Monday 23 June 2008

Fred Savage Welcomes a Girl

Life just got more Wonder-ful for Fred Savage.


The former child star is a dad for the second time after his wife Jennifer Stone gave birth to a baby girl. Lily Aerin arrived on Saturday, May 3.

Big brother Oliver turns 2 in August.

As with Oliver, the couple chose not to find out the sex beforehand, opting for a delivery surprise.

�We are going to be surprised on the sex of the baby,� Fred has said.

The 31-year-old actor and Jennifer first met as children in 1988 in their Chicago hometown, but lost touch when Fred departed for L.A. to film The Wonder Years. They reconnected in 1999 at Fred's birthday party and tied the knot in 2004.




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Wednesday 18 June 2008

"ER" producer John Wells turns from docs to cops

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With veteran NBC medical drama "ER" heading into its 15th and final season, series writer/producer John Wells has set up a new drama series project at the network.


NBC has handed out a pilot order to "LAPD," an ensemble cop show from John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV.


Penned by Emmy-winning writer Ann Biderman, "LAPD" chronicles the lives of a group of police officers in Los Angeles.


"ER" director/executive producer and frequent Wells collaborator Christopher Chulack is on board to direct the pilot.


The project, which has begun casting, is being eyed as a potential successor to "ER" in NBC's Thursday 10 p.m. time slot.


Biderman, who won an Emmy for her work on another ensemble cop drama, ABC's "NYPD Blue," most recently co-wrote the upcoming Michael Mann-directed crime feature "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter



Tuesday 17 June 2008

Datarock

Datarock   
Artist: Datarock

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Datarock   
 Datarock

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11




Dressed in twin red ink tracksuits, Norwegian banteringly electronic-dance banding Datarock were one of several groups labelled by the U.K. press as "new rave." Easily combining inspiration from Devo, Talking Heads, and Happy Mondays, the band's unpredictable performances let in whatever number of people dance or playing instruments. Originating from the like Bergen setting as Röyksopp and the Kings of Convenience, Datarock formed in 2000 and included Fredrik Saroea (vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards), Ketil Mosnes (bass, programming, keyboards, backing vocals), Tom Mæland (keyboards through 2003), and Kevin O'Brien (vocals through 2000). The first Datarock release arrived as a rent EP with Stockhaus in 2001 on the label Tellé, the original outlet for Röyksopp, the Kings of Convenience, and Annie. In 2002 they issued a limited edition EP coroneted Demo/Greatest Hits on Kaptein Kaliber Records. This was followed in 2003 by the Computer Camp Love EP. For the first full album, Saroea and Mosnes formed their have label, Young Aspiring Professionals, and in 2005 released Datarock Datarock. The following class the album was reissued in the U.K., France, and Australia. In early 2007, Datarock inked a deal with Nettwerk.





MTV Movie Awards warmer, not counting studio fire

Girls Aloud Singer Records Solo Song For Movie Soundtrack

After rumours that girl group Girls Aloud might be splitting, it's been revealed in The Mirror that Sarah Harding has recorded a solo track for the soundtrack to upcoming movie, 'Wild Child'.


Despite the rumours, an insider with Girls Aloud insists that the Sarah still loves being in the band and has to desire for them to split.


Sarah is not the first of the group to venture off alone, after fellow band member Cheryl Cole was featured on Will.i.am's track Heartbreaker.




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Jessica Alba - The Things They Say 8299

"Before this it was coffee in the morning, yogurt for lunch, and the only meal was dinner." Pregnant star JESSICA ALBA has been forced to change her sparse diet - and has gained 300 pounds.




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Simon Ellis

Simon Ellis   
Artist: Simon Ellis

   Genre(s): 
Electronic: Progressive
   



Discography:


Houdini   
 Houdini

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11




 






Christina Aguilera’s new fragrance to hit stores this fall

Christina AguileraNew mom Christina Aguilera is set to release her third fragrance, Inspire, this fall.


The ‘Dirrty’ singer — who gave birth the her first child, son Max, with husband Jordan Bratman in January — is planning to get her new fragrance out as quickly as possible — because her previous perfumes, Xpose and Simply, sold well internationally.


