"The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards"
16/12/06
Lorraine Nicholson Selected as 2007 Miss Golden Globe at "64th Annual Golden Globe Awards" to Be Telecast Live on NBC on Jan. 15
Wednesday November 15, 12:31 pm ET
Lorraine Is Daughter of Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard
HOLLYWOOD, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 15, 2006 --
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced Lorraine Nicholson as its selection as Miss Golden Globe for "The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards" to be telecast live on NBC on Monday, January 15, 2007. HFPA President Philip Berk made the announcement at a morning press conference. Traditionally, Miss Golden Globe, who assists in the Golden Globes ceremony, is the daughter of a well-known celebrity.
Lorraine, age 16, is the daughter of six-time Golden Globe recipient and former Cecil B. DeMille honoree Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard. Lorraine is an actress whose credits include the hit 2006 comedy "Click" starring Adam Sandler, "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" and "Something's Gotta Give."
"We are delighted to have Lorraine Nicholson join us to celebrate 'The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards,'" said Berk at the announcement.
Lorraine Nicholson currently resides in Southern California.
Previous Miss Golden Globe honorees include Laura Dern (daughter of Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern), Joely Fisher (daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher), Melanie Griffith (daughter of Tippi Hedren) and last year's honoree Dakota Johnson (daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson).
Nominations for "The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards" will be announced at 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 14 at the Beverly Hilton. "The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards" will take place Monday, January 15, 2007 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with a live telecast airing on NBC at 8 PM (EST) and produced by dick clark productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Allen Shapiro and Barry Adelman are executive producers. Chris Donovan is director. Al Schwartz is consulting producer. Ken Shapiro is producer. Ron Weed is co-producer.
WonderCom News
WonderCon Features the Best of Comics and Hollywood
WonderCon, Northern California’s largest comic book and popular arts convention today announced additional special guests for the February 22-24, 2008 convention to be held in San Francisco.
“It’s a pretty spectacular line-up,” said David Glanzer, spokesperson for the non profit event, “Hollywood is very familiar with our sister show Comic-Con in San Diego, and they know we have a long history of being able to deliver audiences for their presentations. Besides having the very best in comics guests and programming, Hollywood has really taken notice and made WonderCon a must attend event.”
With comics guests such as Sergio Aragonés, Kurt Busiek, Mike Choi, Becky Cloonan, Darwyn Cooke, Terry Dodson, Mark Evanier, Jim Lee, Steve Leialoha, David Mack, Terry Moore, Noel Neill, Tim Sale, J. Michael Straczynski, Ben Templesmith, Bruce Timm, Herb Trimpe, Bill Willingham, and Brian Wood, WonderCon features some of the biggest names and most popular creators in the comic book world.
Hollywood is set to make a big splash as they bring several high profile films and television series to WonderCon with sneak peeks and special guests. Scheduled to appear are stars Kristen Bell and Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall); Brendan Fraser (Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D); Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway (Get Smart); Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man; Andrew Stanton, director of WALL*E; and Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz along with stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny of the new X-Files movie. Anderson and Duchovny are making their first-ever joint convention appearance at WonderCon. From television, stars Ashley Scott and Lennie James (CBS’ Jericho) and Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau (Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) come to WonderCon to talk about their respective hit series.
Add to that the exclusive world premiere screening of the animated Justice League: The New Frontier, and the first screening of the American DVD version of Appleseed: Ex Machina, and it’s no surprise that WonderCon is one of the most eagerly anticipated shows on the comic convention circuit.
WonderCon will be held Friday though Sunday, February 22 -24 2008 as Moscone Center South, 747 Howard Street, in downtown San Francisco. For additional information please visit www.comic-con.org and click the WonderCon icon.
WonderCon is operated by Comic-Con International, a non profit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.
Hollywood Issues Grants.
Film Schools
July 30, 2008--The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $759,865 in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations at its annual Installation Luncheon honoring the organization s 2008-2009 slate of officers today at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Celebrities attending the event to announce grants included Aaron Eckhart, Jon Hamm and John C. Reilly. Acceptance remarks on behalf of the grants were made by Chris Ludacris Bridges (Film Independent, Inc.), Rosario Dawson (IFP), Dana Delany (UCLA), Dakota Fanning (California State Summer School Arts Foundation), Chris Messina (Sundance Institute), Elizabeth Pena (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), and Rosie Perez (Inner-City Arts).
Re-elected President Jorge Camara introduced the re-elected officers Serge Rakhlin, executive secretary; and Meher Tatna, treasurer. The new Board of Directors is comprised of Mahfouz Doss (re-elected Chairman), Erkki Kanto, Lilly Lui, Paz Mata, Frances Schoenberger, and Armando Gallo (alternate).
