Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Hollywood Old Songs

Hollywood Undead are about to drop a musical bomb. On their debut album (A&M/Octone), they've concocted an explosive cocktail of hip hop, rock and metal, forging an alternative style that's primed to blow the scene up. They craft incisive, sharp and sarcastic raps that slash the jugular of mainstream pop culture. They aren't your standard rap or rock crew. They're something new, dangerous, funny and alive. Deuce busts out the melodies. Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog and Charlie Scene lead the lyrical charge, while Funny Man drops rhymes, and Da Kurlzz hypes the fray. Donning individual masks, Hollywood Undead possess a dark aesthetic that's connected to their hometown's depravity. Tracks like "No. 5" dissect the frivolities of Hollywood with witty, catchy choruses. Album opener "Undead," sets the tone, firing off a big melody and buoyant beats. Meanwhile, "Los Angeles" examines the town's evil edge. However, Hollywood Undead has got the gusto to be earth shattering far beyond cyberspace. They're already knocking at your door, and they're about to break it down.

Hollywood Undead’s sound cuts with a distinct hip hop swagger and a brooding, hard rock aggression. The band recorded seventeen songs with production by Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Don Gilmore (Linkin Park) and Deuce. J-Dog describes the sound best. "It's different genres mixed together with no holds barred. The rap songs are straight-up club songs. The rock songs are in your face and industrial. It's a collaboration of six people with different thoughts, coming together and not holding back." Charlie Scene elaborates further, "It's the truth about what average, suburban teens are thinking. No one else is rapping about how those kids party and what they go through in life, but we are."

Everything was born from a collaboration by Deuce and J-Dog in 2005. They posted a couple of their songs on the internet, and within a day, they had a slew of friends and plays. They inked a deal with A&M/Octone in 2008, and they're ready to unleash their manifesto. Johnny 3 Tears delves deeper into the band's message. "Our music and lyrics are just a communication of our lives. That's the best way to define it. It's all extremely and explicitly honest about stuff we go through--love, hate and pain. People see that honesty, and they respond to it. I want it to last forever for them. It's not fleeting."

The masks contribute to the band's mystique. Charlie explains, "In order to keep everything a mystery, we didn't want people to know what we look like." That mystery is just as important to the band's identity as the city is. J-Dog continues, "I've seen too many people who just couldn't cut it out here. This city literally chews people up and spits them out. In Hollywood, there are aspiring actors, artists, crack heads, gang bangers, taggers, and homeless people. They all add to the culture. Growing up around so many different people made us who we are. Hollywood was always known for its rawness, and we have that." The world will soon see that Hollywood Undead is as raw as it gets.

This song began life as "Jockin' My Mercedes," and was performed during a couple of festival sets during some of the brief Mutations promotions. The song did change a little from then, but it was basically the same as what you know now.

"Hollywood Freaks" might be the most typical Midnite Vultures track. As the perfect example of the Vultures mood, "Hollywood Freaks" would have been Beck's first choice as a single for the album. "That's the one I would choose because this is what I would wanna hear if I was in a club...you know, on a Thursday night, feeling mildly excited." The song is a catchy and melodic, but at the same time, a bit of a goof, as proved by all the laughing and silly references.

Beck's a master at finding the right words to match the right attitude of the music (and vice versa). There are so many pop references, it's hard to begin! (See below.) Basically, as the title conveys, the song is just full of freakiness: neon mamacitas, tropical oils, twenty-million dollar fantasies. But as Beck put it, it's a riff on all "the pervasive R&B entrepreneurial superstar star-maker man-male '90s machines." I'm not sure how Norman Schwarzkopf fits that description though!

Beck explains his love/hate relationship with Los Angeles, which comes out subtly in "Hollywood Freaks." "I love L.A., but there's certain elements that are repelling to me, but at the same time I enjoy it. I love to hate it. As a musician or somebody who works creatively, you tend to take things from your environment that bug you or disturb you and try to reassemble them the way you see fit. That's one of the licenses you acquire when you start writing songs or making movies. You're able to do odd things and rework the world as you see it. So I took the liberty to do it with Hollywood because it's taken liberty with me. It's a two-way relationship."

Often "Hollywood Freaks" is considered a spoof (as is much of Midnite Vultures), but Beck takes issue with that. He explains, "I don't think of that song as a parody at all. There is a fine line there but it isn't parody. I love the new stuff and the old school. That song to me is just my aesthetic. In my fantasy world that is the kind of hip hop song you would hear on the radio, hear Puff Daddy rapping."
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Hollywood Young Circle


Young Circle Park and Amphitheater is a beautiful park-like setting located in the heart of Hollywood. It serves the community with a wide range of performances – everything from the Hollywood Philharmonic to Hollywood Playhouse performances have graced the stage.

The park itself is a popular venue providing a charming, natural backdrop for yearly events including the Mardi Gras Fiesta Tropicale (February), the St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival (March), Hispanic Fest and Kuumba Festival (April), LoveFest and the Fourth of July patriotic kickoff (July), Viva Italia, Love Radio’s Jazz Harvest, Footy’s Y-100 Wing Ding, the Herald Hunt (October) and dramatic Holiday light displays (December). These major events mirror Hollywood’s cultural diversity and its commitment to the arts.

Surrounding the park are charming restaurants and open air cafes, filling the air with the scent of fresh baked pastries and breads.

