More awards for Oscar-tipped Atonement & other: 2008

Monday, 8 September 2008

Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?

LOS ANGELES () - Boy necromancer Harry Potter won't be whipping up his legerdemain when the fall cinema season begins next workweek, but Hollywood is hoping momentum from summer hits like "The Dark Knight" and a wide merge of young movies will keep audiences happy into the holidays.

Two weeks ago, Warner Bros. yanked "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from a November release and pushed it to adjacent July, which could spell trouble at box offices because the previous quaternity "Potter" films averaged $920 million in worldwide tag sales. That is a lot of movie conjuration.

But a orbit of films from broad comedies such as "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" to thrillers like "Eagle Eye" and art planetary house fare including "Flash of Genius" could sustain the summer upswing, studio executives and box office watchers said.

"You've got it all," said Paul Dergarabedian of box office staff tracker Media By Numbers, when assessing the mentality from September through mid-November, when the new James Bond flicker, "Quantum of Solace," kicks off holiday season moviegoing.

Last year, Hollywood also came off a strong summer after raking in a record $4.18 gazillion in North American gross, but then came a slate filled with war films such as "In the Valley of Elah" and dark dramas that tanked at box offices.

When the summertime movie season officially ends on Monday's U.S. Labor Day holiday, box agency watchers again expect a summer tally of over $4 one million million. A honorable chunk of that comes from the blockbuster Batman sequel "The Dark Knight."

This fall Hollywood seems to take in learned a lesson from its cutting 2007 as it dishes up such light-hearted entries as Joel and Ethan Coen's bonkers new drollery "Burn After Reading" leading Brad Pitt and George Clooney; the animated sequel "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"; and Disney's latest stripling confection, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."

On a more than serious promissory note, Clint Eastwood provocative thriller, "Changeling," leading Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, testament also make its commercial debut.�

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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Pooling Of Birth Cohorts Provides Insights Into The Role Of Genes And The Environment In Asthma

�Atopy and asthma ar diseases that are known to be caused by
environmental factors and many genes. Since multiple genes and many environmental factors contribute to
disease evolution, one inevitably large groups of asthma patients and
unaffected controls in order to discover which genes and
environmental factors are important.

Dirkje S. Postma (University Medical Center Groningen, the
Netherlands) and his colleagues pooled data from three big Dutch
birth cohorts (PIAMA, PREVASC and KOALA).

This first prospective cohort study shows highly significant and
consistent associations at ages 1, 2, 4 and 8 age between allergic reaction
and the interleukin (IL)13 gene; IL13 is a protein critical in
allergy development.

Also, gene-environmental interactions were found in the pooled
analyses: polymorphisms in CD14 genes were associated with a lower
risk of exposure for atopic allergy at age 4 and 8 years in children who were exposed to
pets, with an opposite effect in non-exposed children.

The successful identification of gene - environment interactions when
pooling data from three well-characterised Dutch birth cohorts
justifies a confident attitude towards future studies that use pooled
data from age bracket studies.

These studies crataegus oxycantha improve insights into type I allergic reaction and bronchial asthma pathogenesis
and open novel avenues for preventive and therapeutic strategies.

Title Of The Original Article
Interleukin 13, CD14, favourite and tobacco smoke influence atopy in three Dutch cohorts: the allergenic study

The European Respiratory Journal is the peer-reviewed scientific publication of the European Respiratory Society (more than than 8,000 specialists in lung diseases and respiratory medicine in Europe, the
United States and Australia).

European Respiratory Journal

The European Respiratory Society (ERS)

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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Urban review: Yo Majesty, Futuristically Speaking ... Never Be Afraid

Yo Majesty are Florida 's Shunda K and Jwl B , who differentiate in brutal booty-bass hip hop that replaces the usual stereotypes with a punky lesbian bent. Recently back from touring with CSS and the Gossip, the duet channel the outer edges of OutKast, with stripped, hyper- sexual electro-bass and they regular find space for a ballad.

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Sunday, 10 August 2008

Lily Allen Denies Breast Slip Was Deliberate

Lily Allen has responded to claims that she deliberately slipped a boob to gain publicity, saying that it simply wasn't the case.

The 'Smile' hitmaker - world Health Organization is presently finishing-off her second record album - reacted to the negative claims, by posting a message on her popular MySpace blog. Allen says:

"I wore a informal fitting jersey yesterday. I was selfsame hot in London yesterday and it's no secret I don't like eroding bras, in any case I don't need to, measuring in at 32A it scarcely seems necessary."

"My boob fell out twice and people on the blogs ar saying it was a publicity stunt." Lily continued. "Can I just say, I experience been keeping myself very much to myself recently, I've been gardening, decorating my newfangled flat and looking afterwards my bereaved grandfather."

"I'm actually trying really hard to be out of the public centre, as I'm really proud of the work I've put into my record album and I want multitude to value the music, yes I enjoy attention and praise, thats why I went into this job."

"But don't accuse me of purposely slipping out of my clothes to get attention and press. I hate the fact that there are always 10 middle aged men following me all over that I go."

