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Coldplay Confirm New Album and New EP!

2008-09-05T18:42:00.001-07:00

Coldplay have revealed that their fifth studio album will be released in December 2009 to roof off an incredible decennary for the four-piece.

The band's frontman Chris Martin made the revelations in a very special interview with R.E.M's Michael Stipe on BBC6music over the weekend.

Asked by Stipe if it was true that new material was on the horizon, Martin responded: �We�re going to put an EP out at Christmas called 'Prospects March' and we�re expiration to acquittance an album next December to end the decade.�

Elsewhere in the interview, Stipe heaped praise on Coldplay, saying a band as good and genial as them is a rarity.

He gushed: "For me, having been around for 28 years, doing this, I�m thrilled when a band like Coldplay come along. I think great! Here are some contemporaries I respect what they do and they�re really smart fun the great unwashed great people to be around and they�re selfsame close friends."

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Music review: Joshua Bell at the Hollywood Bowl

2008-08-26T19:20:00.001-07:00

Bramwell Tovey conducted "Petrushka" at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. But before he did, the principal edgar Guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its summer concerts explained that Stravinsky kills off the eponymous puppet in his 1911 ballet by having a percussionist throw a tambourine depressed on a wooden table. Tovey aforementioned he had instructed a camera to pan to said tambourine and table at the appropriate second so everyone would see them on the Bowl's video screens.

What he may non have silent is that he besides gave some in the audience their exit cues. The ballet score has yet more musically arresting moments to underscore the macabre wonder of a lifeless puppet returning from the dead to mock the living. But at one time tambourine hit wood, I noticed a surprising number of multitude making a quick getaway.

Making my possess quick pickup once the performance all over, I saw why: Joshua Bell was the soloist in the first half of the concert, and he had agreed to autograph CDs at the end. The line was already long.

The program was dubbed by the Philharmonic "Joshua Bell � la Francaise" because the ever-youthful, ever-popular 40-year-old violinist from Bloomington, Ind., played two short, late nineteenth century French chestnuts. "Joshua Bell � la Joshua Bell" would have been closer to the mark.

Bell and the Bowl receive along well. The chestnuts roasted were Chausson's "Po�me" and Saint-Sa�ns' "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso." The showtime is 15 minutes of floating louvre de si�cle lyricism. The second is a lightweight showpiece with a kayo finish.

Bell played big. The well-grounded system amplified him much and the orchestra less. The video cameras affected in close. A identical powerful violin sound and a rapturous self-absorbed young man pervaded wide loose spaces.

Bell's acting was potently assured, emotionally charged and red-blooded. Chausson's score can handle some of that vigor only not all of it.

Yet if he came across as something of a bull in a china patronise, Bell was a fleet-footed one that didn't soften anything and so seemed very impressive. But one's attention was drawn to the bull and non the superb china.

Saint-Sa�ns' 10-minute piece, on the other hand, awards athleticism. Any music short of weighed down metal lav be borne down on too intemperate; still, the "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" is durable. Robust, fast and on-the-money, Bell here showed an all-American can-do spirit. He went for a standing ovation and got peerless.

His encore was a medley from the score John Corigliano wrote for "The Red Violin." Bell played on the soundtrack, and he has participated with the composer in a belittled industry of spinoffs from the score. This one was merely a two-minute solo, beginning with the film's attention-getting theme and then moving on to fireworks. Here Bell took your breathing place away.

Tovey seemed to allow the violinist be, merely he made up for that in Berlioz's Hungarian March from "The Damnation of Faust" to commence the program and "Petrushka" to end it.

The French connection was there in both pieces but non of primary interest. Maybe it took a Frenchman to write Berlioz's kind of Hungarian music, simply Tovey justifiedly emphasized its engaging Magyar swagger. "Petrushka" was created in Paris for Parisians, but Stravinsky was a homesick Russian �migr� composing for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

The Philharmonic eats Stravinsky for breakfast, and "Petrushka" is one of the nutrients the orchestra will take on its Asian go with Esa-Pekka Salonen in October. Nevertheless, the score remains an obstacle course of action for whatsoever players.

