�The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has released a report, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking. "There is at present incontrovertible evidence that merchandising of tobacco plant, and the depiction of smoking in the movies, promote youth smoking and can reason young people to begin smoking," aforementioned Loken, prof of marketing at the Carlson School of Management and i of the report's five scientific editors.
The 684-page monograph, "The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use," presents definitive conclusions that
a) tobacco advertisement and promotion are causally related to increased tobacco use, and
b) exposure to depictions of smoking in movies causes youth smoke initiation.
The report likewise concludes that while mass media campaigns can decoct tobacco use, youth smoke prevention campaigns sponsored by the baccy industry are generally ineffective and may even step-up youth smoking.
"The role of marketing in the success of the tobacco companies is conclusive," according to Loken. "The report's recommendations offer the best attack to hire marketing techniques and the media to help keep a farther increase in youth smoking."
The NCI written report reaches half a dozen major conclusions:
Cigarettes ar one of the most heavily marketed products in the United States.
Tobacco advertising targets psychological inevitably of adolescents, such as popularity and peer acceptance. Advertising creates the perception that smoke satisfies these needs.
Even brief exposure to tobacco advertising influences adolescents' perceptions about smoke, smokers, and adolescents' intentions to smoke.
The depiction of fag smoking is pervasive in movies, occurring in 75 percent or more of contemporary box office hits, with identifiable brands in around one-third of movies.
A comprehensive bAN on tobacco advertising and promotion is an effective policy interposition that prevents tobacco companies from unfirm marketing expenditures to permitted media.
The tobacco diligence works hard to hinder tobacco control media campaigns, including attempts to keep or deoxidize their funding.
"This calculate link between marketing and tobacco use is very powerful." Loken said, "Anti-tobacco ads ahead films and a comprehensive ban on tobacco advert are deuce effective strategies found to curb effects of tobacco images on youth. Now we motivation to use marketing to steer youth and others away from tobacco."
The report provides the most stream and comprehensive analysis of more than 1,000 scientific studies on the role of the media in encouraging and discouraging tobacco function. The composition is Monograph 19 in the NCI's Tobacco Control Monograph serial publication examining critical issues in tobacco bar and control. Research included in the review comes from the disciplines of marketing, psychological science, communications, statistics, epidemiology and public health.
Editors of the monograph ar Ron Davis, MD, Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Henry Ford Health System; Elizabeth Gilpin, M.S., Biostatistics, UC San Diego; Barbara Loken, PhD, Department of Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; K. Viswanath, PhD, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health; and Melanie Wakefield PhD, Director, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria. The release of the study was proclaimed at the National Press Club.
Click here to teach more roughly Professor Barbara Loken and her research.
Click hither for more information or to order this monograph.
Source: Ryan Mathre
University of Minnesota
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Protesters make noise over "Thunder"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Protesters, light-emitting diode by Special Olympics chairperson and CEO Timothy Shriver, marched outside the public premiere of the Hollywood satire "Tropic Thunder" on Monday night.
Chanting and waving placards that read "Ban the pic, ban the word" and "Call me by my name, not my pronounce," several xII people tried and true to get the message across that the logos "retard" and making sport of the mentally challenged is not comedy material.
In "Thunder," Ben Stiller's fictional character is an actor wHO previously attempted to go for Oscar gold by playing a character called "Simple Jack." "Thunder" features the movie-within-a-movie's trailer, and Stiller is forced to re-enact scenes from the movie when he is captured by Asian do drugs lords.
DreamWorks and Paramount were well-prepared for the protest at the Westwood pic theater: The normally open red carpet was shielded by walls of 10-foot-high shrubs, thusly preventing the protesters from even being in the background of television shots.
/Hollywood Reporter
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Swing Vote - movie review
Swing Vote arrives during one election cycle merely heavily references another, spinning
the hanging chad outrage of the 2000 presidential race into a formulaic feel-empowered
comedy for today's huddled masses.
Bud (Kevin Costner) and Molly Johnson (gifted newcomer Madeline Carroll) take for granted Hollywood's
schoolbook father-daughter duet: she's the pint-sized "adult" of the trailer they call
home, and he's the whiney child. On the eve of a tight presidential race, a mix-up at
the polls negates Bud's ballot, which doesn't sound like a big deal until it's determined
that the election will come down to a exposure finish distinct by one vote -- Bud's.
