Quem não lembra dos cabelos volumosos e cacheados da Vivian, personagem da dear Julia Roberts em Uma Linda Mulher, que levou muitas meninas ao cabeleireiro loucas por um permanente nos anos 90? E os super cachos da nossa eterna musa Carrie Bradshaw que até hoje domina a telinha em Sex and The City? Quase 20 anos depois da febre Vivian’s hair, os cachos continuam reinando nos salões do país, agora muito bem representados por Taís Araújo em Viver a Vida. Antes disso, o desfile da Animale previu a tendência mais rebelde, trazendo o frizz como estrela-quase-principal do seu desfile na SPFW (Raquel Zimmermman que o diga!)…

Julia Roberts. Sarah Jessica Parker. Taís Araújo. Raquel Zimmermman.

Hoje, o babyliss e os bobes substituíram a chapinha e quanto mais balanço nos cabelos, melhor.

Julia Roberts. Sarah Jessica Parker. Lauren Conrad. Whitney Port.

Dica: para cachos como os da Julia, use babyliss com fixador de volume. Para um efeito mais “liso” como o da Lauren, bobe grande é a melhor opção. Sarah e Whitney? Bobes médios ou pequenos!

Blake Lively. Leighton Meester. Taylor Momsen. Taylor Swift.

O meu cabelo é liso daqueles que não segura uma presilha e desde pequena tive paixão por cachos. Dormia com tranças, fazia babyliss e papelote (alguém conhece isso?!) pra dar um jeito de acordar ondulada, cacheada ou frizzada! Vai, não dava muito certo, mas hoje acho que eu ganhei um pouquinho mais de habilidade!

Charlize Theron. Ísis Valverde. Nicole Richie. AnnaLynne McCord.

Eu escolheria esse ondulado da Charlize! E vocês?

Beijinhos,

B.

November 25, 2009

Valley of Elah

 Not sure why we chose to see this movie the night before Thanksgiving, but everyone kept saying that we should see it.  Tommy Lee Jones is very good in it. 

 Mark had made an amazing dinner.  Fresh oysters and then French onion soup.  We actually saw Star Trek with my daughter while eating and now are watching this more serious movie together.  Charlize Theron is a surprise, not looking like a sex goddess, just a person and a good actress. 

 Thanksgiving tomorrow and we get to sleep in a bit, I’ll get up and go for a run. My son and daughter are hanging out.  Right now.  I like holidays, time when you can hang out with everyone.  Even my mother-in-law who is coming by tomorrow.  We’ll see how she likes the Mexican Thanksgiving thing.  She’s a big fan of mashed potatoes and she may miss them with our rice and plantains.  We’ll see how she holds up.  Change is the only constant.  You’d think she’d know that at nearly eighty.  But that’s the problem.  Women marry men hoping they will change, that they can be trained, men marry women hoping they will stay the same.  Of course, both genders are disappointed. 

 This is such a sad movie, not only are we spending billions of dollars and our children’s futures fighting tow countries that did not attack us, but our sons, the sons of America, come home with their hearts and minds imploded by grief and war and pain.  I wish America would stop fighting and become part of world peace.

2008: The Burning Plain di Guillermo Arriaga

Al suo esordio alla regia, Guillermo Arriaga ci mostra le vicissitudini e i segreti di donne di generazioni diverse, storie (apparentemente) diverse basate sui quattro elementi di fuoco, terra, acqua, aria.

La critica si è divisa nel giudicare il film.
Si va da “Il messicano Guillermo Arriaga si è fatto un nome a Hollywood con delle sceneggiature di forte impegno… Adesso passa anche alla regia… e porta sullo schermo un suo testo che, come i precedenti, svela ad ogni passo intelligenza e sapienza, consentendogli una rappresentazione carica di intense suggestioni visive” (Il Tempo), “…un film commovente, denso di sentimento ed emotivamente coinvolgente” (FilmUp), “Un ottimo film” (Spaziofilm.it) a “…un cervellotico esercizio di scrittura con pochi momenti emozionanti” (Variety), “…la moltiplicazione dei drammi si fa meccanica e la poetica si trasforma in banale puzzle mentale, che non coinvolge né tantomeno lascia tracce nel cuore” (Ciak), “ La pianura di Arriaga brucia senza capo né coda” (La Stampa).

Primo film americano ad essere presentato alla 65 Mostra di Venezia, parla di solitudine, di vendetta e di rimorso, di quanto sia difficile sfuggire al proprio passato… ma anche di come l’amore possa redimere e di come una seconda opportunità sia sempre possibile. Sottolinea giustamente Il Corriere della Sera però, il tema di fondo “è quello delle responsabilità degli adulti verso i giovani e di come i figli cerchino, non sempre nel modo giusto, di fare i conti con quelle «colpe»”.

