Franklin and Bash

Genre: Comedy-Drama, Legal Procedural
Actors: Breckin Meyer, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dana Davis, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Kumail Nanjiani, Malcolm McDowell, Reed Diamond
Country: United States
Producers: Jamie Tarses, Kevin Falls, Bill Chais, Jason Ensler
Production Companies: FanFare Productions, Four Sycamore Productions, Left Coast Productions, Sony Pictures Television

Franklin and Bash

Franklin and Bash is an American comedy-drama television series on TNT. The series stars Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as unconventional lawyers and longtime friends.

A Turner Broadcasting executive has referred to the series as a “funny legal procedural. After two streetwise lawyers take down a stuffy law firm, they are recruited by the head of the firm to bring new life to the work place.

Open with attorneys Jared Franklin and Steven Bash sitting at a diner discussing Bash’s chances of sleeping with Marissa Tomei. There is a car accident in front of them and they sprint out to suggest the driver sue the manufacturer of a video billboard for creating a distraction.

Franklin and Bash’s two-attorney firm has a fraternity-like feel legal documents left in the refrigerator, nobody can talk at meeting unless they are holding the football, etc. They have two employees, Carmen and Pindar, and it seems like the firm is hurting for cash. Pindar doesn’t think they have much of a case with the billboard case. Bash is working on a case defending a woman named Annie on a prostitution charge he thinks is meritless. The DA has apparently assigned Bash’s ex, Janie, to oppose him. Bash says he’s moved on from Janie, Franklin doesn’t believe him.

Right before Franklin and Bash head into court for the billboard trial Bash runs into Janie. He says she has no case against Annie, as she’s a dominatrix rather than a hooker. He says he misses her and says he’s not the same guy he used to be.

On their way into the courtroom the guys have a negative back-and-forth with the opposing counsel and run into a goofy-looking older man wearing blue sunglasses and sweatpants.

Franklin questions the attractive female from the billboard ad. A few seconds in, he nods and she takes off her shirt and bounces around. The judge has Franklin and his witness removed from the room. But once they are gone Bash points out that nobody including opposing counsel Damien Karp recalls what she said on the stand because they were distracted. The sweatpants guys smiles in the crowd.

Carmen gets a call that the firm representing the billboard Infeld Daniels wants to settle.

At Infeld Daniels they are taken to meet Stanton Infeld, one of the biggest attorneys in the country. It turns out Infeld was the guy in the sweatpants and he’s been looking at both of them for quite some time. After handing over the settlement check he offers them a job. Franklin doesn’t like the idea, but caves when Infeld agrees to every one of their terms.

Prior to Franklin and Bash’s first day in the new office Pindar, who has OCD-like quirks, tells them he isn’t excited about working downtown. The guys introduce themselves at a firm meeting and learn the Infeld team is defending a pilot named Tommy Donegan and his airline from passengers suing because they suffered injuries during an emergency landing.

After the meeting it is clear some of Infeld’s staff isn’t impressed with the new guys. Attorney Hanna Linden introduces herself to Franklin. Infeld tells Bash that Karp (his nephew) will be in charge of taking Donegan’s airline TranSky to the media. He wants them to go along and help Karp, who often has issues dealing with reporters.

Bash is stunned to learn the judge on his prostitution case is now a woman. Janie has found pictures of Annie engaging in sex and Bash’s motion to dismiss is quickly denied.

Afterwards Annie tells Bash that no money changes hands. Evan was originally a client but they fell in love and began seeing each other. When Annie found out he was married she ended things.

With Franklin and Bash watching from afar Karp addresses the media with Donegan and the CEO of TranSky, Neil Bryant. Reporters begin to ask Donegan about rumors he was engaged in sexual activity with a flight attendant minutes before the plane had engine trouble. Karp gets frustrated and yells at Donegan to “shut up.” To divert attention Franklin begins punching Bash.