If you think that's regular remotely possible, by all means, read on. As Bud gets a crash
course in democracy from smarty-pants Molly, incumbent prexy Andrew Boone (Kelsey
Grammer) and left-leaning White House hopeful Donald Greenleaf derive on Texico,
New Mexico with glad-handlers in towage in hopes of winning the slob's valuable supp
ort.
When I tell you Swing Vote hammers us all over the straits with its message, I couldn't be more
literal. Costner's Bud stumbles out of a bar in one particular scene and clunks his
skull on a star sign that reads "Vote today!" The fact that the same mansion remains
Friday, 27 June 2008
Back To Camp
Following its rare win over all broadcast networks with Camp Rock last Friday, Disney Channel is pulling out all stops to get a sequel on the air by next year -- possibly going into production by late spring or early summer, Reuters reported Monday. The TV movie aired on three Disney platforms over three consecutive days last week. On Friday it attracted 8.9 million viewers on the Disney Channel. On Saturday, it moved to ABC-TV, where it drew 3.6 million viewers. On Sunday, it ran on Disney Family Channel, where it attracted 3.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen research.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
R. Kelly jurors resume deliberations
Jury room set up to allow review of sex tape
CHICAGO -- It took six years to get this far, but a jury in R. Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial is now deciding whether the R&B singer is guilty of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
Jurors resumed deliberations Friday. The nine men and three women began deliberating Thursday and continued for three hours before being sequestered for the evening.
The panel includes the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
As they left the courtroom Thursday to deliberate, jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly, who returned to the courthouse Friday morning, is charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. He also would have to register as a sex offender in Illinois.
The 41-year-old R&B singer, who has pleaded not guilty, was charged in 2002. His trial was repeatedly delayed, once because the judge seriously injured himself falling off a ladder and another time because Kelly had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.
Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday.
Kelly's attorney banged on the jury box with his fist, he yelled and he whispered, he laughed, and he pleaded for more than an hour in his emotion-filled closing.
At one point, Sam Adam Jr. referred to a defense argument made repeatedly during the trial that a mole on the singer's back proved he simply can't be the man in the video.
After displaying a freeze frame of the man's back in the video -- with no apparent mole -- Adam walked over to the defense table and placed his hand on Kelly's shoulder.
"The truth be told, there is no mole ... that means one thing," Adam told jurors, then paused and lowered his voice. "It ain't him. And if it ain't him, you can't convict."
Prosecutors wrapped up their arguments the same way they began them a month ago: by playing the entire graphic sex tape in open court.
The 27-minute film played on a monitor just outside the jury box -- the lights switched off and the blinds pulled across courtroom windows -- as Assistant State's Attorney Robert Heilengoetter read through sections of the indictment.
Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape. Neither testified at trial. But as the video played Thursday, Heilengoetter told jurors the man on the tape is Kelly and that he controlled the encounter.
At one point in the video, entered into evidence as "People's Exhibit No. 1," the female dances and urinates on the floor -- the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female. At another point, the man hands her money.
Kelly sat across the room from jurors at the defense table in a gray pinstripe suit, his hands folded in front of him. As the sex tape played, he appeared tense, keeping his eyes on the monitor, his mouth drawn tight and his brow furrowed.
"The one person who is responsible is sitting right here," Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Boliker said, pointing at Kelly. "What you know now is that this is not a whodunit, but a he-did-it."
Over seven days presenting their case, prosecutors called 22 witnesses, including several childhood friends of the alleged victim and four of her relatives who identified her as the female on the video.
In two days, the Grammy winner's lawyers called 12 witnesses. They included three relatives of the alleged victim who testified they did not recognize her as the female on the tape.
During the trial, Kelly endeavored to make a good impression on jurors, always standing straight and folding his hands in front of him whenever they entered the courtroom.
Jurors, in turn, made a good impression on Judge Vincent Gaughan, who repeatedly praised their attentiveness. All appeared to take careful notes, even when testimony became highly technical.
CHICAGO -- It took six years to get this far, but a jury in R. Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial is now deciding whether the R&B singer is guilty of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
Jurors resumed deliberations Friday. The nine men and three women began deliberating Thursday and continued for three hours before being sequestered for the evening.
The panel includes the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
As they left the courtroom Thursday to deliberate, jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly, who returned to the courthouse Friday morning, is charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. He also would have to register as a sex offender in Illinois.
The 41-year-old R&B singer, who has pleaded not guilty, was charged in 2002. His trial was repeatedly delayed, once because the judge seriously injured himself falling off a ladder and another time because Kelly had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.
Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday.
Kelly's attorney banged on the jury box with his fist, he yelled and he whispered, he laughed, and he pleaded for more than an hour in his emotion-filled closing.
At one point, Sam Adam Jr. referred to a defense argument made repeatedly during the trial that a mole on the singer's back proved he simply can't be the man in the video.
After displaying a freeze frame of the man's back in the video -- with no apparent mole -- Adam walked over to the defense table and placed his hand on Kelly's shoulder.
"The truth be told, there is no mole ... that means one thing," Adam told jurors, then paused and lowered his voice. "It ain't him. And if it ain't him, you can't convict."
Prosecutors wrapped up their arguments the same way they began them a month ago: by playing the entire graphic sex tape in open court.
The 27-minute film played on a monitor just outside the jury box -- the lights switched off and the blinds pulled across courtroom windows -- as Assistant State's Attorney Robert Heilengoetter read through sections of the indictment.
Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape. Neither testified at trial. But as the video played Thursday, Heilengoetter told jurors the man on the tape is Kelly and that he controlled the encounter.
At one point in the video, entered into evidence as "People's Exhibit No. 1," the female dances and urinates on the floor -- the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female. At another point, the man hands her money.
Kelly sat across the room from jurors at the defense table in a gray pinstripe suit, his hands folded in front of him. As the sex tape played, he appeared tense, keeping his eyes on the monitor, his mouth drawn tight and his brow furrowed.
"The one person who is responsible is sitting right here," Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Boliker said, pointing at Kelly. "What you know now is that this is not a whodunit, but a he-did-it."
Over seven days presenting their case, prosecutors called 22 witnesses, including several childhood friends of the alleged victim and four of her relatives who identified her as the female on the video.
In two days, the Grammy winner's lawyers called 12 witnesses. They included three relatives of the alleged victim who testified they did not recognize her as the female on the tape.
During the trial, Kelly endeavored to make a good impression on jurors, always standing straight and folding his hands in front of him whenever they entered the courtroom.
Jurors, in turn, made a good impression on Judge Vincent Gaughan, who repeatedly praised their attentiveness. All appeared to take careful notes, even when testimony became highly technical.
Friday, 13 June 2008
R Kelly trial: Day Eight
R Kelly.'s former employee testified today (May 27) that she recognised her ex-boss in the sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial.
Lindsey Perryman, Kelly's personal assistant from approximately 2000 to 2007, said that she believed the R&B star was the man who appeared in the graphic 27-minute video.
"The image I saw looked exactly like Mr. Kelly," she said, adding she was "shocked" and "disturbed" by the video, reports the Associated Press.
Perryman also identified the alleged victim in the tape, whom she saw come and go from Kelly's Chicago music studio several times. It is believed that the girl in the video was approximately 13 at the time the sex tape was made.
Additional witnesses identified the alleged victim in the Chicago courthouse today, including Tjada Burnett who said she recognised her friend because of her facial structure, nose and cheekbones.
Kelly faces child pornography charges for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a minor some time between 1998 and 2000.
If Kelly is found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
The Grammy-winning artist is due to release a new album in July.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Lindsey Perryman, Kelly's personal assistant from approximately 2000 to 2007, said that she believed the R&B star was the man who appeared in the graphic 27-minute video.
"The image I saw looked exactly like Mr. Kelly," she said, adding she was "shocked" and "disturbed" by the video, reports the Associated Press.
Perryman also identified the alleged victim in the tape, whom she saw come and go from Kelly's Chicago music studio several times. It is believed that the girl in the video was approximately 13 at the time the sex tape was made.
Additional witnesses identified the alleged victim in the Chicago courthouse today, including Tjada Burnett who said she recognised her friend because of her facial structure, nose and cheekbones.
Kelly faces child pornography charges for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a minor some time between 1998 and 2000.
If Kelly is found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
The Grammy-winning artist is due to release a new album in July.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Friday, 6 June 2008
Kitsch in the Balkans
LA La La. Boom Bang-A-Bang. Ding-A-Dong. It's that time again.
The Eurovision song contest, a shameless celebration of pure kitsch with its tacky songs, camp singers and outrageous outfits, will culminate with a glitzy finale in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on May 24. But however trite the lyrics get and however shamelessly Eastern Europeans keep voting for each other, the annual mishmash of power ballads and bubblegum pop shows no sign of flagging.
