Anyone who saw the AST Dew extreme sports tour on NBC Saturday saw that the city was looking fantastic, and getting a ton of great publicity from the event.

 

AND it was so cool to North Coast Harbor packed with people....we need more events like this one. It is a terrific venue and amazingly photogenic.

 

See what I mean:

 

http://video.astdewtour.com/player/?id=277549

One of the Project Ranway contestants is from Cleveland.

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http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/5/bios/bios.php?stylist=suede

Suede started his fashion career as an intern at Geoffrey Beene and decided to pursue a career in sportswear. He has launched denim-based collections, but has a passion for couture, eveningwear, and specialty apparel. Suede believes that this wide variety of style makes him a multi-talented designer. He describes himself as edgy, captivating and alternative. Madonna has been Suede's biggest fashion influence -- he finds that her ability to explore so many styles and cultures is a great inspiration. He thinks that layering, experimenting, and leaving things to the imagination are all fashion musts.

 

Lets hope he's not the first voted off.

 

I remember him at Kent State - quite a talented designer.

I liked the AST tour shot of the Rapid chugging across the bridge over the Cuyahoga.

Anyone who saw the AST Dew extreme sports tour on NBC Saturday saw that the city was looking fantastic, and getting a ton of great publicity from the event.

 

AND it was so cool to North Coast Harbor packed with people....we need more events like this one. It is a terrific venue and amazingly photogenic.

The city looked cool and hip for all the young folks watching this on tv.

there sure were a lot of younger people walking the streets last week.  Lots of extremely attractive girls in short shorts I must add!

 

 

FYI there is also a model from Cleveland in the competition.

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Project Runway' recap -- Suede wins!

Posted by dpolveri July 24, 2008 01:11AM

 

Suede may be very tired, Suede may have a lot of work to do, Suede may refer to himself nonstop in the third-person, but Suede is a winner.

 

At least on Wednesday night.

 

In a drop-the-bowl-of-ice-cream surprise, our Cleveland homeboy won the designer challenge on Episode 2 of Bravo's "Project Runway" with an intricate, flirty and youthful cocktail dress that got the nod of approval from no less than Natalie Portman, Young Hollywood's chicest star. Even better, his dress will be put into production and sold by Bluefly.com in the coming months.

 

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http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/07/kim_crows_take_on_project_runw.html

Clips from Cleveland from the AST Dew Tour:

 

Cleveland

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1688297429

 

West Side Market

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1685939002

 

Rock Night at Red Stone (good job folks  :roll:)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1685939000

 

All videos:

http://www.fuel.tv/dewunderground/videos?location=

very very cool!!!!!

 

 

 

i may get satellite tv just for this channel alone.

 

Clips from Cleveland from the AST Dew Tour:

 

Cleveland

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1688297429

 

West Side Market

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1685939002

 

Rock Night at Red Stone (good job folks :roll:)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694646/bclid1683773522/bctid1685939000

 

All videos:

http://www.fuel.tv/dewunderground/videos?location=

Eh, not a big fan of fuse. Would much rather get MTV 2.

 

But the vids are really cool.

Did anybody else see the Visit Ohio commercials during the CNN Special "Black in America?"

No not fuse Jpop but...FUEL!!!!

 

It is the network for skating/surfing/bmx/motocross.

 

Eh, not a big fan of fuse. Would much rather get MTV 2.

 

But the vids are really cool.

No not fuse Jpop but...FUEL!!!!

 

It is the network for skating/surfing/bmx/motocross.

 

My bad! Everything was cut the same as stuff on fuse, so my mistake.

ON HGTV's Summer Showdown, A family from Highland Heights, is featured.

 

The show is, worked like "the iron chef" complete with a "design dome".

 

If you see this tune in because that family's living room is crap!

