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 Literature › Re: Are There Any Literary Agents In Nigeria? by MadMax1(f): 2:56pm On Jan 06, 2010 |
Your geographical location doesn't matter at all, believe me, There are writers in China and Russia and India and South Africa and yes, Nigeria, with US and UK agents. Agents rep people overseas all the time. Just be sure your book is good and it'll find an agent for you. Are you trying your hand at literary competitions and getting published in good literary journals? Agents pay attention to stuff like that. Keep learning and din't rush your manuscript out if it's not ready. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 2:41pm On Jan 06, 2010 |
Saw Deep Impact years ago. Nice, if too brief, review. You forgot to add the movie poster. Is Darjeeling Ltd good? About the tea? No one's reviewed it. |
| Fashion › Re: Why Do Nigerian Fashion Designers Use Foreign Names For Their Brands? by MadMax1(f): 3:11am On Jan 06, 2010 |
Inferiority complex? Pretentiousness? Lack of imagination? Their own names are lovely. Seems to be a Nigerian thing. Other countries use their own names or geographical monikers and succeed in fashion. If they've been using their names the world would have gotten used to it and they'll probably have gone a lot farther in carving a niche internationally, since they'll be better respected. Nigerians in other professions succeed internationally with local names; in Hollywood and elsewhere. The didn't change names from from Adewale Agbaje or Chiweltel Ejiofor or Taiwo Ajayi Lycett to Tom Ford or Miguel Cruise or Francois Jolie out of blind imitation.  |
| Fashion › Re: Porselene Products-are They Any Good? by MadMax1(f): 2:57am On Jan 06, 2010 |
Just ok? With all the noise I heard? So there's no huge difference in your skin after three months? Mebbe I won't be patronising them afterall. Next best thing? You and me both.  |
| Fashion › Re: Product Reviews: Stop Wasting Money! Beauty Products That Actually Work by MadMax1(op): 2:53am On Jan 06, 2010 |
You're welcome, pk. Uzoo, haven't come across bust-enhancing products that work, though I have to take other people's words for this. Know someone with mosquito bites that did not increase after a fortune on pumps and pills and what not. Are you sure you aren't imagining the difference noticed? They seem to make extravagant claims but don't deliver, these bust products. |
| Literature › Re: Are There Any Literary Agents In Nigeria? by MadMax1(f): 2:12am On Jan 06, 2010 |
There are no local literary agencies, I think. Are you sure your book is the best it can be? You've honed and polished it? No grammatical errors or typos? You won't get a second chance with a good literary agent. They're on the lookout for talent and will take you up if it has merit. You have to find the agent that is right for your work. Look for published books similar to yours and find out who reps that agent, then pitch your novel. For instance if your style is similar to Roald Dahl, he's represented by Anthony at David Higham Associates, as is Chinua Achebe. www.davidhigham.co.uk. If you write like Ben Okri, approach The Marsh Agency. If your style is like Chinammanda Adichie, approach Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency, etc. Agents are individuals and like different books and writers. Find the one who likes what you write, and pitch to him or her. Don't ever be discouraged. Keep at it and sooner or later it'll happen. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 3:26pm On Jan 05, 2010 |
But we like Spiked to tha Cylinder na. It has a ring and fits you to a T. Pele na. There's an evil Spikie. A crush? Ah. The kobo drops. LMS was great, so funny and so real. I think it was Oscar-nominated. I generally like anything Toni Collette's in. Greg Kinnear was good to see too. You should see him in As Good as It Gets, absolutely my favourite Jack Nicholson movie, one of the funniest, wittiest movies you'll see, with performances you'll never forget. Won the Oscars for Best Actor and Actress that year. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 2:52am On Jan 05, 2010 |
