As I watched Josh Turner’s new video posted over at CMT this morning I thought of our little Jayce yesterday dancing with his maraca’s. He’s 2 1/2 and certainly doesn’t worry about what anyone else would think of him kicking up his heels to the music. This is the perfect example of the carefree attitude we all should have especially this time of year when stress is at the max.
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Anti-Aging: Why Don’t We Just Dance
Old-school … The Princess and the Frog The winner Disney’s animation chief John Lasseter may be more readily associated with the Pixar brand, but he’s a sentimentalist and a student of animation history, which is why several years ago he put his weight behind The Princess and the Frog . It paid off, as Disney’s first hit hand-drawn 2D animated musical in some time soared to the top of the charts with $25m (£15.3m) in its first wide weekend, according to studio estimates. The film was already a winner in its first two weekends, frankly, when it was playing in two cinemas and averaging around $380,000 per site – a phenomenal amount
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Disney enjoys princely box-office receipts for Princess and the Frog
By John Bingham Published: 7:40AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The Children’s Secretary is expected to unveil details of a shake-up of rules requiring millions of adults who work with children to undergo criminal records checks. He announced on Sunday that two million people who would have been caught by the rules will no longer have to undergo the checks if they have contact with the children less often than once a week.
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Nine million face paedophile checks despite Ed Balls U-turn
‘The sad fact is that most of the films we are celebrating tonight won’t be seen in large areas of Europe,’ Loach commented after receiving the award. Photograph: Henning Kaiser/AFP/Getty Images Grit, not glamour, proved the order of the day at the 22nd annual European film awards, which took place inside a former power station in Germany’s industrial heartland, and handed a lifetime achievement award to the director Ken Loach . The leading light of social-realist British cinema seemed to relish his trip to the Ruhr region, a landscape dominated by smokestacks and coal-mines.
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Ken Loach wins lifetime achievement honour at European film awards
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor, Kandahar Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The Government will announce on Tuesday that more than £150 million of new funding will be allocated to tackle the increasing threat which follows the death of 100 British troops in Afghanistan this year. After talks with military commanders, Gordon Brown disclosed that British forces have diffused 1600 improvised explosive devises (IEDs) – an average of one every two hours – in the past few months. The Taliban’s increased use of the devices will heighten growing fears that the British death toll in Afghanistan could rise sharply in the coming months as the first of Britain’s additional 500 troops arrive in the country
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Troops in Afghanistan find roadside bomb every two hours, says Gordon Brown
By Caroline Gammell Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 Andrew Walker, head of the Commons’ Fees Office which scrutinised the claims, was widely criticised in the aftermath of The Daily Telegraph investigation. In several cases, Fees Office staff were found to have waved through and even encouraged questionable claims from members. John Bercow, who took over as Speaker in June, said that he did not expect Mr Walker – who some feel has been made a scapegoat – to feature in the new expenses vetting process
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MPs’ Expenses: senior official involved in expenses ‘unlikely’ to play role in future
Unfortunately millionaire hotelier husband Conrad hilton was a gambler and a drunk who “got a kick out of beating the s*** out of me,” according to his bride. In 1952 Taylor replaced him with mild-mannered elderly English actor Michael Wilding
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REVIEW: How to be a movie star Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
There’s a bracing anger and sadness to Max that makes you immediately root for him, aided by the photogenic Records’s natural, uncutesy performance. After rowing with his mother (biting her for good measure) he runs away in his wolf costume, emerging through some woods by a small lake where a rowing boat takes him to a distant shore and the land of the wild things.
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REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are
I am horribly disciplined; I’ve written God knows how many thousands of columns and 18 books, so I’d be happy to write full time but there hasn’t been the opportunity yet.” though 51-year-old Sandi has a place in London, the family home with her partner and three children is in Surrey and, in the New year, she reveals: “We are moving even further afield. I’m trying more and more to have a country life
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Sandi Toksvig gets in the festive spirit
Another Vivix testimony for you to consider.
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Vivix Resveratrol - Seizures for 5 yrs. Finally Gone
