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Friday, 27 June 2008
TMZ TV Tonite -- Suck on This!
On TMZ TV tonight -- it's all about the Hollywood bachelors, and the women that love them. Lance Armstrong sucks face, Matthew McConaughey sucks down some party juice, and Colin Farrell -- sucked into holy matrimony?
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Sunday, 22 June 2008
Bjork, Sigur Ros Set For Free Environmental Show
Bjork and Sigur Ros are to play a special free show in Reykjavik at the very end of this month, to help raise awareness of environmental problems in Iceland.
Bjork posted the following message on her official site, regarding the issue of environmental impact: "Neither me or look at ourselves as experts on nature, or as politicians, but we do travel a lot and we believe we know a lot about what image Iceland has abroad, and that we are far behind."
"I spent two months in South America, and there I saw the poor doing recycling. We can't be 30 years behind, we need to work together on this and preferably we should be leading the way."
"Too often battles being fought for nature turn into something negative and into mudslinging. We will not go that way, we are not saying that this and that is forbidden, we are rather asking, 'What about all these other possibilites?'."
"The 21st Century is not going to be another oil century but rather a century where we need to recycle, think green and design both power plants and our surroundings in harmony with nature."
The exact location will be disclosed nearer to the event's June 28th date.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
AC/DC To Release Album Via Wal-Mart
AC/DC will release their next album exclusively through Wal-Mart, reports the Wall Street Journal.
This will be AC/DC's first album in eight years, and the band have revealed that they worked with producer Brendan O'Brian on their new music. So far a title or tracklisting has not been provided.
The Aussie band will follow the likes of the Eagles in only selling the CD through the huge American chain, when their album is released later this year. An exact release date is not known yet.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Patrick Stewart - Stewart Fishburne Compete For Prestigious Tony Award
PATRICK STEWART and LAURENCE FISHBURNE will go head-to-head for the Best Actor award at the annual Tony Awards in New York next month (Jun08).
The ceremony will see stage actors, directors and performances compete for America's annual top theatre awards, which will be hosted by Whoopi Goldberg on 7 June (08) at the famous Radio City Music Hall.
Star Trek legend Stewart and Fishburne have been nominated alongside British actors Ben Daniels, Mark Rylance and Rufus Sewell.
The female leads battling it out for Best Stage Actress include Eve Best, Deanna Dunagan, Kate Fleetwood, S. Epatha Merkerson and Amy Morton.
The coveted Best Play Award nominations are August: Osage County, Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer, and The 39 Steps.
Musical favourites Grease and Gypsy are also up for gongs in the Best Musical Revival category, and Shakespeare's MACbeth and comedy Boeing-Boeing will be competing for the Best Play Revival award.
Best Director For A Play nominees are Maria Aitken for The 39 Steps, Conor MCPherson for The Seafarer, Anna D. Shapiro for August: Osage County, and Matthew Warchus for Boeing-Boeing.
Other categories featuring at the 2008 Tony Awards include Best Costume, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations.
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Lisa Marie Presley is suing newspaper
Singer Lisa Marie Presley is suing the Daily Mail over an article which alleged that she was "piling on the pounds", which forced her to announce her pregnancy.
The 40-year-old singer, who is the daughter of music legend Elvis Presley, claimed that she was deeply upset by the article.
The Mail, published by Associated Newspapers, reported last week that Presley was gaining weight.
Presley's lawyer Simon Smith said: "My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news."
In a blog posting on her MySpace webpage, Presley wrote: "Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight."
She also said that she was forced to "show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant".
Presley already has an 18-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son.
The 40-year-old singer, who is the daughter of music legend Elvis Presley, claimed that she was deeply upset by the article.
The Mail, published by Associated Newspapers, reported last week that Presley was gaining weight.
Presley's lawyer Simon Smith said: "My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news."
In a blog posting on her MySpace webpage, Presley wrote: "Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight."
She also said that she was forced to "show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant".
Presley already has an 18-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son.
Patrick Swayze to begin shooting new cable series for A&E network
NEW YORK - Patrick Swayze is going back to work.
The "Dirty Dancing" actor, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, will begin shooting his new A&E series "The Beast" in Chicago this summer.
The cable network says it has ordered 13 episodes of the one-hour drama.
It stars the 55-year-old Swayze as an unorthodox FBI agent who trains - and hazes - his new partner, portrayed by Travis Fimmel.
It is scheduled to premiere early next year.
The actor shot the pilot for "The Beast" last December, months before his cancer diagnosis surfaced in news reports.
"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting-edged," Swayze said in a statement.
"There are constant twists and turns, because we never know what this 'Charles Barker' is going to do next! Not only is the show driven by plot, but as important, it's character driven," Swayze said.
