A Mighty Heart

There are many causes for terrorism, many causes that most people don’t understand. One of the biggest causes is one word, belief. Many different religions and cultures have certain beliefs about terrorism. In some cultures, if you sacrifice yourself to go bomb and kill other people in other countries, you become a hero and become famous. Terrorism is something that is constantly going on in the world today. Whether it be between multiple countries or just a little area. Terrorism is either happening or is in the works.

 In the movie A Mighty Heart, terrorism was definitely shown. Mariane Pearl dealt with her husband being kidnapped while following a lead story he was working on about the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Mariane is also a journalist like her husband, and she starts with the Pakistani police, FBI, and officials to try and bring her husband home safely.This shows terrorism because kidnapping a part of terrorism. They are determined to do whatever they can to kidnap, kill, or cause suffering to people.  

 

http://www.nobeliefs.com/terrorism.htm

Maury Povich

Maury Povich is famous for his one hour long talk show called “The Maury Show.” Other accomplishments and achievements is that he is also a veteran television anchor, a veteran journalist, and interviewer. On his very own talk show, Maury interviews people and helps them through tough times and helps straighten out problems.

Maury Povich got his journalism talent from his parents. His father, Shirley Povich, wrote for the Washington Post as the sports columnist. His father worked at the Washington Post for a total of seventy-five years. Shirley Povich definitely influenced his son, Maury. Maury began his broadcast journalism career in 1966 as a news reporter and sportscaster at Metromedia’s WTTG-TV in Washington D.C. The year after, he became the host of a new midday talk show called Panorama. He instantly fell in love with the format that combined news, politics, and celebrities, which pretty much is everything that someone can cover. While working for Panorama and working in the nation’s capital, he won many awards.

Besides only broadcasting in Washington D.C., Maury also began anchoring in many big cities throughout the U.S. These cities included Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. After being in television for twenty years, Maury headed off to New York to go to the Big Apple, New York City. In 1986, a Current Affair was created. A Current Affair started off as a local show, but its popularity grew and it became very well known.

In 1991, he returned to doing talk shows. He now started as being the host of his very own talk show, The Maury Povich Show, for Paramount. In 1998, he partnered with Studios USA to create Maury. Maury is a one hour long talk show with an upgraded look and attitude. Maury specialized in helping teens and parents and their controversial issues and problems.

Not only did Maury let viewers know about hard news, he also let viewers know about soft news. On his Maury show, there were many guest celebrities. Some of these celebrities include Cher, Bill Cosby, Cindy Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Patti Davis, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Sullivan, and Ross Perot. More entertaining things that Maury does is that sometimes on his show he does special episodes. One includes where the audience guesses who is male and who is female because he has transvestites on the show.

Even though Maury Povich is an amazing journalist, something I think he could change in order to be more serious is to act more serious at times. Sometimes on his talk show, he helps mom’s find out who their baby’s daddy is. This causes the couple’s to be yelling, swearing, the audience also joins in yelling and swearing, and the audience also laughs because they find their problems very humorous. However, if Maury would stop these kinds of episodes, I definitely think that he would lose a lot of his viewers because Maury is known and famous for having these episodes for finding the baby’s daddy.

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/09/maury_povich_through_the_years.php

http://www.tv.com/maury-povich/person/92444/biography.html

Young Fame: Hannah Montana

Miley Cyrus is just like every other ordinary teen, except for the fact that she is one of the world’s biggest teen stars. Miley Cyrus is a singer, songwriter, guitar player, and she she’s the star of the popular Disney Channel show, Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus was born November 23, 1992 and is now 15 years old. She was born in Franklin, Tennessee. She has been active since 2003 and is still growing strong. She started out in Walt Disney but has now made her way to Hollywood.

Miley’s fame came from her hit show Hannah Montana on Disney Channel in October of 2006. Following the show came a soundtrack of the hit songs that were on the show. In December of 2007 she was ranked #17 in the list of Forbes Top twenty earners with an annual earning of $3.5 million. Her show was such a hit that she is recently working on Hannah Montana: The Movie that will come out late 2008 or early 2009.

Miley Cyrus is a young teen of only 15, but she has the fastest selling concerts around. Her concerts are one of the hardest concerts to get tickets to, so hard that it’s almost impossible. Her shows are completely sold out in under the first seven minutes of selling. Some people camp out 2 days in line waiting for tickets and by the time the first person in line gets to the open booth, the concert is already sold out over the internet.

Since Hannah Montana concert tickets are almost impossible to purchase, one mother won Hannah Montana tickets in an essay contest. However, she took it too far. A mother from Texas helped her 6 year old daughter write a false essay on how her dad died in Iraq, just so they would have the chance to win Hannah Montana tickets. Everybody found this wrong, except the mother. She was saying how she did nothing wrong because it was just an essay and not actually a true story. She claims her daughter always does essays in school and that she never actually said it was a true story. Because of this, the sponsors who gave out the tickets gave them out to a different contestant. This just shows the desperate things that people will do to get their children tickets to see Hannah Montana.

            Because many people can’t get the opportunity to see a Hannah Montana show, they came up with a solution. They are making her concert into a full length movie. Not only will her concert be a movie, but it will also be 3-D. This allows you to watch the concert on the big screen and in a whole different environment. It will be in theaters February 1-7 2008. It will also appear in different countries in different languages because Hannah Montana is such a big star. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/WinterConcert/story?id=4068368&page=1

http://www.celeblogger.com/2007/11/12/hannah-montana-sold-out-concert/

            http://www.movieweb.com/news/62/23662.php