Something's Gotta Give - 2 Stars (Average)
Something's Gotta Give is a romantic comedy without substance that works because of Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.
The story line involves Harry (Nicholson) as a senior citizen that never dates any woman over 30 until he meets and falls in love with Erica (Keaton). Erica, another senior citizen, meets Harry at her Hamptons beach house and discovers that Harry is dating her daughter Marin (Amanda Peet) and about to bed her.
Harry's romantic weekend with Marin is marred by some chest pains and Erica reluctantly agrees to help nurse him back to health. Once Harry and Erica are alone together, Harry develops an interest in Erica. When Harry's young doctor starts to pursue Erica, Harry must make a commitment or lose his chance at happiness.
Something's Gotta Give is almost a piece of cake for Nicholson and Keaton. Nicholson has 12 Oscar nominations and 3 Best Actor awards for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good As It Gets while Keaton has 4 Oscar nominations and a Best Actress award for Annie Hall.
Who else do you know besides Jack Nicholson that has been nominated for an Oscar in five different decades? Nicholson has also won 7 Best Actor Golden Globe awards and has been a John F. Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
Jack Nicholson does make the people around him perform better. The evidence comes when you realize that every time Nicholson has won a Best Actor Oscar his film partner has won a Best Actress Oscar.
Louise Fletcher won the Oscar for Best Actress in One Flew Over the Cuckoo' s Nest, Shirley MacLaine won for Terms of Endearment and Helen Hunt won for As Good As It Gets.
Keaton was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress in Something's Gotta Give, won a Golden Globe, added two other lesser Best Actress awards, and picked up another two nominations. Nicholson earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.
Keaton is one the few actresses at age 60 who has been able to partner with bankable leading men. She pulls it off because she has her own sense of style and grace, not an Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy, but certainly someone to notice.
I found myself wanting to bond with Keaton. She seems to have found the secret to staying young, alive and attractive while Nicholson at 69 and counting appears his age and has not benefited from the passage of time. Keaton is one fine looking 60-year-old woman.
Also in the cast are Keanu Reeves, Paul Michael Glaser, Amanda Peet and Frances McDormand and some lesser lights.
Something's Gotta Give could have been better if writer/director Nancy Meyers was not so involved. It was not her directing but her writing that did her in.
How a young Marin (Amanda Peet) could be attracted to a man old enough to be her grandfather is beyond my comprehension and the comprehension of many young women in America, especially when the man of choice is Nicholson in this role.
It is very difficult to be both the writer and director of a film and many that have tried have not benefited from the effort.
Meyers (average rating) joins a not-so-exclusive club of fellow writer/directors who have fallen short, including Thomas Bezucha (average rating) for The Family Stone, Michael McGowan (average rating) for Saint Ralph, Jared Hess (terrible rating) for Napoleon Dynamite, Robert Rodriguez (terrible rating) for Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Paul Thomas Anderson (terrible rating) for Punch-Drunk Love. The worst of the worst was Punch-Drunk Love.
Meyers would do well to study carefully the effort of Tim McCanlies (excellent rating) in Secondhand Lions. McCanlies does pull off the dual responsibility of being a writer/director and tells a fabulous story. Another notable performance was by James L. Brooks (good rating) for Spanglish.
Jack Nicholson does have a rep for a quickie. He is on Maxim's "Top 10 Living Legends of Sex" list with an alleged 2,000 women that he has apparently slept with; if true, the vast majority of these must have come when he was younger and on top of his game.
Some of these sex partner numbers seem ridiculous. If Nicholson slept with a different woman every night, it would take him roughly five-and-half-years to get the job done.
Somehow, I doubt he was quite that active, especially since he enjoyed a 17-year relationship with Anjelica Huston who left him when Rebecca Broussard had become pregnant with Nicholson's child. He had two children with Broussard.
Some still claim that Nicholson really did bed that many women and managed to do so by being very discreet. One thing is for sure, he certainly would not need to do a tell-all book to generate income as he is already a millionaire many times over.
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A Romantic Comedy That Works With a Couple of 60+ Senior Citizens
New Kids on the Block
The time has finally opened a new group of sponsors, which leads TORCHWOOD.tv in the future. If you do not know (where you know, I come from the mouth of a month ...) I go on the website shortly, and if the door of the corner of Torchwood Fandom is good for my readers are offered the possibility of the team and the fire is lit.
Here is his new team of authors TW.tv. I, in their own words, and say little about why we write here.