Swayze's representative, Annett Wolf, confirmed to The Associated Press in early March that he was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.
Meanwhile, his physician Dr. George Fisher issued a hopeful statement, saying Swayze had "a very limited amount of disease" and appeared "to be responding well to treatment."
Wolf declined comment Tuesday. A&E spokesman Dan Silberman said the network wasn't commenting beyond its news release announcing the greenlit series and statement from executive Bob DeBitetto, who professed to be "thrilled to have Patrick on board."
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Swayze will likely continue his treatment during four months of filming in Chicago. In an interview, DeBitetto told the Times that Swayze had benefitted by care including chemotherapy and experimental drugs.
"Obviously we've had candid conversations with him and his doctors, and we have a fairly high degree of expectation that Patrick will be good to work a full production schedule," said DeBitetto, adding, "No one is using words like cured or remission or miracle."
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A&E is owned by A&E Television Networks, a joint venture of Hearst Corp., Walt Disney Co. and General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
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'Kung Fu Panda' beats projections
"Kung Fu Panda" kicked Adam Sandler's butt at the boxoffice this weekend, as the DreamWorks Animation comedy opened even bigger than expected with an estimated $60 million domestically. Click here to read the full story
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Amy Winehouse Compares Blake Fielder-Civil Trial To Disneyland
Amy Winehouse caused more disturbance at the trial of her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, by comparing the event to Disneyland.
The beehived singer, who earlier this week angered the courtroom with her loud-mouthed behaviour, made an appearance at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London yesterday to support her beau who is on trial for charges of assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Late as usual, the 24-year-old singer strolled into the courtroom just before 3pm and spent the duration of her visit blowing kisses and mouthing "I love you" to Fielder-Civil.
Fielder-Civil, who has been incarcerated since last year, even attempted to pass his wife a note via his lawyer, but the action was refused by the court usher.
As the pre-trial arguments were being laid out in court, Winehouse suddenly said out loud: "It's like Disneyland".
She left 30 minutes later, but not before whispering "F**k you" as she exited the courtroom.
The beehived singer, who earlier this week angered the courtroom with her loud-mouthed behaviour, made an appearance at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London yesterday to support her beau who is on trial for charges of assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Late as usual, the 24-year-old singer strolled into the courtroom just before 3pm and spent the duration of her visit blowing kisses and mouthing "I love you" to Fielder-Civil.
Fielder-Civil, who has been incarcerated since last year, even attempted to pass his wife a note via his lawyer, but the action was refused by the court usher.
As the pre-trial arguments were being laid out in court, Winehouse suddenly said out loud: "It's like Disneyland".
She left 30 minutes later, but not before whispering "F**k you" as she exited the courtroom.
Sigur Ros sing in English for the first time
At last we can put away our Icelandic dictionaries. Sigur R�s will this June release their fifth studio LP - and for the first time it will feature singing in English.
Though most of the album will still be sung in Icelandic - the first track is tellingly called Gobbledigook - the final song is in the Queen's English, albeit, presumably, yowled, stretched, and turned into a magical fairy psalm.
The album will be called Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust. Just in case you've already thrown out those dictionaries, Sigur R�s translate the title as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly". Which is what Sigur R�s sceptics have been complaining about for years.
Gobbledigook, the lead single, is available now as a free download, as is the music video. It features lots of handclaps, guitar strums, and frolicking naked people. (And it's definitely not safe for work.)
The album was recorded not just in Sigur R�s' �lafoss studio, but also abroad - in London, New York, and the very un-Icelandic Havana, Cuba. String quartet Amiina loaned their talents, as did a five-piece brass section. But it's on a song called �ra B�tur that the band had the most help. The track was recorded in a single live take, with the participation of the London Sinfonietta and the London Oratory Boys' Choir - with more than 90 musicians joined in creating a rapturous racket.
The band's Jon Thor Birgisson has traditionally sung in either Icelandic or a made-up gibberish language called Hopelandic. This means that for most of us, the band's lyrics have been incomprehensible - high, beautiful glossolalia over bowed guitars and thundering drums. We've had the luxury of imagining these lyrics as the most insightful poetry we've ever had the pleasure to not understand.
But all that will end in June, when we hear All Alright, the LP's closing, English-language song. Its title does not exactly inspire confidence, it being more evocative of a Coldplay B-side than of a lost Rilke sonnet.
Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust will be released on June 23 by EMI. Pre-orders begin on June 2, including a deluxe edition with book and making-of film.
Tracklist:
1 Gobbledigook
2 Inn� m�r syngur vitleysingur
3 G� an daginn
4 Vi spilum endalaust
5 Festival
6 Me su � eyrum
7 �ra b�tur
8 Illgresi
9 Flj�tav�k
10 Straumnes
11 All Alright
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