Allen's second album is reportedly coroneted 'Stuck On The Naughty Step' and Lindsay Lohan is aforementioned to peach on 1 song named 'Wherever You Go'.

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Robbie Williams waiting for an UFO

London (ANI): English singer songwriter Robbie Williams has found a new hobby - camping. Williams has been enjoying his camping trips into the Californian wilderness with his mates. To ensure that he has the best time on his trip, he has bought a tent, cooking gear, sleeping bag, survival equipment and all the best outdoor gear that he needs. The main attraction for Williams is sleeping under the stars and waiting for a UFO to show up. "Rob has been taking pals out to the woods for long weekends. He wants to live like a cowboy in a Western," The Sun quoted a source as saying. "He also has a fascination with UFOs and thinks he has more chance of seeing one away from LA's bright lights," the source added.

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Deadsoul Tribe

Artist: Deadsoul Tribe

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

A Lullaby for the Devil

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

Dead Soul Tribe is a band founded by Devon Graves. "Devon Graves" is actually a anonym of Buddy Lackey (Psycho Waltz). Although in his previous band, Lackey was merely the vocalist, with Dead Soul Tribe he proves himself to be multi-talented. Not only did he write all the music and lyrics for the group's 2002 self-titled debut, just he as well handles guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion, flute, and, of course, vocal duties. To occupy prohibited the lineup, Graves recruited drummer Adel Moustafa, bassist Roland Ivenz, and guitarist Volker Wilschko.

Monday, 16 June 2008

Sean Connery - Connery Inspires Ne-yo Album

R+B star NE-YO relied on a bizarre source of inspiration while recording his 2007 album BECAUSE OF YOU - he used SEAN CONNERY's portrayal of JAMES BOND as his muse.

The So Sick hitmaker is a huge fan of the superspy franchise - particularly admiring Connery's role as 007 - and was desperate to incorporate the character into his album.

He explains, "Sean Connery is an absolute gentleman. His portrayal of James Bond was a lot of the inspiration for the album. I love his look, his swagger. The ladies loved him and all the guys wanted to be him.

"He never let people see him sweat and he had an answer for any situation. In essence, as Bond he was strong - regal but not bossy and confident but not conceited."

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Friday, 6 June 2008

The Grouch, Daddy Kev and D-Styles

Artist: The Grouch, Daddy Kev and D-Styles

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Sound Advice

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Robert Downey Jr - Downey Jr Delighted By Parkerbroderick Pairing

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is delighted his former girlfriend SARAH JESSICA PARKER found love with MATTHEW BRODERICK - because the actor is "a lot more gifted and grounded" than he is.

The couple dated for seven years until they split in 1991 - but the once troubled Downey Jr. admits he was still deeply in love with the Sex + The City star.

Parker married fellow actor Broderick in 1997 - with whom she has one child, five-year-old James Wilkie.

Downey Jr. tells Parade magazine, "I was in love with Sarah Jessica, and love clearly was not enough. I was meant to move on. And, after some heartache, she was meant to find her home with a great star.

"He (Broderick) is a lot more gifted and grounded than I ever was. They have a great kid."

Downey Jr. is now with his second wife Susan Levin, who he married in 2005.

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Thursday, 22 May 2008

Clifford White

Artist: Clifford White

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Ascension

Year: 1985
Tracks: 9

Ex EastEnder recovering after health scare

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Lily Allen's TV show fails to attract viewers

Lily Allen's fresh utter establish failed to attract a significant number of viewing audience, when it aired as contribution of BBC3's re-launch on Tuesday night.
The pop up singer has turned TV presenter with 'Lily Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen and Friends', yet the senior high school profile TV show attracted just now 255,000 viewers, about 2% of the consultation portion according to reports.
The first base dark guests were Hollywood histrion Cuba Gooding Jr and comedian Jacques Louis David Mitchell.
Despite the figures a spokeswoman for the digital channel said: "It's a solid start for the show. It's only the kickoff one just it performed really well with the 16-34 age group."
More or less audience members were reported to have walked out of the recording because they were so bored.
But Allen Stewart Konigsberg, 22, wrote in her MySpace blog: "The audience were great, standing in a hot studio for iI hours observance me fluff my lines is non my idea of fun, but they seemed to revel it."
She continued: "Due to it beingness the first indicate we've done, we ran o'er a little and of course a small number of the audience had to catch the last trains second to wheresoever they came from."
Allen latterly suffered a stillbirth and said she was "trying to get back up to normality after what has been a rocky start to the yr".

Monday, 28 April 2008

Puppets with some strings

THE Last Shadow PUPPETS - Geezerhood Of The Understatement

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IN the Sixties, in that respect was no stopping the number one creative flushes of youth.

Songs simply poured from the crop up stars of the day. The Beatles, Stones and
Dylan could spill their latest masterpiece album every few months.

As the decades passed, however, things slowed toss off. The music industry began
suppression artists by making laborious, drawn-out marketing strategies to
maximise sales.