The orchestra got through it relatively well. Tovey put his attention more on the dramatic fictitious character of the ballet and less on the composer's revolutionary purport -- this is a lead-up to "Rite of Spring." With limited rehearsal and a Bowl full of Bell fans, that proved a reasonable strategy.

As he had with the violinist, Tovey allowed solo players in the orchestra to shine. Stravinsky all but turned certain passages into a piano concerto, so the most shininess came where it was needed most -- from pianist Joanne Pearce Martin.

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"Bachelorette" contestant Jason Mesnick: The nice guy who didn't finish last

2008-08-07T19:17:00.001-07:00

It doesn't matter if I cerebrate "The Bachelorette" and shows like it are on the list of Reasons Why We Should Go Extinct. The show's popular, and so is nice-guy single-dad business relationship executive Jason Mesnick of Kirkland, wHO made it all the way to the July 7 finale of the show's fourth season. Really popular: 64 percent of those polled on ABC's site think he should be the next "Bachelor," his MySpace page lists 6,669 (almost all young, female) "friends" and a good portion of the comments for clips of the show on YouTube mountain range from outraged to murderous that lead DeAnna Pappas dumped him in favour of a snowboarder. As irritatingly stilted as those shows ar, Mesnick, 32, seemed like the real deal when I caught up with him, uh, to insure if he can heal and see love once again or something.

Q: I'd like to expend some clip talking about our feelings. And I want you to know that I cry easily.

A: (Laughs.) If I privy make you cry right now. Without kicking you in the shins or something. That's good.

Q: The premise for people wHO haven't seen the indicate: A bunch of alpha males fight to the death and the winner takes the woman, right?

A: I retrieve that sounds completely natural on the outside, but you know they went through this casting treat where they found guys that would be a good fit for her, and you know, you should � you cry a lot? I think that all these guys have that same tolerant of soft heart. In all lunaria annua, we all said from day one, we're hither and we're not going to stand in the way of her getting to cognize any i of us. So I think you found a big group of softies more than anything.

Q: I like my idea bettor. Also, the woman and the prayer she chooses in the finale should both be oiled up and ... Well, it's a strange sufficiency fertility rite on its own, when you actually think about it.

A: Yeah, I mean it's by all odds not natural, but I think anybody who comes from any walk of life knows that they never know where they're going to meet their spouse. And what are the real chances of 1 in 25 actually happening? It wasn't me. But it obviously happened, and I can say one thing for sure, that both those guys � and I talked to DeAnna and Jesse this past times week, and they ar both crazy-happy, so the ritual worked for those two.

Q: You didn't think he was kind of a peanut or had ridiculous hair?

A: Oh, of course he's got goofy hair, but at the same token, he is � her family asked what's the biggest difference between him and I, and I'm just not nearly as rad as he is. He's a cool, cool, rowdy gallant. I mean really.

Q: At first it seemed demeaning for a bunch of guys to be at the clemency of matchless woman. But then I realized that's about the ratio here in Seattle. Do you think that gave you the advantage of experience?

A: (Laughs.) Ohhh, you mean so many of us and one and only pretty ma'am? Yeah, you know I've been single for about three years, and I probably could say that's pretty a lot on the nose here.

Q: Couldn't you have just tried eHarmony? As punk and phoney as dating is already, why on earth did you want to go through that on TV?

A: I ne'er thought of it like, "Hey I'm going to be on TV," because I'm not a guy who wants to be in Hollywood. I don't care about any of that kind of stuff. But I know, like I aforesaid before, you never know where you're going to meet mortal, and I had a few things happen to me that said, "You know what? This is where I've got to be." I didn't have any expectations of, "Yes I'm departure to buzz off married because of this show," only I got pushed in that direction.

Q: What got cut out that you think tV audience should know about?

