George Michael has announced that he will release a Christmas single this year.
The popstar made the revelation during the starting time of his Final Two concerts on Sunday night.
The track will be released alongside a cover of Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good', which he recorded for US TV show Eli Stone earlier this class. It volition be available from Christmas Day.
Michael played the second of his two gigs at Earls Court lowest night and will perform one final concert in Copenhagen on Saturday.
The Final Two shows were the culmination of his biennial 25 Live world turn and mark the end of his touring career.
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Monday 8 September 2008
Friday 29 August 2008
Beyonce: Who's The Fairest of Them All?
Looks like Beyonce heard that unscathed "so they whited you up for that L'Or�al" thing, because now she really is lookin' like the ad, or Mariah Carey, depending on which eye you use.
BTW, she's wearing the ring. But we want to know if Beyonce is looking like the ad to blunt criticism ...
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BTW, she's wearing the ring. But we want to know if Beyonce is looking like the ad to blunt criticism ...
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Steve Carell - Us Office Star Charged With Drug Offences
US Office star Craig Phillip Robinson has been charged with drug deuce offences, afterwards being arrested in Culver City, California yesterday.
Craig Phillip Robinson, world Health Organization plays Darryl Philbin, is also accused of being under the influence of illegal drugs.
The actor is alleged to have been in possession of MDMA, also known as go, and methamphetamine.
He was released on bail and is due to appear in court on August 21st.
The actor's publicist declined to comment when contacted by the Associated Press news agency on Friday.
Mr Robinson's character Philbin in The Office is a warehouse foreman. The show that stars Steve Carell is the US version of the strike UK series.
Ricky Gervais has been intimately involved in the US adaptation, which has won several awards including two Emmys and a Golden Globe.
Mr Robinson is likewise known for his celluloid career. His big screen credits include roles in comedy Knocked Up and the recent Pineapple Express, which is yet to be released in the UK.
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Rolling Stone Wood goes into rehab
Ronnie Wood has entered rehab, a spokeswoman for the star said today. The
Rolling Stone is "seeking help" with his battle with alcohol.
Wood of late fled to a bolt-hole in Ireland with a Russian cocktail waitress.
His spokeswoman said: "Following Ronnie's continued struggle with alcohol
he has entered a period of rehab.
"His close family and friends say he is seeking help and look forrard to
his recovery."
Wood, 61, flew home yesterday in an apparent attempt to save his marriage.
His word, Jesse, 30, had done for to Ireland to seek and talk the guitarist into
reverting.
Wife Jo, 53, is said to have called time on their 23-year union.
Waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, 19, has reportedly told friends she has fallen in
sexual love with the rocker.
Ivanova's mother has insisted the relationship with the painter and player
was professional, saying: "She went proscribed to
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Judge Kicks Fiddy to the Curb
50 Cent will have to stay well away from baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins -- and if he wants to see his son Marquise, the pickup's going to be curbside.
Tompkins got a temporary restraining order against Fiddy, which, we're told, will require him to forfeit any guns and other firearms and any pickup and drop off of Marquise must be "at curbside." He's also not allowed to be on any premises where Shaniqua is, but there's no distance specified.
Shaniqua's lawyer Paul Catsandonis says that they will be arguing for a permanent restraining order against the rapper next month. We left a message for 50's lawyer Brett Kimmel, but haven't heard back yet.
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Tompkins got a temporary restraining order against Fiddy, which, we're told, will require him to forfeit any guns and other firearms and any pickup and drop off of Marquise must be "at curbside." He's also not allowed to be on any premises where Shaniqua is, but there's no distance specified.
Shaniqua's lawyer Paul Catsandonis says that they will be arguing for a permanent restraining order against the rapper next month. We left a message for 50's lawyer Brett Kimmel, but haven't heard back yet.
