Saturday 30 August 2008

J.J. Abrams�s Next TV Show to Feature Crazy Pig With Monkey Face



"Oh, every day there's something. Yesterday somebody sent me a picture of this crazy pig with a monkey face. So, yeah, there's always something." �J.J. Abrams on where he gets his science ideas [Popular Science/PopSci]

"Imagine Don McLean growing up in Cleveland in the '70s and if he was black, with a little bit of Cat Stevens twisted into his words and a little bit of Richie Havens � that's the thought behind it." �Terrence Howard on his new album, Shine Through It [Reuters via Yahoo]



"I was a little nervous at first, to be honest with you. With the subject matter and singing, 'You make cash giving head, and you use it to buy Sudafed,' did I really want my young fans hearing me say that?"�Kristin Chenoweth on her appearance in the upcoming musical spoof of Intervention about a gay man with a crystal-meth addiction [E!]



"They're in the same vocal area. I just apply the baritone. Eeyore requires a lot more air; he's actually deeper in another way. It's a chest resonance more than anything else. He never yells, and he doesn't laugh. Neither one of them laughs. Optimus doesn't laugh. They chuckle, but they don't laugh." �Voice-over actor Peter Cullen on the similarities between Optimus Prime and Eeyore [Ain't It Cool News]



"[M. Night Shyamalan] gave me the worst advice he could have ever given me. He said, 'After [The Happening], you can never hold a gun again. You know that, right?' I said, 'Are you crazy?' He said, 'I'm serious, don't ever hold a gun again.' And I said, 'I don't know about that, man.'" �Mark Wahlberg prepares to fill the rest of his career with roles that involve guns [Movies Blog/MTV]







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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Jacko pop picked by you

THE results are in for the tracks YOU have chosen to seem on a MICHAEL
JACKSON best of CD.


More than 66,000 votes were regorge ? and it turns kO'd Billie Jean is
your top Jacko track, followed by Smooth Criminal then Beat It.


And for reasons I�m struggling to digest, Earth Song has scraped on
to the King Of Pop album.


The CD is prohibited on August 25 to celebrate the wacko one�s 50th
birthday four days later.


The tracklist in each land will vary depending on that nation�s
votes.

I can�t trust you wanted Earth Song on the UK version. Hang
your heads in shame.


King Of Pop tracklist (in parliamentary procedure of appearance): Billie Jean, Bad, Smooth
Criminal, Thriller, Black Or White, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin�
Somethin�, Don�t Stop �Til You Get Enough, The
Way You Make Me Feel, Rock With You, You Are Not Alone, Man In The Mirror,
Remember The Time, Scream, You Rock My World, They Don�t Care
About Us, Earth Song.




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Sunday 10 August 2008

NY gig marks end of the road for The Police

British careen trio The Police were joined by the existent police for their last concert together - the New York City police band.



Singer and bassist Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers reunited for a world tour last May and have since played 150 concerts for 3.7 zillion people, Sting told the crowd betwixt songs at Madison Square Garden.


"The real triumph of this turn is that we haven't strangled each other," he said, adding: "That's non to pronounce it hasn't crossed my mind, or Stewart's, or Andy's."


There were touches of the surreal in the final fizgig by the band that made its name in the tardy 1970s and 1980s with such hits as Walking on the Moon and Every Breath You Take.


Sting took an unusual break after the main arrange and in front the first encore - lying indorse in a barber's chair backstage as two blond women shaved the salt-and-pepper beard that he had been sportsmanlike, the most obvious planetary house of the passing years.


The beard had come in for some harsh critique from fashion mavens in recent years, though the former teacher was quoted by media this calendar week as expression, "The ladies love it."


His make-over was beamed to a giant screen above the leg as fans cheered and chanted for more music. He bounced back on stage fresh-faced and looking for as supple as ever without his shirt to deliver crowd-pleasers Roxanne and So Lonely.


The band opened with the Cream strain Sunshine of Your Love and were then united by around 20 drummers and musicians of the police striation for Message in a Bottle.


They crataegus laevigata be more used to playing in a marching band, simply the burly uniformed constabulary officers sang along and banged their drums with gusto as Sting strutted his stuff in a police cap.


Later in the set, trey young women who looked like fans popped up on stage, joking around, dancing and taking snapshots as the band played Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.


"These ar my daughters," Sting explained.


The band played all of its bad hits, as well as a few cover songs, ending the encore with Every Breath You Take. The band came back for a brief second encore before finally career it a day with the vocal Next to You.


The concert marked the end of a go that has grossed more than than US$350 million and was the biggest merchandising tour of 2007.


The Police fused kindling with reggae grooves and intricate arrangements to hit global popularity before ripping in 1984.


Sting went on to a hugely successful solo life history, while Copeland and Summers have besides stayed in the job, recording and scoring music for the movie industry.


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