约翰·木兰尼：J宝宝

　　Introducing 3 agents in the Sydney property market; we follow Gavin, D'Leanne and Simon as they hustle, negotiate and deal - in their quest for success.

　　第66届美国电视艾美奖颁奖于北京时间26日早晨在洛杉举行。由于越来越多好莱坞大牌明星参演美剧，使得今年艾美奖的颁奖嘉宾阵容特别豪华，红毯上星光熠熠堪比奥斯卡。
　　去年的艾美奖最大赢家《绝命毒师》在今年完美收官，这部已经完结的作品最终获得最佳男主、男配、女配、编剧以及最佳剧情奖，打败同样是夺奖大热的《真探》。迷你剧/电视电影类方面，《神探夏洛克3》包揽七奖，“卷福”本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇和搭档“华生”马丁·弗里曼分别包办最佳男主角和最佳男配角，领奖台和剧集中一样都是最佳搭档。《摩登家庭》实现最佳喜剧剧集五连冠，“谢耳朵”凭《生活大爆炸》第四度获得喜剧类最佳男主角。由于获奖的多是老面孔，不少观众认为本届艾美奖“无惊喜”。
　　获奖名单：
　　剧情类奖项◆最佳剧集《绝命毒师》◆最佳男主角布莱恩·科兰斯顿《绝命毒师》◆最佳女主角茱莉安娜·玛格里斯《傲骨贤妻》◆最佳男配角亚伦·保罗《绝命毒师》◆最佳女配角安娜·冈《绝命毒师》◆最佳客串男演员乔·莫顿《丑闻》◆最佳客串女演员艾莉森·珍妮《性爱大师》◆最佳导演凯瑞·福永《真探》◆最佳剧本莫拉·贝克特《绝命毒师》
　　喜剧类奖项◆最佳剧集《摩登家庭》◆最佳男主角吉姆·帕森斯《生活大爆炸》◆最佳女主角茱莉亚·路易斯·德瑞弗斯《副总统》◆最佳男配角泰·布利尔《摩登家庭》◆最佳女配角艾莉森·珍妮《老妈》◆最佳客串男演员吉米·法伦《周六夜现场》◆最佳客串女演员奥卓·阿杜巴《女子监狱》◆最佳导演盖尔·曼库索《摩登家庭》◆最佳剧本路易·C·K 《路易不容易》
　　迷你剧类奖项◆最佳迷你剧及电视电影《冰血暴》 《平常的心》◆最佳男主角本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇《神探夏洛克》◆最佳女主角杰西卡·兰格《美国恐怖故事》◆最佳男配角马丁·弗瑞曼《神探夏洛克》◆最佳女配角凯西·贝茨《美国怪谭》◆最佳导演科林·巴可西《冰血暴》◆最佳剧本史蒂文·莫法特《神探夏洛克》
　　其他主要奖项◆最佳竞赛类真人秀极速前进◆最佳真人秀主持人菲尔·基欧汉《极速前进》◆综艺类最佳导演奖格兰·维斯第67届托尼奖◆综艺类最佳编剧奖莎拉·希尔曼《莎拉·希尔曼奇迹秀》◆最佳综艺节目《扣扣熊报告》

　　Jane Austen remains one of the greatest writers of all time. Almost two hundred years after her death, her novels such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Mansfield Park” continue to entrance generations of readers the world over. This film shatters any assumption that Austen herself lived the elegant Regency life of her financially comfortable heroines who ultimately find their true love.
　　Instead it reveals the real Jane Austen as part of strata of Regency society much crueller in its treatment of women and harsher in its economic realities than her novels and their current television adaptations convey. And it discovers a woman more tragic in her own personal love life who does not enjoy the “happy ending” that she bestows upon her own female characters.
　　Through readings and dramatic reconstructions, The Real Jane Austen pieces together the reality of Austen’s existence her modest upbringing in Hampshire as one of seven children of a clergyman; her disappointment in love; and the family’s poverty following the death of her father.
　　Through her writing Jane found financial independence without having to marry. Tragically only four years later in July 1817 while writing “Persuasion” Jane Austen died.
　　Filmed in locations associated with Austen including Jane’s birth place of Steventon and her later home in Chawton, and illustrated with extracts from film and television adaptations of Austen’s work, The Real Austen paints a vivid portrait of one of the greatest talents in English literature.

　　讲述参加过二战的八位美国总统的不同经历

　　《地狱厨房：全年龄争霸》重回洛杉矶，一群青年厨师和中年厨师将争夺成为戈登拉姆齐地狱厨房餐厅亚特兰大店的主厨职位以及25万奖金。

　　多名世界顶级调酒师向大家展现令人眼花缭乱的鸡尾酒调制技巧，争夺十万美金大奖及“终极调酒大师”的称号

　　Comedian Christina P examines the joys and drags of parenting, partnering and more through a no-nonsense Gen-X lens in this special.

