EmmaChampion.com Back in the day, when the Royals got wed, the people of England pulled out all the stops. Gatherings; street parties; flags stuck to cars – even those Union Jack pencil tops. However, since Fergie and Di said their vows amidst all the media frenzy and hype, The Family Windsor have lost their allure; and … Read more
There is always cause for caution when it comes to Aaron Eckhart. Still most definitely not forgiven for the implausible cheese-fest that was The Core (2003), he really has made some hit-and-miss career decisions. From his stellar performances in films like Erin Brockovich (2000), Thank You for Not Smoking (2005) and The Dark Knight … Read more
Emma Champion here – your first and ONLY correspondent on all things Oscar®; and well, Folks, I’m not sure how it happened, but it’s THAT time AGAIN! This will be my 13th Oscar® All-Nighter, and, as always, it is an absolute pleasure and delight. Open the wine, get the popcorn a-poppin’, sit back, and absorb … Read more
Executive Producer of Tangled (2011), Glen Keane, could possibly be regarded as The Walt Disney Company’s secret weapon. This is the animator who gave Ariel her flaming red hair; put the swoosh in the cape of the Beast; and created for Pocahontas her expression of longing as John Smith sailed away. It seems like something … Read more
Facebook is a marvellous communication tool. You can catch up with friends, reunite with long-lost school pals, start groups that ally you with like-minded souls, set up pages for self or business promotion…the list is endless. However, would it have ever have occurred to anyone, let alone a fifteen year-old schoolboy marred by disability, to … Read more
In David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) declared to his pre-9/11 Project Mayhem delegates that their generation had “no great war; no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression…is our lives.” With that sentence, an entire age band were marked and identified as a group lost and … Read more
When I was 12, I began the painful process of packing away my toys. Almost a third of my very-pink bedroom was a miniature, plastic Barbie village – a house, a café, a fashion boutique – they were a very important chapter of my childhood and I still remember how difficult it was to say … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio is a sly old dog. He wowed critics with his depictions of real-life writers, playing Tobias Wolff in This Boy’s Life (1993) (holding his own against a terrific Robert De Niro), and Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995). He nabbed his first Oscar nod at the tender age of twenty, for his … Read more
Those who follow the teachings of the law of attraction will know that visualisation, gratitude and belief can will your dreams into reality. Who could ever have imagined the extent to which these techniques can be successful? Back in the sixties, somewhere in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a young girl named Phyllis looked up adoringly at her father; … Read more
For centuries, one question plagued Man more than any other; that question was: “What is the meaning of life?” Now, here in the 21st century – an age of progression and innovative entertainment – the question has changed; the question is now: “What is the meaning of Lost?” JJ Abrams’ head-scratcher of a television … Read more