Maryss & Rino of Beat Freaks - Michael Jackson Dance Class Tribute

Maryss and Rino of The Beat Freaks create a Dance Tribute to Michael Jackson.
By Peter Gonzaga

Last Thursday, July 2, 2009, Maryss and Rino of The Beat Freaks debuted their dance Tribute to Michael Jackson. Every Thursday, the twosome teach dance at the Debbie Reynolds Studios in North Hollywood, CA.

As avid fans of Michael Jackson, Maryss and Rino decided to create a dance routine in honor of the gloved one. Their inspiration to dance came from Michael and his creativity. Here are few video clips from what Pacific Rim Video covered last Thursday.







Maryss and Rino were also picked as back up dancers for Michael Jackson's London leg of his tour.

The twosome are also known for being part of The Beat Freaks and competed on MTV's "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew - Season 3." Season 4 of the show will start back up on MTV this coming August 9, 2009.

Check out Pacific Rim Photo Press for photos from the dance class.

Tilda Swinton asks, "Is It Really Your Birthday?"

For a red carpet photographer, we try to come up with various things to get the attention of the celebrity to look at our lens out of the sea of other photographers' lens. For one photog, she loves to say, "Blow me a kiss, it's my birthday!" (when it's not). Last Wednesday night at the AFI Festival's Tribute to Tilda Swinton, the un-named photographer had no words for Tilda when she said, "Is it really your birthday, because it's mine too?"

The photog had to come clean and tell her that it wasn't her birthday. To make light of it, I blurted out, hey Tilda it's really my birthday, Happy Birthday fellow Scorpian! Now that gave her a smile.

The next evening at the BAFTA Awards in Century City, CA. Tilda was on the carpet again since she was there to accept an award from the BAFTA. This time I was able to get her attention when I yelled out "Tilda, I love Julia it brilliant." Her mouth dropped open and she was elated.



"Julia" is her upcoming movie to be released in February 2009 about an alcoholic who is propositioned into making a quick buck. However, one thing leads to another and Julia is way in over her head than she expected.