Artist: Gordie Sampson
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Sunburn
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Katie Holmes: Read About Her Wedding Day
Monday 23 June 2008
Gordie Sampson
Artist: Gordie Sampson
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Sunburn
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Katie Holmes: Read About Her Wedding Day
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Madonna's Brother Pens 'Brutal' New Book
Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone has penned a new “brutal” book about his pop star sister.
Ciccone has produced the damning new tome with the help of British journalist Wendy Leigh, and the results are said to be set to shock Madonna.
A source tells The Mirror, “It's brutal. He wrote it on the sly without telling Madonna."
Ciccone has produced the damning new tome with the help of British journalist Wendy Leigh, and the results are said to be set to shock Madonna.
A source tells The Mirror, “It's brutal. He wrote it on the sly without telling Madonna."
Saturday 14 June 2008
U2 to reissue 3 albums with rarities
NEW YORK - Irish rock band U2 will reissue its first three albums next month with a wealth of previously unreleased and rare material."Boy, October and War, all due July 22 via Universal, will be available as remastered single CDs, deluxe sets with a second disc of extras, and on vinyl.U2's 1980 debut album, Boy, features the previously unreleased tracks Speed of Life, Saturday Night and Cartoon World and a previously unreleased mix of I Will Follow. Live versions of Boy-Girl and 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, taped at London's Marquee club, are also included.The new edition of 1981's October boasts a series of tracks drawn from London's Hammersmith Palais and Boston's Paradise Theatre, including Gloria and I Will Follow, a BBC session with Richard Skinner and Common Ground's remix of Tomorrow.""War (1983) includes the previously unreleased track Angels Too Tied to the Ground, several remixes of New Year's Day and Two Hearts Beat as One, as well as the 7-inch single edit of New Year's Day."
U2, which last year reissued its 1987 album The Joshua Tree with various bells and whistles, is recording its next album with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. No release date has been set, but rumblings are that it may be out before the end of the year via Interscope.- REUTERS/Billboard
U2, which last year reissued its 1987 album The Joshua Tree with various bells and whistles, is recording its next album with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. No release date has been set, but rumblings are that it may be out before the end of the year via Interscope.- REUTERS/Billboard
math and physics club
Artist: math and physics club
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Comfort Stand Recordings Single #505
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Madonna's missing ring fuels marital trouble rumours
Washington (ANI): Madonna has fuelled rumours that her marriage to British director Guy Ritchie by stepping out without her wedding ring. The music icon was seen partying at two of London's most high-profile restaurants celebrating the adoption of Malawian toddler David Banda, but not around was her hubby of 7-years. "She was out at Claridge's on Wednesday night on her own, then on Thursday night Madonna was at Nobu with Gwyneth Paltrow, but no Guy. She was lifting her hand up to the photographers to make it clear she didn't have a wedding ring on," Now magazine quoted a source, as saying. The source also insists that the couple's marriage has come to an amicable end, and they are close to announcing their split.
McCain's daughter pens children's book on her father
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Meghan McCain, the daughter of Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, is writing a children's book about her father.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said in a statement on Wednesday that McCain, 23, had signed with imprint Aladdin Books for the yet-to-be-titled picture book that will hit stores the first week of September to coincide with the Republican National Convention.
"I am truly excited about the opportunity to write a children's book about my father, who is not only a fantastic dad, but also a great American," McCain, who runs her own blog McCain Blogette, said in a statement.
"This book will offer children the unique opportunity to see the character building events that happened over his lifetime, experiences that led up to his current bid to become the future President of the United States."
McCain, the eldest of John and Cindy McCain's three children, was born and raised in Phoenix and graduated from Columbia University in May last year after majoring in Art History.
She interned at Newsweek magazine and Saturday Night Live.
Her blog, McCain Blogette (http://www.mccainblogette.com/), has received media attention but mixed reviews for chronicling her experiences on the campaign trail as well as her interests in fashion, music, and pop culture.
The publisher, which is part of the CBS Corp., said it will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of this book to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that helps military personnel and veterans who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
(To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog "Fan Fare" online at blogs.reuters.com/fanfare)
Publisher Simon & Schuster said in a statement on Wednesday that McCain, 23, had signed with imprint Aladdin Books for the yet-to-be-titled picture book that will hit stores the first week of September to coincide with the Republican National Convention.
