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Sunday, 8 June 2008

Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne Sign On For One-Day Ozzfest

This summer, the annual heavy-metal circus named for one of the genre's most outspoken rebels will return, but in a scaled-down form. This year's Ozzfest won't be traveling the country, but will be a one-day destination festival, set for Pizza Hut Park in Dallas on August 9.

Headlining the day's events will be Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne himself. Also set for the main stage are System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, Cavalera Conspiracy, Shadows Fall, Apocalyptica and In This Moment. There will also be a special all-star tribute to slain Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.

On the second stage, the Ozzfest camp has secured Sevendust, DevilDriver, Kingdom of Sorrow, Soilent Green, Witchcraft and Goatwhore. Meanwhile, a third stage, dubbed the "Texas Stage," will feature local favorites the Sword, Drowning Pool and Rigor Mortis.

"Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off," Sharon Osbourne, the brains behind Ozzfest, said in a statement. "We're going to be a stadium destination festival for now — we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We've given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest. This is just the beginning. Ozzy has great relationships with all of the bands that have played Ozzfest. We're the only real festival for harder-edge bands and these artists have been very loyal to us — there is lots of love on this lineup."

Tickets for this year's Ozzfest will go on sale May 31.

Rumors that Ozzfest would be diminished to a two-day destination festival began earlier this year, after Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman announced the inaugural run of his Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival, which boasts a lineup featuring Slipknot, Disturbed, Mastodon, DragonForce, Airborne, Five Finger Death Punch, 36 Crazyfists, Machine Head, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, the Red Chord and Walls of Jericho. That tour will get under way July 9 in Seattle and runs through August 19 in Buffalo, New York.

Many speculated that the competition would be too much for the Ozzfest camp, which offered free admission to last year's gigs; none of the bands that played last year's Ozzfest were paid, outside of merchandise sales, and they were encouraged to play shows on off-nights. In recent years, critics have slammed Ozzfest, saying that the festival's influence and grandeur has started to wane.

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Co-star gave Pitt marriage insight

Actor and comedian Omid Djalili, who met Brad Pitt on the set of 'Spy Game' in 2000, claims that he gave the actor marriage advice after he married Jennifer Aniston.
The comic star revealed to the Daily Express newspaper: "I did a scene with Brad in the back of a taxi and it was only a few days after he had married Jennifer. I chatted to him for hours giving him advice about the three stages of marriage."
He continued: "Stage one is perfection - blind love. Stage two is the difficult stage because you start to despise everything about her. If you can deal with the baggage you can possibly get to stage three - a harmonious marriage."
Pitt and Aniston were married in July 2000 in Malibu and Djalili told the newspaper: "After six weeks Brad came up to me and said, 'I'm definitely in stage two Omid!'"
Rumours of marital problems surfaced in 2004 as Pitt filmed 'Mr and Mrs Smith' alongside Angelina Jolie.
Aniston, 39, filed for divorce in March 2005. A month later, Pitt, 44, was seen with Jolie in Kenya. Earlier this week it was claimed the couple are planning to marry in an intimate ceremony this summer.

Jimmy Fallon - Late Night Update Fallon To Replace Obrien

Officially introduced Monday as the successor to Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night
when O'Brien moves over to the Tonight show next year, Jimmy Fallon joked
that his elementary school principal, Mr. Nostradamus, had listed him in his kindergart
en yearbook as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." As many people are
aware, Mr. Nostradamus has been a bit off with other predictions over the years,
but TV writers had been predicting for weeks that Fallon would be named Late Night
's host (and, of course, Letterman did indeed once host the show himself, jumping
to CBS after the powers-that-be at NBC passed him over for Jay Leno to succeed Johnny
Carson.) Still up in the air is the question of what will happen to Leno when the
game of musical chairs plays out next year (precisely when that will be has not yet
been disclosed). At Monday's news conference, NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman
said that he was looking to find an inducement to keep Leno at NBC, but he acknowledged that
he might not be able to do so. "I think it's a reach," he said.

13/05/2008

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Britney on psychiatric hold for 14 days

Britney Spears will remain in a hospital psychiatric ward for another 14 days, sources close to the star have revealed.
Spears was to be released from UCLA Medical Centre's psychiatric hospital yesterday but doctors at the ward determined that she should remain, the source reportedly said.
Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled the day after Spears was taken to hospital that her father, James Spears, would be Britney's conservator.
Along with attorney Andrew Wallet, he is also conservator of the popstar's multi-million dollar estate.
Goetz granted the conservator access to all Spears' medical records, as well as the right to restrict her visitors and to provide her with around-the-clock security.
Goetz also issued a restraining order, keeping Sam Lutfi, the pop singer's friend and sometime manager, away from her.

