Bahman Mohassess died in europe

According to ISNA, quoting third generation , Mohassess died . He was leading artists in visual arts of Iran , the last evening of August 6 in his house in Rome, Italy .

artist's death was due to aging and complications of lung disease that was unheard of air heat of Rome, had exacerbated his illness.

Mohassess was born in 1310 in Rasht and in past years have repeatedly found in his house in Tehran , while too many friends of him didn't know any thing about him.

Additional information about the artist's funeral will be sent subsequently.

The role of karaoke in the movie High School Musical

It all started with the music.

Disney released the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL soundtrack on CD on January 10, 2006, more than a week before the made-for-cable movie first appeared on The Disney Channel. Overnight, the soundtrack became a staple at teenybopper slumber parties. Preteens flocked to music stores to pick up the disc, which quickly claimed the Number-One position on the BILLBOARD charts.

Heck, with quite possibly the most disposable income of any demographic group, young adolescents have become a purchasing force to be reckoned with!

As these youngsters cranked up the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL tunes, they sang and danced and acted out scenes from the show.

THE MUSICAL

Although the show is set in a fictional high school, and the story involves teenagers, it has appealed most to pre-adolescents. Teen wannabees cannot get enough of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

The new campy classic, reminiscent of 1978's GREASE, relates a story of popular basketball star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and brainy new student Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). Both are naturally gifted singers, although each is reluctant to step up and try out for the school's winter musical. Athlete Troy feels torn between the team and his artistic talent. Shy scholar Gabriella struggles to juggle the academic Scholastic Decathlon and her newfound dramatic interests. True to form, these two opposites find themselves attracted to one another.

At the same time, Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) and her brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) are the long-standing drama stars of East High. The entire student body seems to take sides, as the musical's lead roles are announced.

A variety of lively, radio-friendly musical numbers peppers the plot. With high-energy dance numbers and interspersed vignettes, each song is a ready-made music video. (Can anyone say, "Marketing?") The songs are catchy tunes with pop-friendly lyrics and simple choruses. Even the stodgiest grownups cannot help but sing along, and the most devoted couch potatoes sense the urge to get up and dance with the characters on the screen.

Basically, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is not a movie at all. It's more like karaoke on TV. Of course, the promotional wizards at Disney clearly planned for this response.

SING ALONG WITH THE SHOW

Karaoke-loving kids found their hearts' delight on Saturday, January 21, 2006, when The Disney Channel aired a special Sing-Along version of the movie. The lyrics for each song in the soundtrack appeared at the foot of each viewer's television screen.

Although


This was only the second night the movie aired, teenyboppers all over the world probably already knew most of the words to the songs. Neighborhoods fairly resounded with new favorites, such as "Bop to the Top," "Get'cha Head in the Game," "Start of Something New," "What I've Been Looking For," and "We're All in This Together."

GET UP AND DANCE

The Disney Channel knew immediately that they had a winner with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Six weeks into it television run, they unrolled a Dance-Along version. Cast members demonstrated and taught actual dance moves for popular songs in the film. Family rooms everywhere began bouncing, as youngsters bopped along with the stars on the screen.


STARS ON TOUR

By November 2006, Disney sent its HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL stars on a concert tour throughout the US, Canada and even Latin America. Even without Zac Ephron (who was on-location filming HAIRSPRAY), the cast played to sold-out crowds in many cities. Of course, their young audiences sang along to every word!

NOW ON DVD

Currently, several DVD options of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL are available. These include the Sing-Along version, the Dance-Along version, a Pop-Up version and even a DVD game.

Capitalizing on the craze, Disney has already released a video game, book series, DVD game, juvenile apparel, and other licensed merchandise bearing the musical's name and stars' images.

A much-anticipated sequel, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, appeared in the summer of 2007. Guess what? By the time the end-credits rolled for the first time, nearly every preteen in America knew all the songs!

What are the secrets to karaoke? First, you have to know the words and the music to your favorite songs. Then you just have to let er rip with all you've got!

Check out any preteen gathering, and you will find them doing exactly that, to the tunes of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

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Reel Movie Reviews: Inception

Oh Christopher Nolan, how do you do it? Here is a man I can't help but admire: First he manages to capture the attention of Hollywood with a movie that's told backwards, then he completely reinvents a major comic book franchise, makes one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, and if that wasn't enough, manages to make one of the most personal large-scale films I've ever seen produced, particularly at the studio level.
Inception was an idea that had been gestating in Nolan's brain since he started working on Memento, his breakthrough hit where Guy Pearce has lost his short term memory, and the story is told backwards through elliptical moments of the main character's clarity. It's taken a full ten years to see the film realized, but it has finally materialized, and I don't know how else it could have happened. Nolan needed a decade to develop the material, climb the studio ladder to be able to fund it properly, gain respect of the filmmaking community to garner the impeccable cast, please audiences with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in order to ensure that it would be a profitable venture, and last but not least, develop his own visual style and directorial skill to master the technical requirements of such a labyrinthine story.
But he did it, and now it's here to be viewed by the entire world. Go see it. Go see it now. Go see it more than once.

