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.

2010 Golden Globes Award Winners

This year's Golden Globe Awards honored global box-office hit Avatar with its top trophies, best dramatic film and best directing honors for Canadian-born filmmaker James Cameron. The wins were a repeat of Cameron's Globes night 12 years ago, when Titanic won both the best drama and directing prize on its way to dominating the Oscars.
The victory raises the Titanic filmmaker’s prospects for another Academy Awards triumph for his science fiction epic, which so far has earned $1.115B, just $127 million shy of the $1.242B record foreign gross set 13 years ago by Titanic.
"It's such an exciting evening and walking in with all you great, amazing creative people … some of you I know and worked with and I just think, this is the best job in the world," Cameron said. "We all have the best job in world."
The comedy The Hangover won best comedy feature, while Robert Downey Jr. expressed complete surprise at garnering best actor in a comedy for Sherlock Holmes.
Jeff Bridges received a standing ovation as he received the accolade in the best dramatic acting category for his portrayal of a down-and-out country singer in the film Crazy Heart.
Meanwhile, actress Meryl Streep won best actress for her performance in Julie & Julia, while the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award went to Martin Scorsese.
Below is the complete list of this year's Golden Globe winners:
Best Actor Television, Drama- Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Best Supporting Actor Television, Drama- John Lithgow, Dexter
Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture- Mo’nique, Precious
Best Animated Feature Film- Up
Best Original Song, Motion Picture- Crazy Heart, "The Weary Kind"
Best Original Score, Motion Picture- Up, Michael Giacchino
Best Actress Television, Drama- Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Best Actress Television Series, Comedy- Toni Collette- United States of Tara
Best Actress Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Actor Mini-series, Drama- Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Best Actress Mini-series- Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture- Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Actor Television, Comedy- Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television- Grey Gardens
Best Foreign Language Film- The White Ribbon
Best Television Series Drama- Mad Men
Best Supporting Actress Mini-series- Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture- Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Bastards
Best Director Motion Picture- James Cameron, Avatar
Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical- Glee
Best Actor Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Best Actor Motion Picture, Drama- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress Motion Picture, Drama- Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- The Hangover
Best Motion Picture, Drama- Avatar

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.