Winehouse Is A Dud Under The Mistletoe, And Men Would Do The Un-Thinkable To Avoid The Xmas Crush
Amy Winehouse’s fall from grace seems to keep on coming. This Christmas season, the troubled singer not only finds herself with a jailbird husband and a string of cancelled tour dates, but a Nuts TV nationwide poll conducted amongst men aged 16 – 34 has now revealed that Winehouse is the least favourite girl to pucker up with under the mistletoe this year. Amy topped Nuts TV’s poll with a landslide 48% of the vote. One celeb who should be filled with festive cheer this year is Keira Knightley who was judged the girl men would most like to take to their Christmas Party.
Christmas spirit seems to be in short supply this year amongst the men of Britain who have spoken out on their hatred of Christmas shopping. Whilst recent research showed that women prefer Shopping to sex, Nuts TV revealed that rather than spend the day in the Xmas shopping crush, men would be prepared to do a string of unthinkable acts including giving up sex and beer for a week, cleaning the house for a month, driving a pink banger and even wearing their rival teams kit on a match day.
Nuts TV has recently launched its Man Time nationwide campaign highlighting that every night between 9pm and 1am is Man Time. The nationwide poll was conducted to support the campaign and was designed to research what constitutes the ideal Man Time as well as gain an insight into the things men love most including girls, sport and comedy. To coincide with the campaign Nuts TV will be incorporating a Man Time editorial strand into the channel from Monday 10th December.
Q1 Which comedian from the list below would you most like to see give an alternative Queens speech at Christmas?
1. Peter Kaye – 25.60%
2. Lee Evans – 18.3%
3. Lenny Henry – 18.60%
4. Jimmy Carr – 10%
5. Ricky Gervais – 8.60%
6. Russell Brand – 9.30%
7. Eddie Izzard – 5.10%
8. Jack Dee – 5.40%
9. Frank Skinner – 3.40%
10. Ross Noble – 2.70%
Q2 Which of these girls would you most like to take to your office Christmas party? (If you were to have a Christmas Party)
1. Keira Knightley – 23.60%
2. Kelly Brook – 22.50%
3. Gemma Atkinson from “I’m a Celebrity” – 15.30%
4. Kate Moss – 9.60%
5. Cheryl Cole – 8.8%
6. Leona Lewis – 7.30%
7. Lucy Pinder – 5.90%
8. Victoria Beckham – 3.10%
9. Amy Winehouse – 2.71%
10. Chanelle from “Big Brother” – 1.30%
Q3 Which of these girls would you LEAST like to kiss under the mistletoe?
1. Amy Winehouse – 48%
2. Victoria Beckham – 24.60%
3. Chanelle (Big Brother) – 13.40%
4. Kate Moss – 4.90%
5. Keira Knightley – 2.30%
6. Lucy Pinder – 1.70%
7. Leona Lewis – 1.70%
8. Kelly Brook – 1.60%
9. Gemma Atkinson from “I’m a Celebrity” – 1.10%
10. Cheryl Cole – 0.60%
Q4 Which sports personality from the list below would you MOST like to invite to Christmas dinner?
1. David Beckham – 23.90%
2. Lewis Hamilton – 19.40%
3. Jonny Wilkinson – 13.80%
4. Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff – 13.10%
5. John Terry – 7.9%
6. Steve Redgrave – 6.50%
7. Wayne Rooney – 6.50%
8. Rodney Marsh – 3.50%
9. Theo Walcott – 2.70%
10. Andy Murray – 2.60%
Q5 Imagine that your partner is at their office Christmas party giving you space to indulge in some “Man Time” – what would be your ideal night in?
1. Getting your mates round with a crate of beer – 26.80%
2. All night games console session – 22.7%
3. Action Movie and a pizza – 12.30%
4. Watching Football all night – 12.20%
5. Playing poker with the boys – 11.20%
6. Watching TV with full control of the remote – 6.20%
7. None of the above – 8.70%
Q6 If your partner was at their Christmas party and you knew for certain you wouldn’t get caught, which of the following would you like to try?
1. Watch a porn movie – 33.50%
2. Have a candlelit bath with candles and bubbles – 11.90%
3. Invite another girl around for a romantic evening – 11.80%
4. Read girly magazines – Heat, Closer etc. – 9.30%
5. Go through their emails – 9.20%
6. Cook naked and leave the washing up – 8.70%
7. Watch a chick flick – 6.60%
8. Go online shopping with your partner’s credit card 5.60%
9. Try on partner’s underwear – 3.90%
10. Try on partners make-up – 2.80%
11. None of the above – 37.90
Q7 Which of the following would you be prepared to do rather than being dragged Christmas shopping for the day with your partner.
