Artist: Deviated Presence
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Falls Passage
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Monday, 30 June 2008
Deviated Presence
Artist: Deviated Presence
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Falls Passage
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Monolith
Artist: Monolith
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
One Nation Under Metal
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Formed as an underground collective that delineated a collaboration between Toronto rap music crews Lyrical Coalition and The Horde, Monolith was born in 1994 with a line up that averages over 15 members. However, with each member busy with their possess solo projects and production deals, Monolith's number one official acquittance The Long Awaited EP wouldn't hit the streets until 1998, thanks to their own One Rock Records. The followup single "Bye D'Plenty"/"At The T.O.P." single came out that like yr without whatsoever aid from the euphony industry suits.
Led Zeppelin - Plant Lands First Americana Awards Nominations
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
The Prophecy
Artist: The Prophecy
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Ashes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 6
To End All Hope
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Fight Club: Lily Allen v Perez Hilton
Monday, 16 June 2008
Barack Obama - Candidates Reject Town Hall Invite From Abc
John McCain and Barack Obama have each rejected an offer by New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg and ABC News to appear in a general-election town hall that
would be hosted by Diane Sawyer. The two presidential candidates said that,
while they welcomed the town-hall format, they did not want it limited to one
TV network. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said, "Both campaigns agree the town
hall meetings will be open to the press but not sponsored or moderated by the
press."
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Winehouse to move in with the Osbournes?
Amy Winehouse will reportedly move into best friend Kelly Osbourne's family home when she leaves rehab.
Now magazine reports that the singer, 24, is planning to stay at a guest cottage in the grounds of the Osbournes' mansion in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks.
Osbourne and father Ozzy, 59, believe the retreat will help Winehouse's recovery.
"Kelly has always been there for Amy, they are very tight," a source told the Daily Mirror. "When Amy went into rehab, it was Kelly who picked out clothes to take in from her East End flat.
"She's patient, she has been there before with her dad and knew this time would come.
"Kelly is probably the most qualified of her pals to help look after Amy - she's certainly a better influence than Pete Doherty."
Osbourne is not the only one willing to help Winehouse. Film bosses have reportedly agreed to let her write and sing the new James Bond theme for Quantum of Solace, if she stays off drugs.
"If Amy is clean then, it's hers," a source told The Sun. "It will have a dark and moody feel so Amy would be absolutely perfect. It's another fantastic carrot being dangled to encourage her to give up drugs."
Now magazine reports that the singer, 24, is planning to stay at a guest cottage in the grounds of the Osbournes' mansion in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks.
Osbourne and father Ozzy, 59, believe the retreat will help Winehouse's recovery.
"Kelly has always been there for Amy, they are very tight," a source told the Daily Mirror. "When Amy went into rehab, it was Kelly who picked out clothes to take in from her East End flat.
"She's patient, she has been there before with her dad and knew this time would come.
"Kelly is probably the most qualified of her pals to help look after Amy - she's certainly a better influence than Pete Doherty."
Osbourne is not the only one willing to help Winehouse. Film bosses have reportedly agreed to let her write and sing the new James Bond theme for Quantum of Solace, if she stays off drugs.
"If Amy is clean then, it's hers," a source told The Sun. "It will have a dark and moody feel so Amy would be absolutely perfect. It's another fantastic carrot being dangled to encourage her to give up drugs."
Soap star admits to wardrobe battle
'EastEnders' star Lacey Turner has admitted that she hates some of her character Stacey's clothes and often refuses to wear certain outfits chosen for her.
The 19-year-old actress told Celebs on Sunday: "I love that her clothes are awful, because lots of girls do actually look like that."
"If her dress sense is really, really bad, it makes mine look better."
Speaking about her on-screen wardrobe, she said: "The worst thing is the pink puffa jacket. I've been trying to get rid of that for ages."
She continued: "I'm now developing a very strong hate for her fluffy coat. I might be able to get rid of it, I think it would be easier to set alight than the pink one."
Turner also said: "I do refuse at times. Some things are too short, clingy, or purely disgusting."
"I used to hate purple and they brought out this skin-tight, really short purple dress. I was like, 'No way'. You've got to have some dignity."
The 19-year-old actress told Celebs on Sunday: "I love that her clothes are awful, because lots of girls do actually look like that."
