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Two and a Half Men Seasons 1-6 Dvd Box Set

  • Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Two and a Half Men first premiered in 2003 and since then it has managed to remain one of the most favorite comedy sitcoms on the television. The show features Jon Cryer, Charlie Sheen and Angus Jones. The Harper brothers are exactly opposite to each other but they somehow carry on to still make a great team.


The only thing that both of them had in base over years of growing up had been their mother Evelyn who was cold and dominating. Allan is a compulsive freak who can't see a hAir out of place without freaking out. He is thrown out of the house by his wife Judith who manages to make him pay for all her expenses and work like a slave in the house. On the other hand Charlie is a composer working as a freelancer who has an irresistible Casanova charm about him and lives in a luxurious house by the beach.

Charlie Sheen

Like most Casanovas he is self obsessed and is up to his neck with beautiful girls. Allan moves in temporarily with his brother with his son Jake. Jake himself is quite an piquant character. He is lazy and fat, sprawled out in front of the Tv most of the time and is too clever for his own age. He keeps shuttling between his mother and father through the series.

Two and a Half Men Seasons 1-6 Dvd Box Set

Two and a Half Men seasons 1-6 starts off with their background and the distinct lifestyles of the brothers. When Charlie moves in with his brother they have numerable clashes, as is to be expected. They both often have discussions and arguMents over how to raise Jake. Jake himself has a ball while he can have fun with his super-cool uncle who teaches him everything that he shouldn't know while having a caring and super-efficient father.

The cleaning lady of Charlie, Bertha is another regular character on the series who is fat, offensive and often rude. Rose is the next door neighbor who is obsessed and infatuated often comes to the house too. Their mother too often fearfully makes appearance at the house which only makes things chaotic and hilarious.

Since it had first been launched in 2003, Two and a Half Men has managed to make millions of viewers laugh with its clever lines and its solid cast. Charlie who is the eternal playboy bachelor even at forty brings girls to the house who are often bimbos and quite dumb which manages to irritate his control-freak brother. Alan with his uptight ways and his control-freak nature often is the butt of jokes for Charlie and is secretly even jealous of the lifestyle that his brother has. Charlie is a unblemished opposite and does not believe in commitment and flaunts his hedonism in their face which many times creates awkward moments for his brother. The ex-wife is a neurotic character who makes appearances often on the series. All in all, Two and a Half Men seasons 1-6 has several hilarious episodes that carry on to make viewers double up in laughter.

Two and a Half Men Seasons 1-6 Dvd Box Set

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But Officer I Took Off Once I Hit the Speed Limit - Flying bike ticket

The entrepreneur loved his crotch rocket practically as much is life itself. He often said it was best than sex, and he enjoyed racing his motorcycle through the canyons even more than running the multi-million Dollar enterprise he created. One day when racing through the canyons in the hills above Malibu California, he noted it was getting a little hot in the canyons, so he rode back down the windy Latigo Canyon Road, and picked up Pch (Pacific Coast Highway).

From there, he headed west, and was faithful to drive the speed limit because his driver's license had been revoked and there were cops everywhere on Pch. He'd often had his license suspended, or revoked, off and on for the last two decades. He undoubtedly had the need for speed. One of his favorite rides was turning onto Mulholland Highway at Leo Carillo Beach, waiting for the second hand on his Watch to hit 12, and then gunning the motor and dumping the clutch and racing up to Decker Canyon to see if he could break his all-time record. He was inevitable he had run that Canyon Faster than anyone ever alive.

Charlie Sheen

It was a blast, and an adrenaline rush, that is until one day a baby deer was right in his path, he attempted to swerve around it, started to lose control, recovered, and went into a turn with his knee on the paveMent, and his peg scraping. His institution Yoshimura pipe scraped on the ground, and must have caught a rock or something, as the bike started to high-side. Again he was able to recover, and his adrenaline was pumping like he'd never felt before. There was hardly any time left, and he tried to slow up is Fast as he could before he ran out of road.

But Officer I Took Off Once I Hit the Speed Limit - Flying bike ticket

It would be whether the cliff on his right side, or the rocky and jagged mountain on the left, he chose the ladder, and it cost him about 00 in repAirs. He bailed just before he hit the wall of rocks, and was for real more implicated with his motorcycle than his sprained ankle, sore Wrist rest, minor road rash, and bruised ego. The Kawasaki dealer wouldn't have his Gsr 750 out of repAirs for over a month, and parts were back-ordered all the way to Tokyo.

