Tim Burton had it down dab. Hair frowzled, pallid features, the theater director of Pee-Wee�s Big Adventure surprised Hollywood with a goth-geek stylus that could only be described as quirky earlier everything became quirky. He was the animator from the shadows who brought macabre and heartbreaking life to his early animated shorts, toy box allurement to his first feature film film. While Pee-Wee�s Big Adventure was a hit, it was only a brief glimpse of the sideshow theatricality Burton would use on his second feature, the fast and ghoulish Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice is really a simple fairy tale. Two newly dead newly weds, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis), want to rid their rustic home of the gaudy yuppie transplants, the Dietz�s, who�ve taken up residence. When old-fashioned ghost moves like rattling chains in the attic fails, they come up they indigence the avail of a "bio-exorcist," a grungy ghost named Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), who will guarantee to rid the home of unwanted occupants. That is, for a price.
This is one of Keaton�s finest roles. The actor topper known for his smarmy smile and plunging eyebrows imbues the appalling Betelgeuse with an almost lovable charm. Belching, farting, and scratching his crotch with ferocious abandon, he�s the disgusting child that every 12-year-old boy wants to be. But Keaton doesn�t let Beetlejuice become a elementary parody; he also gives him soul, a confidence that electrifies the chalky face paint and mould. Keaton inhabits Betelgeuse. Nearly all of the ghoulish prankster�s lines were jury-rigged and though the character is only in the film for a mere 17 transactions, they are the film�s most exhilarating and amusing minutes.
Beetlejuice is a vehicle perfectly trim for Burton�s peculiar eye. He delights in the small, Gorey-ian touches of the storey. Every frame is filled with gonzo set pattern and candy-colored nightmares, from the eccentric post-apocalyptic world waiting just outside the front door to the decadent sculptures of the Dietz menage. Much of this success is due to the collaborative nature of the film. The score, and in many ways the tone of the film, is set by composer Danny Elfman. Burton was a fan of Elfman�s rock band Oingo Boingo and the carnival atmosphere of the Elfman�s early work (in particular with the cabaret, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo) invigorates the picture. The two would afterwards go on to an even more collaborative elbow grease, Tim Burton�s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which actually should have been called Burton and Elfman�s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Bo Welch�s lay out design (he did design work on The Lost Boys) cleanly captures Burton�s goth-gone-fun parkland vision.
A subsequence to Beetlejuice has been batted around for o'er a dozen years (I saw a print ad for Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian a decennium ago and writer Warren Skaaren, wHO penned the first film, wrote a script called Beetlejuice in Love) just despite promises from every camp the world is simply left field to admiration what would, or could, happen next. For those obsessed with the film, and desperate for a sequel, thither is a healthy spattering of "fan fiction" on the net to soma out every aspect of the pageantry world of Beetlejuice.
For its 20th Anniversary Edition DVD, the only extras ar (surprisingly) a music-only audio track and three episodes of the Beetlejuice cartoon.
Aka Beetle Juice.
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Wednesday 10 September 2008
Beetlejuice
Sunday 31 August 2008
'The Future Delivery Of Medicine: 2020' To Be Forecast At London Conference
�New technologies will force fundamental change in the way healthcare systems operate. Low-cost cistron sequencing and biopharmaceuticals will make personalized medicine a reality - tailoring the treatment to the patient. The spread of broadband networks makes telemedicine workable for many, and computerized patient records will transubstantiate medical inquiry. New tomography and diagnostics technologies open the door to more preventative medical specialty.
So what will it be like to be sick in 2020? Who will treat you? How will they get nonrecreational? How volition health authorities decide which new technologies are worth the money?
These ar among the pressing questions to be examined at an international gathering of research, industriousness and insurance policy experts Nov. 6, organized by UCL Advances, UCL's centre for entrepreneurship and business fundamental interaction, and the Science|Business news service. The conference volition draw on expertise from all the new engineering strands - bioinformatics, imaging, diagnostics, devices, biopharmaceuticals and more - to make a composite picture of the patient experience in 2020, and to talk about what healthcare authorities should be doing now to prepare for that day. The outcomes will admit a survey and special report summarizing the modern scenarios - plus expert recommendations for action.
