Izakaya Den: Melbourne hot spot serves fabulous Japanese small plates, sake and beer
Izakaya Den is one of Melbourne’s coolest places to hang out. It’s almost impossible to find because the sign on Russell Street at Little Collins Street is not obvious and you have to go down two flights of stairs. When you arrive, you are shocked to see a packed, vibrant industrial-chic restaurant with high ceilings [...]
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Angelina Jolie & Johnny Depp have a need for speed!
It was a day at sea for mega beauty Angelina Jolie and her co-star Johnny Depp! The duo spent the entire day shooting scenes on a massive speedboat in Venice, Italy for their upcoming film The Tourist .
The thriller, being directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, is slated to release ... — full article at accidentalsexiness.com
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Jolie-Pitt Twins Get To See Venice
The older members of the Jolie-Pitt clan have been roaming around Venice recently, and now it’s time for the twins to join them! With filming for the movie The Tourist delayed due to strike action across Italy, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took Vivienne and Knox to visit the Gritti Palace Hotel. Knox, although seemingly giving the paparazzi the stink eye, donned a royal coat befitting the occasion.
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2010 Best Theme Park Attraction nominee: Mickey's PhilharMagic at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom
By Robert Niles: Theme Park Insider readers have voted Mickey's PhilharMagic at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom into the 2010 Best Theme Park Attraction Tournament as the top seed in the Best Movie or Animated Show bracket.
Even though the title is "Mickey's" PhilharMagic, Donald Duck's the star of this 12-minute 3-D musical review, which plays in the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland Theater. As the show begins, Donald's unpacking the instruments for Mickey's orchestra when he decides to try on the Big Cheese's famous sorcerer's hat from Fantasia.
And then, everyone say it with me now, things go horribly wrong.
The instruments spring to life, Donald loses control and soon we're flying through a musical medley of famous songs and scenes from top Disney animated films. Eventually, of course, Mickey returns to retrieve his hat and save the day. And Donald? Well, he gets his with a tuba blast into the theater's back wall.
Directed by "Oliver and Company" and "The Prince and the Pauper" director George Scribner, Mickey's PhilharMagic debuted in 2003. The portrayed for the first time on screen computer-animated versions of many Disney characters. Disney's Imagineers used archival recordings for much of the dialogue in the film, with character's original voice actors returning to supply much of the remaining dialogue.
Mickey's PhilharMagic also plays at Hong Kong Disneyland, with plans for the show to arrive in Tokyo Disneyland next year. Rumors are flying that once Captain EO finishes its run at Disneyland that the show might finally make its way to California, too.
So... is Mickey's PhilarMagic the best theme park movie in America? We'll soon find out. Voting begins in the 2010 Best Theme Park Attraction Tournament one week from today.
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Tell-All Book: Angelina Jolie & Mick Jagger Did The Nasty
Brangelina’s sordid secrets are out! A new book, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The True Story reveals a lot more than you probably ever wanted to know about these two, including this unsavory bombshell: Angelina Jolie had an affair with Mick Jagger - TWICE. — full article at backseatcuddler.com
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ALL YOU ZOMBIES: Taking a Look at the Latest Zombie Fiction
Zombies: they just won't stay dead...and neither will books about them. With more titles shambling from the shelves at your local bookstores each week, zombie fiction remains as popular as it ever, and that's great news for me. I have an insatiable hunger for zombie stories and novels - a hunger fierce enough to rival your average ghoul's lust for fresh, tasty brains. Happily, there's been plenty to choose from during the last few months. Let's take a look at a few of them.
Apocalyptic fiction powerhouse Permuted Press has developed a reputation as one of the best sources around for quality zombie fiction, and Mark E. Rogers' The Dead is a great example of that. Known best as the writer-illustrator behind the Samurai Cat books, Rogers' first foray into the zombie genre brings a uniquely theological angle to the living dead. Earth's final days arrive, and with them hordes of corpses possessed by Satan's fallen angels. Gary Holland and his family arrive in New Jersey for his father's funeral, only to find themselves hunted by mobs of zombies.
The Best of All Flesh from Elder Signs Press - no slouch themselves when it comes to fine zombie horror - gathers the best stories from the award-winning Books of Flesh anthologies (The Book of All Flesh, The Book of More Flesh, The Book of Final Flesh). Edited by original series editor James Lowder, The Best of All Flesh features works from Tobias Buckell, Scott Edelman, Ed Greenwood, Jim C. Hines, Tom Piccirilli and many more. Horror and even humor abounds within this satisfying anthology.
