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エンタメ業界の日本と世界

1：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:27:58
エンターテインメント業界の日本と世界の実情
2：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:29:46
月収10万円は当たり前!?　ロックバンドの赤貧事情
http://www.cyzo.com/2009/03/post_1664.html

　ロック歌手で、現在はタレントとしても活動するダイアモンド☆ユカイが、今月5日に自伝『成り下がり』(光文社)を出版。華やかな女性遍歴に加え、一時は「月収10万円」の赤貧生活を送っていたことも告白し、波紋を呼んでいる。

　ダイアモンド☆ユカイといえば、元レッド・ウォーリアーズのカリスマ的ボーカリスト。同バンドの絶頂期こそ短かったとはいえ、当時の彼は、玄人筋からも「日本では珍しい、本格派のロックンローラー」との評価を得ていた。バンド解散後もソロのライブ活動は続けていただけに、「月収10万円は意外だ」との声もある。

　しかし現在のロック界では、ダイアモンド☆ユカイの懐事情はけっして珍しいものではないようだ。

「CDを数万枚程度売るバンドであっても、事務所から支払われる月給は10万円台が普通。さらに売れてないバンドや新人では、数万円というケースさえもあります」(事務所関係者)

　これは、ミュージシャンの収入源の多くが印税によることも大きい。CDをリリースすれば、作詞作曲者には売上の3〜5％、歌手や演奏者には1％程度の印税が入ってくる。したがって、月給自体はサラリーマンクラスであっても、年間の収入は億単位ということはあり得るのだ。

「先ごろ『某国民的バンドのリズム奏者の給与が30万円しかない』とのウワサが音楽業界内を駆け巡りました。彼の場合、相当の印税が入っているはずですが、事務所からの収入はその程度であってもおかしくはありません」(同前)

　そうした収入構造となっているため、CDセールスの落ち込みが目立つ昨今、ミュージシャンの懐事情はさらに寒くなっているというわけだ。

　他方、コンサートやイベントには多くの観客が集まり、現在の音楽界は「ライブバブル」の真っ只中にあるという。しかし、高コスト体質である日本の興行界では、当のミュージシャンには利益がほとんど還元されない構造となっている。そのため、ロックバンドがCDリリースから演奏活動へと活動の軸足を移したとしても、「全国中を回ったとしても収入はさほど増えない」(同前)のが現状であるそうだ。

　なお、作詞作曲を手がけるミュージシャンにとって、もっとも確実な収入源はカラオケ関連の印税である。たとえば"泣けるパンク"の草分けバンドBの元メンバーは、誰もが知っているヒット曲を多数持っているため、年間で1,000万円を超える印税収入があるそうだ。ダイアモンド☆ユカイの場合、ヒット曲を持たなかったことがバンド解散後の苦境につながったといえる。

　もっとも、CD不況の昨今、ヒット曲を出すのは至難の技。さしあたって、バンドマンの赤貧生活を改善するためには、ライブ活動できちんと稼ぎを得られる興行システムを確立する必要がありそうだ。
(玉井光太郎)

3：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:30:19
＜日経エンタテインメント２００３年２月号より＞
中堅シンガーが２０００人規模のホール（渋谷公会堂）でコンサートをやる場合。
（不況の影響で、最近は協賛企業は減る一方、レコード会社からの援助金もない場合が多い。）

●収入＝１１８０万円
チケット売上げ＝１０００万円。（１枚 ５０００円×２０００人として）
グッズ・物販＝１８０万円。（客の３割が、平均３０００円購入したとして）

●支出＝１１３０万円
会場レンタル費＝１２０万、宣伝費＝５０万、アルバイト人件費・食費＝７０万、
プレイガイド手数料＝６０万、著作権使用料＝１０万、その他雑費＝１０万
↑ここまでがイベンターの必要経費３２０万。
それプラス、イベンターに支払うギャラ＝４０万でトータル３６０万円。
舞台制作費＝１００万、音響・照明＝１４０万、特効＝２０万、輸送費＝８０万、雑費＝２０万、
リハ・スタジオ１０日分＝１００万、サポートミュージシャン４人のギャラ＝１４０万、
↑以上がコンサート製作会社の経費６００万。
それプラス、製作会社の儲け＝５０万、トータル６５０万円。

物販の経費＝１２０万円。これはアーティスト事務所が負担。

（収入＝１１８０万円） − （支出＝１１３０万円） ＝アーティスト事務所の儲け５０万円。

支出で１番大きいのはセットなどの舞台制作費。デザインを凝ったり大型ディスプレイを使えば数千万円。
逆にＺＥＰＰなどの大型ライブハウスには基本的な音響・照明設備が備わってるため、
同規模のホールより３００万円ほど抑えることができる。

※上記は一回公演のみ
　　ハロプロは複数公演でしかも通常一日二回公演　単純に考えると一回分丸儲け

4：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:30:55
80 ：名無しのエリー[sage]：2009/01/04(日) 20:55:55 ID:lgxg/tvR0
ドームでやる場合
貸し館料、設営費、機材費、警備、係員費
水光熱費、清掃費

収入はチケット代、スポンサー（後援）からの収入、物販費

ジャニ系とかは物販費で黒字だろうけど

後は赤字（ファンサービスだろうな）


86 ：名無しのエリー[sage]：2009/04/15(水) 17:41:20 ID:zT0GQCQQ0
制作会社でバイトしてたから内情知ってるけど
ドームや武道館でやる場合、金掛かるのは、

1.ステージセットの設営(3000-5000万）
2.LEDビジョンの設置（レンタル料1台1日500万円ぐらい)
3.電飾（特にドームみたいな大空間だと、かなり派手にしないと寒々となる）
4.会場使用料（1dayなら3日分、武道館1日500万、本番以外の日は半額）。

武道館やドームでやると、上の４つの費用がベラボウに掛かるから
１day満員でも赤字、２day満員でトントンぐらい。

2000人規模のホールでやると、上の４つの費用が非常に安く済むし、
当日設営の当日撤去が可能だから、むしろ黒字になりやすい。

ただツアーの場合、ホールでやってもアゴアシを考えると赤字になったりする。
大きな黒字を出すのは、スポンサーがつく場合とか、クリスマスディナー形式で
チケットが１枚４万とかの場合ぐらい。やっぱりCFやってるアーティストは
その会社にスポンサーになってもらえるケースが多いから、非常に有利。

武道館や東京ドームで単独ライブやると、アーティストとして箔がつくから
アーも事務所も、赤字覚悟でやりたがるのは事実。

5：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:31:28
262：名無しさん＠恐縮です：2009/03/07(土) 13:11:19 ID:tsih7j4OP
メジャーデビューしたてのバンド

10年前はメンバーそれぞれ7万の給料が貰えていた
今はそれがゼロ円。

売れたら印税で・・・というが、印税の配分は作詞作曲歌唱全部やっても新人だとせいぜい3%
作詞作曲やってないメンバーは歌唱印税をメンバー数で割る、という悲惨な状態が
「まだまし」と言われるようなレベル。印税配分無しも珍しくない。

グッズで・・・というが、所属事務所（レコ社じゃないよ）にほとんど持っていかれる。
グッズ収益が自分の手元まで残るなんて、メジャーではごく一部。

その一方

M3でCD売りまくってる某ユニットの年収が1千万を超える

地方都市のライブハウスでライブやりまくってる一般的には知名度ゼロに等しいV系バンドの年収が
バンド単位ではあるが3000万くらいあったり

6：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:32:00
329：名無しさん＠恐縮です：2009/03/07(土) 15:13:06 ID:nq8rltTD0
一方、レコード会社正社員の年収は1000万

この国の典型例。
中間搾取する人間が稼いで、実際に商品を作る人間は赤貧。


346：名無しさん＠恐縮です：2009/03/07(土) 15:52:33 ID:a4wPiBHwQ
>>337
同意だわ、シヤーベッツ好きだけどライブでいまいち乗りきれなかった

メモリーグラスの堀江純はその一曲で年間180万くらい入るらしい。それでなんとか生きてこれたとか。
一発あてられただけでも凄い事だ

7：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:32:30
556：名無しさん＠恐縮です：2009/03/08(日) 09:05:20 ID:Cuhp9r3B0
メジャーでやると中抜きがひどく、金がうまくまわらなくなり、
そこそこ売れてるのに食えない人間が多数。

こういう業界になっていること自体が異常なんだけどね。

テレビ業界もそう。
局社員ばかりが潤って、実際に作っている制作会社がド貧乏で
すぐ辞めていく。
でも、テレビ番組をやりたい人は次から次へと沸いてくるので問題なし。

音楽業界も似たような形態になってるよなぁ。
夢で若者を釣って、大人達が儲けている。

結論、この国はカス

8：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:33:05
65 : 名無し募集中。。。 : 2010/08/03(火) 08:50:30.61 0
一番利益率が高いのはお祭りとか企業・団体の余興だよ
カラオケデータだけ持っていけばいいから

70 : 名無し募集中。。。 : 2010/08/03(火) 08:55:16.96 0
>>65
知名度の低いタレントは10〜50万が相場
頻繁にテレビに出ているタレントは150〜300万が相場
知名度によってギャラランクが分かれる


259 : 名無し募集中。。。 : 2010/08/03(火) 10:08:27.38 0
海外でしかもバンドともなると
人と機材で莫大な運賃掛かるからな
よっぽど客が入らないと利益でない
マイナーな海外アーティストの来日とか飛行機格安チケットで
ギャラ数万とかそういう世界

9：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:33:37
英人気歌手　エイミー・ワインハウスさん死亡　英報道
2011.7.24 01:44
死亡が報じられたエイミー・ワインハウスさん（ロイター）

　ロイター通信は２３日、英スカイニューズ・テレビの報道として、英人気女性歌手エイミー・ワインハウスさん（２７）が、ロンドン市内の自宅で死亡しているところを発見されたと報じた。詳しい死因などは不明。ワインハウスさんここ数年、薬物とアルコール依存症の治療を受けていた。６月にはセルビアで行った野外コンサートで泥酔し、曲が歌えないなどのトラブルを起こしていた。


コンサートで泥酔のワインハウス、２公演を中止に
2011.6.21 07:05
　１８日にセルビアで行った野外コンサートで泥酔してまともに歌うことができず、観客からブーイングを浴びた英歌手、エイミー・ワインハウスさん（２７）が、今週予定していたトルコとギリシャでの公演の中止することになった。１９日、ＡＦＰ通信が伝えた。

　首都ベオグラードの会場には約２万人が集まったが、ワインハウスさんはステージ上でふらつき、曲の途中で何度も歌うのを止めたという。ワインハウスさんはここ数年、薬物とアルコール依存症の治療を受けている。（ＳＡＮＫＥＩ　ＥＸＰＲＥＳＳ）

10：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:34:06
ガガさん、また訴えられる　今度はヒット曲「盗作」と　　2011年8月6日 13時30分

　米ロサンゼルスでの音楽賞で、報道陣にポーズをとるレディー・ガガさん＝２０１０年９月（ロイター＝共同）

　【ロサンゼルス共同】米人気女性歌手レディー・ガガさんのヒット曲「ジューダス」について、シカゴ在住の歌手が３日、自分の曲に酷似しており盗作だとして、ガガさんや所属する音楽会社を相手に損害賠償を求める訴えをイリノイ州の連邦地裁に起こした。ロイター通信などが５日、伝えた。

　訴訟を起こした歌手はレベッカ・フランチェスカッティさん。訴えによると、０５年に自分の曲の録音に参加したミュージシャンが、その後ガガさんのアルバム制作に関わったという。

　米芸能メディアによると、ガガさん側は提訴についてコメントしていない。

11：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:34:42
ロンドンの暴動でイギリス最大のCD倉庫が焼失 （2011年８月12日日経）

　８月９日早朝、今回の大規模なロンドン暴動によって、イギリスとアイルランド最大のインディペンデントCD流通を行なう〈Sony〉、〈Pias〉の倉庫が全焼し、CDやレコードの在庫が多数焼失してしまった。大小様々なインディ・レーベルがその在庫をここから流通しており、各レーベルの被害は深刻だ。

　中でも〈4AD〉〈Matador〉〈Rough Trade〉〈XL Recordings〉など、インディ・ミュージック・ファンなら聞いたことがあるだろう錚々たるレーベルを擁する〈Beggars〉グループは、実に75万コピーものCDおよびレコードを失い、ストックをリカバーするのには少なくとも10日間、レコードは３カ月以上かかるらしい。損害のリクープは保険金から当てるとのことだが、時間的な損失が大きい。〈Domino〉もアークティック・モンキーズの新シングルの発売を控えていたが、これもやはり全失、現在ウェブ上から注文できるごく限られた数しか在庫がないという状態だ。

　〈Sub Pop〉のヘッド、ジョナサン・ポーンマンは「何よりも、誰も怪我がなかったことは幸いだった」と最悪の事態を免れたことをポジティブに捉えているが、「しかしこれから慎重に今後の対策と展望を練らなくてはならない」と、非常に深刻な事態であることを強調した。トータスやジム・オルークの作品などで有名なシカゴの〈Thrill Jockey〉は小売値にしておよそ30万ドルの損害らしく、〈Sonic Cathedral〉のオーナー、ナサニエル・クランプも「これから数カ月間、皆今後をどうするか考えて行かなければならないだろう。インディ・シーンっていうのがどれほど薄氷の上に立っているものなのか、改めて気付かされた」と語っている。各レーベル共に非常に困難な状態にあるようだ。

　金額的な損失もさることながら、それ以上に深刻なのはレーベルとレコード・ショップが今後数カ月に渡って全く在庫の無い状態の中、営業しなければならないということ。そして、この切迫した状況がインディペンデント・ミュージック・シーンにどのような打撃を与えることになるか、まだ誰もはっきりした見通しがつかないことであろう。UKインディペンダント・ミュージック協会も、この１週間はオンライン配信で購入するよう音楽ファンに呼びかけている。それが今は窮地に立たされた各レーベルにとって、とても大きな助けになることも付け加えた。

　今回のこの件で被害を被ったレーベルの中にはこれから発売予定の作品だけではなく、バック・カタログまですべて失った会社もあるという。もちろんマスターが失われたわけではないので作品自体は残るが、大企業とは違ってぎりぎりのところで採算をとっているインディ・レーベルとしては、商品であるCDやレコードを失うこの事態そのものが大きなダメージである。音楽の文化的側面を支え、それぞれの使命感をもって運営してきたであろうインディ・シーンの危機。イギリスが非常に大きなマーケットである以上、このダメージが今後、世界の音楽シーンにも大きな影響を与えることが予想される。

12：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:35:18
ＮＨＫ、受信料６％前後引き下げの方針
10％値下げ求める経営委員も
2011/9/11 1:02

　ＮＨＫは2012年度からの３カ年経営計画に６％前後の受信料引き下げを盛り込む方針を固めた。13日に開かれる最高意思決定機関の経営委員会に提示する。東日本大震災などで受信料の免除世帯が増えた影響もあり、08年に決めた「10％還元」をすべて値下げで実施するのは難しいと判断した。ただ経営委員の中には10％の値下げを求める声も根強く、値下げ幅を巡る今後の議論は曲折が予想される。

　提示案には６％前後の受信料引き下げのほかに、災害関連の報道を強化するための放送設備の更新などを盛り込んだ。ＮＨＫはこれらの措置が４％前後の還元に相当すると位置付け、合計で10％還元としたい考えだ。

　受信料の10％還元は08年に経営委員会が決定し、当時の委員長が「還元は値下げの意味」と説明していた。３カ年計画は執行部案を基に議論し、経営委員会が10月末までに決定する。経営委員会が今後、値下げへ向けた原資を捻出するためにリストラを求める可能性も高い。

13：凡人：2011/09/12(月) 06:35:50
塚本監督「ＫＯＴＯＫＯ」受賞　ベネチアのオリゾンティ賞
2011年9月11日 00時47分

　「ＫＯＴＯＫＯ」でベネチア国際映画祭のオリゾンティ賞を受賞した塚本晋也監督＝１０日、イタリア・ベネチア（共同）

　【ベネチア共同】イタリアで開催中の第６８回ベネチア国際映画祭で１０日、世界の映画の潮流を探るオリゾンティ部門の最高賞にあたるオリゾンティ賞（長編）を、塚本晋也監督（５１）の「ＫＯＴＯＫＯ」が受賞した。

　「ＫＯＴＯＫＯ」は、沖縄県出身の歌手Ｃｏｃｃｏさんが主演。物が二重に見え、自傷行為を繰り返すシングルマザーが懸命に子育てをする姿を通して、生きることの難しさやいとおしさを描いた。舞台は東日本大震災後の日本が暗示されている。

　塚本監督は２００２年にも同映画祭コントロコレンテ部門で「六月の蛇」が審査員特別大賞を受賞している。

14：凡人：2011/09/25(日) 19:44:06
最優秀脚本：是枝監督「奇跡」が受賞　スペインの映画祭
毎日新聞　2011年9月25日　9時35分

是枝裕和監督＝２０１１年５月３０日、長沢晴美撮影　スペイン北部サンセバスチャンで開かれた第５９回サンセバスチャン国際映画祭で２４日（日本時間２５日）、公式出品された是枝裕和監督の映画「奇跡」が最優秀脚本賞を受賞した。

　映画は小中学生のお笑いコンビ「まえだまえだ」の兄弟２人が主演。両親の離婚で福岡市と鹿児島市に分かれて住む兄弟が、３月に開通した九州新幹線の博多−鹿児島ルートをめぐって起きる奇跡を信じて冒険へ出掛ける物語。日本では６月に劇場公開され、１１月にＤＶＤが発売される。

　フランス公共ラジオによると、是枝監督は２０日の公式上映後の記者会見で、東日本大震災に触れ「日常的な物事に、大きな重要性があることを示したかった」と述べた。

　是枝監督作品「誰も知らない」は、２００４年のカンヌ国際映画祭で主演柳楽優弥さんが最優秀男優賞を受賞している。（共同）

15：凡人：2011/09/25(日) 19:46:52
映画：日カザフ共同作品が最高賞　ユーラシア国際映画祭
毎日新聞　2011年9月24日　12時39分

　インタファクス通信によると、中央アジア・カザフスタンのアルマトイで開かれていた第７回ユーラシア国際映画祭で、日本とカザフスタンの共同作品「春、一番最初に降る雨」が最高賞のグランプリを獲得した。

　「春、一番最初に降る雨」は日本の佐野伸寿監督とカザフ出身のエルラン・ヌルムハンベトフ監督の合作。中国国境に近いカザフの大自然の中で暮らす素朴な家族の姿を描いている。

　カザフのインターネットメディアによると、佐野さんは受賞決定後、「作品を公開したのはこの映画祭が最初」と述べ、喜びを表したという。（共同）

16：凡人：2011/09/29(木) 23:43:17
中村修二教授にエミー賞　技術部門、ＬＥＤを評価
2011年09月29日 12:25

中村修二・米カリフォルニア大サンタバーバラ校教授　【ロサンゼルス共同】米テレビ界最高の栄誉、第６３回エミー賞の技術工学部門で、青色発光ダイオード（ＬＥＤ）の開発で知られる米カリフォルニア大サンタバーバラ校の中村修二教授の受賞が決まったことが２８日、分かった。

　教授がかつて勤務し、特許権の譲渡対価をめぐって裁判で争った日亜化学工業（徳島県阿南市）などとの共同受賞。大型ディスプレー開発で先進的な役割を果たしたことが評価された。

　教授は同校のサイトで「私の研究成果は、大型ディスプレーなどのバックライトや照明に使われるＬＥＤにつながった。受賞はとてもうれしい」とコメントした。

17：凡人：2011/10/04(火) 02:00:12
ＴＤＬ・ＴＤＳ：入園者１７％減　開園以来最大の減少率
毎日新聞　2011年10月3日　21時11分

　オリエンタルランドは３日、東京ディズニーランド（ＴＤＬ）と東京ディズニーシー（ＴＤＳ）の２０１１年度上半期（４〜９月）の入園者数が前年同期比１７．１％減の１０７３万９０００人で、１９８３年の開園以降、半期ベースで最大の減少率となった、と発表した。東日本大震災に伴う休園が響いた。

　上半期では、２年ぶりの減少で、入園者数はＴＤＳが通年営業となった０２年度以降では最も少なかった。

　ただ、ＴＤＳが今春新たに導入した夜の水上ショーが人気を集めたことから、７〜９月期の入園者数は過去最高となっており、同社は「回復傾向にある」としている。

　オリエンタルランドは震災の影響を見極める必要があるとして、例年公表している通年の入園者数予想については、公表を見送っている。

18：凡人：2011/10/07(金) 03:25:58
エイベックス：韓国アイドルの大麻摘発でＣＤ発売中止
毎日新聞　2011年10月6日　23時19分

　韓国のアイドルグループ「ＢＩＧＢＡＮＧ」のリーダー、Ｇ−ＤＲＡＧＯＮ（本名クォン・ジヨン）さん（２３）が大麻を使用したとして麻薬類管理法違反容疑で韓国検察当局に摘発された問題で、レコード会社のエイベックス・エンタテインメントは６日、日本で予定していたＣＤの発売を中止すると発表した。

　ＣＤは、Ｇ−ＤＲＡＧＯＮさんが参加するユニットＧＤ＆ＴＯＰのシングル「ＯＨ　ＹＥＡＨ」。１１月９日発売の予定だった。

19：凡人：2011/10/07(金) 03:52:51
暴力団関係あれば契約解除　ＮＨＫ、紅白出場者選考で
（2011/10/6 21:20）

　ＮＨＫの松本正之会長は６日の定例記者会見で、大みそか放送の紅白歌合戦の出場歌手選考について「暴力団との関わりはあってはならない。もしあったら（出演契約を）解除する」と、厳しく臨む姿勢を示した。東京都の暴力団排除条例が１日に施行されたことを受けての発言。

　ＮＨＫは４月、番組全般で出演者との契約書に「暴力団の関係者であることや暴力行為を行ったことが判明した場合、契約を解除できる」との条項を盛り込んだ。

　松本会長は「現時点で（暴力団との）関係があるかないかが重要。より注意しながら総合的に判断したい」と述べた。

20：凡人：2011/10/07(金) 04:01:38
釜山国際映画祭が開幕 オダギリジョーさんら参加
2011年10月06日 22：45　

釜山国際映画祭開会式＝６日、釜山（ＡＰ＝共同）

　【釜山共同】アジア最大級の映画祭とされる第１６回釜山国際映画祭が６日、韓国南部の釜山市で始まった。開会式にはチャン・ドンゴンさんら韓流スターや日本のオダギリジョーさんが顔を見せた。韓流ファンの日本人観光客も集まった。

　主催者側によると、映画祭は１４日まで。期間中、７０カ国・地域から招待された３００余りの作品を上映。閉幕作品には原田真人監督の映画「わが母の記」が選ばれ、映画祭の最後を飾る予定。

21：凡人：2011/10/07(金) 04:04:29
アナログ終了で解約９万８千件 ＮＨＫ受信料
2011年10月06日 19：15　

　ＮＨＫは６日、７月２４日のアナログ放送終了に伴う放送受信契約の解約件数が、９月末で約９万８千件になる見込みであると発表した。

　また、東日本大震災による受信料の災害免除適用者は、９月末で約２０万１千件に上ることを明らかにした。震災を理由にした受信契約の解約件数は約４万３千件。

　松本正之会長は６日の定例記者会見で、受信契約の解約について「厳しい状況だ。テレビを視聴できる環境を整えてもらい、契約を少しでも増やす努力をしていきたい」と述べた。

22：凡人：2011/10/09(日) 13:38:21
世界へ進出じわり　ビジュアル系ロック　ツアーで精力的にライブ、ファンを獲得
2011年10月7日 朝刊

　Ｋ−ＰＯＰ（韓流ポップス）旋風のさなかの日本の音楽界。逆に日本から海外へとじわじわ進出しているのが、麗しき見た目が特徴のビジュアル系ロックだ。１０年かけて欧米やアジアで支持を広げ、近年は南米でもライブが開かれるようになっている。　（早川由紀美）

　この数年、精力的に海外でライブ活動をしているビジュアル系バンドの一つに「Ｖｅｒｓａｉｌｌｅｓ（ヴェルサイユ）」がある。今年の世界ツアーではロシアのサンクトペテルブルク、ロンドン、マドリード、ウィーンなどを終え、十一月には南米七か国を回る。ウルグアイやベネズエラはビジュアル系バンドとして初進出となる。

　十八世紀のフランスを意識した衣装や、物語性の強い曲が特徴。二〇〇七年のデビュー前から、インターネットの動画投稿サイトで映像を流したところ、ドイツのテレビ局が取材に来た。デビューアルバムは日本、ヨーロッパ同時発売となった。

　「衣装や手に持つバラはとくに海外を意識したわけではない。逆に、誰に笑われてもいいと思っていた。美しいものが好きで、最高の自己満足を形にしただけ」。ボーカルのＫＡＭＩＪＯは振り返る。

　海外のファンは、まず日本のアニメやゲームを好きになり、そのほかの日本文化にも興味を広げた人が多い。同じく海外で人気があるアニメソングと同じ構図だ。「ファンからのメールなどを見ていると、ニンジャやフジサンなど全部知ったうえで、僕たちを愛してくれている」。現地ではファンがそれぞれストリートチームを作り、ライブの宣伝をしたり、取材の窓口になっていたりするという。

　「海外のスタッフは純粋にビジュアル系が好きでライブに呼んでくれている。その灯は消してはいけないし、爆発させたいと思ってやっている」

　ビジュアル系の海外進出は、二〇〇〇年代初頭の「ＤＩＲ　ＥＮ　ＧＲＥＹ（ディル・アン・グレイ）」に始まったとされる。その後多くのバンドがライブや、日本のサブカルチャーを紹介するイベントなどに呼ばれるようになった。

　コンサート制作会社「バックステージプロジェクト」の久坂一人さんは「ヨーロッパでは様式美、米国では音楽性、南米ではハッピーな感じが受けている」と分析する。〇九、一〇年の海外二十六公演で一万人近くを動員しているという「ＬＭ．Ｃ」のフィンランドでのライブでは、小学生が「ビジュアル系が学校ではやっている」と話していたという。

　久坂さんは、ヨーロッパなどではこのところＫ−ＰＯＰに押され気味なのが気掛かりだ。「海外で頑張っても、日本で知られていないのが残念」とも。大御所「Ｘ　ＪＡＰＡＮ」が今年、ヨーロッパや南米、アジアをツアーで回っており、再び追い風が吹くことを期待しているという。

　十月二十三日には、さいたまスーパーアリーナで、同社が主催し、ビジュアル系ばかりを集めた「Ｖ−ＲＯＣＫ　ＦＥＳＴＩＶＡＬ」が開かれる。前回の二〇〇九年は海外から約八百人が訪れたという。杉本圭司社長は「ビジュアル系は日本独自のもの。フェスは日本文化の見本市というつもりでやっている」と話している。

23：凡人：2011/10/12(水) 07:10:12
ＮＨＫ受信料１１０円値下げ提示　４０円上乗せ、経営委に
2011年10月11日 22時06分（共同）

　ＮＨＫが策定中の次期経営計画（２０１２〜１４年度）で、松本正之会長ら執行部が、焦点となっている受信料の値下げ額について、９月に示した当初案の月額最大７０円から４０円上乗せし、月額１１０円とする新たな案を１１日の経営委員会（数土文夫委員長）に提示していたことが分かった。

　現経営計画は「１２年度からの受信料収入１０％の還元」と明記。地上波受信料（月額１３４５円）の約５％にとどまる７０円の値下げでは足りないとの意見が委員会側から出され、執行部が値下げ額を再検討していた。

24：凡人：2011/10/13(木) 00:52:21
「神的存在」のサイト乱立、相次ぐ違法ダウンロード　音楽動画サービス著作権侵害訴訟
2011.10.12 22:19

　レコード各社が「チューブファイア」への集団提訴に踏み切った背景には、ＣＤやＤＶＤの売り上げを圧迫している無料ダウンロード（ＤＬ）の広がりに対する業界の危機感がある。チューブファイアはすでにサービスを停止しているが、インターネット上には同種のサイトが乱立し、音楽動画などを無料でＤＬできる状態が続いている。

　「貧乏人にとっては『神的存在』なのに…」「おすすめの（別のサイト）があったら教えて」。チューブファイアの利用停止後、ネット上の質問サイトには、こんな書き込みが相次いだ。チューブファイアと同種のサービスを「おすすめ」する書き込みもあり、無料ＤＬが横行している実態を示している。

　日本レコード協会によると、これらのサイトを介した音楽作品の「不正なＤＬ」は年間約１２億件（推計値）。一方で、平成２２年にパソコンを使って正規にＤＬされた音楽作品は４億４千万件にとどまる。同協会は「不正ＤＬが、ＣＤの売り上げやレンタルなどにマイナスの影響を与えている」としている。

　レコード会社側は訴訟で「ＤＬは著作権者の許諾を得ない『複製』にあたる」と主張。チューブファイアを介して「約１万ファイルが無許諾で複製されていることを確認した」として賠償を求めた。

　だが、甲南大学法科大学院の園田寿教授（ネットワーク犯罪）は「サイト（チューブファイア）を一概に違法と言い切ることはできない」とみる。ファイル共有ソフト「ウィニー」の開発者が著作権法違反の幇助（ほうじょ）罪に問われた事件の裁判では「ソフトの技術自体は有意義」と認定され、無罪判決も出ているためだ。

　ただ、著作権法改正で昨年１月からは違法にネット上に公開された動画などをＤＬした場合、ＤＬした利用者も違法性を問われるようになった。園田教授は「レコード会社がプロモーション用に配信した動画であれば『私的利用』と認められる可能性があるが、違法に公開された動画には注意が必要だ」と述べた。

25：凡人：2011/10/13(木) 09:24:52
ＮＨＫ、ＡＶにモザイクかけ忘れ　「子どもと性」扱う番組で
2010.7.17 21:02

　１４日に放送されたＮＨＫの情報番組で、放送事故寸前のエロ画像が映り込んでいた問題が波紋を広げている。画像は、アダルトビデオ（ＡＶ）のワンシーンを切り取ったもので、女性の乳首の形もクッキリ。公共放送の内容としては、かなり過激なため、ネット上では「モザイク甘すぎ」「朝から家族で見てるのに気まずい」などと大騒ぎだ。（夕刊フジ）

　“事故”があったのは１４日朝に放送されたＮＨＫ総合「あさイチ」。

　「大丈夫？　子どもをとりまく『性』」と題したコーナーで、子どもが容易に性的な情報に触れられるネット環境の問題点について訴えた。

　同局は、ウェブサイトで「子どもをとりまく『性』と子どもたちの実態を描くとともに、親がどう向き合い、接していくべきかを考えます」と番組の趣旨を説明している。しかし、その放送内容が過激すぎた。

　一体どう過激だったのか？　番組では、リポーターが自身のパソコンに「ほし」というキーワードを入力。検索エンジンで画像検索をしたところ、電動マッサージ器で女優の局部を刺激するプレー画像や、女優が男性器をくわえ込む画像など、多くのエロ画像が表示された。問題の画像の“原画”は無修正だが、ＮＨＫは局部にモザイクをかけた。ところが、局部に集中するあまり（？）、乳首には何の処理もせずに放送してしまったのだ。

　いくら警告のためとはいえ、選んだ画像があまりにも過激だったため、放送直後からネット上では「よくやったＮＨＫ」「おっぱいにモザイクは必要なの？」「びっくりした」「朝から家族で見てるのに気まずい」などと賛否の声が噴出した。

　さらに、「ほし」というキーワードの検索数も急上昇。検索エンジンのグーグルでは放送後、５時間あまりにわたって「ほし」がワードランキングのトップに立った。

　「あさイチ」は、先月２３日のセックスレス特集で、司会の有働由美子アナが「セックス」という言葉を連呼したことが話題になったばかり。性的な話題を躊躇（ちゅうちょ）なく取り上げる姿勢が異彩を放っている。

　今回の放送についてＮＨＫ広報は「インターネット上の有害な情報の危険性をより深く認識していただくために、当該の映像を紹介しましたが、配慮の足りないというご指摘については真摯に受け止めています」と話している。

26：凡人：2011/10/14(金) 05:18:48
２４時間テレビ募金１９億８千万円超…歴代最高
（2011年10月11日19時40分 読売新聞）

　日本テレビは１１日、今年８月２０〜２１日にかけて同局系で放送された「２４時間テレビ３４　愛は地球を救う」の全国の募金総額が、１９億８６４１万４２５２円に上り、第１回放送時（１９７８年）の１１億９０１１万８３９９円を上回って歴代最高額となったと発表した。

　募金総額のうち、「東日本大震災緊急募金」として募った義援金に１０億６０６９万６０１３円が寄せられ、総額を押し上げた。

27：凡人：2011/10/14(金) 05:26:18
タジキスタン戦、最高視聴率は２５・８％
（2011年10月12日10時12分 読売新聞）

　テレビ朝日系で１１日夜に放送されたサッカー男子Ｗ杯アジア３次予選「日本対タジキスタン戦」の試合中継部分（１１日午後７時４１分〜同９時４８分）の平均視聴率（関東地区）が２０・８％だったことが、ビデオリサーチ社の調べで分かった。

　瞬間最高視聴率は、７４分頃の午後９時１８分で、２５・８％だった。

28：凡人：2011/10/23(日) 22:22:13
世界進出の拠点、再認識　釜山国際映画祭
2011年10月23日11時0分

釜山国際映画祭のクロージング作品に「わが母の記」が選ばれ、「映画の殿堂」の野外劇場の巨大スクリーンに原田真人監督が映し出された＝１４日、韓国・釜山市海雲台区

■アジアの話題作、高い評価

　脱カリスマ運営と、巨大なシンボル会場。１４日まで韓国・釜山市で開かれた第１６回釜山国際映画祭は、二つの意味で新たなスタートとなった。混乱はあったものの、この映画祭の主眼であるアジア映画界における重要性と、映画産業・文化の「出合いの場」というコンセプトを、バージョンアップした９日間だった。

　釜山国際映画祭の「父」と呼ばれたキム・ドンホ氏が前回で執行委員長を退き、イ・ヨンガン新委員長の下での初の映画祭だった。世界中の映画人と太いパイプを持つカリスマが映画祭に及ぼした力は甚大だったが、新委員長の姿勢は対照的だ。「映画祭はスタッフの色で彩る。私は無色」と語り、事務局業務の分散と組織化を徹底した。

　会場も新調された。釜山市の中心・南浦洞（ナムポドン）を起源に主会場は漂流してきたが、今回、海雲台（ヘウンデ）区の再開発地区にメーン会場「映画の殿堂」を得た。韓国政府と同市が約１１０億円を投じた巨大施設「殿堂」は、その規模以上に、ウィーンの設計集団コープ・ヒンメルブラウによる大胆な造形が注目された。韓国の国民的俳優アン・ソンギも「大胆さに驚いた。この建物の存在で、人々の心に映画がより身近なものになるのではないでしょうか」。

　だが不備も多かった。ただでさえ再開発地区には映画祭に不可欠な「語らいの場」が乏しいのに、「殿堂」の飲食店エリアは未完成。雨漏りなど故障も多発。イ・ヨンガン氏も「殿堂の運営チームは非協力的」と不満を口にした。

　また、これまで会場が分散していたマーケット関連部門も「殿堂」近くに新設された巨大ホールに集結。マーケット部門統括者は「参加者が部門を超えて行き交い、会合の数も増えた。シナジー効果は大きい」と手応えを語る。

　それでも、アジアの新鮮な話題作を集めることに力を注いできたこの映画祭の本分は、健在だった。新人監督部門で大賞を受賞した「嘆き」（モルテザ・ファルシャバフ監督、イラン）や、「韓国映画の今日」部門に出品された大人向けのアニメ「Ｔｈｅ　Ｋｉｎｇ　ｏｆ　Ｐｉｇｓ」（ユン・サンホ監督、韓国）などは評論家の間でも「ｇｅｍ」（至宝）などと高く評価された。

　出品３０７作品のうち半分近くをしめた世界初・自国以外初上映作品も、ほとんどがアジア作品。それらの多くの作品は、来年の主要映画祭への招待が決まった。「その意味は大きい」とキム・ジソク首席プログラマー。

　「アジア映画にとって釜山こそ世界進出の最大の港ということ。アジアの作品と映画人が最も多く集まる場ということを、改めて示せました」（浜田奈美）

29：凡人：2011/10/24(月) 17:34:11
妖怪人間ベム：亀梨和也主演ドラマが初回視聴率18．9％の好スタート　瞬間最高は22．9％
2011年10月24日　11時28分

ドラマ「妖怪人間ベム」の一場面＝日本テレビ提供

　人気グループ「KAT-TUN」の亀梨和也さん、女優の杏さん、子役の鈴木福君が妖怪人間にふんし、1968年に放送された人気アニメを実写化したドラマ「妖怪人間べム」（日本テレビ系）の初回が22日放送され、平均視聴率は18．9％（ビデオリサーチ調べ、関東地区）、瞬間最高は午後10時に記録した22．9％だった。7〜9月に同枠で放送した松田翔太さん主演のドラマ「ドン★キホーテ」の初回平均視聴率は11．7％だったが、いきなり15％超えを果たし好発進のスタートを切った。

　「妖怪人間べム」は、みにくい体ながら正義の心を持った妖怪人間のベム、ベラ、ベロが、人間から迫害されながらも、人間になることを夢見て悪の妖怪と戦い、人々を救っていく物語。ドラマ版は、「妖怪人間」として人間から恐れられ、嫌われてしまうベム（亀梨さん）、ベラ（杏さん）、ベロ（福くん）だったが、ふとしたことから北村一輝さん演じる刑事・夏目（北村一樹さん）との友情が芽生える……というストーリー。

　第1話は、妖怪人間のベム、ベラ、ベロは「はやく人間になりたい」と願いながら人間を助けては、その容貌から恐れられ、嫌われる暮らしを数百年も続けてきた。ある夜ベムは1人の男を助け、刑事の夏目と知り合う。そして夏目家の夕食に招かれたベムは偶然ある写真を目にする。そこに写っていたのはベムたちが人間になるヒントを持っているかもしれない人物、緒方だった。早速緒方に会うものの緒方から何も知らないと言われがっかりするベムたち。しかしベムが助けた男を巡る事件が急展開をみせて……という内容だった。（毎日新聞デジタル）

30：凡人：2011/10/25(火) 01:25:19
霧矢大夢さん宝塚退団へ　月組男役トップスター
（2011/10/24 17:52）

　宝塚歌劇団は２４日、月組男役トップスターの霧矢大夢さんが来年４月に退団すると発表した。

　霧矢さんは大阪府出身で、１９９４年初舞台。昨年２月の公演から月組男役トップを務めてきた。最後の公演は来年４月２２日、東京宝塚劇場での「エドワード８世」と「Ｍｉｓｔｙ　Ｓｔａｔｉｏｎ」の千秋楽となる。
31：凡人：2011/10/25(火) 06:12:17
「紳助はヤクザ」は名誉毀損　島田さん、講談社を提訴
2011年10月24日17時30分

　暴力団幹部との親交を理由に芸能界を引退した島田紳助さんと、島田さんが所属していた吉本興業が２４日、「週刊現代」の記事で名誉を傷つけられたとして発行元の講談社と同誌編集長を相手取り、計１億６５００万円の損害賠償などを求めて東京地裁に提訴した。

　問題とされたのは１０月１５日号の記事。「紳助、あんたはヤクザだ」などのタイトルで、島田さんが「暴力団幹部と同席して不動産取引をした」「極道の世界の一員だと知りながら吉本興業は契約を結んでいた」などと報じた。

　訴状で、島田さんと吉本興業は記事について「不動産の交渉で暴力団と同席した事実はなく、裏付け取材のない全くの捏造（ねつぞう）だ」と主張。「暴力団排除が徹底されるなか、吉本興業所属タレントの出演や企業の存続すら脅かしかねない」として、損害賠償のほか謝罪広告を求めた。

　提訴を受け、週刊現代編集部は「記事の内容には自信を持っている。今後も暴力団と島田さんの関係について取材を続ける」とのコメントを出した。

32：凡人：2011/10/25(火) 21:29:35
ＮＨＫ：初の受信料値下げ承認　来秋から月額最大１２０円
毎日新聞　2011年10月25日　17時42分

会見を終え退席するＮＨＫの数土文夫経営委員長（左）と松本正之会長＝東京都渋谷区で２０１１年１０月２５日、尾籠章裕撮影

　ＮＨＫの経営委員会（委員長・数土文夫ＪＦＥホールディングス相談役）は２５日、受信料を月額最大１２０円値下げすることを盛り込んだ来年度から３カ年の次期経営計画を全会一致で議決した。受信料値下げは１２年１０月からで、テレビだけを対象にした受信料体系となった１９６８年以降初めて。

　値下げ額は受信料収入（約６６００億円）の７％に相当。地上波契約で月額１３４５円のうち、契約者の約８割にあたる口座振替やクレジットカード払いで同１２０円、コンビニなどの継続振り込みは同７０円を値下げする。３年で総額１１６２億円と試算している。

　値下げによる受信料収入の落ち込みで、１３年度の事業収支は４７億円の赤字を見込むが、契約件数増や人員削減を図り、１４年度は１０億円の黒字に転じるとしている。

　０８年に策定された現行計画では、経営委員会が執行部案に異例の修正動議をかけ「１２年度から受信料収入の１０％還元」が盛り込まれ、当時の古森重隆委員長が「還元は値下げ」と明言していた。

　次期計画では「１０％還元」は困難と判断し、還元は値下げの７％に、災害時における公共放送の機能強化費０．６％を加えた７．６％にとどまった。

　松本正之会長は「経営リスクを勘案すると極めて重い決断」と語った。【高橋咲子、土屋渓】

33：凡人：2011/10/26(水) 02:19:36
「オールナイトニッポン」４５年目突入　鶴光でおま！往年のパーソナリティー
2011年10月21日 朝刊

　ニッポン放送の深夜放送「オールナイトニッポン」が今月４５年目に突入、記念のイベントなども始まっている。輝かしい歴史を振り返るには、あの人に話を聞きに行かなければ。土曜の夜をピンク色に染めた、あの人に−。　（早川由紀美）

　「十の三乗ずり、やってるかー」

　ニッポン放送に保存されている五本のカセットテープ。一九七四年から八五年にかけて、毎週土曜深夜に放送されていた「笑福亭鶴光のオールナイトニッポン」の一部が、録音されていた。ファンが送ってくれたものだが、局としてはテープを残しておらず、貴重な資料だ。

　当時は深夜放送の全盛時代。とくに下ネタ満載の鶴光のオールナイトは十代中心に絶大な人気を誇っていた。ゲストで訪れた松田聖子が推理ドラマに出演。「キンタマニ探偵！」と、繰り返し鶴光に呼び掛けたりなんかもしている。かなり苦しいが金田一探偵のもじりかも。ラジオを聴きながら勉強している受験生も多かったので、参考書や予備校などのＣＭも多い。

　「オールナイトは今でいうパソコンやね。新しいこと知りたかったらラジオ聴いてた。情報の発信地やった」と、鶴光は振り返る。当時の子どもを恐怖に陥れた「口裂け女」などの都市伝説もラジオから広まった。

　下ネタ路線を全面的に押し出したのには、理由がある。「笑いをとるには、下ネタか差別かブラックジョークしかない。差別は傷つく人がいる。一番、害毒がないのが下ネタ」。とはいえ、あまりに直接的な言葉は使えないため「真綿でくるんだ表現」が番組の中で生まれていった。「リスナーがハガキで次々面白い言葉を送ってきた。リスナーが一番の放送作家やった」

　ハガキは毎週一万通前後。プレゼントがある週で、多いときは五万通に上ったという。番組が始まった当初は「大阪弁分からん」という苦情もあったが、そのうち皆、ハガキを「〜でおま」と鶴光がラジオで話す落語言葉で書いてくるようになった。面白い投稿をする「ハガキ職人」が作家や映画監督になった例も少なくない。

　一方で「あそこまでラジオで話していいのか」という苦情も絶えなかった。中高年の男性からが多かったという。「鶴光のオールナイトは聴くな」という“禁止令”が出ている学校もあった。「人として生まれ、男と女が結び付いて、歴史が生まれる。自然の営み。『下ネタが嫌い』というのは『人は永久に死なない』というのと同じ」

　ラジオは、聴く側の想像力で世界が広がるという点で、落語にも通じている。一方で聴き手との距離が近い「麻薬みたいな世界」でもある。「賛同してくれる人がいるので、つい人生観語ったりとか賢いとこ見せようとしたりする。リスナーは自分より賢いということを、いつも頭に置いておかないと」。面白さを貫く鶴光のラジオ。関西で持っている番組には今もハガキでネタが届くという。

　一九六七年十月一日にスタートしたオールナイトニッポン。九月には四十五周年キャンペーンの第一弾として、六夜連続のスタジオライブを開催。今後もライブイベントなどが予定されている。

　村山創太郎社長は昨年、社長に就任する際、先輩から「オールナイトニッポンがなくならないと、新しいニッポン放送は始まらないぞ」と言われたという。逆にいえば同局の根幹をなす番組ともいえる。「社長になってあらためてオールナイトニッポンのブランド力を感じているし、リスナーにとっても財産。五十年は続けていきたい」。ぜひ、再び夜をピンク色に染めてください、村山社長！

34：凡人：2011/10/28(金) 21:59:05
劇団四季のキャッツ、２８年かけ上演８千回到達
（2011年10月28日19時42分 読売新聞）

　劇団四季のミュージカル「キャッツ」の上演回数が２８日、横浜市西区のキヤノン・キャッツ・シアターでの公演で、通算８０００回に到達した。

　国内で上演されたミュージカルでは最多。１９８３年の東京初演以来、２８年間で総入場者数は約８０５万人に上る。

　オリジナル舞台は８１年にロンドンで初演され、英米で大ヒット。劇団四季は、専用劇場を設営して初の長期公演を行い、日本のミュージカル人口を拡大してきた。

　この日は公演終了後、特別カーテンコールが行われた。歴代のキャッツ・シアターの映像で歩みを振り返り、「８０００」の形をした黄金のオブジェを猫にふんした俳優たちが舞台に運び上げて節目を祝った。

35：凡人：2011/10/29(土) 00:15:18
ジャクソンさんまた首位　「死去した有名人」長者番付
2011年10月26日（水）11:24

　１９９９年６月、ミュンヘンで踊るマイケル・ジャクソンさん（ロイター＝共同）

　【ロサンゼルス共同】米経済誌フォーブス（電子版）は２５日、過去１年間で最も稼いだ「死去した有名人」のランキングを発表し、２００９年６月に死去した米歌手マイケル・ジャクソンさんが１億７０００万ドル（約１３０億円）で２年連続の首位となった。

　ジャクソンさんの収入は前年の２億７５００万ドルから大きく減ったが、本人のＣＤの売り上げなどと別に、他のミュージシャンの楽曲に関連する権利も所有していたため継続して多額の収入がある。現役を含めた音楽家の長者番付でも、首位のアイルランドのバンド「Ｕ２」に続く高収入。

36：凡人：2011/11/03(木) 03:32:47
ジョブズ氏評伝が１００万部突破　発売１０日目で大台
（2011/11/02 18:55）

　講談社は２日、先月死去した米アップルのスティーブ・ジョブズ前最高経営責任者の評伝「スティーブ・ジョブズ」（全２巻）の発行部数が、１、２巻合わせて１００万部を突破したと発表した。

　先月２４日の１巻発売から１０日目で大台を達成。作家村上春樹さんの長編小説「１Ｑ８４」が１、２巻合わせて１００万部を突破したのは全国発売から１２日目だった。

　講談社によると、発行部数は１巻が５５万部、１１月１日発売の２巻が４７万部の計１０２万部。全国の書店で品切れ状況が続いているという。

　同社の担当編集者は「カリスマだったジョブズ氏の死去で読者の関心が高まった」と話している。

37：凡人：2011/11/03(木) 06:55:06
日本の新聞雑誌では、いつもアメリカで日本のアニメが人気があると書かれている。その実はサブカルチャーとして熱狂的なファンがいるという意味。アメリカのメインの文化や階層までに届いているとは思えない。人気の影にはアジア系アメリカ人の存在が大きく貢献しているだろう。ところがアメリカ全体とすると小さい。ハリウッド映画でお金を稼ぐには、そのメインの階層にアピールできるかできないかが問われる。日本の文化とアメリカの文化は似て非なるもの。成功は、はっきり言って難しいと思う。成功してもトントン。ここでもまた政府主導なのは日本の得意技。税金だったら事業が失敗しても文句が誰からも出ないのかもしれない。成功してもわずかというのは、アメリカの映画産業は賢い人で溢れている。クりエイティビティを担う若者の才能や数にまったく不自由はしていない。はたして日本の素材を高い金を払ってまでして使おうとするのか疑問。それだったら、アメリカの大衆に受けるキャラクターを自ら作った方が、ロイヤルティーを払うことなく、またなにも縛られることなく使える。アメリカは世界文化を担っているから、世界にもアピールできるキャラクターを作ることは朝飯前。映画後も逆に作ったキャラクターを売り込める。世界のメイン階層にアピールできる素材・キャラクターが日本に仮にあったとしても、それはハリウッドがすでにつかっていると言ってよい。ハリウッドの目をすでに世界をカバーして長いのだから。
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政府、ハリウッドにアニメ・玩具セールス　国策会社設立　　

　日本のアニメや玩具などのコンテンツをハリウッドで映画化するプロジェクトが、今月スタートする。政府が９割を出資するファンド「産業革新機構」が６０億円を出資して１０月に設立した新会社が日本に利益をもたらすため、ハリウッドに素材を売り込む。

　新会社は「オール・ニッポン・エンターテイメント・ワークス」。映画のヒットにより、書籍やゲームなど関連商品を含めて巨額の利益を生み出すのが目的。

　まず、映画化を目指す日本の素材の権利を取得したうえで、米国のプロデューサーらと脚本作りや監督、俳優の選定などを進める。当初３年で権利１０件、３０億円の投資を見込んでいる。

38：凡人：2011/11/04(金) 01:48:46
ガガさん、いじめ防止の財団設立 １４歳少年自殺に衝撃
2011年11月03日（木）12時10分

　レディー・ガガさん（ＵＰＩ＝共同）

　【ロサンゼルス共同】米人気女性歌手のレディー・ガガさんが、子どもたちのいじめ防止の啓発活動をする「ボーン・ディス・ウェイ財団」を設立する。この活動でガガさんと提携する、米ハーバード大のインターネット関連の研究機関が２日、発表した。

　ニューヨーク州の同性愛者とみられる１４歳の少年が９月、学校でいじめを受け自殺。米メディアによると、この少年がガガさんに勇気づけられたという趣旨のメッセージを残していた。ガガさんは短文投稿サイトで「声を上げて泣いた。いじめは法律で禁止すべきだ。こんなことは終わらせなければ」と述べていた。