 

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hsshd/0,3200,HGTV_31656,00.html

well i didnt really read the whole thread so i dont know if this one was mention but in "my fellow americans" jack lemons character is from cleveland and half the movie they are trying to get to cuyohaga falls to his presidential musuem. i know its an obscure refrence but oh well half the post on here arent really on point either

This show is a hot hillbilly mess!  I got the preview and it's a trainwreck I cannot turn away from.  Ironically not one of these chicks lives in ATL!

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Well you loved (or loved to hate) them in Orange County, then New York City, and now the Real Housewives are coming to Atlanta! The series will follow the lives of five women:

 

Sheree Whitfield

Single socialite Whitfield, a resident of the exclusive Sandy Springs area of Atlanta, juggles her busy home life with a packed social calendar. She is a busy working mother to three children -- Tierra, Kairo and Kaleigh. Whitfield prides herself on her fashion sense, and owned her own upscale clothing boutique -- Bella Azul -- for years before closing up shop to focus on her next business venture, a clothing line called "She by Sheree."

 

NeNe Leakes

Leakes resides in the upscale Sugarloaf area of Atlanta with her husband Gregg, a successful real estate investor and business consultant, and their two sons, 18-year-old Brice and nine-year-old Brentt. Leakes donates her time to various foundations and is the founder of The Twisted Hearts Foundation, which brings awareness to domestic violence against women. Leakes also hopes to open a luxury boutique hotel in the very near future.

 

Kim Zolciak

Kim is single (but happily dating) and lives in an exclusive gated townhouse community in Duluth, GA with her two children, 11-year-old Brielle and six-year-old Ariana. She also has her sights set on fame in the music business as a country singer, and is currently working with Grammy award-winning mega-producer Dallas Austin and will begin recording an album later this year.

 

DeShawn Snow

Snow and her husband Eric, captain of the Cleveland Cavaliers, recently moved to their dream home in Alpharetta, GA. Mother to three boys -- nine-year-old EJ, six-year-old Darius and five-year-old Jarren, Snow is an active member of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. She exercises her faith by running The DeShawn Snow Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on improving self-esteem in teenage girls. She is a regular on the Atlanta social circuit and extremely active in local philanthropy, sitting on the board of three different charities.

 

Lisa Wu Hartwell

Hartwell, a resident of a luxurious country club community in Duluth, GA, is a busy career woman who wears many hats -- she owns her own real estate firm, Hartwell & Associates, a jewelry line called Wu Girls, a baby clothing line, Hart 2 Hart Baby, and juggles budding acting, modeling, and writing careers. She's a devoted wife to her husband, NFL player Ed Hartwell, and their three children 13-year-old Jordan, ten-year-old Justin and one-year-old EJ.

 

Check back soon for more info on the ladies and the new season! Peace up, A-Town down. (Sorry -- couldn't help it.)

 

http://www.bravotv.com/blog/thedish/2008/06/real_housewives_of_atl.php

 

Found this on Craigslist.com today while doing my daily search for meaningful employment:

 

 

Glorioso Casting, LLC (Harold & Kumar 2, The Mist, Factory Girl) is searching for extras and featured extras for the independent feature film, THE TAQWACORES.

 

The film is based off of the internationally renown novel, originally written by Michael Muhammed Knight. The film will be directed by Cleveland native Eyad Zahra. The story of the film revolves around a group of college roommates and the complexities of being young and Muslim in modern day America.

 

Featured extras and extras include:

• Local Punks and Punk Bands (Minority or Caucasian )

• All Punks (Skater, Straight-edge, riot grrl, etc.). All Cleveland/Nearby Punk Bands are encouraged to attend.

• South-Asian, Middle-Eastern, & Muslim Men and women 18yrs – 30 yrs to play college Students and Punk Rock Muslims

• Caucasian High School Kids/ College Kids 18 yrs to look younger

• Older Men & Women - All ethnicities

 

When:

Saturday August 23rd, 2008 / Callbacks Sunday August 24th, 2008 (Time TBD)

 

Time:

Registration will be 1:00pm – 6:00pm

 

Where:

9521 Madison Ave, Cleveland , Ohio 44102

 

What to bring:

Applicants may bring a recent non-returnable photo. If you do not have a picture, one will be taken for you.