A: They wouldn't cut out anything that was really skillful. The only thing that caught me off guard a small bit was at the very last day where, you know I cerebration it was me. I really did, and I went through the hale proposal, got down on my knee, and it wasn't like she aforesaid, "Hey, get up off your genu" real flying. It was a yearner experience than that. So that got cut cancelled, and that was a little surprising to me.

Q: So viewing audience didn't run across that she actually let you suffer a patch before she lowered the boom.

A: Aaaall right, you could say it like that.

Q: Did you catch any dirt from your guy friends who watched?

A: Of course. You wouldn't be a guy friend unless you gave me crap, and that's OK, you know. People have me or they don't, and I can't control what other people do. But about of my close friends know that I was true to myself through the whole experience, and they might give me a short crap for it, simply they recognize me.

Q: What kind of things did they say to you?

A: I mean, the same things you're saying to me immediately. You're like one of my cat friends. "Who, what, where, why, when?" "Are you kidding?"

Q: How did your family take it? They seemed pretty wild around her. In fact, I think your mom said she loved her the day you brought her home.

A: My mom, more than anything, because I have been through a divorce, my mom didn't want to see me get hurt again. But she's also the same person wHO told me just to let my heart prohibited there and go for it. I didn't tell my family anything, so we watched the final episode, and like I said, everybody around me thought she (DeAnna) was going to choose me. And when that happened my mummy was altogether heartbroken. But when we talked things through and she knew where I was � and I am in an OK place � she was OK, too.

Q: She didn't want to stab the girl with a knitwork needle?

A: No, she bought a rosebush to give to me just in case I didn't get one when we watched the show.

Q: I guess you are going to make me cry.

A: I know, you told me. You're a softy. You should go on the show!

Q: One door closed and several more opened for you, right? I hear you're spoiled for choice at present. Is it like one of the old Hai Karate aftershave commercials?

A: It's definitely interesting, because mass have got to experience me, and they're so generous and so sweet and so kind, and they know (my son) Ty, and they bed my storey. I could not separate you how I could begin to start dating right today. I own no melodic theme how to do it. First of all, I want to be generous and tolerant and draw back to the masses who were so gracious to me, but I can't regular attempt to get through some of this stuff, because there's really a lot of it.

Q: I think you're kind of avoiding the direct doubtfulness, though, here. Do you have a ton of new applicants?

A: Yes. Am I auditioning? Is that your question? I induce not begun to do that thus far. Right now I let got so much expiration on as far as work goes and pickings care of my son, and trying to sort out like all this mail and fan % was a rumour that you were exit to do a "Bachelor" show and be on the other end.

A: All I live is it seems to me that all the guys that they've asked � I'm just a single dad from Seattle that is figuring my side out. And the other guys, they've had the Firestone who owns the vineyards, and they've had professional football players, and I don't insure how that's me at all.

Q: I'll let you in on a small secret if you do: Try eating away a prominent clock around your neck.

A: A large clock around my neck?

Q: That's what Flavor Flav does.

A: (Playfully.) A gold, big clock? I go platinum, baby!

Q: I translate the succeeder rate of these TV couplings is pretty low. What do you make of that?

A: I mean it's real. I think if you go through and ask anybody how many people they've dated before they're with the person that they terminal up with the longest � I mean I'm not expression married, because I dated 10 people, got married and it didn't exploit out. So I would say that if you go to the average person across the country, they date at least 15 citizenry plus ahead they contract married or they're with the soul they're with for the longest and there's been 1 out of 15. So I think it's pretty dead on target to how real geological dating is.

Q: My final enquiry is: If I borrowed your child, do you think I'd meet better women?

A: Well, he's way cooler than you.

Q: Who isn't?

A: He's a good judge of character, and if he's around and somebody approached me and he walked the other way, I'd think that he'd be right on spot.

Q: Thank you for opening up to me. Now would you like to watch "Sex and the City" and do some shoe-shopping?

A: (Laughs.) I've never seen an sequence of "Sex and the City."

