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Swój plebiscyt rozpoczyna także serwis Television Without Pity. W tegorocznych Tubey Awards serial o braciach Winchester został nominowany w kilku kategoriach:
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Supernatural

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Supernatural

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Castiel - Supernatural

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Crowley - Supernatural
Zachariasz - Supernatural

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Lucyfer - Supernatural
Michał - Supernatural
Samifer - Supernatural

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postapokaliptyczna ziemia - Supernatural
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BuddyTV opublikowało artykuł podsumowujący debatę, jaka ostatnio rozpoczęła się na temat Ghostfacers. Jeśli chcecie poczytać co na ten temat mieli do powiedzenia uóytkownicy BuddyTV, a nie macie ochoty przekopywać się przez setki mniej lub bardziej trafnych komentarzy, zapraszam do przeczytania artykułu, w którym znajdziecie najwaóniejsze rzeczy:

Wielka debata na temat Ghostfacers

Chcecie dowiedzieć się jak prezentują się chłopcy Winchester w porównaniu z innymi serialowymi pogromcami duchów? Portal Television Without Pity przygotował pokaz slajdów właśnie na ten temat:

Bracia Winchesterowie kontra elita pogromców zła

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TALK about being glamoured. HBO's "True Blood" may be an ensemble show, but this season there's only one character everyone's talking about: Eric, Eric, Eric.

Alexander Skarsgard, a Swedish actor previously seen on "Generation Kill" and in "Zoolander," has been stealing every scene he's in on the campy drama, in which he plays Eric Northman, the local vampire sheriff and bar owner with Viking origins and a yen for Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin).

In last Sunday's episode, he brandished a rifle while wearing a housedress and referred to children as delicious "teacup humans." Earlier this season, he tricked Sookie into (very suggestively) sucking bullets out of his chest, disemboweled a man while wearing highlighting foils in his hair, and masqueraded as a Southern hillbilly.

And fans clearly can't get enough of him.

Robert Pattinson, who plays heartthrob bloodsucker Edward in the "Twilight" films, may be breathing a sigh of relief right about now -- the fan-phobic star is fast losing his status as world's sexiest creature of the night, thanks to Skarsgard.

In a poll titled "Who makes the hotter pretend vampire?" on Hollywoodgossip.com, the 33-year-old Swede beat Pattinson 66 percent to 33 percent. (Comparatively, Stephen Moyer, the ostensible romantic lead on "True Blood," lost to Pattinson by the same margin in an Us magazine poll.)

So what is it that makes Skarsgard so irresistible?

"I think there's a flexibility in his masculinity, and a vulnerability," says writer Jacob Clifton, who recaps the show on the Television Without Pity Web site. "He's a lot more unilaterally flirtatious, and expresses emotions in a very different way than an American actor."

Also, he adds, "He catches the light in a very nice way."

Lady Gaga thinks so, too. She cast him as the traitorous lover in her video for "Paparazzi," which required them to film a lusty opening scene in bed and then on a hotel room balcony.

"Alexander is a very good kisser," she recently told a Swedish magazine. "I don't know how other people do [it], but we were kissing for real."

She's preaching to the choir. Skarsgard's native country has reportedly voted him Sexiest Man in Sweden five times.

Recently, a scene from the 2002 Swedish film "Hundtricket" ("The Dog Trick") has been making the rounds on YouTube and elsewhere. It's a minute-long sequence of Skarsgard and two other actors showering. ("Possibly with subtitles," said one site. "We couldn't tell you.")

At the moment, he's shooting a remake of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah movie "Straw Dogs." Subject-wise, it's a weighty contrast to his vamp rival Pattinson, who was last seen on-screen wearing a silly mustache as Salvador Dali.

A TMZ film crew recently caught up with Skarsgard in an airport and asked him what he thought of the "Twilight" vampires. "I think they're cute," he said with a mischievous grin. "They're adorable."

