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Monday, January 12, 2015

6th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration set

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11:12 a.m. EST January 12, 2015

NEWARK The Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) invites the public to the sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. The event will be held Jan. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the John Gilbert Reese Centers Alford Performing Arts Hall.

This years theme is The New Civil Rights Movement: A New Consciousness and the keynote speaker is Ohio Civil Rights Commission Executive Director, G. Michael Payton, J.D. The event is free and open to the public.

Payton serves as Executive Director for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (crc.ohio.gov), the state law enforcement agency that administers the Ohio Civil Rights Act in the areas of employment, public accommodations, housing, credit and disabilities in higher education, while conducting education and outreach.

This event is sponsored by The Freedom School in Licking County and the Multicultural Affairs Office and Student Cultural Council at COTC and Ohio State Newark. For more information, contact Janet Greene with The Freedom School at 740-641-2328 or greenejanet@gmail.com or Vorley Taylor, Program Manager of Multicultural Affairs with COTC and Ohio State Newark at taylor.1051@osu.edu.

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Source: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2015/01/12/th-annual-martin-luther-king-jr-commemoration-set/21631855/

From Singsong to Sondheim: Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine Reveal All/Tell All

Courtesy of yahoo.com

Lead actors give the Daily Nexus the inside scoop on their Christmas feature Into the Woods.

Chris Pine, famous for Star Trek, and Anna Kendrick of Pitch Perfect are adding another notch to their starry belts. The rising stars play Cinderella and her prince alongside Hollywood veterans Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp and Emily Blunt.

Disney presents Stephen Sondheims Broadway hit in a whole new light. We all know how Cinderella meets her dashing prince and overcomes her evil stepsisters, but we never found out what happened after her supposed happily-ever-after.

The musical cleverly merges the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Cinderella and a conniving witch portrayed by Streep. These stories belong to the ages. It makes sense that we update them every generation, said Kendrick.

As Cinderella, I had to be an overthinking, over-logical princess. I think modern women have a tendency to overthink everything and not trust their gut. We have to look at everything from every angle, said Kendrick. Cinderella does that [through the whole movie] until something that she really has to reckon with happens. When the community is in crisis, suddenly its very clear to her whats important.

The 29-year-old actress from Maine continues to diversify her acting repertoire. Having played Bella Swans high school friend Jessica in Twilight, an irascible employee in Up in the Air and a pouty college freshman in Pitch Perfect, she now plays the ultimate fairy tale princess.

Kendrick did not think she was worthy of such a role at first. When I found out they were making Into the Woods I was like, Oh great, Ill audition for Little Red, and theyre like No, a real child is going to play that part because its a film, she said in a recent interview with Access Hollywood.

Playing Cinderella was frightening. Its a completely different vocal range than Im used to and really a sensibility Im not used to, which is being open and kind and soft and vulnerable, furthered Kendrick. I usually play kind of funny, hard characters.

For those who missed Ellen DeGeneress newsflash last week, Chris Pine also sings in the movie. While Kendrick adjusted to playing such a legendary role, the Star Trek actor had doubts about finding his perfect pitch.

He auditioned for Into the Woods with Frank Sinatras Fly Me to the Moon. I auditioned for [director] Rob Marshall in his living room. He was very kind, noticed that I was nervous and he and John his partner joined me in singing the song and made me feel more comfortable, he recalled.

Pine discussed the change from performing country songs in Small Town Saturday Night to singing music by Sondheim, the architect of West Side Story and Sweeney Todd. The musical theater genre is very specific and quite different than the country music I had done before. I had fun learning the ins and outs of the genre and I had a lot of incredibly talented people who had worked in this medium before from Anna to Meryl so I had great company.

Kendrick compared filming this movie to singing in her previous musical. It was a lot harder. We are singing pop music in Pitch Perfect and were singing Sondheim here. It was an unbelievable challenge, but singing Sondheim is so rewarding and fulfilling and its just a dream come true.

