On the Court with... Venus and Serena Williams

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One of the biggest stars in tennis, Serena Williams has captured every major title. Her 2009 Australia Open championship earned her the #1 world ranking for the third time in her illustrious career - and marked only the latest exclamation point on a life well and purposefully lived. As a young girl, Serena began training with an adult-sized racquet that was almost as big as her. Rather than dropping the racquet, Serena saw it as a challenge to overcome-and she has confronted every obstacle on her path to success with the same unflagging spirit. From growing up in the tough, hardscrabble neighborhood of Compton, California, to being trained by her father on public tennis courts littered with broken ! glass and drug paraphernalia, to becoming the top women's player in the world, Serena has proven to be an inspiration to her legions of fans both young and old. Her accomplishments have not been without struggle: being derailed by injury, devastated by the tragic shooting of her older sister, and criticized for her unorthodox approach to tennis. Yet somehow, Serena always manages to prevail. Both on the court and off, she's applied the strength and determination that helped her to become a champion to successful pursuits in philanthropy, fashion, television and film. In this compelling and poignant memoir, Serena takes an empowering look at her extraordinary life and what is still to come.

Venus and Serena Williams have something to say. But it isn’t all about tennis. It’s about life and how to play it.

These superstars and super sisters share their secrets in this straight-talking smart guide. Speaking candidly about their personal experiences, the sist! ers give you the inside scoop on:

• What it takes to! rise an d stay on top.
• Who watches their backs when the pressure is on.
• How they spend—and save—their money.
• Dating—their real deal on romance.
• Book smarts—keeping grades up and study stress down.
• Loving the skin you’re in.

This book offers solid advice for getting an advantage in every game you play.

The author shares the life stories of Venus and Serena Williams, who charged onto center court in professional tennis at the end of the 20th century with a force never before seen in the sport. No other women tennis players have matched their strength, their speed, or their overall athleticism, and none have achieved the status and celebrity they have gained on and off the court as they powered to the number one and two rankings in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Venus and Serena Williams represent in many ways a shift in attitudes concerning women in sports, particularly African American women. By playing tough tennis,! they conveyed to the public that it was acceptable for women to be strong, to have muscles, and to compete.

When Venus and Serena first appeared in the public eye, their hair bound in beads bespoke their ethnic pride, the braces on their teeth belied their youth, and their grit and determination enabled them to withstand challenges concerning the attitudes of these young African American women in what had traditionally been a white-washed sport. This book shares their stories, and it provides a way to consider the impact of race, gender, and culture, and the influence these have through sport in shaping popular culture. Includes a timeline and a bibliography of print and electronic sources for additional research.

The lives and careers of the tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams are documented, with special attention paid to the training techniques of their father Richard Williams.With authorized bios like this, who needs exposés? While thrilling to! urnament footage attests to Venus and Serena Williams's domina! tion of tennis, they come off as mere pawns to their father, self-proclaimed "master planner" Richard, who, as the narrator informs viewers, "single-mindedly raised two sporting champions." Richard has served as the sisters' manager, coach, and father, and according to this program he planned his daughters' destinies before they were born. There is no arguing with his success, which is delineated in the number of championships won, the endorsements earned, and the sisters' phenomenal net worth. But self-deprecation ("I'm just a poor little cotton picker") is not Richard's game. "People look up to me wherever I go," he states at one point. "It's like I'm a god almost." There is much here to inspire young fans, who may enjoy the charming home movie footage and living vicariously through the women's glamorous off-court activities, which range from fashion shoots and music video appearances to commercials. But Richard's harrowing memories of growing up in the segregated South may be too! graphic for some. --Donald Liebenson How To Play Tennis, by Venus and Serena Williams, is the perfect courtside companion for young tennis players of all levels. Detailed photography and text explain everything about the game of tennis‹from dressing for the court and holding a racket to executing the perfect lob and smash. The Williams sisters offer pro tips, demonstrate the techniques that took them to the top, and inspire young readers become the best tennis players they can be.Serena and Venus Williams have captured the attention of the tennis crowd. This title contains photographs, their statistics and a list of career highlights for the sisters.
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Diya Mirza Bollywood Canvas Art Canvas Print Picture print Size: (44" x 30")

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In the world of Armaan and Gehna, life is truly beautiful, yet it's like walking on a tightrope. For Armaan, the fashion photographer, debonair, charmer to the core and loved by all around him, life only gets better when he dates Gehna, a High profile fashion magazine editor. Life is picture perfect a doting girlfriend, a job where his expertise with the camera makes him the most wanted photographer in the London fashionista!

