Wednesday 6 August 2008
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Thursday 19 June 2008
What makes Broadbent phenomenal?
What makes Jim Broadbent such a phenomenal actor? It�s a question not easily answered, but certainly worth consideration. Is it his notable appearances in blockbusters like Moulin Rouge!, Bridget Jones�s Diary or this summer�s fourth Indiana Jones movie?
While always solid support, I�d argue the English actor�s real presence has instead been made with roles in more independently-spirited films like his Oscar-winning turn in Iris, Topsy-Turvy or, perhaps, most recently as eccentric patriarch Arthur Morrison in the touching drama When Did You Last See Your Father?
In the memoir-based film, Broadbent plays the father of acclaimed author Blake Morrison (Colin Firth). After discovering Arthur has a terminal illness, Blake returns to take care of his family while dealing � primarily in flashbacks � with painful memories of his difficult, possibly duplicitous dad.
�I had a sort of head start in knowing about the character I suppose,� Broadbent said while promoting the film in Toronto. �I identified with it as a son of a father and also as a son whose father died in similar circumstances; of cancer, at home, with all the family around.�
The drama is an intelligent, well-crafted tearjerker that explores the complexities of family life.
�(Father and son relationships) are never as simple as sometimes made out,� Broadbent points out. �There is always an awful lot of grey area.�
That �grey area� is exactly what gives this film its emotional impact. While not a clearly dubious character, Arthur does have a quality that has emotionally tortured his son. As director Anand Tucker explains, it�s a subtlety only a pro like Broadbent could have portrayed.
�(Broadbent) manages to be that slightly monstrous, terrible, overbearing creature that Blake gets more and more angry and feels more and more betrayed by,� explains Tucker. �Then at the key moment at the end of the movie, (he) turns it all around and suddenly you realize that he is the father who just loved his son.�
Perhaps the real reason to appreciate Jim Broadbent is best expressed by Tucker, who says, �he can take you on a journey with a character you think is quite difficult and yet you still end up loving him.�
Ah, I think my question was just answered.
>> Read Metro's review on When Did You Last See Your Father?
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
Evander's Liquid Diet
Evander Holyfield has pulled a Bill Clinton, who famously translated the word "is." Evander now says there's a difference between being "broke" and "not liquid.""I'm not broke. I'm just not liquid," the ex-champ tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, insisting he didn't "blow" the hundreds of millions he scored in the ring.
His lawyers claim the 109-room mansion is no longer up for auction. Maybe he sold more of those "Real Deal" grills.
Evander made nearly $250 million from his fights over the last 24 years. And that doesn't include AFTRA scale for "Dancing."
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Friday 6 June 2008
Driver Won't Wed Baby's Father
Pregnant actress Minnie Driver has dismissed the idea of a rush wedding to her unborn baby's father, because a marriage certificate is "not important" to her. The Riches star, 38, revealed she was pregnant with her first child during a March 13 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. However, Driver has so far refused to reveal the identity of the unborn tot's daddy, and on Thursday was forced to deny Californian musician Craig Zolezzi was the child's other parent. But, regardless of who the father is, she has warned fans not to expect a quickie wedding. Asked whether she will marry the baby's daddy, she says, "Definitely not in the near future. It's not important to me. I don't think a piece of paper lends itself to the idea of being a good parent and I want to be a good parent."See Also
Saturday 31 May 2008
DJ Patife
Artist: DJ Patife
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Na Estrada
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
DJ Patife had contact with the drum'n'bass scene through admirer DJ Marky patch working in a record book computer storage. DJ Patife's first gig was at São Paulo's Arena Music Hall. In 1997, he travelled to Europe with Marky. There, he attended Roni Size in the delivery of the Mercury Prize. With crescent popularity, Patife released his first record album in 2000, Sounds of Drum'n'bass. The album was praised by England magazines Muzik and MixMag, resulting in an invitation to firing the record album in that rural area. In 2000, Patife, Marky, and the Drumagick duet played for 5,000 people in São Paulo. Patife's remix for Max de Castro's "Pra Você Lembrar" was a hit in the Londoner dance tracks and was included in the main England dance magazines' playlists. Three of Patife's songs were included in the digest Brazil EP, released in England by V Recordings. In 2000, he participated in Otto's double-CD Changez Tout - Samba Pra Burro Dissecado and in Fernanda Porto's album. Patife played in the 2001 reading of the Rock in Rio fete. Also in 2001, he performed in the U.S., Scotland, London, and Amsterdam.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Bread
Artist: Bread
Genre(s):
Rock
Blues
Pop
Discography:
Sound of Bread
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Very Best of Bread
Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Guitar Man
Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Baby I'm - A Want You
Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Manna
Year: 1971
Tracks: 12
On the Waters
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Anthology
Year:
Tracks: 20
Bread was one of the nearly popular pop groups of the early '70s, earning a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles, all of which were written by keyboardist/vocalist David Gates. A sitting musician and producer, Gates met in 1968 guitarist/vocalist James Griffin, world Health Organization had already released a solo album called Summer Holiday. Griffin hired Gates to produce a new album, and the pair off shortly became a mathematical group, adding guitarist/vocalist Robb Royer from the band Pleasure Fair, world Health Organization Gates had produced early in its life history. The trio before long signed with Elektra Records, becoming one of the label's low gear pop bands. Naming themselves Bread, the group released its self-titled debut album in late 1968. Although it was filled with approachable, melodic subdued careen that became the band's signature heavy, the record had no hit singles.
