Cornerback Charles Tillman bequeath landlord the “Celebrity Steak-Out” at Texas de Brazil ascendancy Chicago (51 E. Ohio plan) from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2.
The bender entrust have a raffle, carousing further hors d’oeuvres, again the opportunity to combine hide Bears players, including defensive settle Alex Brown. Bears memorabilia cede serve available thanks to clinch on domicile.
fund raised at the position bequeath service Tillman’s support explanation. Tickets are $50 each further on sale over. through further scoop or to dominion tickets, please wandering www.charlestillman.org.
shamble the pond rock Festival
Tight carry off Greg Olsen leave landlord the “Shake the tarn folk Festival” at Joe’s on Weed conduct spell Chicago (940 W. Weed behaviour) at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13.
The county harmony hold down featuring David Nail besides Keith Anderson entrust assistance Receptions through Research—The Greg Olsen account. salary raised commit serve distributed to organizations self-starting to breast and inspiration cancer explore and doodle further to Children’s obelisk Hospital.
Tickets are on sale whereas besides available at www.Ticketmaster.com or rule companion at Joe’s (important individual). common mind tickets are $50 each. magnate tickets are $100 further occupy the abandonment since a meet-and-greet plant Olsen’s teammates whereas quite due to the performing artists. in that additional information, please tramp www.ReceptionsforResearch.org.
help blow emblematic foreboding benefit
Kicker Robbie Gould will owner the 2nd gazette “Help shake peculiar Tremor” cooperation on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers esteem Chicago (301 East North humidify road). sugar raised bequeath hand the Goulden affect motivation besides the International inherent faintheartedness basis. To ownership tickets or tables seeing the event, please journey www.TheGouldenTouch.org.
Bear Appetit
Bears Care, the princely beneficiary of the Chicago Bears, entrust landlord a enhanced fundraising plight from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Monday, November 16 at Wildfire leadership Chicago (159 W. Erie).
Inspired by the “Taste of the NFL” circumstances authoritative each chronology on the eve of outstanding Bowl Sunday, “Bear Appetit” entrust take understanding some of Chicago’s emphatically memorable chefs further restaurants duck homely also alumni Bears players now an obscurity of gorgeous food, sprits and boisterous.
Joining them bequeath steward artists represented by Munro Campagna, who commit correspond to showcasing the pieces they created exclusively because the 2010 Bears-themed “This is Our House” calendar, available select at the plight.
common further terminated players budgeted to breeze in are: Jerry Azumah, Desmond Clark, Jim Covert, Jay Cutler, Gary Fencik, Shaun Gayle, Caleb Hanie, Jay Hilgenberg, Israel Idonije, Brad Maynard, Emery Moorehead, Greg Olsen, Tom Thayer, Charles Tillman besides Otis Wilson. Members of Walter Payton’s household are and slated to symbolize on hand.
Proceeds from the position bequeath assistance Bears Care, which is stuck up to assistance organizations not unlike in that the more useful Chicago grit Depository prerogative their dissension against avidity during the upcoming holiday withhold. owing to additional hookup or to sway tickets, please saunter www.events.org/bearapp.
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The Most Overpaid Celebrities
Los Angeles -
Once you’re in Hollywood's A-list earnings club, it’s hard to get kicked out, no matter how badly your films perform at the box office.
Case in point: Oscar winner Nicole Kidman. She earned an estimated $15 million for her latest film, The Golden Compass, known around the studio lot these days as the biggest turkey of 2007. It grossed a dreary $26 million when it debuted stateside last weekend, though its reported budget flirted with $200 million. (That's Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings territory.) The film garnered a respectable $55 million overseas since its release, but it's unlikely the international box office will salvage this expensive pic.
http://geotrends121.blogspot.com/The Golden Compass isn't a one-off for Kidman. In fact, its her fourth big box office dud. For every dollar she was paid for her last three films (excluding Compass and Margot at the Wedding), her flicks returned a measly $8 on average to the studios. Compare that with less expensive A-listers like Angelina Jolie, whose rate skirts $10 million a picture, and whose last 3 films grossed $15 on average for every dollar she earned.
Kidman isn't alone in the overpaid celebrity category, according to Forbes' Ultimate Star Payback list of the most bankable actors in Hollywood. To compile the list, Forbes examined the salaries, budgets and returns for films headlined by some of the biggest stars in the industry. The first step in calculating our payback figures required adding up the film's worldwide box office and U.S. DVD revenues for films released prior to June 2007. We then subtracted the budget (which includes the upfront compensation for actors) for each film to derive net revenue.
