Saturday, March 31, 2012

DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

 

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A reminder to all Australians and New Zealanders that Daylight Saving ends 01 April at 3.00am. Remember to turn your clocks back one hour before sleeping so that tomorrow you wake up at the correct time.

It’s the best night of the year when you can finally get that extra hours sleep you lost on 03 October 2011.

US & Canada start DST Sunday, March 11
Europe starts DST Sunday, March 25

JUST FOR FUN 31 MARCH

 

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QUOTABLES … RITA HAYWORTH

 

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“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”

- Rita Hayworth

DARREN ARONOFSKY TO DIRECT ANNE HATHAWAY IN JUDY GARLAND BIOPIC

 

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Darren Aronofsky is heading back to drama, and you can’t blame him after he struck it big with 2010′s “Black Swan.” Now, he is in business with the Oscar veterans at the Weinstein Co., which have tapped Aronofsky to direct GET HAPPY, the anticipated Judy Garland biopic starring Anne Hathaway.

Earlier this month word was that Jaffe Cohen had signed on to pen the script, which is based on the book “Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland,” written by Gerald Clarke. The pic will follow the true life story of American actress and singer Judy Garland, who, despite her professional triumphs, battled many personal problems, including a long running battle with drug and alcohol addiction, money woes and a string of divorces.

Since the success of “Black Swan,” Aronofsky has been able to get his passion project and bible epic, “Noah,” off the ground with Paramount and New Regency both on board. He will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ari Handel. Russell Crowe was recently confirmed for the role of Noah.

Aronofsky is attached to direct other projects around town, including “Jackie” for Fox Searchlight, which focuses on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the perspective of his wife, Jackie Kennedy. He is also attached to direct “Human Nature,” a sci-fi/drama from Warner Bros. about a businessman, who awakens after being cryogenically frozen, to a world where humans are now treated like animals. George Clooney is attached to star in the pic.

COOL IMAGES 31 MARCH

 

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LIAM NEESON OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED FOR “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES”

 

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The Wrath of the Titans production notes officially confirm that Liam Neeson will be reprising his role of Ra's Al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises.

"Neeson next appears in Peter Berg’s actioner “Battleship,” and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated action thriller “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Feel like you've heard this before? That's because in January, Liam Neeson told showbizspy.com, "I can tell you nothing about Dark Knight Rises, seriously. I was on set for maybe an hour-and-a-half and the director didn’t tell me anything of what it’s about. So, I’m being very honest when I say I have no idea what’s going to happen.” There were still people that said, "Well, technically he didn't actually say he IS in it." Now we have Warner Bros.' Wrath of the Titans production notes, and they eliminate all doubt.

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.
  • The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
  • The Islands of Langerhans won't be found on a map, they're a group of cells located in the pancreas.
  • The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
  • The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
  • The juke-box derives from the old English word for dancing - juke.
  • The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
  • The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.
  • The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.
  • The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.

WINSLETT ON “MY HEART WILL GO ON”

 

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"Like throwing up." That's how Kate Winslet feels when she hears Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," the once-inescapable theme to "Titanic."

"No, I shouldn't say that," Winslet added, thinking through her response before coming to this conclusion: "No, actually, I do feel like throwing up."

"I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody! It's the Celine Dion song!' But I don't," Winslet admitted. "I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll."

Winslet went on to explain that every time she walks into a bar or a restaurant with a pianist, they never miss an opportunity to start playing the notes. "It's thrilling for people to surprise me with the Celine Dion song," she laughed.

QUOTABLES

 

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Friday, March 30, 2012

MORE PLACES I WOULD LIKE TO SEE

 

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JUST FOR FUN 30 MARCH

 

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ANIMAL MOTHERS AND YOUNG

 

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MORE FUNNY ANSWERING MACHINE MESSAGES...