"If her dress sense is really, really bad, it makes mine look better."
Speaking about her on-screen wardrobe, she said: "The worst thing is the pink puffa jacket. I've been trying to get rid of that for ages."
She continued: "I'm now developing a very strong hate for her fluffy coat. I might be able to get rid of it, I think it would be easier to set alight than the pink one."
Turner also said: "I do refuse at times. Some things are too short, clingy, or purely disgusting."
"I used to hate purple and they brought out this skin-tight, really short purple dress. I was like, 'No way'. You've got to have some dignity."
Vulture Goes Backstage at the Tony Awards
Photo: WireImage
At last night’s 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, casts of the big winners — In the Heights, South Pacific, August: Osage County — were too busy collecting awards to make it backstage. But Vulture's Jada Yuan stole plenty of moments with bored and thirsty big-name presenters, many of whom wandered into the gift lounge in search of hooch, but wound up with carrots, spinach dip, and Nespresso instead. Below, a ticktock rundown of what you didn't see at home. Notice a pattern emerge.
6:48 p.m.: The red carpet is in full swing. Bobby Cannavale becomes the first of many harried actors to slip out of the barricades and into the street for a smoke break.
6:53 p.m.: Adam Duritz and Mary-Louise Parker arrive arm-in-arm. A murmur rushes through the press corps — the Broadway queens, not Us Weekly or People, who couldn’t care less. Are they an item?! Later observations of body language suggest no.
6:59 p.m.: We feel a wave of nostalgia sweeping over us as Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anthony Rapp, and Adam Pascal pass by. “It’s a Rent reunion!” Pascal tells us, then punctures the image of the cast still hanging out after all these years by telling us they’re came to perform a tribute for the show, which is about to close.
7 p.m.: Laurence Fishburne rushes inside with his absurdly beautiful wife, Gina Torres. “I came from a show, so I had no preparation,” he says. “Just 30 minutes.”
7:01 p.m.: A smiling Lin-Manuel Miranda approaches, swigging what looks like a glass of red wine. “It’s Diet Coke!” he says. “It was the closest thing to water we could find.” He says so far he’s not nervous. “Short a corsage, this is the best prom ever! All my friends are here. My girlfriend looks great. And at my actual prom, we didn’t have an after-party. We just ended up in the middle of nowhere in Long Island.” He also predicts that if he wins he’ll have to “pull out some rappity-raps. Not to show off. It’s just easier for me to rap than to talk. It comes out faster.”
7:04 p.m.: Martha Plimpton, nominated for Top Girls, sweeps by with her dad Keith Carradine. Plimpton had earlier kvetched about having issues finding a dress, but Carolina Herrera came to the rescue.
7:05 p.m.: Variety wants to know if Glenn Close will be coming to Broadway soon. “Gosh! I hope so! But not anytime soon. Because of Damages, I’ll be in TV for a while.”
7:06 p.m.: Robin De Jesús, Sonny from In the Heights, escorts his sister and mother, who flew from Puerto Rico to be there.
7:10 p.m.: De’Adre Aziza from Passing Strange, with her son Chi, laments having to perform a Sunday matinee that day. “I was like, ‘It’s my first red carpet and you’re giving me an hour to get ready? I’m a girl!’” she said. “I’m so nervous I’m sweating like R. Kelly on trial. I know he got acquitted, but I’m sure he was sweating real bad.” And though her cast has a reputation for being the party animals of Broadway, she said she’d be asleep by 1 a.m. “I don’t want to party until I drop because I’ve got eight shows next week. But Stew will party until someone’s like, ‘Yo, Stew, it’s Wednesday.’”
7:12 p.m.: Laura Bell Bundy says she’s presenting and then going straight to the beach. “If I don’t take a break, I can’t do my shows.”
7:20 p.m.: A cool and refreshed Kelli O’Hara tells us that South Pacific is so long she only had fifteen minutes after the matinee. What’s up with these evil producers making nominees perform on Tonys night? “Well, I have a feeling it’s probably about the dollar sign,” she says. “But it’s good for us because it brings us together as a company and then we head over here to celebrate that show, so it’s fresh in our minds.” Plus, she had just enough time to guzzle a glass of Champagne in her dressing room.
