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Articles:    They're Baaaaack - 80s Fashions are Alive & Kickin' (Samsation)
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| Most recent article: They're Baaaaack - 80s Fashions are Alive & Kickin'
by: Samsation
2010-04-29 09:54:31 They're Baaaaack - 80s Fashions are Alive & Kickin'
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By Alli Denning,
Just when you thought the 80s were gone and safely encased away in your dusty high school annuals, along came an 80s resurgence in both fashion and culture. The 80s fashion comeback started in 2006 with the re-introduction of skinny jeans and leggings. Three years later, we are still in the midst of an all-out 80s love-fest, and it feels, well, like totally awesome.
So many subtle (and not so subtle) 80s references are creeping into today’s culture that it is hard to keep up. Recently observed examples include pegged jeans on the models of the Spring 2009 J. Crew catalog (see below), J.C. Penny’s nod to “The Breakfast Club” for their back-to-school clothes commercial seen both on TV and at the movies, the return of Knight Rider to TV, and the return of the jelly shoe (I had 3 pair in the 80s!). These references are both fun and respectful. On the other hand, one can cite the use of the extremely cool and timeless Violent Femmes song “Blister in the Sun” in a Wendy’s commercial to hock baked potatoes -- really.
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In recent news, the 80s were very much alive and kickin’ at New York Fashion Week this past week. In fact, Michael Kors featured for his Fall 2009 collection a neon green ensemble that was bright enough to warrant the donning of your vintage Wayfarers (shown right).
At the online 80s tribute site liketotally80s.com, the most visited sections of the site are the fashion and costume sections. People are clamoring for information, pictures, and how-tos on pulling the 80s look together. One 16-year-old site user entered (and won) the “What would you do for a banana clip?” contest by agreeing to go to her Valentine’s dance at school decked out entirely in 80s party fashions. She has a vintage 80s prom dress and some dyed satin shoes – perfect! Together with 80s bangles and a bodacious 80s up-do in the banana clip, she’ll be a total babe and ready to hit the dance floor and walk like an Egyptian.
What is clear is this – the 80s are back. The nostalgia circle runs in 20 year cycles. That was certainly true in the 80s when I thought everything 60s was cool – the music, the clothes, the attitude. We are seeing that with teens today. Suddenly, their 80s-era mom is just a little cooler than she used to be. I mean, she was there when Madonna was just coming on the scene. She had big hair, loud earrings, and shoulder pads that reached for the sky. These were the days before Michael Jackson-esque dance music videos that were like mini-movies, before Kirk Cameron had been left behind, and when it was hard to choose your favorite Corey.
Enjoy the 80s while they are back among us! Dig out your parachute pants and strike a pose. read more... |
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Articles: Gwen Stefani: No Doubt Are “Having Fun,” Rocking ’80s Hits in the Studio (Samsation)
Lady Gaga, Cyndi Lauper to Rock Duet? (Samsation)
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| Most recent article: Gwen Stefani: No Doubt Are “Having Fun,” Rocking ’80s Hits in the Studio
by: Samsation
2010-02-12 13:19:36
2/12/10, 11:35 am EST
 Photo: Morigi/WireImage
Gwen Stefani’s Fashion Week presentation Thursday at Milk Studios wasn’t just a preview of her military and punk-inspired fall line for L.A.M.B. — it was also a sneak peek of what’s brewing in the singer’s head for the next No Doubt album.
First was her choice of a DJ: Jeremy Healy from Haysi Fantayzee (of “Shiny, Shiny” fame), who had mash-up duties on her 2006 single “Wind It Up” (combining her song with “The Lonely Goatherd” from “The Sound of Music”). As the models — all identically made up in bangs and brushed out curls, smokey eyes, and dramatic red lips — strutted down a runway that was more skate ramp than catwalk, they did so to mash-ups of songs like “Warm Leatherette” and “I Eat Cannibals.”
“We just had a lot of the stuff that I like, [from the] ’80s, you know, everything I like,” Stefani said after the show’s end. Under other circumstances, that wouldn’t be noteworthy, except for the fact that No Doubt’s currently on a crash diet of one-hit wonders. Though Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young had started working on the next album while Stefani was unavailable (due to various solo album and mothering duties), now that they’ve re-teamed, they’re scrapping some of the early work and started fresh a few weeks ago.