"I am truly excited about the opportunity to write a children's book about my father, who is not only a fantastic dad, but also a great American," McCain, who runs her own blog McCain Blogette, said in a statement.
"This book will offer children the unique opportunity to see the character building events that happened over his lifetime, experiences that led up to his current bid to become the future President of the United States."
McCain, the eldest of John and Cindy McCain's three children, was born and raised in Phoenix and graduated from Columbia University in May last year after majoring in Art History.
She interned at Newsweek magazine and Saturday Night Live.
Her blog, McCain Blogette (http://www.mccainblogette.com/), has received media attention but mixed reviews for chronicling her experiences on the campaign trail as well as her interests in fashion, music, and pop culture.
The publisher, which is part of the CBS Corp., said it will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of this book to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that helps military personnel and veterans who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
(To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog "Fan Fare" online at blogs.reuters.com/fanfare)
Guy Maddin on Directing a ‘Docu-fantasia’ About His Hometown
Photo: Getty Images
Once a cult director whose rarefied, pseudo-silent films were known only to a select group of cinephiles, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has recently become a mainstay of the art-house circuit. What’s even more impressive is that he has done it through a series of complex, personal films: Last year, his first-person family psychodrama Brand Upon the Brain!, which screened in New York with live narration, music, and sound effects, became a bona fide indie hit. Now Maddin’s back with the funny, powerful film My Winnipeg, a noirish documentary in which Maddin ruminates on the bizarre, often eerie history of his titular hometown. Vulture spoke with Maddin on a recent visit to New York about dead cows, unreliable narrators, and getting (run) the hell out of his own hometown.
You’ve described My Winnipeg as a “docu-fantasia.” Can you explain?
That’s just a label I threw on because I wanted to avoid arguments over whether it’s a documentary or not. But it’s a useful starting point. Rather than having to research facts, I just conducted all my research in my memory and in my heart. I got to rant, I got to squirt some bile.
Which all begs the question a lot of your fans are asking: What’s real and what’s not in My Winnipeg?
Virtually everything in the film is real. It’s either real, or it’s a wish, an opinion, or a legend. There are no outright lies in the film.
Animals don’t fare very well in this film, do they? You keep referring to your dead dog Toby, horses freeze, squirrels get fried on electrical lines, and the bison stampede.
Yeah, and I even left out some stories that were just too disturbing. A friend of mine told me about how she had a family farm right on the edge of the city, with one of those cow ponds, where the cows drink water. And then late one autumn, one of the cows just died. It fell over in the pond, and then the pond froze, with the cow on its side, so that it had two legs under the ice and two legs above the ice. And just happened to make a perfect hockey goal – for a winter’s worth of half-court hockey. Apparently like a million goals were scored on the belly of that poor dead cow that winter. It’s just a Canadian prairie boy’s winter!
How is the Guy Maddin of this movie different from the real Guy Maddin?
Not all that different, actually. My goal with these pictures, masochistic as it might be, is to reveal myself. Not because I’m exhibitionistic, but because my movies have been described as bizarre for so long that I fear I’ll be thought of as some kind of wanker. I don’t mind representing myself as someone who bullies an old woman or outs family members – because that’s exactly what I am doing. By just being as honest as possible about myself, I thought maybe I could achieve something almost literary — about how cowardly I am, how wrong I’ve been about a lot of things.
What prompted this recent personal direction in your work?
It goes back to Cowards Bend the Knee, which I made in 2003. I had just been through a bad, stormy relationship, and I finally got around to reading Euripides around that time. I devoured them like telenovelas. And one of them, Elektra, basically was my relationship with this girl. I couldn’t believe it. All I had to do was rearrange some things — I had to make Orestes into a boyfriend figure who was forced into doing all these horrible things by a temper-tantrum-throwing woman with a daddy complex. Next thing I knew, I had a script. And I felt masochistically liberated — just having to stand behind every craven act, like a confession.
What do the folks in Winnipeg think of the film?
They haven’t seen it yet. I am, in fact, trying to escape from that place. But I’m really hoping that the citizens of Winnipeg will run me out of town on a rail after I screen this thing there at the end of June. It would take all the vacillation out of it.
