Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Steve Coogan Gets British Foot in U.S. Door


To be or not to be far-famed in America? That is the question for Steve Coogan.
(Cathy Kanavy/Focus)


In his native land, the British funnyman is as revered as Jerry Seinfeld was in his TV heyday.


His status is mostly the result of his grievous comic invention, the small-of-brain, massive-of-ego talk show host Alan Partridge, whose incompetence is outdone only by his insensitive gaffes. "My worst nightmare of what I might be" is how the worker refers to him. Born as a mock wireless broadcaster in 1992, his unctuous universe went on to engender two TV series, "Knowing Me, Knowing You � With Alan Partridge" (1994) and "I'm Alan Partridge" (1997, 2002), plus videos and specials.


Over here, however, Coogan is best known, if known at all, as the tiny Roman emperor wHO feuds with Owen Wilson's cowpoke in 2006's "Night at the Museum," which starred Ben Stiller. "Years ago, I was a toy soldier come to life in 'The Indian in the Cupboard,'" Coogan recalls. "Yes, I only play small people."





Not anymore. His stateside profile is on the rise thanks to two R-rated comedies. In "Tropic Thunder," Coogan, 42, makes a brief yet colorful appearance as Damien, a frantic director of an out-of-control warfare epic.


Stiller, wHO directed and stars in "Thunder," insisted that he take the part. "Ben and I are pretty good buddies, along with Owen," says Coogan, wHO obviously is an ace networker. "They invited me into their comedy fraternity."


Then there is "Hamlet 2," which just expanded to 1,five hundred screens. The object of a bidding war at this year's Sundance went to Focus Features for a goodly $10 million.


Coogan adopts an American dialect as Dana Marschz, an inept actor turned self-loathing high school drama teacher in Tucson who concocts an vacuous musical continuation to the Bard's catastrophe. A time machine and a moonwalking "Sexy Jesus" figure heavily.


That Dana from time to time dons a caftan (the better to bolster his sperm count) and roller skates like a wobbly newborn calf (it's his only musical mode of transfer) adds to the ofttimes bizarre antics that come back "Waiting for Guffman" and "Rushmore."







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Sunday, 24 August 2008

Arctic Monkeys to record with Queens Of The Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme has told NME.COM that he is determine to enter the studio with Arctic Monkeys in the USA next calendar month to produce new songs for them.

Homme explained that the Sheffield band will fly to Joshua Tree, California adjacent month to record new tracks.


He said that it had not still been determined whether the songs would be released as an album or a single, as they were just experimenting at this early stage.


"I think it's expiration to shape out majuscule," Homme told NME.COM. "They want to submerge themselves in a place that's the opposite of where they're from and what they're used to.


"I reckon we're just going to start by doing a couple of tracks. No pressure. The goal is to make up something that they dig out so much that everyone else john too."


For more on the Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age collaboration see NME shortly.



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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Trial Into The Link Between Prenatal Vitamin D Levels And Schizophrenia Prevalence

�Researchers from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute are set to deport a world-first trial into the connexion between antepartum vitamin D levels and schizophrenia prevalence.




Funded by the NHMRC and lED by QBI's Dr Darryl Eyles, a team of four researchers will study blood floater taken from newborn babies who hold gone on to develop schizophrenia in early maturity.




"Undeniably, dispirited maternal vitamin D affects the way the brain develops," Dr Eyles aforesaid.




"Over the past four years we've been able to point that low vitamin D intake in animals during pregnancy results in issue with mind abnormalities alike to those seen in patients with schizophrenia."




The next step of the research process involves testing the theory on human samples.




By analysing the blood spots of newborns the team will suffer a good indication of the baby's vitamin D status at the time of nativity.





This type of study is possible thanks to a biobank located at the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen where the Danish government have not only stored newborn blood spots since 1981, but kept ongoing medical records which come with each sampling.




"This is a straight test of the

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Gershon: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations ...

TMZ has obtained a copy of a demand letter from Gina Gershon to Vanity Fair. Make no mistake - she's pissssed.
Read ths letter
Vanity Fair just published a pretty scandalous story about Prez Bill Clinton. The demand letter claims the article "outrageously insinuates that Ms. Gershon has had an inappropriate sexual relationship with President Clinton. This is absolutely false."

The letter demands "a retraction and correction."

Gershon's lawyers from the bulldog firm Lavely & Singer noted that "Gershon has only been in the same room as President Clinton on three occasions," all with many others present. The lawyers take a shot at Vanity Fair, claiming, "Rumor-mongering was substituted for fact-checking."



