He took the Cupid straight to Cardinal San Giorgio’s palace. The cardinal was a famous collector of antiques and always on the lookout for the real thing.
“This is not only one of the best Roman statues ever found,” the merchant told him, "it is certainly the best preserved. Look at it, Eminence: not a nick, not a scratch.” Here he cleaned away for the excited cardinal some of the dirt and grass he or Michelangelo had plugged into a few of the recesses.
“Oh, even if it were missing a toe or a whole arm I wouldn’t mind!” exclaimed the cardinal, a real connoisseur. “I can’t believe the craftsmanship. Those old sculptors really knew their business.”

Considering the rarity of the piece (and the cardinal’s disposition) the merchant must have set the price at four or five hundred ducats. Then he let the old cardinal, an experienced haggler, bring him down to two hundred. The cardinal, taking no chances, had him paid right there on the spot.

The merchant sent Michelangelo thirty ducats. “Things didn’t go as well as I had expected,” he wrote him. “The Cardinal said he already has more antique marbles than he knows what to do with; and anyway right now he is up to his neck in debt. The most I could get from him—and not even that was easy!—was forty ducats. I know this is disappointing; I’ve decided to send you thirty ducats and to take only ten for myself instead of the 40% we had agreed on. I think we were just unlucky. In another moment we might have gotten three times that.”

See Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 3) and learn how the fraud was discovered and what the cardinal did.

Back to Was Michelangelo Crooked (Part 1)

..

I've written extensively about artists that I like -- or at least whose music I find to be new or interesting or meaningful -- in almost every post thus far. I didn't want to contribute too much to the ever-snarky "this sucks" culture of today, which seems particularly prominent when it comes to blog culture. But I gotta say something about Day26 and their debut album, the cleverly titled, Day26:

This sucks.

I mean honestly, this was supposed to be the next R&B super-group, which Diddy (whom I grew up with, like, and admire) and MTV spent years crafting -- holding auditions all over the country and synthesizing the thousands of hopefuls and wannabes into the five men you see sitting before you who already look dressed for their own funeral. And yet, I found myself listening to the album and thinking, Seriously? This is it? This is the best Diddy could come up with? With all of America as his talent pool. And on top of all that, Diddy, you decide to saddle them with this absurd name, Day26 (no spaces, please). Why, man, why?

I was really looking forward to having a good, old-school, all-male R&B group that could really sing again. Well you can forget that idea. If you were waitin', it ain't here yet. Forget about the next New Edition, the next Jodeci, or the next Boyz II Men. Day26 is maybe the next All-4-One -- maybe (come on, "I Swear" was a great song) -- but they aren't even the next 112. (Who had some really legitimate shit, by the way: "Only You," "Cupid," "It's Over Now," "Peaches & Cream," "Dance With Me," etc.). The passion and charisma just isn't there with these dudes.

And the bitch of it is, Day26 has probably had more advantages in releasing their first album than any group in R&B history, accept for maybe Diddy's other "Making the" band, female "super-group," Danity Kane. Between the insane amount of near-constant publicity from four seasons of MTV's Making the Band show, and album production almost exclusively by top-flight producers (Bryan-Michael Cox, Danja, and The Hitmen), it's no wonder that Day26 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart -- anything less would have been serious under achievement considering the coattails on which they're riding.

Despite the hot initial album sales, the group's first single, "Got Me Going," hasn't exactly been a smashing success, peaking at number seventy-nine on Billboard's Hot 100, and number thirty on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop chart. This could be due to the fact that, like the group itself, the song is just pretty damn lame. It seems entirely possible that what Day26 is truly suffering from is over-design, over-production, over-coaching, and over-exposure. In other words, the build up was so extreme, there was simply no way the ends could justify the means.

If you opt to check out any Day26 tracks, I'd go with "I'm The Reason," a percussion-driven joint reminiscent of Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath," or "Since You've Been Gone," an unsatisfying attempt at the standard "Oh baby I miss you so much but now I've changed" R&B ballad.

But I don't particularly recommend it.

- Jonathan

Day26 Official MySpace

He was so good at copying that he thought he’d have a little fun.
“At that same time,” writes Condivi, “another work of his aroused no less amazement, although it was spiced with a certain playfulness. Having been given a head to copy, he rendered it so precisely that, when he returned the copy to the owner in place of the original, at first the owner did not detect the deception, but discovered it only when the boy [Michelangelo] was telling a friend of his and laughing about it. Many wanted to compare the two, and they found no difference because, apart from the perfection of the copy, Michelangelo had used smoke to make it seem as old as the original. This gained him a considerable reputation.”
Did the temporarily-deceived owner laugh along and congratulate the young prankster and praise him for his skill? What did Michelangelo do with the imitation head? Sell it perhaps? As an antique perhaps?

Next we see Michelangelo taking this challenge of copying strangely far. “Michelangelo also copied the work of other masters, with complete fidelity,” says Vasari enthusiastically. “He used to tinge his copies and make them appear black with age by various means, including the use of smoke, so that they could not be told apart from the originals.”
Was he trying to delight some group of friends? Just whom was he trying to please with these little forgeries?
“He did this,” says Vasari, “so that he could exchange his copies for the signed originals, which he admired for their excellence and which he tried to surpass in his own works; and these experiments also won him fame.”
Presumably he returned the signed originals once he was finished copying them. Or was he tempted to keep them for awhile, just to see if their owner detected the forgery? Michelangelo wouldn’t have tried to actually sell them, would he?

A Crook?

One of the reasons Condivi wrote his Life of Michelangelo was to defend him against the charge of fraud in the notorious Cupid case. With stories like the ones above it can’t be said that he has prepared his readers to take the artist’s innocence for granted.
What was the Cupid case?
Michelangelo carved a marble figure of a Cupid and then, through a shady merchant, sold it to a cardinal as an original antique statue just unearthed in a Roman garden. There is no doubt that he did this. The only question is about his role in the scheme, his guilt. Whose idea was it?