At the beginning of the 1950's, there was the academy of George Gracie, a great teacher who, in the decade before, thrilled Brazil with his fights and victories over opponents who were infinitely larger and stronger than him, and did as much as his brother HĂŠlio to elevate the name of the "gentle art" [jiu-jitsu] as the most perfect form of fighting. It was George who taught us, his students, but being excessively modest and introverted, he did not become as famous as his brother Helio. He transformed us into great fighters and also produced a great number of teachers who in turn disseminated the knowledge they had acquired from him. To mention some of his outstanding students:

Almir Riberio

Milton Pereira

Nahum Luiz

Luiz "Frankenstein" Carlos

JosĂŠ Pinto

Zorosatro Neves



and many others. He also taught Guanir Vial, who was become one of the greatest vale tudo fighters in Brazil. There came about to be a difference of opinion between George and his brothers Carlos and HĂŠlio, the owners of the largest academy during the decades of the 50's and the 80's, where there were such fabulous fighters and teachers as:

Pedro HemetĂŠrio

Armando Wriedt

João Alberto Barreto

Hèlio Vigio

Moacir Ferraz

Algênio de Barros

and many others, among them their own sons Carlson, Robson, Rolls, and Reyson.

It is a pity that the young people today do not know the facts about George Gracie, due to the negligence of the press, in print and on television, to the advantage of his famous brother HĂŠlio, who really was a giant as a teacher, fighter, and spreader of the art. The memory of the people is, unfortunately, chaotic and short, and George is being forgotten. I agree that it was the Gracie family that gave jiu-jitsu the dimensions that it has today. Without their tenacity, we would still be crawling like babies, without the knowledge that makes jiu-jitsu the greatest self defense art that exists in the world. But I don't agree when it is said that Gracie Jiu-jitsu was created by HĂŠlio Gracie, as his son Rorion would have us believe from his video and book "The Saga of the Gracie Family".

In the first place, I want to clarify that jiu-jitsu arrived in Brazil before, much before, Conda Koma, the teacher of Carlos Gracie who in turn transmitted his knowledge to his brothers Gastão, Oswaldo, George, and HĂŠlio.

According to Moises Muradi, a fighter named Miura arrived here in Brazil from Japan in 1903 and began teaching his art to his fellow Japanese and to Brazilians. Moises Muradi said that in 1908 Japanese colonists arrived in the port of Santos on the ship "Kasato Maru" and began to give jiu-jitsu classes. Conde Konda, whose full name is still vitually unknown, was said by some to be named Mitsuyo Maeda, said by others to be Yomuto Maeda, and still later by Rorion, who cited his name as Conde Koma Esai Maeda, arrived in Brazil in 1913 or 1914, and in the city of Para gave lessons to Carlos Gracie.

It is clear that jiu-jitsu was being taught in Brazil and even more clear that before his departure from Brazil in 1925, another Japanese champion, Geo Omori, had opened an academy in São Paulo and whose students included my father, Carlos Pereira and França, who later in the 40's would teach Oswaldo Fadda, who would become a notable teacher himself, producing many great fighters and a good number of new teachers. This makes me take issue with the name Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, seeing that, with the passage of time, with the numerous disputes, and insults that were introduced. It is unfair to call it Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. It would be better to call it Jiu-jitsu Brasileiro, the best in the world, thanks to the tenacity of Carlos, HĂŠlio, and George, with help from their brothers Gastão and Oswaldo.

One could praise Rorion's commitment to making many books and videos, but it would be much more correct to say that in his egocentricity he has exalted only his father and brothers and has forgotten his uncles and cousins, Carlson, Robson, and Rolls, who were the fantastic fighters of their time. How can his three cousins not be included in his video? Why doesn't he mention them in his book? Is Rorion trying to erase this part of the family's past? Here is my testimony: Carlson Gracie in his time was virtually unbeatable, and would fight on an equal level with the best fighters in the world today. Robson, despite being a "mignon" [half pint; squirt, shorty] weighing less than 60 kilos [132 lbs.] defeated everyone at his weight, and I include myself in that category. Rolls was expected by the family to succeed Carlson when death took him from us. Therefore I appeal to Rorion and others who wish to tell the truth about this popular family: Include the names of Carlos, Gastão, Oswaldo, George, Carlson, Robson, Rolls, and Reyson in your writings!