Armaan learns that his chronic insomnia is however not a function of any sleeping disorder. The truth is that he hears voices; vo! ices that torture him; voices that are disturbing him. More importantly voices that nobody else can hear! Life is less than picture perfect right now! While his friends sympathize with his problems, his girlfriend Gehna is irritated with his weird behavior. Add to that, her father constantly berates him for his fondness for the bottle. No one seems to understand his predicament. What puzzles everyone, is the fact that he talks to himself or rather, he talks to people, who no one can see, simply because they don't live.

Soon, Armaan becomes aware of his special ability to connect with the souls that haven't crossed over. Equipped with a will to fulfill the wishes of these spirits who hound him, Armaan sets out on a mission to help out three souls- a child, Ali, an old man, Mr. Kapoor and a young woman, Carol. In this ensuing journey that follows, Armaan discovers the lives of his three special companions and ends up frustrating Gehna.
Yet, Armaan is on a journey where h! e discovers a lot about his own self, his own life for the fir! st time. The above product is a FRAMED CANVAS meaning it comes ready stretched on a canvas stretcher bar frame. All you need to do is take it out the box, hang it on your wall stand back and admire! We are a specialist Canvas Printing company who now also manufacture and produce Perspex printed mounts. Over the last 6 years we have grown to become the UK's largest seller of Printed Canvas Art. This year alone we have already shipped out in the region of 168,000 canvas prints. We operate from a fully equipped 6000sqft art studio based in London (UK). All our canvas prints are printed on the highest quality canon canvas printing machines and are hand stretched by our professional 12 man stretching team. All items are made to order and nothing is bulk created and stored away. We have all our raw materials such as canvas, stretcher bars and packaging specially manufactured for us. We pride ourselves on the highest of quality and customer services. If you have any questions related to th! is product or any of our services feel free to contact the Canvas101 team. DON'T BE PUT OF ORDERING; if you're ordering from the USA or CANADA please don't be put of ordering just because we are on the other side of the country. We have teamed up with world leaders FEDEX and are now able to get a parcel from the UK to the USA within 48-72 of you placing your order. We have also been known to ship good to the USA within 24 hours before. In order to make ordering as easy as we can we have also set up a US based telephone support number ( 16467701959 ) which is available from 8.00am - 6.00pm (GMT)

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Michelle Hunziker Celebrity Supermodel Canvas Art Canvas Print Picture print Size: (32" x 20")