Oh well, he had the money, so he went down to the Honda store and bought a new Honda Cbr 600 Rr, he hadn't had a Honda Hurricane for 10-years now, and he all the time loved that bike. He bought the newest model with all the bells and whistles, totally raced out. He rode the motorcycle to Las Vegas to break it in, and allow the rings to seat, and the next weekend he went down to Willow Springs Racetrack, took off all plastic, and wired up all the bolts as was required and put it through its paces. Advent out of turn seven, he must have caught a piece of the Tire which had not been worn in properly.

He slid his bike into the hay bales at a 135 miles per hour as he pushed his bike away, and hit the hay bale right next door, just shaking his head as he got up and looked at his brand-new motorcycle in a state of disrepair, wondering how he was going to get back home. Luckily, he saw one of his friends from The Rock Store, a biker's hang out in the hills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and his friend helped him load up his mangled bike, and gave him a ride home.

Once he got home and unloaded his motorcycle, he started daydreaming about discrete modifications he could make. He'd all the time wanted to build his own airplane, an ultra-light, or an ExperiMental Aviation relationship kit plan. He wondered if he could strap on a set of wings to this motorcycle, rebuild it himself, and make it into an airplane. "I could use fiberglass, and an expandable wing, I can use a rubber gear off the back Tire to rotate a propeller," he thought.

The next day, he went down to his business, where he had shop, and he brought back some tools to his garage at home. He built a small nose cone for the motorcycle, and a foldable wing system. As he did this, he also got his old motorcycle back, brand-new, and as good as newer better, while he was putting the final touches on his Flying Motorcycle. He had realized that he needed a longer road way, than his windy driveway to take off, one that perhaps didn't have any major corners and it, for his first test flight. There was a stretch of road not far from his home near Malibu Canyon Road which would suffice.

He made several runs, before he got up the nerve to for real fly the thing away. Everything felt good, the wings were getting lift, it for real felt like it wanted to fly, so, he decided he would use a stretch of road which was slightly sloped downward, and take off from there, and then fly out through the canyon towards the beach area. He figured he could land before he ran out of fuel, near Point Mugu Rock and State Beach where the roadway was very wide on Pch. Then he would merely pull off to the side of the road, fold the wings back up and drive home. At least that was the plan, but as you go plans all the time change.

Just before he was ready to take off there was a police car up ahead in the distance Advent towards him up the hill. He'd already committed to flying away, and he was probably going to Fast to make the projection without scraping the wings which he had just unfolded. He didn't want to wreck his contraption, or get a ticket from the police officer for driving a motorcycle with wings on it. He figured that the California car Code was nearly as thick as a phonebook, and there was probably a law in there somewhere against it.

As soon as he reached flying speed, he leaned back, downshifted, and pulled a wheelie, the motorcycle leapt into the air, unbelievable him, and he gave it full power taking it to 11,000 Rpm, and then he shifted again and gave it more power again, and then twice more. By then he had taken off, and crossed the road in front of him, right over and in front of the oncoming police car. "Oh crap! I know that police officer, and he's going to recognize my helmet." It was too late now and he enjoyed his flight immensely, and just as he had planned he landed on Pch near Point Mugu Rock.

As he was unfolding the wings, a Chp drove by, pulled in behind him, and within minutes had put him in handcuffs. Apparently, the first police officer had turned on his lights after he flew over the car, and called him in for evading a police officer and flying away. He bailed out that evening, and came back two weeks later to go to court. Apparently, the judge was quite a hard nose, and he was permanently after young motorcycle riders for crossing over the double yellow lines in the canyon, calling those actions a; "Malibu Felony" because there have been so many head-on crashes in the canyons in the hills above Malibu.

He tried to tell the judge that, he was already airborne before he crossed the yellow line, and he'd already left the pavement prior to reaching the speed limit, and that the police man didn't turn on his lights that he ever saw. Further he asked if the police officer worked for the Faa too, which obviously he did not, so therefore, he hadn't committed the violations on the ticket. The officer said he had him on radar, and he said; "yes, but I wasn't driving at that point, I was flying." The judge realized that the young entrepreneur was going to bring in the media and make an additional one spectacle out of his courtroom as Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Nick Nolte, and Robert Downey Jr. Had in the last few years.

