Sean Combs - Combs Calls Out Mccain For Choice Of Running Mate

Rapper SEAN COMBS has launched a scathing attack on U.S. presidential campaigner JOHN MCCAIN, calling his decision to appoint SARAH PALIN as his running mate "irresponsible".

The hip-hop mogul has been urging youths to economic consumption their vote in the upcoming elections to help shape their future - and he's not impressed with Republican MCCain's "crazy" choice of a running mate.

In a new video posted on-line, Combs questions whether Palin, the Governor of Alaska, has whatever knowledge of the poorness problems facing the U.S., and whether there are even any black people living in her state.

He says, "Attention John MCCain, my name is Diddy. You may know me by my government refer Sean Combs...

"I had to check in with you to tell you that you are bugging the f**k out. I don't fifty-fifty understand what planet you're on now. This is your job to be the leader of the free world. No discourtesy... but things happen. Like... you got a running mate, I mean, Alaska? Alaska?... I don't know if there's any black people in Alaska... Sarah Palin? You really think that we're gonna let you in the White House with all these crazy decisions that you're making? You're bugging.

"I'm calling all youth, all colors, all youth voters. November 4th, we have to take our future. The lady (Palin)'s nice, she's cool, just she's a heartbeat away from the president... just what in the blaze? This i right here is non respectful to our lives... Sarah Palin, that is completely irresponsible. I want you to be down with the whole cabinet, but you ain't ready to be no vice president!"

Palin was unveiled as MCCain's running mate last week (ends29Aug08), but the appointment has been met with criticism from some people, world Health Organization claim she has slight experience working in a main government office.

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Scarlett Johansson - Johanssons Pearl Hits The Stage

SCARLETT JOHANSSON's hit period movie GIRL WITH A PEAR EARRING has been adapted for London's West End stage.

Playwright David Joss Buckley has turned writer Tracy Chevalier's novel into a new theatrical regale, starring Adrian Dunbar as Dutch

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Mad Detective - movie review

Mad Detective? You got it. Officer Bun (Ching Wan Lau) has a reputation, not unlike director
Johnny To, for beguiling acts of self-torture to prove that he means business. When
Ho (Andy On), his new partner, first meets him, the detective is busy stabbing the
hanging corpse of a large pig. A moment later, Ho is asked to zip Bun inside a piece
of luggage and toss him down several flights of stairs. By the time Bun goes Picasso
on his ear to honor the retiring Chief of Police, you're not surprised by much of
anything he does.



18 months later, Ho tracks down the now-retired Bun to serve him see a missing policeman
that many think was shooting by an Indian during a routine stakeout. The missing man,
Wong, was last seen with his partner Chi Wai (an intense Lam Ka Tung), a crooked
cop with a feral streak. Ho wants to ascertain Bun's most supernatural ability: The
detective can see people's inner personalities, what they actually are under their
well-worn esthetics. It doesn't take much for Bun to surmise Chi Wai when he notices
the police military officer has seven-spot personas, including a fat lard with a penchant for shark's
fin soup and an ice-cold businesswoman.



Last year, To let it all hang up out in his spaghetti western manna from heaven Exiled after playing
it straight with the powerhouse Triad Election. Visually glorious, Exiled was bone-bare
as a story and goose egg in complexness, but its atmosphere was dusky and strangely playful.
Action films frame their chaos, drift, and explosions in tidy packages; To romanticized
the gangland theatrics by giving them space and elegance, turning set-pieces into whirling
storm clouds of zipping bullets, trenchcoats caught in perpetual updraft, and bodies
floating in a writhed ether.