“They were doing stuff before,” Stefani said, “but things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean? We might revisit some of that stuff, but it’s the same old chase. It doesn’t matter how we get there — we want to get there, we will, and we’re having fun doing it.”
Check out photos from No Doubt’s first official reunion show.
Part of the fun is revisiting songs from their youth, as Stefani and Kanal did during sessions for her solo albums. “We always do that. I think everyone does. The last few weeks, we’ve been listening to the worst of the ’80s, in the sense of bad but good,” she laughed. “Pop songs, one-hit wonders, nifty songs, things like that. You just go back and find things that you love, and try to figure out how they made them. We just listen to good songs, and then writing our own stuff, we try to pull it out wherever we can.”
Foremost on the playlist right now? “What was the last thing I was listening to?” she paused, thinking. “Lionel Richie. I love him.”
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Articles: The Karate Kid 2010 (Samsation)
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| Most recent article: The Karate Kid 2010
by: Samsation
2010-05-28 19:40:58 I like Jackie Chan’s movies, with an apparently unusual appreciation for his less comedic, more dramatic films like Heart of Dragon (1985), or New Police Story (2004). I grew up watching the original Karate Kid movies as they came out, and I related to the character a lot. It should be obvious then that I will really enjoy this remake then, right? Well, not so readily, as I have some reservations as the release date nears.
Is the distinct nature of the "karate" fighting style being shoe-horned for the sake of marketing ease, or even just… Laziness? Hollywood wouldn’t do that would they? Didn’t this remake of "The Karate Kid" actually start shooting as "The Kung Fu Kid"? There seems to be more questions raised about this new version of "The Karate Kid" than are being addressed by any PR, and certainly the trailers don’t alleviate much.
According to the official Sony Pictures site for the 2010 film, The Karate Kid, Jackie Chan’s character is "secretly a master of kung fu" and he "teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries" which is all well and good, but how many times is "kung fu" mentioned on the official website promoting a film called "The Karate Kid"? Certainly, karate is not a Japanese-only form of martial art, and historically it actually developed in Chinese territory that was later `annexed’ by the Japanese. Also, as with most martial arts today that may have originated in one specific region there is now no limit to where the art may be taken up, and who may do so. But, there are cultural implications to having a movie called The Karate Kid and setting it in China. The trailers don’t indicate that any exploration of that will be in the movie.
Of course, with Will Smith AND Jada Pinkett Smith being listed as producers (with Jerry Weintraub, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz) it certainly has the appearance of re-working an old franchise as a vanity project, for their son, Jaden. But having said that, I must grant that some of his legwork has shown a style that reminds me of the Korean martial artist, Hwang Jang Lee. This makes me think that the kid could have an honest talent for this kind of film role.
Jerry Weintraub is associated with franchise building. He was a producer for the original Karate Kid trilogy with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, as well as the attempted rework, The Next Karate Kid with Hilary Swank. He was also a producer on the Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen films. Supposedly the recent reworking of Nancy Drew he was producer on a few years ago, is likely to lead to another film, and another franchise. Obviously, yet another franchise is likely to be built then, beginning with the remake of The Karate Kid.
I am not saying that a Karate Kid remake should be set in Okinawa, Japan, and that Sonny Chiba should be in the mentor role. While I wouldn’t mind that, and I would be less critical going in, there are always other things of concern for the film team involved. Even if, from a purist standpoint, Sonny Chiba would have been a better pick, what pull does Chiba have with the broader family market? None, to be honest. Now, as for Jackie Chan, he has done plenty. Chan is the most logical pick, for bankability, and broader demographic. Over the years Jackie Chan has broadened his acting modes considerably. Chiba has as well, but where Chan has gone for more light hearted and family friendly roles, Chiba has gone for more dramatic. Certainly, this role will give Chan a more dramatic and less comedic role but still keep him within what is, for the most part, his present family friendly career arc.
The trailers I have seen up to this point make me feel that the working title of "The Kung Fu Kid" may have been the most accurate (and besides, the original working title would mean they wouldn’t owe DC Comics for the use of the name "Karate Kid" after the publisher’s thirty-first century martial artist character that was part of The Legion of Super-Heroes).
In the end, concerns could simply be alleviated by part of the promotion also being educational, and discussing the historical and social implications of karate’s origin as a fighting form. It could very well be that after seeing the film all will be revealed and work out to everybody’s satisfactions. I will have to see. Won’t we all?
