Eddy Woo and Jeff Fusion & other: May 2008

Thursday 29 May 2008

Kidman gets Valentine's dedication

Country singer Keith Urban made a Valentine's Day dedication to his pregnant wife Nicole Kidman during a concert at Madison Square Garden last night.
According to People magazine, the singer paid tribute to his film star wife during the concert, which he co-headlined with 'American Idol' star Carrie Underwood.
Urban dedicated the track 'Got It Right This Time' to Kidman, who is currently in her native Australia.
He said: "It's Valentine's Day here tomorrow, but today it's already Valentine's Day in Australia."

Tuesday 20 May 2008

Sopranos star for Marvin Gaye film

'The Sopranos' lead James Gandolfini has been throw away antonym 'Law & Order' champion Jesse L Martin in a freshly photographic film about the finish age of soul fable Marvin Gaye.
Diverseness reports that 'Sexual Healing' will story Gaye's (Martin) self-imposed deportation in Kingdom of Belgium and his repay to the big prison term with the help oneself of plugger Freddy Cousaert (Gandolfini).
The Lauren Goodman-directed photographic film testament be produced by Gandolfini's company, Attaboy Films, and the player testament do work as producer on the project.
Motion-picture photography of 'Sexual Healing' is due to get down on 15 Apr, with locations in Ostend, Massachusetts and Los Angeles.

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Britney Spears' Custody Of Kids Modified: 'A Cautious Step Forward,' Says Lawyer

Unlike Britney Spears' previous custody hearings, the embattled pop star's arrival Tues dawn (Crataegus laevigata 6) at the Los Angeles County courthouse was punctual and without a great deal of the usual plug. There were no adoring fans wielding signs of support, and as her albumen Land Rover sped into the adjoining parking garage, the paparazzi, world Health Organization have built a career on mobbing her, failed to give chase after.
Just a shell of reporters lingered outside the courthouse, awaiting tidings on what — if anything — would come of the audience, which got under style shortly after 9:30 a.m., after media were asked to lead the court, followers the granting of a question to close the court. The design of the earreach was to render the court of justice with a advancement reassessment, during which an assessment of a psychiatrist's rating of Spears was expected, along with a word of the couple's stream custody organisation.
While he wouldn't reveal specifics, Mark Vincent Kaplan — the attorney representing Spears' ex Kevin Federline in his ongoing custody struggle with Spears — did expose that an adjustment to the couple's electric current hands arrangement had been made by Commissioner George C. Scott Gordon.
"The court made orders today — orders that [both] parties were able to agree to — and it represents a footstep going frontwards, a timid step merely a step withal," Kaplan told reporters after the hearing wrapped. "We ar pleased with the progress that seems to be occurring. I ne'er have, and don't want, to address to what the custodial timeshare is, just apparently, it's something to a greater extent than it has been."
Federline has had sole legal and physical hands of the couple's deuce sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden Jesse James, since January 3, the night Spears was hospitalized after refusing to turn the children over to her ex. Later on failing to regain custody twice, Spears was granted restricted, monitored visitation in latterly Feb and visited her sons Feb 23 for about trio hours. Spears has been under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie, since her departure from UCLA Health check Center back on Feb 6. She was involuntarily committed to the installation and was released after only a workweek.
"The order that was in place has remained in place, with the exception that at that place has been approximately graduated enlargement of clock time," Kaplan continued. "Other than that, naught has been changed with deference to the ongoing order. The enlargement of time is reflected in the orders."
Kaplan said the qualifying came in reply to the advance Spears has been qualification in recent months, and "consistency over time, with respect to structure and stability, is something that would be welcomed by [Federline]."
Late, Spears has on the face of it turned her troubled image around, keeping a relatively low profile and even landing just about well-received performing gigs. She is pose to reprize her function as Abby the receptionist on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" on May 12. Several have attributed the switch in Spears' behavior to her parents, who've taken a more active agent role in the singer's life in recent epoch months — and Kaplan seemed to gibe with that judgement.
"I think that we wholly know that all over the last few months, what was ostensibly a day by day situation in extreme state of flux has been stabilized," he explained. "We check that on that point ar non daily events occurring that made it very difficult to let any kind of grounding or believing that an environs that was charles Herbert Best for the children was departure to be consistent over both homes. We bob Hope and see onward to eyesight additional advancement with [Spears]. ... We receive always said Kevin's goal and hope is that his children will ingest the benefit of having 2 parents participating actively in their lives. When that will occur, I can't tell you that."
The next audition in the couple's custody case — another progress review — has been scheduled for July 15.
On Tuesday, Spears arrived wearing away a brown University polka dot dress, with a small perspirer all over the top, according to The Associated Press out. At her side were her parents and i of her lawyers, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair Berk. Meantime, Federline arrived on time, in a cream-colored suit.
Allan Parachini, the managing director of public information for the Los Angeles County tribunal scheme, say a affirmation non from Gordon, only from Spears' parents, Jamie and Lynn. "We ar so pleased with Britney's advancement, and we are really appreciative of the court's identification of this advancement," it read. Parachini said he was barred from speaking in detail about the qualifying in custody, but said that, during a listening that would be held sometime in August, Gordon would "review how the modified custody arranging has evolved."
George Eliot Mintz, Federline's press agent, said that he rundle to his client presently after the listening ended, and "he is passing pleased with the way things went today, and at the end of this saga, everyone involved seems to be hoping and believing that there will be deuce children raised in the party of deuce people wHO passion them."
Before the auditory sense began, Gordon swore altogether the parties involved in, by asking them to bring up their decent men and nation their name calling. Spears simply stated her nominate as "Britney," at which dot Gordon said he'd need "her full nominate." She complied, expression, "Britney Spears." Gordon then granted a movement to shut down the court and asked reporters to depart.
About an time of day into the hearing, Gordon took a quick recess, during which Spears was seen exterior of the court, visibly derangement, her eyes watery. Spell she wasn't tears in the hall, it appears as though she may have been tears inside the court. Several proceedings by and by, Spears emerged once again, holding Berk's hand and appearing as if she had been sobbing. Gordon called for a break roughly 10:40 a.m. so he could discover other cases.