"The more people knock and criticise it, the bigger Eurovision gets," says John Kennedy O'Connor, author of an official history of the contest.
"It is the biggest one ever this year, with 43 countries compared to just seven in the first one in 1956. It is growing and growing," he said before flying out to Belgrade for Eurovision 2008.
Winning can even do wonders for a state's morale.
Marija Serifovic's victory in 2007 caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, more used to rebuffs over its wartime past than to accolades. Serbs took to the streets with flags, tooting horns and chanting her entry, Molitva (Prayer), until the early hours.
Sweden's Abba were Eurovision's most famous winners, Ireland's Johnny Logan won three times -- twice as a singer, once as a composer. Celine Dion won for Switzerland.
Spain triumphed in 1968 with a song using the word "La" 138 times - and now it is ranked as a notorious winner.
A Spanish documentary claimed British singer Cliff Richard was robbed of victory after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco fixed the vote.
The bane of 21st-century Eurovision is tactical voting, but O'Connor insists it is cultural, not political.
"With the Balkans, I genuinely don't think it is political allegiance, as 10 years ago they were trying to wipe each other off the planet," he said.
Eurovision's official king of trivia says "I take it all with a pinch of salt. I enjoy lots of the songs but about half I never want to hear again".
So who'll win in Belgrade?.
He proudly boasted: "I get it right every year . . . This year it is between Ukraine, Russia and Ireland." - REUTERS
The Eurovision song contest, a shameless celebration of pure kitsch with its tacky songs, camp singers and outrageous outfits, will culminate with a glitzy finale in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on May 24. But however trite the lyrics get and however shamelessly Eastern Europeans keep voting for each other, the annual mishmash of power ballads and bubblegum pop shows no sign of flagging.
"The more people knock and criticise it, the bigger Eurovision gets," says John Kennedy O'Connor, author of an official history of the contest.
"It is the biggest one ever this year, with 43 countries compared to just seven in the first one in 1956. It is growing and growing," he said before flying out to Belgrade for Eurovision 2008.
Winning can even do wonders for a state's morale.
Marija Serifovic's victory in 2007 caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, more used to rebuffs over its wartime past than to accolades. Serbs took to the streets with flags, tooting horns and chanting her entry, Molitva (Prayer), until the early hours.
Sweden's Abba were Eurovision's most famous winners, Ireland's Johnny Logan won three times -- twice as a singer, once as a composer. Celine Dion won for Switzerland.
Spain triumphed in 1968 with a song using the word "La" 138 times - and now it is ranked as a notorious winner.
A Spanish documentary claimed British singer Cliff Richard was robbed of victory after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco fixed the vote.
The bane of 21st-century Eurovision is tactical voting, but O'Connor insists it is cultural, not political.
"With the Balkans, I genuinely don't think it is political allegiance, as 10 years ago they were trying to wipe each other off the planet," he said.
Eurovision's official king of trivia says "I take it all with a pinch of salt. I enjoy lots of the songs but about half I never want to hear again".
So who'll win in Belgrade?.
He proudly boasted: "I get it right every year . . . This year it is between Ukraine, Russia and Ireland." - REUTERS
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Jennifer Lopez And Marc Anthony Parenting In Shifts
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are working shifts so they can look after their baby twins without the help of a nanny.
The couple is determined to bring up three month olds Max and Emme without any help, and are enjoying the experience of "figuring out" parenthood, singer Anthony reveals.
The 39-year-old says, "It's just us, man. We're figuring it out and having a great time She (Lopez) expects me to help and she makes no bones about it. I get the late shift. I get literally from 10 on because we don't have a nanny.
"It's just me and Jennifer figuring it out. From 10 p.m. to 8 (a.m), that's my shift."
And he has nothing but praise for his superstar wife, taking on her new role as a mother, "She's such an amazing mom and I'm so proud of her. She's such a gem to watch."
The couple is determined to bring up three month olds Max and Emme without any help, and are enjoying the experience of "figuring out" parenthood, singer Anthony reveals.
The 39-year-old says, "It's just us, man. We're figuring it out and having a great time She (Lopez) expects me to help and she makes no bones about it. I get the late shift. I get literally from 10 on because we don't have a nanny.
"It's just me and Jennifer figuring it out. From 10 p.m. to 8 (a.m), that's my shift."
And he has nothing but praise for his superstar wife, taking on her new role as a mother, "She's such an amazing mom and I'm so proud of her. She's such a gem to watch."
