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The Flying Hammer
This happened during the last show of Van Sinkel by Tim Gladdines. It gave the first two rows of the audience a near death experience and us as players a heart attack. In short it's hillarious. This happened during the last show of Van Sinkel by Tim Gladdines. It gave the first two rows of the audience a near death experience ... more
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Edinburgh Easter Festival (2006)
This festival no longer exists due to a funding crisis in Edinburgh's budget. When it was in play, the festival consisted of a weekend of events aimed at attracting families during the easter holidays. There used to be a parade which I've never seen and it didn't go ahead for 2006 even though the festival continue. There was a Saturday of events where bands from around the globe perform and jazz acts not to mention activities for the young. On the Sunday, the Edinburgh Easter Play would take place, which still continues today. The play takes the audience on a moving theatrical performance which is proving more popular every year it takes place. I'd like to see the festival come back in years to come and see it at it's fully glory. In 2007, it has been renamed to the Edinburgh Spring Festival since arranging flights for all acts to come on Easter was not possible. As of 2008, there has not been a festival since 2006. Lets make sure that this one doesn't get forgotten. This festival no longer exists due to a funding crisis in Edinburgh's budget. When it was in play, the festival consisted of a we... more
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Grandma Madea’s Hoppin’ Good Advice on Love, Relationships and Your Life
Tyler Perry is the star of what is still known as the “chitlin’ circuit.” He’s a moody, funny and astoundingly prolific writer/producer/director/actor. As an actor, Tyler is best known for his fabulous fashion looks when he's all dressed up in the rockin' floral print frocks (with an Adam’s apple) as the no-nonsense Grandma Mabel “Madea” Simmons. Grandma Madea presents the very finest in cross-dressing minstrelsy.
The video presented here is a selection from Tyler Perry's very funny, albeit bittersweet play, “Madea Goes to Jail.” Grandma Mabel "Madea" again stars Tyler Perry, with Madea once more wearing a humble beflowered gown as she holds court with members of her family. In this particular episode, Madea gives her very good advice on love, relationships and keepin' on going in life.
This article includes humorous photographs, as well as an extremely comical, but also very serious video from “Madea Goes to Jail.”
While watching this might you just might well end up thinking about your own relationships and life!! Tyler Perry is the star of what is still known as the “chitlin’ circuit.” He’s a moody, funny and astoundingly prolific writer/produc... more -
Over Size
What a great Monster Truck game! Battle thru many different courses and levels with your monster truck! Great 3D Graphic! A must play!
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Hacky Sack JR
Keep the ball in the air as long as possible - collect balloons for combos!
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Mafia Driver 2
One thing became clear... The Mafia Driver job became ugly! Drive around and kill pedestrians walking in your way. Pass all levels to beat the game! One thing became clear... The Mafia Driver job became ugly! Drive around and kill pedestrians walking in your way. Pass all levels to ... more
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This Is Why I Don't Play With Babies ( David - Spates )
David Spates shows you why he no longer plays with babies. Special effects done by Jaymes. Contact on youtube is " Cinemabunz". Affordable special effects for your videos. Check out David's other videos on his page like "Valentines Day Ghetto Gram" " Happy Martin Luther King Day" "The White Joke" "Take Off The Towel"... and many others with more to come! Don't forget to add me as a friend and subscribe. :-)
Also if you have a youtube, Myspace, Facebook, or tagged account, please add me there too. Just search for my name. David Spates :-) David Spates shows you why he no longer plays with babies. Special effects done by Jaymes. Contact on youtube is " Cinemabunz... more -
"Hair" opens in Central Park
Photos from Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater on Thursday, August 7, 2008.
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Kids need the adventure of 'risky' play for healthy development, says sh...
A major study says parents harm their children's development if they ban tree-climbing or conkers, according to the Guardian Observer.
But millions of children are being deprived because their parents are nervous about exposing them to any risks, new research has revealed.
A major study by Play England, part of the National Children's Bureau, found that half of all children have been stopped from climbing trees, 21 per cent have been banned from playing conkers and 17 per cent have been told they cannot take part in games of tag or chase. Some parents are going to such extreme lengths to protect their children from danger that they have even said no to hide-and-seek.