If you like The Best of All Flesh, you might want to try Pallid Light: the Waking Dead, also from Elder Signs Press. Readers may already know author William Jones from the many supplements he's written for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu horror role-playing game. Pallid Light's tough-guy protagonist Rand Clay - an ex-con that knows his way around a gun - isn't exactly the hero type, but when the city of Temperance, Illinois becomes overwhelmed by the living dead, Clay may be their best hope.
Finally, just hitting shelves at your local bookstore is The New Dead, a zombie anthology edited by Christopher Golden, the author of The Myth Hunters and co-author of Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. This collection features all-new fiction from big names like Max Brooks, Joe Hill, Kelly Armstrong, David Wellington, Brian Keene and Aimee Bender.
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What One Actor or Actress Would You Clone?
This week I heard some people saying Robert Downey Jr. needs to be cloned so he can star in that Leonardo Da Vinci action movie, among other things. And yeah, that would be great since there are so many characters that he will just never have the time for, especially as long as he's got the Iron Man/Avengers and Sherlock Holmes franchises to keep him busy when he's not doing other work. The same can also be said for other consistently entertaining stars like Johnny Depp and Matt Damon, the latter of whom I even slightly hinted about being cloned in a Pitch post earlier this week.
Then there are the hot actors du jour who are mentioned at least once -- sometimes twice -- a day in connection with some blockbuster or other. While I might not agree, I'm sure Hollywood execs currently wish they could clone Sam Worthington, Taylor Lautner and maybe Shia LaBeouf. As for actresses, both Angelina Jolie and Katherine Heigl get "attached" to a lot of projects, many of which they won't end up doing. If only it were still the Golden Age studio-contract era, when big stars would regularly do four or five starring gigs a year, minimum.
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Paterson's health guru: Plug the budget with a soda tax, not borrowing
State Health Commissioner Richard Daines today said Albany should focus less on Lt. Gov. Ravitch's plan to borrow a way out of the budget crisis, and instead push for a soda tax so the future workforce isn’t obese, diabetic and saddled with debt. As the DN's City Hall bureau reporter Kathleen Lucadamo reports:
“What the Lieutenant Governor said basically is, we have such a deficit that we need a two- or three-year soft landing for our recession and our spendthrift ways, so we are going to bond and take on $6 billion of debt,” Daines told members of the Public Health Association of New York City gathered at the Interchurch Center on the Upper West Side. “And who is going to pay back that debt of $6 billion? Over 30 years, the personal income taxes of future workers.
“The sugar beverage tax would reduce the need for current borrowing by $1 billion a year. The first obligation we have to that future work force is to keep [the debt] to a minimum.
The sugar beverage tax will also say when these young people enter the work force, this is the best idea that we have to ensure that when they arrive there [they are] healthy and productive and with lower health care costs so we can afford to take some of their money in the future.
“If we don’t do that, you know what we are telling our next generation? We are saying ‘Drink and be merry today, for tomorrow, we’ll all be retired and you can pay our bills for us,' ” said Daines, a self-described Republican from Utah. “This is a year we can do one good thing in a pretty miserable year.”
City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley was there as well for a rare joint appearance with health care leaders to discuss the benefits of Paterson’s proposed soda tax. Farley in his presentation showed two pictures of children, pasted below -- on the left are the soda-slurping kids he worries about and below right, he said, is “what kids should look like, in case you forgot.”
Mayor Bloomberg took the pro-tax rhetoric one step further on his radio show this morning, telling WOR-AM host John Gambling, "If you're against it, you really are against the kids. Because there's no question, we've seen it with cigarettes, you raise the price, kids use less."
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Oliver Peoples Sacha Resort/Spring 2010
Oliver Peoples just released a pair of Resort/Spring 2010 sunglasses. And one of the much-awaited in the collection is the Sacha eyewear. I love the flair and glamour in this sunglasses. This is just the perfect eyewear for all kinds of occasions.
Need I say more? The Sacha model sunglasses arrive in evident feminine features. It has a pair of oversized lenses with gradient coatings. These lenses are encased in butterfly-styled frame with combination of pearl cloisonné and metal (pearl cloisonné on the upper rims and metal on the lower rims). The temples are untraditionally curved.