Monday, 19 May 2008
Madonna tour seeing quick sellouts
Madonna tour seeing quick sellouts
Tickets go fast in Paris, Boston, Chicago, New House of York
Nashville -- Initial onsales for Madonna's upcoming Sticky & Sweet circuit ar off to a strong take up, with weekend sellouts reported in Paris (Folk. 20), Boston (Oct. 15) and Windy City (October. 26), followed by sellouts in Freshly York on Mon cockcrow. Performances at Madison Lame Garden (Oct. 6-7) quickly went clean, followed by a tierce show now confirmed for Oct. 11.
The circuit will begin Aug. 23 in Cardiff, Wales, and will play arenas and stadiums end-to-end Europe including a identification number of cities where Madonna has not performed in the past 15 years, or always. The enlistment begins in North The States on October. 4 at the Izod Centre in E Rutherford, N.J., with most U.S. dates departure on sale Crataegus laevigata 24.
Last Land Global Touring chairman President Arthur Fogel is the worldwide producer of the tour.
Will & Grace star agrees film deal
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Friday, 9 May 2008
Stars pay tribute to Heath Ledger
Stars pay tribute to Heath Ledger
Jack Nicholson and co-star Lewis Henry Morgan Freeman paid testimonial to the late histrion Heathland Ledger at their newly film 'The Pail List's British capital premier cobbler's last night.
The tragic premature death of the Australian 'Dark Knight' and 'Brokeback Mountain' star dominated the evening.
Freeman said: "It's a great loss to the industry. He was an enormous movie talent. It sounds like a tragic fortuity."
Autopsy tests on the 28-year-old were inconclusive simply surmise has mounted that he died from an accidental overdose of quiescence pills.
He latterly admitted taking the prescription drug Ambien to armed combat insomnia.
'The Bucket List's director Rob Reiner added: "It's unbelievably sad. I directed a film ('Stand by Me') with River Phoenix. He too died at a edward Young age. It's so tragic when somebody dies at that age, for living to be cut short."
Asked about Ledger's death, Nicholson said: "Wasn't that horrible."
Reports have suggested that Daybook whitethorn have plant playacting the Joker function in the new Batman plastic film excessively much, and that the part left him unable to sopor.
Simply asked around the function, which Nicholson as well played, the veteran star plainly said: "Oh the Joker office..."
Ledger was establish dead with pills close his body at his New York apartment on Tues.
LiveDaily Interview: KT Tunstall
LiveDaily Interview: KT Tunstall
Request Scots singer-songwriter KT Tunstall [ tickets ] if she wants to speak around around her recent epoch guest appearance on Daryl Hall's LiveFromDarylsHouse.com webcast is like request a tiddler if she wants confect. Tunstall lets out a high-pitched squeal that could be mistily recognized as a "Yes!"The one-off fizgig with the rock 'n' roll caption took place at his London, England, place. The pair collaborated on a host of songs, including "Buss On My List" and "Out Of Touch," as well as Tunstall's hit "Black Cavalry and the Cherry Tree." Hall's internet site allows fans to view him perform with famous musicians in special subsist recordings from his US and UK homes."Oh my God, it was a thrill," Tunstall said in a sound conversation from Ipswich, England. "It was so chill. He's such an amazing guy cable. He's truly one of the c. H. Best singers I've ever sung with. The harmonies and the melodies on the Hall and Joyce Carol Oates stuff are really unparalleled. When he only cracked into this amazing harmony on [Tunstall's] 'If Only,' and he's singing with me whole the way of life through, I was like, 'Surely, this is never loss to work.' I look back now and think, 'God, it's great.'"The song "If Only" appears on Tunstall's sophomore elbow grease "Drastic Fantastic," which she is touring slow. Tunstall rundle with LiveDaily about the album and her beloved of playing experience.LiveDaily: Before you called, I was Googling or so of your subsist reviews, and they're consistently great. KT Tunstall: I'm so, so pleased that you order that. I don't ascertain them altogether. I'm actually, really happy to try that. It's the au mine for me when it comes to organism a musician. That's what it's completely nigh for me. It's fantastic that it's sledding bolt down well. It sounds like you beloved to perform hold up. Yea, perfectly. It's my reason for beingness. 