 

 

  • Please leave your name and number unless of course you are a salesman or trying to solicit money.
  • Hello, you have reached the _______'s residence; we cannot reach the phone right now, so please leave a message after the beep. (Then you find something that makes a beeping sound, and make the beep sound, then wait 5 seconds, until they start talking, then make another beep, and do that over and over.)
  • "Hi, I'm not here right now. The reason that I'm gone is because I'm trying to get away from you!"
  • * In British voice* Hello! I'll be eating lunch on my yacht, but I might be able to clear my schedule if you’d like to do something.... leave me a pleasant message after the beep.
  • Hello, you have reached the automated answering service for (your name), your message will be answered to in the order in which it was received, your message is number 8,243, please hold, your message is important to me.
  • Sorry were not here to lend an ear so leave a word and you'll be heard
  • Rub-a-dub-dub, Just got in the tub, Rick is out playing; the kids are misbehaving, and can't come to the phone.
  • Hi this is Sonny and Attie's machine. Medicare didn’t send us enough money this month so we are out robbing the liquor store. If this is the police we are just napping.
  • I know you're out there. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end, I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I'm going to show them a world, without you. A world without rules and controls. Without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you
  • Hello. I'm not at home right now because I'm out making changes in my life so leave a message and if I don't call you back, you're probably one of those changes. (BEEP)
  • I'm sorry; my answering machine is out of order. May I take a message?

A GREGORY PECK MOMENT

 

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OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR "HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA"

 

 

Yahoo! Movies has exclusively scooped the very first look at 'Hotel Transylvania', the new family 'toon starring Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez.

The movie follows the infamous Dracula (Sandler), now working as an hotelier operating a high-end resort for monsters. Frankenstein (Kevin James), Quasimodo (David Koechner), Murray the Mummy (Cee Lo Green) and The Invisible Man (David Spade) are all regular customers at the hotel.
However, Dracula's money-spinning idea goes awry when a human boy (voiced by Steve Buscemi) accidentally discovers the resort and falls for the count's teenage daughter (Gomez).

'Hotel Transylvania' is due to be released in Australia 20 September 2012, September 21 2012 in the US and in the UK on 12 October 2012.

COOL IMAGES 30 MARCH

 

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RUBEN STUDDARD – LETTERS FROM BIRMINGHAM

 

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Genre: R&B/Soul
Release Date: Mar 13, 2012

Grammy nominated pop/ soul crooner and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard has remained an instantly recognizable figure to legions of fans around the world. Having sold millions of records and scored multiple Top 10 R&B and Gospel hits, in addition to appearances in film and theatrical productions. Ruben has remained one of the best selling and most popular Idol Winners.

Letters From Birmingham is Ruben's strongest and most personal album to date. A heartfelt musical story touching on the emotional ups and downs that relationships bring. Based largely on his highly publicized marriage, Rubens deep and passionate vocal delivery leave no doubt that the subject matter is real meaningful and close to his heart.
Letters From Birmingham is a true start to finish album masterpiece that is meant to be experienced as a whole.

Track Listing:
1 of 16 ~ Letter #1
2 of 16 ~ Turn U Out
3 of 16 ~ Love Skies
4 of 16 ~ Wear Me
5 of 16 ~ Letter #2
6 of 16 ~ Pure Imagination
7 of 16 ~ Do It Right (feat. Chrisette Michele)
8 of 16 ~ Today (Hallelujah!)
9 of 16 ~ Letter #3
10 of 16 ~ Twisted Love
11 of 16 ~ Rock Wit’cha (feat. K Michelle)
12 of 16 ~ All About U
13 of 16 ~ Letter #4
14 of 16 ~ Her 4 U
15 of 16 ~ What’s the Reason
16 of 16 ~ June 28th (I’m Single)

JUDY GARLAND AT HOLLYWOOD PALACE 1966

 

… Judy rehearsing “What The World Needs Now”… then her televised performance

REHEARSAL

PERFORMANCE

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
  • The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
  • The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green.  He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia.  He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
  • The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralysed and dead.
  • The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.
  • The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.
  • The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
  • The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'.
  • The inhabitants of Papa New Guinea speak about 700 languages, approximately 15% of the world's total - including localised dialects, which are known to change from village to village.

JANE FONDA TO PLAY NANCY REAGAN

 

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Controversial Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda is expected to portray former Republican first lady Nancy Reagan in director Lee Daniels's upcoming White House-set drama Butler, reports Variety.

Fonda, an outspoken liberal activist, will reportedly appear in a few scenes as the conservative wife of President Ronald Reagan in the film. Daniels co-adapted the screenplay with Danny Strong from a Washington Post story about Eugene Allen, the White House butler whose career started in 1952 with Harry Truman and ended 24 years later with Reagan.

FRIDAY KUP KAKE DAY!

 

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QUOTABLES

 

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Thursday, March 29, 2012