Due Date – review

The odd-couple cross-country road movie (starting with It Happened One Night and leading on to Midnight Run and Planes, Trains and Automobiles) is here given a sporadically very funny outing by the director of The Hangover. For reasons hardly worth going into, Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr), a successful, easily irritated architect, is forced to drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Los Angeles, in company with the young, obese Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis). Peter wants to get home to be with his wife who is about to give birth to their first child. Ethan is to audition in Hollywood, though Jackass is the only obvious place for his talents. Peter is dislikable in an understandable way; Ethan is an irredeemable monster of obtuse offensiveness. Phillips keeps the horrendous journey moving at a decent pace, the scenery is attractive and there are some amusing cameos, most especially from Danny McBride as an angry Iraq war veteran working as a Western Union clerk. The dramatic arc that takes Peter and Ethan to the end of their trans-continental rainbow ends with the usual sentimental pot of fool's gold.

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Jusin Bieber Finds Kim Kardashian Hot – Charity Work for Tennessee

Justin Bieber cannot hide his praises for reality TV star Kim Kardashian. Although Kim Kardashian has already received numerous threats against her life for being close to the Canadian young pop sensation, Justin himself says that Kim is “extremely hot” and a nice person inside. He says they are just friends as they often talk all the time using his Blackberry Messenger.

Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber has been working together for a photoshoot, which will appear in the Elle magazine. Justin gushes that Kim is really beautiful and they often get in touch despite their busy schedules.

Also, pop star Justin Bieber is now busy focusing on charity work. I think it’s his way of giving back to his fans what they gave to him. He wouldn’t be famous at all if it weren’t for them. Last week, he personally gave the $5,000 check donation from Grammy Foundation and Best Buy for the music education program in a Florida school.

Just the other night, Justin Bieber did a good deed again as he decided to give $1.06 for every ticket purchased to the flood relief program in Tennessee. Justin performed at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, and as we all can remember they haven’t recovered from the massive spring storm floods that left many people dead and homeless.

Justin was happy that he was able to do something for the victims, helping out is really something important to him. His concert raised $32,000 for the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Others stars who have performed benefit concerts for Tennessee victims are Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha.

After his charity event, Justin was eyed talking about celebrity stars that he would someday want to date. Guess who? Teenage Dream singer Katy Perry who’s 9 years his senior and Sheryl Cole who’s 11 years his senior he knows they’re too old for him, but it’s just a dream he said. But he would preferably like to date someone like them, funny and hot.



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The Hurt Locker: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated film

1. ‘Hurt Locker’ is American military slang for being hurt by an explosion – you get “sent to the hurt locker”.


2. Mark Boal, nominated for Best Screenplay, developed the story after spending two weeks embedded with a bomb disposal squad in Baghdad. His experiences were then fictionalised for The Hurt Locker. He said: “It was difficult to quantify the threat when you don’t speak the language and the enemy is not wearing a uniform or engaging in traditional warfare but using hit-and-run ambush tactics. I tried to capture all this in The Hurt Locker.”


3. Boal has written for Playboy.


4. The film's opening quote, "The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug", comes from New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges’ 2002 book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning.


5. Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar - and none of the previous female nominees went on to claim the award.

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6. Bigelow, whose previous films include Point Break, is up against ex-husband James Cameron in the Best Director category. The pair were married from 1989-1991. Cameron is nominated for box office smash Avatar.


7. The Hurt Locker is an independent film made on a relatively low-budget of $11million. It is one of the lowest-grossing films to be nominated for Best Picture - it has made less than $17 million at the box office so far, compared to Avatar’s record-breaking $2 billion.


8. Best Actor nominee Jeremy Renner has previously appeared in 28 Weeks Later, where he played Sergeant Doyle, and as Jesse James’s cousin Wood Hite in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.


9. Co-star Anthony Mackie plays rapper Tupac Shakur in Notorious.


10. The film may be Oscar-nominated but it is not free of timeline errors. Set in 2004, soldiers play on an Xbox 360 which wasn’t released until 2005, YouTube gets a mention even though it did not launch until 2005 and 2008 game Gears of War is seen being played

Source:mirror.co.uk/

Pauly ‘Shore’

What is it about “Jersey Shore’’ that people respond to? That awful hair? The awful tans? Those awful accents? All were on display Thursday as Pauly D, our favorite character not named Snooki on the MTV reality show, made a paid appearance at McFadden’s. Pauly, whose real name is Paul Delvecchio, fancies himself a DJ so he spun a few tunes for the folks who showed up to see him.