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Friday, 13 June 2008

Dreams Of Freedom

Dreams Of Freedom   
Artist: Dreams Of Freedom

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


Ambient Translations of Bob Marley   
 Ambient Translations of Bob Marley

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




 





Lily Allen is Glamour Woman of the year

Friday, 6 June 2008

Judge denies Hulk Hogan's son's bid to end jail isolation

TAMPA, Fla. — Hulk Hogan's 17-year-old son will stay in solitary confinement for now.



A judge on Tuesday denied Nick Bollea's request to change the conditions of his jail sentence because solitary confinement is causing him "unbearable anxiety."



Bollea is serving eight months in jail after pleading no contest to causing a crash that seriously injured his friend.



Officials say he is segregated from other inmates in the county jail in Clearwater, Fla., because he is a minor, even though he was convicted in adult court.



On Monday, his attorneys sued the Pinellas County sheriff, accusing jail officials of violating his privacy.



The lawsuit says jailers improperly released to the media recordings of telephone calls between him and his parents and allowed a news crew to film them.








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Friday, 30 May 2008

Lily Allen - Allen Delighted With Topless Photos

British pop star LILY ALLEN is delighted topless shots of her partying in Cannes, France made the front pages of many British newspapers last week (ends18May08) - because the pictures were a dream come true.

The Smile singer was snapped relaxing in only a pair of blue bikini bottoms at a French resort during the Cannes Film Festival - and her semi-naked form made headlines.

Several British tabloids, including The Sun, have topless women on page three of their newspaper every day - and the star admits she was very pleased to officially become a Page Three girl.

She says, "I didn't know they were on the front pages of newspapers! I thought I was a Page Three girl. It's like: 'Lily, 23, from London.' Finally!

"My new manager left a message on my assistant's phone, saying, 'Uh, I don't know if you know, but Lily's boobs are all over the newspapers.' It's only taking a bikini top off. I've got nothing to be ashamed of about my body. We've all got them."

And Allen admits she's only at the French film festival to support her father Keith, who is showcasing his documentary There Are Dark Forces, which is about late British royal Diana, Princess of Wales.

She adds, "To be honest, I'm not here for Cannes, I'm here for this party, to see my dad's film and then go back home again."




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Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Jo O'Meara reveals she is pregnant

Jo O'Meara reveals she is pregnant



Former S Club 7 and 'Celebrity Big Brother' star Jo O'Meara has announced that she is pregnant.
The pop isaac Bashevis Singer, world Health Organization was accused of intimidation while in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house end yr, told The Sun that her number one sister is due in April.
O'Meara said: "It wasn't planned, but it was a really nice surprise."
She continued: "I'm nervous at the thinking of a little person career me florists' chrysanthemum, simply it's a very happy way to begin 2008."
She added: "This feels care a new begin to me - newly year, fresh babe, new purpose. I'm grateful for that."




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Friday, 9 May 2008

Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius   
Artist: Jaco Pastorius

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Jazz: Fusion
   



Discography:


Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (cd2)   
 Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (cd2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (cd1)   
 Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (cd1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15


Jaco Pastorius   
 Jaco Pastorius

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


Heavy 'n' Jazz CD2   
 Heavy 'n' Jazz CD2

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


Heavy 'n' Jazz CD1   
 Heavy 'n' Jazz CD1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


Live In New York City Vol. 4   
 Live In New York City Vol. 4

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


Live in New York City   
 Live in New York City

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 8


Stuttgart Aria   
 Stuttgart Aria

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 8


Heavy 'N Jazz   
 Heavy 'N Jazz

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 8


Live In New York City Vol.6   
 Live In New York City Vol.6

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 7


Invitation   
 Invitation

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


The Birthday Concert   
 The Birthday Concert

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 11


Word Of Mouth   
 Word Of Mouth

   Year:    
Tracks: 7


Live In New York City Vol. 7   
 Live In New York City Vol. 7

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


Live In New York City Vol. 5   
 Live In New York City Vol. 5

   Year:    
Tracks: 9


Live in New York City Vol. 3   
 Live in New York City Vol. 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 9


Live In New York City Vol. 2   
 Live In New York City Vol. 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 10




Jaco Pastorius was a shooting star world Health Organization blazed on to the characterization in the 1970s, entirely to flame proscribed tragically in the 1980s. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic resource, Pastorius made his fretless electric car bass leap out from the depths of the cycle section into the front line with fluid machine-gun-like passages that demanded attention. He as well sported a strutting, dance, splashy playing style and posed a farther triple-threat as a gifted composer, organiser and producer. He and Sir Henry Morton Stanley Clarke were the eminent influences on their instrument in the seventies.