Il celebrato sceneggiatore di González Iñárritu (“Amores perros” “21 grammi” “Babel”) e di Tommy Lee Jones (“Le tre sepolture”) ama le storie affastellate e interconnesse, con diversi personaggi ed episodi, e il tutto condito con sovrapposizioni tematiche e temporali (giustamente Guillermo Arriaga sostiene che chi racconta la propria vita lo fa senza seguire un ordine preciso). Molti hanno rimproverato al regista di insistere troppo con la struttura ellittica ad incastro: forse però era l’unico modo di rendere accettabile al pubblico d’oggi una storia che, raccontata linearmente, sa troppo di “feulletton” ottocentesco. Così costruito, il film, con i suoi innumerevoli flashback e nel suo opposto flashforward (il termine inglese, equivalente all’italiano “anticipazione”, indica una discontinuità nella successione temporale della narrazione, attuata attraverso l’anticipazione di un momento della storia che appartiene al futuro), inchioda lo spettatore alla poltrona, lo coinvolge e lo emoziona (spesso commuovendolo)

The burning plain è un film sul dolore e sull’amore, sulla passione e sulla morte: forte, crudo (e al contempo toccante), dal notevole pathos, e che ha il pregio di suscitare più di una riflessione.
Scritto con abilità e girato splendidamente tra l’Oregon e i deserti del Messico, il film dà massima importanza al paesaggio, fattore quasi determinante nel caratterizzare i sentimenti e gli umori dei vari personaggi (in una recente intervista il regista ha dichiarato: “Volevo raccontare storie… in cui fossero la luce, i suoni gli animali e la vegetazione a dare uno spazio fisico ed emotivo ai personaggi, quasi come se il paesaggio stesso si facesse personaggio”).

Un’opera da elogiare per abilità registica, cura al dettaglio e professionalità, un piccolo capolavoro di narrazione e di intreccio che si caratterizza, anche, per il suo andare contro-tendenza rispetto allo stile frenetico e nervoso oggi di moda.

Un piacere vedere recitare Charlize Theron e Kim Basinger (ma un plauso anche a Jennifer Lawrence che a Venezia ha conquistato il premio come giovane promessa per il futuro): ambedue da tempo liberatesi dal cliché di sex symbol, qui drammatiche e melanconiche, cupe e disperate… mai sopra le righe, intense e misurate al massimo. Una prova da grandi attrici in due ruoli certamente non facili. Brave è dir poco.

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The Burning Plain è un film del 2009 scritto e diretto da Guillermo Arriaga, lo sceneggiatore di Amores perros (2000), 21 Grammi (2003) e Babel (2006).

Leggi altre notizie su: | Guillermo Arriaga | Charlize Theron | Kim Basinger | Jennifer Lawrence

OLD DOGS

(Disney) John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Seth Green, Ella Bleu Travolta, Conner Rayburn, Lori Loughlin, Matt Dillon, Bernie Mac. Directed by Walt Becker

From the director of Wild Hogs comes this new comedy that similarly involves older men in a younger man situation. In this case, two successful businessmen on the verge of closing the biggest deal of their careers are derailed by the revelation that one of them is in fact a father and at one of the most critical junctures in their negotiations, will be babysitting his newfound brood. As will happen around kids, chaos ensues.

See the trailer here.

For more on the movie this is the website.

Rating: PG (for some mild rude humor)

Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

(Apparition) Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flannery, Clifton Collins, Julie Benz. This is the sequel to the cult classic penned by Troy Duffy (the making of which was the subject of the acclaimed documentary Overnight). The brothers MacManus who have been taking it easy in Ireland since the events of the first film find themselves compelled to return to the mean streets of Boston when a priest is brutally gunned down.

See the trailer here.

For more on the movie this is the website.

Rating: R (for bloody violence, language and some nudity)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

(Fox Searchlight) Featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzmann, Bill Murray. From the minds of the late novelist Roald Dahl and director Wes Anderson (Rushmore) comes this animated feature that pits a clever, tricky fox against three brutal but not-so-bright farmers.

See the trailer here.

For more on the movie this is the website.

