Wednesday 10 September 2008

Victoria Beckham Throws A-list Birthday Party For Romeo

Victoria Beckham went to great lengths to give her boy Romeo an extravagant 6th birthday, make out with a superheroes theme.


The birthday boy dressed for the function in a Batman mantle and brother Cruz wore a Power Rangers suit.


Only the finset attended the bash - pals Gwen Stefani and rocker married man Gavin Rossdale and toddler Kingston, Heidi Klum and her kids Leni and Henry and Geri Halliwell brought baby Bluebell.


The party - held at Universal Studios, Hollywood - was filled with the succeeding generation of young, budding celebrities.


David Beckham was absent from the party� as he is currently grooming with the England team.

Monday 1 September 2008

Daddy Yankee - Daddy Yankee Breaks Puerto Rican Movie Records

Reggaeton hotshot DADDY YANKEE's movie debut has pie-eyed box agency records in the rapper's native Puerto Rico.

His new celluloid Talento de barrio has broken unexampled opening day records subsequently an estimated 12,000 fans off out to see the movie when it debuted last week (ends15Aug08).

Producer Jorge Rivera says, "We're very surprised."





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Friday 22 August 2008

What the Kiwi gossip mags say

It's a sad day as deuce high-profile couples - one from New Zealand, the other from Hollywood - pack their bags and depart for that alone city known as Splitsville.



A beaming Chris Cairns and his South African married woman Carin star on the cover of this week's edition of Woman's Weekly, but the "love catastrophe" headline gives the secret plan away.


The pair have broken up, and there's reportedly no chance for a reconciliation of the union that produced two sons, Thomas and Bram. It's just non cricket for the kids.


"It's a sad situation," agrees the former big-hitting Kiwi cricketer. "We separated hexad months ago."


Carin is reportedly heartbroken over the split, and has shifted back up to South Africa to be comforted by her mum on her family's lily farm. Never underestimate the healing qualities of a lily.


And Chris won't comment on rumours that a third party - an Australian girl in her 20s who met Chris when he was playing beach cricket sooner this year�- is byzantine in the break-up.


Those blasted Aussies. First they steal our bands, now they're stealing our men.


There ar more broken in heart string section over at New Idea as Jennifer Aniston gives notorious philanderer John Mayer the heave-ho. Was his body not a wonderland?


While Jen continues her sleeveless searching for Mr Right and wonders where it all went wrong, John is convalescent from the break-up exploitation a slightly differently method.


NI reports the singer consoled himself with a hot tub caper in Cabo with a naked alien. Life goes on as usual, then.


Don't worry, romantics - there's good famous person relationship tidings afoot: Kiwi supermodel Rachel Hunter is getting married.


Woman's Day reports�Rachel's boyfriend - 26-year-old iCE hockey actor Jarret Stoll - proposed during their New Zealand visit net week at boutique hotel Mollies, acquiring down on bended knee�with a mob worth $100,000.


Thanks to that ring,�Jarret's nickname has changed�from "toy boy" to "iCE man". That's $100,000 well exhausted, then.


Other stars who hit the headlines this week:


* This week's weirdest couple alert truly is unknown. Keanu Reeves has reportedly hooked up with Trinny Woodall, the British co-host of strike fashion show What Not To Wear. "Trinny met Keanu through a friend in London and they really clicked," a source tells WD. Perhaps she could begin a new show called, 'How Not To Act'.


* Tori Spelling has dropped out of the forthcoming Beverly Hills 90210 by-product show. The plastic surgery-loving star was set to reprise her role as Donna Martin until she discovered she was organism paid half as often as co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth. Those tummy tucks aren't chintzy, Tori. Are you certain you don't want to reconsider?


* In random Hollywood news this week, Nicollette Sheridan and Grace Jones need to wear more clothes, Gordon Ramsay looks like a lobster when he's sunburned, Hayden Panettiere is taller than Eva Longoria and Elton John needs to stop wear clown pants.


Finally, the quote of the week comes from George Clooney's ex Lisa Snowden, who claims the Ocean's Eleven star ruined her sex living: "I've been celibate for a year and I am starting to think I english hawthorn never give sex again."


Perhaps you could start up a reinforcement group, Lisa. There ar bound to be heap of George's ex's suffering the same fate.


* What do you think of this week's gossip? Post your comments below.







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Tuesday 12 August 2008

"Lost" producer eye earthquake film

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - J.J. Abrams wants to make the earth move for you.





The producer of "Lost" and director of the upcoming "Star Trek" movie is working with David Seltzer, the film writer of the original "Omen," to shake up audiences with a disaster flicker involving an earthquake.





The ignoble Universal project is non intended to be a remake of the studio's 1974 motion-picture show "Earthquake," which spawned a stop on the its popular studio apartment tour.