Both Condivi and Vasari say it wasn’t his own—far be it from our hero! It was Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco d’Medici who put the idea into his head. “I’ve been thinking about your Cupid,” he told Michelangelo one afternoon. “You and I know it is as good or better than an antique statue. But people won’t pay much for a modern work, no matter how good it is. Do you think you could somehow treat it to make it look old?—do something with acids or smoke or dirt—maybe bury it or something? If you could, I would send it to Rome and there you could sell it as an antique original and fetch good money for it.”

Neither of the biographers denies that Michelangelo jumped at the idea. “Upon hearing this,” says Condivi, “Michelangelo, to whom none of the ways of genius were obscure, reworked it immediately so that it looked as if it had been made many years earlier.”
Says Vasari: “And this is not to be marvelled at seeing that he was ingenious enough to do anything.” The two biographer/worshippers of Michelangelo don’t seem able to see farther than the pleasing curiosity of Michelangelo’s now well-known skill in imitating other people’s works of art. But this is beyond fun and games: he and others were going to perpetrate a fraud: they were scheming to cheat someone and profit by the deception.

See Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 2) and read how they hoodwinked a famous art collector with the dirty little Cupid.

..

When you first met me, you chose a lovely, red, pointy arrow and shot it right through my heart. I bled and bled but you didn't really care. You moved on to your next victim, impaling everyone you met! I so hate you for pulling that arrow out forcefully and hurting me more! When you did that to me, you not only ensured that two lives would never be the same again, but you also made sure that I can never be affected by your childish charms and sharp arrows again!

Just because you're a child with wings and you carry around a bow and arrow, you think you can play around with people's lives and emotions and feelings? Who gave you that right, you idiot child? Just because you are written about in books and sung about in stupid love songs, you think that you are the ultimate puppet master, making your victims dance to your tunes? You're nothing but a spoiled brat, you hear me? Your curly, blonde hair, your red and rosy cheeks and those brilliant blue (apparently) innocent eyes may fool others but not me! I think I know what you're planning for me!

You want me to take the tried and tested path of begging for your arrow to be impaled again in my heart, drinking myself silly in filthy places and in my stupor, calling out for that cardiac pain again and stabbing myself with chemicals in the hope of seeing your bright wings again - think again, asshole Cupid! I am not going to give you that pleasure. I am well and truly in control of my emotions and for all I care, you can take those arrows of yours and thrust it up your ass. I don't really care how you do it, but given a chance, I'd do it for you myself! I dare you to come before me again, as you did last time! Stand before me like a man and face me!

Oh, I forgot - you're a child! :D

So, here's what I really had to say to you, Cupid. Drop Dead! :D

Yours sincerely,
Nikhil

Yeah,
It's officially the biggest midget in the game.
I dunno,
Make way for the Ess Ohh Vee.

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

I'm fat, I need a diet,
No, in fact I'm just to light,
And I ain't got the biggest breasts-s,
but I write all the best disses.

I got hairy armpits, but I don't walk around like this,
I wear a big baggy t-shirt that hides that nasty shit.
Ugh!
Never had my nails done,
Bite them down until they're numb,
I'm the one with the non-existent bum,
Now I don't really give a....Ugh!I'm missing my shepherd's pie,
Like a high maintenance chick missin' her diamonds,
I'm missin' my clippers lighters,
Now bow down to your royal highness.

No! I don't own a corgi,
Had the hamster - it died 'cause I ignored it,
Go on then, go on report me,
I'm English, try and deport me!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

I'm that funky little monkey with the tiniest ears,
I don't like drinking fancy champy I'll stick wit Heineken beers.
Whoops, might burp in ya face,
A little unlady-like What can I say?
Well oh gosh, I'm not posh,
me, I wear odd socks,
I do what I'm doing, yeah!

So everybody's entitled to opinions,
I open my mouth and shit I got millions,
I'm the middle kid, the riddle kid,
I'll make you giggle till your sick,
Cause my nose jiggles while I spit.

Yeah I do have some stories,
And its true I want all the glory,
Go on then, come on support me,
I'm English, try and deport me!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me....
Love me or hate me....

So I can't dance and I really can't sing, yh,
I can only do one thing,
And that's be Lady Sovereign!
So I can't dance and I really can't sing, yh,
I can only do one thing,
And that's be Lady Sovereign!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.
If you love me then, thank you!
If you hate me then, fuck you!

Love me or hate me...
Love me or hate me...
Love me or hate me...
I can only do one thing,
And that's be Lady Sovereign!...

Lady Sovereign - Tango

Bring out the bucket, bring out the cloth,
Bring out the liquid, bring out the lot,
If not, let's roll her to a car wash.
Now washing you will be like washing a goth,
All that black lipstick around their gobs,
How the fuck do we get it off?
I think this will be a very hard job.
How did you get a tan like that in winter?
You ran off the boots and got a box of tinter,
Didn't ya?
See you still got orange fingers!

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

Slap bang goes on your fake tan,
Bitch you look like the tango man,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango.

Slap bang goes on your fake tan,
Bitch you look like the tango man,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango.

Its the gone wrong salon.

Your clothes keep ripping like you're the female incredible hulk.
You got a broken bra,
a broken top,
a broken thong,
and a broken coat.
You been wearing the same jacket since you were in year 8,
And it smells like you urinate on it, bitch,
That ain't great.

You tried to be Christina, so you dyed your hair black,
But really, you look like the Vicar of Dibley, on crack.
Now just step back and face the facts,
You don't like the fact I get feisty on wax,
Anyways, talking about wax, look at your face, girl relax.

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

Slap bang goes on your fake tan,
Bitch you look like the tango man,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango.

Why not fling her on the window sill as a pumpkin,
When it's approaching Halloween?
Or on your english breakfast, place her next to the bacon,
She could be the beans.
And you always know wheres she's been,
And you always know when she's had a pee,
Coz the toilet seat has an orange sheen.

