Heart-Warming Movies for the Holidays Today on Dish

Check out Dish Network satellite TV for the best heart-warming dramas to get you in the holiday spirit! There are many high-quality films to choose from with the 31 premium channels that are offered with Dish along with many free movies on major networks. Here is a list of entertaining films to share with the your family today, Wednesday 12/16/09 on the premium channels with Dish Network!

Pay It Forward at 3:00 p.m. on HBO Signature

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas at 4:10 p.m. on Starz Comedy

August Rush at 4:30 p.m. on HBO Family

Big at 5:30 p.m. on HBO Signature

Miss Congeniality at 6:00 p.m. on HBO Comedy

Mama Mia! at 7:00 p.m. on HBO Signature

Meet Dave at 7:30 p.m. on MoreMax

Snow Dogs at 7:30 p.m. on Encore WAM

Inkheart at 8:00 p.m. on Cinemax

Bolt at 8:00 p.m. on Starz Kids & Family

A Walk in the Clouds at 8:00 p.m. on Encore Drama

Head Over Heels at 9:00 p.m. on Encore Love

Alaska at 9:10 p.m. on Encore WAM

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 9:40 p.m. on Starz Kids & Family

Fearless at 9:45 p.m. on Encore Drama

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps 9:50 p.m. on Encore

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian at 10:00 p.m. on Starz Cinema

The Babysitters Club at 11:05 p.m. on Encore WAM

What Ever Happened to Molly Ringwald?-Dish

What Ever Happened to Molly Ringwald?

Molly was huge when I was in high school even though her most popular movies at the time were a few years old. She was the redheaded role model for many young girls- not to mention a decent actress. I recall cutting my friend’s red hair at 15-years-old from a length that reached the bottom of her back and transformed it into Molly’s infamous bob. She was very satisfied with her new look though I can’t say the same for her mother. I became curious about sewing and wanted to make my own clothes after watching Molly make her own prom dress in Pretty in Pink. I soon found out that sewing was not my area of expertise.

Molly is pretty though not void of imperfections and provided young women with more attainable goals versus the anorexic, silicone role models of today. I’m sure I speak for many people when I say that the first time I knew of Molly was when I first watched the movie Sixteen Candles. This coming of age classic made her a star. We could relate to her character as a teenager with a typical wide range of emotions, attempting to become her own person in the midst of her unique family life. We felt the pain when her parents missed her 16th birthday and we laughed at the bizarre circumstances she was always falling into with her family and at school.

I must say that Pretty in Pink is my favorite movie starring Molly Ringwald. This was the very first movie I bought and, yes, it was on VHS! The prom was a tremendous deal in high school. We just had to have that perfect dress and the best date and we looked forward to the event since we were freshmen. We thought (back then, of course) that the worst thing that could ever happen to us would be something going wrong on prom night. Why do you think they make horror movies with young girls at risk on prom night?

Molly’s character encountered many obstacles along the way to finally getting to the prom along with the date of her dreams. She made her own prom dress because she didn’t have the money to by the lavish ones that so many of us were fortunate enough to have thanks to our parents. Most of us spent time with our mothers preparing for the huge event but Molly didn’t have a mother. She was also picked on at school. Her journey to prom success inspired many young girls and showed us the value of the many things that we took for granted every day.

It seems these two movies are what made me a fan of Molly Ringwald but her fame was short lived because I’ve seen very few decent movies of hers since. The most notable movies she has starred in are; The Pickup Artist, For Keeps, Stephen King’s The Stand, Malicious (Ringwald’s first nude scene), Teaching Mrs. Tingle and Not Another Teen Movie. I’m sure many people would agree that few of these, if any, were major hits.

I would like to see Molly Ringwald in a new movie that will bring her career back to life! One suggestion would be a sequel of sorts to Pretty in Pink. It would be great if she and Andrew McCarthy were married and had a teenage daughter who was about to have her own prom experience. Molly would be the mom she never had for her daughter and tell her about her experience back in the eighties. Her daughter would have her own share of ups and downs eventually leading to her ultimate prom night. Another suggestion would be to give her the lead role in a film where she comes to terms with the fact that she’s turning 40-years-old and her family forgets her birthday. She feels left out in the midst of married life, children and a thankless profession. She eventually learns that turning 40 is not the end of the world but can be a new beginning for the rest of her life.

So, Molly, we want you back. Give Drew Barrymore a call, she’s been making a few good hits and may have what it takes to bring you back to the big screen!

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Entertainment News! 12/3/09

Fellow Golfer Angry about Tiger’s Infidelity
Golfer Jesper Parnevik has not spoken to Tiger Woods since it was exposed that he cheated on his wife. Tiger’s wife Eli was once the nanny for Parnevik’s children. He told the press, “I would probably need to apologize to her and hope she uses a driver next time instead of a 3-iron".