Despite the actors qualms, director Rob Marshall knew all along that their synergy was special. I think its just a testament to the creativity of Rob Marshall to see somebody like me as a Cinderella figure, said the Pitch Perfect actress.

Pine and Kendrick share fairy-tale-like chemistry, constantly laughing and poking fun at each other. I had a lot of fun making the prince a buffoon, said Pine. I had a lot of fun watching Chris be a buffoon, teased Kendrick. She chided him during the interview for his messy hair.

Be sure to catch these jokesters in action Christmas Day, Dec. 25 in theaters everywhere.

Source: http://dailynexus.com/2015-01-12/from-singsong-to-sondheim-anna-kendrick-and-chris-pine-reveal-alltell-all/

Golden Globes 2015

Dont blame it on losing an award to Maggie Gyllenhaal. Oscar winner Frances McDormand appeared less than thrilled to be at the awards show long before she failed to pick up a Globe for her starring role in Olive Kitteridge.

It all started with Amy Adams speech for best actress in a musical or comedy. To be fair, Adams did seem somewhat unprepared. But we know McDormand could have faked it better. She is, after all, a first-class actress.

In any case, her mood didnt improve during the rest of the ceremony. Her expressions ranged from unamused to annoyed to bored.

Shes even drawing some comparisons to Tommy Lee Jones who was infamously Scrooge-like during last years ceremony.

So whats bothering her?

Well, it could be a mix of pent-up concern and anger. Last October, during a sit-down with the New York Times, McDormand talked about the plastic surgery phenomenon in Hollywood and how much it troubles her.

I have not mutated myself in any way, she told the Times. Joel [Coen, her husband,] and I have this conversation a lot. He literally has to stop me physically from saying something to people to friends whove had work. Im so full of fear and rage about what theyve done.

If thats the case, you can just imagine how many times her husband probably had to stop her along the red carpet and inside the Beverly Hilton. Thats enough to put anyone in a bad mood.

Then again, maybe she was just really hot.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog-live/liveblog/golden-globes-2015-live-coverage/

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Julian Edelman-Danny Amendola Patriots TD Has Been In Making For Years

FOXBORO, Mass Make no mistake, Julian Edelmans 51-yard touchdown pass wasnt just drawn up on the sideline, playground-style.

The play, in which Edelman hit fellow New England Patriots receiver Danny Amendola in stride for a tying score, has been in the making for years now. The Patriots practiced it over the summer in training camp, though reporters werent allowed to write about it, lest opposing teams know what the Patriots are drawing up.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady chucked a lateral to Edelman with 4:20 left in the third quarter with the Patriots trailing the Baltimore Ravens 28-21. Amendola faked a block, then kept running down the field and past Ravens defenders. Edelman, who initially thought he overthrew the pass, hit Amendola in stride with a perfect throw, which sparkeda Patriots 35-31 comeback victory, vaulting them into the AFC Championship Game next Sunday.

Edelman, a college quarterback, and Amendola planted the seeds for the play way back when they met during the NFL lockout in 2011.

Me and Julian have been practicing that for about five years, Amendola said in the Patriots locker room after the divisional-round playoff win. It was a play we had in the books for a little while now, but it ended up working out.

Edelman joked that it was he andAmendola, not head coach Bill Belichick or offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who came up with the trick play.

We would throw to each other on the beach, and we came up with that play over there I think, Edelman said. I was fully joking. I dont know.

Patriots fans have been waiting for Edelman to throw a pass since he was drafted in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL draft. The Patriots slow burn paid off to perfection, and they finally were able to break it out at a key moment, when the Patriots desperately needed a spark.

Edelman has been waiting even longer.

Since I was about 8 years old, Edelman said. Felt pretty good.

One would think that since Edelman was a starting quarterback for three seasons at Kent State, the Patriots would have this play in their arsenal and practice it frequently, but Edelman said the Patriots have only worked on it probably like 12 times.

Of course, when Brady is your quarterback, it takes a lot to let another player throw a pass. Amendola quickly answered that Brady throws a better deep ball than Edelman. Edelman wasnt so quick to concur, however.

