Director Bigelow makes history with 'Hurt Locker'Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:33PMLOS ANGELES -- Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga "The Hurt Locker."
Fog keeps most anglers awayMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:20PMSunday’s foggy conditions might have discouraged anglers from hitting the water.
Putrajaya: A majestic city with some drawbacksMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:40PMFIRST-TIME visitors to Putrajaya will leave with a lasting impression of a beautiful, clean and environment-friendly garden city.
Bridal beautiesMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:35PMMANY Oscar attendees apparently thought they were attending a wedding. How else to explain the deluge of pale-hued bridal gown-like frocks this year?
Kathryn Bigelow makes history as first woman to win best director OscarMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:31PMIraq war film The Hurt Locker wins six awards including best picture and best original screenplay Kathryn Bigelow today became the first woman in history to win the best director award at the Oscars. Her low-budget Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker, about a bomb disposal team, was the big winner at the ceremony. It took six academy awards, including those for best picture and best original ...
Geoffrey Macnab: Hollywood remains as male-dominated as everMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:24PMIn theory, the Best Director Academy Award is gender-neutral. It is therefore astonishing that it has taken more than 80 years for it to be awarded to a woman. Kathryn Bigelow's triumph on Sunday exposed just how male-dominated US film-making remains, especially when it comes to directing.
Bigelow gets a ‘Yes’ from CameronMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:42PMBigelow’s film, which also won best picture last night, follows the dangerous daily existence of an army bomb defusal team. “There is no other way to describe it — it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said, her voice quivering.
Models hit the stageSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 10:26AMTHE latest beauties to slip through to the finals of Toowoomba's Ralph Australian Swimwear Model of the Year competition were selected on Friday night.
Ahalya, a victim of Indra's lustSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 10:24AMI am Ahalya, the first woman created by Brahma. I am not much different from Eve except that she was made from the rib of Adam to be his better half. Eve was luckier in that there was not another man to ogle her or lust for her. We both stand accused of sins we never committed.
FC Wil hebt Suspendierung aufSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:33AMDer Schweizer Zweitligist FC Wil hat nach knapp einem Monat die Suspendierung im Zuge des Wettskandals gegen seinen Stürmer David Blumer aufgehoben. ... weiterlesen
Negron and Yocum big winners at weekend pageantSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:32AMZANESVILLE -- With a variety of talents and a wealth of beauties featured on stage for the second consecutive night, the Miss Muskingum Valley Scholarship Program pageants didn't disappoint an excited audience.
Movie womenSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 4:19AMIt could be a boys club no more.
Find inspiration on a garden tourSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:17AMPut on your walking shoes, garden lovers. Garden tour season begins next week and continues into late May, with events planned from Bonsall to Bonita, La Jolla to Alpine.
MU-KU reveals some truthsSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:27AMCOLUMBIA — One of the many beauties of the long college basketball season is how it allows us to take our time and slowly digest every delicious morsel and bitter reality of a team's evolution from the first practice in October until it arrives on the doorsteps of March Madness.
Out & AboutSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:40AMThings to do around the South Bay and Harbor Area.
A family made, not bornSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 11:26PMWearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the call to prayer sounded from a nearby mosque.
Taking the plungeSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 11:13PMKyle Studt emerged from the 42-degree water with a yell perhapsbetter suited to a warrior than a culinary arts student.
Curiouser and curiouser: A new book takes on West Virginias odditiesSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:47PMCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- OK, a caveat up front. Rick Steelhammer is a long-time colleague of mine (if I were still shooting spitballs like in third grade, I could hit him with a well-aimed shot from where I sit in the Gazette newsroom). Yet none of that collea...
It’s the leaders’ debates – cue the yawn-ometerSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 7:08PMDid you not notice how British democracy was transformed last week? Changed utterly, and for the better? According to our television companies, or at least the men and women involved in their political coverage, that is what has just taken place.
Aniston man says: It's overSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4:16PMHOLLYWOOD lothario GERARD BUTLER may not be collecting any Oscars this year but he sure knows how to pick up the ladies.
Hendrix, Chopin and other CD reviews for the week of March 5Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:13AM“Valleys of Neptune” Jimi Hendrix (Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy) Perhaps no rock corpus has been pored over more — remixed, re-mastered, repackaged — than that of Jimi Hendrix. Fans thought the last burst of unreleased material came with 2000’s “Jimi Hendrix...
Box-office brawn vs. artistic might in Oscar raceFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:45AMAt its core, this year’s 82nd Academy Awards comes down to a battle between box-office brawn and artistic might.Kathryn Bigelow’s $15 million cinematic powerhouse, “The Hurt Locker,” provides a pressure-cooker look at the Iraq war through the eyes of bomb-disposal experts living on the edge and tempting fate every time they make a roadside stop.James Cameron’s $200 million-plus technical marvel ...