Seeing stars
Fourteen-year-old Anthony O’Leary credits Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner for making him feel comfortable on the set of “The Company Men,’’ director John Wells’s fine new film about corporate downsizing. It’s the first film for O’Leary, who plays Affleck’s son. “While John was setting up scenes, Kevin played football with me and some other kids,’’ said O’Leary, who lives in Norton and goes to the Moses Brown School in Providence. “Ben just talked to me about normal stuff, asked me about my life.’’ The made-in-Massachusetts movie, which also stars Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, and Rosemarie DeWitt, got good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival and a rave response at this week’s screening at the Coolidge. Another local actor with a plum role is Lance Greene, the bloodless lawyer who has pivotal scenes with both Affleck and Jones. Could this be a big break for Greene, who produced and starred in “On Broadway’’? “I do think it’s a step in the right direction,’’ he told us yesterday. “If people see that you’ve worked with that type of talent, it can open up a lot of doors.’’


In limbo
Last year, “Late Night’’ writer and Newton native Brian Kiley uprooted his family, moving from New York to Los Angeles to join his employer - and former fellow CCD student in Brighton - “Tonight Show’’ host Conan O’Brien. Now, after just seven months, it’s all over, and Kiley isn’t sure what’s next, including how much severance he’ll receive. (You’ll recall that O’Brien reached a $45 million deal with NBC to exit the show and, of that, $12.5 million would be earmarked for his staffers.) “They haven’t told us,’’ says Kiley, who has written bits for O’Brien for 16 years. “I don’t know if they haven’t figured it out.’’ LA doesn’t feel like home, but Kiley says he’s reluctant to move his 12- and 14-year-old kids twice in a year. He told us he’s been touched by all of the pro-Conan rallies, and says he and other former staffers are looking forward to being back at work soon. “We’re hoping that [Conan’s] back on the air in just a few months.’’


Theater benefit
The ART, Punchdrunk, and the cast of “Sleep No More’’ are doing a benefit performance of the sold-out show Wednesday. Proceeds will benefit Partners In Health’s relief efforts in Haiti. “I salute the artists involved in Sleep No More for making this contribution possible,’’ said ART artistic director Diane Paulus.


She draws a crowd
So many handsome men, so little time. Hasty Pudding honoree Anne Hathaway enjoyed a feast with a group of Harvard fellows before bolting Boston. Following her Hasty fete, the Oscar-nominated actress joined the Harvard Krokodiloes - the university’s oldest a cappella singing group - for a dinner prepared by Henrietta’s chef Peter Davis. The menu included herb-crusted breast of chicken, grilled salmon, oven-roasted veggies, and, of course, a hasty pudding dessert.


DeCordova fete
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night could keep the crowd away from Thursday’s opening-night reception for the 2010 DeCordova Biennial at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln. Over 1,100 people attended, including collectors Barbara Lee, Don Stanton, and John Shore: artists William Pope.L, Oscar Palacio, August Ventimiglia, Karin Weiner, and Laurel Sparks; gallerists Abby Ross and Kristen Dodge, Russell LaMontagne, Camilo Alvarez, and Howard Yezerski; and assorted others, namely the MFA’s William Stover, Skinner CEO Karen Keane, Art Forum’s Nuit Banai, and art critic Francine Koslow Miller. We’re told police had to turn away over 100 cars and some people parked a quarter mile away and hoofed it.


Around town
Comedian Eddie Griffin’s doing his bit to stimulate the local economy. Griffin, who’s doing two shows at the Wilbur tonight, had a lengthy list of needs. The comedian’s rider included bottles of Veuve Clicquot, a carton - no, not just a pack - of American Spirit cigarettes, and a brand new pair of White Nike Air Force Ones. . . . Boston Blazers stars Nick Cotter and Kyle Ross joined the Sparks dancers to mingle with moviegoers at a screening of “From Paris With Love’’ at the AMC Loews Boston Common. . . . Onetime “Bond’’ girl Jane Seymour lunched yesterday at the new Legal C Bar at Legacy Place in Dedham.

Globe correspondent Nick A. Zaino III contributed. Read the Names blog at www.boston.com/namesblog. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.

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Hollywood

Oscar de la Renta on 'The View': Don't Miss This

Barbara Walters said on Friday's episode of The View that Fashion Friday guest Oscar de la Renta has reached "the highest peak of fashion" but has "never forgotten where he came from". The 77-year-old Dominican -- iconic! -- designer talked about the situation in Haiti, and subjects personal to him.

Oscar de la Renta told the ladies of The View that Americans have done amazing things to provide relief to the people of Haiti in the wake of their earthquake disaster, but de la Renta added this caveat: "We tend to sometimes move on to the next tragedy."

De la Renta told the story of how he wanted to be a painter and traveled to Spain from the Dominican Republic. He said that his mother made it possible for him to pursue his dream, and when he arrived in Spain, he realized that he loved fashion. De la Renta gave up painting altogether when he moved to America to focus on his fashion career.

In an admirably humble interview, de la Renta also dished on dressing First Ladies. Watch the video to see part of what he had to say.

Meanwhile here's an interesting tidbit. Oscar de la Renta has been married two times, the first time to French Vogue editor-in-chief fashion consultant Francoise de Langlade. She once said about Oscar de la Renta's designs: "Oscar is not my favorite designer--just one of them."



Source:limelife.com/