Entertainment Agency

Any event like corporate events, private parties, concerts, special events, festivals, trade shows and fundraisers would be incomplete without some form of entertainment. It is customary that there might be some bands or musicians who would keep the people entertained. Otherwise, your event would be such a flop that no one would attend anymore if you’d invite them again. Music is the life of the party! Without one, your affair will have a funereal atmosphere to it and your guests would rather be in other places than yours. But don’t despair. The Famous Warrior can get you all the bands, artists and musicians that you’ll ever need to liven up your party!
Weddings, for instance, would be incomplete without the wedding bands to serenade the newlyweds and the guests. This is a celebration and a milestone and what a great way to celebrate it than to have some music that allows us to remember love and how it feels. A wedding band can do just that with a set of love songs or even some dance tunes for the young and young at hearts. Function bands can liven up any corporate events. Who says that business functions need to be serious? They are also great for any special events like debuts, proms, wedding anniversaries and birthday celebrations. Nowadays, to be able to achieve a very high party rating – there must be a band where everybody can dance or sing to their heart’s content.
If you’re looking for artists or musicians or even bands that you want to perform for your functions or parties, an artist agency like the Famous Warrior should be the one that you should go to. You would be able to get the big name talent from an entertainment agency like the Famous Warrior. You can let them handle the contacting of the talent just like an agency or you can have them act as producer as well to handle the entire musical portion of the event. You can choose from among their roster of talents who you want to perform as corporate function bands or you can give them an idea of who you have in mind and they will work to find that perfect act. Whether it’s a school dance or corporate events, the Famous Warrior Agency will do all the work so you can concentrate on the business at hand.
The Famous Warrior Agency is an entertainment agency that is based in London and the South Coast, UK. They develop entertainment artists, promote session musicians as well as cover bands and they also give great advice for event entertainment. There are no simple or complicated events for them. They will work just as hard for weddings or school dances as they do for corporate events.

entertainments it means digital

Entertainment is a lifeline to many workaholics. Being a broad term, it is hard to sum up the definition of entertainment expressing just few mediums. There are many mediums and ways of getting entertained and home entertainments is the wider one. There are many modes and mediums that give pleasure or relaxation to the audience. Therefore, the audience participates in entertainment passively where these can be in form of watching opera or a movie or actively watching as in computer games. There are man sources of home entertainment that include the following:
Cinema: possible the most appreciable and demanded means of entertainment is cinema. This provides moving pictures in the form of art tat are known as films or movies. Theatre: Home Theatre is known as the second common medium of superb entertainment and comprises live performance such as plays, farces, musicals, monologues and pantomimes. Market has been flooded with a number of home theater models that bring real like pictures and entrainment experience to the viewers.
DVD Players: Next important medium of being entertained is via DVD Players. Offering greater flexibility of movie selection, DVD Players have entered the scene. These favor the option of enjoying more than one movie watch at a time, thus offering exclusive power packed entertainment to the viewers.CDs: possible the best option of entertainments for music freaks. These have been the common means of cherishing those lonely moments when the rhythm dances on the beats of different mood.
Portable TVs: in the modern era, when everything is tuning mobile, there is hardly any surprise left in the introduction of Portable TVs. As the name suggests, these TVs can be carried along wherever one goes for added entertainment experience. These are loved by those who love t spend their hours sitting in front of televisions and do not miss out their favorite shows.Games: Games are a perfect means of relaxation and diversion that has been another popular means of home entertainment. Considered to be an exceptional entertainment medium for kids, the games offered are also targeted at offering absolute pleasure to the adults as well.
All these mediums have proven that technology potential that ends to change the style of living of an individual. These days, if we talk about entertainments it means digital. Commonly used digital home entertainment product in homes for entertainments are Television, VCD Players, DVD Players, Flat TVs, Home Theatre, LCD TVs & Plasma TVs