39：凡人：2011/11/06(日) 02:33:48
人気アイドルグループ「嵐」が本県に１億50万円寄付　福島
（２０１１年１１月５日　福島民友トピックス）

　人気アイドルグループ「嵐」は４日までに、本県の教育と観光に役立ててほしいと、メンバーが企画・取材した書籍の印税など１億５０万円を出版元と共同で県に寄付した。書籍は「ニッポンの嵐　ポケット版」で、メンバーによる日本を再発見する旅の記録。寄付金は販売収益の全額とメンバーの印税。

　寄付を受け、佐藤雄平知事は「笑顔と活力に満ちた嵐の皆さんの姿はまさに『ニッポンの元気』の象徴。今回の温かい気持ちと行動に応えられるよう今後も復興に取り組んでいく」とのコメントを発表した。

40：凡人：2011/11/09(水) 07:23:32
毎日のように展開される、テレビ公開された法廷の様子を凡人は自室で興味深く見ていた。その判決は検察側の非の打ち所がない訴えからして驚かない結果。
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マイケルさん急死：元専属医に有罪評決　過失致死で
毎日新聞　2011年11月8日　7時48分

　２００９年の米歌手マイケル・ジャクソンさん＝当時（５０）＝の急死をめぐり、過失致死罪に問われた専属医コンラッド・マーレー被告（５８）に対し、ロサンゼルス郡地裁の陪審は７日、有罪評決を出した。担当判事は今月２９日に量刑を言い渡す。最高で禁錮４年。

　ジャクソンさんは自宅で呼吸停止状態となった後に死亡。検察側は、不眠を訴えたジャクソンさんに被告が強力な麻酔薬を不用意に投与した上、寝室を離れて慎重な経過観察を怠るなどの重大な過失があったとして起訴した。

　一方、弁護側は、被告が知らないうちにジャクソンさんが自分で薬剤を服用して死亡したと反論。無罪を主張していた。（共同）

41：凡人：2011/11/10(木) 06:09:04
彼女の存在は日本ではまったく異質に映るかもしれないが、アメリカではアグネスのようなタイプで、しかも政府に強い意見を持った女性が多いため、マスコミのなかで埋もれるだろう。
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アグネスさんが町民激励、絵本朗読
2011年11月9日

　日本ユニセフ協会大使のアグネス・チャンさんが八日、福島第一原発事故で、福島県双葉町の町民が集団避難している加須市の旧騎西高校を訪れた。

　アグネスさんは、体育館に設けられた交流スペース「ふたばひろば」で親子たちと触れ合い、絵本を朗読。自らのヒット曲「ひなげしの花」を町民たちと一緒に歌い、盛り上がる場面もあった。

　井戸川克隆町長とも面会し、靴下と腹巻きを百五十人分ずつ寄付。「何でも相談してください。無理をしないで」と目を潤ませながら、エールを送った。　（増田紗苗）

42：凡人：2011/11/13(日) 10:25:21
ライブドア：社名消滅へ　韓国ＮＨＮが吸収合併
毎日新聞　2011年11月7日　19時48分

　韓国のインターネット大手ＮＨＮの日本法人（東京）は７日、来年１月１日に傘下のライブドア（同）、ネイバージャパン（同）の両子会社を吸収合併すると発表した。これに伴い、ライブドアの社名は消滅する。ただポータルサイトの名称では引き続き使用する。

　合併後の新会社は、ゲームやネット検索、ポータル事業など全般を手掛け、スマートフォン（多機能携帯電話）向けサービスを強化する。ライブドアが運営していたデータセンター関連事業を中心に新会社の傘下企業「データホテル」に事業を移管し、その他の事業は新会社が継承する。

　ライブドアは、９６年に設立されたオン・ザ・エッヂを前身にした企業。０４年に名称を変えた。堀江貴文社長（当時）ら旧経営陣が証券取引法違反容疑で逮捕され、事件後に上場廃止になった。

　０７年に事業の整理を進めるライブドアホールディングス（０８年にＬＤＨに社名変更、ことし８月に解散）傘下の事業会社として現在のライブドアを設立。１０年にＮＨＮの日本法人に買収された。

43：凡人：2011/11/14(月) 14:43:18
ソニー、楽曲版権数世界首位に…ＥＭＩ買収で
（2011年11月14日09時10分 読売新聞）

　ソニーは１１日、米投資会社などと連合を組み、英名門音楽会社ＥＭＩグループの楽曲著作権の管理部門を、総額２２億ドル（約１７００億円）で米金融大手シティグループから買収することで合意した。

　ソニーは、テレビ番組や映画、カラオケなどの楽曲利用や音楽配信などを通じて版権利用料を得られるようになる。音楽事業の収益基盤を強化して経営改善を加速させる。

　世界の音楽業界は、ソニーのほか、米ユニバーサル・ミュージック・グループ、米ワーナー・ミュージック・グループ（ＷＭＧ）、ＥＭＩの大手４社で、アルバム販売の８割以上のシェア（市場占有率）を握っていた。

　ＥＭＩの版権部門はソニー連合に、レコード販売部門はユニバーサルの親会社、仏ビベンディに売却され、３大体制に移行する。

　音楽大手の業績は、ネット配信の拡大と海賊版の横行などで厳しさを増している。ＥＭＩは２００７年に欧州の投資会社に買収されたが、今年２月に米シティに経営権が移っていた。世界３位のＷＭＧも５月、米複合企業に買収された。

　ソニーの音楽事業は１１年３月期の営業利益が３８９億円で、金融事業に次ぐ稼ぎ頭だ。買収によってソニーが保有する音楽の版権は、現在の７５万曲から２００万曲以上に急増する。

　ただ、今回の買収で、ユニバーサルの楽曲販売の占有率は世界で４割弱となり、ソニーの版権所有数も業界首位になる。

44：凡人：2011/11/30(水) 19:28:06
紅白歌合戦出場歌手発表　芦田・鈴木の子役コンビが最年少出場　ユーミン、長渕剛らも　最多出場は北島三郎
2011.11.30 16:52

鈴木福君（左）と芦田愛菜ちゃん＝３０日午後、東京都渋谷区のＮＨＫ（中鉢久美子撮影）

　ＮＨＫは３０日、大みそかの第６２回紅白歌合戦の出場歌手を発表した。出場は昨年より１１組多い計５５組。初出場は、紅組が芦田愛菜、ＫＡＲＡ、神田沙也加、椎名林檎、少女時代、白組が猪苗代湖ズ、鈴木福で計７組。最多出場は４８回の北島三郎。

　子役ブームを反映して芦田、鈴木の２人が７歳で最年少出場。紅組では病気で音楽活動を休止していた絢香のほか、松田聖子、松任谷由実も出場。白組では東日本大震災の被災地・福島県出身の猪苗代湖ズ、西田敏行が選ばれ、長渕剛も８年ぶり出場を果たした。また、Ｋ−ＰＯＰグループ人気を反映し、ＫＡＲＡ、少女時代が出場する。

　今年のテーマは「あしたを歌おう。」。放送は午後７時１５分から同１１時４５分まで（途中５分間、ニュースで中断）で、平成２１年の第６０回と並び過去最長となる。

　ＮＨＫは明日から１２月３１日まで、公式サイトで歌手へのメッセージを募集する。

45：凡人：2011/12/01(木) 18:59:37
小学館：「小学三年生」と「小学四年生」休刊へ
毎日新聞　2011年12月1日　18時00分

　小学館は１日、老舗の学習雑誌「小学三年生」と「小学四年生」を来年の３月号（２月３日発売）で休刊すると発表した。それぞれ１９２４年、２３年に創刊。ピーク時の７３年には８２万〜１０２万部に達したが、最近は３万〜５万部と低迷していた。

　同社は休刊の理由を「総合的な内容の雑誌では、成長と変化が著しい小学生世代のニーズには合致しなくなってきている」などと説明。特に中学年は受験準備などで多様化、専門化が求められているという。

　同社は０９年度いっぱいで「小学五年生」「小学六年生」を休刊した。「小学一年生」「小学二年生」は刊行を続ける。今後は中高学年の児童を対象としたムックシリーズで、新たな児童向けジャンルを開拓するという。

46：凡人：2011/12/01(木) 19:02:32
名前調査：今年生まれは「大翔」「結衣」がトップ
毎日新聞　2011年12月1日　18時28分

　通信教育大手ベネッセコーポレーションが１日発表した、ことし生まれた赤ちゃんの名前調査で、最も多かったのは男の子が「大翔（主な読み方ひろと）」、女の子が「結衣（ゆい）」だった。昨年はともに２位だったが「大翔」は２年ぶりの返り咲き、「結衣」は初の１位となった。

　ベネッセは「先の見えない経済状況や大震災などで不安を感じる中、未来に羽ばたく強さや人の結び付きを大切にという親の願いが込められている」と分析している。

　男の子では昨年１位の「蓮（れん）」が２位、「悠真（ゆうま）」が３位に。女の子は「葵（あおい）」が２位、昨年１位の「結愛（ゆあ）」は３位へ後退した。（共同）

47：凡人：2011/12/12(月) 12:59:54
ミスコン常勝のベネズエラ　「美女王国」支える組織力、裏に貧困脱却の夢
2011.12.11 13:58

モデル養成学校「ジゼル」で歩き方を指導する講師（左）と生徒＝１日、カラカス（共同）

　「世界一の美女」を選ぶミスコンテストで、南米ベネズエラ代表の活躍が目立っている。先月も「ミス・ワールド」でイビアン・サルコスさん（２２）が栄冠に輝き、三大大会のうち２大会で国別最多の優勝者数を続けている。常勝の秘密は、組織立った長い準備と貧困からの脱却を夢見る少女たちの努力にある。（ＳＡＮＫＥＩ　ＥＸＰＲＥＳＳ）


１年かけ代表鍛える

　「美人は世界中にいるが、ベネズエラほど準備に力を入れている国はない」。国内大会を主催するミス・ベネズエラ協会幹部が胸を張る。

　毎朝２時間ジムに通わせて自然な肉体美を追求。さらに毎日のレッスンで内面も磨く。スピーチ、ダンス、英語…。国内大会を勝ち抜いた代表を１年かけて鍛え、世界大会に送り出す。数カ月前になって代表が決まる日本との違いは大きい。

　国内大会の上位３人を翌年の三大世界大会に１人ずつ派遣。その全てで過去６人ずつ優勝者を出している。「ワールド」と「インターナショナル」の優勝者数は世界一。「ユニバース」も７人の米国に迫る２位だ。

　「ちゃんと止まって。視線を前に」。首都カラカスの住宅街。モデル養成学校「ジゼル」で講師、アンドレア・レジェスさん（２０）が生徒をしかった。「何度も言っているでしょ。ミス・ベネズエラになりたくないの？」

　怒られていたカジャ・ベルムデスちゃん（８）は半年前から週２回、ジゼルに通い始めた。月謝６００ボリバル（約１万１０００円）はシングルマザーの母が捻出。「お金持ちになってお母さんを楽にさせたい」。ジゼルでは４歳から２０代後半の約２５０人が明日を夢見る。


一獲千金狙うなら…

　「２１世紀の社会主義」を掲げるチャベス政権下で一獲千金を狙うなら「大統領派の政治家か、男の子は大リーガー、女の子はミスコン優勝者しかない」と地元記者。

　サルコスさんは１３人きょうだいの末っ子。両親を事故で失い、教会の寄宿舎で育った。「修道女になることも考えたが、華々しい世界にあこがれた」。地方大会を勝ち上がり昨年の国内大会では２位に。「（その後の）１年間の準備がすべてだった」と振り返る。

　ミス・ワールド機構のジュリア・モーリー代表（英国人）は、世界で勝つには「外見の美しさだけでなく、人間性やスピーチの内容が大事。もちろん国籍は関係ない」と笑った。（共同）


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　世界のミスコンテスト　１９５１年に始まったミス・ワールド（本部・ロンドン）、５２年開始のミス・ユニバース（本部・ニューヨーク）、６０年開始のミス・インターナショナル（本部・東京）が世界三大大会と呼ばれる。日本人の優勝はミス・ユニバースのみで５９年の児島明子さん（７５）と２００７年の森理世（りよ）さん（２４）。いずれの大会も外見の美しさに加え、人間性や知性、社会性などが重要な選考基準。他にミス・アースなどの世界大会がある。

48：凡人：2011/12/12(月) 13:00:42
若者・よそ者・ばか者の声を聞け…東国原氏
（2011年12月11日22時33分 読売新聞）

講演する東国原さん（松江市で）　「そのまんま東」の芸名でタレントとして活躍し、前宮崎県知事を務めた東国原英夫さん（５４）の講演会が、松江市学園南のくにびきメッセで開かれ、約５００人が来場した。

　東国原さんの巧みな話術と愉快なエピソードに、会場は笑い声であふれた。

　山陰合同銀行などが主催。東国原さんは、子どもの頃に憧れた「お笑いタレント」「政治家」「小説家」に次々となることができたという自身の生き方を紹介。「とにかく前向きに、今できることを探してやってみると、どうにかなる」と訴えた。

　また、地域を活性化させるポイントとして、「若者・よそ者・ばか者」の三者の声を聞くことを挙げ、「町おこしは行政が命がけでアピールすることが大事。斬新なアイデアもとり入れるべきだ」と話した。

49：凡人：2011/12/13(火) 11:06:19
ジョブズ氏伝記が年間首位　米アマゾン、発売２カ月弱
(2011/12/13 10:52)

　【ニューヨーク共同】米インターネット小売り大手アマゾン・コムは１２日、２０１１年の電子版を含む書籍販売で、アップル共同創業者で１０月に死去したスティーブ・ジョブズ氏の伝記が年間１位になったと発表した。

　ウォルター・アイザックソン氏が執筆した「スティーブ・ジョブズ」は１０月２４日に発売されたばかり。販売期間がわずか２カ月弱で年間ベストセラーになった。１０月上旬にジョブズ氏が死去したこともあり、話題を集めた。

　著書は日本でも翻訳され、講談社によると、発行部数は１０月の発売から１０日目で、１、２巻合わせて１００万部を突破した。

50：凡人：2011/12/14(水) 17:21:34
ＫＯＮＩＳＨＩＫＩさんを書類送検　ペットトラブルで暴行容疑「妻守ろうとした」
2011.12.14 13:21

　ペットの散歩をめぐるトラブルで、近所の男性に暴行を加えたとして、警視庁本所署が暴行の疑いで、大相撲の元大関小錦で、タレントのＫＯＮＩＳＨＩＫＩさん（４７）＝本名・小錦八十吉＝を書類送検していたことが１４日、同署への取材で分かった。

　同署によると、ＫＯＮＩＳＨＩＫＩさんは容疑を認め、「妻を守ろうとしてやった」と話している。

　送検容疑は１１月１２日、東京都墨田区の自宅近くで、妻とともにイヌの散歩をしていたところ、近所に住む自営業の３０代男性から「敷地内でフンをさせた」などと注意され、男性の胸を手で押すなどの暴行を加えたとしている。

　同署によると、男性から被害届が出され、今月８日に、ＫＯＮＩＳＨＩＫＩさんを書類送検した。
51：凡人：2011/12/14(水) 17:24:12
哀川翔さんのモノマネ芸人を逮捕　女性に包丁突き付け
2011.6.9 13:40

　自宅マンションで知人の女性に包丁を突き付け脅したとして、福岡県警博多臨港署は９日、暴力行為法違反の疑いで、福岡市博多区築港本町のタレント、井上英樹容疑者（４４）を現行犯逮捕した。井上容疑者は「哀小出翔（あいこでしょう）」の芸名で、俳優の哀川翔さんの物まねなどをしている。

　逮捕容疑は９日午前８時半ごろ、マンション自室で、知人の女性（４７）に「こら殺すぞ」と怒鳴りながら、台所にあった文化包丁（刃渡り１７センチ）を突き付けるなどして脅迫した疑い。

　同署によると、井上容疑者は容疑を認めている。２人は飲酒しており、口論になったという。女性が１１０番した。同署は動機を調べている。

52：凡人：2011/12/14(水) 17:24:51
準強姦容疑でタレント・桜塚やっくんを書類送検　酔った女性に乱暴容疑
2011.3.24 19:14

　酒に酔った女性を乱暴したなどとして、警視庁が２４日、準強（ごう）姦（かん）の疑いで、お笑いタレントの桜塚やっくん（３４）＝本名・斎藤恭央さん＝を書類送検したことが、捜査関係者への取材で分かった。桜塚さんと女性の間で示談が成立しているといい、警視庁は積極的な起訴を求めない「しかるべき処分」との意見を付けた。

　送検容疑は昨年７月末、東京都江東区有明のホテルで、酒に酔った２０代の女子大生に性的暴行を加えたなどとしている。桜塚さんは事件前、女子大生や知人の男女数人と飲酒していたといい、警視庁の任意の事情聴取に容疑を認めている。

　桜塚さんはお笑いタレントとして、バラエティー番組などで活躍。スカート丈の長いセーラー服を着て女装した「スケバン恐子」というキャラクターが人気になっていた。昨年、所属事務所を脱退し現在は個人事務所を設立。最近は、バンド活動などもしていた。

53：凡人：2011/12/16(金) 15:32:44
「レイプ」発言でジョニー・デップさん謝罪
2011.10.7 21:00

　米俳優のジョニー・デップさん（４８）は５日、写真の撮影を「レイプされているような気分になる」と表現したことで多くの女性を傷つけたとして謝罪声明を出した。ロイター通信などが報じた。

　問題の発言は、米誌ヴァニティ・フェア１１月号にインタビュー記事として掲載され、レイプ被害者支援団体から非難されていた。声明は「（発言を）後悔している。自分の判断力の欠如を正したい」としている。

54：凡人：2011/12/16(金) 18:35:10
南京大虐殺を扱った中国映画「ザ・フラワーズ・オブ・ウォー」。コレを読むと、ハリウッド映画産業界を占めているアメリカリベラル派たちは「南京大虐殺」を認めているようですね。日本側の動きが今後気になるところ。
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Ｇ・グローブ賞、無声映画が候補　６部門で
(2011/12/16 11:35)

　【ロサンゼルス共同】アカデミー賞の前哨戦となる米国の主要映画賞、ゴールデン・グローブ賞の各候補が１５日、米ロサンゼルスで発表され、モノクロのサイレント映画「アーティスト」がミュージカル・コメディー部門の作品賞など最多の計６部門で候補となった。

　ドラマ部門の作品賞はスティーブン・スピルバーグ監督の「戦火の馬」などが候補。外国語作品賞の候補には南京大虐殺を扱った中国映画「ザ・フラワーズ・オブ・ウォー」などが選ばれた。

　ドラマ部門の主演男優賞はジョージ・クルーニーさんやブラッド・ピットさんら大物が名を連ねた。

　発表・授賞式は来年１月１５日に行われる。

【写真】 　ゴールデン・グローブ賞の候補作を発表する、米女優ラシダ・ジョーンズ＝１５日、ビバリーヒルズ（ＵＰＩ＝共同）

55：凡人：2011/12/17(土) 19:18:53
ミス・インターナショナル：日本代表に２４歳のモデル、吉松育美さん

　ミス・インターナショナル日本代表に選ばれた吉松育美さん＝２０１１年１１月２０日撮影

　２０１２年度のミス・インターナショナル日本代表選出大会（国際文化協会主催）が２０日、東京都内で開かれ、佐賀県出身のモデル、吉松育美さん（２４）が日本代表に選ばれた。来年秋に開催予定の世界大会に出場する。

　ミス・インターナショナルはミス・ユニバース、ミス・ワールドと並ぶ「世界３大ページェント」の一つ。大会では全国の２５９７名の応募者の中から選ばれた候補者３０名が、着物、水着、イブニングドレスの３部門と、スピーチによる自己アピールで競い合った。

　また準ミス・インターナショナルには山形県出身のモデル、五十嵐希さん（２４）、石川県出身のモデル、岩田由里絵さん（２３）、東京都出身の学生、黒部菜々佳さん（２２）が選出された。【毎日ｊｐ編集部】

56：凡人：2011/12/18(日) 02:55:48
「水戸黄門」、４２年の歴史に幕　世直し旅、惜しむ声も
(2011/12/17 17:57)

　「この紋所が目に入らぬか！」の名せりふで親しまれた時代劇「水戸黄門」（ＴＢＳ系）が、１９日の放送で４２年の歴史に幕を下ろす。ご老公一行が全国を歩いた距離は計約１０万９千キロ。番組存続を求める声が上がる中、惜しまれつつ世直し旅を終える。「水戸黄門」は１９６９年８月に第１部がスタート、第４３部まで続いた。水戸光圀役を務めたのは、初代の故東野英治郎さんから里見浩太朗さんまで５人。諸国漫遊の道中で、葵の御紋の印籠を見せ、悪人たちをやっつけるのが定番だった。

【写真】 　４２年余りの歴史に幕を下ろす時代劇「水戸黄門」の第４３部レギュラー陣

57：凡人：2011/12/21(水) 22:41:38
ものまね、アニソン「紅白」やります　“本家ＮＨＫ”裏で、フジとＢＳスカパー！
2011年12月21日 朝刊

　「紅白」はＮＨＫだけじゃない！　フジテレビは今年初めて「ものまね紅白」を“本家”のＮＨＫ紅白歌合戦の裏にぶつける。一方、十月に開局したＢＳスカパー！は、新宿文化センターでのイベント「アニソン紅白」を生中継。日本の大みそかは、やっぱり紅白！？　（宮崎美紀子）

　「ＮＨＫには絶対出ないマイケル・ジャクソンが出ます。レディー・ガガもスタジオに来てくれます。愛菜ちゃんと福くんは録画番組なので最後までいます」

　フジテレビ「大晦日はマル・マル・モリ・モリ！爆笑そっくりものまね紅白歌合戦スペシャル」（午後６時）の石川綾一チーフプロデューサーは胸を張る。そして、こう付け加える。「ただし、ものまねです」

　「ものまね紅白」は年に数回放送されているが、白組司会の今田耕司いわく「この番組が一番やってはいけない日」である大みそかでの放送は「フジテレビらしい大英断」と石川さんは笑う。

　芦田愛菜、鈴木福は、フジの社内でも本物と勘違いしていた人がいるほど、そっくり。総勢百二十四人が出演。本家の最多出場は北島三郎の四十八回だが、こっちのサブちゃん（清水アキラ）は通算八十八回目。「家政婦のミタ」「江」など他局の看板番組も容赦なくネタにし、悪ノリはとどまるところを知らない。

　「みんなから開口一番、『紅白、やるんだって』と聞かれます。しかも半笑いで。ＮＨＫの紅白は来年の大みそかもあるので、今年はフジテレビの紅白を見てください」と石川さん。

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　ＢＳスカパー！の「キングラン　アニソン紅白２０１１」（午後１０時）は、「キン肉マン」の串田アキラに、「ポケモン」の松本梨香、女性声優ユニット「ミルキィホームズ」と、本家風に言えばベテランからアイドルまで勢ぞろい。

　スカパー！編成部の大和加奈子さんは「他のアニメイベントよりも年齢層が幅広く、家族みんなで楽しめます。今年は震災もあったので、歌を通じた応援もしてもらいます」と見どころを語る。

　ＮＨＫ紅白はいまだ高い視聴率を誇るが「多ジャンル、多チャンネルがスカパー！の自負するところ。あえて国民的番組の裏で、狭いけど濃いものを放送し、『スカパー！、ここにあり』と示したい」と国武慎也編成部長。将来は「大みそかはアニソン紅白に出るので」とＮＨＫを辞退する歌手が出るようなイベントになってほしいという。

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　紅白歌合戦のルーツは、一九四五年の大みそか、ＮＨＫラジオで放送された「紅白音楽試合」。

　ＮＨＫサービスセンター刊「ステラ臨時増刊　ＮＨＫ紅白６０回」によると、新進気鋭のディレクターが、学生時代の剣道の紅白戦をヒントに、男女同権という新しい時代にふさわしい男女対抗戦を開発したとされる。

　初期の紅白歌合戦は正月番組だった。そもそも「紅一点」とは言うが、白＝男という意味は漢字にはない。「大みそかに紅白」は放送界の“発明”と言ってもいいが、かくも日本人の血を騒がせるとは…。

58：凡人：2011/12/22(木) 23:45:03
テレビ見ない子が２倍超に　厚労省調査
2011年12月22日 20時20分

　テレビやＤＶＤを「ほとんど見ない」と答えた子どもの割合が２００９年は６・６％に上り、２・６％だった前回０４年調査の２倍超に増えたことが２２日、厚生労働省の「全国家庭児童調査」で分かった。高校生に限ると１０・５％で、０４年より６・６ポイント増えた。

　見ている場合でも、１日の視聴時間は全体的に減少。「２時間以上３時間未満」は３・７ポイント減の２６・０％、「３時間以上」は３・４ポイント減の２５・８％だった。

　一方、携帯電話の利用時間は増え、「１時間以上２時間未満」が３・３ポイント増の９・８％で、「２時間以上」が２・８ポイント増の１６・７％だった。

（共同）

59：凡人：2011/12/23(金) 23:09:04
小学生も「ミタ」！授業中に「承知しました」
2011.12.23 19:48

　「家政婦のミタ」の勢いはお茶の間を超え、全国で社会現象になっている。小学校では、“ミタごっこ”が流行。授業中に「承知しました」「それは業務命令ですか？」などとミタの口癖をまね、先生を苦笑させている。

　大人の間では帽子にダウンジャケットの“三田ルック”が流行り、「日テレｓｈｏｐ」のネット通販では「ミタのドクターズバッグ」（６万５０００円）や「ミタのエプロン」（７５００円）などに注文が殺到した。

　１６日発売の関連書籍「家政婦のミタ　エピソード・ゼロ」（９００円）は２６日付オリコン本ランキングＴＶ関連本部門で初登場首位に。来年４月１８日発売のブルーレイＢＯＸ（２万４１５０円）＆ＤＶＤ−ＢＯＸ（１万９１１０円）にも注文が相次いでいる。

　家政婦を目指す人も増えたかと思いきや、日本看護家政紹介事業協会では「そういったデータがないので分かりません」と話した。

60：凡人：2011/12/24(土) 21:33:30
レディー・ガガさん：ＮＨＫ紅白歌合戦にビデオ出演
毎日新聞　2011年12月24日　20時31分

　ＮＨＫは２４日、大みそかに放送する第６２回紅白歌合戦に、米国の人気歌手レディー・ガガさんがビデオで出演すると発表した。東日本大震災後、海外から日本へエールを送った著名人のメッセージを特集するコーナーで登場する。

　ガガさんは震災後、来日して復興イベントなどに参加している。番組直前に、歌と日本へのメッセージをニューヨークで収録する予定。今回の出演について「震災があったつらい時期にも、私を応援し続けてくれてありがとう」とのコメントを発表している。

　同コーナーには、ドイツのプロサッカーリーグで活躍する長谷部誠選手や香港の俳優ジャッキー・チェンさんも出演する。（共同）

61：凡人：2011/12/28(水) 08:03:58
「奴隷のように」なんて、奴隷の人になんとも失礼。どんなに嫌でもやめられないから奴隷なのである。強制されているわけではないので嫌だったらやめれば良い。そう単純に考えるが、とにかく契約書の内容が物を言う世界。今の段階ではなんとも言えない。
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レディー・ガガ、またまた訴えられた…元アシスタント、残業代の支払いを求め提訴
2011.12.28 06:07

米人気歌手、レディー・ガガ（ロイター）

　米人気歌手、レディー・ガガさん（２５）のアシスタントをしていた女性（４１）がツアー主催会社を相手取り、残業代などとして３８万ドル（約３０００万円）の支払いを求めて、ニューヨークの裁判所に提訴した。２７日までに、米大衆紙ニューヨーク・ポストが伝えた。

　女性はガガさんの個人アシスタントとして雇われ、２００９−１０年の世界ツアーに同行。「奴隷のようにこき使われた」という。女性は、時間外手当約７１６８時間分が支払われていないと主張している。

62：凡人：2011/12/28(水) 08:04:39
大学教授解雇の理由は「有名人に悪い成績つけた」から！？
2011.12.21 09:44

　米ニューヨークの名門コロンビア大の元教授（５８）が米俳優、ジェームズ・フランコさん（３３）＝写真（ＡＰ）＝に悪い成績を付けたために大学を辞めさせられたとして、解雇の無効を求めて大学を提訴した。１９日、英紙デーリー・テレグラフが伝えた。

　元教授は昨年、「監督と俳優ＩＩ」の講義を担当。フランコさんが１４回の授業のうち２回しか出席しなかっため、Ｄ（最履修の必要がある）を付けたという。元教授は「大学は有名人が卒業生になることを望んでいるようだ」と話している。（ＳＡＮＫＥＩ　ＥＸＰＲＥＳＳ）

63：凡人：2011/12/31(土) 02:26:18
ＡＫＢ４８、年間シングル売上トップ５独占　１６部門中７冠獲得
2011.12.19 11:07

史上初の年間トップ５独占を達成したＡＫＢ４８。オリコンから贈られた表彰状を手に、受賞を喜ぶ左から大島優子、高橋みなみ、篠田麻里子

　人気アイドル集団、ＡＫＢ４８がオリコン年間ランキングで史上初のシングル売り上げ枚数トップ５を独占したことが１８日、発表された。さらに「アーティスト別トータルセールス」など計１６部門中、７冠を獲得し、こちらは昨年の嵐と肩を並べた。センターポジションをファン投票で決める「選抜総選挙」や「じゃんけん大会」など、さまざまな話題で日本中を席巻したＡＫＢ。国民的アイドルグループの実力を数字でも実証した。（サンケイスポーツ）

　ＡＫＢが日本の音楽史上に残る金字塔を打ち立てた。トップ５はすべてミリオンを達成した楽曲が並び、ピンク・レディー（７８年）、光ＧＥＮＪＩ（８８年）、嵐（０９年）が記録した年間トップ３を更新した。

　７日に発売した最新曲「上からマリコ」でグループ６作目のミリオンを達成し、その数が女性アーティスト歴代１位を記録したばかり。年間５作ミリオンも、９５年のＢ’ｚとＭｒ．Ｃｈｉｌｄｒｅｎの４作を１６年ぶりに塗り替えた。

　さらに、７０年代を席巻した伝説アイドルの記録も３３年ぶりに更新した。「フライングゲット」の１５８・７万枚は、ピンク・レディー「ＵＦＯ」（７８年）の１５５・４万枚を上回り、女性グループのシングル年間売上枚数で新記録を達成した。

　今年もメディアで見ない日はないほど大活躍だったＡＫＢ。前田敦子（２０）が大島優子（２３）から１位を奪還した６月の「選抜総選挙」では、昨年の約３倍となる投票数１１６万６１４５票を獲得。９月の「じゃんけん大会」ではグループ最年長の篠田麻里子（２５）が優勝して初センターを射止めるドラマが生まれ、多くの話題で日本を席巻した。

　トータルセールスでもその実力を証明した。今年のＡＫＢの音楽ソフトの合計売上金額は１６２億８０００万円。９８年にＳＰＥＥＤが記録した１１１・５億円を約５０億円も上回る女性グループ最高記録に。９８年のＳＰＥＥＤは１位に届かなかったが、女性グループとしてＡＫＢは７８年のピンク・レディー以来史上２組目となる１位も獲得するなど、１６部門中７部門で１位を達成。２０００年以降では０９年に９冠を達成した嵐に次ぐ記録で、昨年の嵐と肩を並べた。

　名実ともに国民的アイドルグループとしての存在を印象づけた２０１１年。大島は「６年前に始動したときは一寸先は闇のようだった。こんな記録を出せるグループになるとは本当に思っていなかった」と驚き、高橋みなみ（２０）は「たくさんの方にＣＤやＤＶＤを手にとってもらってすごく幸せ」と感激していた。

64：凡人：2011/12/31(土) 02:35:48
アイドル全盛の日本と大違い。日本とアメリカの音楽賞受賞者の歌唱力レベルが大いに違う。
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レコード大賞にＡＫＢ４８　新人賞はフェアリーズ
(2011/12/30 22:19)

　第５３回日本レコード大賞（日本作曲家協会など主催）の最終審査会が３０日、東京都渋谷区の新国立劇場で開かれ、大賞は人気アイドルグループ、ＡＫＢ４８の「フライングゲット」に決まった。

　初受賞となったＡＫＢ４８は、「フライングゲット」を含め今年発表したシングル５曲がすべてミリオンセラーになった。

　最優秀新人賞は、９月に「Ｍｏｒｅ　Ｋｉｓｓ」でデビューした女子中学生７人のアイドルグループ「Ｆａｉｒｉｅｓ（フェアリーズ）」が選ばれた。

66：凡人：2012/01/03(火) 01:33:20
日テレが８年ぶり視聴率３冠達成　１１年の年間で
（2012//01/02 16:47）

　日本テレビは２日、２０１１年の年間視聴率（ビデオリサーチ調べ、関東地区）がゴールデン、プライム、全日の各時間帯でＮＨＫ、民放を通じて首位になり、８年ぶりに「３冠」を達成したと発表した。

　俳優の松嶋菜々子さんが主演したドラマ「家政婦のミタ」が大ヒットしたほか、バラエティー番組なども好調だった。

　日本テレビによると、１１年の年間視聴率はゴールデン（午後７〜１０時）とプライム（同７〜１１時）がともに１２・６％で、２位のフジテレビをそれぞれ０・１ポイント上回り、全日（午前６時〜翌日午前０時）は８・０％でフジテレビと同率で首位だったという。

67：凡人：2012/01/05(木) 03:39:35
中学生日記：ＮＨＫ、３月いっぱいで番組終了
毎日新聞　2012年1月5日　2時30分

　ＮＨＫが長寿番組「中学生日記」を３月いっぱいで終了させることが分かった。後継番組として、中高校生向けドキュメンタリーを始める方針。

　「中学生日記」は学校生活やいじめなどを題材にしたドラマ。１９６２年に「中学生次郎」というタイトルで始まり、７２年に現在の番組名になった。オーディションで選ばれた現役中学生が生徒役を演じ、これまでに竹下景子さんや戸田恵子さん、森本レオさんら多くの俳優を輩出してきた。番組を見る中学生が減ったことから、ＮＨＫは「役割を終えた」としている。

　４月からは、今月１日に放送された特別番組「ティーンズプロジェクト　フレ☆フレ」をレギュラー化し、後継番組とする予定。夢に挑戦する１０代を紹介し、著名人が本人を訪ねて応援する内容。中学生日記はＥテレで毎週金曜夜放送だが、新番組は別の放送時間になる見込み。【土屋渓】

68：凡人：2012/01/11(水) 17:19:39
世界の雑記帳：ベートーベン手書きの手紙公開へ、苦しい経済状況など訴え
2012年1月11日　16時06分

１月１０日、ドイツのリューベック音楽大学ブラームス・インスティチュートが、来週にベートーベンによる手書きの手紙を一般公開することが明らかに。写真は昨年１２月３０日に撮影（２０１２年　ロイター/Mathias Broesicke/Dematon Luebeck）

　［ベルリン　１０日　ロイター］　ドイツ北部リューベックで、ベートーベン（１７７０─１８２７）が自身の病気や金欠を嘆いている手書きの手紙が出てきた。この手紙を遺産贈与の一部としてもらい受けたリューベック音楽大学ブラームス・インスティチュートによると、手紙は１０万ユーロ（約９８０万円）以上の価値があるという。

　６ページに及ぶ署名入りのこの手紙はベートーベンが５３歳の時に書いたもので、ハープ奏者で作曲家のフランツ・アントン・シュトックハウゼンに対し、自身が１８２３年に完成させた有名なミサ曲「ミサ・ソレムニス」の買い手がいないかと尋ねている。

　手紙の中でベートーベンは、患っていた目の病気のことや、おいの学費などで経済的に厳しい状況にあることなどを切々と訴えている。手紙は受取人の子孫である音楽教師が所有していた。

　西部ボンにあるベートーベンの生家を利用した博物館「ベートーベンハウス」のミハエル・ラーデンブルガー氏はロイターに対し、手書きの手紙は非常に価値があると指摘。昨年、ベートーベンが書いた買い物メモはオークションで７万４０００ユーロで落札された。同氏は「ベートーベンの手紙は珍しく、手紙の長さや私生活に関する記述を考えると、今回のものは非常に興味深い」と語った。

　ブラームス・インスティチュートは来週、この手紙を一般公開する。

69：凡人：2012/01/11(水) 18:06:05
バンド「東京事変」が２月末解散　日本武道館公演を最後に
（2012/01/11 11:33）

　シンガー・ソングライターの椎名林檎さん（３３）がボーカルを務めるロックバンド「東京事変」が２月２９日に解散することが１１日、分かった。

　所属レコード会社によると、東京事変は２月にツアーを行い、２９日の東京・日本武道館公演を最後に解散するという。

　椎名さんは東京事変の公式ホームページで「事変は来るうるう日解散いたしますが、我らが作品群は永久に不滅です」とのコメントを発表した。

　東京事変は２００４年にバンドとして活動を開始し、アルバム「大人（アダルト）」「スポーツ」などを発表した。

70：凡人：2012/01/14(土) 07:11:43
'Jack and Jill'は見ていないが、ここで言っていることが理解できる。どの映画も同じようなものだからだ。サンドラーの映画はファンではない。彼はたくさんの映画を過去に作っている。ところがどの映画も-全部ではないが主要作品の殆どは所有の７、８本のＤＶＤで見ている-始まりもだが、終り方もまったく中途半端で、見終えても満足するものがない。彼の下手糞な演技も筋も、映画にのめりこめない理由だ。３０分のギャグ物を、無理して一時間以上の映画物に作りなおしたようなものばかり。短ければ、それなりにギャグとして面白いと思う。ところが映画にしているから、時間を持たせるために筋が必要であるが、それが机上で生み出したような滑稽なもの。無理やりに話を組み立てているため、そこに人生の真実がまったく心で感じられない。馬鹿げていて首をかしげたくなる場面の続出。映画がとんでもなく間延びしているから、全体にパンチがまったくなく、見ていて欠伸がでる。たとえて言えばファンシーレストランにいってオードブルからメインのデナーを食べ終え会計後外に出るが、食べた満足感がない。あるいは口直しが欲しくなる。それが彼の映画。よくも次から次と筋があるような無いような映画を大量生産できるなと感心する。時間をじっくりかけて、練った筋をもとにすれば、どんなにか映画が見るに耐えるものになるだろうとつくづく思う。サンドラーの映画を形容するとすれば以下の言葉が良く似合う。Annoing、 bizarre、unfunny、bad acting、silly、to say the least strange、disturbing、drained and strained、chirpy。
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'Jack and Jill'
Friday, Jan. 13, 2012

Sandler is still unfunny, no matter how many parts he plays
By KAORI SHOJI

Either Adam Sandler was hit by a falling meteor or he was abducted by particularly unpleasant aliens, or both. Whatever happened to him and his mental faculties, the man should not be allowed within a 5-km radius of a Hollywood studio.
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Jack and Jill Rating: (1 out of 5) Nursery crime: Adam Sandler (left, in drag) reaches horrific new lows in turgid comedy "Jack and Jill" — and Al Pacino (right) comes tumbling after. © 2011 CTMG, All Rights Reserved.

Director: Dennis Dugan
Running time: 91 minutes
Language: English
Opens Jan. 21, 2012
[See Japan Times movie listing]
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Sandler may have once been considered a semi-serious actor with a funny streak ("The Wedding Singer" and "Punch-Drunk Love" come to mind), but his latest vehicle, "Jack and Jill," is a potentially career-sinking torpedo of a stinkbomb. In the United States, this was actually Thanksgiving fare (released Nov. 11) and rated PG. The U.S. army would be well advised to use it as a weapon in the fight against terrorism.

Just to make sure I wasn't the only one suffering from acute chest pains and checking my watch every five seconds, only to be horrified to discover that the movie had just begun, I looked around the screening room, and I saw that many of my fellow critics had closed their eyes, shutting out everything and pretending they were somewhere else. Most likely a world where Sandler does not exist, or one where he's decided to ditch making movies altogether to do volunteer work in Africa.

Does Sandler know that worthy people are going jobless and hungry while he's allowed to make what could aptly be described as a colossal insult against humanity — and being paid for it? Shouldn't there be an Occupy Bad Movies? Just thinking that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan (who's another can of worms all by himself) are among the 1 percent does major inflammatory damage to the soul.
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71：凡人：2012/01/14(土) 07:12:22
One of the gaping open wounds that mar "Jack and Jill" is that Sandler is never off-camera — ever. He plays both title roles, twins Jack and Jill Sadelstein, and though we're given to understand that Jack is a better person (more mature, compassionate, etc.) than the bizarrely obnoxious Jill, they're essentially the same. Sit down with them at a dinner table and within a second you'd want to pack up and take the next bus out of town.

The story never acknowledges the fact that Jack and Jill are equally and painfully annoying. It kicks off with the premise that every year, Los Angeles-based hotshot ad executive Jack must endure the presence of his less privileged sister Jill for an entire Thanksgiving weekend and that it gets worse each time. His saintly wife, Erin (Katie Holmes), acts like it's no trouble at all and coos, "But she's your one and only sister!" when Jack gets all het up over his twin's imminent arrival. And when Jill does show, the delivery is a whole lot worse than the promise. At this point in his life, Sandler isn't what you'd call "cute," but the sight of him in a wig, fake boobs and an array of god-awful dresses ups the need for a sick bag.

The wonder of this vehicle is that Al Pacino (yes, the real one) makes a rather long cameo appearance as himself, and he falls for Jill at a Lakers game. Jill then has a perfect excuse to overstay her welcome at Jack's place: Her brother needs Pacino to star in a TV commercial, and the only way he can swing the deal is through Jill.

Even in this setting, Pacino exudes his own indefatigable aura, which saves the movie from eroding entirely into a lava pit of silliness. And admittedly, he's great fun to watch here. Pacino moves through the story like a man who accidentally came to the wrong party, but was welcomed inside and handed a drink. His body seems constantly on the verge of lunging for the door, and the look on his face (an interesting blend of confusion, resignation and panic) isn't something you'd normally associate with one of Hollywood's cinema legends.

The other wonder is Holmes, aka Mrs. Tom Cruise. In the same year that her husband had starred in and produced "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol," Holmes had starred in "Jack and Jill" as Jack's wife. This discrepancy in their careers is, to say the least, strange as hell.

It would probably be less disturbing if Holmes had looked as if she were enjoying the whole thing, but there's not one instance where her expression registers happiness. She looks more drained and strained with every scene, as though she is suffering from an undetected flu virus (though some may argue that this is her normal appearance anyway).

Surrounded by Sandler and Sandler-in-drag, Holmes as Erin (despite her chirpy and encouraging dialogue) is a woman on the verge. Erin should have got her hands on a chain saw at an early stage in her marriage. No such luck, however, is in store for the poor woman.
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72：凡人：2012/01/17(火) 16:23:48
ＴＶで見た。米Ｇグローブ賞はオスカー賞の前哨戦として話題によく上る賞。だが今回初めてみた。ファミリーツリーがなんなのか一瞬分からなかったが、「Descendants」ディセンデンツがオリジナルタイトル。外国映画部門で、南京虐殺をテーマにした中国映画が選ばれるのか一番注目していた。ところがイラン映画に賞が与えられた。オスカーも、同じ結果になるのかどうか面白い。
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作品賞に「ファミリー・ツリー」　米Ｇグローブ賞
（2012/01/16 20:18）

　【ロサンゼルス共同】米アカデミー賞の行方を占う主要映画賞、第６９回ゴールデン・グローブ賞の発表・授賞式が１５日、ロサンゼルス郊外ビバリーヒルズで行われ、「ファミリー・ツリー」がドラマ部門の作品賞など２冠に輝いた。

　同作品は、ハワイで幸せに暮らす男性が妻の事故をきっかけに家族と深く向き合うストーリー。主演のジョージ・クルーニーさんも同部門の主演男優賞を受賞した。

　同部門の主演女優賞は「マーガレット・サッチャー　鉄の女の涙」のメリル・ストリープさん。モノクロのサイレント映画「アーティスト」が、ミュージカル・コメディー部門の作品賞など３部門を受賞した。

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Golden Globe Awards 2012 Winners List
January 15, 2012 8:01:00 PM by Drusilla Moorhouse

Paul Drinkwater/NBC
Here are the winners in movies and TV categories for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards...

MOTION PICTURES

Motion Picture, Drama: The Descendants
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: The Artist
Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: George Clooney, The Descendants
BACKSTAGE SHOCKERS! Kate Winslet Wants to Be a Man?!
Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Jean DuJardin, The Artist
Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer, The Help
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
MORE: 2012 Golden Globes Red Carpet Trend: Jewel Tones
Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Screenplay, Motion Picture: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Foreign Language Film: A Separation, Iran
Animated Feature Film: The Adventures of Tintin
Original Score, Motion Picture: The Artist, Ludovic Bource
Original Song, Motion Picture: "Masterpiece," Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry; W.E.
MORE: Best & Worst of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards: Ricky Gervais Breaks All the Rules Again!

TELEVISION

TV Series, Drama: Homeland
TV Series, Comedy: Modern Family
TV Movie or Miniseries: Downton Abbey
Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland
MORE: Kelsey Grammer's Wife, Kayte Walsh, Is Pregnant!
Actor, TV Series Comedy: Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Actress in a TV Series, Comedy: Laura Dern, Enlightened
Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Idris Elba, Luther
Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce
MORE: Did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Deliver on the Golden Globes Red Carpet?
Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

CECILE B. DEMILLE AWARD: Morgan Freeman

73：凡人：2012/01/29(日) 03:42:01
映画不況？　昨年の興収　一転減 日本
2012年1月27日 朝刊

　二十六日に行われた日本映画製作者連盟（映連）の発表で、昨年の興行収入（興収）も入場人員も、大きく落ち込んだことが、あらためて裏付けられた。興収百億円以上のヒット作がなかったことに加え、東日本大震災の影響があったとみられる。　　（小田克也）

　「二〇一〇年は、ビンテージイヤーだった」。都内で行われた記者会見で、東宝の島谷能成社長は、こう話し、一昨年を豊穣（ほうじょう）な年と位置づけた。

　３Ｄブームに乗り、興収百五十六億円をたたき出した米ＳＦ映画「アバター」などが大ヒット。過去最高の二千二百億円余に達した。それに対し昨年は、百億円超のメガヒットがなく、興収が大幅に減少したとの見方だ。

　震災について島谷社長は「ＴＯＨＯシネマズは六十二サイト（劇場）中、二十五サイトが影響を受けた。壊れた劇場もあるし、計画停電その他で、平常の営業ができなかったサイトもあった。茨城県ひたちなか市と横浜市の二サイトは五月二十日まで運営できなかった」と説明。「映画なんか見る気分になれない」との観客心理が働いたことも含め、震災が響いたのも間違いない。

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　ただ一方で、興収や入場客の大幅な減少は構造的な問題−と重く受け止める向きもある。

　松竹の迫本淳一社長は「お客さまの時間の使い方を考える必要がある。（健康のため）私は一日一時間ほど歩くが、あれやこれやで二時間くらいになる。ＤＶＤなどを見ていた時間がそちらに変わる。われわれの年代はそういう人が多い。映画は時間消費型の産業だが、他の時間消費に負けないようエンターテインメントを提供していかなくては」と指摘した。

　「映画館に行こう！」実行委員会の委員長も務める東映の岡田裕介社長も「シネコンに飽きたのではないか。みんなシネコンができたときは、すごいと思ったが、それが当たり前になった。ウォシュレットと同じ。次のイベントを考えなくてはいけない」と危機感を募らせる。

　また、角川書店の椎名保・代表取締役専務も「宣伝費はかけられない。ハリウッドスターの来日も少なくなった。それをどうカバーし、盛り上げるかも課題」と述べ、海外作品に関しては映連の大谷信義会長も「企画の内容が安定化傾向にあり、新しさが見られない。日本のお客さんには不満なのではないか」との認識を示した。

　一昨年は３Ｄブームに沸いたが、それも一段落。島谷社長は「日本映画はスペクタクルより人間ドラマで支持を得ている。作品の特性に合えば３Ｄ公開することもあるかもしれないが、（本数は）少なくなるのでは」とみており、３Ｄが集客に多大な貢献をするとは考えにくく、模索が続きそうだ。

74：凡人：2012/02/01(水) 12:17:04
SAG Awards 2012 Winners List
'The Help' nabs Best Ensemble' in a stunning upset, while awards-show fave 'The Artist' leaves light on wins.
By Eric Ditzian (@ericditzian) Jan 29 2012 10:39 PM EST 56,062

The SAG Awards, as we have noted, often have a curious way of letting us know what the Oscars are going to deliver. So when the Screen Actors Guild doled out its golden statuettes on Sunday night (January 29), we couldn't help but feel there were more than a few hints at how the Academy Awards might shake out in a few weeks.

What are we to make of the upset SAG win for "The Help" in outstanding cast in a movie, for instance? Where does this leave "The Artist," which had been looking increasingly, inevitably like the big champ come Oscar night, yet only won outstanding male performance (Jean Dujardin) at the SAGs?

Things were more predictable on the TV side of things. In 2012, for the second year in a row, "Modern Family" (Outstanding Cast in a Comedy) and "Boardwalk Empire" (Outstanding Cast in a Drama and a Lead Actor win for Steve Buscemi) had strong showings. Check out the full list of winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
"Bridesmaids"
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
☆"The Help"
"Midnight in Paris"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Demian Bichir, "A Better Life"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "J. Edgar"
☆Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Michelle Williams, "My Week With Marilyn"
Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
☆Viola Davis, "The Help"
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Tilda Swinton, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nick Nolte, "Warrior"
Kenneth Branagh, "My Week With Marilyn"
Armie Hammer, "J. Edgar"
Jonah Hill, "Moneyball"
☆Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
☆Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Berenice Bejo, "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain, "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
"The Adjustment Bureau"
"Cowboys & Aliens"
☆"Harry Potter and the Deahtly Hallows - Part 2"
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
"X-Men: First Class"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie Or Miniseries
Laurence Fishburne, "Thurgood"
☆Paul Giamatti, "Too Big to Fail"
Greg Kinnear, "The Kennedys"
Guy Pearce, "Mildred Pierce"
James Woods, "Too Big to Fail"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie Or Miniseries
Diane Lane, "Cinema Verite"
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Emily Watson, "Appropriate Adult"
Betty White, "The Lost Valentine"
☆Kate Winslet, "Mildred Pierce"
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75：凡人：2012/02/01(水) 12:17:47
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Patrick J. Adams, "Suits"
☆Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Kyle Chandler, "Friday Night Lights"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates, "Harry's Law"
Glenn Close, "Damages"
☆Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
☆Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
☆Betty White, "Hot In Cleveland"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
☆"Boardwalk Empire"
"Breaking Bad"
"Dexter"
"Game of Thrones"
"The Good Wife"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
"30 Rock"
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Glee"
☆"Modern Family"
"The Office"

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
"Dexter"
☆"Game of Thrones"
"Southland"
"Spartacus: Gods of the Arena"
"True Blood"

Screen Actors Guild Awards 48th Annual Life Achievement Award
Mary Tyler Moore

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76：凡人：2012/02/01(水) 12:33:40
テレビのバラエティ番組でどんなだったかその様子を話題にしている。ケーブルないから見たことない。ここにも書かれているが、高い確率でオスカーを予想するらしい。
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Screen Actors Guild
SAG Awards 2012: "The Help," Jean Dujardin win big honors
By Lauren Moraski January 29, 2012 7:35 PM

(CBS/AP) "The Help" took home three top honors at the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday: best picture, best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

Dreaming big was perhaps the theme of the night. When French actor Jean Dujardin accepted the lead actor trophy for his role in the black-and-white silent film, "The Artist," he talked about being a bad student growing up.

