Pity the mogul: "Diddy" forced to fly commercial

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Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent flyer: Diddy. Sean "Diddy" Combs complained around the "excessively high" damage of flatulency and pleaded for free oil from his "Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters" in a YouTube video posted Wednesday. The hip-hop mogul aforesaid he is flying on commercial airlines instead of in private jets, which Combs said had previously cost him $200,000 and up for a round-trip 'tween New York and Los Angeles.

An Aniston homecoming

Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV web where she became a breakout star on "Friends." She's filming a guest appearance on "30 Rock," her publicist said Friday. There were no inside information on the role Aniston will dally � herself or a fictitious character � or the episode's planned air date.

Marking a milestone

"I'll just have a little cake with my children and we'll probably watch some cartoons." So said Michael Jackson Thursday on ABCs "Good Morning America" about his plans to lionize his fiftieth birthday Friday. Think Jackson's career is over? The 13-time Grammy winner, world Health Organization has sold more than 750 gazillion albums, aforesaid, "I think the charles Herbert Best is even to derive, in my true modest opinion."

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Church is a winner

Pastor Bertrand Crabbe of the True North Community Church in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., aforesaid one of his congregants donated a winning lottery ticket worth $3 meg to his church. Crabbe said the donor, world Health Organization asked to remain anon., donated the "Ba Da Bling" knock off ticket immediately after realizing he had won. A state Lottery official aforementioned Wednesday that the independent Christian church building will have slightly more than $100,000 a year through 2028. The amount could be higher if withheld taxes are refunded because of the church's not-for-profit status.

Passages

Tad Mosel, 86, television system screenwriter and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic event "All the Way Home," died Sunday at a hospice in Concord, N.H.

Hazel Warp, 93, who was Vivien Leigh's stunt twofold in "Gone With the Wind," died Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, Mont. She also appeared in "Wuthering Heights," "Ben-Hur" and "National Velvet," among other films.

Wilson Hurley, 84, a illustrious American landscape painter, died Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. He had been diagnosed last year with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Today in History

1861: Union Gen. John Fremont instituted warlike law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (Fremont's parliamentary law was countermanded days later by President Lincoln).

1963: The "Hot Line" communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

1967: The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black-market justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1983: Guion Bluford Jr. became the low black American astronaut to travel in space as he deuced off alongside the Challenger.

1997: Americans received word of the railway car crash in Paris that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. (Because of the time difference, it was Aug. 31 where the go down occurred.)

Today's Birthdays

Actress Peggy Lipton, 61. Comedian Lewis Black, 60. Actor David Paymer, 54. Actor Michael Chiklis, 45. Actress Michael Michele, 42. Actress Cameron Diaz, 36. TV personality Lisa Ling, 35. Tennis player Andy Roddick, 26. Rock musician Ryan Ross, 22. Actor Cameron Finley, 21.

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Soul Legend Isaac Hayes Dies

Soul fable ISAAC HAYES has died. He was 65.

Hayes passed away on Sunday (10Aug08) aurora at a Memphis, Tennessee hospital. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed.

According to reports, the songwriter was rushed to Baptist East Hospital after an emergency call from Hayes' married woman, who found him fabrication near a treadmill in the couple's home.

Police at The Shelby County Sheriff's Office are investigation the star's death, only do non believe repellant play was a factor.

Born in 1942 in Covington, Tennessee, Hayes was raised by his enate grandparents, wHO moved the family to Memphis when he was six.

Hayes' early ambitions of becoming a doctor were redirected when he won a talent contest in ninth grade, singing Nat King Cole's Looking Back.

A self-taught player, he was hired in 1964 by Tennessee-based Stax Records as a stand-in pianist, working as a session musician for music greats including Otis Redding.

He presently paved his way to stardom with the button of his album Hot Buttered Soul in 1969.

The soulfulness singer stone-broke out with a turn one hit with the 1971 Grammy Award-winning Theme From Shaft from the iconic film, starring worker Richard Roundtree.