7:22 p.m.: O’Hara answers our burning question of the night: What’s the best shampoo to wash a man right out of your hair? “Kiehl's has a great avocado shampoo.” How many rinse and repeats does it take? “I’m not a good person to ask. I’ve never been able to get my husband out of my hair. As many times as I wash, he’s still there. At this point I’m gonna leave him in. It’s not worth it.”
7:35 p.m.: A blur of stars sweeps by: Bradley Whitford, Laura Linney, Alec Baldwin, and John Waters.
7:47 p.m.: Lions and tigers and giraffes from The Lion King stretch and pirouette, prepping for the opening number.
7:49 p.m.: Close grazes on carrots backstage, then leaves rather sullenly. A helpful staffer asks, “Did you get your alcohol?” “No,” Close laments. “It’s dry!”
7:52 p.m. Security clears the gift lounge so an enormous ramp can descend from the ceiling (it will lead The Lion King cast back to the street).
7:57 p.m.: Julie White attempts to get to the lounge but is thwarted by the ramp. “I was going to the green room to have a cocktail,” she says. “I figured I’d just watch the first number on TV.” The helpful staffer informs her that even if she could get to the green room, no cocktail would await. “What!? No cocktail!? I’m going back to my seat. I’ve had enough of my limited time as a Rockette.”
8:09 p.m.: The ramp lifts and the green room opens up again just as Rondi Reed from August: Osage County is accepting an award. Fishburne, hot off the stage from presenting an award, settles in with a plate full of chicken and shrimp skewers. “I’m not getting onstage again unless they call my name,” he says.
8:23 p.m.: John Lithgow wanders frantically through the green room, his hand over one ear, in search of a TV with decent sound.
8:28 p.m.: As Passing Strange does a medley onstage, Bundy settles in at a table and pulls a full arsenal of makeup out of her purse — compacts, lipstick, mascara — and applies it liberally. The whole procedure takes at least ten minutes.
8:32 p.m.: During a commercial break, “I Had the Time of My Life” from Dirty Dancing blares on the loudspeakers.
8:36 p.m.: Another blur of famous people: Julie Chen, Harry Connick Jr., and Duncan Sheik. A staffer tells Sheik he looks relaxed. “Ah, fooled them again!” he snaps back.
8:41 p.m.: Lily Tomlin surfs the food tables and talks to anyone and everyone as a medley from Grease plays onscreen. “Why don’t they just make new [musicals] instead of recycling the old ones?” she says. “Although I say that as someone who thought South Pacific was terrific, especially for us young ones who weren’t around to see it in 1947.”
8:44 p.m.: Tomlin does an unconscious dance while watching Patti LuPone singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”
8:48 p.m.: The backstage fills with sailors getting ready for the South Pacific number.
8:52 p.m.: Kristen Chenoweth, en route to the stage, admits to nerves about the TelePrompTer. “I don’t like it! I’d much rather be playing a role. So I just pretend I’m playing the character of myself.” As for after-party plans, she says she’s going to the gala and calling it a night. “ I have to get on a plane at seven in the morning,” she says. “I feel like I never get to have any fun.”
8:58 p.m.: Backstage goes crazy when Miranda starts rapping his acceptance speech. Especially the part where he thanks his girlfriend for “loving me when I was broke and making breakfast.”
9 p.m.: Mary-Louise Parker faces the terrifying decision of whether to enter the gift lounge via the ramp or via the stairs while tottering on mile-high heels. She chooses the stairs.
9:08 p.m.: Brooke Shields stands in the makeup area, frantically reading names to herself off a crumpled piece of paper. “It’s written out all weirdly phonetic!” She is visibly panicked. “And I messed up earlier today pronouncing the names!” A makeup artists slaps foundation on her arms. Shields guzzles an entire bottle of Fiji water without ever touching the bottle to her lips. Then she jumps up and down and does breathing exercises.
9:11 p.m.: Everyone laughs as Laura Benanti calls her mother the anti–Mama Rose.
9:14 p.m.: Marisa Tomei comes backstage to sign fifteen commemorative posters to auction off for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.
9:17 p.m.: Parker reveals why she’s been walking so funny all night. “They’re pretty horrendous shoes, but I also have a broken toe. I was doing a love scene and I cracked it on the bed,” she says. “I was walking backwards and my toe went in between the mattress and the bed frame. On the first take. There was some walking and falling and flailing — a lot going on. But I guess if you’re gonna break your toe, you might as well be having fun.”
