John Mayer - Mayers Gun Attack Explained & other: 2008

Sunday, 7 September 2008

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson rock the crowd at fashion show

NEW YORK - Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson.

The duo sat in the front row for the Saturday morning presentation of Ronson's sister Charlotte's spring ingathering at New York Fashion Week, where they were immediately swarmed by photographers who brushed past other famous folk like Sean Lennon to get shots of the actress and DJ.

Lohan sported a jean dress and blue pumps, and wore her blond hair pulled back in a bun; Ronson had on a black T-shirt and a grey skinny jeans and vest - she usually incorporates a hat into her rocker look, but this time she opted to show off her pixie haircut.

They stood up for a standing standing ovation when Charlotte Ronson appeared on the runway later on the present, and made a spry exit as media pursued them backstage (where they hid in a VIP lounge).

Actress Emma Roberts, the niece of Julia Roberts, joked that she was stuck in a "Lindsay traffic jam" as she tried to leave the crowded event.

In-demand music producer Mark Ronson - comrade of Charlotte and Samantha - deejayed the medicine at the show.

He declined comment when asked around the buzz over Lohan and his sister, simply said he was gallant of his family.

"I think we're just all determined and love what we do," he said of his siblings.

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Thursday, 28 August 2008

Charlotte rekindles her feud with Cheryl Cole

London (ANI): Charlotte Church has rekindled her feud with popstar Cheryl Cole by branding her gutless and boring. Charlotte has lashed out at Cole for not voting on pal Nikk Major's performance on the opening show of the ITV1 series, and called her weak and gutless for pickings back dirty husband Ashley Cole.

"Cheryl proved she's got no backbone," News of the World quoted her as saying. "To take Ashley back shows complete deficiency of self-worth," she added. Church likewise went on the lengths of locution that she would never want Cole in TV, as she is pretty boring.

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Monday, 18 August 2008

Book on race and retribution gets film treatment in 'Blood Done Sign My Name�

MONROE, N.C. - Screenwriter Jeb Stuart was 14 years old in 1970 when a grim man was shot to death on a populace street as he begged for his life.

The killing, trial, acquittals and race riots played out in Oxford, hardly 260 kilometres from Stuart's home in Gastonia, merely the author of such action films as "Die Hard" and "The Fugitive" was forgetful to the strife.

That was not the sepia-toned South of his youth.

"I grew up in the '60s with the idea it was the most rattling place in the creation to live," said Stuart, who was named for the Confederate cavalry general famous for riding circles around superior Union forces.

Now Stuart is bringing the story of the slaying of 23-year-old Henry Marrow to the big silver screen by directive the flick version of "Blood Done Sign My Name," generator Tim Tyson's story of race and retribution in the tiny farming community of interests where he grew up.

For both work force - stanford White North Carolina natives and the sons of ministers - the movie is a fortune to explore the lives of blacks in the South, a story Stuart now recognizes as far different from the one he experienced. To blacks, the Confederacy - the flag, the monument, the soldiers - represented prepossess and unjustness, not the same signification that it had for Stuart.

Many of the film's scenes were shot in Monroe and in the nearby town of Shelby, hometown of neo-Confederate icon Thomas Dixon, author of the 1905 novel "The Clansman." The book was the cornerstone for D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," a racially charged and historically flawed film that helped give birth to the modern Ku Klux Klan.

"Birth" is "one of the first mass cultural images of the South ... and, of course, it's not the African-American fib at all. ... It's not the Southern story at all," Tyson said. "It's a phantasy of racial supremacy."

It would seem a paradox that Dixon's hometown serves as the backdrop for "Blood," which ultimately explores the dangers and legacy of racism. But Tyson notes that the themes of both movies, created more than than 90 years aside, are similar: citizenship, furiousness, race and sexuality.

"I felt like the Lord brought us to Shelby to do battle with our own pasts and with our possess stories well-nigh our pasts," said Tyson, who teaches at Duke University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his alma mater.

"Blood Done Sign My Name" comes from a Negro spiritual that refers to the excruciation. Tyson aforementioned he chose the claim in an effort to turn something horrific into something utilitarian. Blood refers to family, race and murder, all themes that run through the book, and signing your name signifies a commitment.