Ching, bring out the detergent,
Scrub that umpa lumpa it's urgent,
Have you seen her face it's disturbing?
How much fake tan are you squirting?

Err, it's hurting my eyes,
and your starting to look like the sunrise,
And your fake tan's so ming,
you're attracting flies!

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

What network are you on? Orange,
Colour of your bathwater? Orange,
Your favourite fruit must be an orange,
Bitch, did you know your Orange?

Slap bang goes on your fake tan,
Bitch you look like the tango man,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango,
Boogy Woogy Woo, do the tango...

Lady Sovereign - Whispers (When I Shout)

I'm about to go cheesy,
I don't give a shit,
Cause every word I spit, well I mean it.
I've got a long nose like postman pat,  
but still I know you're feeling it.

Call me, Your love doctor,
Cause I make you better by showing you,
How much love I got for ya.
No, Don't, you need it
flicks like a tracker,
wanna do things proper.

Okey-dokey,
remember when you used to tell me no,
Now you're telling me you don't wanna move slow.

It's a mutual feeling,
God, the feelings that I'm feeling arem
making me look to the ceiling,
leaving me dreaming,
all my painful luck I was teething.

I'll be your smurfette
your little darling, all dressed in blue
We can run the circle or shit 'til it hurt
Just me and you
pillow fight, pillow talk
I'll touch you in your sleep
Well, still I might
Now of course, I walk right in your dreams

I know who you are
And I know you're far,
But you're close to my heart,
So let me serenade you with my bars.
But still I care,
I'm here, you're there,
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers).

I know who you are,
And I know you're far,
But you're close to my heart,
So let me serenade you with these bars.
But still I care,
I'm here, you're there,
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers).

[Dial tone]

"Come on, answer your phone, man."
"You never answer it."
"How do I get to speak to you anymore?"
(The person you called is not available.)
"I don't know, first malkin."
(Please leave your message after the tone.)

You ain't making this easy
You're taking a piss
That's about eight phone calls
of mine that you've missed
By tomorrow, it'll be twenty-six
Maybe I should stop, I feel like a div.

I know what this is, this is stupid
I swear, I wanna beat up cupid
There's my heart in bits, that's what you did
Now I've gotta start a new team

Let's start again
Let's start and spend something I don't wanna do
Boo-hoo, my tears fall for you
I think, someone else, I wasn't being cruel to you

"Yeah, well, I'm gonna be that cheeky bitch (I don't know)."
"But now I'm in bits."
"You know how I feel, you know what it is."

I know who you are
And I know you're far
But you're close to my heart
So let me serenade you with my bars
But still I care
I'm here, you're there
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers)

I know who you are
And I know you're far
But you're close to my heart
So let me serenade you with these bars
But still I care
I'm here, you're there
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers)

Whispers (whispers)
Whispers (whispers)
Whispers (whispers)
Whispers (whispers)

I walk right in your dreams...

Whispers (whispers)

I know who you are,
And I know you're far,
But you're close to my heart,
So let me serenade you with my bars.
But still I care,
I'm here, you're there,
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers).

I know who you are,
And I know you're far,
But you're close to my heart,
So let me serenade you with these bars.
But still I care,
I'm here, you're there,
So when I shout it sounds like whispers (whispers).

ayoko nang mangarap. pagod na ako sa kakaibig tapos mali naman pala. sana naman si kupido tumagos na yong pana nya sa atin. ayoko ng mag isa. ayoko nang mag text sa mga friends ko na sabayan ako pagpunta sa mall dahil bored ako na sana ikaw ang gumagawa. ayoko ng parang namamalimos ako sa ibang tao para may mabuhusan ang frustration sa buhay ko na sana ikaw ang nasa tabi ko sa mga oras na yun. sana nga ibigay ka na sa akin. di ko na kakayanin na maging trenta anyos na ako saka ka pa dumating tapos nagpakasal na pala ako sa iba na di ko naman talaga mahal.

kung nasa abroad ka man or nasa benguet or kung saang lupalop ng mundo pls naman oh pumunta ka naman dito sa cebu nandito lang ako. nasa gym lang ako pag walang ginagawa masyado, nanood ng tv pag gabi. paminsan minsan na lang ako nakatambay sa starbucks. di na ako naglalakwartsa. basta sana naman mabasa mo na ang blog na to. mag email ka kung ikaw ba ang hinahanap ko. ok?

so please mga anito, mga batong makapangyarihan, mga nino ko, mga bathala sa langit, mga maunawaing santo at patron, please mag "lets volt in" na kayo at pilitin nyo na si kupido na hasain ang sibat at panain nyo na ang puso ko at puso nya. wag nyo na sanang hintayin pang magpatiwakal ako. please lang ok?

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Isso é o que eu chamo de um par perfeito: as palavras brilhantes de Rob Thomas e a genial interpretação de Lauren Graham, juntos pela primeira vez na TV. Bom demais para ser verdade?!

Parece que sim!

Fontes confirmaram exclusivamente ao colunista do TV Guide, Michael Ausiello, que o Sr Veronica Mars convidou Graham para interpretar o papel feminino principal, ao lado do ganhador do Emmy, Bobby Cannavale (Vince, o namorado de Will em Will & Grace) no remake de sua amada dramédia dos anos 90, Cupid.

Rob Thomas disse: "Eu amo a Lauren Graham. Bobby ama a Lauren Graham. Nós exploramos a possibilidade, mas nos disseram que não é o que ela quer no momento." (ps:nós no Box também amamos a Lauren!)

O lado bom é que Graham ainda está muito interessada em voltar a TV, apesar da recente dissolução do seu contrato com a NBC. "Eu realmente quero trabalhar em televisão novamente", ela disse ao Comcast.net direto do set de The Dream of the Romans, uma comédia romântica que ela está filmando com Jeff Daniels. "É o emprego mais fixo e o melhor roteiro para mulheres".