Sadly, Mad Detective doesn't have moments that graze either Exiled's absurd beauty or Tri
ad Election's business-end brutality. What it does attain is its have ragged visual complexity:
The way To and co-director Wai Ka Fai stuff the screen with every passing glint
of psychosis is startlingly engaging. The actors ar competent merely Wan Lau feels
wish Detective House M.D., with less satire and more schizo. He has the answer for
everything and he's invariably sure of it, piece the audience is still grappling at what
to make of To's optical landscape. With everything out in the sunlight, it's hard
to negotiate what's important to the boilers suit arc. Mad Detective is an intriguing exercise
in genre through imagery, just it's also cluttered to be gripping or even entertaining.
The things To wants to contemplate just don't look as good in the light of day.



Aka Sun taam.












Mad potty.

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Dom F.Scab

   
Artist: Dom F.Scab

   Genre(s): 
Other
   New Age
   Electronic: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 Crosswords

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 Twelve Stories

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 About A Tree

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Facta

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Analogical Confessions

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 8


   
 Path Finder

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


   
 Binary Secrets

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Ancient Tracks

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Innerseed

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9

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Angelina Jolie - Jolie Records Psa For World Refugee Day

Hollywood superstar ANGELINA JOLIE has recorded a public service announcement to help raise awareness about World Refugee Day.

In the new TV ad, the pregnant star - a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency - describes the hardship millions of refugees face when their country is at war.

As video footage of their plight is played, Jolie says, "They have survived the war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease. For those who have survived and for those who did not, we are thinking of you on this day."

The clip began airing online on Wednesday morning (18Jun08) in preparation of World Refugee Day on 20 June (08).

But Jolie's humanitarian efforts do not end there - she is also set to write an article for a leading U.S. newspaper to coincide with World Refugee Day.

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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera Not Necessarily the Campiest Thing Ever

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The news from the opera world seems at first glance custom-made for parody: New York City Opera has ordered up an opera based on Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain? (What’s next, an opera based on An Inconvenient Truth? Oh, right.) You might think that monosyllabic Wyoming ranch hands would be poor candidates for operatic characters —a shrug and a grimace can be eloquent on the page or the screen, but they kind of fizzle in a medium where the audience is expecting hours of actual singing. You might likewise believe that the composer Charles Wuorinen’s dissonance-heavy, tender-as-granite modernism to be an odd fit with a tale of fishing-trip love. Finally, you might be of the opinion that the only thing campier than a pair of singing cowboys is a couple of gay opera-singing cowboys.



But consider the precedents that tradition has to offer: a long roster of characters with complicated sexual-identity issues (Mozart’s Cherubino from Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss’s Octavian from Rosenkavalier, and Gluck’s Orestes and Pylades from Iphigénie en Tauride, to name a few); inarticulate protagonists (Britten’s Peter Grimes and Billy Budd, Jake Heggie’s Joseph in Dead Man Walking); and even a cowboy opera (Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West). It’s even possible that Wuorinen’s tormented style of lyricism will be the perfect counterpart to the story’s tangle of repression, desire, confusion, anger, and shame. At least it’s safe to assume he won’t hang Act One on a sentimental love duet. Check back in with New York City Opera in 2013 to find out. —Justin Davidson

'Brokeback,' the Opera [NYT]

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Chinese cinema to ban Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone is facing a boycott of her films in China after she said the May 12 earthquake could have been the result of bad "karma." Read the full story

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Baby Dee

   
Artist: Baby Dee

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Little Window

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 8

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Performance creative person, ballad maker, classically trained harper, circus sideshow vet, and transgender street legend Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent ten-spot days as medicine director and organist for a Catholic christian church in the Bronx before connexion the circus as the two-sided androgyne at Coney Island. This landed her a spear as the bandleader for operation nontextual matter group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a circuit with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street do on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. She recorded her number 1 record, Little Window, on the Durtro pronounce in 2000, a four-track EP in 2001, and her second full-length, the double-disc Love's Small Song, in 2002. Dee returned to Ohio during the latter record's recording, pickings vows as a novice of the Little Sisters of Crabby Doom (a Cleveland-based order dedicated to the fear of fetid older men), vows that she has since forsaken. For her one-third full-length recording, Dee recruited a typically eclectic uS Army of fellow musicians, including Will Oldham, Andrew W.K., Robbie Lee, Max Moston (Mark Anthony and the Johnsons), Bill Breeze (Psychical TV), John Contreras (Electric current 93), James Lo (Carlos Chavez), and Lia Kessel. The resulting Safe Inside the Day arrived in January 2008 on Drag City Records.

