With the California Supreme Court declining to light-colored their fire (or see their attract), the Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger will have to fork over more than $5 1000000 in restitution to drummer John Densmore and the heirs of Jim Morrison for touring as "The Doors of the 21st Century" in 2002 without permission.
Hills lunatic Jason Wahler is existence ridiculed for trying to keep his bad-boy yesteryear out of an coming civil assault trial. Responding to a Team Wahler petition, the plaintiff's lawyers argue the 21-year-old's history of arrests is perfectly admissible, because it shows a consistent pattern where "he does not respect authority." This reality express kicks cancelled Sept. 2 in an L.A. court.
Hey-o! Ed McMahon is facing a tough foe in the engagement over his bankruptcy-inducing broken neck with an L.A. hospital. The firm of LaFollette, Johnson, De Haas, Fesler & Ames (you might remember from its starring role defending Keanu Reeves and Lindsay Lohan) is now repping Cedars-Sinai, and just filed a motion labeling the ex-Tonight Show sidekick's allegations of hoax, battery, elder abuse and emotional distress as phoney. A pronounce will take up the matter Sept. 18.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Tom Cruise Never Agreed to Star in 'Edwin A. Salt'
Angelina Jolie will not be replacement Tom Cruise in the upcoming spy thriller Edwin A. Salt -- because the Top Gun star topology never agreed to star in the film in the low gear place, according to reports.
The studio did want Cruise in the lead persona, says a source close to the film, just the role player passed.
"This account about Jolie taking all over is completely false ... this started with an inaccurate report months ago that said (Cruise) was pickings the use," the source tells MSNBC. "They courted him for almost a year for this film. He considered it but passed."
The origin says a legitimate announcement about Cruise�s next picture could occur sooner kinda than later. "He's been offered many roles in the past times few months. We're sure to go out news about the side by side project soon."
Tom, 46, already has 3 other movies in the works, including Men, The Hardy Men, and Valkyrie -- which opens countrywide on December 26, 2008.
Jolie, 33, is said to be
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Tango
Artist: Tango
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Instrumental
Discography:
War For 94-RIQ002 Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The Ballroom Band
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Disney goes for a 'Monster'
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Joy Bryant - Actress Bryant Weds
Actress JOY BRYANT has married her stuntman boyfriend DAVID POPE.
The pair wed during a private beach ceremony in Amagansett, New York on Saturday (28Jun08), according to People.com.
The Get Rich or Die Tryin' star, 31, was joined by 100 guests to celebrate the couple's nuptials.
Bryant and Pope, 37, began dating after they met on the set of the actress' latest film Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, where Pope worked as a stuntman.
Wedding guests reportedly received an e-mail invitation to the ceremony with one simple request: "Ladies, leave your Manolos at home."
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Rascal Flatts to join Boston Pops on July 4
BOSTON —
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Rascal Flatts will play with the Boston Pops on the banks of the Charles River during a July 4 concert to be broadcast on CBS.
The country music group says they will play some of their hits with the Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart. Rascal Flatts' hits include "Take Me There," "What Hurts the Most," "Bless the Broken Road."
The concert - which also features traditional patriotic songs and fireworks - will be the Pops' 35th free outdoor show on Independence Day.
Craig Ferguson, host of "The Late Late Show" will host the telecast from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Coldplay clinch chart double
Coldplay have bagged their first ever No.1 single to score a rare chart double this week.
Their Viva La Vida album spends a second week on top of the albums chart, while its title track debuts at No.1 on the singles countdown.
'Viva La Vida' had previously been excluded from the chart because it came free to fans who pre-ordered the band's album from iTunes.
Ne-Yo rises a place to two with 'Closer', with Rihanna's 'Take A Bow' slipping to third. Last week's number one, 'Singin' In The Rain' by Mint Royale, slumps to eight.
Meanwhile, American Idol champion Jordin Sparks scores her first UK top ten hit, rising to ten with 'No Air', a duet with Chris Brown.
The top ten singles in full (click for our reviews):
1. (-) Coldplay: 'Viva La Vida'
2. (3) Ne-Yo: 'Closer'
3. (2) Rihanna: 'Take A Bow'
4. (5) Sara Bareilles: 'Love Song'
5. (8) Chris Brown: 'Forever'
6. (6) Gabriella Cilmi: 'Sweet About Me'
7. (4) Ting Tings: 'That's Not My Name'
8. (1) Mint Royale: 'Singin' In The Rain'
9. (7) Duffy: 'Warwick Avenue'
10. (22) Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown: 'No Air'
> Click here for the albums chart in full
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Their Viva La Vida album spends a second week on top of the albums chart, while its title track debuts at No.1 on the singles countdown.