Game Entertainment

    Amsterdam July 23rd 2010. Recently Game Entertainment Europe (GEE) and IGG have signed a cooperation contact with Bigpoint for the joint-publishing of Lords Online. From today Lords Online can be played on the German portal of Bigpoint at http://www.blogger.comBigpoint has integrated the full German version of the game in their games portfolio (single sign-on) and will take care of promotion and payments. GEE will provide community management and player support. Bigpoint and GEE will publish the English version of Lords Online in the near future too.
    Lords Online is a free-to-play browser based strategy game with role playing (RPG) elements. The game can be played to combat with thousands of other users over the Internet. The player starts to build his empire from the ground up and the game allows the player to govern his people and protect them from other threatening lords.
   Bigpoint is an online-game developer, publisher, and content provider for large media concerns. Bigpoint-developed games are played by over 130 million people in more than 25 languages, are free-to-play anytime, anywhere, and require no download or installation. The company’s portfolio includes games in a quality which until now was associated exclusively with CD or console games. Over 450 employees from some 35 different countries work at the world’s largest supplier of browser-based games; at the company headquarters in Hamburg, Germany or at one of the other locations in Berlin, San Francisco, and Malta. Bigpoint’s many distinctions in the industry include the “Fastest Growing Larger Company” and “Uniqueness of Offering” prizes at the 2010 Media Momentum Awards, as well as the MTV Skyscraper Award for extraordinary achievement in game development. For more information or press material, please visit the press area at www.blogger.com

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The Colorful Entertainment

　　Surrounded by the colorful atmosphere of San Diego neighborhood of Little Italy, located within walking distance of the magnificent harbor of San Diego and just minutes from the bustling city center of San Diego. Little Italy will come alive with the dance music, and cuisine of Sicily, as part of the celebration of the annual Festival of India Sicilian Street.It will not be a party without food Sicily Italy so joined the restaurant Little Italy to Sicily many culinary specialties will be on Tarantino sausage, and other suppliers. 
    Festival visitors can also shop and relax in two of wine and Peroni beer garden, among the booths that offers Italian-themed artifacts and services.People will actually danced in the streets, and no wonder. The event features nationally acclaimed directory of the Roman Holiday Ensemble includes music of Italy and Sicily as well as Sinatra and Louie Prima balance show.

    Featured singers, many straight from Sicily, entertained the crowd with everything from swing to jazz Sicily, as well as traditional melodies and folk of Sicily and Italy.A tent will feature photographs of the Sicilian culture and cultural events by authors and artisans reflecting the heritage of Sicilian Americans of San Diego. This area will also feature displays such as improving the honorable tradition of fish fillet Sicilian embroidery, produce and market the fish, and many more, organized by the Society San Diego Convivio.Entertainment includes four stages of entertainment in Sicily and Italy.
   At noon, dozens of costumed dancers, musicians and representatives of Italy in San Diego will parade through the streets carrying flags from different regions of Sicily and Italy. It is suitable for families with children. All children’s activities are free, and includes a large inflatable slide, a puppet show, face painting, production of children singing and dancing, and other activities to keep Bambini entertained throughout the day – without emptying the pockets of their parents!.Free parking and shuttle available. Park NORTHERN many county administration building and look for double-decker bus that takes you to the Festival. Comfortable and convenient San Diego Trolley stop within a block of the Festival.

‘Stargate’ Producers Land A Leo

Robert Cooper and Brad Wright, co-creators and executive producers of the three television series that make up the Stargate franchise, are to be rewarded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia for their contributions to that Canadian province's film industry. The pair are to receive one of the Foundation's 2009 Leo Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
"Robert and Brad's achievements with the Stargatefranchises have brought international attention and acclaim to BC film and television and, in the process, made them an institution on the West Coast," said Leo Awards President Walter Daroshin.
Wright and Cooper were show-runners on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. They are currently at work on the upcoming SGU: Stargate Universe. All three series are shot in and around Vancouver in British Columbia.
Stargate SG-1 was a spinoff from the 1994 theatrical science fiction film Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. Their roles were recast for SG-1, which ran for 10 seasons. Stargate Atlantis debuted before SG-1 ended and lasted five seasons.
SGU: Stargate Universe will debut in the United States as a two-hour movie event on Syfy in the Fall. Wright and Cooper will serve as executive producers and writers on the series, which revolves around a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians. The group must fend for themselves after they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, the Destiny, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. The cast includes Robert Carlyle, Justin Louis, Brian J. Smith, Elyse Levesque, David Blue, Alaina Huffman, Jamil Walker Smith, Ming-Na and Lou Diamond Phillips.
The LEO Awards were established in 1998 to celebrate excellence in British Columbia film and television. The Celebration and Gala Ceremonies will take place May 8th and 9th in Vancouver. An Outstanding Achievement Award will also be presented to stunt co-ordinator and actor Jacob Rupp. Rupp has worked on many films and shows shot in British Columbia, including First Blood, The X-Files,Andromeda, The Outer Limits, X2 and Smallville.