Kathryn Rose

Saturday 3 May 2008

Bond 22 underway as new Bond girl announced

The new James Bond picture has begun production at London's Pinewood Studios with Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko named as Bond's leadership lady.
Principal picture taking on the thirstily anticipated 22nd King James I Trammel adventure began yesterday with Daniel Craig reprising his character as 007.
The as-yet-untitled motion picture testament be directed by Marc Forster and follows the succeeder of 'Casino Royale', the latest and highest grossing film in the series.
Craig will be joined by a cast which includes critically acclaimed French actor Mathieu Amalric as the sinister scoundrel, and Kurylenko.
Gemma Arterton likewise joins the cast and will act the role of MI6 Agent Fields. However, despite recent epoch reports, it is believed her role in the freshly motion-picture show volition be significantly smaller than that of Kurylenko.
The former model, wHO was death seen on screen in 'Hitman', will be the film's main 'Bond girl'.
Returning to the new motion picture from 'Casino Royale' ar Judi Dench in her use as M, Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter and Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis.
Commenting on the commencement exercise of production, producers Michael G. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson and Barbara Brassica oleracea italica said: "We ar fortunate to persist in in the Bond tradition of attracting the finest international actors for our starring roles.
"Mathieu in the part of Saint Dominic Greene, a leadership penis of the villainous organisation introduced in Casino Royale', volition be a powerful similitude to Daniel's portraiture of James Bond.
"Olga Kurylenko testament play the dangerously alluring Camille, wHO challenges James Bond and helps him amount to terms with the emotional consequences of Vesper's betrayal."
The freshly Bond paper picture show is scheduled for release on 07 November 2008.

Friday 2 May 2008

Amy Winehouse chops off her beehive

Troubled star Amy Winehouse has shocked fans by chopping off her trademark hive coif.
The 'Back To Black' vocaliser has had her hairsbreadth cut into a short crop, and has swapped her at one time iniquity locks for a peroxide blond hairstyle.
The new vogue is reported to have been the work of her hairstylist Alex Foden, wHO lives in the saami east London apartment block as Winehouse.
A source tells British paper The Sun, "She just said she felt like it. She'd idea around having a blonde hive just decided on the shorter wait."
A representative for the star adds, "She wanted a newly appear for the Freshly Year."

Sutherland flooded with fan mail in jail

Actor Kiefer Sutherland is receiving hundreds of letters from fans as he completes his 48-day pokey sentence.
The 40-year-old actor was given the sentence after he pleaded no contest to a 1 count of drive with a blood intoxicant level higher up the legal limit. He had been on probation at the time for a previous umbrage.
According to People magazine, a representative for Glendale Urban center Jailhouse, Officeholder St. John the Apostle Balian, said: "The guy's been getting a long ton of fan post. Easy more than century letters a sidereal day."
Dame Joan Sutherland is due to pass both Christmas Day and Freshly Year's Day in gaol.

Glastonbury loses way amid mud and money

In one case upon a time, fine-tune on a little scatter in the Benjamin West Country, a sodbuster and his married woman decided to stage a music festival. On 19 September 1970, the day later James Marshall Hendrix died, Marc Bolan rolled up at Worthy Farm in a velvet-covered car to play to a modest push of 1,D long-hairs. The �1 ($2.40) entry fee included as a great deal free milk River as you could drunkenness. The farmer, Michael Eavis, hoped to pay off the end of his mortgage with the proceeds. Rather, he doomed �1,D. Only the sunday shone, no one disturbed the oxen and they whole lived blithely ever subsequently. Or, at least, until now.Thirty-seven age on, the 2007 Glastonbury Fete was the biggest yet. More than 177,000 people paid �145 apiece for the privilege of organism rained on, risking their tents being washed aside with the birthday suit sewerage and strain their necks to catch a fleeting coup d'oeil of The Fratellis.When the �155 tickets for this year's three-day extravaganza went on sale on Sun, its organisers power justifiably have expected a stampede to match last year's, when the event sold out in to a lesser extent than deuce hours.