"Thank you for this dream," he said.

Davis also spoke about following a dream.

"What is there but a dream? You can't trade in your dream for another dream," "The Help" star said while accepting the lead actress award. She ended her speech with a word of advice: "Dream big and dream fierce."

Veteran actor Christopher Plummer took home the first acting honor of the evening: outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Beginners."

"I'm so flattered to be on the same bill" as the other actors in the category, Plummer, 82, said while accepting the honor, adding that his co-star Ewan McGregor makes "acting look so easy."

"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin and Betty White of "Hot in Cleveland" won the best acting in a TV comedy series awards.

During her speech, the 90-year-old White said, "I remember you sweetheart," while touching the trophy.

The cast of "Modern Family" took home outstanding ensemble in a comedy series, and it was the younger actors who got the chance to accept the award.

Kate Winslet, who wasn't present to accept the award, won outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or miniseries for her role in "Mildred Pierce." Paul Giamatti, also absent from the ceremony, won the TV mini-series/movie actor award for "Too Big to Fail."

The "Bridesmaids" cast caught some laughs for their "Scorsese" drinking game sketch. Every time director Martin Scorsese's name gets mentioned, they said, it was time to take a swig -- and the girls, including Melissa McCarthy (with drink in hand), managed to utter Scorsese quite a few times while on the stage. Other actors followed suit later in the evening, including Tina Fey and Steve Buscemi.

Jessica Lange scored the honor for female actor in a TV drama series for "American Horror Story, while "Boardwalk Empire" star Buscemi won the best male actor prize for TV drama series. He thanked his cast members, including the ones who were killed off last season.

"Please stop yelling at me on the street," Buscemi said, referring to the reaction from "Boardwalk" fans about the season finale.

Prior to the televised ceremony, the final "Harry Potter" installment won the stunt ensemble film award, while HBO's "Game of Thrones" earned the TV stunt honor.

SAG recognized Mary Tyler Moore, 75, with the lifetime achievement award. The prize was presented by Dick Van Dyke, her co-star on the 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

"I love that woman," Van Dyke said during his introduction. "Beautiful and bright and talented ... She's given so much of herself to help other people."

The SAG Actor winners are picked by their acting peers. Going into the evening, the Deep South drama "The Help" led the with four nominations. "The Artist" was second with three nominations.

In the past, SAG Awards winners have gone on to earn Oscars. In 2011, all four acting winners also won Academy Awards.

77：凡人：2012/02/01(水) 16:38:53
レミオロメン：活動休止を発表「それぞれの時間持ちたい」

藤巻亮太さん（中央）らレミオロメンのメンバー＝共同

　ヒット曲「粉雪」などで知られるロックバンド「レミオロメン」が１日、公式ホームページで活動休止を発表した。

　所属事務所によると、ボーカルの藤巻亮太さん（３２）のソロデビューが決まっている。メンバー３人はホームページに「それぞれミュージシャンとして音楽と向き合う時間を持ち、活動していこうという決断に至った」とのメッセージを寄せている。

78：凡人：2012/02/04(土) 03:22:54
ＮＨＫ受信料、５年で時効　千葉地裁が控訴棄却
（2012/02/03 20:27）

　ＮＨＫの受信料債権の消滅時効を５年とした松戸簡裁判決の是非が争われた控訴審で、千葉地裁（白石史子裁判長）は３日、簡裁の判断を支持してＮＨＫの控訴を棄却した。ＮＨＫは東京高裁に上告した。

　千葉地裁は、争点となった受信料債権の法的性格について「１年以下の期間ごとに支払われる定期給付債権と解するのが相当」と指摘。「一般債権に当たるため消滅時効は１０年」とするＮＨＫの主張を退け、５年で消滅時効が完成するとした。

　同様の訴訟では、旭川地裁も消滅時効を５年とする判断を示している。

79：凡人：2012/02/12(日) 14:35:17
セリン・デオンやマライヤ・カレイとよく並び称されるホイットニー・ヒュウストン。世界を代表する３大歌手の一角の死には悲しいものがある。
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48歳のホイットニー・ヒューストン、ビバリーズヒルズホテルで死す。
Award-winning singer Whitney Houston dies at age 48
By Bob Tourtellotte
Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:04pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer and actress Whitney Houston, one of the most talented performers of her generation who lived a turbulent personal life and admitted drug use, died on Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48.

A Beverly Hills police officer told reporters they were called to the Beverly Hilton, in Los Angeles, at around 3:20 p.m. PST and that emergency personnel found Houston's body in a fourth-floor room, and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m.

"She has been positively identified by friends and family (who) were with her at the hotel, and next of kin have already been notified," Lieutenant Mark Rosen told reporters.

Police said there were no obvious signs of criminal intent at the scene and her death is under investigation.

Houston was in Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards, the music industry's biggest honors program that will take place on Sunday night. She died hours before she was expected to perform at record producer Clive Davis's annual pre-Grammy party on Saturday, which is held at the Beverly Hilton

Houston, inspired by soul singers in her New Jersey family, including mother Cissy Houston and cousins Dionne Warwick and the late Dee Dee Warwick, as well as her godmother Aretha Franklin, became one of the most celebrated female singers of all time, taking multiple Emmy, Grammy and Billboard Music awards.

STELLAR CAREER, PERSONAL TROUBLES

Her popularity soared in the 1980s and 1990s with consecutive No. 1 hits including the smash single "I Will Always Love You," from the soundtrack of the feature film "The Bodyguard," in which she starred.

She also appeared in "Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996)."

By the early 1990s, Houston had become the queen of pop music, achieving great critical and commercial acclaim, but her personal life was becoming troubled. In 1992 she married singer Bobby Brown, who had a bad-boy reputation, and during their 14 years together had a tumultuous relationship fueled by drugs.

In 2000, she and Brown were stopped at an airport in Hawaii and security guards discovered marijuana in their luggage.

The pair also starred in reality TV series, "Being Bobby Brown," which painted an often unflattering portrait of the pair.

The last 10 years of Houston's life were dominated by drug use, rumors of relapses and trips to rehab. In a 2002 TV interview, she admitted using marijuana, cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs.

She launched a comeback tour in 2009 and in April 2010 she called media reports she was using drugs again "ridiculous." In May 2011, Houston enrolled in a drug and alcohol rehab program.

Reactions came pouring in from fans and friends in the music industry.

"I am absolutely heartbroken at the news of Whitney's passing," legendary music producer Quincy Jones said in a statement. "... I always regretted not having had the opportunity to work with her. She was a true original and a talent beyond compare. I will miss her terribly."

Neil Portnow, chief executive of the Recording Academy that gives out the Grammys, called her "one of the world's greatest pop singers of all time who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack spanning the past three decades."

Pop star Rihanna posted on Twitter "No words, just tears," and rapper Nicki Minaj tweeted "Jesus Christ, not Whitney Houston. Greatest of all time."

(Additional reporting by Mary Slosson; Editing by Philip Barbara)

80：凡人：2012/02/13(月) 05:54:19
アメリカ音楽界の最大のイベント、グラミー賞。
Grammys 2012 preview: start time, TV schedule, list of performers and presenters

Here are some answers to basic questions about the 2012 Grammys: start time, TV rights, and performers
Vancouver Sun February 12, 2012 2:06 PM

The 2012 Grammy Awards are set for Sunday, February 12. Usually the music industry's biggest night, the 2012 Grammys will be a more sombre affair following the death of singer Whitney Houston.

Here's some basic info on what you need to know about the 2012 Grammys:

When do the 2012 Grammy start?

The Grammys start time is 8:00 pm ET/PT.

What channel will broadcast the 2012 Grammys?

The Grammys will air on CBS in the U.S. In Canada, the awards show will air on Global.

Where are the Grammy taking place?

The awards ceremony will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California

Who will host the Grammys?

Rapper LL Cool J is set to host.

Who will be performing at the Grammys?

Some of the notable musicians scheduled to perform at the Grammys: Adele in her first live performance since undergoing vocal cord surgery; Coldplay and Rihanna; Foo Fighters; Bruno Mars; Paul McCartney; Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson; Nicki Minaj; Katy Perry; Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band; and Taylor Swift. Chris Brown, Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood are also slated to hit the stage together while Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt will perform a tribute to the late Etta James.

Who are some of the presenters at the Grammys?

Notable presenters include Jack Black, Drake, Fergie, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson of the Roots, and Ringo Starr.

Will there be a tribute to Whitney Houston at the Grammys?

The Recording Academy intends to include a "respectful" tribute to Houston in Sunday evening's show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, according to Grammys show producer Ken Ehrlich. Singer Jennifer Hudson is expected to perform as part of a "respectful" tribute at the Grammys,

With files from AFP

© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

81：凡人：2012/02/16(木) 01:16:27
ロスのスティプルセンターが会場でのテレビ中継をCBSで放映していたので久しぶりにみた。アデルは印象に残ったが、レイディーガガやビヤンセのパーフォーマンスがないので全体的にパットしなかった。
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米グラミー賞、アデルが最優秀楽曲賞など６冠
2012年2月13日15時24分

米グラミー賞の最優秀ポップ・ソロ・パフォーマンス賞を受賞したアデルさん＝ＡＰ。最優秀レコード賞など主要３部門を独占、候補に挙がった全６部門を制して６冠となった=写真

　米音楽界の最高権威とされるグラミー賞の第５４回授賞式が１２日、米ロサンゼルスであった。世界中で記録的ヒットを出している英国の女性歌手アデルさんが「ローリング・イン・ザ・ディープ」で最優秀楽曲賞などを受賞、候補に挙がった６部門すべてを制覇し６冠となった。

　今回最多の７部門で候補に挙がっていた米国のラップ歌手カニエ・ウエストさんは、最優秀ラップ・アルバム部門などを受賞した。

　最優秀クラシック・ソロ・ボーカル賞を受賞したオペラ歌手ジョイス・ディドナートさんのアルバム「Ｄｉｖａ　Ｄｉｖｏ」には、仏国立リヨン歌劇場の首席指揮者、大野和士さんが参加している。（ロサンゼルス＝藤えりか）

82：凡人：2012/02/16(木) 01:17:34
悲しみのグラミー授賞式、急逝のＷ・ヒューストン追悼
2012年2月13日16時21分

２月１２日、第５４回グラミー賞授賞式は、前日に急死した米歌手ホイットニー・ヒューストンの訃報を受け、悲しみと衝撃の中での開催となった（２０１２年　ロイター/Mario Anzuoni）

　［ロサンゼルス　１２日　ロイター］　米ロサンゼルスで１２日に開催された第５４回グラミー賞授賞式は、前日に急死した米歌手ホイットニー・ヒューストンの訃報を受け、悲しみと衝撃の中での開催となった。

　司会のＬＬクールＪは、ヒューストンの遺族や友人、ファンのために祈りをささげ、「あまりに早く逝ってしまったが、彼女の歌のスピリットはずっと私たちと共にあり続ける」と語った。

　会場では１９９４年の授賞式でヒューストンが「オールウェイズ・ラブ・ユー」を歌った映像が流れたほか、ジェニファー・ハドソンが同曲を歌い、「ホイットニー、私たちはあなたを愛してた」と歌詞の最後を変えて締めくくった。

　アリシア・キーズは「真に偉大なアーティストはこの世を去っても、その遺産は生き続ける」とコメント。スティービー・ワンダーも「みんながホイットニーを愛してるって、天国にいる君に言いたい」と、早すぎる死を悼んだ。

83：凡人：2012/02/16(木) 01:18:16
ホイットニーさん死去、浴槽内で意識失う　米警察発表
2012年2月14日10時37分

　１１日に急死した米歌手ホイットニー・ヒューストンさんについて、米ビバリーヒルズ警察は１３日、「発見時、ホテルの浴槽内で意識を失った状態だった」と発表した。１２日の検視をもとに死因を調べているが、記者会見したマーク・ローズン警部補は「殺人事件の捜査ではない」と述べた。

　発表によると、１１日午後３時半ごろ、ビバリーヒルズのホテルの部屋の浴槽内で倒れていたヒューストンさんを彼女のスタッフが発見。ヒューストンさんは水の中で明らかに意識を失っていたといい、スタッフが浴槽から引き上げた。救急隊員が到着、蘇生を試みたが、午後３時５５分ごろに死亡を確認した。

　ＡＰ通信によると、ヒューストンさんの遺体は１３日夜にロサンゼルスを出発、ニュージャージー州の自宅に運ばれる。週末に葬儀が執り行われる予定だという。（ロサンゼルス＝藤えりか）

84：凡人：2012/02/16(木) 01:18:53
「Ｎ響アワー」３２年の歴史に幕　後継番組は初心者向け
2012年2月14日2時31分

　ＮＨＫを代表するクラシック音楽番組として３０年以上親しまれてきた「Ｎ響アワー」（Ｅテレ、日曜夜９時）が３月で終了することになった。「Ｎ響だけを金科玉条にしていると、クラシック全体の底上げができない」とＮＨＫ。後継番組は室内楽やオペラ、バレエなどにも間口を広げる。

　Ｎ響アワーは１９８０年に始まり、ＮＨＫ交響楽団の定期公演を中心に放送してきた。３２年の歴史に幕を下ろし、４月からは初心者にも分かりやすく魅力を伝える「ららら♪クラシック」に模様替えする。司会は作家の石田衣良さんと作曲家の加羽沢美濃さん。「今はクラシックファンも多岐にわたる。Ｎ響以外の演奏も取り上げたい」と担当者。

　ＢＳプレミアムでは従来通り、Ｎ響のすべての定期公演を放送する。地上波は入門編と位置づけ、さらに楽しみたいファンはＢＳに誘導したい考えだ。

85：凡人：2012/02/19(日) 19:34:04
KABC-TVのチャンネル７でライブ中継をみた。かつて映画で共演したケビン・コスナーと１０代の若いホイットニーをスターダムにのし上げたスポンサーのクリーブ・デイビスの弔辞が、歌では生前彼女が才能を大いに讃えたアリーシア・キイがピアノを自ら弾いての熱唱が印象的だった。スティービー・ワンダーを久しぶりにみた。ピアノを弾きながらの、いつもの張りのある歌声を披露。彼の年齢という時が止まっているかのような、少しも歳を感じさせない姿に驚いた。
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ホイットニー・ヒューストンの葬式
Stars mourn Whitney Houston at rousing New Jersey funeral

By Christine Kearney and Jonathan Allen
NEWARK, New Jersey | Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:24pm EST

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Stars, family and friends mourned Whitney Houston in a spirited Baptist funeral service at her hometown church on Saturday, a week after the death of the singer whose spectacular voice made her one of the biggest pop stars of her era.

Gospel and soul music greats, celebrities and family members swayed to gospel hits and delivered tributes both sung and spoken to the crowded New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where Houston honed her wide vocal range as a young choral singer with her mother Cissy Houston, a backup singer for Aretha Franklin.

"Whitney returns home today to the place where it all began," said actor Kevin Costner, who starred opposite Houston in the 1992 hit film, "The Bodyguard."

He urged those around the world to "dry our tears, suspend our sorrow - and perhaps our anger - just long enough, just long enough to remember the sweet miracle of Whitney."

Houston, who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week, recorded stirring love songs and vibrant dance tunes during a 30-year career that peaked with her 1992 signature hit "I Will Always Love You" and paved the way for a generation of singers that followed.

She was among the greatest singers of the 1980s and 1990s, but later admitted to heavy use of cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and prescription pills. Officials have said prescription drugs were found in the hotel room where she died.

Her death at age 48 shocked her family, fans and the music industry. Houston was found underwater in a hotel bathtub on the eve of the music industry's Grammy Awards. Her cause of death has yet to be determined.

She suffered a turbulent personal life and marriage to singer Bobby Brown, who said in a statement he left the service early after being repeatedly asked to move by security, who prevented him from seeing the daughter he shared with Houston, Bobby Kristina Brown, 18.

"This was a day to honor Whitney," Brown said. "I doubt whether Whitney would have wanted this to occur."
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86：凡人：2012/02/19(日) 19:37:35
During the service, her cousin and famed soul singer Dionne Warwick read out a funeral poem and introduced music greats from the past and present, including Alicia Keys who said "it was so obvious the way she just crept into everybody's heart" before singing an emotional rendition of "Prelude to a Kiss."

GOSPEL AND SOUL

Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder spoke of once having "a little crush" on Houston before singing a version of his 1982 R&B hit "Ribbon In The Sky," inserting the lyrics "No more, Whitney, No more, Do you have to cry - You'll always be a ribbon in the sky."

Others spoke eloquently of Houston's passion, strong-willed spirit and once hopeful future, including Clive Davis, the founder of her label Arista Records, who discovered and molded Houston into a global pop phenomenon. He said shortly before she died, Houston had promised she was getting back into shape.

"You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime. You wait for a face like that, a smile like that, a presence like that, for a lifetime. And when one person embodies it all it takes your breath away," he said. "Music was her passion. Whitney lived music. Whitney loved music."

R. Kelly performed the 2009 song he wrote for Houston, "I Look To You," and director Tyler Perry talked about Houston's "grace that led her all the way to the top of the charts." The service was dominated by gospel music, by singers Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin and others.

Houston's family decided against a public memorial, as was done for pop star Michael Jackson after his 2009 death, but they agreed to allow the four-hour service to be broadcast live by television networks and on the Internet.

Many of Houston's fans left cards and balloons around the church dedicated to the singer, who became a global star with her 1985 debut album, which included the hits "Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love Of All."

Police urged fans to stay home and watch the funeral on the Internet or television, but some flew and drove from around the country to get as close as they could to the late singer.

"This is history," said fan Hedwig Berthold, 40, who flew from Miami and watched the broadcast with dozens of others in a nearby cafe. "I bought her records, I saw her concerts, I saw her in the good times. So I wanted to be here for her final farewell."
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87：凡人：2012/02/19(日) 19:39:38
'THEY LOVED YOU'

Others gathered on the streets, including Wendy Saunders, who drove from Detroit to pay her respects to Houston and said "She meant so much to me," while Renee Taylor, from Baltimore, held a sign, "You gave us more love than we will ever need."

Houston grew up surrounded by gospel and soul music legends like Franklin - who fell ill and was unable to attend the service - as well as Warwick. She later forged new territory for a black female artist who brought R&B and gospel touches into pop music's mainstream.

After her debut, her popularity grew exponentially with her second album, "Whitney" (1987), with all four singles - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" - hitting No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Her music videos featuring her 1980s style and innocent, fun-loving image made her wildly popular around the world. In "The Bodyguard," with Costner, Houston played a character not far removed from her real self: an international singing sensation coping with fame.

Costner recalled during his speech that Hollywood executives were hesitant to cast Houston in her first starring role, preferring "somebody white," but she soon won everyone over. He also spoke of Houston's immense talent - and insecurities.

"The Whitney that I knew, despite her worldwide success and fame, still wondered, 'Am I good enough, Am I pretty enough, Will they like me?' It was the burden that made her great, and the part that caused her to stumble in the end," he said. "People didn't just like you, Whitney. They loved you."

She made other films, including "The Preacher's Wife," but the 15-year period when she was married to singer Brown coincided with a decline in the quality and frequency of her albums. The couple, who have an 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, divorced in 2007.

Houston's powerful voice suffered in recent years. On her last world tour in 2010, she struggled to hit the high notes.

But the service ended by focusing on the old, soaring voice she had promised to reclaim. Her inimitable "I Will Always Love You," rang out as the casket was carried out of the church.

(Additional reporting by Patricia Reaney and Gianna Palmer; editing by Anthony Boadle and Todd Eastham)
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88：凡人：2012/02/19(日) 19:40:18
ヒューストンさん葬儀：１５００人が最後の別れ
毎日新聞　2012年2月19日　18時03分

葬儀終了後、運び出されるホイットニー・ヒューストンさんのひつぎ＝米東部ニュージャージー州ニューアークで２０１２年２月１８日、ＡＰ

　【ロサンゼルス堀山明子】１１日に４８歳で急死した米女性歌手、ホイットニー・ヒューストンさんの葬儀が１８日正午（日本時間１９日午前２時）過ぎから、故郷の米東部ニュージャージー州ニューアークの教会で営まれ、招待客約１５００人が最後の別れを告げた。

　会場はヒューストンさんが少女時代に聖歌隊の一員として過ごした教会。４時間近くに及んだ式では、歌手のスティービー・ワンダーさんが「一緒に時間を過ごせて幸せだった」とピアノの弾き語りを披露。映画「ボディガード」（１９９２年）で共演した俳優のケビン・コスナーさんは、ヒューストンさんが共演当時、自分の才能に不安を抱いていたという逸話を紹介し「あの役はあなたにしかできなかった。十分よくやった」とたたえた。

　家庭内暴力などを理由に離婚した元夫のソウル歌手、ボビー・ブラウンさんも式場に姿を見せたが、警備員に退席を求められ、ひつぎにキスをして立ち去った。米メディアによると、ブラウンさんはヒューストンさんとの間に生まれた娘の近くに座りたいと主張し、遺族と口論になったという。ブラウンさんは「警備員の対応が理解できない。ホイットニーが（生きていたら）こんな扱いを望んだと思えない」と声明を出した。

89：凡人：2012/02/19(日) 19:46:53
ホイットニーさん葬儀に多数　テレビで４時間生中継も
2012年2月19日18時41分朝日新聞

ニュージャージー州ニューアークで１８日、ホイットニー・ヒューストンさんの葬儀が終わり、ひつぎが教会から運び出された＝ＡＰ

ホイットニー・ヒューストンさんの葬儀が開かれた教会の前で立ち止まる、喪服姿の女性たち。後ろにあるのは、ファンが寄せた風船や写真＝ＡＰ

　１１日に急死した米歌手のホイットニー・ヒューストンさん（４８）の葬儀が１８日、出身地のニュージャージー州ニューアークで開かれた。大勢のファンが集まり、「早すぎる死」を悼んだ。

　葬儀会場は、ヒューストンさんが幼いころに通い、合唱隊の一員だった教会。映画「ボディガード」で共演した俳優のケビン・コスナーさんは、ヒューストンさんが自分の才能に不安をもっていたとのエピソードを紹介して「あなたは偉大だった。天国で神の前で歌う時も、自信を持って」と弔辞を述べた。

　歌手のスティービー・ワンダーさんは「同じ時に生きられたことを神に感謝する」と話し、「リボン・イン・ザ・スカイ」と「ある愛の伝説」を歌った。

90：凡人：2012/02/22(水) 05:06:36
雑誌「大阪人」が４月号最後に休刊　橋下改革であおり
2012年2月18日

　８７年前に創刊し、大阪の文化や街の情報を伝えてきた雑誌「大阪人」が、４月発売の増刊号を最後に休刊することになった。発行元で市が全額出資する財団法人「大阪市都市工学情報センター」が公表した。

　ページの一部は大阪市が買い取って観光ＰＲなどの記事掲載を委託しており、橋下徹市長が進める外郭団体への補助見直しで、今春以降の委託料収入が不透明になったことも休刊の要因になった。同センターは「景気後退の影響を受け、広告収入などが落ち込んだため」と説明している。

　大阪人は１９２５（大正１４）年に「大大阪」として創刊。隔月号と増刊号で年に１０回程度発行してきた。昨年７月にリニューアルしたが、年間約３千万円の赤字を解消するにはいたらなかった。編集発行人で同センターの中村和代企画総務課長は「苦渋の決断。収集した多くの資料を生かし、今後も別の形で情報発信を続けたい」と話す。（小河雅臣）

91：凡人：2012/02/22(水) 05:07:39
月刊誌「囲碁」４月で休刊へ　６０年の歴史に幕
2012年2月21日22時56分

　囲碁愛好家向けの月刊誌として６０年以上の歴史を持つ誠文堂新光社の「囲碁」が４月５日発売の５月号（通巻７３７号）をもって休刊することになった。

　創刊は１９５１年７月。誌上で呉清源九段や故藤沢秀行名誉棋聖らが布石構想や戦い方を説き、故坂田栄男二十三世本因坊はアマ強豪に胸を貸した。名勝負を詳細に解説した付録の「名局細解」も人気だった。

　９０年前後、最盛期の発行部数は約２万５千部あったが、現在は半分以下にまで落ち込み、これ以上の継続は困難と判断したという。

92：凡人：2012/02/23(木) 00:59:32
北公次さんが死去　フォーリーブス「コーちゃん」で活躍

　男性４人のアイドルグループ「フォーリーブス」で一世を風靡（ふうび）した歌手の北公次（きた・こうじ、本名松下公次〈まつした・こうじ〉）さんが２２日、肝臓がんで死去した。６３歳だった。通夜は２５日午後６時、葬儀は２６日午前１１時から東京都江戸川区西小岩１の３０の２６の慈光殿で。

　和歌山県出身。１９６８年、フォーリーブスとしてジャニーズ事務所からデビューし、愛称は「コーちゃん」。「地球はひとつ」「ブルドッグ」などヒット曲を出した。７８年の解散後は俳優としても活動。２００２年にフォーリーブスを再結成したが、０９年にメンバーの青山孝史さんが亡くなり、活動を休止していた。

93：凡人：2012/02/25(土) 03:56:03
アカデミー科学技術賞：富士フイルムに…映画用フィルムで
毎日新聞　2012年2月24日　19時55分

映画保存用のフィルム開発でアカデミー賞科学技術賞を受賞し、記念の盾を持つ富士フイルムの大関勝久さん（右）と白井英行さん＝神奈川県南足柄市で２０１２年２月２４日、長沢晴美撮影

　映画保存用の高品質フィルムを開発した富士フイルム（本社・東京都、古森重隆社長）が、米アカデミー賞科学技術賞を受賞した。授賞式は２６日（日本時間２７日）の主要部門に先立って、１１日（同１２日）に行われた。

　受賞対象となったのは、１０年に販売を開始した「ＥＴＥＲＮＡ−ＲＤＳ」。画質の美しさと、保存期間が５００年程度と長い点が評価された。

　最近の映画は、フィルムで撮影されても編集段階でデジタル化され、原盤はデジタルデータとして完成する。しかしデジタルは規格が多様で長期的保存には不安が残り、保存には安定したフィルムの方が向いている。このためアカデミー賞を主催する映画芸術科学アカデミーは０７年に警鐘を鳴らし、米ハリウッドの大手映画製作会社は、自主的に主要作品をフィルム化して保存し始めている。

　「ＲＤＳ」は、デジタルデータを赤、青、緑の３色に分解し、それぞれモノクロでフィルムに焼き付ける仕組み。元データを損なわずに画質を保ち、モノクロにすることで長期保存が可能となった。

　１１日の授賞式に出席した、同社Ｒ＆Ｄ統括本部主任研究員の大関勝久さん（５５）は「フィルムの良さを追求し、映画を美しく保存するという新たな役割を与えることができた。このような賞をいただけるのは本望です」と語った。【長沢晴美】

94：凡人：2012/02/25(土) 04:03:31
もうコダックという名は公式でも使わない。いま看板が外されている。ベストピクチャーに「アーティスト」が前評判がいい。
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特集：第８４回アカデミー賞、２６日夜・授賞式　米ロサンゼルスのコダックシアターで
毎日新聞　2012年2月23日　東京夕刊

　◆秀作そろい、賞レース激しく

　◇スティーブン・スピルバーグ監督「戦火の馬」６部門候補
　◇マーティン・スコセッシ監督「ヒューゴの不思議な発明」最多１１部門
　◇ミシェル・アザナビシウス監督「アーティスト」１０部門ノミネート
　◇アレクサンダー・ペイン監督「ファミリー・ツリー」は５部門に

　第８４回アカデミー賞の授賞式は２６日夜（日本時間２７日）、米ロサンゼルスのコダックシアターで行われる。作品賞の候補作は９本。例年以上に秀作が多く、前哨戦といわれるゴールデン・グローブ賞で作品賞ドラマ部門の「ファミリー・ツリー」、同ミュージカル・コメディー部門の「アーティスト」を軸に、作品、俳優ともに激しい賞レースを展開している。ノミネートされた作品や俳優を紹介する。

　アカデミー賞常連の２人の巨匠の作品が有力候補だ。「戦火の馬」はハリウッドを代表するスティーブン・スピルバーグ監督のこん身の感動作。第一次世界大戦前夜のヨーロッパを舞台に、一頭の美しい馬と人々との絆の物語。壮大なスケールや映像美とともに、悲劇に打ちのめされながらも希望を信じて生き抜いていく人間の勇気と良心を描く。６部門で候補に。

　「ヒューゴの不思議な発明」はマーティン・スコセッシ監督初の３Ｄ映画で、最多１１部門で候補に。パリを舞台に駅の時計台に住む孤児の冒険を、映画草創期の時代のエピソードとともに描き、熱い支持を受けている。

　同じく映画の世界を扱ったミシェル・アザナビシウス監督の「アーティスト」はサイレントからトーキーに移行する１９２０年代のハリウッドが舞台のフランス映画。白黒サイレントの甘く切ない大人のラブストーリーで、本命視されている一本。１０部門で候補入り。

　賞レースで「アーティスト」とともに受賞を重ねてきたのは、「ファミリー・ツリー」。アレクサンダー・ペイン監督が、雄大なハワイの大自然を背景に、人生の転機と家族の絆をじっくり描いた人間ドラマ。主演男優など５部門で候補に。

　「ヘルプ〜心がつなぐストーリー〜」は６０年代のアメリカ南部を舞台にしたベストセラー小説の映画化。黒人メイドの差別体験を集めた本の出版による人々の変化をドラマチックに描いた。主演・助演女優賞など４部門で候補。「ミッドナイト・イン・パリ」は、パリを訪れた脚本家が夜ごとタイムスリップし、偉大な芸術家たちに会う話。ウディ・アレン監督作品は、２５年ぶりの作品賞候補。

　「ものすごくうるさくて、ありえないほど近い」は９・１１テロで父を亡くした少年が、喪失を受け入れるまでを描いた。「ツリー・オブ・ライフ」はカンヌ国際映画祭で最高賞のパルムドールを受賞したテレンス・マリック監督の話題作。「マネーボール」は大リーグのマネジャーが貧乏球団を常勝球団に変えるまでの物語。

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95：凡人：2012/02/25(土) 04:05:10
　■作品賞

「アーティスト」
「ファミリー・ツリー」
「ものすごくうるさくて、ありえないほど近い」
「ヘルプ〜心がつなぐストーリー〜」
「ヒューゴの不思議な発明」
「ミッドナイト・イン・パリ」
「マネーボール」
「ツリー・オブ・ライフ」
「戦火の馬」

　■監督賞

ミシェル・アザナビシウス「アーティスト」
アレクサンダー・ペイン「ファミリー・ツリー」
マーティン・スコセッシ「ヒューゴの不思議な発明」
ウディ・アレン「ミッドナイト・イン・パリ」
テレンス・マリック「ツリー・オブ・ライフ」

　５監督とも作品賞とのダブルノミネート。これまでの賞レースでは、アザナビシウスがやや強く、スコセッシ、ペインが急追。アレン、カリスマ的なマリックが続く。

　■主演男優賞

デミアン・ビチル「明日を継ぐために」
ジョージ・クルーニー「ファミリー・ツリー」
ジャン・デュジャルダン「アーティスト」
ゲイリー・オールドマン「裏切りのサーカス」
ブラッド・ピット「マネーボール」

　クルーニーとカンヌ国際映画祭男優賞のフランス人デュジャルダンの一騎打ちの様相。クルーニーなら「シリアナ」（助演男優賞）以来２度目の受賞。
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96：凡人：2012/02/25(土) 04:05:55
　■主演女優賞

グレン・クローズ「アルバート・ノッブス」
ビオラ・デイビス「ヘルプ〜心がつなぐストーリー〜」
ルーニー・マーラ「ドラゴン・タトゥーの女」
メリル・ストリープ「マーガレット・サッチャー　鉄の女の涙」
ミシェル・ウィリアムズ「マリリン　７日間の恋」

　ストリープは主演・助演合わせ１７回目の候補で過去２回（主演１、助演１）受賞。ウィリアムズは２年連続の候補。クローズは６回目で今まで無冠など話題も多彩。ウィリアムズがやや優勢だが、デイビスも有力で混とん。

　■助演男優賞

ケネス・ブラナー「マリリン　７日間の恋」
ジョナ・ヒル「マネーボール」
ニック・ノルティ「ウォーリアー（原題）」
クリストファー・プラマー「人生はビギナーズ」
マックス・フォン・シドー「ものすごくうるさくて、ありえないほど近い」

　初ノミネートはヒルだけ。ゴールデン・グローブ賞など受賞多数のプラマーが一歩リードだが、個性的で実力派の面々がそろった。番狂わせの可能性も。

　■助演女優賞

ベレニス・ベジョ「アーティスト」
ジェシカ・チャステイン「ヘルプ〜心がつなぐストーリー〜」
メリッサ・マッカーシー「ブライズメイズ（原題）」
ジャネット・マクティア「アルバート・ノッブス」
オクタビア・Ｌ・スペンサー「ヘルプ〜心がつなぐストーリー〜」

　どの候補が受賞してもおかしくない大混戦。ゴールデン・グローブ賞受賞のスペンサーと「ツリー・オブ・ライフ」などでも好演のチャステインがわずかにリードだが。
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97：凡人：2012/02/27(月) 06:54:15
オスカー3時間前。ここ一週間はTVはオスカー一色。アメリカTV視聴率のランキングはアメリカンフットボールのスーパーボウルが第1位。2位がアカデミー賞、3位がグラミー賞。今年はウィットニー・ヒューストンの死によってグラミー賞が大幅増の40million viewers。オスカーが3位に落ちるとの見通しを告げている。
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Oscars aim for surprises to spice up show
By Bob Tourtellotte
Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:17pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After the curtain rises on Sunday's Oscars, producers hope a few surprise winners and heartfelt acceptance speeches will spice up the program in which silent movie "The Artist" is widely seen as the choice for best movie.

The world's top film honors are in jeopardy of losing their status as the second most-watched TV event in the United States behind professional football's Super Bowl if the show can't lure more than 40 million viewers, which could be difficult.

Producers have brought back popular host Billy Crystal to provide laughter, but the best solution for a lively TV awards program, sponsors at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences say, is a group of surprise winners or ones who give genuinely emotional or rousing acceptance speeches.

"Be memorable, and you will be remembered," co-producer Don Mischer told nominees at a recent luncheon.

It's hard to forget 73-year-old Jack Palance doing one-arm pushups on the Oscar stage after winning best supporting actor for 1991's "City Slickers," or more recently the heartfelt speech by writers Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of best song winner "Falling Slowly" from 2007 film, "Once."

The Oscars need a few surprises because silent movie romance "The Artist," while critically lauded, has generated only around $30 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices, and the Oscars generally enjoy larger TV audiences when popular hits like "Avatar" are in the hunt for best movie.

The show annually is the second most-watched program on U.S. TV behind professional football's Super Bowl, but this year's Grammy Awards, music's top honors, lured 40 million viewers the night after Whitney Houston's death and could easily surpass the Oscars, which only twice since 2002 has had a larger audience.

Oscar producers also hope a return of popular comedian Crystal as host of the program for the ninth time will lure viewers. He hasn't been emcee of the show since 2004 when it drew roughly 44 million viewers and box office smash "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was the big winner.
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98：凡人：2012/02/27(月) 06:56:33
PAINTING OSCAR PICTURE

This year "The Artist," a tale of old Hollywood that sees a fading star find redemption through the love of a woman just as silent movies are being taken over by talkies, is widely picked to take home best film by most industry pundits.

It comes into the night with 10 nominations, second only to Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" with 11. But most of the nods for "Hugo" are in technical categories like cinematography, whereas "The Artist" nominations are spread across several categories.

"It's unbeatable," said Dave Karger, movie writer for Entertainment Weekly magazine.

While it faces keen competition from civil rights drama "The Help," "The Artist" has come out on top in most award shows this year. Still, pundits point out that "The Help" did win best ensemble cast from the Screen Actors Guild, and actors make up the biggest group of Oscar voters.

The third movie that has had Hollywood buzzing this season is family drama "The Descendants," starring George Clooney as a man trying to keep his family together after his cheating wife is hospitalized in a coma. But "Descendants" has failed to spark Oscar voters, and its key win is seen as adapted screenplay.

The category of best actress features a too-close-to-call race between Viola Davis playing a maid in "The Help" and Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." Tom O'Neil of awards website Goldderby.com calls that race "neck and neck."

The best actor category sees American Clooney "Descendants" face Frenchman Jean Dujardin, star of "The Artist." For a long time, Clooney seemed to have the upper hand, but Dujardin has won most every time the two have been pitted against each other.

Supporting actor and actress appear locked for Christopher Plummer, playing an elderly gay man in "Beginners," and Octavia Spencer as one of the black maids in "The Help."

At age 82, Plummer would be the oldest Oscar winner ever, and if both Spencer and Davis are victorious, then it would be the first time two African American women have won those categories in the same year for the same movie.

The race for director is widely tipped to go to "The Artist" maker Michel Hazanavicius, but could see a surprise by "Hugo" and Scorsese, Woody Allen with "Midnight in Paris" or Alexander Payne and "The Descendants."

Finally, Iranian film "A Separation" goes up against Israel's "Footnote" in the category for foreign language film, bringing world politics into the movie industry awards.

(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Sandra Maler and Cynthia Osterman)
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99：凡人：2012/02/27(月) 07:48:02
ワースト映画賞 - The Golden Raspberry awards
And the Worst Film of the Year Is Officially…
Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill. At least according to the Razzies, which just "honored" the film with a dozen nominations for its annual worst-of-the-year awards.
By Nick Carbone | February 25, 2012 | The Time Mag

The Razzies (also known as the Golden Raspberry awards), are in their 32nd year of celebrating the industry’s worst films. And Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill cleaned up in this year’s nominations, receiving 12 Razzie nods though it was eligible in only 10 categories. That’s right, the film was so heinous in the eyes of the Razzie voters that it was nominated multiple times per category. Talk about a dis-honor. Not even the vampiric action of Twilight could outshine Sandler’s gender-bending travesty.

Though its not as if anyone expected Jack & Jill to be good. The cross-dressing comedy has been rated in the single digits on Rotten Tomatoes since its November release (it currently holds an abysmal 3% positive rating). One movie critic wrote in his review that it “gives fart jokes a bad name.” We even voted it the worst movie of 2011. But none of those landmarks could have prepared it for such a Razzies sweep. The awards even went outside their own standard boxes to dish out disgrace. Adam Sandler notched a nod for both worst actor (as Jack) and worst actress (as Jill). David Spade was nominated for best supporting actress for his drag queen role in the film.

The Razzies note that Jack & Jill is the fourth film to tally more nominations than there are categories. It joins such esteemed company as Lonely Lady, Showgirls and Battlefield Earth, all which took home the Razzies’ Worst Picture award. What a drag.

See the full list of nominees on the next page.

Worst Picture

- Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
- Jack & Jill
- New Year’s Eve
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Worst Actor

- Russell Brand, Arthur
- Nicolas Cage, Drive Angry 3-D, Season Of The Witch, and Trespass
- Taylor Lautner, Abduction and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
- Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
- Nick Swardson, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star

Worst Actress

- Martin Lawrence (As “Momma”), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
- Sarah Palin (As “Herself”), Sarah Palin: The Undefeated
- Sarah Jessica Parker, I Don’t Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve
- Adam Sandler (As “Jill”), Jack & Jill
- Kristen Stewart, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I

Worst Supporting Actress

- Katie Holmes, Jack & Jill
- Brandon T. Jackson (As “Charmaine”), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
- Nicole Kidman, Just Go With It
- David Spade (As “Monica”), Jack & Jill
- The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Worst Supporting Actor

- Patrick Dempsey, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- James Franco, Your Highness
- Ken Jeong, Big Momma’s #3, Hangover Part 2, Transformers #3 and Zookeeper
- Al Pacino (As “Al Pacino”), Jack & Jill
- Nick Swardson, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
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100：凡人：2012/02/27(月) 07:48:42
Worst Screen Ensemble

- The Entire Cast of Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
- The Entire Cast of Jack & Jill
- The Entire Cast of New Year’s Eve
- The Entire Cast of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- The Entire Cast of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I

Worst Director

- Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- Tom Brady, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
- Bill Condon, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
- Dennis Dugan, Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
- Garry Marshall, New Year’s Eve

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel

- Arthur
- Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (Rip-Off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born)
- The Hangover Part 2 (Both a sequel and a remake!)
- Jack & Jill (Remake/Rip-Off of Ed Woods’ Glen or Glenda)
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I

Worst Screen Couple

- Nicolas Cage & Anyone Sharing the Screen with Him in Any of His Three 2011 Movie
- Shia Lebeouf & The Underwear Model (Aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), Transformers #3
- Adam Sandler & EITHER Jennifer Aniston OR Brooklyn Decker, Just Go With It
- Adam Sandler & EITHER Katies Holmes, Al Pacino OR Adam Sandler, Jack & Jill
- Kristen Stewart & EITHER Taylor Lautner OR Robert Pattinson, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I

Worst Screenplay

- Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, Written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson
- Jack & Jill, Screenplay by Steve Koren & Adam Sandler, Story by Ben Zook
- New Year’s Eve, Written by Katherine Fugate
- Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Written by Ehren Kruger
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I, Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, from the novel by Stephenie Meyer
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101：凡人：2012/02/28(火) 10:24:14
今年はフランス色。ベスト映画賞にフランス監督の「アーテスト」、主演男優賞にフランス人ジャン・デュジャルダン。マーティン・スコセッシ監督「フューゴ」やウッディ・アレン監督の「ミッドナイト・イン・パリ」もフランスを舞台に見立てている。また外国語映画賞にはイランの「セパレーション」、主演女優賞のMeryl Streepは元イギリス首相を演じた「鉄の女」 、助演女優賞を獲得したオクティビア・スペンサーのドレスを作ったのは日本人デザイナーのタダシ・ショウジと国際色を飾る。授賞の言葉で印象に残ったのはクリストファー・プラマーが一番、その次にメリル・ストリープとオクタヴィア・スペンサーに続く。　　
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"The Artist" paints golden picture at Oscars
By Bob Tourtellotte

Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:55am EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood showed some love for its history at the Oscars on Sunday, giving its best film award and four others to silent movie "The Artist" in a ceremony that recalled why cinema is special to so many people.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also gave Oscars to playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," marking Streep's third Academy Award in 17 nominations, and veteran Christopher Plummer made history by becoming the oldest winner ever at age 82 with his role as an elderly gay man in "Beginners."

But it was the "The Artist," a French movie that has been called a love letter to old Hollywood by its makers, that charmed Oscar voters. Made in the style of old silents, it tells a romantic story of a fading star in the era when silent movies were overtaken by talkies.

"The Artist" collected Oscars for its star Jean Dujardin and director Michel Hazanavicius, as well as for musical score and costume design.

"I am the happiest director in the world right now. Thank you for that," Hazanavicius told the audience of stars including George Clooney, Michelle Williams, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and members of the Academy.

Dujardin was equally excited, exclaiming "I love this country" before thanking the Academy, the film's makers and his wife, and calling silent actor Douglas Fairbanks an inspiration.

Streep's victory surprised Oscar pundits who thought Viola Davis would win the Academy Award with her portrayal of a black maid in a southern white home in civil rights drama "The Help."

But Streep's turn as an elderly Thatcher who is slipping into dementia was too good to be ignored. It was Streep's third Academy Award out of 17 nominations, and even she reckoned that Oscar voters would think she's been there, done that. Backstage she termed it "Streep fatigue" to reporters.

"When they called my name, I could feel America saying, 'Oh why her again?' But whatever," she joked. Yet even the steely veteran could not hold back the emotion of an Oscar victory. When she thanked her husband and talked about her career she came close to breaking into tears, and backstage she said it made her feel like a kid again.

MAKING HOLLYWOOD HISTORY

Veteran Plummer, a star of classic film "The Sound of Music," won his first ever Oscar for his portrayal of an elderly gay man who comes out to his family in "Beginners."

"You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all of my life," he said, looking at his golden Oscar, which was celebrating its 84th awards ceremony.

Spencer, a relative newcomer in contrast to Plummer, had to hold back tears as she accepted her trophy for her portrayal of a black, southern maid in civil rights drama "The Help."

"Thank you Academy for putting me with the hottest guy in the room," she said holding her Oscar in her hand. She then went on to talk about her family in Alabama and could not hold back her tears as she joyously accepted her trophy.
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Director Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," which like "The Artist" pays tribute to early filmmaking, came into the night with a leading 11 nominations - one more than "Artist" - and also picked up five wins. But its Oscars came in technical categories cinematography, art direction, sound editing and mixing and visual effects.

Another highly touted movie, family drama "The Descendants," walked off with only one Oscar, adapted screenplay for its writer and director Alexander Payne and co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Woody Allen won for original screenplay with "Midnight in Paris," but he was not on hand to accept his trophy.

In other major wins, the foreign language film award went to Iranian divorce drama "A Separation." "I proudly offer this award to the people of my country, the people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment," said its director, Ashgar Farhadi.

Asked backstage how he thought the Iranian government might respond, he said he really did not know. "I can't predict what's going to happen," he said.

"Rango" claimed best animated film, while "The Iron Lady," won a second award for makeup.

BILLY'S RETURN

The documentary category saw another major surprise for "Undefeated," a film about football players in a poor struggling community to make their lives better. "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" had been widely picked to win by pundits.

One of the film's makers, T.J. Martin, used an expletive onstage in a sign of his joy, but it was edited out for television audiences. He apologized backstage in the press room.

Comedian Billy Crystal, who returned to emcee the show for the ninth time, had the crowd laughing loudly with an opening video in which he was edited into the year's top movies.

He was kissed by George Clooney on the lips in a scene out of "The Descendants" and even ate a tainted pie from "The Help." He opened with a monologue in which he joked: "there's nothing like watching a bunch of millionaires present each other with golden statues" and sang a comic song about the movies.

Other highlights included stars like Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler and others in brief video vignettes telling audiences why they loved movies. The clips highlighted this year's themes of reminding people what makes movies magical.

Finally, Hollywood's biggest fashion parade on the Oscar red carpet heated up with Michelle Williams in a stunning red dress from Louis Vuitton, "The Help" star Jessica Chastain in a dazzling Alexander McQueen black and gold embroidered gown, while Gwyneth Paltrow chose Tom Ford and white, a popular color.

(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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第84回アカデミー賞　『アーティスト』と『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』が5冠
2012-02-27

現地時間の26日、米カリフォルニア州ハリウッドのコダック・シアターにて第84回アカデミー賞授賞式が開催され、フランスのサイレント映画『アーティスト』と、マーティン・スコセッシ監督初の3D作品『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』が、それぞれ5部門でオスカー像を獲得した。今年は俳優のビリー・クリスタルが司会を務め、歌や踊りを交えながらユーモアたっぷりに授賞式を進行した。

（写真＝主演女優賞を受賞したメリル・ストリープと主演男優賞を受賞したジャン・デュジャルダン）

4大部門の内、作品賞、主演男優賞、監督賞を制覇した『アーティスト』は、第1回アカデミー賞の受賞作品『つばさ』以来、83年ぶりに作品賞に輝いたサイレント映画となった。モノクロ作品としては1994年の『シンドラーのリスト』以来の快挙であり、フランス映画が作品賞を受賞するのは史上初めてだという。

同作で監督賞を受賞したフランス人監督ミシェル・アザナビシウスは、受賞スピーチを忘れてしまったと言いながらも「世界一幸せな監督」を宣言。客席で見守る映画に登場した犬のアギーに呼びかけたほか、「この映画が製作されてからというもの、作品にたくさんの愛が注がれて私たちに喜びと幸せを運んでくれました。人生は時に素晴らしいもの。今日はそんな1日です」と喜びを語った。

ジョージ・クルーニー、ブラッド・ピット、ゲイリー・オールドマン、デミアン・ビチルといった強豪から主演男優賞を奪ったのは、『アーティスト』のジャン・デュジャルダン。劇中ではほとんど語ることのなかった主演俳優は、アカデミー賞を観ている全米の視聴者に向けて「あなたたちの国が大好きだ！」と呼びかけた。現在39歳のデュジャルダンは、今作でカンヌ映画祭やゴールデン・グローブ賞を含む複数の賞を受賞している。

俳優としてはアカデミー史上最高の17回目のノミネートとなったメリル・ストリープは、『マーガレット・サッチャー 鉄の女の涙』での演技で主演女優賞を獲得。1980年に開催された第52回の助演女優賞（『クレイマー、クレイマー』）、1983年に開催された第55回の主演女優賞（『ソフィーの選択』）に続く、3度目のオスカー受賞となった。スタンディング・オベーションを受けたストリープは「オーマイガッド！」と叫び、「きっと私の名前が呼ばれたのを聞いて、アメリカ国民の半分が“オー・ノー！また彼女か！”って言っているのではないかしら。でも関係ないわ！」と笑顔を見せた。

「人生で最も大切に思っているものは、あなたが私に与えてくれたということを忘れないでほしい」と誰よりも先に夫の名を挙げたストリープは、『ソフィーの選択』以降、全作品で自身のメイクアップを担当し、この夜メイクアップ賞を受賞したロイ・ヘランド氏にも感謝の意を表すと、次のようにスピーチをしめくくった。

「全ての仕事仲間や友人に心から感謝します。私の目の前には今、自分の人生が広がっています。古い友人の顔も新しい友人の顔も見えるわ。これは本当に名誉ある賞ですが、私にとって最も大切なのは友情と愛、そして共に映画を製作することで共有できる純粋な喜びです。既に去ってしまった人も、今ここに居る人も、全ての皆さんに、この説明できないほど素晴らしいキャリアを得られたことを感謝します」

最多の11部門にノミネートされていた『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』は、撮影賞、美術賞、音響編集賞、録音賞、視覚効果賞の5冠を達成。『アーティスト』と並んで最多部門を制覇した。

助演女優賞に輝いたのは、初めてアカデミー賞にノミネートされた『ヘルプ 〜心がつなぐストーリー〜』のオクタヴィア・スペンサー。見るからに興奮した様子で共演者や故郷の友人、家族等に感謝の言葉を伝えた。劇中では頑固なメイド役を好演した彼女が感極まって言葉を詰まらせると、会場はスタンディング・オベーションで見守った。

助演男優賞を史上最高齢で受賞したのは、『人生はビギナーズ』で晩年にゲイであることを告白する父親役を演じた御年82歳のクリストファー・プラマー。手にしたオスカー像を見つめたベテラン俳優は、「君は私と2歳しか変わらないのに、今までどこにいたんだい？」とジョークを飛ばし、「母親の胎内にいる頃から受賞スピーチを練習していた」と明かして、マイク・ミルズ監督や主演のユアン・マクレガー、そして「ノーベル平和賞を受賞するに値する」夫人に感謝した。

『ドラゴン・タトゥーの女』は編集賞を獲得。長編アニメーション賞はゴア・ヴァービンスキー監督の『ランゴ』に贈られた。『ファミリー・ツリー』のアレクサンダー・ペイン監督は脚色賞で2度目のオスカーを受賞。脚本賞に輝いたのは『ミッドナイト・イン・パリ』のウディ・アレンで、例年通り授賞式には姿を見せなかった。

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第84回アカデミー賞　受賞作品リスト
現地時間の26日、米カリフォルニア州ハリウッドのコダック・シアターにて第84回アカデミー賞授賞式が開催された。各部門の受賞作品は以下のとおり。※作品名「」表記は原題

作品賞:『アーティスト』
監督賞:ミシェル・アザナビシウス 『アーティスト』
主演男優賞:ジャン・デュジャルダン 『アーティスト』（写真）
主演女優賞:メリル・ストリープ 『マーガレット・サッチャー 鉄の女の涙』
助演男優賞:クリストファー・プラマー 『人生はビギナーズ』
助演女優賞:オクタヴィア・スペンサー 『ヘルプ 〜心がつなぐストーリー〜』
脚色賞:『ファミリー・ツリー』
脚本賞:『ミッドナイト・イン・パリ』
美術賞:『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』
撮影賞:『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』
衣装デザイン賞:『アーティスト』
編集賞:『ドラゴン・タトゥーの女』
メイクアップ賞:『マーガレット・サッチャー 鉄の女の涙』
作曲賞:『アーティスト』
歌曲賞:「Man or Muppet」（「The Muppets」）
音響編集賞:『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』
録音賞:『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』
視覚効果賞:『ヒューゴの不思議な発明』
外国語映画賞:『別離』（イラン）
長編アニメーション賞:『ランゴ』
短編アニメーション賞:「The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore」
短編映画賞:「The Shore」
長編ドキュメンタリー賞:「Undefeated」
短編ドキュメンタリー賞:「Saving Face」

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2012 Oscars: Complete List of Winners
Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:00am EST By TheWrap Staff at TheWrap

The complete list of winners and nominees for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The winners are noted; scroll down to see entire list.

ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
Demin Bichir in "A Better Life"
George Clooney in "The Descendants"
WINNER: Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
WINNER: Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis in "The Help"
Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
WINNER: Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Benice Bejo in "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer in "Albert Nobbs"
WINNER: Octavia Spencer in "The Help"

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"A Cat in Paris " Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli"
"Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
"Kung Fu Panda 2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson
"Puss in Boots" Chris Miller
WINNER: "Rango" Gore Verbinski

ART DIRECTION
"The Artist" Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
WINNER: "Hugo" Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"Midnight in Paris" Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
"War Horse" Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
"The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
WINNER: "Hugo" Robert Richardson
"The Tree of Life" Emmanuel Lubezki
"War Horse" Janusz Kaminski

COSTUME DESIGN
"Anonymous" Lisy Christl
WINNER: "The Artist" Mark Bridges
"Hugo" Sandy Powell
"Jane Eyre" Michael O'Connor
"W.E." Arianne Phillips

DIRECTING
THE WINNER: "The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Alexander Payne
"Hugo" Martin Scorsese
"Midnight in Paris" Woody Allen
"The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
"Hell and Back Again" Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
"Pina" Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
WINNER: "Undefeated" TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
"God Is the Bigger Elvis" Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
"Incident in New Baghdad" James Spione
WINNER: "Saving Face" Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

FILM EDITING
"The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Kevin Tent
WINNER: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"Hugo" Thelma Schoonmaker
"Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Bullhead" Belgium
"Footnote" Israel
"In Darkness" Poland
"Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
WINNER: "A Separation" Iran

MAKEUP
"Albert Nobbs" Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
WINNER: "The Iron Lady" Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
"The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams
WINNER: "The Artist" Ludovic Bource
"Hugo" Howard Shore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Alberto Iglesias
"War Horse" John Williams

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
WINNER: "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from "Rio" Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
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BEST PICTURE
THE WINNER: "The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
"The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
"Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
"Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
"The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
"War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
"Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
WINNER: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
"La Luna" Enrico Casarosa
"A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
"Wild Life" Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
"Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
"Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
WINNER: "The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
"Time Freak" Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
"Tuba Atlantic" Hallvar Witzø

SOUND EDITING
"Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
WINNER: "Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
"War Horse" Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

SOUND MIXING
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
WINNER: "Hugo" Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
"Moneyball" Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
"War Horse" Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

VISUAL EFFECTS
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
WINNER: "Hugo" Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
"Real Steel" Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
WINNER: "The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
"The Ides of March" Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
"Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
"The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
"Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
"Margin Call" Written by J.C. Chandor
WINNER: "Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
"A Separation" Written by Asghar Farhadi
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2012 Oscars: And the winners of best Academy Award winners’speeches are...
Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer, Asghar Farhadi among memorable speakers
Opinion By Joe Neumaier / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, February 27, 2012, 11:32 AM

Despite an overriding sense of inevitability, the 84th annual Academy Awards had its share of memorable moments (including a hilarious faux-film of a 1939 "focus group" critiquing "The Wizard of Oz," courtesy of Christopher Guest and company).

"I love your country," Dujardin said, holding up his award for his portrayal of fictional silent-film star George Valentin.

"If George Valentin could speak, he’d say, "Formidable! Merci beaucoup," he said, using French words for "terrific" and "thank you very much."

Many speeches were heartfelt or moving, but here are five that stood out.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Alexander Payne, co-writer/director of "The Descendants" - who previously won for 2004's "Sideways" — collected his film's only award of the evening alongside co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rush by first thanking "our beautiful Hawaiian flower, Kaui Hart Hemmings, wrote wrote the novel." Payne then pointed out his mom, who came to L.A. from Omaha for the event and who, Payne said, "made me promise that if I ever won another Academy Award, that I'd have to dedicate it to her, just like Javier Bardem did with HIS mother. Thanks for letting me skip nursery school so we could go to the movies."

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Octavia Spencer, genuinely moved and shaken by her walk to the stage to accept her Oscar, breaks down while thanking her real family "and my 'Help' family." Despite winning at SAG and the Golden Globes, the impact of an Oscar isn't lost on this 39-year-old working actress.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, the first filmmaker from his country to win this award, makes a from-the-gut, eloquent, thoughtful acceptance speech in which he states Iran is "a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under politics… I kindly offer this award to the people of my country , a people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment."

BEST ACTOR: Jean Dujardin, the underdog who defeated George Clooney — and the first Frenchman to win the award — gives an ebullient acceptance speech, starting with "I love your country!" and winds up with a sincere, nearly-shouted "Merci! Merci beaucoup!"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: With his manner as smooth and warm as his velvet tuxedo, the ever-elegant 82-year-old Christopher Plummer — the newly minted oldest Oscar winner ever — takes the stage. "You're only two years older than me — where have you been all my life?" he coos at his statuette. Complimentary, witty and self-effacing, the onetime "Sound of Music" co-star thanks his fellow nominees, his director and co-star, his daughter Amanda Plummer, and his wife, "who deserves a Nobel Peace prize for coming to my rescue every day."

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アメリカのテレビ高視聴率３大イベント（2012年）　第1位スーパーボウル111.3 million 、第2位グラミー授賞式39.9 million、 第3位アカデミー授賞式は39.3 million
Billy Crystal Helps Improve Oscar Viewership
By Associated Press | February 27, 2012 | Mark J. Terrill | TV Ratings

Billy Crystal performs during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (NEW YORK) — The return of Billy Crystal helped boost viewership for the Academy Awards but not enough to prevent a cultural oddity: The Oscars weren’t even the most-watched awards show on television this month.

The Nielsen Co. estimated Monday that 39.3 million people watched the Oscars on ABC Sunday night, up from the 37.9 million viewers during the much-panned 2011 show where James Franco and Anne Hathaway shared hosting duties.

Crystal was called in after original host Eddie Murphy pulled out. It was the ninth time Crystal has done that job and he delivered, despite worries that best picture winner “The Artist” would not be much of an audience draw.

Nielsen said 39.9 million people watched the Grammy Awards on CBS on Feb. 12. That huge audience was likely due to the popularity of big winner Adele and curiosity about how Grammy producers would address the death of singer Whitney Houston the day before the show.

It was only the second time since the two events were televised that the Grammys earned a bigger audience than the Oscars. After the Super Bowl, the Oscars are frequently the second most-watched TV event of the year.

In 1984, when Michael Jackson was the big winner at the Grammys, the show had 51.7 million viewers. The Oscars that year, when “Terms of Endearment” won best picture, had 42.1 million viewers, Nielsen said.

The social media analysis company Trendrr estimated that there were some 4.2 million examples of social media action during the Oscars on Sunday — such as tweets on Twitter and posts or likes on Facebook.

That more than doubled the 2.02 million estimate from last year’s Oscars, Trendrr said. It illustrates the growth in social media as well as the tendency of people to comment online with their friends as they share the experience of watching on TV, said Chris Thonis, spokesman for Trendrr.

Still, it paled in comparison with the 17.47 million examples of social media activity during the Super Bowl earlier this month, and the 17.12 million for the Grammys, he said.

The Grammys have become more of a performance show than an awards show in recent years, increasing their television ratings and giving viewers plenty to talk about.

“There were great story lines for the Grammys this year versus the Oscars, which didn’t have as many story lines,” Thonis said.

110：凡人：2012/03/01(木) 12:26:41
アカデミー賞にノミネートされた人達は授賞を逃しても手ぶらでは帰らない。彼らが受け取るフリーギフトが入ったバッグ。その中身は39 品目にわたり総額は$62,023。昨年は$75,000。その中の主なもの8品目を挙げている記事。
The 8 Most Opulent Gifts in the Oscar Swag Bags
Swag Bag Bliss
By Nick Carbone | February 26, 2012 | 1

People bustle about the red carpet outside the Kodak Theatre as preparations continue for the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012.=写真

Even those actors who don’t receive a little gold man at tonight’s Oscars won’t be going home empty-handed. The swag bags that each Academy Award nominee receives will almost certainly dull any lingering disappointment, to the tune of $62,023. This year’s goodie bags contain swag of all purposes and prices, from bath products and cosmetics worth hundreds to vacation getaways worth tens of thousands.

The 39 items have been carefully curated to be seen in the hands of the biggest Hollywood stars. Lash Fary, the founder of Los Angeles-based marketing company Distinctive Assets, is celebrating a decade of curating the Oscars swag bags. And he’s had his hand in the Grammys’ gift bags for 13 years now. So he’s something of an expert at curating the celebs’ consolation prizes. “These people don’t make decisions based on a price tag,” Fary tells NewsFeed, so he views it as an opportunity to “help them shop for things that they might not normally buy.”

Sure, celebrities might not typically buy these items, but normal Americans simply can’t afford many of them. After all, you’d have no idea we were in the midst of a recession. This year’s bags are worth more than $60,000. But that’s a drastic decrease from last year’s Oscars, where the swag given away to each nominee was valued at more than $75,000. The reason for this year’s decline? Fewer vacations, Fary says. “Last year there were four major trips, each valued at over $10,000. This year, there are only two.” Half the number of tropical getaways this year. And we probably won’t even have a single one. But then again, we don’t have an Oscar nomination either.

While most of the items are beauty products, there are certain items that are overly opulent, even for an A-list celebrity. Here are eight of the most extravagant items the also-rans will receive after the Oscars statuettes are handed out.

African Safari
Value: $15,580
For those celebrities that won’t be enjoying the glint of a golden statue, they can instead enjoy the golden-colored sunsets of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Premier Tours has offered the Oscar nominees an inimitable vacation for the past four years, and they’ve cut no cost this year. For the 2012 crop of best actors and actresses, the travel company has put into the swag bag an African safari package worth more than $15,000. The star (and a guest, naturally) will be able to view the exotic wildlife while riding atop elephants from the Abu herd on the 5-day trip that seems guaranteed to pamper them even in remote Africa.

Disaronno Customized Party
Value: $15,000
So you didn’t win an Oscar, but surely the mere fact that you were nominated should be reason to celebrate, right? Disaronno, the Italian amaretto liqueur, is offering to throw each celebrity a lavish party starring the fruity, nutty booze and hosted by an artisan mixologist like Willy Shine, Steve Levigni or Carlo Splendorini. But that’s about all the restrictions that the company provides. The rest is up to the stars. They can choose the location, the cocktail menu, and most importantly, the guests – up to 100 of them – to create a unique celebration that’s “fit for Hollywood royalty.” A Disaronno spokewoman said, “We wanted to provide something personal, unique and organic.” Here’s hoping it doesn’t turn into a pity party.
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111：凡人：2012/03/01(木) 12:30:47
Blinged-Out Purell
Value: $135
Hand sanitizer knows no social class boundaries, but you can still dress up your tiny $3 bottle of antibacterial gel to show off your elite status. For the stars, Purell has dreamt up a hot pink, Swarovski crystal-studded carrying case for their hand sanitizers. Purell commissioned Crystal Ninja, the Swarovski supergeeks who crystallize everything from iPhones to Range Rovers, to create a custom design for their carrying case. It seems they were able to cram so much bling into the design that it notched the price above a C-note. Which makes us wonder: when did sanitizing become so stylish? Usually we just covertly splash some Purell on our hands, but maybe we should be more flashy about our sanitizing habits.

Inhalable Dessert from Vaportrim
Value $9.95
So it’s not the priciest item in the bag – in fact, it’s the second-cheapest out of all of the 39 items – but it is among the most interesting. If you’re one known to inhale dessert like it were your last meal, Vaportrim is giving you the opportunity to literally inhale your dessert without the caloric penalties. Fooling your senses into thinking that you’re eating a delicious blueberry muffin or peach cobbler, Vaportrim has no calories and nothing to get stuck in your teeth, for that matter. It’s simply artificial flavors that you can inhale from a tube. It looks like a faux cigarette, and you exhale water vapor in just the same way while, well, “eating,” – but it seems rather OK to get addicted to this!

Unlimited Blowouts for One Year
Value: $2,000
Channel your inner DJ Pauly D and treat yourself to unlimited blowouts for an entire year. In all seriousness, these aren’t the same blowouts that the Jersey Shore star gets – the blowouts offered by Beverly Hills’ JM Blowdry are rather sophisticated and involve a full shampoo, blow-drying and your hair-styling of choice. And with each blowout valued at $35 a pop, the stars have the potential to save quite a bit of cash thanks to the swag bags, which will entitle them to become VIBs (Very Important Blowouts, of course) at the salon. They’ll receive walk-in treatment whenever they desire – and, naturally, all the cupcakes and champagne that come with a visit. While this seems like a gift skewed toward the women, we wonder if the treats would be enough to sway, say, George Clooney into a visit.
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112：凡人：2012/03/01(木) 12:31:25
Fitness Retreat
Value: $4,850
Punishment by exercise is a premium many will pay for. And Live In Fitness Enterprise, a Los Angeles-based boot camp, realizes that you should probably live under their roof while you undergo your weight loss regimen. So they’ve built an entire facility dedicated to fitness. But it’s not for penny-pinchers. The program, which costs nearly $5,000 a week, comes with everything included: lodging in a private apartment, four – presumably small and ridiculously healthy – meals per day, a seven-hour-a-day workout regime and start-to-finish personal coaching. Their facility boasts a 14,000-square-foot gym (that’s the size of a small New York City apartment building), and Le Cordon Bleu-certified chefs who teach cooking classes. Stars like Jessica Biel and Blake Griffin have all taken advantage of the L.I.F.E. services – and their trainers are now even helping out the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. With all the pressure to look good on the red carpet, might we suggest saving this gift until just before next year’s Oscars?

Tropical Resort in Mexico
Value: $3,350
After the incessant flashing lights and microphones of the evening, a secluded vacation might be at the forefront of these stars’ minds. Imanta Resorts is offering the nominees a two-night stay (with a guest of their choosing) at their Pacific Ocean resort in Punta de Mita, Mexico. Though party-centric Puerto Vallarta is just 30 miles away, the stars will be shrouded from gawkers and paparazzi alike at Imanta’s ocean casas, housed in stunning 2,500-square-foot villas nestled in the forestland of the Mexican coast with a private beach just steps away. It might be tricky attracting the celebs back to Hollywood’s hustle and bustle.

Interior Design
Value: $10,000
For the celebrity that can’t possibly cram any more free swag into his or her home, perhaps a little interior design is of the order? Seyie Design is offering $10,000 worth of their services to the Hollywood tastemakers. Designer Seyie Putsure is an Indian-born fashion and design guru who formerly was an executive for Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel and now focuses on creating chic interiors for homes and businesses. She’s ready to dress up the stars’ dwellings with a mix of haute fashion and functional design. We hope Seyie can help fill the void of the shelf where a little gold man may sadly not stand tomorrow.
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113：凡人：2012/03/01(木) 13:55:24
「モンキーズ」のジョーンズ氏が死去
2012/3/1 12:13

　デイビー・ジョーンズ氏（米音楽グループ「モンキーズ」のメンバー）米メディアによると29日、フロリダ州の病院で死去、66歳。心臓発作が原因とみられる。

　１９４５年、英マンチェスター生まれ。60年代後半に米国版ビートルズを目標に結成された４人のグループ「モンキーズ」でボーカルを務め、米ＮＢＣテレビの番組「ザ・モンキーズ」に主演。ヒット曲に「恋の終列車」「デイドリーム・ビリーバー」など。（ニューヨーク＝共同）

114：凡人：2012/03/22(木) 10:03:07
「世界的にヒット」って？まったく初耳なんですけど。
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由紀さおりさんら文部科学大臣賞　１１年度芸術選奨
（2012/03/13 17:49）

　文化庁は１３日、芸術の各部門で業績を挙げた個人に贈る２０１１年度芸術選奨を発表した。文部科学大臣賞は歌手の由紀さおりさん（６５）や建築家の坂茂さん（５４）、小説家の小池真理子さん（５９）ら１９人。新人賞に映画監督の砂田麻美さん（３３）ら１１人を選んだ。１９日に文科省で贈呈式を行う。年齢はいずれも１９日現在。

　由紀さんは、デビュー曲「夜明けのスキャット」をはじめ、ほぼ全曲を日本語で歌ったアルバム「１９６９」が世界的にヒット。洗練された歌唱と豊かな表現力で、海外公演でも称賛を浴びた。

115：凡人：2012/03/26(月) 05:55:22
Fans Devour The Hunger Games for a $155-Million Feast
By Richard Corliss | March 25, 2012

Murray Close“You really want to know how to stay alive?” Haymitch Abernathy tells Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games. “Get people to like you.” Well, Katniss not only survived, she thrived. The movie based on Suzanne Collins’s teen-fave best-seller smashed nearly every record in the box-office annals with $155 million in its first three days of release in North American theaters, according to Lionsgate, its delirious distributor. That number is the third highest ever for an opening weekend, behind the $169.2 million for the Harry Potter finale and $158.4 million for The Dark Knight and ahead of Spider-Man 3. It is the all-time tops for a nonsequel and the best for a film released between December and April. As Haymitch or Sally Field might say about Katniss, they like her, they really like her!

Invading 4,237 theaters and occupying nearly 10,000 screens, including 268 IMAX venues, The Hunger Games played to sold-out crowds and enthralled fans across the country. Audiences surveyed by the CinemaScore polling company awarded the film a straight A, reflecting the indulgent 86% approval grade on the critics’ aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. (Among the few negative voices were reviews from The New York Times, The Financial Times and TIME. The few, the proud, the utterly ignored.) The weekend’s humungous crowd skewed slightly older than the audience for a typical blockbuster: 54% were 25 or older.

(MORE: Is The Hunger Games Too Dark for Kids?)

The movie’s record-smashing success also attested to Girl Power. Fully 61% of the attendees were women — now the largest, most reliable filmgoing audience. It also proves that women will see stories created by women. With two Twilight Saga episodes (New Moon and Breaking Dawn, Part 1) in fifth and sixth places, four of the top six all-time opening weekends are now held by films based on children’s and young-adult novels written by women.

Credit much of the wow status of The Hunger Games to Lionsgate’s a wizardly digital campaign, whose aim was unerring as Katniss’s archery. Essentially, the Lionsgate marketers convinced kids that they were discovering the film on internet sites, rather than being cunningly led to them. Last month Lionsgate bought Summit, the producers of the Twilight franchise, just in time to exceed the megagrosses of New Moon and Breaking Dawn 1. The indie company, which geared up for film production in 2006, can now boast three of the top six openings of all time. Because of the merger, the marketing geniuses who made The Hunger Games work may soon loses their jobs. In Hollywood, “thanks” is a four-letter word.

We’ll have a wrapup of the other box-office data later today.

116：凡人：2012/04/06(金) 09:27:25
Houston drowned in hot water, coroner says
Heart disease and cocaine use contributed to the Grammy winner's death, final report concludes. An expert says the amount of coke was not at a toxic level.
April 5, 2012 By Andrew Blankstein and Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times

The coroner's investigation into the death of Whitney Houston came to a close Wednesday with a final autopsy report that described the singer submerged face-down in hot water in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel suite with a unidentified white powdery residue left in a spoon on the bathroom counter.

The report released Wednesday confirmed that the 48-year-old singer drowned in a bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. It concluded that Houston's death was accidental.

A personal assistant found her dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the report said. The water was described as "extremely hot," and the singer had scalding burns when she was examined.

Houston was last seen alive by her personal assistant Feb. 11 between 2:45 p.m. and 3 p.m., the report stated.

The singer had complained of having a sore throat in the days leading up to her death. Before the assistant left, she told Houston to "take a bath to start getting ready for tonight," referring to a pre-Grammy party thrown by her mentor, producer Clive Davis.

The personal assistant left to pick up items at Neiman Marcus and returned to the locked hotel room at 3:36 p.m. When she went into the bathroom, she found Houston face-down and unresponsive in the tub, the report stated.

She called out to a bodyguard, the report stated, and they pulled Houston out of the bathtub. The assistant ran to call the front desk and told them to call 911.

On a counter in the bathroom, investigators found an ashtray filled with cigarette butts and a "small spoon with a white crystal-like substance in it, and a rolled-up piece of white paper." They also found prescription drug bottles on the counter and a small plastic bag that had been ripped open. In a drawer, they found a portable mirror with more remnants of a white, powdery substance. Coroner's officials said they did not test the powder, saying that was a job for police. The Beverly Hills Police Department did not release any information about the substance Wednesday.

Houston had battled drug addiction for years, and the report found that she had a perforation in her nose typical of habitual cocaine users. Toxicology test results showed that she had cocaine in her system at the time of death. The coroner's office also found traces of several other drugs — including marijuana, the anti-anxiety medication Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril as well as Benadryl — in her system.

Dr. Nachman Brautbar, a toxicologist and professor emeritus at USC who reviewed the toxicology report, said the level of cocaine in Houston's system was not at a toxic level. He estimated that she had taken the cocaine two hours or more before getting in the tub.

Brautbar said none of the drugs on their own were at a toxic level, but the combination might have contributed to her losing consciousness and slipping under water.

"The combination was toxic for her," he said.

The release of the report also means that police will be able to wrap up their investigation into Houston's death. Lt. Mark Rosen, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department, said the investigation had been on hold pending release of the final coroner's report.

117：凡人：2012/04/13(金) 22:54:31
今シーズンのアメリカンアイドルのコンテスタントは例年になく粒ぞろいで目が話せない。3人のジャッジが優勝候補の筆頭と太鼓判を推すフィリピン系アメリカンのジェシカ・サンチェスが前日の舞台の視聴者投票で最低数を獲得。今週で消える運命になったが、納得しない3人のジャッジが唯一許された拒否権を行使し彼女を助ける。来週もコンテストに参加できるようにした。予想外のちょっと趣の違ったエピソードであった。
"American Idol" judges save Jessica Sanchez
By Andrea Burzynski
NEW YORK | Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:20am EDT

NEW YORK(Reuters) - Jessica Sanchez, the youngest finalist on TV singing contest "American Idol," was dramatically saved from elimination on Thursday by the show's judges as she performed a last chance song to prove she was worthy of continuing.

With Jennifer Lopez leading the way, fellow judges Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler stormed the stage and announced they were using their only "save" to keep Sanchez on the show shortly after Sanchez was told she had received the fewest fan votes this week.

"Give me that mic!," Lopez exclaimed as she rushed up to Sanchez. "This is crazy!"

This season, "Idol" judges were allotted one "save" to override audience votes and keep a promising contestant on the show. All of them must agree, and if the "save" had not been used by next week's performance, it would have expired.

Sanchez, who sang Deborah Cox's song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" to close out the show, appeared bewildered by both her last place finish and her save.

Then again, bewilderment seemed to be a theme of a wild evening on the No. 1-rated U.S. TV singing contest.

Host Ryan Seacrest began by directing contestants to opposite sides of the stage without telling them which group was safe and which group was in danger of going home. With three singers in each group, Seacrest told remaining contestant Skylar Laine that she would stay and instructed her to "pick the group you think you belong with."

After a shocked Laine protested, Seacrest guided her to a group he finally pronounced as safe, leaving Elise Testone, Joshua Ledet and Sanchez in the bottom three. All three judges expressed confusion and dismay with this outcome. At the end of the show, Jackson admonished audiences to vote more wisely.

This week, audiences judged contestants based on performances of songs from the present decade in Wednesday night's telecast.

Thursday's results episode featured two performances from former "Idol" contestants. Jennifer Hudson, who received an assist from Ne-Yo, sang "Think Like a Man", and James Durbin sang his song "Higher than Heaven."

"Idol", which first aired in on Fox in 2002, has launched the careers of singers Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert. Audiences vote for their favorite performers by phone and text message each week as contestants are challenged by a variety of musical styles. The winning contestant receives a recording contract. This season's winner will be decided in May.

(Reporting By Andrea Burzynski; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

118：凡人：2012/04/23(月) 19:52:00
映画祭コンテスト出品の心得
The Festival Madness...
There are now more than 4,000 so-called "Film Festivals" in the world. When WorldFest began, it was the 3rd in North America, after San Francisco and New York. We began in 1961, and after SFO and NYC, along came Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Cleveland and many, many more. There are now even companies that promote your entry into many film festivals. Some of these film festivals are scams, just after your entry fee! Do remember, those Fest Entry organizations charge all the festivals a fee for their services and some charge a membership fee to handle your work. DO IT YOURSELF! - We have discussed this with members of our Board, and many Agencies and Studios. To put it simply, they are not really impressed that you won the audience award at the Bugtussle Video Festival and the Bustleberg Indie Video Festival (Yes, there actually is a Bustleberg in Virginia, but no festival as of yet!), or others like it. Here is what you should do:

Carefully evaluate your production. Then consider the top ten or so film festivals in the world that might like your film. Start with Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and then consider Sundance, San Francisco, Seattle, USADallas, Chicago and Houston. Please do not waste your money on some 1st Annual Flim-Flam FilmFest! It does not impress festival directors at all when you tell them that you just won the top award at some new and obscure video festival. It is really pretty meaningless. Winning in some of the significant film festivals we just listed is an important accomplishment, winning in a new and unknown festival is not something that will really boost your career, though it may boost your ego!

WorldFest receives more than 1,500 short film and video entries, so to win here is quite a significant honor. Only about 15% of the entries win in WorldFest. In some of the smaller festivals almost all the entries win something. If they want to charge a Finalist Fee, be suspicious! We know of some festivals that will give you a Gold Award if you reserve a table at the awards dinner for a big fee! A Golden Snail from the Tittywompus Indie Video Awards might make you feel good but it is really meaningless in the real world. Do remember, not everyone is a Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, Randal Kleiser, John Lee Hancock or Atom Agoyan! We do wish you all the best of luck, work hard, do your best, enter festivals carefully!

45th WorldFest International Independent
Film Festival
April 13-22, 2012
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119：凡人：2012/04/27(金) 20:34:21
東野さん、エドガー賞ならず　ミステリーの米最高権威
（2012/04/27 12:02）

　【ニューヨーク共同】米ミステリー作家協会（ニューヨーク）が主催する２０１２年「エドガー賞」が２６日、ニューヨークのホテルで発表され、最優秀小説賞にモー・ヘイダー氏の「ゴーン」が選ばれた。同賞候補５作品の一つだった東野圭吾さんの小説「容疑者ｘの献身」は受賞を逃した。

　エドガー賞は「ミステリー界のアカデミー賞」と称され、最優秀小説賞はミステリー小説に与えられる米国で最も権威ある賞といわれる。

　「容疑者ｘの献身」は、アパートで暮らす母娘が起こした悲劇的な殺人事件を軸に、自己犠牲の一つの形を描いたミステリー。０６年に直木賞を受賞、英訳版は１１年に出版された。

120：凡人：2012/05/05(土) 06:04:55
アメリカンアイドルで今シーズンのトップ４に残って、ファイナルを競っているジェシカ・サンチェス。フィリピン系アメリカンガールがトップ５で歌った曲、ユウ・アー・ソー・ビューティフルは正に、マライヤ・カレイに匹敵する実力。そんな１６歳の少女。その舞台をテレビで見ていたが、彼女の声で奏でる美しいメロディーに、思わず息を飲み、感動の極めで涙が浮かぶほど。実力では世界のトップの歌手に並ぶ。キャリアで大成功するかはただ本人の人格とカリズマ次第。その才能は羨ましい限りである。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtH1gUQFdMI&feature=related

121：凡人：2012/05/10(木) 08:23:50
ヘアードレッサーの神様、バイダルサスーン氏の逝去
Famed fashion icon Vidal Sassoon dead at 84
May 9, 2012 | 12:08 pm

Famed hair stylist and fashion icon Vidal Sassoon was found dead at his Mulholland Drive home, authorities said.

Law enforcement sources said Sassoon, 84, died after an unspecified illness and that family were by his side. No details further details were immediately available.

Sassoon, hugely influential in the hair care and fashion worlds, was the subject of a 2010 documentary.

According to a Times profile in 1999, Sassoon went to work at age 14. As a "shampoo boy," he was responsible for mixing dyes: bleach powder, peroxide and ammonia.

"The ammonia jar was kept locked up because if you spilled it, it would clean out the sinuses of the block, not just the salon," he explained.

In 1954, he opened his first salon in London. "I gave myself five years. If I couldn't change anything, I was out of there."

"When I first came into hair, women were coming in and you'd place a hat on their hair and you'd dress their hair around it," says Sassoon. "We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in."

He eventually opened a New York salon. In 1973, his hair-care products debuted to the trade. A couple of years later, he moved to Los Angeles, and by 1980, he even briefly had his own American television talk show. It was quite a life for a poor boy from London's East End.

Sassoon was married four times. He met his current wife of seven years, Ronnie, when she was running a graphics design firm in Cincinnati 10 years ago. Procter & Gamble was one of her clients.

122：凡人：2012/05/10(木) 16:06:30
Met Gala

Date(s) May 7, 2012 This year
TBA (upcoming)
Location(s) Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute
New York, New York

AboutThe Met Costume Gala (also known as the Costume Institute Gala) is one the most highly anticipated fashion events of the year. The event is held in New York each year, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sylvana Soto-Ward is the organiser of the Met Ball.（Wikifashion）

The Costume Institute
The Museum of Costume Art was founded by Aline Bernstein and Irene Lewisohn. In 1937, they merged with the Met and became its Costume Institute department. Today, its collection contains more than 35,000 costumes and accessories. The Costume Institute used to have a permanent gallery space in what was known as the "Basement" area of the Met because it was downstairs at the bottom of the Met facility. However, due to the fragile nature of the items in the collection, the Costume Institute does not maintain a permanent installation. Instead, every year it holds two separate shows in the Met's galleries using costumes from its collection, with each show centering on a specific designer or theme. In past years, Costume Institute shows organized around famous designers such as Cristóbal Balenciaga, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, and Gianni Versace; and style doyenne like Diana Vreeland, Mona von Bismarck, Babe Paley, Jayne Wrightsman, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nan Kempner and Iris Apfel have drawn significant crowds to the Met. The Costume Institute's annual Benefit Gala, co-chaired by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, is an extremely popular, if exclusive, event in the fashion world; in 2007, the 700 available tickets started at $6,500 per person. Exhibits displayed over the past decade in the Costume Institute include: Rock Style, in 1999, representing the style of more than 40 rock musicians, including Madonna, David Bowie, and The Beatles, Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, in 2001, which exposes the transforming ideas of physical beauty over time and the bodily contortion necessary to accommodate such ideals and fashion, The Chanel Exhibit, displayed in 2005, acknowledging the skilled work of designer Coco Chanel as one of the leading fashion names in history, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, exhibited in 2008, suggesting the metaphorical vision of superheroes as ultimate fashion icons,[27] and, the 2010 exhibit on the American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, which exposes the revolutionary styles of the American woman from the years 1890 to 1940, and how such styles reflect the political and social sentiments of the time. The theme of the 2011 event was "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty". Each of these exhibits explores fashion as a mirror of cultural values and offers a glimpse into historical styles, emphasizing their evolution into today's own fashion world.（Wiki）

123：凡人：2012/05/10(木) 16:17:11
At Met’s Fashion Benefit, Stars Honor Two Designers
By ERIC WILSON
Published: May 7, 2012

Walking through the displays of ugly-chic dresses and slightly surreal designs in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition that compares the designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, many guests at this year’s ultimate fashion gala on Monday night observed some surprising similarities between two women whose work is separated by half a century.

“I loved the play of the two of them together,” said Tom Ford, arriving at the Costume Institute gala with the model Chanel Iman, who wore a dress made of pheasant feathers molded to her body. “It was amazing how hard it was to differentiate some of the pieces.”

Best not mention that to Mrs. Prada, one of the most influential female designers in recent history, who initially rebuffed the museum’s plans to mount an exhibition that compared her to Schiaparelli, who died in 1973. Mrs. Prada said in many interviews about the show that she had never been inspired by the work of her predecessor.

“Well,” Mr. Ford said, “Coco Chanel said that creativity is the art of concealing your sources.”

Fashion snap.

Mrs. Prada, in an embroidered ivory tunic and trousers, evening pants being a big look of the night, avoided most interviews. At one point, there was talk that she might not come. After a lengthy chat over cocktails with the actor James Franco and the artist Marina Abramovic, she was asked if she was satisfied with the show.

“Yes, but it’s too late,” she said, meaning for questions.

Oh, but everyone else wanted to talk, especially the celebrities and superstar athletes who dominated the guest list. Tim Tebow was there wearing Ralph Lauren and being sweet to all of the women who approached him, including one who asked Mr. Tebow whom he was standing next to.

“Well, that’s Tom Brady,” Mr. Tebow said.

Over there was Beyoncé, in a gown that was sheer but beaded at the same time. Turn around and it was Cate Blanchett in a concoction of black feathers by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen. And just what could Gwyneth Paltrow be talking about for so long with Kanye West?

Oh, hello, Mick Jagger. What are you wearing?

“My creation,” Mr. Jagger said, affecting some sort of grand accent that suggested that he had been overcome by the beauty of the exhibition. “I am wear-ing my cray-ya-tion! All this dee-zi-yen is mii-yen!”

Moving on, Marc Jacobs seemed sane by comparison. He wore a see-through dress made of black lace, with black socks and white boxer briefs that were perfectly visible. “Brooks Brothers, I think,” he said.

Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and a chairwoman of the event who oversaw every detail, wore a white Prada dress with embroidered silver stones in the shape of a lobster, a tribute to a famous Schiaparelli design made in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.

Many guests wore elaborate or bizarre dresses in honor of Schiaparelli, who once made a hat from an upside-down shoe. One guest had a Coca-Cola bottle on her head; another, Linda Fargo, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, wore a bejeweled cape that would have been the envy of Elvis. And the actress Emma Stone, a guest of the designer Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, wore a short pink dress made of rainproof plastic.

Carey Mulligan, the actress who, as a co-chairwoman, stood in a receiving line greeting 800 guests, seemed to enjoy the attention paid to her dress, a stiff gold halter made of shiny gold paillettes, also by Prada.

“Everybody told me this was going to be boring,” Ms. Mulligan said. “But I had the best time.”

A version of this article appeared in print on May 8, 2012, on page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: At Met’s Fashion Benefit, Stars Honor Two Designers.

124：凡人：2012/05/11(金) 05:51:46
Fashion News: New York hosts its Oscars, the Met Gala
May 8, 2012 | 8:33 am

The biggest fashion extravaganza of the year is the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- sometimes called New York's Oscars because of the star-studded red carpet. This year's installment took place Monday to celebrate the opening of the "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" exhibition. A bevy of stars turned out, along with top names in fashion. The clothes were wonderful, for the most part, as our photo gallery shows. Or sometimes funny -- Marc Jacobs wore a sheer dress. [Los Angeles Times] [New York Times] [UPDATED: a previous version of this post incorrectly said Tom Ford wore the sheer dress.]

Attending a press preview of the exhibition, Charlotte Cowles of New York magazine's the Cut blog found the video "dialogue" between the living Miuccia Prada and the long-dead Elsa Schiaparelli (portrayed by actress Judy Davis) "a bit surreal." [Cut]

In honor of the exhibition's opening, Racked reprinted Schiaparelli's "12 Commandments for Women," published in 1954. Among them: Women should ask for "competent criticism and advice," they should shop alone or with a man, never with another woman; and this observation: "Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions." [Racked]

The New York Post reports that last week's day in court seems to be all it took for billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault -- who is married to Salma Hayek -- to reach a child support agreement with supermodel Linda Evangelista, whom he dated briefly pre-Hayek and who had been seeking financial help raising their 5-year-old son. Evangelista had said it cost $46,000 a month to care for the child. No word on what the ex-lovers settled on over the weekend. [New York Post]

Amazon is so intent on becoming the online fashion-purveyor-of-choice that it has hired three women to do nothing but try on size 8 shoes for its Web reviews, the New York Times says in a piece that takes a look at how the one-time seller of nothing but books is taking on the high-end clothing market. [New York Times]

Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio gave birth to a baby boy Monday. [Cut]

Giuliana Rancic is designing a collection for HSN. [Styleite]

And Nicole Richie is doing one of Macy's Impulse capsule collections. [WWD] (subscription required)

-- Susan Denley

Photos: Arriving on the red carpet for the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday evening are, clockwise from top left, designer Zac Posen with actress Amber Heard; performer and deejay Solange Knowles, left, with designer Rachel Roy; Vogue editor Anna Wintour with daughter Bee Shaffer; and actress Camille Belle. Credit: Larry Busacca / Getty Images

125：凡人：2012/05/11(金) 05:53:12
Fashion News: Met Gala had some fashion head-scratchers
May 9, 2012 | 8:54 am

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala on Monday had more than its share of gorgeous gowns on the red carpet, as we showed in our photo gallery. But there were some other fashion moments that were drawing stares for other reasons. Christina Ricci's Thakoon dress with the ginourmous bow, for instance. Did she plan to stand up all night? Florence Welch's Alexander McQueen made her look like a wedding cake or a polar bear. Marc Jacobs was the night's most outre, in a transparent lace dress, white boxers and pilgrim-buckle shoes. "I didn't want to be boring," he reportedly said. Also eye-catching, but more in a good way, was model Coco Rocha who bypassed gowns for a stunning vintage Givenchy pants outfit, pink bustier, shoes by Sergio Rossi and pink dip-dyed hair. It didn't quite match the occasion, but it sure was a fun look.

Alice Cooper, 64, plays himself in Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows," which opens Friday. The film is set in the early 1970s, when Cooper was at the peak of his popularity. On the red carpet at the movie's Hollywood premiere on Monday, he talked about aging -- kind of. "They decided that they were going to do a computerized thing where they make me [look like I'm from] 1972," he said. "And I said, 'Well, don't make me look younger. In '72, I was a mess. I looked 20 years older in '72 than I do now.'" [Los Angeles Times]

An Australian artist says the label on Madonna's Truth or Dare fragrance ripped off his trademark logo. [Toronto Sun]

After the announcement a few days ago that the House of Schiaparelli is returning from the dead this year -- it's been closed since 1954 -- people are wondering if John Galliano will be named creative director. [Cut]

Fashion designers are lauding the election of Francois Hollande as France's new president. [WWD] (subscription required)

And now that she won't bogged down by being first lady of France anymore, model Carla Bruni plans to release a new album in an effort to revive her show biz career. [Daily Mail]

Esteban Cortazar, best known for his three seasons at Emanuel Ungaro, is relaunching his signature brand, with the help of Net-a-Porter. [WWD] (subscription required)

A former employee is suing Chris Burch on charges of discrimination, saying he was fired for not being gay. The $1-million suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, claims that Burch (ex-husband of Tory Burch) said he “only hired gay men because they were productive and he trusted them.” Burch's lawyers deny the allegation. [New York Post]

Brad Pitt is the new celebrity face of Chanel No. 5, one of the world's most classic women's fragrances. [Racked]

-- Susan Denley

Photos, clockwise from top left: Christina Ricci, wearing Thakoon with a huge bow, arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2012 Costume Institute Gala; Florence Welch, wearing Alexander McQueen; Marc Jacobs showing how to not be boring; Coco Rocha in vintage Givenchy. Credits: Charles Sykes / Associated Press; Justin Lane / EPA

126：凡人：2012/05/11(金) 06:00:30
'American Idol' recap: The final four duke it out
May 10, 2012 | 4:30 am 21

I'm still a little damp-eyed from Jessica Sanchez's final performance on "American Idol" Wednesday night, on which the final four contestants each sang a song either from or about California (yes, somewhat random) as well as a song they wish they'd written themselves, which Ryan Seacrest also classified as songs that inspired them.

Sanchez's take on "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from "Dreamgirls," into which she channeled all the emotion stirred up by her near "Idol" ouster a few weeks back, may have inspired us all — or at least anyone who has at any point ever felt underappreciated or overlooked. It was not just beautifully sung and deeply felt; it was moving, galvanizing, electrifying. Breathtaking.

Jimmy Iovine had been so deeply affected by Sanchez's song during rehearsal, he said he'd probably never forget the moment. He said if she sang it the same way during the show, "it could be game-over."

It could be game-over.

It really would be game-over if it weren't for the fact that Sanchez has some stiff competition — at least for the judges' affections — in Phillip Phillips and Joshua Ledet.

In fact, the judges responded so enthusiastically to Ledet's final performance — the standing O was just the beginning — they almost seemed to have nothing left to give to Sanchez after her rousing final number. Sure, they again rose to their feet to applaud her performance, but in their critiques, they trotted out the trite and true. "Another winning performance," "just over the top," said Steven Tyler. Jennifer Lopez said Sanchez had the sort of vocal talent you don't find every day. And Randy Jackson called the 16-year-old a phenomenon and said she was "in it to really win it," before throwing focus to Julian Lennon, who for some mysterious reason was in the audience.

That all sounds great until you consider what the judges had told Ledet after he sang James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" mere moments before. Ledet really dug into it, but for me, his version paled in comparison to Juliet Simm's inspiring take on it on "The Voice" last week. A woman brings a particular meaning to that song I missed in Ledet's hands. Plus, I didn't love his growl. (Should we blame his new Seacrest-dubbed "bromance" with Phillips, a veteran growler, for that?)

But the judges, well, they sounded like the characters in that kids book "Guess How Much I Love You," competing to be Ledet's biggest admirer. "Neither man nor woman has ever sang that good or with that much compassion on this show, ever," Tyler told Ledet, though I continue to wonder if his "Idol" knowledge goes back further than last season. "I can go home right now. I never heard anything like that in my life."

Jackson took it further. "I think it was the best performance in the history of any singing show!" And Lopez? "I saw the Lord."

The poor judges had peaked too soon and run out of superlatives. They had little left to offer Sanchez, although as she stood before them, trembling and weeping, they scraped together what they could.

They'd also used up a few gushy phrases on Phillips, whose cover of Damien Rice's "Volcano" really deserved to be gushed over: intensely contained and impressively melodic, showing off a range it was not previously clear Phillips had. Tyler said it was the kind of song he could see listening to in headphones "over and over and over." Lopez called it "one of the most beautiful, poignant moments a contestant has ever had." And Jackson rightly told Phillips it was "one of your best performances of the whole season."
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127：凡人：2012/05/11(金) 06:01:31
Those three songs, by three very different contestants, were probably the evening's highlights, though you could also toss Phillips and Ledet's cover of Maroon 5's "This Love" and Seacrest faking us out into thinking, for a split-second, that he was about to propose to his girlfriend, Julianne Hough. (That rascal. At least she seemed to be in on the joke.)

Other strong performances included Sanchez singing Etta James's "Steal Away" (the tune was a little too old for her, but she proved she could really sing the blues), Ledet's take on Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" (very different from Chris Mann's more operatic, less emotive take on "The Voice" the other night, and with some too-literal staging), and Hollie Cavanagh's powerful performance of Journey's "Faithfully." Parts of Phillips' version of CCR's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" weren't bad, either, though he seemed to be straining on the top notes.

But Cavanagh had a song-choice stumble with Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," a great song, but one with which she couldn't manage to make us love her. And given that the producers didn't do Cavanagh or Sanchez any favors with their duet on "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles, a swingin' production that was beyond peculiar, I think this could be the week Cavanagh finally heads home — and not in the camera-ready way the three finalists will enjoy.

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128：凡人：2012/05/11(金) 06:04:06
競争を排し、独占的に受信料を課すNHKは、放送界の東電である。
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ＮＨＫ受信料収入が過去最高に　１１年度、６７００億円超
（2012/05/10 19:42）

　ＮＨＫの松本正之会長は１０日の定例記者会見で、２０１１年度の受信料収入が年間計画で見込んでいた６６８０億円を上回り、過去最高の６７２５億円になる見通しであることを明らかにした。

　ＮＨＫによると、１１年度の受信契約総数は約３５万４千件増と年間計画（４０万件増）には届かなかったが、衛星契約数が計画（７５万件増）を上回る約７８万９千件増となった。

　松本会長は「東日本大震災が発生するなど厳しい環境だったが、衛星契約数の増加と受信料未収納世帯の削減が堅調だった」と説明した。

　１１年度の受信解約件数は、地上アナログ放送終了に伴う解約が約１７万３千件に上った。

129：凡人：2012/05/18(金) 03:48:44
ドナ・サマーさんが死去　米女性歌手「アイ・フィール・ラヴ」
2012/5/18 1:48

　【ロサンゼルス＝共同】米メディアによると、1970〜80年代に多くのディスコミュージックをヒットさせた女性歌手ドナ・サマーさんが17日、フロリダ州で死去した。63歳だった。がんで闘病していた。

　70年代のディスコブームが生んだ大スターとして知られ、多くの米歌手に影響を与えた。ヒット曲に「アイ・フィール・ラヴ」「ラスト・ダンス」など。

130：凡人：2012/05/18(金) 04:08:04
Donna Summer dead: Her voice soared through disco and beyond
May 17, 2012 | 11:05 am

Donna Summer died Thursday after a battle with cancer. The 63-year-old Summer was known for her soaring voice and sensual purrs that made her a queen of disco when the genre was in its heyday in the 1970s. And it was a title she held well beyond those years.

A statement from her family called Summer "a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith."

"While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy," according to the statement released by Universal Music, her record label. "Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."

Summer had been living in Englewood, Fla., with her husband, Bruce Sudano.

She was a five-time Grammy winner. Although best remembered for her songs decades ago, Summer continued to tour and record, including a stint last year as a guest judge on the Bravo reality show "Platinum Hit."

Born LaDonna Andrea Gaines in suburban Boston on New Year’s Eve, 1948, Summer was one of seven siblings in a church-attending family who encouraged studies and singing in equal measure.

An early fan of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Summer sang in a Boston rock band called Crow in the late 1960s, and left home for New York City at age 18 to find work on Broadway, which she did quickly by landing a role in a touring version of the hot Broadway show “Hair.”

She spent the next three years living and touring in Europe. There she met and married the singer Helmut Sommer, whose last name she adapted as her stage name.

While in Europe she also met Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder, whose early dance tracks were making an impact across Europe. Moroder and Summer started working together, resulting in their first hit, the seductive 17-minute-long dance floor epic “Love to Love You Baby.” On it, Summer moans in ecstasy throughout, seeming to climax with the music. A shortened version of it was released by then-hot label Casablanca in 1975, and peaked on the Billboard singles chart at No. 2.

That was the first of a string of songs that not only helped bring disco to the mainstream, but predicted the rise of both techno and house music. Among those were “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “She Works Hard for the Money” and “On the Radio.”

But unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular, she was able to grow beyond it and later segued to a pop-rock sound. She had one of her biggest hits in the 1980s with "She Works Hard for the Money," which became an anthem for women's rights.

Soon after, Summer became a born-again Christian and faced controversy when she was accused of making anti-gay comments in relation to the AIDS epidemic. Summer denied making the comments but was the target of a boycott.

Still, even as disco went out of fashion she remained a fixture in dance clubs, endlessly sampled and remixed into contemporary dance hits.

Her last album, "Crayons," was released in 2008 and marked her first full studio album in 17 years. She also performed on "American Idol" that year with its top female contestants.

131：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 10:04:08
The American Idol vs. The Voice, Dancing With the Stars, The X Factor
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‘Idol’ Grapples With Its Own Competition
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: May 22, 2012

As Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips, above, vie to win the current season of “American Idol,” that Fox show itself feels the heat of TV contenders. =pic

As Fox’s “American Idol” wraps its 11th season this week with a sing-off between Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez, those involved with the show are asking what went wrong, a rare dose of soul-searching for a show that has been the runaway hit of this century.

Changes may be afoot for “American Idol,” whose ratings have declined. Jennifer Lopez may leave as a judge after this season. =pic

“Idol” lost nearly a quarter of its audience this season (it is still huge), dipping below 20 million viewers for the first time since 2003, when a ratings surge made it the No. 1 entertainment program on American television. The drop-off was even more steep among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic mostly highly sought by the networks.

As a result, there is no longer bluster in the voices of the “Idol” judges and Fox executives who had confidently predicted that they would fend off “The Voice,” NBC’s one-year-old competitor, this season. Though some at Fox were initially dismissive of “The Voice,” they now think it was among the reasons for the double-digit decline.

Kevin Reilly, the president of entertainment for Fox, said last week that there would be some “creative reinvigoration” of the “Idol” franchise for next season.

But first there’s another winner to crown, which will take place live on Fox on Wednesday night. The choice is stark this season, between Mr. Phillips, 21, who would become the fifth consecutive white male guitarist to win the competition, and Ms. Sanchez, 16, who would become the youngest “Idol” winner. She would also be the first Latina to win, visibly representing change for a program that some TV critics have labeled boring.

Given that the series has been on TV since 2002, Ms. Sanchez “probably can’t remember a world without ‘American Idol,’ ” said Jeff Alexander, who dutifully recaps the show each week as M. Giant for the Web site Television Without Pity. “She’s trained to be on the show since she was 5, and it’s like watching somebody who was grown in a vat for this purpose.”

