Archive for January, 2009

Colorado small businesses on the front line of the recession battle

As our economy is the commonthread that links Colorado’s disparate entrepreneurs. Small businesses are on the front line of the recession battle. Here’s the news — some good, some bad — from the front.

Washington tops favorite actor poll again

Actor Denzel Washington has been named America’s favorite movie star for the third year in a row. Indiana Jones action hero Harrison Ford landed fifth place, while Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp also make the list at numbers six, seven and eight, respectively.

DENZEL IS AMERICA’S FAVORITE MOVIE STAR - AGAIN: Will Smith, Morgan Freeman also in the top ten.

*For the third year in a row, Denzel Washington comes in on top as America’s favorite movie star, beating Clint Eastwood at No. 2 and John Wayne and Will Smith, in a tie for No. 3, according to The Harris Poll.

2009/01/30

Priyanka Chopra stars in Drona (TV2, tomorrow, noon). WITH movies and new TV programmes, it’s going to be an exciting weekend for couch potatoes. Health Buzz (Sunday, ntv7, 9pm) is for those into simple ways to better health.

PopRocks! presents

So, mustaches are a fad we’ve never particularly missed here at PopRocks! “Smokey and the Bandit,” despite Laura’s daddy complex, doesn’t rate high on our “must watch” list. But who would have guessed when we opened this week’s People magazine that mustaches would be in like Flint? Johnny Depp has been sporting a ’stache on […]

Attend the tale of SWEENEY TODD

“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen Who never thereafter were heard of again.” When it comes to musicals, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is one strange animal.

Retirement signals start to art career

Cape Coral resident Clare Candelori is busier in retirement than she was working in corporate communications and management. Then again, retirement afforded the New Jersey transplant time to develop a burgeoning art career. “I was busy,” the 65-year-old recalls of her days in corporate life. “There wasn’t time for art.

Johnny Depp Plays a Pet

Buzz has been d isappointingly minimal for our favorite pirate-clad, scissor-handed demon barber, Johnny Depp. But don’t worry— MTV has recently reported that Depp will soon take the form of a household pet in Gore Verbinski’s upcoming animated film, Rango , alongside Confessions of a Shopaholic star Isla Fisher and Little Miss Sunshine ’s Abigail […]

Exactly 1 year after death, Heath Ledger’s legacy grows

NEW YORK — Last year’s Oscar nominations day was tragic. This year’s was bittersweet. It was exactly one year ago Thursday when Heath Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment, just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had announced its nominees. | ‘Benjamin Button’ leads Oscars with 13 nominations […]

Why Aren’t Films Based In Minnesota Shot Here?

Harry Connick, Jr. got a nice Minnesota welcome when he came to the Mall of America to promote his new movie, “New in Town”. It’s set in the town of New Ulm but all of the Minnesota scenes in “New in Town” were shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba.