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Million dollar men: a magic mike tribute.

After a storming run of events in 2022 and 2023, the boys are back in town for 2024. This powerful show has everything you need for the ultimate night out in this fantastic tribute to Magic Mike! Get ready for a wild one and experience the atmosphere of a fun Vegas strip show with all the sounds of the best 90’s & 00’s R&B Classics.

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20 Best Quotes From The Magic Mike Movies

How 22 jump street created a funny channing tatum meme still used 10 years later, magic mike 3’s opening continues a specific channing tatum trend.

One of the most iconic movies of Channing Tatum's career Magic Mike is inspired by his true life experiences. Magic Mike was originally released in theaters on June 29, 2012 and was a critical success, earning a Certified Fresh critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 78% . With a production budget of just $7 million, Magic Mike became one of the most profitable movies of that year, earning a worldwide box office total of $170.5 million and sparking the follow-up sequel Magic Mike XXL in 2015. 2012 turned out to be a massive year for Tatum, whose celebrated comedy 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill also came out and earned $201 million worldwide.

Tatum has grown to be one of the biggest movie stars in the world with a wide range of acting talents ranging from comedy to action. His first major role in a Hollywood movie was as Jason Lyle, a basketball player in the popular 2005 sports movie Coach Carter . Tatum notably was a background dancer in music videos before starring in his breakthrough hit Step Up , which eventually led to him starring in his other popular dance-focused franchise, Magic Mike . While 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street show off Tatum's comedic side , he also starred in the tragic sports drama Foxcatcher alongside Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carrell, which was nominated for 5 Oscars .

Tatum stars in Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut Blink Twice in theaters now.

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Magic Mike Is Loosely Inspired By Channing Tatum's Real Experiences As A Male Stripper In Florida

Tatum was a stripper for less than a year but knew the world well enough.

Tatum was only a male stripper for about "eight months" and never "made a career out of it" but knew the world well enough.

While Magic Mike is not a true story nor does it chronicle true events in Channing Tatum's real life, it is inspired by Tatum's personal experiences as a male stripper in Florida. At just 18 years old, Tatum briefly made ends meet as a stripper in real life, which is similar to the premise of his titular Magic Mike protagonist. Tatum did not share a writing credit on Magic Mike with producer and screenwriter Reid Carolin, who also wrote the scripts for Tatum's Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Dog (2022). Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, who also worked with Tatum on 2013's Side Effects and 2017's Logan Lucky , directed both Magic Mike and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023).

Tatum was heavily drawn to bringing his slice-of-life experience to the big screen because it had never been done before . In an interview with The Aquarian , Tatum explains " I had a little experience in this world and, to be honest, I had never seen it on film. So, when Steven Soderbergh and I started talking about it, we discussed some classics like Boogie Nights, Shampoo and Saturday Night Fever, and decided we ought to be able to make a memorable movie about a subject that’s never been covered cinematically before ." Tatum reveals he was only a male stripper for about "eight months" and never "made a career out of it" but knew the world well enough.

The Magic Mike movies may have a focus on exotic dancing but Mike, Richie, Dallas and the others still have plenty to say. Here are their best quotes.

Magic Mike's Characters & Story Aren't Based On Real People & Events

Tatum did a lot to bring the sights and sounds of the underground world to the surface without actually retelling any real stories or recreating actual people.

Magic Mike has a great ensemble cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Olivia Munn, Riley Keough, Alex Pettyfer, and even Reid Carolin as Paul. Even though the behind-the-scenes aspects of the lives and struggles of male strippers were authentically portrayed in Magic Mike, none of the characters, even Joe Manganiello's "Big D**k Richie", were based on actual people. None of the events in Magic Mike were based on true events either since Tatum did a lot to bring the sights and sounds of the underground world to the surface without actually retelling any real stories or recreating actual people.

Tatum made it clear from the start that Magic Mike was a complete work of fiction . " None of the characters are based on real people, not even my own. Everything that happens is fictional, and we did that purposely because we wanted the freedom to create our own scenarios and tell the best story " (via Looper ). Tatum added that Soderbergh " really does empower people, from the actors to the crew, to bring their own ideas into the process, to really perform. To bring something that he's not expecting. And that empowers everybody to help everybody ." With that being said, there is no true story behind Magic Mike but there is a whole lot of real-world and life experience infused into it.

22 Jump Street is full of hilarious moments, but the movie is responsible for one iconic Channing Tatum meme that is still relevant 10 years later.

What Channing Tatum Has Said About His Life's Similarities To Magic Mike

Tatum confirms the inspiration behind the film but makes it clear that magic mike is a work of fiction.

