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Tickets Still Available for tonights show!

For those of you who may be wondering what the KC Medicine Cabinet is? It’s a local charity that’s primary focus in to help people with their medical expenses that they cannot get assistance for elsewhere. With perscription medication, dental work, eye glasses and way too many other things to mention here. They do great work and we’re pleased to partner with this organization for the KC Tip Off Concert coming March 9th with Little Big Town and Josh Kelley. It will be a great show and I assure you that you won’t find a better price for a show that also helps a great local cause. I hope you will make plans to join the Wolf Staff and the great people at the KC Medicine Cabinet for this great night! (Click Here) to get your tickets now! (WP)

So exciting – the Oscar nominations have been announced!  You can catch the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco, on February 27th. 

And check this out:  the two movies with the most nominations are The King’s Speech with 12 (!) and True Grit, which has 10 nominations.   It’ll be interesting to see how that pans out! 

What I try to do each year is see as many of the nominated movies as I can, so I know who to root for on the big night!  This’ll be a challenge, since last year they expanded the Best Picture category to TEN nominees.   And of course, there are other movies with various nominations that aren’t in the Best Picture category… I’d better get crackin’!! 

Here are this year’s nominees, so you can play along at home! 

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BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
 Black Swan
The Fighter
 Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
 The Social Network
 Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone  

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech  

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST ANIMATED FILM
 How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
 Toy Story 3

BEST ART DIRECTION
 Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
 Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
 True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh  

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
Inception, Wally Pfister
 The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen
 The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
 True Grit, Roger Deakins  

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven
 The Tempest, Sandy Powell
 True Grit, Mary Zophres

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter 

BEST DOCUMENTARY
 Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
 Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
 Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley   

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
 Killing in the Name
 Poster Girl
Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

BEST EDITING
127 Hours, Jon Harris
Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter, Pamela Martin
 The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
 The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Biutiful (Mexico) 

BEST MAKEUP
 Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
 The Way Back, Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST SCORE
127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Inception, Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST SONG
“Coming Home,” Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light,” Tangled, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
“If I Rise,” 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Confession, Tanel Toom
The Crush, Michael Creagh
God of Love, Luke Matheny
Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

BEST SOUND EDITING
Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger

BEST SOUND MIXING
Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year, written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; 
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network. Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit, written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Had a great time Saturday night at the “Challenge Your Fashion” event at the KC Convention Center. Thanks to all the Royals players that walked the runway. Mark Teahen and Luke Hochevar were the co-chairs.

David DeJesus, Roger’s wife Kelly, and Roger

Roger’s wife Kelly, Luke Hochevar and Roger

Mark Teahen and Roger

You know me — I love awards shows!  It’s fun to predict the winners and root for your favorites.  The 53rd annual Grammy Awards will be a month from now, and it’s just been announced that Miranda Lambert will be performing!  This’ll be Miranda’s first performance at the Grammy Awards.

Here are the categories that have COUNTRY NOMINEES — let’s all play along and root for our faves on February 13th!

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Album of the Year

• The Suburbs = Arcade Fire
• Recovery = Eminem
• Need You Now = Lady Antebellum
• The Fame Monster = Lady Gaga
• Teenage Dream = Katy Perry

Record of the Year

• “Nothin’ On You” = B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
• “Love The Way You Lie” = Eminem Featuring Rihanna
• “F*** You” = Cee Lo Green
• “Empire State Of Mind” = Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
• “Need You Now” = Lady Antebellum

Song of the Year

• “Beg Steal Or Borrow” = Ray LaMontagne, songwriter (Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs)
• “F*** You” = Brody Brown, Cee Lo Green, Ari Levine, Philip Lawrence & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Cee Lo Green)
• “The House That Built Me” = Tom Douglas & Allen Shamblin, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
• “Love The Way You Lie” = Alexander Grant, Skylar Grey & Marshall Mathers, songwriters (Eminem Featuring Rihanna)
• “Need You Now” = Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)

Country Album

• Up On The Ridge = Dierks Bentley
• You Get What You Give = Zac Brown Band
• The Guitar Song = Jamey Johnson
• Need You Now = Lady Antebellum
• Revolution = Miranda Lambert

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

• “Satisfied” = Jewel
• “The House That Built Me” = Miranda Lambert
• “Swingin’” = LeAnn Rimes
• “Temporary Home” = Carrie Underwood
• “I’d Love To Be Your Last” = Gretchen Wilson

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

• “Macon” = Jamey Johnson
• “Cryin’ For Me (Wayman’s Song)” = Toby Keith
• “Turning Home” = David Nail
• “‘Til Summer Comes Around” = Keith Urban
• “Gettin’ You Home” = Chris Young

Do you still have your Christmas lights and/or decorations up?  I’ve seen many houses still lit up in all their glory, and if yours is one of them, I don’t think you have anything to feel bad about!

The way I look at it (and feel free to use this as your ‘excuse’  ) is that here in the KC area, we’re very proud of our legendary Plaza Lights — people come from miles around to see them!  The Plaza Lights are left on for a while after Christmas, and it’s perfectly acceptable.  This year they’ll be on until January 16th, so if anyone bugs you about your holiday stuff, just use that as your rationale!

And then you don’t have to feel guilty until… the 17th.   LOL.

Hope you’re enjoying 2011 so far!

Hope you had a joyous holiday season with your loved ones! 

And thank you so much for sharing your days with the Wolf in 2010.

Now here we are with a fresh start in beautiful 2011!  Some call the year ”twenty eleven,” and others call it “two thousand eleven” — I think we’ll hear people debating that one for a while.  LOL.  Whatever you choose to call it, I wish you a safe, happy and healthy New Year!

And P.S. — Hope you HAVE FUN, too!