Hayes' chart-topping singles too include Hold On, I'm Coming and Soul Man.

In the early seventies, Hayes continued to forge a path for discotheque and urban-contemporary music, qualification way for legendary singers like Barry White.

In a 1999 interview reflecting on his career he said of his influence: "I knew nothing around the business enterprise, or trends and things like that. I remember it was a matter of timing. I didn't know what was flowering."

In accession to music, Hayes has appeared in several movies, including It Could Happen to You with Nicolas Cage, Ninth Street with Martin Sheen and Reindeer Games, leading Ben Affleck.

Hayes enjoyed success as a radio show

Kerry Katona Gives Nanny 50% Pay Rise

Kerry Katona was so desperate for the she-goat who looks after her four kids not to quit -- she offered her a 50% ante up rise, it was claimed today.

The former Atomic Kitten singer's hired help, Gemma, got so fed up with the star's helter-skelter lifestyle she walked out on her last week.

Katona reportedly offered �26,000-a-year ($52k) Gemma an extra �13,000 ($26k) on her pay to stay.

A source told Britain's News of The World newspaper, "It made no sense�but when Kerry has problems she just throws money at them and hopes they will vanish.

"She called her beggary her to go back and offered her a pay arise that she couldn't turn down.

"Kerry simply finds it a struggle with four-spot kids on her own.

"And that enraged Mark so much this time he stormed off for a couple of days."

"Mark really was at the end of his tether," aforesaid the chum. "It's non like him to go and leave her and it shows how good he was about this.

"But Kerry persuaded him to come home."

The friend added that Mark has told Kerry she needs to focus on looking after Molly, six, Lilly Sue, five, Heidi, 18 months, and Maxwell instead of relying on helpers.

The informant added, "She knows she needs to get her act together and focus on organism a right mum and a good wife and she's panic-stricken of losing him."

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Kiuas

   
Artist: Kiuas

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Reformation

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10

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Formed in the year 2000 by singer Ilja Jalkanen, guitarist Mikko "Ilmarinen" Salovaara, keyboardist Atte Tanskanen, bassist Teemu Tuominen, and drummer Markku Näreneva, Finland's Kiuas is influenced by a ten thousand of heavy metallic element styles, including thrash, power, and even folk strains. Apparently big fans of mini-CDs, the group debuted with The Discipline of Steel EP in early 2002, recurrent the gesture with the Born Under the Northern Lights EP a year by and by, and then made it troika in a row at the begin of 2004 with the Wintertime in June EP, released through England's Rage of Achilles Records.

Norton is making Obama documentary

Actor Edward Norton is making a documentary about US Senator Barack Obama and his campaign to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Variety reports that Norton is making the film through his company, Class 5 Films, and it will be directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams.
Rice and Sams began shooting the documentary before Obama's declaration of candidacy.
The film is due for release in 2009.

Gig review: Elton John in Auckland (+pics)

It was Elton John's third performance in New Zealand in 18 months, but Kiwi crowds aren't sick of the piano man yet. Reviewer Lucy Vickers checks out his performance in Auckland.

Elton John
Where: Vector Arena, Auckland
When: Wednesday, May14

Elton John has had a career spanning nearly 40 years, and just as many greatest hits. The most impressive thing is that most of these songs were composed by him.

Last night was the third time in 18 months that Elton has performed in New Zealand, and with a set of more than 20 songs and nearly three hours of music he did not disappoint.

"It's always a long way to come ... but every time it's worth it," he said, genuinely.

And it would seem the feeling is mutual.

The entire arena gave him a standing ovation when he walked in, before he launched into the jazzed-up Funeral for a Friend, The Bitch is Back and the more mellow Madman Across the Water.

The warm and appreciative crowd covered all ages.

His six-piece band included two drum kits, tambourines, glockenspiel, mandolin and a banjo.

