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Dream Girls

January 30, 2011 by · Comments Off on Dream Girls 

Dream Girls, Hollywood is generally impervious to embarrassment, but maybe one of those moments when the signal that the industry should engage in a little introspection on the image he projected to the outside world. At the time of the Oscar, the projector is on show business, which in a country increasingly proving to be a multicultural company that is as white on the outside as it is inside.
Latino and black actors can get parts as soldiers in an action movie or comic sidekicks in a comedy, but when it comes to the nature of dramatic roles that attract Oscar attention, they need a helping Luckily, as one Mo’Nique got to have a black filmmaker making the right choice of casting. Or that of Jennifer Hudson won with her role in “Dreamgirls” imposed on the scene. Or that Morgan Freeman won, landing an Oscar nomination last year by Nelson Mandela in “Invictus,” because he has a long experience of working with Clint Eastwood.

What does this have to do with the Oscars? Films that end up being nominated for Oscars are usually works of love and are rarely the kind of action hero easily accessible or widely comic characters that respond to a studio on the sensitivity of baseline. If you do not have a person of color in the room where the decision goes, fervently arguing why a film should be introduced into the world, it is extremely difficult for a project revolving around characters Afro- U.S. to emerge with a green light or any substantial financial support.
For a change of pace, in Dreamgirls, Bill Condon’s novel in 2006-a-key musical starring Jamie Foxx, BeyoncĂ© Knowles and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, shown tonight in all its glory of three hours. (ABC, 8 ET / PT.
There are moments of genuine emotional majesty in Jeremiah Johnson, a relatively little-known 1972 American western directed by relative unknown and Sydney Pollack and starring a young Robert Redford.

Redford plays the title character, a veteran tired of the war 1846-’48 Mexican-American who seeks refuge and solace in becoming a recluse in the Rocky Mountains remain as a trapper and guide for the occasional rental in the snow in the mountains smothered password.

First, Jeremiah Johnson today may seem old and worn: He played in theaters at a time when the West had a difficult time. Classic westerns of John Ford and John Wayne were a distant memory, replaced by the more cynical, stylish westerns of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood.

Jeremiah Johnson was written by John Milius and Edward Anhalt by Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker historical biography Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson, the 1840 real-life mountain man “Liver Eating Johnson.”

The story is both traditional – the theme is good, old American independence in the face of physical suffering and danger – and forward-thinking: Jeremiah Johnson was one of the first of a new wave of movie Westerns to represent In crude terms and painfully realistic, tension between the difficult early settlers of the western United States and the Crow and indigenous tribes of the Blackfoot in the region.

Jack Hanna

July 28, 2010 by · Comments Off on Jack Hanna 

Jack HannaJack Hanna, (CBS) Animal expert Jack Hanna, director emeritus of Columbus Zoo and known TV presenter, I really had to test their skills during a family vacation in Montana on Saturday. Hanna came face to face three wild brown bears and lived to tell the story of “The Early Show” Wednesday morning.
Although Hanna spoke with co-anchor Harry Smith Big Fork, Mont., A black bear was nearby.

Hanna said his day started at two in the afternoon, beginning and end, as his he and his wife walked up to Grinnell Glacier.

“My wife and I are coming down, it comes down, the last one. A young woman, 18 years, and their parents. They were a half hour before us. They came by the way. I have a corner where there was a cliff the wall, and she turns and says, ‘Oh, my God, there are three bears comes from the map, “said Hanna.

Hanna said then you have to give you your space. Hanna is an opening on the grassy hill a few minutes to locate the bears, and like all lined up against a wall, he told them to clap and make noise, as they were told to do in bear territory. But the Bears closed in what happens.
(Bears) around 25, 30 feet away right now. I see a man trying to prove his drive, “says Hanna. Then he showed them how to properly use a can of bear spray or pepper spray.

“The patient is wearing (pepper spray) this in your chest, with his backpack, so I pulled (safety clip) out. I had already turned off. You throw this down, take the safety clip, go well. I said the bear. I did not want the bear to start making trouble or the mother would return, “said Hanna.

Hanna said the pepper spray is something every hiker must carry. It is recommended not to carry weapons, because you might end up doing more harm than good. However, a can of pepper spray works, does not harm people, and makes no serious damage to the bears either.

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