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
Perimeter
Artist: Perimeter
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Healing By Festering
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Gypsy Rose
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Ashley Tisdale
Artist: Ashley Tisdale
Genre(s):
Vocal
Other
Discography:
Headstrong
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Be Good To Me and He Said, She Said
Year:
Tracks: 2
Best known for her roles as Sharpay Evans in the remarkably popular Disney Channel flick High School Musical and Maddie Fitzpatrick in the series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, New Jersey-born actress/singer/model Ashley Tisdale began her life history in show business at historic period three, and sang for President Bill Clinton at age 12. Manager Bill Perlman observed her in a New Jersey shopping centre and sent Tisdale on auditions for commercials; she terminated up appearance in o'er C national network TV ads. She began a theatrical career as intimately, acting in productions of The Sound of Music and Gypsy: A Musical Fable at the Jewish Community Center of Monmouth County. A leading role in a national touring production of Les Miserables and a role in an external touring production of Annie followed. In the late '90s and early 2000s, Tisdale affected into TV and celluloid exercise, coming into court on shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210, The George Lopez Show, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Hughleys and the flick Donnie Darko before landing the theatrical role of baby-sitter Maddie Fitzpatrick on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in 2004. The show's popularity made her a fixture on the Disney Channel, leading to appearances on Hannah Montana and her 2006 prison-breaking role as High School Musical's Sharpay Evans. The massive popularity of the TV movie's soundtrack meant that Tisdale became the number 1 female creative person to debut with two songs, "BoP to the Top" and "What I've Been Looking For," on the Billboard Hot one C graph at the same time. Along with loaning her part to the animated series Phineas and Ferb, in 2006 Tisdale recorded her solo debut album and released the first single from it, He Said She Said, late that class. Early in 2007, the album Willful, and a indorsement undivided, Be Good to Me, arrived. Tisdale appeared in the Heights School Musical continuation later that year.
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Picasso painting breaks Australia art sale record
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An abstract portrait by Pablo Picasso on Wednesday smashed the record for an artwork sold in Australia, netting A$6.9 million ($6.1 million) at an auction in Sydney.
The 1954 painting "Sylvette", which clearly showed the ponytail and young face of model and later successful artist, Sylvette David, amid bright swathes of red, yellow and green, was sold to an unidentified phone bidder.
"Sydney is the New York of the art market in the southern hemisphere," Deutscher-Menzies Galleries spokeswoman Marie Geissler told Reuters, adding the sale proved Australian galleries could sell works internationally.
The Picasso easily broke the country's previous record of A$3.48 million, paid for a work last year by Brett Whiteley, the late wild-haired bad boy of Australian Art.
Australia has been experiencing a year-long boom in art sales, driven by cashed-up collectors involved in the country's China-driven mining boom.
Rodney Menzies, the chairman of Menzies Art Brands, bought the Picasso two years ago for $4,608,000 and had tipped strong overseas interest in the painting from Asia and Europe.
Sylvette David featured in more than 40 pieces by Picasso after sitting for him while living as a 17-year-old at Valories in the south of France. Her tall frame and long, blond ponytail fascinated the Spanish cubist painter, who died in 1973.
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(Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by Valerie Lee)
The 1954 painting "Sylvette", which clearly showed the ponytail and young face of model and later successful artist, Sylvette David, amid bright swathes of red, yellow and green, was sold to an unidentified phone bidder.
"Sydney is the New York of the art market in the southern hemisphere," Deutscher-Menzies Galleries spokeswoman Marie Geissler told Reuters, adding the sale proved Australian galleries could sell works internationally.
The Picasso easily broke the country's previous record of A$3.48 million, paid for a work last year by Brett Whiteley, the late wild-haired bad boy of Australian Art.
Australia has been experiencing a year-long boom in art sales, driven by cashed-up collectors involved in the country's China-driven mining boom.
Rodney Menzies, the chairman of Menzies Art Brands, bought the Picasso two years ago for $4,608,000 and had tipped strong overseas interest in the painting from Asia and Europe.