Rating: PG (for action, smoking and slang humor)

Ninja Assassin

(Warner Brothers) Rain, Naomie Harris, Sho Kosugi, Rick Yune. Taken from the streets as a child by the legendary but lethal Ozunu Clan and trained as an assassin, Raizo becomes one of the deadliest killers on the planet. However he butts heads with the clan and is forced to vanish. Now, he finds an Interpol agent who has stumbled upon one of the secrets of the Ozunu Clan and is marked for death. He must protect her – and himself – from the world’s most skilled assassins and try to find a way to bring the clan down for good. This stylized anime/video game hybrid is from V for Vendetta director James McTeigue.

See the trailer here.

For more on the movie this is the website.

Rating: R (for strong bloody stylized violence throughout, and language)

The Road

(Weinstein) Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Kody Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron. After a global catastrophe kills nearly all life on earth and ends civilization as we know it, a father and his son make their way across a barren, dangerous landscape trying to avoid predators of the natural and unnatural kind in an effort to make it to the coast and survival. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, this post-Apocalyptic thriller boasts an all-star cast.

See the trailer here.

For more on the movie this is the website.

Rating: R (for some violence, disturbing images and language)

Charlize Theron's Dior: couture that almost outshines her kindness (but not quite)

I was recently awed by In Style’s list of Hollywood female powerhouses who are quickly approaching a birthday with forty-one candles aglow (keeping in mind, always an extra for good luck).  It seems that as I have grown, the women whom I once revered and who demand attention just by being, well, pretty, are becoming a wrinkle in time (but without the ghastly skin creases, thank you Botox.)

It has been proffered that forty is the new thirty.  Does that make twenty the new ten?  I certainly hope not, because that awkward stage of my identity was defined by oversized flannels (older brother’s hand-me-downs by my demand), high top basketball sneakers (the days when physical activity meant the playground, not monotonous movements on a robotic machine), and oval glasses that compete with Harry Potter’s signature specs.  Though since the wizard series didn’t yet exist, perhaps it was my profound influence that stylized J.K. Rowlings’ cash character. 

As the acclaimed magazine explained, it’s not that the big four-oh is overtaking the biddies of the industry.  Women are simply evolving, becoming more radiant as sand slips through the hourglass.  That fact doesn’t detract from the refreshing air that surrounds Tinseltown’s tots. 

Men have been doing it for centuries, getting reputedly handsomer with age as does Oscar de la Renta haute-couture. George Clooney started the revolution, Brad Pitt is confirming it, but now, it’s the Charlize Therons who are putting young Hollywood to shame.  Vintage is the new youth.

Radiance.  It’s the word I want to embody come New Years in skin and style.  With so many Oscar worthy roles that portray the exact opposite of the luminous adjective, Charlize Theron has certainly morphed from beast to beauty cyclically over the course of her career.  In moments such as this, it’s a matter of material.  A dress with a natural shimmer, like the black and gold one shoulder body hugger by Torn by Ronny Kobo instantly reflects upon a flawless complexion.  Retro chic even in flats, Charlize Theron’s renovation of an old Hollywood allure proves that a shimmer can carry you into tomorrow and well into that now enticing decade, no matter how near or far it may be.

Just in time for the Holidays is John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road. Which, at its heart, is an incredibly touching story about the love between a father and son. Still, it’s incredibly depressing and should be avoided at all costs. Just kidding. Well, except for the depressing part. That’s all true.

We don’t know much about what’s happened to the world. Everything is covered in a blanket of ash. Very few people are still alive. Those who are are forced to eke out a living, scrounging for food, which sometimes includes the unlucky others they run across. In the middle of all this are a father and son who make their way across the ruined landscape, desperately searching for something better than this. Better than where they are now.

If there was ever an author who’s work lent itself to adaptation, it’s McCarthy. Whether your reading The Road or No Country for Old Men, you almost get the feeling that his novels are one giant storyboard, strung out in front of you. The hopelessness and despair are translated perfectly in The Road. Actually, it’s translated a little too well. The film’s message seems to be that love endures. But after watching Viggo Mortensen (who I think is beginning to approach that Daniel Day-Lewis level of immersing oneself in their role) and Kodi Smit-McPhee run out of a basement full of people who are being harvested as food, I ask myself, who the hell would want to endure this?

That’s the question asked by Charlize Theron, who plays Mortensen’s wife in a series of flashback sequences. I remember being annoyed by her character in the book. In the movie, I felt I understood where she was coming from. Theron is one of a very small cast. Aside from the Man and the Boy, there are only a handful of characters, none of whom spend very much time onscreen. This means that Mortensen and Smit-McPhee are carrying a lot on their shoulders, and both do it very well. Mortensen makes you believe that the only reason he’s carrying on is because of his son.

