Wednesday, October 26, 2011

How to become famous Without Seeking Too Hard

You can find three ways to become famous. The first is hard .

The hard means to become famous is to gain your celebrity through hard work: by doing your best as an acting professional or vocalist, dancer or perhaps choreographer, writer or even director or set artist or lighting effects specialist as well as costumer. The hard strategy is do constantly high-quality, innovative work…to study your skill set and keep acquiring better…to take pitfalls and grow…and occasionally fail, get rid of auditions, fall short of your current potential… But, in the end, your risks pay off as well as distinguish a person as modern, as committed to your craft…as a genuine performer as well as, perhaps even greater, a true musician.

The two easier ways to become famous are generally: stupidity along with scandal. You don't have to be an actor or professional dancer or performer or design to gain recognition this way, nevertheless, you can be. "Earning" fame either of these ways doesn't depend on any specific talent or imagination. It depends in, depending on how you see it, good or bad fortune (which, to a specific degree, plays a part in all successes) plus time plus your determination to push your limits of fine taste or even social mores…or legislation. Criminally corrupt politicians…self-righteous, hypocritical preachers… amazingly greedy income "managers"… These are people who are famous for all the incorrect reasons. Feel former presidential candidate John Edwards, whom positioned themselves as a widespread, albeit rich, man of individuals, until it turned out revealed that, amid many other transgressions, although travel through limo to a website a block away from a new union meeting then move to a very used, beat-up sedan to vacation the final obstruct and look like just another functioning man.

How to become famous regarding scandal? Do something illegal or wrong. Flash your own genitals. Get arrested for driving under the influence or substance possession. Take jewelry. Rob your meant friends. Feel Bernie Madoff, who as soon as positioned themselves as a brilliant financial consultant and now degrades in prison pertaining to running a large Ponzi scheme. So-called "gotcha journalism" ensures that the individual choosing an outlawed or immoral act will discover his or her mugshot on-line within minutes, generally accompanied by interview with patients and/or co-conspirators.

In fact, "gotcha journalism" makes it easier than ever before to become famous. What you may do, on the go these days, chances are that you are on camera-either an automated security or perhaps surveillance camera, or the digital camera of a nosy professional photographer ready to get your drop from elegance.

There are three ways to become famous. The hard means takes time and hard work. Be simple ways could happen fast along with require no longer work than using racist language or perhaps wearing any risqué wardrobe as well as drinking too much and widely or indicating bad view in some additional way.

You desire to be famous. Do you think you're willing to work hard? Study your craft? Carry on auditions? Do the maximum amount of good work as is possible? Congratulations! You might be on the right track to becoming famous for the right causes. But you will have an alternative: the particular stupid or perhaps scandalous route to celebrity.

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Ra-one movie review

Cast and Crew

Director-Anubhav Sinha

Music Director-Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Rajjyanni

Lyrics- Vishal Dadlani, Niranjan Iyengar, Kumaar, Panchi Jalonvi, Anvita Dutt, Anubhav Sinha

Starring- Arjun Rampal, Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, Sanjay Dutt(Special appearance), Priyanka Chopra(Special appearance), Satish Shah, Dalip Tahil, Sahana Goswami, Suresh Menon, Tom Wo and Rajinikanth(special appearance).

About the Film

Three characters stand out in this movie. Ra-One (Arjun Rampal), G-One (Shahrukh Khan) and young Armaan Verma who plays Prateek Subramanian. Kareena Kapoor for once is thrown into the background, so is SRK (Shekhar Subramanian) who gets his Tamil accent off-centre. The supporting cast would be the action team and the sound engineers led by Resul Pookutty. Jeff Kleiser, heading the visual effects team has packed in as much digital technology as can be to make this a visual treat of sorts for sci-fi freaks. 

     Anubhav Sinha may be credited with the direction, but if one looks closely, RA ONE has the SRK stamp. This is not to take away from Sinha, but most sequences would have been pieced together by Kleiser. I mean it's not a director's film, if you know what I mean.

The Story

SRK has used good gimmicks to get the novel idea off to a flying start. Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt and SRK as Lucifer engage in a very deadly duel. But later it turns out, that Prateek (Armaan Verma), a sci-fi addict and computer games freak, is dreaming in the classroom. Prateek uses the code name Lucifer whenever he plays his games. His dad (Shekhar Subramanian) is an embarrassment of sorts for the 'Yo man' dude. Son feels that there should be a game where bad man wins, like all young sons, Prateek also thinks that super villains are cooler than super heroes. So his father Shekhar creates the ultimate clash of good against evil by putting a very powerful anti hero Ra One against a seemingly less potent good guy. But is it possible for the good guy to lose?

