Brangelina's French Neighbours Con Reporters

Residents living near Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's French hideaway are getting their own back on the reporters who have descended upon them - by feeding them false stories about their new superstar neighbours.
Brangelina have sparked a media frenzy in the village of Correns, in Provence, since holing up in a nearby chateau ahead of the birth of their twins.

As one resident explains, "They came here to find some peace, and instead there are paparazzi at the gate day and night. It's really unbearable.
"There are always five or six motorbikes and cars ready to launch into a chase.”
Still, villagers are determined to have some fun with the situation - at the media's expense.

Residents who succeed in getting a particularly ridiculous story published are treated to a free glass of pastis, according to Reuters.
 

Lester Young

   
Artist: Lester Young

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Lady Day and Pres 1937-1941 (Vol. 1)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 18


   
 Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Lester Young

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 8

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 30


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 7

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 6

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 5

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 4

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 3

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 21


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 2

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20


   
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 22


   
 Jazz Masters 30

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 15


   
 Ken Burns Jazz Series: Lester Young

   Year:    
Tracks: 19

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Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a strain saxophonist world Health Organization came up with a altogether different conception in which to play his horn, floating over bar lines with a light tone sooner than adopting Coleman Hawkins' then-dominant forceful approach. A nonconformist, Young (nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Holiday) had the dry have in the fifties of hearing many young tenors try to reasoned incisively like him.


Although he dog-tired his earlier days near New Orleans, Lester Young lived in Minneapolis by 1920, playing in a fabled family band. He studied violin, trumpet, and drums, starting on countertenor at historic period 13. Because he refused to go in the South, Young left base in 1927 and rather toured with Art Bronson's Bostonians, shift to tenor. He was second with the family band in 1929 and then freelanced for a few years, playing with Walter Page's Blue Devils (1930), Eddie Barefield in 1931, second with the Blue Devils during 1932-1933, and Bennie Moten and King Oliver (both 1933). He was with Count Basie for the first time in 1934 merely left to interchange Coleman Hawkins with Fletcher Henderson. Unfortunately, it was expected that Young would try to emulate Hawk, and his laid-back well-grounded angered Henderson's sidemen, resulting in Pres not long-lasting long. After a go with Andy Kirk and a few brief jobs, Lester Young was second with Basie in 1936, hardly in time to ace with the band as they headed East. Young made history during his long time with Basie, not only active on Count's book dates merely leading with Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson on a series of classical small-group sessions. In addition, on his rare recordings on clarinet with Basie and the Kansas City Six, Young displayed a very original cool wakeless that most sounded like alto saxophonist Paul Desmond in the fifties. After departure Count in 1940, Young's life history became a piece aimless, not capitalizing on his celebrity in the idle words world. He co-led a low profile band with his brother, drummer Lee Young, in Los Angeles until re-joining Basie in December 1943. Young had a well-chosen nine-spot months gage with the band, recorded a memorable quartet sitting with bassist Slam Stewart, and starred in the poor celluloid Jammin' the Blues ahead he was drafted. His experiences transaction with racialism in the military were frightful, poignant his mental state of intellect for the residual of his life.


Although many critics hold scripted that Lester Young never sounded as good afterwards acquiring out of the military, despite planetary health he actually was at his premier in the mid to late-'40s. He toured (and was good paid by Norman Granz) with Jazz at the Philharmonic on and off through the '40s and '50s, made a terrific series of recordings for Aladdin, and worked steady as a unmarried. Young besides adopted his stylus well to bop (which he had helped pave the way for in the 1930s). But mentally he was suffering, building a wall between himself and the external world, and inventing his have colorful vocabulary. Although many of his recordings in the fifties were fantabulous (viewing a greater emotional depth than in his earlier days), Young was bothered by the fact that some of his white imitators were making much more money than he was. He drank immense amounts of pot liquor and virtually stopped up eating, with predictable results. 1956's Wind Giants album establish him in eyeshade cast as did a well documented date in Washington, D.C., with a quartette and a last-place reunion with Count Basie at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. But, for the 1957 telecast The Sound of Jazz, Young generally played sitting mastered (although he stole the show with an emotional one-chorus blue devils solo played to Billie Holiday). After becoming ill in Paris in early 1959, Lester Young came home and fundamentally drank himself to death. Many decades after his dying, Pres is still considered (along with Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane) one of the trey most authoritative tenor saxophonists of all fourth dimension.

Abyssic Hate

   
Artist: Abyssic Hate

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Suicidal Emotions

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


   
 Eternal Damnation

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6

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Good Charlotte Good 'n' Ready for Summer Tour

Paris and Nicole spending the summer traveling across the country together in a rented caravan? Where have we heard that one before...
The on-again BFFs may be entering rerun mode this...

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Actress Lindsay Lohan will work at a morgue as part of her punishment for a drink-driving offence.
The 21-year-old star will complete the work-placement as part of a court-ordered programme, in which she must learn about the dangers of drink-driving.
According to reports, Lohan is due to spend two four-hour days at the morgue, as well as completing a stint working in a hospital emergency room.
The actress was arrested twice last year on charges of driving while under the influence. In August she pleaded guilty to misdemeanour drunken driving and cocaine charges.
Lohan served 84 minutes of her 24-hour jail sentence last November. She must now complete an alcohol education programme and perform 10 days of community service.

