Veteran Country and Bluegrass songstress, Emmylou Harris, to be featured on
Animal Radio(R) May 24 and May 25 to discuss a range of topics - including
her devotion to Animal-Rights and her Nashville-area animal
rescue/fostering organization, Bonaparte's Retreat
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 23 -- Animal Radio(R) Announces
Award Winning Country Music Star, Future Country Music Hall of Fame
Inductee and Animal Rights Activist, Emmylou Harris and Comedian Richard
Pryor's wife, Jennifer Pryor, to make guest appearances on the AM/FM
(terrestrial) and XM Satellite Radio broadcast of Animal Radio(R) this
weekend.
"Animals, that is what I want to devote my life to now," Emmylou Harris
tells Animal Radio(R) listeners. "Animals can teach us how to be better
human beings. They've certainly taught me that." The angel-voiced singer
has been wowing audiences for decades and her true love lives in the legacy
of "Bonaparte" -- a dog that touched her deeply and inspired her to start
her Nashville-area animal rescue/fostering organization, "Bonaparte's
Retreat."
Also in this special program, Richard Pryor's wife, Jennifer Pryor,
shares information regarding "Pryor's Planet" -- an animal advocate
organization and Richard Pryor's legacy as "A Saving Grace for All
Animals". Additionally, Jennifer is a part of Animal Radio's tribute to the
late-comedian. Jennifer recalls, "Richard would get out of the car and talk
to cows -- he had an 'animal' magnetism."
This highly anticipated Animal Radio(R) broadcast will air on 97 AM-FM
Animal Radio(R) affiliates, including KOST 103.5 FM Los Angeles, and XM
Satellite Radio channel 158 Saturday May 24, 2008 at noon EDT, and again
Sunday May 25, 2008 at 9am EDT. Internet users can listen by logging onto
http://www.AnimalRadio.com.
About Animal Radio(R)
Animal Radio(R) at http://www.AnimalRadio.com is America's
"most-listened-to" pet show. Hal Abrams, Judy Francis and a cast of
hundreds, host on 90+ AM-FM radio stations nationwide. Through education
and awareness, together we're reducing surrenders and the ultimate
euthanasia of healthy homeless animals.
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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Offer Support For Myanmar
Nicole Richie and her partner Joel Madden from rock band Good Charlotte, have lent their support to a UNICEF campaign to raise money for the cyclone ravaged region of Myanmar/Burma.Watch their public service announcement below, and donate to Unicef by click here.Photo courtesy of UNICEF.
John McCain: 'I Never Miss An Episode Of 'The Hills,' In The Newsroom Blog
Presidential hopeful John McCain thanked Heidi Montag of "The Hills" for her support.
Eve
Artist: Eve
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop
Discography:
Tambourine
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Scorpion
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Eveolution
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Ruff Ryder's-First Lady
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Eve was one of a new breed of tough, talented, commercially workable distaff MCs to hit the knock scene during the late '90s. Though she could be sexy when she chose, she wasn't as over the top as Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown, and as portion of the Ruff Ryders posse comitatus, her production was harder than Da Brat's early work with Jermaine Dupri. In the end, Eve came off as her possess person; a strong, no-nonsense street MC wHO could hold her own with most anyone on the mic; and was finding success on her possess terms. She was born Eve Jihan Jeffers in Philadelphia on November 10, 1978, and started out as a singer in her early teens, acting with an all-female vocal quintuplet. She was too honing her skills as a rapper in impromptu battles with friends, and before she left high school, she formed a female rap duo called EDGP (pronounced "Egyptian Empire"), adopting the nominate Gangsta. EDGP performed at local talent shows and clubhouse gigs, much to the detriment of Eve's dedication to school. When the grouping broke up, she went solo and changed her list to Eve of Destruction; she too stirred to the Bronx in the wake of her mother's remarriage, and worked for a time as a table professional dancer at a divest club. Unhappy with this direction, she distinct to give rap another shot afterwards existence bucked up by Mase.Through some of her friends, Eve scored a group meeting with Dr. Dre in Los Angeles, and surprised him by turning it into an audition. Dre liked what he heard and signed her to a one-year cope with his new label, Aftermath. Eve recorded a few tracks, including one, "Eve of Destruction," that terminated up on the Bulworth soundtrack in 1998. However, Aftermath was searching for a focussing at the time, and Eve wound up lost in the scuffle. Her sign expired without an record album even in the kit and caboodle, simply fortunately, she'd met DMX when the rising new star was in Los Angeles promoting his smash debut, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. Eve passed a battle-rap audition to join DMX's Ruff Ryders posse, and in 1999 she contributed to their label's Ryde or Die, Vol. 1 compilation. Thanks to DMX's star power, it entered the charts at number nonpareil, and Eve's cut, "What Ya Want," was released as a unmarried. It bump off the R&B Top Ten, and Eve built more anticipation for her debut album with high profile client muscae volitantes on the Roots' "You Got Me" and the Blackstreet/Janet Jackson couple "Girlfriend/Boyfriend."Eve's first full-length was highborn Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders First Lady and released in September 1999. With Ruff Ryders the biggest name in rap, the record album was an instant smash; it entered the charts at number one -- the first sentence a distaff rapper had ever complete that exploit -- and went on to deal o'er two gazillion copies. Eve besides scored hits with the R&B Top Ten "Gotta Man" and the antidomestic fierceness rail "Love Is Blind," and guested on Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott's bump off "Hot Boyz." After touring in documentation of the track record, Eve returned to the studio apartment and delivered her followup, Scorpion, in early 2001. The album received inviolable reviews and topped the R&B charts, while debuting at number quaternity on the bug out side. Lead unmarried "Who's That Girl?" had some chart success, just it was the follow-up, a couple with No Doubt's Gwen Stefani called "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," that very bust Eve on the crop up charts. The song rocketed to number deuce and went on to gain ground a Grammy in the newly created category of Best Rap/Sung Collaboration; it besides helped Scorpion go pt.
