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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #40 on: January 27, 2007, 05:42:51 pm »
I'd probably buy a bottle of Soccer Stink; especially if it was David Beckham's.

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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2007, 05:20:51 am »
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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #42 on: July 12, 2007, 12:20:53 pm »
OhMyGod yall.  Just read this whole thread for the 1st time.  Can't believe there wasn't more commentary on this:



Cream across his mouth (like the other milk ads, yes — but then look where they put the "Got Milk")  Is this a parody?

Or was the ad designer just in a horny (or highly irreverent) mood?

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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #43 on: July 12, 2007, 01:56:02 pm »
OhMyGod yall.  Just read this whole thread for the 1st time.  Can't believe there wasn't more commentary on this:



Cream across his mouth (like the other milk ads, yes — but then look where they put the "Got Milk")  Is this a parody?

Or was the ad designer just in a horny (or highly irreverent) mood?

heh, quite funny! Notice how many less tats he's got there too.. I think he quite suits the tats myself and I'm not a lots and lots of tats on a guy girl!
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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #44 on: July 13, 2007, 07:10:16 am »
The Beckhams arrive in LA...



scary crowds!





not liking the facial hair (side on at least)..
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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #45 on: July 16, 2007, 07:00:02 pm »
From the New York Times...


July 16, 2007
Television Review | 'Victoria Beckham: Coming to America'
New Girl in Town Gets Settled With Hubby
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
There must be a reason NBC chose to lavish an hour of prime time tonight on “Victoria Beckham: Coming to America.”

But conspiracy theorists will be hard put to connect the dots. It’s not clear what links Philip F. Anschutz, the billionaire who agreed to pay David Beckham $27.5 million over five years to play for his soccer team, the Los Angeles Galaxy, to General Electric, the conglomerate that owns NBC. At first Google-glance, there appears to be little overlap between the corporations. If anything, their film divisions are competitors.

It could be a plot by the Trilateral Commission and Opus Dei, though some paranoids may prefer to point a finger at the Church of Scientology because the Beckhams, Victoria and David, are new best friends and neighbors of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. That’s just plain silly. Mr. Cruise has been on chilly terms with NBC ever since he excoriated psychiatry and Brooke Shields’s postpartum depression on that network’s “Today” program.

Unless, of course, the Beckham special is Mr. Cruise’s well-plotted revenge on the network.

There has to be something going on behind the scenes because there is no other way to explain so much time and videotape spent on the moving arrangements of Mr. Beckham’s wife. Mrs. Beckham, the once and future Spice Girl nicknamed Posh, is somewhat famous for being sort of famous, and is photographed a lot in Britain, a nation so open to media hypnosis that a Web site devoted to the ripening of a 44-pound wheel of cheddar has received more than a million Internet hits. (As of today Wedginald is on Day 206.)

And watching “Victoria Beckham: Coming to America” is a little like that site, cheddarvision.tv — although the cheddar probably has an ounce or two on Mrs. Beckham, who is also famous for being thin but with very large breasts.

“Seriously, do they look that big, do they really?” she asks, shaking her décolletage during a coffee-shop confrontation with the gossip blogger known as Perez Hilton. “They’re not that big in the flesh,” she explains. The blogger agrees and says he would really prefer a nude picture of Mrs. Beckham’s husband.

Mr. Beckham’s move to Los Angeles has been promoted by AEG, Mr. Anschutz’s company, with even more than the usual meteor shower of publicity that surrounds a movie opening. The arrival is more like a giant P.R. asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

The special, originally envisioned as a reality series in the style of “The Anna Nicole Show” or “The Simple Life” or even “Hey Paula,” is just one block in a vast promotional pyramid scheme: While Mr. Beckham whips up his profile in the United States with television interviews, soccer-field appearances, endorsements and Galaxy jersey sales, Mrs. Beckham pumps up her end of their business partnership with her jeans label and line of designer sunglasses and perfume and, of course, the television special.

Almost all celebrities sell a glimpse of their private lives to promote their latest movie or project. The Beckhams market their marriage as the core of their brand, which explains the couple’s racy conjugal spread in the August issue of W magazine. And yet, for all her erotic poses, skimpy outfits and well-oiled limbs, Mrs. Beckham is oddly unsensual on television; she somehow takes the sin out of synergy.

