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The Creativity Commons is a cultural space where resources for generating meaningful, original ideas are collectively identified and shared and creative actions are practiced.
The Creativity Commons offers a shared space for scholars and students from across the university to engage in creative exploration of the role of innovation in teaching and learning in education as well as the community groups we serve. The Commons initiates and supports research in teaching, learning and assessment of creativity within a shared collective space that offers cross-disciplinary intellectual and artistic exploration. At the Commons we recognize the role of design and documentation in curriculum work and its application to policy and practice in education. The Commons opens space for the gathering of community and academy as they explore together creative ideas and solutions for problems we share.
The Commons continues the long trajectory of innovation and original programming at Lesley, focusing on what is at the core of creativity, a quality of thinking necessary for successful students and faculty in the 21st century. By creativity we mean ideas or actions that are innovative, imaginative and involve risk-taking, and that result in outcomes that are original and novel. Edith Lesley began the tradition at Lesley when she created the first school for kindergarten teachers in this area.
Lesley's history of interdisciplinary programming and its strength in arts programming makes it an ideal location for a shared space for creativity. With the art school moving to Cambridge, the Commons opens a space for new levels of integration and connection between artists and others and provides increased access to the arts and to creativity for all members of the Lesley community.
The Commons is a physical, virtual and conceptual space that is both inclusive and generative. The shared space for creative exploration will include faculty, doctoral students and administrators from across the four schools of Lesley, and visiting fellows. The ideas and actions that emerge from this space generate new academic offerings, scholarship, workshops and publications.
The Commons is the physical manifestation of a space where ideas generated by faculty from across the university can emerge as actions. The Commons offers the community a shared space, a commons, where materials and technological tools can be used to explore ideas collaboratively and generate original projects and programs focused on creativity in practice. With invited speakers, conveners and fellows to stimulate creative thoughts and actions, the Commons fosters new programs, projects and scholarship for schools, community organizations, and others that support the mission of Lesley University and contribute to solving social problems.
In The Lab: Creativity and Culture (2010) David Edwards remarks that "the aesthetic process is the substance of hypothesis generation, while the analytical process is the substance of hypothetical testing. Inevitably, we fuse both when creating something new."
The Creativity Commons values documentation as a form of assessment offering the opportunity to fuse both the aesthetic and the analytical experience. Documenting the research on teaching, learning and creativity at Lesley will provide valuable resources to disseminate within Lesley and beyond our campus.Documenting our work supports the Commons' goal
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1. Share work and provide a feedback loop within Lesley and the outside communities
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First WednesdaysFeb 6, Mar 6, Apr 3, May 1Community of Practice inDeveloping Successful GrantApplications. in collaborationwith PERG andthe Provost's Office4:30 - 7:30 pmFebruary 21Prilly Sanville, Julia ByersTopic: Frobel and The Firefly:Legacies of Excellence in Teaching From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityThursday February 21st5 - 6 pmMarch 22International Poetry FestivalInvites Staff, Students,and Faculty to Celebrateby Sharing Words ina Multiplicity of LanguagesContact: Clara RonderosThursday March 22nd1 - 5 pmApril 2Rosalie Fink,Anne Pluto, Robert WauhkonenTopic: The Liberal Arts at LesleyCollege: Three Perspectives From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityTuesday April 2nd4 - 5 pmApril 18Martha McKennaTopic: Adult Learning:Theory in Practice From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityThursday April 18th5 - 6 pmApril 23Robert Schiappacasse,Lella Gandini, Gene DiazTopic: Whole SchoolArts Integration: ReggioMeets WaldorfTuesday April 23rd4:30 - 6:30 pmApril 25Shaun McNiffTopic: The Creation ofLesley's first Arts-BasedGraduate Programs From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityThursday April 25th5 - 6 pmApril 30Mary Beth Lawton, Ben Mardell,Mary Mindess, Lisa Fiore,Joanne SzamretaTopic: Early Childhood Educationat Lesley University: 100 Years From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityTuesday April 30th5 - 6 pmMay 2Arlyn Roffman,Frances Osten, Carole NoveckTopic: Threshold Then and Now:Lesley's Transition Program forYoung Adults with Disabilities From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityThursday May 2nd5 - 6 pmMay 7Mitchell KossakTopic: The Birth of a Profession:Lesley University's Divisionof Expressive Therapies From A Century of Innovation:Lesley UniversityTuesday May 7th5 - 6 pmMay 8Carol Baldassari,Debra Smith of pergpresent: Looking Closely:A Study of Youths' Use ofDrawing and Digital Photographyto Observe NatureWednesday May 8th4 - 5:30 pm
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Telstra gets lucky with rare Cyan Nokia Lumia 920 for online purchases
It looks like AT&T's death grip on all the cyan dye in the world is finally drying up as Telstra is now offering its customers the blue variant of the popular Nokia Lumia 920. The catch is it's not in stores, so online purchases only. But that's still better than nothing, right?
With that addition, Telstra boasts its range to four, including an addition yellow, white and black. The cyan version can simply be selected when users opt to buy the phone and choose their plan—no restrictions. The company is even sending out emails to customers boasting about the fact, to help lure some new purchases.
Telstra has been selling the Lumia 920 since late November, but like everyone else they often have limited stock. We're certain cyan is in the same boat, hence the online purchases only thing. Regardless, options are good for consumers and perhaps we'll see other carriers opt for cyan, now that AT&T's exclusivity on it appears to have ended.
Source: Telstra; Thanks, AngryNil, for the tip!