Despite last January s cancellation of the Annual Golden Globe Awards due to the Writers Guild strike that curtailed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association s income, we re delighted to honor our ongoing commitment to support entertainment industry-related film school and non-profit organizations, said Jorge Camara, HFPA President. Over the past several years, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Foundation has presented more than $7.5 million in financial grants to dozens of film schools and non-profit organizations.
Hollywood Foreign Press 2008-2009 Grants
Higher Education Grants HFPA Fellowship
Institutional Support
American Film Institute
$30,000 - HFPA Fellowships for six students.
California Institute of the Arts
$60,000 - HFPA Fellowships for to up to 8 Film/Video students
California State University, Long Beach; Dept. of Film and Electronic Arts
$35,000 - HFPA Fellowships $1,000 or more to at least 30 students
California State University, Northridge; Dept. of Cinema and Television Arts
$66,000 - HFPA Fellowships for 10 students and $6,000 for 2009 the student showcase
Columbia University School of the Arts
$50,000 - HFPA Fellowships for 6 international MFA candidates
New York University; Tisch School of the Arts
$20,000 - HFPA Fellowships for third-year students to complete their thesis films
North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation
$20,000 - HFPA Fellowships for 10 to 20 undergraduate students
University of California, Los Angeles; School of theatre Film and Television
$65,000 - HFPA Fellowships for directing students and support as the Presenting Sponsor at the 2009 Festival of New Creative Work
Professional Training and Mentoring
Film Independent, Inc.
$30,000 to support Project:Involve: a mentoring, training, job placement and screening program for local underrepresented filmmakers
Independent Feature Project
$10,000 to support the post-production needs and mentoring of independent filmmakers at the end stages of production
National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
$20,000 for professional filmmaker mentors at the Latino Producers Academy workshop for emerging Latino/a filmmakers.
Sundance Institute
$100,000 for personnel, equipment and supplies, marketing, and production for the Writer and Director Institutes
Streetlights Production Assistant Program, Inc.
$5,000 for books and supplies needed for job training, placement and career advancement for underrepresented populations in Los Angeles
Pre-Professional Training and Education
California State Summer School Arts Foundation
$20,000 to provide 13 full scholarships for Los Angeles inner city students to attend the 2009 summer session of InnerSpark
The Ghetto Film School, Inc.
$20,000 to support the Fellows program and costs of the Annual Public Screening of the student films
Inner-City Arts
$25,000 for animation equipment and workshops, and for support of the animation marathon for middle and high school inner city students
Inner-City Filmmakers
$20,000 to support the Arts Education and Jobs/Career Development Programs for inner city youth
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation
$18,865 to support the TV/Film Teaching Artists who provide instruction in screenwriting and History of TV and Film classes
Preserve the Culture and History of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles Conservancy
$30,000 to support the screenings of old movies in classic movie houses in Los Angeles through the Last Remaining Seats program
Museum of African American Cinema, Inc.
$10,000 to preserve, curate, catalogue and transfer from film to digital format rare and culturally historic productions relating to the African American experience
Outfest
$25,000 to build awareness through printed materials and conferences and create new tools to teach filmmakers about archiving and preservation through the Outfest Legacy Project
Promote Cultural Exchange Through Film
FilmAid International
$50,000 to continue developing the Kakuma Peace and Reconciliation Film Series and Participatory Video Program and to begin new programs in the Dadaab Refuge Camp
Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, LACLA
$10,000 towards producing an annual screening series of monthly screenings of short films and videos from Latin American and US Latino filmmakers in downtown Los Angeles
Special Projects
Ensemble Studio Theatre The LA Project
$10,000 to fund play development programs and premiere productions
Lollipop Theatre Network
$10,000 to provide children in Southern California hospitals with life threatening illnesses and their families screenings of current release films and visits by actors
TOTAL: $759,865
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The Salsa Craze - will it take Hollywood ?