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Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 71. Capitoli: Elio e le Storie Tese, Simona Ventura, Paola Cortellesi, Michelle Hunziker, Cochi e Renato, Claudio Bisio, Gene Gnocchi, Albertino, Gino e Michele, Antonella Elia, Natalino Balasso, Checco Zalone, Gabriele Cirilli, Rocco Tanica, Gioele Dix, Gianni Fantoni, Enrico Brignano, Paolo Cevoli, Vanessa Incontrada, Ale e Franz, Geppi Cucciari, Ficarra e Picone, Raul Cremona, Pino Campagna, Zuzzurro e Gaspare, Maurizio Lastrico, Marco Marzocca, Mago Forest, Enrico Bertolino, Carlo Turati, Franco Neri, Anna Maria Barbera, Giova! nni Vernia, Flavio Oreglio, Fichi d'India, Nino Formicola, Bruno Arena, Teresa Mannino, Claudio Batta, Alessandro Politi, Max Pisu, Paolo Migone, Rocco Barbaro, Rosalia Porcaro, Beppe Braida, Giovanna Donini, Giovanni Cacioppo, Dado, Alessandro Fullin, Katia & Valeria, Lucio Wilson, Giuseppe Giacobazzi, Giancarlo Kalabrugovic, Debora Villa, Antonio e Michele, Federico Andreotti, Federico Basso, Leonardo Manera, Antonio Cornacchione, Massimo Bagnato, Tressardi, Marco Della Noce, Fabrizio Fontana, Le Tutine, Pali e Dispari, Diego Parassole, Giancarlo Bozzo, Mammuth. Estratto: Elio e le Storie Tese (talvolta abbreviato in EelST o Elii) sono un gruppo musicale italiano di Milano, fondato da Stefano Belisari (in arte Elio) nel 1980. Il gruppo ha conosciuto, nel tempo, una popolarità sempre crescente, alimentata prima dalla circolazione di registrazioni bootleg dei loro spettacoli in locali come il Magia Music Meeting e lo Zelig di Milano, poi dalla pubblicazione dei primi album! e dalle numerose comparse in televisione (Lupo solitario e L'! araba fe nice su Italia 1, al seguito della Gialappa's band in Mai dire gol o di Claudio Bisio a Zelig). Apprezzati e conosciuti particolarmente da un pubblico giovanile, nel 1996 salgono alla ribalta internazionale arrivando secondi al Festival di Sanremo con La terra dei cachi. Nel 1999 ricevono a Dublino il premio come best italian act agli European Music Awards di MTV e nel 2003 ...Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michelle Yvonne Hunziker (born January 24, 1977) is a Swiss television hostess, actress, model and singer known to Italian, German and Swiss audiences.Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 47. Capitoli: Mina, Michelle Hunziker, Rita Pavone, Benedetta Mazzini, James Thierrée, Ursula Andress, Bruno Ganz, Liselotte Pulver, Vincent Pérez, Howard Vernon, Katerina Graham, David Zogg, Paul Müller, Markus Zohner, Maria Schell, Patrizia Barbuiani, Irène Jacob, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Michel Simon! , Dani Levy, Erna Schürer, Urs Althaus, Sofia Milos, Daniel Bernhardt, Alberto Canetta, Ketty Fusco, Yor Milano, Nella Martinetti, Mariuccia Medici, Dolores Wettach, Marthe Keller, Melanie Winiger, Gregory Brian Waldis, Nuot Arquint, Aom Flury, Monica Zanchi, Michael von der Heide, Ursela Monn, David Bennent, Sergio Filippini, Charlotte Schwab. Estratto: Mina, nome d'arte di Mina Anna Mazzini (Busto Arsizio, 25 marzo 1940), è una cantante, conduttrice televisiva e attrice italiana naturalizzata svizzera. Erroneamente molte fonti riportano "Anna Maria Mazzini" come vero nome di Mina, che in realtà è "Mina Anna Mazzini". È nota per le qualità della sua voce che si possono definire di soprano drammatico d'agilità, pur non avendo l'impostazione accademica del soprano classico. Il suo strumento, dal timbro caldo e personalissimo, subito riconoscibile, è dotato di grande ampiezza, estensione e agilità ed è sostenuto da una tecnica saldissima; Mina si distingue anche per! le doti interpretative e la ecletticità, che l'hanno portata! ad affr ontare con successo generi musicali spesso lontani tra loro. Sono svariate le canzoni in cui dimostra le sue innate capacità sotto l'aspetto della tecnica vocale, del senso ritmico e del virtuosismo. Una per tutte: Brava. Artista di fama internazionale, Mina è considerata da molti la più grande cantante italiana di musica leggera e una delle voci più apprezzate dell'intero panorama musicale mondiale. La sua voce, dal timbro inconfondibile, si distingue per potenza, estensione, sensualità, agilità. La sua carriera, lunga mezzo secolo, è iniziata alla fine degli anni cinquanta. Sulla scena internazionale ha raccolto i...Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 41. Capitoli: Mina, DJ BoBo, Paolo Meneguzzi, Michelle Hunziker, Rita Pavone, Mani Matter, Rosie Wiederkehr, Katerina Graham, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Steve Lee, Patrick Nuo, Rosanna Rocci, Paola del Medico, Christina Moser, Stephan Eicher, Anita Traversi, Nella Martinetti, Sabine Dünser, Lys Assia, Anna Rossinelli, Nina Dimitri! , Jaël, TinkaBelle, Sophie Hunger, Nuot Arquint, Chrigel Glanzmann, Francine Jordi, Michael von der Heide, Dieter Meier, Pepe Lienhard, Piera Martell, Arlette Zola, Véronique Müller, Carole Vinci, Simone Drexel. Estratto: Mina, nome d'arte di Mina Anna Mazzini (Busto Arsizio, 25 marzo 1940), è una cantante, conduttrice televisiva e attrice italiana naturalizzata svizzera. Erroneamente molte fonti riportano "Anna Maria Mazzini" come vero nome di Mina, che in realtà è "Mina Anna Mazzini". È nota per le qualità della sua voce che si possono definire di soprano drammatico d'agilità, pur non avendo l'impostazione accademica del soprano classico. Il suo strumento, dal timbro caldo e personalissimo, subito riconoscibile, è dotato di grande ampiezza, estensione e agilità ed è sostenuto da una tecnica saldissima; Mina si distingue anche per le doti interpretative e la ecletticità, che l'hanno portata ad affrontare con successo generi musicali spesso lontani tra loro. So! no svariate le canzoni in cui dimostra le sue innate capacità! sotto l 'aspetto della tecnica vocale, del senso ritmico e del virtuosismo. Una per tutte: Brava. Artista di fama internazionale, Mina è considerata da molti la più grande cantante italiana di musica leggera e una delle voci più apprezzate dell'intero panorama musicale mondiale. La sua voce, dal timbro inconfondibile, si distingue per potenza, estensione, sensualità, agilità. La sua carriera, lunga mezzo secolo, è iniziata alla fine degli anni cinquanta. Sulla scena internazionale ha raccolto il plauso di artisti quali Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Liza Minnelli, ...Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 96. Capitoli: Michelle Hunziker, Paola Perego, Isabella Rossellini, Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni, Roberta Capua, Anna Falchi, Elisabetta Gregoraci, Francesca Lukasik, Alessia Merz, Caterina Murino, Mariacarla Boscono, Marina Lotar, Micol Ronchi, Eva Riccobono, Antonella Mosetti, Martina Colombari, Bianca Balti, Melita Toniolo, Cristina Chiabotto, Manuela ! Arcuri, Marisa Sacchetto, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Malisa Longo, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Alessandra Ambrosio, Melissa Satta, Vittoria Belvedere, Sara Tommasi, Leyla Pafumi, Elisabetta Dessy, Raffaella Fico, Samantha De Grenet, Yvonne Sciò, Vanessa Incontrada, Denny Méndez, Alessia Fabiani, Natasha Stefanenko, Elenoire Casalegno, Rocco Pietrantonio, Nora Amile, Francesca Gollini, Margareth Madè, Sabrina Colle, Miriam Leone, Elena Santarelli, Francesca Chillemi, Vanessa Hessler, Naike Rivelli, Milena Miconi, Francesca Fioretti, Desirèe Noferini, Roberta Mancino, Barbara Chiappini, Maria Mazza, Valeria Cavalli, Silvia Toffanin, Gloria Bellicchi, Federica Moro, Cristina D'Alberto Rocaspana, Francesca Dani, Francesca Dellera, Giulia Borio, Raffaello Balzo, Vanessa Viola, Francesca Lodo, Claudia Trieste, Ivan Olita, Anita Pallenberg, Daniele Interrante, Iris Peynado, Maria Perrusi, Roberta Potrich, Sarah Calogero, Adriana Volpe, Silvia Rocca, Linda Santaguida, Arianna Marchetti, Pamela! Camassa, Fabio Lanzoni, Daniela Bianchi, Maddalena Ferrara, S! usanna H uckstep, Chiara Baschetti, Randi Ingerman, Edy Campagnoli, Veronica Olivier, Manuel Casella, Nadir Caselli, Federica Fontana, Beatrice Borromeo, Morena Salvino, Sara Franchetti, Alessia Piovan, Cinzia Molena, Francesca Mazzalai, Sara Zanier, Afef Jnifen, Michela Rocco di Torrepadula, Adriana Rame, Petra Scharbach, Samuele Riva, Matteo Viviani, Anna Montinari, Caterina Ravaglia, Letizia Raco, Antonia Dell'Atte, Rosario Rannisi, Jgor Barbazza, Luciano De Luca, Rosangela Bessi, Beppe Convertini, Jean Mary Carletto, Paola Pitti, Daniela Ferolla, Beatrice Co...Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 23. Capitoli: Gerry Scotti, Lorella Cuccarini, Michelle Hunziker, Natalia Estrada, Marco Columbro, Teo Teocoli, Ezio Greggio, Marisa Laurito, Zuzzurro e Gaspare. Estratto: Gerry Scotti, pseudonimo di Virginio Scotti (Miradolo Terme, 7 agosto 1956), è un conduttore televisivo, attore, disc jockey ed ex parlamentare italiano. Tra i programmi da lui condotti si ricordano Chi vuol essere milionario?, ! Passaparola, Paperissima, Io canto, La Corrida e Lo show dei record. Viene considerato come una delle personalità e uno dei presentatori di punta di Mediaset. Virginio Scotti (successivamente conosciuto con lo pseudonimo di Gerry) nasce a Camporinaldo, frazione facente capo al comune di Miradolo Terme (Pavia) il 7 agosto 1956, prendendo il nome da uno zio.. Il padre Mario, milanese, è operaio: lavora alle rotative del Corriere della Sera; la madre, di Miradolo Terme, è una