"The history," Tyson aforementioned, "is a kind of a commitment that many generations of Southerners, black and edward Douglas White Jr., have made to try to have a multiracial democracy and try to redeem the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence into more than words."

While he was writing the screenplay for "Blood," Stuart questioned his have father, world Health Organization recalled the era as an uncomfortable time for people of faith - "ministers," he said, "wHO were caught between doing what was the right-hand thing to do in terms of their religion and keeping bread on their table and having a job."

"I knew immediately that that's a great character," Stuart said. "That part of the story had a real grand resonance to me and I knew that having lived through that I could assure that story."

"Blood Done Sign My Name" is the story of imperfect human beings fashioning imperfect history.

"In this level, it's human beings world Health Organization are blemished, imperfect and caught in a severe history, and they are grappling to make sense of it and to fix what cannot be fixed," Tyson said. "It's not around saints and heroes, merely it's about ordinary people like ourselves."

The movie stars Rick Schroeder ("NYPD Blue") as Tyson's father, Rev. Vernon Tyson, who was forced to leave town and his Methodist church service because of his support for civil rights. Nate Parker ("The Great Debaters") plays Ben Chavis, Marrow's cousin wHO went on to go executive director and CEO of the NAACP.

Parker, world Health Organization co-stars in "The Secret of Life of Bees," set for release in October, learn the "Blood" script and the book before accepting the part.

"We really hold to state the report and assure it in a way that is correct, that is true and honest," he aforementioned. "Hollywood has a way sometimes to kind of give citizenry what they think citizenry are ready for rather than what the accuracy is."

Stuart, a self-described "true son of the South," said people often asked whether he wanted to make a movie that would dig up up all the anger, hurt and frustration of almost 40 years ago.

"It was never my aim to show the South at its best," he said. "I continually surprised myself in terms of the depth of the anger from the inglorious community, the depth of the frustration.

"Am I delivery all that to the screen? I guarantee you I'm non. And I feel like I didn't make this movie to be the white conductor making the black have. But I am A director telling A story. And that I fanny do."

Tyson contends events that frame the South's dreadful past are still relevant today: A young fatal man is killed, there's police and judicial misconduct, riots solvent and white-owned businesses are destroyed. That could be a tale set in post-2000 Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Cleveland or New Orleans, he said.

"In that sense," he said, "I leslie Townes Hope that what we are telling is a tolerant of human history in which we can see the faces of masses that we know and that we are, and that as we fight to find meaning in our past that we'll manage to find hope in our future."

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Friday, 8 August 2008

Ronnie and Rod Stewart continue 30 years feud

London (ANI): Thirty years have passed, but singers Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood taking a get around at each other over the Rolling Stone rocker accusing Stewart of organism a cent pinching suspensor. Wood tagged Rod "tighter than two coats of paint" years ago. Predictably, the slur didn"t go down well with pal Rod.

Rod is now fuming once once again. The timing however, is not so good, especially as Wood is held up in rehab, and his marriage is facing a breakdown. "I am not tight or meanspirited. Ronnie Wood, who is a capital mate, keeps saying I am, He's such an a***hole, Ron, he says I'm tighter then iI coats of paint, I am heedful with money, Ronnie isn't," the Sun quoted Rod as locution.

"He doesn't keep his eyes on the accounts like I do, he's got no Scottish blood in him, but I'm not tight, I do lots of work for charities, I just father"t make it public," Rod added.

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Winehouse Needs Her Amy Juice

With the London heat and humidity in full effect, Amy Winehouse made sure she stayed hydrated on Thursday -- with whiskey and vodka!

After a busy week of passing out in her home, being hospitalized, diagnosed with early signs of what could be emphysema and visiting her husband in prison, the weaved loon stopped off for some much needed nourishment ... in the form of miniature bottles of liquor.

Between the cigs, alcohol and other treats, Amy's got all the essential popwreck food groups covered.

