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What is LUXURY ?


According to wikipedia luxury is:

luxury (plural luxuries)

  1. very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  2. something desirable but expensive.
  3. something very pleasant but not really needed in life.

Luxury can refer to several things:

  • Luxury good, an economic good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, contrast with
  • Luxury tax, a tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars
  • Luxury tax (sports), a surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a sports team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league
  • Luxury vehicle, a relatively expensive automobile
  • Luxury yacht, a very expensive privately owned yacht which is professionally crewed
  • Luxury real estate, a niche real estate market dealing with the highest economic group of property buyers
  • Luxury resorts, which are very exclusive vacation facilities
  • Luxury box, a term for a special seating section in arenas, stadiums and other sports venues
  • Luxury magazine, a magazine devoted to fine craft
Luxury I think , is a way of living...

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Oscars's 79th Academy Awards




The Oscars! Every January, when the calendar has turned to a new year, the attention of the entertainment community and of film fans around the world turns to the upcoming Academy Awards. Oscar Fever hits, building to the crescendo of the annual presentation of golden statuettes, when hundreds of millions of cinema lovers glue themselves to their television sets to learn who will receive the highest honor in filmmaking.

After three-quarters of a century of recognizing excellence in cinema achievement, the annual presentation of the Oscars has become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' most famous activity.


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http://www.oscar.com/


The Oscar awards nominees



“Babel”
“The Departed”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“The Queen”

Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond”
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson”
Peter O'Toole in “Venus”
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland”


Penélope Cruz in “Volver”
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal”
Helen Mirren in “The Queen”
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”
Kate Winslet in “Little Children”


“Babel” Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed” Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima” Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” Stephen Frears
“United 93” Paul Greengrass


































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