The judge was Tired of the paparazzi, and media events. He finally said to the crotch-rocket, aerospace designer; "Not Guilty, and now get the hell out of my courtroom, and if you want to fly that thing, get a pilot's license and take it to Camarillo or Santa Monica Airport, or hell, build your own runway up on the hill, but don't pull that stunt again, or I through you in jail, do you hear me son?"

"Yes Sir," he said. The police officer came up to him later, and said, "no hard feelings, hey, I was just doing my Job, do you think you could hire my kid for the summer in your company?"

"Sure," he said, "as long as you, don't write me for exhibition of speed or doing a wheelie, I am afraid that fee might have stuck, and I know this judge has it out for me now."

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Top 5 Myths About The Music company

  • Thursday, September 8, 2011
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If you are involved in the entertainMent company then you've probably heard a few tall tales. The following is a list of some of the top myths about the music business.


1. Population in the music company will help you out of the kindness of their hearts.

Charlie Sheen

Facts:

Top 5 Myths About The Music company

The music company is called the music company for a reason. It is a company that just so happens to sell music. Businesses are in company to make money. They are not in company to make Art, any way they will sell it. You may find a handful of good Samaritans willing to help for free but commonly speaking if helping does not advanTAGe the other Party, they won't help.

"People (not counting loved ones) will help you if they think your art will make them money. They will not help you if they think your art will not make them money." -David Naggar, Esq. From  The Music company Explained In Plain English-

2. Since the economic decline Population aren't buying music anymore

Facts:

People are buying music, but they aren't buying it in the same way they used to. Sales of Cds may be down but the sale of single tracks is up! If you are still an unbeliever just check iTunes sales records. Reportedly, Apple has sold 10 billion and counting!

3. Music superstars have and are developMent tons of money.

This is one of the biggest myths in the entertainment business. When you see a Sean Kingston or Lady Gaga on television you may think that they are living the good life, but surely the whole of money he/she brings home is surely dependent on the terms of their contractual obligations as well as their money management skills. Plainly put, if you spend more than you make you are bound to go broke sooner or later.

Need examples:

Mc Hammer

Marvin Gaye

Michael Jackson

Willie Nelson

Toni Braxton

Billy Joel

George Clinton

Isaac Hayes

Jerry Lee Lewis

Ron Isley

Need anymore? The list goes on.

The fact of the matter is that all of these artists have seen the highs and lows of the music business. Micheal Jackson, the "King of Pop", even had his money woes. No "superstar" is exempt. Good money management skills are needed in order to pronounce a "superstar" lifestyle.

4. You can become an overnight celebrity in the music business.

This is one of the most base myths about the music business. Population believe that you can sign a narrative deal and then all of sudden you are magically on magazine covers and receiving Grammy awards. All of this talk is nonsense. At the end of the day it takes a decent whole of leg work, dedication, passion, perseverance, and strong networking relationships to accomplish "success" in the music business. No One Has become thriving Overnight however, some Population have achieved their goals Faster than others. Artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West, and Eminem spent years construction their prestige and brands to become the Population they are today. This is why working smarter and not harder is critical in the music business.

5. Talent Trumps Work Ethic

In today's music business, talent still counts but work ethic counts for more. An extraordinarily talented man with mean work ethic will commonly not do as well as man with breathtaking work ethic and mean talent.

A strong work ethic, more often than not, means that you can be consistent which is of the utmost point in the music business.

Why?

One word. Marketing. Being able to consistently deliver high potential to the buyer is paramount.  This is where work ethic trumps talent. A man that is able to consistently deliver a satisfactory stock to the buyer is, in the words of Charlie Sheen, Winning! Because of our increasingly shortened attention spans, having man or something consistently in our faces helps in branding the product, service, or person. Ultimately, this results in Population getting paid!

Top 5 Myths About The Music company

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Church Contributions Q and A

Question: Say...a repAirman voluntarily came and fixed your church's Air conditioner. He ordinarily charges per hour for his labor and he spent for parts.

