Jonas Brothers Series To Mimick Hannah Montana

The Jonas Brothers have re-written their new TV show and it bares a similarity to fellow Disney series Hannah Montana.

Just as Miley Cyrus has an alter ego in the show, Jonas Brothers will play the role of a rock-and-roll band at night, piece living a normal teen life in the day.

The New York Daily News reports how the series will be set in a born-again New Jersey firehouse, with filming to be held in Los Angeles.

The fresh reports contrasts with recent claims that the Jonas Brothers would be doing a comedy music show, as inspired by Flight Of The Conchords.

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Pumpkinhead

Toward the end of the '80s, special effects artists had literally get gods. They had instigated and then escorted in the genre revisionism of the geological era, while pickings their physical art form as far as the pre-computer years would reserve. Such names as Tom Savini, Rob Bottin, Chris Walas, and Kevin Yeager were all championed by a burgeoning collection of horror geeks giddy o'er their latex paint and Kayro skill correct. By 1988, the recent Stan Winston was as well a member of this visionary Valhalla. His play on Terminator, Aliens, and Predator made him a creature-creating b. B. King. And as with many in his order, it was thinking he could translate his talent into the field of view of guiding. Pumpkinhead proven them right.


Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) is a single father functional a pocket-size grocery store along the outskirts of town. He loves his little boy Billy (Matthew Hurley) and dotes over him ceaselessly. When a group of teenagers wander into ithiel Town, motorcycles in tow, Harley senses trouble. Sure enough, an fortuity involving his son turns fatal. Devastated, our parent turns to a bushwhacker family for help. Seems they know the whereabouts of a legendary hag who tin can unleash a vengeful spirit known as Pumpkinhead. Knowing he volition never pillow until something is done, Harley makes the necessary blood sacrifice, and unleashes the deadly demon. Little does he know that while his boy will be avenged, his own soul is in mortal danger.


Relying heavily on both rural folklore and yet another leading performance from B-movie maverick Henriksen, Pumpkinhead is a near classical monster movie. Filled with mood and atmosphere, it only suffers from a limited production budget and Winston's relation inexperience behind the camera. Clearly, the F/X whiz understands the basics of the genre. We get voodoo black magic, late night visits to a fog-covered burial ground, the standard array of aggressive adolescents, and one helluva of a beastie. With its firm storytelling and attention to art blueprint and detail, what we wind up with is an supra average attack at transcending the Greed decade's fast, cheap, and cheesy fright ideals.


It's impossible to tell enough good things almost Henriksen. He owns every aspect of this film, his emotional depth providing the grief, the madness, and the regret that comes with his actions. Though many consider him a sultan of shlock, the role player actually got his take up in high profile transportation such as Dog Day Afternoon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Right Stuff. Yet thanks to his work with James Cameron (where, oddly enough, he met Winston), he has suit synonymous with movie sick -- and that rattling doesn't do him justice. As Ed Harley, Henriksen comes off as poor, proud, and protective of what he has. When his only child is taken from him, his reaction is so nuanced and natural that we'd buy any response -- including a 10-foot-tall terror sprung straight from his id.


While the teen characters are comparatively interchangeable, Winston does a good job of reconciliation their sloppiness with consideration. A duet of the gals even challenge the boys for their reckless ways. But once the title devil is unleashed, the photographic film has to rely on the customary shocks and nighttime action scenes to get by. It's a testament to Winston's underlying talent that he manages to pull them off with small logistical error. Indeed, without his involvement behind the lens and Henriksen's in front, Pumpkinhead would have been a serviceable if subpar monster-on-the-loose exercise. But thanks to both of these certified creepshow legends, what could be platitudinous comes off as hideous, and quite honorable.

Phalanx

   
Artist: Phalanx

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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 Symphony in Gminor CDM

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3

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Lindsay Lohan Fires Back at Police 'Gay' Remark

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Lindsay Lohan said Friday that police force have no business acquiring involved in her personal life, a day later the constabulary chief explained that the paparazzi were no longer an issuance � in part because the 22-year-old actress had evidently "at rest gay."

"Police chiefs shouldn't

Lake fires back at AMA for childbirth statement

NEW YORK —

Ricki Lake is firing back at physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.

The 39-year-old former talk-show host is named in a recent statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that says the home is not the safest setting for having a baby.