Blunt is critical of Spears' media treatment

Singer James Blunt has hit out at the media for reporting on Britney Spears' personal life and habits rather than her music.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Blunt described Spears as a "phenomenal artist", before criticising the media for reporting on the fact that she was photographed wearing no underwear.
"I think when you put the emphasis on her knickers and not on her talent, you lose perspective," he said.
"It really detracts, as a whole, from things that are really important, like global warming and war."
"Sending paparazzi to investigate things like this is useless. We're better than that; we have the power to teach and educate. Let's spend our time on that."

Stallone considering more Rambo, Rocky sequels

Sylvester Stallone is considering scripts for further sequels in his 'Rocky' and 'Rambo' franchises, despite vowing never to revive either of the legendary characters again.
The action star has signed a multimillion dollar deal to direct and star in two new action films, which may feature his two best known characters.
The actor will again link-up with 'Rambo' producers Danny Dimbort, Avi Lerner and Trevor Short of Nu Image/Millennium Films following the success of his recent films 'John Rambo' and 'Rocky Balboa'.
He told the Hollywood Reporter: "The past year and a half of working with Avi, his partners Danny and Trevor and his film family has been nothing but a high point for me and my career and an extremely rewarding experience. Avi is a real gentleman and a man of his word."
Stallone's 2006 film 'Rocky Balboa' grossed $70m, while the fourth instalment in the 'Rambo' franchise took $18.2m in its opening weekend in the US last month.
The 61-year-old is also separately working on a remake of the 1974 vigilante drama 'Death Wish'.

The Demigodz

   
Artist: The Demigodz

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 The Godz Must Be Crazy

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7

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Arnold Schwarzenegger - Schwarzenegger To Uphold Same-sex Marriage Ruling

Action man-turned-politician ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER's bid to outlaw same-sex marriage in California has been overturned by the state's Supreme Court.

Officials have ruled that gay marriages are legal unions in the state, and those who wed during a spate of same-sex nuptials at San Francisco's City Hall in 2004 will be recognised as married couples.

Those marriages were all declared void by officials who were against same-sex marriages.

Governor Schwarzenegger was among those who opposed the gay weddings.

But on Thursday (15May08), the Supreme Court officials ruled state laws against same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.

In a statement released shortly after the ruling, Schwarzenegger declared he will "respect" and "uphold" the decision.

The former movie star also reiterated previous promises he made to California's gay community, that he will not support "an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this State Supreme Court ruling".

California becomes the second U.S. state to legalise same-sex marriage.

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Early release for Brit's album

Britney Spears' new album Blackout is coming sooner than expected after leaks have meant illegal distribution of unfinished material and demos.

The US pop star's eagerly anticipated new album will be released on October 30, Jive Records announced today, citing internet leaks as the reason the date was moved up from November 13. Jive said it "is doing everything possible to prevent and avoid any further illegal distribution of songs," including the leaking of "unfinished material and demos represented as completed legitimate songs" to the internet. Spears' new song, Gimme More is the first single from Blackout. It is rising on the music charts - jumping from No 68 to No 3 on Billboard's Hot 100 last week - despite the pop star's personal woes. AP

