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'Dark Shadows' Photos Reveal Faithful Fashion
Vanity Fair character portraits prove Tim Burton is sticking with the aesthetic of the '60s series.
By John Mitchell
Johnny Depp in "Dark Shadows"
Photo: Warner Bros
Another week has passed, and we still don't have a "Dark Shadows" trailer. For those keeping tabs, we're just over two months out (70 days, to be exact) from the scheduled release of Tim Burton's campy vampire blockbuster. But to whet increasingly impatient fans' appetites, in this month's Vanity Fair, Burton and company have released some character portraits of Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard and Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman.
The images — which are not yet available on Vanity Fair's website but you can see here — are nothing we haven't seen before. But hey, at least it means Warner Bros. is doing some promo, right?
Taking a close look at the portraits — and, really, we might as well, because there isn't much other "DS" material to stan over — it's striking just how close Burton and costume designer Colleen Atwood have kept Depp's big-screen styling to the Barnabas that "Shadows" series creator Dan Curtis developed for actor Jonathan Frid all the way back in 1967. The more we see of Depp in character, the more we're reminded of Frid, who also appears in the film.
"Johnny's very open about what things are in the process, but he really lets people present things to him. He never really pushes at all," Atwood told MTV News late last year about Depp's costuming for "Shadows."
"Sometimes he doesn't even look in the mirror in his fittings. It's so funny. It's pretty amazing. People would be surprised, because I think they have this image of Johnny, because he's so stylish always, but he really feels his costumes, more than looks at them, and the movement and the feeling in them is really important."
From the hair and pale, monstrous makeup to the penchant for 18th-century bling, it's kind of amazing how closely Burton is hewing to the look already established for the characters in the late-'60s series. And that's true of nearly all the key players in his adaptation: He's taken famed brunette Eva Green blonde, as Angelique (played by Lara Parker) was on the show, given Bonham Carter's eccentric Dr. Julia Hoffman the same sweeping '60s 'do worn by Grayson Hall and has Pfeiffer sporting dark, regal ensembles similar to those worn by Joan Bennett to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.
One notable exception is Chloë Moretz, who plays Carolyn Stoddard in Burton's "Shadows." In both the original '60s soap and the short-lived early '90s revamp, Carolyn is portrayed as being in her early 20s, but Moretz's Carolyn will be, like the actress in real life, 15 years old.
Indeed, Burton made a command decision to avoid the sexy vampire cliché that has become pervasive in movies these days. That he did so when his star is arguably one of the sexiest movie stars on the planet is especially commendable. Depp is far from what we deem traditionally sexy, but we still think he's weirdly alluring. Such is the power of the Depp, we suppose.
What do you think of these latest character portraits? Are you weirdly drawn to Johnny Depp's Barnabus too? Let us know in the comments below and tweet me at @JohnMitchell83 with your thoughts and suggestions for future columns!
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1680354/dark-shadows-character-portraits.jhtml
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Ometepe enters digital era
Thousands of school children and their families living on the volcanic island of Ometepe were ushered into the digital age yesterday thanks to an ambitious effort by Nicaragua?s Zamora Ter?n Foundation to provide special educational laptops to all elementary school students in the country.
In an effort to boost primary school enrollment, reduce poverty and close the digital divide in Nicaragua, the Zamora Ter?n Foundation yesterday handed out 5,000 XO laptops to all primary school students and teachers in Altagracia, Ometepe.
The massive laptop giveaway makes Ometepe the first ?digital island? in Latin America, according to Zamora Ter?n Foundation, a nonprofit group founded as part of LAFISE BANCENTRO?s corporate responsibility efforts.
The XO laptops do not allow unlimited Internet navigation?a cyber-surfing block in place to prevent students from accessing inappropriate websites or wasting time on Facebook. ?
The free, island-wide wireless connection is made possible by Amnet telecommunications, which has installed four large transmission towers in the urban centers of Ometepe, as well as 32 smaller antenna points at all the primary schools.
All teachers were also given laptops installed with teacher-training programs, to help them stay a step ahead?or at least on pace?with the children.
According to the Zamora Ter?n Foundation, each laptop will benefit six people?the average size of a Nicaraguan household.
?This is something that is very important for the children and population of our island?a day for the history pages of Ometepe,? Aurora Elena Alvarez, vice mayor of Altagracia, told The Nicaragua Dispatch. ?First we become an UNESCO island biosphere reserve, and now a digital island.?
Since 2009, the Zamora Ter?n Foundation?an organization dedicated to helping children from low socioeconomic backgrounds receive the tools they need for a quality education?has implemented the ?One Laptop Per Child Program? in 12 departments of Nicaragua. To date, the foundation has handed out a total of 26,000 XO laptops throughout Nicaragua, in communities in Managua, Masaya, Chontales, Carazo, Le?n, Boaco, Chinandega, Matagalpa, Rivas, the RAAN and the RAAS.
The goal is to handout 500,000 laptops by the year 2015, in an effort to help Nicaragua meet its Millennium Development Goals.
The XO laptop program is considered exemplary in the world.
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Source: http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com/community-news/ometepe-enters-digital-era/2542
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Friday, March 2, 2012
CSN: Konerko's untold story about Ventura vs. Ryan
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Aug. 4, 1993, might have been just one day on the calender, but for Robin Ventura it?s a date he won?t be able to escape for the rest of his life.
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It was on this fateful evening that a 26-year-old Ventura charged the mound in Arlington, Texas against 46-year-old Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan, who proceeded to hammer Ventura with an embarrassing array of noogie shots to his head. Even if Ventura had gone on to hit the game-winning home run in a World Series, he might not have been able to top the visuals of this chaotic and surreal melee, easily one of the greatest in baseball history.