At this time, The Karate Kid is set for a June 11 theatrical release.
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Articles: EXCLUSIVE: Gilligan's Island Movie Details Revealed! (Samsation)
1980s in Fashion (Samsation)
Movies that take you back (Samsation)
Top Grossing Movies of 1980 (Samsation)
Fads from the 80s (Samsation)
1984 (Samsation)
| Most recent article: EXCLUSIVE: Gilligan's Island Movie Details Revealed!
by: Samsation
2010-05-16 21:20:20 The big screen treatment of Gilligan's Island -- yes, the old TV show starring Bob Denver about seven stranded castaways -- is in the works, and pop culture fans are already speculating on who should play what.
But we can do that one better. Our sources have slipped us some treatment and production notes (still redolent of cocaine, so we know they're authentic) that tell not only who's cast, but what they're going to do.
Backstory on Gilligan and The Skipper. Gilligan -- originally meant for Michael Cera, but shifted at the last minute to Zach Braff -- is at loose ends in San Diego, and in desperation joins the Coast Guard. There he meets Jonas Grumby (Jack Black), a Petty Officer who, like Sgt. Bilko, always has a scheme working. Gilligan constantly falls into the water and never rises above Seaman Recruit, but Grumby lives high off weed and gambling receipts extorted from local criminals. Gilligan admires the cool Grumby so greatly that when both INTERPOL and a drug dealer come after Grumby, he goes AWOL with him. Together Grumby, now incognito as The Skipper, and his "Li'l Bro" Gilligan move up the coast, running pleasure cruises.
The shipwreck. Naturally the whole thing is in 3-D, so this sequence is extended, with tidal waves, killer whales, and schools of friendly dolphins who have learned primitive English from a local rehabilitation facility and who nudge the Minnow to safety on an uncharted desert aisle.
The castaways. The Howells, Thurston (James Spader) and LuvE (Sarah Jessica Parker) are clueless nouveaux riches; LuvE has not worked since her days as a dancer in rap videos, and Thurston recently lost his job with a corrupt power company; this pleasure cruise was meant to rekindle their dying love. Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart were originally signed for Ginger and Mary Anne, but withdrew when they recovered from the sedatives, and were replaced by Katherine Heigl and Emma Watson (Ginger, in this version, comes from a small town in the English Midlands). In a knowing reversal of their original characterizations, movie star Ginger is more imperious and annoying than sexy, and Mary Anne is constantly getting naked and going, "Oops! Thought no one was about!" and enticing Gilligan with racy allusions to animal husbandry.
The Professor, in the boldest reimagining, is played by Tracy Morgan as a crooked would-be mogul who dabbles in mechanical engineering (which better explains his constant failure to fix the damn boat).
Plot. While everyone tries incompetently to get off the island -- big laughs as their attempt to connect with the mainland via a computer made from their damaged cell phones only manages to receive HGTV -- along the way they learn valuable lessons in life and love.
The Professor at first boldly tries to ***** all the ladies ("If I get with you, girl, we can blow off this island on a hydraulic jizz stream!") but eventually breaks down and confesses that his braggadocio is all due to his lack of a father.
The Skipper, who simultaneously realizes his own parental issues, bonds with The Professor over this, which leaves Gilligan feeling confused and abandoned until he and LuvE take a moonlight walk on the beach and discover that each of them is really alone in a world they never made. "Thurston can give me wads of cash," she declares, "but here that's only good for improvised tampons." "Yeah I kinda know what you mean," says Gilligan. "I feel like an improvised tampon myself."
Thurston, meanwhile, is forced by his lack of resources to use his charm and wits to woo Ginger and Mary Ann, and realizes he lacks both. He resolves, once her gets back home, to go back to school and take Humanities classes. Ginger and Mary Ann, frustrated, have sex with each other.
Gilligan repeatedly tries to get the dolphins to fetch help, but they're angry about global warming and at first refuse; after several discussions, Gilligan gets Thurston to apologize to them formally for his former company's rampant pollution. The dolphins teach the castaways to make a raft and, humbled by their experiences into competence and bravery, they get back to California.
After their parade, Gilligan and The Skipper are picked up by Coast Guard Special Agents, thus offering an opportunity for a sequel, Gilligan's Brig: Back to the Island. read more... |
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