Some might say the same about Mr. Phillips, a Dave Matthews sound-alike who follows in the footsteps of the past four winners, Scotty McCreery, Lee DeWyze, Kris Allen and David Cook. Online odds-makers say Mr. Phillips is favored to win, but some social-media analysis companies say Ms. Sanchez, a powerhouse singer who idolizes Beyoncé, is more popular among online commenters. Fox has been paying close attention to the social-media chatter this season, and it says the millions of comments affirm that “Idol” remains the most culturally relevant show on television.

But the ultimate judge remains the Nielsen ratings. Last year, when “Idol” rebounded slightly from lows that were a record in 2010, a typical episode garnered 24.7 million viewers, excluding the finale week. Of those viewers, 10.8 million were between the ages of 18 and 49. Compare that with this year, when a typical episode has attracted about 19.2 million viewers, 7.5 million of whom are in that same demographic.
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132：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 10:04:51
“The Voice,” which benefited from a post-Super Bowl premiere, came close to tying “Idol” in that demographic, with 7.2 million on a typical night. And ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” came close among total viewers, with 18.3 million on dancing nights, and 16 million on results nights.

This is something new for “Idol”: true competition. Peter Rice, chairman of the Fox Networks Group, said in an interview that the ratings decline for “Idol” was a surprise at first, but, “in hindsight, when you look at it, it became a much more crowded space.”

Though “The Voice,” with its trademark red revolving judges’ chairs, was shown earlier in the week than “Idol,” the two still competed for attention and DVR space. Nigel Lythgoe, an executive producer of “Idol,” cited “The Voice” when he was asked to explain the ratings drop last week. “It’s never been like this before,” he said.

Mr. Lythgoe also cited “The X Factor,” the rival singing competition created by Simon Cowell that had its premiere on Fox last fall. Presumably some viewers feel committed to “The X Factor” and Mr. Cowell instead of “Idol.” Fox had little choice but to broadcast “The X Factor”; Mr. Cowell would have taken it to another network if Fox had not bought it. “The X Factor” helped to juice Fox’s fall lineup last year, and it’s almost impossible to know what effect it has had on “Idol” this spring.

For now “Idol” remains No. 1 after 11 seasons, an accomplishment even rival network executives note with awe. But it will have to fight to stay there. “The X Factor,” with two new judges in Britney Spears and Demi Lovato, will rival “The Voice” again in the fall, leading to even more concern that viewers will tire of the star-search format.

Jess Cagle, managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, said he had seen evidence of “Idol” fatigue in the magazine’s sales and Web traffic. “While the show still does solid numbers for us online, it’s no longer the juggernaut it once was,” Mr. Cagle said. Online page views for “Idol” coverage this season are about half of what they were in 2010, he said.

So cue the talk of changes to “Idol,” just as there was a few years ago when the show’s ratings started slipping. There is speculation that one “Idol” judge, Jennifer Lopez, will leave the show after this season, speculation aided by Ms. Lopez, who has said she has not decided whether to return. Fox has declined to comment.

Chase Carey, the chief operating officer of Fox’s parent, News Corporation, reminded investors early this month that “Idol” was “a big, valuable franchise and makes a lot of money.” He added, “We certainly think we’ve got a lot of life left in it.” But this year, he suggested, the producers “probably didn’t do enough” to make the show feel fresh.

They will do more next season, Mr. Lythgoe told reporters last week, though he had already ruled out one change: “I’ve rejected the revolving chairs.”

Bill Carter contributed reporting.
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133：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 11:56:56
アメリカンアイドルの始まりの頃は凡人にとって珍しくて、ほんの数シーズンをみていたに過ぎない。その後はまったく興味がなくなって観ていない。久々のアメリカンアイドルだ。クレイ・エーケンが２位となった時とキャリー・アンダーウッドとジョーダン・スパークが共に栄冠に輝いた合計３シーズン。大分前の話。だから過去の最近の５シーズンの勝者は誰かはまったく知らない。今シーズンに毎週チャンネルをあわせるのはジェシカ・サンチェスの歌いっぷりが気に入り、彼女の舞台を見るため。だから彼女がいなかったら、アメリカンアイドルにはまったく興味がなかったろう。
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If You Love 'American Idol,' Vote For Jessica Sanchez
May 22 2012 2:58 PM EDT 18,041

With the 'Idol' finale upon us, and Phillip Phillips the likely winner, Bigger Than the Sound tries to save the show from itself.
By James Montgomery

Unlike in previous years, when I called David Cook "a sociopolitical barometer with an awesome comb-over" and compared Adam Lambert to Barack Obama, I've avoided making sweeping generalizations about the 11th season of "American Idol," mostly because, at this point, there's not much about the show that inspires me to do anything (except complain, of course).

Worn down by the past four seasons — the revolving cast of judges, that time Casey Abrams did Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and, of course, the lilywhite list of champions (Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze and Scotty McCreery) — I've come to view "Idol" for what it really is: a massively bloated, increasingly out-of-touch behemoth, one that lumbers and crashes with much import but leaves nary a footprint on the cultural landscape. It has become predictable almost to the point of parody, thanks to the de-fanging of the judges (not everyone is amazing, guys) and the voters, who, judging by their recent track record, seem to value stuff like "nice smiles" and "upper body strength" over genuine talent and commercial appeal. Oh, and the Y chromosome above everything else.

Because of that, "Idol" has unquestionably suffered. Long gone are the days when the show could create actual chart-dominating superstars. None of the previous four winners have done much of anything, sales-wise, which isn't really surprising, given the female-driven shift of popular music. Rihanna or Katy Perry or Lady Gaga or Beyoncé could never be crowned champion these days, mostly because voters would choose the handsome guy with the guitar instead. Given that they're the biggest stars in the universe, that's slightly troubling. If anything, "American Idol" has become completely antithetical to what it set out to be: It reflects the whims of a demographic more attuned to adult contemporary as opposed to pop music.
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134：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 12:18:53
And yet, I find myself breaking my season-long ban on "Idol" just in time for Tuesday night's (May 22) performance finale, which pits yet another handsome dude with a guitar — the indomitably growly Phillip Phillips — against the sassy, sublimely talented Jessica Sanchez. I'm making this exception mostly because I have loved this show for 11 seasons now, but also because tonight's extravaganza is much more than just another overproduced coronation ceremony: It may very well be a battle for the future of the show itself.

See, for the first time in years, "Idol" voters have a chance to make a genuine change tonight. In Sanchez, they have the show's best hope recapturing that old magic, of creating an actual, of-the-moment pop superstar. She is young (just 16) and current, she can sing pop, R&B and soul, and, as her alter ego BeBe Chez has proven, she possesses that sheer diva-tude that has driven the likes of RiRi and Bey to superstardom. In every way, from her biracial background to her grab bag of musical inspirations (Mariah, Xtina, MJ) to her supreme belief in self, she best represents the whims and attitudes of the millennial generation that drives trends and shapes culture (and downloads singles). In short, she is relatable to the people who really matter, and that's the key to it all. Like Rihanna or Katy or Gaga, there is a belief — either real or imagined — that today's biggest stars aren't only your best friends, they're you, living out your wildest dreams and fantasies.

And "Idol" hasn't had a potential champ like that since, shoot, maybe Jordin Sparks in 2007 (who actually won). Allison Iraheta was gone too soon. Crystal Bowersox was great, but she wasn't going to go pop, no matter what. Haley Reinhart was an old soul, pure and simple. And last year's runner-up, Lauren Alaina, well, she was country to the core. By giving Sanchez the crown, not only can voters send her on her way, but they give the show a shot at actually becoming culturally relevant once again. It can be the launching pad for the next great superstar.

But will they actually do it? Of course not. Phillips is going to win this one in a landslide, carrying on the proudly predictable tradition of the past four seasons — back in January, I begrudgingly signed off my "Idol" predictions piece by declaring "a white guy will win anyway" — and (probably) disappearing very quietly into the night. He seems like a nice enough dude, but he's certainly no superstar, and his win will only send "Idol" further down the relevancy scale, if that's even possible. It will just be more of the same, which, for a show currently on life support, might prove fatal. And when the confetti falls on Wednesday night, and Phillips cracks that same goofy grin, I will shed a tear for this once-proud show and promise myself that I will never watch again. Of course, I will anyway.

So, "Idol" voters, if you love this show like I do (for whatever reason: unintentional comedy, overwrought balladry, you are contractually obligated to write about it, etc.), I urge you to set aside your emotions and vote for Jessica Sanchez. It's the only way we can save "American Idol" from itself. Was she the best contestant this season? Of course not. But she's still standing, and she's our only hope. No offense to Phillips, but in our hour of desperation, we don't need Kris Allen 2.0. We need a glimmer of hope, we need someone to believe in ... we need BeBe Chez.

Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
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135：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 13:23:15
訂正：過去５シーズンと書いたが、明らかに間違いで最近の過去４シーズンが正しい。５年になるとジョーダン・スパークが入るため。クレイ・エーケンはシーズン２。
Season 10 Scotty Mccreery
Season 09 Lee Dewyze
Season 08 Kris Allen
Season 07 David Cook
Season 06 Jordan Sparks
Season 05 Taylor Hicks
Season 04 Carrie Underwood
Season 03 Fantasia Barrino
Season 02 Ruben Studdard
Season 01 Kelly Clarkson

136：凡人：2012/05/23(水) 18:53:51
Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote, Dies at 96
By Associated Press | May 22, 2012 |

Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic" (seen in the above ad), which represented the industry's first wireless TV remote.CHICAGO (AP) — A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died.

John Taylor says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital. He was 96.

Couch potatoes everywhere have Polley to thank for hours of feet-up, channel surfing. His invention began as a luxury, but has become a necessity in an era of hundreds of TV channels and home theaters. Just ask anyone who’s lost a remote.

Polley’s 1955 Flash-Matic pointed a beam of light at photo cells in the corners of the screen. This activated the picture and sound and changed channels.

Polley and fellow Zenith engineer Robert Adler were honored in 1997 with an Emmy for their work in pioneering TV remotes.

137：凡人：2012/05/24(木) 07:52:09
Phillip Phillips Has 'American Idol' In The Bag, Experts Say
'The show exists to find the next cute white guy with a guitar,' says Richard Rushfield, author of 'American Idol: The Untold Story.'
May 23 2012 5:08 PM EDT 12,299
By Gil Kaufman

Even if she hadn't been saddled with what is possibly the worst "American Idol" finalist song in the show's history, the chances of Jessica Sanchez beating Phillip Phillips seemed slim.

The guitar-strumming, foot-swiveling, five-o'clock-shadow-having Dave Matthews doppelgänger was many critics' early pick to continue the recent trend of cute white boys who strum guitars winning the crown. So MTV News asked some of our favorite "Idol" experts to place their bets on who will be dusting confetti out of their hair when Ryan Seacrest reads the final results Wednesday night (May 23) and, well, it was (almost) unanimous.

"I think she came into the night with approximately zero percent chance of winning, and I don't think that song changed that," said "American Idol: The Untold Story" author Richard Rushfield when asked if Sanchez's last-ditch chance to win was ruined by the treacly pop ballad "Change Nothing." "I think she was doomed from the start. After the top 24 was unveiled, I tweeted a congratulation to Phillip Phillips for winning 'American Idol' season 11, and every week since, I've tweeted the same."

Rushfield said this season gave him no reason to doubt that Phillips would continue the "cute white boy dynasty," because, at this point, it would take something "monumental" to change that, and Sanchez wasn't it. "If something happens five times, you can assume it will happen 20 times," he said.

Longtime "Idol" blogger MJ Santilli sighed and checked the box marked "Phillip" as well, though she wasn't enthused about doing it. "It's just become predictable that there's a certain sort of winner," she said. "Maybe we need someone a little different. ... If Jessica had come out and really killed all three of her songs, she might have had a chance to grab the casual viewers who turn in for the last few weeks, but she really had an uphill battle."

The dissenting opinion came from TVLine.com "Idol" recapper Michael Slezak, who said he was pretty confident of a Sanchez victory. "Phil won the night [on Tuesday], but I think she has a slight edge on him for the season. I think he had a bit of a rocky road through his 'Idol' journey, and somewhere between the top-nine week and the top-four week, he wasn't performing like an 'Idol' winner should."

Even though Phillips came on strong the past few weeks — and Sanchez was almost booted before the judges saved her in week seven — Slezak said she pulled it back together and ended the season with some of her strongest performances. "There's still a cosmic price to pay [for Phillip] for what happened midseason."

Former MTV News "Idol in 60 Seconds" star Jim Cantiello also predicted Phil would win way back in January, but he thinks show creator Simon Fuller's song choice on Tuesday night's show sealed the deal. "That set the tone, and to give Jessica a song that been covered so many times on 'Idol' [Whitney Houston's 'I Have Nothing'] seemed like a slap in the face," he said. "And to give Phil a song only three people have sung before [Ben E. King's 'Stand by Me'] ... it just set up Phil to do his thing."

Cantiello said if Sanchez hadn't gotten eliminated and saved, then there's a part of him that thinks she might have a shot at an upset. "But [Phillip] was never even in the bottom, let alone getting voted off once."

Who do you think is going to win "American Idol"? Let us know in comments below!

139：凡人：2012/05/24(木) 15:18:49
フィリップが栄冠。その瞬間、アメリカン・アイドルに嫌気が差した時。番組の興味が吹っ飛んだ瞬間である。というのも先の記事にもあるように勝者が予想できるからだ。過去五年間みな同じタイプ。ギター弾きのハンサム白人男性。その背景には視聴者の大多数が若い女性ということなのだろう。歌の上手さよりも、またミュージシャンとしての将来の成功よりも、キャーキャー叫ぶファン層によって支えられている番組。4年間の勝者の誰も、その後の音楽キャリアが伸び悩んでいる。レコードの売り上げが芳しくない。そういう状況下で、どんなに成功する歌手としての素質を備えていても、コンテストで歌唱力がどんなにトップでも、アメリカン・アイドルに選ばれる大きなポイントとはならないことがわかる。アメリカン・アイドル出身でその後も成功している歌手は、ホンの一握り。グラミー賞の常連、ケリー・クラークソン（グラミー賞授賞）、キャリー・アンダーウッド（グラミー賞授賞）、ジェニファー・ハドソン（アカデミー賞授賞）。みんな女性ということに注目。アメリカンアイドルはこの手の番組でトップの座にあるが、視聴率は年々右下がり。今回が最低を記録したらしい。最近生まれた他局の「ザ・ボイス」が視聴率で迫ってきている。「アメリカン・アイドル」番組の過去の栄光は徐々に崩れつつある。
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Phillip Phillips Wins 'American Idol'
May 24, 2012

Phillip Phillips was crowned the season 11 "American Idol" champion on Wednesday night's results show.

More than 132 million votes came in after Tuesday's performance show -- a new "Idol" record.

Jessica Sanchez was this season's runner up. Phillips was overcome with emotion performing his winner's song, "Home," as the show ended.

Before the results were revealed, Sanchez and Phillips sang the Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes duet, "Up Where We Belong."

The top 12, minus Sanchez and Phillips, opened the show with a group performance of Bruno Mars' "Runaway Baby."

Phillips teamed up with John Fogerty to sing Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" which he had performed earlier in the season. They followed it up with the CCR staple, "Bad Moon Rising."
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Sanchez later revisited Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," the song she first made a big impact with earlier in the season. She returned for a real show-stopping performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," from "Dreamgirls," with the woman who sang it originally on Broadway, Jennifer Holliday.

Joshua Ledet teamed up with Fantasia for a duet on the early Elton John song, "Take Me to the Pilot." Ledet was called "Mantasia" for most of the season, so this duet was a big moment for "Idol" fans.

The ladies of the top 12 sang Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" and "Through the Fire" before Khan joined them on "I'm Every Woman."

Michael Becker/FOXPhillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez are seen... View Full Size Michael Becker/FOXPhillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez are seen on the on "American Idol" finale night, May 22, 2012.
The guys of the top 12 sang Neil Diamond's "America," "Cracklin' Rosie" and "I'm a Believer" before Diamond joined them for "Sweet Caroline."

The top 12 also poked fun at judge Randy Jackson's overused phrase about good singers being able to sing the phone book by actually singing the phone book in a funny skit.

In tribute to the late Robin Gibb, the top 12 guys sang a Bee Gees medley, including "Words," "How Deep Is Your Love," "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" and "To Love Somebody."

Rihanna emerged out of a box onto a smoke-filled stage to perform "Where Have You Been." It was a high-production number with dancers and lasers accentuating Rihanna's latest hit.

Skylar Laine teamed up with country icon Reba McEntire for a collaboration on her no. 1 hit, "Turn Up the Radio."

Hollie Cavanagh was joined by Jordin Sparks for a duet on the show tune, "You'll Never Walk Alone."

Judge Jennifer Lopez turned in a performance of "Goin' In" from the upcoming movie, "Step Up Revolution," and "Follow the Leader" featuring Wishin & Yandel. Of course, Lopez was backed up by a big team of dancers.

Judge Steven Tyler performed with Aerosmith towards the end of the night, too. The group sang its new song, "Legendary Child," before going into "Walk this Way."

As part of the show, Ford presented new Ford Escapes to Phillips' musical mentor, his brother-in-law, Ben Neil, and Sanchez's mentor, Robert Talon. Phillips and Sanchez also got new 2013 Ford Fusions.

Several stars were spotted in the crowd, including former "Idol" champ Carrie Underwood and Jane Lynch of "Glee." Lauren Alaina and Taylor Hicks were there, too.

"Idol" alums and real-life couple Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo actually got engaged on the show. Young went down on his knees and presented her a ring, and DeGarmo nodded yes before they shared a big kiss. Seacrest held the ring's box as Young slipped it on DeGarmo's finger.

Preparations for "American Idol's" 12th season are already underway. Auditions for next season start in Los Angeles at Dodgers Stadium on June 7.
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141：凡人：2012/05/26(土) 19:31:18
入場料値上げにも人気に響かず、不況に強いディズニーランド・アナハイム
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Theme parks' entry prices jump
With added rides and rising crowds, Disney and others are lifting fees to new heights.

By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
May 26, 2012

Alhambra secretary Laurie Casado struggles each year to buy Disneyland annual passes for herself and her family, so the park's announcement last week that it was jacking up prices by up to 30% wasn't exactly good news.

But Casado will buy the passes anyway and cut out something else.

"I'll keep going because Disney is a big part of our lives," said Casado, who buys annual passes for her husband, daughter and two grandsons, ages 4 and 5. "But the price increase is so disheartening."

Disheartening, perhaps, but inevitable, industry experts say. Disneyland and other theme park operators have learned that they can raise prices without denting attendance.

This year, modest improvements in the economy and a major new attraction at Disney's California Adventure has apparently emboldened park operators to boost prices a bit more than usual, according to John Gerner, a theme park consultant and managing director for Leisure Business Advisors.

"Now that the economy has improved, that in itself justifies increasing prices," Gerner said.

Disney officials declined to explain their reasons behind the latest hike, except to say in an email, "we periodically evaluate and adjust our pricing structure to ensure we are offering a great entertainment value."

This year, daily passes for the Anaheim Disney parks — Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park — rose as of May 20 from $80 to $87. The biggest increase hit the estimated 300,000 park-goers, such as Casado, who buy premium annual passes that include parking. Those went from $499 to $649.

The jump last year was lower — Disney raised the daily pass by $4 and increased the price of the premium annual pass by $40.

Industry experts said the steeper hike in 2012 was probably tied to a major expansion at California Adventure, including Cars Land, a 12-acre addition with rides and other attractions based on the hit animated Disney "Cars" movies. It opens June 15.

"This is all about Cars Land," said David Koenig, author of four books about Disney's theme parks. "If it wasn't for Cars Land, the increase would be $4 or $5. Park-goers will go to see Cars Land."

Koenig also noted that the big jump in annual pass fees may be intended as a cap on those visitors. Pass holders tend to be Southern California locals who don't spend as much on food and souvenirs, and they can crowd out the big-spending out-of-towners, he said.

"There is no room in the park and the parking lot for this many people to come back over and over and over," he said.

The last time prices rose so much was in 2005, shortly before the park unveiled an array of new shows and attractions to celebrate its 50th anniversary. At that time, daily ticket prices for Disneyland jumped almost 13% — from $49.75 to $56.

Not all Disney fans have kept coming to the parks in the face of price hikes.

Torrance resident Marrianne Welsh, 69, had been visiting Disneyland since she was a girl but stopped in recent years.

"In this time of the Great Recession, one would think Disney officials would reconsider this annual price hike in favor of a reduction," Welsh said, "so more people can enjoy Disneyland and all it offers."

But overall, visitation is up nationwide for Disney. For the first three months of 2012, attendance at all Disney parks in the U.S. was up 7% and per capita spending was up 5%, according to the most recentWalt Disney Co.earnings report.
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"Because of all the new stuff we're doing," Disney's Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo recently told financial analysts, the company was enjoying "a lot of demand on the annual pass programs, particularly out here on the West Coast." "Disney" was the top Google travel search term in January and February, surpassing even "Las Vegas," "Florida" and "Hawaii," according a study by the AdGooroo digital marking firm.

"The annual passes are going up at least 30%, and they are doing it because the parks have been so packed," said Al Lutz, who writes the Miceage blog about Disney.

Although Disney's ticket prices are typically the highest of any Southern California theme park, others follow a similar pattern.

At Universal Studios Hollywood, one day passes increased in April from $77 to $80, and annual passes that include parking jumped from $149 to $169 — a 13% boost. On Friday, the park debuted its multimillion-dollar attraction "Transformers: The Ride — 3D."

Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, which is not launching any major attractions this summer, is keeping daily ticket prices at $57.99. Its annual passes, with some blackout days and no parking, are increasing starting July 1, from $69.99 to $74.99 — a 7% increase. The park's unlimited pass with parking has not been raised — it's $165.

Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia has a big new attraction debuting this summer — Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom. But the park is keeping its general admission price at $61.99. For the same price, patrons have been able to get an annual pass with blackout days and no parking. That changes June 4 when the pass price goes up to $71.99. However, the unlimited pass with parking remains $125.

"We continually evaluate pricing and are committed to maintaining our competitive edge," said Six Flags spokeswoman Sue Carpenter.

Although the price increases may not be welcome by park-goers, the Southern California economy benefits significantly from the presence of these venues, said Robert A. Kleinhenz, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Theme parks in Los Angeles County alone employ about 35,000 workers, he said. The parks attract millions of out-of-town visitors whose spending helps boost local hotels, restaurants and other businesses and generates sales tax revenue for state and local government.

"It certainly does create valuable economic activity that wouldn't otherwise be here," Kleinhenz said.

The price increases are not likely to dissuade foreign tourists, who make plans to visit theme park months and even years in advance, according to industry experts.

"If there is going to be resistance, it will be from locals," said Gerner. After all, they're more likely go multiple times in a year.

To appease them, industry experts say theme park operators often unveil discount deals for area residents during lower attendance periods, particularly in the fall or winter months.

But Disney fans such as Casado don't want their visits to be limited to off-peak periods.

She created a savings account, and contributes to it often, to buy annual passes for her family. Casado said she and her family try to visit one of the Anaheim parks once a month.

"It hurts," she said of the price hike, "because we count on that as our only entertainment."
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143：凡人：2012/06/07(木) 07:46:31
分野は違っても天才が吐く言葉は総じて簡潔な人生哲学に集約される。それは "Do what you love and love what you do."
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Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies

By JOHN ROGERS
Jun 6, 6:14 PM EDTAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw.

In his books, the science fiction-fantasy master conjured a dark, depressing future where the government used fire departments to burn books in order to hold its people in ignorance and where racial hatred was so pervasive that some people left Earth for other planets.

At the same time, his work, just like the author himself, could also be joyful, whimsical and nostalgic, as when he was describing the magic of a Midwestern summer or the innocence and fearlessness of a boy who befriends a houseful of ghosts.

Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, said often that all of his stories, no matter how fantastic or frightening they might be, were metaphors for everyday life and everything it entailed. And they all came from his childhood.

"The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13," he said in 1982.

For more than 70 years, Bradbury spun tales that appeared in books and magazines, in the movie theater and on the television screen, firing the imaginations of generations of children, college kids and grown-ups across the world. Years later, the sheer volume and quality of his work would surprise even him.

"I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say: `My God, did I write that? Did I write that?' Because it's still a surprise," he said in 2000.

In many ways, he was always that 12-year-old boy who was inspired to become a writer after a chance meeting with a carnival magician called Mr. Electrico who, to Bradbury's delight, tapped him with his sword and said: "Live forever!"

"I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard," Bradbury said later. "I started writing every day. I never stopped."

Many of his stories were fueled by the nightmares he suffered as a child growing up poor in the Midwest during the Great Depression. At the same time, though, they were tempered by the joy he found upon arriving with his family in glitzy Los Angeles in 1943.

Decades later he would still boast of hanging out at film studios and cajoling actors to sign autographs and pose for photos, even once getting 1930s movie queen Jean Harlow to kiss him on the cheek.

"What I have always been is a hybrid author," Bradbury explained in 2009. "I am completely in love with movies, and I am completely in love with theater, and I am completely in love with libraries."

Much of Hollywood was also in love with him, and tributes from actors, directors and other celebrities poured in upon news of his death.

"He was my muse for the better part of my sci-fi career," director Steven Spielberg said in a statement. "He lives on through his legion of fans. In the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination, he is immortal."

Although he was slowed by a stroke in 1999 that forced him to use a wheelchair, Bradbury kept up socially and professionally.

As he had done for decades, he continued to write every day, trying to produce at least 1,000 words, in the basement of his home in the Cheviot Hills section of Los Angeles and to make frequent visits to book fairs, libraries and schools.
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His writings ranged from horror and mystery to humor and sympathetic stories about the Irish, blacks and Mexican-Americans.

Bradbury also scripted John Huston's 1956 film version of "Moby Dick" and wrote for "The Twilight Zone" and other television programs, including "The Ray Bradbury Theater," for which he adapted dozens of his works.

He rose to literary fame in 1950 with "The Martian Chronicles," a series of intertwined stories that satirized capitalism, racism and superpower tensions as it portrayed Earth colonizers destroying an idyllic Martian civilization.

His stories continue to be taught at high schools and universities.

"Kids still read him. They still love him. People come and go, but he's one of those writers who continually engages young people. I think his legacy is going to last for a long time," said Luis J. Rodriguez, author of "Always Running." He added that Bradbury's work helped inspire him to become a writer.

"The Martian Chronicles," like Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" and the Robert Wise film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," was a Cold War morality tale in which imagined lives on other planets serve as commentary on human behavior on Earth. It has been published in more than 30 languages, was made into a TV miniseries and inspired a computer game.

The "Chronicles" also prophesized the banning of books, especially works of fantasy. It was a theme Bradbury would take on fully in the 1953 release, "Fahrenheit 451."

Inspired by the Cold War, the rise of television and the author's passion for libraries, it was an apocalyptic narrative of nuclear war abroad and empty pleasure at home. (Bradbury said he had been told that 451 degrees Fahrenheit was the temperature at which texts went up in flames).

It was Bradbury's only true science-fiction work, according to the author, who said all his other works should have been classified as fantasy. "It was a book based on real facts and also on my hatred for people who burn books," he told The Associated Press in 2002.

A futuristic classic often taught alongside George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," Bradbury's novel also anticipated today's world of iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events.

Francois Truffaut directed a 1966 movie version and the book's title was referenced - without Bradbury's permission, the author complained - for Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."

Although involved in many futuristic projects, including the New York World's Fair of 1964 and the Spaceship Earth display at Walt Disney World in Florida, Bradbury was deeply attached to the past. He refused to drive a car and shunned flying, saying a fatal traffic accident he witnessed as a child left him with a lifelong fear of automobiles. In his younger years he got around by bicycle or roller-skates.

Bradbury's literary style was honed in pulp magazines and influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, and he became the rare science fiction writer treated seriously by the literary world.

In 2007, he received a special Pulitzer Prize citation. Seven years earlier, he received an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement, an honor given to Philip Roth and Arthur Miller among others.

Other honors included an Academy Award nomination for an animated film, "Icarus Montgolfier Wright," and an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree." His fame extended to the moon, where Apollo astronauts named a crater "Dandelion Crater," in honor of "Dandelion Wine," his beloved coming-of-age novel.
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Born Ray Douglas Bradbury on Aug. 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Ill., the author once described himself as "that special freak, the man with the child inside who remembers all." He claimed to have total recall of his life, dating even to his final weeks in his mother's womb.

His father, Leonard, a power company lineman, was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, who was tried for witchcraft at Salem, Mass. The author's mother, Esther, read him the "Wizard of Oz." His Aunt Neva introduced him to Edgar Allan Poe and gave him a love of autumn.

His childhood nightmares stocked his imagination, as did his youthful delight with the Buck Rogers and Tarzan comic strips, early horror films, Tom Swift adventure books and the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. He sold his first story in 1941 and published his first book, a short story collection called "Dark Carnival" in 1947.

Bradbury was so poor during those years that he didn't have an office or even a telephone. He wrote "Fahrenheit 451" at the UCLA library, on typewriters that rented for 10 cents a half hour. He said he carried a sack full of dimes and completed the book in nine days, at a cost of $9.80.

Although some academics doubted that account, saying he could not have created such a masterpiece in such a rapid, seemingly cavalier fashion, Bradbury maintained in several interviews with the AP over the years that that was exactly how he did it.

Until near the end of his life, Bradbury resisted one of the innovations he helped anticipate: electronic books, likening them to burnt metal and urging readers to stick to the old-fashioned pleasures of ink and paper.

In late 2011, as the rights to "Fahrenheit 451" were up for renewal, he gave in and allowed his most famous novel to come out in digital form. In return, he received a great deal of money and a special promise from Simon & Schuster.

The publisher agreed to make the e-book available to libraries, the only Simon & Schuster e-book at the time that library patrons could download.

A dynamic speaker with a booming, distinctive voice, Bradbury could be blunt and gruff, but he was also a gregarious and friendly man, approachable in public and often generous with his time to readers as well as fellow writers.

In 2009, at a lecture celebrating the first anniversary of a small library in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, he exhorted his listeners to live their lives as he said he had lived his: "Do what you love and love what you do."

"If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell," he shouted to raucous applause.

Bradbury is survived by his four daughters, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian and Alexandra Bradbury. Marguerite Bradbury, his wife of 57 years, died in 2003.
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Associated Press writer Robert Jablon contributed to this report.

© 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Daytime Emmy Awards 2012: Stars Celebrate At Low-Key Ceremony
6:49 PM PDT 6/23/2012 by Bill Higgins

"This is more of a family reunion than an award show,” said "General Hospital"s' Kristen Alderson at the 39th annual event, held at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

The fact that there was a murder-suicide in the hotel Friday night did little to dampen the festive atmosphere at the Beverly Hilton Saturday afternoon when the 39th annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy awards were presented.

While the atmosphere was festive, there was no danger of comparing the event with the Oscars or the Primetime Emmys. If you weren’t a fan of daytime television, there were few recognizable faces. It might be comparable to attending an award show for porn stars – if you’re not fluent with the genre it just looks like a gathering of attractive people wearing black-tie on a sunny afternoon. The overall impression was of wealthy folk who live in Santa Barbara and visit Los Angeles infrequently.

“For us, this is more of a family reunion than an award show,” said General Hospital’s Kristen Alderson. “There’s not so much riding on a win, so it’s easier to celebrate.”

As an example of how relatively low-key the scene was (and this might be a first) there was no traffic back-up at the BevHilton’s circular driveway. Guests just drove up; left the car; and were greeted by a few dozen fans. Inside there was a scene with people greeting each other in the lobby, but there was room for zookeeper Jack Hanna who had a lemur on his shoulder and was trailed by two women, one with an oversize porcupine on a leash; the other carrying a five ft.-long alligator. Not far from them was Gloria Allred handing out business cards. Somehow they both fit in.

“If the Primetime Emmys are Dad, then we’re mom,” said Judge Joe Brown exec producer John Terenzio, whose show had a pre-party in the lobby’s Le Chateau wine store. “In network TV, we do all the heavy lifting and we do it every day. And the kids love us more.”

PHOTOS: Emmys 2012: Behind the Scenes of THR's Comedy Actress Roundtable

There was the standard red carpet with a full complement of photographers, but the Daytime Emmys differed from other award shows as there was also a publicist who’d stand behind each arriving star with their name spelled out on a dry erase board. She was quite busy getting the names and spelling right.

One of those on the carpet was Kate Linder, who’s been on The Young and the Restless for 30 years (“I’ve been kidnapped twice”) who strongly defended the work done on daytime dramas. “We do 80 pages of script a day and we do the scenes in one take,” said the actress. “I’d like to see an Oscar winner do that.”

147：凡人：2012/06/24(日) 13:24:59
Daytime Emmy Awards 2012: The Winners List
4:58 PM PDT 6/23/2012 by THR Staff
The 39th annual ceremony featured big wins for "General Hospital," "Regis and Kelly", and "Dr. Oz."

The 39th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, broadcast live on HLN, took place at the Beverly Hilton hotel June 23. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences event featured tributes to recently cancelled programs including All My Children and One Life to Live, as well as the presentation of a lifetime achievement award given by Barbara Walters to veteran producer Bill Geddie.

Below is the list of the evening's winners.

Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children, ABC
Days of Our Lives, NBC
General Hospital, ABC* WINNER
The Young and the Restless, CBS

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Maurice Benard, as Michael "Sonny" Corinthos, Jr. on General Hospital
Anthony Geary, as Luke Spencer on General Hospital* WINNER
John McCook, as Eric Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful
Darnell Williams, as Jesse Hubbard on All My Children
Robert S. Woods, as Bo Buchanan on One Life to Live

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Crystal Chappell, as Dr. Carly Manning on Days of our Lives
Debbi Morgan, as Angie Hubbard on All My Children
Erika Slezak, as Viki Lord on One Life to Live
Heather Tom, as Katie Logan Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful* WINNER
Laura Wright, as Carly Corinthos Jacks on General Hospital

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Bradford Anderson, as Damien Spinelli on General Hospital
Matthew Ashford, as Jack Deveraux on Days of our Lives
Sean Blakemore, as Shawn Butler on General Hospital
Jonathan Jackson, as Lucky Spencer on General Hospital* WINNER
Jason Thompson, as Patrick Drake on General Hospital

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Melissa Claire Egan, as Annie Chandler on All My Children
Genie Francis, as Genevieve Atkinson on The Young and the Restless
Nancy Lee Grahn, as Alexis Davis on General Hospital* WINNER
Elizabeth Hendrickson, as Chloe Mitchell on The Young and the Restless
Rebecca Herbst, as Elizabeth Webber on General Hospital

Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Eddie Alderson, as Matthew Buchanan on One Life To Live
Chad Duell, as Michael Corinthos on General Hospital
Chandler Massey, as Will Horton on Days of Our Lives* WINNER
Nathan Parsons, as Ethan Lovett on General Hospital

Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Molly Burnett, as Melanie Layton on Days of our Lives
Shelley Hennig, as Stephanie Johnson on Days of our Lives
Christel Khalil, as Lily Winters on The Young and the Restless* WINNER
Jacqueline Macinnes Wood, as Steffy Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful
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Outstanding Culinary Program
Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction, Food Network* WINNER
Giada At Home, Food Network
Guy's Big Bite, Food Network
Sandwich King, Food Network

Outstanding Culinary/Lifestyle Host
Diada de Laurentis, Giada at Home
Rick Bayless, Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless
Nate Berkus, The Nate Berkus Show
Paula Deen, Paula’s Best Dishes
Sandra Lee, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee* WINNER

Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, syndicated
Live with Regis and Kelly, syndicated* WINNER
The Talk, CBS
The View, ABC

Outstanding Talk Show/Informative
Anderson, syndicated
The Dr. Oz Show, syndicated* WINNER
The Doctors, syndicated

Outstanding Talk Show Host
Anderson Cooper
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa* WINNER
The Doctors (entire cast)

Outstanding Morning Program
Good Morning America, ABC
Today, NBC* WINNER
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Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program
America's Court with Judge Ross, syndicated
Judge Joe Brown, syndicated
Last Shot with Judge Gunn, syndicated* WINNER
We the People with Gloria Allred, syndicated

Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show
BrainSurge, Nickelodeon
Cash Cab, Discovery Channel
Jeopardy! syndicated* WINNER
Let's Make A Deal, CBS
Wheel of Fortune, syndicated
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, syndicated

Outstanding Game Show Host
Ben Bailey, Cash Cab
Todd Newton, Family Game Night* WINNER
Wayne Brady, Let’s Make a Deal
Meredith Vieira, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Outstanding Children’s Animated Program
Curious George, PBS
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Nickelodeon
Peep & The Big Wide World, American Public Television
Penguins of Madagascar, Nickelodeon* WINNER
Sid the Science Kid, PBS
SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon

Outstanding Performance in a Children’s Series
Dakota Goyo, as Josh on R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour The Series
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, as Abby Cadaby, on Sesame Street
Kevin Clash, as Elmo on Sesame Street* WINNER
Caroll Spinney, as Big Bird on Sesame Street
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150：凡人：2012/06/30(土) 16:59:41
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing
Jun 29, 6:53 PM EDT

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It always seemed more than a little weird, didn't it? The whirlwind romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with its very public, very emphatic proclamations of love. It all occurred too quickly and too loudly to seem real.

Now, after nearly six years of marriage, Holmes is divorcing Cruise. She filed the papers on Thursday, said Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields. The two share a daughter, 6-year-old Suri, who's been featured in celebrity media nearly as frequently as her parents.

But it's telling that even in addressing their split in the typically vague fashion of famous people, Cruise still refers to Holmes by the name he called her: Kate, as if to distance her from the adorable Katie audiences came to know and love from the teen soap "Dawson's Creek."

"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children," Cruise's representative, Amanda Lundberg, told The Associated Press. "Please allow them their privacy to work this out."

Holmes' attorney, Jonathan Wolfe, made a similar plea Friday: "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family. Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."

But we've never been able to leave them alone - and even if we tried, they probably wouldn't let us.

Theirs was a bond that never really made sense on paper, despite Cruise's famously euphoric couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey" show and Holmes' starry-eyed confession that she'd had a crush on the "Top Gun" star when she was a girl. Cruise turns 50 on Tuesday, Holmes is 33.

They'd kiss passionately for the benefit of photographers on red carpets and were all-too happy to share the romantic details of their engagement: He popped the question at the Eiffel Tower in Paris early one morning in June 2005. The wedding itself in November 2006 was a fairy-tale, A-list extravaganza at a 15th century Italian castle before a Church of Scientology minister.

So why didn't we believe them? Maybe because it always felt like they were trying so hard to prove to the world they were in love.

"I can't be cool. I can't be laid-back," Cruise said during his notorious "Oprah" appearance. "Something happened and I want to celebrate it."

Cruise has two children with his previous wife, Nicole Kidman. The actor was also previously married to Mimi Rogers. This was Holmes' first marriage.

Cruise showed up alone at recent premieres of the musical film "Rock of Ages," in which he's earning strong reviews for his performance as an Axl Rose-style lead singer. Holmes also was absent earlier this month when Cruise received the fourth-ever Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award. He said at the time that Holmes was overseas and the family would reunite in Iceland for Father's Day.

Yet a year ago, in receiving an award from Women in Film, Holmes thanked Cruise in the audience, saying his "commitment to his work and family inspires me daily."

Before the relationship, Holmes had drawn acclaim for her work in films like "Wonder Boys" and "Pieces of April." And Cruise was ... well, he was Cruise, one of the biggest stars on the planet. But the marriage, and the general speculation about its legitimacy, seemed to hurt both their images.
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It was around the time of the "Oprah" appearance that Sumner Redstone and Paramount broke ties with Cruise after their long relationship. Cruise's company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, then signed a deal with First & Goal LLC.

Redstone was recently quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying that he "actually fired Tom. His behavior was terrible ... He was jumping on the couch on the Oprah show. Women hated him. A lot of people said they would never come back and see Tom Cruise."

Kelly Lynch, editor of the pop-culture website Socialite Life, noted Friday the August 2005 W Magazine cover story on Holmes in which a woman described as Holmes' "Scientology chaperone" sat in on the interview and chimed in on her responses, even though Holmes herself was consistently ebullient about Cruise.

The chaperone also deflected particularly pointed or uncomfortable questions about rumors that this love might not be real.

"She wasn't Joey from `Dawson's Creek' anymore," Lynch said. "It was almost like the life had been sucked out of her when she started dating him."

Her first film back, the 2008 heist comedy "Mad Money," was a critical and commercial failure. That same year, Cruise came out as the eyepatch-wearing star of the Nazi thriller "Valkyrie," which drew mixed reviews but still made $200 million worldwide.

Holmes' recent films include Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" and the Emmy-winning mini-series "The Kennedys," in which she played Jackie Kennedy. Cruise, meanwhile, starred in the fourth film in the "Mission: Impossible" series, "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," which has made more than $690 million worldwide.

Lynch said she was surprised by the demise of the duo dubbed "TomKat" because she figured that, no matter what, Cruise and Holmes would always try to maintain the meticulously crafted image that they were the perfect couple.

"Despite some of my reservations about the relationship, I thought they were happy to kind of swim along as man and wife, despite reports in every sort of magazine that they weren't getting along, that Katie is trapped in the marriage," Lynch said. "But I never truly believed that they were truly in love. It felt very arranged."

How the divorce impacts either of their images or careers remains to be seen, said veteran celebrity publicist Howard Bragman.

"They're both going to be defined by their choices. Tom was never really defined by the marriage. Tom was defined by Tom. He's such a force of nature," he said. "A single Tom Cruise is an interesting phenomenon. I think we'll be hearing about him dating.

"Katie will be fine. I think this raises her to a new level. I think she'll get more active in her career," Bragman added. "She's got talent, beauty, a good family, a good support system, good Midwestern values - these things are all going to serve her. I think mostly she's a good mother. That's what I respect her most for."
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AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report from New York.
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152：凡人：2012/07/02(月) 20:32:52
Houston tribute, obscenities highlight BET Awards
Jul 2, 4:13 AM EDT

By MESFIN FEKADU
Associated Press

With all the star power at the BET Awards (AP) -- Kanye West, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce and Samuel L. Jackson, to name a few - the most stirring moment came not from a superstar, but from the mother of one.

Whitney Houston's mother Cissy provided the emotional highlight of Sunday's ceremony as she sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in tribute to her late daughter, leaving audience members like Beyonce and Soulja Boy in tears.

Mariah Carey opened the tribute, and her voice wavered as she told stories about Houston. She recalled the last time she saw Houston last year, and how the two laughed and gossiped together.

"I miss my friend," Carey said. "I miss hearing her voice and laughter."

R&B singer Monica was vocally top-notch as she sang "I Love The Lord," a gospel song once sang by Houston; Brandy sang two upbeat Houston hits, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "I'm Your Baby Tonight." Chaka Khan blazed the stage with "I'm Every Woman," which Houston remade. Gary Houston, Whitney's brother, also performed; and Houston's "Waiting to Exhale" cast mates - Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and Loretta Devine - also honored the singer.

But it was Cissy Houston's soaring performance that brought the audience to their feet, and had many dabbing their eyes. The tribute came five months after Houston's death: She died the night before the Grammy Awards of an accidental drowning complicated by heart disease and cocaine use.

As compelling as that moment was, the show was also defined by its low points: Entire segments of performances, from Nicki Minaj to Rick Ross, were muted out due to foul language and obscenities, though several vulgarities were heard on air.

It started during the opening number by West's G.O.O.D. music group, which included Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz. There were long moments of censored silence when the rappers performed "Mercy," though not all the offending words were bleeped out. Moments later, Jackson, the show's host, was joined by Spike Lee as they did a comedic version of Jay-Z and West's hit song "... In Paris," to laughs.

"Two distinguished Morehouse men," Lee joked after the performance, referencing the alma mater of the two.

The censor police also worked overtime when Rick Ross performed with his Maybach Music Group and during Minaj's performance and acceptance speech for best female hip-hop artist. Minaj's win was her third consecutive time taking the prize.

"I really, really appreciate BET for keeping this category alive, and I appreciate all the female rappers doing their thing, past, present and future," she said, before uttering an obscenity.

Best gospel winner Yolanda Adams, who also performed, gently took some of her peers to task, urging them to act mature and use their fame wisely.

"We need all of y'all," she said onstage. "I'm saying the world needs everyone in this room. Please make sure that you use your gift responsibly, `cause we're watching. Our babies are watching, and they want to be like us."

West, the most nominated act of the night with seven, and Jay-Z won the ceremony's top prize, earning video of the year for "Otis." They also won best group.
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Beyonce was the second most nominated act with six. She won video director of the year (along with Alan Ferguson) and best female R&B artist and thanked the genre and her female influences.

"I fell in love with music by listening to R&B. It's the core of who I am," she said, giving special thanks to Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige and "Whitney Houston, my angel."

When she lost video of the year to Jay-Z and West, she playfully hit her husband and laughed. The joking continued: Moments later, as West was giving his acceptance speech, Jay-Z interrupted him and said: "Excuse me Kanye, I'm gonna let you continue, but ...," and the audience erupted with laughter, recalling West's infamous interruption of Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards speech a few years back.

Chris Brown was also a double winner, picking up his second consecutive win for best male R&B artist, and the "Fandemonium" award for a third time.

Brown also performed in his first televised appearance since the New York City nightclub brawl between his entourage and Drake's. Brown, his girlfriend, his bodyguard and NBA star Tony Parker were among those injured in the June 14 encounter, where bottles were thrown.

Drake didn't show, despite being nominated.

The tone of night fluctuated frequently, as the show shifted from hotly anticipated performances to solemn moments to irreverence. Usher performed his groove "Climax," and Minaj sported a blonde wig with pink tips as she performed the songs "Champion" and "Beez In the Trap," which featured 2 Chainz.

D'Angelo returned to the television spotlight with his first performance in years as he attempts a comeback.

The night also featured some tributes to deceased greats: Chante Moore performed a medley of Donna Summer's hits and Valerie Simpson sang a song in honor of her husband and writing partner Nick Ashford. Don Cornelius, Dick Clark and Hal Jackson were remembered. Even West offered tributes: after his performance, he name-dropped Rodney King and Whitney Houston in a verse that got cheers from the crowd, including his girlfriend, Kim Kardashian.

Presenters included Taraji P. Henson, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx, who wore a T-shirt that had a picture of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.

Frankie Beverly featuring Maze were honored with the lifetime achievement award, and they were serenaded with performances by Tyrese, Faith Evans and Joe. Rev. Al Sharpton received the humanitarian award, and urged the crowd to vote this November.

"This election is not just about Obama, this is about your momma," he said.
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154：凡人：2012/07/24(火) 12:51:34
It's official: Mariah Carey will join 'American Idol'

By Yvonne Villarreal

July 23, 2012, 12:37 p.m.
Release the high notes! Mariah Carey indeed will be joining "American Idol" as a judge.

The songstress had been rumored to be nearing a deal over the weekend to join the Fox competition series. When addressing reporters at the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Monday, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly put the rumors to rest, saying a deal had just been reached with Carey.

And then he let Carey speak for herself, putting the 42-year-old belter on speakerphone.

PHOTOS: 'American Idol' judges through the years

"Yay! I am so excited to be joining "Idol," the singer said. "I can't wait to get started in a couple of months."

Reilly said Randy Jackson, who co-manages Carey, helped in getting the singer on board. Her addition comes as the long-running series undergoes yet another makeover.

Earlier this month, it was announced that Steven Tyler would leave his judges post after two seasons. And Jennifer Lopez has been saying that she's leaving as well — which Reilly officially confirmed Monday.

155：凡人：2012/09/04(火) 18:00:15
Michael Clarke Duncan dies; Oscar-nominated 'Green Mile' star was 54
Michael Clarke Duncan was a gas company ditch digger in Chicago who followed his dream of acting to Hollywood. The massively built actor played a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama.

By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

September 3, 2012, 4:14 p.m.
Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama "The Green Mile," died Monday. He was 54.

Duncan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to a statement from his publicist, Joy Fehily. He had suffered a heart attack in July and did not recover.

A former ditch digger for a natural gas company in his native Chicago, Duncan began his Hollywood saga as a celebrity bodyguard in the mid-1990s. He received his first big acting break playing a member of the drilling team sent into space to blow up an asteroid heading to Earth in the big-budget 1998 movie "Armageddon," starring Bruce Willis.

But it was "The Green Mile," starring Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard in a Louisiana penitentiary during the Depression, that thrust the 6-foot-5, 300-plus-pound Duncan into the limelight. He portrayed John Coffey, a gentle giant with supernatural powers who has been sentenced to death for the murder of two young white girls.

"There was something about him that I just couldn't ignore," writer-director Frank Darabont said of Duncan in a 2000 Daily Variety interview. "After his first reading, he kept haunting me. Given that he was a fairly inexperienced actor at that point, obviously there was a concern about 'Gee, how would this guy do?'

"But once we put him on film, it became apparent that he was up to the task."

Duncan credited acting coach Larry Moss with teaching him "how to dig within myself" for the heavily emotional crying scenes in the movie.

"I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person," Duncan told the Chicago Tribune in 2000. "All those tears you see in the movie were mine."

In 2002, two years after the Academy Awards ceremony, Duncan told the Orange County Register: "Realistically, I didn't think I would win the Oscar, but the nomination was a personal validation for me. It proved to me that I was a good actor. More important, it showed other people that I was a serious actor."

Duncan later appeared in films such as "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "The Scorpion King" (2002) and "The Island" (2005). He also did voice work in films and television, including "Brother Bear" (2003) and "Kung Fu Panda" (2008).

He was born Dec. 10, 1957, and grew up on Chicago's South Side. His father left the family when he was 6, and he and his sister, Judith, were raised by their mother, who steered him clear of gangs, drugs and alcohol.
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Growing up, he harbored dreams of becoming an actor.

"Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly,'" he recalled in a 2003 Chicago Sun-Times interview.

What helped him, he said, was that his mother "always told me to think 'YCDA.' That stands for 'You Can Do Anything.'"

Duncan attended Alcorn State University in Mississippi but left before graduating to help support his ailing mother. Back in Chicago, he began working for the gas company.

On the job, he talked so much about his dream of going to Hollywood and becoming an actor that his co-workers dubbed him "Hollywood Mike." He finally quit his job and became a security guard for a traveling show. Once the show reached Los Angeles, he decided to stay.

Working first as a bodyguard for Martin Lawrence, Will Smith and other stars, he began landing small parts in films and television. In 1998, he played bouncers in "Bulworth" and "A Night at the Roxbury" and a bodyguard in "The Players Club."

While making "Armageddon," Duncan became friends with Willis, who was instrumental in getting him the role in Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's serial novel "The Green Mile."

"Bruce told me, 'Michael, I've just read this script and you are this guy John Coffey. I just know it,'" Duncan recalled in a 2001 Ottawa Citizen interview. Willis said he'd call Darabont — and he did, telling him that he had found the man to play the role.

"I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type," Duncan told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 2000. "I had never taken a role like this. I started reading the novel and couldn't put it down. I got emotional while reading it. Once I finished it, I said, 'That's me. I don't care what I have to do, but I've got to play this role.'"