Yoomiii

   
Artist: Yoomiii

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Here We Are

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13

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German pop chemical group Yoomiii hit the ground linear in spring of 2006. Kristin Siegel, Nina Alexandra Filipp, and Bouchra Nisha Tjon Pon Fong were signed by the Na Klar label, under BMG Berlin. The young ladies were thrown and twisted headlong into a rigorous docket of picture shoots, TV appearances, stage dancing breeding, and infinite interviews with the German teen-oriented compress. Pop star boot camp not only if prepped the offspring performers for the market, simply vice versa as advantageously. By the meter their number 1 individual, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme," hit the airwaves, European younker were already quite conversant with the name Yoomiii. The song debuted on May 6, 2006, at number 14 in Germany, and in the Top Five on Austrian and Swiss charts. The subsequent track record liberation standard a similar reception. Here We Are landed in the Top 20 nationally, faring fifty-fifty better overseas. The ladies' follow-up single, "A Kiss Is All I Miss," exhausted various weeks in the Top 50. Yoomiii rounded out 2006 with a national duty tour and the release of their first DVD, and kicked off 2007 with their off individual "Rhythm method of birth control of Love," whetting appetites throughout the pop-loving earth for their sophomore effort, Countenance the Music Play, which was released May 5, 2007.

Halcyon Gallery to Hold First Gallery Exhibition of Bob Dylan Art

The Drawn Blank Series Launches in London on 14 June 2008

LONDON, May 15 -- One of London's most prestigious
galleries, Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair, will present the first ever gallery
exhibition of Bob Dylan's artwork, beginning 14 June 2008. The Drawn Blank
Series exhibition is the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of
Bob Dylan's art ever assembled. While Dylan has been a committed visual
artist for more than four decades, The Drawn Blank Series will cast a
vibrant new light on the singular creativity of one of the world's most
important and influential cultural figures.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080510/304328 )

Based on drawings and sketches made by Dylan while on the road during
the period of 1989 through 1992, the paintings in The Drawn Blank Series
visually echo the stylistic hallmarks of Dylan's prose, poetry and music.
Just as Dylan's songs are constantly reinvigorated and rediscovered through
his live performances, so these paintings revisit images and scenes which
were captured in all their immediacy by the artist.

The Drawn Blank Series has resulted in an exhibition which explores the
experience of dislocation and the ceaseless confrontation with new faces
and new places which has characterised Dylan's life on tour. Feelings of
anonymity, transience, rootlessness and sometimes loneliness pervade these
representations of the people, objects and places that Dylan has seen and
drawn.

Accompanying the originals exhibition at Halcyon Gallery, a unique and
impressive collection of limited edition graphics, signed by the artist,
will be available through selected galleries throughout the UK from 14 June
2008.

Paul Green, President of the Halcyon Gallery, commented, "This is an
incredible opportunity for viewing this powerful body of work which gives
an insight into the artists' soul; and which have already been the subject
of widespread critical acclaim. Halcyon Gallery is privileged to be hosting
this unique exhibition."

Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed songwriters,
musicians and performers, having sold more than 110 million albums and
performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career
spanning five decades. His most recent album, Modern Times - lauded by
critics around the world and selling more than 2.5 million copies to date
-- entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #1, as well as debuting
within the Top Five in 21 other countries.

Bob Dylan was recently awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for "his
profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical
compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In 2001, he received a Golden
Globe and an Academy Award for best song from a motion picture for "Things
Have Changed" from the movie Wonder Boys. Dylan's Chronicles - Volume I,
his recent memoirs released in October, 2004, was a world-wide best seller,
spending 19 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall Of
Fame in 1982.

Situated in the heart of Mayfair, London, Halcyon Gallery is one of
Europe's leading art galleries, representing some of the finest
contemporary painters and sculptors working today. Halcyon Gallery is
committed to supporting and nurturing outstanding living artists, as well
as specialising in fine art and masters original paintings, drawings and
sculpture.

2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Halcyon Gallery and the opening of a
magnificent new flagship gallery at 24 Bruton Street. This elegant Georgian
building has been renovated to create a stunning exhibition space suitable
for the finest art and joins Halcyon Gallery's existing space at 29 New
Bond Street.

For further information about the exhibition of the original Dylan
works at Halcyon Gallery please visit http://www.halcyongallery.com

For further information on the limited edition graphics collection
please visit http://www.bobdylanart.com




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