Nov 19
2011Jay-Z, Will Smith and Diddy among guests at Mount Vernon, New York, service; a poem was read dedicated to the late rapper by President Obama.
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Anne Marie Kortright April Scott Arielle Kebbel Ashanti Ashlee Simpson
Nov 19
2011From pint-sized perfomers to chubby-cheeked babes, check out the adorable Twitpics celebs have shared from when they were kids!
Danneel Harris Deanna Russo Denise Richards Desiree Dymond Diane Kruger
Nov 18
2011Here’s a photo of my niece Lila eating a nectarine:
Don’t you love her ears? (The one on the left is a little big.) (My sister doesn’t like to talk about it.)
Source: http://www.prettyinthecity.com/blog/2011/7/29/happy-friday.html
Chandra West Charisma Carpenter Charli Baltimore Charlies Angels Charlize Theron
Nov 18
2011The kind folks at Quiver are going to give one lucky Gadgeteer reader 2 Quiver pen holders (your choice of color) along with two pocket Moleskine notebooks. Pocket notebooks like the Moleskine make perfect journals, pocket scrapbooks, reference books, etc. Add a Quiver to the notebook and you’ll always have your favorite pen attached to [...]
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Cristina Dumitru Daisy Fuentes Dania Ramirez Danica Patrick Daniella Alonso
Nov 18
2011Darts champ Jocky Wilson was one of Britain’s most beloved sportsmen in the 1980s. New film Kirkcaldy Man tells the sad story of his life after the glory years
In some quarters, Jocky Wilson is a living legend. The pudgy ex-miner was twice the world darts champion; his grinning image was once featured on Top of the Pops when Dexy’s Midnight Runners performed Jackie Wilson Said. But the glory years at the oche are long forgotten. These days, Wilson is a recluse, living on disability benefits in his home town, Kirkcaldy.
Now a young German film-maker, Julian Schwanitz, has gone on Wilson’s trail. Dortmund-raised but Scottish-based, Schwanitz put together his 25-minute film, Kirkcaldy Man, as a graduation project from Edinburgh’s College of Art. He says his interest in Wilson grew from two of his own interests: darts, which he played as a kid, and mining, a major industry in the Dortmund area while he was growing up. Wilson is the link between the two.
Almost inevitably, Wilson himself doesn’t appear on camera in Kirkcaldy Man. He is as hard to prise out into the light as Howard Hughes himself. The film is as much about Schwanitz’s quest to find his subject as it is about the darts star himself ? some might call it the Citizen Kane of darts. “The idea was to create a film about someone who doesn’t want to be found. I knew from the start that I would not get him on camera. He hasn’t been on camera for, I think, 15 years. He has refused all interviews.”
Kirkcaldy Man tells a very familiar story. There are echoes here of Alex “Hurricane” Higgins, Gazza and many other working-class sports stars who hit very rocky times when their glory days are over. Wilson had once been rich. When he came back from England to live in Kirkcaldy, he had nothing. “After being very famous, it’s not so good to be down,” an old friend says.
But the search for Wilson wasn’t quite as epic as Schwanitz had originally anticipated. He spoke to a stranger on the beach in Kirkcaldy who introduced him almost immediately to his “grandfather-in-law”, a former colleague of the darts player. Minutes later, this man directed him to Wilson’s house and rang the doorbell on his behalf. Wilson’s wife Malvina appears. She tells him the champ is barely able to walk. His lungs are in a parlous condition, as much from the dust he inhaled in the pits as from his own excesses. Malvina says, without a hint of bitterness: “He never sees nobody ? He will never get better.”