9:18 p.m.: Tomei is in a panic. She’s going onstage in minutes, and her escort has gone missing. “Where’s my person?” she asks, frantically. Then the helpful staffer who comes to her rescue trips over her dress.
9:23 p.m.: Gabriel Byrne is accosted by a staffer who is also a fan while he feasts on carrots. “There’s not a woman in L.A. who isn’t mad for you!” the staffer says, fawning. Then she notices his food choice. “Oh, I can do better than carrots. Live dangerously! Try a tomato!” Byrne acquiesces.
9:24 p.m.: Byrne shakes off the staffer and grabs a Nespresso. He, too, seems to have lost his escort. “I have no idea when I’m supposed to go on,” he says. “I guess I could just keep poking my head out after every award. Everyone will say, ‘Who’s that idiot who keeps popping his head out?’ But of course I know a lot of people out there, so then they’ll say, ‘Why does that idiot keep popping his head out?”
9:50 p.m.: Alec Baldwin sits by a fan in the makeup chair, sweat dripping down the back of his neck. A makeup artist asks him if he wants some powder. “No,” he sighs. “Nothing can help me now.”
9:53 p.m.: Baldwin runs into Daniel Radcliffe. Baldwin: “Good luck on your show.” Radcliffe: “Well, hopefully it won’t be crap!”
9:54 p.m.: Radcliffe then goes rapturous about “the fellow who won for In the Heights. That speech was brilliant. But I think the rapping indicates he thought he might win. There’s no way he didn’t write that down beforehand.”’
10:01 p.m.: Close comes backstage again, this time to get ready to present. “Last time I was in search of booze,” she says. “I should have known they wouldn’t give us any. Actors are too dangerous when we drink.”
10:09 p.m.: Panicked staffers clear the room. Liza Minnelli is coming through.
10:12 p.m.: Whoopi Goldberg, in a silver ruffled shirt, rushes backstage and straight for a man with a plate of chips who has clearly been summoned to meet her. “It’s all about the chips,” she says. “These are the best things in the world.” Will the chip man follow her throughout the show? “He will now!” she says. “It’s the end of the show. I’m not just gonna have the chips onstage. I’m gonna eat them while I talk. It’s been two months since I took this job. Look, I stayed skinny as long as I could.”
10:18 p.m.: The entire backstage fills with August: Osage County people, hugging furiously.
10:22 p.m.: Producer Harvey Weinstein is beaming. “This is the best part, winning this award,” he says. “I promised it to my daughter. The Oscars went to the oldest, the British Film Academy awards went to the middle one, and the Tonys go to the youngest.”
At last night’s 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, casts of the big winners — In the Heights, South Pacific, August: Osage County — were too busy collecting awards to make it backstage. But Vulture's Jada Yuan stole plenty of moments with bored and thirsty big-name presenters, many of whom wandered into the gift lounge in search of hooch, but wound up with carrots, spinach dip, and Nespresso instead. Below, a ticktock rundown of what you didn't see at home. Notice a pattern emerge.
6:48 p.m.: The red carpet is in full swing. Bobby Cannavale becomes the first of many harried actors to slip out of the barricades and into the street for a smoke break.
6:53 p.m.: Adam Duritz and Mary-Louise Parker arrive arm-in-arm. A murmur rushes through the press corps — the Broadway queens, not Us Weekly or People, who couldn’t care less. Are they an item?! Later observations of body language suggest no.
6:59 p.m.: We feel a wave of nostalgia sweeping over us as Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anthony Rapp, and Adam Pascal pass by. “It’s a Rent reunion!” Pascal tells us, then punctures the image of the cast still hanging out after all these years by telling us they’re came to perform a tribute for the show, which is about to close.
7 p.m.: Laurence Fishburne rushes inside with his absurdly beautiful wife, Gina Torres. “I came from a show, so I had no preparation,” he says. “Just 30 minutes.”
7:01 p.m.: A smiling Lin-Manuel Miranda approaches, swigging what looks like a glass of red wine. “It’s Diet Coke!” he says. “It was the closest thing to water we could find.” He says so far he’s not nervous. “Short a corsage, this is the best prom ever! All my friends are here. My girlfriend looks great. And at my actual prom, we didn’t have an after-party. We just ended up in the middle of nowhere in Long Island.” He also predicts that if he wins he’ll have to “pull out some rappity-raps. Not to show off. It’s just easier for me to rap than to talk. It comes out faster.”
