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Video : Afghan Star Herat Auditions

In Afghanistan, Film, Music, TV, fame on 8 March 2010 tagged Afghan Star, Hangama, HBO, Herat, Kabul, Tolo TV, Video, Youtube, ستاره افغان with Comments

Afghan Star will be broadcast on HBO starting March 18 at 9pm.
The award winning documentary is currently available on DVD in the UK and will hit US shelves sometime after its run on HBO:

The artist the female contestant hopes to model herself after is the legendary Hangama.

Around the 00:02:50 mark the contestant is told not [...]

Kathryn Bigelow Beats Ex-Husband to Break ‘Best Director’ Glass Ceiling

In Film, History, News, TV, fame on 7 March 2010 tagged 82nd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, AP, Associated Press, Avatar, Best Director, James Cameron, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Lina Wertmüller, Lost in Translation, Oscars, Seven Beauties, Sofia Coppola, The Hurt Locker, The Piano with Comments

Avatar director, James Cameron was rooting for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow (who had a better seat than him at the ceremony) to beat him out for Best Director for her direction of The Hurt Locker and tonight Ms. Bigelow made history becoming the first ever female winner in the Best Director category.
Bigelow is the first woman [...]

The Mathematics of Tim Burton’s ‘Wonderland’

In Art, Film, History, News on 7 March 2010 tagged Alice in Wonderland, AMC Theatres, box office, Boycott, Disney, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowska, Red Queen, Tim Burton, Vulture, Walt Disney, White Queen with Comments

Estimated budget: $250million – Opening weekend’s record-breaking estimated worldwide box office take $216 million = $284 million more needed in worldwide box office sales for profitability with only an alleged 12 weeks total in theatres before hitting DVD as massive theatre chains threaten a boycott due to a potential loss of 5 weeks to [...]

Matt Damon on Obama ‘I’m Disappointed,’ André Leon Talley and Grace Coddington on Twitter ‘Outdated in 10 Minutes’ ‘

In Afghanistan, Art, Film, History, Internet, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, War, fame, fashion on 2 March 2010 tagged @OfficialALT, Barack Hussein Obama, Barnes & Noble, Facebook, Grace Coddington, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Iraq, Iraq War, Matt Damon, New York Daily News, R.j. Cutler, Saddam Hussein, The Cut, The Green Zone, The September Issue, Twitter, Vogue, Vogue Magazine, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with Comments

Speaking to the New York Daily News, Matt Damon comments on President Barack Hussein Obama’s ability to deliver on his rhetoric of ‘hope’ and ‘change,’ and meet the public’s inflated expectations of his Administration.
Damon, like many others realizes that the American public put far too much trust and hope in Barack Hussein Obama, but in [...]

Shutter Island : To Live As a Monster, To Die A Good Man

In Art, Film, News, Opinion, War on 18 February 2010 tagged 28 Days Later, Ben Kingsley, Chuck Aule, Jurassic Park, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorcese, Michelle Williams, Raptor, Shutter Island, U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels, Zombie with Comments

Martin Scorcese’s Shutter Island begins in brooding observance of the standard tropes of noir mystery. The grey skies of the rocking boat, the ominous music that get progressively louder and forceful evoking a an uneasy sensation of tension and entrapment, a setting that leaves the two heroes (just getting to know one another for [...]