Portrait of A Live Suicider - Christine Chubbuck

Hudson, Ohio born.
Laurel School for Girls graduate.
"Dateless Wonder Club" founder.
Endicott College, broadcasting graduate.
During a successful TV career right in the front...
...and suicide, right alive!
This strange tale belongs to Christine Chubbuck, a television news reporter working for WTOG and WXLT-TV . And this tale is now much more popular by becoming subject of two movies in the same year, shown in Sundance Festival.

The movies "Christine" and "Kate Plays Christine" are revitalizing forgotten story of Christine Chubbuck, who shot and killed herself right at the heart of a live broadcast in 1974.
Both should be checked out then!

Christine:

Director - Antonio Campos
Writer - Craig Shilowich
Stars - David Alexander, Bernie Ask, Lindsay Ayliffe

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4666726/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Kate Plays Christine
Director - Robert Greene
Writer - Robert Greene
Stars - Stephanie Coatney, Michael Ray Davis, Zachary

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278592/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck_Suicide_Video_%28Recorded_in_1974%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck
http://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival

Michael Bloomberg's Choise

Being the CEO and owner of the global financial data and media company Bloomberg L.P., and the 13th-wealthiest person in the world, Michael Rubens Bloomberg  wouldn’t be outside the political world. That‘s what we spectecularly observe now in 2016.

He was shown as a possible candidate for the presidential elections in 2008, 2012, and for Governor of New York in 2010 but surprisingly he returned to Bloomberg L.P. at the end of 2014. Today his career is leading him to run for the President of the United States’s office in the 2016 election!

So would Bloomberg bring onto table in 2016?

Bloomberg seems to declare himself parallel those of either the Democrats or the Republicans, being a socially liberal or progressive. 

He defends

* Abortion rights

* Gun control

* Same-sex marriage

* Citizenship for illegal immigrants

for social rights aspect. But what seems to be in the opposite side:

Bloomberg is conservative on economics, foreign, and domestic issues, He oppsedthe current policy for withdrawal from the Iraq War. 

Now he will make his decision sometime in March, in a starange environment that the Republican and Democratic presidential races as becoming increasingly polarized. From his point of view, he is going to choose “best of the worst” or “worst of the best”, or completely free? 

Well, we’ll see.

http://www.mikebloomberg.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

http://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg/

http://nypost.com/2016/01/23/michael-bloomberg-eyes-presidential-run/

Pharmacist of Spices - Wilbur Scoville

In 1912 a man was examining chili peppers at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, leading to a big discovery of measuring spiciness and heat, pungency of them!

The man was the pharmacist Wilbur Lincoln Scoville.

His creation of "Scoville Organoleptic Test" has widened his popularity in pharmacology world and in the following years he was awarded with:

The Ebert Prize (1922)

The Remington Honor Medal (1929)

Now his honor is awarded, nearly a decade after his first award, with a Google action!

At the 151st birthday Google released an interactive Google Doodle game that lets users tackle heat by throwing balls of ice cream at anthropomorphic peppers.

When playing the standard bell pepper sits at the bottom with 0 Scoville heat units on the Scoville scale. Mild jalapeño has 1,000 while the Carolina Reaper, the world’s hottest pepper, has as many as 2.2 million. Olivia Huynh is the illustrator of this Google Doodle and has treated the ice cream game as a metaphor for cooling off the heat of a pepper’s pungency in her design.

http://www.google.com/doodles/wilbur-scovilles-151st-birthday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Scoville

http://scovilleheatscale.com/Wilbur-Scoville

http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodcookingchemistry/a/Scoville-Scale.htm

The Day of Freedom 'King'

This is the day of all who have a dream!

This is the day to remember nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement.

This is the day to curse racial discrimination.

This is the day to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr!

During contract negotiations labor unions began promoting the idea of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to be a holiday. With the support of corporate community and public the campaign turned into a phenomenon. In 1981 Stevie Wonder released his "Happy Birthday" in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Despite Ronald Reagan's oppositions for the campaign for holiday, the federal holiday honoring King was signed into law in 1983 and was put into action three years later.

By 1991, all U.S. states came to the point to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, with different names:

Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Birthday in Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day in Arizona
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee's Birthdays in Arkansas
Martin Luther King Jr.-Idaho Human Rights Day in Idaho
Martin Luther King's and Robert E. Lee's Birthdays in Mississippi
Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Day in New Hampshire
Lee–Jackson–King Day in Virginia

Let the dreams of Civil Rights come true!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/donate-get-involved

http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr

Time for DiCaprio?

2016 Oscar nominees have been announced and what comes to the eye is The Revenant with 12 nominations. Leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be much closer to the Oscar this year, compared to his past nominations. Maybe he is at the age needed to get an Oscar  now, huh?

As the image, Dicaprio is not as baby face as he had been before so this image makes him closer to the Oscar as before. But he must beat Matt Damon, Bryan Cranston, Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne first.