There are 15 comments. Sign in to commentsilentgee says:
damn and i just got the black one :'( then again, black never goes out of fashion hahaaa
kevster013 says:
... And red. They also have the 920 in red.
xpxp2002 says:
To be fair, AT&T had been out of stock of cyan for the first four months after the 920 became available. And even once cyan became available on AT&T, it was also online only.
Huime says:
I bought it late dec, cyan through phone, and they told me that is the only color they had.
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Can't believe Nokia did this with the cyan (and pink) would have thought it would have been really popular and maybe even got people to buy who would have not bought a Windows Phone. I upgrade on a month (UK) and would love one (or 928)
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I've been tempted a couple of times to order the Cyan 920 online from outside the UK but never been sure of the bands and if it would be a global or AT&T version.
Maybe now we'll get a UK variant on the shelves... And maybe on Vodafone.
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wow, if att had a death grip on cyan, then i'd hate to see how everyone else fared. =/
wetworker says:
Red or go home.
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I have actually been impressed with Telstra's attitude toward windows phone lately. It seems they are actually advertising them on TV and I have even seen ads on YouTube. Amazing.
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yeah Brisbane in general lately has been filled with advertisments all over the shopping malls, bus stations, catalogues and telstra has its dedicated windows phone section now. WP has high visibility atm which is great.
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It's a shame the 920 is just too big for my tastes, as if it weren't I'd be ordering this right now.
Lumia 620 will be my next. With Cyan shell.
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Awesome! Now bring the 920 to Optus ;)
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That's because the north end of downtown has been temporarily transformed into the fictional town of Silverton, Okla.
Scenes for "Black Sky," a tornado thriller movie, are being shot in various Oakland County locations, including Pontiac two days this week and two days next week. The film's production office is located at Michigan Motion Picture Studios in Pontiac, and scenes have already been shot locally at Oakview Middle School in Oakland Township, Oakland University and in Armada.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation approved tax incentives for the film project in June. The New Line Cinema production, distributed by Warner Bros., has been given a tax break of $12,105,139 on $40,730,908 of projected spending in Michigan.
Productions must spend at least $100,000 in Michigan to qualify for state film tax incentives. The incentives once averaged about 35 percent of spending during the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, but have been cut to 27 percent, with the state's maximum payout capped at $25 million for all films during 2012.
The production of "Black Sky" is expected to employ 461 Michigan residents, according to the state film office. The movie is being filmed entirely in Michigan.
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The movie is being directed by Steven Quale, who was behind the camera for "Final Destination 5."
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I deside to go to the ridge behind the house and pick up one of the critters that's been eating my hay. Wouldn't you know it, three deer, no doe. One really nice 5X5, on three point on one side, horn missing on the other, and one spike. NO DOE. Didn't even have the sense to take a camera. If I was hunting bucks all I'd see is does. Oh well, I have a few days left, worse comes to worse I'll shoot one off the front porch.
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Had a total of nine doe in the yard last Monday morning eating under the Persimmon tree. They were all kinda nervous as they ate looking towards the ravine. Wasn't long before a little spike buck with no more then 2" antlers appeared coming across the yard with his neck stuck out and his head all low.
He started running these doe one by one, scent checking, until each would disappear into the ravine. He would then come back , peel off another doe and do the same, till all doe's were out of the yard. Was very funny cause this very young buck didn't even know what he was doing. Yesterday morning two doe under the pear tree not more then 25ft. from the bedroom window. A descent eight point comes up from the bottom of the ravine doing the same with these doe. I love this time of year. |
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At long long last, this blog's original purpose is about to be fully realised. The original idea was to make cooking and cycling videos. I've been pressing ahead with the cooking videos but I had one or two, shall we say technical issues with how to make the cycling videos. I still do but I now know the way around them.
To celebrate this breakthrough and also the outrageous claim by CERN yesterday that they had broken the speed of light, I cycled from Patcham to Peacehaven and back very very fast and filmed the whole thing. Here's the best way to cycle that journey. Being no fair weather sportsman, I'll be posting cycling videos right through the autumn from here on in. Sorry about the sound quality this time around. There's only one bit of talking. Turn the sound up when I talk to camera and you'll discover the paradox at the centre of my personality.
Here's a map of the route. Use the controls to zoom in to check the precise directions. It's pretty simple. Please note, I did not swim any of this route – obviously GPS tracking has been buggered about by the chalky cliffs…
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In 1972, when most other 7-year-olds were building their baseball-card and bottle-cap collections, Jay Villemarette began collecting skulls. His lifetime hobby evolved into a full-time vocation in 1990 after he opened Skulls Unlimited, a one-of-a-kind bone-replica shop that earned the limelight on popular TV shows such as Dirty Jobs and Ripley's Believe It or Not!. By 2010, Jay's widespread success led him to establish the Museum of Osteology, which currently houses the largest privately held collection of osteological specimens in the world, with more than 300 skeletons and, most importantly, zero zombie sightings to date.
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 05:24 PM
And the Lord asks me what I did with my life,
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 10:27 PM
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
Back in 1976, when Whitney Houston was a New Jersey schoolgirl on the brink of adolescence, she fell in love at first sight.
Not with a boy. But with a movie.
Its title? Sparkle, a low-budget drama about three singing sisters in late-'50s Harlem as they strive for fame and face family hardships. A cult classic and an inspiration for Dreamgirls, it was a rare film about strong black women that stood apart from the era's blaxploitation flicks.
Houston, a diva-in-training who would soon chase her own musical dreams, was hooked. For the next several months, she spent every Saturday going steady withSparkle, starting with the matinee and staying through to the evening show.
Houston explained her obsession to reporters last fall on the set of the long-awaited Sparkle remake that she executive-produced and in which she plays Emma, the stern God-fearing mother of a trio of ambitious daughters.
