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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Romance Meets Life

Romance Meets Life

Covers - Tiwa Savage on TW Magazine

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 09:07 PM PDT


Tiwa Savage always looks great and her cover for TW Magazine is no different. In the cover story, she talks about getting and doing her music, her life and her love on her own terms. And she's definitely showing off that engagement bling!

Ini Edo in Ekaette Goes to School - What is Nollywood's Fixation with Adults in Kid's Uniforms?

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT


I did a double-take when I came across this picture of Ini Edo in uniform on Instagram. My first thought that it was a flash back picture was dashed when I read the caption which goes, "Ekaette goes to school#movie title#keep a date#my life, ur entertainment". Seriously, seriously? It hasn't escaped me that Funke Akindele and Nkem Owoh have also acted roles that called for them to be primary school children, same as Mercy Johnson and Saka.





I have to ask, what is the fascination with seeing these grown men and women in primary school uniforms?

I can understand actors acting secondary school roles that tie back to them as adults but that only holds water in very few cases when the actor is still in their late teens or early twenties. In your thirties and forties, even your secondary school self needs a much younger actor to be believable. Not to talk about primary school roles that require us to see you in uniform.

And in all the movies, it seems there's always a comedic element involved. Is it that Nigerians like seeing their rich actors make fools of themselves as kids, or that we think a child's life of going to school and wearing uniforms is funny?

More disturbing, is it that our actors and movie producers are stuck at that stage of their lives? Or does this speak more to the audience? Is this really what the Nigerian movie watching audience wants?

Are these movies for children or adults? What are the themes or morals of these stories, if any?

Daddy Time - Wizkid Shares Photos With His Son

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:07 PM PDT


While Wizkid is not married to the mother of his son, he acknowledged his child and has recently has begun to hang out with the little one as he grows older. Wizkid shared some pictures on his Instagram of him spending time with his little boy. See another one below..

Throwback Thursday - Sofia Vergara of Modern Family and Her Son in 1992

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT


One of my favorite actors in ABC's Modern Family is Sofia Vergara, and I enjoy when she hypes the whole single mother from somewhere in South America role because actually, that was how she started out in real life. Sofia Vergara shared this throwback picture above with the caption, "22 years ago in Barranquilla !!!Manolo's first Holloweeeen! He was one month old."

The photograph was taken in her home town Barranquilla in Colombia, where she had married straight out of high school just the year before having her first son as a 19 year old mother in 1992. Sofia and her son's father split after two years of marriage and she became a single mother when Manolo was just a year old. Manolo is now 22 years old and seems to be a mommy's boy as seen in the picture below. Kudos to her.

Movie Review - Gravity With Sandra Bullock and George Clooney

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:12 PM PDT


I'm one of those who wonders what I'm doing 33,000 feet up in the air when I'm flying. But I love travelling, and I keep flying to get around. I've also always wanted to go to space. Since the space tourist program started, I've added it to my bucket list. But while watching Gravity with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, I had a rethink.


One of the opening lines in the film says that life is impossible in space. And seeing some incidents in the movie, it was scary to know how true that can be. But at the end of Gravity, I knew that if I was presented with the opportunity to go to space, I would take it. That was at the core of the theme of the movie.

Gravity was less about the space surrounding earth and the physical gravity pulling humans to the ground, than it is about the spaces within us and the psychological gravity to pulls us together in the face of fear and uncertainty.

Gravity is a suspense thriller set in space, but it is also about loss, about pain, about courage, and about overcoming adversity and being reborn.  There is actually a cinematic moment when Sandra Bullock is curled in a fetal position floating in the airlock of a space station that encapsulates this notion.

At another point, she lies back in gloomy darkness, ready to give it all up, but manages to shake off her apathy with the help of George Clooney's character. From that moment on, it was full steam ahead, both for the suspense in the movie and for the action.

At one point, Sandra Bullock says, "I'm either going to come back with one hell of a story, or die in an explosion in the next 10 minutes. It doesn't really matter. Either way it's going to be one hell of a ride."
The message from Gravity is this - give it your all, or nothing at all. It makes me think if there's anything I'm currently holding myself back from doing in my life. And I loved that the main character was a woman, double to goodness :)

I give this a 3.5 stars out of 5. I would have given it a 4 but the plot is very spare and it's not the type of movie to make you want to watch again and again. But the emotional depth more than makes up for that, as well as the acting and cinematography. Highly recommended and try to see it in 3D and IMAX if you can.

Kim Kardashian Shares Picture in Swim Suit To Show Off Post Baby Body

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:12 PM PDT


I didn't know Kim Kardashian was an October baby, and just a day before me too. But that's not what this post is about. Well, it's four months since Kim Kardashian had her baby and she's eager to show off how far she's gone in losing a lot of the weight she gained during pregnancy. So she shared the picture below...

Waris Dirie Wins The Women of the Year Campaigning Award For Her Work On FGM

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 11:08 AM PDT


Waris Dirie came to my attention through her book, Desert Flower, an autobiography that highlights her life as a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM). The book has since become a movie starring Liya Kebede, and Waris Dirie has continued to campaign tirelessly on the issue to save other young girls from the ordeal she went through.

From just speaking against FGM, Waris Dirie has also opened the first medical centre in Berlin that will offer FGM sufferers reconstructive surgery and she hopes to roll this initiative out to Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Switzerland. For her efforts over the years, she was recognised by the Women of the Year organization with a Campaigning award.

Click the title to buy Waris Dirie's Desert Flower book. More info on Waris Dirie below;

Waris, now 48 and living in Poland with her four children, was just five years old when she was subjected to FGM in her home country of Somalia. She was then forced into marrying a 60-year-old man when she was just thirteen, a threat which left her no choice but to flee to Mogadish, where she had family.

She later moved to London to live with relatives and worked in a local McDonald's before getting her big break when she was scouted by a fashion photographer in the 1990s. Her career as a supermodel went from strength to strength and she starred in Chanel campaigns and even made a cameo appearance in James Bond movie, The Living Daylights.

But her life was fickle. 'I thought, "This is b*****t, fake. I couldn't sleep one more night knowing the truth about what was happening to girls,' she told The Guardian. And that's when she decided to speak up.
In a candid interview with Marie Claire at the height of her fame in 1997, Waris revealed her dark past whereby she was subjected to FGM and left to recover in a makeshift shelter under a tree for several days. She has since set about saving other young girls from enduring what she suffered.

She has since been appointed a UN special ambassador and set up her own charity, Desert Flower Foundation, to help protect girls against the practice, which involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.

H/T DailyMail

Covers - Tara Fela-Durotoye on Y! Magazine

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 10:06 AM PDT


Make-up and beauty entrepreneur, Tara Fela -Durotoye is on this month's cover of Y! Magazine and it is their celebration issue. Check out the magazine for her inspiring story and an exclusive interview with Economy Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.

Quote of the Day - If You're Happy and You Know It

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:00 AM PDT
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