One reviewer described The Road as a story about a kid who doesn’t understand the situation he’s in. It seems like that would be obvious, considering this is the world he was born into and the only one he’s ever known. That’s exactly how Smit-McPhee plays his character. He’s sheltered but slowly coming into his own. He looks to his father as a seeing-stone, someone who can interpret the world around him and put it all into perspective. He puts forward a very good performance and I think he’s setting himself up for some good stuff in the future.

Like I said before, the issue explored in The Road is whether or not love can survive in the face of complete hopelessness. Obviously it isn’t anything that’s going to be settled anytime soon, and I’m not sure McCarthy himself feels settled on the issue. If The Road’s message is that love endures, the message of No Country for Old Men seems to be that, sometimes, evil screws you over, and that’s it. Well, food for thought.

The Road is one of the most powerful movies we’ve seen this year. It screams out, “Oscar!” but I’m worried that, in the end, it’ll be skipped over in favor of something more mainstream. You don’t see many post-apocalyptic dramas win awards these days. Then again, you don’t see many post-apocalyptic dramas with such a touching and pure story at its heart, after you’ve peeled away all the dreary scenery and special effects. A

Como vocês sabem, enquanto não estou aqui dando dicas pra vocês, sou maquiadora de moda e publicidade. Além disso, também faço maquiagem social. O que quer dizer: faço make e cabelo para festas, casamento, etc.
Estamos no fim do ano e fico impressionada com a quantidade de casamentos em São Paulo nessa época. Meus sábados tem sido entre pincéis, escovas, sombras e secadores.
Com toda essa história, quero chegar em um assunto específico: calor X cabelo.
Com o verão, vem as chuvas e vocês sabem que a umidade é inimiga dos fios no lugar. Aí, algumas mulheres querem porque querem ir ao um casamento com baby liss e cabelo solto. Me desculpe, mas nessas horas eu sou bem honesta: vai chegar linda e depois de 1 hora vai tombar tudo.
Não existe milagre minha gente. Se você curte um cabelão ondulado e solto, pense pelo menos na possibilidade de ele ser meio preso ou um rabo de cavalo. Coque, com esse calor, é a salvação. Não precisa ser nada careta (aliás, abaixo a caretisse). Falo isso em prol da sua beleza e conforto. Pense na possibilidade de outros penteados, outras formas de se sentir tão bonita sem deixar o cabelão solto grudando nas costas (eeeccaa)!!
Aqui vão algumas idéias que podem ficar incríveis para uma festa de fim de ano, para madrinhas, convidadas de um casamento e até noivas.

COQUE

Natalie Portman

A Natalie Portman normalmente está com o cabelo curtinho, no máximo na altura dos ombros e mesmo assim ela arrasa nos penteados. Esse é um coque eu que eu adoro. Você faz um coque e depois “suja” um pouco. Isso quer dizer, puxa umas mexinhas, como se estivesse meio bagunçado, depois “tasca” spray e tá pronta e linda. Dica meninas, esse penteado é SUPER fácil de fazer e fica moderno e bem bacana.

Natalie Portman

Esse coque é bem legal para quem tem franja mais curtinha, porque a tiara ou uma faixa de cabelo enfeita e ajuda a segurar a franjinha.

Hayden Panettiere

Esse coque parece ser suuuuper complicado, mega trabalhado, mas não é tão difícil não! Você faz um coque meio solto e ao invés de prender todo o cabelo, você vai trabalhando as mechas, vai prendendo uma a uma e fica essa textura linda de cabelo.

Natalie Portman

Ela de novo. Essa também é uma solução para quem tem franjinha e não quer prender. Pode colocar de lado e passar spray ou um pouco de gel.

Charlize Theron

E o coque da Charlize é o clássico. Super puxado, nenhum fio fora do lugar e lindíssimo!

RABO DE CAVALO

Jennifer Aniston

O rabo de cavalo da Jennifer Aniston é lindo. Alto em cima e no meio da cabeça. Para fazer esse rabo de cavalo, você desfia o cabelo na parte de cima da cabeça e depois coloca a franja por cima, assim não da pra ver o desfiado. Você pode deixar todo o cabelo preso ou deixar uns fios solto na frente.

Drew Barrymore

O rabo de cavalo da Drew é mais clássico, até meio retrô. É só fazer uma escova bem feita, deixando as pontas viradas e depois fazer um rabo na altura média da cabeça.
O acabamento pode ser feito com o próprio cabelo.

Diane Kruger

Adoro esses penteados que parecem que não fizeram NADA, mas pode acreditar: fez sim.
Faça um textura marcada no cabelo e depois disfie um pouco a raiz para dar volume. Feito isso, faça um rabo de cavalo lateral e bem baixo.
Fica moderno e ao mesmo tempo super bonito.

