Shy Drager Disease

Actor, Entertainment, Music 23 December 2009 | 0 Comments

Shy Drager Disease

Shy-Drager-DiseaseShy Drager Disease, For those who follow my music publishing and recording, I have a new feature on my Dan Brooks Music site. I am posting the words and chords for all of you guitar, mandolin, banjo and piano players out there that want to play and sing my songs. I have begun posting these arrangements of songs recently published on my new CD, called, Dan Brooks: CURTAIN CALL. If you would like to try playing these songs please visit this link:

Dan Brooks” Songs Words and Chords (TAB)

PART TWO:
MUSIC HELPS WITH MOVEMENT DISORDER! [...]

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Naomi Sims Dies

Entertainment 5 August 2009 | 0 Comments

Naomi Sims Dies

naomiI just know that the pioneer black model was Naomi Sims, and Sims dies at 61, she is a first black supermodel, and the icon of the “Black is Beautiful”.

Naomi Sims, died after a battle with breast cancer, according to her family.

Sims start her carrier since appeared on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal magazine in November 1968. She later graced the covers of Time, Cosmopolitan, McCall’s, Life and many other magazines.

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Entertainment

Entertainment, psychology 25 July 2009 | 0 Comments

Entertainment

Monkey Entertainer

It’s been a long time I didn’t see this entertainment since I was a child.

I don’t know why, and what is the reason, children from now days  not interested anymore, animal exploration, its move from the road entertainment to the localization entertainment with high price tickets or this is from the stone age.

Sometimes I miss something from the past, and just curious, why its really not so easy to find it anymore. The easy think its so simple, the new technology replace from the traditional. Specially from the development country, they are easy to adopt everything from the west, with or without considering.

Sure I will say the home entertainment, television, game console, on line game will have the impact to the children, we are hear the new disease from the people or children who addicted to the I mention it above, but I never hear addicted disease from the first I mention it.

Hm… it will be spend a lot of word so far when we discuss this topic above, because its related with the cultural, the children education, parents treat their children an so on, but in this case, I will say I miss from the past.

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Eartha Kitt Dead

Entertainment, Life 25 December 2008 | 1 Comment

Eartha Kitt Dead

I just heard Eartha Kitt, actrees and “Santa Baby” has died, Kitt Nominated three Tony awards.

This is just my curious, why a lot of people died in their spceial day, that they do something special on that day, or they said something sacred on that day. Hm.. to much to watch the horror movie I think.

Last but not least, when I visited Eartha Kitt the Santa baby  official website on the main page, there was a congratulation from the fans for being “Outstanding Performer in an Animated Series” on 2008 Daytime Emmy Award. And the new Album from Eartha Kitt available for DVD and CD.

Anyway, I didn’t found any information corellated with the news that Eartha Kitt died on 25 Dec on her official website.

Is it True or just a traffic? I don’t know, and still to find out.

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The Da Vinci Code

Entertainment, Life 25 September 2008 | 0 Comments

The Da Vinci Code

the-da-vinci-codeNot too much synopsis for this greatest film that I have ever seen, base on the Dawn Brown novel with the same tittle’s, and directed by Ron Howard, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou as Dr. Robert Langdon and Agent Sophie Neveu.

The story tells the investigation started by symbolist Robert Langdon and a good-looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre’s curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie’s grandfather, and the corpse was found with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receiving a warning about the captain’s real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation that involves a supposedly heretic theory: Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple who produced a daughter named Sara. A millenarian sect called The Priory of Sion has kept for centuries the secret of that matter. A masochist and kind of psychopath albino monk, Sibilas, an Opus Dei member, will chase Langdon and Sophie as well, in order to impede that they solve the mystery of Christ and Mary Magdalene, and also the real meaning and location of the Holy Grail. A passionate British researcher, will help Langdon in his quest, revealing to them several symbolisms in Da Vinci’s master work The Last Supper, traveling to mythical places in the UK, such as The Church Temple, where it is believed that a group of Templars Knights are buried, and Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb at Westminster Abbey, where are located some of the main keys to solve the Holy Grail’s mystery.

This film is really the best film

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Catch Me If You Can

Entertainment 10 August 2008 | 0 Comments

Catch Me If You Can

catch_me_if_you_canThis is the title of the Biography, Crime and drama filem directed by Steven Spielberg.

And this is the full synopsis about the film, I just copy the synopsis from the imdb.

The film begins in 1969, with FBI agent Carl Hanratty Jr. arriving at a French prison to meet the sick Frank Abagnale Jr, who attempts to escape from the prison. The scene flashes back to six years earlier. Frank’s father cons a woman into lending him a suit for Frank Jr., who later acts as a driver for Frank Sr. in a ruse to get a loan from Chase Manhattan Bank. When the loan is denied (due to a series of IRS tax frauds by Frank Sr.), the family is forced to move from their grand home to a small apartment, with tension building within the family.

Frank soon realizes that his mother is having an adulterous affair with his father’s friend and feeling that he will not fit in at his new school, poses as a substitute teacher in his French class for a short time. Eventually trouble builds between Franks mother and father, who file for divorce and ask Frank to choose who he will live with. Horrified, Frank runs away from home, using checks that his father had given him. When Frank runs out of money, he begins to use confidence scams. Franks cons grow ever bolder and he even impersonates an airline pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and succeeds in stealing over 2.8 million dollars. “Airline pilot” Frank Abagnale Jr. “Airline pilot” Frank Abagnale Jr.

Meanwhile Carl Hanratty, the nearly humorless FBI agent, begins to track down Frank in spite of his superiors not attaching much importance to the case (as most of them do not take bank fraud seriously). Tracking Frank to a hotel, Carl discovers to his surprise that he is still resident and breaks into his room to arrest him. Emerging from the bathroom and knowing only that Carl is from the FBI, Frank pretends to be Agent Barry Allen of the United States Secret Service and brazenly claims to have just caught the suspect himself. It is not until after Frank has escaped that Carl realizes he has been fooled.

Later, on Christmas Eve, while Carl is working in the office late and alone, Frank calls him to apologize for tricking him back at the hotel. Carl announces that it doesn’t work that way and, to Frank’s horror, Carl realizes the reason for the call: Frank has no one else to talk to. Frank hangs up, and Carl continues to investigate. He later discovers that the name Barry Allen is from The Flash comic books and that Frank is actually a teenage minor.

Frank, meanwhile, has not only changed to impersonating a doctor (complete with a forged Harvard Medical School degree) in Georgia, but is romancing Brenda Strong (Amy Adams), a Southern belle who works as a hospital nurse. He proposes marriage to her, at least partly to try to engineer a reconciliation with her parents who have disowned her since she had an abortion. The two travel to meet her parents in Louisiana. Announcing to them not only that he is like them a Lutheran but that he is a qualified laywer as well as a doctor. Frank soon joins Brenda’s father (Martin Sheen) as an assistant prosecutor after passing the Bar exam.

When Hanratty tracks him down and arrives at their engagement party to arrest him, Frank admits the truth to Brenda, shows her all his stolen money and asks her to run away with him. Although shocked, she accepts his offer and agrees to meet him two days later at the airport. However, when she arrives as planned, he sees a devastated Brenda being coached by FBI agents, who have surrounded the airport. Realizing that Carl has convinced her to turn against him, Frank escapes on a flight to Europe after fraudulently recruiting a bevvy of trainee air hostesses from a local high school.

Seven months later, Carl angrily tells his boss that Frank has been forging checks all over the Eastern Hemisphere. Arguing that Frank is out of control, he requests permission to track him down in Europe. When his boss denies him permission, Carl takes one of Franks bogus checks to professional printers who suggest it can have been printed in only a handful of European countries. Remembering from an interview with Franks mother Paula that she was born in France, Carl travels to her birthplace of Montrichard and he finds Frank there, on Christmas Eve, inside a massive printing factory. Carl tells Frank that the French police outside will kill him if he doesnt surrender quietly. Frank assumes he is joking at first, but Carl vows that he is not lying. Frank handcuffs himself and Carl takes him outside, where, seeing no police, he compliments Carl on his ability to fool him. Almost immediately, however, the French police arrive and escort Frank to prison.

Later, on the plane extraditing Frank to the United States, Carl informs him that his father has died accidentally. Devastated, Frank escapes from the plane in incredible fashion just as it touches down and returns to his old home. Here he finds his mother with her second husband, as well as a young girl who Frank realizes is his half-sister. Before he can even speak to his mother, however, the posse of police arrive in pursuit and Frank surrenders.

Frank is tried, convicted and given a long prison sentence, but whilst in prison receives regular visits from Carl. During one of these visits, Frank easily deduces the identity of a forger by glancing at a check that Carl shows him. Impressed, Carl then arranges for Frank to be allowed to serve out the remainder of his sentence working for the check fraud department of the FBI under Carl’s custody. Although Frank is out of prison, he is chained to his desk-job he misses the thrill of his old life and even attempts to pose as an airline pilot once again. Just as he tries to run again, he meets Carl at the airport. Carl allows him to go free, predicting that Frank will return to work on Monday since there is no one chasing him.

Back in the office on Monday morning, Carl is nervous when Frank doesn’t appear for work on time. He is afraid that he has run away and ruined both their lives. But Frank soon shows up and asks Carl about their next case. Bristling, Carl demands to know how Frank cheated on the Bar Exam in Louisiana, to which Frank replies that he didnt he had studied for only two weeks and genuinely passed the exam. Astounded, Carl asks him “Is that the truth, Frank?” to which Frank merely smiles. Carl smiles back and the two continue to their investigation work together.

Lastly, it is revealed through scrolling text that “Frank has been happily married for 26 years” had three sons, lives in the Midwest with his family, is still good friends with Carl, caught some of the world’s most elusive money forgers and gets millions of dollars each year because of his work creating unforgeable checks.

The meaning of this tittle similar with the one of the Indonesia, “Tankap Daku Kau Kujitak”.

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