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STAPLES Center & Nokia Theatre’s Lee Zeidman Named a Finalist for The Stadium Business Awards 2012 Executive of the Year Award
By GalaTView Staff
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The nominations for The Stadium Business Awards, in association with KPMG, have been announced this week and Lee Zeidman. Sr. Vice President and General Manager of STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre and L.A. LIVE has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Executive of the Year category. The full lists of nominees for Executive of the Year include:
• Alex Martins, CEO, Orlando Magic, USA
• Julian Jenkins, Director Of International Marketing & Special Projects, Cardiff City FC, UK
• Lee Zeidman, SVP and GM STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre and L.A. LIVE, USA
• Martin Perry, Executive Director, Brighton & Hove Albion FC, UK
• Robb Heineman, CEO, Sporting KC, USA
“I am incredibly honored to be nominated for the Executive of the Year Award for The Stadium Business Awards 2012,” Lee Zeidman shared. “I work for an amazing company in AEG, who provide our venues with a vision and the ability to succeed and we strive everyday to be the best arena and theatre not only in North America, but internationally. In addition, the full time and part time staffs that work for us are undoubtedly the best in the business and I am proud to work alongside of them each and every day.”
Now in their third year, The Stadium Business Awards are the only awards to recognize a whole spectrum of achievements from across the global stadium industry.
The winners will be announced at the Gala Awards Evening, held during The Stadium Business Summit at the Museo dell’Automobile Turin, Italy on May 15, 2012. Thousands of nominations were whittled down to create the shortlist, which will be judged by an independent panel of industry figures, including:
- Ebru Köksal, General Secretary, Turkish Football Federation
- David Manica, President, MANICA Architecture, USA
- Pat Coyle, President, Coyle Media Inc, USA
- Michael Bolingbroke, COO, Manchester United FC
- Thierry Favre, Head of National Associations Development, UEFA
- Ian Nuttall (Chair), Founder, TheStadiumBusiness, Italy
The Games begins today only with one winner
By GalaTView staff
Photos By: Alfonso de Elías.
GalaTView talked to Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss): “My career sees a pattern and I don’t know what else to do. My character was already in my mind and nobody has seen her before so most people already had created pictures and idea of what your character is. When I read and how understood her in my perception about my understanding what I’m preparing her in the movie. My defense is like Justin Timberlake sings, one girls was painted but it was never on me and the guys over signed me and I said in between and Liam and Josh started to say something in Australian accent because somebody passed out and where I was barely have a chance to pronounce my name. I had training in running, triathlon, art climb, combat and yoga. Mentally I had many dreams about 100% were involved and I like to stay in a good shape doing something mainly with cardio exercises. At the top on my characters’ dialog has been described in the book but even you read it is different. Our director was genius when we filmed in an open area because is harder doing in a studio. The adapters of this film were amazing and sometimes I had some complications in my emotions in the cameras but I could solve them because we always trusted on the director.”
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta):“I think that Peeta is more unspoken intention we had whipping and shoot each other and it was an awesome experience and technically and physically, I had to prepare myself in a good way with fiber, protein and the training of each other. For some dialogues in the book do not the same it has popular understand so the audience will notice some changes. In some scenes most of us took very serious some instructions about film. When you are hearing games you can make jokes but not we were more serious, especially when he becomes skillful in hiking and had love in the story so that was a good motivation. So I had to understand his kindness through his mother and find a way ho was going to work out in the movie in the exposition of the dialog.”
The Hunger Games are addictive
By GalaTView staff
Photos By: Alfonso de Elias.
The Hunger Games tells the dark tale of a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who is selected to compete in a vicious televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post-apocalyptic society fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. In the future, North America is no more. In its place has risen Panem, a divided nation split into 12 districts. Every year, each district selects a teen of each gender (called “Tributes”) to test their worth in a competition known as the Hunger Games, which are broadcast across the nation as entertainment, and to reinforce the government’s total power. When her younger sister is selected as District 12’s latest “Tribute,” Katniss volunteers to take her place, and trains under hard-drinking former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) to sharpen her killer instincts. Now in order to survive the game and emerge the victor, this young combatant must put all of her skills to the ultimate test.
GalaTView talked to Amanda Stenberg (Rue) and said: “Jennifer is extremely funny, in every time that we take together laughing, Jen and I were doing the same things acting. Sometimes, I had to play on some scenes and these ones had to be explained them to me mainly in some scenes were I was extremely scared because I was involved in a kind of games so It become something that I really got each scene after all.”
Alexander Ludwig (Cato): “I jumped up to my opportunity just because I had this chance to play this guy. It was really wanted to experience the dark side so I had to twist individually. I wanted cared about physical presents in a mental movie and there was a lot fight training where you can go through so I have been working with a navy seal and tons of hang calls back like a club.”
Lenny Kravitz (Cinna):”I have been in rock actually but I didn’t know about the book so I had to read it but the crew call me back very quickly after see this classic epic story, I hated at the beginning for the classic way but I loved for the costumes and messages at the same time. I’m so satisfied to do a great project with everybody who was cool and nice, no divas no drama, real actors and everyday was hugging and saying hi to each other and we had so much fun. So is not a goodbye in a certain point.”