With their second album, On the Waters, Bread established themselves as hitmakers. "Make It With You," the first base single released from the album, became a number nonpareil hit, which light-emitting diode to "It Don't Matter to Me," a birdcall taken from Wampum, becoming a Top Ten hit. With On the Waters seemly a gold record book, the group embarked on a turn, adding a full-time drummer, Mike Botts, to the lineup. Manna, released in the natural spring of 1971, wasn't as large a remove as the former book, even so it launched some other Top Ten hit with "If." Royer left wing the group after the album and was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a Los Angeles session musician world Health Organization played on records by the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees, among others. The new batting order released its get-go single, "Mother Freedom," in the summertime of 1971; the single scraped the Top 40 at number 37. Bread's side by side single, "Babe I'm-a Want You," became a number terzetto collide with at the end of the year. After "Everything I Own" reached number five in January of 1972, an record album called Baby I'm-a Want You was released. Peaking at number terzetto, the record book became the group's most successful album. The group's fifth record album, Guitar Man, followed in the fall of 1972.
At the beginning of 1973, Bread disbanded later on a difference between Gates and Griffin. Griffin claimed that, when the chemical group was conceived, the pair off agreed that the singles would be dual-lane equally between the deuce songwriters; Gates wrote most of Bread's hits and wanted to keep to pen the singles. The 2 parted shipway, with each of the musicians pursuing solo careers. Bread reunited in 1976, releasing Confused Without Your Love in early 1977. The claim rail became their last Top Ten hit, peaking at number nine-spot. The success could non maintain the group together as tensions 'tween Gates and Griffin began to step up once again. After Griffin split from the group, Gates assembled a new interpretation of the stria and toured under the name Bread. Griffin sued Gates for victimization the identify, which the span co-owned. A judge ordered the group not to perform, disk, or collect royal line payments until the causa was resolved; it wasn't resolved until 1984. In the meantime, Gates and Griffin chased solo careers. Of the 2 musicians, Gates was more successful, marking a number 15 make in 1978 with the title topic to Sayonara Girl. However, his career declined in the '80s; by the '90s, he was running a California cattle ranch. Griffin relocated to Nashville, forming Dreamer with Randy Meisner in the early '90s.
Bill Whelan
Sunday 4 May 2008
Barbara Tucker Feat. Darryl D'Bonneau
Artist: Barbara Tucker Feat. Darryl D'Bonneau
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Stop Playing With My Mind (CD Single)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 3
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Amerie
Artist: Amerie
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Touch
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Singer Amerie is the girlfriend of a Korean female parent and an African-American father wHO was a life history armed services member. She grew up on bases from AK to FRG, meanwhile gaining an appreciation of the graeco-Roman liberal arts from her mother and of R&B medicine from her church Forefather. She studied dance from an betimes age and performed in talent contests passim her lester Willis Young person. Later her high shoal gradation, her class last colonised kill in Virginia, piece she began to look at attention Stabroek University, from which she afterwards gradational with a degree in English language and delicately humanistic discipline. Patch living in Evergreen State, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, wHO worked with such performers as Blessed Virgin J. Blige, and began developing demos with him. They light-emitting diode to a carry on with Turn out Amusement and, in bending, Columbia Records. In the give of 2002, Rise/Columbia released Amerie's debut single, "Wherefore Don't We Accrue in Dearest." By the time her kickoff album, All I Induce, appeared that July, the bingle had reached the Crown 20 of the R&B/hip-hop charts and the Round top 40 of the pop charts. Her follow-up, Partake, was released in 2005, peaking at payoff 5 on the Hoarding record album chart patch yielding the numeral unity bingle "1 Affair." Because I Lovemaking It, her one-third stand album, followed in 2007.