Hollywood actors' labor talks reach key juncture

By Steve Gorman


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The smaller of Hollywood's two
performers unions entered a final day of contract talks with
studios on Tuesday before the larger, more militant Screen
Actors Guild was due to renew its own labor negotiations.


The 70,000-member American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists, or AFTRA, opened talks with the studios on May
7, a day after separate negotiations between the studios and
SAG, which represents 120,000 actors, hit a stalemate.


The contracts for both unions expire June 30, and Hollywood
is nervous that the actors might go on strike, paralyzing the
entertainment industry much as a 100-day walkout by
screenwriters did earlier this year.


The industry already is in de facto strike mode, with
studios starting to stockpile TV episodes and unwilling to
launch work on movies that could be affected by a walkout.


The studios have rankled SAG and AFTRA alike by seeking new
rules allowing TV and movie clips to be played on the Internet
without prior consent from actors who appear in them. The
unions, which share about 44,000 members, have singled out the
clips dispute as the biggest stumbling block in their contract
talks.


In a message to members on Sunday, AFTRA president Roberta
Reardon said her union was looking for "a creative solution"
that "will protect our members' images" while permitting a new
legitimate market in online clips to flourish.


Regardless of the outcome, Reardon said her union would
"brief SAG on our talks" before SAG and studios resume their
negotiations.


SAG and the studios have agreed to return to the bargaining
table by this Wednesday at the latest, giving the parties a
little more than four weeks to reach a settlement before the
existing labor pacts for both unions run out. 

Aniston gets co-stars for new film

Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart's co-stars for their new comedy drama 'Traveling' have been announced.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Martin Sheen, Dan Fogler and Judy Greer will star opposite the duo in the Brandon Camp-directed film.
'Traveling' tells the story of a widowed self-help author (Eckhart) who finds his feelings reawakened when he meets a hotel florist (Aniston) during one of his grief seminars.
Sheen will play the author's father, Fogler his manager and Greer the friend and employee of Aniston's character.
Actor Joe Anderson will play Aniston's character's boyfriend in the film.

David Bowie - Bowie Says Musical Claims Are Absolute Toss

David Bowie has rubbished rumours that he has given permission for a musical version of his 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth.

The Sun newspaper had claimed on Saturday that a version of the cult sci-fi film The Man Who Fell To Earth was planned for the West End after Bowie gave his blessing for work to begin on the project.

According to a source quoted by the newspaper the involvement of director Peter Schaufuss had swung the Thin White Duke's decision.

But when questioned about the tabloid reports, Bowie said the story was "absolute toss".

"I have no idea who Peter Schaufuss is either," he added.

And a statement released by the Ziggy Stardust legend's record company RZO Music said the label had licensed "absolutely no material written by Mr Bowie to Schaufuss".

"We have never been requested to and we do not intend to," they explained.

Nic Roeg's film adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel starred Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien who comes to the Earth in search of water to save his ailing home planet.

But the RZO statement said the company had "first hand knowledge" that the Walter Tevis estate has not licensed the musical rights to The Man Who Fell To Earth to Danish impresario Schaufuss.

"Further, the advertising for this production appears to be utilising an unauthorised name and likeness of Mr. Bowie and we will seek injunctions, if necessary, to stop their use," it added.

It appears unlikely that Bowie's hits will be joining other music-inspired shows such as Abba's Mamma Mia, Madness' Our House and Queen's We Will Rock You.


20/05/2008 12:05:55

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Corrie star Haworth expecting first child

'Coronation Street' star Julia Haworth has revealed that she is pregnant with her first child.
The actress, who plays Claire Peacock in the soap, is due to give birth in July.
The actress revealed she found out the news in November but wanted to keep it quiet until her 12 week scan.
She told The Mirror newspaper: "We haven't stopped smiling. It's such a special time and I feel so lucky we're going to share it."
Haworth added that her character's postnatal depression following the birth of son Freddie had helped "prepare" her for being a mother.
The 28-year-old married accountant Jon Wormold in May 2006 after a two-year romance.

Nicole Kidman Selling Australian Homes

Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman is hoping to raise more than £12 million after putting her Australian homes up for sale.
The pregnant star is thought to be eyeing up properties more suitable for a young family after putting both her Sydney harbourside and New South Wales coast properties up for sale.
Her Sydney house is expected to raise £10 million, whilst her New South Wales retreat is valued at a mere £2 million, reports the Mail on Sunday.
She and husband Keith Urban are now reportedly looking for a new home in either the eastern suburbs of Sydney or Hunters Hill peninsula, home to fellow actress Cate Blanchett.

Stone Blames Bad Karma For China Earthquake

Sharon Stone left Chinese journalists stunned at the Cannes Film Festival in France last week when she suggested the country's recent earthquake was "karma." The outspoken actress was talking to a Chinese media outlet on Thursday when she linked the recent disaster, which left more than 67,000 people dead, to China's recent treatment of Tibetans. She said, "All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma?' When you are not nice, bad things happen to you. I'm not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine." Stone's comments come after Chinese security forces attacked Tibetan monks and other ethnic Tibetans after a peaceful independence rally in March turned violent. The protests marked the annual anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, which has been in place since 1951. The violent incident, which left at least 16 people dead, prompted many countries to boycott part or all of the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics in China later this summer.


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