Vince Carter has, for a number of years now, been one of the most widely known and respected names in the leagues of professional basketball. Much of this fame started back in 2000 with the world famous Vince Carter Slam Dunk Contest.
The Slam Dunk Contest is one of the most popular NBA contests and the crowd was utterly blown away by Vince Carter’s impressive first performance back in 2000 when he made the first 360 ever, even windmilling the ball in the process. Leaving the crowd absolutely amazed by his performance, especially as it was his first attempt at a Slam Dunk Contest, the game has gone down in history since as one of the finest moments in professional basketball.
The Slam Dunk Contest of 2000 was Vince’s first attempt at this particular contest which made it even more impressive. Most notably, Vince made the first ever full 360, also windmilling the ball, utterly amazing the spectators.
The show certainly impressed the crowd something amazing and as a result he has become one of the most widely respected players in the world of basketball. Since then, many famous videos and pictures of this epic moment in the history of basketball have started to appear and a quick search of YouTube will show you this.
In addition to his famous Slam Dunk Contest achievements, Vince Carter has also been awarded the All-Star eight times, twice in the All-NBA and also in the year 2000, he was awarded the Olympic gold medal.
Vince Carter is now playing Orlando Magic, continuing to progress with his basketball career. Until he joined this team, he was with the New Jersey Nets.
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Posted on 4 March '10, under News. No Comments.
Before the movie there was the book. And the book is the root of all evil…erhm…awesomeness that was then transformed into a movie. Many people skip over the book and watch the movie, which isn’t getting an Oscar nom any time soon, but it was a decent movie that reached its audience and made lots and lots of money. Twilight’s true power lies in the books themselves. The saga transports girls and taps into all of their primal desires: to be loved and loved in return.
Twilight allows the book to be commercialized. Actors give characters a face that allows studios to create merchandise like Twilight party favors, and posters. Movies also reach a greater audience than books do. For some reason, many people don’t like to read. They associate reading with schoolwork and boredom. The problem is that they’re reading the wrong books. Twilight originated as a book so there was no way other than fan art to create merchandise to sell and make a greater profit. Being the capitalist society that we live in, there was no other place for Twilight to go but the movies.
The first three books especially transport the reader to a different world. With a simple language, anyone with a middle school reading level can enjoy the books. There is consistent action (minus Bella’s whiny period in New Moon) and danger that makes your heart race and get you addicted.
Meyer’s vampire folklore differs from industry standards. Her vampires go out into the sun and essentially have every day lives. One of the reasons to read the book is to explore this new world within our world. These vampires share similar qualities with other vampires and it’s interesting to see where Meyer takes the other folklore. Granted she may have gone too far with Renesmee, but she sold it and supported her ideas and people loved it.
Another reason why girls love the Twilight series is the boys, duh. Edward has the tortured soul that taps into every girl’s motherly instinct. We want to take him up into our arms, cuddle with him, and make everything all right.
Same goes for Jacob. Besides the fact that he’s drop dead gorgeous (in our minds and as portrayed by Taylor), he’s the best friend that every girl wants in a guy. Someone to talk to and spend nights with. He’s warm (what girl isn’t cold, seriously), and he goes to the ends of the earth for Bella. Granted its because he prematurely imprinted on Renesemee, but that’s another story.
Besides all those reasons, the real reason is how girls can easily identify with Bella. They share a connection. Every woman has been torn between to guys, loved someone, and lost them. They’ve had to balance friends with a relationship. All Twilight does is show one girls way to handle being a teenager.
When people put down Twilight to fans, the best way for you, the fan, to debate them is to remind them of how the book is easy to read, involves love, danger and heartache. Don’t forget how identifiable Bella is. Don’t forget to tell them to shut up and read the book before they talk.
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Posted on 2 March '10, under Movies. No Comments.