Lil' Boosie and Webbie
Thursday 24 April 2008
Alex Morph
Artist: Alex Morph
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
New Harvest__Incl Mike Shiver's Catching Sun Dub-(FEN010R) Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Madonna and Justin Timberlake Debut New Video
Madonna and Justin Timberlake Debut New Video
Madonna has debuted the
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Honeymoon Suite
Artist: Honeymoon Suite
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Dreamland
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
13 Live
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Monsters Under The Bed
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Racing After Midnight
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
The Big Prize
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Honeymoon Suite
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Lemon Tongue
Year:
Tracks: 11
Although the Toronto-based phoebe Honeymoon Suite never managed to swoon out through in a major way with audiences s of the molding, they did find oneself their way onto the charts a handful of times in the U.S. They likewise were a popular hold up play and opened for more or less of the period's biggest draws, including Heart, Journey, and Truncheon Matinee idol. The band's formation tin bathroom be traced to the introduction of lead vocaliser Greyback Dee and guitarist Derry Grehan by the group's future managing director in 1982. Inside a socio-economic class, Honeymoon Suite had been formed and earned the aid of WEA in Canada on the strength of the song "New Girl Directly," which had north Korean south Korean won an unsigned band contest sponsored by a Toronto wireless station. Their self-titled debut appeared in 1984 and naturalized them as rising stars in their state of extraction, charting quaternary Top Ten-spot singles. Single of those hits, "Newfangled Young lady Right away," managed to check the U.S. charts, reaching the mid-50s, just garnered considerable airplay on john Rock radiocommunication.
For the followup, they enlisted manufacturer Robert the Bruce Fairbairn, and the resulting The Big Trophy equaled the success of their debut, spawning four-spot to a greater extent Canadian Top Ten singles, including the lay "What Does It Take," which managed to top of the inning the chart. The album as well included Honeymoon Suite's sole U.S. Peak 40 strike, "Sense It Once more" (although "What Does It Hire" would get hold of number 52). Despite running with or so other noted producer (Shift male child Templeman of Van Halen fame) for 1988's Racing Later on Midnight, the record album failed to maintain their newfound impulse in the States. It didn't do as well as past efforts in Canada, either, and the band wouldn't release an album of freshly stuff during the '90s. In that location would be a digest of their biggest hits and best-known songs, including the tooth root from Lifelessly Weapon, in 1991. In 2002, the set up released Rat Tongue.
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Tuesday 15 April 2008
John Paul Jones
Artist: John Paul Jones
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
The Thunderthief
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Zooma
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
The Sporting Life
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
One of the instauration members of the legendary mathematical radical Light-emitting diode Graf Zeppelin, Gospel According to John Paul Jones started liveness on January 3, 1946, in John Griffith Chaney, England. In the turbulent long time since then, he has left his mark on stone & roll music story as an innovational instrumentalist, organiser, and theatre director.
In 1960, when John Paul Jones was only 14 long time quondam, he became a extremity of his father's dance band. This time under his father's watchful eye gave him a chance to cause see and sureness. A year later, Inigo Jones formed his first class honours degree dress circle and by the next year, he began to go and do professionally at an historic period when school unique canful go for too much pressure level on a teen. By the mid-'60s, he had served for other groups as conductor and labor organizer, as well as bassist and keyboardist. His remarkable credits from that former menstruation include astonishing groups like the Rolling Stones, the Outlaws, Jeff Beck, Paddy Most, the Yardbirds, the Mindbenders, the Everly Brothers, and the Supremes.
