Racy Glee spread 'borders on paedophilia "

Updated October 21, 2010 10: 26: 00 A racy photo shoot for a men's magazine featuring three Glee cast members has been labelled "creepy" and questions are being raised about whether the popular TV musical show is becoming overexposed.

Short skirts, high heels, pretty panties and provocative poses featuring lollipops dominate the GQ photoshoot featuring Lea Michele (Rachel), Dianna Agron (Quinn) and Corey Monteith (Finn).All three stars are in their 20s.

The shoot plays with the high school setting of the Emmy-winning television show.

But the Parents Television Council says the photos "border on paedophilia," given the adult male readership or GQ.

"This is just the latest example of the all about the Sexualization of young girls in entertainment," the PTC said.

Glee-a sometimes dark, subversive comedy featuring a high school choir-has taken US pop culture by storm since its 2009 debut.

The program has produced three bestselling albums, won two Emmys and deals boldly with issues like sex, disability and gay bullying.

It is regularly watched by some 13.4 million US viewers and has a strong following overseas.

Superstars like Madonna, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga have readily agreed to license their songs to the show.

Broadcaster Fox has declined to comment on the PTC statement.

But GQ editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson says that the watchdog group "should learn to divide reality from fantasy".

"As often happens in Hollywood, these kids are in their 20s.Cory Monteith's almost 30.I think they're old enough to do what they want, "Nelson said.

Bob Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, also brushed off the PTC comments.

He says that Glee has never been a "kiddie show" despite attracting a youth audience.

"From the very beginning, Glee has dealt with pot, teen pregnancy and gay sexuality.This is a show that has definitely got adult themes, "he said.

"The GQ shoot demonstrates it isn't just a show for teeny boppers."

Los Angeles Times TV writer Mary McNamara, noting that Monteith remains fully clothed in the shoot, expressed dismay only that young women still feel the need to pose so provocatively danced.

Michele, she wrote, "seems to be auditioning for a live action version of Japanese anime porn."

The Washington Post's Celebritology blog reports the GQ shoot is "the latest evidence that the Glee hype machine might be starting to spiral out of control."

Insane trailer for Toonpur Ka Superrhero

Toonpur Ka Superrhero is India's first cinema film that combines live action and computer animation. The result is a kind of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Alvin and the Chipmunks … but on lsd.

If you look at the trailer below, but you can come to a conclusion: Director Kireet Khurana has a great sense of humor. Or that the intention was, is another question.However, the animation, which with a limited budget was created, not even that bad.

In Toonpur Ka Superrhero plays actor Ajay Devgan a busy film star who doesn't have much time to spend with his kids. But he can make up for when he ends up in Toonpur, a cartoon world.The good cartoon characters (Devtoons) are being harassed by the bad guys (Toonasurs) and there is a real war in the country.In this bizarre world gets the actor not only the chance to be a real father, but also for a time to be a true superhero.

The comic movie looks incredibly maf and promises to be a hilarious Bollywoodproductie – for those who can taste, at least.

Trailer for Toonpur Ka Superrhero

More Stars for Japan's Culinary Crown

TOKYO — According to the latest guide from restaurant referee Michelin, the new global champion in three-star dining is …Kansai.

The Michelin guidebook to be released Friday for Kansai, the Japanese region that encompasses Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, awards its coveted three-star rating to 12 restaurants — a culinary antidote to Japan's economic fortunes and largely sagging sclerotic policy making.

Kyoto and Osaka had seven three-star restaurants in the 2010 guide.The latest guide added Kobe restaurants, and an additional five top ratings.

That edges the region fits reigning champion Tokyo (11 three-star restaurants) and places it well above Western dining capitals Paris (10 top-rated restaurants), New York (five) and London (two).

When the French tire maker debuted its Tokyo guide in 2008, it stars on Tokyo bestowed more than any other city in the world, spurring controversy.

For all of Japan's economic woes and its diminished presence on the global stage, the country's food culture has never been more widespread. There is a sushi counter inside the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Plano, Texas. And from Manhattan to Moscow to Bangkok, the repertoire of Japanese cuisine has outgrown sushi: Yakitori (grilled chicken on a skewer), Windows (noodles in broth), and soba (buckwheat noodles) restaurants are legion.