Holographic TV on the Horizon

Don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3D television, one capable of letting you watch just about any film or TV show you want. According to a report at CNN, the key to a new breakthrough that may enable you to do just that in only five to ten years lies in a rewritable and erasable holographic system made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.
Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told the news organization that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.
"This is a prerequisite for any type of moving holographic technology. The way it works presently is not suitable for 3-D images," he said.The researchers produced displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.
There are no more great barriers to overcome now, Peyghambarian said.According to Peyghambarian, these holographic televisions could be constructed as a screen on the wall (like flat panel displays) that show 3-D images, with all the image writing lasers behind the wall; or they could be like a horizontal panel on a table with holographic writing apparatus underneath."Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."
Imagine a football match on your coffee table, or horror-movie villains jumping out of your wall. Or Princess Leia in glorious 3D standing right beside your beer can and popcorn.Meanwhile, Justin Lawrence, a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at Bangor University in Wales believes five to ten years is too optimistic to see consumer applications of this technology."It's one thing to demonstrate something in a lab but it's another thing to be able to produce it cheaply and efficiently enough to distribute it to the mass market," Lawrence said.
Nevertheless, according to the report, there are reasons to be optimistic that additional resources will be channeled into developing this technology more quickly, including a major financial push by the Japanese government to create three-dimensional, virtual-reality television by 2020.All of which, sound very, very cool.

Writer Michael Crichton Succumbs to Cancer

He is lauded as one of the most innovative science fiction writers in recent memory, a scribe whose work about alien pathogens and re-animated dinosaurs became the stuff of Hollywood legend. But today, the world mourns the death of author Michael Crichton, who passed away unexpectedly in Los Angeles on Tuesday, after a courageous and private battle against cancer.
He wrote numerous blockbusters, some of which sold more than 100 million copies, translated into 30 languages worldwide. Moreover, many of his books became major Hollywood movies, including Jurassic Park, Rising Sun and Disclosure.A man of multiple creative talents, he also co-wrote the script for the blockbuster Twister, helmed The Great Train Robbery, and in 1994 created the award-winning television series ER.
He has even had a dinosaur named for him, Crichton's ankylosaur."The Andromeda Strain", which catapulted him to Hollywood fame after it was published in 1969, told the story of US scientists battling an alien virus that lands in New Mexico from outer space and drives humans to bizarre and grisly deaths.
In "Jurassic Park", made into a blockbuster 1993 movie, Crichton's human characters were chased around by rampaging dinosaurs created genetically on an island run by an ambitious scientist."The world knew him as a great storyteller that challenged our preconceived notions about the world around us—and entertained us all while doing so," the family statement said. "His family and friends knew Michael Crichton as a devoted husband, loving father and generous friend who inspired each of us to strive to see the wonders of our world through new eyes", it went on. "Through his books, Michael Crichton served as an inspiration to students of all ages, challenged scientists in many fields, and illuminated the mysteries of the world in a way we could all understand," the statement added.
"He leaves behind the greatest gifts of a thirst for knowledge, the desire to understand, and the wisdom to use our minds to better our world."The family appealed for privacy and said no details of the writer's funeral would be released.was born in October 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He studied anthropology at Harvard and taught at Cambridge University in England before spending time in Europe and North Africa.

He then returned to the United States to train as a doctor, writing thrillers to pay his university fees.His first hit, "The Andromeda Strain", was written while he was still in medical school and quickly caught on upon its release in 1969. It was a featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and was sold to Universal in Hollywood for $US250,000.
Steven Spielberg paid tribute to Crichton. "Michael's talent outscaled even his own dinosaurs of Jurassic Park," the producer/director said in a statement. "He was the greatest at blending science with big theatrical concepts, which is what gave credibility to dinosaurs again walking the earth. Michael was a gentle soul who reserved his flamboyant side for his novels. There is no one in the wings that will ever take his place."
John Wells, executive producer of ER called the author "an extraordinary man. Brilliant, funny, erudite, gracious, exceptionally inquisitive and always thoughtful. No lunch with Michael lasted less than three hours and no subject was too prosaic or obscure to attract his interest. Sexual politics, medical and scientific ethics, anthropology, archaeology, economics, astronomy, astrology, quantum physics and molecular biology were all regular topics of conversation."
ER offered a fresh take on the TV medical drama, making doctors the central focus rather than patients.In the early life of ER, Crichton, who hadn't been involved in medicine for years, and Spielberg, would take part in writers' room discussions.In recent years, Crichton was the rare novelist granted a White House meeting with President George Bush, perhaps because of his scepticism about global warming, which Crichton addressed in the 2004 novel, "State of Fear"A new novel by Crichton had been tentatively scheduled to come out next month, but publisher HarperCollins said the book was postponed indefinitely because of his illness.