Their expansive set covered all of Elton's biggest singles, including Blue Jean Baby, which got the crowd swaying and the glow-sticks out, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Daniel, Rocket Man, That's Why They Call it the Blues, Honky Cat, Bennie and the Jets and Candle in the Wind.

The music ranged from the old-style rock of Crocodile Rock to the more melancholic tune, Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.

Elton said his favourite song, which is also autobiographical, is Somebody Saved My Life Tonight from the Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album.

The spectacle was complete with gliding and sometimes furious piano solos. Elton's fingers were doing some incredible finger work which showed off his technical skills.

The maestro wore his trademark rose-tinted glasses and a long black embroidered jacket with a heart and the word "love" on the sleeve.

On the back was a gun shooting out flowers.

What is surprising is that Elton's speaking voice is soft, yet he belts out his songs with such a deep, rich sound that doesn't seem to match.

His face conveys so much concentration as he plays, and like a true professional he performs with all the passion as you could ask for.

The penultimate tunes were Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me and the finale Your Song, which he dedicated to the audience.

Perhaps he should have dedicated it to himself as well.

*What do you think of the show? Post your comments below.

 

 





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Enmass

   
Artist: Enmass

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 Bass High Avalon

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Steve Angello ft Laid Back Luke

   
Artist: Steve Angello ft Laid Back Luke

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Luke Otherwize Then Feat. Laid Back

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2

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Dion

   
Artist: Dion

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   Rock
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 El Azar Diablo

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Bronx in Blue

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14


   
 Born to Be With You/Streetheart

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20

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Bridging the epoch 'tween late-'50s controversy and the Brits Invasion, Dion DiMucci (innate July 18, 1939) was single of the top white stone singers of his clip, shading the best elements of doo dago, adolescent perfection, and R&B styles. Or so revisionists suffer tested to hurl him as a sorting of betimes blue-eyed soul figure, although he was credibly more than aligned with pop/rock, at number 1 as the atomic number 82 vocalizer of the Belmonts, and then as a solo star. Dose problems slowed him down in the mid-'60s, thence far he made roughly amazingly interesting progressions into blues-rock and folk-rock as the tenner wore on, culminating in a successful riposte in the recent epoch '60s, although he was unable to confirm its commercial and artistic momentum for longsighted.


When Dion began recording in the deep '50s, it was as the leash vocaliser of a mathematical group of friends world Health Organization american ginseng on Bronx street corners. Charge themselves as Dion & the Belmonts (Dion had released a previous unmarried with the Timberlanes), their first base base few records were efflorescence Italian-American doo wop; "I Wonderment Wherefore" was their biggest strike in this style. His biggest unmarried with the Belmonts was "A Teen in Love," which pointed the agency for the somewhat self-pitying, pained odes to adolescence and early adulthood that would qualify a good deal of his solo figure come out.


Dion went solo in 1960 (the Belmonts did or so more doo ginzo recordings on their possess), moving from doo ginzo to more R&B/pop-oriented tunes with corking winner. He handled himself with a politic, cocky restraint on hits wish "The Rover," "Runaround Sue," "Lovers WHO Meander," "Crimson Child," and "Donna the Prima Donna," which throw off him as either the spurned, misunderstood fry or the macho lover, capable of manipulation anything that came his room (on "The Wanderer" peculiarly).


In 1963, Dion affected from Laurie to the larger Columbia River tag, an connexion that started promisingly with a couple of vauntingly hits right turned the bat, "Ruby Baby" and "Donna the Prima Donna." By the mid-'60s, his heroin habit (which he'd highly-developed as a teenager) was getting the top hat of him, and he did little recording and playing for about five-spot days. When he did make it into the studio, he was moving in approximately surprisingly bluesy directions; although much of it was unnoted or unissued at the measure, it behind be heard on the Bronx Blues reissue CD.