Tatum has spoken at length about the crucial difference between Magic Mike's "true story" and the real-life inspiration behind it. The bottom line of Tatum's comments makes the distinction between his familiarity and brief participation in the very real world of male strippers in Florida, which can be said to have planted the seed for the setting and premise of what would become Magic Mike . Beyond these rudimentary elements of the film's development, the fictional narratives and characters in the Magic Mike franchise were created in the fact-based world of the story.

Magic Mike is streaming on Netflix now.

The success of Magic Mike 3 continues a specific Channing Tatum trend which he also accomplished with Dear John in 2010 and The Vow in 2012.

Source: The Aquarian, Looper

Magic Mike is a film franchise created by Steven Soderbergh and Reid Caroline that follows the exploits of several exotic male dancers as they work the hustle on the stage and off. Channing Tatum stars as the titular "Magic Mike," and the series explores the friendships and backgrounds of the characters beyond the stage life as they try to make names for themselves and find out what comes next beyond their current lives. The third film in the series, Magic Mike's Last Dance, is said to be the conclusion of the series.

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A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.

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• Crazy credits The Warner Bros. logo used at the opening of the film is a modified version of the Saul Bass designed logo from the 1970s.
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• June 29, 2012 (United States)
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DJ Magic Mike and the Royal Posse

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DJ Magic Mike, the breakthrough bass producer after 2 Live Crew, was the music's most crucial recording artist. An underground label impresario on the order of Master P, Mike's productions were much rougher than the slick Miami bass sound and pursued a gritty old-school vibe -- more akin to Ultramagnetic MC's than Luther Campbell -- long after most hip-hop producers had gone pop in the late '90s.

The former Michael Hampton began his mixing career before he was even a teenager, spinning at a roller rink and selling mixtapes. By the age of 14, he was hosting a drive-time radio show in his native Orlando. He began concentrating on club work after finishing high school, and debuted on wax with 1987's "Boot the Booty" for Vision Records.

One year later, local promoter Tom Reich offered DJ Magic Mike a chance at a half-share in his own Cheetah Records if Mike's releases sold well. His first singles under the agreement, "Magic Mike Cutz the Record" and "Drop the Bass," both became big regional hits, sparking the release of his debut album, DJ Magic Mike and the Royal Posse in 1989. He took more of a guiding hand over his own instrumental productions for the follow-up, 1990's Bass Is the Name of the Game, and the album went gold despite its low vocal content. Mike's breakthrough LP, Ain't No Doubt About It, appeared in 1992, followed by the release of two LPs on the same day in late March; both Bass: The Final Frontier and This Is How It Should Be Done charted, and the former went gold. Although his recording schedule continued apace during the mid-'90s (and the number of his full-length releases climbed into the double digits), fewer of his LPs charted. Mike picked up the commercial slack with advertising appearances for Coca-Cola and Pioneer, and has also worked with Sir Mix-a-Lot, 2 Live Crew, MC Shy D, and Poison Clan. The new millennium saw Mike issue Magic's Kingdom and continue his output of mix albums. ~ John Bush

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Mike Sanderson: Three decades of racing Maxi’s

Courtesy of the International Maxi Association.

From New Zealand Endeavour to Bella Mente: Mike Sanderson on his three decades maxi racing.

In yacht racing circles he is best known for skippering  ABN AMRO One  to victory in the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race, and more recently in the industry as the new owner of Doyle Sails, but, as a sailor, for almost three decades Mike Sanderson has been involved in more consistently top level maxi racing yacht projects than perhaps anyone. Moose, as he is known, spoke to the International Maxi Association about his trail-blazing career.

There was some consternation when in 1988 a 17-year-old Sanderson quit the top public school he was attending in his native Auckland a year prematurely in order to become a sailmaker. This, he rightly anticipated, would be step one towards his ultimate aim of becoming a professional sailor. His inspiration came through this being the first halcyon era of Kiwi yachting: the Chris Dickson-led Kiwi Magic had proved an exceptional challenge for the 1987 America’s Cup, comfortably winning the round robin stage, while offshore Peter Blake was mounting his  Steinlager  campaign that would go on to win every leg of the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race.