No city in Broward County has high stakes development decisions like Hollywood. It's why for the last decade it's become an emotionally charged issue. For all the fine points that fill the debate, the argument comes down to whether you believe the city should accommodate the developer or if the developer should accommodate the city. The projects have changed, but the debate has not.

In Monday's post about the Block 25 project, planned for the northeast corner of Young Circle and Federal Highway, commissioners Patty Asseff and Linda Sherwood argued that the city should be grateful to developer, Chip Abele, for his willingness to build in Hollywood. For this he's entitled to a big share of the future taxes the city would collect on the property, as well as the right to design his condo tower as a "planned development," or just "PD" -- status that frees him from the zoning guidelines that tend to cut into profit margins. Last evening, in a 5-2 decision, the Hollywood City Commission gave Abele his PD.

The culture of giving developers incentives and architectural cart blanche is, for better or worse, the legacy of former Mayor Mara Giulianti. And despite her defeat in January 2008, a majority of the commission still subscribes to Guilianti principles. Commissioner Heidi O'Sheehan, who was elected that same month, is in the minority.

"Unfortunately, there's this feeling in the city that if we don't say 'Yes' to everything, (developers) are just going to walk away and not build anything," says O'Sheehan. "And I don't believe that."

Hollywood, she argues, is selling itself short: "This is prime real estate in South Florida -- there aren't a lot of places left to develop. We're holding a lot of cards that we can bargain with."

More from O'Sheehan, and the city activists who take her view on developing Hollywood's downtown, after the jump.

In July the city's Community Redevelopment Agency hired Miami urban designer Bernard Zyscovich to revise a master plan he crafted in 2004 that was never formally recognized. Abele and his backers on the commission are eager to lock in planned-development status before that happens .

This seems a contradiction. Zyscovich is being paid to ensure a city design in which individual projects fit within a collective vision, while the commission is doing the opposite -- letting each project define the collective vision. And Block 55 development is just the latest example.

Or at least that's how it seems to Terry Cantrell, president of the Hollywood Lakes Civic Association, whose members have lobbied hard against letting the project get in line ahead of the Zyscovich plan. "The city has spent $200,000 to do the (Zyscovich) master plan and zoning recommendations," says Cantrell. It could have delayed approval for Abele's project until Zyscovich's ideas became permanent policy. "Why not wait another couple of weeks?" he asks.

Activist Sara Case lost narrowly in the January 2008 election to Asseff, an event that had big implications for Hollywood development. Case wonders why the commissioners don't trust Zyscovich. "They hire him, and then they don't pay attention to him," she says. "How can they substitute their judgment for the judgment of a professional planner like Zyscovich?"

Supporters of the Hollywood Circle development caution that by delaying its approval, the city would not only risk losing the project, it might make the city vulnerable to a lawsuit. That threat seems implicit in the commission presentations by lobbyist Alan Koslow.

"I think that's a bogus argument," says Case. And if the city really wanted to protect itself from legal action, she adds, it would have called for a "zoning in progress" that freezes new development until new design guidelines and regulations can be adopted. Hollywood has not done so.

While Abele's group may have started the development review in September 2007, Cantrell points out that the developer didn't apply for zoning changes until this past November -- four months after Zyscovich's arrival. By that time the developer should have known that the city's plans were fluid.

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Hollywood Cricket Club

Hollywood Cricket Club was founded in 1932 by Sir C. Aubrey "Round the Corner" Smith. Club's By-Laws were passed by the committee on January 20, 1932 and were approved on February 18, 1932.

Brief History of Sir Aubrey Smith.

Sir Aubrey Smith was born July 21, 1863 in St. Stephen's Hospital. As time went by he became serious soccer player, but his real desire was to play cricket.

Sir Aubrey Smith, an opening brisk fast-medium bowler, played for Charterhouse, Cambridge, Sussex and England. He debut in 1882 for Sussex County Cricket Club and was Captain in 1887, 1888, and 1890. He also was the Captain of two England Touring Sides (to Australia and South Africa). As a finale, Sir Aubrey named his house at 2881 Coldwater Canyon Drive, near the junction with Mulholland Drive, "The Round Corner."

Created a C.B.E in 1938 at Buckingham Palace, he went there again in 1944 to receive a knighthood from the King. Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, famous cricketer and film actor died in Beverly Hills on December 20th, 1948.

He will always be remembered by Hollywood Cricket Club.


A great moment for international ‘cricket you can believe in’ was held at the Village Green, Woodley, Los Angeles over the weekend where Credo Cricketer’s, The Rev and the traveling Custard, joined the Compton ‘Homies and Popz’ Cricket Team in a match against Beverly Hills/Hollywood Cricket Club.

Compton is a neighborhood in South Central LA with a reputation for gangs, violence and disadvantage. The Cricket Team was started when the teams patriarch and icon, Ted Hayes, an African American, Republican voting, Jewish, homelessness activist was introduced to cricket by British film producer Katy Haber. Ted resonated with the ‘Spirit of Cricket ‘which he saw as being significantly different to the showy, ‘Me first’ culture of American sport and its mean streets.

With the Hollywood connection it was the Beverly Hills team, made up of ex-pat Englishmen that first taught Ted and the boys how to play. Today however, it was time for the apprentices to become the masters. Compton bowled and fielded well, amongst the trees and undulations of the aptly named ‘Village Green’ to restrict Beverly Hills to 9/134 off 25 overs with America’s version of the Warne/Magill leg spin combination, Ted Hayes (3 for) and The Rev (2 for) proving a handfull.

