2007 OSCARS WINNERS.

The 2007 OSCARS has come and gone and below is the list of nominees and winners. There's a slight difference with the winners of the Golden Globes but the nomination is almost thesame. And like always I'll point out the ones I agree and don't agree with.

Best picture
The Departed (I agree)
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland (I agree)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half NelsonP
eter O'Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness

Best actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen (I agree)
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine (Don't agree)
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond (My choice)
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best supporting actress
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (I agree)
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best directing
Martin Scorsese, The Departed (I agree)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best foreign language film
The Lives of Others, Germany (Don't have an opinion)
After the Wedding, Denmark
Days of Glory (Indigenes), Algeria
Pan's Labyrinth, Mexico
Water, Canada

Best adapted screenplay
William Monahan, The Departed (Don't have an opinion)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal

Best original screenplay
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine (I agree)
Guillermo Arriaga, BabelIris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best animated feature film
Happy Feet (I agree)
Cars
Monster House

Best art direction
Pan's Labyrinth (Maybe)
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Best cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth (Haven't seen any of the movies)
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
The Prestige

Best sound mixing
Dreamgirls (I agree)
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best sound editing
Letters From Iwo Jima (I agree)
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best original score
Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla (I agree)
The Good German, Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal, Philip Glass
Pan's Labyrinth, Javier Navarrete
The Queen, Alexandre Desplat

Best original song
I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth, by Melissa Etheridge (Don't agree)
Listen from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven (My choice)
Love You I Do from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett
Our Town from Cars, by Randy Newman
Patience from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger and Willie Reale

Best costume
Marie Antoinette (I agree)
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
The Queen

Best documentary feature
An Inconvenient Truth (Don't have an opinion)
Deliver Us From Evil
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best documentary (short subject)
The Blood of Yingzhou District (Don't agree)
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream (My choice)
Two Hands

Best film editing
The Departed (Don't agree)
Babel
Blood Diamond (My choice)
Children of Men
United 93

Best makeup
Pan's Labyrinth (Don't agree)
Apocalypto (My choice)
Click

Best animated short film
The Danish Poet (Don't have an opinion)
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best live action short film
West Bank Story (Maybe)
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Totally agree)
Poseidon
Superman Returns



Congrats to my girl Jennifer Hudson; she deserved to win.

I'm glad Eddy Murphy didn't win. He didn't deserve to, not with his performance in Dreamgirls. Didn't know what the hoppla was about in the first place.

So happy that Happy Feet won Best Animation and not Cars. You know Cars beat Happy Feet at the Golden Globes. Happy Feet is a must watch.

Forest Whitaker deserved his win. How many of you have seen LAST KING OF SCOTLAND? Amazing acting! You wouldn't believe he's an American, he took acting to another level.

I haven't seen 'The Queen', but I know Helen Mirren is a fantastic actress. She has my vote anyday.

I don't personally think that Merryl Streep deserved a nomination for Best Actress for her role in "Devil Wears Prada'. There was nothing fantastic about her acting in the movie. I've seen better acting from her.

Picture of the year I think Should have gone to 'Babel' even though I agreed with 'Departed' going home with the award. I haven't seen Departed but I hear it's a great movie, but how many of you have seen Babel? Which movie do you think should have won?

Martin Scorsese deserved the best director award he got. But I'm almost sure the director of Babel deserved it more. But you know Martin has never gotten an Oscar, even though he had been nominated severally. Well, he did a good job in Departed but did a better job in 'The Aviator' and he didn't win an Academy award then. I guess they just wanted to make it up to him.

What's your assessment of the 2007 Academy Awards? Send me your thoughts.

HARRY PORTER/DANIEL RADCLIFFE HAS SOMETHING TO SHOW Y'ALL

Daniel Radcliffe wants us to see what he's made of. What word should I use here? Cute penis. Uncircumcised but still cute!! Ladies, let's take a second to imagine it hard......hmmm.....big, medium, small? Nice! Please more celebrity men should show us their 'something'. I'm tired of seeing naked women. Brad Pitt should be next. Now, that would be a sight to behold.