In her film "The Business of Being Born," a documentary about the maternity care system that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Lake is shown giving birth in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment to her second son Owen, who turns 7 on Wednesday.

The ACOG statement, supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, said, "There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries," citing a "Today Show" headline that read "Ricki Lake takes on the baby birthing industry: Actress and former talk show host shares her at-home delivery in her new film."

"It's scary that both (the ACOG and the AMA) have sort of targeted me," Lake told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "And, you know, I'm all about choice. This is not unlike the abortion issue. I am pro-choice when it comes to childbirth and choices in birth. Home birth was around long before hospitals were taking over - and I just think women need to know (the information) so that they can make the best choice for them."

The AMA resolves in the statement to support state legislation "that helps ensure safe deliveries and healthy babies by acknowledging that the safest setting" is a hospital, connected birthing center or other approved facility.

"There's a lot of provocative things that are said in the film," she said, "but I think it's very clear that we need doctors, we need the care and the technology that we have. But we also need to value the process of giving birth normally."

Lake said she had no problems delivering her oldest son Milo, 11, at the hospital, but "looking back on it, I felt that I did not necessarily need the intervention. I didn't need the (drug Pitocin, which induces labor). I just should have labored on my own."

The second time around, as long as her pregnancy continued to be low-risk, she decided to give birth at home.

"I was empowered, I was transformed and I would love for women to have had that opportunity - to be an active participant in their own birth choices and birth experience," she said.

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Jessica Simpson - Simpson Has Marriage On Her Mind Despite Split Reports

JESSICA SIMPSON is laughing off reports she and boyfriend TONY ROMO have split, suggesting the sports star might be marrying material.

With Dallas Cowboys star Romo in Chicago, Illinois for promotional duties and Simpson working in Los Angeles, rumours are rife the couple has split, but she insists that's not the case.

And, as if to prove a point, the singer/actress admits she has marriage on her mind: "I want to be married and have kids. I have a future ahead."

But she wants to make sure her second trip up the aisle is forever after splitting from her first husband Nick Lachey.

She says, "I don't know about that yet - I've been down that aisle."

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Madonna speaks about pain of adoption

Singer Madonna has spoken about the "painful" struggle that she went through while adopting her son David from Malawi.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, the singer said that she was happy to be a "guinea pig" in the hope of easing future adoptions for other people.
Madonna is currently waiting for a High Court to decide on whether her adoption of David is legal, after claims that it does not conform with international conventions and procedures under the country's law.
"Up until this time there wasn't an adoption law, so consequently I'm sort of the template or the role model, so to speak, for future adoptions," she said.
"Hopefully after we get through this adoption it will be easier for other people to adopt children and I'm happy to be the guinea pig," she said.
The singer was presenting the film 'I Am Because We Are', a documentary about the plight of children in Malawi.
Speaking about her adoption struggle, she said: "Yes it was painful and it was a big struggle and I didn't understand it, but in the end I rationalised that when a woman has a child and goes through natural child birth she suffers an enormous amount."
"So I sort of went through my own kind of birthing pains dealing with the press on my front doorstep and accusing me of kidnapping or whatever you want to call it. In the end it made me stronger so I can't complain."

A Night at the Chinese Opera, Theatre Royal, Glasgow

A Night at the Chinese Opera, Theatre Royal, Glasgow

A tank's gun drum looms into vista in the first few proceedings of Scottish Opera's freshly production of Judith Weir's first opera house, sweeping a porcelain vase to the ground. A Night at the Chinese Opera may be localise in 14th-century provincial Nationalist China when the area was threatened by Kublai Khan, simply, as the matter of fact blending of historical periods and styles in Lee Blakeley's staging (with designs by Jean-Marc Puissant) implies, repression and savagery take in been constants in the country's history. Such concerns, though, ar truly hardly a backcloth to Weir's wry, witty and poisonous nightshade drama, with its neat nesting of i tale, the Chinese opera performed in the instant play, inside another, and whose story lines tellingly converge. Though get-go performed in 1987, this is the work's stage premiere in Weir's native Scotland, and after to a greater extent than 20 days, it is still the perfective tense unification of her text and music that dazzles, with not a gesture wasted.