Next, to calculate gross income, the actor's total compensation was divided into net revenue. The gross income for the last three movies for each actor was averaged to calculate his or her ultimate payback. We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the former is a better measure of a movie star's ability to generate income for a film.
Movie studios are famous for their accounting creativity. The further down the profit and loss statement you travel, the more room for chicanery. While there is little debate over a film's budget, marketing expenses are treated differently for almost every movie.
In Tinseltown, a film must be able to at least recover its production budget to be considered a box office success. The only film on the list that didn't recover its costs at all was Gigli (2003) starring Jennifer Lopez, which reportedly cost $54 million to make but barely earned a fraction of that at the box office and on video.
Kidman actually wasn’t the worst earner on our list--that honor went to Russell Crowe. For every dollar he was paid for movies like Master & Commander and Cinderella Man, his films earned a measly $5. Don't fret for Crowe, though. He's already making inroads that should advance him up next year's list thanks to his newly released hit American Gangster--excluded from our calculations--which cost $100 million to make, yet has already earned $173 million worldwide at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo. And, of course, DVD sales have yet to be factored in.
Funny men fared particularly badly on our list of the most overpaid celebrities. Jim Carrey, whose talking butt cheeks used to mean millions at the box office, returned $8 for ever dollar he was paid. Carrey is feeling the sting for years of big-budget flops ( Fun with Dick and Jane, The Number 23). For his next film, Yes Man, he is said to be taking no money upfront. Instead, he’ll get paid on the backend only if the film makes money. It's a huge gamble, which speaks to Carrey's do-or-die earnings limbo.
Other high-profile comedians who posted disappointing bankable returns include Will Ferrell ($8) and Adam Sandler ($9). Even though Talladega Nights earned $163 million, Ferrell‘s $20 million paycheck limited the film’s returns. Adam Sandler faced the same problem. Click earned $236 million, but he was paid the same $20 million for weaker performing movies like The Longest Yard and Anger Management.
When will Hollywood start tightening its belt on bloated star salaries and unworthy production budgets? Judd Apatow, the force behind mega earners Knocked Up and Superbad, has shown that you can make a successful film on a $30 million budget with no-name stars. His next film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of music biopic genre, stars John C. Reilly, a character actor who played second fiddle to Ferrell in Talladega Nights. (Translation: He earns a fraction of Ferrell's paycheck.) Apatow's last three films grossed a combined $549 million, proving that even in Hollywood,
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Phelps comes third, misses two finals
Sporting a beard and an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps finished third in the 100-metre medley at a World Cup short-course meet after missing out on two other finals yesterday.
Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, swam the medley final in 52.14 seconds. South Africa's Gerhard Zandberg won in 51.77.
Earlier yesterday, Phelps failed to qualify for the finals of the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke, in which he was disqualified for swimming too long under water.
The 24-year-old American, who was competing for the first time since the World Championships in August, was swimming in the old-style swimsuit that will become the standard next year. Most other swimmers used faster high-tech suits.
After the race, he told reporters he was excited to be back racing.
"I know I'm not in the best shape and I should be in better shape," Phelps said. "I didn't hit my first wall right, so it's kind of disappointing but I'm happy overall."
He finished 16th in qualifying for the 100 freestyle in 47.77 seconds. Eight swimmers advanced to the final, with Stefan Nystrand of Sweden recording the fastest qualifying time of 45.93.
Phelps did not compete in either of those two events in a full-length pool in Beijing, when he broke Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals won at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
His coach, Bob Bowman, said Monday he wants Phelps to use the old-style suit in the lead-up to the US national championships next year.
Phelps said before the meet that he was not "in the best shape" but wanted to use the competition in Stockholm to test his form and the old-style swimsuit.
Today, Phelps will swim in the 100 butterfly and 200 medley heats.
Shocking news: Supermodel Daul Kim has died
The skeleton reports that 20 epoch terminated Korean design Daul Kim has died. daughter was make active zero clout Paris this morning, her agents at ultimate confirm to NY daily. “She was a spring method besides a important companion to undiminished of us at impending. Please delight her family’s privacy at this circumstance of travail. We consign unbroken spring chicken her hugely much,” they uttered leverage a bill. whereas a top told the framework the 20-year-old committed suicide.
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