Artist: Harlem Hustlers
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Love is the Answer
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Friday, 6 June 2008
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Dr Phil visits Spears during hospital stay
Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly received a visit from television therapist Dr Phil McGraw.
Spears reportedly received the visit during her stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, where she was admitted following a custody dispute over her two young children at her home.
Spears was taken to the hospital for evaluation after police officers observed her to be under the influence of an unknown substance. She was discharged on Saturday.
According to People magazine, Dr Phil McGraw visited the singer and her family during her stay in hospital.
Sam Lufti, a friend of the singer, said: "I witnessed Dr Phil being incredibly influential in helping the family unite. His meeting with Britney has certainly made a positive impact instilling seeds of encouragement and reality within her."
He also said: "In the near future it is likely that more information may be shared with the public with the hopes of better understanding a situation as serious as this."
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has now ordered Spears' children to be placed in the sole care of her ex-husband Kevin Federline, suspending the pop star's visitation rights until "further order of the court".
A hearing has been set for 14 January which will determine how the custody battle will proceed.
Spears reportedly received the visit during her stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, where she was admitted following a custody dispute over her two young children at her home.
Spears was taken to the hospital for evaluation after police officers observed her to be under the influence of an unknown substance. She was discharged on Saturday.
According to People magazine, Dr Phil McGraw visited the singer and her family during her stay in hospital.
Sam Lufti, a friend of the singer, said: "I witnessed Dr Phil being incredibly influential in helping the family unite. His meeting with Britney has certainly made a positive impact instilling seeds of encouragement and reality within her."
He also said: "In the near future it is likely that more information may be shared with the public with the hopes of better understanding a situation as serious as this."
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has now ordered Spears' children to be placed in the sole care of her ex-husband Kevin Federline, suspending the pop star's visitation rights until "further order of the court".
A hearing has been set for 14 January which will determine how the custody battle will proceed.
Heath Ledger Acting Scholarship Established
A Heath Ledger Scholarship is being launched to help aspiring Australian actors follow in the late star's footsteps.
Australians in Film has established a fund, which it will present each year to a young up-and-coming performer with aspirations of Hollywood stardom.
Aussie Ledger died in January, aged just 28, after accidentally overdosing on prescription drugs at his New York apartment.
The organisation, founded in 2001 to support Australians in the movie and TV industries, has also announced actresses Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska will be honoured at its fourth annual breakthrough awards at a Beverly Hills, California ceremony on 5 June.
Australians in Film has established a fund, which it will present each year to a young up-and-coming performer with aspirations of Hollywood stardom.
Aussie Ledger died in January, aged just 28, after accidentally overdosing on prescription drugs at his New York apartment.
The organisation, founded in 2001 to support Australians in the movie and TV industries, has also announced actresses Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska will be honoured at its fourth annual breakthrough awards at a Beverly Hills, California ceremony on 5 June.
Cameron's 8 Simple Rules to the Big Screen
'The Devil Wears Prada' producer Wendy Finerman is bringing W Bruce Cameron's book '8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter' to the big screen.
Cameron's '8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter' is the sequel to his bestseller-turned-hit TV series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron is adapting his semi-autobiographical novel into a comedy with co-writer Cathryn Michon, author of the 'Grrl Genius Guide' book series.
The film will offer wry commentary in the same vein as his 2001 book '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter', the basis of ABC's eponymous series starring the late John Ritter.
The plot will revolve around a divorced dad juggling a younger girlfriend and two daughters who both get engaged at the same time.
The book's subtitle, 'And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not That Anyone Is Paying Attention)' provides a clue to the central theme.
Cameron's '8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter' is the sequel to his bestseller-turned-hit TV series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron is adapting his semi-autobiographical novel into a comedy with co-writer Cathryn Michon, author of the 'Grrl Genius Guide' book series.
The film will offer wry commentary in the same vein as his 2001 book '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter', the basis of ABC's eponymous series starring the late John Ritter.
The plot will revolve around a divorced dad juggling a younger girlfriend and two daughters who both get engaged at the same time.
The book's subtitle, 'And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not That Anyone Is Paying Attention)' provides a clue to the central theme.