7:04 p.m.: Martha Plimpton, nominated for Top Girls, sweeps by with her dad Keith Carradine. Plimpton had earlier kvetched about having issues finding a dress, but Carolina Herrera came to the rescue.
7:05 p.m.: Variety wants to know if Glenn Close will be coming to Broadway soon. “Gosh! I hope so! But not anytime soon. Because of Damages, I’ll be in TV for a while.”
7:06 p.m.: Robin De Jesús, Sonny from In the Heights, escorts his sister and mother, who flew from Puerto Rico to be there.
7:10 p.m.: De’Adre Aziza from Passing Strange, with her son Chi, laments having to perform a Sunday matinee that day. “I was like, ‘It’s my first red carpet and you’re giving me an hour to get ready? I’m a girl!’” she said. “I’m so nervous I’m sweating like R. Kelly on trial. I know he got acquitted, but I’m sure he was sweating real bad.” And though her cast has a reputation for being the party animals of Broadway, she said she’d be asleep by 1 a.m. “I don’t want to party until I drop because I’ve got eight shows next week. But Stew will party until someone’s like, ‘Yo, Stew, it’s Wednesday.’”
7:12 p.m.: Laura Bell Bundy says she’s presenting and then going straight to the beach. “If I don’t take a break, I can’t do my shows.”
7:20 p.m.: A cool and refreshed Kelli O’Hara tells us that South Pacific is so long she only had fifteen minutes after the matinee. What’s up with these evil producers making nominees perform on Tonys night? “Well, I have a feeling it’s probably about the dollar sign,” she says. “But it’s good for us because it brings us together as a company and then we head over here to celebrate that show, so it’s fresh in our minds.” Plus, she had just enough time to guzzle a glass of Champagne in her dressing room.
7:22 p.m.: O’Hara answers our burning question of the night: What’s the best shampoo to wash a man right out of your hair? “Kiehl's has a great avocado shampoo.” How many rinse and repeats does it take? “I’m not a good person to ask. I’ve never been able to get my husband out of my hair. As many times as I wash, he’s still there. At this point I’m gonna leave him in. It’s not worth it.”
7:35 p.m.: A blur of stars sweeps by: Bradley Whitford, Laura Linney, Alec Baldwin, and John Waters.
7:47 p.m.: Lions and tigers and giraffes from The Lion King stretch and pirouette, prepping for the opening number.
7:49 p.m.: Close grazes on carrots backstage, then leaves rather sullenly. A helpful staffer asks, “Did you get your alcohol?” “No,” Close laments. “It’s dry!”
7:52 p.m. Security clears the gift lounge so an enormous ramp can descend from the ceiling (it will lead The Lion King cast back to the street).
7:57 p.m.: Julie White attempts to get to the lounge but is thwarted by the ramp. “I was going to the green room to have a cocktail,” she says. “I figured I’d just watch the first number on TV.” The helpful staffer informs her that even if she could get to the green room, no cocktail would await. “What!? No cocktail!? I’m going back to my seat. I’ve had enough of my limited time as a Rockette.”
8:09 p.m.: The ramp lifts and the green room opens up again just as Rondi Reed from August: Osage County is accepting an award. Fishburne, hot off the stage from presenting an award, settles in with a plate full of chicken and shrimp skewers. “I’m not getting onstage again unless they call my name,” he says.
8:23 p.m.: John Lithgow wanders frantically through the green room, his hand over one ear, in search of a TV with decent sound.
8:28 p.m.: As Passing Strange does a medley onstage, Bundy settles in at a table and pulls a full arsenal of makeup out of her purse — compacts, lipstick, mascara — and applies it liberally. The whole procedure takes at least ten minutes.
8:32 p.m.: During a commercial break, “I Had the Time of My Life” from Dirty Dancing blares on the loudspeakers.
8:36 p.m.: Another blur of famous people: Julie Chen, Harry Connick Jr., and Duncan Sheik. A staffer tells Sheik he looks relaxed. “Ah, fooled them again!” he snaps back.
