Thursday, November 5, 2015
9 Diva Duets That Will Leave You Gagging
From: NewNowNext
7
“I Know Him So Well”
Whitney & Cissy Houston
This duet between Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy Houston is a simple one, but also a deeply meaningful one. It’s a joy to see where The Voice got her voice and the two carry off this number with a grace that makes this duet a real class act.
Academy Award for Best Actress
1968*
Barbra Streisand
as
Fanny Brice
Funny Girl
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, director, and filmmaker. During a career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards, which has earned her recognition as Mother of All Contemporary Pop Divas or Queen of The Divas. She has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, and eleven Golden Globes. She is among a select group of entertainers who have been honored with all the major industry prizes.
Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with more than 72.5 million albums in the United States and with a total of 245 million records sold worldwide, making her the best-selling female artist among the top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America.(The only female in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock 'n' roll genre.)
After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of the decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were, and A Star Is Born, for which she received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme "Evergreen", the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and Best Motion Picture Musical; Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first (and to date only) woman to win that award.
The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist: a total of 33 since 1963. Streisand is the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades, having released 53 Gold albums, 31 Platinum albums, and 14 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States
*Tied with .Katharine Hepburn
*Tied with .Katharine Hepburn
Janitorial Services:
Matt York by Peek Physique
From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things
From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things
'In a small and conservative town like Rochester, N.Y., it can be hard to find good male nude models. At that point I was used to models who wouldn't even take off their underwear... then, along came Matt.'
Last month I featured Peek Physique's 1999 shoot with blazing hot model Matt York. (Playgirl Desires) After the 1999 shoot, Peek Physique's Tom Willard too a break from the genre for awhile. Almost ten years later, when Tom re-entered the field, he joined Model Mayhem and discovered that Matt was on the site. Tom got in touch, and they ended up getting together for several more shoot. This time, it was all digital, and without the cost of film and processing, Tom was able to shoot and process a greater number of images.
One of my favorite shoots from this time is this series of images. I love the feel of man, a janitor alone late at night in an empty building,a building he has been hired to clean, protect and take care of. The men in suits have all gone home and the building that they run and control from nine to five is all his to enjoy until the sun begins to rise in the morning.
This building thankfully doesn't have those pesky security cameras in the basement, so before starting his duties he strips to his grey undies. He gets his tasks out of the way, the wiping, sweeping and mopping. When is assigned work is complete, it is time to remove his last piece of clothing and get dirty in the area he just worked so hard to sanitize. The building in question used in the shoot was actually a complex of shops and offices that Tom used to have a small gallery in.
'We made good use of nearby locations, including the bathroom, a hallway and the graffitied walls out back. One time, while shooting in a hallway around a corner, he told me someone was coming (I didn't hear them because I'm deaf) and I managed to deflect a father and daughter who were looking for the nearby dance studio.'
'I like working with Matt. He and I are a good team. He has a lot of ideas and directs himself well and I'm just along for the ride. In one picture, he is sitting spread-legged on a toilet exposing himself to the hilt. This picture has been viewed 18,000 times in his port and another 8,000 times on mine. I don't think I would have ever asked a model to adopt that sort of pose, but Matt just gave it to me and all I could do was try and capture it as best I could.'\
Mug Shot Thursday
From kenneth in the (212)
He's armed and somewhat dangerous, but this 23-year-old's taste in pizza may be his biggest crime:
From a release:
Hillsborough police have charged Benjamin Robert Smith, 23, of 410 Terrell Road in the Oct. 20 armed robbery of a local Domino’s Pizza restaurant. Police charged Smith with armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of second-degree kidnapping. Investigator Jason Winn had considered Smith his primary suspect, and upon discovering Smith was already in the Durham County jail, conducted an interview Tuesday. Smith confessed to the robbery during the interview Smith had been arrested Friday in Durham, along with Christopher J. Anderson, 28, of Haw River, as the two were preparing for a home invasion. The two confessed to the home invasion plan and multiple other crimes across Durham, Orange and Alamance counties. They are facing multiple firearm, robbery and drug charges. At approximately 10 p.m. on Oct. 20, officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at Domino’s Pizza, located at 112 John Earl St. Two employees were at the business when Smith, wearing a mask and black clothing, entered the business with a handgun and demanded money. Smith stole cash and was last seen running from the business. The employees were not injured during the robbery.
11 Great Celebrity Mustache Rides For #Movember
From: NewNowNext
8
Billy Dee Williams
Lando keeps it classy even when he’s betraying you to the Empire.
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