He did show me up on that last one, Edelman said about Bradys go-ahead touchdown pass to Brandon LaFell in the fourth quarter. Ill give it to him. Hes all right, I guess.

Brady might disagree, however.

He throws it better than I did, Brady said. He spun it. It was a perfect spiral right in stride. Ive gotta make some rules that he cant throw it better than I can, but he did. It was pretty sweet.

Thumbnail photo viaElise Amendola/Associated Press

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Source: http://nesn.com/2015/01/julian-edelman-danny-amendola-patriots-td-has-been-in-the-making-for-years/

Inherent Vice � so wrong it's right

Inherent ViceDirected by Paul Thomas Anderson. Stars Joaquin Phoenix, Joanna Newsom, Katherine Waterston, Jordan Christian Hearn, Eric Roberts, Owen Wilson, Martin Short and Benicio del Toro. Now playing at local theaters. Rating: Four out of five stars.Around one hour into Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, we see a photo of a colorful L.A. party configured into a Last Supper tableau with an Owen Wilson messiah just one of the many visuals that drive home the movie's tacky brilliance.

The psychedelic detective noir caper is set in 1970 L.A., in a cute little oceanfront community called Gordita Beach. Introductions are made by narrator Sortilge (Joanna Newsom), neighbor and confidante of Larry "Doc" Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix).

Doc gets a surprise visit from his long-absent ex-girlfriend, Shasta (Katherine Waterston), who reveals that her new sugar daddy, real estate mogul Mickey Wolfman (Eric Roberts), might be in trouble.

The visit sets off a chain reaction of odd events: A" Black Gorilla" ex-con (Michael Kenneth Williams) tips Doc to one of Wolfmans Aryan Brotherhood security guards and a new real estate development that has has eerily razed an entire neighborhood. Doc seeks out the desolate plot and finds an over-the-top massage parlor. After meandering through a purple plush-carpeted hallway, he is knocked out. He comes to next to the pursued skinhead, who's lying dead in the dirt beside him. (One of the best scenes in the film: Les Baxter exotica lounge music plays as little red advertising flags flap in the wind.) Doc is nearly arrested for the skinhead's murder by his cop nemesis, Detective Christian Bigfoot Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), but it turns out he doesn't really need the assistance of his lawyer buddy, played with deadpan brilliance by Benicio del Toro.

Shasta and her billionaire boyfriend go missing, and Doc also gets a job solving the disappearance of one of Shasta's smack-addict friends, Coy Harlingen (Owen Wilson), who turns out to be an FBI informant working for a Nixon propaganda group.

If youre still with us, more situations unfold involving a boat and crime syndicate called the Golden Fang, a runaway, her corrupt and loaded dad, another evil skinhead, a loan shark on the take and a kooky, coke-addled dentist played by Martin Short.

The story, adapted faithfully from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, is hectic, dreamy, panicked and lumbering all at once. You could say it has a stoner sense of timing. Cartoon-like comedy converges with multi-layered historical references, yards of colorful polyester, and sexy-lady eye candy.

Andersons unconventional pacing may put off some moviegoers, but its par for the course considering his increasingly denser and darker filmography. The director of There Will Be Blood and The Masterhas come a long way since his taut disco-p**n epicBoogie Nights andhis last comedic outing Punch-Drunk Love (2002).

No matter, Inherent Vice offers great performances and cameos throughout. Phoenix's Doc is poised to join the court of Hollywood stoner royalty alongside The Big Lebowski's Dude. He's a sweet, bumbling misfit who conjures brilliant cockamamie schemes to solve mysteries. Phoenix's physical comedy is first rate (watch him flail before being clocked on the head with a baseball bat).

Joanna Newsom's narration is nothing short of word p**n. Her Sortilge is the matriarch of the film, a wise, earthy, beautiful woman in a sea of bimbos Reese Witherspoon's FBI agent excepted. (Too bad both aren't in the film longer.) Potential band names from the film include Chick Planet, the name of the aforementioned massage parlor, and Little Kid Blues, a condition poignantly coined by Wilson's Coy, who's separated from his daughter.