Mark Rahner: 206-464-8259 or mrahner@seattletimes.com

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SIFF Cinema presents the "Bond ... and Beyond" film series

2008-06-30T10:39:00.001-07:00

If there were a Justice League for this kind of thing, these spies would be in it: Derek Flint. Diabolik. Harry Palmer. Matt Helm. Modesty Blaise. And, of course, 007. (Fathom, not so much.) They're part of a 12-film series at SIFF Cinema called "Bond ... and Beyond."

Maybe you're numbed after the innumerable James Bond marathons on cable. This is different. It's an assemblage of some of the best spy movies of the '60s craze, from the serious to the silly, with only two — and two of the best — Bond entries. Although it's still not a bad way to celebrate Ian Fleming's centennial this year. Among other ways.

And yes, Agent Smart, most of these are available on DVD, but if you miss a chance to see something with the vibrant, mod colors, far-out visual flair and trippy music of, say, "Danger: Diabolik" on a huge screen — and with other fans — then you deserve a timeout in the Cones of Silence.

Saturday

"From Russia With Love" (1963), 2:10 and 7 p.m.

The Bond series fully kicked into gear in its second film with the characters ("Q" debuts), gadgets (that briefcase!), format and John Barry music. Yet it was the least fanciful of Sean Connery's half-dozen. SPECTRE wants to kill the British agent who embarrassed them, and lures 007 with a knockout (Daniela Bianchi) who can get him the Lektor decoder — which looks just like an old manual typewriter. Meester Bond meets two of his worthiest adversaries: Red Grant (Robert Shaw), whose fight with 007 in an Orient Express compartment is a brutal masterpiece that would have Jason Bourne shifting around in his theater seat. Red wine with fish? Suckaaaa! And there's Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), whose lethal shoes would not be admired by those "Sex and the City" tramps.

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), 4:20 and 9 p.m.

When the otherwise estimable Keith Olbermann referred to this as a "bomb" on MSNBC's "Countdown," I fired off a nerd e-mail correcting him: It was the second-biggest box-office hit of the year after "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Still waiting for that on-air correction, Mr. O. Whatever — in his only Bond film, George Lazenby was great, and the most physical 007 until Daniel Craig. In a back-to-basics story with no gadgets, he falls in love with a troubled mob princess (Diana Rigg, Mrs. Peel from "The Avengers," for godsakes) and infiltrates a mountain lair where Ernst Stavro Bloefeld (Telly Savalas) is hypnotizing beauties to do something anti-social. Highlights include a mother of a ski chase (in which a pursuer is vaporized). Fans consider this a neglected high point.

Sunday

"Fathom" (1967), 2 and 6:20 p.m.

The year after "One Million B.C.," Raquel Welch starred as sky diver Fathom Harvey, recruited by H.A.D.E.S. — Headquarters Allied Defenses Espionage and Security — to help retrieve a Chinese "Fire Dragon" that everyone's after. Anthony Franciosa's shady character irritatingly calls her "poppet" throughout the movie. Boat and plane duels comprise most of the action, and the main attraction is Welch in a little green bikini.

"Modesty Blaise" (1966), 4 and 8:15 p.m.

Gorgeous Monica Vitti stars as Peter O'Donnell's comic-strip heroine, with Terence Stamp as her glowering lover/sidekick and Dirk Bogarde as a fey, white-haired villain. Again, she's no Sidney Bristow with the action, but the pop-art vibe, infectious theme and outrageous outfits (she wears one that looks like a big dog cone) are everything. Also, there's mime abuse.

If spies had an Oxygen network, these two would be in heavy rotation.

July 7

"Danger: Diabolik" (1968), 7 p.m.

