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Everybody is a fan of something but some just take it further than others. Here are the top ten fans who are simply crazy for their idols … 10. Chris Crocker After Britney Spears‘s life spiraled out of control, possibly her biggest fan, Chris Crocker took to You Tube to air his views. Simply titled [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Entertainment · Tagged America, Australia, baseball, boston red sox, Britney Alone, britney spears, California, Chris Crocker, David Ginola, Draco Malfoy, Greater London, Harry Potter, Ivonne Hernandez, judge, London, Major League Baseball, Matthew Beaudoin, Melbourne, Miley Cyrus, new york yankees, Red Sox, San Diego, Show, Showa Denko K.K., Tom Felton, Twilightsucks.com, United Kingdom, United States, Victoria, Yankees–Red Sox rivalry
Despite William Shakespeare’s status as a literary giant, a small but vocal group of scholars, playwrights, actors, and conspiracy theorists have long argued that he is not the true author of his plays. Even though the vast majority of Shakespeare scholars have rejected it, this theory has become increasingly prominent since the 1980s, and has [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, Literature, People · Tagged 17th Earl of Oxford, Anonymous, anonymous movie, biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, court musician, Edward de Vere, Elizabeth Sidney, Elizabethan era, Emelia Bassano, Emilia Lanier, Entertainment_Culture, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, Greater London, Henry Neville, Jesuit spy, John Dee, Literature, London, Marlovian theory, Marlovians, Mary Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, Movies, Oxfordian theory, Philip Sidney, plays, Roger Manners, Shakespeare, Shakespeare authorship question, Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare's sonnets, Shakespearean authorship, theatre, United Kingdom, Walter Raleigh, william shakespeare, William Stanley, Wilton Circle, writer
“So what do you do for a living?” is a common enough question when engaging in small talk with somebody you’ve just met. But for a select few of the world’s workers this signifies the beginning of the end of any conversation, followed by awkward excuses and another evening spent stood alone in the corner [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, August 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Business · Tagged body farm caretaker, Bridge Experience, car hire, cent, Chick sexing, chicken sexer, cow inseminator, cracker joke writer, drooling, egg sniffer, food products, food workers, Fortune Cookie, GBP, Greater London, journalist, London, National Guard, online writer, Poultry farming, roadkill cleaner, Robin Askwith, shark tank cleaner, United Kingdom, United States, worm picker, zombie, zombie apocalypse
Good movie trailers are sometimes as good as whole movies. Additionally, posters are sometimes a highly amusing, highly engaging tactic to get you intrigued as to the thrills, chills, laughs, highs and lows of a good flick. But you know something? You can stomp both these sappy, bright-eyed little attempts at getting a movie attention [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Allan Shackleton, America, cent, Colorado, Deafula, director /producer, Dracula, Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, Errol Morris, Fantasia, film, Film genres, films, Gates of Heaven, Greater London, Harlem on the Prairie, Heart of Glass, ingenious con artist, insurance policy, Jed Buell, John Waters, Les Diaboliques, London, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Movie theater, Mr. Sardonicus, preacher, prince, producer William Castle, reigning crazy director, Roger Ebert, simulation, Slaughter, Snuff, Snuff film, Terror of Tiny Town, the Cannes Film Festival, The New York Times, The New York Times Co, the The New York Times, The Tingler, The Walt Disney Company, Tiny Town, United Kingdom, United States, Vincent Price, Vincent Prince, walt disney, Werner Herzog, William Castle, writer /director
After winning an Oscar, an actor’s career is usually marked by the question: Did they live up to the award or not? Here are 10 Oscar-winning actors who have gone in completely different directions. 