HANCOCK

“There are heroes. There are superheroes. And then there’s HANCOCK”

No sabe quien es, no sabe de donde viene y no sabe que es lo que tiene que hacer. A Jonh Hancock todo el mundo lo conoce, pero… nadie lo quiere cerca pues antes de mejorar algo siempre debe destrozar el doble. La suma de todo esto lo hacen ser un alcoholico, mal viviente, sin respeto por nada ni por nadie. Pero, por primera vez en su vida alguien le tiende la mano, alguien se preocupa por el y alguien quiere ayudarlo a ser mejor. ¿Sera posible que una persona así pueda cambiar?

FICHA TECNICA

Director: Peter Berg

Protagonista: Will Smith | Charlize Theron

Fecha: 11 | Julio | 2008

Pais: Estados Unidos

Hancock Wallpaper

Debo confezarme fan de Will Smith, en especial por los ultimos trabajos que ha venido realizando y aunque Hancock no es de las mejores peliculas que ha hecho no puedo decir que haya sido un fiasco, incluso esta pelicula nos brinda una perspectiva diferente a lo que habia venido haciendo Marvel con su fiebre de sacar peliculas de superheroes terribles. Considero que la historia de esta pelicula es creible hasta cierto punto, la primera parte donde nos introducen al personaje la encuentro genial, un tipo odiado por todos, sin nada que perder y resignado a ganar. Aun apesar de todo sigue intentando hacer el bien. Incluso la parte donde lo trata de ayudar Ray va todo bien, pero cuando las mujeres meten las manos en la masa jeje… Me parece que la pelicula esta hecha con calma, bien pensada y ha contado con los actores precisos para sacar adelante al proyecto. Los efectos especiales no los dejo atras, calificandolos de buenos dentro de lo que cabe y personalmente me encanto la parte donde clava la camioneta de los asiaticos en el edificio. Para terminar esto les recomiendo ver esta pelicula para que sigan la trayectoria del talentosisimo Will y les aseguro que van a disfrutarla.

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After the Oscar-winning success of the adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, another of the author’s works arrives on screen. Viggo Mortensen stars in THE ROAD, a thriller that is set in a bare, post-apocalyptic America, where a father and son struggle to survive. Director John Hillcoat previously teamed with star Guy Pearce on the critically acclaimed Western THE PROPOSITION.

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall
Director: John Hillcoat
Screenwriter: Joe Penhall
Producer: Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz
Composer: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Studio: Weinstein Company

MOVIE TRAILER :

Few characters have made as powerful or as lasting an impression on international popular culture as Astro Boy. The little robot first appeared in 1951 as a character in the celebrated artist and animator Osamu Tezuka’s legendary manga(Japanese comic book) and became an instant icon. He was subsequently featured as the star of his own television series in both black-and white and in color, eventually airing in over 40 countries. Astro Boy created the standard for a new form of animation that has become world famous as anime.

Now for the first time, Astro Boy will be brought to life on the big screen. Created with breathtaking computer animation from Imagi Studios, the film Astro Boy is a thrilling tale of a true hero. The film is set to debut in theaters on October 23, 2009.

Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage). Powered by positive “blue” energy, Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in search of acceptance, Astro Boy encounters many other colorful characters along the way. Through his adventures, he learns the joys and emotions of being human, and gains the strength to embrace his destiny. Ultimately learning his friends and family are in danger, Astro Boy marshals his awesome super powers and returns toMetro City in a valiant effort to save everything he cares about and to understand what it means to be a hero.

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy, Freddie Highmore, Donald Sutherland, Eugene Levy, Nathan Lane, Matt Lucas, Sterling Beaumon, Madeline Carroll, Charlize Theron
Director: David Bowers
Screenwriter: Timothy Harris, David Bowers
Studio: Summit Entertainment

MOVIE TRAILER :

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Good morning.  Epix is about to take the stage at this the last day of Streaming Media West.  Watch the keynote live at:  www.livestream.com/streamingmedialive/beta. Presentations this weekend at streamingmedia.com/west.  We’ll be posting the remarks here along with a summary of what was said this week by other content distributors and producers:

Emil Rensing, Epix
Epix is a joint venture of Paramount/Lionsgate/MGM that launched three week ago as a FiOS Pay TV cable channel that for $10/month makes its content available to subscribers on any platform :  on TV, on demand, and online.  Epix owns the multiplatform rights for all their titles in the PayTV window of 9-10 months after theatrical release for at least 2y and doesn’t have restrictions on their content like legacy cable providers who signed deals 10 years ago and now have to renegotiate rights for TV Everywhere.   Currently offering 180 first run blockbuster movies and classics, Epix seeks to grow it’s library to 3,000 titles as well as offer outstanding original and event-based programming similar to the HBO, Starz, Showtime model.  Programming like Madonna and Kings of Leon concerts, Sam Shepard’s  Tough Trade and Charlize Theron’s Atlas Shrugged.  Seeking to become home to original storytellers….original programming builds brand for the network.  In terms of the size of the Epix acquisition budget, having just launched they are small now 62 staff, a third focused on digital, wondering whether sponsored star-studded sitcoms like Easy to Assemble and Justine Bateman’s FM78.tv then become an attractive option. Emil Rensing, founder of Next New Networks, shares space with Boxee in New York, is a digital guy agnostic about formats, hoping to see Epix on that toaster we’ve been talking about.  A media business, Epix is proud of its technology partners who provide a seamless playback experience: Akamai, Adobe, ClipSync. Amazing friending feature allows you to invite up to four friends to sit in a virtual screening room, watch the movie together, and chat via pop up speech bubbles.  The friends do not need to be an Epix subscriber. You can check out Epix this weekend.  Three day passes are available at www.epixhd.com/invite.   Watch Iron Man, Cloverfield, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, all four Indie Jones movies, even Scorsese’s Mick Jagger doc, Shine a Light.  Epix will be the first to run the Star Trek movie in the new year, so stay tuned.
(per SMW remarks)

Anthony Soohoo, CBS
CBS distribution strategy online, on mobile, in the connected home has been open, non-exclusive hyperdistribution to AOL, Yahoo!, Google, MSN. CBS.com watch full shows. TV.com nexgen navigation with integrated TiVo functionality and online personalized guide watchlists for the 20mm users of TV.com (2mm iPhone app downloads).  TV shows now, movies in the pipeline.  CBS Web Originals believes there are different ways to tell stories in terms of byte size text format, take about 3-4 different shows on a quarterly basis, on a project finance basis, find a sponsor working with the creators, then distribute across CBS properties and CBS Audience Network, bring expertise on sales side, largest video sales force out there, CBS Interactive is the 4th largest video player in the world, reach on a monthly basis 120mm.  Offer content creators sales and distribution piece mixed up with the TheInsider.com, TV.com, Chow.com, CBS.com.  300 syndicated partners.  A combination of having limited resources and it being early stage for the connected devices, focusing more on mobile right now.  TV Everywhere great for consumer, but only 52% of broadcast nets making content available, 10% cable nets, no economic model/measurement.
(per Commonwealth Club SmarterTV remarks)