The conference is a join venture between UCL Advances and Science Business Publishing Ltd., a UK-based media company focused on R&D investment and policy crossways Europe. Learn more about the conference by visiting the site here.
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Science Business Publishing Ltd. is a London-based media company focused on R&D investment in Europe. It reports word daily online and in a weekly newsletter, and organizes events to land together public-sector researchers, corporate partners and policy makers. It was founded in 2005 by the former managing editors of the Wall Street Journal Europe and prima science journal Nature, and works with a network of 10 leading European research universities, including UCL.
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So what will it be like to be sick in 2020? Who will treat you? How will they get nonrecreational? How volition health authorities decide which new technologies are worth the money?
These ar among the pressing questions to be examined at an international gathering of research, industriousness and insurance policy experts Nov. 6, organized by UCL Advances, UCL's centre for entrepreneurship and business fundamental interaction, and the Science|Business news service. The conference volition draw on expertise from all the new engineering strands - bioinformatics, imaging, diagnostics, devices, biopharmaceuticals and more - to make a composite picture of the patient experience in 2020, and to talk about what healthcare authorities should be doing now to prepare for that day. The outcomes will admit a survey and special report summarizing the modern scenarios - plus expert recommendations for action.
The conference is a join venture between UCL Advances and Science Business Publishing Ltd., a UK-based media company focused on R&D investment and policy crossways Europe. Learn more about the conference by visiting the site here.
About Science Business
Science Business Publishing Ltd. is a London-based media company focused on R&D investment in Europe. It reports word daily online and in a weekly newsletter, and organizes events to land together public-sector researchers, corporate partners and policy makers. It was founded in 2005 by the former managing editors of the Wall Street Journal Europe and prima science journal Nature, and works with a network of 10 leading European research universities, including UCL.
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Mp3 music: Katerine
 Artist: Katerine: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Other Katerine's discography:  Robots Apres Tout Year: 2005 Tracks: 14  Live le 12 decembre Year: 2005 Tracks: 1  L' Education Anglaise Year: 1994 Tracks: 16 Along with perfomers like Dominique A. and Valerie LeMercier, singer/songwriter Philippe Katerine was among the leadership of the 'minimalist variete' motion in French pop during the mid-1990s. Drawing on influences as diverse as Burt Bacharach and Michel Legrand to the Clash and the Buzzcocks, Katerine signed to the Rosebud label and debuted with the record record album Les Mariages Chinois; for the review, L'Education Anglaise, he touched out from behind the microphone, allowing his baby Bruno and girlfriend Anne to portion vocal duties. A adjust of little Joe EPs followed, on which Katerine returned to the head of his music; the EPs were later gathered under the word form of call Mes Mauvaises Frequentations. |
R&B Teen Heart-Throb Brandon Kane Heats Up Japan
Monday 11 August 2008
Matthew Rhys - Rhys Honoured In Wales
Actor MATTHEW RHYS has been honoured for his "significant contribution" to Welsh culture.
The Edge of Love star was awarded the membership of the Gorsedd of Bards at a ceremony at Wales's National Eisteddfod.
The 32-year-old has now taken the bardic title Matthew Taf.
He says, "The honour is double or 10 times more when you discover the name calling of those who have gone before you and the things they give birth achieved.
"It's humbling to be in their number."
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Improving Problems In Sleep, Attention By Studying Bladder-Brain Link
�Bladder problems may leave a mark on the brain, by changing patterns of mentality activity, perhaps contributing to disrupted nap and problems with attention. For one in six-spot Americans world Health Organization have overactive bladder, the involuntary bladder contractions that often gun trigger more haunt urges to urinate, such mind-body connections may be of more than pedantic interest.
