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by **agentesecreto** on 01 Aug 2007, 22:34

I only have HBO Latin America so the shows are a bit old. I am watching season 3 and 4 of the Sopranos though. I give those two seasons two thumbs up. By far the best of the series. Right before Ralphie the sicko gets whacked!!

I hope Buzz returns soon. I never knew how much energy it takes to write about shit like this.

Buzz, where are you my leetle buddy??

by **Pabs** on 03 Aug 2007, 19:36

High School stage show wows crowd

Stage show's Chicago welcome a preview of September run here

Aug 03, 2007 04:30 AM
Richard Ouzounian
theatre critic

CHICAGO–If the reaction to Wednesday night's premiere of High School Musical at the La Salle Bank Theatre is any indication of what we can expect when the show hits Toronto this September, then David Mirvish is only going to have one problem on his hands.

Crowd control.

"I've never seen anything like it," said one veteran usher as she watched the capacity crowd of 1,900 people jump to their feet to cheer the latest manifestation of one of the biggest media events of this still-new century.

Even Michelle Obama (wife of presidential hopeful Barack) stood docilely on line with her children, waiting to feel the thrill of a show that has captured the imagination of Americans the way she hopes her husband's campaign will.

From the evening of Jan. 20, 2006, when this simple, feel-good show from the Disney studios debuted on the Family Channel, it managed to touch audiences in that magical way that many projects hope for, but seldom reach. Not merely the highest rated program in the history of the Family Channel, it went on to spawn a concert version that broke box office records across North America and even generated an ice show manifestation that's going to hit the boards this fall.

But as Disney clearly knows from past experience, it's the legit stage version of a project that generates the mega-bucks. Kids watch TV for free; even a movie barely dents their allowances.

But a stage show? Ah, that's when you enter the world of million-dollar weekly grosses for years on end. So the Mouse's corporate eyes were beadily focused on Chicago this week to see how things would go down.

Steven Oxman in Variety christened the show "large, loud and likeable" and Chris Jones, the influential theatre critic for the Chicago Tribune, pronounced it "an eye-popping phenomenon."

So the show is a hit, but that's just part of it. The next few weeks are going to witness a High School Musical firestorm breaking all over North America.

While the stage version gears up to tackle Toronto, the arena concert tour continues and the ice show hits the road this fall; there's also the second instalment of the TV show hitting the airwaves on Aug. 17, in a version that its leading man Zac Efron told the Star was "more Dirty Dancing than Grease."

And Chris Warren and KayCee Stroh from the original film are blitzing Toronto this weekend, doing everything from throwing the first pitch at Rogers Centre at noon tomorrow to showing up at Toys "R" Us at Sherway Gardens at 4 p.m.

Hey, it wouldn't be a media blitz without product placement. And Wal-Mart has everything from DVDs and karaoke discs to lockets and notebooks, in a marketing tie-in that Disney CEO Robert Iger told the Hollywood Reporter yesterday would be "the biggest we've ever seen."

Is this good or bad? Well, as Oxman pointed out in Variety, "If the joyousness that emanates from the stage is all the multitude of little kids in the audience remember about this show, that doesn't bode badly for the development of future audiences."

Darn you, Disney, you've done it again!

by **Pabs** on 06 Aug 2007, 21:46

"The Bourne "Ultimatum" & VW Touareg

like Transformers seemed to be a 2.5 hr GM commercial, apparently The Bourne Ultimatum is quite the shameless plug for the VW Tourareg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSuOd27LxA

by **agentesecreto** on 07 Aug 2007, 01:13

I read the books about 15 years ago or more. Excellent by all accounts. I'll skip the movie.

by **Pabs** on 21 Sep 2007, 20:00

great song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk

by **.....** on 12 Oct 2007, 06:35

for any reggae lover....and if you are italian....check Radici nel Cemento...this is what we call pizza reggae....like we call in france reggae camenbert :wink:

by **agentesecreto** on 12 Oct 2007, 23:20

by **Pabs** on 14 Oct 2007, 13:18

Mike Myers on The Love Guru

Source: Steven Chupnick May 6, 2007

Mike Myers has reinvented himself over and over and over again. From Wayne's World to Austin Powers to the lovable ogre Shrek.

For his next gig, he'll be turning into The Love Guru. While promoting the latest film in the franchise, Shrek the Third, Mike gave us a little insight into how he'll be introducing his new character.

Already picked up by Paramount, the film will begin shooting in August. "On the average, I take 3 or 4 years between movies because I create them, write them, then produce them, and then I film them," he says. "In two months, I'm starting a film called 'The Love Guru' that I've spent the last two and a half years developing. I came up with this character, and I began touring it in little theaters in New York, just having secret shows. The Marx brothers used to tour their movies before a year of it. I did this same process with Austin Powers; in the last three years, I've been developing 'The Love Guru.' The average movie takes 6.0 months for a 'hmm, could this be a movie adapted to the screen?' I tend to take about 36 months, but I am there all 36 months."

As for the story of The Love Guru, "He is a Canadian raised in India, becomes a guru, and helps the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup."

Whether he's really being serious is anyone's guess – maybe that's just wishful thinking on his part being a life-long Leafs fan. But, he does have plans for the Cup if he gets it. "They're so protective of the Cup, they probably won't let me come near it, but I'd take it to Lake Ontario and swim with it."

The Love Guru isn't scheduled to be in theaters until June, 2008; Shrek the Third hits theaters May 18th.

by **agentesecreto** on 05 Nov 2007, 03:47

The Bee movie.

Funny and ha a alot to say in Seinfeld's own style of stuff seemingly about nothing.

A must see. Good clean humor by the master of the Game.

Gotta love the lawyer jokes too.