casalinga. Dopo pochi mesi dalla nascita del proprio figlio, la famiglia Scotti si trasferisce a Milano. Frequenta il liceo classico e poi s'iscrive a giurisprudenza. Abbandona la facoltà quando ormai è una stella della radio, ma successivamente dichiara di essere intenzionato a riprendere gli studi. Per ottenere la laurea gli mancano solo due esami e la tesi. Nel 1991 si è sposato con Patrizia Grosso, dalla quale si è poi separato nel 2002 e ha infine divorziato nel 2009. I due hanno avuto un figl! io, Edoardo , nato nel 1991. Il 21 maggio del 2009 manda una l! ettera a l direttore del Corriere della sera in cui manifesta la sua approvazione per l'apertura nei confronti dei divorziati auspicata dal cardinal Martini. Inoltre è un grande appassionato di calcio e tifa molto per il Milan. Gerry inizia la sua carriera radiofonica a Radio Hinterland Milano2con il programma "Bolle di Sapone" e a NovaRadio. Poi passerà nel 1978 a Radio Milano International con le rubriche Il mercatino delle pulci, dove leggeva messaggi di persone che vendevano o cercavano cose usate, e poi Il puntaspilli...Fonte: Wikipedia. Pagine: 81. Capitoli: Paolo Bonolis, Gerry Scotti, Paolo Villaggio, Antonio Ricci, Massimo Boldi, Michelle Hunziker, Lando Buzzanca, Tapiro d'Oro, Claudio Bisio, Teo Teocoli, Giorgio Faletti, Ezio Greggio, Gene Gnocchi, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Alba Parietti, Gabibbo, Claudio Lippi, Elenco dei conduttori di Striscia la notizia, Tullio Solenghi, Felice Centofanti, Luca Laurenti, Raffaele Pisu, Enzo Iacchetti, Dario Ballantini, Sonia Grey, Alessandr! o Benvenuti, Lello Arena, Velina, Gianni Fantoni, Valerio Staffelli, Marco Mazzoli, Sergio Vastano, Maurizio Ferrini, Elena Barolo, Jimmy Ghione, Franco Oppini, Franco Neri, Anna Maria Barbera, Vittorio Brumotti, Fabio & Mingo, Valentino Picone, Bucatini Disco Dance, Salvatore Ficarra, Cristiano Militello, Cristian Cocco, Stefania Petyx, Capitan Ventosa, Thais Souza Wiggers. Estratto: Striscia la notizia è un programma televisivo creato da Antonio Ricci, scritto con Lorenzo Beccati, Max Greggio, Gennaro Ventimiglia ed Ellekappa. Lo show va in onda dal lunedì al sabato nella prima serata di Canale 5, ogni anno dall'ultima settimana di settembre alla prima settimana di giugno. È condotto da due comici/presentatori e va in onda dallo Studio 1 Mediaset di Milano Due presso Segrate. La trasmissione è definita, essendo nata come parodia di un telegiornale, un telegiornale satirico, a metà strada tra varietà e giornalismo. Il sottotitolo del programma cambia ogni anno. Dalla! seconda edizione rimane sempre la parte la voce dell mentre c! ambia og ni anno la parola che indica di che voce si tratti e che deve terminare sempre per -enza (per esempio differenza, innocenza). Il programma viene trasmesso in replica quotidianamente attorno all'1.30 di notte dopo l'edizione del Tg5. È stato inoltre replicato per alcune edizioni sul canale satellitare Happy Channel fino al 2005. Striscia la notizia è un programma satirico, che intende essere giornalismo e varietà. I due presentatori leggono alcune notizie della giornata. Iniz...The above product is a FRAMED CANVAS meaning it comes ready stretched on a canvas stretcher bar frame. All you need to do is take it out the box, hang it on your wall stand back and admire! We are a specialist Canvas Printing company who now also manufacture and produce Perspex printed mounts. Over the last 6 years we have grown to become the UK's largest seller of Printed Canvas Art. This year alone we have already shipped out in the region of 168,000 canvas prints. We operate from a fully equipped! 6000sqft art studio based in London (UK). All our canvas prints are printed on the highest quality canon canvas printing machines and are hand stretched by our professional 12 man stretching team. All items are made to order and nothing is bulk created and stored away. We have all our raw materials such as canvas, stretcher bars and packaging specially manufactured for us. We pride ourselves on the highest of quality and customer services. If you have any questions related to this product or any of our services feel free to contact the Canvas101 team. DON'T BE PUT OF ORDERING; if you're ordering from the USA or CANADA please don't be put of ordering just because we are on the other side of the country. We have teamed up with world leaders FEDEX and are now able to get a parcel from the UK to the USA within 48-72 of you placing your order. We have also been known to ship good to the USA within 24 hours before. In order to make ordering as easy as we can we have also set up! a US based telephone support number ( 16467701959 ) which is ! availabl e from 8.00am - 6.00pm (GMT)