"Eu gostaria de fazer algo em que possa ter um dedo na produção da série ou na direção", ela continuou. "Uma das coisas que aprendi com Gilmore Girls é que eu quero que o processo seja colaborativo".

Casualmente, apesar de toda campanha e boataria, Graham disse a Comcast que ela não foi chamada para o spin-off de The Office. "Eu não tinha ouvido nada sobre isso", ela disse.

Enquanto isso, a procura por uma atriz para interpretar o papel que foi de Paula Marshall continua.

Alguma indicação???

Quer ouvir sobre séries? No player abaixo está o nosso Variados número 3

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categoría: detalles
modelo: cupid / 4cupid
tamaño c/u: 30cm x 25cm
* los modelos se venden por separado como muestran las plantillas

Dateline: Thursday, August 13, 1936

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Couzens Plays Cupid Role For Woman

Mayor Frank Couzens today was asked to enact the role of Cupid and find a husband for a Kansas City woman.

The woman, signing herself as Mrs. Hope Well, but admitting the name was on ‘assumed for protection,” asked the mayor to find her “a single, Christian man between the ages of 45 and 60. Tall and with enough of the world’s goods to properly care for a wife.”

She said she was an attractive widow, “brunet, 5 feet 5 inches tall.”

-----VOTE AMERICAN-----

The Decemberists and I have a weird rollercoaster of a relationship. Every six months I'll call them up after coming across old polaroids, go out for drinks, become infatuated for a week, making love to them until I'm just plain sick of them.

Ok...so that metaphor turned a little homoerotic, but you get the point. The Decemberists are amazing in spurts, but their maritime themes get a little wearing after a while...

That said, I'm back on the up-and-up with them...or at least thier lead singer Colin Meloy. Meloy's put out two solo releases very recently, one entitled Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke (which is only being sold at his shows) and Colin Meloy Sings Live!.

Colin Meloy - "Cupid" (Sam Cooke Cover) (alt)

In the end, she ended up being more disinterested than I was, constantly complaining that she was very tired and bored during the guided tour.

Here are some pictures taken during our visit:

This is a bust head of the great philosopher, Aristotle.

Here's Socrates with receding hairline.

Plato, who's missing a nose in this sculpture.

A vase depicting the Greek gods battling the Titans. They seem to prefer fighting in the nude: "Hey, my wiener is bigger than yours!"

Woman with one broken arm and a carelessly half-exposed left breast. Drapes were very sexy in ancient Greece. Even more so when wet.

Veiled bust head of a woman.

Some fierce looking old man. I think he was a tradesman or something.

Guy with a head band. NO, he's not from That 70s Show! People do not just wear head bands for aerobics!

Side profile of a lady.

Most of the sculptures are nude. Apparently, ancient Greeks are very obsessed with the beauty of the human form. In the past, athletes competed in the nude for the Olympics games. I think it will really hurt when they fall down and hit their privates.

Beautiful male bum that will put Ricky Martin to shame.

Old man sitting on a chair. He looks a bit like Socrates, not sure if it's him.

Some soldier, I think. The hair looks like curly fries to me and made me hungry.

An interesting thing I learnt from our guide was that the height of the individuals depicted in the sculpture is relative to their status and has nothing to do with the person's real height. For example, the sculpture of a slave is always smaller than that of their master's and those of human beings, always smaller than that of the Greek gods'.

Since it was the last day of the exhibition, there was a relatively large crowd. It's interesting to see so many Singaporeans headed for the museum on a valuable Sunday afternoon. Says who we are not cultured? :)

Triangle piece with a woman in the centre.

Ancient dog lover who lives in a little house together with her dog.

Small baby trying to reach out for milk? There's a story behind these frescoes, but I can't remember.

Goddess Athena (I think) with curly fries hair.

I think this is a statue of Narcissus, the boy who fell in love with his own reflection.

Wet drapes were supposed to be super sexy. This is the equivalent of a Playboy centrefold in Grecian times.

Some warrior. Can't remember if he's Hercules.

For pussy cat lovers.

Sketching was allowed btw. I should have brought my gear along. Rachel thought at first that the guide meant we can sketch and autograph our names on the sculptures - silly right? She probably would have been thrown in jail by now for vandalising ancient treasures if I did not correct her.

Boobies! Nice or not?

Handicap toilet sign in ancient Greece.

Our chirpy guide! She gave a guided tour in English. We abandoned her for another elderly male guide who was giving a commentary in Mandarin. The elderly guy was more interesting as he was able to gave analytical comparisons between ancient Greece and Chinese civilisations during the same period.

Hmm... this sculpture should be Hercules lah. It has that condescending look as if it's telling you: "I can crush you like a cockroach!"

As you can see, we've clean forgotten what we learnt from the guides. Hehe. Can't wait to visit the next big exhibition at the National Museum.

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BAGI masyarakat Eropah, Hari Valentine adalah antara hari paling istimewa, malah menjadi tradisi disambut sejak berkurun terutama pasangan kekasih untuk meluahkan perasaan cinta, lazimnya dengan menghadiahkan kuntuman mawar merah.

Ia dikaitkan pertukaran nota cinta atas nama ‘valentine’ dan simbol moden sempena hari itu seperti garisan bentuk hati dan Cupid (Latin, cupido - tuhan cinta dan seks memberahikan) yang berkepak. Sejak kurun ke-19, nota bertulis tangan menjadi medium untuk tulisan kad ucapan.

Mengikut sejarah, hari berkenaan dinamakan sempena nama dua pahlawan zaman awal Kristian, Valentine, tetapi kemudian dikaitkan percintaan romantik.

Sebenarnya ramai pejuang awal Kristian bernama Valentine, malah sehingga 1969, Gereja Katolik secara rasmi mengiktiraf 11 Hari Valentine dan mereka bernama Valentine diberi pengiktirafan pada 14 Februari setiap tahun.