WORLD'S LUCKIEST WOMEN!!!

NAME: Vera Wang
OCCUPATION: Designer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? The only female Designer in the world who is a billionaire. The world loves Vera Wang. What's luckier than that?


NAME: Condeleeza Rice
OCCUPATION: US secretary of state
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She's a black woman involved in the decision making of everything that concerns not just America, but the world. Give me that kind of power anyday



NAME: Katie Holmes
OCCUPATION: Actress
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She is married to the man of her dreams. She always fantasised about marrying Tom Cruise and she did. How many of us get to marry the man of our dreams? Lucky girl!



NAME: Mariah Carey
OCCUPATION: Singer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She's blessed with the most beautiful voice in the world. There are others who have the voice like Mariah, but someone with a better voice is not yet born



NAME: Halle Berry
OCCUPATION: Actress
WHY IS SHE LUCKY: For being blessed with such incredible and rare beauty


NAME: Elin Nordegren
Occupation: Model
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She's married to Tiger Woods. Who would not switch places with her in a heartbeat?


NAME: Marilyn Monroe
OCCUPATION: Actress/Singer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? Most talked about celebrity of all time. 45 years after her death, she's still being talked about and alot of women try to be like her.


NAME: Kate Middleton
OCCUPATION: Sales representative
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She's dating the future king of England, Prince William. Who doens't want to be queen?


NAME: Faith Hill
OCCUPATION: Country Singer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She is said to have the happiest marriage in Hollywood. Please note I said HOLLYWOOD. A happy marriage in Hollywood? What a lucky girl.



NAME: Jill Scott
OCCUPATION: Singer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? No drinking, no smoking, no dope. She's the happiest singer in America. She is happy with life. You have that in American entertainment? Then you are a lucky person



NAME: Heidi Klum
OCCUPATION: Model/Enterpreneur
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? A successful modeling and TV career. And she's married to a man who worships the ground she walks on.



NAME: Beyonce Knowles
OCCUPATION: Singer/Actress
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? Blessed with great beauty, beautiful voice, incredible body, talent, so much money and is world's most popular female singer. On top of that she's dating Jay Z. Let's stop here. I'm beginning to get jealous. How can one girl have it all? Lucky her



NAME: Kelly Clarkson
OCCUPATION: Singer
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? Won 1st American Idol competition. Multi-Platinum selling Albums, international fame and loads of Awards



NAME: Agbani Darego
OCCUPATION: Model
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? First Black African Miss World, First Black African Face of L'oreal. What's bigger than breaking records and making History?



NAME: Jennifer Hudson
OCCUPATION: Singer/Actress
WHY IS SHY LUCKY? Relatively unknown in 2006. She blew up in 2007, winning the BAFTA, GOLDEN GLOBES and an OSCAR in her first movie role, the DREAMGIRLS. Now, she's on the lips of everyone. Lucky!!!



NAME: Gisele Bundchen
OCCUPATION: Model
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? Everybody in the fashion industry wants this woman to represent their products. She's the most sought after model in the world and the richest.



NAME: Oprah Winfey
OCCUPATION: TV Personality
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? The most influential woman in the world. The world cares about what she has to say, the world wants to hear what she has to say, the world does what she says. And she's blessed more lives than any other human living.


NAME: J K Rowling
OOCUPATION: Anthor
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? There are so many writers in the world. She's the only Billionaire amongst them. She became a Billionaire just from thinking of a story; the Harry Potter series. Lucky woman.


NAME: Melinda Gates
OCCUPATION: Philantropist
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She is married to the world's richest man, Bill Gates. Need I say more?


NAME: Oluchi Onweagba Orlandi
OCCUPATION: Model
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? Won the first M-NET Face of Africa, has an incredible modeling career and is married to Italian designer, Luca Luca. Who, by the way, just bought a mansion in the US worth $4million. And she's the madam of that mansion? I want to be Oluchi. lol


NAME: Victoria Beckham
OCCUPATION: Singer/Socialite
WHY IS SHE LUCKY? She's married to the world's most famous Sportsman and one of it's finest, David Beckham. Let's be honest here, who doesn't want to be married to David Beckham? Lucky woman!

