The curtain raising scenes of Donal MacIntyre's blunt, supercharged documentary A Very British
Gangster
Wednesday 6 August 2008
A Very British Gangster - movie review
Friday 27 June 2008
Jay West
Artist: Jay West
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Flying High Ep
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Everywhere We Dance EP-(FR007) Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Thursday 19 June 2008
Carnie Wilson - Carnie Wilson Pens Tell-all Book
Singer CARNIE WILSON is the latest celebrity to pen her own memoir - uncovering details of her tumultuous past in an effort to come to terms with a lifelong struggle with her weight.
The Wilson-Phillips star, daughter of Beach Boy rocker Brian Wilson, underwent gastric bypass surgery in 1999 after expanding to a weight of 300 pounds (136 kilograms) on her five-foot-three-inch (1.61 meter) frame.
Qualified by doctors as morbidly obese, Wilson became an easy target for stand-up comics and a centrepiece among tabloid fodder - and now she's turning inward to reveal details of lesbian affairs, her battle with drug and alcohol addiction and her rocky relationship with her famous father in the latest tome.
Forty-year-old Wilson, now a married mother to three-year-old daughter Lola, whittled down from a U.S. size 28 to a size six after shedding 152 pounds (68.9 kilograms) following the surgery.
The singer posed in Playboy in 2003 to show off her new figure - though she has since put some of her weight back on.
Wilson is set to collaborate with Chicago Sun Times' newspaper journalist Cindy Pearlman on the new book.
In 2005, Wilson published a collection of family-style recipes in her cookbook To Serve With Love. She has also published 2003's I'm Still Hungry, a follow-up to her 2001 autobiography Gut Feelings: From Fear and Despair to Health and Hope.
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Friday 13 June 2008
Coldplay - Martins Songwriting Trauma
COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN rarely shares a bed with wife GWYNETH PALTROW when he is writing music - because he works at night in a hidden corner of their London home.
The singer confesses the creative process is a tortuous one for him, and his best lyrics are often fuelled by insomnia.
Martin, currently promoting the band's new album Viva La Vida, tells Rolling Stone magazine, "My problem is that I often take a sleeping pill in order to go to sleep, but then I get excited about a song, so I go and play music, and then it kind of kicks in halfway through.
"I have a little corner where nobody can hear me in the middle of the night, and that's where I spend most of the night times. I wake up the next morning and find these strange notes to myself. I'm a little bit ashamed about it."
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Friday 6 June 2008
Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow Symphony, Barschai
Artist: Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow Symphony, Barschai
Genre(s):
Classical
Discography:
Mozart Piano Concertos # 27 and 15
Year:
Tracks: 6
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Peter Seiler
Artist: Peter Seiler
Genre(s):
Electronic
New Age
Electronic: Progressive
Discography:
Klangoase 2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Cosmic Strings Vol. II
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Cosmic Strings Vol. I
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Open Borders
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Sensitive Touch
Year: 1987
Tracks: 9
Flying Frames
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Klangoase
Year:
Tracks: 12
Keyboards and Friends
Year:
Tracks: 6
Sugababes star Berrabah is arrested
Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah has been arrested over allegedly attacking a car and causing criminal damage to it.
According to the BBC, police confirmed that a 23-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and a public order offence.
The arrest stems from an incident which allegedly took place on 9 January.
The singer has now reportedly been bailed to appear at Aldershot Police Station on 21 February. Berrabah's boyfriend Freddie Fuller recently sustained serious arm and leg injuries in machete attack.
According to the BBC, police confirmed that a 23-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and a public order offence.
The arrest stems from an incident which allegedly took place on 9 January.
The singer has now reportedly been bailed to appear at Aldershot Police Station on 21 February. Berrabah's boyfriend Freddie Fuller recently sustained serious arm and leg injuries in machete attack.
Pete Doherty jailed for 14 weeks
Babyshambles rocker Pete Doherty has been jailed for 14 weeks for drug use and failing to attend probation hearings on time.
The 29-year-old — who has previously dated supermodel Kate Moss — today attended West London Magistrates Court where Judge Davinder Lachar handed him the sentence.
A court spokesman said that Doherty had been jailed for “breach of time keeping, non-compliance of his order and using different drugs”.
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Smith wins damages over Hitler allegation
Actor Will Smith has won an apology and undisclosed damages in a London court over a false allegation that he described World War Two Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a "good person".
The High Court heard that the Oscar-nominated actor was left deeply distressed and acutely embarrassed over the wrong story published by an entertainment newswire service.