Antara yang menonjol ialah Valentine Rom, iaitu seorang paderi Rome yang mati kira-kira 269 Selepas Masihi dan dikebumikan di Via Flaminia. Peninggalannya ialah Gereja Saint Praxed di Rom dan Gereja Whitefriar Street Carmelite di Dublin, Ireland.

Seorang lagi Valentine Terni yang menjadi paderi di Interamna pada 197 Selepas Masihi dan dikatakan dibunuh pada masa penindasan Penguasa Aurelian. Dia juga dikebumikan di kawasan Via Flaminia, tetapi di tempat berbeza dengan Valentine Rom. Pusakanya ialah Gereja Basilica of Saint Valentine di Terni.

Sesetengah sumber mengatakan ‘Valentine’ yang dikaitkan dengan percintaan ialah Valentine Rom, manakala yang lain mendakwa Valentine Terni. Tetapi ada sarjana merumuskan dua nama terbabit adalah orang yang sama. Begitupun, tiada elemen percintaan pada biografi pejuang terbabit pada awal abad pertengahan.

Hari ini sambutan itu diterima masyarakat dunia.

Di Barat seperti di United Kingdom sambutannya menjadi satu tradisi, misalnya di Norfolk, satu karektor dipanggil 'Jack' Valentine mengetuk pintu rumah, meninggalkan gula-gula dan hadiah untuk kanak-kanak.

Sementara di negara Katolik tradisional seperti Perancis, Hari Valentine dikenali sebagai Saint Valentin.

Di Denmark dan Norway, Hari Valentine dipanggil Valentinsdag, iaitu hari menikmati makan malam dalam suasana romantik bersama pasangan.

Dari perspektif Islam, Profesor Perundangan Islam (Fiqh) di Universiti al-Azhar, Dr Su’ad Ibrahim Salih, menyatakan:
“Festival cinta adalah festival orang Roman, apabila mereka yang berfahaman paganisme (jahiliah) tersebar luas di kalangan orang Roman lebih 17 kurun lalu. Dalam konsep orang terbabit, ia menjadikan hari itu melahirkan perasaan cinta.”

Beliau berkata, Islam ialah agama altruisme, menekankan cinta sebenar, bekerjasama terhadap perkara baik dan sesuatu yang betul dari segi moral.

“Allah berfirman (maksudnya dalam surah al-Hujurat, ayat 10): Sebenarnya orang yang beriman itu bersaudara maka damaikanlah di antara dua saudara kamu itu; dan bertakwalah kepada Allah agar kamu beroleh rahmat.”

“Saya boleh katakan ada asas untuk menzahirkan cinta yang diterima dalam agama dan ada juga yang tidak diterima. Antara asas cinta yang diterima agama termasuk cinta kepada Nabi dan Rasul. Cinta kepada Allah dan Rasul-Nya, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w sepatutnya paling atas berbanding cinta pada yang lain.

“Islam mengiktiraf majlis sambutan untuk mendekatkan antara satu sama lain dan menambahkan perisa dalam kehidupan. Bagaimanapun, Islam melarang peniruan secara membabi buta dari Barat seperti sambutan khusus Hari Valentine.

“Justeru, sambutan hari istimewa yang dipanggil sebagai Hari Valentine adalah satu pembaharuan atau bidaah yang tiada asas dalam agama,” katanya.

Menurutnya, setiap pembaharuan seperti perkara sedemikian adalah tertolak. Berdepan persoalan ini, pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi menunjukkan ketegasannya dengan mengharamkan penjualan semua barang berkaitan Hari Valentine, malah mereka memaklumkan petugas kedai memindahkan barang berwarna merah, kerana hari terbabit bukan anjuran Islam.

cikwiduri: Alhamdulillah...dah lama tinggalkan sambutan valentine nie. Cinta dan kasih sayang disemai sepanjang masa dan bukannya menunggu masa tertentu untuk menyambutnya. Bila-bila masa sahaja kita boleh menyambut hari kasih sayang kita tetapi biarlah menurut cara yang dianjurkan Islam. Semoga umat Islam di Malaysia khususnya SEDAR akan makna Hari Valentine yang sebenar.

Bobby Cannavale will play the titular Cupid in the remake of the Rob Thomas' 1998 series. Cannavale's Cupid, aka Trevor Hale, is a recently released mental patient who may or may not actually be the mythic figure. Entourage's Jeremy Piven originated the role ten years ago, before the show was cancelled in its first season. Thomas, who also created series Veronica Mars, will script the pilot episode for ABC.

Aside from NBC, which announced its schedule ahead of the pack last week, the networks have kept their plans for fall shrouded in mystery. We'll learn more during the networks' May upfronts. While we can't make any guarantees about which series will get the vote of confidence, here are some promising players to keep your eye on.

ABC

The network is betting big on Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars), who has two remakes in development. Outrageous Fortune, a New Zealand drama about a family of blue-collar criminals who go straight after the father ends up in jail, is already generating rumors of a reunion with Kristen Bell. Thomas should be very familiar with his other ABC pilot: a remake of his 1998 Jeremy Piven romancer Cupid, which the network canceled after one season. Bobby Cannavale (Third Watch, Will & Grace) takes over the role of Trevor Hale, who believes he is Cupid. Banished by Zeus from Mt. Olympus, he must connect 100 couples without using his powers. The new incarnation of the series will take place in Los Angeles and undoubtedly feature many big name guest stars as the romantically challenged couples.

ABC also has a holdover from last season in Life On Mars, a remake - notice a trend? - of a British series about a cop who is mysteriously transported to the 1970s after a car crash. The adaptation comes from David E. Kelley and go-to director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing).

If Darren Star's Cashmere Mafia doesn't get a renewal, Star could shift focus to Literary Superstar, which would bring back Jenna Elfman to the sitcom arena as a devoted book publicist.