Some of the most quotable lines come from Josh Brolins comedically sadistic Bigfoot, who characterizes Shastas disappearance as she went all groovy on us. He's hilarious as the closeted and codependent bully-cop who has a boatload of issues.

Like Doc, Inherent Vice is endearing, flaws and all. Yes, it's excessive and unevenly paced, but Anderson's psychedelic odyssey gives us something more than a series of wacky events. It's mythic and allegorical with musings on greed and fear and, most of all, L.A's history of corruption. Anderson, a Cali native himself, knows his City of Angels all too well. He reminds us that L.A.'s beautiful illusions are propped up and maintained at the cost of human lives and welfare. The anxiety of the time period is resonant; the story takes place when the Manson Family and Vietnam War bludgeoned American innocence.

So if youre able to chuck all your sensible-moviegoer notions out the window, youll find comedy, heart and even some gravitas in Inherent Vice. Best of all, Anderson is still an expert at giving us all-star, Altman-esque ensemble casts with combustible chemistry.

The biggest star of the film, of course, is the multiple-genre soundtrack by Radioheads Jonny Greenwood. Embedded below.

Source: http://cltampa.com/artbreaker/archives/2015/01/10/inherent-vice-so-wrong-its-right

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Seattle Seahawks expected to be in close game against Carolina

The Seattle Seahawks have been tough at the end of the season, and even tougher at the end of games.

The defending Super Bowl champions, who sputtered early in the fall, have won their past six games and haven't allowed a fourth-quarter point during that stretch, allowing an average of just 66.0 yards rushing and 136.2 passing to finish with the NFL's top-ranked defense for the second consecutive year.

"We finish better than anybody," Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner said. "It's a mind-set of tackling, finishing. It kind of signifies what we are as a team. We always talk about finishing, and having nobody score in the fourth quarter is a key component to that."

Carolina is certainly finishing better than it started. The Panthers went 1-8-1 during one 10-game stretch, and were the first team to make the playoffs after going more than two months without a victory. However, the Panthers ended the season with four wins in a row, and last weekend beat Arizona in a wild-card game.

Still, knocking off Seattle will take more.

"We have to play better than we have," said Panthers Coach Ron Rivera, whose team lost at home to Seattle, 13-9, in Week 8. "We just have to be smarter than some of the things we did out there [in the first-round game]. We have to protect the football."

Seattle is looking for its fifth consecutive victory over Carolina in the past five seasons. In the last three of those games combined, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton directed his team to just one touchdown.

Ready to dance

In 2010, Pete Carroll's first season as Seattle's coach, the Seahawks finished 7-9 but won the NFC West to become the NFL's first team to make the playoffs with a losing record.

This season, the Panthers finished 7-8-1 to become the second such team.

"It isn't the prettiest thing, but we got a date to the prom at the end of the day," Carolina safety Roman Harper said. "We're here. She's probably not the best-looking one; she's not going to win prom queen. But we'll have a good time."

Always elusive

Seattle's Marshawn Lynch has gotten plenty of attention for his bruising ability to run the football. But Carolina's Jonathan Stewart has been brutally effective, too. Since replacing the injured DeAngelo Williams in Week 13, Stewart has led the NFL with a rushing average of 101.5 yards per game.

Stewart grew up in Lacey, Wash., and once played a Pop Warner game on the Seahawks' home field, back when the team played in the long-since-imploded Kingdome.

"He looks like he did running in high school," Carroll told reporters this week. "I watched him and recruited and tried to get him way back then."

Stewart chose Oregon over USC. Asked how well he got to know him when he was coach of the Trojans, Carroll said: "Not well enough. We didn't get him."