Stereophonics

Artist: Stereophonics

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Alternative
   Pop
   ROck: Alternative
   Indie

Discography:

Pull the Pin

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

You Gotta Go There To Come Back

Year: 2003
Tracks: 17

Private Session

Year: 2001
Tracks: 17

Just Enough Education to Perform

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Performance and Cocktails

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

Word Gets Around

Year: 1997
Tracks: 12

A bright new noise in U.K. alternative stone in the '90s and into the new millennium, Stereophonics ar comprised of vocalist/guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist Richard Jones, and drummer Stuart Cable (until the latter's replacement by Javier Weyler). They were formed in Cwmaman, South Wales, in the first place as the teen overcompensate band Tragic Love Company. Early reviews cited the Manic Street Preachers as their well-nigh obvious influence, and their initial mess of singles struggled to disabuse cynics of this whim.

Yet in Jones, Stereophonics possess an able author as well as a singer of some distinction, a fact that was only truly acknowledged next the release of their debut LP. One of the low bands on Richard Branson's young V2 label, they were signed by top dog executive Jeremy Pearce in August 1996 in front the label was officially up and linear. They made their debut in November with "Looks Like Chaplin" b/w "More Life in a Tramp's Vest," which later became a single in its possess right. They entered the charts for the low time with "Local Boy in the Photograph" and didn't look back. Each of their subsequent singles sold increasingly bettor, culminating in a U.K. Top Ten placing for their debut record album, Word Gets Around, and Top 20 honors for "Traffic." The latter's resigned themes provided the perfect platform for Jones' plaintive vocals. A reissue of "Local Boy in the Photograph" besides made the Top 20, in the same calendar week as they received a Brit Award for Best New Group. As a singles band, they seem overburdened with wealth -- "The Bartender and the Thief" duly became a British wireless staple through the closing months of 1998, followed the adjacent year by the full-length Public presentation and Cocktails.

The band's third studio attempt, Scarcely Enough Education to Perform was initially slated to go by the abbreviated J.E.E.P.; withal, Daimler-Chrysler objected to the plan and claimed ownership of the actual word Jeep. In September 2003, Stereophonics returned with their most dependable material to date on You Gotta Go There to Come Back. Not even a calendar month after the long-player's domestic expiration, the band announced the loss of creation phallus Cable. Frontman Jones said Cable had had issues committing himself to the band ever since Just Enough Education to Perform. Stereophonics planned to transport on as duet piece ex-Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman sat in on drums for several tour dates. Speech. Sex. Violence. Other? appeared in 2005. It as well marked the debut of drummer Javier Weyler. The band's first live album, Live from Dakota, arrived in spring 2006. After an extensive tour, including performances in Moscow and Latvia, the group returned to the UK and released iII formats of their single "It Means Nothing" two weeks earlier Perpetrate the Pin stumble shop shelves in mid-October 2007.

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Disney checks out graphic novel biz

Will create titles as basis for film projects

Disney is getting into the graphic novel business, with a plan to adapt the works into movies.

Walt Disney Studios has created Kingdom Comics and signed a multiyear deal with writer-actor Ahmet Zappa, exec Harris Katleman and writer-editor Christian Beranek to oversee the fledgling division.

The aim is to create titles that will be the basis of new film projects for the studio as well as re-imagine and rejuvenate movies from the Disney "vault," the company's library of live action films.

No writers or artists have been announced, though the trio are on the hunt for new and established talent to create the books. Kingdom has a first-look deal with Disney Publishing Worldwide to distribute the publications. If Disney chooses not to publish a book, Kingdom will explore other venues.

The studio will pluck titles, putting them into development on a case-by-case basis.

"Some of these exciting publications will be inspired by films and characters in the vast and storied Disney library, while other original graphic novels are sure to spark great ideas for future Disney classics," studio president Oren Aviv said. "Our vision for Kingdom Comics is to bring a fresh, contemporary approach to Disney properties that already have a strong connection with moviegoers and readers all over the world, and to add to that storytelling legacy."

Zappa started out as an actor on such shows as "Roseanne" and "Growing Pains." This led to feature film work and a run as a host on many popular reality shows. In 2006, he sold the rights to his first novel, "The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless," to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. He is writing the second installment in that series and is executive producing a feature version of "Fraggle Rock" with the Jim Henson Co.

Katleman served as president and CEO of 20th Television from 1980-92, during which time the studio developed such landmark programs as "L.A. Law," "The Simpsons," "In Living Color," "NYPD Blue," and "Doogie Howser, M.D." (in association with Steven Bochco Prods.). Following his tenure at 20th Television, he joined Mark Goodson Prods. as COO, followed by a stint as COO and partner in Jonathan Goodson Prods., in which he still maintains a partnership. His recent credits include executive producing the syndicated shows "Forgive or Forget," "House Calls" and "Dirty Rotten Cheater."

Beranek formed his own publishing company, Silent Devil, in 1996, producing such titles as "Dracula vs. King Arthur" and "Super Frat." He parlayed that success into consulting for companies such as Universal Music Publishing, Harley Davidson, AOL, and Mazda on graphic novels and their value as both intellectual properties and marketing devices.

As a writer, he penned the origin of John Doe for the New Line/Zenescope series "Seven" and recently finished a draft of the "Dracula vs. King Arthur" screenplay.

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