We love Edward. He’s everything we expect our men to be. Too bad they haven’t gotten the hint yet! Yet, we have an actor who portrays our favorite boy in the movies. In our minds has Edward become Rpattz and Rpattz become Edward? Will we continue to support Rob after the movie franchise finishes and he relinquishes his role as Edward, or will we allow him to fade into the woodworks of other actors who became famous by playing a certain role?
For example, perhaps one of the sexiest actors playing a male tormented vampires to grace the silver screen is David Boreanez (Angel from the late 90s TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.) That man was born to play Angel just like Rpattz was born to play Edward. David now stars in a successful series, Bones, with new and old fans. Does Rob have enough acting talent to actually get that next gig and make money for these studios?
His face is everywhere, that’s for sure, and you would have to live under a rock not to at least recognize who he is. From Twilight party favors to posters to billboards, he’s everywhere. He’s selling without even realizing he’s selling things. His Twilight movies alone have beaten records at the Box Office. Girls chase him down the street and he even almost got run over once. But the question again is are girls screaming for “Rob” or “Edward.”
With the impending release of Remember Me, he’s up for a challenge. Will his fans support him in a different character, or will he be typecast into Edward-esque characters to please his fans and draw in that revenue? From the movie trailer (which looks soooo good!) it seems as if he’s going to play another Twilight-esque character.
Rob does have acting talent and he should use Twilight to launch his career and do what he wants with it. Much like Daniel Radcliffe who has been successful on Broadway.
But let’s face it. Rob was made to play that type of character. The tortured soul, so to speak. He has the potential to play more than Edward, but will his fans want to see him that way. Would we have wanted to see Clint Eastwood (old guy, did a bunch of Western movies) in anything other than a Western? Would we want to see Adam Sandler do anything but a comedy? Would we want to see Johnny Depp play someone sane?
For Twihards, Rob equals Edward. End of story. Even if he does portray other characters, we’ll still keep it in our heads that he’s Edward. As an actor, he allows us to project our love of a fictional character that lived in our minds long before the movies onto a physical being.
What Rob needs to do next is prove to his fan base that he can continue to make great characters we want to love. Remember Me has a lot of promise based on the trailer and many people should go see it, even if he didn’t reprise his role of Edward.
For now, he’ll continue appearing on Twilight party favors and other merchandise. And we’ll continue loving him as Edward. But it would be even better to love Rob the actor.
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Posted on 1 March '10, under Movies. No Comments.
No matter where you come from or who you are, we all have this interesting curiosity about the lives of stars. Whether they are bringing out new music, starring in a new film, went to jail after a bladdered party, or were caught right in the middle of a sex scandal, we all want to read and find out the celebrity gossip going around in the news. Relations seem to be the most important scandals that float around the Hollywood scene. Here are 5 scandals that kept the general public speaking for weeks after they hit the news.
1. The celebrity: Hugh Grant
This celeb was known as a sex symbol to the fans that loved him. But in 1995, while he was dating Elizabeth Hurley, he was caught in his automobile sitting on the nightfall Strip with a prostitute. This sex scandal was a shock to many people due to the good life that he seemed to be living.
2. The celebrity: Barbara Walters
You actually do not see plenty of celebrity gossip going around about this celeb, but the general public got a shocker when she released her book called’Auditions’. This book told all about an affair that she had with Edward Brooke back in the seventies. The shocker was this was US Senator Edward Brooke, and he was a married man.
3. The celebrity: Woody Allen
Many of this celeb’s movies that he played in, his personality always portrayed a crafty C to the lady. But he ended up gaining plenty of his personality’s features. In 1997, he married a woman named Soon-Yi Previn. But this was just not any lady. This lady was his ex-lover’s adopted child. His ex-lover was Mia Farrow. They married when Woody Allen was 62 and Soon-Yi just turned 27 years old.
4. The celebrity: Lindsay Lohan
This celeb seems to always be in the celebrity gossip column just about each time you turn around. She not only has gossip that revolves around sex, but there’s girl and boy relationships gone bad, plastic surgery rumors, goes wrong of her wardrobe that just happen to come off in specific places, and a fraudulent sex tape.