 

Contact:

info@ rumanni.com and www.rumanni.com

 

 

 

punk rock muslims? That's a new genre to me....

anyone hear about this? 

http://www.48hourfilm.com/

Here is what someone I know from another board explained it:

The gist is you are given 48 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit, and do any post production on a 4-7 minute long film/video. At 7:00PM Friday each team draws a genre at random and that's what you have to shoot. We drew "Historical Fiction". Not an easy one for sure. You are also given a character, a prop, and a line of dialog that need to appear in the film as proof you made it only within that 48 hours. Finished projects were due no later then 7:30 PM the following Sunday.

 

here is what they did:

 

looks like Detroit Shoreway gets some shots!

 

Someone was also doing one in the building at the end of the viaduct

i knew someone who knew someone who did that.

Apparently the Rainn Wilson comedy "The Rocker" is set in Cleveland. 

 

PD Article: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/08/rainn_wilson.html

 

There is also some audio of Rainn Wilson (who plays Dwight Schrute on The Office) saying some very nice things about Cleveland.  And the guy on the phone interviewing him, being an employee of the Plain Dealer, has trouble masking his incredulity.

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2008/08/rainn_wilson.html

 

Rainn Wilson pounds and preens for laughs as 'The Rocker'

by Clint O'Connor/Plain Dealer Film Critic

Friday August 15, 2008, 8:00 AM

 

As Dwight on "The Office." As the wisecracking convenience store worker in "Juno." And as Robert "Fish" Fishman, the bitter hair-metal-drummer-turned-rockin'-role-model in the new comedy "The Rocker," which opens nationwide Wednesday.

 

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Saw The Rocker today.  Not a bad movie; had some funny moments.  Since it takes place primarily in Cleveland there were many Cleveland shout outs and some nice shots of the city.  Of course, most of it was filmed in Toronto to take advantage of the tax breaks.  My favorite line: "Go back to Cleveland, Cleveland!"  You'll have to see the movie to understand the context.

look for this monday night on hbo and in reruns afterward (toni morrison from lorain). btw greenfield-sanders has some portraits like these of some other former clevelander friends of mine in a book of his:

 

 

A Documentary Lets the Stories of Black Luminaries Speak for Themselves

Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/HBO

 

From left, Serena Williams, Toni Morrison and Sean Combs, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

 

 

Article Tools Sponsored By

By FELICIA R. LEE

Published: August 22, 2008

 

“They think I’m Jewish,” he says. “I’m in the Jewish book of famous people. But as far as, you know, on the professional level, I think it’s pretty common knowledge that I’m half black or whatever. I was never really fazed by the, sort of, the color barrier, you know?”

 

Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, is talking. The son of a black mother and a white father, he is the first among the 23 renowned people who muse, confess and tell stories in “The Black List: Volume 1,” a 90-minute documentary scheduled to have its television premiere on HBO on Monday night. A collaboration between the portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, who directed it, and the film critic Elvis Mitchell, who did the interviews, it consists of a series of portraits capturing the range of what is often called the black experience.

 

The subjects include Sean Combs, Lou Gossett Jr., Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, Bill T. Jones, Serena Williams, Chris Rock, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Colin L. Powell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Suzan-Lori Parks and Keenen Ivory Wayans.

 

Not everyone is as well known to the general public. Zane, a best-selling author of erotic fiction, gets a turn here, as does Mahlon Duckett, a former Negro league baseball player. Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, says: “One of the funniest experiences I had when I began working in the art world is that people always assumed I worked for Thelma Golden, not that I was Thelma Golden. The kind of dismissal that comes from just people’s sense that they don’t imagine you are who you are actually has been one of the most powerful and liberating things for me in my work.”

