As the long weekend signalled the start of grill season, many men will find themselves almost genetically drawn to throwing hunks of raw meat onto a fire. It's a pull that some will spend almost any amount of money to satisfy, said Pantelis A. Georgiadis, the owner of Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, the grill manufacturer based in Michigan. "There is a market segment we call the 'man cook with fire' types," he said. Last fall, Dave and Allison Petrullo of Commack, N.Y., installed a custom-built $6,500 Cal Spas grill on their patio with an outdoor refrigerator. Though they have actually cooked on the grill only three times since they installed it, it has been a hit with Petrullo's friends, who congregate around it at parties and give it a going-over like a pack of high school boys around a Co...
DEAR [Bernie] and Ramon -- With your highrise location in mind, I would take advantage of the magnificent views and paint the limited wall space between windows a clear sky blue. These strips of colour will act as a complementary frame for the views rather than fighting for attention. For any interior walls, don't just think colour -- think also about texture and pattern. Look at new wallpaper designs. Graphic designs and oversize prints will suit your style. Dear [Debbie Travis] -- I'm looking for the right colour to paint my new condo living room to give it a cosy ambience. The coffee and side tables are rosewood, coffee-coloured leather chairs and a laminate floor that will complement the wood furniture. I'm thinking of muted tones of aqua or grey.
Why do young people join gangs? The reasons, [Melanie Nimmo] says, include neglectful parents; individuals with no goals or hope for the future; low involvement in conventional activities (bored with "idle hands") and little belief in moral and legal order (the police are "racist"). Why do people join gangs? "Without question," says Nimmo, "the gang provides social necessities such as empathy, emotional support and a sense of identity -- having an identity and respect is critical for humans, particularly during the difficult developmental phase of adolescence. Women have the most trouble leaving gangs. "Females put other females 'on the street.' They succumb to 'pimp sticks' often hung up in gang houses to beat women who 'get out of line.' Yet we have still failed to recognize the need...
Even as media types and fans were scrambling to digest the content of O'Brien's crisply-worded statement on Tuesday, in which he declared he will not participate in the "destruction" of The Tonight Show, rumours began circulating that NBC was hastily assembling a roster of guest hosts to take O'Brien's place on the show. On Tuesday, for the second night in a row, O'Brien used his NBC-financed platform to take shots at NBC, ranging from simple setup-punchline jokes to a bit in which one of Tonight's African American writers, Deon Cole, compared NBC to a "pimp" and its late-night hosts to "ho's", to a Deal or No Deal gag in which O'Brien and Howie Mandel opened a series of briefcases containing O'Brien's post-talk-show career options (the final case: "Two tickets to see Jay Leno perform s...
FORMED in the late '80s, the Port Arthur, Texas, duo of Bun B and Pimp C finally release Underground Kingz, their much-delayed and anticipated double album. The album is chock full of lush, slow to mid-tempo Southern beats and UGK's trademark Texas twang. Steeped in funk and oozing with sexuality, it's classic UGK. Int'l Player's Anthem (I Choose You) enlists Outkast's André 3000 to create a whimsical, poetic cut, layered in song yet ready to bump from even the most basic stereo system. Bun and Pimp deliver on Swishas and Dosha and the Jazze Pha collaboration, Stop-N-Go. Like That and several other tracks are steeped in the type of degrading sexist lingo for which rap is often knocked. Remove some of the unnecessary vulgarity, slash the 29 tracks in half and it's a great album. HHH1/2 ...
The story begins when Sir Thomas Boleyn (Mark Rylance) is drawn into a scheme by his bloodless brother-in-law, The Duke of Norfolk (David Morrissey). The two men -- how can I put this delicately? -- decide to pimp out Thomas's daughters to England's King Henry VIII (Eric Bana), who has become estranged from his wife Katherine of Aragon because she has not borne him a male heir. Bana isn't as hotsy-totsy as Jonathan Rhys Meyers in TV's The Tudors -- he's already widening out to Holbein's iconic image of a four-square monarch -- but he's still believably attractive. (Too bad that Henry's amnesiac serial romanticism wreaks such bloody havoc.) The Other Boleyn Girl isn't textbook history, but then, it's not pretending to be. It's brisk, broad melodrama -- think of it as a gourmet popcorn ...
Ahhhh -- the relaxing sound of Nat King Cole's voice. Priceless footage from his 1950s television variety show is the centrepiece of this special remembering the legendary singer. It includes [Cole] performing his signature ballads such as Mona Lisa and Unforgettable as well as showing off his talent as a jazz pianist. Also featured are Cole's duets with Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr. and a very young Billy Preston. Bravo, 9 p.m. Pimps. That's about all a lot of people know about this film and as such, are turned off. But that's a sad thing, because Terrence Howard does an excellent job in the starring role as Djay, a pimp who wants out of the business. He tries to become a rapper, but the road to that dream has many large obstacles. Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning and Ludacris co-sta...
Daniel and Sylvia's gay daughter Allegra (Maggie Grace) rushes headlong into new relationships, never thinking to guard her heart. And finally, Grigg (Hugh Dancy), the token man in the club, is a computer geek, sci-fi enthusiast and "[Jane Austen] virgin." (Of course he gets stuck with Northanger Abbey.) In true women's pic style, the female characters experience loads of trouble but always fall into the welcoming arms of the sisterhood. The men, meanwhile, are charming enough but rather beside the point. Poor Grigg is even press-ganged into an odd little subplot that sees Jocelyn trying to pimp him out to Sylvia -- in a genteel sort of way, but still. The Jane Austen Book Club lacks the subtlety, the social layers, and -- not surprisingly -- the moral seriousness of Jane Austen hers...
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