Eve following determine about establishing a flick life history; she made her ticket booth debut in the Vin Diesel legal action blockbuster 30, which was released in the summer of 2002. Not long after, she was likewise seen in a spectacular load-bearing role in the Ice Cube comedy Barbershop. Amid all this activeness, Eve released her third album, Eve-Olution, in August 2002. It debuted in the Top Ten and base Eve reverting to the soul vocalizing of her early days on a surprising number of tracks. The single "Gangsta Lovin'," which featured edgar Albert Guest vocals from Alicia Keys, was a telephone number two crush on both the pop and R&B charts, and the followup "Satisfaction" was nominative for a Grammy. In former 2003, Eve signed with the UPN electronic network to give rise and star in a multiracial situation comedy around a way graphic designer, and she continued acting in movies, with roles in Barbershop 2, The Cookout, and The Woodsman. A total return to medicine was made in 2007, when she released Here I Am, an record album featuring productions from Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, and Pharrell.
Johansson ready to take "private" songs public
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Scarlett Johansson describes the recording of her Tom Waits covers album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," as an "intimate experience -- almost private, in a way."
Of course, when you're a Hollywood actress, Louis Vuitton model and occasional tabloid fixture, pretty much nothing is private.
That's the challenge facing Atco/Rhino Records as it promotes the album, due May 20. Johansson is a familiar face -- and name recognition is a definite marketing bonus -- but the phrase "actress-turned-singer" is bound to set off warning bells.
"I don't think being a celebrity is a hindrance -- I think it will get people curious," project manager Liuba Shapiro said. "It's not like a Paris (Hilton) brand. Scarlett has credible performances (as an actress)."
Johansson's take on Waits, thanks in part to her teaming with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek for production, as well as Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner and David Bowie on backing vocals, is an atmospheric reinvention of the gravelly-voiced singer's work. It's designed to appeal to those curious about Johansson's vocal prowess, Waits fans and those who like their melodies layered and dreamy.
The album has Waits' stamp of approval, Johansson said. "It would be mortifying otherwise. It's such a valentine for his work. I wanted to have that approval. Now I don't have to look out for him in a dark, crowded place."
The video for first single "Falling Down," directed by Oscar-nominated "Capote" helmer Bennett Miller, is a cinema verite look at a day in the life of Johansson, including photo shoots and kicking back with Salman Rushdie.
In terms of touring, Johansson's movie-shooting schedule makes it difficult to plan dates. The album, in fact, was recorded last summer but could only be released now because of her schedule, the label said. Another complicating factor is what Johansson calls her "crippling stage fright."
Reuters/Billboard
Of course, when you're a Hollywood actress, Louis Vuitton model and occasional tabloid fixture, pretty much nothing is private.
That's the challenge facing Atco/Rhino Records as it promotes the album, due May 20. Johansson is a familiar face -- and name recognition is a definite marketing bonus -- but the phrase "actress-turned-singer" is bound to set off warning bells.
"I don't think being a celebrity is a hindrance -- I think it will get people curious," project manager Liuba Shapiro said. "It's not like a Paris (Hilton) brand. Scarlett has credible performances (as an actress)."