8:41 p.m.: Lily Tomlin surfs the food tables and talks to anyone and everyone as a medley from Grease plays onscreen. “Why don’t they just make new [musicals] instead of recycling the old ones?” she says. “Although I say that as someone who thought South Pacific was terrific, especially for us young ones who weren’t around to see it in 1947.”
8:44 p.m.: Tomlin does an unconscious dance while watching Patti LuPone singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”
8:48 p.m.: The backstage fills with sailors getting ready for the South Pacific number.
8:52 p.m.: Kristen Chenoweth, en route to the stage, admits to nerves about the TelePrompTer. “I don’t like it! I’d much rather be playing a role. So I just pretend I’m playing the character of myself.” As for after-party plans, she says she’s going to the gala and calling it a night. “ I have to get on a plane at seven in the morning,” she says. “I feel like I never get to have any fun.”
8:58 p.m.: Backstage goes crazy when Miranda starts rapping his acceptance speech. Especially the part where he thanks his girlfriend for “loving me when I was broke and making breakfast.”
9 p.m.: Mary-Louise Parker faces the terrifying decision of whether to enter the gift lounge via the ramp or via the stairs while tottering on mile-high heels. She chooses the stairs.
9:08 p.m.: Brooke Shields stands in the makeup area, frantically reading names to herself off a crumpled piece of paper. “It’s written out all weirdly phonetic!” She is visibly panicked. “And I messed up earlier today pronouncing the names!” A makeup artists slaps foundation on her arms. Shields guzzles an entire bottle of Fiji water without ever touching the bottle to her lips. Then she jumps up and down and does breathing exercises.
9:11 p.m.: Everyone laughs as Laura Benanti calls her mother the anti–Mama Rose.
9:14 p.m.: Marisa Tomei comes backstage to sign fifteen commemorative posters to auction off for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.
9:17 p.m.: Parker reveals why she’s been walking so funny all night. “They’re pretty horrendous shoes, but I also have a broken toe. I was doing a love scene and I cracked it on the bed,” she says. “I was walking backwards and my toe went in between the mattress and the bed frame. On the first take. There was some walking and falling and flailing — a lot going on. But I guess if you’re gonna break your toe, you might as well be having fun.”
9:18 p.m.: Tomei is in a panic. She’s going onstage in minutes, and her escort has gone missing. “Where’s my person?” she asks, frantically. Then the helpful staffer who comes to her rescue trips over her dress.
9:23 p.m.: Gabriel Byrne is accosted by a staffer who is also a fan while he feasts on carrots. “There’s not a woman in L.A. who isn’t mad for you!” the staffer says, fawning. Then she notices his food choice. “Oh, I can do better than carrots. Live dangerously! Try a tomato!” Byrne acquiesces.
9:24 p.m.: Byrne shakes off the staffer and grabs a Nespresso. He, too, seems to have lost his escort. “I have no idea when I’m supposed to go on,” he says. “I guess I could just keep poking my head out after every award. Everyone will say, ‘Who’s that idiot who keeps popping his head out?’ But of course I know a lot of people out there, so then they’ll say, ‘Why does that idiot keep popping his head out?”
9:50 p.m.: Alec Baldwin sits by a fan in the makeup chair, sweat dripping down the back of his neck. A makeup artist asks him if he wants some powder. “No,” he sighs. “Nothing can help me now.”
9:53 p.m.: Baldwin runs into Daniel Radcliffe. Baldwin: “Good luck on your show.” Radcliffe: “Well, hopefully it won’t be crap!”
9:54 p.m.: Radcliffe then goes rapturous about “the fellow who won for In the Heights. That speech was brilliant. But I think the rapping indicates he thought he might win. There’s no way he didn’t write that down beforehand.”’
10:01 p.m.: Close comes backstage again, this time to get ready to present. “Last time I was in search of booze,” she says. “I should have known they wouldn’t give us any. Actors are too dangerous when we drink.”
10:09 p.m.: Panicked staffers clear the room. Liza Minnelli is coming through.
10:12 p.m.: Whoopi Goldberg, in a silver ruffled shirt, rushes backstage and straight for a man with a plate of chips who has clearly been summoned to meet her. “It’s all about the chips,” she says. “These are the best things in the world.” Will the chip man follow her throughout the show? “He will now!” she says. “It’s the end of the show. I’m not just gonna have the chips onstage. I’m gonna eat them while I talk. It’s been two months since I took this job. Look, I stayed skinny as long as I could.”