"This was kind of like positive reinforcement for young African-American women," she said. "It was just anybody who wanted to pursue their dream, their desires, their goals and present their gifts. It just appealed to me." She added: "And I never let go of it."
Sadly, fans were forced to let go of Houston when she died Feb. 11 at age 48, just months after she finished her labor of love — one that took a decade to become a reality and will open Aug. 17.
During the shoot, there were few signs that tragedy would soon befall the vocalist. Instead, her co-stars speak warmly of the joy and professionalism Houston displayed on the set.
"We were all walking on eggshells, and she said, 'No, no,' " says Tika Sumpter, who plays middle sister Delores. "She was so chill. She treated us as if we really were her children. One day, she just came over to me and said, 'I'm so proud of you.' I got teary-eyed, just the way she said it."
Echoing those sentiments is Carmen Ejogo, who sizzles as the slinky oldest sibling, Sister. With Houston on board, "we all knew this was fated to be something special," she says. "I think her sister-in-law, Pat, said it most eloquently at her funeral. That doingSparkle was one of the happiest times of Whitney's life. It was magical."
One of the ways that Houston, mother of 19-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown, most impressed director Salim Akil was by keeping it real. "At some point, people were worried that Whitney had a little pooch on her stomach," he says. "But she loved that part of the character. She knew you can't have children and be a supermodel. If you didn't believe in Emma, you didn't believe anything else in the movie."
Yet, once the camera stopped, one of the most beloved singers in the world slipped back into the self-destructive habits that had altered her glorious tones as well as her angelic features.
Instead of triumphantly walking the carpet at the film's premiere, Houston ended up drowning in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel during Grammy Awards weekend — an event that was her coronation back in the '80s — with various drugs in her system, including cocaine.
Remember her this way
Now Sparkle is more than a mere movie. It is a final farewell to a great entertainer who once prophetically sang, "Didn't we almost have it all?"
"I view this movie as my gift for her," says Sparkleproducer Debra Martin Chase, who became her business partner and friend while working together onThe Preacher's Wife as well as the 1997 TV specialCinderella. "People will be able to remember her in this way. Beautiful, healthy, radiant. Not with pictures from bad times."
She recalls the day when Houston first suggested that they collaborate on a remake of Sparkle. Says Chase: "Warner Bros. had the rights at the time, and they had a three-picture deal with Aaliyah," a rising urban-pop artist. "They said if we were interested, they would put the movie into development with her."
All was in place for the 22-year-old to play the title role, until her untimely death in 2001 in a plane crash brought the project to a halt. After Warner Bros. dropped out, the remake sat on the shelf. "Over the years, people in the African-American community would ask me more about Sparkle than anything else," Chase says. "I just knew we would get it made somehow." Persistence paid off when Sony/TriStar signed on three years ago and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks took over as Sparkle.
Given Houston's musical heritage — gospel singer Cissy Houston is her mother, Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are cousins, Darlene Love is her godmother and Aretha Franklin her "honorary" aunt — it was natural for her to be attracted to the original movie. "She knew even then she was headed down the path to stardom," Martin says.
Houston probably could see herself in the rebelliousness of Sister, a knockout who blossoms in the spotlight but is tempted by the darker side of show business. And, while she watched Sparkle over and over again as a girl, she most likely connected to sweet Sparkle, the youngest, who possesses abundant talent but lacks confidence.
Unlike the young women in the film, however, no one stood in Houston's way. Instead, she was the anointed one and expected to join the family business. And she did, giving her first performance as a soloist in a church choir at age 11. From there, musical history was made.
Such a birthright came with a heavy price. "She was somebody who was born to be placed on a pedestal," Chase says. "But her quest in life was to be a normal person."
She refers to writer Malcolm Gladwell's observation that it takes 10,000 hours to acquire true expertise. "Her whole childhood was those 10,000 hours. It prepared her for superstardom. That voice, that face. And she did it. She broke every record. She won every award."
But when Houston finally wanted to take a much-deserved break, it was hard to come by. "When you are given so much, much is expected," Chase notes. "Those incredible gifts were a burden. People kept asking, 'Why aren't you singing?' She saw herself as an artist. But in reality, when you are that successful, you are a corporation. She had employees, obligations."
With her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown behind her and after several rounds of rehab, it looked as if Houston might pull herself together again with Sparkle. The mother character was adapted to her image and strengths, changing from a housemaid who toils for a rich white family and lives in a ghetto flat to an estimable middle-class Detroit businesswoman whose own attempt at a singing career failed and who now lives for her family and church.
However, it didn't help that so many years had passed since Houston last acted on the big screen.
'Bursting with happiness'
Chase says there was only one time that she was late getting to the Sparkle set: the first day of shooting. "She was in her trailer, and she was futzing around and I told her, 'We've got to go.' We got in the van, and there was dead silence. Then she said, 'You know, I hadn't done this for a long time.' I told her, 'Yes, but it is going to be great.' That was her way of saying she was nervous. But she is a performer and a tough lady."
Houston never faltered again, Chase confirms. "She was in the hair and makeup trailer by 5 o'clock each morning. Even when she was not working, she came to the set and hung out. She was energetic and bursting with happiness."
That is, until the very end of the shoot, when she couldn't bear to leave Detroit. Adds Chase: "It is hard for us to understand what it would be like to look into your day and not know what is coming next. She was so present in Detroit."
Says Sparks, who shares a duet with Houston that is heard over the end credits: "I get chills thinking about this, but it is good that it took so long to get Sparkle made. If it came out 10 years ago, Whitney wouldn't have been old enough to play the mother. I think it worked out the way it was supposed to. And for fans, this will be the last image they will remember of her."