5.The celebrity: David Letterman
This late night talk show host got himself in a hole when anyone on the staff at CBS attempted to blackmail him into paying them two million greenbacks, or they were going to reveal his extramarital escapades. Instead of paying this cash, he opted to confess to having affairs with one or two of the female interns that worked at CBS.
He later cracked jokes about what had happened. This made excellent news for celebrity gossip columns.
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Posted on 28 February '10, under Movies. No Comments.
Instant riches and stardom await the winner of talent show American Idol. The recording contract is a prize that makes dreams come true.
Some of the winners have gone to have great careers and become household names; Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood have enjoyed phenomenal success and sold millions of records thanks to American Idol.
The one place in normal competition that nobody wants to end up in is second, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with American Idol. Many of the losers on the night have gone on to have successful careers, often eclipsing the actual winners.
It must be a good feeling to enter a competition knowing that even if you don’t win you have a great chance of being successful. Here are just a few of the most famous runners up from the American Idol archives.
Cast your mind way back to season 2, a skinny, nerdy look guy looked like he’d strayed from science club. Then he opened his mouth and started to sing, and America fell in love with Clay Aiken.
Ruben Studdard was the winner of that show, and I bet he wishes he had achieved half of the success that Clay has enjoyed since. His fans from the show have stayed loyal and have swelled in numbers since. Now a major Broadway star as well as appearing on many top rated TV shows, Clay Aiken is going to be around a long, long time.
The runner up from season 7 was the incredibly cute David Archuleta. He placed himself firmly in the hearts of the American public and still remains there today. This guy keeps popping up all over the place and has worked hard to carve himself a very successful career.
The big star of this season was the charismatic Adam Lambert. His attitude and persona won him a legion of fans and coming second to Kris Allen has done him no harm at all. His star is definitely in the ascendancy and he looks as if a long term career is guaranteed.
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Posted on 27 February '10, under Music. No Comments.
The music scene in Hollywood is just a breeding zone for the correspondent that works writing a celebrity gossip column. There always looks to be some sort of news to tell folks about, and the common public likes to hear this story. There are a few things about celebrities that makes us need to stop and listen.
In the music business, there are tours that music artists often add to their regimen, which allows room for some kind of mistake or activity that someone will always learn about. There are a large amount of times when you should not believe the story. These are the 3 myths that revolve around the music scene that usually seems to get gossip journalists in trouble.
Myth 1: When a singing group or artist is on tour, there’s always some sort of unseemly activity with groupies.
This isn’t necessarily true. There are a lot of bands and artists that you hear in the celebrity gossip news that have sexual encounters with their fans that follow them around. But for the most part, this isn’t the music scene. Lots of the artists work night and day to prepare, perform, and recuperate from their tours that they are on. Plenty of paparazzi like to write stories and take pictures that make you think there are a few things going on when, in all reality, there’s nothing.
Myth two: Many musical stars will stage some sort of wrong doing or activity to get more promoting for their music careers.
We all know there is usually one in the bunch that wants to get extra attention, but most celebrity gossip that you hear is simply that, gossip. The majority of the stars in Hollywood have no plan to get their picture posted all over the gossip columns. They may be having Problems in their private life and with folk constantly attempting to find out what they are doing, so they sometimes have no choice except to air their dirty laundry.
Myth three: stars have this insatiable wish to be with whomever and then start the breaking up process simply to be with some other person.
Although you often read in the celebrity gossip column about which actor is with which pop music star and who went for a divorce together with who is now getting wed, there appears to be lots of relations rebounding. However , this is just not the actual facts.
If you read farther into the basic reports that is not intended to be gossip, you will notice that, for the main part, most of these relationships between pop music stars do last for a good amount of time. Due to their careers and that pressures that they should face, it is really hard for a relationship or marriage to last.
Posted on 27 February '10, under Movies. No Comments.