10. Donna Reed-Riding the Highs and Lows of Television Best Supporting Actress for From Here to Eternity (1953) Reed’s career after [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged 10 Oscar, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Actor, Actor for Ray, actress, Alan Arkin, Alexander Payne, American Idol, Antony's College, artist, Artistic Director, Barbara del Gettes, Beyond the Sea, Bobby Darin, California, Cannes, character actor, Cinema of the United States, classical pianist, Conservative Party, crooner, Dallas, Donna Reed-Riding, Entertainment_Culture, film, Foxx, France, Gene Wilder, George C. Scott, Glenda Jackson, goop.com, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly-Princess, Greater London, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwyneth Paltrow-Lifestyle Blogger, high profile actress, Human Interest, Jackson, Jamie Foxx-Multitalented Singer, Jennifer Young, Junior Transportation Minister, Kevin Spacey, Kevin Spacey-Real, London, Luise Rainer, Luise Rainer-Pioneer, Margaret Thatcher, mayor, media icon, Member Research Advisory, Monaco, original actress, Oscar, Oxford, player, Poseidon, Prime Minister, prince, Princess, queen, Rainier, Ray Charles, replacement actress, replacement judge, Richard Dreyfuss, Right, Shakespeare in Love, Sideways screenwriter, Singer, singer /songwriter, Soapdish, St. Antony's College, Star Trek: The Next Generation, suicidal poet, Supporting Actor, supporting actress, Texas, the Cannes Film Festival, The color Purple, The Country Girl, The Donna Reed Show, The Great Ziegfeld, the Oscar, the Oscars, The Player, tortured mathematician, transportation, United Kingdom, United States, Whoopi Goldberg, Women in Love
Dressing as a member of the opposite sex has a long and varied history. In the past, men and women cross-dressed to assume new roles, to enable them to do things they otherwise couldn’t, or because they just plain wanted to. Here are some individuals who for whatever reason decided to adopt the clothing of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, July 18, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Fashion, History, People · Tagged ambassador, Anne Bonny, author, Bernard Boursicot, bishop, British military, catholic church, chariot driver, Charles D’Eon, Charles VII, Charlotte Coville, Christina, Communist party, Cross-dressing, Deborah Samson, diplomat, Elagabus, emperor, Empress, Europe, France, Francois De Choisy, French Embassy, French Embassy in Beijing, Gender, Greater London, Indies, Isabelle Eberhardt, Joan, Joan of Arc, King, Lebanon, London, London Stock Exchange, M. Butterfly, Mahmoud Essadi, maid, Male opera singer, Marina the Ascetic, Mary Read, queen, Queen Christina of Sweden, Russia, Shi Pei-Pu, spy, spy and diplomat, St Peter’s Church in Rome, Surgery, United Kingdom, West Indies, Women in piracy
Before people were able to access information by way of the Internet, written text was the primary resource for knowledge. The history of books has been linked to political and economical contingencies, as well as the history of ideas and religion. In the ancient world, humans developed writings as a desire to create a lasting [...]
Posted by Bryan Johnson on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Literature · Tagged Accuray Systems, Ahmed Jibril, Alfred Kinsey, Alice in Wonderland, America, American Federation of Peace, and lecturer, Anne Sullivan, Arnold Arboretum, artificial intelligence, Astronomer, author, biologist, businessman, Campania, Caserta, catholic church, Central Europe, Central Intelligence Agency, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, co-author, College of Engineering, Cologne’s Faculty of Theology, computer scientist, Congress, Divine Things, Drug Enforcement Administration, faster-than-light travel hypothesis, Fatima, Flying Saucers, food, foreign minister, Founder, France, freelance writer, Frost Fairies, Frost King, geologist, Germany, Greater London, Harvard, head, Heinrich Kramer, Helen Keller, Helen Keller Frost Fairies, Hilary Evans, Hitler, Holy Office, Human sexuality, Inc., interstellar travel, Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain Incorporated, Italy, J. Allen Hynek, Jacob Sprenger, Jacques Vallée, James H. Jones, jesus, John Doe, Jose da Fonseca, Joseph Lash, Judith Reisman, justice minister, Kindle, KINDLE GROUP, King, Kinsey Institute, Kinsey Institute for Research, Kinsey Reports, law abiding handbook, Leonard C. Lewin, Lester Coleman, Libya, Libyan government, London, London court, Lonnie VanZandt, Lyndon B. Johnson, major U.S. cities, Margaret Canby, Maria Valtorta, Marian, Michael Anagnos, michigan, model, movable type printing press, multidimensional travel, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, National Advisory Committee, nazi party, New York, New York City, New York Federal court, new york times, Nicholas Pende, Nook, Nook Industries, North America, official U.S. policy, Palestine, Pan American World Airways, PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS INC, Pedro Carolino, Perkins School, Perkins School for the Blind, physicist, Pik Botha, political activist, Polyamory, president, priest, principal investigator, Professor, professor of entomology, Province of Caserta, Province of Lucca, psychiatrist, Purdue University, respected researcher, Rockefeller Foundation, Roman Catholic Church, Roosevelt Demands, Russia, Scotland, Semtex, Sophia Hopkins, South Africa, Soviet Union, SRI International, Steven Spielberg, Sweden, teacher, The Miracle Worker, The New York Times Co, the University of Michigan, Theodore Dalrymple, Theodore Kaufman, Time Magazine, Tuscany, U.S. government, U.S. intelligence, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, University of Cologne, University of Cologne’s Faculty, University of Michigan, USD, Viareggio, Vietnam, Vittorio Tredici, Volkischer Beobachter, writer, Yi script