Derek Luke, who plays Sparkle's love interest and who shared Houston's deep religious beliefs, insists he and the fellow New Jersey native will meet again. "We both believed in heaven. And heaven for us is like being in the other room. Eventually, you will see someone."
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Posted 14 August 2012 - 01:32 AM
Keep sparkling. Whitney forever.
A Brave heart is a Powerful weapon. A Voice inspires the Way. One Love. Whitney forever
Posted 14 August 2012 - 02:22 AM
Posted 14 August 2012 - 05:40 AM
Nightline from ABC News : 'Sparkle,' Whitney Houston's Final Bow
Posted 14 August 2012 - 08:52 AM
remamamama, on 14 August 2012 - 05:40 AM, said:
Nightline from ABC News : 'Sparkle,' Whitney Houston's Final Bow
Just wanted to add - based on this clip alone, Whitney didn't hold back in this film. Every little thing she did in that short performance was genuine. The tears were genuine, the emotions were real. It's almost as if she's no longer just a movie character.
Posted 14 August 2012 - 02:29 PM
Posted 14 August 2012 - 02:40 PM
mkko1, on 14 August 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:
It makes nothing but sense. I'm going on Saturday. I'm terrified I'm gonna be inconsolable when the closing credits roll.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:46 AM
(EW.com) -- "Sparkle" is a movie for anyone who thought that the pop melodrama of "Dreamgirls" wasn't over-the-top enough.
Set in the late '60s, it tells the story of three sisters from middle-class Detroit who form a girl group sort of like the Supremes. They're astoundingly talented, they want to be famous, and at one point they get their shot at a major deal with Columbia Records.
But all sorts of things keep getting in the way, like an abusive, coke-sniffing celebrity boyfriend — what happens to him will leave your jaw on the floor — and, more than that, their oppressively uptight church-lady mother, played with teasing confidence and force by Whitney Houston in her final screen role.
The movie is a remake of the 1976 ersatz-Supremes Hollywood fable that starred Irene Cara, and the earlier film's setting — the late '50s and early '60s — made sense. Transplanting the material ahead nearly a decade, to the era of race riots and black power (when the classic Motown sound was, in fact, already starting to fade), hurts the movie's credibility, since it is now all the harder to believe that three feisty grown women are still living in their puritanical mother's house because they're too cowed to go out on their own. From its opening scene, set inside a hopping Detroit nightclub, Sparkle is charged with a synthetically corny high tension. (Cee Lo Green shows up in that scene, and does a fine job of playing a conk-haired funk-soul relic who loves the ladies, but then he completely vanishes from the movie.)
The three sisters are each cut from a very different cloth. The quietly ambitious Sparkle, a brilliant songwriter, is played by the sixth-season American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, who proves to be a lot like Irene Cara — that is, she's pretty in a slightly pained way and wholesomely sincere to the point of being a bit boring. The whippersnapper Dolores (Tika Sumpter) mostly stays in the background, except when she explodes in moments of vengeful high dudgeon. And then there's the sister known, literally, as Sister, who's the star of the group and is played by the ravishingly sexy and accomplished British actress Carmen Ejogo. In this role, she looks and acts strikingly like a demon-driven, down-and-dirty Beyoncé, and her scenes with Mike Epps, as her charismatic but hateful comedian lover, are the most potent in the film. The truth is that whenever Sister is on screen, we're a little unsure why the movie is named after anyone else.
Sparkle uses some of the same imitation-Motown numbers by Curtis Mayfield that powered the 1976 version, along with new songs by R. Kelly. The music is all highly competent and, frankly, just unmemorable enough to make you wish that you were hearing authentic period chestnuts instead. The trouble with Sparkle isn't that it's overwrought (that's what's sometimes fun about it). It's that everything in the movie is derivative and third-hand: a copy of a copy. The film is pulp that's been fed through a strainer, with bits and pieces squeezed out of a dozen other, better movies ("What's Love Got to Do With It", "Lady Sings the Blues," and "Dreamgirls," to name just a few). At times, it's like a Joan Crawford neurotic-mother fantasy, and the gravelly conviction of Whitney Houston's performance proves that this could have been the first step not merely in a comeback but in a major re-invention. She had the instincts of a superb character actress.
At other times, the movie is a girl-group biopic that never quite delivers the charge of success that we're longing to see. Jordin Sparks' big, climactic on-stage number is supposed to do that, but to me it's just a testament to the way that too many "Idol" graduates, with their how-many-notes-can-I-cram-inside-a-note technical bravura, short-circuit any true connection with the audience. "Sparkle" is never more than an overheated mediocrity. The one thing it isn't, however, is dull. Grade: B-
Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:47 AM
by Grady Smith
Two years ago, Sylvester Stallone assembled a leathery crew of aging musclebound action stars for The Expendables, and the $80 million in-your-face action film went on to be a hit, grossing $103.1 million domestically and an explosive $274.5 million worldwide.
For these actors, a sequel wasn't just an enticing prospect, it was an inevitable one.
Thus, we now have The Expendables 2, which is facing off this weekend against three titles more geared toward families: Paranorman, Sparkle, and The Odd Life of Timothy Green. How will these four titles fare at the box office?
Read on for my weekend box office predictions:
1. The Expendables 2 – $38 million
All the guys are back for Expendables 2 — Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, and Ah-nold — but there are a few fresh faces, too. Namely, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and token "let's bring in the young crowd" actor Liam Hemsworth.
The kitsch factor of seeing all these grizzled action stars in one place is still the franchise's selling point, and according to BoxOffice.com's Shawn Robbins, social media activity for the sequel has been substantially stronger than its predecessor, which opened with $34.8 million in August 2010. Adult men will make up the vast majority of the audience and likely drive Expendables 2, which is playing in 3,316 theaters, to about $38 million in its first frame. Lionsgate reportedly acquired the $90 million film from Nu Image for $35 million.