Details of the story are organism kept in a apparently tremor-proof vault, though as is Abrams' modus operandi, relationships will be at the core of the project. Abrams arguably rewrote the rules for disaster flicks with the winter box agency champ "Cloverfield," which thrust the big story to the background by qualification the audience see the bedlam through the prism of a personal human relationship.





Abrams is finishing up guiding "Star Trek" for its May 2009 release. At the import, plans only to bring forth the "Earthquake" revamp. Seltzer has a "Strangers on a Train" remake in development at Warner Bros.





/Hollywood Reporter









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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Noosphere

Noosphere   
Artist: Noosphere

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   



Discography:


Aqua   
 Aqua

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




Psy-trance duette Noosphere emerged from Northern Germany in the late '90s and began releasing full-length albums patch to the highest degree of its peers continued releasing purely 12" singles. Comprised of Niels Paschen and Eberhard Schulz, Noosphere released its debut untrimmed, Radiated, on Twisted Records in 1999. The duet returned in 2002 with Turquoise for Spirit Zone, an record album that featured co-production work by Marcus Maichel of X-Dream.






Tuesday 24 June 2008

Concord Dawn

Concord Dawn   
Artist: Concord Dawn

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   



Discography:


Chaos By Design   
 Chaos By Design

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


Broken Eyes / Say Your Words   
 Broken Eyes / Say Your Words

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Uprising (RISE005)   
 Uprising (RISE005)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


TYME026   
 TYME026

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


CHANNEL9617   
 CHANNEL9617

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


Uprising   
 Uprising

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


Disturbance   
 Disturbance

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


Concord Dawn - Disturbance (Low Profile) LPO006   
 Concord Dawn - Disturbance (Low Profile) LPO006

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


Concord Dawn   
 Concord Dawn

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9




 






Sunday 22 June 2008

Studios revving up retro

Period films will dominate fall release schedule





NEW YORK -- For those ready to move past the endless stream of dark dramas from fall 2007, get ready for a new barrage -- from the 1960s, the 1940s and the 1780s.


Studios are preparing to unleash a hailstorm of period movies -- in broad terms, films set in an era other than the current -- in the fall, at times turning the multiplex circa 2008 into a veritable cinematic museum.


The films range from large studio productions (Universal/Clint Eastwood's 1920s missing-child drama "Changeling" and Fox/Baz Luhrmann's World War II epic "Australia") to specialty releases (Searchlight's midcentury Southern tale "The Secret Life of Bees" and Miramax's 1960s Catholic-school drama "Doubt"). They veer from costume dramas (the 18th century Keira Knightley quill-and-wig extravaganza "The Duchess") to political sagas (Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon") to 1950s family dramas (the Sam Mendes-Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration "Revolutionary Road") to biopics (Gus Van Sant's "Milk") to yet more WWII throwbacks (Ed Zwick's "Defiance," Mikael Hafstrom's "Shanghai" and Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna").


"It seems like Hollywood is merging with the History Channel," media critic Robert Thompson noted wryly.


The latest wave of period movies is notable for several reasons. These movies are coming all at once -- scores of pictures crammed into a period of just 10 or 12 weeks. The stakes and expectations are higher because the overall number of fall specialty releases is expected to be down by as much as 25% from the nearly 70 titles released last year. And these period films are being released as questions linger from last season about whether the audience can find enough with which to identify in fall releases.


That combination is enough to make some executives nervous. "It's a lot of period movies, and it's going to be a question of who'll be able to connect," said one high-ranking specialty exec releasing a period film.


Nonetheless, development execs point to reasons why historical is suddenly fashionable despite the risks.


In a time when summer releases have trumped fall movies on spectacle, they say, it's a chance for films to chisel out a new niche. Boxoffice Mojo president Brandon Gray suggests that period pictures are in effect the fall's answer to the summer tentpole.


"A movie set in period can be a selling point because it transports you to another world without being a fantasy or relying on big special effects," he said.


Period movies can also allow a story to be told in ways that contemporary-set movies can't tell them. "In a period movie you can strip out modern American irony and ambiguity and get away with it," Thompson said. "A contemporary movie that has absolutes would seems old-fashioned. But if you set it during a previous time, you can make it credible."


Last year, such movies as "Michael Clayton," "Rendition" and "In the Valley of Elah" took on current issues through a contemporary lens. This crop looks at equally large themes -- the corruption of power ("Changeling"), the innocent victims of war ("Australia," "St. Anna," "Defiance") and the slipperiness of truth ("Doubt," "Frost/Nixon") -- but uses the distancing mechanism of period.