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Vipers

• The 11th Installment in "The Maneater Series," Vipers follows a group of genetically enhanced vipers on the loose after a break-in at a medical research laboratory. They don t just bite. They eat. Reproducing at a rapid rate, they now outnumber the locals of a nearby remote island who have barricaded themselves in an increasingly vulnerable hotel. With help on its way, or not, the lone sur

Tara Reid stars in a gruesome tale about a group of attractive young college students forced to seek shelter in an ominous abandoned factory after a car accident leaves them stranded. Lurking within is a vicious serial killer bringing new meaning to the term "deranged." Soon, though, the group â€" what's left of them â€" makes another shocking discovery. Inside a triple-locked, shatterproof glass cage is a mysterious coma patient who holds the key to their escape and, ultimately, their survival.Ross is ! an out-of-work actor, minimum wage pizza delivery drone, and a really good bowler. His animal-care girlfriend Lindsay has just been fired for causing a crazed penguin orgy. But when their stoner roommate suggests they hit the highway as polyester pimps ‘Ross Vegas’ and ‘Lil’ Reno’, the trio takes the alleys and gutters of the professional bowling tour by storm. Will the pressures of stardom now split their friendship forever or is that just how a playa rolls? Strike is a comedy about big balls, best buds and the cutthroat world of badass bowling.Ross is an out-of-work actor, minimum wage pizza delivery drone, and a really good bowler. His animal-care girlfriend Lindsay has just been fired for causing a crazed penguin orgy. But when their stoner roommate suggests they hit the highway as polyester pimps ‘Ross Vegas’ and ‘Lil’ Reno’, the trio takes the alleys and gutters of the professional bowling tour by storm. Will the pressures of stardom now split th! eir friendship forever or is that just how a playa rolls? Stri! ke is a comedy about big balls, best buds and the cutthroat world of badass bowling.

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Eight glossy, good-looking young actors, including Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder, Suicide Kings), Jerry O'Connell (Stand by Me, Scream 2), Amanda Peet (One Fine Day), Tara Reid (American Pie, Urban Legend), and Brad Rowe (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss). Women in their underwear and short, tight dresses; men in suits. Men's bare buttocks and women's bare breasts (at least in the unrated version). Characters talking earnestly to the audience about blowjobs, domination, anal penetration, one-night stands, and the difference between sex and love. Lots and lots of alcohol consumption in a cavernous, neon-lit club. A bloody fistfight. The plot, to the degree there is one, concerns an accusation of rape, which is shown from his-and-her points of view. People similar to these characters probably do exist in real life, but there's no reason to make a movie about them. Everyone ! involved in making Body Shots should have to do 100 hours of community service to make up for the time they've stolen from viewers' lives. The script and direction are particularly banal and self-important. Vacuous. --Bret FetzerDEVIL'S POND - DVD MovieA group of genetically enhanced vipers are on the loose after a break-in at a medical research laboratory. They don't just bite. They eat. Reproducing at a rapid rate, they now outnumber the locals of a nearby remote island who have barricaded themselves in an increasingly vulnerable hotel. With help on its way - or not-- the lone survivors have one chance to stay alive: make it to the shore--and fast.

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Lexx: Season One

• Hailed as "the most imaginative Sci-Fi since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (New York Daily News), Lexx follows the nomadic existence of four misfit characters who have inadvertently stolen the most powerful weapon of destruction ever made: a Manhattan-sized, genetically-modified insect-ship. In its debut season, the Lexx's quirky crew former security guard, Captain Stanley Tweedle; the lus

Hailed as "the most imaginative Sci-Fi since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (New York Daily News), Lexx follows the nomadic existence of four misfit characters who have inadvertently stolen the most powerful weapon of destruction ever made: a Manhattan-sized, genetically-modified insect-ship. In its debut season, the Lexx's quirky crew--former security guard, Captain Stanley Tweedle; the luscious love slave Zev; the dead-but-deadly assassin Kai; and the robot head 790--comes tog! ether in four, full-length features: I Worship His Shadow, Super Nova, Eating Pattern, and Giga Shadow.

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In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee’s presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social! cost.

South Korea’s political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government’s obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapyâ€"interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cutsâ€"met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship.

This landmark volume examines South Korea’s era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea’s trajectory from poverty to a sus! tainable high rate of economic growth.