 

A minimalist film, without narration and with very little on the screen except people talking, “The Black List” (which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year) derives its considerable energy and elegance from its subjects. Mr. Mitchell, the host of the new TCM interview series “Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence” and a former film critic for The New York Times, is never on screen. Rather, Mr. Mitchell said, he and Mr. Greenfield-Sanders played their hands behind the scenes.

 

The title “The Black List” is a play on words, meant to overturn the negative connotations of the term “blacklist.” This month the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, began an exhibition by Mr. Greenfield-Sanders of his “Black List” series of photographic portraits. Mr. Greenfield-Sanders, widely known for his portraits of artists and celebrities, which often appear in Vanity Fair, also photographed the wounded Iraq veterans featured in the HBO documentary “Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq.”

 

The “Black List” portraits will eventually be shown in 10 cities around the country, with a stop at the Brooklyn Museum in November. Next month the 25 portraits, along with first-person essays by their subjects, will be brought together in a book, “The Black List,” to be published by Atria, a division of Simon & Schuster.

 

The film shows Richard D. Parsons, the chairman of Time Warner, recalling the time he accidentally burned down his house when he was a child, something that won him extra attention from his grandmother. Mr. Sharpton talks about his favorite scripture and what he learned from James Brown about embracing controversy. (“I learned manhood from James Brown,” he says.) Faye Wattleton, a women’s rights advocate, laments that her daughter missed growing up with the solidarity and values exemplified by an all-black community in the days before desegregation.

 

“You’re always black,” Mr. Rock says. “There’s always going to kind of be an overreaction one way or the other regarding your presence, be it good or bad.” A few beats later, he says that the “true, true equality” is the equality to be as bad as “the white man,” adding, “That’s really Martin Luther King’s dream coming true.”

 

Mr. Mitchell said he envisioned “The Black List” as a response to past documentaries about race that tended to be soaked in politics and sociology, with victims and experts front and center. He simply asked the subjects all the things he wanted to know about them, he said.

 

“What you tend not to see are films on black people radiating in the pleasure of their success and telling their stories,” he said. “You come to the point whenever you see a black person on television, it’s either a comedy or some tragic issue being spoken to. You wouldn’t think that black people could get through a competently managed day, let alone being successful at it.”

 

Not that Mr. Mitchell buys into the notion of a so-called postracial society, as evidenced by Senator Barack Obama’s political ascendancy or the rise of a black middle class. Mr. Powell, in the film, speaks to that issue.

 

“It can’t be all over as long as we have young African-American boys and girls who are not able to get the quality education they need,” he says, “or are still being held back because people are looking down on them.”

 

Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Greenfield-Sanders spoke in an interview at the table in Mr. Greenfield-Sanders’s kitchen, a sun-filled room in his East Village town house (a converted rectory), which doubles as his studio.

 

Mr. Greenfield-Sanders said he got the first whiff of the “Black List” idea as he sat there a few years ago chatting with Ms. Morrison for another photographic venture and she suggested that he shoot a book of black divas. He said her suggestion started him ruminating more broadly “about the black experience that I know” from friends like Ms. Wattleton, Ms. Golden and Mr. Jones, the choreographer.

 

He reached out to Mr. Mitchell, a neighbor as well a friend, and they traded ideas over lunch at a Thai restaurant around the corner. By the end of their meal they had 175 names on a napkin and a plan. They began contacting subjects, striving for a mix of disciplines, ages, perspectives. Mr. Mitchell did the interviews. Mr. Greenfield-Sanders did the portraits.

 

“The Black List” ends up capturing the feeling of watching and listening to people think out loud.

 

“Almost all of the African-American writers that I know were very much uninterested in one area of the world, which is white men,” Ms. Morrison says. “That frees up a lot. It frees up the imagination, because you don’t have that gaze, you know. And when I say white men, I don’t mean just the character but I mean the establishment, the reviewers, the publishers and the people who are in control. So once you erase that from your canvas you can really play.”