 With the dance smash " Salsa " the movie, though just broke even at the box office, still there as not been a popular series of dance genre films attached to this dance style. What is " Salsa " From the Wikki Free Encyclopedia website states ( whihc is where the photo above comes from ). Salsa danced according to the above description is called Salsa on One, or briefly, "On One", because the break step is one beat 1 of the 8-beat pattern. This is by far the most common count used in Europe and North America. If the break step occurs on count 2 or 6, it is called "On Two". There are two main variants of this: The "Power 2", "Palladium 2" or "Ballroom Mambo" style. The Power 2 basic is simply the On One basic danced one beat later. "New York Style 2" or "Eddie Torres Style". The ET2 basic step starts on beat 6 with the leader breaking forward on the left foot, replacing on 7, and pausing on 8. Then on 1 the left foot steps slightly back, ready for the break step back on the right on 2, and the left replacing on 3. 4 is a pause and 5 is the right foot stepping slightly forwards ready to begin again at 6. "Puerto-Rican 2". This is exactly as the Eddie Torres 2 except the leader breaks forward on 2 not 6. Power 2 can fit better with commercial "Mambo" music of the 1950s, e.g. Perez Prado. Eddie Torres Style is so called because it was widely formalized and popularized by Eddie Torres whose clear teaching style and production of instructional videos opened up access to Salsa for many New Yorkers. It is not claimed that he invented the style. One of the cited advantages of ET2 is that the follower begins her turns on beat one, having been 'prepped' on 6,7,8. This means that a good leader can have the follower hit the crescendos in the music with the more climactic dance moves. Some consider dancing "On Two" to work more closely to the clave rhythm, the fundamental rhythm of salsa music, as the steps start on the first tick of a 2-3 son clave. However, dancing "On One" hits just as many beats in the clave and hits the first tick if the music is using a 3-2 style son clave. Dancing on 2 means that the break step synchronises with the accented slap of the Tumbao pattern played on the Conga drum. For this reason it is said to be more punchy and rhythmically oriented, whereas on 1 is more melodically oriented. End of Article... However, though touches upon some interesting items this explanation lacks a sense of the greater diversity, and the ethnological roots and personal character of thios dance form. Simply everything went amiss since Salsa replace the words Latin Dance, the english translation of Latina Danza. In Cuba, especially in Havana, there was diversity in how one expresses to clave rhythms ( which within its dynamics also had variations ). Mambo the break is on the " 2 ". Son Montuno the break is on the " 1 " It is that simple and reflects the ethnic - racial diversity, as Afro Cubans would emphasize the " 1 " and the Hispanic would focus of the " 2 ". None the less, as one probe even deeper, one come away with the real understanding that it is how personal interpretation enters into the picture. the simple reason behind this attitude is that the break step is only for a change of direction of the movement of dance. It is here where simple explanations become even more clearer, and the more concise one trys the more one losses the point. To enjoy oneself. Now all we need is a dancer with film presence who has load of Chaisma, and then see what happens at the box office when a Latina Danza Musical hits the screens. Then Hollywood could one day regain a portion of its faded glitter. Yours, Mr. Roger M. Christian Ithaca, New York
Pictures - Movies of Hollywod
Not your typical Hollywood
experience
by Solo Max, 22, on the road somewhere
Feb 6, 2000
December 29, 1997
Hollywood, California, USA
Contrary to my previous perception, Hollywood is actually in the City of Los Angeles. I found Tinsel Town not to be the stuff that stars are made of, but just another hunk of steel and glass that forms the concrete jungle that is LA. I think most people have great expectations for Hollywood. And why shouldn’t they? They have spent a good portion of their life focused on images and icons which have originated from the area. I would not be far off in saying that Hollywood’s fabrications are one of the most, if not the most influential force on earth. Much of North American pop culture - almost everything we consider "cool", came from the mind of a Hollywood costume and props designer.
I found no magic in the streets. Hollywood Boulevard is nothing more than a few cheesy sidewalk attractions and t-shirts shops, with the exception of a strip club or two, and the store with a large neon sign out front stating "We sell guns and knives!".
I felt no pleasure in treading over the stars on the Walk of Fame. Robin Williams is one of my favorite actors, but seeing his name embedded in the sidewalk meant little to me.
 I called Riley from a pay phone. "Hey, It’s MAX. I’m on Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah, a half hour would be fine. I’ll meet you in front of the Chinese Theater. Bring your hiking boots. I want to climb the HOLLYWOOD sign."
Riley is a Cardiovascular nurse that I met him in Yosemite National Park. There, he was just another person. One of the thousands I have met throughout my travels. This afternoon in Hollywood, I connected with him and formed a friendship as strong as any I’ve ever had.
While driving down Hollywood Boulevard, Riley turned to me. "Have you seen that new Apple commercial; the one with all those well known people, like... Churchill, Gandhi, Earhart, and Hitchcock?"
"Yeah... it’s great." I replied.
"Well, the first time I saw it... it almost brought tears to my eyes." Riley continued. "It totally reinforced my desire to become a somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to be a writer. I’ve already started a book." I like Riley. We think alike. He’s not a cardiovascular nurse. He just does that to make money.
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