In response, Compton born and bred, Ricardo starred with the bat with a 50 made up of orthodox forward defense and blistering baseball style swats which peppered the legside boundary. The Rev made 18 and Custard brought the team home with 28 not out. 4/135 with 5 overs to spare.

At the conclusion of the game Marcus Curnow, spoke about the story of Urban Seed’s Credo Cricket with disadvantaged people in Melbourne and the recent Laneway Cricket matches held in response to street violence against Indian students. He handed out Australian team training shirts, and, whilst being heckled by the defeated Beverly Hills Englishmen, recommended the ‘Homies’ wear the shirts for the remainder of the day as the Ashes would be lost by morning! Luckily Ted Hayes received a Victorian Bushrangers 20/20 shirt for whom the Compton ‘Homies and Popz’ will be ‘rootin’in the upcoming Champions league in recognition of Cricket Victoria’s ongoing support for ‘very believable cricket’.

Meet the Players


Ahmed Butt
You heard of the one where the boy wants to be a king. Well here we have a very good middle order batsman, who really wants to be a bowler. Aspirations of Shoaib Akhter, there is an ongoing bet that Ahmed will not take a single wicket this season...

Arvind Vanthasavi
He batted unbelievably well once, but think the rough and tumble world of LDHCC was just too much, so he does nt respond any more.

Asim Bilwani
Another one of our flambouyant openers, its just a pity that he possibly gives the most mis-informed, terrible intel ever. From getting the ground directions wrong, to high certainty but completely misguided views on the strengths of the batsman, he is truly a product of Investment Banking

Hassan Mohammad
The british rude boy, one gets the sense he would really prefer to get stuck into a big team fight with the opposition or our team, than participate in this genteel game. He can bat (I think)

Imran Shah
Certainly the tallest member of the squad, Imran has a very languid presence about himself. A dynamic opening batsman, likes nothing better than rolling a Rizla in the outfield and genuinely encouraging rival batsman.

Kanik Arora
Definitely a tradion buster, our fast bowler disdains the white kit for a multi colour uniform straight from the IPL, as well as famously at one stage removing his pads while batting in one game to free himself for a few big hits. He was bowled next ball.

Kany Bengali
Allegedly a Bangladesh U-19 player, but we are nt really sure, since the floods washed away the Bangladesh cricket academy in '08.

Karan Abbot
More bollywood than hollywood, he is Facebook friends with everyone who has played with or against us. After the mother of all battles with the captain, he was finally allowed a ball in the first match and promptly took two wickets in his first over.

Kashif Sheikh
Every organisation, building, country is built around one entity, in the case of LDHCC, its Kashif. He keeps wicket when we need him to, bowls fast and is leading the race for highest run scorer this season. Kashif is there to win it, the other 10 generate the noise.

Mirnal Jalan
Our chereubic leg spinner, who belies his appearance with some sharp fielding from cover as well as being a solid middle order batsman. Visibly discomforted by the blustery English weather…

Nicholas Khan Roper
The real pin up idol in a team full of Hollywood wannabes. Starting his bowling career 16 years later, he s continued his love affair with the red cherry, never straying from that off stump line. Leading wicket taker and is comfortable at Number 11.

Omar Sheikh
Part 1 of the famous "Shake" brothers. Generates a mean pace from a short run up and capable of the mean bouncer as well. A very solid batsman in a flambouyant top order.

Raj Daryanani
Every team needs the wily, grizzly old pro, who has been there and done that for a good decade. Raj is our man, knows every ground south of the Midlands, bowls fast and furious and when he bats, he tees it up and launches into the stratosphere. Keeps as well.

Rehan Latif
Great Captain likes to think of himself as the poor man's version of Gary Sobers. Left handed, bowls spin, a little medium, bats anywhere, keeps (badly). The fact that all of them are done with little success is beside the point. It would be fairer to say the fact that Rehan has ADD is why he tries to do everything, if he was nt so focused on trying to place the fielders, he would probably wander off every 5 minutes.

Roopak Radia
His one innings was a revelation and sensationally he was the first (and maybe last?) person to take a catch at slip for us.

Rushi Luhar
The scholastic right arm seamer with a competitive streak. Reads the game well as expected from the Morgan Stanley Indoor Captain and dependable lower order batsman, a complete team player.

Samir Dada
The sensitive fast bowler, nifty pace, but like any well groomed prima donna handle with care. Threatens to walk off the field atleast twice every innings. And on an aside, the most bearish equity trader you are ever likely to meet....

Zain Latif
The second of the second pair of brothers, he only adds to the feeling of relaxed languidness that LDHCC display on the field, hands folded no doubt thought drifting to concerns that would typically pre-occupy Investment Banking Directors in this day and age. Scorer of our first 50.


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Friday, March 26, 2010

Hollywood In Hindi

Well Done Abba (2010)



Staring:

Boman Irani
Minissha Lamba
Sammir Dattani
Sonali Kulkarni
Ravi Kishan
Ila Arun
Salim Ghouse
Rajit Kapoor
Yashpal Sharma
Ravi Jhankal
Rahul Singh

Director:

Shyam Benegal


2) Hum Tum Aur Ghost (2010)



Staring:

Arshad Warsi
Diya Mirza
Sandhya Mridul
Boman Irani
Zehra Naqvi
Shernaz Patel
Tinu Anand
Javed Sheikh
Asawari Joshi
Rituraj Singh
Ashwin Kumar
Nilu Kohli

Director:

Kabeer Kaushik

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Hollywood Jokes

In Hollywood they get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

The hardest thing in Hollywood is to keep the marriage a secret until the divorce leaks out.