Though more than a decade of deflation has certainly lowered the cost of eating out in Japan — a simple gyudon, or beef bowl, costs just 280 yen (about $ 3.50) today — it hasn't curbed the country's collective appetite.

The Japanese are among the world's most devoted foodies.

Television shows featuring food seem to loop endlessly on Japan's major networks, with telegenic young women holding up quivering sea urchin or a glistening red slab of fresh tuna between their chopsticks before devouring it.Then they open their eyes wide and utter the most overused adjective in the Japanese vocabulary: "Oishii!"("Delicious!")

"Gastronomy is vibrant here," said Jean-Luc Naret, director of the Michelin guides, in an interview.

"There are 160,000 restaurants in Tokyo and 15,000 in Paris," he added when asked if Michelin had been too generous with its ratings in Japan.

When the Japan guide debuted, critics accused Michelin's mostly Western inspectors or being too generous out of a lack of understanding of Japanese food. Mr. Naret said that now all seven inspectors in Japan are Japanese.

The government is busy figuring out ways to monetize the country's growing cultural clout. This summer, Japan's government established a Cool Japan office to promote fashion, food and tourism.

Newscom Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret displays the new Kansai regional guide in Kobe, Japan, on Tuesday.

The number of Japanese restaurants around the world has exploded over the past decade.There were 24,000 Japanese restaurants globally in 2006, the last year figures were tallied, according to Japan's ministry of agriculture.In North America, the number of Japanese restaurants doubled to 10,000 in the decade from 1996 to 2006.In the same period, the number of Japanese restaurants in China also swelled.

"I think on the whole it's a good thing — Michelin is taking Japanese chefs seriously and giving them international recognition," said Mark Robinson, the author of "Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook."

"But a lot of people [in Japan] think that Michelin doesn't have any business judging them," he said.

Kyoto is renowned for its kaiseki cuisine — a multicourse tasting menu whose roots go back almost 500 years — and the proud purveyors of the tradition, passed down for generations within families.It is a closed, rarefied world and one where outsiders aren't always welcomed.A handful of the restaurants included in the guide come without pictures.

"In Tokyo we have to ask twice [to get pictures]," said Mr. Naret."In Kyoto we have to ask three times.On the fourth, they will give us pictures. "

 

K ON! Movie is a sequel

There are first information about the upcoming movie of K-ON! posted in.And there are positive ~ the great thing: there is no summary or the like, but the story continues, though the manga Yes was already completed.

Here you can see the announcement.The important thing was underlined in red kindly. There is the film will handle YUI and the other Member channels who have completed the school also Azunyan and the new K-ON!-Member channels staying still at school.Is black on white, that there is no summary or reinterpretation of previous episodes.

 

First clips from Tick Tock Tale

Watch the first excerpts from Tick Tock Tale, the brand new animation of Walt Disney on a small, but brave clock.

Dean Wellins, an animator who worked on The Iron Giant, Treasure Planet, and The Princess and the Frog, makes his debut as a Director with the animated short film Tick Tock Tale.

The story revolves around a small, funny clock that so from the workshop of Geppetto. The clock is mocked by the large, bombastic timepieces in a London shop, but when one night a thief breaks, condemning all can change …

On AWN is a interesting interview with Director and creator Dean Wellins, where he received the inspiration come from and what technical innovations are in Tick Tock Tale processes are. At the bottom you can see already a foretaste of the new animation.

The movie, which normally along with The Princess and the Frog would appear, was already on some animatieffestivals screened (such as Annecy).You may Tick Tock Tale associated with Rapunzel, the next release of Walt Disney Animation Studios (in december 2010).Images from the short animated film, you can see in our previous post.

Clip from Tick Tock Tale

Clip from Tick Tock Tale

Instructions for the cap of IKA Musume \o

Know June! IKA Musume (translated as: invasion!) (Squid girl) not? Then failed her hard ~ this is an anime from the current season and, I tell you, makes fun ~ it look to you really kewl. NanaOne subbt the as GerSub, look at where it if ye not know English.

