LOVE THIS!!!,A MUST SEE Magic & Bird Ohio State & Michigan. Auburn & Alabama. The Yankees & Red Sox. All of these are great team rivalries, but it’s hard to find an individual rivalry quite like Magic & Bird ($11). This HBO Sports selection follows these two legends through their entire careers, from their early days growing up, to their 1979 NCAA championship showdown, and of course through their intense battles as members of the Lakers and Celtics, going beyond the game to find out what made them so different — and ultimately, so similar.
ALL MY SNEAKER HEADS WHATCHU THINK ? The Jordan Prime 5 adds elements of the Jordan V to the Air Jordan 1 Alpha, resulting in an interesting new silhouette. For Spring 2011 the sneaker comes in a clean varsity red colorway with metallic silver accents. Look out for a release January 2011.
#IMJUSTSAYING !! Artists in this Article Boyz II Men Eagles Carey‘s new holiday track “Oh Santa!” dashes all the way from No. 12 to No. 1 in just its second week on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, to be refreshed on Billboard.com Thursday (Dec. 9). The coronation is the quickest by any title since the survey adopted Nielsen BDS-monitored radio airplay data in 1993. In that span, eight previous songs soared to the summit in as little as three chart weeks. (Seven of those songs were holiday-themed, as a majority of adult contemporary stations segue to yuletide fare each holiday season). “Oh Santa!” is the lead single from Carey’s second holiday album, “Merry Christmas II You,” which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 20 and has sold 165,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Carey’s prequel holiday set, 1994’s “Merry Christmas,” has totaled U.S. sales of 5.1 million. That collection’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” peaked at No. 6 on the Jan. 7, 1995, Adult Contemporary chart and has sold 1.6 million downloads. The cut additionally crowns Billboard’s tally of the 100 top-selling and most-played holiday songs last year. “Oh Santa!” had previously topped Billboard’s Holiday Digital Songs list, where it debuted at No. 1 the week of Oct. 30. The new carol is Carey’s seventh Adult Contemporary chart-topper and first in more than 14 years. She reigned with her debut single “Vision of Love” and follow-up “Love Takes Time” in 1990 and again ruled with “I Don’t Wanna Cry” (1991), “Can’t Let Go,” “I’ll Be There” (1992) and “One Sweet Day,” with Boyz II Men (1995-96). Carey ends the longest gap between Adult Contemporary No. 1s since the Eagles waited 20 years between the commands of “Best of My Love” (Dec. 14, 1974) and “Love Will Keep Us Alive” (Dec. 17, 1994).
ANOTHER FABULOUS BOOK FOR THE HOUSE In the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s the so-called Café Society in Europe drew together aristocrats, millionaires, artists, authors, couturiers, choreographers and musicians in a “glittering world of fashionand frivolity, opulence and ostentation”, notes Thierry Coudert in his ultra-stylish new book, Café Society: Socialites, Patrons and Artists 1920 to 1960 from Flammarion. Those decades were the “apotheosis of an era that was to have a profound influence on the history of taste” Coudert writes, with the likes of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lady Diana Cooper, Diana Vreeland, Cole Porter,Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton setting the tone and deciding which artists, designers, and musicians were in vogue. The cover of the book (above) depicts heiress Barbara Hutton, then the Countess von Reventlow, at a tennis match in 1940, while Yves Saint Laurent, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and many more make cameos in the impressive volume.
HOT CHRISTMAS GIFT Casio Baby-G x M&M’s “Crispy Mint” Watch Casio worked with the Mars Group on a “Crispy Mint” M&M’s Baby-G 5600 digital watch. Modeled after the only female M & M c character, Miss Green, the watch features her likeness on the caseback, an “M” logo on the backlight and a band printed with various colored M&M’s. Available now, where else, but in Japan.
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