I was invited to a Hollywood wedding. Traffic was heavy, so I got there late
Divorce Magazine provides advice and support for those coping with separation, divorce, and remarriage.

From time to time, Hollywood loves to make movies about itself.

It's a place so insular and self-centered that it's convinced that everyone else on the planet is as enraptured as they are about themselves and the going-ons behind the scenes. That is the central theme behind the new rambunctious, and very hit-or-miss comedy Tropic Thunder.

It's an occasionally funny comedy that actually isn't nearly as funny or as clever as it thinks it is. It's mainly aimed for people who like to delude themselves that they're "in the know" about the movie business although most of the really savage satire would sail right over their heads without them having a clue.

Marking his return to the director's seat since his unfunny Zoolander and the underrated and dangerously subversive The Cable Guy, Ben Stiller plays a fading action movie star who is working on a big budget Hollywood action flick about the Vietnam War, that is being shot on location in Vietnam, alongside fellow actors Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel and Brandon T. Jackson. Jackson plays a rapper with the name of Alpa Chino (say it loud to yourself), who is acting in his first film.

However it's obvious from the very start that the film's clueless, stressed out, neophyte Brit director (Coogan) is in way over his head and the film quickly winds up over budget and way behind schedule, incurring the anger of the film's extremely foul mouthed, hyper-aggressive producer (Tom Cruise wearing a bald wig, scraggly beard, fat gut and profuse chest hair).

Desperate to save the film, and more importantly his career, Coogan gets rid of most of the film crew and comes up with the insane idea of dropping his actors in the middle of nowhere in the jungle to make a low budget, guerilla style movie with hidden video cameras placed all around as they struggle to make it out on their own.

Of course there wouldn't be much of plot of things didn't quickly go from bad to worse, (as it does) and the actors find themselves tangling with dangerous real drug dealing guerillas led by a 12-year-old kid (Soo Hoo), though the actors are too imbecilic and self-centered to realize that they're not making a film anymore and their situation is for real.

Though Thunder definitely has its genuinely funny moments especially due to Jack Black, who while relegated mainly to the background at first eventually comes into his own with some hilarious crazed behavior and rudely twisted lines, the film suffers badly from a lumpy pace with its uneven storyline and too many scenes of people screaming at each other for no apparent reason.

It's also dragged down by one too many inside jokes about the business that are not even that funny for those who gets who's being spoofed such as McConaughey's manic part inspired by real life super agent Ari Emanuel, Coogan's take on the real British film director Sam Mendes (Jarhead) and especially Cruise's character who's a blatant mockery of legendary producer Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) who's famous in the business for his volcanic temper and tyrannical behavior.

However, no doubt most of the attention will center around Robert Downey's Kirk Lazarus, a Russell Crowe type known for his intensity and hard drinking behavior who's so dedicated to his craft that to play a black man in the film he undergoes cosmetic surgery to look black to play the part. Of course the concept is intentionally outrageous and decidedly non-PC with the image of a white guy in modern day blackface to illustrate how ridiculous Lazarus is, especially in his awkward and embarrassing attempts to portray a black man.

And besides, since it's the current "Mr. Cool of Hollywood" Iron Man himself, so how bad could it be? But when it gets down to the basic core of the idea, the fact of the matter is that blackface is still blackface regardless.

Another problem as well with the basic concept it that doesn't make sense either. Although the film is a comedy and a satire of the film business, why would a producer and director in the film hire a white guy to play the part of the black guy? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a black actor spoofing another established, serious black actor such as Forest Whitaker or Denzel Washington?

Things are not helped either with Jackson's rapper character (who's the only black person in the entire film) basically playing a character that is barely a step above Flava Flav. If Lazarus' character was conceived as an attack on the image of blacks in cinema, then neither him nor Jackson's character help in any way. And, in this new age of Obama, the whole thing falls flat.

After everything is taken in, what we have left with Tropic Thunder is a film that could have been a whole a lot sharper and better. There are truly funny and outrageous moments, but unfortunately, the film becomes sluggish as it repeats itself again and again to an increasingly lesser effect.

Perhaps if the filmmakers had stopped gazing into the mirror a tad less often and weren't as convinced that they were so much more clever than the audience, Tropic Thunder might have been a better film.



-- just in time for the divorce.

One Hollywood kid has good reason to be proud: at the last PTA meeting, he won the prize for having the most parents there.

One actress is sentimental: she always gets divorced in the dress her mother was married in.

A Hollywood bride looked around as the groom put her down after carrying her across the threshold. Puzzled, the Hollywood bride said, "This place looks familiar. Have we been married before?"
-- just in time for the divorce.

One Hollywood kid has good reason to be proud: at the last PTA meeting, he won the prize for having the most parents there.

One actress is sentimental: she always gets divorced in the dress her mother was married in.