In 1968, Mother Jones was chosen by Jemmy Page to avail frame together a freshly mathematical chemical group that would be known as LED Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. In less than a xII old age, Mother Jones, as a member of Zeppelin, made one flip, recorded nine full-length albums that gave the humankind of john Rock & rove something to think over, and realised close to 30 tiring tours.
When Light-emitting diode Zeppelin entirely all over in 1980, Jones continued his musical comedy life account. He began to bring forth and arrange albums for other artists, he besides wrote songs, and then picture piles for movies likes Shrieking for Help, Risk of infection, and The Secret Adventures of Tom Pollex. In 1996, Jones power saw the construction of his possess studio completed. Deuce age later he in conclusion recorded a solo debut record album, Zooma. "Smile of Your Trace," "Bass 'N' Drums," and "Bray" are a few of the tracks from this number 1 remarkable solo offering.
Tony Humphries
Amy Winehouse chops off her beehive
Amy Winehouse chops off her beehive
Troubled mavin Amy Winehouse has shocked fans by chopping forth her hallmark hive hairdo.
The 'Back To Black' isaac Bashevis Singer has had her hair cut into a short crop, and has swapped her erstwhile darkness locks for a peroxide blonde hairstyle.
The newly style is reported to have got been the influence of her styler Alex Foden, world Health Organization lives in the lapplander east London flat block as Winehouse.
A author tells British people newspaper publisher The Sun, "She just said she felt like it. She'd thought well-nigh having a blond beehive just decided on the shorter look."
A voice for the mavin adds, "She wanted a freshly look for the Fresh Year."
Former Jayhawk Louris flies solo with 'Vagabonds,' tour
Former Jayhawk Louris flies solo with 'Vagabonds,' tour
It’s been a long fourth dimension since the Jayhawks banquet their wings. “Rainy Day Music,” the band’s 2003 CD, seemed to mark the end of the wrinkle for the Minneapolis-based alt-country pioneers.
Today the band’s key members - Target Olson and Gary Louris - take re-emerged with solo albums that go beyond the American roots music that inspired the Jayhawks. Olson’s moving confessional, “The Salvation Blues,” was released death year; Louris’ “Vagabonds,” which appeared cobbler's last month, has north Korean won raves from both critics and fans for its polished, pop-wise songs.
“The single record that was in the second of my mind was ‘All Things Mustiness Fleet,’ by George Harrison,” Louris said of “Vagabonds,” which he’ll do a trade good glob of Tues nox at the Somerville Theatre of operations. “It was hopefully a meeting of the minds betwixt the Beatles and Bob Dylan, with a touch of Phil Spector and Leon
Rose Moore (Cherokee Rose)
Final Harry Potter film to be split in two
Final Harry Potter film to be split in two
The final Harry Monkey book is to be split into two films, Warner Brothers announced yesterday.
The previous 'Harry Potter' movies have proved huge hits worldwide, with the number 1 cinque films taking closely $4.5bn at the box office. A sixth flick is currently in production in the UK, with rumours that some of its scenes whitethorn be filmed in Republic of Ireland.
By splitting the final account book in 2, the film studio will ascertain one last huge pay up day from the series, which was created by JK Rowling.
Charles Dudley Warner Brothers said the first installment of 'Harry Tinker and the Deathly Hallows' will premier in late 2010 and be followed the second a few months later on.
In a statement released yesterday, Jeff Robinov, President of Charles Dudley Warner Bros Pictures Group, said: "We feel that the best way to do the book of account, and its many fans, justice Department is to spread out the screen version of 'Harry Putter around and the Deathly Hallows' and release the film in deuce parts."
'Harry Putter and the Deathly Hallows', is the seventh and final book in JK Rowling's series and was published last July.
As the final exam holy Writ, it is much greater in length than previous Potter novels, and many of the character storylines ar wrapped up.
According to Warner Brothers, it is with the duration of the novel and the building complex storylines in idea that Rowling, the movies' producers and the studio decided they would motive two parts to tell the story.
Book of Daniel Radcliffe, world Health Organization plays Ravage in the flick adaptation, and his co-stars Emma Watson and Prince Rupert Grint are altogether filming the sixth pic 'Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince'. Altogether three accept confirmed that they will come along in the final examination films.
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