It all started about nine months ago, when my wife and I decided it would be a good idea to remodel our home. It took a lot of talking about because neither of us genuinely wanted to take the job on as we both have active business lives. However, one Sunday afternoon, I took the bull by the horns and began to strip the paper off the walls and the ceiling in the kitchen. My wife soon joined in.
It took us a month to finish it, because we only had Saturday afternoons and Sunday, but we found that we liked the physical work, we both have desk jobs, and we really enjoyed working and planning together. It was a new but pleasing experience for us.
So, on the day we finished, we prepared a special meal and laid the table properly. After the meal, we sat down to watch a film on TV. But neither of us had been able to do that for a month and we both felt restless. My wife said something like: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to have another project to do?’ and I think we both had the same idea at the same time.
The spare bedroom! Well, our kids had families of their own now, so we actually had three spare bedrooms. We decided to turn one of them into a home theater. Neither of us particularly liked watching TV, but we both liked films which are normally ruined by too much advertising.
We went up to the smallest room, but it was too small so, like Goldilocks we went to the next, but ended up in the biggest room, so that we could entertain friends or family too. Neither of knew what to do next about the home movie centre, but we knew that we could clear the room out and measure it, which is what we did. All the furniture went into the garage until the charity shop could take it away and we went to the computer to get assistance.
There was heaps of guidance on websites and in articles and we soon felt confident enough to take the venture on. We transferred the dimensions of the room in scale onto a sheet of paper and drew in where the screen would go and where we would be sitting. The space left between us and the screen would be about 15 feet.
We had read that the optimum viewing distance is between three times and five times the diameter of the screen, so we could choose a screen between sixty inches and 36 inches. Being in our fifties, we though we would make it easier on our eyes and opted for a forty-eight inch plasma screen.
We ordered that from the Internet. We had also read that the Xbox was a good double as a DVD player and we knew that our grandson was always on about one, so that was next. We were a bit stuck with the speakers, but my brother could help me on that one. We had about a week before our equipment would arrive, so we resolved to redecorate in the evenings.
Once complete, we installed all our equipment with my brother’s assistance and we were away. At first we used a couple of sun loungers as seating, but we fairly soon got two beautifully comfortable reclining chairs and two couches for visitors. We may upgrade those later and put in dimmable lighting too, but for now we are very happy with our home movie system and so is our grandson.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with Home Theater Screens. If you are interested in a Home Movie Theatre, please click through to our site.
Posted on 27 February '10, under Movies. No Comments.
Many eyebrows are raising when they heard the news about Dirk Nowitzki girlfriend. Dirk has decided to remain quiet about the whole thing and was not up for answering any questions regarding all of the drama behind her. However the press has been able to get some of the best information in a means to share it with the world.
Apparently Dirk Nowitzki whom is a Dallas Mavericks star was actually dating a woman by the name of Cristal Taylor. Taylor is honestly nothing special; she is simply an ordinary woman that has been seen around the star from time to time.
Dirk, however would probably argue the point. He bought Taylor an engagement ring which ran him about $250, 000. The two were supposed to get married in the near future. But, what Dirk didin’t know was that the relationship may have been a scam from the get go. Dirk Nowitzki girlfriend may not be everything that he had deemed her to be.
Dirk’s friends insisted that before the star commenced in the wedding ceremony that he should get an extensive back ground check on his girlfriend. The background check proved that Taylor had a dark and dreary past.
In May Taylor was arrested for having two outstanding warrants that she never took care of. The police could not come soon enough to be able to open Dirk’s eyes to the many secrets that Taylor was hiding from him. Many of Taylor’s lies began to fall right into her lap. In fact Taylor had been previously married and forced her ex husband into an immense amount of debt.
Taylor had already gained access to some of Dirk’s money by utilizing his credit cards. Purchases were made without Dirk’s permission. Yet, when Dirk was questioned about the charges he didn’t say much either. By the looks of it Taylor looked like a sweet girl but underneath the facade she wanted one thing, Dirk’s money.
It was actually a great thing that the police came just in time to save the basketball star from going downhill because of this one manipulative woman.
