Kidman to play exposed CIA Agent

Kidman to play exposed CIA Agent

Nicole Kidman is to work with 'The Bourne Identity' theatre director Doug Liman on a fresh drama about the Central Intelligence Agency agent, Valerie Plame, whose identity was leaked after her diplomatist married man questioned grounds used to vindicate the state of war in Iraq.
Public speaking to MTV well-nigh the photographic film, Liman said: "I sustain a really, really insane accept on how to tell it. It's so outrageous."
He continued: "At last, I'd be doing something no one has ever so done ahead. Consequently it's automatically appealing to me. I'm just starting to explore whether [what I'm planning ] is even possible to do."
Kidman's newly film, 'Margot at the Wedding', opens in Irish cinemas on Fri 28 Feb.

Two films top the Oscars shortlist

Two films top the Oscars shortlist

The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards feature been announced, with 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood' leading the short list with eight nominations apiece.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' have likewise received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow house physician Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a C. H. Best Doer Academy Award for his performance in 'There Will Be Blood'.
The other nominees for Best Actor are: George Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Rebel Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Robert E. Lee Robert Tyre Jones ('In the Vale of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The Best Actress short list is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Compete en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Thomas Nelson Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Supporting Actor ar: Casey Affleck ('The Assassination of Jesse James by the Noel Coward Henry M. Robert Ford'), Javier Bardem ('No Country for Old Men'), Philip Seymour Dustin Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War'), Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild') and Tom Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish people teenager Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Not There'), Deep red Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') have been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress class.
Shortlisted for Best Conductor are: Julian Artur Schnabel ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Lowell Thomas Marian Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The films nominated for C. H. Best Picture are: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Country for Old Men', 'There Will Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five-spot films nominated for Topper Foreign Cinema are: 'The Counterfeiters' (Republic of Austria), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'Katyn' (Polska), 'Mongol' (Kazakstan) and '12' (Russia).
The nominees for Charles Herbert Best Docudrama Feature ar: 'No End in Sight', 'Operation Return: Writing the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Dark Side' and 'War/Dance'. 
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Britney Spears donates $25,000 to Idol Gives Back

Britney Spears donates $25,000 to Idol Gives Back

Troubled pop princess Britney Spears was so touched by God Gives




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David Hykes and the Harmonic..

   
Artist: David Hykes and the Harmonic..

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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 Breath of the Heart

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4

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Sencirow

   
Artist: Sencirow

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Power
   

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Discography:


   
 Perception Of Fear

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10

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Officials confident of Oscars deal

Officials confident of Oscars deal

Organisers of the Oscars stay confident that this awards ceremony will go onwards as planned, disdain the cancellation of the Golden Globes.
The executive conductor of the Academy of Motion Video Humanities and Sciences has said Oscars officials are wannabe of a sell with impinging writers that will allow the show to go ahead.
"At this stage we ar hush qualification our plans as convention," Sir David Bruce Miles Davis told Alpha fetoprotein.
The feud betwixt writers and producers claimed its highest profile casualty on Mon when it was confirmed that this weekend's Golden Globes ceremony, a headstone highlight of the Hollywood flick awards season, had been scrapped.
The decision to replace the event with a campaign group discussion came after Hollywood's actors union, the Screen door Actors Club (Sag), announced that stars would non get over picket lines surrounding the show erected by the Writers Social club of USA (WGA).
The WGA has already said its members will non be allowed to write the playscript for the Oscars - the photographic film industry's biggest annual awards.
However, it has non yet confirmed if it volition picket the usher, which is being propagate by the Rudiment network - one of the companies that is the subject of fall action.

Radiohead, Kanye Light Up Lollapalooza

Radiohead, Kanye Light Up Lollapalooza

Radiohead fans will be going gaga over Lolla.Thom Yorke's crew is lay to join Kanye Cicily Isabel Fairfield, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Motorcar as the headliners for the annual Lollapalooza fete at Chicago's Grant Park, running Aug. 1 through and through August. 3.The 2008 batting order is a virtual alt-rock who's-who: Chitown natives Wilco, the Raconteurs, a reunited Sexual love and Rockets, Gnarls Barkley, Bloc Party, Bozo Mightiness, Mark Ronson, the Blackness Keys, Broken Sociable Scene, the National, Lupe Debacle, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, G. Dear and Special Sauce, and Lashing Mollie.Since morphing leash age ago from an alternative-music lover's travel funfair into a three-day family-friendly affair held in Lake Michigan-adjacent parkland in downtown Newmarket, Lollapalooza has rebranded itself as one of America's premiere rock megafestivals, aboard Coachella and Bonnaroo.The 2007 variation attracted a capacity crowd of 167,330 over the trio days, grossing a whopping $9.8 one thousand thousand in ticket gross revenue, per Billboard Boxscore, to rank as the fifth-highest grossing festival worldwide.And this year's Lolla is shaping up to be the biggest yet.Since going on sale, three-day $175 Betimes Dame passes have already been snapped up, piece $190 go on passes are reportedly release fast. Once those sell out, a regular festival come about, retailing for $205, will be the only way in.Apart from featuring long hundred music acts, the fest volition feature a variety of comedy acts of the Apostles, hip-hop workshops, organic fertilizer food stands, interactive games, a pack rat hunt club and still a snuggling menagerie.Fete founder Oliver Hazard Perry Farrell says that organizers ar as well workings on a deal with Apple to hatch iTunes-only unique content, possibly pairing up various acts onstage and, eventually, in the studio apartment as well, which Lollapalooza and Apple would so release."These will be recorded in a studio apartment but, of course, because we can buoy share files online, we don't have to be in the saame place at the same time—we have finishing studios totally over the world for the artists to finish the opus off," Eileen Farrell told MTV Newsworthiness. "We'll embark on to let the cat out of the bag with Radiohead about putt them with soul they'd like to join forces with, order them how it's loss to go push down."Lollapalooza volition swear out as the start-off to the second leg of Radiohead's Compass north American spell.The ring has headlining gigs at the Wholly Points West Festival in New Jersey's Liberty State Commons August. 8 and 9 and the Outside Lands Music & Liberal arts Festival at Golden Park in San Francisco. Radiohead is also on track to perform in Indianapolis, Stephen Grover Cleveland, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, earlier wrap things up in Saint Nicholas Barbara on August. 28.





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Muppet creator's life screen bound

Muppet creator's life screen bound

A newly biopic or so the life and influence of 'The Muppets' creator Jim Jim Henson is to be made.
Empire Film Group, Iraqi National Congress has acquired the gesture picture production and distribution rights to Robert D Slane's screenplay 'Henson'.
The celluloid is due to begin production in the deep summer with a budget of $30m.
Commenting, Empire Home Amusement President Eric James Parkinson said: "Jim Henson is one of the topper known and most dearest entertainers of completely sentence. His story is inspiring, tragic, heartwarming and epic, and will attain for an important and entertaining motion motion picture."

Beckham gets new six-inch tattoo of Posh

Beckham gets new six-inch tattoo of Posh

St. David Beckham has pledged his love to married woman Victoria by outlay over €3,300 on a newly tattoo.
The footballer's freshly design shows the Spice Daughter sitting as a naked angel - a copy of his deary pic of his married woman from a Brigitte Bardot-inspired shoot for Pop magazine well-nigh




Aidan Baker

Holy Knights

   
Artist: Holy Knights

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Power
   

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Discography:


   
 A Gate Through The Past

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12

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