A Hollywood bride looked around as the groom put her down after carrying her across the threshold. Puzzled, the Hollywood bride said, "This place looks familiar. Have we been married before?"
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Hollywood Movie Anaconda

Having tackled the most venomous snakes in Africa, Austin Stevens seeks out the largest and most powerful snake in the world. A snake which can weigh over 1,000 lbs, with a girth of 44 inches. One of the few snakes in the world that actually preys on humans. Throwing a 'death loop' of coils around its hapless victim this monster is capable of crushing a man to death. Austin plans to photograph one of these feared beasts in its natural habitat. To do that he'll need to wrestle it from the water. Austin is a black belt in Kung-Fu, but he has been undergoing additional training for this mission for the last twelve months, working on the amount of time he can stay underwater, and increasing his upper body strength. Now there is no turning back.

No animal in the Amazon is more feared and respected than the world's largest and most powerful snake, the Anaconda. Fully grown, it can approach a length of 30 feet, and weigh close to a quarter of a ton. Physically, no animal in the New World can match its strength. Worshipped as a god and feared for its magic, the Anaconda stands alone at the top of the hierarchy of predators in the Amazon and is the living symbol of the river.

Series combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure as a team of explorers search the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle on the planet. Cameras follow the team every sweaty step of the way as they explore the beautiful wilderness of Guyana, from abseiling down one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world to climbing to the very top of the rainforest trees. Known as the land of giants, Guyana is home to the huge anaconda, the world's largest tarantula and giant otters.

The big snakes are back..well ok, big “snake”, for another round of body chomping in our newest edition called ”Anaconda: Trail of Blood”. Our evil master mind this round goes by the name of
Murdoch, who has funded a very large project to find a serum to heal fatal illness. The intent though involves some very devious intentions and the use of creating very large snakes. The cure comes from a hybrid of the black orchid flower which produces regeneration and healing effects of halting decomposition. The tests used on snakes produces a species that requires constant feeding with a higher metabolic rate.

To summarize, there’s really not alot new going on here. The names have been changed but the play is much of the same. With a bunch of assassins confusing the the mix you really just want to get to the munching . Which you more or less assume that all bad men will get eaten. My favorite still stands with the first Anaconda movie but then again they had an all star cast also. Is it me or would just poisoning the carcasses do the trick to kill a big snake? or maybe throw a tasty meat stake attached to a grenade? Oh ya…one problem. The snake can regenerate…so it will take a bit more to kill him off so easily.

It goes without saying that this is snake, like the last, episodes and goes on a killing spree, attacking the scientist on duty, the rescue team sent to find him, Amanda’s crew in search of the snake and the mercenariesMurdoch sends to retrieve the cancer serum. Again, the experiments have made the anaconda huge and aggressive, but this time it also has the power of regeneration, which is never exploited adequately in the story.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Hollywood chrismas party

Christmas parties… It’s that time again when we’ve just had our Summer Party and now it’s time to plan our Christmas Party! This year why not hire your exclusive Christmas venue and have a themed Christmas Party? Whether you’re having a Christmas Party in London or Scotland Christmas-events.com are here to help. We are Christmas party organisers and a specialised Event Management company, who offer party planning, venue finding, event management, event production and event entertainment! We help to plan out every aspect of your corporate Christmas Party, to ensure you have a fantastic and memorable xmas party!

This year why not enjoy your Christmas Party in the style of Hollywood! A perfect theme for your corporate Christmas party celebrations!

Imagine beginning your evening walking down the red carpet, paparazzi flashes everywhere while you enjoy being a star for the night!! Your exclusive Christmas event continues as you enter the fabulous Hollywood, greeted with champagne and canapés. As you and your guests take in the magnificent themed Christmas venue, you will begin to be seated at your tables, ready to enjoy a sumptuous three course Christmas menu.

Once seated why not mystify and amazed your guests with a Walkabout magician who will leave your Christmas party guests stunned and thoroughly impressed!

While coffee and chocolates are served to guests your manager will have the chance to hand out those golden globe awards to members of staff.

After your deliciousdinner, you will be thoroughly entertained by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, followed by a fantastic Elvis who will leave guests ‘All shook up!!’ and ready to walk down the walk of fame onto the dance floor!

Your xmas event is yet to finish there… with a Christmas chocolate fountain, Christmas novelties, a Hollywood photo booth and disco this will be a fantastic corporate Christmas Party not to be forgotten!

Having an exclusive Christmas Party has the benefits of a large corporate company having an exclusive Christmas venue to themselves. However, many smaller companies, can participate in a shared Christmas parties with the same package, except a cheaper Christmas Party package!

Your guests will be talking about your party for months when you host a Hollywood Christmas Party this year. What greater reason to dress up than Christmas? Add a touch of Hollywood and you really have glamor! I've put together some simple ideas that will help you host a Hollywood Christmas Party. The party always starts with the invitation. Your invitation is the first door your guest open to your party. And during a season where everyone is partying make your invitation stand out. Here are a few ideas for your Hollywood Christmas Party.

1. Create a Hollywood DVD to give as invitations. It's easier than it sounds. Just record your invitation to a disc and hand them out. Where your best glamor outfit and using your best dramatic performance to invite your guest to your Hollywood Christmas Party.

2. Purchase elegant invitations and on the front write "And the Nominee for Best Actor is...." When your guests open it they will find their name. Then beneath it write the blurb about your party. You might invite your guest to dress formal and give prizes for the Best Actor and Best Actress, (based of course on appearance).

For party decorations there are a few things you simply must have.