2. Sparkle – $18 million
Though Jordin Sparks is making her acting debut, it is Whitney Houston's final onscreen performance that will lure in curious moviegoers to see ScreenGems' 1960s musical family drama Sparkle this weekend. The film, which cost a slim $14 million to make, is getting a narrow release in 2,244 theaters — a common tactic for a movie targeting a predominantly African-American audience (Think Like A Man, another ScreenGems film, started on 2,052 theaters earlier this year) — which should yield a strong per-theater average.
Although tracking and studio expectations have the film earning about $14-15 million over the Friday-to-Sunday period, as Tyler Perry's titles have proved, movies geared towards an African-American female audience have often been underestimated by industry watchers; Sparkle could be bigger than most expect. I'm going with a rather bullish (feel free to chide me if I'm wrong on Sunday!) $18 million.
3. The Bourne Legacy – $17 million
Last week's chart topper is facing direct competition from The Expendables 2, plus a lukewarm "B" CinemaScore grade. It may tumble 55 percent to $17 million, which would lift its ten-day total to about $70 million.
4. ParaNorman – $15 million
Focus Features scored with 2009′s Coraline, the dark 3-D animation that quietly earned $75.3 million during its domestic run. The same filmmaking team came together for ParaNorman, another ghoulish take on typically sunny animated fare. ParaNorman won't have the benefit of the 3-D craze, which really sparked in 2009, on its side the way Coraline did, but it will still earn some cash due to a big 3,429 theater count. Families are spread thin between Odd Life and Sparkle, but ParaNorman, which likely cost somewhere in the $60 million range (the reported budget of Coraline) may scare up $15 million.
5. The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $14 million
The Disney feature, which stars Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton and was made for just under $25 million, looked like it would become a typical August misfire a few weeks ago, but a hard marketing push has raised awareness for the whimsical tale considerable, and its prospects seem much rosier.
In its Wednesday debut, the film earned $2.3 million, the same number that Hope Springs started with on Wednesday last week before pulling $14.6 million over the weekend. Hope Springs carried a much older audience that waited until the weekend to hit the theater, which resulted in the big boost, but Odd Life may be a bit smaller. Still, thanks to strong word-of-mouth from its "A-" CinemaScore grade, Timothy Green, playing in 2,598 theaters, may blossom to $14 million.
Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:50 AM
The melodramatic story is familiar, though the talented cast makes the most of rather tired material.
A remake of the 1976 original, this version is set in Detroit during the late 1960s and features the last performance of Whitney Houston, who died in February.
Houston plays fiercely protective matriarch Emma, who is determined to keep her three daughters away from the temptations that nearly killed her.
A singer in her younger years, Emma is hell-bent on discouraging the musical aspirations of youngest daughter Sparkle (Jordin Sparks).
Middle daughter Dolores (Tika Sumpter) has applied to medical school. Emma is thrilled. She wishes her oldest, Tammy (Carmen Ejogo), would marry a doctor. But Tammy (referred to as Sister) is not interested in playing it safe. Almost 30, she's eager to get out from under her mother's roof. Though Tammy has a guy who loves her in Levi (Omari Hardwick), she's seduced by the glamorous life offered by comedian Satin (Mike Epps).
Sparkle is a spirited songwriter who convinces Tammy to perform one of her songs at a local club. That leads to the three sisters trying out for a local musical contest, spurred on by Stix (Derek Luke), who becomes their manager and also has eyes for Sparkle.
The trio are a wonderfully appealing group, inspired by Motown and a melange of R&B and gospel music. Dolores is sassy and Sparkle is spunky, but Tammy's sultry moves attract most of the attention. Sparkle tries to keep her sisters united, but Tammy's life takes a downward spiral as she moves in with the smooth, but cruel, Satin.
While Sparks has a genuine sparkle and an amazing voice, she doesn't get to fully show it off until more than 90 minutes into the movie. Houston is convincing as the loving but inflexible mom. Houston has a singing solo while at church, but she's clearly a supporting player in the movie, which she also executive-produced.
It's too bad Sparkle trots out so many A Star is Born-style clichés. Fortunately, the film is full of show-stopping musical numbers that all but drown out the predictable story.
Envisioned as a starring vehicle for Sparks, Sparkle is also a fitting curtain call for Houston. Her character's ultimate willingness to acknowledge her daughter's dreams and encourage the musical aspirations of the next generation is a lovely final tribute.
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Spurs need a new stadium, so it seems.
Please, White Hart Lane-Lovers (Lovers Lane is a chain of sex shops in the States), don't get it twisted. Though I've never been to the Lane, I know the emotions and memories that a great, old park can evoke. I'm a life-long fan of the Chicago Cubs, who moved into their current ballpark in 1916, and I can't imagine a world where the Cubs don't play in that old park. I may have spent most of the 1990′s ignoring all things Cubs, but they traded Maddux. There's no excuse for that. Really, one of the greatest pitchers of all time? One of the last pitchers to ever reach 300 wins? How do you let a guy like Greg go? But I digress. This isn't about the Cubs, it's about Spurs. This post is about the impending changes at White Hart Lane. This post is about naming rights, home field, and club-support. Again, I've never had the chance to visit the Lane, but I can imagine. I can imagine the camaraderie, the brotherhood/sisterhood, the remembrances of times gone by, of teams long disbanded. I've been to enough sporting events in Chicago to fill volumes and volumes with my memories. I saw, in person, Michael Jordan. I was at the Mad House on Madison during the Blackhawks' Stanley-Cup-winning 2009/10 season. I saw Sammy Sosa break his corked bat, again, in person. I saw Walter "Sweetness" Payton play at Soldier Field in his last regular-season game. I've been to both Comiskey Parks, but I've never been to US Cellular Field.
