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God's Grace "Amarachi"
In some cases stubbornness is a good thing, in the case of 19-year-old Nigerian born Amarachi Onyeise it is a great thing.

Kevin So
Kevin So is a Chinese-American singer/songwriter from outside Boston making it as an independent artist with his own record label, WingBone Records.

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Country star Alan Jackson honored with CMT special (AP)

AP - A veteran star being saluted by a bunch of hot new ones Â— Alan Jackson knows this can be trouble.

Rock, Brosnan, Sarandon line up for Sundance (AP)

AP - Films featuring Chris Rock, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Paul Giamatti and Emily Watson are among those competing for top honors at January's Sundance Film Festival.

Hudson's Estranged Brother-in-Law Denied Bail; Prosecution Offers Motive (E! Online)

E! Online - A Chicago judge today denied bail to William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law, whom cops arrested and charged this week with the tragic triple murders of the Oscar winner's family.

Kim Kardashian Has On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Clothing (E! Online)

E! Online - Kim, we can hardly keep up.

Amy Winehouse Still Hospitalized as Hubby Sent Back to Jail (E! Online)

E! Online - Blake Fielder-Civil took a page from his missus and apparently said no, no, no to rehab.

Rock, Brosnan, Sarandon line up for Sundance (AP)

AP - Films featuring Chris Rock, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Paul Giamatti and Emily Watson are among those competing for top honors at January's Sundance Film Festival.

Fleetwood Mac returning to the road in '09 (Reuters)

Reuters - Fleetwood Mac will embark on its first tour in five years next spring, beginning March 1 in Pittsburgh.

Country star Alan Jackson honored with CMT special (AP)

AP - A veteran star being saluted by a bunch of hot new ones Â— Alan Jackson knows this can be trouble.

Fashion News
Funky Islamic fashion struts conservative catwalk (AP)

AP - After years of turning heads with her riotously colorful frocks in Malaysia, fashion designer Tom Abang Saufi can't decide whether to shed a few shades on her batik dresses for the Middle East.

Paris auction of Impressionist works falls short (AP)
AP - A benchmark Paris sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings that belonged to French fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin fell well short of pre-sale expectations Monday, in a clear signal the financial crisis is hitting the previously resilient art market.
CW close to renewing Top Model (Reuters)
Reuters - It looks like America's Next Top Model will be back on the catwalk next season.
Christmas Comes Early to Tinseltown (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - It may not even be Thanksgiving yet, but in the make-believe world of the movies, Christmas is already here. It came to Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday night, as the new comedy Four Christmases rolled out the red carpet for its gala premiere.

Rihanna and Gucci Team Up for UNICEF (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - Forget what you've heard about Rihanna. Good Girl Gone Bad is only one half of her story. She may be a brooding and glamorous fashion plate in her music videos, but in her off hours this Grammy-winning artist partnered up with Gucci to be the face of their new Tattoo Heart accessories collection, which Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini designed as part of their annual campaign to benefit UNICEF, now in its fourth year.

Marc Jacobs settles with NY over improper payments (Reuters)

Reuters - Top fashion designer Marc Jacobs' company agreed to pay New York state $1 million for improper payments made to secure a venue to hold fashion shows, the New York attorney general's office said on Wednesday.

Victoria's Secret Show, Soirees Rock South Beach (E! Online)

E! Online - Victoria's Secret brought the sexy to South Beach Saturday at their annual fashion show, featuring Angels' Heidi Klum, Alessandria Ambrosia, Miranda Kerr, Karolina Kurkova and more supermodels strutting their stuff.

Victoria's Secret has fashion show in Miami Beach (AP)

AP - Victoria's Secret's angels have descended upon Miami Beach.

Sports News
Giants suspend Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress (AP)

AP - The New York Giants expect Antonio Pierce to play in Sunday's game against Philadelphia while the team gathers information on the linebacker's involvement in a shooting that led to the season-ending suspension of star receiver Plaxico Burress.

Red Sox give AL MVP Pedroia a 6-year, $40.5M deal (AP)

AP - Dustin Pedroia has a Rookie of the Year award, an MVP, a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger and, of course, a World Series ring.

Notre Dame keeps Weis, though season 'fell short' (AP)

AP - Charlie Weis will return for a fifth year as Notre Dame's football coach despite posting his second straight disappointing season.

