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ICAP Holds 21st Annual Global Charity Day
As part of the day's activities, ICAP hosted several of the charities' celebrity spokespeople at its offices around the world to rally employee enthusiasm and interact with clients to boost trading volumes. At ICAP's North American headquarters in Jersey City, NJ, over a dozen celebrities were on hand, including (photos included):
-- Halle Berry (Affiliated Charity: Jenesse Center, Inc.)
-- Kate Upton (Affiliated Charity: Girls, Inc.)
-- Eli Manning (Affiliated Charity: PeyBack Foundation)
-- Daniel Craig (Affiliated Charity: S.A.F.E. Kenya)
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-201 ... html?dsk=y
As part of the day's activities, ICAP hosted several of the charities' celebrity spokespeople at its offices around the world to rally employee enthusiasm and interact with clients to boost trading volumes. At ICAP's North American headquarters in Jersey City, NJ, over a dozen celebrities were on hand, including (photos included):
-- Halle Berry (Affiliated Charity: Jenesse Center, Inc.)
-- Kate Upton (Affiliated Charity: Girls, Inc.)
-- Eli Manning (Affiliated Charity: PeyBack Foundation)
-- Daniel Craig (Affiliated Charity: S.A.F.E. Kenya)
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-201 ... html?dsk=y
It basically says that there are major discounts in shoes and clothes of a certain brand, but at the beginning of the text says something like: "Probably, one of the biggest enigmas in current cinema is how the hell James Bond doest it to jump through te roof like a cat ,crawl like a lizard, shoot like a mexican bandit and still manage to have his shoes perfectly polished."sf2la wrote:Ooooh, I wish I could read that.
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One of Craig´s suits in #Skyfall sold for 14000 euros in Christie´s http://www.archivo007.com/index.php/not ... en-skyfall …
One of Craig´s suits in #Skyfall sold for 14000 euros in Christie´s http://www.archivo007.com/index.php/not ... en-skyfall …
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
Oh, thanks for the follow up. The write-up on that suit said the jacket size was a 48F. We know the suit was tailored to fit him, but if it was really a 48, that's HUGE. Obviously only in the shoulders. I have no idea what the F stands for.
I wonder what his Omega watch sold for on Charity Buzz? The last I looked the bid was for $7K, but that didn't yet meet the reserve price.
I wonder what his Omega watch sold for on Charity Buzz? The last I looked the bid was for $7K, but that didn't yet meet the reserve price.
This has been flagged up before but the BBC nature documentary 'One Life', narrated by Daniel, is premiering in the US tonight on Nat Geo Wild.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/arti ... y-20131207#
There's a video clip from the film here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/0 ... ef=animals
And another here:
http://www.the-leader.com/article/20131 ... /312069950
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/arti ... y-20131207#
There's a video clip from the film here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/0 ... ef=animals
And another here:
http://www.the-leader.com/article/20131 ... /312069950
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This sorta didn't make it as an own thread. It looks lost somehow, so I put it here, just as info and delete the rest.
OMG - what shit. With all the police etc and still, this could happen. From my old source back in the ASR days. No wonder, they guard it so heavily. Lets hope, the guy doesn't do any real harm now.
hi you. did you hear your man had a computer robbed from his dressing room.the guy walk in the stage door right up to his room took computer walk right out.well kisses you
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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A few surprises here...
Forbes list of the top 10 overpaid actors
Forbes has just released their list of 2013′s most overpaid actors, and it’s strong in Schadenfreude, containing Adam Sandler, Katherine Heigl, AND Kevin James. If only Gwyneth Paltrow had made the list, I’d be so happy I’d buy a crystal berry colander from Goop.com (only $600!).
To compile our list we looked at the last three movies each actor starred in over the three years to June 1. Actors don’t make as many films as they used to so that first criteria eliminated a lot of folks right away. Drew Barrymore, who has appeared on our overpaid list in past years, was disqualified this year because she didn’t have enough films in our time frame.
Looking at pay, movie budgets and expenses, we calculated a return on investment number for each star and then averaged those numbers to get an overall return.
Here’s the top 10:
Adam Sandler, $3.40 per dollar spent
Katherine Heigl, $3.50
Reese Witherspoon, $3.90
Nicolas Cage, $6.00
Kevin James, $6.10
Denzel Washington, $8.30
Steve Carell, $10
Jennifer Aniston, $10.60
Matt Damon, $10.60
Ryan Reynolds, $10.70
For comparison, last year’s title holder, Eddie Murphy, was earning $2.30 for every dollar spent. I can only assume he didn’t make this year’s list because he didn’t make enough movies. Still, his record should stand for some time. Eddie Murphy is like the Roger Maris of overpaid actors.
It’s a little surprising to see Sandler and Kevin James on the list, considering the common perception is that they crap out terrible movies, and the terribler they are, the more the market rewards them, like a hungry toilet. Perhaps the market is getting savvier? Eh, let’s not celebrate while Seltzer and Friedberg still have homes. Forbes explains:
Kevin James make our list for the first time in fifth place. The actor actually ranked on our Best Actors for the Buck list last year with an average return of $22.40 for every dollar he was paid. This year his return falls to $6.10 because of Here Comes the Boom. The film, about a teacher who tries to become a mixed martial arts fighter to raise money for his school, grossed only $73 million at the box office worldwide.
