Monday, February 29, 2016

Oscars 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio at long last wins Academy Award

Winners on stage at the OscarsLeonardo DiCaprio has at long last won his first Oscar for survival epic The Revenant, after six selections.

He was named best performing artist at the 88th Academy Awards, with Brie Larson named best on-screen character for Room.

Spotlight took home the best picture Oscar with Mad Max: Fury Road getting the most recompenses of the night, with six awards.

Mark Rylance won the best supporting on-screen character Oscar, with kindred Briton Sam Smith winning best unique so

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Hollywood bigot?'

The function had been boycotted by some Hollywood figures dissenting about the absence of ethnic differences among the current year's candidates, as every one of the 20 chosen people in the best acting or supporting acting classifications are white.

Host Chris Rock tended to the contention head on as he propelled the service, and it was a topic that was come back to a few times amid the night.

Rock remarked he had "tallied no less than 15 dark individuals" in the montage that opened the function, before inviting individuals to the "white People's Choice recompenses".

"You understand in the event that they assigned hosts, I wouldn't land this position," he jested. "Y'all would be viewing Neil Patrick Harris at this moment."

Rock included: "Everybody needs to know is Hollywood supremacist? You need to go at it the right way. Is it blazing cross bigot? Bring me-some-lemonade bigot? No.

"It's an alternate sort of bigot. Is Hollywood supremacist? You're damn right it's bigot however it's sorority supremacist. It's similar to: We like you Rhonda, yet you're not a Kappa.''

Among the champs for Mad Max: Fury Road - designated for 10 Oscars including best chief for George Miller - was British planner Jenny Beavan, for best outfit outline.

The Revenant won three of the 12 honors for which it was designated. Alejandro Inarritu additionally won best executive and Emmanuel Lubezki won his third Oscar for cinematography in succession, having won in 2015 for Birdman and 2014 for Gravity.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Here's Your Hotel Exercise Routine from Three Top Celebrity Trainers

There is no vacation from exercise, no business trip that should preempt your workout routine or hotel room that can't accommodate a few squats or push-ups each morning.

At least that's the view of A-list trainers, those keeping some of the world's most high-profile models and celebrities in top form.

"A towel is a make shift mat -- your body has no idea if you are at the Four Seasons or at a gym," says Andrea Orbeck, who is known in the industry as "the muscle whisperer" and whose client list reads like a Who's Who of tinseltown, including Julia Roberts, Gigi Hadid, Usher, Heidi Klum and Seal. "You have to emulate some of the same exercise movements you would do, regardless of where you are."

There are a few particularly efficient and effective tools travelers can, or perhaps absolutely should, bring with them on the road to help stay in shape, reveals Orbeck. Key among them, a fitness band and a jump rope.

"When it comes to a jump rope, you can easily do it early in the morning, in the hotel hallway before everyone gets up if you're an early riser," continues the 18-year workout industry veteran.

Orbeck is one of a handful of elite celebrity trainers who shared tips and insights with us about maintaining a basic exercise routine while traveling, critical advice for today's increasingly harried, globetrotting business travelers.

Beverly Hills-based trainer Mike Donavanik -- whose clients include Rumer Willis, Jayson Blair and Jeremy Jordan -- and yoga guru Dashama both offered their insider tips for hotel room exercise routines.

Dashama in particular is known for having developed a yoga routine that can be done on a bed, making it ideal for practicing in a hotel room.

"I spend a lot of time in hotels," she says. "And because everyone has a bed, and loves to stay in bed, I'm always looking for ways to help my students to be able to do more yoga or workouts that they will actually stick with."

For those trying to envision what exactly the routine involves, here's a tip - check out the video on FitFusion.com (the Netflix of the work out world, a website and mobile app that offers hundreds of streaming workout videos from celebrity trainers, instead of "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black.")

The FitFusion library has more than 125 hours of workouts including Pilates, yoga, prenatal, HIIT, boot camp and more, from a dizzying array of celebrity trainers including Orbeck, Dashama, Donavanik and Jillian Michaels, Billy Blanks, Tara Stiles and Cassey Ho.

What's most noteworthy about FitFusion though, is that with this mobile, video-streaming workout app, you've basically got a personal cadre of trainers who can be taken with you anywhere. And there are workouts on the app to fit any schedule - from 10-minute routines to 30-minute exercise routines, to an hour or more.

"I think nowadays, people are traveling more than ever, because travel is more accessible," continues Dashama. "And now you have all of these mobile devices that have WiFi, so with that in mind, you can really workout anywhere with the help of these videos."