1. Go without beer for a week – 38.6%
2. Do all the cleaning in the house for a month – 19.40%
3. Go without sex for a week – 17.50%
4. Spend the day baking Christmas food with your whole family – 13.60%
5. Drive a pink clapped out car for a week – 13.50%
6. Only eat vegetables for a week – 11.70%
7. Spend New Year’s Eve watching TV with your in-laws – 10.70%
8. Only eat vegetables for a week 11.70%
9. Dress up as a woman to go to your local pub for the night – 8.30%
10. Kiss your partner’s grandma on the lips – 4.90%
11. Walk around in your rival team’s football kit on the day your team are playing – 5.1%
12. None of the above – 28.80%
Led Zeppelin Hit The Big Screen!
Gutted you didn’t get tickets to see Led Zeppelin in O2 Arena next Monday? How about travelling back in time to check out some of the most incendiary live performances ever?!
In what promises to be the concert of the decade on 10th December, Led Zeppelin are back and will headline at the O2 Arena Tribute Concert to the Late Ahmet Ertegun. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones will be joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham for this historic concert of a lifetime that sold out in record time.
It is of course sold out, but to celebrate this event, Vue cinemas have teamed up with Warner Music to screen an exclusive ‘best of’ selection of Led Zeppelin live performances on the same night as the O2 concert across eight Vue cinemas.
Featured are performances from the Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, just one year after the release of their debut album, their triumphant five-night run at Earl’s Court in May 1975 and their record-breaking shows at the Knebworth Festival in August 1979, just one year before the death of drummer John Bonham led to the band’s dissolution.
These rare performances have been painstakingly restored, remixed, and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround – under the personal supervision of Jimmy Page and director Dick Carruthers.
Mark de Quervain, Sales and Marketing Director for Vue Entertainment, said, “We are really excited to be able to give many fans who missed out on getting tickets for the reunion gig the chance to see these amazing performances on the big screen.”
Conrad Withey, President, Warner Music Entertainment, said, “Led Zeppelin are an awesome live band and this is a great opportunity to experience these stunning performances in a cinema. We expect there to be a real sense of occasion. The two disc DVD, from which these performances are taken, is superb way for fans, both long term and new, to delve deeper into the band’s history.”
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The Landscape Oil Sketch At The National Gallery
By the early 19th century, the practice of painting oil sketches in the open air was widespread across Europe. Oil sketching was seen primarily as training for the hand and eye, with artists exhorted to paint quickly to capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. In the space of just two hours, some artists were able to make works of tremendous freshness and beauty. Artists from Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Scandinavia were particularly attracted to the Roman Campagna but also found inspiration in their native lands.
These sketches were rarely intended for public exhibition. Painted on small-scale wooden panels or paper, they were piled in the corner of the artist’s studio, little valued and largely ignored until generations later. This National Gallery Room 1 exhibition celebrates the rediscovery and re-evaluation of these remarkable works of art, drawing on one of the finest collections of oil sketches in the world.
Since 1999, when the renowned Gere collection was entrusted to the National Gallery on long-term loan, the Gallery has become one of the most important destinations for the study of this now unusual art form.The challenge of attributing individual sketches has been a key concern for art historians at the Gallery. Sketches were almost never signed and close-knit circles of artists frequently painted in a remarkably similar manner.
When the Gere collection was first displayed at the National Gallery in the summer of 1999, the curators received several letters from members of the public disputing the subject and authorship given for several important works. Experts had speculated that Lord Frederic Leighton’s Coastal Landscape was inspired by a site in Cornwall. That was until resident Mark Collins realised that Leighton’s stretch of coastline precisely matched a photograph he had taken near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.
Even more remarkable was the discovery by American painter, Susan Bull Riley, who recognised that a Landscape with Cumulus Clouds – confidently attributed by experts to Gilles-François-Joseph Closson – in fact bore a striking resemblance to a painting in the V&A, Landscape near Haarlem, 1839, by the Dutch painter Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870). Thanks to the expert eyes of these visitors, both works will now go on display with their amended attributions for the first time.
Featuring around 50 small-scale works, the exhibition will include Théodore Rousseau’s The Valley of St-Vincent, one of two landscape oil sketches purchased by the National Gallery in 1918 at the Paris sale of Edgar Degas’s private collection. Also on display will be scenes by such admired figures as Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Simon Denis, Giovanni-Battista Camuccini and eight works by Lord Leighton (1830–1896), who was President of the Royal Academy for eighteen years and the first artist to be raised to the peerage in Great Britain.
In the latter part of the 19th century the immediacy and spontaneity of oil-sketching was adopted by the Impressionists, including Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, who exhibited their own sketch-like paintings as finished pictures. Meanwhile the importance of oil-sketching in academic artistic practice declined.
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