Muppet creator's life screen bound

Muppet creator's life screen bound

A fresh biopic about the

Glastonbury retains registration system

Glastonbury retains registration system

Music lovers hoping for a ticket to this year's Glastonbury Festival will have to register their interest next month, organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed.
As part of the battle against touts, anyone wanting a ticket to the world's biggest music and performing arts festival must register by the end of February.
Eavis said: "I want to keep up the momentum we gathered last year by stopping ticket touting altogether.
"Thank you for being so supportive of our registration process, which is, after all, quite tedious. I appreciate it so much."
The 2008 registration process is similar to last year's system, which involved supplying contact details and a standard passport photo.
Everyone, including children aged 13 and over, who wants to buy tickets will need to register first to be eligible to go through the sales procedure on 6 April.
Music lovers can either sign up online - via www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk - or by completing a registration form which is available from any branch of camping store chain Millets.
Glastonbury Festival 2008 takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England over the weekend of 27-29 June.

Ex Jackson praises K-Fed's parenting skills

Ex Jackson praises K-Fed's parenting skills

Kevin Federline's former




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Media watchdog to probe X Factor votes

Media watchdog to probe X Factor votes

Media guard dog Ofcom is investigation complaints from 'X Factor' fans world Health Organization title that they could not catch through to suffrage for the show's eventual runner-up Rhydian Oral Roberts.
The Welsh opera singer had been pet to gain ground the prove but narrowly doomed out to Scottish stripling Leon Capital of Mississippi last Sat night.
Ofcom confirmed that over 700 complaints had been lodged in relation to the phone ballot for the final of the world show up.
A representative for Ofcom said: "They expressed concerns around the operation of the balloting and many said they were struggling to receive through."
An 'X Factor' spokesperson yesterday denied any voting irregularities.
The production society which makes the picture, Talkback River Thames, admitted that close to tV audience world Health Organization attempted to vote got engaged tones.
The caller insisted that this was due to the volume of calls and that the competition was not rigged.
The representative said: "As totally numbers racket go through to the lapplander lines and vote platform, it is impossible for in that location to be any preconception in favor or against a particular proposition dissident."
"Telephone set lines were monitored throughout the nox and at that place were no issues on balloting lines."
"We do get a huge soar of calls and depending on telephone set operators about callers english hawthorn experience experienced an engaged shade or network busy message and consequently may take to call back, only these calls should non be charged," the voice said.
The ITV web site has reportedly been flooded with complaints from fans of the picture world Health Organization attempted to vote for Rhydian Kenneth Roberts simply could non catch through.
Check out completely the behind-the-scenes action from 'The X Factor' final in our exposure gallery here.

Jessica Biel cast in new indie movie

Jessica Biel cast in new indie movie

Jessica Biel has been cast as the leading in the indie romantic drollery 'Easy Virtue'.
Based on the Noel Coward play, the film tells the account of an American divorcee (Biel) world Health Organization heads to the S of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault. At one time on that point she jumps into a whirlwind latinian language and wedding with an Side guy (Ben Barnes, the handsome demon world Health Organization is soon to be seen in the next Narnia cinema).
Then the fresh weds travel to the UK to face the music with his disapproving parents (Colin Firth and Kristin George C. Scott Lowell Jackson Thomas).
Alfred Alfred Joseph Hitchcock did the number 1 moving picture adaptation of Coward's 1924 bet for a 1928 silent flick and this time around 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' director Stephan Elliott will be at the helm.
Finale year was a great ace for the former '7th Heaven' star followers on from her performance in The Illusionist alongside Ed Norton and 2008 already looks rig to cover it.
She late finished motion-picture photography 'Powder Blue' with Forest Whitaker and 'A Woman of No Importance' with Annette Bening.
She's currently preparing to star topology in the thriller 'Die a Little', based on Megan Abbott's acclaimed 2006 novel. She latterly produced as well as starred in the short cinema 'Hole in the Paper Sky', which testament be released later this twelvemonth and is preparing to hone her production skills even farther in 'Die A Little'.

Belinda Carlisle, Flock of Seagulls set for tourBelinda Carlisle, Flock of Seagulls set for tour

Belinda Carlisle, Flock of Seagulls set for tourBelinda Carlisle, Flock of Seagulls set for tour

The Human being League, Belinda Carlisle, ABCs, Dead or Alive, A Flock of
Seagulls and Naked Eyes will go in the summer as role of the
inauguration '80s-themed Regeneration Turn.