1. A red carpet! Let your guests come in to your home or party space on the red carpet.

2. Cameras with a flash. Anyone who comes not dressed up takes pictures of the guests as they arrive. You can buy disposable cameras with the flash. At the end of the night you'll have a great record of memories. Or you might ask a friend who likes to stay in the background to be the paparazzi.

3. Your Christmas tree would be perfect for a Hollywood Christmas Party with these sensational Christmas ornaments. Buy the inexpensive picture frame ornaments. Download some pictures of your favorite Hollywood Stars like Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Paul Newman. Print each picture and put them in the frames. Place them all over the tree. Make sure you have one for each guest so you can use them for a game later. Have extras!

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Friday, March 19, 2010

hollywood movies 2010 Videos

Hollywood movies releasing in 2010, Hollywood movies releasing in January, 2010, February 2010, March 2010, Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in April 2010, May 2010, June 2010, July 2010, August 2010, Hollywood movies releasing in September 2010, October 2010, November 2010, December 2010

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in January, 2010
January 1, 2010: Case 39
January 8, 2010: Youth in Revolt
January 15, 2010: Let Me In
January 22, 2010: Tooth Fairy
January 29, 2010: When in Rome

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in February 2010
February 5, 2010: Dear John
February 12, 2010: The Butchering Ghost
February 19, 2010: Shutter

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in March 2010
March 5, 2010: Alice in Wonderland
March 16, 2010: The Back-Up Plan
March 19, 2010: Season of the Witch
March 26, 2010: How to Train Your Dragon

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in April 2010
April 2, 2010: Repo Men
April 9, 2010: The Losers
April 16, 2010: Piranha 3-D
April 22, 2010: Oceans
April 23, 2010: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in May 2010
May 7, 2010: Iron Man 2
May 14, 2010: Robin Hood
May 21, 2010: Shrek Forever After
May 28, 2010: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in June 2010
June 4, 2010: Killers
June 11, 2010: The A-Team
June 18, 2010: Toy Story 3
June 25, 2010: Grown Ups
June 30, 2010: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in July 2010
July 2, 2010: The Last Airbender
July 9, 2010: Despicable Me
July 16, 2010: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
July 23, 2010: Salt +1 more release

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in August 2010
August 6, 2010: Step Up 3-D
August 13, 2010: Ramona and Beezus
August 20, 2010: The Expendables
August 27, 2010: Resident Evil: Afterlife

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in September 2010
September 3, 2010: Born to Be a Star
September 10, 2010: The Town
September 17, 2010: Warrior
September 24, 2010: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in October 2010
October 1, 2010: Priest October 8, 2010: The Zookeeper
October 15, 2010: Faster
October 22, 2010: Saw VII

Upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in November 2010
November 5, 2010: MegaMind November 12, 2010: Unstoppable
November 19, 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
November 24, 2010: Rapunzel 3-D

December 17, 2010: Tron: Legacy
December 22, 2010: The Green Hornet













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Hollywood relesing 2010

If you're serious about selling a spec script to a Hwood movie studio, you're well advised to keep up with what stories they're buying and what movies they're releasing. For the former, GITS posts every spec script and original pitch that sells as they occur. Re the latter, over the next four days, I'll post the 2010 movie release schedule, one quarter per day.

January 1


Case 39 (Paramount): Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper

Horror, Thriller

Social worker Emily Jennings is trying to rescue Lucy Sheridan, 10 years old girl from Margaret & Edward, abusive parents but begins to suspect the girl may not be so innocent after all.


January 8


Daybreakers (Lionsgate): Ethan Hawke, William Dafoe

Horror, Action, Thriller

Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.


Leap Year (Universal): Amy Adams, Matthew Goode

Comedy, Romance

An uptight woman travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes. When weather derails her trip, she enlists the help of a surly Irish innkeeper to make an unexpected cross-country trek to pull off the perfect proposal in time.


You In Revolt (Weinstein): Michael Cera, Steve Buschemi

Teen Comedy

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, 14-year-old Nick sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.


January 15


Book of Eli (Warner Bros.): Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman

Post-Apocalyptic Drama

A lone hero fights his way across the wasteland of post-apocalyptic America. He's the protector of a sacred book that may hold the key to saving humanity.


Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil (Weinstein): Hayden Panettiere, Amy Poehler

Children’s Animation

Red Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.


The Lovely Bones (Paramount): Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg

Drama

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.


The Spy Next Door (Lionsgate): Jackie Chan

Action, Comedy

Former CIA spy Bob Ho (Chan) takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob's longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.


January 22


Extraordinary Measures (CBS Films): Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser

Drama

The true story of John and Aileen Crowley, whose two children had a rare genetic disorder. Rather than give up hope that nothing could help his children, John Crowley found a researcher (Ford) with a potential cure.


Legion (Screen Gems): Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid

Action, Horror, Thriller

When God loses faith in humanity, he sends a legion of angels to wipe out the human race. It's only hope is a group of misfits holed up in a diner, aided by the archangel Michael.


The Tooth Fairy (20th Century Fox): Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd

Comedy, Fantasy, Family

Derek Thompson is a minor league hockey player, nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" for his tendency to loosen molars and bicuspids while working. But Derek gets an entirely new gig when he's tapped by Magical Forces to be the real Tooth Fairy and to save the tooth fairy kingdom.