So he's not actually a spy but a mischievous super-criminal. Sue me. With his skintight black suit, fast Jaguars, amazing underground hideout and devoted girlfriend/accomplice Eva (Marisa Mell), Diabolik (John Phillip Law) humiliates the cops. So they sic the mob (led by "Thunderball's" Adolfo Celi) on him. Fools! Highlights: Big D and Eva on a big, rotating bed covered with money; when they release laughing gas at a news conference; and Diabolik entombed in gold. Director Mario Bava became famous (among psychopaths) for his slasher flicks, but this is his masterpiece. And dig Ennio Morricone's guitar music and vaguely nasty theme song: "Deep, deep, down ... " Quintessential.

"Casino Royale" (1967), 9 p.m.

This glorious mess of a psychedelic comedy bears zero resemblance to the recent movie of the same name and isn't canonical Bond. Retired Sir James (David Niven, an original candidate for the real thing) is recalled to battle evil SMERSH's card-playing Le Chiffre (Orson Welles). The ensuing star-studded chaos (which churned through at least five directors, including John Huston) includes Peter Sellers (who didn't finish the movie) and Woody Allen as bitter "Jimmy Bond." Burt Bacharach's goofy score, which includes Dusty Springfield singing "The Look of Love," is one of the stars. If you're secretly dosed with a powerful hallucinogen, this is the night to go.

July 8

"Funeral in Berlin" (1966), 7 p.m.

Author Len Deighton's Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) isn't the dinner jacket and vodka martini type, and his world is much more mundane. Spying only to avoid prison, he's got a Cockney accent, thick glasses, crappy coat and little disposable income — but a sharper mind and tongue than his superiors. In the top-notch sequel to "The Ipcress File," Palmer is sent to Berlin to help a Russian general who wants to defect. Director Guy Hamilton was also responsible for "Goldfinger" and a few other Bonds.

"Billion Dollar Brain" (1967), 9 p.m.

Director Ken Russell takes the "Funeral" follow-up in a more flamboyant direction as Palmer goes up against a rich Texas oilman (Ed Begley) and a plot to bring down the Commies with the titular supercomputer — which could spark World War III.

July 9

"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" (1965), 7 p.m.

Black and white and downbeat. Richard Burton seems to take on the whole weight of the Cold War as a burnout Brit spook who refuses a desk job and undertakes a self-destructive mission to pose as a defector. As it happens, Burton plays a convincing drunk. The John Le Carré tale is the grittiest of this lot.

"Our Man in Havana" (1959), 9 p.m.

You can't see this one on DVD. Before he was Obi Wan, the great Alec Guinness was a Jedi master of charming comedy. (The circle would be complete, as Vader would say, when he played Le Carré's old spymaster George Smiley.) In Graham Greene's story, Guinness plays a vacuum-cleaner salesman recruited by spy Noël Coward to recruit local intelligence. When he fails — and the homosexual humor of asking other men to step into a restroom, for instance, is hilarious for 1959 — he paints himself into a serious corner by making things up way too well. Students of recent history will find the lighthearted climax disturbingly prescient in light of former CIA Director George Tenet's Medal of Freedom award.

If you're a serious person given to occasional whimsy, this is your night.

July 10

"Our Man Flint" (1966), 7 p.m.

America's answer to Bond may be the most fun film to come out of the whole genre — "Austin Powers" be damned. James Coburn is just as adept with comedy as he is with action (he studied with Bruce Lee), playing Derek Flint, the ultimate Renaissance man. He's got a wristwatch that restarts his heart after he stops it to rest, a lighter gadget with 82 functions ("83 if you want to light a cigar"), and a small harem. He's also got a pricelessly crabby would-be boss (Lee J. Cobb) who sends him to an island where weather catastrophes are originating and women are brainwashed as "pleasure units." Jerry Goldsmith's exciting score makes Flint even cooler.

"The Silencers" (1966), 9 p.m.

It would have been nice to see "Our Man Flint" on a double bill with its (lesser) sequel, "In Like Flint," but this ain't chopped liver. More like diseased liver. In the first of Dean Martin's Matt Helm quartet, the girlie photographer gets lured back into the spy business to thwart the nefarious Big O outfit's missile plot — accompanied by klutzy beauty Stella Stevens. He's the only spy who drives a station wagon. But it's got a bar in it. Add a round bed that tips into a pool, exploding jacket buttons and a backward-firing pistol. Sinatra couldn't have done this.