Sylvette David featured in more than 40 pieces by Picasso after sitting for him while living as a 17-year-old at Valories in the south of France. Her tall frame and long, blond ponytail fascinated the Spanish cubist painter, who died in 1973.
($1=A$1.06)
(Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by Valerie Lee)
Fox gets animated over Canada's "Bob & Doug"
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The Fox network will help to develop "The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie," a Canadian primetime cartoon that reunites Second City TV alumni Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
Thomas said Monday that Fox became involved in the pilot episode of a cartoon based on the SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, to be voiced by himself and Moranis.
The animated sitcom is based on the beer-addled Bob & Doug characters, who began as a two-minute SCTV skit in 1980 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
The "hoser" characters, played by Thomas and Moranis, grew a cult following as they went on to star in TV commercials and the 1983 dumb-buddy feature film "Strange Brew."
Thomas said the Canadian cartoon series will add friends and family and a fictional town setting for the Bob & Doug characters.
Canada's Global Television already has ordered 13 episodes of the show for its 2009 schedule.
Also starring in the animated series are Canadian actors and comedians Dave Coulier ("Full House"), Colin Mochrie, Pat McKenna, Derek McGrath, Ron Pardo, Jayne Eastwood and Ho Chow.
The Fox deal represents the latest Canadian series to find U.S. network favor. Global Television's "Howie Do It," a comedy that stars Howie Mandel, was recently picked up by NBC, which also acquired the Canadian paranormal drama "The Listener" from Shaftesbury Films as well as Lionsgate's 13-episode horror anthology "Fear Itself."
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Thomas said Monday that Fox became involved in the pilot episode of a cartoon based on the SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, to be voiced by himself and Moranis.
The animated sitcom is based on the beer-addled Bob & Doug characters, who began as a two-minute SCTV skit in 1980 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
The "hoser" characters, played by Thomas and Moranis, grew a cult following as they went on to star in TV commercials and the 1983 dumb-buddy feature film "Strange Brew."
Thomas said the Canadian cartoon series will add friends and family and a fictional town setting for the Bob & Doug characters.
Canada's Global Television already has ordered 13 episodes of the show for its 2009 schedule.
Also starring in the animated series are Canadian actors and comedians Dave Coulier ("Full House"), Colin Mochrie, Pat McKenna, Derek McGrath, Ron Pardo, Jayne Eastwood and Ho Chow.
The Fox deal represents the latest Canadian series to find U.S. network favor. Global Television's "Howie Do It," a comedy that stars Howie Mandel, was recently picked up by NBC, which also acquired the Canadian paranormal drama "The Listener" from Shaftesbury Films as well as Lionsgate's 13-episode horror anthology "Fear Itself."
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IFI announces its new director
The new Director of the Irish Film Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will take up the position in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, New York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Moore Foundation and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairperson of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of experience in strategic cultural planning and of running and working in public cultural institutions both in Ireland and internationally. We are delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead one of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting period in its history."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI are a refurbishment of the IFI centre in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Institute of Technology on a new facility for the Irish Film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
Sarah Glennie will take up the position in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Director of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, New York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Moore Foundation and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairperson of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of experience in strategic cultural planning and of running and working in public cultural institutions both in Ireland and internationally. We are delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to lead one of the country's most popular cultural venues into an exciting period in its history."
Among the new projects to be undertaken by the IFI are a refurbishment of the IFI centre in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Institute of Technology on a new facility for the Irish Film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
Simon Dunmore
Artist: Simon Dunmore
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Defected in the House: Eivissa 04 (cd3)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Defected in the House: Eivissa 04 (cd2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Defected in the House: Eivissa 04 (cd1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Heavy metal vision
Fear My Thoughts
Artist: Fear My Thoughts
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Hell Sweet Hell
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The Great Collapse
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
23
Year:
Tracks: 8
American Pie - No More Dude For Scott
AMERICAN PIE star SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT has been forced to erase the word 'dude' from his vocabulary after naming his new Labrador puppy after JEFF BRIDGES' character in THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
The actor quickly realised that his overuse of the word is confusing his pet and so he has pledged not to use it any more.