Dom DeLuise Dead at 75

Dom DeLuise, who brought his unique comedic gifts to many films passed away Monday evening in his sleep, according to his son's publicist. He was 75.
DeLuise appeared in several Mel Brooks films, including Blazing Saddles and Silent Movie. Later, he was a frequent co-star of Burt Reynolds, appearing in films like The End, Smokey and the Bandit II and The Cannonball Run.
Reynolds released a statement to EntertainmentTonight Tuesday morning. "I was thinking the other day about this," Reynolds said. "As you get older you think about this more and more, I was dreading this moment. Dom always made everyone feel better when he was around. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. I will miss him very much."
DeLuise was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. In the 1960s he had bit parts in a handful of movies, including Fail Safe (1964), but became well known as a regular on The Entertainers and a Dean Martin variety show. He had his own summer replacement show in 1968 and was a regular on Glen Campbell'sGoodtime Hour in 1971-72.
DeLuise made his directorial debut in 1973 with Hot Stuff.
Later in his career, DeLuise supplied his vocal talents to animated films such as An American Tail andAll Dogs Go to Heaven.
Dom DeLuise was married to Carol Arthur, and was the father of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise, and actors David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise.

Are Big Studio Mergers Coming?

Right up front we'll admit that for the moment this is nothing more than an intriguing headline driven by high-power speculation, yet it wouldn't be unheard of if some of the big studios were to soon engage in mergers.
It's a theory that veteran investor Mario Gabelli told Barron's magazine recently. Gabelli, it seems, expects a wave of consolidation in the industry over the next few months.
Gabelli told Barron's magazine that he expects Paramount Pictures to soon merge with Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures or another studio as a way to cut costs.
"Today there are seven or eight motion-picture studios. A round of consolidation will occur in the next six to 12 months because of the costs of financing, prints and advertising, the benefits of globalization and such," said Gabelli. "We hear talk of something going on."
It seems perhaps counter-intuitive with some of the current tentpoles seemingly making money hand over fist, plus record annual profits for studios. But if you stop to consider the enormous up-front risks, preposterously high marketing budgets (sometimes as costly as the films themselves), empowerment of independent filmmakers thanks to advancing technology, and lost revenue due to challenges from other forms of media, such a move might make sense from a corporate perspective.
Moreover, with vertical integration and corporate ownership of major studios (Universal Studios owned by GE, Warner Bros Pictures owned by Time Warner, etc.) — and the current economic downturn — corporate owned studios are being left with dwindling advertising budgets.
Quite frankly, this doesn't sound like a good thing to us. Many believe that corporate ownership of the studios has stifled overall creativity as continued emphasis is placed on the reworking of owned properties and FX-driven "event films," which nonetheless offer several irresistible lures for corporate management, including increased profitability from marketing and merchandising tie-ins.
Somewhere along the way, the studios seem to have largely forgotten that at the end of the day, it's all about the story.

Warner Bros. Celebrates Success

Warner Home Video Canada held its quarterly press event in Toronto on Thursday, January 14. The Oscar-themed event, staged at the Capitol Theatre, was appropriate given that award season is upon us. And because release dates for Warner Home Video titles are the same in Canada as in the U.S., we were more than happy to make the trip.
In the spirit of the event, president John Grant was escorted to the stage by shade-wearing security. He started by saying that "2009 was an amazing year", referencing the record theatrical box office enjoyed by the industry worldwide.
Warner, he continued, pulled in $4 billion in box office, thanks to having nine films hit number 1, and eight earning more than $100 million. "The state of the industry is very healthy."
Manager of publicity Dyan Eaton took over at that point, introducing a series of clips of memorable Oscar moments, including David Niven and the streaker, Marlon Brando's rejection, Jack Palance's one-armed push-ups, and Halle Berry's cry-fest.
Eaton was then joined on stage by Chris Lewchuk, senior publicist, who was wearing a bald cap and was completely covered in gold paint. Lewchuk was much more animated than the traditional Oscar as he walked media through Warner Bros. upcoming releases.
One significant new packaging option from Warner Bros. is the new Blu-ray Combo Pack, which includes DVD, Blu-ray and digital copy editions of a film in one package. Lewchuk said the new SKU was so audiences could "decide how and where they want to watch."
Chuck: The Complete Second Season was released on January 5 and should already be on rotation in your home.
New Warner Bros. films coming soon to DVD and Blu-ray include Whiteout (January 19), starring Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshall stationed in Antarctica, The Invention of Lying (January 19), starring Ricky Gervais — who will be hosting the Golden Globes this weekend — and Jennifer Garner, and The Final Destination in 3D (January 5) includes both 2D and 3D versions.
Films being released on Blu-ray for the first time include: Fame (January 26), The Green Berets (January 5) and Mystic River (February 2).
Some of the best series from Britain continue to find their way to North America courtesy of Warner Bros.
Doctor Who: The Complete Specials, releasing on February 2 on DVD and Blu-ray, includes the four specials that round out David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor: "The Next Doctor", "Planet of the Dead", "The Waters of Mars", and the two-part "The End of Time".
The seventh season of MI-5 — known as Spooks in Jolly Old England — comes out on January 26.
Series 11 and Series 12 of Top Gear, which is more fun with motor vehicles than you can possible imagine, landed on DVD on January 12.
Also coming from Warner Bros. in 2010, but not yet dated, are films such as The Informant! and Where the Wild Things Are, and Halo Legends, an anthology of eight short animated films, each created by a different studio, set in the Halo universe, popularized by the video games.