Mark Rahner: mrahner@seattletimes.com

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Liv Tyler - Tyler Frightened Off Dads Exotic Crane

2008-06-25T02:23:00.000-07:00

LIV TYLER feared she'd frightened off one of her father STEVEN TYLER's beloved cranes when her pet dog went crazy on his farm just outside Boston, Massachusetts recently.

The actress reveals her rocker dad keeps chickens and turkeys on his rural retreat but his prized possessions are two African cranes that were given to him as a gift.

The Stealing Beauty star says, "I always keep him (dog) on a leash and he escaped and went straight down and scared them (the poultry) all and the African cranes started, like, jumping up and one of them escaped and flew away.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, my dad's gonna kill me.' I started running up to the house kinda like, 'Dad, the African crane escaped.'"

But the exotic bird obviously likes life with the Aerosmith frontman - he flew back.

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Amy Winehouse Confirmed For 'Roman Abramovich Concert'

2008-06-16T19:12:00.001-07:00

Amy Winehouse has confirmed her attendance at the opening of an art gallery in Moscow next week, it's been announced.

Winehouse will perform a short set at the gallery, which is run by Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich.

The singer will be greeted by a huge golden 'Amy Winehouse' sign when she arrives at the gallery, which is just outside the city's centre.

Workers are apparently gearing up for the singer's arrival by giving the gallery a fresh coat of paint and polishing glasses, according to the Reuters news agency.

Zhukova's party at the gallery, entitled The Garage, will be attended by 300 guests, including celebrities.

Abramoich, who owns Chelsea football club, has taken an interest in art over recent years. It was reported that the billionaire recently paid $33million on a painting by Lucian Freud.

You can see Gigwise's latest pictures of Winehouse below...

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Lost Finds Top Ratings

2008-06-08T02:23:00.001-07:00

ABC's Lost, the one major network TV drama that did not air its finale during the May sweeps, emerged as the No. 1 show of the week last week as its final show of the season averaged a 7.3 rating and a 13 share over two hours Thursday night. Nevertheless, the 12.3 million viewers who tuned in were 1.2 million fewer than those who watched last year's Lost finale -- and part of that one aired opposite the season final of American Idol. Most of the remaining programs on the Nielsen top-ten list were repeats, except for the CBS magazine shows 60 Minutes, which placed third with a 6.8/10 and 48 Hours Mystery, which tied for eighth with a 6.0/9. Nevertheless, even with repeats dominating its schedule, CBS remained the top network for the week with an average 4.9/9. Fox placed second with a 3.8/7. ABC was close behind with a 3.6/6, edging out fourth-place NBC with a 3.4/6.

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2008-05-26T23:06:00.001-07:00

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RZA goes Digital again on headlining tour, solo album

2008-05-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

RZA goes Digital again on headlining tour, solo album

Wu-Tang Kindred [ tickets ]'s RZA [ tickets ] will don his Bobby Digital theatrical role one time again for his first base solo circuit in several geezerhood, with a new studio album on the celestial horizon.

The rapper/producer, wHO toured in the beginning in the year with the breathe of Wu-Tang followers the hip-hop collective's "8 Diagrams" CD,

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2008-05-09T21:41:00.001-07:00

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Cloverfield sets monster record in US

2008-05-05T21:12:00.001-07:00

Cloverfield sets monster record in US

'Cloverfield' has become the commencement freak strike of 2008 after making $41m (€28m) in the US last weekend, a criminal record opening for January according to studio estimates.
Watch an extended clip from 'Cloverfield' here.
The tale of a hulk reptilian causing chaos in Newly House of York City surpassed the $35.9m premier weekend of the 'Star Wars' special version in 1997, the previous best for January.
Featuring a draw of unknowns, 'Cloverfield' tells its monster story from the perspective of a partygoer's hand-held video photographic camera, which captures the mayhem as the wight crying through the urban center.
The plastic film benefited from cryptic marketing that sent moviegoers on a scavenger william Holman Hunt to decode clues roughly the movie's game, images and even its title, which was not confirmed until presently before its exit.
'Cloverfield' is released in Ireland on 1 Feb.