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Joe Chester - The Tiny Pieces Left Behind

Recorded over the space of three years in studios both in Ireland and France, Joe Chester's second album, 'The Tiny Pieces Left Behind', has a disjointed feel to it, which despite occasional flashes of brilliance has a tendency to get lost in too many instruments and not enough substance.
Where as Chester's debut, the much acclaimed 'A Murder of Crows' was a mainly acoustic affair, full of strong songs and catchy melodies, 'The Tiny Pieces Left Behind' sees him opt for a much more fuller sound. This should work well, as Chester has earned his stripes for over the last ten years in guitar-based bands such as Sunbear and Tenspeedracer. However, at times the singer-songwriter's vocals struggle to compete with the richer sound.
The album opens strongly with both 'Something is Better (Than Nothing At All)' and 'The Right Place' offering decent harmonies and the instruments afforded to it are up to the task of strong, catchy melodies.
The best find on the album has to be 'To Hold Onto Melting Love', a wispy, thoughtful tune, double-tracked vocally and offering contributors Ann Scott and Gemma Hayes the proper platform to showcase their considerable talents. The melody soars and dips, eventually ending up with a traditional air. Beautiful.
However, too many times on the album the songs just fade into obscurity, ok for a first or second listen, but offering nothing to listeners to keep the coming back. 'Why Things Break' is a forgettable track, with the repetitive nature of verse and chorus not helped out by Chester's vocals.
There is equally nothing memorable about 'Alarms', a long drawn-out affair, devoid of any melody, Chester's voice again competing unfavourably with the music. Ditto 'Long Distance Friend'.
With only a handful of decent tracks and one stand-out song, the album has to be considered a let-down following the considerable beauty and success of his debut. Unfortunately, it's all too familiar 'difficult second album' territory for the singer-songwriter.
Padraic Geoghegan

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli

Artist: Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli

   Genre(s):
Avantgarde

Discography:

Secret Window (Promo Score) OST

Year: 2004
Tracks: 18

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Kimmel Gives Audience the Bird

Sen. Robert Byrd, 90, of West Virginia was hospitalized earlier this week -- which gave Jimmy Kimmel the opportunity to make fun of the fact that he's older than dirt.
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Thursday, 29 May 2008

X Factor star is UK Eurovision entry

Former 'X Factor' star Andy Abraham has been chosen to represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
The 43-year-old former dustbin-man was chosen by the public to travel to Serbia as the country's Eurovision entry.
The singer, whose song is called 'Even If', beat former 'EastEnders' star Michelle Gayle in the public vote on Saturday night.
Speaking after he was selected for the Eurovision, Abraham said: "I'm freaked out. What can I say - the public have voted me in and I'm over the moon."
"I will try my best to make them proud out in Serbia. I really hope people in Europe will give the song a chance."
Abraham, who was the runner-up in the 2005 series of 'The X Factor', has been installed at odds of 25/1 to win the Eurovision by William Hill.
A spokesperson for William Hill, Rupert Adams, said: "Sadly it looks like we've got a bigger turkey than Ireland. In the future the UK will need to pick a novelty act to stand a chance."

Saturday, 24 May 2008

Ant Miles and Red One

Artist: Ant Miles and Red One

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

RAMM36

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Bring It On / Musica

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Carey & Cannon Will Wed Again Next Year

Mariah Carey and her new husband Nick Cannon will celebrate their first wedding anniversary by staging a more public ceremony in America. The couple wed in secret at Carey's Bahamas retreat on April 30 and the pop superstar reveals she's already making plans to renew her vows. In her first TV interview since becoming Mrs. Cannon, Carey told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, "We're just going to have another (wedding) next year. His plan is to have one every year." She told DeGeneres in the interview that aired on Tuesday that her Bahamas nuptials were so top secret that the guests were mainly there "to do my hair and help me with the dress." She also revealed that she and Cannon only brought along three friends each because, "We wanted to be on the beach and we didn't want other people taking pictures."

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Source Interlink to Report Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Results on June 5, 2008

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla., May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Source Interlink
Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SORC), one of the largest publishers of magazines
and online content for enthusiast audiences and a leading distributor of
DVDs, CDs, magazines, games and books, today announced that it will release
financial results for the fiscal 2009 first quarter on Thursday, June 5,
2008 after U.S. market hours.

The Company will host a teleconference at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on
that day to discuss the quarterly results. To access the teleconference,
please dial 800-952-4972 (U.S. callers) or 416-641-2140 (Int'l callers),
referencing Source Interlink Companies, ten minutes prior to the start
time. The teleconference will also be available via live webcast on the
Company's Web site at http://www.sourceinterlink.com.