Are Hollywood Celebrities Being Murdered? Randy Quaid Thinks So.

Either a shadowy group responsible for murdering Hollywood celebrities is out to kill actor Randy Quaid and his wife, or the celebrity couple are suffering from paranoia-fueled delusions triggered by substance-abuse. Or perhaps something else altogether.
Most believe it's the latter two. And by most, we mean everyone except Dog the Bounty Hunter (and we seriously doubt he believes their story, either—more on that in a bit).
The older brother of actor Dennis Quaid was arrested last Thursday in Vancouver by several Canada Border Service Agency officials and police officers on outstanding warrants from the United States. Randy Quaid's 47 year-old wife, Evi, was arrested, too.
The couple appeared to be living out of a 10 year-old Toyota.
The couple reportedly failed to show up for a court hearing in Santa Barbara, Calif., on allegations they were squatting in the guest house of a Montecito home they once owned in the 1990s. Evi was also charged with resisting arrest.
After their arrest the Quaids made an appearance before the Immigration and Refugee Board for a detention hearing on Friday where they filed for refugee status. Quaid alleges that a shadowy group he calls 'Star Whackers' is responsible for killing a number of his Hollywood friends, and is now after he and his wife.
Quaid cited the deaths of Dark Knight star Heath Ledger and David Carradine of Kung Fu and the Kill Billfranchise as examples.
In a handwritten note, shown to media by their Vancouver-based lawyer, Brian Tsuji, the couple said: "Yes we are requesting asylum from Hollywood 'STAR WHACKERS.'"
When the issue was raised about his reported problems with substance abuse, 66 year-old Randy Quaid denied the couple had drug or alcohol problems.
Evi Quaid told reporters that "Hollywood is murdering its movie stars for ad sales."
A secret group of international assassins targeting celebrities, you say? Hollywood studios offing its stars to raise ticket revenue? Or how about disgruntled moviegoers?
If all this sounds a bit whacked to you, it gets better. The couple's verbal plea has piqued curiosity about who, or what, 'star whackers' refers to. And the plea may allow the couple to stay in B.C. as refugee claimants.
Which might just be the point.
Meanwhile, a private investigator told Sun Media that the conspiracy theory Evi Quaid hopes will allow her and Randy to claim refugee status in Canada is fictitious.
"Evi believes the ‘union mob’ is out to destroy them, and that they're going to kill Randy and herself and make it look like a murder-suicide," said Becky Altringer by phone from La Verne, Calif.
"There is nobody out to kill Randy or Evi," Altringer went on. "The only one trying to hurt Randy and Evi is Evi, she is really mentally ill."
"Heath Ledger, Chris Penn, David Carradine all died of different things," she added, "they all died of self-inflicted (matters)."
Yep, no need to employ a P.I. to figure that one out.
According to Altringer, she was hired by the Quaids last year to investigate the alleged conspiracy, but ended up quitting and filing a restraining order against the couple, who ran up a $19,000 bill. She said she gave them a place to stay but eventually evicted them over Evi’s behavior.
So the plot thickens.
Asked whether he really wanted refugee status, Randy Quaid stated that "Canada is a very protective nation." If the couple is allowed to access the refugee system, the process will take a minimum of one to two years. During that period, they will have access to Canadian benefits, including work permits, medical care and welfare.
Still, experts doubt the couple's claim for refugee status will be approved. Criminality is typically not an open door to Canada's refugee process.
If unable to discredit the California charges and prove fear of prosecution back home, their time in Canada will be brief, and the likelihood is that the couple will be escorted from the hearing room directly to the back of an immigration truck, where they will face a one one-way trip to the U.S. border and the waiting arms of American law enforcement officials (or the 'star whackers', whomever gets there first, we reckon).
Quaid and his wife also claimed that they chose Vancouver as their destination to talk to an agent about jump-starting Quaid's acting career.
Duane Chapman has wasted no time inserting himself into this sordid saga. After threatening to hunt down Quaid and "do an intervention, Doggy style" (sorry, "Dog style"), the star of A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter now claims he wants to hear Quaid's 'star whackers' story.
"That is the first time I heard about it," Chapman said. "Something is wrong here and we need to find out … Something is up and we need to get to the bottom of it."
It's unlikely Chapman really believes this story about assassins targeting Hollywood celebrities, either. Anything for ratings, we suppose.
If Dog really wants to pull off a ratings coup, he should consider traveling to Pakistan to hunt down Bin Laden…with Randy Quaid riding shotgun (certainly a better way to jump start Quaid's career than a guest-stint on Smallville).

