Liftin' Spirits vs Boneshaker & other: May 2008

Sunday, 25 May 2008

Spears planning Las Vegas comeback show?

Britney Spears is reported to be planning a $10m (€6.3m) Las Vegas comeback for later this year.
According to the National Enquirer, 26-year-old Spears is in talks with Palms Hotel and Casino owner George Maloof to make her return to the music world in Vegas.
An insider told the magazine: "She wants to make a splashy comeback in Las Vegas. He wants the show to be full of high energy and flashy costume changes."
The troubled popstar is currently working on her new album with producer J.R. Rotem.
Speaking about the collaboration, Rotem said: "She's like the master at what she does. She's a lot more experienced than most people. She just has the 'it' factor that not every artist has. So it's always nice to work with her."

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Ellen DeGeneres to wed after gay marriage ruling

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage.

"I am announcing I am getting married," DeGeneres, 50, told the audience during the taping of her "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Thursday. The show was due to be broadcast on Friday.

To wild cheers and a standing ovation, DeGeneres said she was very excited at Thursday's ruling by the California Supreme Court overturning a state ban on gay marriage.

"Thank you. I'll tell you who the lucky guy is soon," she joked.

DeGeneres did not mention de Rossi, 35, but pictures showed the former "Ally McBeal" actress in the audience, smiling and applauding.

"It is something of course that we have wanted to do and we wanted to be legal, and we are just very, very excited," DeGeneres said.

DeGeneres and de Rossi have been a familiar couple in Hollywood for about four years, appearing at red carpet events together. DeGeneres previously had a relationship with actress Anne Heche.

DeGeneres made broadcast history in 1997 when her TV alter ego came out of the closet on her ABC sitcom "Ellen," becoming the first openly gay lead character on U.S. prime-time network television.

A short time later, DeGeneres and Heche went public with their real real-life love affair, instantly becoming America's most prominent lesbian couple. They broke up three years later.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Steve Gorman and John O'Callaghan)

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Ireland gets its Eurovision Turkey

Dustin the Turkey has been chosen by the public to map Ireland at the Eurovision Song dynasty Contest semi in Capital of Serbia and Montenegro in May. Watch the Eurosong 2008 outcome here.
He south Korean won Eurosong 2008 from the University Concert Charles Francis Hall in Limerick with his song dynasty 'Irelande Douze Pointe'.
He saw away the challenge of other finalists Donal Skehan, Mayan, Leona Daly, Liam Geddes and Marc Kenneth Roberts. Check the sestet finalists on Eurosong 2008 here.
Dustin the Joker testament now compete in the first Eurovision semifinal on Tues 20 English hawthorn.
The final takes place on Sat 24 Crataegus laevigata.
Bookies William Mound get installed Dustin the Meleagris gallopavo as the 10-1 darling to succeed Eurovision.
The company's spokesman, Tony Kenny, said: "These days you take to be either from the old Eastern Axis or have a great thingummy to win Eurovision - and a singing turkey will possibly be one of the to the highest degree bizarre things that a Eurovision audience will always see."
"He'll go to Beograd on a wing and a prayer and, fingers crossed, he'll prance a few feathers when he gets there," he added.

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Thursday, 8 May 2008

Troubled singer Winehouse in rehab

Days after she was seen in a picture on an alleged dose bout, psyche vocalizer Amy Winehouse has entered rehab.
In a statement released yesterday, Winehouse's record caller Linguistic universal Music Mathematical group said: "Amy Winehouse's planned appearance at the NRJ Awards in Anatole France on Saturday has been cancelled as the artist has entered a rehabilitation clinic."
It continued: "Amy decided to accede the readiness today after negotiation with her record label, management, family and doctors."
"She has come to infer that she requires medical specialist treatment to go along her ongoing convalescence from drug addiction and train for her planned appearance at the Grammy Awards," the financial statement added.

Hartnett cast in martial arts film

'30 Days of Night' lead Chaff Hartnett is to act the booster cable part in a new martial humanistic discipline activity film called 'Bunraku'.
Change reports that the cinema follows a revenge-seeking floater (Hartnett) in an understudy universe.
The craft daily says the film mixes elements of the spaghetti horse opera, gangster and samurai genres.
'Bunraku' is due to begin shooting in European Economic Community in the springtime.