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So the instrumentation and the arrangements ar very satisfying on this minute album, whereas, I wasn't even really cerebration close to it on the number one one. It was rattling just presenting the songs I had written. On this one, there's a bit to a greater extent guitar-solo process, there's a couple of cosmic string arrangements, there's a set of do work sledding into championship vocals and full general instrumentation on the tunes. It was great fun to do that. Why did you decide to call it "Drastic Fantastic"?I wanted it to sound like a comedian leger. I real wanted it to look like a comedian book, as advantageously. You've got the comic strip inside. For the cover, it was departure to be a painting, and the guy I was workings with on the nontextual matter did the painting and it actually is beautiful, merely it didn't have that inquietude that I wanted. With a comic al-Qur'an, it has to be memorable and sort of smack you in the face. That photograph, which wasn't intended to be the hatch, ended up on the forepart cover. Did you keep the painting?Actually the artist has it. It's remained with him. Just it's a real favorite piece of art related to my music. It's very, very special. "If Only" was released as a single in the UK, and it was used as the artwork. We've got beautiful posters of it on the road. It's a really special thing to have. I very enjoyed your acoustic album "KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza." You'll enjoy the spell, then. That's truly the brainchild for the upcoming circuit in the States. It was too on the "Drastic Fantastic" deluxe version. There's an hour-long film that comes with the album. I'm good friends with Alex James, who's the bassist from Slur. He has a fantastic place up in Oxfordshire, northward of John Griffith Chaney, where he has slews of w. C. Fields. We just said, "Privy we come up and ready a moving picture of just acting around a campfire?" He was rattling up for it. So we went up in that respect and it was just gorgeous. We just had little microphones hidden in our habiliment and sabbatum just about this campfire and filmed it. It was so suggest and special and magical. We merely thought it would be great to reconstruct that feeling and acquaint the newly record album in a real simple acoustic form. Wherefore do you think you've been able to break in the US, when bands like Blur have not, to a significant degree?Part because I'm actually quite strongly influenced by a mickle of American artists. Many of the British people acts of the Apostles that haven't been able to crack America ar rattling as such British acts and sound very Brits and have very British attitudes, i.e., they're genuinely rude. [Laughs] The first stuff I actually fell in passion with was Tom Waits, Beck, Velvet Tube, James Brownness and Bobsleigh Dylan, and there's a lot of other American artists. Besides, as a musician, my roots will always be with traditional singer/songwriting, acoustic singer/songwriting. America has a much, much deeper tradition of that than UK. United Kingdom is much more well known for its stone and garage bands. The singer/songwriter scene in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has invariably had this stigma of being rattling depressing, which has lately changed. At once you've got, like, very good whitney Young British people solo acts. Even, like, Microphone Cornelia Otis Skinner, who's The Streets, pot be classed as a Brits singer/songwriter, but it's so fresh. You've got Kate Nash, to a fault. There ar real varied styles orgasm out today. A hatful of the times, it was the girl in java shop slitting wrists in public. I never related to that. I related much more when I came over to the states as a adolescent and went around to open-mic nights in Michigan and Green Mountain State, and land in TX and just played and busked on the streets. There's a real sonority to singer/songwriting in U.S., the tradition of it. Certainly, the W Coast scene was a boastfully influence on the first gear album.
Housewives star dismisses baby rumours
Housewives star dismisses baby rumours
'Desperate Housewives' headliner Eva Longoria-Parker has denied rumours that she is pregnant.
According to People magazine, the actress dismissed the hypothesis at a publicity event for her freshly moving picture 'Over Her Dead Body'.
Longoria-Parker said: "No pregnancy, non even. I've been preparation and feeding, cookery and feeding. I keep telling everyone that I've gained 10 pounds only being on strike [a source to the Hollywood writers' strike]."
The actress sparked further rumours when she arrived at a urge day with a pink baby blanket wrapped some her.
When asked around the cover, she said: "I know - If this isn't departure to spawn gestation rumours, I don't know..."
She continued: "I was freezing, so I had to run down to the gift browse, and they didn't have any wraps. I grabbed this and was like, 'It's so easy, but wherefore is it so small?!' And they said, 'It's for a baby'."
The 'Desperate Housewives' star has spoken nigh having a family line with her hoops player married man Tony Charlie Parker in the future.
She said: "I think of, we're non truly on a meter clock, and leaving, 'Okay, this month, this day. We're sort of just sledding, 'We're so happy if we take pregnant, and if we don't we're okay.' We're just lease God make up one's mind it."
The Fishfaces
Artist: The Fishfaces
Genre(s):
Punk: Acid Punk
Discography:
Leaving The Planet
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
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