As "The Green Mile" was about to open in theaters nationwide in 1999, Duncan told the New York Times, "This is really like a gift from God. I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'"

Besides his mother, Jean, and his sister, Judith, he is survived by his fiancee, actress Omarosa Manigault.
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157：凡人：2012/09/04(火) 18:40:48
Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 91
By ROB HOERBURGER
Published: September 1, 2012

Hal David, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist who in the 1960s and ’70s gave pop music vernacular the questions “What’s It All About?,” “What’s New, Pussycat?,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and “What Do You Get When You Fall in Love?,” died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91 and lived in Los Angeles.

Pic=The hitmaking team of the lyricist Hal David, left, the composer Burt Bacharach and the singer Dionne Warwick in about 1962, the early days of their partnership.
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Lyrics to Remember
A selection of Hal David's most recognizable songs. (YouTube.com)

"Always Something There to Remind Me"
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
"A House Is Not a Home"
"What the World Needs Now"
"What's New Pussycat?"
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The cause was a stroke, according to his wife, Eunice, who said he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Mr. David, whose lyrics could be anguished pleas, wistful yearnings, sexy mash notes or wry musings — sometimes all four in the same song — was best known for the long strand of hits that he and the composer Burt Bacharach wrote for Dionne Warwick.

He was something of a late bloomer: he did not have his first Top 10 hit — “Magic Moments,” recorded by Perry Como — until 1958, when Mr. David was in his late 30s. His greatest achievements came well after he turned 40, when many other successful songwriters were half his age and many young performers were writing their own songs.

Mr. David’s words also found fertile ground on Broadway, in the hit musical “Promises, Promises”; in the movies, in the Oscar-winning song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”; and even at weddings, in the classic first-dance song “(They Long to Be) Close to You.”

If Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach’s oeuvre was more cosmopolitan and less hip than that of the Beatles or Bob Dylan, their ruminations on love and heartbreak have nonetheless endured; after all, not everyone went to Woodstock. Their alternate ’60s was populated on the one hand by the turtleneck-and-martini set, embodied by the likes of Tom Jones (who had a hit with “What’s New, Pussycat?”) or the debonair Mr. Bacharach himself; and on the other hand by the Everywoman just breaking in her first pair of workplace shoes, like the protagonist of “I Say a Little Prayer,” who runs “for the bus, dear” and while riding thinks “of us, dear.”

“I Say a Little Prayer,” a No. 4 hit in 1967, was the most successful of the three dozen or so singles that Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach wrote and produced for Ms. Warwick, whom they met in 1961 when they were journeymen on the New York music-publishing scene and she was a 20-year-old backup singer.

After she sang on some demo recordings of their songs, a disgruntled Ms. Warwick complained to them, “Don’t make me over, man.” Mr. David turned that line into a full lyric, with an unusual (for the time) feminist stance, and Ms. Warwick’s recording of the resulting song, “Don’t Make Me Over,” became her first hit, in early 1963. From then until mid-1971, rarely a month went by when the troika were not represented on the Billboard singles chart, with charismatic hits like “Walk On By,” “Message to Michael,” “Alfie” and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.”
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With Ms. Warwick’s voice in place, Mr. David found his own — writing with the intense romanticism of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters he grew up admiring, but replacing the literary curlicues of, say, Lorenz Hart or Oscar Hammerstein II with a conversational emotionalism.

Many years later, Mr. David wrote on his Web site that he strove for “believability, simplicity and emotional impact” in his lyrics. His words, combined with the slaloms of Mr. Bacharach’s melodies and rhythms, often drew — and required — the most skilled technicians and interpreters of the time. Among them were Dusty Springfield (“Wishin’ and Hopin’,” “The Look of Love”), Gene Pitney (“Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa”) and Karen Carpenter (“Close to You”).

The two men’s songs became so popular that they were also recorded by performers not known for their singing, like the actor Richard Chamberlain, who did a recording of “(They Long to Be) Close to You” in 1963, and the trumpeter Herb Alpert, who oddly gave Mr. David his first No. 1 hit, in June 1968, with “This Guy’s in Love With You.”

Geoffrey O’Brien, reviewing the Bacharach-David body of work in The New York Review of Books in 1999, called Mr. David’s lyrics “a peculiar blend” in which “the encroachments of the maudlin are generally kept at bay by the dexterity of the rhymes.” The fecundity and chemistry of the Bacharach-David team were often attributed by both men to their tireless, dedicated work ethic.

“Hal is so intense,” Mr. Bacharach said in a documentary on the cable channel A&E in the 1990s, adding that Mr. David liked working with people who “torture themselves, just like me.”

In other ways Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach could not have been more different: Mr. Bacharach was something of a jet-setter and was married to the actress Angie Dickinson; Mr. David was a button-down commuter who took the Long Island Rail Road. But Mr. David said their differences enhanced the eclecticism of their songs.

“We didn’t say, ‘We can’t do this because the range is so great,’ or ‘Who is going to sing it?’ or ‘Is this commercial?’ ” Mr. David told the music journalist Paul Grein in 1998. “We just wrote.”

Though Mr. Bacharach had the higher profile, Ms. Warwick has said that Mr. David was “the more stabilizing force” of the team and the one “who really got things done for us.”

Like practically all pop songwriters, Mr. David treaded most successfully on breakup-and-makeup terrain, but he would sometimes veer gently into political or social themes. “What the World Needs Now (Is Love),” which took Mr. David almost two years to write, reached the Top 10 in 1965 as sung by Jackie DeShannon and went on to be recorded by more than 150 performers. In “Paper Maché” (1970), recorded by Ms. Warwick, Mr. David skewered middle-class materialism with a sharpened Popsicle stick (“There’s a sale on happiness; you buy two, and it costs less”). And “The Windows of the World” reflected the country’s growing anxiety with the Vietnam War. Though it was only a modest hit (again for Ms. Warwick), it was one of Mr. David’s favorites, perhaps because of a personal connection: when he wrote the lyrics in 1967, he had a son, Jim, nearing draft age.

He and Mr. David’s other son, Craig, survive him, as does his wife, Eunice, and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1987.

Harold Lane David was born in Manhattan on May 25, 1921, a son of Austrian-Jewish immigrants who owned a delicatessen in Brooklyn. One of his brothers, Mack, nine years older, became a successful songwriter first, writing “I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine” for Patti Page and the lyrics for “I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So,” which was recorded by Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

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When Mr. David wanted to follow in his brother’s footsteps, Mack David discouraged him, and Mr. David became an advertising copywriter for The New York Post. After wartime service in the Army, during which he wrote songs, skits and plays, Mr. David was determined to make songwriting his career.

With pop music on uncertain footing in the early 1950s, between the show tune era and the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, Mr. David wrote in an old-school style for big bands and singers like Vic Damone and Teresa Brewer, with only scattered success.

By the end of the ‘50s, though, he was writing more popular and memorable songs, like Sarah Vaughan’s Top 10 hit “Broken Hearted Melody,” and once Mr. Bacharach and Ms. Warwick were added to his mix in the early ’60s, the hits, as they say, kept on coming.

The sophistication of Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach’s songs was a ticket beyond the Top 40 for them. They often wrote for the movies, and four of their songs were nominated for Academy Awards: “What’s New, Pussycat?,” “Alfie,” “The Look of Love” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” the last of which brought them their only Oscar, in 1970.

Their Broadway musical, “Promises, Promises,” an adaptation of Billy Wilder’s film “The Apartment,” opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, 1968, and ran through 1971. It was nominated for a Tony for best musical and won a Grammy for best score from an original cast album. Clive Barnes, reviewing the show in The New York Times, wrote that the score “excitingly reflects today rather than the day before yesterday” and called Mr. David’s lyrics “happily colloquial.”

“Promises, Promises” was revived successfully on Broadway in 2010, with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. At the time, Mr. David told NPR that working on the original show was “the most fun time I’ve had on any project.”

But Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach had a disastrous failure with their score of “Lost Horizon,” a musical version of the 1937 Frank Capra film that was released in 1973. Though the score has aged better than the film, it was dismissed at the time as overcooked and inane, its reception coincided with major shifts in musical tastes (disco was emerging). Mr. Bacharach and Mr. David had a falling out, which they never fully explained; Ms. Warwick sued them when they stopped producing new music for her; and they did not write together again for almost 20 years.

In 1992, the three reunited for Ms. Warwick’s recording of “Sunny Weather Lover.”
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While Mr. David did collaborate with other composers, most notably Albert Hammond on Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson’s 1984 hit, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” he spent much of his later career as a kind of songwriting éminence grise and did charitable and foundation work. He was president of Ascap, the songwriters and publishers’ organization, from 1980 to 1986 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. Ms. Warwick’s recordings of “Don’t Make Me Over” and “Walk On By” and the Carpenters’ recording of “Close to You” were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. This year, Mr. David and Mr. Bacharach received the fourth Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress.

Though Mr. David lived to see his songs re-immortalized in movies like “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “There’s Something About Mary” and the Austin Powers series, and in a Broadway revue, “The Look of Love,” he came to think of his art as a lost one.

“Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be,” he told The New York Times Magazine in 1999, adding: “Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.”

“Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose,” he said at the time, “but it has a nonromantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.”

Yet with the emergence of neo-romantics in pop music like Alicia Keys and John Mayer — both winners of the Hal David Starlight Award, given by the Songwriters Hall of Fame to young songwriters — his outlook became more upbeat. “The talent is always there,” he told The Oregonian in 2004, “and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.”


Marc Santora contributed reporting.
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161：凡人：2012/09/08(土) 10:39:24
MTV VMA 2012 winners and performances: New Twilight trailer premieres at awards show
September 6, 2012
By SONYA SORICH Ledger-Enquirer

The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards aired Thursday on MTV. Here's a recap of the winners and performances. What did you miss during the pre-show? Well, Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa announced they have a baby on the way. Other than that, it was pretty much standard VMA action: strange outfits and incoherent interview responses.Now, your play-by-play of the ceremony, which was held in Los Angeles:

8 p.m. - Rihanna kicks off the show by performing "Cockiness," followed by "We Found Love." There are balloon-like objects in the air, possibly stolen from the DNC.

8:05 - Host Kevin Hart approaches the stage, posing as a presidential candidate while being escorted by little people in suits. His opening monologue has a theme: "If you make a mistake, so what?" His thoughts on the Chris Brown/Drake feud? "Nip it in the bud, guys. I'm tired of it."

8:14 - Best Pop Video goes to One Direction for "What Makes You Beautiful." They (slightly) break their Moonman trophy.

8:25 - Miley Cyrus' hair completely baffles me.

8:26 - Pink sings "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)." She opens the performance with a few verses of "Get This Party Started," which I appreciate. I'm not as keen on the aerial acts that somehow always appear in Pink's performances. Or the giant dancing lips on the stage. But I like this song, so I'll let it go.

8:30 - Best Male Video goes to Chris Brown for "Turn Up the Music." Very short, non-controversial acceptance speech. Probably for the best.

8:38 - Frank Ocean performs "Thinkin' Bout You." As much as I love Frank Ocean, I kind of wish he changed things up and actually performed this:

8:51 - Best Hip Hip Video goes to Drake featuring Lil Wayne for "HYFR." Drake dedicates the award to any kid who's had to take "a long walk home by yourself."

8:58 - OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. One Direction performs "One Thing" while surrounded by screaming girls. Gee, thanks for changing it up, guys.

9:02 - Best Female Video goes to Nicki Minaj for "Starships." Perhaps this is a proper time to discuss Nicki's outfit. It's a lace bodysuit with red embellishments, accented by a police officer cap. Maybe not as glamorous as I just made it sound. Here's a photo gallery of all the red carpet styles.

9:12 - 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne perform. The censors stay busy. Very busy.

9:25 - Green Day performs. Man, these guys must feel REALLY old tonight. Sorry, folks, I'm just not feeling the Green Day comeback. Confession: I switched to "Big Brother" during half of this performance.

9:34 - The "Twilight" cast presents an exclusive premiere of their new film. Well, this could be awkward. Oh, wait...Kristen Stewart is conveniently missing on stage. Watch the clip here.

9:36 - Best New Artist goes to One Direction.

9:46 - Alicia Keys performs her new song, "Girl on Fire." The performance includes some rapping from Nicki Minaj and some random gymnastics from Gabby Douglas. Side note: Does anyone else think it's a little weird that Alicia Keys' baby is at the show?

9:56 - Video of the Year goes to Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris for "We Found Love."

9:58 - Taylor Swift closes the show with her new song, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." It's standard T-Swift. I wish the furry creatures on stage played a bigger role in this performance. It's fun, but hardly edgy.

10:00 - We're done! What did you think? I think the show could've used a little "oomph."

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VMA Winners 2012: Complete List (UPDATED)
Sep 6th 2012 4:05PM by Georgette Cline

The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards offered a wealth of surprises from big-name entertainers as they graced the stage to perform. Some stars also shocked the crowd with their respective wins, holding their Moonman with confidence.

Demi Lovato opened the festivities, singing "Give Your Heart a Break," Alicia Keys welcomed Nicki Minaj and Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas during her "Girl on Fire" set and Taylor Swift channeled her inner Where's Waldo (that red-and-white top surprised us) while delivering "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

Chris Brown bested rival Drake for Best Male Video with "Turn Up the Music" and Coldplay scored Best Rock Video for "Paradise." But some of the biggest wins of the night were awarded to Rihanna and One Direction. The British boy band won the highest number of awards with three: Best New Artist, Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video and RiRi's "We Found Love" earned her Video of the Year.

Check out the night's full list of winners below.

Best Video With a Message
Demi Lovato, "Skyscraper" -- WINNER
Rise Against, "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
Kelly Clarkson, "Dark Side"
Gym Class Heroes, "The Fighter"
K'Naan feat. Nelly Furtado, "Is Anybody Out There?"
Lil Wayne, "How to Love"

Best Electronic Dance Music Video
Duck Sauce, "Big Bad Wolf"
Calvin Harris, "Feel So Close" -- WINNER
Skrillex, "First of the Year (Equinox)"
Martin Solveig, "The Night Out"
Avicii, "Le7els"

Most Share-Worthy Video
One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful" -- WINNER
Just Bieber, "Boyfriend"
Beyonce, "Countdown"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Gotye, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
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Best Pop Video
One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful" -- WINNER
Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"
Rihanna, "We Found Love"
Justin Bieber, "Boyfriend"
Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa, "Payphone"

Best Male Video
Justin Bieber, "Boyfriend"
Frank Ocean, "Swim Good"
Drake feat. Rihanna, "Take Care"
Chris Brown, "Turn Up the Music" -- WINNER
Usher, "Climax"

Best Hip-Hop Video
Childish Gambino, "Heartbeat"
Drake feat. Lil Wayne, "HYFR" -- WINNER
Kanye West feat. Pusha T, Big Sean & 2 Chainz, "Mercy"
Watch the Throne, "Paris"
Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz, "Beez in the Trap"

Best Female Video
Rihanna, "We Found Love"
Katy Perry, "Part of Me"
Beyoncé, "Love on Top"
Nicki Minaj, "Starships" -- WINNER
Selena Gomez & The Scene, "Love You Like a Love Song"

Best Rock Video
Coldplay, "Paradise" -- WINNER
The Black Keys, "Lonely Boy"
Linkin Park, "Burn It Down"
Jack White, "Sixteen Saltines"
Imagine Dragons, "It's Time"

Best New Artist
Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Frank Ocean, "Swim Good"
One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful" -- WINNER
The Wanted, "Glad You Came"

Video of the Year
Katy Perry, "Wide Awake"
Gotye, "Somebody That I Used To Know"
Rihanna, "We Found Love" -- WINNER
Drake feat. Rihanna, "Take Care"
M.I.A., "Bad Girls"
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Emmy Awards -'Homeland' and 'Modern Family' win big at Emmys
Sep 24, 12:38 AM EDT
By LYNN ELBER., AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The terrorism thriller "Homeland" and "Modern Family" were the top winners at Sunday's Emmy Awards in a ceremony that veered between daring and predictability in honors and Jimmy Kimmel's turn as host.

The four awards for "Modern Family" included a three-peat as best comedy series, although there was a minor backlash online as some Emmy watchers questioned whether the show had a deserving season.

"Homeland," whose four trophies for its freshman season included honors for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, stopped "Mad Men" in its tracks, denying the show a record-setting fifth best drama trophy.

Turns out the TV academy wasn't ready to crown the Madison Avenue saga as best ever. Instead, "Mad Men" walked away without a single statuette despite a leading 17 noninations, making it Emmy's biggest loser ever, said Tom O'Neil of the awards website Gold Derby.

Showtime's "Homeland," the cable channel's first best drama winner, also kept Bryan Cranston from his fourth consecutive best acting award for "Breaking Bad" and made "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm an also-ran once more.

"I'm one of those pesky Brits, I apologize," said Lewis, who plays an American. "I don't really believe in judging art, but I thought I'd show up just in case."

Danes, eye-catching in a bright yellow dress that gracefully draped the pregnant actress, was effusive.

"My husband, my love, my life, my baby daddy, this doesn't mean anything without you," she said to her spouse, actor Hugh Dancy.

Backstage, Danes said she particularly appreciated one fan: President Barack Obama has said he's a fan of "Homeland," about a Marine and former POW who's suspected of working for al Qaeda.

"No pressure," the actress said. "It's way cool that he is a fan. It speaks to the relevancy of the show and it's hugely validating."

The acting trophies, along with a best writing award for the show, gave "Homeland" momentum as it headed toward the best drama award.

Kimmel, in his first turn as Emmy host, fielded some clever videos (no surprise given the famed Matt Damon-Sarah Silverman romp he inspired) but wasn't memorable on stage as the three-hour ceremony unfolded.

Aaron Paul won best supporting drama actor for "Breaking Bad" and "Homeland" won the best writing award.

"Thank you so much for not killing me off," Paul said of his drug-dealing character's lucky survival. "Thank you Hollywood for allowing me to be part of your group," he added, noting he'd moved from Idaho to pursue his dreams.

In a surprise on the comedy side, Emmy voters decided that "Two and a Half Men" with Jon Cryer and without Charlie Sheen is really good, as Cryer claimed the best comedy actor trophy.

"Don't panic, people. Something has clearly gone terribly wrong. I'm stunned," said Cryer, who on the red carpet before the show has expressed confidence he wouldn't win. Among others, he beat out two-time winner Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory."

Ashton Kutcher, who joined the show after Sheen was fired, wasn't nominated.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus was honored as best actress in comedy for "Veep."

Andy Griffith topped a segment honoring industry members who died during the previous year. Ron Howard, who played Griffith's son Opie in "The Andy Griffith Show," said he belonged "in the pantheon."

"Dang if he didn't make it look powerful easy while he was going about it," Howard said.

Phyllis Diller, Davy Jones of "The Monkees," Sherman Hemsley and Richard Dawson were among the others honored in a montage.

Earlier in the show, Kimmel dared to mock the in memorian package that typically airs at awards shows with one showing him in various guises. Josh Groban sang a mournful "You're Beautiful" in background.

"I will be missed," Kimmel said.

Perhaps Kimmel's most notable achievement was a prank: Inviting "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan to lie on the stage, then asking viewers to post on Facebook and tweet that Morgan "just passed out" and turn on ABC right now to see it. It worked, with the message going viral and maybe even boosting the Emmy audience for a few moments.

Maggie Smith was honored as best supporting drama actress for her tart-tongued dowager in "Downton Abbey," unhurt by the program's move from the miniseries category.

"Homeland," the domestic espionage thriller, won the best drama writing award.

"Modern Family" made it look easy as the comedy won the best directing trophy and Eric Stonestreet and Julie Bowen claimed supporting actor awards. There was at least a minor backlash online as some questioned whether the show had a deserving season.

Stonestreet was funny and touching as he accepted for his role as half of a devoted gay couple.

"I wouldn't be standing here without Jesse Tyler Ferguson, there is no Cam without Mitch," he said, saluting his co-star. "We get the awesome opportunity to play these two characters on TV and show America and the world what a loving couple we can be just like everybody else."

Then he turned saucy: "I never knew I'd be on TV as a gay man, but I love the pictures of hairy chests you guys are sending me, it's really amazing. Thank you for those."

Among reality competitors, "The Amazing Race" was honored as best reality series, ninth time in 10 nominations for the award. Tom Bergeron of "Dancing With the Stars" won as best host of a reality series.

Julianne Moore's uncanny take on Gov. Sarah Palin in the TV movie "Game Change," about the 2008 presidential campaign, earned her best actress honors.

"I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down," Moore said, beaming.

Kevin Costner was named best actor for the history-based miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys," while Tom Berenger was named best supporting actor for the project and Jessica Lange won supporting actress honors for "American Horror Story." `'Game Change" was crownd best series.

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" proved unstoppable, winning its 10th consecutive best variety show trophy. Stewart, discussing the lasting value of his show, apparently forgot that what flies on free-wheeling cable gets censored on network television.
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"Years from now when the Earth is just a burning husk and aliens visit, they will find a box of these, and they will know, just how predictable these (several bleeps) can be," he said.

Standup comic Louis C.K. won the Emmy for best comedy writing for "Louie" and for the special "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theatre." Said the comedian after his second win: "Thank you to audiences around the country who still go to see live comedy."

Kimmel, who played it clean, set up one of the night's best filmed comedy bits by musing on what "Breaking Bad" would have been like had it aired in a G-rated, pre-cable era.

The answer: a spoof of the opening to "The Andy Griffith Show," with "Breaking Bad" stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, fully suited up to cook crystal meth, out at the lake with their fishing poles as the "Andy Griffith" whistling theme song was heard.

As a pungent punchline, they shot dead an unexpected witness: a friendly deputy billed as co-star Don Knotts.

The show started with bathroom humor: A filmed bit with Kathy Bates, Zooey Deschanel and other nominated actresses prepping in the restroom, then discovering a weeping Jimmy Kimmel lamenting a Botox reaction he said would keep him off stage as host.

"You look beautiful," he was reassured. "You look like a `Real Housewife.'"

Viewers of the skit may have been puzzled by a nude Lena Dunham, the creator-star of "Girls," who's routinely brave about showing skin on the HBO comedy.

Not all his material worked. One bit that fell flat had Kimmel's parents, or so the host said, escorted out of the theater because they promised he would win an Emmy and he didn't.

"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane found presenting can be tricky.

"Oh, the mic's over there," he said, after discovering he was on the wrong side of the stage. "This is what happens when you don't come to rehearsal," MacFarlane said.

Fashionistas noticed yellow was hot, the color of choice for Julianne Moore, a pregnant Danes, Julie Bowen and Hannah Simone from "New Girl."

"Best hair and makeup goes to Danes. Perfect!" tweeted Emma Roberts.

Emmy has to prove herself a winner with the audience. After rebounding somewhat to 13.5 million viewers in 2010 after an all-time low in 2008 of 12.3 million, last year's show drew 12.4 million viewers airing on Fox. The ceremony rotates annually among the four major networks.

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167：凡人：2012/09/27(木) 14:55:20
Emmy winners 2012 list: 64th Primetime Emmy award winners complete list
Posted: 09/26/2012
By: Alan Duke, CNN

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Showtime's psychological thriller "Homeland" upstaged the more established dramas at the 64th Primetime Emmys Sunday night, winning four Emmys, including the top drama series honor.

ABC's "Modern Family" also captured four comedy awards, including the top sitcom prize, to continue its comedy series domination at the Emmys.

The night ended with a standing ovation for Michael J. Fox, whose acting career continues 21 years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, as he presented the final award.

"I'm steady as a rock," Fox said.

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ABC-TV broadcast from the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.

"Homeland's" Claire Danes won best lead drama actress, while Damian Lewis won best lead actor in a drama.

The show, which just started a second season, upset AMC's "Mad Men," which had dominated the drama category in its four years, and AMC's "Breaking Bad," which is in its final season.

"Mad Men" was going for what would have been a record fifth straight win in the best drama series category.

"We didn't make our show just to undermine them," Danes said. "We're delighted and thrilled and just a little startled." No one on the show expected they would "be recognized right off the bat."

"Homeland" also won a best drama series writing Emmy.

The win by Lewis, who introduced himself as "one of those pesky Brits," was an upset against "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston, who won it for three years. "I was quite convinced that he'd be walking up again tonight," Lewis said backstage.

"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm lost again after five best drama actor nominations for his role as ad exec Don Draper.

"Breaking Bad's" Aaron Paul did claim the best supporting actor in a drama Emmy. "It's not going to be a fairy tale ending," he told reporters backstage about how the series will close out its final season.

Maggie Smith won best supporting actress in a drama for her work in the PBS series "Downton Abbey."

HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" was honored with the best drama series directing Emmy, given to director Tim Van Patten.

"Modern Family" actor Eric Stonestreet, who won his second best supporting actor Emmy for playing Cameron Tucker, was one of four actors in "Modern Family's" ensemble cast nominated.

Stonestreet said backstage he was pulling for castmates Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell and Jesse Tyler, because "it's nice to win, but we want to spread it around."

When Julie Bowen was announced as the best supporting comedy actress, her castmate and category competitor Sofia Vergara could be heard shouting her support from the Emmy audience.

"Even though Julie keeps winning all my awards, I am still very happy," Vergara said after the show.
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Bowen backstage said she was pleased to hear her sitcom is a favorite of first lady Michelle Obama and Ann Romney, the wife of the Republican presidential nominee. It shows there's "a place on the couch where people can sit down together" despite political differences, she said.

HBO's "Game Change," a drama about the 2008 presidential election, won three Emmys, including the award for best miniseries or movie. Executive producer Tom Hanks accepted the statuette.

"We'd like to thank our founding fathers for the democratic process that they came up with that has provided not only us and HBO and all the comedy series here a plethora of material that seems to just go on and on and on and on," Hanks said. He introduced himself as "Gary Goetzman."

Julianne Moore, who portrayed former Alaska Governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, won best lead actress in a miniseries or movie. "I feel so validate because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down," Moore said.

Writer Danny Strong and director Jay Roach won the writing and directing Emmys, respectively, in that category.

Kevin Costner, who owns two Oscars, won his first Emmy for best lead actor in a miniseries or movie for playing "Devil" Anse Hatfield in History's "Hatfields & McCoys."

"When I find good writing, I don't care what medium is in," Costner said when asked about working in television after being known for his big screen work.

His two young children, ages 3 and 5, think he's in construction because he is building a house "and I spend most of my time there."

Tom Berenger won the best supporting actor in a miniseries or movie Emmy for his "Hatfields & McCoys" work. It was his first Emmy.

Jessica Lange won for best supporting actress in a miniseries or movie for the FX Networks' "American Horror Story." She won the same Emmy in 2009 for "Grey Gardens."

"Modern Family" creator Steven Levitan won the best comedy director Emmy for an episode of the show, his fourth Emmy. "I want to thank me for hiring me as a director when no one else would," Levitan said. " I would not be standing here if I didn't have faith in me."

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays the vice president in HBO's "Veep" captured the best lead actress in a comedy Emmy. "I don't see anything funny about me being the vice president of the United

States," she joked in her acceptance.

When "Two And A Half Men" star Jon Cryer won his second Emmy for best lead comedy actor he appeared surprise. "Something had clearly gone terribly wrong," Cryer said. "I'm stunned."

Jon Cryer has been nominated the last seven years, and his only other win was three years ago.

Louis CK, who writes and stars in FX Networks' "Louie," won the best writing Emmy for a comedy series. He also won the best variety special writing Emmy for his comedy special "Live At The Beacon Theatre" on the FX Networks.

"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" won the best variety show for a 12th straight year. Stewart joked that if aliens in the distant future find the box of the "Daily Show" Emmys they will realize "how f--king predictable these shows are."
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The reality show competition followed the same path of the past decade with CBS's "The Amazing Race" winning its ninth Emmy for best reality show.

"Dancing With The Stars" host Tom Bergeron won the Emmy for best reality-show or reality-competition host.

List of winners at Sunday's 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:

-- Drama Series: "Homeland," Showtime.
-- Actress, Drama Series: Claire Danes, "Homeland," Showtime.
-- Actor, Drama Series: Damian Lewis, "Homeland," Showtime.
-- Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad," AMC.
-- Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey," PBS.
-- Writing, Drama Series: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff, "Homeland," Showtime.
-- Directing, Drama Series: Tim Van Patten, "Boardwalk Empire," HBO.
-- Comedy Series: "Modern Family," ABC.
-- Actor, Comedy Series: Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men," CBS.
-- Actress, Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep," HBO.
-- Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Julie Bowen, "Modern Family," ABC.
-- Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family," ABC.
-- Writing, Comedy Series: Louis C.K, "Louie," FX Networks.
-- Directing, Comedy Series: Steven Levitan, "Modern Family," ABC.
-- Miniseries or Movie: "Game Change," HBO.
-- Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Julianne Moore, "Game Change," HBO.
-- Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Kevin Costner, "Hatfields & McCoys," History.
-- Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story," FX Networks.
-- Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Tom Berenger, "Hatfields & McCoys," History.
-- Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Jay Roach, "Game Change," HBO.
-- Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Danny Strong, "Game Change," HBO.
-- Reality-Competition Program: "The Amazing Race," CBS.
-- Host, Reality-Competition Program: Tom Bergeron, "Dancing With the Stars," ABC.
-- Variety, Music or Comedy Series: "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," Comedy Central.
-- Writing for a Variety Special: Louis C.K., "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theatre," FX Networks.
-- Directing, Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Glenn Weiss, 65th Annual Tony Awards, CBS.

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170：凡人：2012/10/12(金) 14:12:15
ビリットニィー・スペアー（米国歌手/エンターテイナー）の2010年の家計支出（年間/月間出費）。
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Britney Spears
I Have A Ton Of Money!!!
10/11/2012 11:38 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE

Britney Spears is crazy like a fox, because she's accumulated a fortune ... way MORE THAN $32 million ... TMZ has learned.

According to new docs filed in her conservatorship case, as of December 31, 2010, the conservators reported assets totaling $32,376,140.90. Sources connected with the conservatorship tell TMZ, that figure does not include a number of valuable assets.

On top of that, since 2010, Britney had a successful concert tour that raked in $68 million and she signed a $15 million deal with "X Factor."

Now get this. We also got the lowdown on what Britney spent in 2010 alone. The items include:

-- Child Support and Care: $303,673.72
-- Cleaning expenses: $27,265
-- Personal grooming and wardrobe: $61,295.12
-- Automobile expenses: $59,351.92 (and she didn't even buy a car that year)
-- Rent for Calabasas house: $19,000 a month
-- Electric Bill: $5,629.43 in just one month
-- Gas Bill: $1,841 in just one month
-- Water Bill: $2,278.27 in just one month

One thing's for sure ... Britney isn't cash poor. As of the end of 2010, she had cash on hand totaling $14,740,566.71.

That's a lot of Fanta.

171：凡人：2012/10/19(金) 06:29:26
米誌ニューズウィーク、雑誌発行を今年末で停止…オンラインに特化
2012.10.19 00:34

　【ニューヨーク＝黒沢潤】創刊７９年の歴史を持つ米誌ニューズウィークの発行元は１８日、経営難に伴い雑誌発行を今年末で停止し、来年からインターネット上のオンライン配信に移行すると発表した。

　オンライン移行後は「ニューズウィーク・グローバル」の名称で世界共通の内容となる。発行元幹部は「デジタル形式で読者と効率的に接する時期が来た」と述べた。

　同誌は２０１０年、負債を抱え、１ドル（約７９円）で売却された。しかし、その後も経営難が続き、今年も２２００万ドル（約１７億４千万円）の損失（７月時点）が予想されていた。

　米世論調査によれば、米国人がオンラインでニュースに接する割合は今年、２年前と比較して約６ポイント上昇、３９％に達しているという。

172：凡人：2012/10/19(金) 19:27:44
'Emmanuelle' star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60
By Amy Kaufman
October 18, 2012, 10:19 a.m.

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred as a sexually liberated housewife in the 1970s erotic movie "Emmanuelle," has died of cancer at age 60.

"Emmanuelle," the story of a sexually adventurous young model and her husband on a trip to Thailand, became as big a worldwide sensation in the 1970s as E.L. James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" has in recent months. The softcore French film was that country's highest-grossing release of 1974 and became so popular with female French moviegoers that Columbia Pictures decided to distribute the movie in the U.S. "Emmanuelle" ultimately grossed $100 million worldwide, according to the Internet Movie Database -- an exceptional sum for any film of its day and very rare for one with an X rating.

The French picture spawned seven film sequels -- four of them starring Kristel -- and TV movie spinoffs. But while the original "Emmanuelle" catapulted the actress to international fame, she never became a household name in America.

PHOTOS: Sylvia Kristel


Kristel died in her sleep Wednesday night in the Hague following a long battle with cancer, her talent agency, Features Creative Management, said in a statement Thursday. Her last film role came two years ago in the foreign drama "Two Sunny Days," which marked her first acting project since 2002. She also attended the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, where her short animated film "Topor et Moi" was given a special jury prize.

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, seen here in 1977 at the Cannes Film Festival, died in her sleep overnight after suffering from cancer, her agent said. (Ralph Gatti / AFP / Getty Images )

174：凡人：2013/01/11(金) 19:02:04 ID:KykvHos.0
故石岡瑛子さん、米アカデミー賞候補に　衣装デザイン賞
2013/1/11 1:23

　米映画芸術科学アカデミーは10日、第85回アカデミー賞のノミネート作品を発表した。衣装デザイン賞の候補に、映画「白雪姫と鏡の女王」で衣装を担当し、昨年１月に73歳で死去した石岡瑛子さんが選ばれた。発表・授賞式は２月24日（日本時間25日）に開かれる。

　スティーブン・スピルバーグ監督の「リンカーン」が作品賞のほか、監督賞や主演男優賞など最多の12部門でノミネート。作品賞候補は、トム・フーパー監督のミュージカル映画「レ・ミゼラブル」、ベン・アフレック監督の「アルゴ」など計９作品が入った。

　石岡さんは1993年に、フランシス・コッポラ監督の「ドラキュラ」で衣装デザイン賞を受賞。音楽アルバムのジャケットデザインでグラミー賞も受賞した。

　長編アニメ賞候補の選考対象になっていた宮崎吾朗監督「コクリコ坂から」と今掛勇監督「神秘の法」はいずれも選ばれなかった。（ロサンゼルス＝共同）

175：凡人：2013/01/13(日) 02:36:16 ID:T88WnrCg0
グラミー賞受賞のローランド創業者・梯氏、開発の秘訣語る
2013/1/12 12:00

　電子楽器の世界共通規格ＭＩＤＩの制定に貢献したとして米国音楽界最高の栄誉「グラミー賞」に選ばれたローランド創業者の梯郁太郎氏（82）は11日、浜松市内で会見し「ＭＩＤＩは発表から30年かけて世界に広まり、有用な道具と認められた。非常に名誉なこと」と喜びを語った。２月に米国で開かれる授賞式に出席する。

　ＭＩＤＩは演奏情報を電子信号に変換して伝送するための規格。共通化したことで異なるメーカーの電子楽器やコンピューターとの接続が容易になった。

　規格を統一するために、自社開発した規格を国内外のメーカーに無料公開した。社内に反対の声もあったが「スタンダードがない業界は発展しない。業界を広めるためにはオープンにすることが大切だと思った」と当時を振り返った。

　受賞決定以降、国内外から祝福の声が数多く届き、「反響の大きさに自分自身がびっくりしている」。同席した作曲家の千住明さんは「ＭＩＤＩは電子楽器の国際共通語。全く新しい形の音楽情報を与えた」と業績をたたえた。

　数多くの電子楽器を生み出してきた開発の秘訣については「考えるだけじゃだめ。まず動くこと」。急速に発展してきた電子楽器業界は基礎が固まりつつあるとしたものの、「回路やソフトなどまだやることはたくさんある」と旺盛な開発意欲を見せた。

176：凡人：2013/01/13(日) 02:42:27 ID:T88WnrCg0
グラミー賞受賞のローランド創業者・梯氏、開発の秘訣語る
2013/1/12 12:00

　電子楽器の世界共通規格ＭＩＤＩの制定に貢献したとして米国音楽界最高の栄誉「グラミー賞」に選ばれたローランド創業者の梯郁太郎氏（82）は11日、浜松市内で会見し「ＭＩＤＩは発表から30年かけて世界に広まり、有用な道具と認められた。非常に名誉なこと」と喜びを語った。２月に米国で開かれる授賞式に出席する。

　ＭＩＤＩは演奏情報を電子信号に変換して伝送するための規格。共通化したことで異なるメーカーの電子楽器やコンピューターとの接続が容易になった。

　規格を統一するために、自社開発した規格を国内外のメーカーに無料公開した。社内に反対の声もあったが「スタンダードがない業界は発展しない。業界を広めるためにはオープンにすることが大切だと思った」と当時を振り返った。

　受賞決定以降、国内外から祝福の声が数多く届き、「反響の大きさに自分自身がびっくりしている」。同席した作曲家の千住明さんは「ＭＩＤＩは電子楽器の国際共通語。全く新しい形の音楽情報を与えた」と業績をたたえた。

　数多くの電子楽器を生み出してきた開発の秘訣については「考えるだけじゃだめ。まず動くこと」。急速に発展してきた電子楽器業界は基礎が固まりつつあるとしたものの、「回路やソフトなどまだやることはたくさんある」と旺盛な開発意欲を見せた。

177：凡人：2013/01/15(火) 01:22:53 ID:45dyLut.0
Golden Globe winners list
9:10a.m. EST January 14, 2013

The winners of the 70th Golden Globe Awards.
Nominees and winners at the 70th annual Golden Globes on Sunday night (winners names in bold):

>>Movies
Drama

WINNER: Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Comedy or musical

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
WINNER: Les Misérables
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Director

WINNER: Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Actor, comedy or musical

Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
WINNER: Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Ewan MacGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson

Actress, comedy or musical

Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

Actor, drama

WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Actress, drama

WINNER: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
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Supporting actor

WINNER: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Supporting actress

Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
WINNER: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Screenplay

Chris Terrio, Argo
WINNER: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Original score

Alexandre Desplat, Argo
Dario Marianeli, Anna Karenina
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas
WINNER: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
John Williams, Lincoln

Best Original Song

Keith Urban, For You (Act of Valor)
Taylor Swift, Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games)
Hugh Jackman, Suddenly (Les Misérables)
WINNER: Adele, Skyfall (Skyfall)
Jon Bon Jovi, Not Running Anymore (Stand Up Guys)

Animated feature film

WINNER: Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

Foreign film

WINNER: Amour
The Intouchables
Kon-Tiki
A Royal Affair
Rust & Bone

>>Television
Miniseries or TV movie

WINNER: Game Change, HBO
Hatfields & McCoys, History
The Girl, HBO
The Hour, BBC America
Political Animals, USA

Drama

Boardwalk Empire, HBO
Breaking Bad, AMC
Downton Abbey, PBS
WINNER: Homeland, Showtime
The Newsroom, HBO
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179：凡人：2013/01/15(火) 01:24:28 ID:45dyLut.0
Comedy or musical

The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Episodes, Showtime
WINNER: Girls, HBO
Modern Family, ABC
Smash, NBC

Actor, drama series

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire, HBO
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad, AMC
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom, HBO
Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC
WINNER: Damian Lewis, Homeland, Showtime

Actress, drama series

Connie Britton, Nashville, ABC
WINNER: Claire Danes, Homeland, Showtime
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey, PBS
Glenn Close, Damages, DirecTV
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife, CBS

Actor, comedy or musical series

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock, NBC
WINNER: Don Cheadle, House of Lies, Showtime
Louis C.K., Louie, FX
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes, Showtime
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory, CBS

Actress, comedy or musical series

Zooey Deschanel, The New Girl, Fox
WINNER: Lena Dunham, Girls, HBO
Tina Fey,30 Rock, NBC
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep, HBO
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation, NBC

Supporting actor, series, miniseries or movie

Max Greenfield, New Girl, Fox
WINNER: Ed Harris, Game Change, HBO
Danny Huston, Magic City, Starz
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland, Showtime
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family, ABC

Supporting actress

Hayden Panettiere, Nashville, ABC
Archie Punjabi, The Good Wife, CBS
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story, FX
WINNER: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey, PBS
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family, ABC

Actor, miniseries or TV movie

WINNER: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys, History
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock, PBS
Woody Harrelson, Game Change, HBO
Toby Jones, The Girl, HBO
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO

Actress, miniseries or TV movie

Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story, FX
WINNER: Julianne Moore, Game Change, HBO
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals, USA
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180：凡人：2013/01/16(水) 04:30:27 ID:QMtzdk8I0
5 memorable moments: Winners, one-liners and surprises at Golden Globes
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 1:58 PM EST, Mon January 14, 2013

Los Angeles (CNN) -- "Argo," the retelling of the dramatic rescue of American diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis, and "Les Miserables," a big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, were the big winners at this year's Golden Globes.

But the night truly belonged to co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler whose good-natured irreverence was a welcome balance after the last three years when British comedian Ricky Gervais turned the show into a roast.

The annual honors by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association unofficially launches the movie industry's awards season. Here are the five most memorable moments from Sunday's ceremony.

5.Tommy Lee Jones is not amused

While comedians Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell had the room in stitches with their deliberately botched recap of nominated movies, the camera panned to a shot of Tommy Lee Jones, stone-faced, unimpressed.

Of course, it didn't take long for the Internet to turn the scowl into a meme. One juxtaposed the 66-year-old actor next to the infamous Grumpy Cat. "Finally someone gets me," the caption on the cat read.

A flurry of tweets followed.

Among them was Scott Aukerman, the host of the Comedy Bang! Bang!, who tweeted, "Congrats to Tommy Lee Jones for his brave fight against humor."

4. Clinton introduces Lincoln

To a standing ovation from surprised A-listers, the 42nd U.S. president introduced the 16th president.

Former President Bill Clinton even got in a little barb as he presented a clip for "Lincoln," a best picture nominee.

"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives. Winning required the president to make a lot of unsavory deals that had nothing to do with the big issue. I wouldn't know anything about that," Clinton said.

Clinton and Lincoln director Steven Spielberg have long been close friends. When Clinton lived in the White House, a Norman Rockwell painting hung in the Oval Office -- a gift from Spielberg.

"Wow, what an exciting special guest! That was Hillary Clinton's husband!" Poehler exclaimed after Clinton left.

3. Killer acceptance speeches ...

After winning the award for best actress in a TV drama, Claire Danes thanked the other nominees "who are so, so badass, so brilliant and have all, in their own way, contributed to making television this wonderfully rich place for really dynamic, complex, bold female characters."

Danes added: "I'm very proud to be working in this medium, in this moment, in this company."

Hers wasn't the only sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves moment of the night.

Lena Dunham, who won best actress in a TV comedy, also thanked her fellow nominees who "have made me laugh and comforted me at the darkest moments of my life."

"Julia (Louis-Dreyfus), Tina (Fey), Amy (Poehler) and Zooey (Deschanel) have respectively gotten me through middle school, mono, a ruptured eardrum, and the acute float anxiety that populates my entire life, and I worship them."
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181：凡人：2013/01/16(水) 04:31:38 ID:QMtzdk8I0
2. ... and Jodie Foster's huh-inducing one

Actress Jodie Foster's rambling acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award had many exclaiming, 'Huh?'

"I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I've never really been able to air in public," she began after the requisite thank-yous. "So, a declaration that I'm a little nervous about but maybe not quite as nervous as my publicist right now, huh Jennifer? But I'm just going to put it out there, right? Loud and proud, right? So I'm going to need your support on this."

So what was the big announcement after this buildup? "I am single, Yes I am, I am single."

The speech went on. Foster made what sounded like a plea for privacy for celebrities, thanked a bunch more people before making what certainly sounded like a retirement announcement.

"This feels like the end of one era and the beginning of something else. Scary and exciting and now what? Well, I may never be up on this stage again, on any stage for that matter," she said.

"Change, you gotta love it. I will continue to tell stories, to move people by being moved, the greatest job in the world. It's just that from now on, I may be holding a different talking stick."

But backstage, Foster told reporters she wasn't quitting.

"I'm more into it than I've ever been," she said.

1. Fey and Poehler's winning combination

From their laugh-out-loud opening quips to their improvised comebacks, old friends and "Saturday Night Live" alums Fey and Poehler didn't disappoint.

Right at the onset, Poehler -- the star of "Parks and Recreation" -- assured the audience that there would only be good-natured jokes during the broadcast, because as the more biting Ricky Gervais has shown, "when you run afoul of the Hollywood Foreign Press, they make you host the show two more times."

The only complaint tweeters had was that the show didn't use them enough.

Among their greatest hits:

-- "When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron" -- Poehler referring to Kathryn Bigelow, the director of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty," which has stirred controversy over its portrayal of the torture of terror detainees.

-- "I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars," Fey to Anne Hathaway about the latter's performance in "Les Miserables."

-- Their heckling, with liquor tumblers in hand, of Lena Dunham who beat them for the best TV comedy actress award.

-- The way they introduced George Clooney: "This next presenter is so handsome he makes young George Clooney look like garbage. Please welcome middle-aged George Clooney."

Now, on to the list of winners:

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture -- drama: Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"

Day-Lewis revealed backstage that near the end of filming he had a strange feeling that if Lincoln, the 16th American president, had not been assassinated he still would not have survived to lead the country through post-war reconstruction.
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Best performance by an actress in a motion picture -- drama: Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"

"This is a sweet dream come true," Chastain said in her acceptance speech. She explained backstage why her preparation for the role of a real-life CIA analyst did not include talking to the person her role was based on.

"I would not like to meet her, because if someone found out she would go to jail," she said. The film has been criticized by some in Congress for its depiction of torture of terror suspects.

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture -- comedy or musical: Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"

"Harvey, thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today," she joked, in her acceptance speech, thanking producer Harvey Weinstein.

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture -- comedy or musical: Hugh Jackman in "Les Misérables"

Jackman said the movie was "a project of passion and it took a lot of courage to make it." He told reporters backstage that he went without drinking water for 36 hours to make his face look sunken for his role.

"Do not anyone try this," Jackman said, explaining it made him ill.

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture: Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"

Hathaway played Fantine in the movie. It was a role she saw her mother perform onstage when she was a child. She thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association "for this lovely blunt object, that I will forever use as a weapon against my self-doubt."

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture: Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"

"Quentin, you know that my indebtedness to you knows no words," Waltz said in his acceptance speech, thanking the movie's director Quentin Tarantino.

Waltz also won a Globe and an Oscar two years ago for his portrayal of a German colonel in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."

Best director -- motion picture: Ben Affleck for "Argo"

Affleck, who was passed over for a best director Oscar nomination last week, refused to acknowledge any disappointment backstage.

"We got nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture," Affleck said. "I was thrilled. I'm elated tonight; I'm the luckiest guy in the world."

Best screenplay -- motion picture: Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained"

Backstage, Tarantino used the controversial N-word, which peppers his movie, explaining that critics were not accusing him of using it "more than it was used in the South in 1858," when his film is set. Instead, they were "saying I should soften it. ... and I never do that when it comes to my characters."

Best original song -- motion picture: "Skyfall" (Music by Adele, Paul Epworth; Lyrics by Adele, Paul Epworth)

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Adele exclaimed as she was handed the award. "It's very strange to be here. Thank you for letting me be part of your world tonight."

She told reporters backstage that she was "a little bit over excited," noting it was her "first night out" since giving birth to a son in October.

Best performance by an actor in a TV series -- drama: Damian Lewis in "Homeland"

It is the first Globe for Lewis, who won an Emmy last fall for the same role. He dedicated the award to his late mother, who "I know is up there tonight, looking down, bursting with pride and telling everyone how well her son is doing in acting."
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183：凡人：2013/01/16(水) 04:33:15 ID:QMtzdk8I0
大島渚さん死去　80歳、「戦場のメリークリスマス」
2013/1/15 19:37 (2013/1/15 20:24更新)

　映画「愛のコリーダ」「戦場のメリークリスマス」などを手掛けた映画監督の大島渚（おおしま・なぎさ）氏が15日午後３時25分、肺炎のため神奈川県藤沢市の病院で死去した。80歳だった。連絡先は大島渚プロダクション。告別式を行うが日取りなどは未定。喪主は妻で女優の小山明子さん（こやま・あきこ、本名＝大島明子＝おおしま・あきこ）。

　1954年に京大法学部を卒業後、松竹大船撮影所に入社。主に大庭秀雄監督の下で助監督経験を積み、59年「愛と希望の街」で監督デビュー。若者の渇いた心情を荒々しく切り取った「青春残酷物語」（60年）などが若い世代に支持され、篠田正浩氏、吉田喜重氏らとともに「松竹ヌーベルバーグ」の旗手と呼ばれた。

　61年には松竹を退社。創造社を旗揚げし、「絞死刑」（68年）など社会的テーマを実験的な手法で表現する作品を次々と製作する。阿部定事件を題材にした「愛のコリーダ」（76年）は大胆な性描写が物議を醸し、ミュージシャンの坂本龍一氏やデビッド・ボウイ氏を主演に起用した「戦場のメリークリスマス」（83年）は大ヒットした。

　「愛の亡霊」は78年のカンヌ映画祭で監督賞。96年に脳出血で倒れたが、新選組内部の同性愛を描いた「御法度」（99年）で撮影現場に一時復帰した。その後、後遺症と闘いリハビリ生活を続けていた。

　テレビのワイドショーにも和服姿で出演、歯に衣（きぬ）着せぬ辛口コメンテーターとして活躍した。

184：凡人：2013/01/30(水) 04:51:39 ID:MQbnsFDE0
List of winners at the SAG Awards 2013,
Actors pick outstanding performances, present trophies.
11:37a.m. EST January 28, 2013

Nominees and winners at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night (winners' names in bold):

*Film
Cast in a motion picture
WINNER: Argo
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook

Male actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Denzel Washington, Flight

Female actor in a leading role
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Male actor in a supporting role
WINNER: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Female actor in a supporting role
Sally Field, Lincoln
WINNER: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Stunt ensemble
WINNER: Skyfall
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
Les Misérables

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*Television
Ensemble in a drama series
Boardwalk Empire, HBO
Breaking Bad, AMC
WINNER: Downton Abbey, PBS
Homeland, Showtime
Mad Men, AMC

Ensemble in a comedy series
30 Rock, NBC
The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Glee, Fox
WINNER: Modern Family, ABC
Nurse Jackie, Showtime
The Office, NBC

Male actor in a drama series
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire, HBO
WINNER: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad, AMC
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom, HBO
Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC
Damian Lewis, Homeland, Showtime

Female actor in a drama series
WINNER: Claire Danes, Homeland, Showtime
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey, PBS
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Asylum, FX
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife, CBS
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey, PBS

Male actor in a comedy series
WINNER: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock, NBC
Ty Burrell, Modern Family, ABC
Louis C.K., Louie, FX
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family, ABC

Female actor in a comedy series
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie, Showtime
WINNER: Tina Fey, 30 Rock, NBC
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation, NBC
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family, ABC
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland, TV Land

Male actor in a television movie or miniseries
WINNER: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys, History
Woody Harrelson, Game Change, HBO
Ed Harris, Game Change, HBO
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO
Bill Paxton, Hatfields & McCoys, History

Female actor in a television movie or miniseries
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO
WINNER: Julianne Moore, Game Change, HBO
Charlotte Rampling, Restless, Sundance
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals, USA
Alfre Woodard, Steel Magnolias, Lifetime

Stunt ensemble
WINNER: Boardwalk Empire, HBO
Breaking Bad, AMC
Game of Thrones, HBO
Sons of Anarchy, FX
The Walking Dead, AMC
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SAG Awards Ratings Grow, Turner Announces New 3-Year Deal
3:29 PM PST 1/28/2013 by Michael O'Connell

Pulling in 5.2 million viewers across TNT and TBS on Sunday, the acting kudos will continue to air on the networks.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards continue to grow on TBS and TNT -- and in response to the positive ratings, the Turner-owned networks have signed another three-year deal to keep airing the annual kudos.

