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Review of Procreate KnockOut 2   by Tim Skyrme


Procreate Knockout 2
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KnockOut 2 is a masking plug-in for graphics programs such as Corel PaintShop Pro, Painter7, Photoshop, etc, and not a stand alone program. , but it has a lot of power

Masks enable you to cut out backgrounds or foregrounds using alpha channels. Don`t worry about understanding these,  ... continue


Cartoon Animation - An Evolving Art Form    by Jake Gorst


The past 150 years has seen tremendous strides in technological and scientific research and invention. Who would have ever imagined that men would walk on the moon or that open heart surgery could be performed with robotic assistance? Still, with all of these advances man has consistently failed in one field of research: the creation of life from inanimate material.

This desire, coup  ... continue


Low Budget Horror Stories   by Stephen Schochet


Filmmakers have found the horror genre to be a potentially low budget, high profit way of breaking into the business. Standing in a long line at a hardware store, Tobe Hooper imagined taking a chainsaw off the wall and cutting his way to the front, inspiring his creation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). George Romero found a local butcher in Pittsburgh to finance and provide blood and  ... continue


Ten Percent Of Jimmy Stewart   by Stephen Schochet


Jimmy Stewart was seen one night in 1933 in New York performing on stage as a female impersonator by an MGM talent scout. He was signed to a contract to come to California to work for the prestigious studio. Studio Head Louis B. Mayer expressed doubt when he first saw him,`He`s so skinny! A beanpole.` Efforts were made to put weight on him, the 133 pound actor was constantly sharing butterf  ... continue


Kate Hepburn Stories   by Stephen Schochet


Katherine Hepburn came to Los Angeles in 1932 and like Calista Flockart, had a theater person`s snobbish view towards Hollywood. In person, she impressed no one with her looks and style, and executive David O. Selznick worried about her `horse face`. She finished her first film, Bill Of Divorcement with John Barrymore and told him,` Thank God we`re finished. I never want to act with you aga  ... continue


How We Got Movie Stars    by Stephen Schochet


Early movies had no stories, no stars and no sound. A popular movie in the 1890`s was two girls getting undressed by a lake. Right before their last garments came off, a train came by to block your view. In the next scene the two girls were swimming in the lake. The film was a hit throughout the country.

One old farmer went and saw this same movie for weeks and weeks. One day the th  ... continue


A Miraculous Movie   by Stephen Schochet


It was originally called The Big Heart. Daryl Zanuck the shrewd head of Twentieth Century Fox couldn`t buy the image of Santa Claus in a court room. But like so many ventures Miracle On 34th Street (1947) came about because of passion, in this case that of Director George Seaton who had gone to New York on his own and made arrangements with the real Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel to film inside th  ... continue


Bob Hope Stories   by Stephen Schochet




Once when he was a little boy in England, Leslie Hope (He later renamed himself Bob after a race car driver he idolized) wanted to pick an apple off a tree. Symbolic of his career, he didn`t want just any apple but the highest one possible. He lost his balance, fell and permanently changed the shape of his nose.

His big break in Hollywood was getting the part Jack Benny turn  ... continue


Shirley Temple Stories    by Stephen Schochet


When the Twentieth Century Pictures company had their expensive merger with the Fox Film Corporation in 1935, studio head Daryl Zanuck was depending on two contract stars to pull the new company through its money troubles. Tragedy struck the same year when Will Rogers died in a plane crash in Alaska. Zanuck turned his financial burden on the shoulders of six year old Shirley Temple (she was  ... continue


When Stars Collide   by Stephen Schochet


During the silent era it was thought a waste of money to make a movie with more than one star. Personalities like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were considered potent enough box office on their own. But with dwindling attendance during the great depression MGM decided to feature Hollywood`s first all star ensemble cast in Grand Hotel (1932) starring the mammoth egos of Joa  ... continue


Walt Disney`s Horror Movie    by Stephen Schochet


In 1934, when Walt Disney called for a meeting among his artists, a rumor had spread that he was going to shut the studio down and they would all be left unemployed during the great depression. Instead he personally told them in his own spellbinding way the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which he intended to make into his first feature length film. It was a risk unlike any other   ... continue


Who Lives In The Star Wars Galaxy?    by Stephen Schochet


It`s hard to say where old Hollywood ended and new Hollywood began. People in the industry don`t think of themselves as making history, they are just going to work. But the day in 1967 that Jack Warner cleaned out his desk at Warner Bros. studio, George Lucas and Frances Ford Coppola arrived on the lot.