'Viva La Vida' had previously been excluded from the chart because it came free to fans who pre-ordered the band's album from iTunes.
Ne-Yo rises a place to two with 'Closer', with Rihanna's 'Take A Bow' slipping to third. Last week's number one, 'Singin' In The Rain' by Mint Royale, slumps to eight.
Meanwhile, American Idol champion Jordin Sparks scores her first UK top ten hit, rising to ten with 'No Air', a duet with Chris Brown.
The top ten singles in full (click for our reviews):
1. (-) Coldplay: 'Viva La Vida'
2. (3) Ne-Yo: 'Closer'
3. (2) Rihanna: 'Take A Bow'
4. (5) Sara Bareilles: 'Love Song'
5. (8) Chris Brown: 'Forever'
6. (6) Gabriella Cilmi: 'Sweet About Me'
7. (4) Ting Tings: 'That's Not My Name'
8. (1) Mint Royale: 'Singin' In The Rain'
9. (7) Duffy: 'Warwick Avenue'
10. (22) Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown: 'No Air'
> Click here for the albums chart in full
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The Happening - 6/13/2008
You know that co-worker that comes in after a long, uneventful weekend and insists upon telling you every dull detail of his equally uninteresting escapades? You know he thinks he's captivating, with a great story to tell, but you'd rather shove something sharp into your ears than listen to another minute of his banal ramblings? That's a lot like The Happening, one of the worst attempts at end-of-the-world ominousness since the Robot Holocaust battled the Ninja Apocalypse (and yes -- those are both actual movies).
One beautiful fall morning, all activity in New York's Central Park suddenly stops. Soon, people are cutting their own throats and stabbing themselves to death. Downtown, workers at an office building throw themselves off in a lemming-like mass suicide. In Philadelphia, science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), their best friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) all decide to head to the countryside to avoid the city -- and the source of the so-called attack. Soon, rumors begin flying of terrorist involvement, while others think the local nuclear power plant may be responsible. All anyone really knows is that the psychological virus is spreading and no one appears immune... or safe.
It's official: M. Night Shyamalan is no longer the next Spielberg. At this rate he won't even be the next Ray Dennis Steckler. After the stellar Sixth Sense and the equally excellent Unbreakable, he's managed a downward spiral that few on his Tinseltown trek could survive. Sure, Signs made money, and The Village has its defenders, but after the calamitous Lady in the Water, it was commercial do or die for the 38-year-old. So he responded to said challenge by delivering a cockamamie concept involving the end of the world (or at least the Eastern seaboard of the United States part of it) and how a diminishing group of ethnically mixed individuals deal with all the death and destruction.
Frankly, they don't take it very well -- and neither will the audience. Instead of scares (which are all telegraphed in the various trailers bubbling around the web) we get unintentional laughs. Instead of thought provoking sci-fi speculation, we get the Alan Titchmarsh version of Armageddon. On the plus side, there's no "twist" here, Shyamalan is thankfully abandoning the trademark that frequently flummoxed his narrative structure. Here, conjecture runs rampant, but within the first 30 minutes, Wahlberg and company settle on a single theory. Not to spoil it here, but let's just say it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. It's the least compelling element in a film already hampered by unexceptional casting and dialogue driven by exclamations, not explanations.
Besides, Shyamalan scrimps on the good stuff. We never really experience the breakdown of society; the random events that do occur -- occasional power outages, incomplete radio transmission, speculative new reports -- fail to cause anything other than ennui. The onscreen deaths don't go far enough, holding back on both the horror and gore. Our survivors are mere pawns, required to do no more than stop, yammer, then simply push on, trying to vainly outrun a threat they barely comprehend. The cast tries heroically to infuse meaning into vague, unfocused lines, and there is a last act appearance by a psychotic recluse (played by Betty Buckley) that changes the entire tone into something akin to a backwoods exploitation effort.
In fact, The Happening is very much like the basic made-on-the-cheap B-movie schlock that took up residence at your '50s/'60s passion pit. Of course, keeping company with Ray Kellogg and Bert I. Gordon won't guarantee you placement in cinema's Hall of Fame. Hall of Shame is more like it -- which is exactly where this boring movie and its maker belong.
We'll just wait here 'til the movie's over.
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