Bo Diddley, guitarist who inspired the Beatles and the Stones, dies aged 79
Bo Diddley, the pioneering electric guitarist who was playing rock'n'roll when white America was still calling it jungle music and without whom there might never have been Elvis Presley, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, has died at the age of 79.
Famous for his square, homemade guitar which he plucked with oversize fingers to a relentless syncopated beat, crudely summed up as "bomp ba-bomp bomp bomp bomp", Diddley was one of the giants of popular music.
He died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida yesterday, having worked relentlessly, partly out of necessity, partly out of love, almost until the end of his life. He suffered a stroke while touring in Iowa last year followed three months later by a heart attack. His spokeswoman said his ability to speak had been severely affected and he was ordered to rest and rehabilitate at his 76-acre property where he kept his recording studio.
Diddley was a contemporary of both Little Richard and Chuck Berry, though his refusal to compromise with TV executives and court white audiences meant he never enjoyed their level of fame.
In 1955, Diddley became the first black artist to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show but was banned from further appearances after he defied Sullivan's instructions to sing a cover song and instead performed his own hit "Bo Diddley".
Diddley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
He released his first and eponymous single in 1955 with "I'm a Man" on the B side. Other major songs included, "Say Man, Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule".
Diddley, real name Otha Ellas Bates, was born into a family of sharecroppers in McComb in southwestern Mississippi, later to become one of the most violent fronts in America's post-war civil rights battles. He never knew his mother and was raised by a cousin. The family swapped the hardship of rural America in the Depression for the equally hostile surroundings of Chicago where at least the factories offered steady work.
There on the South Side he swapped the violin for the guitar and first heard the music of Muddy Waters and the man who was to become his idol, John Lee Hooker.
Diddley recorded more than 20 albums on the legendary Chess label until 1974. By now mired in debt, he was forced to sell the rights to his songs having, he claimed, rarely been paid for his live performances.
It was a decision he bitterly regretted and he remained furious over the record industry's treatment of him. "I am owed. I've never got paid," he used to tell interviewers. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In recent years he had harsh words for the direction black music had taken, saying that "gangsta" rap made his blood boil.
"I hate it. I call it rap-crap," Diddley said in a 1996 interview. "I can't seem to get my records played but they'll play all this garbage."
He also had mixed feelings over the way he was treated by other artists. "They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
The man who influenced many
Bo Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the "Bo Diddley beat" for "Not Fade Away", while the Rolling Stones' remake of the same song gave them their first chart single in the US in 1964. The following year, the Yardbirds made the top 20 in the US with their version of "I'm a Man". John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and The Who were also influenced by the guitarist. Diddley once said of other performers: "I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it. I don't have any idols I copy. They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there."
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ENRICO MACIAS
Artist: ENRICO MACIAS
Genre(s):
Other
Folk
Chanson
Discography:
Best Of The Best (Vol 2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
L' Oriental
Year: 2004
Tracks: 24
Oranges Ameres
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Al'OLYMPIA
Year: 2003
Tracks: 25
Les Grandes Chansons des Premiere Annees (CD2)
Year:
Tracks: 23
Les Grandes Chansons des Premiere Annees (CD1)
Year:
Tracks: 23
Hommage Cheikh Raymond (CD2)
Year:
Tracks: 11
Hommage Cheikh Raymond (CD1)
Year:
Tracks: 11
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD7
Year:
Tracks: 34
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD6
Year:
Tracks: 25
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD5
Year:
Tracks: 25
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD4
Year:
Tracks: 25
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD3
Year:
Tracks: 25
Enrico Macias 190 chansons trier, CD2
Year:
Tracks: 25
Discographie Complete
Year:
Tracks: 109
15 Grands Succes
Year:
Tracks: 22
Queen Latifah - Latifah Launches Fragrance
Rapper/actress QUEEN LATIFAH has become the latest celebrity to launch her own perfume.
The star is set to release her fragrance next year (09).
She says, "For me, beauty really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind - a state of love, if you will. So, I see fragrance as just a natural expression of this state of love: Scent expresses a woman's confidence and sensuality. It's how she embraces her body, her mind and her strength."
Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez have all launched their own fragrances.
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