But for all the advantages, will consumers bite on stories that often take place before many of them were born? Execs acknowledge the challenges.


"The situations won't be as relatable, so you need to find something relatable that transcends the era," said Fox co-president of theatrical marketing Pam Levine, whose company will try to turn "Australia" into a wide play.


Marketing guru Terry Press, who at DreamWorks successfully marketed such period films as "Gladiator" and "Seabiscuit," also sees a fine line. "You don't want to confuse period with old-fashioned (in your marketing). That's the quickest way to lose a big part of the audience."


For a "Gladiator" spot, DreamWorks cut footage from the film with NFL highlights to give it a modern feel. Miramax, which undertook a similar promotion for "Gangs of New York" under the Weinsteins six years ago, will try to bridge the historical and modern in "Brideshead Revisited," the class-themed WWII movie. "We want to show people that the issues of class and being an outsider are still very relatable today," Miramax marketing chief Jason Cassidy said.


No matter how the material gets played, though, there might be a commercial ceiling. Notes one development exec, "American audiences like occasional period movies, but they do want them every weekend?"



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Saturday 21 June 2008

Razorlight preview new song at surprise gig

Razorlight performed a new, currently-untitled song at London's Union Chapel tonight (May 28) as part of a surprise four-song set.

The group teamed up to play at drummer Andy Burrows' charity event for Winchester children's hospice Naomi House.

Razorlight also performed three singles from 2006's 'Razorlight' after the new track, playing 'Before I Fall To Pieces', 'In The Morning' and 'America'.

During an earlier set featuring tracks from Burrows' solo charity album 'The Colour Of My Dreams', the drummer was joined by musicians including Muse's Dom Howard on drums, Guillemots' Fyfe Dangerfield on keyboards and Editors' Tom Smith on guitar and vocals.

Burrows was also joined by The Bluetones' Mark Morriss for three songs, including a run-through of the Britpop band's 1996 hit 'Slight Return' to the delight of the crowd.

Poet Peter Dixon, who wrote the pieces Burrows put to music on his album, also performed two short poems at the event.

The stage in the chapel was decked out with oversize children's alphabet blocks and a cut-out of Donald Duck, while a tin foil moon hung spotlighted above it.

Andy Burrows and friends performed:

'Spanish Boats'
'Who Wants Me Now'
'Boxes'
'Winter'
'Big Chief Grandad'
'Missionary Sales'
'Peace'
'Lighthouse Men'
'Teacher Goodbye'
'Moon'
'Setting Sun'
'Cuddle'
'I Was A Teenage Jesus'
'The Colour Of My Dreams'

Razorlight then played:

[Untitled new song]
'Before I Fall To Pieces'
'In The Morning'
'America'




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Steve Carell - Carell To Stay At The Office


STEVE CARELL has denied rumours he will leave hit U.S. show THE OFFICE to concentrate on his burgeoning movie career.

The former postman starred in the first three series of the Emmy Award-winning comedy and has since landed roles in big budget films including 2007's Evan Almighty and this year's (08) Get Smart.

The funnyman had been dogged by rumours he is set to leave the programme to take on more high profile lead roles.

But he insists that he is definitely going to stick with The Office for the foreseeable future.

He says, "All of the main cast are signed for three more (seasons). Beyond that, I have no idea."





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Coldplay album set to top UK chart

Coldplay's new album is set to top the UK charts this Sunday (June 14) � despite only being out for three days.

'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' sold 125,000 copies on its' day of release yesterday (June 12), making it certain to top the charts ahead of The Fratellis, Neil Diamond and Paul Weller.

Music retail chain HMV are now predicting the album to sell around 250,000 copies by the time the chart is announced at 7pm on Sunday.

HMV spokesperson Gennaro Castaldo said: "This rate of sales exceeds even our optimistic forecasts, and shows how massively popular a band Coldplay remain despite having been away for the best part of three years. Aside from having a substantial core fanbase, Coldplay are one of the few acts that can genuinely connect with a much wider audience.

"While we've also been selling large quantities of the album online and as a download at hmv.com, this clearly shows that there is still a massive public appetite to buy CDs from record stores across the country. HMV placed one of its largest-ever orders in anticipation of this release."

Coldplay's last album, 2005's 'X&Y', sold 465,000 copies in its first week of release in the UK.