Naming rights to stadia are a strange phenomenon in the sports world. The reasons for allowing your home park to take on the name of a giant corporate sponsor are obvious. Money, money, and later, more money. It can be a great revenue stream, if your team needs it. My favorite team, across all sports, is the Chicago Cubs. They play at a park named after a chewing gum magnate, but they have never been paid a dime for the name on the stadium. The Cubs took over the park from a failed club. The Cubs renamed it Wrigley. That same chewing gum company owned the Cubbies at the time. Now, there has been news on the Spurs official website that the club may sell naming rights to whatever new stadium they move into. That may be a mistake, in this fan's opinion.
There is another Major League ball club in Chicago. The White Sox, of the South Side, are very much the second team, in the Second City. Always a runner-up, always an afterthought to the uninitiated, the White Sox have quite a controversial history surrounding their home field. The Pale Hose play in one of the ugliest stadia in Major League Baseball (again, in this fan's opinion). The Sox had the unfortunate circumstance of struggling to fund a new stadium during a Republican-controlled state administration, going so far as to threaten a move to another city and "stop time" in the State-House. Comiskey Park, the first one, was a real dump when I visited, before it was demolished. Our old South Side park had seen better days. It was a relic of another age. Not without her charm, the old girl was well past her prime. Adding to the Sox' problems was a brand new ball park in Baltimore. It's one on my Stadium Bucket List, now. The new Camden Yards has been touted as a fantastic fan experience. Camden marked a sea-change in stadium design. It's a beautiful park with all the modern amenities fans of today want. No longer would US sports facilities be built to pack-em-in for whatever-sport's-in-season. No longer would fan-experience be an afterthought… or so we thought.
The "New Comiskey" opened to great fanfare, many expectations, and big shoes to fill. I wish I could say it delivered. I wish it was the last ugly stadium built in Chicago. I wish there was a way to go back in time, show Jerry Reinsdorf the stadia of today. Comiskey Park II was a purpose-built park, there weren't to be any football games played there (I'd welcome a fútbol match there today, though), no disco demo derbies, no Beatles concerts. Comiskey 2.0 was built for one team, the White Sox. Unfortunately, they dropped the ball worse than the Cubbies after Steve Bartman's touch-of-history in that infamous game five back in 2003. The Sox built a stadium for as-many-fans-as-possible, not a stadium for-the-fans. In defense of the White Sox, they did retain the old stadium's name… for a while. It's a real shame that even the Big Hurt couldn't keep the butts in the seats at 35th and Shields. Even an All-Star game (the inaugural All-Star Game was played at OG Comiskey) and a World Series Championship couldn't really keep the fans interested. The behemoth stadium packed in over 47,000 fans at it's peak. Unfortunately, that was a rather-unrealistic goal. Even the storied stands of Wrigley only hold about 39,000 (three million a season). This isn't the NFL, folks. This isn't the Camp Nou. There's no proven way to get 47,000 fans to the stadium, eighty-one times, every summer. Currently, the park formerly known as Comiskey holds just over 40,000 on the odd-occasion that it sells out.
Again, I digress. I've seen the "Northumberland Development Project" plans, I've seen the Olympic Stadium plans, and I'm concerned with both strategies. Both plans included naming rights as an integral part of the proposal. Again, I know the economics of professional sports are very short-sighted. I understand the need for cash-up-front. But I also see a trend in fans to more willingly embrace a team that forgoes the near-term windfall in favor of tradition-building and community-integration. The fan needs a home, a castle, a fortress; and the team needs much-the-same. There seem to be two camps of Spurs supporters, as it relates to the Olympic Stadium legacy. One camp, understandably, would prefer Spurs NOT move into the 2012 Olympic stadium. Why uproot a team from its traditional area? The other camp would welcome the move, unfazed by the trek to a neighborhood of questionable safety (or so I've heard). The name of that new stadium wouldn't really matter, would it? If they ended up in East London, as unlikely as that may be, would you still even want the new home to retain the White Hart Lane moniker?
Of course, the bookies have long had Spurs chances of moving to the Olympic as long odds. West Ham seem to have the deal locked up, despite the Leyton Orient and Spurs challenges. Which leaves Spurs to find land in one of the most crowded towns on the globe for a big, new building. I really liked the plans for a new park in Tottenham. I loved the way the team intended to play through the construction. I still think the renderings of the new stadium were great. It seemed to be extremely fan-oriented and neighborhood friendly. Neighbors make a ball park. Just ask the a-fore-mentioned White Sox. One of the reasons they can't compete with the Cubbies for the hearts of Chicagoans is the neighborhood. The Friendly Confines is surrounded by a now-affluent neighborhood abounding with bars, clubs, dining and shopping. Wrigley isn't just the field, it's the experience of walking to the park, taking "The El" to the park, finding a ticket scalper, crawling between watering holes before and after the game. "The Cell" is all about the game, zero atmosphere. Sorry, but that's no longer enough for the average American sports fan.
