Artist: Rueibin Chen
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Tchaikovsky. Grieg. Piazzolla. Liszt
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Friday, 27 June 2008
Rueibin Chen
Artist: Rueibin Chen
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Tchaikovsky. Grieg. Piazzolla. Liszt
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Purported new Guns N' Roses tracks hit the Web
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nine purported "mastered, finished" tracks from Guns N' Roses' 14-years-in-the-making album "Chinese Democracy" have been leaked online by the Web site Antiquiet.com, prompting a quick cease-and-desist from the band's handlers and the removal of the links.
Six of the songs have already leaked in one unfinished form or another: "Better," "The Blues," the title track, "Madagascar," "IRS" and "There Was a Time." But these versions appear to be much further along on the path toward completion, and feature new touches like organ and tambourine on "IRS" and a beefed-up chorus with multi-tracked vocals on "Madagascar."
The three previously unheard songs are "Rhiad and the Bedouins," "If the World" and a track whose title is unknown.
"Rhiad," which was played live by Guns N' Roses in 2001 and 2002, is a pounding rocker with a trademark down-and-dirty main guitar riff and a flashy solo. "If the World" is a head-spinning blend of flamenco guitar, industrial synth tones, bluesy piano licks and singer Axl Rose at the top of his vocal register, while the unnamed track is an even more unusual melange of piano-led crooning, orchestral bombast and a serene instrumental outtro.
"Chinese Democracy," the follow-up to the 1991 "Use Your Illusion" albums, will likely go down as the album with the most troubled birth in rock history. Work began way back in 1994, and since then, Rose has burned through a reported $13 million in production costs as well as every original member of the group.
Reuters/Billboard
Six of the songs have already leaked in one unfinished form or another: "Better," "The Blues," the title track, "Madagascar," "IRS" and "There Was a Time." But these versions appear to be much further along on the path toward completion, and feature new touches like organ and tambourine on "IRS" and a beefed-up chorus with multi-tracked vocals on "Madagascar."
The three previously unheard songs are "Rhiad and the Bedouins," "If the World" and a track whose title is unknown.
"Rhiad," which was played live by Guns N' Roses in 2001 and 2002, is a pounding rocker with a trademark down-and-dirty main guitar riff and a flashy solo. "If the World" is a head-spinning blend of flamenco guitar, industrial synth tones, bluesy piano licks and singer Axl Rose at the top of his vocal register, while the unnamed track is an even more unusual melange of piano-led crooning, orchestral bombast and a serene instrumental outtro.
"Chinese Democracy," the follow-up to the 1991 "Use Your Illusion" albums, will likely go down as the album with the most troubled birth in rock history. Work began way back in 1994, and since then, Rose has burned through a reported $13 million in production costs as well as every original member of the group.
Reuters/Billboard
Friday, 13 June 2008
Oscar nominee Julie Christie weds
'Doctor Zhivago' star Julie Christie has wed her long-term partner in India.
CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported that the 66-year-old secretly wed journalist Duncan Campbell in a small, private ceremony.
Christie's brother Clive Christie confirmed to the UK's Daily Mail newspaper that the wedding had taken place, but that he did not attend the event two months ago.
The actress once said: "I don't see any reason for getting married unless you're religious, which I'm not."
Commenting on the newly married couple, columnist Neal Sean said: "He's very studious, very educated and she's always been about broadening her mind, her appeal, that sort of stuff."
Christie is among the nominees for this month's Oscars for her return to cinema screens as an Alzheimer's sufferer in the film 'Away from Her'.
She has already won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards in the US for her performance.
The actress previously won an Oscar for the John Schlesinger film 'Darling', before turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s.
"Julie Christie is something of a recluse, not just from life itself but basically from the whole sort of Hollywood shebang as it were," said columnist Sean.
CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported that the 66-year-old secretly wed journalist Duncan Campbell in a small, private ceremony.
Christie's brother Clive Christie confirmed to the UK's Daily Mail newspaper that the wedding had taken place, but that he did not attend the event two months ago.
The actress once said: "I don't see any reason for getting married unless you're religious, which I'm not."
Commenting on the newly married couple, columnist Neal Sean said: "He's very studious, very educated and she's always been about broadening her mind, her appeal, that sort of stuff."
Christie is among the nominees for this month's Oscars for her return to cinema screens as an Alzheimer's sufferer in the film 'Away from Her'.
She has already won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards in the US for her performance.
The actress previously won an Oscar for the John Schlesinger film 'Darling', before turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s.
"Julie Christie is something of a recluse, not just from life itself but basically from the whole sort of Hollywood shebang as it were," said columnist Sean.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Guy Ritchie - Ritchie Signs On To Sherlock Film
Filmmaker GUY RITCHIE has signed on to write and direct a new movie about fictional detective SHERLOCK HOLMES.
The Snatch director is said to be planning to take advantage of the super sleuth's experience as a boxer and swordsman by depicting Holmes as more adventurous and less "stuffy" than former film incarnations.
