From the creative mind of native Puerto Rican Nino Alicea, and the sketch comedy team of The Village Variety Pack by Dennis Hensley and Michael Anthony in Hollywood, it’s Rent-a-Rican. The “commercial” was produced by Michael Anthony and the entire cast of the Village Idiots; Nino Alicea, Whitney Welch, Alex Smith, Justin Porter, Vance Reyes, Sam Kern, Sarah Mozal & JP Karliak, who provided the voice over also…”Are your parties WASPY and dull? Are you tired of Bif and Bunny and martinis every Friday at 6 with the same old crowd? Then call this hotline for your very own Rican! Watch the party come alive when Nino arrives. Continue reading ‘Rent a Rican:’
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Heidi Montag’s Twitter page has over one-million followers. Here are some of her highlights as she hides away from Hollywood in Costa-Rica. 1) I have sun poison from tanning too much!!! I cant keep out of the sun though! AHHH IT ITCHES AND BURNS!!! 2) getting ready for a bonfire! I love smores!!!!!! 3) Love my baby Ninja! 4) Never going to the pet store again Petflow.com delivers all my dog food right to my house No more lugging those bags. Baby Ninja? What’s that about? Well at least she has a job pitching pet supplies.
Paul Oakenfold’s career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a “bedroom deejay”. Paul grew up listening to The Beatles. Later 21-year-old Paul Oakenfold moved to 254 West 54th Street. Studio 54′s Steve Rubell ran the place and only allowed popular people inside. Oakenfold used fake passes to sneak into places in New York where he met Maze, Bobby Womack and Bob Marley, whom they also interviewed by posing as a journalist. Other people were Brooke Shields, Cher, Donald Trump and Bianca Jagger, Warhol, Dali and Yves Saint Laurent.Paul Oakenfold’s musical career began in the late 1970s, when he started playing soul in a Covent Garden wine bar. 
Sita Sings the Blues is an interpretation of the ancient Indian epic Ramayana. It tells the story of the warrior prince Rama and his relationship with his wife Sita, who he rejects, breaking her heart. The film’s American animator Nina Paley could identify because she was dumped by her husband. “The film is semi auto-biographical,” she admits. “I folded in my own story of my marriage breaking apart. And what I do is occasionally cut from these fantasy scenes of fantasy ancient India to my own modern story.” The contemporary tale of Nina’s disintegrating marriage is just one of three stories in the film. In addition there’s the telling of the epic itself, as well as commentary from a group of three shadow puppets. But the most unusual aspect of the film is interspersing the storytelling with the Hindu goddess Sita singing the blues.The vocals come from the 1920′s American Jazz artist Annette Hanshaw. Paley included those songs because the lyrics and the sadness expressed resonated with her own pain. “I was going through a heartbreak. This combination of the songs, which were torch songs, was very sad. Also Annette Hanshaw’s voice, which was just so pure and vulnerable and clear.” 
Johnny Carson is best known as America’s late night king of comedy. As thirty year host of NBC television’s Tonight Show, his topical monologues, irreverent characters, comical double takes and frivolous sketches entertained more people than any other performer in history. His late night arena provided plugs for untold books, films and products, created a springboard to stardom for an infinite number of new performers and, more than occasionally, offered a secure refuge for aging legends.Carson began performing professionally at the age of fourteen as a magician-comic, “The Great Carsoni,” for the local Rotary Club in his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. After a two year stint as a Navy Ensign during World War II, and four years as a radio-drama major at the University of Nebraska, he plunged headfirst into the world of broadcasting as a radio announcer-disc jockey. When WOW in Omaha began television operations in 1949, Carson was there to host his first video program, The Squirrel’s Nest, a daily early afternoon show. 
I’ve Got A Secret was an early celebrity game show in which the celebrity panel had to figure out the guest’s secret by asking questions from which clues were derived. The program was aired by CBS from 1952 to 1967.This show features Mr. Samuel J. Seymour who was ninety-six years old at the time the show aired. Mr. Seymour was the last living person to have been present at the Lincoln assassination. He was five years old when he witnessed John Wilkes Booth leap from the balcony of Ford’s Theatre, on April 14th, 1865, after shooting President Lincoln. Mr. Seymour died two months after the show’s airing, on April 14th, 1956, ninety-one years to the day of Lincoln’s assassination.Jayne Meadows, with some preparation by radio and television personality Bill Cullen, seems to be particularly bright and adept at the game. The sexual tension between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is hilarious and the great Gary Moore (who later went on to host the 70′s program, To Tell The Truth) plays a wonderful foil. Lets get in the back in the day time machine and WATCH Tomorrow Pictures.TV
We are excited to share that over the past two weeks the eyes of the world have turned to World Bicycle Relief and the Bicycles for Educational Empowerment Program (BEEP).
Tomorrow is another day. The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives. Tomorrow represents a rebirth and a new beginning. Why think about yesterday when tomorrow has endless possibilities. Problems and obstacles in life are a part of everyone’s own personal odyssey. From the richest of the rich to the everyday people the issues of life’s cruel blows are always present. Tomorrow drives us to that better day.For victims of institutionalized HIV in Romania, tomorrow is the silver lining in their cloud. Tomorrow is hope for Mioara, Georgie and Ashica.Their story is brought back to life in the documentary “After The Fall.”Tomorrow Will Shine is the first music/video release from the soundtrack. The song, written and produced by Marvin Etzioni and Martin Tillman captures the feeling of hope as a life is being propelled along in a journey. Etzioni sings and plays the guitar with a sophisticated, empathetic passion that has echoes of John Lennon. Tillman’s piano and strings shine as the songs emotional layer that operates in perfect concert with the vocal track. 
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds.