Leonardo DiCaprio Seen Flirting With Blondes in HollywoodFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 9:47AMBAR Refaeli won’t be pleased to find out what her beau Leonardo DiCaprio has been getting up to behind her back! The Shutter Island star — who has an on/off romance with the Israeli model — was seen flirting with a string of blonde beauties at a party thrown by billionaire Nicholas Berggruen at Hollywood’s Chateau [...]
What the bloody hell went wrong?Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 7:00AM"SHE doesn't do anything. She's never worked," says one brand expert of Lara Bingle. "To earn the respect of the Australian market, you need to have held a job."
Eckl's: Beef up, or pick the pikeFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:35AMNostalgia on a plate -- that's Eckl's. There's real history here. This comforting down-home building itself is almost 200 years old and is mostly of solid plank construction. It operated as a tavern since 1934 at least. But it was moved when South Buffalo Road was widened. The busy bar and two dining rooms with their lively holiday decorations have been open in this location since 1964.
Who will win the big Oscars? Hint: It's not Avatar'Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:17AMThe decision to expand Oscar's best picture competition from five to 10 titles came from a place of greed and anxiety: the desperate need to attract more viewers to the awards telecast Sunday. [...] this awards season I've sensed a much greater anticipation for the big event among just plain moviegoers. If the purpose of doubling the best picture slate was to involve more of us and make the ...
Travel & Tourism: Celebrating Baguio’s flower powerThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 4:50AMOver a million people descended on Session Road in Baguio City last weekend for the highlights of the 15th Panagbenga festival. The flower parade with its street dancing competition among 21 participating schools was held on Feb. 27 while the parade of floats was held the following day.
Pin-ups in a world of tattoosThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 3:37AMTHEY evoke the screen sirens of the war years but flaunt a fashion that only sailors of that time would dare. Check out this bevy of beauties with a difference.
Who will win the big Oscars? Hint: It's not 'Avatar'Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:10AMGraphic explains the process for voting for the Best Picture Oscar; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has institiuted, along with enlarging the best picture field to ten films, a new voting process where the movie with the most number one votes, might not win best picture.
A-list celebrities are out of fashionWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:35PMTHE financial crisis forces the fashion industry to consider alternatives to well-known stars.
This makes sense. I feel likeWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:05PMIn reply to Oscar goes to war! : This makes sense. I feel like jc will win but my gut says bigelow for best director. The problem with thl winning is everyone has just bassicaly selected it to win. When it first came out no one cared about it. It was just a well made indie film along with all the others. Now in my opinion critics have followed one after another to just agree. If you were the ...
Digital, yet natural, photography exhibited at libraryWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:00PMMARBLEHEAD and mdash; The Abbot Public Library is offering an exhibit of digital photos by photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly. Her images highlight the beauties of salt marshes and dunes in Ipswich. Okay, so the subjects aren't in Marblehead. Even so, Marbleheaders love salt marshes and dunes, and does it really matter where they are? The show lasts until March 26, and the real treat is seeing ...
Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at BonhamsWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9:29PMJagger, Mick (Box of Pin-Ups, 1964), gelatin silver print, edition 110. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- A selling exhibition of David Bailey's iconic images of the 1960s - the 50th anniversary of a decade that changed our cultural history - will be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street.
Free entry to beauty pageant’s grand finalsWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9:27PMMIRI: Miri City Council (MCC) has proposed free entry to the grand finals of Miss Tourism Intercontinental 2010 so that more people can join the celebration.
Sharon Osbourne - Sharon Osbourne Hurt By Kids CriticsMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 10:45AMSharon Osbourne hates the "hurtful" criticism directed at her children's appearances.The TV star - who has three grown-up children, Aimee, Kelly and Jack, with...
Sharon Osbourne hurt by kids' criticsMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 10:43AMSharon Osbourne thinks the criticism directed at her children's appearances is unacceptable and she will always defend her family from personal attacks.
Where everybody knows your nameMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 10:36AMSome smaller bottle shops are cultivating customers who want more than a 'bargain' from the big stores.
The stories that got YOU rantingMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 10:16AMWITH Jordan's ex Peter Andre breaking his no sex ban, the Tories lead getting slashed again AND the John Terry saga continuing with THAT fake shake there's been plenty to get you guys commenting this week.
Hanson team cruise to winMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 10:10AMThe Dave Hanson-skippered team of Wayne Youngman, Noel Williams and Leo Leonard from Kia Toa proved too tough, easily winning the South Canterbury Champion of Champion fours bowls title 23-8 over the Timaru Town and Country Club.