Thursday, August 11, 2011

Havoc (Unrated Version)

  • A group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.Running Time: 92 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 794043843228 UPC: 794043843228 Manufacturer No: N8432
Playboy Magazine April 2000 Table of Contents COVER STORY HOT MAMA: Reformed bad girl Bijou Phillips (daughter of the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips) talks about her obsession with stripping ("I love going to strip clubs-the adrenaline rush you get is amazing"), worship of Madonna ("She's the Queen Elizabeth of the music kingdom") and her next album. You'll be happy looking at her pictures, too. FEATURES 84 BIG BIZNESS From Woodstock to MTV Limp Bizkit caused this year's biggest commotion. In a straight-up conversation, lead Bizkit Fred Durst says he writes songs about what hurts him. Or used to. He's seen too many VH I Behind the Music episodes to become a rock-and-roll casualty. BY ALISON LUNDGREN 114 20Q BARRY WHITE He wasn't always the gangster of love-in fact, at one time he was just a gangster. And a paper boy. He learned a lot along the way, though-like, watch what you say to a white woman in Alabama. BY JULIE BAIN 124 THE YEAR IN MUSIC Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey and Dixie Chicks. What can we say? PLAYBOY readers are on top of things. INTERVIEW 59 ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK PICTORIALS 74 SPRING BREAK 2000 College girls do crazy things when they emerge from dimly lit lecture halls. We went to check out the student body. 98 PLAYMATE: BRANDE Brande Roderick grew up in grape country-Sonoma-and her spirits are definitely distilled. Hef, the ultimate connoisseur, rates her VSOP 132 BIJOU Bijou Phillips is the diamond and the rough. She's a hard-core party girl who was living the rock-and-roll lifestyle long before her acclaimed album came out. NOTES AND NEWS 167 PLAYMATE NEWS The millennium twins get down at the Mansion; Lisa Dergan update; Club Lingerie. LIFESTYLE 32 VIDEO The films of Brigitte Bardot; Debra Messing of Will and Grace lists her all-time faves (think Dustin Hoffman in drag and Sigourney Weaver in skivvies).Track Listing 1. Jeff Goldblum - Born Free'ky 2. Russell Crowe - Photograph Kills 3. Bijou Philips - Polite 4. Brad Pitt - Midtown 5. Juliette Lewis - Hardly Wait 6. Dogstar - Your World 7. Mare Winningham- It's So Hard 8. Billy Bob Thornton - Island Avenue 9. Milla Jovovich - on the Hill 10. Bruce Willis - Crazy Mixed-up World 11. Johnny Depp & Iggy Pop - Hollywood AffairA group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behavior: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy Rodríguez), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swears, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and directed by Oscar winners Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (American Dream), Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior crazy/beautiful, a! nd was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Guru Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard Movie Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2010) German Style A -(Hugh Milne)(Sheela Birnstiel)(Osho)(Gayan)(Laxmi)(Marc Silverman)

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Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument used to be her grandmother’sâ€"made of warm, rich wood, and intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon.
 
When this special family heirloom vanishes from a local church, Neela is devastated. As she searches for it, strange clues surface: a tea! kettle ornamented with a familiar-looking dragon, a threatening note, a connection to a famous dead musician, and even a legendary curse. The clues point all the way to India, where it seems that Neela's intrument has a long history of vanishing and reappearing. If she is able to track it down, will she be able to stop it from disappearing again?
 