She does appear to be pleasant and not without a sense of humor. But that isn’t quite enough to carry viewers through an hour of house hunting, sunbathing and applying for a driver’s license, all executed with “Zoolander” pouts and poses. These kinds of reality shows rely on a fish-out-of-water conceit, but in Beverly Hills Mrs. Beckham is a fish-in-Évian, one rich, blond, spray-tanned wife-of among many. She has tea with a group of golden-haired, Botoxed and bosomy matrons and fits right in: “Footballers Wives” meets “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

The special does serve another purpose besides propping up Mr. Anschutz’s soccer investment, however. It tests the American market’s seemingly insatiable demand for rich, idiotic It girls, from Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan to Britney Spears and Nicole Richie. Mrs. Beckham comes to the genre armed with an entourage of stylists, huge sunglasses and her own version of Ms. Hilton’s trademark expression, “That’s hot.” Posh deems posh things “major.” But she totters, in the requisite leopard-print high heels — through well-trod territory.

If she can retain viewers past the first commercial break, then the results will be conclusive: Either there is a vast, media-controlling conspiracy afoot, or there is no such thing as celebrity ditz-fatigue.

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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #46 on: July 17, 2007, 12:01:39 am »
That was well-written.

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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #47 on: July 17, 2007, 08:28:06 am »
How many zillions of dollars are they paying this guy? And now he's INJURED??



Beckham may delay debut; Capello considers U.S. job
Injury may force soccer star to sit out Galaxy's game Saturday, and former Real Madrid coach says he has received an offer to coach in the U.S.
By Grahame L. Jones
Times Staff Writer

July 17, 2007

The rapidly unfolding David Beckham story took a couple of new twists Monday, one of them expected, the other somewhat surprising.

First, it appears quite possible that Beckham will not make his debut for the Galaxy against Chelsea at the Home Depot Center on Saturday as planned. Everything depends on the status of his injured left ankle, and on Monday it was still swollen and sore.

Also, Fabio Capello, Beckham's former coach at Real Madrid, revealed that he had been offered an undisclosed position in the United States.

"They have contacted me," Capello told Gazzetta Dello Sport in Milan, without revealing who made the offer. "However, I must think about it.

"It would be a new experience that would intrigue me, not for the money but to see if anyone could make American soccer take off."

There was immediate speculation that Capello might be headed to the Galaxy, to reunite with Beckham and to take the place of Coach Frank Yallop. It is equally possible — and perhaps more likely — that Capello, 61, is being targeted by U.S. Soccer as someone who could fill the planned technical director position overseeing all U.S. national teams.

"I hope it's not here," Yallop joked Monday. "It's nice to know that he's interested in coming over. He's a very, very good manager and coach. It'll be good if we can get him in this country."

Yallop was less upbeat with the short-term outlook for Beckham, who donned a Galaxy uniform for the first time Monday but did not participate fully in the team's workout at the stadium that attracted an estimated 1,000 fans and a larger-than-usual media contingent.

Beckham did 45 minutes of very light work, not with the team but either alone with trainer Ivan Pierra or in conjunction with injured defender Chris Albright.

He also did some stretching exercises with new teammates Kyle Veris, Edson Buddle and Quavas Kirk. He did a little ball juggling, took one or two jogs across the field but did not sprint, did not strike the ball and engaged in no physical contact. It was more an appearance than a training session.

Asked whether it was possible that Beckham would remain on the bench, or even in a luxury suite, on Saturday, Yallop said: "There's always a possibility that he will not be playing because of his injury, but hopefully he will be.

"We're not going to force him to play. That would be wrong. If he's ready to play, he will, but we'll wait and see. We won't put him in any danger of making it long-term."

Later Monday night, Beckham acknowledged that the ankle was swollen and confirmed that he might not play but added, "Hopefully I'll be all right."

Beckham injured the ankle while playing for England in a Euro 2008 qualifying game against Estonia in early June and was still suffering the effects when he helped Real Madrid win the Spanish league championship on June 17.

He has not played a game since then but did start working out on his own while on holiday in the south of France.

Yallop said Beckham's flight to Los Angeles from England on Thursday had not helped matters, and that the ankle had swollen because of the flight and possibly because Beckham had started running on it "maybe a little bit too soon."

"With ankles, they do tend to clear up pretty quickly, if there's no structural damage, which there isn't," Yallop said.

"It's just that swelling and that soreness that he's got to get out of his system."
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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #48 on: July 18, 2007, 01:11:56 am »
Wow!! I just saw a big commercial about Beckham. The Beatles were singing "Hello, Goodbye" and people were sad he was leaving, but in America--everyone was cheering. At the end--I think the words were "America, say hello to Beckham" and he was standing in the field. He must really be a force to have that kind of press!!
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Re: Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!
« Reply #49 on: July 18, 2007, 02:47:19 am »
But what was it a commercial for, Shasta?  Just David Beckham himself?  Is he running for governor of California?  This sounds nuts.  As if some musclebound furriner could ever get elected to.........grumble grumble...