Schwanitz is also interested in what the locals have to say about Wilson. After all, Gordon Brown and Adam Smith excluded, Wilson is arguably Kirkcaldy’s most famous son. So Schwanitz visits pubs in Kirkcaldy, and quizzes kids he meets in the street. (They’ve never heard of Wilson but offer to introduce him to someone called “Disco Dave”.) He goes to the supermarket that used to be the site of Lister’s Bar, where Wilson’s prowess at the oche first became evident. Belligerent drunks tell him Wilson was “fucking rubbish” at darts. Others, on the other hand, hold him in reverence. Most are friendly. They tell him Wilson has fallen prey to arthritis or diabetes. They all have a story about Wilson. Their eyes light up when they discuss him. Some claim to have seen him playing darts for pints of beer in local pubs.
It would have been easy to make Wilson a figure of fun. This was something that Schwanitz was determined to avoid. Wilson is still regarded by many in the town as a hero: “That’s what he still is for them. They don’t know the Jocky Wilson who is living in a council flat. They know the Jocky Wilson on the telly. Somehow, I think it is important to him that they remember him like this. That’s why he doesn’t go out. He doesn’t go shopping or anything. I suppose he is embarrassed for what has become of him, what he made of himself.”
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/17/jocky-wilson-kirkcaldy-man-documentary
Jennifer Sky Jenny McCarthy Jessica Alba Jessica Biel Jessica Cauffiel
Nov 18
2011“The pen is mightier than the finger” -Ian 2011 (Apologies to Edward Bulwer-Lytton) Let me start this article by saying that if you’re looking for a technical review of the new Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet then this is not the article for you. There’s quite a few speed and feed reviews out there, but what I want to [...]
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Adrianne Curry Adrianne Palicki Aisha Tyler Aki Ross Alecia Elliott
Nov 18
2011This personal safety device from GreatCall gives you immediate access to trained personnel who can summon emergency services and notify your family. The 5Star Urgent Response device fits on your keychain or can be clipped to a bag or backpack. A single button push will connect you with highly-trained certified response agents who have access [...]
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Halle Berry Hayden Panettiere Haylie Duff Heidi Klum Heidi Montag
Nov 17
2011j5create’s new Wormhole Station JUH320v2 will let users easily drag and drop files and copy/paste text between PCs, and Apple computers via a simple USB connection with speeds of up to 480Mbps. It also allow users to connect a laptop or tablet to desktop computers and share keyboard and mouse inputs. Other features include an Ethernet [...]
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Cheryl Burke China Chow Chloë Sevigny Christina Aguilera Christina Applegate
Nov 17
2011
Chaz Bono’s media appearances and stint on Dancing with the Stars won over many people this fall. The transgendered son of Warren Beatty is not one of them, though.
Stephen Ira, who was born a girl named Kathlyn, is 19, and is the child of Beatty and Annette Bening. He writes a blog titled Super Mattachine. Why’s he mad at Chaz?
Because Bono told the New York Times that being transgendered is essentially having a “mismatched” brain and body, akin to a “birth defect like a cleft palate.”
“I do not have a birth defect. If you feel you have a birth defect, fine. That’s how you feel. Go feel that,” Stephen wrote. “Do not put it onto me. Do not define me.”
“Do not define other trans people that way unless they claim that label. It goes beyond that, though,” Ira continues. “Chaz Bono is a misogynist.”
“He is a trans man who seems to believe that his female-assignedness and socialization makes him immune from being a misogynist, and he is manifestly wrong.”
He adds, “This man doesn’t represent our community. The next time you hear Chaz’s name brought up in a conversation about transgender issues, point out the things he says about surgery, ‘birth defects,’ and women.
“Because I don’t want a single person thinking this guy is the best of us.”
Fun fact: Chaz’s mother Cher dated Warren Beatty back in 1962!
Elisabeth Röhm Elisha Cuthbert Eliza Dushku Emilie de Ravin Emma Heming
Nov 17
2011Want to introduce your kids to the tablet world but you’re not quite willing to hand them your expensive iPad? Check out the Nabi Kids Tablet, a Toys “R” Us exclusive. This 7 inch capacitive multi-touch tablet runs on Android OS (not sure which version) and sports a Duo Core 1.1GHz processor. The Nabi is pre-loaded [...]
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