He explains, "I got a puppy, my first dog; he's a yellow Lab. Everybody said it was gonna be a lot of work but I had no idea.
"I named him Dude from The Big Lebowski and now I'm forced not to call my friends 'Dude' anymore, because I'll be saying to my friends, 'Hey Dude, don't drink any more beer,' and my dog's looking at me like, 'I'm not drinking beer.'"
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Der Gerwelt
Artist: Der Gerwelt
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Revelation 666
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
Russian iII Der Gerwelt consist of vocalizer Alex Duke, double-shift-pulling guitarist/bassist Lazar, and drummer Yanarrdakh. Rather severe to categorize, they perform in a loan-blend fashion of rapid black metal mixed with scourge strains of death/doom Hence, the band's debut album Human Breed sounded not unlike Mayhem jam with Katatonia.
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Afi Picks Top Films By Genre
The American Film Institute has selected the top ten films in 10 classic genres, featuring them Tuesday night in a three-hour special that aired on CBS. (AFI launched a website today at www.afi.com that features over 400 video clips from all of the 100 movies.) The top two in each category: Animation: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio; Fantasy: The Wizard of Oz, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Gangster: The Godfather, Goodfellas; Science Fiction: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars: Episode IV (the original); Western: The Searchers, High Noon; Sports: Raging Bull, Rocky; Mystery: Vertigo, Chinatown; Romantic Comedy: City Lights, Annie Hall; Courtroom Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men; Epic: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur.
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Phil's Weller queller
AFTER a 20-year war of words with mod god PAUL WELLER, former Genesis frontman
PHIL COLLINS wants to make up over a beer.
The baldy drummer reckons if the pair got together they’d have loads in
common.
Young mod bods ... Weller and his kids
Haircuts wouldn’t be one of them.
Phil said he and Paul have disagreed over the years due to their different
political stances but believes they could bond over music.
He said at the Mojos: "I think he thinks I’m a Conservative and he
doesn’t like that.
"But if we sat down, one mod to another, I think we’d find we have been
influenced by the same people."
Collins a mod? I thought he was the warm-up act for a drumming gorilla.
Modfather Paul — who unlike Duffy got a grin from JOHNNY ROTTEN
when he hugged the Sex Pistol — took his kids LEAH and NAT to
the bash, where he won the Outstanding Contribution To Music gong.
Diamond geezers ... Miles Kane and Alex Turner with singer NeilTHE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS, meanwhile, made a beeline for NEIL DIAMOND,
who bagged the Classic Songwriter award.
The normally publicity shy ALEX TURNER and MILES KANE — who won
the Best Breakthrough Act award — were all too happy to pose for pictures
with the legend.
PHIL COLLINS wants to make up over a beer.
The baldy drummer reckons if the pair got together they’d have loads in
common.
Young mod bods ... Weller and his kids
Haircuts wouldn’t be one of them.
Phil said he and Paul have disagreed over the years due to their different
political stances but believes they could bond over music.
He said at the Mojos: "I think he thinks I’m a Conservative and he
doesn’t like that.
"But if we sat down, one mod to another, I think we’d find we have been
influenced by the same people."
Collins a mod? I thought he was the warm-up act for a drumming gorilla.
Modfather Paul — who unlike Duffy got a grin from JOHNNY ROTTEN
when he hugged the Sex Pistol — took his kids LEAH and NAT to
the bash, where he won the Outstanding Contribution To Music gong.
Diamond geezers ... Miles Kane and Alex Turner with singer NeilTHE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS, meanwhile, made a beeline for NEIL DIAMOND,
who bagged the Classic Songwriter award.
The normally publicity shy ALEX TURNER and MILES KANE — who won
the Best Breakthrough Act award — were all too happy to pose for pictures
with the legend.
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