Section 8 from Zak Penn, writer of the last two X-Men films, could give ABC a Heroes-like companion to Lost. The series revolves around a group of everyday people with advanced neurological abnormalities who work for a secret government agency.

CBS

Love is the air at CBS. A number of the network's pilots chronicle the pursuit of romance. Following in the season's major trend, Elisha Cuthbert (24) stars in the remake of the British series Ny-Lon. Cuthbert is a New York record store clerk (originally played by The Office's Rashida Jones) who embarks on a long-distance relationship with a London stock broker. Ny-Lon - get it?

Another promising drama, Mythological X from Diane Ruggiero (Veronica Mars), also explores issues of the heart. Grey's Anatomy's Elizabeth Reaser has nabbed the lead role of a woman who finds out from a psychic that she has already dated and dumped the man she's meant to marry and sets off on a quest to find him by revisiting her exes. Rachel Boston (American Dreams) stars as her younger sister.

On the comedy front, romance gets complicated on My Best Friend's Girl, which is pretty self-explanatory. The charming Jennie Garth is the girl in question, now girlfriend to her ex-husband's best friend. Garth's casting dashes hopes for any major role on The CW's Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off.

The Meant To Be's from Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron stars Amy Smart (Smith) as a woman who dies, but must return to earth and help nudge people toward their "meant to be" trajectory before she can "pass over." Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) co-stars as The Man, a guide for Smart in post-death limbo.

The CW

If the modus operandi at CBS is romance and the general MO this season is remakes of international hits, then The CW's MO is rich and young. Following the success of Gossip Girl, the network has given Rina Mimoun (Everwood, Pushing Daisies) the task of adapting another book series from the publishers of Gossip Girl. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls revolves around a young, Yale-educated woman (Reba's Joanna Garcia) who is hired to be the live-in tutor to two rich heiresses in Palm Beach. Michael Cassidy, adept at playing rich from his days on The O.C., Hidden Palms and Smallville, is her boyfriend.

Then there's that other rich teen show that has everyone buzzing. Not to be outdone by Josh Schwartz's two pilot pick-ups last season, Rob Thomas has a third on his plate in the untitled Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off. There's no word yet on whether any original regulars will be part of the new cast. Thomas wants Garth, Tiffani Thiessen has already excluded herself and Tori Spelling is up for it - but it seems that some of the offspring of the original cast might be around. The spin-off will center around the Mills family, who move to Beverly Hills from St. Louis to be with matriarch Tabitha Mills, a 60-something actress/alcoholic. Harry Mills, her son, is a graduate of West Beverly High School, which is now populated by YouTube star Daphne Silver (any relation to Brian Austin Green's David Silver?), Andrea's daughter Hannah Zuckerman-Vasquez, the host of the school's news show, and Ethan Ward (Runaway's Dustin Milligan), a jock who becomes friends with the ''90210'' gang after a falling out with the A-list crowd.

The CW is mixing rich and young with another TV mainstay in Austin Golden Hour. The medical drama about a group of emergency room surgeons and EMTs in Austin, Texas evolves in real time, bringing the medical traumas of E.R. and Grey's Anatomy to the netlet. So far, only Justin Hartley, who paid his CW dues on Smallville, has been cast.

FOX

If there are any sure bets, they're at FOX. The network has two of the most high profile projects: Joss Whedon's highly anticipated return to TV, Dollhouse, and J.J. Abrams' Fringe. According to The Wall Street Journal, FOX execs has decided to forgo making a pilot for Dollhouse, choosing to spend that money on sets instead. The series, starring former Buffy vet Eliza Dushku as a doll-like blank slate that can be programmed with different personalities and abilities, already has a seven-episode commitment.

Similarly, FOX has invested in Fringe, spending upwards of $10 million on the project which stars Joshua Jackson (desperately in need of a hit like this after floundering post-Dawson's Creek), Mark Valley (Boston Legal) and Abram's newest "It" girl Anna Torv from Australia. Torv is a FBI agent who teams up with a institutionalized scientist with a specialty in fringe science to investigate unexplained phenomena. Jackson is the scientist's estranged son, a high-school dropout with a high IQ and a gambling problem. Together, Fringe and Dollhouse could bring Heroes and Lost-like levels of buzz and rapt attention to the network.

FOX also has a couple of other shows from big names that are worthy of your attention: midlife crisis comedy Night Life from brothers Zach (director) and Adam Braff (creator/producer), mysterious drama The Oaks from Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Queen B from Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck) and a Family Guy spin-off from Seth MacFarlane.

- Written for Starpulse.com

Bobby Cannavale has been cast in the title role in the ABC pilot Cupid, an updated version of Rob Thomas' 1990s comedy. Cannavale will play Trevor Hale, a manic yet charming man who believes he is the Roman god of love. Jeremy Piven played the role on the original series.

At first glance Cannavale, best known for his roles on Will and Grace and Third Watch, might not seem a winning choice. But movie fans who've seen his marvelous turn in The Station Agent know the guy's got hidden depths worth plumbing, as well as some pretty impeccable comic timing.

No word yet on who will play the Paula Marshall role as Trevor's therapist.

JoBlo has a new clip from Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr is THE MAN.

Emma, hip hop musical style! Ooooh, she gonna get serrrved!

EW has a list of Daniel Day Lewis' best ever roles.

Darren Aronofsky is writing a show for AMC.

Errol Morris is moving into fiction.

The reaction to Oliver Stone's script about George W Bush has been mixed among biographers of the World's Most Powerful Buffoon.

IndieWire has a review of The Visitor, the new film from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy.

MGM is defending its decision to delay Valkyrie.

Bright Lights After Dark has a tribute to Bette Davis on her centenary.

Top Model reject Clare bitches away to TV Guide.

The AV Club interviews John Krasinski and profiles the career of Thomas Haden Church.