‘Star Trek’ Actor Walter Koenig’s Son, Andrew, Vanishes in Vancouver

Andrew Koenig, the son of Star Trek veteran Walter Koenig, hasn't been heard from since before February 16, when he was supposed to board a flight from Vancouver back to the United States, but never showed up. He was reported missing in Vancouver on February 18.
Koenig is a California resident, who was visiting friends in South Vancouver, reports the Vancouver Sun.
A number of celebrities, including Sarah Silverman, Alyssa Milano, Dave Holmes and others — along with many fans — have been blogging and tweeting about Andrew's disappearance. The Twitter hash tag is: #andrewkoenigmissing
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Raymond Payette of the Vancouver Police Department at 604-717-2534.
Koenig's family said he was despondent and they were concerned about his well-being. The 41 year-old is described as caucasian, 5’5” tall, 135 lbs., with long, brown shoulder-length hair and brown eyes.
The actor once lived in Vancouver, and police said he liked walking in Stanley Park.
Koenig is perhaps best known for his role as "Boner" on the popular '80s sitcom Growing Pains. He is the brother-in-law of Jimmy Pardo.

We’ve never had the privilege

Esquire Magazine, the self-described publication about ‘Beautiful Women, Men’s Fashion, Best Music and Drink Recipes,’ has declared that R&B singer Rihanna is the ‘Sexiest Woman Alive.’
We’ve never had the privilege of meeting Ms. R. and wouldn’t presume to comment on her personality but we will admit that her well cultivated image as an attractive singer is appealing. Quite what she looks like after a day weeding is another matter.
In general, however, we reckon these kinds of polls are nonsense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Nonetheless, we can’t let this one go by without offering a nod to some of the women in film and TV whom we think should challenge Rihanna for her new title.
Strangely, our five suggestions don’t appear anywhere in Esquire list of runner’s up.
Anne Hathaway: If you share the name of Shakespeare’s wife you’ve got to have something. Hathaway’s star has risen rapidly since she played the unhappy wife of a gay sheep herder in Brokeback Mountainand with good reason: She has considerable smarts to go with her slender frame and bright eyes. Fanboys are eagerly anticipating her appearance as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. Her costume is more conservative than Halle Berry’s (as we might expect from Chris Nolan) but she’ll doubtless have audiences purring when the movie debuts next year. She can leave hair on our office couch any day.
Scarlett Johansson: Men all over the world today are having palpatations after seeing Black Widow throw back her hair in the trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers. There’s a reason why Johansson got the part and you don’t need to have seen those dodgy pictures that someone might have pilfered from her phone to recognise it. Scandinavian beauty + tight-fitting ass-kicking catsuit = surefire box office appeal.
Archie Panjabi has been sultry and a bit scary in The Good Wife.Amanda Tapping: She’s tall, charming, intelligent, attractive and successful. That’s not all. She also somehow finds time to appear in and direct episodes ofSanctuary, raise a family, run a foundation for disadvantaged children (Sanctuary for Kids) and generate awareness of other good causes, such as Once Upon a Cureand Waterkeepers. Now that’s what we call sexy.
Archie Panjabi: One of the hottest women currently on television, Panjabi is also a superb actress. She has deservedly won critical acclaim and an Emmy for her performance as Kalinda in The Good Wifeand you’d be hard pressed to find a better performer in Postman Pat. Bend it Like Beckham boosted her profile. Since then he’s disappeared and she hasn’t.