Sunday's show pulled in 5.2 million viewers across both networks, up more than 100,000 from 2012. The show boasts similar growth in the key adults 18-49 demo, rising from 2 million to 2.1 million viewers -- though still down from the 2011 demo haul of 2.2 million.

"The SAG Awards are a perfect fit for TBS and TNT, giving us the opportunity each year to target comedy and drama fans with a star-studded night celebrating the best in television and movie acting," said Michael Wright, president and head of programming at TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies. "We are thrilled that TNT and TBS will continue to be home of one of the awards season's premier events."

SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White also chimed in on the news. "The [networks'] support over the last 16 years has contributed to the tremendous popularity of our celebration of acting excellence," he said. "TNT and TBS' recognition of the SAG Awards' unique place in the industry and its wide appeal to the global home audience has helped make it one of the most important events of the awards season."

The breakdown of viewership again gave TNT a slight edge, pulling 2.95 million viewers and 1.1 million in the key demo. TBS pulled 2.29 million viewers , with nearly 1 million of them adults 18-49.

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Grammy Winners' List 2013: Get the Full Breakdown Here
Posted on Feb 10th 2013 2:40PM by Brittany Galla

Frank Ocean, Kelly Clarkson, Adele, Taylor Swift, fun. and Carrie Underwood all walked away as winner's at the 55th Grammy Awards that aired tonight (Feb. 10).

Ocean, who was nominated for six awards, was victorious in two categories -- "Best Urban Contemporary Album" and "Rap/Sung Collaboration." Much to Clarkson's surprise, she won "Pop Vocal Album" and Adele took home "Best Pop Solo Performance" for her hit "Set Fire to the Rain."

fun. also walked away as winners -- winning "Best New Artist" and "Song of the Year" for their song "We Are Young" with Janelle Monae.

For a full list of winners, take a look at the list below.

Album of the Year
The Black Keys, El Camino
fun., Some Nights
Mumford & Sons, Babel -- WINNER
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
Jack White, Blunderbuss

Record of the Year
The Black Keys, "Lonely Boy"
Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
fun. featuring Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"
Gotye featuring Kimbra, "Somebody I Used to Know" -- WINNER
Frank Ocean, "Thinkin Bout You"
Taylor Swift, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

Best Pop Solo Performance
Adele, "Set Fire To The Rain (Live)" -- WINNER
Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Katy Perry, "Wide Awake"
Rihanna, "Where Have You Been"

Song of the Year
"The A Team," Ed Sheeran
"Adorn," Miguel
"Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Kelly Clarkson
"We Are Young," fun. featuring Janelle Monae -- WINNER

Pop Vocal Album
Maroon 5, Overexposed
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger -- WINNER
Florence and the Machine, Ceremonials
fun., Some Nights
Pink, The Truth About Love
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Best Rap Performance
"N****s In Paris," Jay-Z & Kanye West -- WINNER
"HYFR (Hell Ya F***ing Right)," Drake Featuring Lil' Wayne
"Daughters," Nas
"Mercy," Kanye West Featuring Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz
"I Do," Young Jeezy Featuring Jay-Z & André 3000

Best New Artist
Alabama Shakes
fun. -- WINNER
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank Ocean

Best Country Album
Uncaged, Zac Brown Band -- WINNER
Hunter Hayes, Hunter Hayes
Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran, Jamey Johnson
Four The Record, Miranda Lambert
The Time Jumpers, The Time Jumpers

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
"Wild Ones," Flo Rida featuring Sia
"No Church In The Wild," Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream -- WINNER
"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)," John Legend featuring Ludacris
"Cherry Wine," Nas featuring Amy Winehouse
"Talk That Talk," Rihanna featuring Jay-Z

Best Rock Performance
"Hold On," Alabama Shakes
"Lonely Boy," The Black Keys -- WINNER
"Charlie Brown," Coldplay
"I Will Wait," Mumford & Sons
"We Take Care Of Our Own," Bruce Springsteen

Best Urban Contemporary Album
Fortune, Chris Brown
Channel Orange, Frank Ocean -- WINNER
Kaleidoscope Dream, Miguel

Best Country Solo Performance
"Home," Dierks Bentley
"Springsteen," Eric Church
"Cost of Livin," Ronnie Dunn
"Wanted," Hunter Hayes
"Over," Blake Shelton
"Blown Away," Carrie Underwood -- WINNER
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Best Country Song
"Blown Away" Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins -- WINNER
"Cost Of Livin'" Phillip Coleman & Ronnie Dunn
"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" Will Hoge & Eric Paslay
"So You Don't Have To Love Me Anymore" Jay Knowles & Adam Wright
"Springsteen" Eric Church, Jeff Hyde & Ryan Tyndell

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" Eli Young Band
"Safe & Sound" Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars
"On The Outskirts Of Town" The Time Jumpers
"Pontoon" Little Big Town -- WINNER
"I Just Come Here For The Music" Don Williams featuring Alison Krauss

Best Traditional R&B Performance
"Love On Top" Beyonce -- WINNER
"Lately" Anita Baker
"Wrong Side Of A Love Song" Melanie Fiona
"Real Good Hands" Gregory Porter
"If Only You Knew" SWV

Best Dance/Electronica Album
Wonderland, Steve Aoki
Don't Think, The Chemical Brothers
> Album Title Goes Here, Deadmau5
Fire & Ice, Kaskade
Bangarang, Skrillex -- WINNER

Best Dance Recording
"Levels," Avicii
"Let's Go," Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo
"Bangarang," Skrillex featuring Sirah -- WINNER
"Don't You Worry Child," Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin
"I Can't Live Without You," Al Walser

Best Alternative Music Album
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, Fiona Apple
Biophilia, Björk
Making Mirrors, Gotye -- WINNER
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. M83
Bad As Me, Tom Waits

Best Rock Album
Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay
The 2nd Law, Muse
El Camino, The Black Keys -- WINNER
Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen
Blunderbuss, Jack White
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Best Rap Song
"N****s In Paris" Jay-Z & Kanye West -- WINNER
"Daughters" Nas
"Lotus Flower Bomb" Miguel
"Mercy" Kanye West featuring Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz
"The Motto" Drake featuring Lil Wayne
"Young, Wild & Free" Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars

Best Rock Song
"Freedom At 21," Jack White
"I Will Wait," Mumford & Sons
"Lonely Boy," The Black Keys -- WINNER
"Madness" Muse
"We Take Care of Our Own" Bruce Springsteen

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Florence and the Machine, "Shake It Out"
fun. featuring Janelle Monae, "We Are Young"
Gotye featuring Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used To Know" -- WINNER
LMFAO, "Sexy And I Know It"
Maroon 5 & Wiz Khalifa, "Payphone"

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Christmas, Michael Buble
A Holiday Carole, Carole King
Kisses on the Bottom, Paul McCartney -- WINNER

Best Rap Album
Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1, Lupe Fiasco
Take Care, Drake -- WINNER
Life is Good, Nas
Undun, The Roots
God Forgives, I Don't, Rick Ross
Based On A T.R.U. Story, 2 Chainz

Best R&B Performance
"Thank You," Estelle
"Gonna Be Alright (F.T.P.)," Black Radio
"I Want You," Luke James
"Adorn," Miguel
"Climax," Usher -- WINNER

Best R&B Song
"Beautiful Surprise" Tamia Hill
"Heart Attack" Trey Songz
"Adorn" Miguel Pimentel -- WINNER
"Pray For Me" Anthony Hamilton
"Refill" Elle Varner

Best R&B Album
Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment -- WINNER
Back To Love, Anthony Hamilton
Write Me Back, R. Kelly
Beautiful Surprise, Tamia
Open Invitation, Tyrese
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Best Comedy Album
Blow Your Pants Off Jimmy Fallon -- WINNER
Cho Dependent (Live In Concert), Margaret Cho
In God We Rust, Lewis Black
Kathy Griffin: Seaman 1st Class, Kathy Griffin
Mr. Universe, Jim Gaffigan
Rize Of The Fenix, Tenacious D

Best Jazz Vocal Album
Soul Shadows, Denise Donatelli
Radio Music Society, Esperanza Spalding -- WINNER
1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project, Kurt Elling
Live, Al Jarreau (And The Metropole Orkest)
The Book Of Chet, Luciana Souza

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media
The Adventures Of Tintin - The Secret Of The Unicorn
The Artist
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo -- WINNER
The Dark Knight Rises
Hugo
Journey

Best Song Written For Visual Media
Abraham's Daughter (From "The Hunger Games")
Learn Me Right (From "Brave")
Safe & Sound (From "The Hunger Games") -- WINNER
Let Me Be Your Star (From "Smash")
Man Or Muppet (From "The Muppets")

Best New Age Album
Live Ananda, Krishna Das
Echoes Of Love, Omar Akram -- WINNER
Bindu, Michael Brant DeMaria
Deep Alpha, Steven Halpern
Light Body, Peter Kater
Troubadours On The Rhine, Loreena McKennitt

Best Short Form Music Video
"We Found Love" Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris -- WINNER
"Houdini" Foster The People
"No Church In The Wild" Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream
"Bad Girls" M.I.A
"Run Boy Run" Woodkid
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Comcast’s NBCUniversal Deal: As One Media Era Ends, Another Begins
By Sam Gustin Feb. 14, 2013

Comcast’s $16.7 billion deal to purchase the remaining half of NBCUniversal from General Electric solidifies the cable and broadband giant’s role as a media titan and represents a triumph for CEO Brian Roberts, whose father founded Comcast in 1963 by buying a 1,200-subscriber cable TV company in Tupelo, Miss. for $500,000. Since then, Comcast has steadily grown through acquisitions and savvy business deals. It is now the largest cable company in the United States, and one of the largest providers of broadband Internet and home phone service.

GE’s sale of its remaining NBCUniversal stake marks a symbolic milestone in the history of American broadcast media, and the arrival of a new, digital era in which cable-giant Comcast has emerged as a dominant force in entertainment and communications.

By assuming full ownership of NBC Universal — which includes NBC’s famed “Peacock Network,” NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Universal Pictures, the Universal theme parks and resorts, and several popular cable channels, including Bravo — Comcast takes full control of a crown jewel of American news and entertainment, whose history mirrors the emergence of modern broadcast media in the 20th Century.

For Comcast, the deal represents a clear commitment to cable and broadcast television, even as the Internet revolution has given consumers more entertainment choices than ever before. Despite past fears that the Internet would eviscerate TV advertising, much as it has done to print media, television — especially cable TV — remains a highly profitable and growing business.

“Our decision to acquire GE’s ownership is driven by our sense of optimism for the future prospects of NBCUniversal and our desire to capture future value that we hope to create for our shareholders,” Roberts said in a statement. Comcast shares jumped 3% Wednesday in response to the deal, touching a multi-year high; the company’s stock price has increased 46% over the past year and 68% over the past two years.

For GE, divesting its remaining NBCUniversal stake is part of CEO Jeffrey Immelt’s plan to focus on the company’s industrial businesses. GE, whose roots date back to Thomas Edison, manufactures a wide array of products including lightbulbs, locomotives, and jet engines. Nevertheless, the sale must be bittersweet for GE, whose history with NBC goes back to 1926, when the company’s RCA unit created the National Broadcasting Company, the first of its kind in the United States, ushering in the modern radio and television age. GE was forced to sell NBC in 1930 over federal antitrust concerns, but re-purchased the company in 1986.

The deal is also the latest evidence of intensifying mergers and acquisitions activity in the media and technology space, which has seen a wave of consolidation in recent years. Last week, U.S. cable giant Liberty Global announced a $16 billion deal to buy British cable giant Virgin Media, in a move that will create one of the largest broadband companies in the world, and set up Liberty mogul John Malone in a clash of the media moguls against longtime rival Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. conglomerate.

Also last week, computer giant Dell announced plans to go private in a $24.4 billion deal. And on Wednesday, Fortune reported that Time Warner (parent company of TIME) is in talks with Des Moines-based publisher Meredith about selling its Time Inc. division, although it will reportedly hang on to TIME, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.
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In 2011, Comcast closed a deal with GE to purchase a 51% controlling stake in NBCUniversal for $13.8 billion in cash and assets. By only buying half of the company at that time, Comcast protected itself somewhat from deteriorating performance at NBC, which was struggling to emerge from the Great Recession amid a dismal media climate.

Although there was a structure in place to purchase the remaining stake gradually by 2018, Comcast executives concluded that it made more sense to complete the deal in one shot right now, especially given improving performance at NBC — which topped its rivals in last fall’s ratings for the first time in nearly a decade — and better-than-expected revenue from last year’s Summer Olympics, which was broadcast exclusively on NBC networks. Also, by completing the deal now, Comcast executives — as well as financial analysts and media observers — believe that the company received a very favorable price for NBCUniversal.

“Comcast got it at a steal, a phenomenal price,” Matthew Harrigan, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities, told Bloomberg. “NBCU is worth north of $40 billion if you turned around the movie studio and got the broadcast network to work.” Comcast will fund the deal with $11.4 billion in cash, $4 billion of senior unsecured notes to be issued to GE, and $2 billion in debt. The cable giant will also spend $1.4 billion to purchase the iconic GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza — home of several NBC broadcasts, including Saturday Night Live — and CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Because ownership of the GE Building includes naming rights, it’s theoretically possible that Philadelphia-based Comcast could replace the famous glowing red GE logo with a Comcast logo. Needless to say, such a move would be intensely symbolic, because it would alter an iconic feature of the New York City skyline, and visually reinforce Comcast’s increasingly influential presence in midtown Manhattan, the center of the media world. But Roberts told CNBC that a decision on the GE Building logo is “not something we’re focused on talking about today.”

Comcast’s 2011 purchase of a controlling stake in NBCUniversal was opposed by some media reform advocates who were concerned that combining a major content creation company with a vast content distribution network would give Comcast too much power, and allow it to withhold NBC content from its competitors. But after a lengthy government review process, in which Comcast made a series of concessions as part of a consent decree – including a hands-off approach toward the news division and a pledge to make NBC content available to rival broadcast systems — federal regulators approved the deal.
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Comcast does not expect that any further regulatory approvals are needed, according to a source close to the company, because federal regulators evaluated the original transaction with the expectation that Comcast could eventually buy all of NBCUniversal, which it is now doing. ”The only way that the government would look further at this is if Comcast violated its consent decree,” Richard Brosnick, an antitrust expert with law firm Butzel Long, told Reuters.

Nevertheless, the deal continues to rankle some critics. In her new book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age, Susan Crawford, a tech policy expert and professor at Cardozo Law School, argues that the merger created a huge conflict of interest. “Even as the Internet was becoming the world’s general-purpose network, the merger would put Comcast in a prime position to be the unchallenged provider of everything — all data, all information, all entertainment — flowing over the wires in its market areas,” Crawford writes.

This week, Comcast said that fourth-quarter net income rose 18% to $1.52 billion, on revenue of $15.9 billion. For the full year, the company reported sales of $62.5 billion, a 12% increase over 2011. Although Comcast lost 336,000 cable video subscribers in 2012, it still has 22 million cable video customers nationwide. And the company’s broadband Internet user base is exploding. Last year, Comcast added 1.2 million high-speed Internet customers, as users flee DSL service in favor of faster cable broadband, and 613,000 voice customers. In total, Comcast now has over 50 million combined video, high-speed Internet, and voice customers in the United States.

Sam Gustin @samgustin
Sam Gustin is a reporter at TIME focused on business, technology, and public policy. A native of New York City, he graduated from Reed College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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アカデミー作品賞はアルゴ　故石岡さんは受賞逃す
2013/2/25 14:23

　【ロサンゼルス支局】映画界最高の栄誉である第85回の米アカデミー賞の発表・授賞式が24日（日本時間25日）、ロサンゼルス近郊ハリウッドで開かれた。1979年にイランで起きた米大使館人質事件を題材としたベン・アフレック監督の「アルゴ」が作品賞など３部門で受賞した。最多12部門で候補にあがったスティーブン・スピルバーグ監督の「リンカーン」は２部門の受賞にとどまった。

第85回米アカデミー賞で作品賞を受賞した「アルゴ」のベン・アフレック監督（24日、米ハリウッド）＝ＡＰ

　主演男優賞は「リンカーン」でリンカーン大統領を演じたダニエル・デイ＝ルイス。主演女優賞はコメディードラマ「世界にひとつのプレイブック」のジェニファー・ローレンスが受賞した。

　日本関連では、昨年１月21日に73歳で死去した世界的なデザイナー、石岡瑛子さんが「白雪姫と鏡の女王」で衣装デザイン部門でノミネートされたが、受賞を逃した。石岡さんは1993年にフランシス・コッポラ監督の「ドラキュラ」で衣装デザイン賞を受賞しており、今回受賞すれば２度目の受賞だった。

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85th Oscars: The winners
listupdated 1:04 AM EST, Mon February 25, 2013
(CNN) -- Ben Affleck may not have earned recognition from the Academy in the directing category, but his movie "Argo" walked away on Sunday with the best picture Oscar.

"Life of Pi" was another big winner during the 85th Oscars ceremony as it claimed four awards, including the best director statue for Ang Lee.

Here's a list of the rest of the night's winners:

Best picture：
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Lincoln"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Django Unchained"
"Argo" -- WINNER

Actor：
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln" -- WINNER
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Misérables"
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"

Actress：
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" -- WINNER
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Supporting actor：
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained" -- WINNER
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"

Supporting actress：
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables" -- WINNER
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Amy Adams, "The Master"

Director：
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi" -- WINNER
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
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Animated feature：
"Frankenweenie"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
"Brave" -- WINNER
"ParaNorman"

Foreign language film：
"Amour," Austria -- WINNER
"No," Chile
"War Witch," Canada
"A Royal Affair," Denmark
"Kon-Tiki," Norway

Adapted screenplay：
"Beasts of the Southern Wild," Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
"Argo," Chris Terrio -- WINNER
"Lincoln," Tony Kushner
"Silver Linings Playbook," David O. Russell
"Life of Pi," David Magee

Original screenplay：
"Flight," John Gatins
"Zero Dark Thirty," Mark Boal
"Django Unchained," Quentin Tarantino -- WINNER
"Amour," Michael Haneke
"Moonrise Kingdom," Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

Original song：
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyrics by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy and lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna and lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth -- WINNER
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables," music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Original score：
Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina"
Alexandre Desplat, "Argo"
Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi" -- WINNER
John Williams, "Lincoln"
Thomas Newman, "Skyfall"

Visual effects：
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Life of Pi" -- WINNER
"Marvel's The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Makeup and hairstyling：
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables" -- WINNER

Cinematography：
Seamus McGarvey, "Anna Karenina"
Robert Richardson, "Django Unchained"
Claudio Miranda, "Life of Pi" -- WINNER
Janusz Kaminski, "Lincoln"
Roger Deakins, "Skyfall"

Costume design：
Jacqueline Durran, "Anna Karenina" -- WINNER
Paco Delgado, "Les Misérables"
Joanna Johnston, "Lincoln"
Eiko Ishioka, "Mirror Mirror"
Colleen Atwood, "Snow White and the Huntsman"
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Documentary：
"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Gatekeepers"
"How to Survive a Plague"
"The Invisible War"
"Searching for Sugar Man" -- WINNER

Documentary short：
"Inocente" -- WINNER
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"

Animated short：
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
"Paperman" -- WINNER

Live action short：
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew" -- WINNER
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"

Film editing：
William Goldenberg, "Argo" -- WINNER
Tim Squyres, "Life of Pi"
Michael Kahn, "Lincoln"
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, "Zero Dark Thirty"

Sound mixing：
"Argo"
"Les Misérables" -- WINNER
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Sound editing： -- TIE
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall" -- WINNER
"Zero Dark Thirty" -- WINNER

Production design：
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln" -- WINNER
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Oscars 2013: 'Argo' best picture in night of redemption for Ben Affleck
By Susan King and Rene Lynch
February 24, 2013, 10:07 p.m.

Being snubbed might have been the best thing to happen to Ben Affleck.

His film “Argo” took the best picture Oscar on Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards — more than a little solace, perhaps, for being snubbed in the directing category.

Other marquee winners were Daniel Day-Lewis for lead actor for “Lincoln,” Jennifer Lawrence for lead actress for “Silver Linings Playbook,” and Ang Lee for director for “Life of Pi,” which won four Oscars, the most for any film.

Anne Hathaway won supporting actress for “Les Miserables,” and Christoph Waltz received supporting actor for “Django Unchained.” The slave revenge Western also won original screenplay for Quentin Tarantino.

But it was a night of redemption for the affable Affleck. Ever since the producer-director-star of “Argo” was a surprising omission in the director category when the Oscar nominations were announced in January, he and his film has been on a roll.

The drama about a plot to rescue Americans in Tehran during the Iranian revolution has won nearly every major honor this awards season, including the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the Producers Guild Award and the Directors Guild Award.

“I never thought I would be back here,” Affleck said as he held the trophy aloft. He’d won an Oscar 15 years ago with Matt Damon for original screenplay category for “Good Will Hunting,” but since then he has seen several career lows, including the ill-fated “Gigli,” which he made with then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.

His star began to rise again as he turned to directing. “It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, ’cause that’s gonna happen. All that matters is you gotta get up.”

“Argo” won three Oscars, including adapted screenplay for Chris Terrio and film editing for William Goldenberg. It’s only the fourth time that a film has won best picture without its director being nominated.

The win also made Oscar history: It was presented by First Lady Michelle Obama via satellite from the White House.

Though it was Day-Lewis by a landslide for “Lincoln,” Steven Spielberg's epic about the nation’s 16th president was largely overlooked.

It went into the evening with a dozen nominations — the most of any film. But it won only two, including production design.

Day-Lewis’ win also made history: He is the first to win three lead actor Oscars. He previously won for 1989’s “My Left Foot” and 2007’s “There Will Be Blood.”

Lawrence’s win capped a golden girl run. “This is nuts!” the 22-year-old said after tripping on her way up the stairs to the stage at the Dolby Theatre. As if to help her on her way, many in the audience took to their feet to cheer her on.

The win for her performance as a neurotic widow in the romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” wrapped up an awards season during which she won nearly every award out there — the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and more.

But the biggest winner of the night was “Life of Pi,” which has defied expectations at every turn.

While it took a leap of faith to bring the bestselling book to the big screen, it has earned nearly $600 million worldwide — more than any of the other best film nominees.

“Thank you, movie god,” the Taiwanese filmmaker said as he collected his trophy and bowed before the standing, cheering audience. “Thank you for taking the leap with me,” he said to the executives at Fox who backed the costly CGI-driven film.
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The film also won score for Mychael Danna, cinematography for Claudio Miranda and for its stunning visual effects.

“Pi” marks Lee’s second Academy Award win as director. He took home the same honor seven years ago for “Brokeback Mountain.” In both cases, however, the films for which he won did not go on to win best picture.

Besides Hathaway’s supporting turn in “Les Miserables,” the musical also won Oscars for makeup and hairstyle and for sound mixing.

One of the most memorable moments came as Hathaway cradled her Oscar for playing the tragic prostitute Fantine.

“It came true!” she said softly.

Austria’s “Amour” was honored for foreign language film. The harrowing drama is about an elderly married couple struggling to cope when the wife suffers a stroke.

The ceremony was marked by a number of standing ovations.

Singer Shirley Bassey, who made her Oscar debut Sunday night, received one for her performance of her classic 1965 hit “Goldfinger” during the ceremony’s celebration of 50 years of James Bond. The age-defying 76-year-old Welsh singer was appropriately decked out in a strapless, curve-hugging gold gown with matching full-length gloves.

The audience also leaped to its feet for Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, who performed her number “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” from “Dreamgirls,” as well as for the cast of “Les Miserables,” whose members performed several songs from the musical.

Making her first performance in 37 years at the Oscars, Barbra Streisand sang the Oscar-winning "The Way We Were" in remembrance of its composer, Marvin Hamlisch, who died last year.

In other honors, the ceremony was marked by a rare tie — for sound editing. Oscars went to “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Skyfall.”

The Bond film also won an Academy Award for the title tune, written by Paul Epworth and pop superstar Adele.

Disney’s “Paperman” won animated short, and Disney / Pixar’s “Brave” won animated feature film. Jacqueline Durran won costume design for the period romance “Anna Karenina.”

Live-action short went to “Curfew,” directed by Shawn Christensen. “Inocente,” directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, won documentary short subject. Director Malik Bendjelloul’s “Searching for Sugar Man,” about the quest to find out what happened to a 1970s singer named Rodriguez, won best documentary.

Early into the ceremony, the Internet was ablaze with early reviews for Oscars host Seth MacFarlane.

MacFarlane — and his raunchy sense of humor — was an edgy choice for the Oscars. And some of those fears came true. There was a song about boobs, jokes about Jews in Hollywood, cracks about Lincoln’s assassination and Latino accents, and talk of post-Oscars orgies – lines that had the audience groaning at times.

Let’s just say he’s a longshot for an Emmy for his hosting duties.

However, he did the impossible Sunday night as he kicked off the awards: He made Tommy Lee Jones smile.
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201：凡人：2013/03/29(金) 11:45:33 ID:x/SmbmII0
坂口良子さん急死　女優、「池中玄太８０キロ」　５７歳
2013.3.29 07:26

２７日に急死した坂口良子さん（２００７年１月撮影）

　ドラマや映画などで活躍した女優、坂口良子（さかぐち・りょうこ）さんが２７日に死去していたことが２８日、分かった。５７歳だった。

　今月１２日には体調不良を伝える一部報道が出たのを受けて、自身のブログを更新。「昨年、腸閉塞（へいそく）を患い、それとほぼ同時期にインフルエンザから肺炎になってしまったりと、体調を少し崩しておりました」「現在は、栄養を補給する為、点滴等の治療をしながら、ゆっくりと静養しております」などと記していた。

　坂口さんは北海道出身。昭和４６年、「ミス・セブンティーンコンテスト」で優勝し、芸能界入り。モデル、女優として活動し、４７年のドラマ「アイちゃんが行く！」で主演デビュー。「たんぽぽ」「前略おふくろ様」「池中玄太８０キロ」などの人気ドラマや、映画「犬神家の一族」「人間の証明」などに次々と出演してきた。

　私生活では６１年に不動産会社社長と結婚し、１男１女をもうけたが、平成６年に離婚。２４年８月にプロゴルファーの尾崎健夫さんと結婚した。長女の坂口杏里さんはタレント。

202：凡人：2013/04/05(金) 09:15:28 ID:mwOkjFlo0
Influential U.S. film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70

Thu Apr 4, 2013 4:14pm EDT By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pulitzer-Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times said, two days after he said his cancer of 10 years ago had returned.

"It is with a heavy heart we report that legendary film critic Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) has passed away," the newspaper where Ebert worked for decades said on Twitter.

"There is a hole that can't be filled. One of the greats has left us. Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70," the Chicago Sun-Times added.

Ebert gained national prominence with fellow Chicago film critic Gene Siskel on the television show "At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert," coining the phrase "Two Thumbs Up." After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with critic Richard Roeper, but later quit for health reasons.

Ebert, one of the most widely read movie critics in the United States, lost his ability to speak and eat after surgeries for thyroid and salivary gland cancer in 2002 and 2003.

On Tuesday, he posted a blog entry saying he was taking a "leave of presence" from his more than 40-year career and scaling back his work after doctors diagnosed his cancer had returned.

It was discovered by doctors after he fractured his hip in December.

The 'painful fracture' that made it difficult for me to walk has recently been revealed to be a cancer," Ebert said in the blog posting, giving no further details about the type of cancer or diagnosis.

"I am not going away," he added. "My intent is to continue to write selected reviews ... What's more, I'll be able at last to do what I've always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review."

Ebert's reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers and he had been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975.

Forbes magazine dubbed Ebert the most powerful pundit in America in 2007.

(Additional reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end
For film critic Roger Ebert, the show always had to go on — and what a courageous, graceful performance it was.
April 4, 2013, 4:20 p.m. By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic

It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer that had re-invaded his body. Today he is dead, and that collapsed time frame somehow seems only fitting.

For in the more than 10 years since he was diagnosed with cancer, Roger refused to give up as much as an inch to the disease that had ravaged his body but left his mind if anything more nimble and ready to rumble. That overused word, "courageous," fit him so well that I could only shake my head in wonder at what he was able to do.

No matter what physical depredations he faced, including the loss of a section of his jaw, the ability to chew food and even speak, Roger could not be kept away from pursuing film, the great love of his life. Last year, despite his continuing problems, he reviewed 306 films, the most of his career. Even days before he died, he was making plans for future film events because that was the only way he knew how to live.

I first got to know Roger when I started going regularly, as he did, to the film festivals at Sundance and Cannes. Though festival-going is more grueling than glamorous, the best part of it is catching up with fellow regulars, people who over time became like members of an extended family. Roger and I frequently found ourselves together because we shared some of the same proclivities, like wanting to sit in the far corner of the very last row at the enormous Eccles Theater in Park City.

More than that, Roger always puckishly claimed I had changed his life for the better when I introduced him to the Timex Indiglo watch, which lights up in the dark and lets you figure out how much time is left in particularly worrisome films. Roger promptly called it "the Critic's Friend" and often pulled his out when he saw me to prove that he was still keeping the faith.

On a more public level, of course, Roger was the best known film critic in America, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. I had been aware of his preeminence as one half of the Siskel and Ebert television team long before I ever thought I'd get to know him personally.

Once I did get to know him, walking back from screenings to the Hotel Splendid, the unofficial headquarters of American critics at Cannes, I was struck more than once by how invariably gracious he was to the waves of people that television had introduced him to. It could not always have been easy.

Shortly after Gene Siskel's death, for example, Roger told me that a fan had come up to him, stopped short, gave him a hard look and asked "Are you the one who died?" Roger took it all in stride.
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The more I got to know Roger, the more I thought that his TV work, though it brought him a measure of fame and fiscal independence, did a real disservice to his deep critical gifts.

The show's popularizing of the thumbs-up, thumbs-down mode of determining a film's fate was not a model of sophisticated analysis. Yet Roger himself was a dedicated scholar of film who could talk for hours about the camerawork in "Citizen Kane" or the newest wrinkles in emerging Romanian cinema.

His love for film was so great, his passion for introducing audiences to works so strong, that he wouldn't allow even losing his voice to slow him down. He wrote notes on pads for informal conversations and used a computerized voice system for more elaborate addresses. The show always had to go on.

Roger was the earliest proponent of the Internet I knew of — and not just among critics. Through his reviews, blog posts and tweets, Roger brought the appreciation of film, and film criticism, into the future and to the widest possible audience. But the story I remember most about him was one he told me about the past.

Interviewing Roger onstage a few years back when he came to Los Angeles to promote one of his books, I asked him to talk about his early life. His father, he said, had been an electrician and handyman at the University of Chicago. He could fix anything and everything, but he steadfastly refused to teach Roger any of his skills. I asked him why.

"He'd come home at night after spending the day in the offices of these professors, and he'd say to me, almost in awe, 'Roger, they just sit there and think.' That's the life he wanted for me, he didn't want me fixing things like he did.'"

Roger's dad got what he wanted, and we all have been the richer for it.
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205：凡人：2013/10/16(水) 10:14:37 ID:bwiS95oU0
やなせたかしさんが死去　「アンパンマン」作者、94歳
2013/10/15 21:31

　漫画界の最長老で、国民的な人気アニメ「アンパンマン」などの作品で知られる漫画家のやなせたかし（本名・柳瀬嵩＝やなせ・たかし）さんが13日午前３時８分、心不全のため東京都内の病院で死去した。94歳だった。連絡先は原作の出版元のフレーベル館。偲ぶ会を開くが日取りなどは未定。

キャラクターと一緒にステージで歌や踊りを披露する漫画家のやなせたかしさん(2005年10月)

　三越宣伝部で包装紙のデザインなどを担当した後、漫画家として独立。戦争体験をもとに「何よりまず飢えた人を救うのが本当の正義の味方」という考えが、自分の顔をちぎって与えるアンパンマン誕生につながった。

　1988年放映開始のテレビアニメ「それいけ！アンパンマン」で人気に火が付き、国内だけでなく海外でもヒットした。日本での放送は1191回を数えた。音楽の分野でも才能を発揮し、故いずみたくさんが作曲した「手のひらを太陽に」の作詞を手掛けた。

　10〜20代を過ごした高知県の地域振興にも熱心で、同県香美市には96年、私財を投じて「アンパンマンミュージアム」をオープンした。ひょうひょうとした人柄で90歳を超えてもキャラクターを描き続け、日本漫画家協会理事長も務めた。

　フレーベル館によるとやなせさんはぼうこうがんなどを患い、８月下旬から入院。同社が11月に出版を予定している「やなせたかし大全」や、来年夏に公開予定の映画について、病床から製作指揮をしたりアイデアを出したりしていたという。

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For First Time, NHK Seeks Non-Japanese Lead for Morning Drama.Search Japan Real Time1 .Article Comments (2) Japan Real Time HOME PAGE ».smaller Larger .
December 30, 2013, 9:03 AM WSJ Japan by Hiroyuki Kachi

Nikka’s founder Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Rita.

For more than five decades, the daily morning drama series of national broadcaster NHK has been a fixture of Japanese television and a staple in popular conversation. But for the first time, NHK is looking for a non-Japanese person to play one of the lead roles.

“Massan,” which will air from September next year through March 2015, is based on the lives Masataka Taketsuru, the father of Japanese whiskey, and his Scottish wife, Jessie Roberta Cowan.

The couple met in Scotland in 1918, where Taketsuru had gone to learn the art of whiskey distilling with the intention to bringing it back to Japan. Cowan eventually changed her name to Rita Taketsuru and fully integrated into Japanese society.

The company Taketsuru built became the Nikka Whisky Distilling Co., now famous for its award-winning Taketsuru Pure Malt whiskey named after the founder, and a successful exporter of whiskey to such countries as Britain and France. The program’s title is taken from Cowan’s nickname for her husband.

Coming to Japan in 1921, the couple found it mired in economic hard times. But overcoming setbacks and failures, Taketsuru stuck with his dream, moving to the northern island of Hokkaido to build his distilling business.

NHK said that through the eyes of the heroine, the program “vividly portrays the fundamental strengths of Japanese people who have managed to get through tough times.”

The broadcaster promises the program will deliver “a lot of laughter and tears as it weaves together the story of an odd couple — a Japanese man who is a socially clumsy dreamer and his British wife who is brimming with elegance and speaks the dialect of Osaka.”

NHK is currently reviewing applications for the female lead, and plans to notify candidates for interviews in January and make a final decision in February or March.

Among the requirements for the role are an age between 25 and 40, reasonably Western-looking in appearance, with the ability to sing.

Some of NHK’s morning drama series have been extremely popular. The one that wrapped up this past September, “Amachan,” was about a young woman sea-urchin diver who went on to become an pop singer. The story took place in a northeastern coastal city, both before and after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. The series had an economic spinoff for the region from the tourists who went to the city of Kuji, where the series was made.

Perhaps the most successful NHK morning drama was “Oshin,” about a woman who rises from rags to riches in Yamagata prefecture of northern Japan. First aired in Japan in the 1980s, Oshin was translated into many languages and broadcast in more than 60 countries.

“Massan,” will air six days per week from Sept. 29 to March 28, 2015.

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アメリカでは珍しくないが、暴力団やヤクザが暗躍する日本社会では権力者の秘密を暴露する者には身の危険が伴う。故に社会の裏が、なかなか表に出ない構造がある。
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「原発ホワイトアウト」が映画に 話題の告発小説、官僚が覆面執筆
2014年1月11日(土) PM 05:56

　原発再稼働を目指して暗躍する政官財の舞台裏を描いた、霞が関の現役キャリア官僚による告発小説「原発ホワイトアウト」の映画化の計画が進んでいることが１１日、分かった。出版元の講談社には複数の制作会社から打診があり、今月中にも制作会社やキャストが決定する見通し。映画界を代表する大物俳優の名前も挙がっている。

　著者の若杉冽さんは、本名や所属官庁など個人の特定につながる情報を一切明らかにしていない「覆面作家」。今回がデビュー作だが、原発再稼働を目指す電力業界、業界を所管する経済産業省、与党の動きを生々しく描き、昨年９月の発売直後から大きな反響を呼んだ。

210：凡人：2014/11/19(水) 06:31:36 ID:da95RwFo0
俳優の高倉健さんが死去、８３歳 日本映画代表するスター　
2014年11月18日(火) PM 01:06 jomo

　１９６０年代に任侠映画で圧倒的な支持を集め、「幸福の黄色いハンカチ」「南極物語」などの主演で知られた日本映画を代表する俳優で文化勲章受章者の高倉健（たかくら・けん、本名小田剛一＝おだ・ごういち）さんが１０日午前３時４９分、悪性リンパ腫のため東京都内の病院で死去した。８３歳。福岡県出身。葬儀は近親者で行った。

　高倉さんの事務所によると、次回作の準備中に体調不良で入院、治療を続けていたが、容体が急変したという。

　一貫して演じたのは、苦難に黙って耐え、逆境をものともしない主人公だった。

211：凡人：2015/01/13(火) 13:21:32 ID:ve6M5DlE0
2015 Golden Globes: Complete Winners List
Jan 12, 2015, 10:53 AM ET
By LESLEY MESSER and MICHAEL ROTHMAN ABCNews

MOTION PICTURES
Best Drama

WINNER: "Boyhood"
"Foxcatcher"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"

Best Comedy

"Birdman"
WINNER: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Into the Woods"
"Pride"
"St. Vincent"

Best Director

Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Ava Duvernay, "Selma"
David Fincher, "Gone Girl"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
WINNER: Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"

Best Actress in a Drama

Jennifer Aniston, "Cake"
Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
WINNER: Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"

Best Actor in a Drama

Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler"
David Oyelowo, "Selma"
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy

Ralph Fiennes, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
WINNER: Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Bill Murray, "St. Vincent"
Joaquin Phoenix, "Inherent Vice"
Christoph Waltz, "Big Eyes"

Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy

WINNER: Amy Adams, "Big Eyes"
Emily Blunt, "Into the Woods"
Helen Mirren, "The Hundred-Foot Journey"
Julianne Moore, "Map to the Stars"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Annie"

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER: Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Jessica Chastain, "A Most Violent Year"
Keira Knightley, "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into the Woods"

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, "The Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
WINNER: J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Screenplay

Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Gillian Flynn, "Gone Girl"
WINNER: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Graham Moore, "The Imitation Game"
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Best Foreign Language Film

"Force Majeure Turist," Sweden
"Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem Gett," Israel
"Ida," Poland/Denmark
WINNER: "Leviathan," Russia
"Tangerines Mandariinid," Estonia

Best Animated Feature

"Big Hero 6"
"The Book of Life"
"The Boxtrolls"
WINNER: "How to Train Your Dragon 2"
"The Lego Movie"

Best Original Song

"Big Eyes" from "Big Eyes" music and lyrics by Lana Del Rey
WINNER: "Glory" from "Selma," Music and lyrics by John Legend and Common
"Mercy Is" from "Noah," Music and lyrics by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye
"Opportunity" from "Annie," Music and lyrics by Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler, Will Gluck
"Yellow Flicker Beat" from "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1," Music and lyrics by Lorde

Best Score

"The Imitation Game"
WINNER: "The Theory of Everything"
"Gone Girl"
"Birdman"
"Interstellar"

TELEVISION
Best TV Comedy or Musical

"Girls"
"Jane the Virgin"
"Orange Is the New Black"
"Silicon Valley"
WINNER: "Transparent"

Best TV Drama

WINNER: "The Affair"
"Downton Abbey"
"Game of Thrones"
"The Good Wife"
"House of Cards"
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Best Actress in a TV Drama

Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Viola Davis, "How to Get Away with Murder"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
WINNER: Ruth Wilson, "The Affair"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Best Actor in a TV Drama

Clive Owen, "The Knick"
Liev Schreiber, "Ray Donovan"
WINNER: Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"
James Spader, "The Blacklist"
Dominic West, "The Affair"

Best Actress in a TV Comedy
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
INNER: Gina Rodriguez, "Jane the Virgin"
Taylor Schilling, "Orange Is the New Black"

Best Actor in a TV Comedy
Louis CK, "Louie"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Ricky Gervais, "Derek"
William H. Macy, "Shameless"
WINNER: Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"

Best Miniseries or TV Movie
WINNER: "Fargo"
"The Missing"
"The Normal Heart"
"Olive Kitteridge"
"True Detective"

Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie
WINNER: Maggie Gyllenhaal, "The Honorable Woman"
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show"
Frances McDormand, "Olive Kitteridge"
Frances O'Connor, "The Missing"
Allison Tolman, "Fargo"

Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie
Martin Freeman, "Fargo"
Woody Harrelson, "True Detective"
Matthew McConaughey, "True Detective"
Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart"
WINNER: Billy Bob Thornton, "Fargo"

Best Supporting Actress in a TV Show, Miniseries or TV Movie
Uzo Aduba, "Orange Is the New Black"
Kathy Bates, "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
WINNER: Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"
Allison Janney, "Mom"
Michelle Monaghan, "True Detective"
Best Supporting Actor in a TV Show, Miniseries or TV Movie
WINNER: Matt Bomer, "The Normal Heart"
Alan Cumming, "The Good Wife"
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214：凡人：2015/03/26(木) 03:18:44 ID:da95RwFo0
リチャード・ギア版“寅さん” 新CMに、山田洋次も絶賛「今までの中で一番好き」
2015年3月26日(木) AM 12:00　Oricon　Style

　米・俳優のリチャード・ギアが、『男はつらいよ』の主人公・フーテンの寅をモデルにしたTORAに扮する人気CMシリーズ“ムッシュはつらいよ”。その新作「レモンジーナあらわる」篇が28日より放送される。今作では『男はつらいよ』シリーズお馴染みの“コミカルな別れのシーン”を撮影。本家の空気感を見事に踏襲する内容に、あの山田洋次監督も大絶賛、「今までの中で一番好き！」と太鼓判を押している。

　CMシリーズ“ムッシュはつらいよ”は、大ヒット映画『プリティ・ウーマン』などで知られるリチャード・ギアが、義理と人情には厚いが女性には弱い“TORA”を好演。これまでの、ダンディな“モテ男”のイメージを良い意味で裏切るCMシリーズとして好評を博している。因みに同シリーズは第1作目から山田洋次監督が企画内容や演出を監修。“本家”のお墨付きを得ている。

　新たに制作された「レモンジーナあらわる」篇では、慣れ親しんだ土地から旅立つことを決意したTORA（ギア）が、相棒である少年・GENに別れを告げる。別れを惜しむGENにTORAは「ひとりで生きていくのが、男なんだ」と渋い一言。駅へと向かいながら「男はつらいよ…」と呟くTORAだったが、視線の先に絶世の美女を発見。あまりの美しさにたちまち心を奪われ、慌てて駅舎に引き返し、彼女を追いかけようとするTORAだが、戻ってきてくれたと勘違いするGENに抱きつかれ困惑するというもの。

　シリーズを重ね、すっかりTORAにも馴染んだリチャード・ギア。撮影の合間には、共演者やスタッフとも積極的に言葉を交わし、時にはジョークで現場を笑いの渦に巻き込むなど、とても気さくな一面も。そんな中、今回の撮影に当たる日が、とある撮影スタッフの誕生日だと耳にしたギアは、そのスタッフもとへ近付き、「こんな美しい日に誕生日なんて素晴らしい。本当におめでとう！」とやさしく肩を抱きしめたという。

　「レモンジーナあらわる」篇の完成版を見終えた山田洋次監督は「作品ごとに、どんどん良くなっているね」と、すっかりお気に入りの様子。何度も繰り返し再生し、周りの映画スタッフを次々と呼んでは「いいだろう、このCM」とご満悦の表情を浮かべていたという。

　新CM「レモンジーナあらわる」篇は、3月28日より全国オンエア。

215：凡人：2015/04/17(金) 11:13:10 ID:ve6M5DlE0
「キンキン」愛川欽也さんが死去…８０歳
2015年04月17日 03時00分Yomiuri

　「キンキン」の愛称で親しまれ、テレビ・ラジオの司会者や俳優として活躍した愛川欽也（あいかわ・きんや、本名・井川敏明＝いがわ・としあき）さんが、１５日に死去したことがわかった。

　８０歳だった。

　東京・巣鴨生まれ。俳優座養成所を出て様々な職業を経た後、声優として活躍。テレビ草創期に洋画の吹き替えで米俳優ジャック・レモンの声を担当した。１９７０年代初め、ＴＢＳラジオの深夜放送「パック・イン・ミュージック」のパーソナリティーで人気を博し、日本テレビ系の深夜番組「１１ＰＭ」の司会などを務めた。

　軽妙で人懐っこいしゃべりを持ち味に、８１〜９６年、海外情報クイズ番組の先駆けとなるフジテレビ系「なるほど！ザ・ワールド」の司会を、楠田枝里子さんと担当した。

　俳優としても７０年代後半に菅原文太さん主演の映画「トラック野郎」シリーズで、憎めない相棒の「やもめのジョナサン」を好演。ドラマではテレビ朝日系「東京メグレ警視」シリーズなどに主演した。

216：凡人：2015/04/17(金) 11:29:48 ID:da95RwFo0
「年収５６億円のモデル」ジゼル・ブンチェンさん引退
サンパウロ＝田村剛2015年4月17日09時32分朝日

写真・図版：ブラジル・サンパウロで１５日、ファッションショーの舞台に立つジゼル・ブンチェンさん＝ロイター

　世界で最も高い報酬を得ているとされる超人気スーパーモデル、ジゼル・ブンチェンさん（３４）が、ファッションショーからの引退を表明し、１５日夜、ブラジル・サンパウロで最後の舞台に立った。今後は写真モデルとしての仕事を続けながら、「家族と過ごす時間を増やしたい」としている。

　ブンチェンさんはドイツ系ブラジル人で、１４歳のときにデビュー。米経済誌フォーブスによると、昨年は４７００万ドル（約５６億円）の収入があったといい、「世界で最も所得が多いモデル」の座を８年連続で維持している。アメリカンフットボール・ＮＦＬの名ＱＢ、トム・ブレイディさんとの間に２人の子がいる。

　地元メディアによると、１５日のショーでブンチェンさんは、白のワンピース姿などを披露。大歓声で迎えられ、ステージを去る際には涙を隠すように顔を覆う場面もあった。最後は、他のモデルたちに囲まれて涙を浮かべながら拍手にこたえ、２０年にわたるファッションショーでのキャリアに終止符を打った。（サンパウロ＝田村剛）

217：凡人：2015/05/05(火) 11:09:49 ID:da95RwFo0
もはや頭打ち!?　“ハーフタレント”乱立の是非
2015年5月5日(火) AM 09:40オリコンNews

　ベッキー、ローラ、SHELLY、トリンドル玲奈、マギー、ダレノガレ明美……。モデル出身のハーフ芸能人、いわゆる“ハーフタレント”たちがテレビで大活躍しはじめて久しい。確かに、ハーフだけあってルックスは良く、ローラを筆頭にしゃべりもおもしろいので、テレビで重宝されるのもよくわかる。とはいえ最近、この“枠”のタレントが供給過多のようにも見える。果たして、“ハーフタレント”の人気はこのまま続くのだろうか。

【写真】美脚＆背中出しドレスで魅了するローラほか、キュートなハーフタレント

◆限定された“枠”と“需要”の中でポジション確立の難しさ

　ハーフの芸能人は、古くから活躍してきた。草刈正雄、泉アキ、西川ヘレン、アン・ルイス、宮沢りえ、沢尻エリカなど、みんなハーフだ。滝川クリステルを筆頭に政井マヤ、葉山エレーヌなど、女子アナ界にも多数進出している。最近では、JOYやユージなどの男性モデル系、さらにはデニスの植野行雄、マテンロウのアントニーなど、見た目はもろに外人なのにしゃべりはバリバリ日本人、というギャップをウリにしたハーフお笑い芸人まで登場している。

　これらハーフタレントの共通点といえば、やはりルックスだ。国籍はともかく、「日本人ではないが、完全な外国人でもない。でもかなり外国人っぽい」という、そのルックス自体が大きな魅力となっていることはまちがいない。その最たる例がモデル出身の“ハーフタレント”というわけだ。ただ、ローラ以降、これだけ多くのハーフタレントが登場すると、名前は知っていても顔が浮かばないという人も多いだろう。名前はみな似たようなカタカナだし、見た目もみな“外国人”っぽい。ハーフタレントたち全員に、いつまでも活動場所を与えられ続けるはずもない。ローラの話し方を確信犯的に模倣!? した水沢アリー（ワンエイス／曽祖父がドイツ人）や、ベッキーとキャラがかぶりながらも、ある程度ベッキーのポジションを奪い取ったかに見えるSHELLYなどを見ても、限定された“枠”、“需要”の中で自分のポジションを確立するために、それぞれが必死になっているように見える。

◆“ハーフタレント”の枠が広がりジャンルの細分化も

　こうしてみると“ハーフタレント”界も、移り変わりの激しい、栄枯盛衰のある世界のようだ。かつて生意気キャラで売っていたマリエも、ローラにポジションを奪われたともいえるし、春香クリスティーンが登場したときは、「最近、こずえ鈴（現在はフリーディア名義で活動）がよく出てるなあ」と思って見ていた人もいるのではないだろうか。ボヤボヤしていると、すぐに自分の代わりが出てくる厳しい業界なのだ。

　ある種“バブル状態”にあるともいえる“ハーフタレント”界。今後、どうなっていくのだろうか。ハーフタレントの枠自体はなくならないだろうが、ある程度淘汰されていく、というのが妥当なところだろう。しかし、幼稚園や保育園のクラスにひとりはハーフの子どもがいるという現在、かつてはハーフ自体が珍しい存在だったのが、今やなんの不思議もなくなってきたし、子どもたちも普通に受け入れている。今でこそハーフタレントが重宝されているが、今の子どもたちが成長する10年後には、ハーフたちがもっと増え、“ハーフタレント”という枠自体、意味がなくなっていることも考えられる。あるいは逆に、ハーフタレントの枠がもっと広がり、またはもっと細分化されていって、“ハーフ子役”“一発屋ハーフタレント”“女お笑いハーフタレント”などのジャンルが誕生する日も、そう遠くはないのかもしれない。

