Tuesday 24 June 2008
UNKLE Sounds
Artist: UNKLE Sounds
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
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Tracks: 11
Edit Music For A Film CD1
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Tracks: 13
 
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy And Slash To Feature With Alice
Wednesday 18 June 2008
ICR
Artist: ICR
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
NERVE018
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Daytrip LP CD1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
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Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
 
Pamela Anderson And Tommy Lee Back Together
Stewart: 'Newman Is A Phenomenal Creature'
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Adam Sandler To Star In Judd Apatow Movie About Stand-Up Comics
He's one of the brightest bulbs in the comedy firmament, but if you miss a punch line in the newest Judd Apatow film, the still-untitled "Adam Sandler Project," don't worry, co-star Seth Rogen told MTV News: There will be a lot more to come. No, we seriously mean a lot.
"[The plot will center on] stand-up comedians," Rogen revealed at Friday's screening of "Pineapple Express," where he was on-hand to close out MTV's first-ever Sneak Peek Week.
Apatow, Sandler, Rogen and Leslie Mann in a comedy club? It's a setup Rogen called "hilarious by default." So what's not to like?
"I've got to write an act again. It's been a long time. I haven't done stand-up in, like, 10 years. Even more," Sandler said. "That's why I want to kill Judd Apatow right now. I was so much happier doing nothing!"
For the 41-year-old star of "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," who will be named MTV's fourth-ever Generation Award winner Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards, accepting the role of a stand-up comedian means having to do something he hasn't done in, well, a generation.
And if you're lucky enough to be at the right comedy club this summer, you can join in the misery, Sandler teased.
"You will see me bomb for 15 minutes and walk off [the stage] and punch Judd," Sandler joked of his plans to return to the hot lights of L.A. comedy clubs.
But while the two main characters are both comics, the overarching tone of the movie won't be entirely comical, Sandler cautioned, calling the film "pretty heartbreaking" in parts.
"It's very, very funny. [Me and] my friends who have read the script, all of us were baffled how funny it is," Sandler said. "But there's a lot of stuff going on in the movie."
Indeed, his film about comics might be the most "adult" thing he's ever written, back in March.
"It's a comedy, but it has more drama in it. A hilarious drama is what I'm going for," Apatow said. "Every movie, I'm trying to find a way to go deeper, to tell stories about subjects that are important and make them less and less broad while making them equally as funny. [This film is] another step in that progression.
According to Rogen, the film is scheduled to begin shooting in September.
The MTV Movie Awards will air live on MTV on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET! Find all the latest updates on nominees, presenters, performers, voting, contests, movie exclusives and much more at MovieAwards.MTV.com. And check out Movies.MTV.com for the latest movie news, trailers, photos and more!
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Tatum O'Neal Arraigned Following Drugs Bust
The former child star, who chronicled her recovery from a heroin addiction in her 2004 book A Paper Life, was arrested by police after she was spotted by a narcotics team exchanging money with a man three blocks from her home in the Big Apple.
The actress, daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, initially told cops she was "doing research for a part", according to a police source.
She was arraigned on one misdemeanour charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday morning.
She has been released on her own recognisance and is next due in court on 28 July, reports TMZ.
TV review: Sorry, but I am completely Lost
Lost is increasingly aptly named, as there by now cannot be a viewer left who isn't thoroughly at sea with it. I love it to bits, but these days I'm only watching it as a chore.
Having enthusiastically invested so many hours in it, I'm bloody-mindedly determined to hang on in there, as maddening as Lost now is, because I've become obsessed with getting an answer to at least the first of the many puzzles of the story: what the bloody hell was a gigantic polar bear doing galumphing about on a tropical island?
How did it get there, did it have a wife and cubs, how many mad scientists had it eaten, and didn't the temperate climate play merry hell with its fur?
That damned bear, in the pilot episode four years ago, was the first indicator that what we were looking at was not your standard "castaways on a desert island" adventure soap, but some seriously original science fiction.
But the suspense is no longer killing me. It's annoying me. The dastardly Lost writers are proposing not to give us answers till the year 2010. By then, even I will have probably forgotten the bear.
Last night's season final was as disorienting as usual, coming without the usual finale frisson. Yes, yes, there was a cliffhanger. We see John Locke lying in a coffin.
Locke is one of our very favourite characters. We have even wondered whether he is meant to be some sort of Jesus substitute.
We've always known they were going to kill characters off, but hated to think it would be Locke.
But by now, the thought is sneaking upon us that some fictional euthanasia might bring us closer to the answers quicker. And anyway, on Lost, dead doesn't mean gone. Or even dead.
Instead of gasping, "No! He can't be dead in his coffin," this long-suffering fan thought: "Ho hum, what's the bet he's not really there, or only dead in some metaphysical sense?"
Because Lost, as its followers know, does not treat life or death or geography or matter as anything other than metaphysical constructs capable of being manipulated by Lotto numbers.