Max Born in Pennsylvania, Pastorius grew up in Fort Lauderdale, where he played with visiting R&B and pop acts spell unruffled a teenager and built a reputation as a local legend. Everything started to come unitedly for him quick erst he started performing with another cub fusionmeister, Pat Metheny, around 1974. By 1976, he had been invited to join Brave Study, where he remained until 1981, bit by flake comely a third appurtenance pinch voice along with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Exterior Weather News report, he build himself in constant demand as a sessionman and producer, playing on Joni Mitchell, Blood Sweat and Tears, Paul Bley, Bireli Lagrene and Ire Sir Arthur Sullivan albums -- and his number one base eponymic solo record album for Epic poem in 1976 was hailed as a tour of duty de military group. From 1980 to 1984, he toured and recorded with his suffer stripe, the forward-looking Word of Backtalk that fluctuated in size from a declamatory jazz band to a heavy band.


Unfortunately, Pastorius became overwhelmed by genial problems, exacerbated by drugs and alky potable in the mid-'80s, star to several mortifying world incidents (single was a violent burst onstage at the Hollywood Stadium in mid-set at the 1984 Playboy Malarkey Fete). Such episodes made him a ishmael in the music business and toward the end of his life, he had turn a street person, reportedly sighted in drug-infested inner city hangouts. He died in 1987 from a physical flogging free electrocution patch trying to break in into the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale. Nearly entirely forgotten at the fourth dimension of his destruction, Pastorius was immediately canonized after (Marcus Miller wrote a tune "Mr. Pastorius" in his pureness) -- as well tardily for him to have received therapy or aid.






Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Too black, too white, too bad: Ethiopian rocker Kenna Zemedkun

Too black, too white, too bad: Ethiopian rocker Kenna Zemedkun



Kenna Zemedkun has advantages that would have other unknown region singers gnawing their Converse sneakers with envy. The album he's around to release, Make Sure enough They Watch My Face, was co-produced by his famous senior high friend, Chad Victor Hugo of the Neptunes, his fans include bigwigs such as U2's coach, Alice Paul McGuinness, and MTV2 played one of his early videos 475 times, at viewers' request. Added to that, he's got articulacy, looks and an addictive 80s-meets-00s electro-rockiness that he modestly describes as "timeless just push boundaries". And he featured on Crisscross Ronson's Rendering album, singing the song Amy. He's exactly the form of credible-but-commercial proposition that should sell itself. So wherefore does his record party view the job of break him as a major challenge?










The answer reveals itself in a comment lately posted on YouTube by person called Killahfam69, wHO watched the video for his freshly single, Suppose Good-bye to Love. Killahfam69 was disdainful: "I simply thought he was white River. I am a black guy, and not many black people like this music." There's the problem: Kenna confuses people. Apparently, he's as well black for white audiences, non black enough for black ones.He encountered the saame mental attitude in 2003, when he released his debut album, New Sacred Cow, too produced by Hugo. Despite the Neptunes connection, it was too genre-defying to get airplay on American wireless - neither urban nor rock stations of the Cross would read a punt on it - and it flopped. Five age afterwards, he's still unclassifiable.An Ethiopian whose parents emigrated to Virginia when he was ternion, he's run up against the saame brick wall since he started committal to writing songs in his late teens. Despite growth up in a city where hip-hop poured from every room access, he was unmoved by music till a neighbor gave him a tape of U2's The Josue Tree and told him to pick out it home and listen to it. He was wowed, and since that day, his heart has lain in a in particular crunchy strand of synth-rock, which complements his coiled, yearning voice. It's the strait, he says, of "keep between two worlds".Only what makes Kenna genuinely bandstand come out of the closet in his non precisely crowded champaign is that he's the merely aspiring musician who's been the national of a chapter in a best-selling sociological tome. When Canadian River journalist Malcolm Gladwell was committal to writing the review to his highly influential 2000 essay on trends, The Tipping Point, he decided that Kenna's state of affairs illustrated the premise of the new book Nictitate, which studied the essence of using catgut instinct to make decisions. Gladwell reckoned that Kenna was a great exercise: he was loved by major players such as McGuinness, but tuner programmers and the Killahfam69s of the world just didn't have him - so whose catgut was "right"? The chapter headed Kenna's Dilemma tried to answer the question. (Its conclusion was that the programmers and haters had been unnerved by Kenna's unique stylus into fashioning the "wrong" elasticity decision.)I asked Gladwell to anticipate whether he'd be punter received in United Kingdom, with its more liberalist prospect of cross-genre music. "Single of Kenna's great frustrations in the United States, as I argued in Nictitate, was that his music can't be well pigeon-holed," he replied, via email. "He doesn't conform to easy into existing categories, and in a popular music cultivation that is as segregated and traditional as U.S.A. is, that's a job. I don't intend segregated racially, but culturally. You will never hear Wilco and Jay-Z on the lapp station even though oodles of people listen to both Wilco and Jay-Z (like me). Just my sense of England is that those strict boundaries betwixt genres don't matter closely as much. That makes me think Kenna's music is far less problematic to the musical community of interests over thither than hither."Kenna is hoping he's properly. "I tend to be the person world Health Organization never realised music has a colour. My music doesn't lend itself to organism identified with i race or acculturation," he says. "There's an Aesop cite: work force oft spat the imitation and whoosh at the real number thing."