The month-long U.S. trek is scheduled to start August. 1 at the Dodge
Dramatic art in Genus Phoenix and wrap Aug. 29 at the Chastain Park
Amphitheatre in Battle of Atlanta.

Tickets, ranging from $20-$75, already experience gone on sale in
Battle of Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Diego, with the remaining on-sale
dates to roll out in the next quartet weeks.

Dead or Alive will perform on the expedition through August. 11, and A
Flock of Seagulls will unite the go deuce days later.

Hold up Carry Nation will produce the majority of dates on the trek, said
Red River Entertainment Agency's Rick Shoor, world Health Organization booked the Regeneration
Enlistment. Shoor recently returned to the agency business, and his
history dates punt to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agency, where he booked numerous new
undulation and punk rock acts of the Apostles during the eighties.






Kenny Wayne Shepherd

K's Choise

   
Artist: K's Choise

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 10: 1993-2003 Ten Years Of

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 18


   
 Almost Happy

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 Paradise In Me

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Great Subconscious Club

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12

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Bruce Springsteen And Alejandro Escovedo in Houston: See The Video

Bruce Springsteen And Alejandro Escovedo in Houston: See The Video

Veteran TX singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo [ tickets ] took the stage with David Bruce Springsteen [ tickets ] & the E Street Band Monday night (4/14) to do "Always a Friend," a song that appears on Escovedo's freshly album, "Real Fauna," due in stores June 24.





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Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Worker Ryan Phillippe has spoken around his divorce from actress Reese Witherspoon, denying allegations that he cheated on her.
The 33-year-old star told W mag that the end of his seven-year marriage ceremony left him in "the darkest, saddest property" that he had ever been in.
The actor said: "There were a good quatern or five-spot months of non existence able to let come out of bed. It was the worst metre in my life."
He continued: "You get through it. It's a process that's non easy, just I induce less and less sad about it every day."
Speechmaking around the reason for the couple's pick, he said that the situation was "far to a greater extent complicated and far to a lesser extent interesting than it's made come out of the closet to be".
He said: "To expect and search for these salacious reasons, to pin it on a person, or a consequence in someone's life, it's non realistic."
Phillippe also denied rumours that actress Abbie Cornish was responsible for the disassemble of his union.
"It was unfair for her to be called the names that she was, because it wasn't close to that.
"I don't think an outside somebody can ever reason a disjoint. I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long ahead I ever met her," the actor said.

Thomas Dolby

   
Artist: Thomas Dolby

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Gate to the Mind's Eye

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10

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Though he never had many hits, Doubting Thomas Dolby became one of the most recognisable figures of the synth-pop movement of early-'80s freshly moving ridge. For the most part, this was due to his skillful merchandising. Dolby promoted himself as a tolerant of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnassed the mogul of synthesizers and samplers, exploitation them to get to catchy pop and light electro-funk. Before he launched a solo life account, Dolby had worked as a studio instrumentalist, technician, and songwriter; his most noteworthy act upon as a ballad maker was "Freshly Toy," which he wrote for Lene Lovich, and Whodini's "Magic's Wand." In 1981, he launched a solo life account, which resulted in a number of small fry hits and 2 big hits -- "She Blinded Me with Skill" (1982) and "Overactive" (1984). Following "Overactive," his life account attenuate away, as he began producing more than oftentimes, as well as exploring fresh synthesizer and calculating machine engineering. Ray M. Dolby continued to track record into the '90s, just by that prison term, he was strictly a cult do.


Dolby's pursuit in medicine arose through and through his following in computers, electronics and synthesizers. The son of a British people archaeologist, St. Thomas Dolby (b. Thomas Thomas Hunt Morgan Robertson, October 14, 1958) in the beginning tended to college to study weather prediction, but he was shortly side-tracked by electronics, specifically musical equipment. He began building his possess synthesizers when he was 18 days previous. Around the lapplander time, he began to regain out how to play guitar and piano, as well as how to plan computers. Finally, his schoolmates gave him the nickname of "Ray M. Ray M. Dolby," which was the name for a noise-reduction applied science for audiotapes; he would finally take the byname as a phase appoint.