The two young filmmakers were very different in demeanor. Coppola a legend at UC  ... continue


Mrs. Disney   by Stephen Schochet



Warren Beatty once observed,` That if you get married in Hollywood, you should always do it before noon. That way if it doesn`t work out, you don`t kill your evening.` But in 1925 Walt Disney, still getting his feet wet in Tinseltown was not interested in pampered starlets. His eye was on a employee of his named Lillian Bounds, originally from Lewiston, Idaho who worked for him as ink p  ... continue


Tales Of The Broke And Famous   by Stephen Schochet


`Beverly Hills is a place where you spend a lot of money you don`t have to impress a lot of people you don`t like!`- - Anonymous Hollywood Producer

If the rumors are true that Michael Jackson`s lavish life style has left him broke, he would not be the first famous celebrity in financial straights. John Wayne found himself in hock after 150 movies. Three wives, seven children, invest  ... continue


Walt Disney`s Psychedelic Movie   by Stephen Schochet


Chasen`s restaurant in old Hollywood was a legendary hangout were movie stars expected to dine in peaceful private booths on barbecued chili without putting up with celebrity gawkers. There were occasional breaks in the quiet. Jimmy Stewart`s bachelor party was thrown there complete with midgets clad only in diapers jumping out of cakes. Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre got drunk one night a  ... continue


Vision Music USA Takes Their Services To The Next Level   by Keith `MuzikMan` Hannaleck


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



March 1, 2004- Vision Music USA, LLC an independent musician?s resource specializing in Artist Development is now offering many new services to help musicians, including Merchandise, Graphic Design, Website Design and CD Duplication to name a few.


Vision Music USA is a one-stop resource for independent musicians that can assist you w  ... continue


Natalia Nazarova Stars In Movie Postmark Paradise   by Keith `MuzikMan` Hannaleck


Title: Postmark Paradise
Featuring: Natalia Nazarova and Tantoo Cardinal
Format: DVD
Genre: Human Interest
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Film Maker: Entertainment Paradise Group /A Thompson Clay Film/Distributed by
Vanguard Cinema
Websites: http://www.natalianazarova.com/index2.htm / http://www.postmarkparadise.com
http://www.vanguardcinema.com

Actress Natalia   ... continue


Movie Rental Release: `Gothika` Movie Review   by C. Bailey-Lloyd / Lady Camelot


Movie Rental Release: `Gothika` Movie Review
by C Bailey-Lloyd

`Gothika,` starring Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penelope Cruz and Dorian Harewood; is a spellbinding film!

Some critics have entirely missed the context of this storyline, and have given this movie a bad review, I beg to differ. `Gothika,` the newest pr  ... continue


Tucson?s NextWest, Inc. Announces Partnership with DialResults, Inc   by Richard Robert Logan


By Richard Logan June 1 2004

Mesa, Arizona ? DialResults Inc., a leader in the predictive dialer arena, announced today an partnership NextWest, Inc., the fastest growing distributor of Integrated Telephony Systems. The partnership represents a $9 million deal over the next two years.

DialResults, Inc. will partner with NextWest to market PCXi, a fully-integrated, VoIP/Interne  ... continue


Flotsam and Jetsom   by Ieuan Dolby


A news item that I read his weekend informed me that ?Doctors have proved that exercise helps to improve blood flow?. Last week a colorful news item told me that ?vegetables and fruit are good for the health?. All very true but I must question where these Doctors and News Reporters have been for the last Century or so? Or is it that there is absolutely nothing else in the big wide world to  ... continue




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