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If you don't do anything else for your skin, use a sunscreen,drink lots of water, and have lots of fresh fruit. Name brands pour out lots of delicately-scented, exotically bottled bullshit,but look at the ingredients not the brand names. I use three amazing products from Avon, Elizabeth Arden and Philosophy Grace, and my skin is incredible. Just fish out the best ingredients for your skin and stick to it.

Gamine:
@MAx,

i still love me my Demi

is the thread about recent in-the-now stars?

No vex jare. Rock on with Demi!
No mind my Mama. It was a while ago. She said the guy too dey feel fine boy. I said shebi he is divine. So what if he knows it? One morning she saw the thing playing for the hundredth time,screeched that she'd had it,and disappeared with it.

Just wasted an hour of my life watching Hancock. Didn't finish.

Is Oz good? Spotted it someplace but didn't pick it up.
Watching CSI Season 5. It's violent, sometimes unnecessarily so,but it's a pretty good series.

Both of you
Villains!

You'd better get well-organised, or all this will be is a colection of posts on nairaland. Enthusiasm is great, but you have to be a realist as well, and FULLY UNDERSTAND what it is you are up against, not surge forward all starry-eyed with revolutionary naivete.

I think it's a great idea. And one can start from anywhere, and this is a good place to start. Don't be disouraged. You certainly won't change things by concluding it's hopeless and folding your hands. If and when you actually move from the rhetorical phase to an actionable plan,let me know.

This post go kill person.
Na real wah.

@justkunmi
I remember. Vaguely. Oh my, I completely agree about Ellen Page in JUNO. Talk about PERFECT casting!

@Gamine
Is Flawless any good? I've never been a serious Moore fan. And you cant deny she's slowly but surely joining the league of fading magicians,along with the likes of John Malkovitch,at one time my favourite actor- did I have a crush on the guy or what? Val Kilmer (I watched The Saint so many times my mother had to confisticate the CD),and other actors that have been replaced by new A listers.

And yet there are actors whose careers seem to be above time, in some miracle preservative. Like Meryl Streep. I say Jack Nicholson, with some hesitation. His performance in The Departed was a bit overdone, like he was trying too hard to make evil the casual everyday business it is to him. But DiCaprio was a marvel, and was electrifying in every scene he appeared in. The genius of The Departed was the irreverent way he was dispatched,like an extra,like any other person in the movie. We might have invested emotionally in him, but that's life. Death makes no distinctions in real life, and Scorcese is saying, This isn't a movie, this is real life. No way DiCaprio isn't going to take home an Oscar one of these days. It's painful, watching he and Depp being denied year after year.

@Leila
It's an old complaint. One, I fear, which'll be around for a while. It's the way he was raised. I have three younger brothers. Growing up, my mother made them do everything around the house,except cook. No, that special treat was reserved for moi. All three are married now,and, you guessed it, they do everything in their homes except cook!

Good luck trying to change a lifetime of conditioning. But you should let him know how you feel. Don't nag. I'm a woman and the hairs on my neck bristle when I hear other women nagging, so I know men hate it. But let him know you understand it's not his fault,he's not being mean or inconsiderate, that's how he was raised. But he has to make an effort now,he has to see you're stressed out and has to pitch in. After a while he should get used to it. I unlearned a lifetime of conditioning. So can anyone, unless he doesn't want to. Both of you should talk it out and arrive at a solution that works for you BOTH, and honour your arrangement as best as you can.

Doesn't sound as if she shares your problem since she wants a family. You have no right to deny her that. 36 isn't old. I know people who got married in their forties. One of my friend's Dads has a friend who got married in his sixties after being a lifelong academic. If you don't love her please let her go so she can find someone who does. Marriage is hard enough without adding lack of love to it.It'll be horrendous if you introduce a child into the mix at this point. Let her go so she can start a family with a man who genuinely loves her instead of one who merely feels sorry for her, and whose hidden resentment is causing havoc with his libido. Let her go. She deserves better than this.

I love dogs. They're so intuitive and smart. And they've got all that love and ask for little back. Why are you giving this one away?

Congratulations on the birth of your baby! You must be so happy. Name him whatever you like. Your friend is protesting cos he doesn't like the idea. There are those who do and those who don't. If you like it, go ahead.