Bobby Cannavale is to star in the updated version of Cupid from Veronica Mars' Rob Thomas.

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"Mira, salimos en la televi... Espera... ¿¿Ahora somos una serie??"

Estamos en una época creativamente nula en cuanto a tramas originales e historias atractivas dentro del panorama Usamericano. Todo lo que se anuncia con ímpetu por parte de las distribuidoras son secuelas y remakes de todo tipo, formas y estilos. Sin embargo, la televisión americana, en clara edad de oro, se había librado de remakes y secuelas burdas con buen ojo. Las revisiones y/o secuelas creadas hasta hace un par de años eran pocas, y bastante más justificables y necesarias que los de la industria cinematográfica (Battlestar Galactica). Pero hete aquí que esta buena relación de hechos ha cambiado desde hace un año, y si ya esta temporada hemos disfrutado (irónicamente, ojo) de remakes bastante malos (Bionic Woman, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Flash Gordon), para el futuro directamente nos llegan engendros que hasta hace nada parecían imposibles de realizar. Muchos de ellos son de los que hablamos ahora, pero afortunadamente nos quedan proyectos como el piloto de Children of men, o noticias extras de Entourage, a mi juicio más interesantes que Knight Rider o Sensación de vivir Redux (Título inventado by me). Pero mejor me pongo a explicar todas las noticias y vosotros decidís cual os parece más interesante, ¿fale?

Vamos allá:

-El Coche Fantástico, finalmente, tendrá serie completa:
El post con más exito de visitas, y de los pocos con comentarios y debate en Peliculeros, es aquel donde explicamos cómo iba a ser la nueva versión/secuela de Knight Rider, serie para la que se preparó un episodio piloto. Si este funcionaba, pues se encargaría para Octubre una serie completa. Bien. Como es obvio, ha funcionado.

Tampoco hay mucho más que decir. De hecho, las audiencias habían sido más que satisfactorias, el debate en la red de redes sobre el nuevo coche ha sido amplio, y en general se puede calificar de notable su estreno el pasado 17 de febrero en la NBC.

"Bah, tú y yo molábamos más..."

Por ello, y obviando hechos importantes como que el episodio piloto es un tostón, que el coche está muy, muy, pero que muy lejos de tener el carisma que se le presupone al Coche Fantástico, que los actores están igual que el coche y que David Haselhoff sólo hace un cameo, a pesar de todo, los directivos de la cadena han dicho que oyes, que vale, que pa´lante con el invento y que sea lo que Dios quiera, de la mano de Gary Scott Thompson. ¡Y es que un coche que puede mutar en distintos modelos gracias a la nanotecnología no puede tener carisma, coño!

En fin, que el estreno se calcula para octubre, con la vuelta de los protagonistas (Justin Bruening, Sydney Tamiia Poitier y Bruce Davison) , de los creadores (Glen A. Larson, Doug Liman y la nueva incorporación), y del peazo pepino para intentar hacer algo mejor que lo ya visto. Esperemos...

-Children of Men se transformará en serie. Y con un buen creador a sus espaldas:
Por que está claro que David Eick, co-creador de esa desconocida serie llamada Battlestar Galactica, lo de bueno lo lleva en la sangre. Aunque el tiro le salió ligeramente desviado en Bionic Woman, el chico sabe hacer las cosas bien según su experiencia en BSG, así que no se puede pedir más que una conversión más que decente de Hijos de los Hombres, habida cuenta de que la adaptación anterior cinematográfica es la mejor película de ciencia ficción de la década hasta el momento, punto pelota. El caso es que el piloto está en pre-producción y en Peliculeros estaremos atentos.

-The Eleventh Hour, una serie inglesa convertida en americana:
Una miniserie británica arrasó allá por el 2004. La protagonizaba Patrick "Xavier/Picard" Stewart, y narraba las investigaciones de un científico y su guardaespaldas/agente secreta para defender a los ciudadanos de los abusos de la ciencia por parte del gobierno y derivados. Esa serie era Eleventh Hour. Ahora los yankis, que no saben terminar las cosas pero sí alargarlas, han decidido remakearla y convertirla en una serie. Así que la CBS en este caso ha puesto a Rufus Sewell en el rol de Stewart y al sinpar Jerry Bruckheimer produciendo. La serie tendrá en principio trece episodios a estrenar en Septiembre.

-Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) crea 90210: Sensación de vivir - The next generation (...y el título NO es broma):
Dicho título es el que se baraja para el piloto. Y por lo que parece, el casting ya ha empezado y apunta a un reparto joven que te cagas. Joven y chungo, añado yo. Por que siceramente el creador de toda esta broma noventera es el sobrevalorado Rob Thomas, que no me parece un gran creador ni muchísimo menos. Aunque respeto a todos los seguidores de su última serie, Veronica Mars no me parece un producto competitivo ni una serie artísticamente notable, y su calidad me parece comparable a la de series como Crossing Jordan o la mediocre The 4.400, por poner ejemplos diferenciables. En fin, que a ver qué sale del piloto, que por cierto es tan sólo uno de los tres que prepara este prolífico realizador, amante de los remakes. Le acompañan Outrageus fortune, otro remake de una serie de Nueva Zelanda con Kristin "Veronica Mars" Bell y Renè Russo; Y por otro lado, Cupid. Este piloto también, aunque os parezca coña, es un remake de una serie anterior protagonizada por el gran Jeremy Piven (Entourage, de la que hablamos ahora mismito y de regalo). Así están las cosas en el mundo de los aprovechaos, aunque oye, quien sabe, quizás se marque tres episodios pilotos como una catedral y en Peliculeros nos tenemos que callar. Pero lo dudo. ¿Volveremos a ver a Brandon, Kelly, Dylan y compañía? Espero que al menos le den veracidad y Dylan esté en un estado parecido al de Pancho tras Verano Azul, como mínimo.