Sheela Chari's debut novel is a finely tuned story of coincidence and fate, trust and deceit, music and mystery.Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument used to be her grandmother'sâ€"made of warm, rich wood, and intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon. When this special family heirloom vanishes from a local church, Neela is devastated. As she searches for it, strange clues surface: a teakettle ornamented with a familiar-looking dragon, a threatening note, a connection to a famou! s dead musician, and even a legendary curse. The clues point a! ll the w ay to India, where it seems that Neela's intrument has a long history of vanishing and reappearing. If she is able to track it down, will she be able to stop it from disappearing again? Sheela Chari's debut novel is a finely tuned story of coincidence and fate, trust and deceit, music and mystery.Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument used to be her grandmother'sâ€"made of warm, rich wood, and intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon. When this special family heirloom vanishes from a local church, Neela is devastated. As she searches for it, strange clues surface: a teakettle ornamented with a familiar-looking dragon, a threatening note, a connection to a famous dead musician, and even a legendary curse. The clues point all the way to India, where it seems that Neela's intrument has a long history of vanishing and reappearing. If she is able to! track it down, will she be able to stop it from disappearing again? Sheela Chari's debut novel is a finely tuned story of coincidence and fate, trust and deceit, music and mystery.Protect your furniture with this set of 4 mini-mousepad coasters. Each coaster is 3.5 x 3.5 inches (width & lenght). They are soft top made out of mousepad material (polyester surface, neoprene backing) and work well as coasters. This set has (SHEELA) printed on itSHEELA Womens Suede Black WedgeGuru Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2010) German Style A reproduction poster print

CAST: Hugh Milne,Sheela Birnstiel,Osho,Gayan,Laxmi,Marc Silverman; DIRECTED BY: Sabine Gisiger,Beat Häner;

Monday, August 8, 2011

The Life Before Her Eyes

  • Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke, this powerful drama, starring Uma Thurman, unfolds in out-of-sequence flashbacks. Recklessly hedonistic teenager Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) and her best friend, a Christian virgin (Eva Amuri), come face to face with a machine-gun-wieldingmate one morning at school in a situation reminiscent of Columbine. Thurman plays the grown-up version of Diana, who has a pe
Firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) finds his life turned upside-down when his fiancée suddenly calls off their pending nuptials per the recommendation of radio love guru Dr. Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman). Determined to get back at this "love doctor," Sullivan forges a fake marriage license, "accidentally" marrying him to Emma,who's already engaged to Richard (Colin Firth). But as Patrick's charms begin to wear Emma down, she must decide which of these bachelors is her "Mr. Right." Also s! tarring Sam Shepard, Justina Machado and Isabella Rossellini in this romantic comedy that proves even the experts need to learn a few love lessons now and then.Doctor, heal thyself! That's the wry message underscoring the charming romantic comedy The Accidental Husband, which features Uma Thurman as Emma, a radio "love doctor" who can't quite seem to manage her own love life off the air. The cast is splendid, led by Thurman, who has rarely gotten to show her comic chops, and who really is very funny and has a gift for physical comedy as well. The two bachelors whose lives are accidentally (on purpose?) entangled with hers are played by two dreamboats, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (rugged firefighter Patrick) and Colin Firth (her fiancé, Richard). The chemistry between Emma and both suitors is crackling and captured well on film by director Griffin Dunne. Thurman, Morgan, and Firth are joined by a supporting cast every bit as spot-on as they are: Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams, Is! abella Rossellini, Sarita Choudhury, and Keir Dullea, each of ! whom bri ngs his or her own quirks and charms. The Accidental Husband is very much in the mode of Four Weddings and a Funeral and the Bridget Jones films--which is to say, make a date with it for your next date night. --A.T. HurleyImaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can t wait for her adult life to begin. Diana test her limits as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern. But Diana s aura of invincibility is shattered when a moment of life and death decision-making forever changes the lives of the two best friends.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini

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An engaging dark thriller about a young man after discovering a human ear in a field begins an investigation into a subculture of killers addicts and sexual deviants. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Kyle Maclachlan Dennis Hopper Run time: 120 minutes Rating: RDavid Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across ! a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cine! matic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a! nightma rish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker

Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: Anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love.

Inspired by the wonderfully odd and humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini and released on DVD for the first time, Green Porno offers a visually arresting and scientifically accurate look at the sex lives of marine animals and other creatures. This book will make you see the animal kingdom as you never have before.

Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: Anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love.

Inspired by the wonderfully odd and humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini and released on DVD for the fi! rst time, Green Porno offers a visually arresting and scientifically accurate look at the sex lives of marine animals and other creatures. This book will make you see the animal kingdom as you never have before.

A Look Inside Green Porno (Click on Images to Enlarge)

As a shri! mp, Isabella peels off her outer layer to molt. Anglerfish attract their prey with a luminous lure. A moment of passion between two squid.

TOP MODEL Issue March/April 1998 #20, Esther Canadas (Elle Top Model, March/April)

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  • Issue: March/April, #20, 1998
  • Cover: Esther Canadas
  • Features: Alex Wek, Kylie Bax.
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Title: El breve espacio. (noticias breves sobre celebridades que incluyen modelos Mark Vanderloo y Esther Cañadas; mayo 1998)(TT: Brief space) (TA: brief news about celebrities such as models Mark Vanderloo and Esther Cañadas; May 1998)
Author: Mario ! de la Reguera
Publication: Actual (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: v5 Issue: n56 Page: p4(2)

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Title: Lo que vale una imagen de Esther.(Esther Cañadas, modelo)(TT: What a image of Esther is worth.)(TA: Esther Canadas, model)
Author: Lucas Soler
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Date: January 14, 2001
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Distributed by Thomson GaleElle Magazine Top Model, Issue #20, featuring Esther Canadas.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Kim (Classic Fiction)

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Java Message Service (JMS) represents a powerful solution for communicating between Java enterprise applications, software components, and legacy systems. In this authoritative tutorial and comprehensive reference, Sun's Java Message Service architects offer start-to-finish coverage of peer-to-peer JMS development with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Release 1.3. JMS is now fully integrated into the J2EE platform -- and this is the first book to show how to make the most of JMS in the context of sophisticated J2EE application development. The authors begin by introducing the JMS API to developers who are new to it. Then, with the help of extensive programming examples, they demonstrate key JMS tec! hniques for enabling applications to create, send, receive, and read messages, and for integrating with existing back office and enterprise systems. Coverage includes: consuming messages asynchronously with message-driven beans; producing messages from application clients; accessing entity beans from message-driven bean; producing messages from session beans; and much more. For all Java developers building applications that must communicate and share information.Aimed at the more experienced Java developer who needs to work with enterprise messaging, Java Message Service API Tutorial and Reference delivers starter code and a complete reference to all JMS classes that you will need to know to work effectively with this powerful feature of the J2EE platform.

The no-nonsense, just-the-facts approach of this dual tutorial/reference is perhaps its salient feature. It explains the basics of asynchronous messaging and its advantages for robust enterprise-level applica! tions before digging right in to JMS. The authors do a good jo! b at exp laining the difference between point-to-point and publish/subscribe models of message delivery. They also give a laundry list of areas to look at to ensure reliability and robustness in JMS systems, including looking at dos and don'ts for acknowledgement, message priority, and durability.

The real focus early in the book is on the simple, but effective, sample code used to illustrate the basic APIs with short, complete examples. Though somewhat demanding, this code will be for the more experienced reader all you need to get going with JMS. There are examples of both point-to-point and publish-subscribe APIs in action. Importantly, because working with JMS can be tricky, the authors don't skimp on the practical details of compiling, deploying, and running each application. Other examples look at JMS used with Enterprise JavaBeans, including the new EJB 2.0 message bean, plus how to use JMS correctly with session and entity beans. (This can also be tricky, and the author! s go through the steps of packaging up and deploying bean JAR files, as well.)