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Baxter Announces She’s Lesbian
Meredith Baxter came out of the closet the other day and told the world she is lesbian. Her good friend and costar from Family Ties Michael Gross is thrilled. He claimed that people are always asking him and his wife if Meredith has a man yet and now they no longer need to hide Meredith’s orientation. Meredith was not necessarily hiding the fact that she’s been with long time girl friend Nancy Locke. She wasn’t announcing it either. Gross said, "When we go out together, she travels with her partner. I've seen [them] hold hands in public. She's never made an issue of hiding it. I think in some ways, Meredith is more comfortable with this because who wants to live as someone other than yourself?"

No Porter House Steak for Portman
Natalie Portman is featured in the new edition of Marie Claire magazine. She told reporters in the interview that she has lived a fairly sheltered life even after becoming a young Hollywood actress. Portman explained that she has tried marijuana and has been drunk before but admits she did not dabble with the substances until she was in her twenties. The Harvard grad was a vegetarian for twenty years but has become vegan since she started spending more time with Tobey Maguire on the set of the new movie Brothers. Maguire brought a vegan chef to the set and Portman took a liking to falafel and the other vegan dishes the chef provided. She believes that what you eat mirrors your beliefs to others and that eating animals is wrong and is a cause of many illnesses including asthma and the animal waste dumped into rivers from farms raising massive amounts of animals pollutes rivers and their fish.

Lambert Penalized for AMA’s
It seems that Adam Lambert’s smooch with his keyboard player lit a match under ABC’s derriere. Two of his appearances on Kimmel and NYE have been cancelled due to what Lambert describes as “heat from the FCC”. I’m sorry people, but have you ever watched a Lifetime movie on national television? Things get a lot steamier than a kiss between two people. And how many times have we watched prime time programs on local channels like ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox that include at least partial nudity and racy content? It makes you wonder what the real issue is here.

Grammy Awards Nominees
Beyonce is in the lead for the most nominations followed by The Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. Other groups in the running for album-of-the-year are Kings of Leon and Dave Matthews Band. Quincy Jones held the most Grammy nominations of all time at 79! Brian McKnight who was nominated 16 times has the most nominations without a win. U2 won the most Grammy Awards for a group with a total of 22. The female and male artists with the most Grammy wins are Stevie Wonder at 25 and Allison Krauss at 26!

Not-So-Bright Celebrity Quotes:

“If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”- Sarah Palin

“I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.”- Kiefer Sutherland

“I’ve always had the coolest cars, which sometimes seems like a guy should be driving them. I wanted a car no boy would ever want to drive and for people to know a girl is driving such a cool car.”- Kim Kardashian

“I really don’t think, I just walk.”- Paris Hilton

“I’m not that girl from Freaky Friday anymore! I’m a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!”- Lindsay Lohan

Dish Network Makes Dish TV Affordable

The largest Dish TV providers in the country Dish Network has been working to provide quality service at an affordable price since its inception. For years Satellite TV service has gone form hundreds of dollars to $19.99 for select Dish Network Packages. Dish Network has been competing with the other Dish TV Provider Direct TV since it began.

As Dish Network continues to improve their quality of service with more HD Programming, without raising costs on their customers. Dish Network compared to a majority of the providers,such as; Verizon Fios, ATT U-verse, and DirecTV, offers customers more HD programming, better technology, with award winning dual room HD-DVR's and the best programming package values in the Dish TV industry.

With a cost to channel beating out Dish Tv Providers in Montana, Idaho, Arkansas, Iowa, in particular the service makes sense for the remaining U.S. States as well. Dish Network has better deals across the United States.

Dish Network Packages also give you the ability to add Dish Network Internet. Some areas do not receive Verizon so this is a great option for Dish Network Internet. Dish Network customer service is available 24/7 and can help with questions on any subject.

Once selected, Dish Network Packages will give you the opportunity to set up an online account with Dish Network. To access you account you will need to use a Dish Network Login to start up the Account online.

Of the Dish TV Providers, Dish Network seems to make sense for families on a budget. If you have Direct TV switching to Dish Tv makes sense too. There has never been a better time to get more and spend less.

Mike Tyson’s Rise and Fall

I was not alive to watch boxing greats like Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Frazier, but I was alive to watch the rise and fall of Mike Tyson. My dad was a huge boxing fan and being in the military there were always get together’s on base for every big boxing match one of the first fights I remember seeing was the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler in May of 1986. I only remember that fight because there were about 40 grown army soldiers outraged that after Hagler dominated for most of the 12 rounds the decision went to Leonard. I did not understand boxing and didn’t really care until later that year.