'Children are not being allowed many of the freedoms that were taken for granted when we were children,' said Adrian Voce, director of Play England. 'They are not enjoying the opportunities to play outside that most people would have thought of as normal when they were growing up.'
Voce argued that it was becoming a 'social norm' for younger children to be allowed out only when accompanied by an adult. 'Logistically that is very difficult for parents to manage because of the time pressures on normal family life,' he said. 'If you don't want your children to play out alone and you have not got the time to take them out then they will spend more time on the computer.'
Voce pointed out how irrational some of these decisions were. Last year, almost three times as many children were admitted to hospital after falling out of bed as those who had fallen from a tree.
The tendency to wrap children in cotton wool has transformed how they experience childhood. According to the research, 70 per cent of adults had their biggest childhood adventures in outdoor spaces among trees, rivers and woods, compared with only 29 per cent of children today. The majority of young people questioned said that their biggest adventures took place in playgrounds.
Justine Roberts, founder of Mumsnet.com, an online forum for mothers, said that parents only wanted to protect their children. 'It is the mums and dads that have to deal with the bruises and cuts,' she said. 'But broadly speaking I think that we will have to be brave and allow our children to take physical risk because, within reason, that is the way that they learn.
'When you see your two-and-a-half year-old on a climbing frame your heart is in your mouth and that is normal but I think most parents realise that at some point their children have to take physical risks; most recognise the benefits of learning through play. We can be overprotective but it is impossible to wrap children in cotton wool.'
What do you think? Should kids be encouraged to get active, take risks and be adventurous? How could they turn out without the occasional fall from a branch or scrape to the knee? Were you a 'risk taking' child? A major study says parents harm their children's development if they ban tree-climbing or conkers, according to the Guardian Obse... more -
Background TV could slow children's development
Having the TV on in the background reduces the quality and quantity of play in young children and may slow their development, according to researchers who studied children playing with and without background TV.
The researchers said it was a surprise that children were affected by an adult programme to which they appeared to be paying no attention. The long-term effect on a child's development is not yet clear, but the researchers advise parents not to have the TV on even if a young child is not watching it. "I would advise parents to be more cautious about background TV and turn it off when the child is in the room," said Dr Tiffany Pempek, a child psychologist at Georgetown University in Washington DC who worked on the study, reported in the journal Child Development.
The team studied 50 children in total, aged 12, 24 or 36 months. The researchers watched the children playing in the same room as their parents for an hour. For half that time an adult gameshow was playing on the TV. Parents were asked to ignore the child unless it demanded their attention. The researchers compared the quality and quantity of play when the TV was on and when it was off.
The children appeared to pay little attention to the TV, glancing at it just 5% of the time, but the researchers found that when it was on the children's play episodes were on average 30 seconds shorter and they spent less time in focused play. These episodes, when the child is most attentive, were nearly 25% - about five seconds - shorter.
"We know from past research that focused attention, being able to focus like that, is an important predictor for [later development]," said Pempek.
The American Academy of Paediatrics, a professional body for paediatricians, recommends no exposure to TV and computer screens for children under two, but in the UK the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has no official policy on the issue.
It's official: the TV is not a free babysitter, parents! But surely you knew that already...? Having the TV on in the background reduces the quality and quantity of play in young children and may slow their development, accordin... more -
Germaine Greer furious at play based on her life by 'insane reactionary'
Feminist academic Germaine Greer has branded the writer of a comic play reportedly based on aspects of her life an "insane reactionary" who "holds feminism in contempt".
Her wrath was provoked by Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species, which pokes fun at militant feminism and questions whether ideological extremes stand up to the rigours of real life.
Ms Greer, who became a household name in the 1970s with the publication of her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch, described The Female of the Species as "threadbare" and was said to have declined an invitation to its first night, and returned a copy of the script unread.
Although the characters are fictional, the play kicks off with an incident similar to one experienced by Ms Greer in 2000, when Karen Burke, a 19-year-old Bath University student obsessed with Ms Greer's work, broke into her house in Saffron Walden, Essex, tied her up and held her captive for an hour. Ms Greer was released after friends arriving at the house for dinner called the police after hearing shouting. Ms Burke later received two years' probation after admitting a charge of harassment.