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Adam Sandler is one of the few actors in Hollywood who can still demand a paycheck north of $15 million. The two biggest offenders on Sandler’s resume: Jack & Jill, in which he played both halves of a brother-sister twin set, and That’s My Boy, in which Sandler (47) played the father of Andy Samberg (35). Jack & Jill grossed $150 million but the film cost an estimated $80 million to make. Considering studios take home about half of box office receipts, that means only about $70 million flowed to Sony , which also had to pay to advertise the stinker. That kind of return didn’t justify Sandler’s large upfront pay.
That’s My Boy did even worse. With an estimated budget of $70 million, the film brought in only $57 million at the box office worldwide. In other words, it was a major bomb. We estimate that for every dollar Sandler was paid on his last three movies, the films returned an average of $3.40.
You know what this means, don’t you? It means that when Adam Sandler drives by in his gold Hummer towing a Maserati filled with McDonald’s cheeseburgers because he was Kevin James’s secret Santa, we’ll be able to sneer, and shout “Yeah, but you didn’t earn it!” while we slap fingerless-glove covered hands while basking in the heat from a used tire fire. Haha, you suck, Sandler! Don’t you have any pride? (*dusts off broken top hat, rides off on one-wheeled Razor scooter, spraying sparks*)
Read more: http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/12/ada ... z2n3pOhNEZ
Forbes list of the top 10 overpaid actors
Forbes has just released their list of 2013′s most overpaid actors, and it’s strong in Schadenfreude, containing Adam Sandler, Katherine Heigl, AND Kevin James. If only Gwyneth Paltrow had made the list, I’d be so happy I’d buy a crystal berry colander from Goop.com (only $600!).
To compile our list we looked at the last three movies each actor starred in over the three years to June 1. Actors don’t make as many films as they used to so that first criteria eliminated a lot of folks right away. Drew Barrymore, who has appeared on our overpaid list in past years, was disqualified this year because she didn’t have enough films in our time frame.
Looking at pay, movie budgets and expenses, we calculated a return on investment number for each star and then averaged those numbers to get an overall return.
Here’s the top 10:
Adam Sandler, $3.40 per dollar spent
Katherine Heigl, $3.50
Reese Witherspoon, $3.90
Nicolas Cage, $6.00
Kevin James, $6.10
Denzel Washington, $8.30
Steve Carell, $10
Jennifer Aniston, $10.60
Matt Damon, $10.60
Ryan Reynolds, $10.70
For comparison, last year’s title holder, Eddie Murphy, was earning $2.30 for every dollar spent. I can only assume he didn’t make this year’s list because he didn’t make enough movies. Still, his record should stand for some time. Eddie Murphy is like the Roger Maris of overpaid actors.
It’s a little surprising to see Sandler and Kevin James on the list, considering the common perception is that they crap out terrible movies, and the terribler they are, the more the market rewards them, like a hungry toilet. Perhaps the market is getting savvier? Eh, let’s not celebrate while Seltzer and Friedberg still have homes. Forbes explains:
Kevin James make our list for the first time in fifth place. The actor actually ranked on our Best Actors for the Buck list last year with an average return of $22.40 for every dollar he was paid. This year his return falls to $6.10 because of Here Comes the Boom. The film, about a teacher who tries to become a mixed martial arts fighter to raise money for his school, grossed only $73 million at the box office worldwide.
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Adam Sandler is one of the few actors in Hollywood who can still demand a paycheck north of $15 million. The two biggest offenders on Sandler’s resume: Jack & Jill, in which he played both halves of a brother-sister twin set, and That’s My Boy, in which Sandler (47) played the father of Andy Samberg (35). Jack & Jill grossed $150 million but the film cost an estimated $80 million to make. Considering studios take home about half of box office receipts, that means only about $70 million flowed to Sony , which also had to pay to advertise the stinker. That kind of return didn’t justify Sandler’s large upfront pay.
That’s My Boy did even worse. With an estimated budget of $70 million, the film brought in only $57 million at the box office worldwide. In other words, it was a major bomb. We estimate that for every dollar Sandler was paid on his last three movies, the films returned an average of $3.40.
You know what this means, don’t you? It means that when Adam Sandler drives by in his gold Hummer towing a Maserati filled with McDonald’s cheeseburgers because he was Kevin James’s secret Santa, we’ll be able to sneer, and shout “Yeah, but you didn’t earn it!” while we slap fingerless-glove covered hands while basking in the heat from a used tire fire. Haha, you suck, Sandler! Don’t you have any pride? (*dusts off broken top hat, rides off on one-wheeled Razor scooter, spraying sparks*)
Read more: http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/12/ada ... z2n3pOhNEZ
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Licensed to booze... 007 was an alcoholic: Bond's drinking habits means he was more likely to die from liver disease than in the line of fire
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This even made it into the German news 
http://web.de/magazine/gesundheit/krank ... er.441.555
best line is:
We suspect that the famous catchphrase ‘shaken, not stirred’ could be because of alcohol induced tremor affecting his hands’, say the doctors.
http://web.de/magazine/gesundheit/krank ... er.441.555
best line is:
We suspect that the famous catchphrase ‘shaken, not stirred’ could be because of alcohol induced tremor affecting his hands’, say the doctors.
It's in Polish "news" tooDunda wrote:This even made it into the German news
http://web.de/magazine/gesundheit/krank ... er.441.555
best line is:
We suspect that the famous catchphrase ‘shaken, not stirred’ could be because of alcohol induced tremor affecting his hands’, say the doctors.
The headline says "James Bond would be an impotent alcoholic"
http://www.tvn24.pl/bond-bylby-alkoholi ... 282,s.html