NBA Slam Dunk Contest 2011: Blake Griffin's User Submitted Dunk

NBA Slam Dunk Contest 2011: Event Info, Dunk Highlights, and More
This year, in a further attempt to get the fans to be an even bigger part of the dunk contest, ESPN started an initiative asking fans to videotape their own dunks for Blake Griffin to try.
The dunk that he seemed to like the most was the second to last dunk in the video above, which is a slick looking behind-the-back-360. Pretty simple right.
Blake definitely has the hops to get up in the air long enough to do something like that, but he hasn't really demonstrated the amount of body and ball control that may be needed to pull that one off. If he can do it, it will be quite impressive.
I'm looking forward to the user dunk that he tries, whether it is the one he chose in the video or something else, and I would like to see this trend of user-submitted dunks continue, but get all four contestants involved, and have each of them try one.
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Frankie Muniz Hollywood Hills Home

When actor Frankie Muniz was still a teen television star he bought and sold quite a bit of property around Los Angeles. That all slowed down with the end of his television show "Malcolm in the Middle." In 2005 he bought this home for $3.499 million and in 2007 he put it on the market for $3.875 million. The LA Times reports that the home is back on the market. Muniz has been renting it out in recent years and new listing pictures show that it's missing the artwork and young-star-glam look it had back in 2007. Muniz meanwhile has turned his attention for acting to race car driving and playing drums with the band You Hang Up.
The traditional-style 1941 home and has five bedrooms total including a master bedroom that has skylights, walk-in closets and a bath with an infinity tub. The home is on a small plot of land but has a pool, spa, outdoor dining area and a charming outdoor fireplace. The home is now listed at $3.195 million.

Spider-Man Musical Given Critical Mauling

Troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been slated by critics in the first major press reviews a month ahead of opening.

Spider-Man Musical Given Critical Mauling

"Spider-Man is... the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway," wrote Ben Brantley in the New York Times. "It may also rank among the worst."

The Washington Post branded the show a "stinker", while the Hollywood Reporter called it a "web-slinging folly".
The show, currently in preview, will have its official opening on 15 March.

Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring music by Bono and The Edge of U2, the musical has been plagued with technical problems and injuries to its cast.

The most serious came on 20 December when cast member Christopher Tierney fell 30 feet during the performance, suffering a skull fracture and cracked vertebrae.

In the New York Times, Brantley admitted he was breaking a traditional embargo but said he had decided to see the show around the time it was supposed to have opened prior to the most recent postponement.

"From what I saw on Saturday night, Spider-Man is so grievously broken in every respect that it is beyond repair," he wrote.His sentiments were echoed by the Washington Post's Peter Marks, who called it "a shrill, insipid mess" with a "convoluted" story.The score, he continued, was "devoid of personality" in a show whose "optimal audience might be non-English-speaking".

The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney called it "an ungainly mess of a show that smacks of out-of-control auteurial arrogance".

"This pile-on by the critics is a huge disappointment," said Spider-Man's spokesman Rick Miramontez, adding that "changes are still being made" to the $65 million (£40.4 million) production.

"Any review that runs before the show is frozen is totally invalid," he continued.Despite the barrage of negative publicity, the show is selling out at New York's 1,928-seat Foxwoods Theatre.

Taymor's previous shows include the musical adaptation of Disney film The Lion King. Her film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest opens in the UK next month.
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