Locke could well be simultaneously lying in a coffin, back on the island hewing more pointed sticks, on the operating table donating another kidney to his unscrupulous father and back sitting in his wheelchair doing clerical work as in episode one.
The volley of non-sequiturs in Lost has come so thick and fast, most of us have given up trying to keep up with developments, let alone analyse or second-guess them, because nothing is capable of being made sense of. On the contrary, we are blatantly lied to.
For this season, we've had much time-forwarding to "the Oceanic Six", who are supposed to be the only survivors of that plane crash. But I've counted more than six who've made it back to the real world. There's Jack, Sayid, Ben, Kate, Hurley, baby Aaron, Jin, Sun and young Walt.
And I've probably left out a few, because why would you bother trying to run an accurate tally? The Oceanic Six - or Nine or 11 - are now cropping up all round the world. I fully expect to see Victor the labrador and the giant polar bear wandering up the Champs Elysees together in a forthcoming episode. It'd be about as logical as anything else.
The most stressful thing about Lost is that no one connected with the production has ever been able to confirm that its creator, JJ Abrams, knew what the answers were, or where the story was heading, when they launched Lost.
It's possible he may still not know what it's all about, but is just writing his way in and out of knots till someone thinks of something plausible that allows him to stop.
You can see some of the joins. Charles Widmore, the apparently crazed gazillionaire, was introduced part way through as some sort of key to the plot. He has been rather awkwardly projected back and forwards into the plot.
The gist seems to be he will do anything to possess the secret of the island, and rat-faced Ben will do anything to keep it from him. What are the hopes, then, of any of us poor viewers getting a hold of it?
Anyway, last night, Ben plumbed the depths of the island's most ominously significant vault - and again, I've lost count of the number of hatches, chambers and vaults discovered on the island, each more significant than the last - and did something to something which caused the island to disappear. Poof. Finito. No more.
But like millions of other poor fools, I'll be there waiting for it to reappear out of whatever orifice when the next season comes to air.
*What did you think of the season finale of Lost? Post your comments below.
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Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson dies in diving accident at 44
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson has died in a diving accident outside Sweden's capital.
He was 44. His manager Burkhard Hopper says Svensson died Saturday, but further details of the accident were not immediately available. Svensson and his band, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, became world renowned with their 2002 album "Strange Place for Snow."
It won a string of jazz awards, including the Guinness Jazz in Europe Award and best international act in the BBC Jazz Awards.
In 2005, it became the first European jazz band to be featured on the cover of Downbeat jazz magazine in the U.S.
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Audrey Hepburn - 50s Star Mel Ferrer Dies At 90
Mel Ferrer, whose chiseled good looks helped bring him numerous starring roles in
the 1950s, including ones in The Brave Bulls, Lili, War and Peace, The
Sun Also Rises, has died at age 90 at a convalescent home in Santa Barbara, CA.
He starred in and later produced and directed several films with his third wife, Audrey
Hepburn.
04/06/2008
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Bikini girl chasing big-screen dream
Las Vegas is "everything you see in the movies", says Mission Bay's Hannah Matthews.
And it is in the movies where the model wants to seek her fortune.
She started in television adverts but it was through a bikini competition that she ended up at an international competition in Las Vegas.
Hannah, 23, won Miss Hawaiian Tropic New Zealand 2008 in May which qualified her to compete for the international title.
She was 12th overall, the best result yet for New Zealand in the competition.
Hannah enjoys yoga, running, gym, and can rollerskate. "I like trying new things. I’d do anything at least once."
Her preparations for bikini competitions included a 10-day detox programme.
After the whirlwind week in Vegas she finds New Zealand "tiny, and very quiet".
"You have to be prepared to be more than you are for this. So I am about to learn snowboarding."
Hannah entered her first bikini competition on a whim.
"I thought I had nothing to lose and so much to gain, so why not? And here I am."
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"Hulk" adds $1 million in box office muscle to debut
"Incredible Hulk" opened at No. 1 on box office charts with estimated Friday-through-Sunday ticket sales of $54.5 million, exceeding studio expectations but falling short of its 2003 predecessor that earned $62 million in its debut weekend.
The earlier movie, "Hulk," received mixed reviews when it was released and failed to excite core audiences of mostly young male moviegoers and comic book fans.
As a result, its box office dropped quickly, and "Hulk" ended its theatrical run with just over $130 million, prompting industry analysts to view it as a disappointment for backers at Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios.
The "Hulk" revival was produced by Marvel Studios, part of Marvel Entertainment Inc, and distributed for a fee by Universal Pictures, which is a unit the NBC Universal media division of General Electric Co.
Elsewhere, the weekend's No. 2 film, animated "Kung Fu Panda," made by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and distributed by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, saw its North American weekend tally revised down slightly to $33.6 million from $34.3 million. "Kung Fu Panda" opened at No. 1 the previous weekend.
This week's No. 3 film, director M. Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller "The Happening," saw its box office basically unchanged from Sunday's estimate to Monday's final figure, at $30.5 million. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Steve Gorman and Braden Reddall)