Tara Reid taken to hospital in Bali

2008-05-05T20:29:00.001-07:00

Tara Reid taken to hospital in Bali

Actress Tara Reid has reportedly been treated at a infirmary in Bali after pickings a tumble on a night out.
According to reports, the headliner decided to call Bali afterwards leaving Australia pursual a fashion photograph sprout in that respect.
The Sun reports that the actress suffered a fall during her commencement night on the island and was later taken to hospital for treatment.
She is thought to take in suffered child cuts and bruises in the incident and is now recovering.

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants

2008-05-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants

'Dancing on Ice' judge Jason Gardiner has predicted that a male celebrity volition acquire the show this twelvemonth, claiming that the ladies aren't real goodness on the ice.
Public speaking on 'This Morning', he said: "It's a boy's contender. The boys this year ar of a better standard than the girls."
Oral presentation around contestant Chris Fountain, he said: "He reminds me of that 'Looney Tunes' character the Tasmanian Old Nick. He whirls some and wrecks destruction in his path. He had no connection with his partner."
He besides slated 'How Clean Is Your House?' headliner Aggie Mackenzie whom he described as an "OAP" during last Sunday night's live record.
Speaking nigh the television presenter, he said: "With her bruises and everything screening, it really wasn't what you wanted to witness."

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Usher's father dies

2008-05-05T18:28:00.001-07:00

Usher's father dies

R&B headliner Usher's don, Usher Raymond Troika, passed away at an Capital of Georgia hospital on Fri, according to reports.
Hoi polloi.com say the lawsuit of expiry was non straightaway known and that Usher was unavailable for commentary.
The funeral will take place this week at the Zachary Taylor funeral base chapel in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
James Usher and his married woman Tameka recently celebrated the parturition of their logos, Usher Ramond V.

New mayor to tone down glitz at Rome film festival

2008-05-05T17:51:00.001-07:00

New mayor to tone down glitz at Rome film festival

Rome (Reuters) - Expect less Hollywood glamor and more home-grown celluloid at the Capital of Italy film festival -- the freshly right wing mayor of Italy's capital letter has made pass he wants to see to it changes at the pic display case created by his predecessor.

Rome's international fete, set up in 2006, was the pET project of Walter Veltroni, the outgoing centre-left city manager beaten by Silvio Berlusconi in finish month's parliamentary election.

In its low two editions, the outcome became a rival for the venerable Venezia motion-picture show festival, peal out its red carpet for A-list Hollywood stars and directors -- something the newly city manager Gianni Alemanno is non so keen on.

"I don't want to offset the cultural initiatives of the past simply I think we indigence to promote Italian films rather than Hollywood stars," Alemanno said after defeating the centre-left campaigner in this week's mayoral overflow.

On Fri he said he had spoken to Goffredo Bettini, Veltroni's powerful hand man world Health Organization is in charge of the Eternal City festival.

"The whole issue of the plastic film festival will be discussed in a constructive style, no heads testament roll," said Alemanno, world Health Organization campaigned on a jurisprudence and order just the ticket, accusing his harbinger of putting the city's cultural image in advance of day-to-day issues.

He added that he was intellection of linking the Capital of Italy event to the low profile St. David di Donato di Betto Bardi Italian picture awards, giving the festival a markedly domestic help savour.

Italian film director Pasquale Squitieri, whom Alemanno has indicated is his choice to brain the Italian capital festival, said this workweek that the 12-million euro event was a waste of money in its present form.

"You can't expend money to pay 18 rooms for Nicole Kidman's bodyguards and another 20 for Da Vinci Di Caprio's. That the left hand did this is truly incredible," Squitieri told the La Stampa paper.