10:18 p.m.: The entire backstage fills with August: Osage County people, hugging furiously.
10:22 p.m.: Producer Harvey Weinstein is beaming. “This is the best part, winning this award,” he says. “I promised it to my daughter. The Oscars went to the oldest, the British Film Academy awards went to the middle one, and the Tonys go to the youngest.”
Marketers treading carefully amid China quake
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It has only gone from bad to worse in China this spring.
Protesters from London to Paris to San Francisco dogged the Coca-Cola-sponsored Olympic torch relay to shout down China's rule of Tibet. Mia Farrow lambasted China's trade with Sudan, and Steven Spielberg quit his advisory role to the Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing on August 8.
Shortly after that, African marathoners griped about pollution in Beijing and a train on the route to the Olympic sailing venue in Tianjin flew off the tracks, killing 71 people.
But they all paled against the calamity that was to come May 12, when an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, killing more than 68,500 people to date.
The tragedy has presented a unique challenge to advertisers in the region. Marketing messages are requiring adjustments in tone at a time when brands should be plotting a very different strategy.
Advertising and entertainment content was yanked for three days of mourning beginning May 19. The torch relay -- which by then had summited Mount Everest -- came to a halt.
Chinese Web sites such as TuDou and YouKu dropped most non-quake footage. Karaoke parlors and online gaming halls went quiet; cinemas went dark.
All corporate brands faded from the airwaves in unison with Chinese companies. Procter & Gamble pulled its "Keep China Smiling" campaign for Crest toothpaste, and Coke scaled back all its marketing activities.
Protesters from London to Paris to San Francisco dogged the Coca-Cola-sponsored Olympic torch relay to shout down China's rule of Tibet. Mia Farrow lambasted China's trade with Sudan, and Steven Spielberg quit his advisory role to the Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing on August 8.
Shortly after that, African marathoners griped about pollution in Beijing and a train on the route to the Olympic sailing venue in Tianjin flew off the tracks, killing 71 people.
But they all paled against the calamity that was to come May 12, when an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, killing more than 68,500 people to date.
The tragedy has presented a unique challenge to advertisers in the region. Marketing messages are requiring adjustments in tone at a time when brands should be plotting a very different strategy.
Advertising and entertainment content was yanked for three days of mourning beginning May 19. The torch relay -- which by then had summited Mount Everest -- came to a halt.
Chinese Web sites such as TuDou and YouKu dropped most non-quake footage. Karaoke parlors and online gaming halls went quiet; cinemas went dark.
All corporate brands faded from the airwaves in unison with Chinese companies. Procter & Gamble pulled its "Keep China Smiling" campaign for Crest toothpaste, and Coke scaled back all its marketing activities.
Boz Scaggs
Artist: Boz Scaggs
Genre(s):
Rock: Soft Rock
Rock
Pop
Other
Discography:
Silk Degrees
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Slow Dancer
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Other Roads
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Down Two Then Left
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Middle Man
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
But Beautiful, Standards: Volume 1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Dig
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 31
Come on Home
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Some Change
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Hits!
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Boz Scaggs
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
After first finding acclaim as a member of the Steve Miller Band, singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs went on to enjoy considerable solo succeeder in the 1970s. Born William Royce Scaggs in Ohio on June 8, 1944, he was brocaded in Oklahoma and Texas, and while attending prep school day in Dallas met guitarist Steve Miller. After joining Miller's group the Marksmen as a singer in 1959, the geminate later tended to the University of Wisconsin together, performing in vapors bands like the Ardells and the Fabulous Knight Trains.
In 1963 Scaggs returned to Dallas alone, fronting an R&B unit dubbed the Wigs; subsequently relocating to England, the mathematical group quickly disbanded, and two of its members -- John Andrews and Bob Arthur -- shortly formed Mother Earth. Scaggs remained in Europe, singing on street corners; in Sweden he recorded a failed solo LP, 1965's Boz, in front reverting to the U.S. two eld afterward. Upon subsiding in San Francisco, he reunited with Miller, connection the freshman Steve Miller Band; after recording two acclaimed albums with the mathematical group, Children of the Future and Panama hat, Scaggs exited in 1968 to mount a solo life history.