 

Serena Williams talks, too, about the uninformed gaze. “I said once I am the most underestimated eight-time Grand Slam champion ever,” she says.

 

“It’s a lot more than just hitting the ball as hard as you can,” she continues. “It’s all about strategy and moving your opponent and just really figuring them out. Like I never get credit for mental, and I just, it’s, you know, frustrating. But at the end of the day, I am very happy with me and I’m very happy with my results.”

 

The enterprise has been so much fun that Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Greenfield-Sanders have no intention of stopping just yet. HBO is sponsoring a “Who’s on Your Black List” contest, which invites the public to submit videos of people they nominate to be filmed, interviewed and photographed for more “Black List” volumes. Information is at whosonyourblacklist.com.

 

Their plan, Mr. Greenfield-Sanders said, is to keep churning out more lists of people — women, Hispanics — but to keep Volume 1’s look and template.

 

“It’s against every rule of modern cinema, in a sense,” he said of this new franchise. “This is just saying I trust this person’s story is interesting enough, that his or her face is interesting enough to look at for five minutes, and I’m going to be engaged.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/television/23list.html

 

anyone hear about this? 

http://www.48hourfilm.com/

 

Oh, I'm bummed!  Not that I would've done a film, but I would've loved to go to the screening.  Several friends of mine in Philly, Brooklyn & Cincinnati have done this over the past few years and their stuff has been amazing!  I'll keep an eye out for the videos online.  Hope they get the word out more next year!

Hollywood wants tax breaks to film movie in Cleveland

by Sam Fulwood III

Monday August 25, 2008, 5:35 PM

APMatt Damon is to star in "Torso," a movie that producers want to film in Cleveland.

 

Ohio risks losing a $100 million movie project to another state -- possibly Michigan -- unless state officials quickly grant the Hollywood producers tax breaks.

 

Paramount Studios wants to shoot "Torso," a big-budget production that will star Matt Damon as Elliott Ness, early next year in Cleveland. But studio officials say they need incentives to film in the state.

 

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http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/08/hollywood_wants_tax_breaks_to.html

 

"I've also heard some whispering that Hollywood is only liberals and Democrats, so why would you want to bring them into the state."

 

Because, moron, LIBERALS BUY SNEAKERS TOO!

i saw this interesting looking documentary is upcoming at galapagos in williamsburg brookyn -- so what tavern does he own?:

 

 

schedule of events

 

September 2008

 

> Monday, September 22nd

 

Galapagos presents a Screening of“NOLAN’S RUN”

a documentary film of libertarian Gary Nolan's presidential bid

 

 

Fed up with "the Feds", Cleveland tavern owner and former radio talk show host Gary Nolan decided to do something about it: run for President of the United States. Capturing an inside view of outsider politics during the highly emotional 2004 Presidential race, this vérité documentary film and first-time look at the Libertarian Party shows an off-the-grid, rarely seen side of the American political scene. NOLAN’S RUN is a different kind of cross-country campaign tale: a world where legalizing marijuana is just a small start; a land of candidates who shoot from the hip – or from the shoulder – depending on their firearm of choice; a place where principals and politics are so Right, they’re Left.

 

Running time: 93 minutes

 

http://www.galapagosartspace.com/events.html

this was a nytimes travel article headline. nothing really to do with cle, but at least it puts the city name out there and it has some good info:

 

Practical Traveler | iPhone E-Guides

Clueless in Cleveland? Use Your Thumb

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/travel/07praciPhone.html

Cleveland looked pretty friggin' slick on Sunday Night Football, last night (quality and outcome of the game, itself, notwithstanding).

^the I-280 logo on that iphone is surely Toledo's 280. 

 

If anyone caught NBC's news tonight, during the main story of today's economic meltdown, there was a shot of downtown Willoughby with a voiceover of how Wall Street will affect Main Street.  The outsticking Daved Jewelers sign was the giveaway for me. 