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Posted on 27 February '10, under News. No Comments.
Home theaters are very popular in the West now for many reasons, but partly due to the recession. However, I predict that after the downturn is over, home theaters will take off like a rocket. In my opinion, this is because, the recession has forced people to examine their spending, which normally means cutting back. Going out, eating out and movies are all in the front line of these cuts. However, the slump is upsetting and people have to get some enjoyment from somewhere.
In the medium to long term, it is cheaper to build a home theater for a family than take them to a proper movie theater every week. Taking a family of four to the movies costs $50-$100, whereas a modest home theater might cost $1,000. It does not take long to recoup those costs. And it saves you the hassle of travelling there and back, the noise and mobile phones during the film and high prices for candy and snacks.
OK, maybe people at the moment are buying cheap packages of home theaters, but one of the first things they will change when they get a bit of money again will be the speakers, I bet. Evidently, you need a good quality, large screen, but after that, it is the sound and the barrier to good sound is usually poor speakers.
The most important factor in the design of your home theater is the dimensions of your room. If the room is small, you will not have need of so many speakers. Perhaps three speakers will be sufficient, if the room is small. However, if you only need three speakers and a sub-woofer, get good ones.
If you have a bigger room however, the basic three home theater speakers may not be enough. You may need to put up to six speakers and a sub-woofer around the room. The position of these speakers is up to you and can depend on the shape or and size of the room anyway, but typical layouts are:
3.1 system: one speaker to the left of the screen, one to the right and one below it. You can put the sub-woofer on top of the central speaker or at the back of the room. Try it and see.
5.1 system: as 3.1, but with two speakers at the back of the room too.
6.1 system: as 5.1, but with another speaker between the rear speakers, as in the front.
7.1 system: as 6.1, but with two speakers central rear, slightly away from each other. You can move the existing rear speakers around to the sides too.
This set-up requires a lot of wires as you can envisage. Now, you could staple the wires to the skirting board, but you should only do that after you are dead certain that you have the speakers in the right places. Or you could hang the speakers on the walls. However, although that sounds good for music, it does not always sound good for a movie.
The best option is wireless speakers. Wireless speakers can be moved around to suit the number of people watching the film or moved out for cleaning or redecorating purposes. You do not want to bash your nice, new, expensive speakers with the vacuum cleaner, do you?
Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with wireless home theater systems. If you are interested in a Home Movie Theatre, please click through to our site now.
Posted on 25 February '10, under Movies. No Comments.
People loved and still love 80’s music but what about the 90’s? The 90’s were full of forgotten treasures that set the stage for future acts. Bands such as Green Day, Radiohead and Pearl Jam made it big back then and are still huge today.
However, there were also those bands that seemed to suddenly form, write a hit of a song, become a huge success and then fade out just as quick as they had come on the scene.
These are formally known as one hit wonders and no one can ever remember the bands names only the title of the hit songs, for obvious reasons.
Remember the song Breakfast At Tiffany’s? People went crazy over that song for months, as it sat near the top of the charts. Can you remember the name of this band?
I wouldn’t be surprised if you couldn’t, because they never neared the success of this hit anytime after. Their name was Deep Blue Something, and they are one of the quintessential 1990s one hit wonders.
Here’s another one. How about the song “The Way”? This one was released during the late 1990s, and many absolutely loved it. In fact, it still receives occasional airplay today. Unfortunately, the band was never ever to replicate the success shown in this song.
There is another band that have a hit song, The Rembrandts, who? I hear you asking. Their hit is listened to by many people every day and no one even remembers who sang it or realizes that it was a hit from the 90’s.
That song, I’ll Be There For You, no not Bon Jovi but the one that was used as the theme song in Friends. It was really popular at the time but the band faded out not long after that hit was released.
Who will make the one-hit wonders list of the 2000s? As the decade has just ended, we may very well be able to create this list quite soon.
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Posted on 24 February '10, under Music. No Comments.