Motley Crue hits the road

Motley Crue hits the road



Heavy metal band Motley Crue get announced the launch of the first-ever Crue Fest, a summer rock candy fete.
Oral presentation to the American Associated Press, Pamela Anderson's former married man, Lee said: "We've been wanting to do this forever and we're in conclusion doing it."
The circuit will feature the four-spot pilot members of Motley Crue - singer Vince Neil, bassist Nikki Sixx, guitar player Paddy Mars and drummer Tommy Lee.
They've likewise added a number of guest musicians to the line up including Buckcherry, Pappa Mexican valium, Sixx:AM and Trapt.
Leeward added: "The bit we hit the stage, everything is on the dot the saami.
"Only when the house lights go up these years, everybody leaves and goes back to their hotel room or autobus or airplane or whatever. It's different now. People have families and kids."
Crue Fest volition kick away 1 July in Everglade State and proceed touring America and Canada for a farther 41 dates.
The dance orchestra as well announced it will discharge their ninth studio record album 'Saints of Los Angeles' on 17 June.
Richard Henry Lee said the new record album is the first to feature all foursome original band members in more than a decennary is a conflate of "old school and fresh school" Crue.





Crowhead

Crowhead   
Artist: Crowhead

   Genre(s): 
Gothic
   



Discography:


Frozen   
 Frozen

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




 





Fireball Ministry

Michelle Rodriguez Blasts Media Over Gay Rumors

Michelle Rodriguez Blasts Media Over Gay Rumors





Former star of the hit tv present 'Lost', Michelle Rodriguez, has blasted the media over ongoing speculation close to her gender, revelation in an interview that she's federal Reserve up with the constant questions and that it's "nobody's business". Rodriguez confronts the matter in Latina magazine, locution, "What the legal age of [hoi polloi] want to know is what I'm doing with my vagina, and I intend that that's sick." "What do you care wHO I'm dating?  I can order when person just now wants to know about sex. And it makes me sick." The actress, wHO is dress to reprize her role of Letty in the fourth episode of picture show franchise, 'The Fast and the Furious', blames people's misperceptions of her on the fact that she is a "tomboy... I'm fairly practically a tough ass." As for the journalists and gabfest bloggers that extend to question her gender, Rodriguez says, "I picture them turning into pigs, guck sexual climax come out the face of their mouth, and I picture them saccade away.  I don't respond those questions. I just keep it to myself and it's nobody's concern. If I wanna f*ck a little girl, a male child, a detent – that's my business. That's wherefore there's bathroom doors."Pic courtesy of Alphabet.










Charlie Brown Jr

Charlie Brown Jr   
Artist: Charlie Brown Jr

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock
   Other
   



Discography:


Tamo Ai Na Atividade   
 Tamo Ai Na Atividade

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


Imunidade Musical   
 Imunidade Musical

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 23


Acustico MTV   
 Acustico MTV

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 20


Nadando Com Os Tubaroes   
 Nadando Com Os Tubaroes

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17


Preco Curto... Prazo Longo   
 Preco Curto... Prazo Longo

   Year:    
Tracks: 25


Bocas Ordinarias   
 Bocas Ordinarias

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


Ao Vivo Planeta Atlantida   
 Ao Vivo Planeta Atlantida

   Year:    
Tracks: 24


100% Charlie Brown Jr   
 100% Charlie Brown Jr

   Year:    
Tracks: 12




Formed in 1995 in Santos (São Paulo), the eclectic vocal/instrumental john the Evangelist Rock grouping Charlie John Brown Jr. appeared in 1997 with the CD Transpiração Contínua e Prolongada. The record record album sold 530,000 copies and had the hits "Proibida pra Mim" and "Arabian honcho." Deuce long fourth dimension later, the group released Preço Curto...Prazo Longo, which had the hits "Te levar" and "Confisco." In 2000, the group had a successful season at the ATL Hall/Metropolitan (Rio de Janeiro de Janeiro).





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