Oscar Update – Best Director / Best Motion Picture
March 7, 2010 Comments Off on Oscar Update – Best Director / Best Motion PictureKathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker. History is made. Bigelow collects the award from Barbara Streisland…. and moments later Tom Hanks announces that the Best Motion Picture is “The Hurt Locker” …and Bigelow gets to stay on stage for another award. Fabulous stuff… and that […]
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Oscars Update…Best Actor / Best Actress
March 7, 2010 Comments Off on Oscars Update…Best Actor / Best ActressSo now we finally move to the main awards and Best Actor… and Michelle Pfeiffer looks stunning. Jeff Bridges is a shoe in on this…so Kate Winslet, also looking stunning, announces that the Best Actor Oscar goes to… Jeff Bridges. Best Actress is announced by Sean Penn… and the winner is…. Sandra Bullock who wins […]
Continue reading …Well that was pretty disgusting… both Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur failed to make the memorial part of the Oscars as James Taylor played to a moving montage of those we lost in the last year. Someone’s got some explaining to do…because that simply isn’t acceptable to millions of her fans. Us included.
Continue reading …Well…as I write, the Oscar’s have been predictable… The Oscar for sound editing went to Paul N.J. Ottosson for “The Hurt Locker.” Ottosson had barely left the stage when he was called back to receive the sound mixing award for the war drama with Ray Beckett. “The Hurt Locker” has won the most statuettes, with […]
Continue reading …Well tonight’s the night we celebrate some ground breaking technology, career capping performances and the biggest Best Picture race we’ve ever seen. Yes, it’s Oscar night and there’s quite no other night like it. In our household we put on the pre-show with the Countdown to the Red Carpet and then we stay glued to […]
Continue reading …The Wizarding World of Harry Potter update…
March 6, 2010 Comments Off on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter update…The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is coming along nicely in readiness for it’s Spring opening. There’s no official announcement for an opening date as yet but Sarah Holt of Universal Orlando recently revealed a few more things in a presentation she made to Orlando area vacation home managers recently. During her presentation, Holt made […]
Continue reading …The Festival of Chocolate, the chocolate tasting, shopping, and interactive experience that began last year is back for an encore. This time they’ve partnered with the Orlando Science Center to bring you four floors of creamy, dreamy cocoa-flavored fun. The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this weekend, March 6 and 7, 2010. […]
Continue reading …Professional soccer is coming to Orlando. Starting in 2011 Orlando will have a professional franchise in what the USL is calling a ‘re-established’ first division USL. The team will be owned and operated by the Orlando Titans (the indoor lacrosse team in town) and has not had a name or location announced yet. The home […]
Continue reading …Delta IV Rocket launches over Central Florida
March 4, 2010 Comments Off on Delta IV Rocket launches over Central FloridaAnother great night to be in Central Florida as a Delta IV Rocket launched at 6.57pm tonight. That said, the weather is pretty cold and I’m just about done with Winter… when is the warmer weather going to return? Anyway, here’s a short video I did of the launch…
Continue reading …Baseball is back … Spring Training begins
March 4, 2010 Comments Off on Baseball is back … Spring Training beginsIt has been 118 days since Mariano Rivera induced Shane Victorino into a 4-3 groundout and gave the Yankees their 27th World Series title, and we are happy to say that Major League Baseball is officially back. The Braves met the Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Tuesday and that’s where the long road […]
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