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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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APNewsBreak: Andrews to succeed Cronkite on PBS (AP)

AP - Julie Andrews is succeeding Walter Cronkite as host of the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's Day concert on PBS.

Obama campaign manager to write book (AP)

AP - Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, is writing a book about the historic election victory and has retained Washington attorney Robert Barnett, Obama's literary representative, to shop the proposal to publishers.

Mark Ruffalo's Brother Shot in the Head, Hospitalized (E! Online)

E! Online - Mark Ruffalo's younger brother has been hospitalized in Los Angeles and listed in critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to his head early Monday morning.

Aniston on Motherhood: It's Something I Long For (E! Online)

E! Online - Jennifer Aniston isÂ pausing to address all the pregnancy rumors surrounding her.

Britney and Madonna Back on the Road Together? (E! Online)

E! Online - Remember when Britney Spears just showed up at Madonna's L.A. tour stop and sorta comatose-jiggled through a halfassed duet of "Human Nature"? Well, it's payback time!

Recession-hit Americans flocking to movies (Reuters)

Reuters - True to form and in keeping with past recessions, Americans are flocking to the movies, the chief executive of the largest U.S. theater chain said on Wednesday.

Adidas ads feature musicians but not their music (Reuters)

Reuters - In the summer of 1986, hip-hop pioneers Run-D.M.C. played a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, riding high on the success of their single My Adidas and their third album, Raising Hell.

APNewsBreak: Andrews to succeed Cronkite on PBS (AP)

AP - Julie Andrews is succeeding Walter Cronkite as host of the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's Day concert on PBS.

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. And now he's got the big-bucks contract befitting one of the most decorated young players in baseball. The Red Sox second baseman, who earned $457,000 last season while winning the AL Most Valuable Player award, agreed Wednesday to a $40.5 million, six-year contract that could keep in Boston through at least 2014.

Vikings' Williamses to court to block suspensions (AP)
AP - The Minnesota Vikings' Kevin and Pat Williams have gone to court to block their suspensions for violating the NFL's anti-doping policy.
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.
Vikings react to suspensions of Williams Wall (AP)
AP - Darren Sharper's nightmare has come true.
Raptors fire coach Mitchell after rout by Nuggets (Reuters)

Reuters - The Toronto Raptors fired head coach Sam Mitchell on Wednesday, the day after the team suffered one of its biggest defeats.

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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