Coming attractions on Star World
THE OSCAR nominations were revealed last week and now all that is left to do is to wait for the grand event scheduled to take place on Feb 27 in Los Angeles. Just like in previous years, Malaysians can get the results almost immediately thanks to the live telecast on Star World happening on Monday morning.
Prior to the 77th Annual Academy Awards, music fans can also check out which artiste is going home with a Grammy and who is not. Yes sir, Star World is screening the 2005 Grammy Awards live as well.
But the bigger news is the live screening of British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2005 (BAFTA 2005) on STAR Movies. BAFTA is, of course, the British version of Oscar and this is the first time that this prestigious event will be shown live.
Steve Askew, the chief operating officer of STAR said: “We are placing Malaysia on the same stage as the rest of the world.”
BAFTA and the Grammy Awards will be taking place in the United States on Feb 12 and Feb 13 respectively.
Reality shows on television these days are a dime a dozen, and some of them are truly bizarre. Swap your wife and let your children experience a totally new individual as their mother (Wife Swap) or play the dangerous game of flirting (The Player) and make sure you come out with your heart unscathed. You know that sort of thing. Come March, Star World is going to be screening Growing Up Gotti which is a bit like The Sopranos if the HBO crime boss Tony Soprano’s wife – Carmela – got a divorce and is a single mother. Growing up Gotti revolves around a real family with mobster connections.
Growing Up Gotti revolves around one Victoria Gotti, who happens to be the daughter of John Gotti Sr, the alleged head of the legendary Gambino crime family. Gotti Sr was killed while entering his favourite restaurant about two years ago.
As the first season of the series would show, Victoria Gotti is an average, everyday kind of mum. She has a huge mansion on Long Island, New York and has three loutish sons and leads what most would consider a normal life. And yet, the television series has been picked up for the second season.
True to her heritage, Gotti is a strong woman who has no fear of what is ahead. Despite her father’s tragic death and the fact that her ex-husband is serving a prison sentence for racketeering and tax evasion, she remains a woman with a sense of humour about life. Proving that life goes on, she has a gossip column in a newspaper and has published three novels.
It is due to her personality that the foreign press have noted that there are plenty of similarities between her and the fictional character Carmela Soprano, played by Edie Falco, in The Sopranos. When it comes to raising her sons, she does not mince any words, hence she has also been compared to other strong Italian American mothers on television and films. Only thing is, Victoria is not acting when she starts to yell and scream at her sons when they do something wrong.
Also on March 19 and 26, we can see the very tall and very manly Goran Visnjic playing the character Spartacus in a two-part mini series.
Just put aside the image of Kirk Douglas who embodied this role in the film version and give Visnjic a chance.
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