On November 22, 1986 me and my two other brothers went with my dad to his friends house to watch an up and coming boxer named Mike Tyson, he was fighting for the WBC title against Trevor Berbick. Before the fight started most of the guys were bragging how Berbick was going to mop the floor with the young Tyson. People had heard about Tyson but not many thought he could win the fight. I remember sitting on the floor in front of the Satellite TV with the other kids at the party playing with our G.I Joes waiting for the fight to start.

As they entered the ring to tap gloves and agree on a clean fight, when the cameras did up close shots of the fighters staring at each other Berbick looked like this was going to be a walk in the park. But Tyson had this grim reaper look on his face, and once the fight started Berbick’s face quickly changed to the expression of a deer in headlights. As Tyson started pounding Berbick with powerful body shots and quick combos it looked like Berbick was in fear of his life. Once the bell rang to signal the end of the first round everybody in the room was saying I cannot believe this kid is taking it to Berbick. As the second round started Tyson just went in for the kill and sent Berbick down to the canvas twice in the second round. Berbick tried to get up three times after the second knock down but there was no use, he didn’t know where he was and almost feel out of the ring.

From that moment on, Mike Tyson became not only mine but millions of boxing fans favorite boxer to root for. Tyson was the first boxer to knock out Larry Holmes on his way to win 19 straight fights by knockouts with 12 being in the first round. As his fame began to grow his fighting skills started to go down from lack of proper training. He lost his championship belt to James “Buster” Douglas by a knockout in the tenth round in February of 1990 and his life was never the same after that.

In 1992 he was arrested and sent to prison for three years for sexually assaulting Desiree Washington. Once he was released he went back to boxing, he seem to be back on track until he lost to Evander Holyfield by an 11th round TKO in 1996. When the two fighters met up again for a much anticipated rematch, Tyson did the unthinkable and bit a piece of Holyfield’s ear off while they were tangled together on his way to be disqualified. After that Tyson became a reckless mess he ended up finishing his career with a professional boxing record of 50 wins, 44 knockouts, 6 loses, and 2 no contest.

As kid growing up watching Tyson rise and fall from greatness I wondered how someone so gifted could just throw it all away. Like many people I never really understood the craziness behind him, I just seen him as your normal rising star gone bad. It was not until my early twenty’s that I learned about Tyson harsh childhood. I was shocked to learn that he had been arrested 38 times by the age of thirteen. When he was sixteen his mother died and he was split up from his brother and sister, when he moved in with his boxing trainer Cus D’Amato in upstate New York. If D’Amato did not step in and help Tyson turn his life around he would of most likely been dead by the age of 18. Once Cus died Don King entered his life and forever changed Tyson to the crazy barbaric many people think of him as today.

Now that he is finally retired, Tyson is trying to make amends for all the bad things he did in his life, he knows that he will probably at some point mess up again but he is trying to change that. On May 26, 2009 Tyson’s daughter Exodus passed away from a freak treadmill accident. Tyson was not present when it happened, and still till this day does not want to know the full details of what happened. He knows if he finds out all the details his rage would come out against his ex-wife who was watching her at the time. For most people not knowing what really happened would just eat away at them. For Tyson not knowing is part of his healing process on his way to become a better man and role model for his kids.

Sail Away to a Healthier You with Sea Salt

Why use Kosher Celtic Sea Salt over your everyday table salt? There are many reasons why sprinkling this sea salt over your food is healthier that using your average iodized salt. It also tastes much better! Once you’re used to the flavor of sea salt, you can certainly taste the difference when you eat something that contains regular salt. The regular salt will taste like pure chemicals and you will not want to go back to using it. Celtic Sea Salt is significantly more expensive than, say, Morton’s but you will use less. You can sprinkle regular salt on your food and a few seconds later not be able to taste it at all, then you’ll add more and more until the flavor finally suits your palette. Sea salt has slightly bigger granules that soften on your food but do not completely dissolve in shape or flavor.

Why is sea salt the healthier alternative? First of all, let’s clear a few things up. Sea salt doesn’t cause high blood pressure and can actually work to fight it. Mixed with water a small amount of sea salt will calm a racing heart. Those with mild asthma may find that after drinking a few glasses of water, putting sea salt on your tongue will give you a similar effect to using an inhaler. You will want to do the same method if you have a nagging dry cough since sea salt acts as and antihistamine, it will break down mucus in the lungs allowing you to have a more productive cough. Just a few glasses of water and a few sprinkles of sea salt on your tongue right after helps you get a great night’s sleep and wake up rested in the morning!