How would I article this? If I give him a receipt for the .00, then it is entered as a wage to my books, which means I have then to enter an cost too, to offset it. However, neither one of those transactions will match with the bank stateMents, because in reality I never received or gave out any cash. It was all the repAirman.

Charlie Sheen

Your help or advice in this matter would be very appreciated. I having a lot of problems with this and it is quite a few times a month where I have to do that.

Church Contributions Q and A

Answer: In write back to your question, receipt is the keyword here. You could give the repairman a non-cash church acknowledgMent or receipt for the donated parts only. You could not consist of the value of his assistance on the receipt as it is a nondeductible contribution.

It is not an cost for the church and should not be cycled through the church accounting records and would not be recorded as wage until the donated item is sold or in this case the air conditioner.

You could article it in your offering records. I would add a special notation that is was for a donated air conditioning parts.

Question: I need a bathroom put in the basement of my church. A friend owns a large plumbing company. He gives me an estimation of ,600 for the normal retail cost for this. Then his business does it for me for free, buying all the fixtures & required Supplies (pipes etc). He also pays his workers to do the work, and of policy has the overhead of his truck, warehouses, and staff. His cost on this is 0 fixtures, 0 labor, 0 overhead. He would have made 0 on the Job. How much can he write off?

Cpa's Answer: The contractor will be writing off his expenses as he pays them - labor, materials, and overhead. So to "write them off as a contribution" will be a double-dipping that isn't allowed. Now, he can reclassify them if he wants - reducing the labor cost and materials expense, and charging it to "Contributions" but this accomplishes nothing for him. To write off the profit he would've made is also a double-dip. He didn't count the wage (he didn't make it), so he shouldn't write off an expense.

Question: Is there a law stating the date all offering statements must be in case,granted to contributors?

Answer: according to the Irs, your receipt must consist of the Church's or Nonprofit's name, the date of the donation, and the amount. The Irs does not mandate when those acknowledgments or receipts must be given to the contributor.

Receipts or acknowledgments can be issued gift-by-gift, monthly, quarterly, annually, or any other frequency. This is up to your organization. If you have a policy and policy manual, the frequency should be recorded there.

Even though there is not a law stating when all offering statements must be in case,granted to contributors, if you are issuing receipts on an every year basis, you should try and get them to your contributors by at least January 31st each year and earlier in January if possible. This will aid your contributors in conferrence valuable data for their tax preparations.

These are some of the questions church treasurers, pastors, and secretaries generally ask on my site. Some of the answers are mine and some of them are from a marvelous Cpa in Alabama who specializes in nonprofit and church accounting.

In summary, retention literal, records of contributions is imperative for your assosication as they are the life blood of your organization.

Church Contributions Q and A

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Translator Interview Questions

A translator is a person who understands the meaning of text and the effect resultant of an equivalent text that converses the same message in some other language. This whole process is known as translation. It is not an easy Job by any means. It requires highly expert skills. To be a flourishing translator you nothing else but need to work hard on your communication skills. However, that you still may get rejected if you don't perform well in the interview.


A Job interview holds very much importance in your career. Now, given below are a few questions that you might be asked in a translator job interview:

Charlie Sheen

1. Why are your skills and credentials in regard to this job?
I possess exceptional communication skills that are very leading in this type of job. I am a hard working worker who loves to work within a team. I work very well under work pressure and stress. I nothing else but feel that I could prove to be very useful for your firm in the long run.

Translator Interview Questions

2. Tell us something about your schoraly background?
I have an thorough schoraly background that provides me an edge over other candidates. Here you need to talk about any special degree that you possess in regard to this post. You could say that you have done Masters of Arts in East Asian degree.

3. What is your expert background?
I have strong expert background. I have worked as a translator with a reputed firm of the country for about 2 years. I am experienced enough to work with a competent firm like yours.

4. Would you like to ask me any question?
Yes, you should ask as many questions as you can. It would nothing else but make you stand apart from other candidates. You could ask whatever with regard to the company. But make sure that you do not ask whatever connected to the financial matters of the company.

These are some of the best job interview questions that you might be asked during translator interview. Make sure you read this description once. This description could nothing else but help you crack the interview sTAGe.