Lol are you imagining things? Spikie's quirky but she doesn't know how to hold a grudge. No2, you got the name wrong. It is Spiked to tha Cylinder o. JS, ehn. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 12:52am On Jan 05, 2010 |
spikedcylinder:Lol. Quit projecting. You and iice are the weirdos here.  spikedcylinder:Very good movie. Funny too. The dancing at the end! |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 12:07am On Jan 05, 2010 |
JeSoul:Spiked to tha cylinder. This JS will not kill somebody with laugh this new year. Amen. Oh Nollywood wears its incompetence like a badge of honour. They don't know their craft but believe they've arrived. spikedcylinder:I know what movies you like. Witty dialogue, among other things. Holy Smoke doesn't have much of that till near the end, when the relationship gets intense and Winslet becomes cruel. Haba. Was urine not there? Shebi it was the sight of urine pouring down Winslet's legs as she walked towards him that made Keitel change his mind about having her. He must have thought she rocked like that. That was the part that got a laugh out of me. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 8:27pm On Jan 04, 2010 |
Oya don't tell him. I will not do it. Bruno is horrifying. So was Borat, but it was terribly funny too. I had to stop watching Bruno. I couldn't help guilty snorts of laughter at some points, but it's unbelievably vulgar and obscene. One thing about Baron Sacha Cohen, he is not afraid. Don't know the last time I saw a Nollywood movie. Zero incentive to. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Lost - The Best Serial So Far by MadMax1(f): 7:44pm On Jan 04, 2010 |
tayo_ast:He's excellent. They should give him the bleeping emmy for Best Actor already. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 7:24pm On Jan 04, 2010 |
E-henn. You have dared me niyen o. Oya I am going to go and pose nekkid for something before six months is out. Mebbe some art class. One of my unfulfilled fantasies.  You've given me the excuse. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 7:15pm On Jan 04, 2010 |
I am unwilling to do it ooooooo What was the first movie you saw this year? Watching Bruno. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 6:40pm On Jan 04, 2010 |
Spikie, it's not your kind of movie I don't think. vescucci:Lol. She likes quirky scripts, and those tend to have nudity. Jane Campion, who wrote and directed this, also wrote The Piano and I think that movie where Meg Ryan bares it all and engages in graphic sex scenes a few years ago. Holy Smoke I saw convinced I would dislike. It isn't my usual fare but at least it got me watching to the end, a lot more than I can say for many movies. But it's true Winslet's been inekkid more than most. I'm trying to think of a movie of hers she wasn't baring it in. Still she's the only actress in history nominated for Oscars five times before the age of 30, so maybe she knows something we don't. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 5:00pm On Jan 03, 2010 |
Holy Smoke. Harvey Keitel. Kate Winslet. Hm. Convinced she's in the hypnotic thrall of some Hindu religous cult, a young girl's family hires an expert to break her loose from the bonds of destructive spiritism. Kate Winslet's our mystic on the run, and Harvel Keitel the man contracted to save her. Holed up in a shack for three days in the middle of nowhere, you know they'll be naughty. She seduces Keitel with cruelty and urine, and he's eating out of her panties before they're done. Keitel is good, as usual, and Winslet was Winslet. Lacklustre dialogue warms up towards the end. . The film begins with the promise of a lighthearted exploration of spiritism and ends with feminist diatribe and fist-waving. Ah well. It wasn't boring. Have a marvelous New Year, all.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 10:41pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
| I don't have the energy to laugh this much a beg. Scaredy cat. Thanked your stars for Daniel Craig yet? Sure you have. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:58pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
As we enter into the New Year, remember every single person you love is precious and so is time. Don't waste either. Sit. Meditate on all the things you have to be grateful for. Especially. . . .
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:56pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
MICHAEL JACKSON The greatest entertainer of our times. There are no words. We love you. We miss you Michael. Say Goodbye.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:52pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
BRITTANY MURPHY She's the cute thing with the breathless doll voice you saw in Just Married, Sin City, 8 Mile, Love and Other Disasters, and heard as little Gloria in Happy Feet. Brittany Murphy died of a heart attack at 32. She'd had cosmetic surgery and was taking painkillers. She slumped at home. CPR would have revived her but by the time people got to her, it was too late. Our hearts go out to her family. Say Goodbye Brittany.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:42pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
PATRICK SWAYZEE There's Dirty Dancing. There's the scene in Ghost where Demi Moore's making some clayey thingie, and he joins her and they make a huge mess, and then, a movie so unashamedly sentimental your toes curled. Patrick's been in action movies like the surfer thriller Point Break with Keanu Reeves and Waking Up in Reno where, bitter irony, he played the husband of Natasha Richardson, who died as well this year. He'll be missed. Say Goodbye Patrick.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:38pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
FARRAH FAWCETT Farrah Fawcett I watched as a child in NTA's 80s rerun of the mega-smash TV series Charlie's Angels. She was unbelievably beautiful, the sex symbol of those times, her posters adorning male bedrooms the world over. She had a longterm relationship with handsome actor Ryan O'Neal, and they have a son who managed to miss the genes for both parent's good looks. Farrah died of cancer. Look at her at 62! Say Goodbye, Farrah.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:35pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
NATASHA RICHARDSON Daughter of Vannessa Redgrave (iconic British actress you might remember as Max in Mission Impossible) and wife of Liam Neeson, who you remember as Schindler in Schindler's List, passed away after a skiing accident. Natasha Richardson's the gorgeous woman in Maid in Manhattan, the Parent Trap, and was in Waking Up In Reno with Charlize Theron and Billy Bob Thornton. One just instinctively liked her. Our hearts go out to her families. She was just 45. Say Goodbye, Natasha.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:32pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
DAVID CARRADINE Oh David David David. How we loved thee. Martial arts maestro and star of over a hundred movies from the 70s till present, David Carradine brings an enigmatic and powerful presence to the screen. You got a good taste of that in QT's Kill Bill, where he played the titular character, a charming, murderous bastid. He was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, victim of some sexual escapade gone awry. Say Goodbye, David
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 9:30pm On Dec 31, 2009 |
WALTER CRONKITE Called America's Most Trusted Man, Cronkike has riveted America as a news journalist for decades, and the CBS Evening News anchor. He brought the world everything from wars to assasinations to space flight and medical breakthroughs. He died at 92. Say Goodbye, Walter.
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| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 6:07pm On Dec 30, 2009 |
It's disheartening. From Robbins and Sarandon to Mel Gibson (28 years) and Sean Penn (20+ years). I liked that lovely, self-contained couple.  Paranormal Activity? Is it the real deal? Not that someone will get there now and start dozing at all the 'horror'.  |
| Fashion › Re: Porselene Products-are They Any Good? by MadMax1(f): 3:20am On Dec 30, 2009 |
Just ordered their Micro retexturising cream, for microdermabrasion. I hear good things! |
| Fashion › Re: Product Reviews: Stop Wasting Money! Beauty Products That Actually Work by MadMax1(op): 2:34am On Dec 30, 2009 |
First I'll hear of Zenmed. I checked up on it. Good reviews,but that's not the same thing as seeing it work. Cosmetic companies LIE so I generally don't go by a few reviews, some of which may be sponsored.You might have to try the product and post a review here. No idea where it can be got locally. Found this link on how ZenMed works. You'll find it useful. http://www.natural-acne-treatments.com/derma-cleanse.html |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 12:39am On Dec 30, 2009 |
Cloudy's regular animation, Vesc. I think its slightly retro style made you think it's 3D. A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr is 3D in its early days. The medium's an improvement on nothing. Hmmm. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have called it quits after 23 years together. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 10:10am On Dec 26, 2009 |
Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday Vescucci-iiiiiiiiii Haaaaapy Bi-rth-day To youuuuuuuuuuu I know. Don't imagine I forgot for a second. I wasn't online all of yesterday. Happy Birthday sweetheart. Nice one, JS! Happy Holidays, y'all. Coming up laters: The stars that fell from Tinsel heaven in the year 2009, from Walter Cronkike to Brittany Murphy. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 4:23pm On Dec 23, 2009 |
Hey sweetie. Cloudy isn't 3D, just regular computer animation. And it was delightful, with some hilarious and wonderfully subtle moments. Law Abiding Citizen's a silly movie, and makes no sense whatsoever from a particular point on. I don't think anyone's seen it here; which is why there should be reviews about this stuff. If you're going to see any three movies, please make it Avatar, District 9 and Inglorious Basterds. Pitt wasn't impressive, but Christoph Waltz was. Cameron is among those directors who keep shaking people out of their complacency. You think you've seen it all and then he shows you you haven't. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Hollywood: Favourite Movies, Actors and Awards. Tinseltown reviews & Gossip by MadMax1(op): 6:25pm On Dec 21, 2009 |
No2Atheism:Who's your bootlegger? Now for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. |
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