How many times have you seen an eyewear made of pearl cloisonné aside from this one?…
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Fly American - Unless You Know Better: Geopolitical Humor for the Oscar's
This is a guest note by Parag Khanna, a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century (Random House, 2009).
Fly American - Unless You Know Better: Geopolitical Humor for the Oscar's
In "Up in the Air," George Clooney portrays uber-frequent flier Ryan Bingham, who reaches ten million American Airlines miles--without ever leaving the United States. American Airlines is portrayed as the grand old silver lady of flying, and that's precisely the problem. It's certainly old, but far from grand. What does Clooney's Oscar hit have to do with U.S. foreign policy?
Most Americans simply don't realize just how "brand America" no longer carries much weight in the world unless you are looking for an iPhone or a Hollywood blockbuster.
Our cars, political system, and economic practices have become a joke, and the Obama glow wore off before his administration's one-year mark. Our ignorance is best captured by the same American Airlines linked Mastercard's apparent policy to block usage of the card as soon as you commit the crime of trying to use it in a foreign country. Yet we still think we're the best because we don't know much about the rest.
American Airlines is a great metaphor for America itself.
A recognizable brand that provides plenty of connections, but whose value and quality of service is greatly diminished. Its 757 planes rattle like roller-coasters, the in-flight entertainment system constantly conks out, and it's so loud in the cabin that Bose noise-cancelling headsets are no match. And try making a booking over the phone or online without the agent's keyboard freezing or system crashing.
Meanwhile, emerging market airlines from the UAE's Emirates and Etihad to India's Jet Airways are providing better services at lower prices. Their flight attendants dress in style, their food is hot, and they arrive on time.
In Europe - yes, the same socialist sclerotic Europe conservatives love to bash - there are twice as many airlines as there are EU member countries. Following on the success of Ireland's Ryan Air, imitators galore have sprung up, driving more connections at lower costs. Most of the price of any flight within Europe is taxes that maintain first-rate infrastructure, not airfare. And you don't have to pay for peanuts.
One year into the Obama administration the very necessary debate about our national competitiveness is taking shape. We are falling behind in educating future innovators, meaning our economic edge is fading fast. In web-tech, we have Google, Amazon, and Twitter, but local preferences are gaining ground in Asia (a fact which lies at the heart of the Google vs. China face-off), where 4G speeds make American mobile operators look like the equivalent of a rotary dial.
In bio-tech, we've ended Bush-era bans on stem-cell research, but new patents are pouring in from India and Korea where researchers are going after mainstream health problems and not just specialty drugs. And in clean-tech, save for some promising pockets of experimentation with electric cars and smart grids, we are the world's dirtiest per capita.
Globalization means that the gap between "Invented in America" and "Made in China" is shrinking rapidly. Technological know-how is spreading faster than ever--multinational corporations have to transfer the latest techniques and skills to foreign managers a condition of setting up shop overseas. It's no surprise that China just debuted the fastest inter-city bullet-train in the world just a few years after German industrial giant Siemens build China its first one.
Feel-good rhetoric can't reverse this greatest shift in geopolitical and geo-economic conditions: Globalization once extended America's edge, now globalization accelerates its undoing. America's share of the global economy is shrinking from close to an unnatural fifty percent at the end of World War II past the steady 25 percent mark held for about a decade towards a far more modest 20 percent.
We are not a big enough market to set global standards--instead we're somewhere between Europe, which raises environmental and industrial quality control regulations, and China which undermines them.
If we want to re-capture global leadership for the sake of our economic competitiveness and national self-esteem, it starts by flying overseas and learning how the world's new markets live: what they drive (smaller and cleaner), what they eat (organic and with trans-fat optional), and what their values are (not church vs. state but rather a community-based politico-economic-spiritual synthesis).
Today there are probably several thousand young and unemployed American MBAs making that trip to the booming Persian Gulf emirates, India, China, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and other emerging markets.
Maintaining America's vaunted capacity for self-renewal hinges on them coming back with fresh ideas on how to make in America and sell in the rest of the world. Any American who can afford to should follow their lead.
But start the trip right: don't fly American Airlines -- unless perhaps you are trying to get from Tulsa to Texas.
-- Parag Khanna
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