-Y de regalo... ¡Noticias de la 5ª temporada de Entourage!
Porque el creador, Doug Ellin, ha comentado ciertas cosillas muy interesantes sobre esta próxima temporada, cuyo rodaje comienza este sábado 5 de Abril. Ya habíamos contado algo sobre ella. Sabemos ahora gracias a él que la quinta temporada tendrá la vuelta de Dom, el calvo gordaco que volvía loco a nuestros colegas peliculeros favoritos en la tercera y cuarta temporada. Resulta que el actor y el creador de la serie son íntimos. Debo decir que no me agrada el personaje demasiado, pero parece que podría volver con cierto argumento bastante fuerte y dramático... como un cáncer (espero que no). Además, no se tocará la Huelga de guionistas en el argumento, y la temporada se estrenará finalmente en Septiembre de este año, con ocho capítulos on the way. Si la cosa gusta... pues se harán más. Ah, y Ellin deja claro que el tiene argumento de sobra para esta temporada y tres más. ¿Hasta una octava temporada con Vince, Ari y los demás?. ¡¡Ojalá!! En inglés en el apartado de la serie en la Wikipedia.

¡¡¡DRAMA IS BACK, BABY!!!

Y todo esto hasta hoy. ¡Y por siempre!

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O criador de Veronica Mars ou é workaholic ou gosta mesmo de televisão! Assim como Kristen Bell (a Verônica), que trabalha em Heroes e Gossip Girl, o cara tambpem parece gostar de ter mais de um emprego ao mesmo tempo. Até porque atualmente ele tem no mínimo três!

Sua rotina está em ritmo de louco neste semestre, se é que pode ser chamada de rotina! Foi contratado pelo CW para escrever a nova versão de Beverly Hills, 90210 (aqui conhecido como Barrados no Baile) e também pela ABC para o remake da comédia Cupid.

Agora Thomas se prepara para a produção de mais um piloto. Ele será da ABC que, como você leu acima, já tem um contrato com o cara. O projeto ainda sem título falará sobre uma quadrilha familiar cuja matriarca decide tirar o clã das escuras depois de ter o marido jogado atrás das grades.

A pretensão é mesclar elementos de comédia e drama em uma mesma história, baseada na série Neo-Zelandesa Outrageous Fortune.

Outra novidade televisiva vem da CBS que deu sinal verde para duas comédias com enfoque na vida a dois, melhor dizendo: no casamento. Ok, não foi a melhor colocação. Tem casamento onde a vida é a três, a quatro...

Enfim, as séries vão falar sobre vida após casamento. Você acredita nela? A primeira das séries, nomeada como Oldyweds, vem da ex produtora de Friends, Shana Goldberg-Meehan e segue a vida de um casal recém casado na faixa dos 30.

A segunda série ainda não tem título, mas falará sobre um pai divorciado que terá que lidar com sua nova vida e também com a nova vida dos filhos!

Finalmente, mas não menos importante: ABC acolheu Five Year Plan, uma comédia sobre jovens de vinte e poucos anos que tentam planejar os próximos cinco anos de suas vidas.

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The Power of Transference: NBC sitcom Scrubs faced an uncertain future this year and was reportedly a candidate for cancelation. That is until an angel stepped in, this one in the form of rival network ABC. ABC Studios was already producing the series for NBC, in a somewhat unusual arrangement. Rather than see the show canceled, ABC is expected to transfer Scrubs to ther own network for at least a season.

The Power of Preservation: 'Friends with money' extended the life of NBC's Friday Night Lights. Satellite provider DirectTV has agreed to subsidize the production costs of the show. Lights, which has a moderate but devoted following, will live to see another season, owing to an act of intercession.

The Power of Reincarnation: 1998's Cupid lasted about 15 eps before getting the axe from ABC. A decade later show creator Rob Thomas (not that Rob Thomas) is reintroducing the series to audiences, albeit in a different form. Cupid will have a new lead actor and a new setting, but the same basic premise.

My fellow TV Angels have certainly been busy. It does make one proud. :)

you actually came at the right place but at the wrong time. i am not yet prepared to the kind of life that you offer. i cannot live your world. i cannot fake my feelings. i am not naive. i am not you. but if you gonna ask me if i still love you. yes, i really really love you. but thats not enough ingredient to stick up with you.

but anyway thanks for bringing my old self back. thank you for being faithful. thank you for inspiring me again. thank you for giving me a chance to glimpse your complicated world.

and i am sorry for my bad deeds. i am very sorry for being such an irresponsible boyfriend.

yup we can be friends. better that way. but if someday u need someone to comfort you... dont worry boo i would still love to hold your hands and walk under the moon with you.

i love you soo much but love alone is not enough.
best regards,

mackoy

For some reason, Cupid thinks it's funny to play games with me. The chubby little cherub must be chuckling at his latest mischievous misfire, and now I have to break someone's heart. I thought I had managed to stave off Mr. Softee, but during a raucous house party social gathering, he professed his undying love for me. He took a record of every inch of my body as it moved to the dancehall music blaring from the speakers. For a moment, I thought I felt him fondle me, but it was only his intense stare violating me.

I tried to like him when I first found out he was interested. I really did. Ok, well the truth is, I had to force down a mouthful of vomit when he made his interest known and put his arm around my waist. I just couldn't get over his high-pitched voice and seeing him run errands for his friends.

I guess he didn't get the hint from his unanswered text messages and the unreturned phone calls because last night he mustered up enough courage to grab my hips and pull me toward him. Confused, I squirmed, then eventually wrestled to break free from his vice grip. I grabbed my chest as I tried to catch my breath.

"I'm...sssso...sorry," he said in his falsetto-ish voice.

I don't get it. How did he not get the message? Why did cupid think it was funny to make a fool of me? Now, whenever he and I are in the same room, regardless of the setting, it's going to be awkward.

I want Cupid to finally get it right. I want the little sucker to pick a target, aim, and fire accurately.