London (ANI): The biopic of former John Lennon will provide a deep personal business relationship of the former Beatle's relationship with his mother and with his Aunt Mimi, wHO brought him up. The film coroneted Nowhere Boy is based on the memoirs of Lennon's stepsister, Julia Baird.
Matt Greenhalgh of Joy Division biopic Control celebrity said that the book "illuminated so much just about this legendary genius. I could see the drama and cinema immediately the women in his lifespan, the manpower who weren't, the birthing of stone and hustle, all stately on a brilliantly complicated adolescent mind."
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Saturday, 30 August 2008
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Stone recruited by Barack Obama
Joss Stone will provide Barack Obama with a song to serve as the base for his election campaign.
Obama, the Democrat candidate for this November's US presidential election, reportedly made a personal request to the British soul singer to pen the track.
Stone obliged, with a source telling to The Sun: "Joss is a big supporter of Barack Obama and was identical excited to be asked to do this for him. He sent a personal message asking her to get on board.
"He has always admired her music and thinks she is the perfect choice because of her unique appeal to black and white voters. She believes he is going to be the first black American prexy and she is honoured to be a contribution of that."
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Obama, the Democrat candidate for this November's US presidential election, reportedly made a personal request to the British soul singer to pen the track.
Stone obliged, with a source telling to The Sun: "Joss is a big supporter of Barack Obama and was identical excited to be asked to do this for him. He sent a personal message asking her to get on board.
"He has always admired her music and thinks she is the perfect choice because of her unique appeal to black and white voters. She believes he is going to be the first black American prexy and she is honoured to be a contribution of that."
> Joss Stone to appear in The Tudors
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Monday, 11 August 2008
The Click Five
Artist: The Click Five
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Modern Minds and Pastimes
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Greetings From The Imrie House
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Bonzo Dog Band
Artist: Bonzo Dog Band
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Tadpoles
Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Besides, maybe, the Mothers of Invention (with whom they were sometimes compared), the Bonzo Dog Band were the most successful mathematical group to compound john Rock music and comedy. Starting off as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, then becoming the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and then finally just the Bonzo Dog Band, the group was started by British fine art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, merely by the meter of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock'n'roll directions. A brief appearance in the Beatles' Wizard Mystery Tour moving picture bolstered their visibility, and Paul McCartney (under the anonym Apollo C. Vermouth) produced their single "I'm the Urban Spaceman," which reached the British Top Five in 1968. The Bonzos truly arrive at their stride with their second and third albums, which launch them adding elements of psychedelia to their already-absurdist integrate of pop, night club, and Dada. The Bonzos could be sidesplitting, merely their records held up well because they were besides up to musicians and songwriters, paced by Neil Innes and Viv Stanshall (both of whom wrote the lion's ploughshare of their charles Herbert Best corporeal). The group attempted to displace into more serious and musical realms with their 1969 LP Keynsham, which, unsurprisingly, was acclaimed as their weakest endeavour. They stone-broke up shortly later on; Viv Stanshall made some obscure solo recordings (he was besides the grandstanding narrator on Mike Oldfield's "Tube-shaped Bells"). Neil Innes collaborated with members of Monty Python, upon whom the Bonzos were a big influence, as comfortably as piece of writing the songs for and playing in the Beatles documental put-on, The Rutles.
Tennis Teacher: Lowe Nanny's a Floozy!
Monday, 23 June 2008
Rahul Sharma and Richard Clayderman
Artist: Rahul Sharma and Richard Clayderman
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
The Confluence
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Muppet creator's life screen bound
A new biopic about the life and work of 'The Muppets' creator Jim Henson is to be made.
Empire Film Group, Inc has acquired the motion picture production and distribution rights to Robert D Slane's screenplay 'Henson'.
The film is due to begin production in the late summer with a budget of $30m.
Commenting, Empire Home Entertainment President Eric Parkinson said: "Jim Henson is one of the best known and most beloved entertainers of all time. His story is inspiring, tragic, heartwarming and epic, and will make for an important and entertaining motion picture."