     However, to impress his son, Senior Subramanian decides to create a game for him, which would also be a trump card for the company he works for. RA ONE is the bad robot, and G One, the good one. Prateek is allowed to experiment with the game even before it's complete. As usual, he logs in as Lucifer and engages in a duel. Before you know it, RA ONE comes alive and is out to destroy Lucifer. Then the game of deadly robotic chase begins, which also sees G One being brought to life to annihilate the threat.

     The first half is a visual delight. It is bloody awesome in deed. The plot moves slickly from one sequence to another gripping you in the wake of destruction that RA ONE brings along. WOW, is the first word you utter because it's flawless. Technologically, SRK has not left any stone unturned. He fulfills our expectations.

     It's only after the interval that the plot meanders a bit, but Arjun lights up the screen. As G One, in the initial scenes, SRK is spot on but fails to maintain his robotic gait. He becomes a little bit repetitive in 2nd part. This here, I would say is the fault of the digital team. But the RA One (Tom Wu) who mesmerizes initially is almost 'Terminator' Schwarzenegger-like in his finesse. He brings an icy-cool, steel like momentum to his body language. It is bloody cool.

     Ra One works on several accounts. First it has some interesting clashes between G One, the good robot (Shahrukh Khan) and Ra One, the bad robot (Arjun Rampal). Ra One can take the form of anyone he wants. Secondly the bond that G One builds with the family he supposed to protect from the evil Ra One. Kareena and her young son Prateek is warm and beautiful. There is also a lot of wit throw in here and there in the screenplay, and they are very good, especially when the film concentrates on the geeky and loving Subramanian's family dinners. And finally it is the excellently sung and choreographed Chammak-Challo which keeps the mercury rising to another level.

Some Drawbacks
     The film little bit falls back in emotional quotient. We all know that robots have no feelings at all, but remember even the steely Terminator managed to have a very good bonding with the mom and her messiah son.. Also considering so much money has been poured in to the film, the special effects and the hi tech gadgetry lacks the glitzy feel of Hollywood science fiction. In some places, it even gets somewhat tacky with all those unnecessary things like flying cars hurting into nowhere and the digital game screen going gaudy in orange.

Quick Guide

- Chitti (Rajinikanth) making an appearance is a wasted gimmick which was not needed. G One was doing the job of keeping the baddies at bay. So the film doesn't need Rajini uncle.

- What could also not be fathomed is how both the robots take the flight out to India from the UK where the film originates. Security in today's day and age is at an all-time high! So it disappoints a little bit.

- G One coming back to life after the completion of his job is a definite disaster. With this move, you don't send the audience away with anything to talk about. This is the main drawback of the movie.

- "Condom Condom," a dialogue mouthed by young Prateek in a children's film too is questionable. 

- A thumbs-up to the digital scene where the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai is show crumbling after a local train is taken over by RA ONE. 

Conclusion

Ra One is sure to usher in a cracking Diwali at the box office, you can its SRK's Diwali gift to us. Ra One is giving the audience a full "Paisa-vasool" entertainment, with the fine performance by the both SRK and Kareena, even the young Armaan is talented enough, he is also at his best in the movie, and as Ra One Arjun is also pretty good. So just visit your nearest hall and have a blast. If you want to have the best experiences then watch it in 3D

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Review of The Thing (2011)

There are two ways to create a remake; you can focus on the parts that made the movie so great in the first place, and then expand on those while adding new elements which salute the original yet also make it perfect for today's audiences. Then there is the other way, is to just remake it the same way, including the bad bits, without taking time to wonder why they were there in the first place, and throw in new stuff that doesn't belong there, resulting in a pretty poor movie. The Thing falls into the second category.

 

The version most of us remember is John Carpenter's from 1981, and this itself was actually a remake, albeit radical, of an original from 1951. You will recall that aUSbase in the Antarctic was besieged by an alien that was a shape shifter, but they didn't actually discover it, that honour went to the inhabitants of the Norwegian base, situated kilometres away. In telling the story of the Norwegian base should actually be a prequel, but the fact this version is identical to Carpenter's makes it a remake in the truest sense of the world.

 

A couple of Norwegian scientists crash their snowmobile into a crevice and find an alien spaceship there they, obviously, run to some US Grad students, Eric Christian Olsen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, to help them. This kind off pandering between nations doesn't exactly inspire any confidence especially when you discover there is already an American pilot at the base, but this could just be the directors way of laying the groundwork for some forthcoming paranoia of the us VS them kind.