"We often tend to focus on just one organ, merely here we see how an abnormal organ affects the whole organism," aforesaid behavioral scientist Rita J. Valentino, Ph.D., of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who light-emitting diode the research describing how an overactive bladder adapted nervous system activity in animals.
The study appeared in the on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Overactive bladder, piece it occurs in a variety of conditions in both adults and children, is peculiarly prevalent among elderly work force, in whom an enlarged prostate secretor partially obstructs the
"We often tend to focus on just one organ, merely here we see how an abnormal organ affects the whole organism," aforesaid behavioral scientist Rita J. Valentino, Ph.D., of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who light-emitting diode the research describing how an overactive bladder adapted nervous system activity in animals.
The study appeared in the on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Overactive bladder, piece it occurs in a variety of conditions in both adults and children, is peculiarly prevalent among elderly work force, in whom an enlarged prostate secretor partially obstructs the
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Relaxace
Artist: Relaxace
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Other
Discography:
Morning Prayer
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Indicke inspirace
Year:
Tracks: 4
Dhjana
Year:
Tracks: 6
Andreas Kauffelt
Sash!
Artist: Sash!
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance
Dance: Pop
Trance
Discography:
S4!Sash!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Trilenium
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Encore Une Fois: Greatest Hits CD2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Encore Une Fois: Greatest Hits CD1
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Best Dream World Of Sash!
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Adelante (Maxisingle)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Life Goes On
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
La Primavera (Single)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
It's My Life
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Complete list of winners at the 35th annual Daytime Emmys
Anna Nicole Smith - Birkhead Explains Lingerie For Tot Comments
ANNA NICOLE SMITH's former lover LARRY BIRKHEAD has spoken out in a bid to set the record straight after buying the former Playboy pin-ups lingerie at a celebrity auction - and stating it was a keepsake for their one-year-old daughter DANNIELYNN.
Birkhead caused controversy after telling reporters he had forked out nearly $3,000 (GBP1,500) for lingerie the late star once wore for a Playboy shoot so he could give the saucy items to their tot.
But the photojournalist says his motives were innocent - insisting the lingerie represents a huge part of Smith's life, and says he will pass the garments on to their tot as soon as she is old enough to understand their meaning.
He tells Eonline.com, "I didn't buy Anna's lingerie for Dannielynn. We're still on Sesame Street. We won't get to Playboy until at least the age of 21."
"Playboy was a significant thing in her life and career. It was something that I did with pure intentions. It's something I will give her when she's an adult so she can better appreciate what her mother was about."
The tot's mum, model/actress Smith, died from an accidental overdose last February (07).
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Portugal. The Man
Artist: Portugal. The Man
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Waiter: "You Vultures!"
Year:
Tracks: 13
Claire Fitch
Verdi, Giuseppe
Artist: Verdi, Giuseppe
Genre(s):
Classical
Other
Discography:
Trovatore. Act Three, Act Four
Year: 2002
Tracks: 23
Trovatore. Act One, Act Two
Year: 2002
Tracks: 29
Simon Boccanegra. Scene Two
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Simon Boccanegra. Prologo-Prologue
Year: 2002
Tracks: 18
Otello. Act Three, Act Four
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Otello. Act One, Act Two
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Macbeth. Act Three
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Act III
Year: 2002
Tracks: 7
Act II
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Act I
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Macbeth. Act One, Act Two
Year: 1952
Tracks: 29
Great Composers
Year:
Tracks: 10
George Jones duets album features Richards, Gill
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Country legend George Jones has raided the archives for his next album, "Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets," which features 12 collaborations with the likes of Keith Richards and Dolly Parton.
Most of the tracks are leftovers from Jones' 1994 release "The Bradley Barn Sessions," which corralled such diverse stars as Richards, Mark Knopfler and Vince Gill. The new set will be issued on August 19 via Jones' own Bandit Records label.
Richards duets with Jones on the title track, Knopfler on "I Always Get Lucky With You," and Gill on "Selfishness in Man." Parton sings on "Rockin' Years," which did not make the cut for Jones' 1991 album "Friends in High Places."