?I think there might have been 500,000 people in the stadium when that happened, because everyone says they were at that game,? Ventura says about the play that has been replayed so many times, it probably belongs in the Hall of Fame along with Nolan Ryan himself.
That summer, the U.S. Junior Olympic baseball team spent two weeks training in Tyler, Texas. It was a squad comprised of players either going into their senior years in high school or recent draftees who had just graduated.
The day of the game, the team made the two-hour bus ride to Arlington to watch the Rangers play the White Sox. They arrived early to watch batting practice. Afterwards, they were led into the tunnel near the visiting clubhouse where they were introduced to the one and only Robin Ventura.
?We all had our USA garb on, and lo and behold Robin comes out because he was an ex-USA baseball player,? remembers a certain player on that team. ?He gave us a little pep talk and said hello.?
This young ballplayer hoped to follow in Ventura?s footsteps. He didn?t just want to make it to the major leagues, he wanted to excel at the sport, and play the game right. Ventura was a perfect example of this type of ballplayer; a model citizen who probably drank milk and called his mother every day -- or at least that was the image of Ventura at the time.
Well, that was until the game started.
It was just a brief meeting, but Robin made an impression on the team, and specifically on that one player who would eventually fulfill his dream of baseball, later becoming one of the game?s biggest stars.
Who was he?
None other than Paul Konerko.
It was a chance meeting that Konerko remembers vividly. Ventura....not so much.
?I don?t remember it all,? Ventura says. ?Apparently, I was talking to a U.S. team, an amateur team about sportsmanship. Things went a little haywire in the game.?
Did they ever.
?They probably just grabbed him and he didn?t even know what it was, and he came out said hello, said hi, good luck guys, and that kind of stuff,? says Konerko. ?Two hours later there?s a riot on the field that he caused.?
The White Sox and Rangers hadn?t been getting along at the time. Alex Fernandez plunked Texas slugger Juan Gonzalez the inning before. If Ryan wanted to retaliate (as he often did), Ventura was the logical target because his single in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead. But even before the game began (right around the time he met with the young Olympians about ?sportsmanship?), Ventura told his teammates that if he got hit, he was going to charge the mound no matter who was out there.
Watching the brawl unfold from the left field bleachers was a stunned Konerko.
Did seeing Ventura go after one of the best, most respected players in the game change his opinion of him?
Nope. The opposite.
?That made me think nothing less of him, only more because anybody who?s going to charge Nolan Ryan, you gotta have...?
Konerko paused for a few seconds, trying to find the right word he can use on family television. Then one popped in his head.
?You gotta have some guts let?s just put it that way.?
Ventura fighting Ryan, as crazy as it was, made him a hero to his White Sox teammates. Now a 14-year veteran himself, it?s an attitude Konerko loves to see in a clubhouse.
?That gives you ultimate respect in this game if you say, ?Hey this guy throws at me a lot or he throws at our team a lot, if he hits me, I?m gone. Be ready.? That?s ultimate respect in the fact that he followed up on his word,? Konerko says.
Ventura was ejected, but Ryan, for some inexplicable reason, was able to stay in the game.
?And I remember for every inning after that, the whole place was chanting ?Nolan? for what seemed like an hour long,? Konerko says. ?It was an electric-type atmosphere after that happened.?
When the Olympic coaches thought of taking their players to a baseball game, this was not exactly the kind of experience they probably had in mind. So what kind of affect did the fight have on those young, impressionable minds?
?Obviously, one guy became a major leaguer so it must have been pretty good,? Ventura says laughing.
And now as fate would have it, where does Ventura make his White Sox managing debut on Opening Day? Texas. And who?s the president of the Rangers? Nolan Ryan.
Somewhere out there the person who makes out the MLB schedule is giggling profusely.
?They?ll get all hopped up on it, but I?m not playing,? Ventura says about what the fan reaction will likely be. ?It?s not going to affect me as far as winning or losing the game. I?m more concerned about how we do in the game than about getting booed or somebody yelling at you. I mean that?s been happening for years.?
It follows Ventura wherever he goes.
?He makes a joke out of it,? Konerko says. ?Whenever he?s in a public setting they have a pool going. How long is it going to take for [the Ventura/Ryan fight] to get brought up. He just knows that people are always going to say, ?What about Nolan Ryan???
While Ventura says that 500,000 fans claim they were in attendance that night, the official number is 32,312. Paul Konerko will always be able to say that he was one of them.
?There have been a million fights in the game and all that, but with Nolan Ryan, it?s just a legendary moment in the game that will always be, so I?m happy and proud to say that I was there for it.?
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Top Ten Cities to Buy REO's and Pre-Foreclosures | Real Estate ...
By Dennis Norman, on March 1st, 2012
Included in the RealtyTrac report were charts showing the ten metro areas in the U.S. with the biggest discounts on REO sales and Pre-closure sales:
Top metros to buy bank-owned
Among metro areas with at least 500 REO sales during the fourth quarter and where REO sales increased at least 5 percent from a year ago, the following posted the biggest discounts on sales of bank-owned properties.
Top metros to buy pre-foreclosure (short sales)
Among metro areas with at least 500 pre-foreclosure (short) sales during the fourth quarter and where pre-foreclosure sales increased at least 5 percent from a year ago, the following posted the biggest discounts on sales of pre-foreclosure properties. A few metro areas (Chicago, Atlanta and Seattle) are on both lists, demonstrating that buyers are finding substantial discounts on both short sales and bank-owned homes in these markets.
Source: RealtyTrac
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