Two Thumbs up!

by **Pabs** on 05 Nov 2007, 08:27

2 Green Cards Up ?

by **agentesecreto** on 06 Nov 2007, 01:23

2 self-hating, no job, no woman, snow shoveling, no mother, assimililated, watered down Italian-wannabe bloodsuckers.

by **Pabs** on 08 Dec 2007, 14:37

Dedicated to palo. Proof that pinko's really do care about Africa !

1:22 - 1:37 (best 15 seconds in music, IMO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jEnTSQStGE

Merry Christmas, palo ! (or is that term offensive to Muslims like you, palo ?) Professor, my ass...

by **agentesecreto** on 08 Dec 2007, 15:30

I love all holidays.

Peace to all men.

by **Pabs** on 08 Dec 2007, 15:42

you love all men ? I knew it !

by **agentesecreto** on 08 Dec 2007, 15:52

by **Pabs** on 19 Dec 2007, 12:49

Amazing tune.

Anybody else think that Slash is starting to look like Jimmy Page did a few years ago ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvFnBdNhQ1E

EDIT TO ADD: here they are performing it on Letterman

LMAO @ what Letterman tells Slash at the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al2RBYb11wE

by **Pabs** on 29 Dec 2007, 22:32

IMO, Best Commercial out there today -- Motorola Razr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nxT0F_EIs

by **Arcade Fire** on 29 Dec 2007, 22:42

Velvet Revolver :cool:

by **Falc** on 31 Dec 2007, 01:55

This one kills me everytime I see it ....

http://www.bestads.tv/view/704/t-mobile ... he-ex-cop/

by **agentesecreto** on 31 Dec 2007, 02:10

Thgis is a TV related question.

Tonight the Laker-Celtic NBA game was on HD- Courtside camera with natural sound and background. I have to admit that it tok me back to my days at the Great Western Forum. It was awesome. No commentators, just simply a hell of a picture and close ups of all the Laker girls. I swear that I could count their pubic hairs.

Anyone else get this feed?

by **Pabs** on 31 Dec 2007, 02:28

hahahaha

by **bineaz** on 08 Jan 2008, 15:37

The new Bond girl is 28 year Olga Kurylenko from the Ukraine.

http://www.repubblica.it/trovacinema/po ... ent=339176

by **.....** on 08 Jan 2008, 16:32

Funny,I have seen her recently in few movies, l'annuaire(french movie) and Hitman .....simply breath taking......good job Bineaz :razz:

by **bineaz** on 08 Jan 2008, 17:04

Je t'en prie tronche. I do what I can to make the world a better place.

:roll:

by **Eugene Berkovich** on 08 Jan 2008, 17:53

One of the first movies I had seen on VCR (that was a nearly pre-historic Toshiba VHS from mid-80s) was one that had shocked my senses back then. I just recently purchased it again. of course, it did not impress the 33-year-old version of me as it did the 14-year-old boy from Kyiv, but the message still resonates.

The movie is Cannibal Holocaust. Anyone here seen it?

by **Pabs** on 08 Jan 2008, 19:19

not me.

the first video I ever rented back in the 80's when my parents bought their first HUGE VCR was Wrestlemania (first one). I think we also rented "Splash" that day -- boh

my sister and I each had 1 selection :cool:

by **Falc** on 09 Jan 2008, 00:44

Debbie Does Dallas

by **agentesecreto** on 09 Jan 2008, 01:21

Splash?

You are gay.

by **Pabs** on 09 Jan 2008, 01:30

I picked Wrestlemania. My sister picked Splash, doofus.

by **agentesecreto** on 09 Jan 2008, 01:49

Even more gay. Buffed men in skivvies?You need help, homie homo.

by **Pabs** on 09 Jan 2008, 19:32

New Bond Girl

she's got a pretty face and nice body (she was even in today's local paper) but I gotta admit that her eyes don't do it for me. She's defuinitely got some Mongol DNA in her. Somewhere down the line when the Mongolian Empire was making it's way across Asia and into Eastern Europe. I can't say I'm a fan.

But she definitely is deemed exotic by what we see out there today.

by **Leonid** on 09 Jan 2008, 21:02

C'mon Pabs. You wouldn't know she's a Mongol if you weren't told about it. She looks like a young Zeta Jones.

It's like blind tasting vodka. You wouldn't tell Swedish Absolut from the Mongol Stoli:)

by **Pabs** on 09 Jan 2008, 21:04

I don't know. Those eyes seem sort of Asian. Maybe I'm looking at her wrong.

by **Leonid** on 09 Jan 2008, 21:13

My favorite eyes, for all times:

by **Arcade Fire** on 09 Jan 2008, 22:19

I've heard of Cannibal Holocaust, Eugene, and seen a few clips (was a big horror fan as a kid), but never watched it in its entirety.

by **Falc** on 09 Jan 2008, 23:47

Leonid wrote:My favorite eyes, for all times:

Leo - She is an Italian actress. Can't remember her name (the link shows ornella_muti, so that may be it) but have seen her on a few shows on RAI International. She does have terrific eyes.

by **Leonid** on 10 Jan 2008, 00:28

That is Ornella Muti indeed. She's well over 50 and still a beauty. Only a few days ago I watched again (after so many years) Il Bisbetico Domato, starring Adriano Celentano and her. She was a Goddess.

by **Pabs** on 10 Jan 2008, 00:42

she's over 50 ? WOW.

Falc, gee what do you think ? If the URL of her picture says Ornella_Muti, then of course it's her.

by **Leonid** on 10 Jan 2008, 00:58

Pabs

The picture of her I've posted is a bit dated:)

by **Falc** on 10 Jan 2008, 01:14

Pabs - I guess I should have used an edit note. When I started writing my post, I did not look at the URL. Then I took a look, put 2 and 2 together, added the note in parenthesis.

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