Anyway. IKA Musume is not human, as the name implies. And your head is not as above can be seen. For all Otaku who want to be IKA Musume or IKA shounen, there is now the ultimate guide anyway accordingly to decorate the head. Unfortunately the descriptions in Japanese as kanjis are available but imagery should be sufficient. Otherwise hopes that my loving sushi you that transt, but very unlikely. : D I still have not made the hat, but will do at times.Have fun!

Edit: I's now tried and succeeded. Was in the Middle often verst?ndnisprobleme, but it's done.Only my hat is very small because I used only one A4 sheet.The sheet must be at least A3 so that you can have not only on the Willy but also on the head.

 

Les plus graves environmental depuis 1963 au Bénin loin de l'attention de la communauté internationale

Depuis 5 semaines, plus de la moiti des communes b ninoises sont s v rement touch es par des environmental dues une pluviom trie anormalement lev e, le double des pluies habituellement attendues cette saison. La situation alarm ante des 358 621 sinistr s, chiffre officiel, sous-estim d'apr s l'UNDAC qui, CPG s une valuation par h licopt re chiffre 680 000 les personnes affect es, ne semble pas susciter l'int r t de la communaut international qui reste silencieuse.

51 des 77 communes que compte le pays sont touch es, et m me les crues the 1963, rest es dans les esprits comme la pire catastrophe qu'ait connue le B nin ces derni res 50 ann es, n'avait pas autant de caus d g ts. Rotimy Djossaya, Director of the care B nin raconte: Tous les anciens s'accordent pour dire que, the m moire d'homme, ils expression jamais vu de telles environmental risks.?

L'information n'est pas relay e dans la communaut international, comme si la r currence des crues masquait l'aspect extraordinaire de la derni re, s'inqui to Rotimy Djossaya.Des zones qui n ' taient pas consid r es inondables ont pourtant t enti rement d truites comme le village de Kopto, commune de Zangnanado au centre du pays. Dans les zones lacustres, des milliers de personnes continuent vivre les pieds dans l'eau, dans des riaux cases faites the mat fragiles, enfouis depuis des semaines cons ing environment, sous parfois plus the 2 m d'eau.

La question sanitary est un objet majeur the pr occupation, et tous les regards sont port s aujourd'hui sur la courbe inqui aunt du nombre de cas de chol ra qui ne cesse de Merry. L'occupation des postes de sant, par les populations qui y ont trouv refuge, paralyse l'acc s aux soins dans un contexte legs tiel les pid mies: les latrines ont t inond es d versant des eaux noires dans l'eau qui sert se laver, manger et chef. Environ 800 cas sont r pertori s ce jour, dont 51 Cotonou, et le chiffre grossi de jour and jour.

La pauvret du pays renforce la probl matique the l'acc s aux soins. Dans une majoritairement FOD Economie informelle, les m nages qui ont perdu leurs stocks ne peuvent plus exercer d'activit s g n ratrices the revenus, et par cons quence, s'offrir les consultations m dicales, payantes au B nin. Situation qui ne risque des comportements entra, puisque les femmes pratiquent l'auto m dicamentation pour soigner les diarrh es et fi vres des enfants, sans compter qu'elles paient cr this pour le faire.Les pluies continuent tomber, la saison des pluies se poursuit, n'attendons pas que la situation se d grade encore pour fina int?ress? ouvrir les yeux, alert Rotimy Djossaya.

Pr sente dans les communes d'Agu gu, the Dangbo, Adjohoun, Bonou, Ouinhi et Zangnanado, pour faire face aux maladies hydriques et l'impact d'une large ventuelle pid mie, CARE a d marr la distribution de pastilles de purification de l'eau, savon, des moustiquaires imbib es et anime des s ances the sensibilisation l'hygi ne aupr s 10 000 personnes.10 000 enfants de moins de 5 ans et 2000 femmes enceintes sont aussi pris and charge contre la malaria.Par ailleurs, CARE Commenc? la distribution de nourriture aupr s de 10 000 personnes, avec 200 tonnes de ma s, 4000 l d'huile et 12.5 T the soya and attendant the soutenir les populations dans la consolidation de leur habitat.

CARE a augment son appel aux Fund initial 2.5 millions d'euros pour atteindre 100 000 personnes avec la distribution de nourriture, tablet tes the purification, kits the ren for cement pour les abris et autres biens the premi re n cessit.