Other guests include Shelby Lynne ("I Always Get It Right With You"), Ricky Skaggs ("She Once Lived Here"), Jones' ex-wife Tammy Wynette ("Lovin' You, Lovin' Me"), and their daughter Georgette Jones ("You and Me and Time").
Reuters/Billboard
Most of the tracks are leftovers from Jones' 1994 release "The Bradley Barn Sessions," which corralled such diverse stars as Richards, Mark Knopfler and Vince Gill. The new set will be issued on August 19 via Jones' own Bandit Records label.
Richards duets with Jones on the title track, Knopfler on "I Always Get Lucky With You," and Gill on "Selfishness in Man." Parton sings on "Rockin' Years," which did not make the cut for Jones' 1991 album "Friends in High Places."
Other guests include Shelby Lynne ("I Always Get It Right With You"), Ricky Skaggs ("She Once Lived Here"), Jones' ex-wife Tammy Wynette ("Lovin' You, Lovin' Me"), and their daughter Georgette Jones ("You and Me and Time").
Reuters/Billboard
Malibu Mayor: Can't We All Just Get Along?
In the wake of the fights over the weekend between paparazzi and surfers in Malibu, Mayor Conley Ulich and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca are holding a press conference to talk it all out. Should be gnarly.
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Saracen
Artist: Saracen
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Vox In Excelso
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Derbyshire's Saracen were a hard, verging on progressive, rock ensemble that became wrongly associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal -- as much due to the timing (1981) of their self-released debut album, Heroes, Saints & Fools, as for their leather jackets and handlebar mustaches. Having said that, the band never tried and true to overtly latch onto the movement's coattails, and were all fine musicians in their possess right, in particular vocaliser Steven Bettney, world Health Organization possessed a rich and powerful voice. Completed by Robert Bendelow (guitar), Richard Lowe (keyboards), Barry Yates (bass), and John Thorne (drums), Saracen earned an other clientele from influential Friday Rock Show presenter Tommy Vance, world Health Organization invited them to record a few wireless sessions and helped bolster their commercial prospects as they readied new single "No More Lonely Nights" in 1982. This, along with subsequent releases for the Neat label (the Change of Heart album and "We Have Arrived" single -- both 1984), showed the mathematical group moving in a far more commercial direction, toward the hook and synth-laden post-prog AOR of a Kansas or Magnum, to be precise. Again, not that thither was anything faulty with this, leave off for the sad reality that Saracen (now tweaked to feature film guitar player Haydn Conway, bassist Jason Gardner, and drummer Danny Spencer) had little hope of future in that scene of action while sign-language to metal-specialized Neat. The group made it to one more Friday Rock Show school term before its members vanished from sight, with only Conway resurfacing in 1996, as a member of Son of a Bitch, also featuring tierce ousted members of Saxon.
Jonathan Levine finds work after 'Wackness'
Will write and direct two projects
NEW YORK -- Jonathan Levine, whose coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" took home an audience award at the recent Los Angeles Film Festival, has set up two new projects.
The helmer will write and direct "Positive," a romantic thriller set on Martha's Vineyard that will be produced by "Wackness" producer Occupant Films. He's also penning "Echelon Vendetta," an espionage thriller based on David Stone's novel; the project has been set up at Sony.
"Positive" centers on a twenty-something who visits his fiancee's family only to be seduced by her sister. Occupant's Joe Neurauter, Felipe Marino and Keith Calder will produce the film, which is aiming for a mid-2009 start date.
"Vendetta" centers on a "cleaner," a CIA operative in charge of keeping dirty laundry from being aired in public, who after the death of a friend begins to investigate the deaths of several agents.
Levine, who is repped by UTA and manager Ragna Nervik, has concentrated on indie projects but said he'd like to strike a balance between studio and indie gigs. "I want to have a lot of the creative freedom that comes from (indie films), but I also don't want to be broke," he joked.
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