Tom Gorke, MTV
Tasked with monetizing content off owned and operated 300 websites worldwide, goal is multiplatform, to stay close to consumer, drive awareness and traffic.  MTV is the largest provider of content to Xbox and iTunes.  The biggest driver of paid download to own is the need for portability, take it with you on the flight.  The need to aggregate a library of content has matured.  Done well on Hulu, Fancast, Atom, GameTrailers, DailyMotion, Veoh.  MTV is all about automation, too much content, it wouldn’t scale if had to customize, even putting a flag in a feed is tough.  Have close relationship with syndication partners, provide exclusive one off promotional content, lots of assets, art work, graphics.  Syndication partners care most about reliability and regularity of delivery, and standards of quality of content.  FB pulls a lot of content from MTV.  Really saw the power of Twitter during the VMAs with Kanye West.  MTV integrates Twitter into sites, audience of engaged folks.  Leading provider of mobile content, sold over 1mm of the 16 iPhone apps, VCast.  Live streaming tentpoles like Kids Choice Awards, VMAs. Live streaming is completely different technology (Ustream, Justin.TV, Kyte, Livestream).  When Ashton Kutcher did his Fantasy Football Show on Ustream viewership went from 100,000 to 1mm viewers, it had a watercoolers effect and was played everywhere all at once.  For the experiment, bought ad unit and inserted Ustream player – was expensive.
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Vanessa Pappas, Next New Networks
500mm streams online in 3 years, 30mm views/month, believe in super-syndication concept, be where the audience is.  Yahoo! has been great for family entertainment, long form does well on iTunes.  TubeMogul is integrated in content management system but do a manual refresh to optimize sites that perform for you.  Recently hired category manager from YouTube.  Know your syndicated partner’s audience.  On Twitter you can’t just post and pray, need to have dialogue with engaged community.  Share office with Boxee, getting on Boxee, Roku..
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Brett Wislon, TubeMogul
Free supersyndication service to Blip.tv, Break, Brightcove, DailyMotion, eBaum’s World, Facebook, Graspr, Grind TV, Howcast, i2TV, Imeem, Metacafe, MSN Video, Myspace, Revver, Sclipo, Sevenload, Streetfire, Twitter, StupidVideos, Veoh, VideoJug, Y! Video, YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, 5min, Zoopy.  Best campaigns are hybrid like the recent intentionally lame Windows 7 videos.  Got 5.5mm views in September, impressive for a brand.  http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-windows-7-launch-party-parody-is-bleeping-genius/3.  Most have given up on trying to make money in online video.  Although YouTube is 50% of the game, study found that those that also syndicated to niche sites saw a 100x increase in viewership than those just on YouTube.  Greater success with vertical focus.  Analytics allow you to see where video is most embedded, can see if a specific mommy blog is an important outlet and starting feeding them exclusive content which they love because content drives traffic.  Moving from super-syndication (content everywhere blast) to hyper-syndication (content to engaged fans fast).  FB has no video strategy but is a top ten video site.  Study found most engaged viewers came from Twitter.
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Brandon White, FUNimation
License anime content, aim to meet the needs of the licensors in Japan.  Syndicated via ad-supported video, iTunes, Xbox/Zune, PS3.  Use YouTube for fingerprinting.  Plan to syndicated across all CE devices – mobile, Blu-ray, web-enabled tvs.
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Jim Louderback, Revision 3
Syndicates 20 shows including Diggnation broadly anywhere, anytime, any device, want to be where our audience millennial men live.  Auto-syndicates with Tubemogul but still need to manually refresh metadata at each site.
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Dominik Rausch, Eleven Minutes Production, Easy To Assemble
EasytoAssembleSeries.com is a sponsored star-studded sitcom that has garnered 4.2mm+ views between its Season I & II on MyDamnChannel, YouTube, Ikeafans.com, KoldKastTV, Hulu.  Also distributed on iTunes.  In talks with DVD sales, releasing on hotel networks, subtitles for 10-15 additional countries in Europe & Asia.  Innovative series where in addition to celebrities like Illeana Douglas, Justine Bateman, Tom Arnold…IKEA is a co-star.  Web series same premium quality as film, all 10 episodes of second season strings together as a movie.  Production company is thinking of new ways to make content adapting to fragmented time-shifting society.  As traditional TV distribution disappears, new media will take over distribution for all platforms.
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Brent Friedman, Electric Farm
Production budget for Crackle’s Woke Up Dead is over $1mm, high for a web production but has talent attached which attracted integrated sponsors like Kodak.   (Premise of show is friend trying to monetize fact that friend is a living zombie, sub-plot pitching to brands for sponsorship).  Sometimes you have to take a risk to get a bigger payoff just like more marketing dollars equals more views.  Kodak also cross-promoted on their own site which over a million monthly uniques.  Valemont is a success with an engaged community of 25,000.
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Thom Woodley, Dinosuar Diorama
All-For-Nots co-produced with Eisner’s Vuguru.  Doesn’t like sponsor integration, hurts show creatively, prefer ad-insertion, and smaller more engaged audiences of 50-100,000, hasn’t quit his day job as ad agency exec yet. Show All’s Faire about the Renaissance Faire reaches 20,000 Renaissance Faire fans plus sci fi, comics and comedy buffs.
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Not sure what exactly is up with the release date (this was originally scheduled for October 16) but The Road is now set to open nationwide on November 25. I, for one, will be there. And I may add, I’m not a moviegoer. I’ve maybe gone to two movies in the past seven years.

But if The Road is even 1/4 as good as Cormac McCarthy’s novel (which I absolutely consumed in less than two days) then this film may jump into my all-time Top 5. A few things:

• Viggo Mortensen is the perfect actor for the role of the unnamed father
• Regarding post-apocalyptic tales, this will be far superior than anything the movie 2012 and its special effects can offer
• Hopefully Charlize Theron’s character won’t play a substantial role and the movie will not be turned into some kind of sappy love story. The wife in the book plays a significant part, yes, but only in placing the context properly and acting as a vehicle for the husband/father’s motivation
• One of GQ Magazine’s movie critics said the film is more violent and brutal than the novel to which another of GQ’s movie critics responded saying, how can you get any more violent than the novel? It had babies roasted on a spit in one scene
• Read the novel first. Actually, read T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland first and then Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River.
• Cormac McCarthy is the author behind “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses”
• It has Robert Duvall. Days of Thunder. Enough said

And now for a short synopsis from the novel’s Wikipedia entry following by the movie’s trailer,

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together toward the sea across a post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. The setting is extremely bleak: the sun is obscured by a layer of ash so thick that the pair must breathe through masks, and plants do not grow. The surviving remnants of humanity have been largely reduced to thoughtless violence and cannibalism. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their present location, the father leads them through this desolate landscape towards the sea, sustained by a vague hope of finding other “good people” like them.