 

Having in their possession an alien in a giant ice cube proves far too tempting for these scientists and they decide to drill into it for some tissue samples, which, as anyone with half a brain cell would realise, never mind supposed boffins, that drilling into an alien is a pretty good way of waking them up. These guys think they have taken care of this menace but have they? The tissues reveal that the alien can take on the form of humans as well as others, they realise they can't trust anyone, sure didn't see that coming!

 

One positive from this whole debacle is the special effects, particularly regarding the shape shifting capabilities of the alien. They are pretty nasty, but some of them look somewhat familiar, and those who are fans of David Cronenberg will see some parts which are same old, same old. The real let down in this movie are the humans, all the Norwegians are stereotypically big, bearded, blonde and unwashed, and nobody has bothered to give the different characters any kind of personality.

 

This creates problems when we have to try and work out is somebody is really an alien, as we haven't got a clue who they were anyway. There is one stand out scene when they are trying to figure out how to differentiate between human and alien, but one good scene doesn't make a good horror movie. A highly disappointing movie that won't be remembered for the right reasons.

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Review of Moneyball (2011)

Moneyball is, no question, one of the greatest films this year and the script is probably some of the finest writing that the medium has seen in years. The film is based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, and the adaptation of the book is superbly done. The script is brought to life in a fantastic way by Brad Pitt who does a great job in the lead role.

 

The film is written be Aaron Sorkin who wrote The Social Network and Steven Zaillian who wrote Schindler's List. The film is the story of an underdog baseball executive and the director, Bennet Miller, does an excellent job of combining real footage with fictional scenes.

 

The film tells the story of Manager Billy Beane, who is played by Pitt, and how he wants to change the entire way that baseball is evaluated. Beane has a team that come very close to winning the World Series but are beaten by a team that has four times as much budget for players than they have.

 

Beane sees this as unfair and goes about changing the system. The current problem is the small teams are always losing their players to the big budget teams, which means there is not much competition in the sport.

 

When Beane discovers a new way to score baseball from a sports statistician played by Jonah Hill he realises that should this be implemented, it would have a great effect on small budget teams like his own.

 

Pitt has said that his character is very complex and definably has some unusual quirks, for one he does not watch baseball games, he merely gets the results sent to him by a friend. Pitt does an excellent job of portraying the hard side of the character seen at work, but also his soft side which the audience sees when Beane is with his daughter.

 

Jonah Hill does a fantastic job in his role playing alongside Pitt, and their different characters on the screen and how well they work together is really one of the main reasons the movie is so good. The attention to detail paid by the film-makers to the original book is something that will please fans, even the little details are covered, such as the way Beane eats popcorn out of a coffee filter placed on his desk.

 

The film also makes excellent use of flashbacks, which are very important in building the character of Beane , and really show why he is so passionate about the cause that he is fighting for. It shows him as a young player who was expected to make it as a baseball star.

 

Those in the United States are going to have a bit of an advantage in understanding some of the sports parts of the film but even those unfamiliar with the sport will enjoy the movie. The writers really deserve credit for moving away from a lot of the very specific baseball language seen in the book and making a movie that is accessible to all audiences.

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Review of Contagion (2011)

Traffic was a film released by Steven Soderbergh and was one of his most successful productions. It made four times its production costs in sales as well as netting four Oscars, including one for best director. The film had multi levelled plots that are also apparent in this new film, Contagion. It seems unlikely though that this film will enjoy the same kind of success as Traffic.

 

The film is a documentary/drama that is about the breakout of a global pandemic disease. Contagion has many big name stars that ensure it will make quite the splash at the box office. We see Gwyenth Paltrow in the opening scenes which start on day two of the disease outbreak. She is returning from a business trip to Hong Kong and the movie also shows how people in China as well as London are getting sick. Paltrow's character spreads the disease to her husband, played by Matt Damon and her son.

 

Lawrence Fishburne plays the head of the CDC (Centres for Disease Control), which is based in Atlanta, United States. Upon hearing of the outbreak of the virus he sends his leading expert on disease, who is played by Kate Winslet, to find out what caused the outbreak of this deadly pandemic. The film also follows experts from the WHO (World Health Organisation) who travel to China to investigate the virus.

 

Another of the many sub plots details how the population is gripped with fear of the virus, which is only aggravated by a conspiracy writer, played by Jude Law. Meanwhile the CDC is racing to come up with a vaccination for the disease.

 

As with Traffic, Contagion is told with a series of sub plots and each one has a big star attached to it. Unlike Traffic however the sub plots are not as developed as the viewer would want. Despite all the stars attached to this film, the most notable character is the virus itself and viewers can see how it spreads throughout the world.

 

Some sub plots are stronger than others and Matt Damon's and Jude Law's are of particular note. We get to see how the world goes into social upheaval at the news of the virus through Jude's and how the virus affects people on a very personal level in Damon's.

 

The movie has a touch of realism as it looks at how the fictional virus in the film compares with real life contagions. Comparisons are made with the H1N1 and SARS virus, as well as the less recent, but more deadly, Spanish Flu, which killed 50 million people early last century. The film was written by Scott Z Burns and is a gripping story and the viewer will be excited as they follow the scientists trying to come up with a vaccine.

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Famous Marilyn Monroe

Blonde girls have a stereotype.  In the past, a blonde hair is considered attractive. Yes, blondes they are generally beautiful but along with this, they are tagged as dumb and unintelligent. It is said that they are all just beauty with no brains. Thus numerous dumb blonde jokes have spread in books, magazines, and in the internet.  There are also a lot of movies about blondes with little intelligence. Who can best illustrate this stereotype? The answer is Marilyn Monroe. If you ask some people to name a famous blonde, there is a huge chance that you would get "Marilyn Monroe" as an answer.

Marilyn Monroe was a Hollywood actress who was famous for her dumb blonde roles. Marilyn was not a blonde at first. She changed its color as her career grew successfully. Her real name was Norma Jean Mortenson. Her story was one that can be placed in the genre of "rags to riches". Young Marilyn had a less colorful childhood than an average child. She never knew who her father was. Her mother suffered mental problems and was institutionalized. She grew up without the guide of her real parents. Most of her childhood was spent on orphanages although she once was taken care of by the Goddard's. She only got out of the orphanage when she married Jimmy Dougherty. The war came and her husband had to go away. She was then discovered and became a model.

In 1946 she signed her first movie. However with all her attention focused on this, her relationship with her husband began to fail.  They divorced the same year. Soon in her life, Marilyn would experience numerous failed relationships. She was even linked to President Kennedy and his brother, Robert. During her first film, she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe and then made her hair blonde. Her participation in the musical entitled, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" made her an instant hit. In this movie, she played as a dumb blonde who dominates in beauty but not in intelligence. This time, the term "dumb blonde" became prominent. She also starred other movies where she played a blonde stereotype. After these hits, her name climbed higher in the steps of fame.

Soon, she became tired of playing the dumb blonde. So she tried other roles as well. She became sick making her miss her appointments. Her last films were failures. These might have caused her to be depressed. The problems in her career and the relationships that were not meant to last showed how miserable Marilyn Monroe could have been

On August 52, 1962, she was found dead in her house. Her death is still a mystery until today. Some say she was killed. Some say it was suicide. The bottle of sleeping pills found beside her suggests that she could have died of drug overdose.

 


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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Mariska Hargitay Biography Current News

Though she was born into show business as the daughter of 1950s bombshell Jayne Mansfield and famed bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, actress Mariska Hargitay paid her dues on television and in feature films before becoming famous for playing Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ).

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Prior to her success, Hargitay went through a long string of forgettable movies like "The Perfect Weapon" (1991), and failed shows like "Tequila and Bonetti" (CBS, 1992) and "Can't Hurry Love" (CBS, 1995). She eventually began taking on detective roles in procedural dramas, including on the short-lived "Prince Street" (NBC, 1997), which lasted a scant two episodes before being pulled off the air.

But after going through extensive auditions with executive producer Dick Wolf, Hargitay was cast as the tough, but empathetic Det. Benson, who investigates sex crimes with her equally emotionally invested partner (Christopher Meloni). Hailed by numerous critics, her performance was a constant awards-getter, while also giving rise to her philanthropic efforts outside of the show to provide support for survivors of sexual assault through her Joyful Heart Foundation. Though her career was almost exclusively focused on "SVU" during that time, Hargitay was no doubt one of the most productive actresses on the small screen.

Mariska Hargitay was born on Jan. 23, 1964, in Los Angeles, CA. She was the youngest daughter of 1950s platinum blonde starlet Jayne Mansfield and Mr. Universe, Mickey Hargitay, who were divorced before their daughter's first birthday. When Hargitay was three and a half years old, she and brothers Miklos and Zoltan were in the car with their mother and her boyfriend when their car hit a truck, killing the adults instantly. The children were relatively unhurt, as they had been sleeping on the backseat; though little Mariska did end up with a scar on her head. Following their mother's death - a rumored decapitation from the force of the crash, which later proved all Hollywood myth - the children were raised by their father and his wife, who also had two children of their own. Hargitay grew into a smart, accomplished teen, learning to speak Hungarian, French and Italian, and always active in student government, sports, and theater. She had also undeniably inherited her mother's good looks, and was crowned Miss Beverly Hills in 1982.

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