（文：五目舎）

218：凡人：2015/11/30(月) 15:14:39 ID:da95RwFo0
水木しげるさんが死去、９３歳 漫画家で文化功労者
2015年11月30日(月) PM 01:17

　「ゲゲゲの鬼太郎」など独自の妖怪物で知られる漫画家の水木しげる（みずき・しげる、本名武良茂＝むら・しげる）さんが３０日午前７時ごろ、心筋梗塞のため東京都三鷹市の杏林大病院で死去した。９３歳。鳥取県出身。葬儀・告別式の日取り、喪主は未定。

　１１日に東京都調布市の自宅で転倒して頭を打ち、入院していた。

　太平洋戦争から復員後、紙芝居画家や貸本漫画家を経て、「ガロ」などの漫画雑誌で活躍。代表作「ゲゲゲの鬼太郎」はたびたびテレビアニメ化され、妖怪ブームをもたらし、後に実写映画にもなるなど、時代を超えた人気を見せた。１０年には文化功労者に選ばれた。

Pic=２０１４年５月、鬼太郎の人形と写真に納まる水木しげるさん（左）と妻の武良布枝さん＝東京都調布市の水木プロ

219：凡人：2015/12/08(火) 09:27:42 ID:da95RwFo0
小澤さん、渡辺さん候補に 第５８回グラミー賞
更新日時：2015年12月8日(火) AM 08:03

　【ニューヨーク共同】米音楽界最高の栄誉とされる第５８回グラミー賞の候補一覧が７日発表され、小澤征爾さんが指揮したラベルの「こどもと魔法」が最優秀オペラ録音部門の候補になった。

　小澤さんは２０１３年８月、長野県松本市で開かれたサイトウ・キネン・フェスティバル松本で「こどもと魔法」を指揮した。候補作はその公演を収録したアルバム。

　また最優秀ミュージカルアルバム部門では、俳優の渡辺謙さんが今年ニューヨークで主演した「王様と私」で女優のケリー・オハラさんと歌った「シャル・ウィ・ダンス」などを収めたアルバムが候補になった。

　第５８回グラミー賞は１６年２月１５日。

220：凡人：2015/12/10(木) 12:13:02 ID:da95RwFo0
作家の野坂昭如さん死去…元参院議員、８５歳
2015年12月10日 11時55分Yomiuri

　「焼け跡闇市派」を自称した作家で、元参議院議員の野坂昭如（のさか・あきゆき）さんが９日夜、亡くなった。８５歳だった。

　神奈川県鎌倉市生まれ。早稲田大仏文科中退後、コラムニストやテレビ作家として注目され、１９６３年には「おもちゃのチャチャチャ」で日本レコード大賞童謡賞を受けた。

　同年、「エロ事師たち」で小説デビュー。戦後の性風俗を息の長い関西弁風の独特の文体で描き、新戯作派とも呼ばれた。６８年には、「火垂るの墓」と「アメリカひじき」で直木賞を受賞。９７年には「同心円」で吉川英治文学賞を受けた。

　７２年には雑誌「面白半分」編集長として永井荷風作とされる「四畳半襖の下張」を掲載し、わいせつ文書販売罪で刑事事件の被告になり、法廷闘争。最高裁で罰金１０万円の有罪判決が確定した。

　８３年には参院選比例代表で二院クラブから当選。同年１２月の衆院選では、金権政治を批判して、田中角栄元首相の選挙区である旧新潟３区から立候補し、落選した。「火垂るの墓」は８８年に高畑勲監督がアニメ映画化し、話題を呼んだ。

　２００３年に脳こうそくで倒れ、リハビリに励んでいた。妻は、元宝塚女優の暘子さん。

222：凡人：2015/12/11(金) 10:03:44 ID:da95RwFo0
これも伝統芸能の話だが、凡人は花柳界など昔テレビのドラマで見た以外はまったく知らない。「簡単でおもしろい」「お父さんはこんな楽しい所に来ているの」。いい歳した女としては、とても無邪気である。教育ある/大卒の日本人女性ではないことを祈る。こんなことに時間を潰すアメリカの教育ある主婦が何人いるだろうかとふと思う。そうかといって、大都市のほんの一部だが、チッピンデ－ルという女性向けの男性ストリップバーが存在することからも、「大人の遊び」に関しては日米、それほど関係ないだろうとも思う。だがアメリカではコミュニティや学校・教会活動に熱心な主婦が目立つ。アメリカは多民族なので一括して言えないが白人社会に限って言えば、ずっと社会的で、友人とことあるごとに自宅パーティーを開いたりして、人生を大いに楽しんでいるように見受けられる。つまり主婦層は幅広いヨコのつながりを感じさせる。その一方、日本の主婦はどうか。家の家事と育児が中心で一日が過ぎる。旦那が家の外で何をしているかさえ分からず、とても孤立している存在ということを教えれくれる。
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お座敷遊び「おもしろいわ」　女性が箱根花柳界を後押し【神奈川】
2015年12月10日　東京中日

無料公開稽古で真剣に練習する芸者たち＝箱根町で

　箱根花柳界の客層が数年前から変わり始めた。今やお座敷客の３割は女性で、外国人客も１割。顧客開拓の柱は、芸者でつくる箱根湯本芸能組合の公開稽古やお座敷遊び体験サービス、芸者バンドの活躍だ。稽古日時に合わせた観光ツアーも現れ、芸者たちは師走も箱根観光の底上げに奔走している。　（西岡聖雄）

　「扇子の上に料理があると思って息がかからないように頭を下げて」「顔を左右に動かすのは客に顔が見えるようにするため」。師匠の声が矢継ぎ早に飛ぶ。組合事務所と稽古場を兼ねる湯本見番（箱根町湯本）で、芸者たちは連日、踊りや長唄、鳴り物の芸を磨く。

　高度経済成長期、箱根全山にあった見番も、現在は湯本地区のみ。二十年前は芸者置き屋が四十軒以上あり、四百人以上の芸者でにぎわったが、置き屋は三十軒、芸者も百五十人程度に減っている。

　二〇一一年に見番を改造したのを機に、組合は月に二回、稽古を無料公開。お座敷ではあでやかな芸者たちが懸命に練習する一面や、おしろいで化粧する前の素顔を見られ、練習風景も観光資源になっている。

　宿泊客を増やそうと、今春から湯本地区の旅館・ホテルの宿泊客には無料でお座敷遊び（一時間）を体験できるサービスを毎月一回実施。唄や踊りのほか、「金比羅ふねふね〜」と歌いながら遊ぶゲームや、おばあさんとトラ、猟師のジェスチャーでじゃんけんする「とらとら」遊びを客に教えている。宿泊客以外も二千円で参加できる。

　「簡単でおもしろい」「お父さんはこんな楽しい所に来ているの」と、初体験の女性客に好評だ。芸者と一般客二百人が新年を祝う新年賀会への申し込み（一万七千円）は今回、わずか十五分でほぼ完売し、うち四割は女性客という。

　新年賀会の歓迎演奏用に結成した洋楽芸者バンド「バサラ」の知名度も向上。以前は新年賀会以外ではほとんど活動しなかったが、今年は都市部で十回以上出張演奏した。リーダーのひさ芽さんは「伝統芸能の維持、生き残りのために客の裾野を広げたい」と語る。

　組合の竹沢政子理事は「各種取り組みで大涌谷の火山活動による売り上げ減を前年比一割減に抑えられた。お座敷遊び体験を来年も続け、多くの人に伝統文化を知ってほしい」と話す。

　年内のお座敷遊び体験は十三日午後二時。公開稽古は二十六日午前十一時半と午後一時半。問い合わせは箱根湯本見番＝電０４６０（８５）５３３８＝へ。

223：凡人：2015/12/15(火) 15:01:26 ID:da95RwFo0
暇と金の余裕があれば行きたかった。
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「スター・ウォーズ」先行上映 米ロサンゼルス
2015年12月15日(火) PM 12:08　

　【ロサンゼルス共同】人気ＳＦ映画シリーズの１０年ぶりとなる新作「スター・ウォーズ　フォースの覚醒」のワールドプレミア（世界先行上映会）が１４日、米ロサンゼルスの映画館で行われた。

　スター・ウォーズは銀河の覇権をめぐる戦いを描いた一大ＳＦ叙事詩で、日本を含め世界中に根強いファンが多い。米国でも、歴代の興行収入記録を塗り替えるとの予測が出ている。

　３部９作品の構想が練られた同作は１９７７年に第１話が公開され、今作は７話目となる。８３年公開の「スター・ウォーズ　ジェダイの帰還」の約３０年後の世界を描いている。

　１４日、米ハリウッドでのスター・ウォーズの先行上映に駆け付けたファン（ゲッティ＝共同）

　「スター・ウォーズ　フォースの覚醒」の一場面（ＡＰ＝共同）

224：凡人：2015/12/29(火) 02:56:34 ID:da95RwFo0
スター・ウォーズ、世界最速で１０億ドルの興行収入
ロサンゼルス＝平山亜理　2015年12月28日09時34分　朝日

　米国の人気ＳＦ映画「スター・ウォーズ　フォースの覚醒」の世界興行収入が、公開から１２日間で１０億ドル（約１２０２億円）に達した。ＡＰ通信などが２７日、伝えた。世界最速のペースだという。

　ＡＰによると、これまでの最速記録は６月に公開された「ジュラシック・ワールド」の１３日間だった。

　「フォースの覚醒」は１６日にフランスやイタリアで公開された後、各国で公開されている。北米に次ぐ世界２位の映画市場である中国では来年１月公開予定で、さらに収入を伸ばす可能性がある。

　「フォースの覚醒」は、北米での最初の週末興行収入が、２億３８００万ドル（約２８６億円）に達して史上最高になるなど、次々と記録を塗り替えている。（ロサンゼルス＝平山亜理）

225：凡人：2015/12/29(火) 02:58:04 ID:da95RwFo0
Comic Riffs
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ becomes the fastest film ever to $1-billion mark
By Michael Cavna December 27 at 1:00 PM The Washington Post

'Star Wars' pulls in $1 billion at record speed
The latest 'Star Wars' installment crossed the $1 billion mark in ticket sales faster than any other movie in history. (Reuters)

“STAR WARS: The Force Awakens” continues to blow past box-office records like the Millennium Falcon on a Kessel Run.

The latest mark to fall: The seventh main Star Wars film has just crossed the $1-billion mark in worldwide gross faster than any movie in history.

“The Force Awakens” grossed $153.5-million domestically over the holiday weekend ― the largest Christmas holiday tally ever, and the biggest second-weekend take ever, according to studio estimates Sunday. (Final numbers are due Monday.) * The film dipped only 38-percent in its second weekend.

In North American theaters, “Force Awakens” set another record as part of its lightspeed clip: a Christmas Day take of $49.3-million.

[Reader: ‘Flowing Locks Ren is [the] Darth Emo that I just can’t stop giggling at.’]

Roughly half of the new film’s global take has come from domestic box office: a whopping $544.6-million. Combine that with a $546-million take overseas, and “The Force Awakens” has already grossed $1.09-billion worldwide.

And boosted by Star Wars, Disney has just surpassed $2-billion for the year in total domestic gross ― the first time the company has ever done so.

Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4-billion. The “Force Awakens” toys alone, according to some estimates, could reap $3-billion.

FUN WITH NUMBERS

* Domestically, “Force Awakens” is already the second biggest film of the year, trailing only “Jurassic World” ($652-million).

* Disney has three of the year’s top-four releases in domestic gross. Besides Star Wars, the Mouse House released Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ($459-million) and Pixar’s “Inside Out” ($356.5-million).

* Domestically, after just 10 days, “The Force Awakens” is already the fifth-biggest film ever (not adjusted for inflation ― as it looks to topple the champion “Avatar” ($760.5-million). Worldwide, “Force Awakens” is already the 15th-biggest film ever.

226：凡人：2016/01/03(日) 00:07:51 ID:da95RwFo0
【紅白】視聴率　関東で後半39.2％　ワースト記録更新
2016年1月2日(土) PM 01:45 oricon

　昨年大みそかの『第66回NHK紅白歌合戦』の平均世帯視聴率が2日、ビデオリサーチより発表され、関東地区では前半（後7：15〜8：55）が34.8％（前回35.1％）、後半（後9：00〜11：45）が39.2％（前回42.2％）だったことがわかった。後半は『第55回』の39.3%を下回り、2部制になった1989年以降、歴代最低となった。関西地区では前半36.8％（前回36.8％）、後半43.0％（前回43.3％）だった。

　司会は紅組が2013年以来2年ぶり2回目の綾瀬はるか、白組はV6の井ノ原快彦が初めて担当。総合司会は4年連続となる有働由美子アナウンサー、そして、これまで通算5回紅組司会を担当した黒柳徹子が務めた。

　「ザッツ、日本！　ザッツ、紅白！」をテーマに、52組の出場歌手がステージを披露。トップバッターは白組・郷ひろみ、紅組・大原櫻子が務め、白組トリはデビュー35周年の近藤真彦「ギンギラギンにさりげなく」、大トリは紅組・松田聖子が「赤いスイートピー」を歌い上げた。AKB48のステージでは、3月にグループからの卒業を控える高橋みなみへのはなむけに、“OG”の前田敦子と大島優子が登場するサプライズもあった。対戦結果は紅組が4年ぶりに勝利し、綾瀬が歓喜に泣く場面も。対戦成績は紅組30勝、白組36勝となった。

　企画コーナーでは、小林幸子が“ラスボス”として4年ぶりの紅白に降臨。ニコニコ動画とコラボレーションした巨大衣装で「千本桜」を熱唱した。戦後70年企画では女優・吉永小百合による平和へのメッセージの朗読に続いて、MISIAが長崎の平和記念公園から平和への祈り込めて歌い上げた。東日本大震災復興支援ソング「花は咲く」のコーナーでは、審査員を務めたフィギュアスケートの羽生結弦選手も参加して盛り上げた。

　人気アニメの主題歌を出場歌手が歌う「アニメ紅白」や、ディズニー・キャラクターとのコラボステージ、嵐と映画『スター・ウォーズ』との共演など、紅白でしか見られない老若男女に向けた演出が繰り広げられ、とにかく明るい安村やピスタチオら昨年ブレイクしたお笑い芸人、連続テレビ小説『あさが来た』の出演者などの多彩なゲストも駆けつけて、4時間半の生放送（ニュース中断含む）を行った。

　副音声ではバナナマンと久保田祐佳アナウンサーによる「ウラトーク」を2年連続で放送。ウラトーク席をインターネットで配信する試みも行われ、日村勇紀が踊ったり、久保田アナが歌ったり、西川貴教がゲスト出演したり、かなり自由な言動でネットをざわつかせていた。

▽最近の世帯視聴率（関東地区）
『第65回』紅組：吉高由里子／白組：嵐　前半35.1％、後半42.2％
『第64回』紅組：綾瀬はるか／白組：嵐　前半36.9％、後半44.5％
『第63回』紅組：堀北真希／白組：嵐　前半33.2％、後半42.5％

227：凡人：2016/01/04(月) 04:41:04 ID:da95RwFo0
20 modern classic movies everyone needs to watch in their lifetime
Jan. 1, 2016, 10:20 AM 203,018 1 Jason Guerrasio

There's never a bad time to dive back into the archives and watch some good movies.

And if you have some time off around the start of the new year, this might be a good time to binge some modern-day classics.

With that in mind, I've come up with 20 essential titles from the past 15 years that you should reexamine or, if you've never seen them, delve into.

1. “Donnie Darko” (2001)
Jake Gyllenhaal was just starting to get on everyone's radar when he scored one of his first lead roles, playing a troubled teen who is tormented by visions of the future and a disturbing-looking bunny. "Donnie Darko" has become a cult classic, as it captured the angst of the youth who at the time the movie was in theaters were coping with the confusion of a post-9/11 world.

2. "Bowling For Columbine" (2002)
Michael Moore's fourth feature film, which won an Oscar for best documentary, might be his best. The controversial director uses the events of the Columbine High School massacre to address the US' addiction to guns. Sadly, 14 years later the issues explored in this movie are still relevant.

3. "City of God" (2002)
This incredibly stylish look at the slums of Rio de Janeiro charts the lives of two boys as they grow up among guns and drugs. The cast is made up mostly of nonprofessional actors, which gives an authenticity to the movie. But what's most surprising about this extremely violent film is how much comedy is layered into it.

4. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004)
What do you get when you combine director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman? One of the most original love stories of the past 15 years. In one of Jim Carrey's best performances, he plays Joel, who after breaking up with his girlfriend (Kate Winslet) goes to a special doctor who specializes in erasing someone from your memory. What then unfolds, thanks to the visuals of Gondry and words of Kaufman, is near perfect.

5. "Super Size Me" (2004)
Morgan Spurlock used his outgoing personality and a hot-button topic to create a film that has defined his career. Examining the US' issue with obesity, Spurlock turned his camera to McDonald's and in the process changed the way we look at fast food (in the movie he eats only from the McDonald's menu for one month). This movie is a big part of why you see more healthy choices and no more "super size" option at McDonald's.

6. "No Country For Old Men" (2007)
The Coen brothers create a classic modern-day Western thanks to the adaptation of this Cormac McCarthy novel. Starring Josh Brolin as a man who stumbles upon a large suitcase of cash and Javier Bardem as a psychotic hit man, the movie gets better every time you see it.

7. "Ratatouille" (2007)
"Ratatouille" tells a compelling story through animation that isn't just for kids. Set in the posh Paris cooking world, "Ratatouille" follows a rat who fancies himself a chef. The movie could have been a disaster, but instead it showed that stories with lots of layers could be told well through cartoons and computer graphics.

8. "There Will Be Blood" (2007)
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a film that is epic in so many ways, including its story, its music, and its photography. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance that withstands the test of time as a maniacal oil baron.

9. "Zodiac" (2007)
David Fincher, who is known for his attraction to dark material, was perfect for bringing the story of the Zodiac Killer to the big screen. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a cartoonist for a newspaper who becomes obsessed with the case and takes over the detective work when the cops dry up on leads. Perhaps the best trick Fincher pulls off is building constant suspense so that, by the end, anyone could be the Zodiac.
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10. "Man on Wire" (2008)
Before "The Walk," we got the story about the daring high-wire walk across the Twin Towers from the real people who did it in James Marsh's "Man on Wire." The Oscar-winning documentary is elevated thanks to the man who did the walking, Philippe Petit, as our narrator. Though the reenactments show viewers how incredible the feat was, it's Petit's masterful storytelling that keeps them engaging.

11. "WALL-E" (2008)
Arguably Pixar's greatest work, "WALL-E" explores so many different issues that you can watch it a dozen times and enjoy focusing on each one. From a love story to commentaries on obesity and climate change, the movie is much more than the mere travels of a lovable robot (but that part is great, too).

12. "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)
Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited Nazi-killing movie was worth the wait. Brad Pitt plays the leader of a group of Jewish US soldiers whose mission is to kill as many Nazis as possible in France. But along with great characters like "The Bear Jew" and incredible action sequences, the film is also a love letter to cinema.

13. "Inception" (2010)
Christopher Nolan always likes to mess with us, but "Inception" is one of his biggest mind tricks. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the leader of a group who enters people's dreams to steal information. For his latest job, however, he's hired to plant a memory. This leads to a dizzying chase through the deepest subconscious that you can't turn away from.

14. "Bridesmaids" (2011)
Featuring some of the funniest women in the business, "Bridesmaids" showed that the girls could be as funny and raunchy as the guys. Along with finally giving Kristen Wiig the lead in a movie, it also turned Melissa McCarthy into a movie star and Paul Feig into the go-to director for female comedies.

15. "Drive" (2011)
Director Nicolas Winding Refn takes his love of violence and combines it with Ryan Gosling and the music of Cliff Martinez to create a slick thriller that's in the vein of '80s movies like "Thief" or "To Live and Die In LA."

16. "The Interrupters" (2011)
Before Spike Lee looked at gun violence in Chicago with "Chi-Raq," documentary filmmaker Steve James showed the people who are trying to stop the violence in "The Interrupters." Following a group of former gang members who are trying to talk some sense into the youth, James' camera captures incredible interactions in which words do much more than any gun can.

17. "The Act of Killing" (2012)
This is one of those docs that feels too horrific to be true. Documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer puts a spotlight on the genocide in Indonesia by befriending the leaders who were responsible for mass killings. He had them reenact their murders by filming them in the movie genre of their choosing.

18. "The Master" (2012)
Some of the best acting you'll ever see are the exchanges between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master." The move follows a Navy veteran who befriends the leader of an organization. The mental gymnastic the two play with each other over the course of the film is thrilling to watch.

19. "Upstream Color" (2013)
Made on a shoestring budget and self-distributed, "Upstream Color" is a inspiring tale that shows us that there's more to life than our everyday existence. Seek out this movie.

20. "Boyhood" (2014)
Shot from 2002 to 2013, Richard Linklater's look at a young boy's life from adolescence to young adulthood is a special work that has rarely been attempted. The dedication by everyone involved is commendable, but the story itself is so powerful it rivals some documentaries in how realistic it is.

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訃報
タレントの大橋巨泉さん死去８２歳…人気番組で司会
毎日新聞2016年7月20日　09時38分（最終更新　7月20日　09時51分）

　「１１ＰＭ」など人気番組の司会者として活躍したタレントで元参院議員の大橋巨泉（おおはし・きょせん、本名克巳＝かつみ）さんが１２日午後９時２９分、急性呼吸不全のため千葉県内の病院で死去した。８２歳。東京都出身。葬儀・告別式は親族のみで行った、喪主は妻寿々子（すずこ）さん。後日、しのぶ会を開く予定。

　テレビの音楽番組などの構成を手掛けた後、１９６６年に深夜の情報番組「１１ＰＭ」の司会者に。硬派なテーマを扱う傍ら、マージャンや競馬などの娯楽を解説したコーナーで注目された。

　「お笑い頭の体操」「巨泉×前武ゲバゲバ９０分！」「クイズダービー」などの番組を手掛けた。（共同）

230：凡人：2017/02/28(火) 03:56:35 ID:/9hL6NYE0
Oscar winners 2017: this year's full list
All the winners from the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday 26 February 2017
Monday 27 February 2017 10.38 ESTGuardian film

Best supporting actor
WINNER: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Best makeup and hairstyling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
WINNER: Suicide Squad

Best costume design
Allied
WINNER: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Best documentary
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
WINNER: OJ: Made in America
13th

Best sound editing
WINNER: Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best sound mixing
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours

Best supporting actress
WINNER: Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best foreign language film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
WINNER: The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

Best animated short
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
WINNER: Piper

Best animated feature
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life As a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
WINNER: Zootopia

Best production design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
WINNER: La La Land
Passengers

Best visual effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
WINNER: The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best film editing
Arrival
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

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Best documentary short
4.1 Miles
Extremis
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
WINNER: The White Helmets

Best live-action short
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
WINNER: Sing
Timecode

Best cinematography
Arrival
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Best score
Jackie
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

Best song
Audition (La La Land)
Can’t Stop the Feeling! (Trolls)
WINNER: City of Stars (La La Land)
The Empty Chair (Jim: The James Foley Story)
How Far I’ll Go (Moana)

Best original screenplay
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
WINNER: Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

Best adapted screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
WINNER: Moonlight

Best director
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
WINNER: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best actor
WINNER: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best actress
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Ruth Negga (Loving)
WINNER: Emma Stone (La La Land)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Best picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
WINNER: La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
WINNER: Moonlight

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What It Was Like Onstage During the Oscars 2017 Best Picture Mistake
By CARA BUCKLEY and BROOKS BARNESFEB. 27, 2017

Jordan Horowitz knew something was wrong the moment he saw people in headsets scurrying across the Oscars stage.

Only a minute earlier Faye Dunaway had said the words that Mr. Horowitz had longed to hear ― “La La Land” ― as she announced the best picture winner for the 2017 Academy Awards. Mr. Horowitz, a producer on that film, and colleagues and cast members raced to the stage. Mr. Horowitz spoke first ― “Thank you to the academy,” he began ― but his excitement quickly dissipated, as he recalled the shocking end to the night in an interview with The New York Times after the ceremony.

“I’m holding the envelope and the award, and I had just given my speech, and there are people on the stage with headsets, and I thought, ‘That doesn’t seem right,’” Mr. Horowitz said at the Governors Ball, the official post-Oscars celebration.

“They asked to see my envelope, which I haven’t opened,” he recalled. “Clearly something was wrong. They open my envelope, and it says ‘Emma Stone, “La La Land.”’ So clearly something is not right. The guys in headsets were going around with urgency looking for the other envelope ― it just kind of appeared,” he said. “One of the guys opens it, and it says ‘Moonlight,’ and I took it onstage and went to the microphone and said what I said.”

What Mr. Horowitz said ― “There’s a mistake. ‘Moonlight,’ you guys won best picture” ― was one of the most surprising reversals in Oscar history, with apparent human error combining with live television to powerful, jaw-dropping effect. It was also a painful reminder, on the most celebratory night of the year for the film industry, that no system of voting is perfect, and it warped and dampened the euphoria of film executives and artists who had spent years working on the two movies.

And for the academy, which had been criticized last year for #OscarsSoWhite, there might have been something of a missed moment: Instead of a proper celebration of “Moonlight,” with its all-black cast and touching personal narrative, there was a televised scene of confusion, disbelief and astonishment.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that oversaw the academy voting and handled the award envelopes, issued a statement on Monday morning that apologized to those involved with the two movies; the award category presenters, Ms. Dunaway and Warren Beatty; and to Oscar viewers “for the error that was made during the award announcement for best picture.”

The statement added, “We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the academy, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation,” a reference to the network broadcasting the show and the host of the Oscars ceremony.

PricewaterhouseCoopers prepares two identical sets of sealed envelopes. The two partners from the firm who oversee the voting process, Martha L. Ruiz and Brian Cullinan, each have a briefcase with a complete set of the envelopes inside and stand on opposite sides of the stage.

The envelope for best actress, the penultimate award of the night, came from the side of the stage where Ms. Ruiz stood.
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After Ms. Stone accepted that honor, Ms. Dunaway and Mr. Beatty came out to present the best picture award from Mr. Cullinan’s side of the stage, where a best actress envelope was still unopened. Mr. Cullinan clearly handed Mr. Beatty the wrong envelope.

After Mr. Cullinan and Ms. Ruiz realized that the wrong winner had been announced, they notified the stage manager, which set in motion a chaotic scene onstage. Those details, provided by two people familiar with the process who were not authorized to speak publicly, helped clarify some of the details of what happened onstage Sunday night.

Yet it still took more than two minutes between Ms. Dunaway announcing “La La Land” as best picture and an announcement from the “La La Land” producers that “Moonlight” was in fact the winner. Three “La La Land” producers had given acceptance speeches before the mistake was announced.

Exactly how the confusion resulting in Mr. Beatty’s being handed the wrong envelope occurred is not fully known. But it could have to do with the design. PricewaterhouseCoopers used a new envelope this year, featuring red paper with gold lettering that specifies the award inside. That may have made the outside of the envelopes more difficult to read than last year’s envelopes, which featured gold paper and red lettering. The academy is responsible for the envelope design.

“I read the card that was in the envelope,” Mr. Beatty told reporters on his way to the Governors Ball. “I thought, ‘This is very strange because it says “best actress” on the card.’ And I felt that maybe there was some sort of misprint.” Pressed further, he said, “That’s all I have to say on the subject.”

PricewaterhouseCoopers declined to comment beyond the statement it put out early Monday morning.

For the filmmakers and actors in “Moonlight,” those final seven minutes of the Oscars ceremony ― from Ms. Dunaway’s announcement of “La La Land” to the discovery that “Moonlight” had won to the speeches by its producers, by Mr. Beatty and by Mr. Kimmel ― were no less stunning.

“The last 20 minutes of my life have been insane,” Barry Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight,” told reporters backstage after the ceremony. “I don’t think my life could be changed any more dramatically than the last 20 or 30 minutes.”

André Holland, an actor in “Moonlight” who was attending the Oscars, said in an interview that he was sitting in the back of the hall with others from the film when he heard Mr. Horowitz, the “La La Land” producer, say from the stage: “There’s a mistake. ‘Moonlight,’ you guys won best picture.”

“We all looked at each other and were like, ‘Is this a joke?’” said Mr. Holland, who plays the character Kevin in the final third of the film. “We waited and kept watching ― we didn’t want to celebrate until we knew if it was a joke and whether this was really happening. It was surreal.”
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Less than two minutes later, Mr. Holland was onstage with his “Moonlight” family.

“I still couldn’t believe we were up there,” Mr. Holland said, speaking by telephone to The Times a half-hour after the ceremony. “It was a ton of people onstage, and I don’t think anyone could believe it.”

Afterward, Mahershala Ali, who won best supporting actor for “Moonlight,” said backstage that he had been thrown by the turn of events.

“I just didn’t want to go up there and take anything from somebody, you know?” he said.

Mr. Jenkins told “Entertainment Tonight” that he “could see it in Jordan’s face, that he was speaking the truth,” referring to Mr. Horowitz.

“I wanted to feel compassion for him,” Mr. Jenkins said. “I’m pretty sure the first thing I do when I get up onstage is give him a hug because it couldn’t have been easy. But these things happen, you know. They happen.”

Later, he posted on Twitter about what Mr. Horowitz had gone through:

Mr. Horowitz, who gave up the Oscar in his hand with almost preternatural calm, said that he was “sad” in that moment but also savored the fact that “La La Land” won six Oscars during the night.

“It was a surreal kind of out-of-body experience,” he said. Referring to awards season events with the “Moonlight” filmmakers and others, he added, “We’ve been on the circuit with them for six months. If that kind of thing has to happen, I’m glad to give it to them.”

As Mr. Horowitz spoke, colleagues and others came up to him, hugging him and saying how gracious he was. Then Adele Romanski, a “Moonlight” producer, came up to him, and they gave each other a huge hug. “I got to give a speech and then give you an award,” Mr. Horowitz said.
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235：凡人：2017/02/28(火) 04:43:51 ID:/9hL6NYE0
I thought that was a part of the act when watching this Oscars on TV in my apt. It turned out to be a history-making mistake in the show. LOL
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A Transcript of the Best-Picture Mixup: It Was ‘La La Land,’ Until It Was ‘Moonlight’
By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO and DANIEL VICTORFEB. 27, 2017 The New York Times

For a brief few minutes, “La La Land” lovers relished the victory, while those rooting for “Moonlight” to win best picture turned the TV off or tweeted their anguish. Then, in an awkward series of events sure to be permanently etched into Hollywood lore, it turned out to be fake news.

Presenting the best-picture award at the end of a long Oscars evening, Warren Beatty opened the envelope and after some hesitation, his fellow presenter Faye Dunaway announced that “La La Land” was the winner. Moments later, even as “La La Land” speeches began, a producer of that film made it clear that, in fact, “Moonlight” was the winner.

The words “WHAT IS HAPPENING?” trended on Twitter.

It was stunning for such a mix-up to happen on one of the most high-profile stages possible. Rumors long held that Marisa Tomei was given her best supporting actress award in 1993 by mistake, but those rumors have been thoroughly debunked.

Steve Harvey famously flubbed the winner of the 2015 Miss Universe pageant, but that gained prominence through media coverage in the days afterward. This time, the world was watching as it unfolded.

Here is a transcript of the scene. Grab your popcorn.

Warren Beatty: And the academy award [hesitates] for best picture… [hesitates again]

Faye Dunaway: You’re impossible. C’mon.

Mr. Beatty hands her the envelope.

Dunaway: “La La Land.”

The crowd erupts in applause, and the “La La Land” cast approaches the stage.

Jordan Horowitz, a “La La Land” producer: Thank you, thank you all. Thank you to the academy. Thank you to Lionsgate. Thank you to our incredible cast and crew. We’re all up here right now. Thank you to Jamie Feldman and Gary Gilbert. Thank you to my parents for supporting my choice to pursue a career in the arts, even though it was a little bit crazy. Arthur Horowitz, you are my fantasy baby. And to my kind, generous, talented, beautiful, blue-eyed wife and creative partner, Julia Hart, you have inspired me to become the man I am right now and more importantly, the man I’m still becoming. There’s a lot of love in this room, and let’s use it to create and champion bold and diverse work ― work that inspires us towards joy, towards hope and towards empathy.

Marc Platt, a “La La Land” producer: Here’s to the fools who made me dream: my uncle Gary Platt; my mentor, Sam Cohn; my parents; my children; my wife Julie, on whose shoulders I’ve stood for 40 years because she insisted I reach for the stars. And to the Hollywood community that I’m so proud to be a part of. And to the Hollywood and the hearts and minds of people everywhere, repression is the enemy of civilization. So keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow. Fred?

At this point, people onstage have clearly begun to pass around the disorienting news.
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Fred Berger, a “La La Land” producer: To the love of my life, Ali Loewy, I love you. I love you so much, to my family, Mama, Papa, Jeff [unintelligible]. Matt Plouffe, you kicked this off ― and Damien Chazelle, we’re standing on your shoulders. We lost, by the way, but, you know.

Horowitz: What? You guys, I’m sorry, no. There’s a mistake. “Moonlight,” you guys won best picture.

Members of the “Moonlight” team rise from their seats and begin to approach the stage.

Jimmy Kimmel: Guys, this is very unfortunate, what happened. Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this. I would like to see you get an Oscar, anyway. Why can’t we just give out a whole bunch of them?

Horowitz: I’m going to be really proud to hand this to my friends from “Moonlight.”

Kimmel: That’s nice of you. That’s ―

The “Moonlight” cast members ascend to the stage and exchange embraces and, possibly, condolences with the cast members of “La La Land.”

Warren Beatty: Hello. Hello. I want ―

Kimmel: Warren, what did you do!?

Beatty: I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said, “Emma Stone, ‘La La Land.’” That’s why I took such a long look at Faye, and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny.

Kimmel: Well, you were funny.

Beatty: Thank you very much, thank you very much. This is “Moonlight” ― the best picture.

Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight” director: Very clearly, even in my dreams, this could not be true. But to hell with dreams ― I’m done with it, because this is true. Oh, my goodness. I have to say ― and it is true, it’s not fake ― we’ve been on the road with these guys for so long, and that was so gracious, so generous of them. My love to “La La Land,” my love to everybody. Man.

Adele Romanski, a “Moonlight” producer: Thank you to the aca―? I don’t know what to say. That was really ― I’m still not sure this is real, but thank you to the academy. And it is so humbling to be standing up here with, hopefully, still the “La La” crew? No, O.K., they’re gone, but it’s very humbling to be up here. And I hope even more than that, that it’s inspiring to people ― little black boys and brown girls and other folks watching at home who feel marginalized and who take some inspiration from seeing this beautiful group of artists, helmed by this amazing talent, my friend Barry Jenkins, standing up here on this stage accepting this top honor. Thank you.

Jenkins: You know, there was a time when I thought this movie was impossible, because I couldn’t bring it to fruition. I couldn’t bring myself to tell another story. And so everybody behind me on this stage said, No, that is not acceptable. So I just want to thank everybody up here behind me. Everybody out there in that room. Because we didn’t do this. You guys chose us. Thank you for the choice. I appreciate it. Much love.

Kimmel: Well, I don’t know what happened. I blame myself for this. Let’s remember, it’s just an awards show. I mean, we hate to see people disappointed, but the good news is we got to see some extra speeches. We had some great movies. I knew I would screw this show up, I really did. Thank you for watching. I’m back to work tomorrow night on my regular show. I promise I’ll never come back. Good night.
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Harvey Weinstein raped me, actress tells LAPD. Investigation launched
Oct 19, 2017 By Richard Winton and Victoria KimContact Reporters - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles police are investigating new allegations against Harvey Weinstein after an Italian model-actress reported that the producer sexually assaulted her in 2013. (Al Powers / Associated Press)
Richard Winton and Victoria KimContact Reporters

An Italian model-actress met with Los Angeles police detectives for more than two hours Thursday morning, providing a detailed account of new allegations that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her at a hotel in 2013.

She is the sixth woman to accuse Weinstein of rape or forcible sex acts. Los Angeles police Capt. Billy Hayes confirmed that the department has launched an investigation into the matter.

It is the first case related to Weinstein to be reported in Southern California. New York police already have two active sex crime probes and London’s Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations made by three women.

The new allegation could be legally troubling for Weinstein because it falls within the 10-year statute of limitations for the crime that existed at the time of the alleged incident, legal experts say.

It could “open the door to a prosecution if the evidence exists,” said defense attorney Dmitry Gorin, a former L.A. County sex crimes prosecutor. Until now, most of the allegations against Weinstein that could lead to criminal charges concerned incidents that are more than a decade old.

Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” allegations of non-consensual sex, according to his representative, Sallie Hofmeister. On the latest allegation, she said: "I can't respond to some anonymous complaint."

The 38-year-old woman, who has asked not to be named because she is fearful of retaliation and concerned about protecting her children’s privacy, first contacted police on Tuesday, through her attorney, David Ring of the law firm Taylor Ring. Two detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division’s rape special section took her statement on Thursday.

She told the Los Angeles Times that the incident occurred at Mr. C Beverly Hills hotel after she attended the 8th annual Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest in February 2013. She had previously met Weinstein once, briefly, in Rome after being introduced by an acquaintance. At that time, he invited her up to his hotel room, but she said she declined. She said they spoke briefly at the film festival, but he didn’t appear to recall meeting her before.

Later, he showed up “without warning” after midnight in the lobby of her hotel, which she said surprised her because she didn’t tell him where she was staying. He asked to come up to her room. She said she told him no and offered to meet him downstairs, but soon, he was knocking on her door.

“He ... bullied his way into my hotel room, saying, ‘I’m not going to [have sex with] you, I just want to talk,’” the woman told The Times. “Once inside, he asked me questions about myself, but soon became very aggressive and demanding and kept asking to see me naked.”

She said Weinstein repeatedly bragged about his power and influence and told her not to fight him. She tried to show him pictures of her children and her mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy at the time, as she cried and begged him to go away, she said.

“He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,” she said. “He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.”

When he left, she said he told her she was very beautiful, and that she could work in Hollywood.

“He acted like nothing happened,” the woman said. “I barely knew this man. It was the most demeaning thing ever done to me by far. It sickens me still. … He made me feel like an object, like nothing, with all his power.”

After the incident, he invited her to parties at his house. She did not attend.
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Throughout the interview with The Times on Thursday, she was calm and collected ― though her voice quivered when she spoke of her three children. It is because of them, she said, that she decided to report Weinstein to the police.

At the time, she said she was too afraid, but did tell a priest, a friend and a nanny what had happened.

“I feel responsible that I didn't talk for years, I feel responsible that I didn't react that night and I didn't call the police, I feel responsible that I wasn't brave enough," she said. “All these years I’ve been thinking why I didn’t call the police immediately. I regret that I opened the [hotel] door.”

About a week before the Weinstein story broke, her high-school-aged daughter told her about how she had been experiencing mistreatment from a boy for seven months. To comfort her, she told her about the incident with Weinstein and urged her to report what was going on.

"If I need to do that, why don't you stand up for yourself?" her daughter said, she recounted. And she said her son told her: “You just need to be strong, Mom.”

Her attorney, Ring, one of L.A.’s top sex-abuse attorneys, said the woman is fully cooperating with the LAPD.

The model-actress, who was 34 at the time, is well-known in Italy, where she appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue and as an actress in Italian films.

The woman was living in Italy with her three children at the time of the alleged attack, but has since moved to Southern California.


The allegations could also bolster a New York police investigation into a report that Weinstein forced an aspiring actress in 2004 to perform oral sex on him, as the L.A. case involves similar acts. Lucia Evans told the New Yorker that Weinstein assaulted her during a meeting at his Miramax office.

Since a New York Times article first revealed allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein earlier this month, more than 40 women ― actresses, studio workers and models ― have accused Weinstein of inappropriate behavior, ranging from harassment to rape. Actresses Asia Argento, Rose McGowan, Lysette Anthony and Evans have all publicly stated that they were raped or forced to perform a sex act by Weinstein. An unnamed woman also told the New Yorker that he allegedly raped her. Eight women have received civil settlements over the years from Weinstein or his companies related to his conduct, the New York Times reported.

In other developments Thursday, a group of Weinstein Co. staffers responded to sexual harassment and assault allegations against their company’s disgraced co-founder, saying they did not know he was a “serial sexual predator.”

“We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator,” about 30 staffers said in a letter sent to the New Yorker. “We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women.”

The memo also blasted nondisclosure agreements in their contracts that some have blamed for helping to keep allegations under wraps for years.
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日本国憲法と違ってアメリカの憲法は日常生活に生きている。それを証明するかように最高法規が保障する言論や発言の自由がオスカーの授賞式でもみられる。それは映画産業に限ったことではない。さまざまな公式の場でも公然と、政権の批判を含んだ政治的な発言が飛び交う。その発言内容により人間の価値が決まるかのように。
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Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel makes anti-GOP jabs after first professing positivity
By Tyler McCarthy | Fox News

The Academy Awards get political: A look at the jabs

From President Trump to Dreamers, the Academy Awards didn't shy away from going political. Here is a roundup of host Jimmy Kimmel's and other presenters' controversial comments.

The unique monster movie "The Shape of Water" took home the award for best picture at the 2018 Academy Awards on Sunday, as host Jimmy Kimmel and some stars brought things to a political place during Hollywood’s biggest award show of the year with jabs at President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and even Fox News viewers.

Despite calling for a show filled with positivity, both the host and stars like Common, Kumail Nanjiani and Lupita Nyong'o made the movie-centric show political.

Kimmel began with an old-timey announcement in which he listed the stars in attendance, making his first political jab with “Black Panther” actress Lupita Nyong’o.

The Academy Awards tend to go a little long. In order to keep the telecast moving, host Jimmy Kimmel offered a unique prize to the winners, a jetski. Watch the funny moment.

“The stunning Lupita Nyong’o, she was born in Mexico and raised in Kenya,” Kimmel said at the top of the show. “Let the tweetstorm from the president's toilet begin!”

From there, the host launched into a positive monologue that poked fun at the whirlwind year in Hollywood, which saw the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements dominate the headlines and previous award shows. In commenting on the year’s diversity, he highlighted “Get Out” helmer, Jordan Peele.

“Jordan is only the first person in 90 years to be nominated for directing, writing and best picture for his debut film,” he said. “What a debut it was. None other than President Trump called ‘Get Out’ the best first three quarters of a movie this year.”

The final political jab came when discussing the gay romance film “Call Me By Your Name.” The host noted that the film, despite being an Oscar-nominated feature, did not score big at the box office.

“We don’t make films like ‘Call Me By Your Name’ for money,” he quipped. “We make them to upset Mike Pence.”

He lauded the actual Oscar statue, noting its age of 90 and taking a swipe at Fox News viewers in the process: "Oscar is 90 years old tonight, which means he’s probably at home tonight watching Fox News."

(In fact, according to Nielsen Media Research, the median age of Fox News is 65, meanwhile MSNBC is 66 and CNN is 59.)
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Sam Rockwell accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Pic=Sam Rockwell took home the Oscar for best supporting role for his part in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.” (AP)

He also said the Oscar, "Keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word, and most importantly no penis at all. He is literally a statue of limitations."
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The host ended his opening monologue by explaining that winners are allowed to say whatever they want in their acceptance speech, encouraging people to comment on the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla. as well as other activism with regards to the #MeToo movement.

From there, the show launched into its first trophy of the evening, with Sam Rockwell taking home the Oscar for best supporting role for his part in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

In later quips, the host commented on the recent departure of Hope Hicks from the White House, joking there was now a lack of hope at the White House.

Later, after the best documentary feature award went to “Icarus,” a film that portrays an unflattering look at doping in sports, particularly with regards to the recent scandal in Russia, Kimmel made another jab at the current political climate.

"I did it all by myself," Janney joked before launching into her speech, in which she thanked a bird.

“Now at least we know Putin didn’t rig this competition, Right?”

Kimmel wasn't the only one getting political throughout the night. Stars Kumail Nanjiani and Nyong'o took the stage to share a message of support to Dreamers ahead of announcing "Shape of Water" as the winner of best production design.

“Like everyone in this room and everyone watching at home, we are dreamers. We grew up dreaming of one day being in the movies. Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood and dreams are the foundation of America,” Nyong’o said.

“To all the dreamers out there,” Nanjiani continued. “We stand with you."

The next major award of the evening went to Allison Janney, who took home the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for her work on "I, Tonya."

"I did it all by myself," she joked before launching into her real speech, which included a thanks to her bird co-star from the hit ice skating biopic.

In the biggest stunt of the evening, Kimmel wanted to thank moviegoers for their contri


Kimmel and Gadot entered first before inviting the others in, armed with candy, a hot dog cannon and sandwiches.

“This is so much better than the Oscars,” Gadot said, before Kimmel noted that the theater had a stench of marijuana.

“It’s true,” she said. “Not that I would know.”

From there, Kimmel asked a random audience member to introduce Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph to introduce the next category.

Dave Chappelle took the stage soon after to introduce a musical performance from Common and Andra Day to perform “Stand Up for Something” as an ode to American activism with politically charged lyrics about topics like the NRA, the Parkland shooting, immigration, feminism and Puerto Rico.

Pic=Common and Andra Day performed a song accompanied by activists at the 2018 Oscars. (Reuters)

As they sang, famed activists Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council), Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee), Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative), Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund), Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm Workers of America), Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup), Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise), Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter) and Tarana Burke (Me Too) took the stage behind them, with one holding up a Puerto Rican flag at the end of the performance.

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Sam Rockwell accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Pic=Sam Rockwell took home the Oscar for best supporting role for his part in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.” (AP)

He also said the Oscar, "Keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word, and most importantly no penis at all. He is literally a statue of limitations."

The host ended his opening monologue by explaining that winners are allowed to say whatever they want in their acceptance speech, encouraging people to comment on the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla. as well as other activism with regards to the #MeToo movement.

From there, the show launched into its first trophy of the evening, with Sam Rockwell taking home the Oscar for best supporting role for his part in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

In later quips, the host commented on the recent departure of Hope Hicks from the White House, joking there was now a lack of hope at the White House.

Later, after the best documentary feature award went to “Icarus,” a film that portrays an unflattering look at doping in sports, particularly with regards to the recent scandal in Russia, Kimmel made another jab at the current political climate.

"I did it all by myself," Janney joked before launching into her speech, in which she thanked a bird.

“Now at least we know Putin didn’t rig this competition, Right?”

Kimmel wasn't the only one getting political throughout the night. Stars Kumail Nanjiani and Nyong'o took the stage to share a message of support to Dreamers ahead of announcing "Shape of Water" as the winner of best production design.

“Like everyone in this room and everyone watching at home, we are dreamers. We grew up dreaming of one day being in the movies. Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood and dreams are the foundation of America,” Nyong’o said.

“To all the dreamers out there,” Nanjiani continued. “We stand with you."

The next major award of the evening went to Allison Janney, who took home the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for her work on "I, Tonya."

"I did it all by myself," she joked before launching into her real speech, which included a thanks to her bird co-star from the hit ice skating biopic.

In the biggest stunt of the evening, Kimmel wanted to thank moviegoers for their contribution to the industry. He enlisted the help of celebrity volunteers from the crowd to surprise a group of unsuspecting people at a nearby theater who thought they were seeing “A Wrinkle in Time.”

The starpower for the stunt included Ansel Elgort, Mark Hamill, Guillermo del Torro, Gal Gadot, Lupita Nyong’o, Emily Blunt, Armie Hammer, Lin Manuel Miranda and Margot Robbie

Kimmel and Gadot entered first before inviting the others in, armed with candy, a hot dog cannon and sandwiches.

“This is so much better than the Oscars,” Gadot said, before Kimmel noted that the theater had a stench of marijuana.

“It’s true,” she said. “Not that I would know.”

From there, Kimmel asked a random audience member to introduce Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph to introduce the next category.

Dave Chappelle took the stage soon after to introduce a musical performance from Common and Andra Day to perform “Stand Up for Something” as an ode to American activism with politically charged lyrics about topics like the NRA, the Parkland shooting, immigration, feminism and Puerto Rico.

Pic=Common and Andra Day performed a song accompanied by activists at the 2018 Oscars. (Reuters)
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As they sang, famed activists Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council), Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee), Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative), Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund), Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm Workers of America), Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup), Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise), Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter) and Tarana Burke (Me Too) took the stage behind them, with one holding up a Puerto Rican flag at the end of the performance.

After that, a pre-taped segment in which actors, directors and many more spoke about the diversity of the year and the rise of diversity and the “#MeToo” and Time’s Up movements. The segment was a complete about-face from last year, in which the awards were criticized for a total lack of diversity.

“Some of my favorite movies are movies by straight white dudes about straight white dudes,“ Nanjiani said in the video. ”Now straight white dudes can watch movies starring me and you relate to them. It’s not that hard, I’ve done it my whole life.”

"I remember going to see 'Wonder Woman,' sitting in the theater and hearing women cry at this big action extravaganza. And something clicked," Berry Jenkins said. "And I’ll say it, this is what white men feel all the time, and all these women are having this experience for the first time. I imagine it will be the same thing when people go see 'Black Panther.'”

From there, "Call Me By Your Name" was awarded best adapted screenplay right before Jordan Peele took home a historic trophy for best screenplay with "Get Out."

Soon after, though, the first female nominated for best cinematography, Rachel Morrison, lost out to Roger A. Deakins for "Blade Runner 2049."

From there, “Shape of Water” took home the award for best musical score and the animated film “Coco” won best song for “Remember Me” before the special musical tribute to the artists we've lost this year.

Eddie Vedder took the stage to sing Tom Petty's "Room at the Top" as images of departed actors, directors and others in showbusiness flashed on screen. John Heard, Martin Landau, Glenne Headly, Roger Moore, Sam Shepard and Jerry Lewis were given special mention.

From there, it was time for the biggest awards of the night, starting with best director.

“These four men, and Greta Gerwig,” Emma Stone joked while announcing the nominees, noting the only female-nominee in the category.

Guillermo del Torro ultimately took home the trophy, though.

He thanked everyone for giving him and everyone in showbusiness an opportunity to "erase the lines in the sand."

"We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper."

Pic=Guillermo del Torro took home the award for best director and best picture for "The Shape of Water." (Reuters)

The coveted award for best actor in a leading role came next, with Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren taking the stage to discuss the “#MeToo” movement. They announced Gary Oldman for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in “The Darkest Hour.”

“Put the kettle on, I’m bringing Oscar home,” he said to his 99 year old mother watching at home.

From there, Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster took the stage to announce Frances McDormand as the winner of best actress for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

While accepting her award, the star asked every female that was nominated in any category in 2018 to stand before making a plea to Hollywood to finance their stories and their projects. Her parting words for the academy were "inclusion rider."

When it was all said and done, Guillermo del Torro took the stage to thank the youth for showing how films should be done while he accepted the award for best picture for his film "The Shape of Water."

"This is a door, kick it open and come in," he said.
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