Sea salt helps your body avoid becoming too acidic. This is a wonderful weapon against Alzheimer’s disease because it balances the acid in your brain. It also regulates blood sugar level- this is a necessity for diabetics in particular. Sea salt does wonders for people with certain psychological disorders. Lithium, which is used to treat people with bipolar disorder, is actually a salt substitute! It helps to regulate the neurotransmitters in the brain that regulate our sleep-wake cycles and aid in our emotional well-being. Sea salt is therefore a wonderful and natural way to reduce stress since it is a gentle antidepressant! Some doctors even believe that sea salt is one of the essentials for fighting cancer. It promotes the mobility of immune cells in the blood to reach all of the areas in the body allowing them to destroy cancerous tissue.

Even though sea salt has many benefits, we need to be careful with how much we consume. Each person requires a large amount of water to a small amount of sea salt to maintain hydration. We don’t want to overdo the salt and become dehydrated! To reap the many benefits of sea salt, all that is recommended is one quarter of a teaspoon of sea salt per quart of water each day!

Why should you not consume your everyday table salt from the grocery store? Sea salt is as it sounds- directly from Mother Nature and into a bottle since it is derived from evaporated seawater! Iodized salt does not contain magnesium, potassium or calcium. It is mined from salt deposits that have formed underground and is processed with anti-caking agents. It has no health benefits; in fact, it does just the opposite of sea salt. According to UMASS Medical Center, your average table salt can contribute to high blood pressure as well as stroke. Other researchers claim that table salt helps cause kidney disease, eczema, heart problems, osteoporosis and even stomach cancer.

Be sure to buy sea salt that is not washed or boiled because it will not have the benefits that I mentioned as the essential minerals are destroyed in the processing. Don’t be afraid of the sea salt, as it is not as white as your typical salt but rest assured that it tastes much better and does not debilitate your health but greatly improves it. I prefer Celtic Sea Salt but there are also more reasonably priced sea salts that are almost as good for when you need to cut cost.

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Health Benefits of Organic Noni Juice

Do you love watching television shows about health topics? I’m a fan of networks such as Discovery Health, BBC and RFD-TV because they, along with local and national news and health magazines, keep me updated on ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I learned about the benefits of organic Noni juice while reading a magazine from my local health food store and have been drinking it here and there ever since. I just had to share it with those of you health conscious people who have not yet heard about this miracle juice.

Noni fruit grows from trees that are part of the coffee family. Tahiti is well known for this fruit as it is more abundant there, but it also grows in French Polynesia, the Indian subcontinent, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. The trees can grow up to 30 feet tall and boast large green leaves along with the green Noni fruit. People living in the Pacific Islands eat Noni fruit as a “famine fruit” or a regular staple. It contains many seeds that can be eaten more easily when cooked. The fruit is consumed both in raw form and after it has been cooked.

The most nutritional part of the Noni fruit is located in the pulp as the fruit contains mostly Vitamin C. This entire little 6 cm fruit can yield the following: Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Niacin and Carbohydrates. Noni fruit also contains the following phytochemicals that offer many health benefits: fatty acids, alkaloids, lignans, polysaccharides, iridoids, flavanoids and more! So what do all of these wonderful nutrients do?

We’ve learned about the benefits of many vitamins but equally important, if not vital, are phytochemicals. These are naturally occurring chemicals found in fruit and vegetables that can make a marked improvement on your health when consumed on a regular basis. Let’s look at just a few, starting with fatty acids. The words “fatty acids” would probably frighten people away who don’t know their benefits. Fatty acids help to distribute oxygen throughout your body through your blood stream. They are “cell food” because they work hard to repair damaged cells and add strength to your tissue and organs. Ladies, you know you would love to find the fountain of youth. Fatty acids are great for cell regeneration and work to fight the effects of aging. Want to lose a few pounds? Fatty acids help your body break down cholesterol and keep your thyroid functioning properly. They help to regulate blood pressure and strengthen your immune system! This ingredient alone is enough for me to run out and buy a bottle of Noni.

As if fatty acids weren’t enough, you will also reap amazing health benefits from lignans. Lignans are currently being studied for their ability to fight cancer, more notably, breast and colon cancer. Most cancers grow in estrogen. If there is already a decent amount of estrogen in the body, lignans replace the existing hormone and push it from the cells. This is one of the ways lignans may protect us against breast cancer and other cancers. Lignans can also be found in flaxseed, pumpkin seeds and cranberries. Some animal studies have already received favorable findings.

These are just two of the many beneficial nutrients found in the Noni fruit. Imagine what a combination this is when it is attached to all of the other vitamins and phytochemicals! You can find organic Noni juice at your local health food store. Make sure that the label states that it is organic because it is slightly expensive and you don’t want to pay for a juice that has been diluted. Hold your breath each day as you gulp down an ounce of this powerful fruit juice. You will wake up with a spring in your step, clear and calm thoughts and energy! More importantly, you’ll be on your way to a healthier you!