Having been perpetual runner-up to  Steinlager  with his Fisher & Paykel, skipper Grant Dalton was not going to be outgunned again and for the 1993-94 race entered the ultimate (and final) Whitbread maxi ketch,  New Zealand Endeavour . Recommended to Dalton by his former navigator Murray Ross, a 21-year-old Sanderson managed to hitch a ride as a trimmer/driver, in awe at sailing alongside many of his heroes from  KZ7  and  Steinlager . At the time, the round the world race was still relatively untainted by safety measures such as ice gates or commercial pressures to visit Asia, but uniquely, for anti-aparteid reasons, was the one race to miss Cape Town – instead its second leg was a giant from Punta del Este, Uruguay directly to Fremantle, Australia. As Sanderson recalls: “We ended up really far south with icicles on deck and the wind gear freezing and very early Gore-Tex type wet weather gear which leaked like a sieve. And we broke the mizzen on that leg. We still led for a long time but finally we got mowed down by Merit coming into Fremantle.”

Despite the new spritely water ballasted Whitbread 60s nearly beating them on the water, loudly sounding the death knoll for the IOR maxis, it was nonetheless a fantastic end-of-era experience for the impressionable Sanderson. “We did something like 26 knots, but the maxi ketches were ridiculously contorted slave ships! We had around 23 sails on board, five or six different mizzen staysails alone, so it was a constant peeling frenzy all the way around the world, with guys out on the end of the spinnaker poles, dip pole gybing and some very nice Kevlar panelled sails!”

Alongside another Whitbread with Dalton again four years later on the Whitbread 60 Merit Cup when, aged 26, he was watch captain, the late 1990s were an intense period for Sanderson’s maxi yacht sailing. With Dalton he continued on to the relatively short-lived Grand Mistral/Maxi One Design circuit – initially an attempt by Swiss round the world maxi skipper Pierre Fehlmann to set up a one design oceanic racing circuit in identical water ballasted Farr 80s, the fleet eventually owned by Ernesto Bertarelli prior to his America’s Cup involvement.

Sanderson sailed on board the all-black Frers 93 Stealth while she was in the USA, training for a transatlantic record attempt that ultimately never happened. At a time when her owner, the ‘King of Italy’, renowned Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli, was regularly on board: “It’s been amazing watching these Ford versus Ferrari documentaries recently and seeing what a legend he was.” He also got a taste of Californian turbo sled competition, competing on board Robert McNeill’s Reichel-Pugh 75 ULDB  Zephyrus IV , which not only won but set a course record for the Cape-Rio Race in 2000.

Significantly in 1999 he was part of the crew, led by Chris Dickson, on Larry Ellison’s all-conquering Farr 79 ILC maxi  Sayonara ,  consecutive winner of the Maxi Worlds between 1997 and 1999 – also at a time when Ellison was regularly competing.  Sayonara  was Ellison’s first boat after he had been introduced to Bruce Farr and Geoff Stagg, plus Team New Zealand by David Thompson, a Kiwi sailor living in San Francisco who went to the same gym as Ellison. This was how many of the Kiwi legends such as Brad Butterworth ended up racing with Ellison between their victorious 1995 and 2000 America’s Cups. Aside from her star crew,  Sayonara ’s success says Sanderson lay in a very well run program by Bill and Melinda Erkelens, working with the Farr office to optimise her IMS rating from regatta to regatta. It was allegedly while having dinner aboard Ellison’s superyacht  Katana , while at Antigua Sailing Week that Team New Zealand’s Tony Rey (aka Trey) first suggested to Ellison that he should get involved in the America’s Cup. “Larry was most put out because lots of our guys went to sail at Oracle, but not Trey, who stayed at Team New Zealand…”

Racing on  Sayonara  led to Sanderson getting the position of main sheet trimmer on Oracle BMW Racing, Ellison’s first challenge for the America’s Cup in Auckland in 2003.

But Sanderson’s most consistent maxi yacht program, which began at this time, is Robert Miller’s Mari-Chas. In 1997, Miller was in the process of graduating up from his Frers 92  Mari-Cha II  (subsequently Bristolian) to a new 47m Briand ketch,  Mari Cha III . At the time she was in construction at Sensation Yachts in New Zealand and the story goes that Miller’s long term project manager and boat captain Jef d’Etiveaud had phoned North Sails in Auckland and the receptionist had called out to the boss Tom Dodson “I’ve got a guy on the phone who’s building a 47ft ketch”. Believing it to be a more modest craft, Dodson had passed it on to Sanderson as their ‘ketch expert’. “I didn’t say anything to anyone but I got in my car and drove out to Sensation to meet Jef and here, 23 years on, the rest is history!”