From its beautiful c! inematog raphy to its intense narrative to its absolutely lovable characters, it was just plain charming. - Dramabeans

Set during the 18th century when Korea was still known as Josun, Sungkyunkwan Scandal is the latest historical Korean TV drama series to delight audiences worldwide.

Sungkyunkwan, Josun s most prestigious school, has its own set of rigid rules (e.g. no girls!) that even the king can t touch. But that's all about to change because of four very special students! Kim Yoon-hee is a super smart girl, but she was born in an era when women were forbidden to study. To help support her grief-stricken family, she decides to pose as a boy and earn money from lazy scholars by doing their homework. One thing leads to another and she finds herself being accepted to Sungkyunkwan! But will she be able to hide her true identity (and avoid the punishment of death)?

Yoon-hee becomes friends with Lee Sun-joon, an uptight son-of-a-noble who loves following! the rules, Moon Jae-shin, a young man who is scarred by his brother s tragic death, and Gu Yong-ha, a free-spirited soul whose life is a bit more complicated than he lets on. These four unlikely friends find themselves embroiled in romantic rivalries, campus politics, and even a top-secret mission to help the king change the course of Korean history!Red Road Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2006) Style A reproduction poster print

CAST: Ju-wan On,Ho-jung Kim,Ji-young Ok,Min-ji Park,Ji-woo Jang; DIRECTED BY: Chang-ho Cho;

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Bipasha Basu: Love Yourself

• Original Shemaroo DVD

Get into the Fitness zone with Bollywood superstar Bipasha Basu and tackle stubborn problem areas with a set of sure shot circuit training routines that combine upper and lower body sculpting moves to burn fat even faster.

Say goodbye to all trouble zones with this heart-pounding workout - Biginners and Advanced.

This DVD includes the following workout regime:
Introduction To Love Yourself
Introduction to Fit and fabulous You
25 Mins Biginners Workout
25 Mins Advanced Workouts
3 Levels of Circuit Training - BB Strength Moves, BB Cardio Burn and BB Ab Drill
5 Min Warm Up
2 Min Cool Down

Transfer your body from fat to fit in 60 days, by Loving Yourself!

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V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)

• Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise

Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas...) star in the hilarious hit comedy that takes a modern look at what happens when friends-in-need do the deed. Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No Strings Attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?Academy Award winner Natalie Portman ("Black Swan") in an "utterly fearless per! formance" (Rob Nelson, Variety) stars as a newlywed trying to cope with guilt and loss in this sensitive and compelling modern drama adapted by writer-director Don Roos ("The Opposite of Sex") from the novel by Ayelet Waldman. Portman plays Emilia, a law-school graduate who falls in love with her married boss, Jack (Scott Cohen, "The Understudy"). After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William (Charlie Tahan, "I Am Legend") and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife (Lisa Kudrow, "Easy A," "The Opposite of Sex"). Don Roos ("Happy Endings," "Bounce") demonstrates his keen eye for the nuances of love, loss, and rebuilding life in this heartfelt and touching drama.Director Don Roos (Happy Endings) and actress Natalie Portman (Black Swan) turn to Ayelet Waldman's novel for a fresh take ! on the other-woman melodrama. In adapting Love and Other Im! possible Pursuits, Roos starts after the affair and the marriage between two well-heeled New Yorkers, but there's no happily ever after for Emilia (Portman), a legal associate, and Jack (Scott Cohen), an attorney, because their baby succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome. Through an extended flashback, Roos fills in their story. Now their lives revolve around his sensitive 8-year-old son, William (Charlie Tahan), with his chilly ex-wife, Carolyne (Lisa Kudrow in her third outing with the filmmaker). If Emilia has trouble dealing with the loss, William has no such qualms, and can't understand her inability to move on. Then again, every time Emilia thinks she's made a breakthrough with the lad, something goes wrong, leading him to declare, "You're not sophisticated like me and my mom." Fortunately, Emilia has her mother (Debra Monk), sister (Elizabeth Marvel), and friends (Lauren Ambrose and Anthony Rapp) for support, though they're no match for Carolyne, whose resentment of Em! ilia would be more understandable if the screenplay didn't make her so unlikable--but she does get to reveal a flicker of humanity towards the end. Still, this is Portman's show, and she's very good in depicting the various stages of Emilia's grief, particularly in her scenes with Tahan. If The Other Woman lacks the director's customary humor, that adds to the sweetness of the resolution. --Kathleen C. FennessyAcademy Award Winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas...) star in the hilarious hit comedy that takes a modern look at what happens when friends-in-need do the deed. Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No Strings Attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman shine in this offbeat, delicious slice of life about a down-on-her-luck Southern teen. After gaining! 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby", N! ovalee N ation (Portman) begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family. It's an inspiring celebration of love, friendship and self-worth that delivers "quality, emotionally satisfying entertainment" (ReelViews).Not to be confused with the 1990 comedy flop featuring Uma Thurman, this Where the Heart Is boasts a winning performance from Natalie Portman. Novalee Nation (Portman), a pregnant teenager from Tennessee, is bound for California with her worthless boyfriend, Willy Jack (Dylan Bruno). A pit stop at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart proves fateful when Willy Jack abandons her there. She secretly sets up camp at the megastore and spends her days meeting with kindly booster Sister Husband (Stockard Channing) and eccentric librarian Forney Hall (James Frain). Her life takes another turn after she gives birth in the store (clean up, aisle six!) and finds a best friend in sassy nurse Lexie Coop (Ashley Judd). Meanwhile, ! Willy Jack has found a talent agent (Joan Cusack) and tries to make some life changes of his own.