By the numbers

; CAR;SEA

Points scored; 21.2 (19); 24.6 (10)

Points allowed; 23.4 (21); 15.9 (1)

Pass offense; 219.4 (19); 203.1 (27)

Rush offense; 127.2 (7); 172.6 (1)

Pass defense; 227.8 (11); 185.6 (1)

Rush defense; 112.0 (16); 81.5 (3)

Sacks; 40 (13); 37 (20)

Penalty yards; 47.5 (5); 38.3 (1)

Turnovers; +3 (13); +9 (4)

Farmer's pick

This game should be pretty close, and pits similar teams on both sides of the ball. Neither team will be able to run the ball as well as they're accustomed to. The quarterbacks are going to try to run, and Russell Wilson is a lot quicker and more agile than Newton. If the Seahawks can pressure Newton, and they will, they'll force him to throw when his feet aren't set, and he'll make mistakes. Watch for him to turn the ball over at least three times.

SEAHAWKS 17

PANTHERS 10

Source: http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-seahawks-panthers-matchup-20150110-story.html

Taken 3, review: 'a tragedy'

Director: Olivier Megaton. Starring: Lian Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Forest Whitaker, Dougray Scott. Certificate: 12A. Running time: 109 minutes

Liam Neesons new film is the latest instalment in the Taken series of action movies, but theres no particular reason it should be. Though Taken 3 was co-written by franchise stalwarts Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, there's no obvious connection to Takens passim other than its focus on a middle-aged man wholl punch or shoot anyone with a Slavic accent.

Elaborate kidnappings and grimy European locations are out, while a nondescript wrong-man murder case that plays out amid the Californian urban sprawl is in. Did Besson and Kamen, along with their director, the occasionally combustible Olivier Megaton, perhaps take an unrelated thriller premise and Takenise it, in pursuit of greater box-office returns? Or did they really think the next chapter in the life of Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), the retired CIA operative with a very particular set of skills, should see him framed for the murder of his ex-wife by a brand new troupe of Russian scumbags, just when hes managed to shake the Albanians off?

Either way, since the events here are wholly unrelated to the previous films, Taken 3 makes Bryan seem less like a reluctant hero pressed back into service one last time than just stunningly unfortunate. He pops out for warm bagels, then comes home to find poor Lenore (Famke Janssen) spreadeagled on the futon with her throat slit. Maybe in Taken 4, Bryans car will be hit by a meteor, or a grand piano will fall on his head. If its a Serbian grand piano, its probably already being loaded on to a helicopter.

With nothing taken as such, other than arguably the biscuit, Bryan is faced with an unfamiliar new task: solving a murder while evading the Los Angeles Police Department, who are convinced hes the killer. Never mind that the victim was going through a messy split from her current husband (Dougray Scott), whos a wealthy arms dealer with links to the Russian mob. It must have been the motiveless ex-secret service guy! The police chase him all over town, but hes mostly able to get on with things, even finding the time to pop to a corner shop frequented by his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) and stick a reassuring Post-it note on the Yakult.

Unlike Bryan, the film never works out where its off to next. Theres a smidgen of R.E.D. in the way our hero temporarily teams up with other retired agents to infiltrate an oligarchs lair (the half-hearted evil decor stretches to a stuffed and mounted crocodile on the coffee table), and a splodge or two of The Fugitive, not least of all in a scene in which Bryan escapes through a storm drain.

But each individual moment in the film barely seems to be on speaking terms with the rest. Theres a car chase out in the desert which might as well have been cut and pasted from a completely different movie: it takes the plot nowhere and ends with the chief henchman neglecting to check the wreckage of Bryans car for his body because its time to get drunk, which might as well be a direct quote from the writers room.

This is all a far cry from the original Taken film, the sheepish fun of which lay in seeing Neesons primal, fatherly rage being shaken out of retirement. Back then he was still Aslan, Kinsey, Rob Roy, Oskar Schindler, and the violence visceral and transgressive, rather than the bloodless, 12A-rated shoot-em-up stuff here felt like the eruption of a long-dormant volcano. Now its just Liam Neeson hitting people again. What a tragedy thats become boring.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11326925/Taken-3-review-a-tragedy.html