The  Mari Cha  campaign was especially attractive for Sanderson as it was both inshore and offshore. Following his Whitbread on Merit Cup, Sanderson and leading Kiwi bowman Richard Meacham, found themselves the lone English speakers, alongside the owner Robert Miller, on  Mari-Cha III  when she broke the monohull transatlantic record, from New York to the Lizard, in 1998. Given his credentials, despite still only being in his 20s, Sanderson from then on became  Mari-Cha ’s racing skipper and he was able to become deeply immersed in the design team that created Miller’s next, even more extreme maxi. While his previous yacht had a full luxury interior, the new 42m long yacht was stripped out, fitted with a canting keel (and a 10 tonne bulb) and rigged as a schooner. At the time of her launch at JMV Industries in 2003,  Mari-Cha IV  was the world’s longest (and soon to be fastest) racing monohull.

“That was a very cool project,” recalls Sanderson. “One of the key drivers at the time was how big we could build 3DL mainsails – so we had the option of a 100-110ft sloop or a 130-140ft schooner.” Running simulations on the transatlantic record course it became very obvious that longer was faster. Most impressively, just two months after her launch in France,  Mari-Cha IV  demolished the monohull west to east Transatlantic record setting a time of 6 days 17 hours 52 minutes and 39 seconds (18.2 knots average) that would stand for another 13 years. “The stars aligned for us at every point,” Sanderson recalls. “We had a fantastic crew [including many of the French Vendée Globe and multihull sailor rock stars], the owner had a great time, we didn’t break anything of any substance. All in all it was a roaring success.”

During the record she had also set a new monohull 24 hour record of 525 miles, becoming the first monohull to break the 500 mile/day (20.8 knot) barrier – although today monohulls are achieving this sailed singlehanded!

Mari-Cha IV ’s collosal size also held other benefits. Sanderson recalls: “If we got caught without being able to peel or if we’d broken something and we had to do a bare-headed change that boat would still happily tick along at 17 or 18 knots while you were getting ready.”

Miller and his crew subsequently went on to win the Rolex Transatlantic Race from New York to the Lizard and on to Cowes in 2005, marking the centenary of the New York Yacht Club’s famous race for the Kaiser’s Cup, won by Charlie Barr and the three masted schooner  Atlantic .

While  Mari-Cha IV  has long since sold (now renamed Samurai, she has been detuned and refitted by Royal Huisman with a superyacht interior), Miller, albeit now well into his 80s, continues to race and cruise with his family and his long standing team, including Sanderson, on board  Mari-Cha III.  The slippery giant ketch received a significant make-over in 2017, which involved adding 3m extra to the main and mizzen masts and fitting square-topped mainsails, EC6 composite rigging and halyard locks. “The boat is now an ORC weapon in my opinion,” says Sanderson. “We were very unlucky not to win the Superyacht Cup in Palma that year.”

While Sanderson made a brief foray into the IMOCA 60 class, with a new boat designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian and backed by Andrew Pindar, his greatest achievement as a sailor came when he was recruited to skipper  ABN AMRO One , the Dutch-flagged Volvo Open 70 in the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race. He recalls: “There was a lot of pressure, but we were also given every opportunity – we wanted for nothing, we had no restrictions on crew, we could train wherever in the world we wanted to, we could build two boats, we had a great sail budget and a great, great bunch of people right from the start.”

ABN AMRO One  dominated the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race, the first for the new generation Volvo Open 70s, winning six of its nine legs. But it was also a rollercoaster of highs and lows – on the one hand getting married to Emma Richards with his crew all acting as grooms at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, on the other the sad sad loss of popular Dutch crewman Hans Horrevoets from on board the ABN AMRO ‘youth boat’ during the Transatlantic leg, something which he admits haunts him to this day.

In part two of this article – to be published on Monday May 10  th  – Sanderson discusses his part in Hap Fauth’s multiple Maxi 72 World Championship winning  Bella Mente  campaign, his acquisition of Doyle Sails and how he believes the pandemic is going to affect the pro sailing world.

(By James Boyd / IMA)  https://bit.ly/2WcLUQ6

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024

Magic Miles

Magic Miles is a beautifully crafted and impeccably maintained luxury cruiser/racer sloop hailing from Tasmania, the finish port of the 628 nautical mile race to Hobart. From the drawing board of renowned French designer, Philippe Briand, she was built in 1985 and underwent a major refit in 2007-2008.

Owner Mike Crew owns the Theatre Royal Hotel in Hobart. He is a Qantas captain, but is preparing to fly for Qatar Airways and has assembled a good mix of experienced sailors and novices for what will hopefully be a relatively comfortable sail on his 62 footer. Aboard is a good representation of Tasmania’s burgeoning whiskey industry, such as Bill Lark and Pat Maguire and quasi novice, Peter Gee, who interestingly has not competed in the race before, but did do the distance on the radio relay vessel four times in the 1980’s.