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Salina Conlan (also known as blogs, "Salina") - "Hello everyone. I am on this page over the centuries, not only in heart, that they leave. I am in the U.S., and I have a serious fan of Torchwood Cyber Woman First , air (in Britain). I will be reposting, or rather, the official updates, press releases, etc., as well as news and reports on the Convention, and, perhaps, be surprised when, in an interview. Personally, I am a big fan Geeky I have costumes Ianto, Fanfic writing, and I am part of "Torchwood 3" Costumes (write), a group that probably never heard, but I promise you, Nerd all the time together in a genuine fashion Torchwood. We ask you, please do not send saboteurs way to do everything possible to avoid them. :-) Cheers! "
Dave Dunne (also known as blogs, Dave Dunne) - "This is so impressive. Name Dave, 21, and lives in Ireland. Torchwood was a fan since the release of the second row, this was my first experience in the world of Doctor Who, and I am obsessed with it ever has. Drama, action, characters, scenarios .... a bit more complicated, granted, but still. I pleased to be able to on this site, and I really want to make it even more than it already is. Personally, I master English (empire, cultural and postcolonial studies on specific ....) and I also like to fight. I can not wait for digging, and I hope everyone is happy that we have with the web site soon.:) "
Sydney Lewis (aka blogs, Digitals) - "My name is Sydney, I am 19 and in Cardiff, the city, where Doctor Who and its spin-offs. I am a big fan of Torchwood, and I decided that for this function Torchwood on TV in continue to provide a high level of service, as he was running. "
In addition, some new pictures very pleased Shabbs responsible for this new blog template, and (if it is me again!) Jenny Spence, who seems so passionate about the whole tree.
Check the current team of Trema, which has been written on this site since 2007, and my colleagues Schreiber Jane.tv Springmaus Sarah Peter Pan.
Three Cheers for the new team! Good luck to them.
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Twits
Maybe you should work with me, the second here people. I have not yet age FAVE Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney Lord, do you think?) On NBC after the absence of ER, ISH in nine years. In addition, there is a double geek Gasman, not only because I learned a good friend is on / off relationship with a certain daughter of Colin Baker, Red Dwarf, but the revival of sudden it seems real. Good times.
World MAD twitter? It seems so ...
Anyhooo ..
Doctor Who magazine journalist Benjamin Cook, the residence has been updated twitter page, people are just teasing us news saw the first episode of "The Children of the World" adventure. Jammy sod.
He confirmed that the crew and cast the choice in Cardiff on Wednesday night.
What is it that Mr. Cook, then?
In his own words, "EP 1 literally unbelievable. Better. Cliffhanger. EVER!"
(For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of twitter, Where have you been? Click here to learn more about the service, including Barack Obama!)
Well, if only the fans of their own twitter page - and, indeed, to find time to date! - Do not go bankrupt?
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Do not forget! Comic care is today, and you can create a mini-episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures with Ronnie Corbett. Get wallets and purses and generous gift!
(As an added incentive, I was at the opening of Harry Hill's TV burp, last week was not only a result of last week, but Comic relief special, too. Contains hilarious piss take on John Barrowman and the hunt for love naked men!)
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A new series of television and radio, books
Play.com are now three new Torchwood books, each with a separate release dates in July, August and September. It seems that part of "Torchwood: Radio 4 drama of 2009" series, which means that it is likely that they hear on the radio before they actually appear in stores.
It is obvious that the cause of mass speculation among fans of Torchwood is currently cast list on the website:
"The new brand, which the radio episode of Torchwood with John Barrowman, Ageman Freeman and other members dropped out of TV (all figures to confirm).
Although it seems we will see (or hear) lovely Martha Jones in the new audiobook, this is an indication Ageman be added Torchwood actor in the television show escapdes future? Or is this just a guest on the season of audio drama? Or is it simply a matter of laziness and Play.com copy / paste the list of cast "Lost Soul" Torchwood, especially in relation to the BBC's coverage of the CERN experiment in the last year?
Only time will tell .....
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The devil and the deep Blues
You all know now that John Barrowman may sing, but that some of you may not know that (among other things Torchwood cast), Gareth David-Lloyd has a considerable number of pipes on him. His group is called Blue Gillespie. With him on the guitar, Anthony Clarke, Rhys Bryant on bass and Nick Harrison on drums.
Here you will find a group through MySpace: http://www. MySpace. COM / bluegillespie
Blue Gillespie - blues / rock music lovers of all ages who are dissatisfied or pessimistic to expel demons.
The name comes from the idea that we all have to change the ego is the worst aspects of the person and the only way to prevent our anger doppelgängers polite on the surface of ventilation through the music.
