THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS & other: June 2008

Thursday 26 June 2008

Tim Conway: 'Memba Him?!

Comedian Tim Conway is best known for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the '60s and '70s. Guess what he looks like now!

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Thursday 19 June 2008

'Blade Runner' tops DVD Critics Awards

'Transformers,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Ratatouille' also get nods

Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" was the big winner at the fourth annual DVD Critics Awards, with a Warner Home Video re-release of the 1982 sci-fi classic picking up two top awards in the annual contest.

"Blade Runner: Ultimate Collector's Edition," a five-disc set with several different versions of the film, a three-hour retrospective documentary, art cards and other memorabilia, won best of show, while "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" picked up best director's cut honors.

Other key awards in the contest, produced by Home Media Magazine, went to Paramount/DreamWorks' "Transformers" as best theatrical DVD, Sony Pictures' "Seinfeld: The Complete Series" as best TV-DVD, Disney's "Ratatouille" as best animation DVD and Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" as best Blu-ray Disc theatrical title.

A panel of home entertainment critics and judges selected the winners from nearly 140 entries.

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Wednesday 11 June 2008

Richardson Refutes African Adoption Reports

Nip/Tuck star Joely Richardson has denied reports she is set to follow in the footsteps of Madonna and Angelina Jolie and adopt a baby orphan from Africa. The British actress recently admitted she was considering adoption after visiting an African orphanage. But the 43-year-old claims she came away from the trip with a new perspective about adoption. She says, "I spoke to a woman who works at an orphanage and she said that they encourage as much help and support for the orphanage as we can give, but ideally they like a child not to be taken out of their natural environment. And that stuck with me. "I just think it's about what's in the child's best interests." But Richardson - who has a 16-year-old daughter, Daisy - has praised Madonna's adoption of Malawian tot David Banda and her subsequent fundraising for other Malawian orphans via her Raising Malawi organisation, insisting her selfless efforts are heroic. She adds, "There are exceptions, obviously, as in Madonna's case, when you have a great support system and can reinvest a lot in to a country, the way she has done."

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Wednesday 4 June 2008

Gyllenhaal And Biel Pulled From Movie Over Missing Money

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel walked off the set of director David O. Russell's new movie Nailed on Friday, after producers failed to show they had enough money to pay its cast. The Screen Actor's Guild will keep all cast members from the movie until the production company shows there is enough money set aside in a union-mandated account. An on-set source tells the New York Times production on the movie is expected to resume this week. It's not the first scandal to strike set of the movie, which was co-written by Al Gore's daughter Kristin - veteran James Caan quit his cameo role last month after a bust-up with Russell.

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Audio Bullys revamp punk

THE super funky AUDIO BULLYS are back with a new tune - and we've got an
exclusive first look at the video.

Electronic rockers SIMON FRANKS and TOM DINSDALE reached No.3
back in 2005 with Shot You Down, their hit which samples the NANCY SINATRA
version of Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).
To see the boys in action, see our video below:
The quirky vid for Gimme That Punk was directed by DON LETTS, better
known for his work in the 70s punk scene with THE CLASH and THE
SEX PISTOLS.

It references ultra-cool bands of the era, including THE DOORS, THE
KINKS and THE ROLLING STONES.

It may be KYLIE's birthday, but celebrate by catching the dancey duo on
one of their tour dates this summer.

Click here to buy music and videos from Audio
Bullys

Cyrte Investments buys Spitfire Pictures

Dutch investment outfit buys L.A. production banner

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CANNES -- Jon de Mol's Dutch investment vehicle Cyrte Investments has bought L.A. production banner Spitfire Pictures for an undisclosed sum in a deal with backing from Goldman Sachs and Mediaset.

Cyrte plans to roll Spitfire's activities into new company HS Media alongwith the Dutch fund's majority holding in British production label Hammer Films.

The aim is to create an integrated move, television, sales and distribution company with outposts in L.A. and London.

An HS Media spokesperson said the startup combination company will have access to $100 million for production and aims to make six to eight movies a year, acquire titles for its foreign sales arm and establish a vertically integrated distribution operation.