Primarily used for corporate match racing on the Derwent River in Hobart and for select private charters in the southern waters of Tasmania, Magic Miles is the same design as another Hobart based yacht, Dr Tony Fisher’s Helsal IV, which last raced to Hobart in 2008. The heavy yacht, more designed for creature comforts and cruising, finished 67 th out of 92 on line. Expect a similar result for Magic Miles, whose crew will enjoy a relatively comfortable ride.   

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The famous cutter Westward will join Black Magic in leading the fleet.

The historic cutter Westward will lead next Saturday’s Opening Day fleet on the River Derwent to mark the upcoming 75 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race,  joining Bellerive Yacht Club Commodore Graham Mansfield’s Black Magic at the head  of the expected fleet of more than 200 boats,  ranging from kayaks to ocean racing yachts.

The following Monday, Westward will be moored at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and the RYCT’s launch of the 75 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.   She may also be on station off Castray Esplanade for the finish of the Sydney Hobart Race.

Now part of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania’s floating exhibits in Constitution Dock, Westward won the 1947 and 1948 Sydney Hobart Races as well as the inaugural Maria Island Race in 1947. 

Originally owned by George Gibson, Westward was designed and built by the legendary Jock Muir who was sailing master in her ocean racing victories.

The Huon pine-built 42-footer is the only Tasmanian yacht to have twice won the Sydney Hobart Race, making her debut on the Derwent on Opening Day 1947, 72 years ago this month.

Queensland yachtsman Stan Field owned Westward for 55 years, cruising the Pacific,  before he gifted her to the Museum.  A crew of Museum members, headed by Captain Mike Webb, sailed her from Maryborough back to Hobart in 2010.

Saturday’s Opening  Day Parade of Sail will start at 2.00pm from off the Hobart Regatta Grounds, with the fleet proceeding under sail and/or motor into Sullivan’s Cove where the Governor of Tasmania, Her  Excellency The Honourable Professor Kate Warner AC, will take the salute from aboard the motor launch Egeria.

The fleet, usually ‘dressed ship’ with colourful pennants and ensigns, will then sail to a rendezvous for the traditional raft-up, signalled at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Derwent Sailing Squadron and Bellerive Yacht Club according to the weather forecast for the afternoon.

The first race of the season, the RYCT’s 20 nautical mile Channel Race, will be held the following day, Sunday, 6 October with the first Combined Clubs Summer Pennant race day the following Saturday, 12 October.

Words and photo: Peter Campbell

29 September 2019

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The America's Cup Hall of Fame honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to yachting's most distinguished competition.

The America's Cup Hall of Fame was founded in 1992 under the auspices of the Herreshoff Marine Museum by Halsey Herreshoff, a four-time America's Cup defender and grandson of legendary yacht designer Nathanael Herreshoff.

Over ninety legends of the Cup have been inducted into the Hall. Candidates eligible for consideration include members of the crew, designers, builders, syndicate leaders, supporters, chroniclers, and other individuals of merit. Each nominee is judged on the basis of outstanding ability, international recognition, character, performance, and contributions to the sport. The members of the Selection Committee are persons intimate with the history and traditions of America's Cup and committed to the integrity of the Hall of Fame.

The museum of the Hall of Fame is located on the grounds of the former Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, where yachts were built for eight consecutive America's Cup defenses between 1893 and 1934. Its collection include plaques honoring the inductees; half-hull models of challengers and defenders; artifacts including spars, steering wheels, and tank test model hulls; and special exhibits about the America's Cup.

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AMERICA'S CUP WINNERS

Note : The yacht AMERICA won the Royal Yacht Squadron ₤100 Cup on August 22nd, 1851. Her surviving owners presented the Cup to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 under the condition that it serves as a perpetual challenge prize for international yacht racing. The Cup was subsequently renamed after the first winning yacht, AMERICA.

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America's Cup Hall of Fame Selection Committee

R. Steven Tsuchiya, Chairman

Margherita Bottini

John S. Burnham

Brad Butterworth

William Collier

William H. Dyer Jones

Richard Gladwell

Jack Griffin

Halsey Herreshoff

Tim Jeffery

Gary Jobson

Andrew Johns

Murray Jones

John Lammerts van Bueren

Ken McAlpine

Elizabeth Meyer

Shirley Robertson

Blue Robinson

Hamish Ross

Bruno Troublé

Tom Whidden

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