Here is a list of 10 great performances achieved by actors and actresses who were 70 years of age or older when their film was released. 10. Gloria Stuart, Titanic, 1997, Age 87 Kate Winslet might have been the budding star that led Titanic to box office glory, but as the elderly version of Rose [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, June 13, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged A Passage to India, Actor, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, American film directors, American Film Institute, bette davis, Birth of a Nation, Cinema Italiano, Cinema of the United States, clint eastwood, competent director, David Lean, Derek Flint, director, Duel in the Sun, Duel in the Sun and Night of the Hunter, Edith Evans, Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly Inc., Entertainment_Culture, Every Which Way But Loose, film, first Oscar, Gloria Stuart, Golden Globe, Greater London, Harold and Maude, Henry Fonda, Hollywood Foreign Press, Human Interest, hunter, India, insurance money, James Coburn, Jane, Kate Winslet, lanky character actor, last great actor, Lawrence of Arabia, Lillian Gish, London, Mass media, Minnie Castevet, Moore, New Jersey, novelist, On Golden Pond, one of the founding members, Orrin Konheim, Oscar, Our Man Flint, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter O'Toole, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Ruth Gordon, Screen Actors Guild, sean connery, Sidney Lumet, stage actor, stage and film actress, stuffy colonial magistrate, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, the Oscar, The Whales of August, Time Magazine, tom jones, United Kingdom, United States, USD, Venus
London is home to over 8 million people and being British they are born with a beer glass in hand and an incredible thirst. This is why the English pub was invented and London has several thousand public houses to choose from. It’s a hard job trying to find out the top 10 best pubs [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Travel · Tagged Actor, Ale, architect, bar, BBC, beer, black friar, Blind Beggar, Bo, British Broadcasting Corporation, car plant, cheshire cheese, cittie of yorke, Deep Purple, Districts of England, Drinking culture, Dudley Moore, Ealing, eastbrook, fleet street, food, ford, Ford Motor Company, Ford plant, Forester, Greater London, guide to london pubs, guitarist, Holborn, hospitality_Recreation, London, london pub guide, London pubs, Louise, Major, Pint, Princess, Princess Louise, pub designer, Public house, queen, red lion, Reggie, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie Kray, salisbury, Salvation Army, Thames, the falcon, Travel, travel england, travel london, United Kingdom, Victorian pub, Whitechapel, William Booth, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, York
Say the year 2012 to most people and chances are they will think of doomsday, which is remarkable considering that just ten years ago few people would have assigned any special significance to the date at all. Today, however, all one has to do is type the year into a search engine and they will [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History, Religion · Tagged adam, Amazon.com, Amazon.com.dedc, Apocalypticism, Armageddon, author, bible, Cable TV, California, Charles Taze Russell, Christian eschatology, Clare Prophet, Colorado, considerable buyer, culture, Denver, Doomsday, Earth, Edgar Cayce, Edgar Whisenaut, Elizabeth Clare, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Encouraging JWs, End time, Eschatology, Europe, farmer, federal government, food, founder and spiritual head, Greater London, Hal Lindsey, Herbert W. Armstrong, Inc., Islamic eschatology, Israel, Jack Van Impe, Jeff Danelek, Jesus Christ, John Gribben, judge, LLC, London, Marshall Applewhite, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Minister, Montana, music teacher, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New Englanders, New York, New York City, Nike, preacher, prophecy, Rancho Santa Fe, religion, San Diego police, scientist, search engine, Second Coming, Seventh Adventist Church, software patches, steamboat captain, Stephen Plagemann, United Kingdom, United States, William Miller, Worldwide Church of God, www.ourcuriousworld.com