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If you like what you hear, you can use the DP, the Cave of the country (this is a special version of the range), or you can keep eye on their MySpace page to see when and where their next concert will be played.
There are currently no plans for an American tour, but they are very interested in this.
If you want to finance them, with them on their MySpace or official site of Gareth: http://www.garethdavid-lloyd.co.uk/
If you like Blue Gillespie and hunger more than you can Disgracelands, which is another project of this talented musician (not Gareth) have to "Nick" on lead vocals. If you want to live, you need to fast because of their farewell concert on 4 April in LePub in Newport, Wales.
Check: WWW. MySpace. com/kudos06
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Benefits of PC Satellite TV
Method of use of television services over a computer today is that you are connected to the Internet, as well as the software needed to perform this function. This is what attracts the majority of fans in front of the TV. Indeed, many people who have a choice, and went to the high-tech packaging, and not as a satellite television. PC Satellite TV for normal duties on satellite television, and that really fascinates and is interested Amateurs television. This article explains the reason for the popularity of PC satellite TV around the world.
Method of use of television services over a computer today is that you are connected to the Internet, as well as the software needed to perform this function. This is what attracts the majority of fans in front of the TV. Indeed, many people who have a choice, and went to the high-tech packaging, and not as a satellite television. PC Satellite TV for normal duties on satellite television, and that really fascinates and is interested Amateurs television. This article explains the reason for the popularity of PC satellite TV around the world.
The ultimate reason for the spread of satellite television is that users can be more than a thousand channels to choose from, any program that makes your personality best matches, but not limited to boring TV, so that the public has no other choice. In addition, the visual experience is that no one could have thought that was impossible before. It gives you full control over all variables that are associated with the television channel guide, locks, surveillance of their parents, among others.
Otherwise, it is no more and no more than obvious that provides high quality sound. If your favorite Star World channel, you will be surprised that the stars all available channels with high quality, all the same as satisfaction of customary procedures in order to know. World Star with the latest updates and news show in Hollywood, the stars of sport Favorite sports events, wherever and whenever you want, and so on and so forth. The point is that this is a complete package of entertainment in their own four walls.
However, since cable TV has multiple subscriptions, a provider of satellite TV are always looking for more TV channels in the market. In the old days, satellite TV has a bad reputation, not in a position of high quality care in bad weather because the signal is affected. Technology of PC Satellite TV for many years, because today, using a broadband connection and a reliable software, you have access to a variety of programs at any time.
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'American Idol' judge Kara DioGuardi defends' Bikini Girl 'Attack
"We are not talking about bikini if she killed the song 'singer / performers said scantily dressed contestant.
Kara DioGuardi is not afraid to get a little nasty its premiere episode as the fourth "American Idol" judge on Tuesday. And it has no regrets about his verbal altercation with a 20-year-old competition "Katrina" Bikini Girl "Darrell.
"I love the girls", DioGuardi told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM-radio show Wednesday (January 14). "Case in Bikini Girl - be honest - I thought it was better than the body ... the face."
When Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson let the bikini-clad Darrell through after mediocre version of Mariah Carey in "Vision of Love", DioGuardi cost to the decision, saying it lacks "swing". To prove Darrell, what it should have been done, DioGuardi sang the song itself - which Darrell replied: "Your demonstration was not better."
Although she does not have positive things said about her singing talent, DioGuardi had some words of Bikini Girl. "To her credit, she got so much attention. It was probably a good challenge to be a bikini at the end of the day," said DioGuardi. "But we are not talking about the bikini, if she killed the song."
The new judge also said she was aware that addresses the issue when you are working on the TV talent show.
"Of course, I really want a girl, but I am not just looking for a pretty girl", DioGuardi said its standards for women contestants. "I'm looking for the incredible voice, great stage presence. I am a great champion of women. I am not a woman, which is now dragging the woman down."
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Prison Break Canceled
Fox announced Tuesday morning that the "Prison Break" have to run it after four seasons this spring, says Variety. The drama returns to the schedule for Friday, April 17 at 8 pm on the last round.
In other Fox News, the network confirmed that his "American Idol" results show will air in the traditional media slot 9 hours after all.
"Idol in the Wednesday edition will move to 9 hours after the show returns to its studio in the contest phase. This means that the new drama "Lie to Me", originally airing of "Idol" on Wednesdays at 9 pm, will be running until 8.
In addition, Fox announced that the new animated comedy "Sit down, shut up" will air Sunday at 8:30 pm starting April 19.
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