Infeld isn’t happy with the stunt and Karp seems to be leading the contingent of partners who want the new guys gone. Bash points out that the headlines were about two lawyers fighting and not Donegan’s character flaws. Infeld’s idea to keep Donegan out of trouble is for the pilot to stay with Franklin and Bash.

Debbie tells Bash to check on Franklin. He finds Franklin playing Wii in the conference room. This leads to an argument between the two. Bash thinks Franklin needs to be a little more professional, while Franklin thinks that Bash is a sell-out. Franklin invites Hanna to hang out at their place with Donegan that night but she passes.

Franklin entertains Donegan, who is playing video games next to several ladies. He claims to never have had sex while piloting a plane. Annie shows up and tells Bash that Evan now claims he never loved her. He’s calling her his “sex addiction.” Annie has no paper trail of Evan saying he loved her. Pindar’s suggests bring forward clients to testify they never had sex with Annie, but Bash thinks they need put Evan on the stand. Hanna shows up having had a fight with her boyfriend.

Later that night Bash sits in the hot tub with Donegan (and a bunch of women) and they discuss women. Bash promises they’ll clear Donegan’s name. Franklin and Hanna start to hook up. Pindar still has a camera connection to the firm’s conference room and he overhears Karp and Bryant putting together a plan to pin the entire mess on Donegan. They want to prove his actions were so outrageous they were beyond his scope as a TranSky employee and plan to fabricate a witness.

Franklin confronts Karp about his Donegan plan. It seems Karp was Hannah’s boyfriend. Karp is willing to bet the OCD Pindar won’t leave the leave the house to testify against him and Bryant and plans to go ahead with his motion as planned.

Hannah tells Franklin she likes him, but it seems she might have been using him to feed Karp information.

Franklin demands that Pindar show up in court that day. Pindar isn’t happy.

Bash questions Evan on the stand about his relationship with Annie. He’s attempting to prove Evan loved Annie. After making comments clearly related to his failed relationship with Janie, Bash asks Evan if he can look Annie in the eyes and say he never loved her. Evan stares at Annie, then looks away while saying he never loved her.

Pindar manages to leave the house and get into Carmen’s car. He immediately vomits into her windshield.

Karp succeeds in separating the airline from the case, placing the case squarely on Donegan’s shoulders. Afterwards the guys apologize to Donegan. Franklin and Bash agree they can’t let this happen.

Carmen tells Pindar that Franklin is planning to show up at TranSky shareholder meeting. She points out that not many firms would have taken a chance on them: “An ex-con and an agoraphob who is terrified of birds.” Carmen thinks the owe the guys.

We see Pindar get onto a public bus as Franklin pulls up at the shareholders meeting. Both Franklin and Bash explain to Infeld what Karp and Bryan pulled with the paid-off witness. Just as they have to admit that they didn’t actually see the conference room plotting themselves, Pindar take the microphone and begins to tell his story. Franklin stops him and tells Bryant to re-hire Donegan and release a statement calling him a hero. They agree and Infeld promptly tells Bryan his firm will no long represent a “scumbag.” Infeld takes Franklin and Bash aside and tells them both he’s glad he hired them.

Annie is found not guilty. Janie takes Bash aside and tells him she is engaged. He feigns being happy for her. He looks deeply into her eyes and says: “I still got a shot.”

Back at the diner Franklin and Bash discuss whether taking a punch from Mike Tyson is too much to make sleeping with Scarlett Johanasson worth it.

Franklin and Bash

Tiger Woods Withdraws From the U.S. Open

The injured golfer announced the news on his website June 7, 2011: “Tiger Woods Withdraws From the U.S. Open”.

The sports world wasn’t shocked when Tiger Woods posted on his website Tuesday that he would not be competing in next week’s U.S. Open. The golfer, who has been wearing a boot after spraining a ligament in his left knee during the Masters in April, has not played since quitting in pain May 12 after nine holes at the Players Championship.

“I am extremely disappointed that I won’t be playing in the U.S. Open, but it’s time for me to listen to my doctors and focus on the future,” Woods wrote on his website. “I was hopeful that I could play, but if I did, I risk further damage to my left leg. My knee and Achilles tendon are not fully healed.”