It will tap into shareholders equity and facilities from de Mol's Dutch fund "to acquire media libraries, brands suited for digital platforms and other complimentary businesses."

Spitfire and Hammer have more than 300 titles combined, some of which will likely be remade into new projects.

Development and production activities will be run out of both Los Angeles and London, with Nigel Sinclair's and Guy East's Spitfire and Simon Oakes and Marc Schipper's Hammer run as one business under two separate brands.

Sinclair and Oakes will serve as co-chairmen and CEOs, the former from L.A., the latter London. East will serve as president and chairman of both the executive board and the outfit's sales and distribution operation.

Schipper has been named COO, with Andy Mayson coming aboard as CFO and managing director of international sales and distribution. Spitfire exec Tobin Armbrust will head worldwide production, and his longtime colleague Alex Brunner will head U.S. operations, both based in L.A.

Cyrte recently partnered with Goldman Sachs and Mediaset in a $5.5 billion acquisition of Dutch giant Endemol.

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Offroad

Artist: Offroad

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

On The Road Again

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Make It Through

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

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Schelmish

Artist: Schelmish

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Folk
   Other
   Folk: Neo-Folk

Discography:

Mente Capti

Year: 2006
Tracks: 19

Igni Gena

Year: 2004
Tracks: 17

Tempus Mutatur

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

Si Salvas Me

Year: 2003
Tracks: 4

Codex Lascivus

Year: 2003
Tracks: 19

Aequinoctium

Year: 2003
Tracks: 18

Von Raubern, Lumpen und anderen Schelmen

Year: 2000
Tracks: 16

The New Riders of the Purple Sage

Artist: The New Riders of the Purple Sage

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Oh, What a Mighty Time

Year: 2007
Tracks: 11

Home, Home on the Road/Brujo

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

Powerglide

Year: 1996
Tracks: 11

The Adventures of Panama Red

Year: 1989
Tracks: 11

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Year: 1989
Tracks: 10

Natalie Portman - Portman Regrets Big Screen Sex Scene

Actress NATALIE PORTMAN hates a sex scene she filmed for movie HOTEL CHEVALIER - because critics and reviewers focused on her nudity and not the film itself.

The star recorded the scene last year (07), and admits she regrets stripping off on the big screen as her picture ended up on pornographic websites.

She says, "It's not that I regret the film, but it really depressed me that half of every review on the film was about the nudity. It made me think I shouldn't have done it.

"I'm not prudish about nudity. I think it's beautiful in films, and sex is such a big part of life. My issue is that I feel it takes something away from what you're doing when the focus is put on the wrong thing. My picture ended up on porn sites, and that's the dilemma."

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Sammy Price

Artist: Sammy Price

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Collection (Boogie Woogie)

Year:
Tracks: 2

Sammy Price had a long and fertile vocation as a flexible blues and boogie-woogie-based piano player. He studied pianissimo in Dallas and was a singer and social dancer with Alphonso Trent's band during 1927-1930. In 1929, he recorded one solitary side under the title of "Sammy Price and His Four Quarters." After a few geezerhood in Kansas City, he exhausted time in Chicago and Detroit. In 1938, Price became the house piano player for Decca in New York and appeared on many vapours sides with such singers as Trixie Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. He light-emitting diode his possess dance orchestra on records in the other '40s which included (on one memorable session) Lester Young. Price worked steadily on 52nd Street, in 1948 played at the Nice Festival with Mezz Mezzrow, exhausted time back in Texas, and then a decade with Red Allen; he was besides heard on many rock candy & roll-type roger Sessions in the 1950s. In later geezerhood he recorded with Doc Cheatham. Sammy Price was active until skinny his expiry, 63 days after his recording debut.

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Richie gives birth to a baby girl

Socialite and reality TV star Nicole Richie and her boyfriend, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden, have become the parents of a baby daughter.
People magazine quoted a spokesman for Richie's manager as saying that Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday.
It is the first child for 26-year-old Richie and 28-year-old Madden.