More than half of this book is an alphabetical listing of the 46 classes available in JMS. Each class is explained, along with options and tips for using the class where appropriate. There is full coverage of basic message and exception classes and the classes you need to use for basic point-to-point and publish/subscribe processing. Obviously, this material is a must for those who prefer a printed reference instead of online help. With a quick-start tutorial and concise (yet complete) reference to all JMS classes, this title will serve a useful function for the working enterprise Java developer. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Introduction to messaging, the Java Message Service (JMS) API architecture, point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging domains described, essential JMS programming APIs (connections, sessions, message producers and consumers), the structure ! of messages, simple point-to-point and publish/subscribe examp! les (inc luding guide to deployment and execution), JMS used with multiple systems (including J2EE and non-J2EE messaging interoperability), JMS reliability mechanisms (acknowledgement, persistence, priority levels, durable subscriptions, local transactions), building J2EE clients used with message, session, and entity beans (including deployment and execution tips), a sample using multiple J2EE servers, reference to all JMS APIs: including topic and message classes, exception classes, queue classes, sessions and connections, and appendix with JMS client examples.Chander is the only tailor in his colony. Though talented, he doesn't like to work hard. He is very lazy. He thinks that one fine day his fortune will shine and he will be a king. His friend Pyare and cloth seller FTV try to convince him to do hard work, but in vain. In this process Chander Tailor meets a fortune-teller who informs that he has "Rajyog" written in his hand. Provided he'll have to marry a "Padmini jati" girl. Additionally that girl should also have a mole on her right lap. Chander is very happy to hear that. He thinks that the time has come for him to become the King. Just marry a girl with mole on thighs. He runs happily. But there's a problem. Pyare and FTV help Chander in remembering Janardhan Bhai. The colony has a saviour in form of Janardhan Bhai. If anyone tries to misbehave with the girls in the colony, he chops off their arms. But for time being he is in the prison. But Janrdhan Bhai has left Jeeva to take care of the colony. But FTV is a old time friend of Jeeva. So FTV manages to bribe Jeeva and carry on the mole searching work smoothly. Chander, Pyare and FTV start searching for the girl with mole. They target a yoga teacher, a widowed doctor and an unmarried girl with poverty. Chander tries out various ways to get close to them and searches for the mole. He stitches beautiful clothes for them and promises to marry each of them. But hell breaks on him when he discovers that there's no mole on any of the three girls laps.HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of the subcontinent. On their travels they come across Kim's father's old army regiment. The Colone! l quickly spots Kim's ability to blend into his surroundings and trains him to become a spy for the British Army. As his adventures take him further into the world of secret agents and political intrigue, Kim is torn between his spiritual self and the expectations of his British compatriots. In this exotic tale of mystery, friendship and struggle, Kipling gives a fascinating insight into the British Raj and the volatile age of Imperialism in India.One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:

Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a c! lipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of p! erfect e quality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"

In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India ! in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Girl, Positive

  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25. Lifetime explores this staggering statistic, and the world of teen love, sex and gossip, in the must-see Lifetime Original Movie Girl, Positive.Seventeen-year-old Rachel Sandler (Andrea Bowen, Desperate Housewives) is shocked out of her carefree world when word spreads through
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25. Lifetime explores this staggering statistic, and the world of teen love, sex and gossip, in the must-see Lifetime Original Movie Girl, Positive.

Seventeen-year-old Rachel Sandler (Andrea Bowen, Desperate Housewives) is shocked out of her carefree world when word spreads through her upper-middle class community that Jason, a popular athlete who recently died, was an IV d! rug user. But it's a mysterious computer message that really hits home: Jason, who Rachel had unprotected sex with, may have been HIV positive. Wanting to learn more about HIV, Rachel is urged to visit the local AIDS clinic by her new substitute teacher, Sarah Bennet (Jennie Garth, 90210). While there, Rachel takes a rapid AIDS test, but panics and leaves before learning the results. When Sarah discovers Rachel's test is positive, she breaks the shocking news to her, later revealing to Rachel that she herself has secretly been living with HIV for more than seven years. While both women wish to keep their privacy, they soon find out that with today's technology of instant messaging, cell phones and blogs, gossip--just like the disease--can spread fast and furiously.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Carmen