Johansson's take on Waits, thanks in part to her teaming with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek for production, as well as Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner and David Bowie on backing vocals, is an atmospheric reinvention of the gravelly-voiced singer's work. It's designed to appeal to those curious about Johansson's vocal prowess, Waits fans and those who like their melodies layered and dreamy.
The album has Waits' stamp of approval, Johansson said. "It would be mortifying otherwise. It's such a valentine for his work. I wanted to have that approval. Now I don't have to look out for him in a dark, crowded place."
The video for first single "Falling Down," directed by Oscar-nominated "Capote" helmer Bennett Miller, is a cinema verite look at a day in the life of Johansson, including photo shoots and kicking back with Salman Rushdie.
In terms of touring, Johansson's movie-shooting schedule makes it difficult to plan dates. The album, in fact, was recorded last summer but could only be released now because of her schedule, the label said. Another complicating factor is what Johansson calls her "crippling stage fright."
Reuters/Billboard
Smart People - movie review
In acting, chameleon-like versatility can be overrated. In Smart People, the principle
actors are assigned roles right in their natural strike zones, and it's a pleasure
to watch them swing away with ease. Dennis Quaid capitalizes on his natural late-career
crankiness to play Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed English professor with a perpetual
sour look. His daughter Vanessa is a mouthy overachiever, which is the established
domain of Ellen Page, whether her gift is configured through superhuman quippiness
(Juno), insane manipulation (Hard Candy), or the ability to walk through walls (X-Men: The
Last Stand).
Entering into the Wetherhold house, ostensibly to chauffer the belligerent prof after
a seizure suspends his driver's license, is Lawrence's laid-back, semi-transient
adopted brother Chuck. Chuck is played by Thomas Haden Church in a clear and mostly
successful post-Sideways bid to establish future laid-back semi-transients as "the Thomas
Haden Church part." Church and Page are especially fun to watch and, especially,
listen to: Church's sort of deadpan surfer growl and Page's nasal precociousness
in a vocal duel. That they recall their previous roles only hastens our desire to
spend time with them.
Familiarity in a comedy-drama screenplay, though, is less valuable, and Smart People ra
cks up a lot of superficial resemblances. To its credit, it recalls a terrific roster
of other movies: the gone-to-seed professor has shades of Wonder Boys and The Squid and
the Whale, while the dysfunctional family with an "adopted" sibling always introduced
as such echoes The Royal Tenenbaums. It never rips any of these movies off -- dysfunctional
families and cranky professors were not invented by early-aughts indie movies --
but nor does it come close to keeping up with the achievements of its higher-achieving
siblings.
Indeed, the film eventually breaks free of those comparisons not by establishing
its own tone and tempo, but by sabotaging it. Wetherhold begins a relationship with
the doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker) who first treats his seizure; this subplot manages
to dominate the second half of the movie, relegating Church and Page to the background,
without ever developing into something believable or even particularly interesting.
It's a real triumph of vagueness when the doctor's anger at the pompous, stubborn,
often unpleasant Wetherhold still seems like the arbitrary decision of the screenwriter.
The entire story moves at such an odd, reckless pace, whipping around its plot turns
with scenes that often end abruptly -- sometimes after just a few seconds -- that
it sometimes seems as if the picture's rhythm has been surgically removed. If Harvey
Weinstein were still at Miramax, I'd wonder about him slicing and dicing another film-festival
pickup (Smart People played at Sundance), but maybe first-time director Noam Murro is so
eager to get to the good, redemptive stuff that he overlooks the better, human stuff
in between. Twenty minutes in, the insistent acoustic-guitar score is already plinking
like the movie is about to end.
Stranger still, the actual ending strikes a nice, muted note. But by that point,
the movie has cast aside characters (including a superfluous extra family member
-- Lawrence's son, a thankless role for young actor Ashton Holmes), neglected its
three fine leads, and only dipped its feet into its campus milieu. The actors make Sm
art People homey and comfy enough, but the film doesn't build them a proper home.
Drop and give me 20 clever quips.
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Lost star eager to leave 'paradise'
'Lost' star Matthew Fox has become the latest cast member to reveal that he's eager to complete filming the series because he's sick of its Hawaii location.
Fellow actor Evangeline Lilly recently confessed that she did not enjoy working on the series' Oahu set because she is allergic to so many things there.
Now Fox has admitted he no longer likes living there while filming.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the major benefit of being a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500 mile trek into the South Pacific to get a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was living in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."
Fellow actor Evangeline Lilly recently confessed that she did not enjoy working on the series' Oahu set because she is allergic to so many things there.
Now Fox has admitted he no longer likes living there while filming.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the major benefit of being a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500 mile trek into the South Pacific to get a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was living in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."
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