The 111th U.S. Open, which starts June 16 at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., earned a 6.9 rating last year in its final round on NBC  a 35 percent bump from 2009. Woods surely bolstered the TV audience when he made a run in the third round at Pebble Beach, but he faltered on Sunday and Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell took the title.

TV ratings soar when Woods plays well, but with his well-publicized personal travails, he hasn’t won an event since November 2009 and has fallen to No. 15 in the world rankings.

“It’s a blow to the tournament,” said Brad Adgate, senior vp/director of research at Horizon Media. “Tiger has always been able to bring in casual golf viewers, especially when he is contention. Every sports report when mentioning the results of a golf tourney will mention how Woods is doing regardless of his spot on the leader board.”

Added Patrick Rishe, director of Sportsimpacts and a sports business professor at Webster University: “There may be more no-shows in corporate tents and some fans looking to dump their tickets on the secondary market because they only really care to see Tiger, but fortunately for NBC, the U.S. Open is generally pretty compelling theater, so ratings should be fine but certainly not near the heights it could be when Tiger is in the chase and at his best.”

ESPN will televise the first two rounds, and NBC will have the final two on the weekend.

Woods, 35, hasn’t won a major championship in three years, and this will be the first time he’s missed the U.S. Open since 1994. He has 14 majors on his resume, still four shy of Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18.

Woods also missed half of the 2008 season because of an injury to the same knee suffered during his gritty U.S. Open win at Torrey Pines in San Diego. He has tumbled to 15th in the world rankings.

Woods said he plans to return later in the summer. “I hope to be ready for AT&T National [the June 28-July 3 tournament outside Philadelphia that benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation], the next two majors and the rest of the year,” he wrote on his site.

The third major of the season, the British Open, takes place July 14-18 in England.

Tiger Woods Withdraws From the U.S. Open

The brand new site will not be connected to Facebook’s global services, that is at present blocked in China, based on the report on Sohu.com, which cited unnamed Baidu personnel.

The arrangement follows several meetings amongst Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Baidu CEO Robin Li and comes amid reports the U.S. social-networking large is eyeing a move into mainland China.

Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo refused to comment when contacted by AFP, and the Sohu report was later taken off the web site.

Facebook downplayed the report as a rumor and explained it will not comment.

“We are presently studying and finding out about China, as portion of evaluating any achievable ways that could advantage our customers, developers and advertisers,” Facebook spokesperson Debbie Frost said in response to an AFP inquiry.

Facebook mentioned in February it had opened a Hong Kong office, its third in Asia, although Zuckerberg visited China in December, prompting ideas that Beijing could sooner or later welcome the California organization.

China has 450 million Web users and soaring, however it is also peppered with dominant domestic manufacturers, technical hurdles as well as the menace of censorship.

Bride Flight

Genre:Drama
Releases: April 29, 2011
Distributor: Music Box Films
Actors: Elise Schaap, Petra Laseur, Karina Smulders, Pleuni Touw, Anna Drijver Esther, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Waldemar Torenstra, Rutger Hauer, Marc Klein-Essink, Micha Hulshof
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Writer: Marieke van der Pol
Producers: Olga MadsenAssociate, Gemma Derksen, Jani Thiltges, Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens

Bride Flight

At the time of its production and release, Bride Flight reportedly checked in as one of the most lavish and expensive Dutch-language features ever made.