If you cannot listen to the teleconference at its scheduled time, there
will be a replay available through Thursday, June 12, 2008 that can be
accessed by dialing 800-408-3053 (U.S. callers) or 416-695-5800 (Int'l
callers), passcode 3261808. The webcast will also be archived on
http://www.sourceinterlink.com for 30 days.

About Source Interlink Companies, Inc.

Source Interlink Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SORC), a media and marketing
services company, is one of the largest publishers of magazines and online
content for enthusiast audiences and is also a leading distributor of home
entertainment products, including DVDs, music CDs, magazines, video games,
books, and related items. Source Interlink serves approximately 110,000
retail store locations throughout North America. Supply chain relationships
include consumer goods advertisers, subscribers, movie studios, record
labels, magazine and newspaper publishers, confectionary companies and
manufacturers of general merchandise.

The Company's fully integrated businesses and activities include:
-- Publishing and providing enthusiast media content including television
and radio programs, more than 75 magazines, over 100 events, 90 related
Web sites and 400 branded products for automobile, marine, equine,
outdoor sports, home tech and daytime television
-- Distribution and fulfillment of entertainment products to major retail
chains throughout North America and directly to consumers of
entertainment products ordered through the Internet
-- Import and export of periodicals to more than 100 markets worldwide
-- Managing product selection and placement of impulse items at checkout
counters
-- Processing and collection of rebate claims and management of point-of-
purchase sales data
-- Design, manufacture and installation of wire fixtures and displays in
major retail chains
-- Licensing of children's and family-friendly home entertainment products

For more information, please visit the Company's Web site at
http://www.sourceinterlink.com.

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The Miley Cyrus lesson

NEW YORK -- Miley Cyrus' struggle with her controversial photo in Vanity Fair presents a great opportunity for parents to discuss how seemingly innocuous photos posted to a blog or social networking site can be misinterpreted, experts say.

The 15-year-old pop star appears in the upcoming issue wrapped in what appears to be a satin bedsheet, looking over her shoulder with her back and shoulder exposed. Miley has said she is "so embarrassed" by the photos and has apologized to her fans.

But it may not be that much different from what regular girls are already putting up on the Internet, says M. Gigi Durham, author of "The Lolita Effect."

"It is pretty routine these days for girls to post provocative pictures of themselves online," she says. "The sexual objectification of young girls is so normal in today's media environment."

Parry Aftab, executive director of WiredSafety.org, agreed, saying girls as young as 11 are posing in their bras, with pursed lips on the top of sports cars and posting the photos to their MySpace pages -- without their parents' knowledge.

While many teens are savvier than their parents when it comes to social networking online, they are unaware of the consequences of posting inappropriate photos, videos and revealing personal information on the Internet, says Don Tapscott, who is working on a sequel to his "Growing Up Digital" book.

A 15-year-old may have no idea that something on her Facebook page could come back to haunt her, says Tapscott, whether it's a college recruiter, future employer, a cyberbully or someone using the information to demean her.

And trying to stop something once it's been posted, is "like trying to catch a river in your hand," says Aftab.

Parents should use this as an opportunity to open a discussion about what is appropriate for a social networking page, says Tapscott. Volunteer to review their photographs and other material before it's posted. Help them with the privacy settings, he says.

"The starting point is not to be handing down decrees or demanding to see this and that," he says, adding that for some teens a social networking page is like a diary. "The starting point is to have a conversation."

Durham suggests parents talk about the possible consequences and encourage their children to think before posting certain things.

" 'What is the benefit of this?' " she says. " 'Is this going to be good for me? Are there any potential harms to this?' They should be helped to think through those complexities."

Gary Rudman, president of GTR Consulting, a teen market research firm, says parents have to keep in mind that their children -- while technologically savvy -- are not emotionally mature.

"Just like anything else, tobacco or alcohol, they really have to load their kids up with ammunition to understand that when they communicate on MySpace for example, they are communicating to the world," he says.

Derek Luke - Fascinating Fact 5223

Movie star DEREK LUKE plays ALICIA KEYS' boyfriend in her new video TEENAGE LOVE AFFAIR.

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