Or else, a clarence Shepard Day Jr. later, about 35,000 tickets remained unsold, and the coordination compound pre-registration organization designed to deter touts had to be re-opened to hold fans wHO were slow down off the grade. Of line, Glastonbury testament sell out as it perpetually does. The fete now makes millions every year - near of which goes to charity - only has it doomed its mojo?The brightest star at this year's festival is i reason for punters' waning enthusiasm. Many were surprised when it was announced that the American hip-hop mogul Jay-Z would headline the Pyramid Leg on the Sat night, traditionally the biggest gig of the weekend. Radiohead became the most acclaimed dwell act in the populace afterward their Pyramid Stage public presentation in 1997, and near festival-goers gestate a relatively traditional guitar band to fill the slot.So concerned was Jay-Z around his coming into court that Eavis has offered to introduce him on microscope stage personally, breakage a lifelong habit of remaining in the wings.The medicine cartridge holder NME's online message boards confirmed that the rapper was a controversial choice, with commentators suggesting he'd been chosen to appeal to a younger, more urban crowd than that to which Glastonbury has become accustomed. Others suggested the rap superstar was simply what the festival needed to impart variety.
Just Jay-Z, aka Ted Shawn President Carter, does typify the signified that Glastonbury has become too corporate. Last week, years in front marrying the vocalist Beyonce Knowles, Carter signed an unprecedented US$150 billion ($188 million), "360-degree" deal with concert promoters Live Nation, giving the company a stake in every panorama of his career, and making him arguably the richest rapper in history. It's a far cry from the flower child spirit that gave parentage to the first base Glastonbury.

Rock and pop preview: : April 19-25

Edwyn William Wilkie Collins On tourIt's i thing to come in back from the dead professionally oral presentation. For Edwyn Collins, even so, it's lately been a doubt of doing so in every sense. Diagnosed, afterward a fall in in 2005, with having suffered a serious cerebral bleeding, the former Orangeness Juice frontman has battled to recover his health and his life history. His physical convalescence may be ongoing, merely his endowment for great urbanity and an much funky take on pop remains as strong as ever. A newly album, Home Over again, was released last twelvemonth, and it finds Edwyn displaying a muse in doubtless rude health.

· Mirthfulness Club, Pittsburgh of the South, Sun 20; Queens Mansion house, Edinburgh, Mon 21; Oran Mor, Glasgow, Tue 22; Northumbria University, Thu 24; Manchester Academy 2, Fri 25Boris/Growing On tourHeavy rock, opposite to what you may have suspected, is a somewhat interesting place to hang come out. Always an surface area of extremes, be they of volume, bacchanalian surplusage or bad clothing, latterly metallic element has been indulging its more abstract and conceptual side, giving uprise to bands like Boris, from Japan. Though doubtlessly metal - the propensity for guitar valiancy; a record label called, famously, Fangs Anal Beelzebub - the overall effect is bracingly bizarre, with just about psychedelic moments. At the other end of the heavy rock and roll spectrum ar Newly Yorkers Growing. A to a lesser extent hectic affair, their ambient metal prompts a preferably unlikely word: soothing. · Cooler, Bristol, Sun 20; Crimson Waiting room, Manchester, Mon 21; Custard Mill Pittsburgh of the South, Tue 22; ULU, WC1, Tie 23Triptych ScotlandAn impressive three-centre event, Triptych is the major Scottish fete that makes its plate not in a big field, but in the left field. Now in its eighth year, what the event's miscellanea of gigs and cinema presentations lacks in geographical i, it makes up for in a singularity of purpose: merely by picking the best choice acts of the Apostles. Particular heights points would have to include the brilliant guitarist Henry James Blackshaw, the freshly "gone techno" mathematics john Rock of Quartet Tet and the great Thurston Moore-favoured duo Magik Markers, merely a big event will be a much-anticipated gig by the reformed Sebadoh. A isthmus noted particularly for Lou Barlow's yield of quality troubled human relationship songs, "troubled human relationship" would besides nicely account for the conditions in the group. A volatile integrate of Barlow's self-contemplation, Eric Gaffney's bizarre sound explosions, and Jason Loewenstein's spiky melodiousness, if only for a short time, it's great to view that they've been reconciled. · Various venues, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Fri 25 to Apr 27Eric Burdon & War LondonIn the ignite of successful outings by the likes of the Sonics and the Zombies, the reformation of 1960s and 70s acts of the Apostles now seems less like an do of desperation and more like an act of duty. You'd like to hope that's the shell hither. A slightly bizarre union of the former Animals singer and a long-established group of LA musicians, the joint-forces effort ran to a couple of respectably received blues-tinged albums, only the peaks afterward reached by State of war with albums made under their have steam make redundant any notion that they were in any way just Burdon's patronage band. A funk supporting players, capable of far-reaching stylistic excursions, the fact that it's just Burdon and founder fellow member Lonny Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan involved should hopefully not shock excessively heavily on the authenticity of what's on proffer at this one-off show. · Royal Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Hall, SW7, Mon 21