January 29


Edge of Darkness (Warner Bros.): Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone

Thriller, Drama, Crime

Ron Craven, a cop and widower, witnesses what first appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter, Emma. Distraught by the loss and further troubled by his conviction that the bullet was intended for him, Craven takes on the murder investigation with an obsessive zeal to see justice done. The investigation leads him to uncover an illegal plutonium stockpile.


When in Rome (Disney): Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel

Rom-Com

During a short trip to Rome, Beth Martin steals a handful of coins from the Fountain Of Love and as a result, the seven people who tossed those coins in the Fountain all fall wildly, hopelessly, irritatingly in love with her.


February 5


Dear John (Screen Gems): Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried

Romance, Drama

An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love - and face the hardest decision of his life.


From Paris With Love (Lionsgate): John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Action, Thriller

A young embassy worker and an American secret agent cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris.


February 12


I Love You Phillip Morris (Freestyle): Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor

Comedy

Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven realizes he's gay and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.


My Name is Khan (Fox Searchlight): Shahrukh Khan, Kajol

Drama, Romance

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism complicating socialization). The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for "suspicious" behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Obama to clear his name.


Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (20th Century Fox: Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman

Fantasy, Family

A young boy discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.


Valentine’s Day (New Line): Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba

Comedy, Romance

The story centers on 10 people in Los Angeles whose lives intersect on Valentine's Day.


The Wolfman (Universal): Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins

Action, Horror, Thriller

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man (Del Toro) is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.


February 19


Shutter Island (Paramount): Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo

Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on Shutter Island.


February 26


A Couple of Dicks (Warner Bros.): Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan

Comedy

The story follows a pair of cops as they track down a stolen baseball card, rescue a Mexican beauty and deal with gangsters and laundered drug money.


The Crazies (Overture): Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell

Horror, Thriller

"Crazies" revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply.


Takers (Screen Gems): Matt Dillon, Paul Walker

Crime, Thriller

A Manhattan detective is pit against a young crew that specializes in spectacular heists.


March 5


Alice in Wonderland (Disney): Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp

Fantasy, Adventure, Family

A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures.


Brooklyn’s Finest (Overture): Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle

Crime, Drama, Action

Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.


March 12


Green Zone (Universal): Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear

Thriller, Drama, War

A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and the New York Times correspondent following their mission.


Greenburg (Focus): Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig

Drama, Comedy

A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles to housesit for his brother and figure out his life and he ends up having a relationship with his brother's assistant.


Hard Ten (Dreamworks): Jasika Nicole, Jay Baruchel

Comedy, Romance

An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship.


Letters to God (Vivendi): Robyn Lively, Jeffrey S.S. Johnson

Drama

A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.


Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight): Forrest Whitaker, America Ferrera

Comedy

Two families who clash while trying to throw together a wedding in two short weeks.


Remember Me (Summit): Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin

Drama, Romance

A pair of star-crossed lovers meet and fall in love while struggling to deal with family tragedies that threaten their relationship.


March 19


The Bounty Hunter (Columbia): Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler

Comedy, Action

A bounty hunter is hired to retrieve his ex-wife, who has skipped bail.


Chloe (Sony): Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson

Drama, Thriller

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.


Hot Tub Time Machine (MGM): John Cusack, Rob Corddry

Comedy

A group of adult male friends, bored with their lives, visit a hot tub where they once partied. After knocking a few back, they find it can transport them to a time two decades earlier and to their younger, raunchier selves.


Last Night (Miramax): Kiera Knightley, Sam Worthington

Drama, Romance

Joanna and Michael Reed seem on the surface to be a "perfect couple." But when Joanna accuses Michael of contemplating sex with his attractive co-worker Laura, she succeeds only in shoving him into Laura's arms. And while Michael is off an a business trip with Laura that soon becomes fraught with sexual tension, Joanna meets ex-boyfriend Steven Mann for a casual evening that soon becomes emotionally complicated for both of them and desire, regret, guilt and passion hover like storm clouds over both adulterous couples.


Season of the Witch (Lionsgate): Nicholas Cage, Ron Perlman

Thriller, Supernatural

Set in 14th century, the film follows knights who are transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague.


March 26


Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros.): Sam Worthington, Mads Mikkelsen

Action, Adventure

The myth of Perseus, son of Zeus, and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster in order to save the Princess Andromeda.


How to Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks): Jay Baruchel, Gerrard Butler

Family, Comedy, Animation

The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Visiting Hollywood


Hollywood, California conjures up images of movie stars, film production and fame seeking hopefuls arriving by the bus loads daily. While some of these perceptions are true, most film production has moved on to other parts of Los Angeles. A visit to today's Hollywood is more of a bustling tourist destination and beginning point for all the sights around LA and a historic landmark to the film and television industry's past.

The main route through Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It is along Hollywood Blvd visitors will see the Walk of Fame, Hollywood and Highland entertainment center, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the El Capitan Theatre and several hotels including the Roosevelt Hotel, the brand new W Hotel and the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. In addition to the main sights and attractions of Hollywood Blvd, it is also the street to catch one of many tour buses departing hourly for tours of celebrity homes, Beverly Hills and Downtown Los Angeles.

