Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles & other: 2008

Friday 15 August 2008

Mich. Should Pass Law Requiring Birth Control Coverage For Insurance Plans Covering Prescription Drugs, Editorial Says

�Michigan is one of about 25 U.S. states that do not get laws requiring insurance plans that

Thursday 7 August 2008

Xavier Rudd Announces Australian Tour

Beloved Australian musician/activist Xavier Rudd�s a la mode album Dark Shades of Blue is released in Australia on August 16th and in support of this, his seventh record album, we ar delighted to announce Xavier will be embarking on a monthlong Australian tour this October/November.

Loud and psychedelic, Dark Shades of Blue highlights a side of Xavier Rudd merely hinted at on earlier releases. �The guitar-driven songs, mixed by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age), are more coordination compound and rocking than what audiences mayhap expect from the womb-to-tomb surfer and Dave Matthews tour

Friday 27 June 2008

CD-R and Motor

Artist: CD-R and Motor

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

Zima (Winter) [top.20]

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Monday 23 June 2008

Dungeon girl wants to see Robbie Williams

Now that Kerstin Fritzl has been reunited with her family after coming out of her coma, she has two wishes: she wants to go on her first boat ride, and attend a Robbie Williams pop concert.

Doctors in Austria revealed yesterday that the 19-year-old - the eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the daughter he confined in a dungeon for 24 years - was making good progress and had enjoyed an emotional reunion with her family.

She had suffered multiple organ failure and had been kept in the coma for three weeks.

Kerstin awoke on May 15 and had been able to take her first steps, aided by her mother, in the ward where she was being treated.

After greeting her doctors with a quiet "hello", Kerstin confided that what she wanted most in the world was to go on a boat ride and let her hair down at a concert by British pop star Robbie Williams.

Since being in hospital, she has been treated for lung and kidney failure as well as infections. Doctors expect a full recovery as her immune system strengthens and she learns to integrate with her family in their new environment.

Doctors said Elisabeth Fritzl had provided enormous support to her daughter, visiting her regularly while she was in the coma and after she awoke.

"The mother was able to walk with Kerstin and the two of them [were] literally stepping forward into a new life," one said.

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Monday 16 June 2008

Ben Mills

Artist: Ben Mills

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Picture of You

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Count Ben Mills among the myriad young singers launched to renown via the realness TV phenomenon of the early 21st c. Born March 1, 1980, in Kent, England, Mills studied at Surrey's Academy of Contemporary Music. He afterward light-emitting diode his possess rock banding, Benzego, and played keyboards in a Doors cover act, the L.A. Doors. Mills was working with a marquee lease firm when he successfully auditioned for the ITV network's amateur case The X Factor in 2006. With a hoarse vocal bringing most commonly compared to Rod Stewart, he proved an audience ducky and at last finished in third place, landing a five-record deal with Sony BMG. Mills' debut LP, Characterization of You, ascended to number trey on the U.K. pop charts upon its March 2007 release.

Monday 9 June 2008

Tatum O'Neal released after drug arrest Sunday in New York City

NEW YORK - Tatum O'Neal swore she was done with drugs.

The Oscar-winning former child actress proclaimed she was sober as she promoted her 2004 tell-all memoir, cobbled her acting career back together and even offered advice to misbehaving pop star Britney Spears.

O'Neal's arrest Sunday on charges of buying cocaine in her gritty-chic downtown Manhattan neighbourhood suggests her struggle with addiction may not be over.

O'Neal, 44, looked tired and said nothing as she was arraigned Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court on a misdemeanour charge of possession of a controlled substance. The daughter of screen star Ryan O'Neal entered no plea and was released without bail until a July 28 court date.

Prosecutors are recommending drug treatment for the actress, who detailed her dependency on heroin and cocaine in her best-selling memoir, "A Paper Life."

Her lawyer, Robert Marinelli, declined to comment Monday. Her manager and publicist did not immediately return telephone calls after her court appearance, while her agent's office referred calls to her publicist.

The arrest was another low point in a life that has included many. Her childhood, she has said, was a Hollywood horror show. Then came years of drug abuse, public feuding with her father and a searing child custody fight with her ex-husband, tennis star John McEnroe. Her acting career vaporized.