A source told Life and Style magazine: “Christina�s worked hard to get the scent exactly how she wants it.




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Pink

Pink   
Artist: Pink

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Dance: Pop
   House
   Dance
   Rock
   



Discography:


Nobody Knows (single)   
 Nobody Knows (single)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 1


Live form Wembley Arena   
 Live form Wembley Arena

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 1


Who Knew CDS   
 Who Knew CDS

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Who Knew (Remixes) CDM   
 Who Knew (Remixes) CDM

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5


Stupid Girls CDM   
 Stupid Girls CDM

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


Stupid Girls (remixes)   
 Stupid Girls (remixes)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


Pink  Stupid Girls Remixes   
 Pink Stupid Girls Remixes

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


I'm Not Dead   
 I'm Not Dead

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


Last To Know   
 Last To Know

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


God Is A DJ   
 God Is A DJ

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 4


Try This - Copy control   
 Try This - Copy control

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15


Try This   
 Try This

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15


Universal (gold edition)   
 Universal (gold edition)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 20


M!ssundaztood   
 M!ssundaztood

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


Can't Take Me Home   
 Can't Take Me Home

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13




Although she was initially viewed as all the same some other human face in the late-'90s crowd of stripling pop acts of the Apostles, Pink cursorily showed signs of becoming ane of the rare artists to pass and outgrow the label. Born Alecia Moore on September 8, 1979, in Doylestown, PA (approximate Philadelphia), Pink received her nickname as a baby (it had nil to do with her afterward shade of hair dye). She grew up in a melodic family and by age 13 was a regular on the Philadelphia club scenery, number 1 as a dancer, then as a patronage singer for the local hip-hop mathematical group Schools of Thought. At 14, she began writing her have songs; the same class, a local DJ at Club Fever began allowing her onstage to blab a song every Friday.


Pink was spotty one night by an executive for MCA, wHO asked her to audition for an R&B grouping called Basic Instinct; although she got the gig, the group imploded non long after. She was rapidly recruited for a female R&B trio called Choice, which signed to L.A. Reid and Babyface's LaFace judge on the strength of their demo; however, they besides disbanded due to differences all over musical direction. During Choice's brief studio time, producer Daryl Simmons asked Pink to write a bridge division for the sung "Precisely to Be Loving You"; impressed with the results, Pink rediscovered her songwriting muse and an evenly impressed L.A. Reid before long gave her a solo deal with LaFace.


Pink recorded her solo debut, Can't Take Me Home, with a mixture of songwriting partners and dance-pop and R&B producers. Released in 2000, the record album was a double-platinum stumble; it spun off trey Top Ten singles in "At that place U Go," "To the highest degree Girls," and "You Make Me Sick." She toured that summertime as the opening playact for *N Sync, simply soon constitute herself shopworn of being pigeonholed as purely a adolescent act disdain her saucy, candid theatrical role. As she set about working on her follow-up album, Pink took role in the remake of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, which as well featured power plant divas Christina Aguilera, Mya, and Lil' Kim. The vocal was a massive hit, topping the charts in both the U.S. and U.K.


Toward the end of the class, Pink released her next unmarried, "Get the Party Started"; it became her biggest, to the highest degree inescapable hit to date, climb into the Top Five. Her sequent sophomore album, M!ssundaztood, cursorily went double platinum; it boasted a more personal vocalism and a more than eclectic sound, plus heavy contributions from ex-4 Non Blondes vocaliser Linda Perry, wHO helped add some more rock muscular tissue to Pink's profound (as did edgar Albert Guest appearances by Steven Tyler and Richie Sambora). M!ssundaztood attracted prescribed decisive notices as well, and its irregular single, "Don't Let Me Get Me," became some other fast-rising Top Ten hit.


Garden pink future issued Judge This in November 2003. The album was a bite more rock-oriented, imputable in contribution to the songwriting collaboration of Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong on eight of the album's tracks. Try This' hint single, "Trouble," kookie into the pep pill regions of Billboard's Top 40, and earned Pink a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. On the home front, Pink wed motocross racing car Carey Hart -- whom she had ab initio met at 2001's X-Games -- on January 7, 2006, in Costa Rica. Her side by side album, I'm Not Dead, appeared that April; its number 1 single, "Unintelligent Girls," quick became a gain, and the album reached the Top Ten.






