815M.
Funny People fell harshly as it made just $8M this weekend, for a disappointing cume of $40M in its first ten days, sucks that this will be the film that will break Adam Sandler’s record of seven consecutive years with $100M+ films, especially when it was thought to be a sure hit some months ago.
The Ugly Truth did $7M, good enough to give the flick about $69M a very solid final result for a film that took just $38M to produce and now entered the Top 750 all-time charts.
Universal’s debut, A Perfect Getaway, wasn’t a perfect getaway at all for moviegoes this weekend making a weak $6M, however since it was made for just $14M it won’t be that bad of a business.
Aliens in the Attic continued doing poorly with just $4M grossed this weekend while there was a tie for ninth place between Orphan and my favorite movie of the year thus far (500) Days of Summer, both of which made $3.7M.
At eleventh and twelveth we had two of the years biggest hits, The Hangover and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which now seat at 42nd and 9th in the all-time domestic charts, respectively.
Combined Top 10 Gross: $127M
Chanel Iman & Masha Novoselova by Thomas Klementsson
This month the Fame Star sits on the area of the feng shui bagua tied to middle aged women, people who are famous and those in the entertainment industry.\xA0\xA0 In the past three days this combination has been triggered in a big way.
First, Sarah Palin came out with her new book Going Rogue.\xA0 She had throngs of people waiting in line for her first book signing in Michigan and the press gave her tons of coverage.\xA0
Next came the new government recommendations from\xA0the\xA0Preventive Services Task Force\xA0saying\xA0unless you’re a woman over 60 you don’t need mammograms after all.\xA0 They also recommended that doctors stop teaching women to do self breast examinations.\xA0 This sent off a backlash from the American Cancer Society, Olivia Newton-John\xA0and women all across America.\xA0
To make matters even more confusing the health and human services director Kathleen Sebelius came out and said, “Ignore the new recommendations and just keep doing what you’ve always done.”\xA0 Dr. Nancy Schneiderman of NBC\xA0and other doctors accused Sebelius of throwing her the task force under a bus.\xA0 She’s still catching heat over this and probably will for a while.
The most recent woman in the limelight popped up today: Oprah Winfrey.\xA0 She’s already one of the most visible women in media but she got even more attention when she announced that her show will be ending September 9, 2011.\xA0 Oprah’s show has been on the air for 25 years so this is big news.
All of these seemingly out of the blue events are perfectly timed with the feng shui Flying Stars for the month.
Find out what the Flying Stars could have in store for you by getting your personal feng shui outlook here: http://www.palmbeachfengshui.com/Feng_Shui_Advice.html
Immediately followed by the kick-off of the all-new, all-different HAGEBOC II on the 23rd.\xA0 Rules to follow.\xA0 Maybe even prizes.
It’s the most magical time of year and it begins on Monday…or Sunday if I have time.\xA0\xA0 Something like that.
Thomas Vermaelen, wow what a signing. Arsene Wenger sure doesn?t know a good defender when he sees one.
Why was he born 8 miles across the Belgium border, his parents ruined my headline?
He is tenacious in defence, and attacks corners like a madman and is showing the team the way, we now have a new confidence on corners, you can see the takers trying harder to hit a man rather than just hit and hope.
On top of that on Saturday he showed he has a sweet left foot, so 2 goals and a brilliant defensive display. So man of the match then.. er no??
That honour went to Robin van (satellite remover) Persie. To me he is trying too hard, but he is not a power player and should stick to the slick pretty stuff he was showing a few years ago, and when it comes to shooting\xA0 his hand eye co ordination\xA0 is getting worse, like when the sound track isn?t in line with what you are watching on the box and peoples lips are moving out of time.
This was a good result for us
and should be the starting block to build a run of winning games and get the confidence sky high for the Chelsea game.
I heard on the radio this morning that there have only been 4 draws in the Premiership all season, if every team has played nearly 6 games that must mean about 60 games have been played, I don?t know what that means but we have seen some ?gun ho? football this year and not just from us.
Mannone? 6.5 .. doesn?t seem comfortable just yet, needs to communicate better with his defence. Made a reaction save, apart from that never had much to do.
Sagna.. 7 .. an average game for him, not that it is a surprise that a full back is never going to have much work to do against Wigan.. needs to vary his attacking moves.
Gallas.. 7.. Played very well and has settled into a good rhythm this season,
Vermaelen? 9.. Apart from a bit of bad positioning every now and again what a performance from a centre half, could be the best we have had since TA6.
Clichy. 7.. An improved performance from last week, but I was thinking it is about time we got a better end product for all his attacking, Cole and Silviniho used to come up with the odd goal or assist.
Fabregas.. 7.. Doesn?t look too happy at the moment, the Carling Cup game should give his ankle some time to heal, don?t rush him back perhaps have him on the bench next week in case of emergency.
Song.. 6.5 Not his best game, gave the ball away, but if he can keep his best performances for the big games that would be okay.
Diaby.. 5.5.. Good for Diaby, but not living up to expectation now his injury mare is over, needs to find a brick wall and learn to kick with his other foot.
Eboue.. 5.5.. He doesn?t add enough to the team going forwards, not for a midfield player. Okay at right back where attacking is just a bonus. Oh and the handball.. STOP CHEATING..
RvP..8.. He is turning into Thierry mark 2, the most important player at the front, but needs to chill out and take the pressure of himself. May be better when AA comes back to take the pressure off in the final third of the field. Some brilliant corners now that he has someone to aim at..
Eduardo 7.5.. I have only just got used to him being able to run around, he is now back to how I remember him before the injury. Good in flashes but lack that presence needed, needs a big man to feed off RvP is not his ideal partner in crime.
Rosicky.. 7.5 definitely, defintely getting there back to fitness.
Bendtner.. 6. never really got into the game. I don?t want to see him in our half looking for the ball.
Ramsey.. 6.5.. The big stage is still a bit too big for him at the moment..
In all a good 7.5 perfomance..
I watched a couple of great games yesterday on the box.. it was quite strange not wanting any particular team to win.. I hated all 4.. lol..
But although it was good to see Hughes face when he lost yesterday, I feel more
should be done about the favouritism of Man U especially at OT..
This injury time thing is out of hand, when I ask the question ?where did all the injury time come from?? I get told 45 seconds for a goal 30 seconds for a substitution etc.. but that never happens in our games. What was the injury time in our 6-1 win at Everton I bet it was 3 minutes at the most..
It needs to be the same rules for every match.
Anyway have a great day and look forwards to seeing the kids tomorrow. J
These were presented last week and now we who weren’t fortunate enough to be there can see all the speeches here or on youtube. As you will see below the honorees are a mighty distinguished lot; their speeches are well worth viewing. (Gaiman uses a very interesting prop for his, for one.)
Fiction and Poetry
Winner: Terry Pratchett’s Nation
Honors: M. T. Anderson’s The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II:The Kingdom on the Waves and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
Nonfiction
Winner: Candace Fleming’s The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Honors: David Macaulay with Richard Walker’s The Way We Work and Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts
Picture Book
Winner: Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar’s Bubble Trouble
Honors: Kevin Henkes’ Old Bear and Leslie Patricelli’s Higher! Higher!
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