Warner Bros studio plans to release the movie in 2010, reports Empire Online.
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Friday, 6 June 2008
Lindsay Lohan Hospitalised
Actress Lindsay Lohan was hospitalised on Thursday after reportedly falling victim to her chronic asthma.
Lohan, 21, was spotted leaving a Los Angeles emergency room with best friend Samantha Ronson in the late hours after returning to the city from New York.
Sources tell website TMZ.com the Mean Girls star spent over two hours in Century City Hospital's E.R. after enduring the six-hour bicoastal flight.
According to reports, the actress began to experience discomfort in her chest and asked flight attendants for a warm compress to ease her pain.
But she caused chaos among other passengers - including actor Stephen Baldwin - as she moved around the plane so she could sit next to Ronson.
Lohan, 21, was spotted leaving a Los Angeles emergency room with best friend Samantha Ronson in the late hours after returning to the city from New York.
Sources tell website TMZ.com the Mean Girls star spent over two hours in Century City Hospital's E.R. after enduring the six-hour bicoastal flight.
According to reports, the actress began to experience discomfort in her chest and asked flight attendants for a warm compress to ease her pain.
But she caused chaos among other passengers - including actor Stephen Baldwin - as she moved around the plane so she could sit next to Ronson.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Inside Charlie's Dream Wedding
On a beautiful spring day set against the backdrop of a sprawling Beverly Hills estate, Charlie Sheen and his lady-love Brooke Mueller said 'I do' in an intimate and romantic ceremony surrounded by family and close friends, and only OK! was there!
The wedding was a long-time coming for the actor, who spent most of his two-year relationship with Mueller entangled in a very public war of words with his ex-wife Denise Richards.
But on May 30, none of that seemed to matter as Charlie,42, and Brooke,30, exchanged vows under a low hanging canopy in front of 68 guests including Sheen's parents Janet and Martin Sheen, brothers Ramon and Emilio Estevez and three daughters Cassandra,23,(from his first marriage) Sam,4, and Lola,3.
Celebrity event designer Yifat Oren incorporated nature themes for the couple's wedding theme and reception, using bowls of pears, oranges and chocolate-hued candles to adorn the dining tables.
At one point a beaming Charlie grabbed the microphone and told guests, "I would like to introduce you to Mrs. Charlie Sheen. We did it, didn't we?" Later a 14-piece rock band played as everyone danced at the groom's request.
"I was telling a couple of friends last night that this feels like my first real marriage, Charlie confessed to OK!. "The first one was a show, the second one was a con, and this one is the real deal."
Despite his notorious bad-boy reputation, Charlie told OK! that he is devoted to Brooke, and feels a new sense of comittment in his life. He also has made a promise to himself, never to utter Richard's name in public again. It's a lesson he admits has taken a long time to learn.
"I'm so tired of talking about her and all her shenanigans," he said. "It is what it is. I don't even care anymore. I'm going to take a stand to basically never utter her name publicly again, and I think if that's known, it will put an end to some of the drama."
Sheen says he's never watched Denise's new reality show and is excited to move ahead with his life.
"I think it's no accident that whats-her-face chose this time to do what she did. It's pretty obvious that Brooke and I, through our actions and union, are moving on with our lives. Perhaps somebody else should consider the same."
And speaking of moving forward, are children in the cards for these newlyweds?
"Charlie has three girls, so ideally, we'd have a boy," Brooke says, adding, "but it doesn't matter as long as it's a healthy baby."
For the entire scoop on Charlie's dream wedding, pick up the new issue of OK! � on sale everywhere Thursday!
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Crest of Darkness
Artist: Crest of Darkness
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Evil Knows Evil
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Project Regeneration
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
The Ogress
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
While simultaneously making a key for himself in Norwegian progressive alloy stria Conception, Ingar Amlien started a black alloy side contrive called Crest of Darkness with keyboardist Lars Christian Narum and drummer Nils H. Maehlum. The trio released 1996's Quench My Thirst EP and 1997's Menacing Scenario LP in quick succession. For their tierce exertion (and first base since Conception's dissolution), 1999's The Ogress, Crest of Darkness expanded to a quintuplet that also featured vocalist Kristin Fjellseth, keyboardist Jan Petter Ringvold, and previous Conception drummer Arve Heimdal. More changes were in storage for 2000's ably named Project Regeneration, including the arrival of raw guitarist Akke and the band's first alive dates. After a extended silence, CoD were endorse to a triplet (Amlien, Akke, and drummer Kjetil Hektoen) for 2004's Evil Knows Evil.
Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth Gets Operatic
Former U.S. Vice-President AL GORE's environmental documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is to be adapted for the stage - as an opera.
Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera based on Gore's global warming film for the 2011 season at Milan, Italy's La Scala opera house.
Director Davis Guggenheim's film, which starred Gore as narrator and sage, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has since taken the world by storm.