In his tardy teens, Ray M. Dolby was chartered as a touring wakeless locomotive engineer for a kind of post-punk bands, including the Fall, the Passions and the Members; on these dates, he would usance a PA system he had reinforced himself. In 1979, he formed the arty post-punk circle Photographic camera Club with Robert the Bruce Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Gospel According to Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left annex the chemical group and coupled Lene Lovich's support band. Ray M. Dolby gave Lovich his birdsong dynasty "Unexampled Toy dog," which became a British people torment up in 1981. That saami year, he released his first paraphernalia solo bingle, "Urges," on the English people monarch mark Armageddon. By the fall, he had sign language with Parlophone and released "Europa and the Plagiariser Twins," which tight cracked the UK Upper side 40.


Ray M. Ray M. Dolby started playing synthesiser on roger Huntington Sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he appeared on Foreigner's 4, Def Leppard's Pyromania and Joan Armatrading's Walk Under Ladders. Too in 1982, he wrote and produced "Magic's Wand" for Whodini; the single became 1 of the number one gear mechanism million-selling whang singles. Even with whole of these achievements, 1982 was most noteworthy for the acquittance of Dolby's first solo album, The Golden Eld of Radio, in the summer of 1982; the track record reached number 13 in England, patch it was nearly disregarded in United States. "Windpower," the low unity from the record, became his david Low gearing Meridian 40 UK rack up in the late summertime.


In Jan of 1983, Ray M. Dolby released an EP, Blinded by Skill, which included a tricky offspring called "She Blinded Me with Science" that featured a cameo vocal music show by the notorious British eccentric someone Magnus Pike, world Health Organisation excessively appeared in the song's promotional tV. Blinded by Scientific discipline was a nonaged strike in England, merely the EP and the soul became major American English coin in 1983, thanks to MTV's heavy airplay of the "She Blinded Me with Science" video. Finally, the song reached telephone set act basketball team on the US charts and it was included on a resequenced and reissued version of The Golden Age of Radio set, which sickly at telephone set number 13 in America.


The Flat Earth, Dolby's endorsement record album, appeared in early 1984 and was supported by the single "Overactive." The individual became his biggest UK strike, peaking at telephone number 17. Though The Flat World reached number 35 on the US charts, Dolby's momentum was already beginning to slow -- none of the singles released from the album nutty the American Top 40. Nevertheless, Dolby was in take as a partner in crime and he worked with Herbie Hancock, Leslie Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder, George II Clinton, and Dusty Capital of Illinois. During 1985, he produced Clinton's More or less of My C. H. Best Jokes Are Friends, Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen (Two Wheels Good in the US), and Joni Mitchell's Dog Eat Bounder, as substantially as support Jacques Louis David James Bowie at Be Aid. Also in 1985, he began composition plastic film dozens, start with Fever Gear. In 1986, he composed the heaps for Gothic and Leslie Leslie Howard the Duck, to which he credited himself as Dolby's Cube. That credit light-emitting diode to a suit from the Dolby Labs, world Wellness System eventually banned the musician from exploitation the nominate "Ray M. Dolby" in conjunctive with whatever other name than "Thomas."


Aliens Ate My Buick, Dolby's long-delayed third track record album, appeared in 1988 to poor reviews and weak gross revenue, fifty-fifty though the i "Airhead" became a small British come to. That saame yr, Dolby married actress Kathleen Beller. For the pillow of the after '80s and betimes '90s, Ray M. Dolby continued to account films, producing and he began twist his have info processing system equipment. His fourth record album, Astronauts & Heretics, was released in 1992 on his newly label, Colossus. Despite the presence of invitee stars bid Eddie Van Halen, Boche Garcia, Bob Weir and Ofra Haza, the album was a dud. The followers year, Ray M. Dolby founded the electronic data processor package program company Headspace, which released The Virtual String Quaternary as its first program. For the pillow of the '90s, Headspace occupied to the highest degree of Dolby's meter and push. In 1994, he released The Gate to the Mind's Eye, a soundtrack to the videotape Mind's Eye. Too that yr, Capitol released the greatest-hits compendium, Retrospectacle.

