Dean consistently finishes in the top 10 of the WCT year-end tour standings. Dean finished second at the WCT Pipe Masters event in December 2007, and more recently secured a third place finish at the same event in December 2009. He is noted as one of the best performing Australians on the North Shore of Oahu, and is consistently featured throughout the pages of the major surf magazines and the prestigious Surfline.com website. He won the WCT event at his home break at Snapper Rock, Australia in 2003. Ozzie Wright — Ozzie is one of the world’s most unique and talented free surfers.
She wanted him to star in a Hispanic-based sitcom she was going to produce. This sitcom became The George Lopez Show. The show made history as in becoming the most successful English-language prime time television series about Latin Americans since George’s main inspiration, Chico and the Man which played in the 1970’s. His show featured a fictionalized version of himself and his family. It showed for the first time in 2002 and it has become one of the most-watched
A comedy about growing up... and the bumps along the way. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. She embarks on a search to find the "perfect couple" to take on parenting responsibilities only to find life isn't quite so simple. Fresh, original, and ceaselessly entertaining Jason Reitman's Juno is one of the brightest and funniest comedies of the decade. With scathingly sharp dialogue and intangible character chemistry, Junois a coming-of-age film that is consistently funny and effortlessly cool.
There were many different genres, which were introduced to Australia. Along with the music came fashion with The Beatles being a massive hit and leading the men’s fashion. The Beatles were and today are still recognized as one of the world’s greatest bands ever. The Beatles were a British band who performed the genre of rock. In 1963 The Beatles had their first number one song in the UK, one year later they toured Australia which attracted thousands and thousands of fans, they attracted so many fans that they began a craze which was names Beatlemania.The Beatles were so popular and known worldwide that even toys and TV masks began selling The Beatles toys, they even produced and sold Beatles wings.
She ultimately learns to have pride in her heritage and by the end of the novel is proud to say I'm Australian with Italian blood flowing rapidly through my veins. The absence of her father for Josie's first sixteen years means she has been heavily influenced by two powerful and strong women: her mother Christina and her grandmother Katia (Nonna). Josie unravels Nonna's deepest secret, which is the adultery she committed with her Australian lover, Marcus Sandford. Josephine's father, Michael Andretti, visits and despite Josie's initial anger at his presence, he becomes extremely close to her and her to him.
Nick Bonfiglio Honors Composition II February 9, 2010 Brooke Hessler Stephen Colbert The “Truthiness” of Comic Ingenuity Acclaimed satirist Stephen Colbert has become renowned for his revolutionary comedic style, as well as his amazing marketing techniques that have shot him to the top of the cable ratings within the few years his television show, The Colbert Report, has been in existence. Since 2005, The Colbert Report, a Daily Show spin-off, parodies the conventions of television news broadcasting, particularly cable-personality political talk shows like The O'Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Program and Scarborough Country. Colbert hosts the show in-character as a pompous right wing pundit, who in Colbert’s own words is described as a “well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.” (Rabin) Unlike its parent program, the series focuses less on the day-to-day events, more so concentrating on the foibles of the host-character himself. The Report has been nominated for four Emmy Awards for three consecutive years, and has had made a significant cultural impact in the five years it has been on the air. (Lauria) In formulating his radical satirical presence, Colbert developed a unique set of mental processes worth studying for any individual seeking to self actualize themselves in their specialty.
One popular viral ad that can be looked at for this discussion would be for the new Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper. Tay Zonday, who ironically was a TA at the University of Minnesota, put up a video of a song he made a few years ago called Chocolate Rain. He got some good coverage and was put on late shows as well as becoming a minor celebrity around campus. Dr. Pepper scooped him up to do a viral ad with them promoting their new flavor of soda. It was put on YouTube about a year ago and has received over 7.5 million views.
Semiotics permits a unifying conceptual framework that encompasses the whole range of signifying practices, including gesture, posture, dress, writing, music, speech, photography, film, television and radio (Chandler, 2004). Talent show competitions on television nowadays have become significant in the entertainment industry where they are very often perceived as an inspiration and an emergence of a “Star-in-making”. Thus, it is favourable to contemplate the famous Susan Boyle as a fundamental illustration of an effective and sensational phenomenon; in evidence her audition videos of Britain’s Got Talent on YouTube have reached millions of views. The objective of this report is to profoundly study as well as to provide a semiotic analysis as to why Susan Boyle Audition was so successful yet prosperous on YouTube. 2.
The first video I looked at was Robbie Williams’s Rock DJ video. Relished in the summer of 2000 from the Ablbum ‘Rock DJ and inspired by his UNICEF mentor Ian Dury. The song sold over 600,00 copies in the UK alone therefore went Platinum by the BPI. It also won “Best song of 2000” on the MTV European music awards and the “Best single of the year” at the Brit awards. The special effects in the video also won an award: “ MTV video music award for best special effects”.
One of the biggest reality TV shows to hit the world in recent years has been Big Brother, in 2008 Australia had it’s 8th season and other countries clocking up to 16 series. People love reality TV so much because they can see themselves in the people on their TV screens and can relate to them or their situation. Reality TV includes shows such as Big Brother, through to more fictional shows such as Law and Order, any show that is based on reality can be deemed a ‘reality TV’ show. The actors within these series become superstars in a matter of months and generations look up to them. The popularity of reality TV shouldn't come as a surprise considering the fact that we live in a culture that worships vanity, rather than virtue, and lives by the mantra of 'He with the most toys lives,' rather than 'He with the most joys lives.'