—Bilge Ebiri
Once a cult director whose rarefied, pseudo-silent films were known only to a select group of cinephiles, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has recently become a mainstay of the art-house circuit. What’s even more impressive is that he has done it through a series of complex, personal films: Last year, his first-person family psychodrama Brand Upon the Brain!, which screened in New York with live narration, music, and sound effects, became a bona fide indie hit. Now Maddin’s back with the funny, powerful film My Winnipeg, a noirish documentary in which Maddin ruminates on the bizarre, often eerie history of his titular hometown. Vulture spoke with Maddin on a recent visit to New York about dead cows, unreliable narrators, and getting (run) the hell out of his own hometown.
You’ve described My Winnipeg as a “docu-fantasia.” Can you explain?
That’s just a label I threw on because I wanted to avoid arguments over whether it’s a documentary or not. But it’s a useful starting point. Rather than having to research facts, I just conducted all my research in my memory and in my heart. I got to rant, I got to squirt some bile.
Which all begs the question a lot of your fans are asking: What’s real and what’s not in My Winnipeg?
Virtually everything in the film is real. It’s either real, or it’s a wish, an opinion, or a legend. There are no outright lies in the film.
Animals don’t fare very well in this film, do they? You keep referring to your dead dog Toby, horses freeze, squirrels get fried on electrical lines, and the bison stampede.
Yeah, and I even left out some stories that were just too disturbing. A friend of mine told me about how she had a family farm right on the edge of the city, with one of those cow ponds, where the cows drink water. And then late one autumn, one of the cows just died. It fell over in the pond, and then the pond froze, with the cow on its side, so that it had two legs under the ice and two legs above the ice. And just happened to make a perfect hockey goal – for a winter’s worth of half-court hockey. Apparently like a million goals were scored on the belly of that poor dead cow that winter. It’s just a Canadian prairie boy’s winter!
How is the Guy Maddin of this movie different from the real Guy Maddin?
Not all that different, actually. My goal with these pictures, masochistic as it might be, is to reveal myself. Not because I’m exhibitionistic, but because my movies have been described as bizarre for so long that I fear I’ll be thought of as some kind of wanker. I don’t mind representing myself as someone who bullies an old woman or outs family members – because that’s exactly what I am doing. By just being as honest as possible about myself, I thought maybe I could achieve something almost literary — about how cowardly I am, how wrong I’ve been about a lot of things.
What prompted this recent personal direction in your work?
It goes back to Cowards Bend the Knee, which I made in 2003. I had just been through a bad, stormy relationship, and I finally got around to reading Euripides around that time. I devoured them like telenovelas. And one of them, Elektra, basically was my relationship with this girl. I couldn’t believe it. All I had to do was rearrange some things — I had to make Orestes into a boyfriend figure who was forced into doing all these horrible things by a temper-tantrum-throwing woman with a daddy complex. Next thing I knew, I had a script. And I felt masochistically liberated — just having to stand behind every craven act, like a confession.
What do the folks in Winnipeg think of the film?
They haven’t seen it yet. I am, in fact, trying to escape from that place. But I’m really hoping that the citizens of Winnipeg will run me out of town on a rail after I screen this thing there at the end of June. It would take all the vacillation out of it.
—Bilge Ebiri
Devlin is dancing to breakfast
Dancing with the Stars contestant Martin Devlin will be high-stepping on to the breakfast television stage.
The Game of Two Halves star is understood to be among the hosts stepping in for Paul Henry, who has taken extended leave from TVNZ.
Henry said last week he was taking a two-month break from his 3.40am starts to spend more time with his three teenage daughters.
He and his daughters are said to be sailing to Fiji to enjoy the warmer climate.
Sunday News understands along with Devlin, Close-Up presenter Mark Sainsbury and TV One's 6pm news anchor Simon Dallow will also fill in beside regular presenter Pippa Wetzell.
Devlin returned to the screen earlier this month on the sports show Game of Two Halves, screening at 10pm on Fridays on TVOne.
Earlier this year, Devlin took a walk on the wild side when he competed in a series of Dancing With The Stars.
After his sabbatical Henry, who has a three-year contract with TVNZ, says he will be "raring to go" in time for coverage of the general election later this year.
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