The title of this epic tale refers, quite literally, to a period airplane flight transporting new brides from Holland to New Zealand, where they plan to meet their intendeds. Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Anna Drijver star, respectively, as quiet and backward yet sensual farm girl Ada; uber-content homemaker-to-be Marjorie; and highly vocal, self-confident, Jewish fashion designer Esther. As the tale opens, it is the mid-1950s; the three women share the same flight, and instantly forge a fast friendship, thanks in no small part to their shared amorous advances from Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), a cowboy-cum-adventurer also on the plane. Upon arrival, Frank and Ada fall deeply in love, but Ada’s marriage to Micha Hulshof, a devout Christian who lives with her in a converted World War II bunker, severely complicates this. Meanwhile, Esther and Marjorie encounter their own problems; one winds up pregnant by an unknown progenitor, while the other discovers her own infertility. After following these stories for a time, the tale flashes forward to the present day, where the women reencounter one another at the funeral of Frank (played in middle age by Rutger Hauer). Problems arise when Esther witnesses Marjorie (Petra Laseur) accompanying her son Bob (Marc Klein Essink) – thus underscoring the film’s thematic meditation on the unshakable connection between present and past.

Bride Flight

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Anthony Weiner Admits Online Relationships With Various Women

New York Congressman Anthony Weiner Admits Online Relationships With Various Women

At a spontaneous 4 p.m. press conference in the New York City Sheraton hotel, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner confessed to posting a lewd picture on his Twitter feed and carrying on inappropriate online relationships with half a dozen women over three years.

In a tearful admission Monday afternoon, Anthony Weiner explained that he had lied about being “hacked” on Twitter, telling a large crowd of journalists at the hotel ballroom that he was responsible for sending the inappropriate photo that launched the captivating “Weinergate” scandal. After accidentally making the photo visible to all of his followers, Weiner said he “panicked” and attempted to cover up the indiscretion by lying about its origins and deleting it.

Additional revealing photos surfaced Monday showing a shirtless Weiner, prompting the 46-year-old congressman to come clean. He said he engaged in numerous online conversations with at least six women over the course of three years, trading photos and explicit messages with the strangers both before and during his marriage to State Department aide Huma Abedin.

Weiner, a seven-term congressman from New York City, said he took “full responsibility” for his indiscretions and spent more than half-an-hour at the podium explaining the full range of his online actions with women, whom Weiner said he’s never met. He claims, though, that his marriage is stable (“I still love her, and she loves me”) and also said that he will not resign as a result of the scandal. “I did not violate any law,” he said, explaining that he’s continued to uphold his responsibility to his Queens and Brooklyn constituents.

Though Weiner called the press conference, it was actually conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com who took the microphone first. Breitbart is credited with drawing attention to the original Twitter photo when it was posted on his blog. After reporters noticed Breitbart entering the hotel ballroom the event, he stepped to the stage and gave his own already widely publicized opinion, reprimanding reporters and liberals for questioning his role in the scandal. Breitbart claimed to have “at least one” additional “x-rated” photo of Weiner, a fact that the congressman, when asked, didn’t dispute.

Weiner has stated that he will cooperate fully with an ethics investigation by the House over whether he’s broken any rules.

Anthony Weiner Admits Online Relationships With Various Women

Dolphin Tale

Production Status: Awaiting Release
Genres: Drama and Kids/Family
Release Date: September 23rd, 2011 (wide)
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Production Co.: Alcon Entertainment
Filming Locations: Clearwater, Florida, USA
Produced in:United States
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Nathan Gamble, Austin Stowell, Austin Highsmith, Frances Sternhagen, Cozi Zuehlsdorff
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writers: Noam Dromi, Karen Janszen
Producer: Robert E. Engelman, Steven Wegner, Richard Ingber, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Yolanda T. Cochran

Dolphin Tale

Dolphin Tale is an upcoming drama film directed by Charles Martin Smith from a screenplay by Karen Janszen and starring Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman.

The film is inspired by the true story of a bottlenose dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. It is set for release on September 23, 2011 in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film will also be released in 3D. A young boy befriends Winter, an injured bottlenose dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap, and motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin’s missing tail. Harry Connick Jr. plays a vet who rescues the mammal and brings her to the marine hospital he runs. Ashley Judd plays the boy’s mother while Morgan Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter.

Dolphin Tale

The new service will allow consumers to help keep their files and applications in sync across all their products, from almost everywhere there’s Internet service.

“Everything happens instantly and there is nothing new to learn. It just all works,” Jobs explained.

