The Most Affordable Places to Live List is Out

The most affordable places to live in the United States list is out and here is what you need to know if you must economize whilst still striving toward living well. Minneapolis tops the list of places to live well. The homes are said to be fairly affordable and residents experience an exceptional quality of life while also having access to choice arts, leisure, and entertainment offerings. High housing prices in areas like North Carolina’s Charlotte are sometime set off by job growth reflecting positively on quality of life. This is due in part to the technology and innovation of the states commerce and superb lifestyle.

Marianne Pearl grumbles to an online reporter against the Wall Street Journal

Do we really have to hear about this woman's lost for the rest of our lives... really! I feel for Daniel Pearl's son, his mother, his father, and anyone who is privately revisiting the awful events that have happen to him and them as much as or more than Mariane herself. There are approximately 3000 victims in the 911 tragedy which happened here in America and we do not hear daily or weekly accounts of their ordeals or anguish as it has been more recent and equally if not more so than Marianne Pearl's suffering.

If Mariane has not noticed there is a war ongoing in Iraq and hundred of thousands of American soldiers whose lives as important to Mariane's husband's lost life who are not returned to their families or their love ones because of their own deaths at the hands of a senseless war America continues to fight against the public majority belief and wishes. We are all suffering in one way or another or of some sort of loss in our personals lives. Some of us are still fighting for compensation for injustices conducted directly against us. From what I understand Mariane has been compensated, paid plenty of attention to thus far and even have a film about HER story. I would much rather know more about her deceased husband's life than her ax to grind with the Wall Street Journal in the world of authority rights over all others.

She said at party on Thursday's party at Trump World Tower hosted by Glamour editrix Cindi Leive and Glamour publisher Bill Wackerman for Pearl's book, "In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl" - a book based on the column she writes for the magazine - Pearl grumbled to an online reporter: "I think the Wall Street Journal has one person covering Africa. Celebrities are doing the work that journalists are not. We can't afford to be cynical about that."

Oh, please some celebrities need and use Africa as much as the cover and smoke screen for all sorts of personal shortcomings and deceptions. In any rate those who are of no real merit are the same celebrities just blowing nonsense at the wind and have nothing better to do than complain about what everyone isn't doing as if their self imposing importance is so above us all. It sounds like to me that Mariane Pearl has been spending to much with or reading into too much of Ms. Jolie's “I’M SUCH A GIANT CELEBRITY... LOOK AT ME philosophies. Enough already!

As for the Wall Street Journal at least they are not front page flaunting celebrity-ism “we’re such a couple or we're such a family crap.” More power to you WALL STREET JOURNAL! You have my VOTE. I just don’t get her… at all! There are widows everywhere in the world… why doesn’t Mariane Pearl also or instead tell their story not just woman’s stories, but the stories of how they go on with their lives and stay strong for themselves and those they are responsible for instance if she does not already rather than this petty nonsense.

It’s not like she was set up by British corrupt police officers, denied justice for eights years, betrayed by everyone she knew, and her man taken over and exploited by some empty headed actress and her orphans in addition to her lost years ago. No, it happened to Daniels’ family too not just her! She has not been made destitute through her fight, denied compensation or justice, or a platform to by heard. Instead we still hear this spiteful clamor when one would summarize she has been more than fairly treated under the circumstance as has her son. Some of us do not have the luxury of getting our voices heard instantly and the press telling our stories over and over and over again even long after…

"American Gangster" takes on and takes down the completion

Outstanding! "American Gangster" takes on and takes down the completion at the weekend’s box office. The Ridgley Scott directed mega flick has more than seen off all others over the weekend with an impressive $46.3 million taking it to the very top of the heap with the "Bee Movie," $39.1 million coming in at second and at third the highly anticipated umpteen sequel "Saw IV," with $11 million.

The exceptional success of "American Gangster" makes for a great recovery at the box office for Ridley Scott after the financial disappointment of "The Assassination of Jesse James" produced by Scott and directed by Andrew Dominik due to what could be only described as "production baggage"... aka. BRANGELINA! This in the face of the monster successful western “3:10 to Yuma” released just weeks before "The Assassination of Jesse James" and still raking it in to the tune of approximately $50 million by the time "The Assassination of Jesse James" was also at the box office. The tremendous western “3:10 to Yuma” was directed by James Mangold who brought to life in larger than life fashion the legendary Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line.”

Let’s see Brangelina or a monster triumph at the box office… I know which one I would have decide on. Goes to show the real power in Hollywood is the power you never really see who ultimately have the final word on who will get the nod or award and who doesn’t. They will always be the voice that speaks louder than any publicist at the end of any and everyday. Not to mention the paying movie going public who buys those tickets or opts to give certain flicks a miss. And, thank GOD for that!