Now, if Spurs do end up building a new stadium in the old neighborhood, bringing jobs and tourism to the area, it would be like throwing out the baby with the bath water to sell the naming rights. Why let a great name like "White Hart Lane" become a relic of a bygone era? Why let some corporation come in and steal a portion of your history only to fold, or be sold? Ask the Arizona Diamondbacks (the BOB or Chase?) or the San Francisco Giants (SBC or At&t?) about having to change the names on every inch of the building. Sure, Cadillac are the "presenting sponsors" of the Chicago Bears. Sure, Wrigley Field features the Bud Light Bleachers and the CBOE seat auction. None-the-less, the Bears still play at Soldier Field and the Cubs still play at Wrigley. How long would the Blackhawks' and Bulls' season ticket waiting lists be if they still played in a building called "Chicago Stadium" instead of the United Center? Aren't there some Chicagoans that still call it the Rosemont Horizon instead of the Allstate Arena? And don't get me started on the World Music Theater/Marcus Amphitheater/Tweeter Center/Whatever it's called now…
I still hope to watch a match in that great, old park, the Lane. If I can't make that happen before they move to new digs, I still hope to take the tube to the White Hart Lane stop and see the Spurs work their magic in a new White Hart Lane. Of course, seeing your team play in person is almost always better than watching on TV. Seeing your team play on historic grounds is even better. I really hope that the sports big-wigs see what I see. I see a fan-base that accepts a new name, grudgingly. I see a fan-base that understands when their old house gets a face-lift. I am a fan, in that base, that would rather the team work a little harder with the on-field product and not around-the-field branding. Marketing is always growing in its importance to the business of sports. I just think there are better ways to fund your team than plastering some unrelated product-placement all over your stadium. Again, I understand the need for signage and branding, just leave the name of the stadium alone. I believe a company would pay almost as much to sponsor a portion of the house just for a chance to be associated with the greater name on the outside of the building. CBOE was, apparently, so pleased with how well their Wrigley Field front-row seat auction that they decided to repeat the experiment at the United Center. How I'd relish the chance to sit between the benches for a 'Hawks game! Most of my seats have been up with "the real fans" in the 300-level. Though I've usually sat in "reserved" sections of Wrigley, I've had seats in the fifth-row at two different Cubs games. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Again, though, as a Chicago native, I'm thousands of miles from the hearts-and-minds to the Spurs army of fans. I'm thousands of miles from a chance to sing and scream and chant and rant alongside the Lane-Loyals. I haven't even been to a Cubs game in about a sixteen months. I haven't seen a Bears game in person since that final regular season cap by Sweetness. Mostly, its economics and logistics that keep me out of the stands. Same, the reasons I've only been to London once (the weekend George Best died), and couldn't attend a match. I did get to catch a match in a Piccadilly pub, though. I would have done anything in my power to go to at least one event during the 2016 Olympics, if Chicago had gotten the bid. I would have done anything in my power to attend a World Cup match in England in '18 or the States in '22 or vice versa. But, Chicago has tried to mend their political corruption and (therefore?) lost the '16 Olympic bid. But, FIFA took corruption lessons from Chicago, apparently, and sold the World Cup to the highest bidders in '18 and '22. Can we stop this from happening to the new Lane? Can Tottenham fans rise up and tell Mr. Levy we don't want a stadium named after a shoe-making, slave-labor-encouraging, multi-national corporation? Can we convince the higher-ups that we down-trodden are the ones that keep them in fresh trainers and pretty, new suits? Can we keep the investment bankers and insurance brokers out of the stadium naming game? This fan sure hopes so. But seeing my state's former governor now in a court room, for a second time, possibly on his way to federal prison to have a chat with another of my former governors, I have my doubts. Call me a pessimist, but I see it as being a realist.
Come on You Spurs! Come on and keep it named White Hart Lane! To Dare is To Do! To dare to keep corporate interests off the stadium facade is to do your fans right! Let the kits and the touch line boards and the concourses be the domain of the adverts. Mexican Fútbol kits are so plastered with corporate sponsors that it can send an epileptic into an episode, and TV may cut away from the action on the pitch for sixty second commercials, but most of the Mexican stadia retain their original names (I'll get to Estadio Azteca someday). Few American baseball stadiums are free of corporate names. The only ones now are Wrigley, Fenway, Yankees, Camden, Dodger, Arlington, and Aneheim. That's seven of the thirty-two Major League ballparks with no (paid) corporate names. 's a dizzying look at NFL stadium name chronology. In case you weren't dizzy enough, here's a list of current, former and future stadia for Major League Baseball. Some towns do it right (opinion), and keep the stadia names traditional. Others, not so much.
Judge for yourselves. I'm no economist. I'm hardly a professional critic of architecture or sports. And really, these are just my opinions. I hope we can keep the name White Hart Lane. If we don't, I'll still go, someday. I won't have the same expectations. I hope the product on the pitch makes up for the product placement on the entry gates.
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In one of the biggest weeks in the history of AATW it is our great pleasure to announce that the new Scooter album, Jumping All Over The World has gone into the artist album chart at #1, knocking one of the most successful female artists of all time, Madonna, off the top spot in the process. An unbelievable achievement for HP, Rick, Michael and Jens but one that is richly deserved, a view that I'm sure will be shared by anyone who saw the guys performance on the Clubland Live tour. Scooter goes way beyond the average definition of a dance act and testament to this is their lasting appeal which has seen them release records to 3 generations of dance fans across the world and become the most successful act of all time in their native Germany.
As if that wasn't a big enough result for us Clubland Classix is also still sat at the top of the compilation chart meaning AATW have the #1 Artist & Compilation albums this week, a first for any UK Dance label and one which should hopefully firmly send home the message to the media and beyond that commercial dance music is still well and truly alive and kicking all across the UK.
There will be those that will no doubt move to scoff at Scooters success. There are many in the world of dance music and in the wider music industry who have an unhealthy obsession with worrying about being seen to be cool and trendy. All I would say to those people is that dance music exists on many levels, each quite seperate but ultimately interdependent on the others. Whilst people from either side of the fence may choose to cast scorn on the others tastes, both sides should be grateful for any success as it is a boost for dance music as a whole. Remember that the media in recent years has sought to marginalise all forms of dance music saying that people don't want to buy it, listeners aren't interested in it and its not relevant to todays youth.