Judge David Eady was told that Smith's comments, originally published in the Scottish Daily Record newspaper, were then "wholly misrepresented" by the London-based World Entertainment News Network (WENN).
The agency, which says on its website that it provides information to more than 1,000 media outlets in 25 countries, picked up the interview and then wrongly published worldwide a story headlined "Smith: Hitler was a good person".
Reuters reports that Smith's lawyer Rachel Atkins said in court: "The article alleged (Smith) had declared in an interview that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person. It wholly misrepresents (his) actual words."
The lawyer said that Smith, who was not in court, actually thought Hitler was "vile and heinous".
"The allegations that he could think otherwise is deeply distressing... and has caused him acute embarrassment," she said.
WENN retracted the story and issued a correction and an apology, but no media published it, leaving the libel "at large", according to Atkins.
She said the undisclosed compensation WENN had agreed to pay would be donated to an unnamed charity. It also will meet Smith's legal costs.
John Melville Smith, defending WENN, said his client apologised for the story, which they now admitted was wrong.
He said: "(WENN) offers its apologies to (Smith) for any distress and embarrassment caused by this article."
"(It) accepts that the allegations concerning (him) were misleading and published in error."
The High Court heard that the Oscar-nominated actor was left deeply distressed and acutely embarrassed over the wrong story published by an entertainment newswire service.
Judge David Eady was told that Smith's comments, originally published in the Scottish Daily Record newspaper, were then "wholly misrepresented" by the London-based World Entertainment News Network (WENN).
The agency, which says on its website that it provides information to more than 1,000 media outlets in 25 countries, picked up the interview and then wrongly published worldwide a story headlined "Smith: Hitler was a good person".
Reuters reports that Smith's lawyer Rachel Atkins said in court: "The article alleged (Smith) had declared in an interview that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person. It wholly misrepresents (his) actual words."
The lawyer said that Smith, who was not in court, actually thought Hitler was "vile and heinous".
"The allegations that he could think otherwise is deeply distressing... and has caused him acute embarrassment," she said.
WENN retracted the story and issued a correction and an apology, but no media published it, leaving the libel "at large", according to Atkins.
She said the undisclosed compensation WENN had agreed to pay would be donated to an unnamed charity. It also will meet Smith's legal costs.
John Melville Smith, defending WENN, said his client apologised for the story, which they now admitted was wrong.
He said: "(WENN) offers its apologies to (Smith) for any distress and embarrassment caused by this article."
"(It) accepts that the allegations concerning (him) were misleading and published in error."
Vh1 - Tequila To Pen New Book
Model/singer-turned-reality TV sensation TILA TEQUILA is set to become the latest celebrity to pen her memoirs.
The Singapore-born bisexual star of VH1 dating show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, real name Tila Nguyen, will release Hooking Up With Tila Tequila in December (08).
As well as revealing all about her life as the daughter of immigrants to America and her rise to fame as a model, Tequila, 26, will also impart dating wisdom in the book.
On her hit reality TV series, now in its second season, men and women compete for Tequila's affections.
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Boy George - Boy George Opens Market Stall
British singer BOY GEORGE has resorted to selling T-shirts in a London market stall.
On Friday (16May08), the star - real name George O'Dowd - was spotted at a booth in London's Spitalfields Market looking bored as he tried to sell clothing from his B-Rude label for $20 (GBP10) a piece.
As the frontman of flamboyant group Culture Club, the singer sold over 10 million records in the 1980s - but in recent years the 46-year-old has fallen upon hard times, battling an alleged drug addiction.
He told a reporter, "It's been all right - quiet today though. I'm bored and cold but we have to do a Friday stall to get a pitch on Sunday."
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Celebrity Big Brother - Celebrity Big Brother Back On Uk Screens
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER is reportedly going to return to Channel 4.
The controversial show was axed last year after the race row involving JADE GOODY and Bollywod star SHILPA SHETTY.
It was replaced by BIG BROTHER CELEBRITY HIJACK in which celebrities acted as Big Brother and controlled a group of gifted youngsters.
However, Channel 4 bosses have decided to return the show to its original format after a dive in ratings, reports the Sun
A source told the publication: "We never said Big Brother would be gone forever.
"We just wanted to give it a 'time out' – a resting period after all the friction and chaos of the Shilpa and Jade saga."
However, a spokesperson told the newspaper that no final decision regarding the show's future had been made.
Meanwhile, long-time BIG BROTHER presenter DAVINA MCCALL has denied rumours that she is quitting the show to pursue an acting career, saying: "This is just a silly rumour. There is no truth in it."
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