In the download years of 2008, however, it’s the artists, not the labels, world Health Organization
are getting back on top and putt music out when they want to on their have
price.

Take Alex Turner. Hush only 22, he’s on an incredible turn over that harks back to
those simpler, perhaps more inexperienced person times.
2006: North Frigid Zone Monkeys determine the sociable landscape of Britain’s youth
with their Mercury-winning debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What
I’m Not.

2007: The band are gage with Favorite Worst Nightmare, this fourth dimension
backed by stadium-sized riffs to underline their huge popularity.
2008: Alex joins buddy Miles Kane on a sonic venture so inspired, so
grand in scale and aspiration and so different from the Arctics that it
confirms a rare talent indeed.

Merseysider Miles, likewise 22, met Alex when his old dance band The Little Flames
toured with the Arctics. He after played more or less guitar on Favorite Worst
Nightmare and he’s now with another indie guitar stria The Rascals, yet to
release an record album.

As The Last Tail Puppets, they worry a domain so distant from mardy bums,
sidesplitter vans and flourescent adolescents.

On their album, The Eld Of The Understatement, with its bold face string
arrangements, guitar twang and harmony vocals, it is incredible that Alex
canful split up himself so completely from the Arctics.

Morrissey, Richard Ashcroft and Ian John Brown take not managed his spirit level of
reinvention in the days they’ve been around. Perhaps only Damon Albarn
(Gorillaz, The Good, The Badly & The Poove and Chinese opera!) has such an
open brain.

Inspired by the classical, emotional, orchestral songs of Robert Falcon Scott Alice Malsenior Walker (in front
he went wholly new wave), the geminate decamped to rural France to a small
studio overlooking pleasant fields and open skies.
Gallops
The other key players were James Gerald Rudolph Ford, Arctics producer too in Simian Mobile
Disco, and Arcade Fervour organizer Owen Pallet world Health Organization light-emitting diode the 22-piece London
Metropolitan Orchestra through the drawing string parts.

It wholly begins with the handsome fraudulent scheme of the title track which gallops along
like close to American theme tune of the 1960s for a show up in the spirit of
Rawhide or Friend The Curiosity Horse cavalry.

The accented voices of Alex and Miles take a minute of acquiring used to simply such
is the great power, commitment and way of their vocalizing it completely begins to make
perfect sense.

The siry Standing Next To Me bidding the hopes, fears, pleasure, and botheration
associated with whitney Moore Young Jr. love, carried along on a fog of string section.
New sound ... Frederick Jackson Turner reinvents himself aboard Kane
As you’d expect from an record album involving the Arctics lyrist, at that place ar stack
of ague observations and unexpected twists. The biting Dissever And Ever so
Madly finds them imploring

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Radiohead, BBC Radio Theatre, London

What makes Radiohead so exhilarating on a big microscope stage is their ability to sway huge audiences to travel with them far outside the standard arena-rock comfort zone. To get a line a fete crowd twitch to the bone-dry electro of Idioteque is to examine horizons broadening. That quiver is, needs, impossible to match in a house where 300 traditionalist fans occupy plush redness seating room, radiating such awe that Thom Yorke prompts roar gleefulness simply by locution "Thank you very lots" in a funny remark interpreter.

Only the modest dimensions of this Tuner 2 session suit the closeness of stopping point year's In Rainbows album (which forms the mass of the set) and set aside the spectator to observe on the dot how this unorthodox grouping operates. Most big bands' thought of sonic derring-do extends to hiring a keyboard player, simply Radiohead ar always rearranging themselves into curious newly shapes, sufficiently egoless to do only what the strain requires.

For a lot of Reckoner, ternary members do no more than shake off percussion instruments. Jonny Greenwood treats his guitar like his synthesisers: just another machine for making strange and beautiful noises. If they set forth come out as a conventional stone band with the writhing, three-guitar attack of Bodysnatchers, they end up resembling the BBC Radiophonic Shop, hunkered down over electronic devices during Everything in Its Right Place, from 2000's Kid A album. Yorke feeds his articulation into a sampler, then walks away, departure it to curlicue around inside the machine like a pilot in a bottle. The frontman efficaciously disassembles himself.

That is wherefore they ar admired, simply they are loved because they tap a deep well of emotion. In Rainbows is their well-nigh shamelessly gorgeous collection of songs to escort - House of Card game is practically a soul record - and Yorke's voice is more and more preoccupied with

Monday, 21 April 2008

Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested

Singer Amy Winehouse has been arrested as part of an investigation into perverting the course of justice.
Police confirmed that the 24-year-old singer was arrested yesterday when she went to a London police station by appointment. She was later released on bail.
A representative for Winehouse's publicity agency said: "It was voluntary and pre-arranged."
The singer is due to return to a London police station in March pending further inquiries.
Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil is currently being held on remand accused of grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The singer recently cancelled all her remaining concert dates for this year, claiming that she could not perform while her husband was in jail.

Tuesday, 15 April 2008