Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tony Curtis Died at 85.



Tony Curtis, a matinee idol and one of the biggest stars of Hollywood in the year 1950's and in the late 60's, has died at the age of 85 in his home at Las Vegas. the cause of his death was cardiac arrest.

Mr. Curtis, who appeared in more than 120 movies, was best-known for his roles as an amoral publicist in "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), a chain-gang escapee in "The Defiant Ones" (1958), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; a cross-dressing musician in "Some Like It Hot"(1959), and a rebellious slave in "Spartacus"(1960).

In 1958, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assocation named Mr. Curtis "the world's favorite movie actor." He was Hollywood royalty, married to a fellow movie star, Janet Leigh.

Mr. Curtis' looks won him female hearts both onscreen and off. The self-appointed "kissing coach" as an aspiring actor at Universal-International Pictures in the late '40s, he married five times. As he wrote in his 1993 autobiography, "One of the the few leading ladies I didn't have an affair with was Jack Lemmon", who played Mr. Curtis' fellow cross-dressing musician in "Some Like It Hot."

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

It's National Coffee Day.

It's National Coffee Day.


Americans are jostling to get their free cup of coffee in celebration of National Coffee Day on September 29. This is a good time for the Americans to get the coffee that they like - it's because it's for free!

Now, CoffeeHouse Inspirations™, America's premier at-home creamers, is extending that sweet coffeehouse experience to the year's other 364 days with luxury you can afford.

According to the Mayo Clinic, the amount of caffeine in different brands of coffee differs dramatically. For example, a 16-ounce Dunkin Donuts brewed coffee can have anywhere from two to four times as much caffeine as a Starbucks espresso

          Here's a short list of caffeine content:

* Dunkin' Donuts, brewed, 16 oz (480 mL) 143-206
* Generic brewed, 8 oz (240 mL) 95-200
* Generic brewed, decaffeinated, 8 oz (240 mL) 2-12
* Generic instant, 8 oz (240 mL) 27-173
* Generic instant, decaffeinated, 8 oz (240 mL) 2-12
* Starbucks Espresso, 1 oz (30 mL) 58-75
* Starbucks Vanilla Latte, 16 oz (480 mL) 150
For those with anxiety, insomnia and a bad belly, caffeine isn't going to help. In fact, the Mayo Clinic warns that heavy caffeine consumption - more than six cups a day - can cause all kinds of ugly symptoms such as irregular heartbeat, muscle tremors, headaches, and of course inability to sleep and irritability.
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