Where The Heart Is offers charming, folksy fun; homespun wisdom; and an obstacle course of plot development (if the Wal-Mart angle weren't enough, there's also a kidnapping, a tornado, and at least half a dozen other major events thrown in). Director Matt Williams, who produced the popular sitcoms Roseanne and Home Improvement, takes television's cut-to-commercial route to make giant leaps in space and time from scene to scene. It's disorienting, but the remarkable female cast (which includes Sally Field in a cameo) lends plausiblilty to the muddle, even when you don't think anything more could possibly happen. --Shannon GeeAcademy Award winner Natalie Portman ("Black Swan") in an "utterly fearless performance" (Rob Nelson, Variety) stars as a newlywed trying to cope with guilt and loss in this sensitive and compelling modern drama adapt! ed by writer-director Don Roos ("The Opposite of Sex") from th! e novel by Ayelet Waldman. Portman plays Emilia, a law-school graduate who falls in love with her married boss, Jack (Scott Cohen, "The Understudy"). After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William (Charlie Tahan, "I Am Legend") and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife (Lisa Kudrow, "Easy A," "The Opposite of Sex"). Don Roos ("Happy Endings," "Bounce") demonstrates his keen eye for the nuances of love, loss, and rebuilding life in this heartfelt and touching drama.Director Don Roos (Happy Endings) and actress Natalie Portman (Black Swan) turn to Ayelet Waldman's novel for a fresh take on the other-woman melodrama. In adapting Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Roos starts after the affair and the marriage between two well-heeled New Yorkers, but there's no happily ever after for Emi! lia (Portman), a legal associate, and Jack (Scott Cohen), an attorney, because their baby succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome. Through an extended flashback, Roos fills in their story. Now their lives revolve around his sensitive 8-year-old son, William (Charlie Tahan), with his chilly ex-wife, Carolyne (Lisa Kudrow in her third outing with the filmmaker). If Emilia has trouble dealing with the loss, William has no such qualms, and can't understand her inability to move on. Then again, every time Emilia thinks she's made a breakthrough with the lad, something goes wrong, leading him to declare, "You're not sophisticated like me and my mom." Fortunately, Emilia has her mother (Debra Monk), sister (Elizabeth Marvel), and friends (Lauren Ambrose and Anthony Rapp) for support, though they're no match for Carolyne, whose resentment of Emilia would be more understandable if the screenplay didn't make her so unlikable--but she does get to reveal a flicker of humanity towards! the end. Still, this is Portman's show, and she's very good i! n depict ing the various stages of Emilia's grief, particularly in her scenes with Tahan. If The Other Woman lacks the director's customary humor, that adds to the sweetness of the resolution. --Kathleen C. FennessyA BALLET DANCER WINS THE LEAD IN SWAN LAKE AND IS PERFECT FOR THE ROLE OF THE DELICATE WHITE SWAN - PRINCESS ODETTE - BUT SLOWLY LOSES HER MIND AS SHE BECOMES MORE AND MORE LIKE ODILE THE BLACK SWAN, DAUGHTER OF AN EVIL MAGICIAN.Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will re! quire a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mommy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who pa! cks an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos,! too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert HortonSet against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself - and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption."Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on ! this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605! , V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the ma! sses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change.

Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their protégé, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are val! id critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco

Beyond Vendetta

The graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd	More by Alan Moore	Fro! m Graphic Novel to Big Screen
More by Natalie Portman	More by Hugo Weaving	More by the Wachowski Brothers

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