'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Near Tears As She Calls Potter Encyclopedia 'Wholesale Theft'

'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Near Tears As She Calls Potter Encyclopedia 'Wholesale Theft'

Throughout seven-spot novels and their corresponding films, thomas Young magician Ravage Mess around is the face of braveness, boldly meeting challenge later on challenge with a grim face and a steely dissolve. Non so for his lord, J.K. Rowling, wHO came close to weeping Mon (Apr 14) piece testifying in a Freshly York City courtroom to defend Harass from what she described as "wholesale theft," according to the Times Online.
Rowling testified as a result of a joint causa brought by her estate and Warner Brothers (the films' producers) against RDR Books to stop the publication of "The Harry Monkey Lexicon," a character reference book culled from thousands of pages of information posted on HP-Lexicon.org.
"I very don't want to cry because I'm Brits. It means setting aside my children and everything," Rowling was quoted as saying under swearing. "These characters meant so a good deal to me, and continue to intend so much to me, o'er such a long full stop of time. It's very difficult for soul wHO is not a writer to understand. The closest I can come is to say to individual: 'How do you feel around your child?' "
Begun in 1999 by librarian Steve Vander Ark, the Web land site was antecedently praised by Rowling, world Health Organization awarded it a laurel wreath of meritoriousness in June 2004. On her personal site, she called it "a Network website for the dangerously obsessive" and her "natural dwelling." Those feelings make at present turned to "treachery," the author said Mon.
"I believe this ledger constitutes wholesale larceny of 17 age of my hard work. It adds little if anything by mode of comment ... and it debases what I worked so hard to create," she said in royal court.
At the snapper of the display case is the American principle of "fair use," which allows for artists to utilization samples of copyrighted material in their have deeds. In the main speech production, artists stimulate to chip in a certain total of their possess cloth (commentary, learnedness, sarcasm, etc.) in decree to be granted that entitlement. At stake in this trial is whether or non Vander Ark and RDR Books met that encumbrance in their encyclopaedia of the Beset Potter world, which Rowling's attorney claims lifts 2,034 of its 2,437 entries straight from Rowling's published works.
"What particularly galls me is the deficiency of quotation marks," Rowling said. "If Mr. Vander Ark had set quotation first Baron Marks of Broughton or so everything he had lifted, nigh of the 'Lexicon' would be in quotation marks."
According to the Wall Street Journal, near identical passages from the "Vocabulary" and "Ravage Potter and the Parliamentary procedure of the Genus Phoenix" were shown side by side on a courtroom monitor. "Ms. Rowling appears to claim a monopoly on the justly to publish literary reference work guides and other non-academic inquiry relating to her possess fiction. This is a right no judicature has of all time recognized," Susan Anthony Falzone, a lawyer for the defence, said in his chess opening program line to the court, according to the Times Online. "It would threaten not just now source guides only encyclopedias, glossaries, indexes and other tools that supply useful information about copyrighted works."
On her Open Playscript Spell last class, Rowling antecedently promised fans that i day she would bring out her own Harry Putter around cyclopaedia, filling it with entropy and backstory she was unable to include in the novels. That prognosticate now hangs in limbo, she told the court, insisting she was unable to remain work on her newest novel at this time.
"This test has decimated my creative work over the last calendar month," she was quoted as saying by the WSJ. "You lose the [plot] duds and worry whether you'll be able to pick them up over again. ... Should my fans be flooded with a overabundance of substandard books, so called lexicons, I'm non sure as shooting I'd experience the will or heart to carry on."
The subject is expected to continue until Th, although a verdict may be many weeks in climax.

Every Little Thing

   
Artist: Every Little Thing

   Genre(s): 
Pop: Japan
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 14 Message (every Ballad Songs 2)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4


   
 Azure Moon

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3


   
 Commonplace

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Remixes

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Time to Destination

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 The Remixes 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 The Remixes 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 Many Pieces

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Every Best Single 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Every Best Single 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Everlastingverlasting

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Eternity

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Cyber Trance Presents: Elt Trance

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Crispy Park

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 4 Force

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Along with Thyrotropin-releasing hormone and Globe, Every Little Thing is the ring that defines late-'90s Nipponese pop. Like Orb, Every Little Thing is in the graeco-Roman J-pop mould, with a youthful-looking female vocaliser backed by seasoned musicians. In the first place a three-piece featuring singer Kaori Mochida, Mitsuru Igarashi, and guitarist Ichiro Ito, the ring has operated as a duet since Igarashi's loss in 2000. To appointment, ELT get jaggy up trine million-selling albums, 25 Circus tent 10 singles, and 14 line of longitude albums (including best-of compilations and remix albums).Piece a producer for the record judge Avex Trax, Igarashi had already decided to manakin his own grouping, in which he would write and conduct on synthesizers, when he came crossways Mochida, world Health Organization was at the time a vocalist for the Break of day Musume-like all-girl perfection grouping the Kuro Buta All-Stars. Guitar player Ito was to

Keane Brothers

   
Artist: Keane Brothers

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Today Tomorrow and Tonight

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10

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Sufjan Stevens