If this was so true why do tens of thousands of us flock to Ibiza year on year? Why did the Clubland Live tour manage to sell out venues on a scale that holds equal comparison to Take That, The Killers and the Spice Girls? Why are dance compilation albums of all genres consistently at the top of the compilation chart? How did Cascada manage to sell one million albums in under a year and how has Scooter managed to knock the worlds biggest female artist off the top of the album chart? The sales figures are now there for all to see, if the media still wants to pretend that the UK population has no interest in dance music then I hope their listeners, viewers and advertisers will vote with their feet. Rest assured that regardless of what anyone with delusions of self importance thinks, AATW will continue to push the music and the artists that we and a large section of the public audiences clearly love..
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Album sales dive
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By Alan Jones
Unseasonably hot weather and an insipid release slate in an already weak retail climate spelt disaster last week, with album sales diving 18.6% to 1,631,962.
Thats their second lowest level in 436 chart weeks in the 21st century, beating only the 1,564,412 albums sold exactly eight years ago, in the sales week ending 13 May 2000, when Tom Jones Reload was the top artist album on sales of 33,662, while Now! Thats What I Call Music 45 was overall chart champ, with sales of 51,015.
This week, no compilation sold more than 21,277 copies the number that Clubland Classix: The Album Of Your Life sold to take the number one slot for the fifth time in a row, for Blackburn dance label All Around The World and its partner Universal Music Television. Its the 20th number one compilation for the two companies since their first joint venture in 2002 and they also jointly secure the first number one artist album of their partnership this week.
Madonna was the last US female singer to spend more than a week at number one in this country, spending a fortnight on top with 2005 album Confessions On A Dance Floor, and was widely expected to repeat the feat this week, with her 11th number one, Hard Candy but with sales of the album tumbling by 68.7% to 29,667, it slips to number two, being replaced in pole position by German techno band Scooter, whose AATW/UMTV set, Jumping All Over The World, debuts at the summit, on sales of 33,557.
Scooters first single in three years, The Question Is What Is The Question powered by a questionable speeded-up sample from Dutch duo Mouth & MacNeals 1972 single, How Do You Do - hasnt acquitted itself too well so far, moving 49-62-67-49 since release last month, making Jumping All Over The Worlds success something of a surprise.
It all makes sense when you know that the new album is part of a double CD set, the second part of which is crammed with 20 older recordings, among them all 12 of their previous hits. This key fact, plus widespread price discounting and a TV campaign, clearly gave the album a major boost.
Singles werent immune from the slump in sales. Week-on-week, they ebbed 6.3% to 1,716,745 their lowest level for 22 weeks, but were still 16.3% up on the same week in 2007.
Number one for the fourth week in a row, 4 Minutes is now in a three way tie as Madonnas longest-reigning number one, alongside her first chart-topper, 1985s Into The Groove, and 1990s Vogue. 4 Minutes, on which Madonna is partnered by Justin Timberlake, sold a further 29,821 copies last week to take its eight week sales tally to 245,199 copies. Thats enough to make it her biggest selling single since Hung Up sold 507,764 in 2005. However, its the first number one to sell fewer than 30,000 copies since Bleeding Love sold 29,616 copies in the last week of its seven week reign, some 22 weeks ago.
That Madonna is still number one is something of a surprise, however, as Wileys Wearing My Rolex had looked set to roar to the summit following physical release. In fact, it climbs 3-2, with sales of 26,581 representing a 2.8% dip week-on-week, despite being newly available on CD and 12-inch.
Meanwhile, Sam Sparros debut hit, Black & Gold, which has been number two for the last fortnight, slips to third place on sales of 25,370.
Of just five new entries to the Top 75 this week, by far the biggest impression is made by Coldplays Violet Hill, which makes a creditable number eight debut on sales of 15,025 downloads, despite the fact it was previously available as a free download, and was also given away as a 7-inch covermount with NME.
Coldplays first single since Talk in 2005, its the introductory single from their eagerly awaited new album Viva La Vida, Or Death And All His Friends. Its the bands 10th hit, of which all but the first (Shiver) reached the Top 10.
The only previous chart singles called In My Arms by Erasure and Mylo both peaked at number 13, so by comparison Kylie Minogue is doing well to move 46-10 (12,206 sales) with her hit of that title, following its physical release. Its Minogues third straight Top 10 hit from current album X, and her 16th Top 10 hit in a row. In all, the 39 year old has scored 43 Top 75 hits, of which 41 have reached the Top 40, and 31 have made the Top 10.
Previously in the chart exactly four years ago, when his Hold On To Our Love peaked at number 13 beating the number 16 place it limped to in Eurovision Welsh singer/songwriter James Fox returns to the Top 40 this week, along with Cardiff City FC, debuting at number 15 with Bluebirds Flying High. The song celebrates the success of Foxs hometown football team in reaching the FA Cup Final for the first time in 81 years. Not surprisingly, the song is number one in Wales, where 92.1% of its 7,695 sales were made.
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Madonna [...] with her 11th number one, Hard Candy but with sales of the album tumbling by 68.7% to 29,667, it slips to number two, being replaced in pole position by German techno band Scooter, whose AATW/UMTV set, Jumping All Over The World, debuts at the summit, on sales of 33,557.
Scooter vertreibt Madonna von Spitzenplatz
Unglaublich: Scooter verdrängen Madonna
Grossbritannien: Deutsche Band Scooter entthront Madonna
Scooter verdrängen Madonna