“iCloud merchants your subject material within the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all of your device. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all your gadgets.”

iCloud will substitute MobileMe, Employment says, the company’s previously failed implementation of the cloud-based support.

The new service was created from your ground up, nonetheless, and lets customers, for example, add a whole new document on their cellular device.

The document is immediately copied on the cloud and pushed back again to all other products, Careers says. The identical takes place with calendar objects. And iCloud permits two or more individuals to share calendars. Mail performs the identical way. All folders are kept current on all devices.

“I stick the mobile phone in my pocket and I forget about it… When I get home, pick up the iPad and fire up Pages, as well as the document thumbnail has by now been up to date.”

The new free of charge services, lets end users retailer photographs within the cloud also with a new services named Picture Stream.

But maybe the most interesting advancement is iTunes — Apple’s proprietary media shop — brought in to the realm from the cloud also.

The cloud based iTunes performs similarly to your other iCloud providers.

Any songs previously purchased on iTunes will be available on all products.

“Anything I bought I can now download to any of my devices at no additional charge,” he says. “This may be the very first time we’ve got observed this while in the new music industry.”

Apple will also scan user’s original library and make precisely the same content obtainable in the cloud with out any require for an upgrade.

This can be what it calls iTunes Match, and distances Apple from cloud-based music services from the like Amazon and Google. On those companies end users must upload.

Apple is prepared to ramp iCloud in its a few info centers, including the third not too long ago finished in Maiden, NC. Apple has invested about $500 million in its Maiden data center, official stated.

Welcome to the Rileys

Production Status: Released
Genres: Drama and Kids/Family
Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date: October 29th, 2010 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, brief drug use and pervasive language involving a teenager.
Distributors: Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co.: Scott Free Productions, Argonaut Pictures
Filming Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Produced in: United States
Actors: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Joe Chrest, Ally Sheedy, Tiffany Coty, Eisa Davis
Director: Jake Scott

Welcome to the Rileys

Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter’s untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy, underage prostitute in this family drama starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, and Kristen Stewart. Ever since the death of their daughter Emily, Doug (Gandolfini) and Lois Riley (Leo) have been drifting apart. As Lois wrestles with a suffocating sense of guilt over her daughter’s death, Doug copes by entering into an affair with Vivian, a local waitress. Lately, Lois hasn’t even been able to muster the courage to venture outside, summoning hairdressers to her home in order to maintain appearances and communicating with few people other than her sister Harriet and the local pastor. When Vivian dies and Doug finds himself in a Baton Rouge strip club during a business trip, he realizes he’s come to a dangerous crossroads in life. Turning down an offer for a private dance by 16-year-old stripper Mallory, Doug instead accompanies the girl home and makes a most unusual proposition: if Mallory will allow him to stay in her run-down apartment long enough to straighten himself out, he will pay her $100 a day for her trouble. For Mallory, who isn’t used to getting money for nothing, it seems like a great deal. She accepts, and Doug phones Lois to tell her he won’t be coming home. As time passes, Doug and Mallory settle into an unconventional kind of domesticity. Meanwhile, back home, Lois realizes that she’ll have to act fast in order to save her marriage, even if that means venturing well outside her comfort zone for the first time in nearly a decade. Most days she can’t even make it to the mailbox, but after a couple attempts, Lois manages to start up her car and get on the freeway heading south. When Lois arrives in Louisiana and discovers that her husband is living with a foul-mouthed, underage hooker, she is at first horrified. Like Doug before her, however, Lois quickly warms to Mallory, due in part to her striking similarities to Emily. Before long, Lois, too, has moved in, and the three form something of an unconventional family. But when Lois attempts to steer Mallory from the path of self-destruction, the young girl bristles. Later, Mallory is hospitalized after being badly beaten by a client, and Doug and Lois rush to be by her side. Could this be the thing that pulls them back together? When Lois admits to Doug how their daughter really died, his kind understanding gives hope for a new beginning.

Welcome to the Rileys