Jingle ALL The Way updates :- Jingle All the Way is a 1996 family comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. The name is taken from a line in the Christmas song “Jingle Bells”. This is the last comedy to date that Schwarzenegger starred in. Schwarzenegger received a salary of $15 million for his role in the film.

As far as Hollywood’s holiday offerings go this Yuletide season, I’ll take Schwarzenegger and Sinbad doing slapstick over a bunch of spotted puppies running amok any day, and the soundtrack to Jingle All the Way is not too bad, either. There are a few standards- Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run,” Nat King Cole’s “Christmas Song,” and Charles Brown’s “Merry Christmas Baby”-but the real draw is the Brian Setzer Orchestra doing the ol’ Buster Poindexter routine on some of your favorites, including “Sleigh Ride” with vocals by the great Darlene Love (the driving force behind Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift to You). The former Stray Cat’s new band also backs velvety-voiced Lou Rawls on a version of “So They Say It’s Christmas” which is pretty darn swell. The album gets docked a notch, though, for being a little skimpy at only 10 tunes plus some filler from the instrumental score.
Jingle All The Way: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE: A wildfire burned out of control through the Los Angeles foothills and deep into the brittle forest on Sunday, threatening 10,000 homes and encroaching on the region’s telecommunications nerve center.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the fire area and warned residents to heed evacuation orders for the “very dangerous” blaze that scorched 7,000 more acres (2,832 hectares) since day break for a total burned area of 42,500 acres (17,199 hectares).

Flames could be seen stretching 15 miles (24 km) above the heavily populated foothills, where an estimated 2,000 homes were under evacuation. At least 18 homes have burned, but most are thought to be cabins in a rustic canyon with few full-time residents.

At nightfall, firefighters focused their attention on Mount Wilson, the site of transmission towers for television and radio broadcasts and emergency services. Planes dumped water in the area, and officials said the fire could reach there in hours.

More than 2,500 firefighters were on the ground, coming from as far away as Wyoming and Montana, trying to build more than 100 miles (160 km) of fire protection lines.

In the suburb of La Crescenta, the streets were deserted Sunday afternoon except for a few residents fleeing with their suitcases and other belongings on foot.

Bob Sebesta, 47, sat watching the burning ridge from his in-laws’ house, which was evacuated Saturday night.

“I keep thinking I should go water the backyard,” Sebesta said.

The fire that started on Wednesday above the exclusive community of La Canada Flintridge is only 5 percent contained and officials expected that, with hot temperatures and low humidity, it would grow larger. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

HEALTH WARNINGS

Dense smoke filled the skies over the foothills and authorities issued health warnings for the Los Angeles basin.

A wooded neighborhood on the slopes of La Crescenta got the evacuation order in the middle of the night, but only around half the neighborhood left.

On Sunday afternoon, brothers Vince and John Bollier looked out onto the mountains in front of their parents’ house, where the fire had left only gray ash on the slopes.

“Last night was an inferno,” said Vince Bollier. “It was close, but it wasn’t life threatening, although a lot of people would have characterized it as dangerous.”

Sheriff’s deputies spent Sunday afternoon urging residents to leave, and it appeared most had.

Helicopters have been flying over the neighborhood for days, filling up with water to drop along the area where homes meet the dry wilderness.

The saving grace in the Station fire has been the absence of high winds, but much of the brush in the area has not burned in 60 years, terrain is difficult to access and humidity is low.

Four firefighters have been injured and three civilians have suffered burns, including two who were badly burned on Saturday after they tried to ride out the fire by sitting in a hot tub.

Many homeowners who were evacuated Friday and Saturday returned on Sunday, after an aerial assault with water and fire retardant saved their homes, many of them worth millions of dollars.

The relative lack of high winds has made fighting the fires from the air difficult because thick smoke hanging over them made them hard to see, Schwarzenegger said, adding that many of the flames are up to 80 to 100 feet high (24 to 30 metres).

Utility Southern California Edison said the blaze has cut power to about 250 customers.

Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County last week in response to four fires in the area.

On Sunday, he said, there were eight “huge” fires burning statewide. In total, 55,000 acres (22,257 hectares) have burned, he said.

This is another new updated map of the Station fire near Los Angeles. It shows heat detected by satellites at 2:17 p.m. on Saturday, August 29. The red areas depict heat detected within the last 12 hours.

It shows a great deal of fire growth, especially on the west and north sides, as it burns deeper into the Angeles National Forest and threatens homes in the front country on the south side. The fire has burned into across Big Tujunga Road and west over Mt. Lukens. It threatens homes in La Canada -Flintridge, Altadena, and Glendale.

Three civilians with burns were flown out of Big Tujunga Canyon.

The fire is driven by high temperatures, low fuel moistures, steep slopes, dense vegetation, and very low relative humidities. Southeast winds at 6-12 mph contributed to the fire spread Saturday afternoon. There is the potential for Sunday’s fire behavior to be similar to that seen on Saturday.

Fire officials report that the fire has burned 20,102 acres and it is 5% contained.

Washington: Democratic lion Edward Kennedy was on Saturday met with his dead brothers buried in a Virginia cemetery as a solo trumpet player ended a political dynasty.