From Inside Job to Movie Theaters, the Middle Class Rip-Off Continues

If you watched filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s 2010 documentary Inside Job— about the origins and hubris surrounding the recent global financial meltdown — then odds are you felt angry, cheated…and more than a little bit disgusted by a society that is increasingly putting more and more wealth in the hands of the rich, whilst at the same time ripping off the Middle Class. That same Middle Class that were largely responsible for the creation of said wealth in North America to begin with.
Odds are that unless you’re independently wealthy, you or someone you love has felt the economic crunch of the past few years, and if you’re like many, you get a bit testy when those more fortunate than yourself are perceived as trying to rip you off.
Case in point: movie theaters. Today, just as in the Great Depression, people often go to movies to escape the realities of their every day lives for a couple of hours. A night at the movies offers reasonably inexpensive (I stress the word reasonably here) entertainment, an evening out, and a chance to socialize with friends and family away from work or home. So it’s more than a little annoying to learn that some theater chains aren’t providing the service for which customers are paying.
The Boston Globe recently discovered that a host of theaters have been projecting films with images that are dark and lack color saturation. Research into this situation uncovered a number of theater chains using projectors that require a special lens when showing 3D movies. Yet when a 2D movie was being projected, the special lens was not being removed and replaced with the conventional lens, resulting in a reduction of light by as much as 85%.
Why the difficulty in performing a simple lens change when projecting a 2D film in stead of a 3D film?
Here’s what the paper had to say:
The uniting factor is a fleet of 4K digital projectors made by Sony — or, rather, the 3-D lenses that many theater managers have made a practice of leaving on the projectors when playing a 2-D film. Though the issue is widespread, affecting screenings at AMC, National Amusements, and Regal cinemas, executives at all these major movie theater chains, and at the corporate offices of the projector’s manufacturer, have refused to directly acknowledge or comment on how and why it’s happening. Asked where his company stands on the matter, Dan Huerta, vice president of sight and sound for AMC, the second-biggest chain in the US, said only that “We don’t really have any official or unofficial policy to not change the lens.’’
Sounds like a non-denial, denial…or a distinct lack of interest in charging moviegoers the appropriate ticket price for the appropriate movie format.
A Boston area projectionist explained to the paper that for 3D showings a special lens is installed in front of a Sony digital projector that rapidly alternates the two polarized images needed for the 3D effect to work.
“When you’re running a 2-D film, that polarization device has to be taken out of the image path. If they’re not doing that, it’s crazy, because you’ve got a big polarizer that absorbs 50 percent of the light.’’
As if we needed any more reasons to deride this whole 3D fad.