But a determined O'Neal rebuilt it in recent years, telling The New York Times last year that she called and e-mailed her agent daily and accepted every role offered. She appeared in independent films, played guest roles on such shows as "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" and "8 Simple Rules . . . for Dating My Teenage Daughter" and took a spin on "Dancing with the Stars."

Her efforts solidified into a recurring role as hard-drinking Maggie Gavin in the FX cable channel's television drama "Rescue Me." The show is now in production for its fifth and sixth seasons.

Show producer Sony Pictures Television said the actress has shot one episode for the upcoming season and is scheduled to appear in several more but declined to comment further.

Police found two bags of cocaine in O'Neal's right front pants pocket when she was arrested about 7:30 p.m. Sunday on the rundown-turned-trendy Lower East Side, according to a court complaint.

Officers saw O'Neal accept the drug from a man during a routine drug sweep, police said. Initial reports suggested she had bought crack but police later said it was powder cocaine.

At age 10, O'Neal won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for 1973's "Paper Moon," becoming the youngest person ever to win an Oscar. Three years later, her $350,000 paycheque for "The Bad News Bears" made her Hollywood's highest-paid child star.

But behind the scenes, O'Neal's life was a drama of neglect, dysfunction and debauchery, according to her memoir.

She described her mother, the late actress Joanna Moore, as a pill-popping mess and claimed her "Love Story" star father slugged her out of jealousy when she won her Oscar; he denounced the book as "malicious lies" and "clouded memories."

In May 2007, prosecutors declined to charge Ryan O'Neal for firing what the actor called a warning shot during a brawl with his son. O'Neal contended he fired the shot in self-defence after his son, Griffin, attacked him with a fireplace poker during an argument at the actor's Malibu home.

In 1983, police were called to their home after a fight in which Ryan O'Neal knocked out two of his son's teeth, the Los Angeles Times reported. No charges were filed.

Griffin O'Neal was convicted of reckless boating in a 1986 accident that killed the son of film director Francis Ford Cupola.

Meanwhile, an adolescent Tatum was drawn into an opium-heightened orgy at age 12, according to her book.

Her 1986 marriage to McEnroe was little healthier, according to both. He wrote in his 2002 autobiography, "You Cannot Be Serious," that the two were high during their first night together. She wrote that the famously temperamental tennis great physically abused her, which he denied, saying he was "very disappointed in Tatum's interpretation of my life and the lives of our children."

The two split in the early 1990s. As her drug problems deepened, O'Neal lost custody of their three children.

She saw echoes of her story in Spears' misfortunes last year, when the singer was ordered temporarily to surrender custody of her two young children after she engaged in a spate of odd antics. O'Neal told "Entertainment Tonight" that Spears needed to seek addiction treatment, as she had.

Her own addictions, she has repeatedly said, are behind her.

"For years I could hardly look people in the eye," she wrote in her memoir. "Now that I've burned away the painful debris of my life, I feel courageous and open."

- Jennifer Peltz and Colleen Long contributed to this report.

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Monday 2 June 2008

"Sex and the City" tickets sell at brisk pace

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With Friday's opening of "Sex and the City" shaping up as a big girls-night-out event at U.S. movie theaters, industry analysts say the film seems poised to set a new box office standard for "chick flicks."

Estimates for the film's first weekend in North America range from $25 million to $40 million, and one leading tracking service, Los Angeles-based Media By Numbers, estimated a Friday-through-Sunday tally in the mid-$30 millions.

Online ticket retailer Fandango reported "Sex and the City" was accounting for 90 percent of its advance sales, with tickets being snapped up at the rate of seven per second.

"At this fast pace, we expect to sell out more than 1,000 'Sex and the City' show times by day's end," said Fandango CEO Rick Butler. "The advance ticket sales are nothing short of extraordinary for a female-driven comedy-drama."

"Sex" already has grossed nearly $12 million in overseas business since mid-week, including more than $7 million in Britain, nearly $3 million in Germany and $1.3 million in France, according to studio figures.

The film is based on the hit HBO television series of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker as a fashion-conscious, Manhattan magazine columnist, Carrie Bradshaw, writing about urban romance and the singles scene.