Translator Interview Questions

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Tmz - Virtues Versus Vice

  • Friday, August 26, 2011
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For the last three years, "Tmz" tmz.com has been reviled by many as the nadir of Internet celebrity gossip culture. The salacious, wildly beloved gossip site and its Tv spinoff -- (Tmz on Tv), which began Airing nightly in national syndication on Fox one year ago this month -- has been called evil and worse, and not just by the celebrities it skewers. But, in fact, could it be that "Tmz" serves a moral purpose by embodying the Seven Virtues (and then some) in its staunch crusade against the Seven Deadly Sins?

As an object part in what not to do and how not to behave, the show is good than a Psa marathon. Its vignettes stand as puny cautionary tales. Drink too much, and you can end up like Andy Dick. Eat too much, and you can turn into Kirstie Alley. Boast too of ten, and you might be a ringer for Fr'ed'eric Prinz von Anhalt (or, as "Tmz" calls him, "Prince von Ahole"), Zsa Zsa Gabor's ninth husband who claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, until a paternity test proved him wrong. Be too vain, and wind up like Priscilla Presley, face pumped full of motor oil in her prideful quest for the fountain of youth.

Charlie Sheen

Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility have a hard time of it in Hollywood. But "Tmz" has come to the rescue.

Tmz - Virtues Versus Vice

With its Highlights for Children "Fun With a Purpose" view of the universe that is the 30-mile zone of Hollywood -- ie. The world -- "Tmz" helpfully presents Goofus versus Gallant examples galore throughout its daily half-hour Tv show, and hour long recaps on weekends. Would you rather be like Cheryl Burke, the "Dancing With the Stars" Goofus who never met a man, a drink or a photo op she didn't like? Or George Clooney, Gallant to a fault:

polite, modest, talented, self-effacing and ever using his powers for good, not=2 0evil? Your choice.

"Tmz," I confess, is my guilty pleasure. I article it on my Dvr nightly, without fail, and Watch it when no one's around. I have, when caught, been mercilessly teased. But it turns out this satisfaction is not mine alone. I'm in the firm of millions. It seems like only yesterday that a brand-new magazine called people was20chastised for being fluffy. But these days, gossip is big business. "Tmz" -- which brings in an median of 3 million viewers per viewing this year, the Nielsen firm says, the same as "Access Hollywood" and more than fellow gossip shows "What Perez Sez," "The Soup," "E! News" and "Daily Ten" put together -- is like some twisted love child of The National Enquirer, Spy magazine, Jon Stewart and Joan Rivers. Produced and hosted by Harvey Levin, managing editor of the Web site, it is quick, clever and more than a tad bitchy, but it's all for the greater good. "The show is edgy, and it has attitude," Levin says. Who knew celebrity gossip also had a redeeming side?

At 6:40-ish a.m., Levin, the show's resident grown-up, commands the troops, jotting the celebstories du jour on a glass blackboard, each offered up by his "newsroom" staff of puppyish reporters. There's the cute blond guy separated at birth from Fabio, whom he smirkingly refers to as "my dad." There's the world-weary I-Know-But-It's-Just-My-Job guy with dreadlocks. There's the blond excitable girl whose eyes pop wide to bursting with each celebrity sighting: Lindsay, Samantha glued to her side! Shia LaBoeuf, at the hospital, post-drunken driving! Katherine Heigl, smoking a cigarette after developMent a New Year's resolution to quit!

Levin, a lawyer ("I'm a lawyer!" the toll screech at the end of each show) who covered the O.J. Simpson trial for Kcbs-Tv in Los Angeles, broke the Mel Gibson anti-Semitic rant story on Tmz.com (owned by Aol and Telepictures Productions, subsidiaries of Time Warner), and stalwartly continues representing the public's right to full disclosure of celebrity doings, particularly misdoings.

"We honestly treat the carrying out as a news mission to be accurate, to break stories and honestly entertain people," Levin says. "It's not mean."