Bon je ne me suis pas beaucoup exprimée la semaine dernière… week-end de 5 jours oblige en Normandie où le wifi se fait quelque peu rare…

Au moment de créer la rubrique “Personne n’en parle !” avec Caro, j’avais décidé grâce à mon groupe de cinéphiles préféré de parler de Head On (ce que j’ai d’ailleurs fait..).

En réalité, celui dont j’avais désiré parler en tout premier et me l’étais interdit car la rubrique  n’existait pas encore est : Loin de la terre brûlée — en anglais The Burning Plain, sorti en 2008.

Un samedi soir seule chez moi… j’en ai, encore une fois, pris plein la figure.

3 femmes, 3 destins entremêlés avec 2 actrices magnifiques Kim Basinger (qui avait littéralement disparu de la circulation) et Charlize Théron..

Un réalisateur extraordinaire : Guillermo Arriaga, acteur, réalisateur, scénariste à la filmographie déconcertante puisqu’il est par ailleurs producteur des films d’Alejandro González Iñárritu : les démentiels Amours chiennes, 21 Grammes et Babel (je suis fan à 500% des 3 !!!). Il  a aussi remporté en 2005 le Prix du Meilleur Scénario au Festival de Cannes pour Trois Enterrements.

Scénario violent… Tout en émotions, expressions, personnages (si beaux !) aux destins broyés, morcelés par le réalisateur qui peut à peu reconstitue le puzzle pour le plus grand bonheur de la spectatrice que je suis qui se laisse conduire.. (ce qui n’arrive pas souvent )

Je vous laisse découvrir la bande annonce..

Hace mucho tiempo había probado un ingenioso producto que logró eliminar en cuestión de un día las espinillas de mi rostro. Revisando el baúl de objetos “de largo tiempo sin usar” me he  reencontrado con esta maravilla.

The Pimple Healer de Mario Badescu es un tratamiento contra el acné, que no sólo seca los brotes de espinillas, se encarga de no dejar manchas. Es de fácil uso: sólo tienes que introducir un hisopo en el frasco, hasta tocar el ácido salicílico que reposa en el fondo de calamina.

Haz la prueba y pincha en el portal de Mario Badescu para que conozcas más esta maravilla y déjanos saber qué tal te fue. Tiene un costo de US17.00 más envío.

Sobre Mario Badescu

Este es un fabuloso spa ubicado en la calle 52 de Manhatan, NY ya tiene en el mercado desde 1967. Posee una completa línea de productos con ingredientes naturales para áreas específicas del cuerpo como las manos el rostro, ojos,  y el resto.

Su local ha sido visitado por celebridades como Naomi Campbell, Charlize Theron, Liv Tyler.

To look good and attractive hair style plays a very important role it shows your personality, how you maintain your hairs, about hair care, analysis of the latest fashions and trends and advice for choosing a hair style for a special occasions. We should try different different hair styles which is in fashion. A flattering hairstyle can be the most important factor in the appearance. A really professional haircut is a valuable investment, because it will make you feel good as well as confident. Many of us do not know that only a particular haircut will suit with our facial structure.

Round shape-Try cuts that fall just below the chin, soft, graduated layers. Which will remove bulk and weight from the sides.
Ignore- One length, blunt cuts (if you have short hair), avoid shot hair also.
Celebrities with round face- Fergie, Kate Bosworth, Cameron Diaz

Square shape- Curls and choppy ends will look good,Your can also get away with short, spiky long hair, sleek hair with layers.
Ignore-One length bob (epically chin length) and blunt cut length. This will make your face more square.
Celebrities with square face- Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore

Oval shape- oval shape is the most versatile shape, you can pull off almost any look short, long, medium, straight and wavy
Ignore-Short layer, if your hair is strong and thick than avoid a blunt cut and if your have curly hair than avoid short hair
Celebrities with oval face- Kate Hudson,Jessica Alba

Heart shape- Heart shape face cut people should wear either chin length pr long hair Ignore- These people should avoid short hair, choppy layers Celebrities- Claudia Schiffer, Lucy Lawless, Jennifer Lopez