Well, these are some of the women that I think have been blessed in one way or the other in their lives. Women who, sometimes not through their own doing, have had all their wishes and dreams come true. Women who have things other women only dream about. There are so many other women I know who fit in this category, I just can't think of anyone else at the moment. When I do, I'll load it up for you guys. I know some of you won't agree with my assessment, depending on what is of importance or of essence to you. Maybe wealth and marrying a rich man is not luck, but you can't deny that these woman have one thing or the other we all wished we had. They are all special in their own way. We all are special! If there's someone you think deserves to be on this list, do send me their names.

EGYPTIAN BLOGGER JAILED FOR INSULTING ISLAM

Thought you guys might be interested in this piece.

An Alexandria court sentenced an Egyptian blogger to four years in prison on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, was the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings.
He was convicted in connection with eight articles he wrote since 2004. Rights groups and opposition bloggers have watched Suleiman's case closely, and said they feared a conviction could set a legal precedent limiting Internet freedom in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.

"This is yet another slap in the face of freedom of expression in Egypt," the London-based rights group Amnesty International said in a statement. The group considers Suleiman to be a prisoner of conscience, jailed solely for peacefully expressing his opinion, the statement added.

The Paris-based press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said the sentence was "a disgrace" and the United Nations should respond by disqualifying Egypt from hosting an Internet Governance Forum in 2009.
"It is time the international community took a stand on Egypt's repeated violations of press freedom and the rights of Internet users," the organisation said in a statement.

A fellow blogger who runs the Rantings of a Sandmonkey blog said: "It's a dangerous precedent because it will impact the only free space available now, which is the Internet. The charges were undefined and vague."
"Tell me. What does insulting the president mean? What is the difference between criticising religion and being in contempt of religion?" he added, asking to remain anonymous.

The Internet has emerged as a major forum for critics of the Egyptian government to express their views in a country where the state runs large newspapers and the main television stations.

While Suleiman was the first blogger to go on trial for the content of his writings, other opposition bloggers have been arrested periodically during street protests and then held for weeks or months before being released.

Suleiman, a Muslim and a liberal, has not denied writing the articles but said they merely represented his own views. His lawyers said they planned to appeal the verdict, and one member of the defence team described the trial as unfair.
One of Suleiman's articles said that al-Azhar in Cairo, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Muslim learning, was promoting extreme ideas. Another article, headlined 'The Naked Truth of Islam as I Saw it', accused Muslims of savagery during clashes with Christians in Alexandria in 2005.
He has also described some of the companions of the Muslim prophet Mohammad as "terrorists", and has likened Mubarak to dictatorial pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt.
"I was hoping that he would get a harsher sentence because he presented to the world a bad image of Egypt. There are things that one should not talk about, like religion and politics. He should have got a ten-year sentence," said lawyer Nizar Habib, who attended the trial as a member of the public.

I have no comment. None at all. You have any comment? Do send it in.

BEYONCE!!! NO WONDER JAY Z IS STUCK ON HER

She has a great body, not so? She should have sang 'Don't ya wish ur girlfriend was hot like me?'...instead of Pussycat Dolls. Delicious woman!

PLEASE READ THIS!!!

Dear friends...please read this and read it and read it and read it.

He almost didn't see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry.

He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold.

He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear can put in you. He said, "I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson."

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough.

Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt. As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to her aid. Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk.

The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, "And think of me." He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan .

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin. There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: "You don't owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I'm helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you." Under the napkin were four more $100 bills. Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day.

That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard. She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, "Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson."

There is an old saying "What goes around comes around." Today, I sent you this story, pls invite your friends to come read it. Let this light shine.

WHEN I WAS SMALL...

When I was small, I used to be so mischievious. Check out what I used to do!!!


I used to break rocks with my head


Used to play with basketball !


Used to take a ride with Comodo Dragon !


Swim with my Dolphin !


Even make a lion get frightened !



Used to scare the police


Used to race with cars


Go skating


Always made new friends.


Surf on the waves

Now all I do is go around looking for a job! I used to be so talentless, sorry, talented. What happened to me? Sad!