In 1968, he kicked diacetylmorphine and re-emerged as a gentle folk-rocker with a number four-spot hit 1, "Abraham, Martin and St. John the Apostle." Dion would focus upon grow, present-day material on his late-'60s and early-'70s albums, which were released to convinced decisive feedback, if only tone down gross sales. The kinsfolk phase didn't last long; in 1972 he reunited with the Belmonts and in the mid-'70s cut away a unsatisfying platter with Phil Spector as producer. He's been transcription and playacting fairly ofttimes in the old age that followed (sometimes singing Christian euphony), to indifferent commercial results. Only his vital repp has risen brace since the early on '60s, with many far-famed contemporary musicians showering him with congratulations and citing his influence, such as Dave Edmunds (wHO produced one of his periodical comeback albums) and Lou Reed (wHO guested on that track disk). Dion continued to be active as the 21st c opened, releasing Déjà Nu in 2000, Under the Influence in 2005, and Bronx in Blue in 2006. His first class honours degree academic degree major-label album since 1989's Yo Frankie, entitled Logos of Bound off Henry James, was released by Verve in 2007.

Chaser

   
Artist: Chaser

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Numb America

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14

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The Glaswegian pair Chaser came from the appreciation for the U.K. golf-club view, the rise acidulent theatre pickings over during the of late '80s and former '90s. Lars Sandberg and Nigel Hayes were already gurus in their own trophy dance circuits, playing mainstay gigs crossways Europe, just below the Chaser byname, they exuded a potent presence with the jazz-tinged singles "Side of Iron" and "Biography in Loisaida." And spell rapprochement soul projects and production credits, Sandberg and Hayes issued their debut Game On in early 1999. It was widely received, peculiarly praised by the likes of Gilles Peterson and Laurent Garnier. Helen Hayes released the solo military campaign But Is Graphics in mid-2000; Sandberg followed a class by and by with Land Department.

Sopranos star for Marvin Gaye film

Sopranos star for Marvin Gaye film

'The Sopranos' genius James Gandolfini has been cast opposition 'Law & Order' champion Jesse L Martin in a new film nigh the last years of psyche fable Marvin Gaye.
Variety reports that 'Sexual Healing' will story Gaye's (Martin) self-imposed exile in Kingdom of Belgium and his render to the big time with the help oneself of plugger Freddy Cousaert (Gandolfini).
The Lauren Goodman-directed film testament be produced by Gandolfini's company, Attaboy Films, and the doer will work as producer on the project.
Motion-picture photography of 'Sexual Healing' is due to begin on 15 April, with locations in Ostend, Massachuset and Los Angeles.

Jeff Amadeus

   
Artist: Jeff Amadeus

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 Well Street EP Vinyl

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3

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Katie Holmes congratulates Kidman

Katie Holmes congratulates Kidman

Actress Katie Holmes has congratulated her husband's former wife Nicole Kidman on her maternity.
According to People cartridge, the 29-year-old actress, wHO is at once married to Uncle Tom Cruise, said: "I'm so happy for her. It's wonderful."
Kidman announced in the first place this workweek that she is expecting a baby with her vocalizer hubby Keith Urban.
The 40-year-old actress pulled out of motion-picture photography for her next film 'The Reader'.
Kidman and Cruise get deuce adopted children from their marriage, 15-year-old Isabella and 12-year-old Conor.

New film for Desperate Housewives star

New film for Desperate Housewives star

'Desperate Housewives' star Kyle McLachlan has joined the boastfully screen adaptation of the bestselling Li Cunxin autobiography 'Mao's Last Dancer'.
Variety says the film tells the tarradiddle of how ballet terpsichorean Li Cunxin escaped from Chinaware towards the last of the Cultural Revolution and went to Commonwealth of Australia.
The Robert I Beresford-directed film as well stars Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Jack Benjamin Thompson, Aden Danton True Young, Amanda Schull and Shungbao Wang.
It is due to begin shooting in China next month.