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@justkunmi
What's with you and blondes? Reese Witherspoon was in Cruel Intentions! Is she old enough to have been in that movie? It's the American high school remake of the far superior Dangerous Liaisons, but it was pretty good too.

@Gamine
I haven't seen Demi Moore acting in anything these days. What's up with that? Only movie I've seen her in was BOBBY, along with a gazzilion other stars. I heard it was Emilio Esteve's directorial debut. Bobby Kennedy's speech at the end was rousing, and it underscores his compassion and the depth of his humanity, but the movie itself was inept. What's she been in recently? I remember I liked her in Ghost and this thing with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, I forget the title,some military law movie.It's one of those movies where you realise Tom Cruise can act.

Hmm, What do you like about Eckhart?His looks?

vescucci:
Well, you do that Max; there's ne'er a dull moment with Willis. You seem like someone who would like all them historical romance books with the way you apparently are affected by Stephen Dillane "His restrained,very proper,very English passion moved me"

See ya around!

Ves-cu-cci. Wow. You see a lot. Yeah, I love me some historical romances. Well, a good romance anyways. I like passions terrible, and yet subtle and pure. Which is why The English Patient made me weep buckets. Touched by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon too. Two passions, one tempestrous,one restained,both fiery and pure. Ang Lee knows how to tell a love story. And don't roll your eyes at Brokeback Mountain because you're a guy. You know you love it.

Had a fabulous time with Willis and Rickman! Oh man. Rickman's voice is so deliciously rummy you could get drunk just listening to him.

Watched Kunfu Panda. Frigging hilarious.Got a couple of Aamir Khan DVDs to look forward to this week. He's my favourite Bollywood actor. Sexy as hell, and a real artist. Shahrukh Khan can be annoying, and often is,though I like some of his movies.Seen anything good lately?

@Tranngirls
Why do love them so? People, you have to say!

Gary Oldman is Sirius Black! I only took an interest in the guy this year o, after his insane and deliciously evil turn in Leon. Seen the Harry Potter movies, Air Force One and Batman Begins, but didn't know who he was. Will acquaint myself with his movies. 

Saw a young Bonham Carter yesterday in Hamlet,alongside Mel Gibson in the title role, Glenn Close,and Stephen Dillane - one of the reasons I sat down to watch. I just loved Dillane's performance as Mr Woolf in The Hours. His restrained,very proper,very English passion moved me at the train station scene with Nicole Kidman.  He didn't do much here except be Mel's best friend and see poor murdered papa's ghost. But I wasn't sorry I watched it. There was something dark and perversely thrilling about the near-incestrous intensity of Gibson's scene with Glenn Close in her bedchamber.

All this talk of Willis makes me want to watch Die Hard. The incomparable first instalment.

Believe it or not I just got to know Gary Oldman this year, when I happened to watch Leon the Professional, and the Dark Knight. I kept wondering where I'd seen the mustached honest cop before. I was doing something when it struck me and I thought, surely not- not the lunatic cop in Leon! But of course it was.

I don't know. Bonham Carter seems to be one of those talented but industry-overlooked types. I think she's only recently getting the exposure and recognition she deserves. Two kids. They're practically married! I haven't seen her performance in Wings of the Dove but someone highly recommended it. I've seen her in three movies so far and she was mentally unbalanced in one and strange in the others; Fight Club, Sweeney Todd and some Harry Potter movie or other. Will see Wings,but she's in brilliant company so far, and she happens to be in FIGHT CLUB, one of my all-time favourite movies. "Self-improvement is masturbation." "You are not a unique or beautiful snowflake." You're a philosopher,Tyler.

She's dating Tim Burton? Wow.
Another actress I've forgotten I liked:Kate Winslet. Wildly talented. Whatever happened to Kevin Spacey? I don't see his mug in movies anymore,and he was a firm favourite after American Beauty.

When I watch a movie I want to be transported by the acting, the directing,the cinematography,the script, having taken stuff like good editing and sound for granted. Tsosi was made in SA, and it's beautiful. Man, not only are you stuck with pretentious no-talent asses who can't portray subtle emotion to save their lives in Nollywood, you're stuck with the most horrid,unimaginative scripts ever. You cannot compare even Bollywood products to the BS Nollywood churns out. You can tell Bollywood is familiar with the basics of good film production at least,and some good movies come from there:Rang De Basanti,Munna Bhai MBBS,Don,Lagaan. How much less Hollywood. I'm yet to come across truly great acting in Nigeria,and don't believe we have a single soul to hold up against the Meryl Streeps, Al Pacinos,or Sean Penns,whose performance in Dead Man Walking was a miracle. A deaf mute portrays a myriad of complex emotions in Babel,all without saying a word! Never seen it in Nollywood. When are we going to make a Moulin Rouge or The English Patient or American Beauty or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon?The tragic thing is,we've the potential!

Real artists take their art seriously and will do anything for it. And they aren't drop-outs either.I'm continually amazed at the number of actors in Hollywood who went to the best schools, invested in their education and professional training. What Nollywood lacks is the passion and the perfectionism of the true artist. People who feel and know their art, because it is that passion, from the director to the actors to the technicians,that we experience when we watch something memorable. The wrong  people are in Nollywood,and are scaring or disgusting the right people away. We made some good movies in the past:think Herbert Ogunde or Jimi Odumosu,who made Fiery Force. But now Nollywood is BS Factory. And they feel so superior, and think they have arrived!  
A revolution? Hell,yeah!

@iice
Totally agree about Blanchet.There are some actors who guarantee quality.I watch anything she's in.Though I'm not a Tom Wilkinson fan,I'm yet to come across anything he's in I'm sorry I watched. Tim who? Loved Bonham Carter in Fight Club,though she was almost overshadowed by Edward Norton's utter brilliance.And Brad was amazing.
@Henry
What if someone says which kain body sef about Adriana Lima? The woman's stunning. So's Brad. Wetin do di body? He's beautiful. Nice dispostion too.

Oooooo. Jaguar. I have forgotten him o. He's too funny for words. He's dead. Grace was his wife for real. What a couple. No beta Naija programmes again.

annekix:
id put a grenade down jim iykes throath and give him a drop kick down a mountain,

I rushed here at breakneck speed to dash that annoying Jim Lyke slap. But others beat the rush and have practically murdered the ass. Good enough for me.

You have to say WHY they're your kind of people.

Yeah, but why do you love em?

Saw this at http://biblestandard.com/questions/QA_d.htm
Intriguing answers,though Ecclesiastes isn't strictly scripture: They're merely the observations of the wisest man who ever lived on life and other things. That's why some of the things he writes contradicts what God himself says.Eccl reads like poetry and wisdom is to be found there,which is probably why it was included in the Bible. So I am always wary of teaching that are based on Eccl. But it gives food for thought on the Fairness of Salvation question, and furnishes its own answer.

Dead—The Unsaved.
Question (1972)—Does the Bible hold out hope for any of the unsaved dead?

Answer.—We answer Yes to the question, first, because of the promises of God (Gen. 12: 3; 18: 18; Isa. 60: 14, 15; 29: 18, 24; Luke 2: 10, 34; John 1: 9); second, the Ransom (John 12: 32, 33; Rom. 5: 18, 19; 1 Tim. 2: 4-6); third, the forgivableness of all sins, except sins against the Holy Spirit (Mark 3: 28, 29; Matt. 12: 31, 32); fourth, the reformability of the characters of most of the dead, in view of God’s character and the Ransom (Rev. 15: 3, 4); fifth, the object of election (Rom. 11: 25-32); sixth, the double experience for mankind (Rom. 8: 20, 21; 11: 32; 5: 18, 19); seventh, the facts of the case (Ezek. 16: 46-63). ’72-71

Dead—God’s Provision For The Unsaved.
Question (1974)—Will the unsaved dead have a chance to be saved to everlasting life?

Answer.—Obviously, all of Adam’s race have not been given the opportunity in this life to benefit from these three great favors. Most people have died without ever hearing of them, let alone deriving therefrom their intended blessing. This is manifest from many facts. All the heathen who died before Christ came, and almost all of them who have died since He came, never heard of God’s love for them unto salvation, of Christ’s death for them unto salvation, and of the Spirit’s work for them unto salvation, and therefore never benefited therefrom; for there is no salvation possible apart from hearing and accepting the Gospel. Many hold that these as a result have been condemned unto eternal torment; and they even affirm of those of them who died before Christ came and of the majority of the Jews who died before Christ came, that though He later died for them, yet they will never get any benefit therefrom, but that at the time of Christ’s death for them were irretrievably lost in eternal torment. From such a standpoint, what possible purpose could He have had in dying for them; if beforehand they were irretrievably lost? But not only the vast majority of the heathen never heard of these three favors; but many others likewise have died in the same condition. Three-fourths of the human family died in infancy, and therefore never derived the blessings of these favors. Many others died in childhood, not enjoying these blessings. Untold numbers of insane persons lacked them also, while Judaism and Mohammedanism have blinded many other billions to these favors. Sectarianism has darkened these subjects so that still other billions have been so confused on these matters as to have gotten but little of the intended blessings there from. Thus we see that the vast majority of the race died in ignorance of the only name under heaven whereby we must be saved, if saved at all—Acts 4: 12.

Therefore, in this life they had no opportunity of obtaining the blessings that these three favors vouchsafe every human being. Nor can they obtain these blessings while dead; for the Scriptures expressly teach that in death there is no change or reformation, or opportunity of salvation: “In the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be” (Eccl. 11: 3). There is no change in the death state for the good reason that “there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave” (Eccl. 9: 10). It being a condition in which nothing is known, seen, felt, done, received, or endured (Eccl. 9: 5, 6), there can be no change there. Consequently, for the billions who have died without Christ, without hope and without God in the world, as strangers from the covenants of promise (Eph. 2: 12), in ignorance or confusion as to the only name whereby salvation is possible, if they are to have an opportunity at all to obtain the benefits of God’s grace for all, Christ’s death for all and the Spirit’s work for all, in order to their salvation, this must be after they are awakened from the dead—during our Lord’s Second Advent and the Judgment Day, i.e., during the Millennium. And it is to make possible to the billions of earth’s non-elect, who died without having had such an opportunity, that God must have made some kind of arrangement such as we believe the Millennial Kingdom will be, in order to give all a fair chance for gaining everlasting life.

Let us not be misunderstood; we are not advocating a second chance. Emphatically we say that the Bible does not teach a second chance for the individuals of the human race. Aside from the fact that they lost their first chance collectively in Adam, they would not have an individual chance at all unless that chance, wrecked by Adam before his descendants were born, would be followed by another chance, which would be the first chance for the individuals of the human race to gain salvation. But while we do not teach a second chance for the individuals of the human race, apart from Adam and Eve, we do not teach less than one chance for each individual. The difficulty with those who seek to make the above teaching opprobrious by calling it a second chance, is that they do not teach even one individual chance for everybody. They claim that whoever did not have an opportunity to obtain salvation in this life will get none at all. Therefore they teach that the overwhelming majority of the race will never get a chance at all, despite the Biblical teachings that God’s love, Christ’s death and the Spirit’s work are for all men in order to salvation! And to them this means that these untold billions are at death handed over to fireproof or otherwise torture-proof devils for eternal torment! Theirs is the opprobrious doctrine, not ours.

We teach, in harmony with the Bible, only one individual chance for all Adam’s descendants. We further teach according to the Bible that a small number of the race, the Church of the Firstborn, gets that chance in this life, that all who make shipwreck of the present opportunity to gain life are everlastingly lost, and that all others are debarred from the present salvation, because they lack the necessary kind of faith to qualify them for becoming of Abraham’s pre-Millennial Seed. We also teach, according to the Bible, that all the rest—the non-elect—will get their chance—their first individual, not their second individual, chance— after the elect are all in the Kingdom with our dear Lord Jesus Christ. Unless some such arrangement should prevail, it would be impossible for the practical application of God’s love, Christ’s death and the Spirit’s work, to all for salvation. And God is too practical, as well as too wise, just, loving and powerful, not to have arranged a feasible way of realizing for all an opportunity for those whom He in the present life excluded from opportunity of the elective salvation with the express purpose of giving them one later (Rom. 11: 30-32). Such an opportunity we must all recognize is fair and Godlike, and therefore is certainly to be expected from God’s love, Christ’s death and the Spirit’s work for all men unto salvation. ’74-70

shotster50:
Lol @ Mad Max, hope your happy now.

Happy about what o? That danged Pierce Brosnan is in the lead.