"Tmz" is the Big Daddy of Web-to-Tv crossovers, followed by "What Perez Says," the blog from Mario Lavandeira, good known as Perez Hilton, http://www.perezhilton.com, come to life in occasional episodes on Vh1. Conversely, "Access Hollywood," the television show produced and distributed by Nbc Universal, a unit of general Electric, last winter began its redesigned companion Web site, AccessHollywood.com, a more conventional, nonconfrontational, neutral site than Tmz.com or PerezHilton.com and their Tv counterparts. Ah, synergy! "EntertainMent Tonight" on Cbs, struck up its site, Etonline.com, in September.

All these sites, including The New York Post's Page Six, nypost.com/gossip/gossip, and People.com, post updates, breaking and otherwise, through the day and night. You could gorge yourself Silly on celeb gossip Web sites, among them Oh No They Didn't, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com; Drunken Stepfather, drunkenstepfather.com; Celeb Slam, celebslam.com; Dlisted, dlisted.com; Celebrity Babylon, celebritybabylon.com; Just Jared, justjared.buzznet.com; and The Defamer, defamer.com. Levin says he starts his day when he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. By updating the Web site. He and everybody else is ready to go for the show by 6 a.m.

"The biggest challenge was to find the right voice for the show," Levin says. "The Web site was so successful people were Watching to see what would happen when we brought that to Tv. They conception it would be just another slick celebrity show. But it's not. It's authentic, it's not scripted and there's context and humor.Tmz is a brand, with a Web eleMent and a Tv eleMent."

"'Tmz' is at the forefront of what will be a tasteless movement of Web sites to Tv," says Robert Thompson, professor of Tv and beloved Culture at Syracuse University. "More are going to foll ow. We have not reached the saturation point for celebrity gossip. Holly wood gossip is the one thing we all have in common, and there's a real desire for a shared experience. You care about Brad Pitt breaking up with Jennifer Aniston, even if you don't care."

It wa s inevitable, Thompson says, that Tmz.com crossed over to Tv. Its trust on videos, graphics and commentary made it a natural to jump to Tv. "It is an identified brand, and the site had a good track article of breaking stories --Mel Gibson, Michael Richards's racist rant," he says. What sets "Tmz" apart from other gossip shows, is its reluctance -- no, its refusal -- to fawn or even to stay neutral. "I hate the word 'edgy,' but it's edgy," Thompson says. "It also seems so much more modern than 'Entertainment Tonight,' for example, because it comes from new media, rather than the other way around." The Web site to Tv crossover is similar to what happened with many radio shows in the early days of Tv, the new media at that time, Thompson points out. Tv shows like "Ozzie and Harriet," "Burns and Allen" and "Gunsmoke" started out on the radio. "'Candid Camera' did too," Thompson said, "but on the radio it was called 'Candid Microphone.'" "Tmz" specializes in the Hollywood stuff of life: the arrests, the mug shots, the hot spots of the moment and arrivals and departures at Lax, the celebrities looking fat,=2 0slurring their words and saying stupid thi ngs. Colleen Shannon, Playboy Playmate (anyone can be famous!), telling the world via paparazzi that she supports "Umbama," and then the gaffe growing even worse with her publicist's correction: "You mean Osama. Osama bin Laden." Later, the Playmate calls the other guy "MoCaine." "Colleen Shannon needs to use that Playboy money to buy a clue," the snarky voice-over narrator informs us. Not exactly objective journalism, "Tmz" is a much closer cousin to David Spade's 90's "Saturday Night Live" sketch "Hollywood Minute," with a smirky remark for each celebrity.

"Huge proclamation in Hollywood last night," the gel-shellacked black-hAired "Tmz" reporter tells Levin (ie. The camera). "Eddie Murphy has promised that the tragedy that is his movie work will eventually stop." Clips of Murphy onsTAGe in the 1980's with his (funny) stand-up act are shown, along with scenes of his (unfunny) cinematic ventures, with the narrator mockingly intoning, "One day, something happened -- he stopped being funny." Quick cut to a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. "This guy's made more bombs than Acme," the narrator continues, and then we see the unavoidable cartoon explosion. Beep-beep.

Fabio's son jumps in: "Stop the presses! Star Jones honestly looked good!" Shot of Jones alighting gracefully from a car. "I was like, what is wrong with me?"

There are lessons aplenty here. "It's one big morality tale," Thompson says . "It shows that when people do excessive thin gs they pay dearly. Britney Spears's work collapsed. And look what happened to Michael Jackson. 'Tmz' is very Old Testament."

