Word: performancy
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...Nine had seen this movie, his sudden awareness of what the competition was producing would have instantly unblocked his creative sinuses.) The picture's single triumph, true to the mercantile nature of the enterprise, is thunderously obvious product placement. During one of their many demolition scenes, the Chipmunks perform the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" while opening a bag of Utz Cheese Balls. The whole movie follows suit: empty calories, no comic nutrition. Seeing Squeakquel is like gorging on Cheese Balls for an hour and a half...
...group actually split up in 2000 and then got back together in 2007. The surprise No. 1 has now given them - and others - an unexpected boost. De la Rocha confirmed the band would perform a free concert in Britain next year to celebrate their chart win and is giving all the proceeds from the sales of the single to a homeless charity called Shelter. The Morters' Facebook page also includes a link to the charity's website, which has helped it raise $112,000 so far. What's more, Cowell has even acknowledged the power of the Facebook campaign, days...
...year, performers and protestors—such as the Tibetan monks who often demonstrate there—can obtain licenses to perform...
...English Mathematician Charles Babbage had an idea for a machine that would perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, so Babbage's plan called for the machine to be executed in brass and steel and powered by a hand crank. If it had been completed, his Difference Engine would have been a magnificent beast, requiring 25,000 parts and weighing about 15 tons. But he ran out of money and patience and had to abandon it unfinished...
Last Sunday, Cuomo’s tour bus (one of Weezer’s five tour-buses) skidded on ice and ended up going over the guardrail and landing in a ditch, according to CNN. Cuomo was on his way from Toronto to Boston, to perform at Boston University (What?! He wasn’t going to play at his alma mater? That’s karma, Cuomo...