　　在这部全新单口喜剧特辑中，坦诚而内省的喜剧演员西蒙·阿姆斯特尔敞开心扉，谈论了自己的神经质、向父亲出柜的经历以及情感关系等话题。

　　踏入二千年以来，Madonna这位已「女人四十」的流行音乐天后似乎有一种愈战愈勇之势。2005年，Madonna在出版过一张以Future Disco为大前提的Confessions On A Dance Floor专辑(也是其第十张专辑)、重拾她的Dancing Queen / Queen Of Clubland姿态后，再引伸出是两款她的DVD录像出品：先是为其04年Reinvention Tour拍摄的纪录片I’m Going To Tell You A Secret在去年面世，继而是在这个07年初推出的现场演出影片The Confessions Tour。两者同是由合作多时的Jonas Akerlund执导摄製。她的乐迷绝对不愁寂寞吧。
　　在The Confessions Tour内，收录了Madonna在2006年的Confessions Tour世界性巡迴演出在英国伦敦Wembley Arena举行的一站，共三场音乐会，最后一晚(8月16日)演出，正是她的四十八岁生辰，故也别有纪念性意义。
　　早已得悉她的Confessions Tour是何等精采绝伦。而毋庸置疑，这张The Confessions Tour的DVD，亦是那么叫人为之目不遐给。变化多端的舞台(包括令到由Stuart Price担任音乐总监的伴奏乐团可以「神出鬼没」)，精湛而慑人的录像投射，加上舞蹈员的配合，达至每首歌曲的表演皆有不同的Setting配套。现在在DVD里，又不时重新将本来的录像投射与舞台的画面加以重迭，效果更嘆为观止。后期製作的出色乃毋庸置疑。
　　开场曲Future Lovers跟重玩Donna Summer的1977年Euro-Disco名曲I Feel Love水乳交融而来，加上身穿骑马服的Madonna与舞蹈员带来充满S&M意味的演出，已够先声夺人。每首歌曲，都附上不同的舞台表演环节，如Like A Virgin里的「骑马舞」，Jump里舞蹈员的体操舞蹈，Confessions的舞蹈员读白，Live To Tell里那备受争议的钉十字架场面(背后的数字是要道出在非洲爱滋病令到一千二百万名儿童成为孤儿并带出连串关注非洲儿童的信息再以马太福音作结——为音乐会最触动心灵、发人深省的一曲)，Forbidden Love的两男一女「缠手舞」，Isaac的号角前奏，Sorry把舞台变成街头，Music Inferno的滚轴溜冰，在视觉上已令人留下深刻印象。
　　音乐会里有三首歌曲可看到Madonna弹奏结他。玩出I Love New York这首Disco-Punk曲目的时候，她背著电结他出场带来介乎The Stooges与Post-Punk式之间的结他Riff与製造Feedback，台上投映出纽约市曼哈顿的空中轮廓线，非常之酷；未段Madonna不断敲打结他时，镜头便做出地动山摇的效果，甚为震憾呢。跟著再玩了Ray Of Light。后来她又弹奏木结他与Issac Sinwani合唱Paradise (Not For Me)。来到尾段，便玩尽劲歌热舞的主题。在Erotica时娜姐换上白色紧身舞衣出场，La Isla Bonita在流丽的Flamenco结他下她大喊”It’s time to put on your dancing shoes!”把舞台变成狂热舞会；Lucky Star娜姐在紧身舞衣上披上印有”Dancing Queen”字样斗篷先向Abba致敬，末段已穿插著Abba的79年名曲Gimme！Gimme！Gimme！（A Man After Midnight）的前奏Sample，随即便引伸出结幕曲Hung Up，亦成为整场音乐会的高潮位，全场大合唱：”Time goes by….so slowly”。
　　Stuart Price(aka Jacques Lu Cont)的音乐总监角色固然功不可没，经他重新编曲下，为Madonna的歌曲重新注入舞池动能，甚至像Like A Virgin和Lucky Star等廿三、四年前的曲目，都变身成摩登的Electro-Disco House舞曲。1983、84年，Madonna初露锋芒的年代，小Stuart才得六、七岁咋。
　　专辑曲目：
　　1.Future Lovers
　　2.Get Together
　　3.Like a Virgin
　　4.Jump
　　5.Live to Tell
　　6.Forbidden Love
　　7.Isaac
　　8.Sorry
　　9.Like It Or Not
　　10.Sorry (remix)
　　11.I Love New York
　　12.Let It Will Be
　　13.Ray of Light
　　14.Drowned World/Substitute for Love
　　15.Paradise [Not For Me]
　　16.Music
　　17.La Isla Bonita
　　18.Erotica/You Thrill Me
　　19.Lucky Star
　　20.Hung Up

　　This show is quite possibly the biggest waste of videotape, electricity, and RF bandwidth in the 70+ year history of television. It's nothing but 60 minutes of some of the worst bile that can come out of human beings, male or female. Basically, it's nothing but pure bitchy, catty, c*nty, vile harpiness among the contestants, judges, and the fashionistas (or should I say fashionazis). Typically a lot of insulting, backbiting, and bitchy, unnecessarily anal-retentive criticism.
　　The thing that gets me about the show is how much the judges and fashionazis (and the pretentious & shallow fashion industry in general) nit-pick against the equally bitchy contestants about little, petty, trivial, frivolous, anal-retentive things about their appearance, personality, etc. Things that the *REAL* people in this world (which the fashion industry lacks, thankfully) wouldn't give rat's ass number 1 about. (Myself included.)
　　Crap like: "Oh, your left eyebrow is a yoctometer off center. That isn't gonna fly, and nobody will take you seriously in this industry because of it!" Or, "You're breathing wrong. Good luck with winning this competition." I'm just kidding here, but they usually end up saying things almost exactly like this on this show.
　　If getting into the fashion industry is this hard, painful, bitchy, insulting, nit-picky, catty, backstabbing, and anal-retentive as this show tries to portray, than thank the good Lord that He made me all fat, balding, hairy, and dumpy-frumpy-dowdy-frowsy-geeky-lookin', because I would never want to be required to have the caustic bitchiness and anal, pretentious attitude of any model or fashionazi (or any fashion industry worker), namely the people on this show.
　　And Janice Dickinson, mercy, do not get me started on her...
　　This show needs to die. It's this show (and many other "reality" shows like it) that proves that competitiveness (and the fashion industry) is truly the devil's tool...

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