One of the newest and biggest attractions to open in Hollywood in recent years has been the Hollywood and Highland entertainment center on Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave. The center is a multi level outdoor shopping, dinning and entertainment complex. The structure has an U shape with the open end facing out onto Hollywood Blvd. At any of the levels visitors can look out onto busy Hollywood Blvd and the Walk of Fame, the Hollywood sign, the many fountains on the ground level or take in the sight of both the Kodak Theatre and Renaissance Hollywood Hotel rising from the back of the complex. It is the Kodak Theatre where the annual Academy Awards are now held. At the base of the Hollywood and Highland center and along the Walk of Fame is Grauman's Chinese Theater. Here visitors from all over the world come to place their hands in concrete imprints of hands and feet left from some of the biggest movie stars in the world.

All along Hollywood Blvd and adjacent to the Hollywood and Highland center is the Walk of Fame. Consisting of over 2,300 stars representing celebrities from music, film, radio, TV and producing, the Walk of Fame extends down Hollywood Blvd and up down the side streets. There are many budget shopping opportunities along this stretch of Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood memorabilia stores are a dime a dozen on this stretch selling Hollywood t shirts, plastic Oscars, discarded paparazzi photos of celebrities and more. In front of the Hollywood and Highland complex tour buses depart hourly for all parts of Los Angeles including tours of celebrity homes, Beverly Hills and Downtown Los Angeles.

Extending behind the Hollywood and Highland center is Franklin Ave. Off of Franklin Ave is a little street that stretches deep into the Hollywood Hills called the Outpost Estates. This was the original neighborhood that the first major Hollywood stars of the 1920s and 1930s called home. Many of the homes in this area have been renovated to maintain their original look and feel from that time. Today most of these houses are all over a million dollars and many, the higher up on the road, have amazing views of all of Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. Regular tour buses departing from Hollywood Blvd give visitors a complete rundown and exposure of this historic area of Hollywood.

La Brea Blvd is the major north, south artery running through Hollywood. There are many boutique shopping and dinning opportunities along this stretch. At La Brea and Melrose is where the Melrose Ave shopping district is located. Extending west from La Brea all the way past Fairfax and into West Hollywood, the Melrose Ave shopping district is full of boutique retailers selling everything from belts, boots, chic clothing, lingerie and even movie poster, books and music. The first ever Johnny Rockets opened on Melrose Ave still stands there today. On Melrose Ave east of La Brea is the famous Paramount Pictures studio lot. One of the last studios to call Hollywood home, Paramount has a long history of producing some of the biggest movie titles of all time. Today this active studio lot is home to daily productions of day time and prime time television shows, movies and commercials. Paramount Pictures does offer a guided tour of the lot and visitors can get some revealing glimpses of the inner workings of the studio just by walking the perimeter.

A visit to Hollywood and taking in all the sights and attractions can easily be accomplished in one or two days. Hollywood is a great place to book a hotel and make it a visitor's anchor while seeing the other sights of LA such as Beverly Hills, Universal Studios and West Hollywood.

If there is any center point in all of LA that is full of hustle and bustle, sights and sounds and a starting point to find out what to do in all of LA, it is Hollywood. Home to such famous landmarks as Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood walk of stars, unobstructed views of the Hollywood sign and a plethora of Hollywood memorabilia, the Hollywood area of LA is a must see for any visitors. Historically, once the epicenter of everything movies and tv, as studios branched out across LA, the Hollywood area has remained as an active area for tv and movie enthusiasts from all over the world to congregate



Historically this part of LA was ground zero for all things tv and movie. From such mega legends as Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson, this was the area to spot huge stars and see the movies being made. Although many independent studios and back lots remain, today the business of Hollywood has extended its tentacles all over greater Los Angeles, from the Valley, to the Ocean to areas far to the north and east. However, this historic area of Los Angeles remains exciting, vibrant and is full of movie and tv buffs that come from all over the world to experience this historic landmark. In recent years, Hollywood has come to emulate the Times Square area of New York City with extensive shopping and dining areas, hotels and lights and glitter.



Today Hollywood has become of the prime neighborhoods of Los Angeles with a constant hustle and bustle of traffic, tourists and locals. Hollywood Blvd has a heavy stream of traffic and the sidewalks are always full. It is on Hollywood Blvd visitors will find over 2,300 pink granite stars representing celebrites from movies, radio, music and television. Many of the buildings in Hollywood have retained their architectural appeal from their original 1920s and 1930s construction. Several older theatres still dot the landscape including the Egyptian and El Capitan Theatres. The Roosevelt Hotel is located in the center of Hollywood blvd across the street from the Hollywood and Highlands Center. Just like like its hey day of the 1920s through 1940s, the hotel is still a playground for the Hollywood set who come to its lounges and clubs in the lobby level.



As far as celebrities and seeing stars themselves go, most will never be found in Hollywood. These days they have moved west for both their living and stomping grounds to the likes of Beverly Hills, Brentwood/Bel-Air, Santa Monica and Malibu. However several times of year there are movie premiers held at the Mann's Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd where red carperts are laid out, bright lights are set up and visitors standing on the opposite side of Hollywood Blvd are sure to get a glimpse of the stars as they arrive for the big even.



All along Hollywood Blvd there are stores and museums dedicated to Hollywood. Most of the retail stores sell t shirts, plastic oscars and old discarded paparrazzi photos of most every celebrity that ever was big in the past ten years. In between these stores are museums including the new Madame Tussuards on Hollywood Blvd. Those looking to take bus tours of Hollywood and LA will find regular departures from the front of the Hollywood and Highland center that include tours of celebrity homes, Beverly Hills, the beaches and Downtown Los Angeles. There are also regular shuttle buses that depart Hollywood for Universal Studios.


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