Empire Film Group, Inc has acquired the motion picture production and distribution rights to Robert D Slane's screenplay 'Henson'.
The film is due to begin production in the late summer with a budget of $30m.
Commenting, Empire Home Entertainment President Eric Parkinson said: "Jim Henson is one of the best known and most beloved entertainers of all time. His story is inspiring, tragic, heartwarming and epic, and will make for an important and entertaining motion picture."
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Witness -- R. Kelly Loves the Hardwood
That bombshell witness finally took the stand in the R. Kelly kiddie-porn trial -- and she said he's a baller!Lisa Van Allen testified she and the Prince of Pee got down and dirty on film with the alleged victim on his personal b-ball court in Chicago when she was only 17, and she added that they did it in his log cabin-ish basement.
Of course, Van Allen's testimony took a big blow when she revealed that she sold the tape they made back to R.'s business manager for $20K. The defense gets its turn today.
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Monument to homosexual victims of Nazis unveiled
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany unveiled a monument to the tens of thousands of homosexuals persecuted under the Nazis, whose laws were used to prosecute gay men for a generation after World War Two.
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is openly gay, hailed the grey, concrete memorial as a long overdue acknowledgement of the repression of homosexuals, 50,000 of whom were convicted by Nazi courts during Adolf Hitler's 12-year dictatorship.
"The monument consecrated today is a reminder to us of the horrors of the past and draws our attention to the degree of discrimination that currently exists," Wowereit said.
"Great efforts will still need to be undertaken before the sight of two men or women kissing here or in Moscow or elsewhere on the planet is accepted by society in general."
The 600,000 euro ($950,000) cube in Berlin's central Tiergarten park stands opposite the monument to the 6 million European Jews murdered by the Nazis, and was designed by the Danish-Norwegian pairing of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.
Nazi authorities ordered the castration of some gay men, and sent thousands more to concentration camps, many of whom were murdered or died from hunger and disease.
Until 1969, when the centre-left Social Democrats headed a government for the first time since the Weimar Republic, Nazi laws continued to be applied to prosecute homosexuals.
The country's gay and lesbian association (LSVD) said that for years German homosexuals had been cut out of the official culture of commemoration, and denied compensation.
"Commemoration must have consequences," the LSVD said in a statement. "The rehabilitation of those people who were convicted under Nazi laws must therefore be the next step."
(Writing by Dave Graham; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is openly gay, hailed the grey, concrete memorial as a long overdue acknowledgement of the repression of homosexuals, 50,000 of whom were convicted by Nazi courts during Adolf Hitler's 12-year dictatorship.
"The monument consecrated today is a reminder to us of the horrors of the past and draws our attention to the degree of discrimination that currently exists," Wowereit said.
"Great efforts will still need to be undertaken before the sight of two men or women kissing here or in Moscow or elsewhere on the planet is accepted by society in general."
The 600,000 euro ($950,000) cube in Berlin's central Tiergarten park stands opposite the monument to the 6 million European Jews murdered by the Nazis, and was designed by the Danish-Norwegian pairing of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.
Nazi authorities ordered the castration of some gay men, and sent thousands more to concentration camps, many of whom were murdered or died from hunger and disease.
Until 1969, when the centre-left Social Democrats headed a government for the first time since the Weimar Republic, Nazi laws continued to be applied to prosecute homosexuals.
The country's gay and lesbian association (LSVD) said that for years German homosexuals had been cut out of the official culture of commemoration, and denied compensation.
"Commemoration must have consequences," the LSVD said in a statement. "The rehabilitation of those people who were convicted under Nazi laws must therefore be the next step."
(Writing by Dave Graham; Editing by Giles Elgood)
McKellen hopes to play Gandalf in The Hobbit
'Lord of the Rings' star Ian McKellen hopes to play Gandalf the wizard in the planned series prequel 'The Hobbit', which is also based on the work of JRR Tolkien.
McKellen played Gandalf in all three instalments of the 'Lord of the Rings', and wants to don his robes and hat again even though series director Peter Jackson will not be at the helm for the new film.