Carrie and her three best pals -- Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha -- are all picking up their lives where they left off when the TV show went off the air in 2004.

An online survey of more than 10,000 moviegoers buying tickets from Fandango found that 94 percent were women, and that 67 percent planned to attend the movie this weekend with a group of female friends.

Paulina Rubio

Artist: Paulina Rubio

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Latin

Discography:

Ananda

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

Paulatina

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

La Historia

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

Unlike many kids wHO maturate up dream of stardom, isaac Merrit Singer Paulina Rubio didn't have to wait for maturity to get down her first gustatory modality of celebrity. By the prison term she was 10, Rubio, the girl of Mexican plastic film star Susana Dosamantes, was percentage of the children's mathematical group Timbiriche. A ten later her solo debut, La Chica Dorada (1992), was released by EMI, generating the breakthrough hit "MÃo." Three more EMI albums followed -- 24 Kilates (1993), Tiempo Es Oro (1995), and Planeta Paulina (1996) -- none well-nigh as successful as her debut. Though by this spot she had become a recognizable face on the Latin come out scene, it wasn't until 2000, when her debut album for Universal, Paulina, was issued, that she began to get credit stateside, hitting number one on the Billboard Latin chart and earning Latin Grammy nominations, succeeder that was only augmented with the subsequent releases Pau-Latina (2004) and Ananda (2006). Her first English-language record, Border Girl (2002), was her only hit later moving from EMI to Universal. Her early recordings for EMI, generally subpar by a considerable security deposit to her latter-day Universal bring, have been recyled on eternal budget-line compilations like Historia (2003) and Mio: Paulina y Sus Ã‰xitos (2006).

The Beatles guru Maharishi dies aged 91

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man who taught the Beatles transcendental meditation, has died. He was 91.
The Indian mystic became famous in 1968 when the Beatles travelled to the foothills of the Himalayas to learn his techniques and he was also filmed with Mike Love of the Beach Boys, the singer Donovan and actress Mia Farrow.
Love said: "His passing is profoundly sad. But I for one, am among the millions who are grateful for what he shared with us. We will miss you, but your great light will shine on."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi moved to the village of Vlodrop in Holland in 1990 and died there last night.
The Maharishi built a business empire worth billions, including property dealing and a company selling ayurvedic medicine and cosmetics.
He set up universities and schools all over the world and his Natural Law Party has campaigned in elections in dozens of countries around the world.

Gurdjieff

Artist: Gurdjieff

   Genre(s):
Other
   New Age
   Jazz
   Classical

Discography:

Hidden Sources

Year: 1998
Tracks: 18

Music of the Sayyids and Dervishes

Year: 1995
Tracks: 22

Music For The Piano, Vol. 2, Cd 2

Year: 1995
Tracks: 20

Sacred Hymns (Keit Jarrett)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 15

The Music of Gurdjieff and De Hartmann (cd3)

Year:
Tracks: 20

The Music of Gurdjieff and De Hartmann (cd2)

Year:
Tracks: 19

The Music of Gurdjieff and De Hartmann (cd1)

Year:
Tracks: 17

Harmonium Improvisations 1948-49

Year:
Tracks: 9

Sai Baba

Artist: Sai Baba

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Embodiment of Love 2

Year:
Tracks: 10

David Carbone

Artist: David Carbone

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Industry (12IND020)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

12IND020

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Kanye West - West Pulls North Dakota Gig

Rapper KANYE WEST has been forced to scrap a forthcoming concert in North Dakota, citing a hectic travel schedule for the cancellation.

The Stronger hitmaker is currently on the road with N.E.R.D., Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco as part of his highly-acclaimed Glow In The Dark Tour.

But the hip-hop star has now pulled Sunday's (25May08) gig at The Fargo Dome. West is due to play in his native Chicago, Illinois on Saturday (24May08), and Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada on Monday (26May08).

Reports also suggest the live date suffered from low ticket sales, which was part of the reason for scrapping the date.

The venue's manager, Rob Sobolik, says, "I can't really make it a secret that ticket sales were not as anticipated. Obviously, we talked about ticket sales."

All ticketholders have been offered refunds for the cancellation, reports AllHipHop.com.

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