Starfire

Starfire   
Artist: Starfire

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Starfire   
 Starfire

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8




 





"The Other Boleyn Girl," "Jumper" to be released this week

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz   
Artist: Bucks Fizz

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Greatest Hits   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1




The winners of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, British quartette Bucks Fizz were, throughout the early '80s, regarded among the most successful bands of their eRA, chalking up no less than nine Top 20 hits 'tween 1981-1983, including trey chart-toppers, "Qualification Your Mind Up" (their Eurovision winner), "The Land of Make Believe," and "My Camera Never Lies." The band's summate chart record includes 20 Top 40 entries, and it was 1988 ahead Bucks Fizz at long last stopped up marking hits -- not a tough record for a mathematical group that did non regular live earlier the Eurovision Song Contest. Bucks Fizz were the brainchild of the production/writing team of Nicola Martin and Andy Hill, and were formed specifically to perform a sung the duet had written for the contest. Adhering to the two male, two female formula that had proven so successful at the contest in the eld since ABBA's 1974 triumph, the group lined up as Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker, Bobby G, and Mike Nolan and, with Eurovision under their belted ammunition, they were to establish unstoppable. Three further hits during 1981 -- "Piece of the Action," "One of Those Nights," and "Demesne of Make Believe" were attended by an eponymous LP that reached number 14 on the U.K. chart; into 1982, the Are You Ready album went Top Ten, patch "My Camera Never Lies," "At present Those Days Are Gone," and "If You Can't Stand the Heat" maintained the band's singles success.


The Hand Cut album and four-spot strike singles -- "Run for Your Life," "When We Were Young," "London Town," and "Rules of the Game" -- brought the band interchangeable success in 1983. But slowly diminishing chart positions were root to show. The last deuce 45s ailing at numbers pool 34 and 57, severally, patch tied a Christmas Greatest Hits album only when reached number 25. Bucks Fizz appeared to be zippy back, however, as summer 1984's "Talking in Your Sleep" at least marched into the Top 20. But two further underperformers, "Golden Days" and "I Hear Talk," saw the band's headliner worsen at one time over again, patch a road chance event in brief ahead Christmas left wing Nolan ill injured and necessitated the cancellation of the group's stream tour. Worse was to come, as Jay Aston deceased in 1985; he was replaced by Shelley Preston and Bucks Fizz continued scoring minor hits -- interspersed by the periodic major one (1986's "Unexampled Beginning" reached number octet) until 1988's "Heart of Stone" at long last ended their chart career.


Since that time, Bucks Fizz have remained a going concern, although never-ending lineup changes make seen some 15 or so different singers pass through the ranks, including previous Dollar frontman David Van Day. Of the founding members, Baker foreswear in 1993 and Nolan in 1986, departure Bobby G alone to link the current incarnation to its yesteryear. Nolan and Van Day later formed their possess version of the band, Bucks Fizz featuring Mike Nolan. They released several singles, and as well re-recorded a turn of old hits for diverse compilations. Nolan later left this ring, only Van Day continued on as Bucks Fizz and, following several highly publicised effectual tussles with Bobby G, now tours as David Van Day's Bucks Fizz Show. In 2004, the mid-'80s card of Baker, Nolan, Bobby G, and Preston re-formed for a handful of shows around the tone ending of the band's The Ultimate Anthology collection; iI years later, following the coming into court of the Lost Masters rarities album, another reunion saw the quaternion original members (plus Preston) reconvene to record a version of the Proclaimers' "500 Miles" for the Comic Relief polemonium van-bruntiae.





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Argar

Argar   
Artist: Argar

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Cwm Annwn   
 Cwm Annwn

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


The Flame Of Dark Creation   
 The Flame Of Dark Creation

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7




 






Naomi Campbell Sentenced To Community Service

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has escaped jail after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers at London's Heathrow Airport in April.
The catwalk beauty was sentenced to 200 hours community service and fined £2,250 at a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, in west London yesterday.
Campbell was arrested onboard a Los Angeles-bound plane following a dispute over her luggage, which was lost in the airport's recent Terminal 5 baggage handling fiasco.
The 38-year-old admitted three counts of assault, one count of disorderly conduct and two counts of threatening behaviour towards cabin crew.
Speaking outside the court her spokesman Alan Edwards insisted the sentence was fair - as Campbell deeply regrets her conduct.
He says, "She was concerned about her actions towards the police officers. She has issued a genuine and unequivocal apology to the officers involved.
"She has been sentenced objectively and impartially. Her future is now up to her."

Frameshift

Frameshift   
Artist: Frameshift

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock
   



Discography:


An Absence Of Empathy   
 An Absence Of Empathy

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


Unweaving the Rainbow   
 Unweaving the Rainbow

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15




 






Siouxsie And The Banchees

Siouxsie And The Banchees   
Artist: Siouxsie And The Banchees

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


The Rapture   
 The Rapture

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


Twice Upon A Time   
 Twice Upon A Time

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 18


Superstition   
 Superstition

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Through The Looking Glass   
 Through The Looking Glass

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


Tinderbox   
 Tinderbox

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 13


Join Hands   
 Join Hands

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8