^Actually, I believe that I-280 icon is a slightly modified capture of a section of the highway in Cupertino, CA.

Proposed legislation designed to make Ohio a hub for film industry

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/122441731626740.xml&coll=2&thispage=1

Sunday, October 19, 2008 / Julie E. Washington / Plain Dealer Reporter

 

Imagine a movie crew filming an epic about Ohio State football.

 

Big-name actors would be needed, along with thousands of scarlet-and-gray-clad fans cheering on the Buckeyes in Ohio Stadium. Landscapes that resemble Ohio, Columbus and maybe Cleveland would flash across the screen.

 

Now imagine the last line of the movie's credits: "Shot on location in Ann Arbor, Mich."

 

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wow they played the ann arbor card! heh. but good idea to publicize this topic. the free pr for ohio and the cleve probably make up for any tax breaks.

They've been talking about this for so long, though.

 

I'm also wondering how much of a hub Ohio can be when 40 other states already have tax incentives?

Welllll, I have heard that Ohio would be at an slight advantage because of the extreme diversity of locations in Ohio and more importantly, their proximity to each other.

 

Meaning, we have everything from old-growth forest, to rural farms, to small-towns, to medium cities to larger cities, not to mention the variety of topography, etc. - and they're all in very close proximity. I've also read that a lot of filmmakers are interested in any city setting that hasn't been overexposed - I mean, you can't say "this film was set in downtown Omaha" when you can see the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

I mean, you can't say "this film was set in downtown Omaha" when you can see the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

 

Or more than two tall buildings. ;)

I can't verify the reasons people visit my site. However, over the years when I've checked the visitors' "log", there are a few (just a handful) IP addresses that read "film people" who seem particularly interested in the "Streetscapes" section. Again - no idea if they're just interns surfing, or people actually scoping out locations but you never know ;-)

 

I think ColDayMan has had people buy licensing rights to his images and they were *definitely* film/TV folks, but he'll have to give the scoop on that.

cool to hear that.

 

and yet another good reason to keep cleveland's unique streetscapes unique.

Cleveland leases 17,000 square feet in Convention Center to filmmaker

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

 

Cleveland City Council on Monday approved a one-year, rent-free lease with a filmmaker that will occupy 17,000 square feet at the downtown Cleveland Convention Center.

 

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Was not sure where to put this... But this does deal with Clevleland and a movie star?

 

Will Smith's whirlwind day in Cleveland culminates with movie premiere

by Clint O'Connor/Plain Dealer Film Critic

Thursday November 20, 2008, 9:13 PM

 

 

Will Smith put in a good 12-hour day in Greater Cleveland Thursday. In the midst of a five-city tour promoting his new film, "Seven Pounds," Smith was greeted by an array of hugs, handshakes, cell-phone snappers, and "you're-really-an-inspiration" moments from starstruck fans.

 

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http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2008/11/will_smiths_whirlwind_day_in_c.html

 

There is a video and pictures as well if you follow the web link.

I think it's pretty sweet that Cleveland was one of 5 cities on the list!  I hope he comes back sometime!

Does anyone know why he was in Cleveland? Was part of the movie shot in Cleveland or something?

I can find out.

I was flipping around and heard him on q104. I assumed he was dailing in.

A friend of mine interviewed him, if I remember to ask, I will see if there is anything more to it.

Looks like they are doing "non traditional" premieres (outside of LA/NYC).  Looks like there are  "seven" premieres in seven cities.

Maybe it starts a new trend? :-D

yeah, celebrities visiting Valley View!  awesome...

Cleveland on the shorts list: Film Festival will now be qualifying event for Oscars

 

Posted by jmorona December 10, 2008 14:37PM

Marvin Fong/Plain Dealer File

 

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:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

Fabulous

Wow!! That's great!!