Nothing special about 'Killer Elite

Head butts would seem to hurt, right? That's clearly the point of them, but it would seem to be just as painful to be the butter as the buttee.
In "Killer Elite," this is probably the most primal method of attack on display, but even the noisy intensity and frequency of the skull bashings — and pistol whippings and gut punches — don't register as anything beyond generic action-picture violence. The fact that director and co-writer Gary McKendry has shot all these brawls with the usual shaky cam and cut them in quick, choppy fashion only adds to how forgettable the film is.
And you'd think that any movie starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham would be one you'd want to remember. "Killer Elite" allows them to show off some of the presence and personality that made these men major movie stars, but ultimately they're just cogs in a clichéd revenge tale.
Statham stars as Danny, the typical special-ops, killing-machine-for-hire Statham tends to play. At the film's start in 1979, he and his mentor, Hunter (De Niro), are lying in wait for their target in an industrial section of Mexico. The assignment goes horribly wrong and Danny swears — swears! — this is it for him, the last one, he's done. But we all know how these things turn out: There has to be that tried-and-true One Last Job. Otherwise, there would be no movie.
　　A year later, Hunter has been abducted by a dying sheikh and is being held in Oman. Danny must flee the pastoral idyll of the rural Australian valley where he's ensconced himself with his beautiful girlfriend (Yvonne Strahovski) to perform the duty that will ensure Hunter's freedom. Danny is ordered to kill the men responsible for the deaths of the sheikh's three sons, but he has to get videotaped confessions from all three, and he has to make their deaths look like accidents.
No problem: Danny amasses the obligatory rag-tag team of rogues and is on his way. But they have to infiltrate the British Secret Air Service to get the job, which draws the attention of a shadowy protective society known as The Feather Men. ("Killer Elite" is based on a book called "The Feather Men," which supposedly was based on a true story, by Ranulph Fiennes, who appears as a character later on.)
This makes Danny the target of the secret group's main enforcer, a former SAS solider himself named Spike (Owen), and the usual shootouts and car chases ensue. Even with the cheesy mustache and one bad eye that are meant to signify that this man has lived a hard, dangerous life, it's impossible to disguise Owen's intense good looks and charisma. At the same time, "Killer Elite" doesn't take advantage of Owen's capacity for depth; he is driven, maybe a little tormented as evidenced by the glass coffee table he smashes, and that's about it.
When Statham and Owen finally meet in the showdown you've been waiting for, it's rendered in such dizzying, adrenalized style that it's hard to tell who's doing what to whom. Additionally, McKendry favors a steely gray color scheme that, in theory, is meant to reflect the cold-heartedness of these characters and their world, but actually just smothers everything in a bland sameness. One important yet obscured scene takes place in the snow, at night, in the middle of nowhere.
Statham, like the film itself, is muscular and efficient. But he seems awfully comfortable playing this kind of part by now, and he has such a brash, intriguing presence, he makes you wonder what else he'd be capable of doing if he stretched and challenged himself.
De Niro stays locked up for big chunks of the movie but when we do see him, he radiates the ease and comfort of a man who has nothing to prove. And he gets to fire a machine gun, which is probably a lot of fun when you're pushing 70, and might make "Killer Elite" more memorable for him than it will be for the audience.
"Killer Elite," an Open Road release, is rated R for strong violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity. Running time: 116 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:
G — General audiences. All ages admitted.
PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
R — Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.

It’s been years since his split with Jennifer Aniston

It’s been years since his split with Jennifer Aniston, but Brad Pitt is still talking about his ex-wife, this time calling his existence with her “pathetic.”
In an interview with Parade magazine, the “Moneyball” star says he is much happier now with the mother of his six children, Angelina Jolie.
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“I spent the 90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started to feel pathetic,” he said. “It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Aniston] had something to do with. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.”



Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Ouch.
Pitt continued the interview by gushing about his life with Jolie, with whom he was rumored to have an affair before the demise of his marriage to Aniston.
“One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom,” he said. “She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.”
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Pitt added that he is very satisfied with his new life.
“I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man,” he says of his life. “I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”
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Jane Lynch rolls out red carpet as Emmy host

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　　LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Lynch didn't trip over the red carpet while rolling it out Wednesday morning in anticipation of Sunday's Emmy ceremony. Despite not seeing "daylight in a couple of days" and dreaming she might experience a "face plant" as the show's host, Lynch pulled it off without a hitch.
　　"I don't even know where I am anymore," she joked to dozens of photographers and reporters who gathered for the unveiling with the show's executive producer Mark Burnett and TV academy chairman John Shaffner.
For the fourth year, the show will be held at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The 390-foot red carpet — more like a red sidewalk, really — will canvass the entire plaza across the street from the Staples Center.
After the show, Shaffner said the red carpet and the solar panels powering it will be donated to local charities.
"People will get to live on red carpet," he boasted.
Lynch teased that the 63rd annual Primetime Emmys would feature an appearance by such members of MTV's "Jersey Shore" gang as Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Paul "DJ Pauly D" Delvecchio and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino.

　　"If any of our winners go long, they'll be gently singing them off," promised Lynch.

　　She said the show will also star a chorus of singing TV actors who will introduce the award categories. They might melodically move the show along, too.
　　Inside the Nokia Theatre, the sweeping set was coming together. On one side of the stage, an enormous Emmy statue was showered in glittering charms. On the other side, a raised platform was surrounded by multiple screens. At the center was a voluminous circular screen doubling as an entryway.
"It's a very big stage at the Nokia," said Burnett. "It feels important. I like the colors — reds and golds, warm tones that make you feel invited and positive. Then, you drop in great musical moments and fun. That's the tone and pace. There's too much to fit in."
Does that mean the show will go over its three-hour running time? "Hey, has it ever not?"
Place cards on the chairs in front of the stage's black-and-gold stairs illustrated that Hugh Laurie, Betty White and Chris Colfer will have the best seats in the house: front-row center.
Other nominees with sweet front-row seat assignments included Jon Cryer, Steve Carell, Mariska Hargitay, Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett.