Sundays at Tiffany's Movie

Synopsis: Alyssa Milano, who also serves as producer, stars as Jane Claremont, who, as a young girl, would accompany her mother Vivian (Stockard Channing) to Tiffany’s in New York every Sunday and bring along her imaginary friend, Michael. Now, 20 years later, Jane is a successful businesswoman, set to marry Hugh (Ivan Sergei), her handsome fiancé, until Michael (Eric Winter) suddenly reappears, all grown up, to warn Jane about the path her life is on. Initially shocked and in disbelief, Jane slowly realizes that not only has Michael returned to her when she needs him most, but he may also be her one true love. Based on the book by James Patterson.



CHARACTER:

Jane
Jane knows that marrying Hugh, a professional actor, means some small sacrifices. Yet she doesn’t really know what she’s missing out on until a mysterious man, Michael, appears in her life and his presence forces her to reevaluate her relationships. Jane questions whether Michael is really her childhood imaginary friend, but regardless, she feels an undeniable connection to him.

Alyssa Milano
Actress Alyssa Milano has spent almost her entire life in the public eye. A famous child actor, Milano has continued to work throughout her adulthood in both television and film. She starred on the hit WB series “Charmed” for nine years. The series’ debut was the highest-rated premiere in the network’s history. She also starred on the Fox series “Melrose Place.” She began her career on ABC’s “Who’s the Boss,” which aired for eight years.

Vivian
Vivian is a power player in the New York theater scene, and her career has always been her number one priority. When her playwright daughter, Jane, has plans to marry a rising star, Hugh, she sees it as a brilliant public relations move. When Michael inserts himself in Jane’s life, she’s not sure what to make of him — a man who claims he is her daughter’s imaginary friend.

Stockard Channing
Forever known for her role as Rizzo in the film “Grease,” Channing was born on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In 2002, Channing won two Emmy Awards for her roles as First Lady Abbey Bartlet on NBC’s “The West Wing,” and for the role of Judy Shepard in “The Matthew Shepard Story,” for which she also received a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received a 2005 Daytime Emmy Award for her role in “Jack.“ Channing’s extensive theater credits include “Pal Joey,” “Joe Egg,” “Hapgood,” “Love Letters,” “Woman in Mind,” “The Breath of Life,” and many more.

Michael
Michael’s job is to befriend children who need extra love in their lives. The toughest part about being an imaginary friend is leaving when the child has built up enough confidence and character, and knowing that they can never meet again. When Michael crosses paths with grown-up Jane 20 years later, a situation that has never occurred before, he realizes that a magical twist of fate has brought them together for a reason.

Eric Winter
A charming and versatile actor, Winter can currently be seen in a recurring role opposite Simon Baker on the hit CBS series “The Mentalist.” Winter previously recurred on the critically acclaimed “Brothers & Sisters” as well as the cult vampire drama “Moonlight.” Early on he became a fan favorite in his television debut role on the popular daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives.”

Hugh
Hugh is making a name for himself as an actor, and marrying Jane will complete his perfect image. There’s just one problem: Their relationship may be jeopardized when Jane’s old friend, Michael, comes back into her life.

Ivan Sergei
Ivan Sergei first made a name for himself in the indie gem “The Opposite of Sex,” with Christina Ricci. Additional movie credits include “The Big Day,” “Scorched,” “Dangerous Minds,” “We Met on the Vineyard,” “Playing Mona Lisa,” “Gunfighter’s Moon” and “The Break-Up,” with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Most recently, Sergei guest-starred on Lifetime’s hit television series “Army Wives.” He also starred in the Lifetime Original Movie “Nora Roberts’ High Noon.”

more about this movie visit http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/sundays-at-tiffanys

Read More......

Memory and Popular Film

Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse.

By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, Memory and Popular Film establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory in film and of film as memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as Forrest Gump, Lone Star, Pleasantville, Rosewood and Jackie Brown.

Paul Grainges, "Memory and Popular Film"
Manchester University Press | ISBN 0719063752 | September 6, 2003 | PDF | 224 Pages | 1.2MB

download here

Read More......

Inspiring Quotes From "The Secret"

The following quotations are selected from the best selling new DVD and book by Rhonda Byrne "The Secret". It is about The Law of Attraction and how to use it to bring whatever you desire into your life. The author says this law explains what you you have now, and it can be used to change what you have now, or attract more things you desire. These quotations may or may not be representative of the book, and you may have selected different ones. These should, however, give you an idea of something about The Secret as to whether you would like to read further into the book or watch the feature length DVD itself.

1. We all work with one infinite power.

2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA).

3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.

4. We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.

5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy.

6. People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.

7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.

8. You attract your dominant thoughts.

9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc..

10. It's not "wishful" thinking.

11. You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

12. Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life.

13. It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon).

14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.

15. Your thoughts cause your feelings.

16. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming.

19. You get exactly what you are FEELING

20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances.

21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.

23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception.

24. Shift your awareness.

25. "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill.

26. It's important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) ).

27. You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.

29. Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction.

30. Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly.

31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

32. You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself.

33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.

34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.

35. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.

36. When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT.

37. You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you.

38. You can start with nothing .. and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.

39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.

40. Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.

41. No rules according to the universe .. you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond.

42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck...etc..)

43. You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point.

44. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha

45. What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude

46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately.

47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.

48. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

49. Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result.

50. VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.

51. VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.

52. Feel the joy .. feel the happiness :o)

53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.

54. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell

55. Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "what".

56. The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

57. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered .. this is where magic and miracles happen.

58. Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.

59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune.

60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.

61. They remember to do it all the time.

62. Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.

63. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

64. Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you.

65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.

66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

67. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" W. Clement Stone

68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

70. How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!

71. 'Checks are coming in the mail regularly'... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there... and get behind the feeling of having it.

72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas...

73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear.

74. We are the creators of our universe.

75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved.

76. Healthy respect for yourself.

77. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

78. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match.

79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.

80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children....

81. You are the only one that creates your reality.

82. No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.

83. Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.

84. Immune system will heal itself.

85. Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc... Within a few years we have a brand new body.

86. See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.

88. Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.

90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

91. And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well.

92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.

94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. it will show up for you.

95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

96. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.

97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

98. Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.

99. One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.


source: http://hubpages.com/hub/100_Quotations_from_THE_SECRET__

Read More......

Waiting on The Weather: Making Movie with Akira Kurosawa

Author: Teruyo Nogami
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

As more than a few e-mails from readers have pointed out, Akira Kurosawa is perhaps the most conspicuous absentee from the pages of Midnight Eye. This is certainly not due to any dislike on our parts for the man who is probably Japan's greatest director, quite the opposite. To me, personally, there is no one greater. Kurosawa was my introduction to Japanese film, before I had even reached my teens, and it's probably because I discovered him so early on that I find it very hard to put my admiration into words that don't sound trite, insufficient, misplaced even.

At the same time, Kurosawa is one of those filmmakers that have been written about again and again. Like Alfred Hitchcock, there always seems to be a steady supply of books on him in print. With such heavyweights as Stephen Prince and Donald Richie, to name but two, having written quite magnificently about his life and work, there simply isn't much to add.

If his lifetime and artistic output have been generously chronicled, his legacy, however, is something that could certainly do with more critical attention. The efforts of his collaborators, relatives and former employers to keep his memory alive don't always smell of noble intent. From Toho twisting and turning its interpretations of copyright law and public domain in order to keep making a buck out of the director's early work, via the production of some of the scripts the great man never got around to filming in his lifetime - rendered dull and pedestrian by overly reverential former assistants, to the failure to get a Kurosawa Film Academy off the ground - a misconceived venture apparently based on idea that one can turn any young filmmaker into a little Kurosawa by infusing him or her with a certain reading of the director's "humanist" ideals as if these were some kind of ideology.

Then there are those who think that that they can infuse their own films with a bit of the Kurosawa spirit through a form of association, like Hirokazu Koreeda working with his costume designer daughter Kazuko on his first jidai geki Hana, or Yoji Yamada getting his mitts on a property penned by one of Kurosawa's closest collaborators, his script supervisor and personal assistant Teruyo Nogami - so desperate is the Twilight Samurai director's ongoing quest for master status that he believes he can acquire it at two degrees of separation from a real genius.

A far more valuable attempt to keep Kurosawa's memory very much alive is Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa, the personal memoirs of that same Teruyo Nogami and her days alongside the master. An eclectic and pleasantly jumbled recollection that jumps back and forth in time seemingly at whim, Nogami tells her story with great self-effacement. As we know from earlier writings, Kurosawa's life was fraught with setbacks, especially once he found it harder to get his projects financed as the film industry began to wane at the close of the 1960s, eventually leading to a failed suicide attempt. Tellingly, more than once Nogami (of whom Donald Richie says in his foreword that she was the single person with whom Kurosawa never lost his temper and who he never criticised) blames herself for not supporting Kurosawa enough at critical moments. And this is the woman who, to again quote Richie, "stood behind him all the way from Rashomon to Madadayo and beyond."

Her story is peppered with revealing anecdotes and entertaining asides that give rare glimpses into life on a movie set: ants that won't obey, a fire in a storage room that could have robbed world cinema of one of its greatest treasures (i.e. the negative of Rashomon), and the titular waiting on the right weather for a shot. But in addition to trivia, she also gives us invaluable first-hand accounts of the making of Rashomon, of filming in the tick-infested forests of Siberia on Dersu Uzala, and of the falling out between Kurosawa and Shintaro Katsu on Kagemusha. Her recollections of Kurosawa himself aren't always flattering, such as when she recalls bringing him water on the midsummer shoot for Rashomon and notes that " the pungent smells of sweat and garlic would assail my nostrils."

Nogami's writing is wonderfully colloquial, making it feel like you're being told the story rather than reading it, while her sketches of memorable on-set events further liven up the text (one of these shows her handing out shots of methamphetamines to help the crew work around the clock!). Her book also resuscitates a great many names that have largely fallen by the wayside of film history, such as Taizo Fuyushima, Akira Nobuchi and Mansaku Itami. Another handful that did reach some measure of fame as genre specialists, like Tai Kato and Tokuzo Tanaka put in appearances in the days when they were still lowly assistants. With so little information available on these men (biographies exist in Japanese for some, though obviously not in translated form), this is a welcome insight into their personalities and methods.

Mansaku Itami in particular receives a loving tribute, with the opening chapter entirely devoted to the man whom Nogami regards her first mentor. The father of the late Juzo Itami is hardly known abroad these days, but the portrait Nogami paints of him is a touching and fascinating one, made all the more powerful by the fact that the two never actually met and only corresponded through letters. Nogami became a friend of the Itami family only after the director's death in 1946 (and would work with Juzo many years later).

But of course, the main focus here is Kurosawa, and Nogami humanizes him like no one has so far managed to do in a book in the English language. An artist who has come to be seen as monumental and monolithic could not wish for a greater favour. For any fan of Japanese cinema, and not just those of Kurosawa, Nogami's delightful memoirs are a genuine treasure trove.

link source: www.midnighteye.com

Read More......