With Singan Jonathan Edwards conducting, that deadly lucidness is terrifically conveyed. The Scots Opera Orchestra shows how preciously every greenback is, and row make out crosswise so sharply, the English surtitles are to a greater extent than unremarkably redundant. Just the score's economy creates its own problems for a director. Blakeley's knockabout staging of the Chinese opera is deftly hilarious, with Rebekah de Pont Davies outstanding as the leader of the acting troupe. In that location ar approximately alright performances elsewhere, too (Duke of Edinburgh Salmon's alright turns as the watcher world Health Organization overlooks the Mongolian invasion and as a imitation Italian Marco Polo; Fiona Kimm's cameos as a housekeeper and hag), merely the continuity of the outer acts does non constantly register quite neatly as it should.· Farther performances on Saturday, and May 20 & 22. Box office: 0870 060 6647. And then touring.

Cowell: 'New American Idol is best yet'

Cowell: 'New American Idol is best yet'

The new series of American Idol will be one of the best yet, according to producer and judge Simon Cowell.
The singing contest, which airs next Thursday, showcases the best and worst of auditions from across the US in a bid to find just one "Idol".
Cowell dismissed speculation that the show will have less competition in the ratings this year due to the ongoing writers' strike in the US, saying they had discovered "three or four" stars.
He said: "I think three or four of the contestants we've got this year would have gotten recording contracts even without 'Idol'. I think they're that good."
He went on: "We heard a year or so ago that 'Dancing With the Stars' was thinking about going up against us, which I think would be a mistake... So I think we're in the same position as we were last year and the year before.
"The most important thing is that our show has got to look better, it's got to be more fun as a show. And if it is, I think more people will watch."
Cowell also dismissed criticism that American Idol was not as good as it used to be.
"It's an incredible vehicle for people who want to be successful and under normal circumstances can't get a record deal for some reason," he said.
"The idea of Carrie Underwood wandering around without a record deal is staggering.
"You look at shows like 'American Idol' and 'Dancing With the Stars', which I consider to be two of the superbrands, these two shows, in my mind, seem to be getting better over the years."
He went on: "The good news is that this is a much better season than last year ... [it's] one of the strongest years that we've had in a long, long time.
"It's younger, I think the talent is more current, they're more interesting people. So I go into this season a lot more optimistic than I went in last year."




Musical Youth

New Wuthering Heights in the works

New Wuthering Heights in the works

A new

Il Gardino Armonico - ensemble in Baroque music on

   
Artist: Il Gardino Armonico - ensemble in Baroque music on

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Sonata in C minor, RV 53

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 4


   
 Concerto in G minor, RV 105

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in G major, RV 107

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in A minor, RV 108

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 3


   
 Sonata No.12 in D minor op.1 RV 63 La Follia

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 1


   
 Sonata in A minor, RV 86

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 4


   
 Concerto in G minor, RV 106

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in G minor, RV 103

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in F major, RV 97

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 4


   
 Concerto in F major, RV 100

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in D major, RV 95 La Pastorella

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in D major, RV 94

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in D major, RV 92

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in D major, RV 91

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in C major, RV 88

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in C major, RV 87

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in G minor, RV 104 La Notte

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 5


   
 Concerto in G major, RV 435

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in G major, RV 101

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in F major, RV 99

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in F major, RV 98 La tempesta di mare

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in F major, RV 442 Tutti gli instrumenti sordini

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 Concerto in D major, RV 90 Il Gardellino

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is 'not pregnant'

Jennifer Love Hewitt is 'not pregnant'

'Ghost Whisperer' star Jennifer Passion Hewitt has denied that she is pregnant after media reports suggested that she had a baby break.
Rumours around the star began to circulate later on she was photographed eroding a number of loose-fitting dresses, virtually recently at the Kids' Option Awards in Los Angeles.
However, the star's congressman has denied the reports, expression: "She is not pregnant."
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Winslet steps in for pregnant Nicole

Winslet steps in for pregnant Nicole

Kate Winslet has stepped in to exchange pregnant Nicole Kidman in Creation War II dramatic play 'The Reader' after the Aussie star was forced to overstretch come out of the closet of the film earlier this week.
Kidman confirmed yesterday that she is expecting a babe with her hubby Keith Urban.
The star withdrew from 'The Reader' after eruditeness of her maternity. She was due to begin shooting with director Stephen Daldry afterward this month
Winslet, wHO was originally offered the part but had to slump because the shoot clashed with her commitments to upcoming film 'Revolutionary Road', has now signed up to star in the flick inverse Ralph Fiennes.




Marc Moulin