Lost in Beijing - 5/13/2008

A nervy love-quadrangle story that contains much less than the sum of its attractive parts, Lost in Beijing is just the kind of lost generation film that a country entering the full throes of a yuppie consumer crisis would be expected to make. Unfortunately, the government didn't see its creation as quite so necessary, and purportedly due to some explicit sex scenes ("sensuality" in our own MPAA's parlance), the film was banned in China (though according to Time, plenty of its citizens are watching it online anyway, along with the uncensored version of Lust, Caution) and its makers prohibited from making films on the mainland for two years. It's just as likely, however, that the film was kept from theaters due to its uniformly grim and unromantic view of modern-day China, one that seems to be blazing at full and unreflective speed into an unattractively modern future with nary a glance to the past.



The two couples who make up the majority of this tight-knit film are hardly the kind of entrepreneurs the Chinese government would want to present as the face of the new China. Dong (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) runs a quite successful massage parlor and has a regular assignation with a prostitute while his wife Wang-mei (Elaine Jin) sulks in her splendidly appointed apartment. Ping-guo (Fan Bingbing) works at Dong's parlor as a masseuse; she and her high-rise window-washer husband An-kun (Tong Da Wei) share a grim hole of an apartment that seems par for the course in Beijing. Ping-guo and An-kun seem poor but at least happy with each other; a state of existence that's abruptly shattered when An-kun, after staying out drinking with a friend, stumbles back to the massage parlor and passes out only to wake up and find herself being raped by Dong.



Which is where writers Fang Li (also the producer) and Li Yu (also the director) take things off the deep end. Not only is An-kun raped by her boss, but her husband Ping-guo, who just so happens to be washing the windows at the massage parlor that day, looks in and sees what has happened. It's a coincidence that in surer hands would have then led to either tragedy or farce -- nothing else would quite seem sensible after such a ludicrous happening -- but in this case turns more into sheer melodrama with pretensions of something grander; a Lifetime movie for the disaffected. A pregnancy follows, along with recriminations, grand schemes, revenge affairs, and so on down through the list of easy narrative twists until few are left.



Li has a fine hand on her material, in terms of direction. The look is sleek and brightly-hued, as befits the roaringly modern city that dwarfs these people: Beijing is all skyscrapers and highways, looking like a scrubbed-clean version of Los Angeles. Her camera has a jabbing voyeurism to it that's perfect for the just slightly tawdry material, and the acting (particularly by the most veteran of the bunch, Tony Leung Ka Fai) is generally naturalistic enough to keep the story's weaker points from showing too dramatically. With its brisk international style, Lost in Beijing looks like it could have been shot by any talented film school graduate from almost anywhere, which is probably the point. But unfortunately with each new twist in the story (now the blackmail attempt, and now the tearful accusation), whatever meaning the film might have had about China's disaffected, new striving capitalists, lost in the chaos and clutter, drains out even faster.



Aka Pin guo, Ping guo.







I may be lost, but I found this money.

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Mel B - Mel B To Duet With Janet Jackson


Former SPICE GIRL MELANIE BROWN is teaming up with superstars JANET JACKSON and MISSY ELLIOT to have another crack at solo success.

Scary Spice's solo career slumped prior to the girl group's recent reunion; her last single failed to reach the top 40 in the U.K.

But the now Los Angeles-based star is preparing a comeback, with the help of some very influential friends.

She says, "I not scared of having another try. I am working with the best producers ever. I am now ten tracks in to my new record.

"I am doing something with Janet Jackson which should be amazing. I am also going to hook up with Missy again."





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Ana Ortiz - The Things They Say 8583


"I want to make sure that I have at least three kids. Even if I don't give birth to all of them. Adoption, natural - everything is up in the air!" UGLY BETTY star ANA ORTIZ wants a big family with husband NOAH LEBENZON - and hasn't ruled out adoption.





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