The other big nominee is Mad Max: Fury Road. I personally didn't like it as much as it got attention but its visuality and the famous guitar scene may take it to the top? The other best picture nominees are:

* The Big Short
* Bridge of Spies
* Brooklyn
* The Martian
* Room
* Spotlight

http://oscar.go.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3682448/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381111/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663202/
http://roomthemovie.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/
http://spotlightthefilm.com/
http://leonardodicaprio.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Damon_filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cranston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fassbender
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1519666/

Another Sacrifice to 2016 - Alan Rickman

Year 2016 is going on non-stop with celebrity deads. Latest sacrifice hit British stage: Alan Rickman died at the same age and again from cancer just two days after  David Bowie.

With full name Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He became one of the greatest actors with his role as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985. His other big roles were Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter.

He was awarded a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award.

Alan Rickman Filmography:

1978-Romeo and Juliet
1980-Thérèse Raquin
1980-Shelley
1982-Busted
1982-Smiley's People
1982-The Barchester Chronicles
1985-Summer Season
1985-Girls on Top
1988-Die Hard
1989-Revolutionary Witness
1989-The January Man
1989-Screenplay
1991-Truly, Madly, Deeply
1991-Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991-Close My Eyes
1991-Closet Land
1992-Bob Roberts
1993-Fallen Angels
1994-Mesmer
1995-Die Hard with a Vengeance
1995-An Awfully Big Adventure
1995-Sense and Sensibility
1996-Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
1996-Michael Collins
1996-Castle Ghosts of Ireland
1997-The Winter Guest
1998-Judas Kiss
1998-Dark Harbor
1999-Dogma
1999-Galaxy Quest
2000-Help! I'm a Fish
2001-Play
2001-Blow Dry
2001-Land of the Mammoth
2001-The Search for John Gissing
2001-Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002-King of the Hill
2003-Love Actually
2004-Something the Lord Made
2004-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2006-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006-Snow Cake
2007-Nobel Son
2007-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007-Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008-Bottle Shock
2009-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010-Alice in Wonderland
2010-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
2010-The Wildest Dream
2010-The Song of Lunch
2011-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
2011-The Boy in the Bubble
2011-Back at the Barnyard
2012-Gambit
2013-The Butler
2013-A Promise
2013-CBGB
2013-Dust
2015-A Little Chaos
2015-Eye in the Sky
2016-Alice Through the Looking Glass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rickman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/
http://www.biography.com/people/alan-rickman-20687617
https://www.rsc.org.uk/
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Severus_Snape
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053002/
http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Hans_Gruber

Bowing Heads In Memory of Bowie

2016 began with sad news for rock'n roll world as 2015 was over with. After passing of rock'n roll's godfather Lemmy Kilmister, we just heard the news that another icon David Bowie has lost his 1,5 year battle with cancer, just after releasing his latest album Blackstar. Beyond being a singer and songwriter he was a producer, actor and painter. He was one of the heroes of 70s, 20th century's greatest era!

Bowie's muscial range has covered elements of rock'n roll, funk, soul, glam rock, electronic pop so it's not difficult to say that he is one of the invertors of experimental music. And also not difficult to say that he will be missed a lot.

Good bye Ziggy Stardust!

http://www.davidbowie.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie
https://twitter.com/davidbowiereal

Discography

• 1967 - David Bowie
• 1969 - Space Oddity) (1969)
• 1970 - The Man Who Sold the World
• 1971 - Hunky Dory
• 1972 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• 1973 - Aladdin Sane
• 1973 - Pin Ups
• 1974 - Diamond Dogs
• 1975 - Young Americans
• 1976 - Station to Station
• 1977 - Low
• 1977 - Heroes
• 1979 - Lodger
• 1980 - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
• 1983 - Let's Dance
• 1984 - Tonight
• 1987 - Never Let Me Down
• 1989 - Tin Machine
• 1991 - Tin Machine II
• 1992 - Black Tie White Noise
• 1993 - The Buddha of Suburbia
• 1995 - Outside
• 1997 - Earthling
• 1999 - 'Hours...'
• 2002 - Heathen
• 2003 - Reality
• 2013 - The Next Day
• 2016 - Blackstar

Filmography

• 1976 - The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - got Saturn Award for Best Actor
• 1978 - Just a Gigolo
• 1981 - Christiane F.
• 1982 - The Snowman (1982) - as narrator
• 1982 - Baal
• 1983 - Yellowbeard
• 1983 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
• 1983 - The Hunger (1983)
• 1984 - Jazzin' for Blue Jean
• 1986 - Labyrinth
• 1988 - The Last Temptation of Christ
• 1991 - The Linguini Incident
• 1991 - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• 1991 - Dream On (TV series)
• 1996 - Basquiat
• 1998 - Gunslinger's Revenge
• 1999 - Everybody Loves Sunshine
• 2000 - Mr. Rice's Secret
• 2001 - Zoolander
• 2006 - The Prestige

Farewell to the God

Lemmy wasn't the one who invented rock'n roll but for sure he was who gave its soul!

His dream life ended 4 days after his 70th birthday celebration and 2 days after he learned about his aggressive illness. So he didn't only define the ultimate rock star life, also how to die as a rock star, whithout compromise.

It's announced that Lemmy's fueral will be held as a celebration of his life and will be broadcasted via Youtube. It's the last chance for all Motörhead fans to raise their beers and jack'n cokes for the ultimate rock God.

You will be missed a lot \m/

Stream the memorial service and celebration Ian Fraiser LEMMY Kilmister from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSAXVdIj6jY

http://www.imotorhead.com/

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead/

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