With the attention of Rolling Stone cartridge clip publishing house Jann Wenner, Scaggs secured a contract with Atlantic. Sporting a cameo from Duane Allman, 1968's soulful Boz Scaggs failed to observe an audience despite taking decisive favor; the data track "Loan Me a Dime" later became the subject of a royal court struggle when bluesman Fenton Robinson sued (successfully) for composer credit. After signing to Columbia, Scaggs teamed with producer Glyn Johns to phonograph recording 1971's Moments, a skilful blend of careen and R&B which, like its predecessor, failed to make lots of an impression on the charts.
Scaggs remained a critics' deary over the track of LPs like 1972's My Time and 1974's Slow Dancer, simply he did non reach a commercial-grade breakthrough until 1976's Silk Degrees, which reached number 2 on the album charts piece spawning the Top Three single "Lowdown," as easily as the smash "Lido Shuffle." 1977's Down Two Then Left was too a success, and 1980's Middle Man reached the Top Ten on the strength of the singles "Crack-up Dead Ahead" and "Jo Jo."
However, Scaggs dog-tired a great deal of the 1980s in retreat, owning and operating the San Francisco nightclub Slim's and limiting his performances mainly to the club's annual black tie New Year's Eve concerts. Finally, in 1988 he resurfaced with the album Former Roads, followed three eld afterward by a hitch with Donald Fagen's Rock and Soul Revue. The solo Some Change appeared in 1994, with Come on Home and My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997) both released in 1997. The freshly energized Scaggs dog-tired the next few years consistantly releasing novel material including Here's the Low Down, Fade into Light, Dig and a compendium of standards called But Beautiful.
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Taylor Swift cast in 'Hannah Montana'
Country star plays herself in the movie
NASHVILLE -- Taylor Swift is the latest country star to join the cast of "Hannah Montana: The Movie," which is filming in Tennessee. Swift, who plays herself, shot her cameo on June 9.
Country supergroup Rascal Flatts also will appear and perform in the movie. Bucky Covington, an "American Idol" alum, and new artist Marcel, both labelmates with Rascal Flatts on Disney-owned Lyric Street Records, also have parts.
The Disney film is scheduled for release in 2009 and stars Miley Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who is also recording for Lyric Street.
In related news, Swift, "American Idol" finalist Kellie Pickler and two-time "Dancing with the Stars" champion Julianne Hough will host "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock" when it airs on ABC in the fall. All three acts have seen their debuts reach the top of Billboard's Top Country Album Chart in the last 18 months.
Filmed during the just-wrapped CMA Music Festival, the special will feature concert clips from country's top stars as well as its up-and-comers. It will also include behind-the-scenes moments between artists and their fans.
As previously reported, the festival, held June 5-8 in Nashville, notched record numbers with an average daily attendance of about 52,000 -- up 9% over last year. A total of 180 acts performed more than 34 hours of concerts at a wide range of venues, including LP Field and RiverFront Park.
The show will air Sept. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. It's the fourth time the network will air a CMA Music Festival special.
NASHVILLE -- Taylor Swift is the latest country star to join the cast of "Hannah Montana: The Movie," which is filming in Tennessee. Swift, who plays herself, shot her cameo on June 9.
Country supergroup Rascal Flatts also will appear and perform in the movie. Bucky Covington, an "American Idol" alum, and new artist Marcel, both labelmates with Rascal Flatts on Disney-owned Lyric Street Records, also have parts.
The Disney film is scheduled for release in 2009 and stars Miley Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who is also recording for Lyric Street.
In related news, Swift, "American Idol" finalist Kellie Pickler and two-time "Dancing with the Stars" champion Julianne Hough will host "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock" when it airs on ABC in the fall. All three acts have seen their debuts reach the top of Billboard's Top Country Album Chart in the last 18 months.
Filmed during the just-wrapped CMA Music Festival, the special will feature concert clips from country's top stars as well as its up-and-comers. It will also include behind-the-scenes moments between artists and their fans.
As previously reported, the festival, held June 5-8 in Nashville, notched record numbers with an average daily attendance of about 52,000 -- up 9% over last year. A total of 180 acts performed more than 34 hours of concerts at a wide range of venues, including LP Field and RiverFront Park.
The show will air Sept. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. It's the fourth time the network will air a CMA Music Festival special.
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