Tom and Katie at Tom's new film "Lions for Lamb"

Tom and Katie...ahhhhh! Good luck with the new film Lions for Lamb, Tom. It looks like a real contender for the box office and awards season 2008.

Clinton continues brazen out the opposition

GO Hillary Rodham Clinton!!!!!! Clinton for President!

Cate Blanchett pregnant with third child

One of Hollywood's most esteemed actresses, Cate Blanchett has just been confirmed pregnant with her third children. Ever since Pushing Tin (1999), Cate can do no wrong. With her on and off set personal integrity, Cate's career has only grown more prestigious over the years like a fine wine. She has the conducts herself and personal life with impeccable reserve and both well and truly kept far from the sad glare of Hollywood. She keeps her family even more guarded from tabloid sensationalism the more it grew over the years as well. Let's just say she has never been the type to go looking for relationships on her film sets or with her co-stars ever!

She is seen to be toe to toe with Hollywood's most revered legendary actresses from a time long ago to now like the great Katherine Hepburn and Meryl Streep. Pure elegance and style enters the room or film set of every occasion Cate Blanchett graces with her presence. With a filmograph that most Hollywood actresses only dream of including The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Babel, The Aviator, and the Good German. She has worked with Hollywood’s finest actors in even repeated co-starring collaboration being more testaments to her personal and professional respectability. She possesses talent and on screen presence that has won her not only an Academy Award, but also several additional Academy Award and Golden Globes nominations almost annually. I have only the utmost respect for Cate and send my well wishes for her, her family, and her new one on the way!

Katie Holmes in Mad Money

We at Excalibur-one adore Tom and Katie... We are Real Tomkat fans....And Suri is just heavenly! Check out Katie's new flick also starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Roger R. Cross, and Ted Danson. The remake comedy caper is described as a film about three ordinary women who become unlikely friends and then step a little out of character when they decide to do something extraordinary... ie. Rob one of the most secure banks in the world. Mad Money is directed by Callie Khouri and opens in a theatre near you on January 18th, 2008. We haven't seen Katie on the silver screen for a while since marrying Tom and have a "REAL" love child... so this should be fun!

Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein blames "culture coarsened by celebrity news" for decline in journalism

Renowned Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein told a group of college preparatory students in Greenwich, Connecticut that "a culture coarsened by celebrity news" is to responsibility for decline of public affairs journalism. The former Washington Post reporter is not wrong in addressing the shortcoming of the media's representation of the news as the media influences are more motivated now by the superficiality of celebrity-ism.

The paparazzi are blamed or targeted as the bad guys. But, it’s like crime, which really is to blame, the drugs or the poverty that perpetuates criminal motivations. In the case of celebrity-ism, is it the blame that of the publicist that feed the tabloids with stories and client tips offs for more publicity driven focus on the client’s personal life in particular rather than the paparazzi who are merely like the foot soldiers supplying the photos for celebrity media hungry publications.

Should there be laws put into place to prosecute publicists who actually allow or facilitate deception in the media for public consumption and annual company profits. While the news has its hand full with competing with the likes of celebrity scandals and personal woes what educational value or culturally based attributes are there for the public at large to such over kill of ones over exposed personal celebrity life or lifestyle.

What is even sadder are those celebrities who desperately seek out the attention and inflict it upon the masses through means of publicity stunts or outlandish behavior and the exploitation of others. Bernstein said, "more resources are being devoted to the lifestyles of celebrities such as Donald Trump and Paris Hilton". "The problems we have in news and journalism are about us not doing our job well enough," Bernstein said. "The ideal of providing the best available version of the truth is being affected by the dominance of a journalistic culture that has less and less to do with reality and context."

Bernstein, 63, goes onto say that he believes an "idiot culture" is also very much to culpability for the dysfunction of political life in the United States. "You can't separate the appetites and demands of the people themselves and what they are given," he said. "The blame simply can't all be put at the feet of those who present news."

It is one thing like any other "normal" person in or out of the limelight to make bit of a mess of your life on the way to finding the necessary answers to the meaning or purpose of life to make positive change when your in your twenty's, but when you hit thirty plus is there really any further excuse for such celebrity-ism to prevail beyond professional intent aka film promotional commits and product promotional obligations.

Maybe, there needs if nothing else to be a sell by date on celebrity personal life scandalous behavior and predicable outlandish personal misconduct. After, the age of thirty personal public and deliberate display of a scandalous or scandal inducing nature is just tacky and tasteless. Not classy whatsoever!