In the play, a student called Molly holds hostage a feminist writer called Margot Mason. "Men aren't our problem – old feminists are," says Molly.
Ms Murray-Smith said her play was not a "character portrait" of Ms Greer, but the academic countered: "Why do the production team and the writer keep on referring to me, Germaine Greer, if they say it is not Greer they're writing about?" She told The Sunday Times: "Murray-Smith is an insane reactionary who boasts that she has not read a single feminist text. She holds feminism in contempt."
Ms Murray-Smith said: "I'm sorry she has formed that opinion of me without having met me or read my work. It would take a braver woman than me to write about Greer directly. However, my Margot does have many of Greer's characteristics. Both are charismatic, outrageous and irritating."
The Molly character was created to explore "what happens to the fans who find that the intellectuals they admire then renege on their one-time beliefs", she said, adding: "Despite what Greer says, I am a feminist."
Does a play or a film have to actually name a person for it to be clear that the central character is based on them? If your life is on public display, do you have the right to complain when people explore it, even in fiction? Is that the problem for feminism today - that old and modern feminists just can't agree, so end up getting nowhere? And can the hip young things responding to this possibly bear to discuss feminism without mentioning hairy lesbians, ugly bitter women or social outcasts...? Feminist academic Germaine Greer has branded the writer of a comic play reportedly based on aspects of her life an "insane reacti... more -
The play on thread.
The very strange story narrated in a very strange language by very strange people.
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Ishi: The Last of the Yahi
The epic play of San Francisco history. A tale of love, war, and ruthless ambition in the City by the Bay.
Professor Alfred Kroeber finds the West's most famous Indian starving in the woods and the two embark on an adventure that will shape the future of California and uncover the secrets of our blood drenched past. The epic play of San Francisco history. A tale of love, war, and ruthless ambition in the City by the Bay. ... more -
Cat plays football with ball he got out kitty cracker!
Ginger Ronaldinho but better looking
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Steppenwolf Answers Sarah Ruhl's Cell Phone
Steppenwolf Theatre Company opens the Chicago premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, directed by associate artist Jessica Thebus, Apr Steppenwolf Theatre Company opens the Chicago premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, directed by associate artist J... more
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Sexy Shoshana: Ass Shakin' Good Morning Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans!
I am not sure why this is interesting? But I will tell you that this was my all time number one viewed video on my former, popular shoshanarose1 youtube channel last year, with over 250,000 views on this video alone. Maybe you'll enjoy it? Perhaps you will think I am crazy? Whatever the case, hopefully you will admit that I am pretty cute for a 43 year old lady?! LOL!
MUAH!
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shoshilay I am not sure why this is interesting? But I will tell you that this was my all time number one viewed video on my former, popular sho... more -
Petri Dish Circus
See the history of microbiology in nine scenes of gags, burlesque, drollery and song.
Produced by Active Cultures, the vernacular theater of Maryland, Petri Dish Circus is a play loosely based off of the classic non fiction novel Microbe Hunters by Paul Henry de Kruif. Much like the original book first published in 1926 that describes 12 historical milestones in science, Active Cultures reenacts "the daring-do of Louis Pasteur in his Parisian lab, the Scotch fortitude of Ronald Ross as he travels through disease-stricken Africa, and the melancholy saga of Walter Reed as he battles Yellow Jack in Cuba" - all with a healthy dose of humor.
In this episode we interview Mary Resing, artistic director for Active Cultures, who talks about Microbe Hunters as inspiration for theater and her whimsical, and slightly pointed, approach to portraying the women featured in de Kruif's work. Excerpts from the actual performance are also featured. See the history of microbiology in nine scenes of gags, burlesque, drollery and song. ... more -
Parents Let Your Damn Kids Play!
Nationally, about one-fifth of children are kept inside because of dangers in the neighborhood, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, titled "A Child's Day." Nationally, about one-fifth of children are kept inside because of dangers in the neighborhood, according to a new report from the U.S... more
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First the play...
Read some information on the play, Frost/Nixon.
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Jails Hospitals Hip-hop
Dope film. Great ideas & execution. Acting by Danny Hoch and editing by Brian A. Kates make for great experience.
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