The documentary won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song.
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Raekwon
Artist: Raekwon
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Vatican Mixtape, Vol. 1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 35
The Davinci Code: The Vatican Mixtape Vol. 2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 23
The Lex Diamond Story
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Raekwon crataegus laevigata not hold achieved the solo stardom of his fellow Wu-Tang Clan mates Method Man or Ol' Dirty Bastard, only along with Genius/GZA and frequent married person Ghostface Killah, he's done some of the to the highest degree imaginative, critically acclaimed work outside the confines of the radical. Born Corey Woods and likewise nicknamed the Chef (because he's "cookin' up some howling sh*t to receive your lip watering"), Raekwon joined the Staten Island, NY-based Wu-Tang collective in the early '90s and played an authoritative character on their groundbreaking ceremony late-1993 debut album, Participate the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Although the group's undertake allowed its individual members to mark with whatsoever label they chose, Raekwon stayed with Loud when the number one round of Wu-related solo projects began to appear. Following his 1994 debut unmarried, "Heaven and Hell," his possess solo debut, Alone Built 4 Cuban Linx, appeared in 1995; piece it didn't sell on the level of Method Man's Tical, singles like "ICE Cream" and "Criminology" earned him a reputation in the hip-hop resistance. Moreover, the record album standard near-unanimous critical extolment for its remindful, image-rich storytelling and cinematic Mafia obsession (on some tracks, he adoptive the pretext of mobster Lex Diamonds). Also notable was Raekwon's crackling chemistry with heavily featured partner in crime Ghostface Killah, wHO enjoyed something of a coming-out party with all the exposure (he hadn't been nearly as a great deal of a comportment on Figure the Wu-Tang).
Raekwon returned to the Wu-Tang fold for the group's 1997 sophomore cause, Wu-Tang Forever. That LP was followed by a second round of solo albums, and Raekwon's Immobilarity was released in late 1999, this time on Epic. This time about, neither RZA nor Ghostface Killah contributed to the record album at all and perchance as a outcome, reviews were more than interracial. Raekwon recorded with the Wu on their subsequent albums The W (2000) and Branding iron Flag (2001), and proclaimed plans to reteam with Ghostface Killah for a subsequence to Cuban Linx.
Bond girl now cast as Hardy's Tess
Movie audiences pay for 'Sex' with $56.8 million debut at box office
LOS ANGELES - "Sex and the City" remained a fashionable choice for movie-goers as women turned out in huge numbers for the big-screen version, which led the weekend box office with US$56.8 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theatres Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC are:
1. "Sex and the City," Warner Bros., $56,848,056, 3,285 locations, $17,305 average, $56,848,056, one week.
2. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," Paramount, $44,754,615, 4,264 locations, $10,496 average, $215,635,899, two weeks.
3. "The Strangers," Universal, $20,997,985, 2,466 locations, $8,515 average, $20,997,985, one week.
4. "Iron Man," Paramount, $13,541,264, 3,650 locations, $3,710 average, $276,166,336, five weeks.
5. "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," Disney, $12,704,545, 3,801 locations, $3,342 average, $115,362,725, three weeks.
6. "What Happens in Vegas," Fox, $6,681,097, 3,086 locations, $2,165 average, $65,904,971, four weeks.
7. "Speed Racer," Warner Bros., $2,259,031, 2,070 locations, $1,091 average, $40,677,371, four weeks.
8. "Baby Mama," Universal, $2,194,320, 1,784 locations, $1,230 average, $56,117,805, six weeks.
9. "Made of Honor," Sony, $1,913,035, 1,905 locations, $1,004 average, $42,878,354, five weeks.
10. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," Universal, $1,059,840, 768 locations, $1,380 average, $60,485,980, seven weeks.
11. "The Visitor," Overture Films, $553,704, 270 locations, $2,051 average, $5,322,550, eight weeks.
12. "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay," Warner Bros., $487,021, 474 locations, $1,027 average, $36,967,086, six weeks.
13. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" Fox, $367,734, 428 locations, $859 average, $152,571,420, 12 weeks.
14. "The Fall," Roadside Attractions, $345,138, 108 locations, $3,196 average, $646,364, four weeks.
15. "The Forbidden Kingdom," Lionsgate, $247,656, 262 locations, $945 average, $51,730,925, seven weeks.
16. "Then She Found Me," ThinkFilm, $244,812, 150 locations, $1,632 average, $2,519,002, six weeks.
17. "Nim's Island," Fox, $230,671, 350 locations, $659 average, $46,109,150, nine weeks.
18. "Young at Heart," Fox Searchlight, $220,190, 197 locations, $1,118 average, $2,840,511, eight weeks.
19. "College Road Trip," Disney, $195,596, 241 locations, $812 average, $44,531,764, 13 weeks.
20. "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure," National Geographic, $189,845, 48 locations, $3,955 average, $13,430,080, 35 weeks.
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