pearl-dean &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://wordpress.com/tag/pearl-dean/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "pearl-dean" Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA["The Shawshank Redemption"- best film not to recieve Oscar]]> http://kinoscope.wordpress.com/?p=26 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:45:54 +0000 Inan http://kinoscope.wordpress.com/?p=26 The Shawshank Redemption tops a poll on films that should have won oscar but never did any. It was an online poll of 3000 people conducted by Pearl & Dean. The Top 10 list goes here -

TOP 10 OSCARS ALSO-RANS
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Fight Club
4. Blade Runner
5= It's a Wonderful Life
5= The Great Escape
7= Taxi Driver
7= Psycho
9. Singin' in the Rain
10. Dr Strangelove

Read the whole story here. 

This film won in a similiar failure poll back in 2004. For that story, click here.

So, it is pretty apperent that the Academy fails to recognize films that were later prooved to be award-deserving flicks. Now, this year, will they make the selection right?

To read my review on The Shawshank Redemption, please

]]> <![CDATA[[8] Girls Aloud, ‘Long Hot Summer’]]> http://jukeboxjunior.wordpress.com/?p=36 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:58:56 +0000 jukeboxjunior http://jukeboxjunior.wordpress.com/?p=36 They have power, astonishing power no doubt, but not even Girls Aloud can change the season. Junior and I ignore the Christmas tree for three or four minutes and put some effort into imagining it’s a July morning and we’re shaking like cool lemonades. She gets better results than me, because she’s not sitting there tackling the existential question of how on earth one can shake like a cool lemonade. Is it the bubbles? Or is it the movement of the liquid when the ice cubes are dropped in? Perhaps the lemonade shakes because Nadine, Kimberley et al are holding it while they sashay around the CD:UK stage? Like "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I’m 22 now but I won’t be for long", this latter theory would beg the question of how the performance came before the lyric.

We’re getting bogged down. Junior likes the song, and how could she not? It has at least two different bridges, a half-rapped middle eight and an unexpected ad lib at the end instead of a thoughtless repeat of the chorus. And it has "ba ba ba"s, making it a contender for First Song That Junior Will Actually Sing Along With.

It has competition from ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Telegram Sam’ and the Pearl & Dean theme.

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