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Million Dollar Arm Clips and Featurette with Jon Hamm

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Million Dollar Arm PosterOn May 16 the movie Million Dollar Arm comes out in theaters. The story looks pretty interesting. I’m always a sucker for a good sports movie even though I’m not a sports guy, weird.

Million Dollar Arm
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
U.S. Release date: May 16, 2014
Running Time: TBD

Cast: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Suraj Sharma, Lake Bell, Alan Arkin
Director: Craig Gillespie

Based on a true story, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) finds that business has changed and things aren’t going well for his career. In a last ditch effort to save his livelihood he concocts a scheme to find baseball’s next great pitching ace. Hoping to find a young cricket pitcher he can turn into a major league baseball star, JB travels to India to produce a reality show competition called “The Million Dollar Arm.” With the help of cantankerous but eagle-eyed retired baseball scout Ray Poitevint (Alan Arkin), he discovers Dinesh (played by Madhur Mittal from “Slumdog Millionaire”) and Rinku (played by Suraj Sharma from “Life of Pi”), two 18-year-old boys who have no idea about playing baseball, yet have a knack for throwing a fastball. Hoping to sign them to major league contracts and make a quick buck, JB brings the boys home to America to train. While the Americans are definitely out of their element in India, the boys, who have never left their rural villages, are equally challenged when they come to the States. As the boys learn the finer points of baseball, JB, with the help of his charming friend Brenda (Lake Bell), learns valuable life lessons about teamwork, commitment and what it means to be a family.

Lake Bell and Jon Hamm from Million Dollar Arm

Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy, Walt Disney Pictures’ drama “Million Dollar Arm” stars Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Suraj Sharma, Lake Bell and Alan Arkin. The producers are Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray and Joe Roth. The executive producers are Palak Patel, Kevin Halloran, Bill Simmons and Connor Schell. The film will be release in the United States on May 16, 2014.

Million Dollar Arm – Featurette

MILLION DOLLAR ARM opens in theaters everywhere on May 16th!

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I’ve Always Wanted to go to Australia

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I don’t know why but there is a draw to Australia that I have. I’ve always wanted to go there and see that country for myself. There is an air of mystery and adventure whenever I hear about Australia. The problem for me is that it is so expensive to get there. Then once you get there you have to stay somewhere and that is also expensive. However, I did learn about the Accor Hotels 3-Day Super Sale Asia Pacific. This 3-Day sale has some amazing discounts on hotels in Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, HK, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, India, Bali.

Accor, a major global group and the European leader in hotels. They operate in over 100 countries and have over 40 years of experience in the hotel industry. This incredible sale runs for only 3 days October 27 – 29, 2009. During this sale you can find one million hotel rooms at amazing rate across Asia Pacific and that means hotel rooms can be as low as $30 a night. You also have to book your trip from December 2009 – April 2010.

Novotel_small_logoBack to Australia. I looked around for prices on hotels and I saw a great price for a seaside hotel in Melbourne for a low $87.35 a night. The hotel is the Novotel Melbourne St. Kilda. Look at the hotel room in this photo, beautiful!Novotel Melbourne St Kilda - Australia_2

Australia is a huge place and if you want to see a lot of it you have to move around the country. Luckily, Accor has hotels all over the place. If I wanted to go see the great barrier reef up in Northeast Australia I could stay at the Novotel Rockford Palm Cove Resort. This hotel is a 4 star resort set amongst 45 hectares of lush tropical gardens. It also is just a five minute walk from the beach or the charming village of Palm Cove. the hotel boasts a bar, two restaurants, and extensive leisure facilities, including swimming pools, tennis and squash courts, gym, sauna, Kids Club, 9 hole golf course and conference facilities. Sounds like a fun place to visit and check out this pool.

Novotel Rockford Palm Cove Resort - Cairns - Australia_2

Yes Cairns is a ways away from the reef still but looking at this hotel I may want to stick around Cairns for a while before moving down the coast to visit the reef. I’m not in a position to travel at the moment but if you are in a position to travel then you can really benefit highly from this great sale.

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