"I'm not saying we should study 'Tmz' as Sunday School examples," he adds, "but it provides many lessons."

That it does, agrees Jeffrey H. Mahan, dean of faculty and professor of Ministry, Media and Culture at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver as well as editor of "Religion and beloved Culture in America" (University of California Press, 2005). "'Tmz' is structured on deeply held moral assumptions," he says. "Its moral function is that it confirms our existing social values by development fun of celebrities who exceed the norms we function by. So I get to say to myself that the very limitations of my life and the fact that I'm unwilling to do what these celebrities do -- drive around with a baby on my lap or cavort all night -- make me good than they are."

In essence, "Tmz" is two treats in one. "We get to indulge our interest in forbidden activities and we also get to say: 'That's not me. I'm good than that,'" Dean Mahan points out.

Pish-posh, Levin says. "I'm not here to preach," he says. "We're not on a mission to teach whatever anything."

"We're exterior celebrities who are entertaining," Levin says. "The show has humor. We're not treating Hollywood like 'War and Peace.'"

"They're people," Levin says of the celebrities featured on "Tmz." "Sometimes they're good, and sometimes they're not. It's a real look at Hollywood. Reality can be sweet, it can be harsh, it can be everything."

While celebrities may be richer, hotter and have more and good weddings than the rest of us, we can all the time aim to be like George Clooney, Mr. Nice Guy, in deed if not in fact. Praise to the heavens for "Tmz" showing us the way!

Here's "Tmz" vs. The Seven Deadly Sins:

Lust:

Lust is bad, and specifically bad are the lustful who hurt the righteous.

Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, bad. Stray-Rod's wife, good. Balthazar Getty ("Brothers and Sisters") and Sienna Miller ("World's No. 1 Homewrecker Kid, knocking out Denise Richards, J.Lo and Angelina Jolie"), bad. Mrs. Getty has been wronged by them, and so, by extension, she is good. As is the ultra-famously jilted Jennifer Aniston, whom"Tmz" all the time treats more cordial than either Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, cheating cheaters that they are. The videos and photos of Aniston all the time show her looking brave, and hot. Denise Richards is bad, beca use she "dated" h er best friend Heather Locklear's ex-husband, Richie Sambora, and so "Tmz" catches Richards in an unflattering light, looking --Gasp -- fat. Heather Locklear, on the other hand, all the time looks hot.

Gluttony:

Speaking of Denise Richards,those celebs gluttonous sufficient to eat actual Food and end up with cellulite to show for it are in for a bad time on "Tmz." Fired Jenny Craig spokeswoman Kirstie Alley, spoiled oil heir Jason Davis (known on "Tmz" as Gummi Bear), Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini, Mischa Barton, who dared to flaunt her cellulite-pocked thighs. The possibilities for mockery are apparently endless.

As bad as gluttony may be, it's polar opposite -- too skinny, especially when pregnant, like Nicole Richie -- is no less a sin. Amy Winehouse is drink and drug gluttonous. Andy Dick is too, and so many others. "Tmz" helpfully spotlights their many stumbles and bumbles. Don't try this at home, kids.

Greed:

When it comes to Hollywood, we could discuss this category forever. But punished the hardest by "Tmz" for their greediness are the sTAGe mothers, the Mama Roses on steroids, who presumably should know good and so be better. Mothers Teresa they are not. Lynne Spears, whose book on parenting was shelved after Britney's annus horribilis and Jamie Lynn's gravidity so she came up with a more fitting tome, "Through the Storm," newly published, was the queen of the genre, but her throne has since been toppled by Dina Lohan, who, "Tmz" has noted, again, helpfully, "has already ruined one daughter" -- Lindsay -- "and is working on ruining the other" -- Ali. The aforementioned Denise Richards is development a name for herself in this category, too, "Tmz" points out, by parading her two young daughters around on her reality show. The show was canceled, her battles with her ex, Charlie Sheen, still rage, and she was forced to put her .6 million 5,600-square-foot underground Hills house up for sale for 0,000 less than she paid. Kris Jenner, mother of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashi an and a integrate of offspring spawned with the cosmetically enhanced Bruce Jenner, is shown in her full pandering, pimping glory. Miley's dad, Billy Ray, is just an achy-breaky heartbeat away from joining this category.