Speaking on his official website, McKellen also said Jackson would the executive producer on the new film with Guillermo del Toro, maker of 'Pan's Labyrinth', set to direct.
Asked whether he would play Gandalf, McKellen said: "Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the executive producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor."
He continued: "Encouragingly, Peter and screenwriter Fran Walsh have told me they couldn't imagine 'The Hobbit' without their original Gandalf. Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director Guillermo del Toro but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!"
Del Toro and Jackson plan to make 'The Hobbit', a far shorter book than the three that made up the 'Lord of the Rings' series, into two films. As with Jackson's films, the two films will be shot simultaneously.
Click here for a review of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth'.
Click on the film name for reviews of LOTR I, LOTR II or LOTR III.
McKellen played Gandalf in all three instalments of the 'Lord of the Rings', and wants to don his robes and hat again even though series director Peter Jackson will not be at the helm for the new film.
Speaking on his official website, McKellen also said Jackson would the executive producer on the new film with Guillermo del Toro, maker of 'Pan's Labyrinth', set to direct.
Asked whether he would play Gandalf, McKellen said: "Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the executive producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor."
He continued: "Encouragingly, Peter and screenwriter Fran Walsh have told me they couldn't imagine 'The Hobbit' without their original Gandalf. Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director Guillermo del Toro but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!"
Del Toro and Jackson plan to make 'The Hobbit', a far shorter book than the three that made up the 'Lord of the Rings' series, into two films. As with Jackson's films, the two films will be shot simultaneously.
Click here for a review of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth'.
Click on the film name for reviews of LOTR I, LOTR II or LOTR III.
Fern Britton Admits Having Weight-Loss Surgery
Fern Britton has confessed to having weight-loss surgery.
Despite recent claims from her rep that Britton's new slim figure was down to a healthy lifestyle, the 50-year-old TV star has admitted she underwent gastric banding two years ago to have the size of her stomach reduced.
The 'This Morning' host said she was "very pleased" with the results, but added that she would not want to influence others to follow her lead.
"As I know, many people are interested in my weight loss over the past two years. As interest is so high, I am making public, as a personal choice, that I had a gastric band operation two years ago," she said.
"I did this purely for myself and I would not wish to influence others to do the same. But for me it has worked and I am very pleased with the results."
Fern's rep had previously said, "Fern is happy to say that her weight loss is a consequence of healthy diet and exercise."
Britton, who was reportedly concerned that at her biggest she was an unhealthy role model for other women, has quietly introduced a new fitness regime and eating plan, avoiding faddy diets in favour of a holistic approach. She is now in training for an intensive 370km charity bike ride in Cuba later this year.
She has said, "It's a great thing when you have a moment in your life which makes you think 'I'm gonna change'. I was coming up to 50 and I thought 'I'm going to change'.
"It's possible. But in your head you've got to get to the right space. Once you're there you can do that."
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Irwin family launch Australia Zoo dolls
Television star Terri Irwin and her children Bindi and Robert have launched a new range of their Australia Zoo toys in New York.
Terri Irwin, whose husband Steve was killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary, spoke about her children's experience of snake bites during the launch.
Speaking about her four-year-old son Robert, she said: "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit."
"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.
She also revealed that her nine-year-old daughter Bindi was first bitten by a snake when she was just 18 months old.
Bindi said of the toy launch: "It's every little girl's dream to have an exact lookalike doll. It's amazing."
Terri Irwin, whose husband Steve was killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary, spoke about her children's experience of snake bites during the launch.
Speaking about her four-year-old son Robert, she said: "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit."
"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.
She also revealed that her nine-year-old daughter Bindi was first bitten by a snake when she was just 18 months old.
Bindi said of the toy launch: "It's every little girl's dream to have an exact lookalike doll. It's amazing."
SLG
Artist: SLG
Genre(s):
Techno
Electronic
Discography:
Slapback EP
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Earthworm EP
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Dynamik Bass System
Artist: Dynamik Bass System
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Techno
Discography:
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Arabian Dreams [12'']
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Arabian Dreams
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
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