Texas Tech AD says school negotiating with Leach (AP)
AP - Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers says the school is negotiating a contract extension with Mike Leach, amid reports that the Red Raiders coach has met with the University of Washington about the Huskies' top job.
Laviolette fired, Maurice back in as 'Canes coach (AP)

AP - Peter Laviolette won more games than any American-born coach in NHL history. But he didn't win enough of them lately to keep his job with the Carolina Hurricanes, so they replaced him with their winningest coach Â— the same one Laviolette himself replaced five years earlier.

GM Savage hoping to finish job with Browns (AP)
AP - His future in doubt, Cleveland Browns general manager Phil Savage is moving ahead with plans for 2009 without knowing if he'll be around to see them through.
Murphy's tip in lifts Pacers over Lakers, 118-117 (AP)

AP - Danny Granger scored 32 points and led Indiana back from a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit, and Troy Murphy tipped in a missed shot at the buzzer to complete an improbable 118-117 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

Hampton signs 1-year deal with Astros (AP)
AP - Oft-injured Mike Hampton finalized a one-year, $2 million deal with the Houston Astros on Wednesday, hoping to resurrect his career in the place where he became a prominent big league pitcher.

Movie Reviews
Journey To The Center Of The Earth
This latest reimagining of Jules Verne's subterranean adventure is not so much a remake as it is a layer added atop the author's work. The premise is that the novel was not a work of fiction; rather, it is the documentation of an adventure experienced by intrepid explorers. But the filmmakers chose a younger demographic as the target audience, virtually eliminating Verne's drama and danger. This is first and foremost a kid's film, and just to ramp up the tickle factor, it...
Live And Let Die
I enjoyed Roger Moore in the British television series The Saint. Sardonic and a tad lighthearted, he seemed made for the role. But when he took over Bond, I was disappointed with his interpretation. Every performer brings his or her sensibility to a character and the filmmakers and the screenwriters try to leverage the unique personality of the performer. But I simply find his approach to Bond to be a bit too aloof and a bit too casual. He doesn't seem to project a feeling of being in...
Dawn of the Dead: Unrated DirectorâÂ€Â™s Cut (2004)
As much as I've decried the recent onslaught of lazy and unimaginative horror remakes, occasionally one comes along that at least brings something new to the table. While nothing could every supplant director George A. Romero's original 1978 masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, the 2004 remake directed by Zack Snyder (300) and written by James Gunn (Slither) is at least noteworthy for two reasons. First, it resuscitated Romero's career and led to the production of both Land of the Dead...
10 Years of Rialto Pictures
Giant Criterion box sets like these are implicitly a mixed bag. I don't mean that the qualities of the films are in question; you'd struggle to find a more varied and intriguing mix of internationally-acclaimed films than this one. But part of the delicacy of Criterion releases are bonus features, and sets like 10 Years of Rialto Pictures and its Essential Art House set from a few years ago end up abandoning the comprehensive double-disc editions of films for sleek, simple, movie...
Waterworld: 2-Disc Extended Edition
Let's begin with some of Dan's comments from his HD DVD review:When Waterworld was being shot, there were reports of serious budget overruns and conflicts on the shoot. There continue to exist persistent unconfirmed rumors that director Kevin Reynolds departed before the film was complete and Kevin Costner took over. The budget got a bit out of control and is reported to have bloated to over $175 million, making Waterworld the most expensive motion picture ever to be shot to that date...
Thunderball
We now come to the fourth Bond outing. Following the enormous success of Goldfinger, Broccoli and Saltzman mounted an even more ambitious production that would include the most challenging underwater work filmed to date. It's a continuation of the intense rivalry between SPECTRE, the remarkably powerful and well funded international crime organization headed by Ernst Stravo Blofeld, and the British Secret Service. The stakes are higher than ever. It's a nightmare that haunts the world...
Constantine
High concept: The Exorcist meets The Sixth Sense meets The Matrix. Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is an exorcist, but not your run of the mill exorcist - he's something special. He sees what you don't see. You're not aware of what he routinely senses. He's aware of alternate realities that transcend this mortal plane. He's been to hell and back. Literally. And he could use some Prozac.He's caught between a rock and a hot place, doomed to eternal damnation for a...
Knocked Up
I initially found myself at odds with Judd Apatow's latest romantic comedy Knocked Up, though my final verdict is one of approval. Coming on the heels of his notable success, The 40 Year Old Virgin, his two most recent films, Superbad and Knocked Up, are remarkably similar in their tone to each other as both are harsher, brasher, and cruder films than Virgin. Yet all three films are companions in that whatever path they take to get there, they ultimately land the viewers in an unexpectedly...

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