Sloth:

K-Fed/Fed-Ex, Britney's unemployed baby daddy is the king of this hill.

Wrath:

That Firecrotch Lindsay Lohan has such a mouth on her! "Tmz" and the ranks of paparazzi have been obligated to show the whole world just how mean this girl can be. How mean is that? "Mind your own f****** business," as she routinely tells inquiring minds.

Envy:

Shauna Sand, D-list goddess and ex-wife of Lorenzo Lamas, is the "Tmz" avatar of celebrity envy, circling endlessly exterior hot Hollywood clubs as if she were trapped in Dante's Inferno but had no desire to leave.

Pride:

Heidi MonTAG and Spencer Pratt -- Speidi -- the villainous duo on Mtv's "Hills," is less preponderant than fameish, but all the time trying hard, forever on the surveillance for paparazzi to "catch"them keeping hands, kissing and canoodling. all the time camera-ready. all the time this close. And we all know what goeth before a fall. Always.

"Tmz"'s new industrial TAGline tells us the show's been "Keeping Hollywood Real since 2007." Or, as God said, let there be light.

Andrea Higbie
andreahig@aol.com

Tmz - Virtues Versus Vice

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The "How Much Does It Cost?" occasion

There are many points in the sales call where the balance of power is potentially in jeopardy. Once we as the salesperson lose control, all heck breaks loose and the rest of it spirals out of operate like a weekend with Charlie Sheen.


One of these such moMents is the "Ok, let's cut to the chase; how much does it cost?" moMent; it can stop even the most seasoned sales expert in his/her tracks and it attempts to derail your moMentum train. However, like any obstacle - the "initial shutdown", the objections or the definite short attention span of your possible clients - you must anticipate, diffuse and bat away this stateMent to move send in your sales process.

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Let's call it what it is: the "how much does it cost?" moment is an effort by your client to bottom-line it; the lure you have cast has yet to catch onto something and spark interest in the customer. At least, that is partially true.

The "How Much Does It Cost?" occasion

If the customer has stayed with you to this point, and they are request this question, it means the idea has not repulsed them and they are on the verge between hanging in there and dropping out. It's like the Clash song, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

You've heard it before and I shall say it again: all things is selling. Every facet of the sales call or visit is selling through process points until you reach the climax. In this event, you are called upon to sell your customer on why they should divert their attention from the price, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

You have an agenda. Your customer has an agenda. To keep on yours, you must often pacify them into thinking they are still on theirs; by that, I mean you will write back their statement, put it in its permissible place with a small salesmanship and you will continue on your process without typically drawing so much as a breath.

"Mr./Mrs. Customer, in fact - I understand price is a concern and I appreciate your enthusiasm. Fact of the matter is, I don't make the same schedule for the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. If I'm making a building, I need to know if I'm making a treehouse or the Sears Tower. I need to know a few more specifics so I can tailor-make a recommendation, personalized just for you and your situation. If I create something that works for someone else but not for you, our connection suffers and so does your business. Where specifically do you need to store yourself geographically?"

Of course, not every statement in there will apply to your situation, but that's just it; you have to utilize best practices, make them your own and get used to saying them through repetition. The point I am trying to make here is you are selling your possible client on why they should let go of the price point at this exact moment. At the same time, you are weaving immediately into request other question, which forces your momentum train back onto the track.

Dealing with sales call obstacles, overcoming objections and making it to the close are all actions that require lots of practice, lots of poise and lots of precision. The "how much does it cost?" moment means your customer is interested, but you cannot abort the process of construction your masterpiece.

There lies the second key point of this discussion: just because the client has shown some interest in listening to you does not mean you can stop what you're doing and head to a half-baked conclusion. You are involved in an intricate process; if you do not glean the answers to all the vital questions, your suggestion will be shoddy and your chances of convincing the customer to turn their current project to go with yours diminish greatly.

That is why the "how much does it cost?" moment is just other bump in the path; it is a good bump to a degree because it indicates you have done something to spark some interest. However, do not abort your process; stay the course, stay on target and conclude your schedule so you can advent the apex of sales moments: the almighty close.

The "How Much Does It Cost?" occasion

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