Surrounded by his close-knit family that has dominated U.S. policy for half a century, Kennedy’s body was taken to Arlington National Cemetery, to rest on a hill overlooking the capital.

The late senator was buried 100 feet (30 meters) from the tomb of his brother, Robert Kennedy, assassinated in 1968, and near the eternal flame that marks the final resting place of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963.

Three days of great excitement came to an end as the nation’s final farewell to the man with the Kennedy mantle thrust upon him and he spent 47 years working tirelessly in the U.S. Senate to improve the lives of others.

In a Catholic Mass before the fief Boston Kennedy, President Barack Obama, who won critical support from Kennedy in his race for the White House, praised him as “the lion of the Senate.”

Obama, three former presidents and elite of the country met in Boston Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to say goodbye to the Kennedy family patriarch, who yesterday lost his fight with brain cancer. He was 77.

Obama praised Kennedy as “a champion of those who had none, the soul of the Democratic Party, and the lion of the U.S. Senate.”

Kennedy had triumphed over “more pain and tragedy that most of us will ever know,” the president said.

After Mass, Kennedy’s flag-draped coffin was flown to Washington on the last leg of their last trip that began Thursday, when it was put into a hearse outside his house on Cape Cod

Thousands of people took to the roads again Friday, reflecting scenes seen in the last three days at his home in Hyannis Port and then in Boston in an enormous flow of grief over the death of Kennedy.

Outside the U.S. Capitol the crowd broke into applause as the funeral cortege paused briefly to the senator’s last visit to the National Assembly of the imposition of white.

In unprecedented scenes, thousands of ordinary other pedestrians had gathered solemnly on the grass and the roads near their respects.

Outside the Senate for almost five decades shook with the sound of the voice of Kennedy, his widow, Vicki, and family members left his vehicle to greet hundreds of congressmen and legislators.

Members of the Irish-American clan before it moved to tears in the dough when the son of Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Jr., gave a moving speech about the tenderness of his father with him during childhood, when his leg was amputated due to cancer.

“He taught us that even our deepest losses are to survive,” said Kennedy Jr.

Telling how his father helped him to climb a hill of ice with his new prosthetic leg, Kennedy Jr. said: “He taught me that nothing is impossible”.

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE: A wildfire burned out of control through the Los Angeles foothills and deep into the brittle forest on Sunday, threatening 10,000 homes and encroaching on the region’s telecommunications nerve center.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the fire area and warned residents to heed evacuation orders for the “very dangerous” blaze that scorched 7,000 more acres (2,832 hectares) since day break for a total burned area of 42,500 acres (17,199 hectares).

Flames could be seen stretching 15 miles (24 km) above the heavily populated foothills, where an estimated 2,000 homes were under evacuation. At least 18 homes have burned, but most are thought to be cabins in a rustic canyon with few full-time residents.

At nightfall, firefighters focused their attention on Mount Wilson, the site of transmission towers for television and radio broadcasts and emergency services. Planes dumped water in the area, and officials said the fire could reach there in hours.

More than 2,500 firefighters were on the ground, coming from as far away as Wyoming and Montana, trying to build more than 100 miles (160 km) of fire protection lines.

In the suburb of La Crescenta, the streets were deserted Sunday afternoon except for a few residents fleeing with their suitcases and other belongings on foot.

Bob Sebesta, 47, sat watching the burning ridge from his in-laws’ house, which was evacuated Saturday night.

“I keep thinking I should go water the backyard,” Sebesta said.

The fire that started on Wednesday above the exclusive community of La Canada Flintridge is only 5 percent contained and officials expected that, with hot temperatures and low humidity, it would grow larger. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

HEALTH WARNINGS

Dense smoke filled the skies over the foothills and authorities issued health warnings for the Los Angeles basin.

A wooded neighborhood on the slopes of La Crescenta got the evacuation order in the middle of the night, but only around half the neighborhood left.

On Sunday afternoon, brothers Vince and John Bollier looked out onto the mountains in front of their parents’ house, where the fire had left only gray ash on the slopes.

“Last night was an inferno,” said Vince Bollier. “It was close, but it wasn’t life threatening, although a lot of people would have characterized it as dangerous.”

Sheriff’s deputies spent Sunday afternoon urging residents to leave, and it appeared most had.

Helicopters have been flying over the neighborhood for days, filling up with water to drop along the area where homes meet the dry wilderness.

The saving grace in the Station fire has been the absence of high winds, but much of the brush in the area has not burned in 60 years, terrain is difficult to access and humidity is low.

Four firefighters have been injured and three civilians have suffered burns, including two who were badly burned on Saturday after they tried to ride out the fire by sitting in a hot tub.

Many homeowners who were evacuated Friday and Saturday returned on Sunday, after an aerial assault with water and fire retardant saved their homes, many of them worth millions of dollars.

The relative lack of high winds has made fighting the fires from the air difficult because thick smoke hanging over them made them hard to see, Schwarzenegger said, adding that many of the flames are up to 80 to 100 feet high (24 to 30 metres).

Utility Southern California Edison said the blaze has cut power to about 250 customers.

Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County last week in response to four fires in the area.

On Sunday, he said, there were eight “huge” fires burning statewide. In total, 55,000 acres (22,257 hectares) have burned, he said.