It takes a special individual to be able to think outside the box on such a large scale, but Nolan makes it look easy in Inception, with multiple layers of story and character. Much like a cinematic onion, the more layers Inception peels back, the deeper you go into the story, the more fascinating the whole thing becomes and the more engrossed you are as a viewer. Looking at it objectively, you might think it would be a hard film to follow, but it's not.
Basically, the story involves Dom Cobb (Leonardo Di Caprio) as a high-tech theif who enters people's minds, with the help of his team, who are responsible for building and controlling the dreams in which they con their marks, to steal precious and highly guarded information without ever being detected. It's kind of a sci-fi Ocean's 11, except the tone is much more serious, the technical aspects much more complicated, and the goals much more elaborately detailed. It seems like a much more mature film in many ways, but still manages to have fun from time to time.
Dom has been exiled from the United States for reasons which are not immediately clear, and is tasked to do one last job to basically buy back his freedom and return home. The job involves something very difficult- inception. Instead of stealing an idea from someone's mind, Cobb must plant one. It's apparently very hard to do successfully, but if one man can do it, it's Dom Cobb. Despite his better judgment, he takes the case and assembles his team, which, like any good con job, are a motley crew of thieves and technical wizards, who all serve different roles. There's the chemist, the point man, the architect, etc., etc.
What follows is a truly special journey into the mind, and into the mind of the mind, and on and on. While it seems staggeringly complicated at first, Nolan leaves the jargon simple enough for most to comprehend, creating a some new slang for certain processes. If there's one criticism that can be had of the movie, it's that it spends a little too much time building the complex concepts that will come into play in the finale. However, they're done with such gusto and woven so well with the characters that it's hardly an issue at all. Once you're into the action, the pace is relentless, and even though several stories are cross-cut at once, the action all remains perfectly intelligible.

Performance-wise, nothing here is going to scream Oscar, but everyone is perfectly cast and clumsy moments are nowhere to be found. Despite the wild subject matter, it's all played earnestly and it's all believable. The suspension of disbelief in this film really relies on the acting, and Nolan passes the test with flying colors. Leonardo Di Caprio is engaging as the brooding Cobb, while Joseph Gordon-Levitt comes into his own as Arthur, Cobb's right-hand man. Tom Hardy turns in a cheeky performance as the point man Eames, and I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him on the silver screen. Ellen Page is perfectly implemented as a young newbie architect with a great knack for creating dream worlds and a pesky desire to sniff out the truth, while Cillian Murphy finally gets a chance to chew some meaty dialogue in a Nolan film as the mark, a bratty heir to a large conglomerate empire with daddy issues. Ken Watanabe rounds out the main cast as the rival businessman who tasks Cobb with the challenge of inception, and it's good to see him play a substantial role again.
The cinematography and scoring work well to tell the story and sell the dream world, a lot of the visual aspects seem to be in-camera effects whenever possible, limiting the amount of digital work necessary to tell the story, which is still a large amount. Hans Zimmer's score is bold and well-integrated, although it's missing that iconic flavor of his earlier work, and even the last two Batman films.
But what would a movie about dreams be without special effects? Well, there are plenty, and they all sell exceptionally well. So well, in fact, that you can't really tell what's CGI and what's not. There are the obvious moments, like when everything on a city street corner in Paris explodes into zero gravity, or when the city folds in onto itself. But all the digital effects are done with such detail that they're perfectly believable, even when they're so outlandish they could be nothing but a dream. And that's where the movie really has fun- in the stretching of time, playing with gravity, large-scale explosions, and escher-like visual gags. One particular sight gag that's set up early on in the film elicited cheers from the audience when it was paid off in the third.
Sure, there are moments where the characters add small bits of dialogue in order to explain what happened to slower members of the audience, but it's all done with great precision that it at least feels organic. The twists and turns of Inception, though easy to follow on the whole, beg for multiple viewings. I suspect even more layers will be uncovered the next time I see it. And I do intend to see it more than once.
Inception is the kind of film that only comes around once in a decade or two. It represents a milestone in not only the career of its creator, but of American cinema as well. If only there were more filmmakers who strive for such well-developed material and technical mastery as Christopher Nolan, then I could justify spending $15.00 to go see a movie in the theater. Hell, I'd even be willing to fork over ten bucks for a small popcorn and small soda, too. Sadly, Nolan is one of only a handful of contemporary Hollywood players that are capable of delivering on such a grand level, and that's a shame.With any luck, Inception will eclipse teenybopper junk like Twilight and revive my faith in the American studio system. I just wish it wasn't the exception to the rule.

It's Official: Edward Norton is No Longer Bruce Banner / Hulk

We have full confirmation on the surprising news that broke late last night courtesy of HitFix. The same site has received an official statement from Marvel Entertainment confirming that Edward Norton

will no longer be playing Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk, and that Marvel is looking for an "unknown" to use in The Avengers. We've "made the decision to not bring Ed Norton back to portray the title role of Bruce Banner in The Avengers. Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members."

Marvel president Kevin Feige, who wrote the message published on HitFix, adds: "The Avengers demands players who thrive working as part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert, Chris H, Chris E, Sam, Scarlett, and all of our talented casts. We are looking to announce a name actor who fulfills these requirements, and is passionate about the iconic role in the coming weeks." So that means we will find out at Comic-Con who will be in The Avengers line-up, including who will be replacing Norton in the role of Bruce Banner. So there we go. Even though I thought Norton did a damn good job his Hulk movie, he's being replaced. Thoughts ?