Britney Spears twice attempted to kill herself, according to a new book about the troubled star.
Journalist Ian Halperin has penned a 'tell-all' expose after spending 18 months as an undercover paparazzo trying to get close to the troubled singer.
"The suicide attempts are true. I know all the details about both of them," he tells Life & Style.
A Spears family insider supports Halperin's claims, confirming that Britney threatened suicide many times during the time Halperin was investigating her - from November 2006 until last month.
Monday, 23 June 2008
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Prince Cancels 'Last Ever' Concert In Ireland
Prince has been to forced a concert that was being billed as his last ever performance in Ireland, organisers have revealed.
The pop star was due to perform in front of 55,000 spectators at Croke Park in Dublin next Monday (June 16th).
But the event has now been cancelled “due to reasons beyond the control of Prince and MCD Productions,” a statement read.
Organisers said that all 55,161 tickets that had been sold for the event would now be refunded - and that it's hoped a re-arranged show will take place next year.
According to the Irish Times, a license for the concert was granted by Dublin City Council last week.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
'Motorcade' picks up Billy Ray
DreamWorks brings on writer-director to reroute project
Script development and presidential motorcades have one essential thing in common: They must stay in motion or bad things will happen.
DreamWorks is applying this mantra to its thriller "Motorcade" by bringing on writer-director Billy Ray to change the script's route and keep the project moving forward. "Motorcade" is an action thriller about terrorists assaulting the president's procession as it snakes through Los Angeles.
Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell sold their original pitch to DreamWorks in November 2004, with Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald producing. David Beaubaire and Jonathan Eirich are the execs steering the project for the studio.
Ray, who is repped by ICM, has embraced a shrewd mix of rewrites on such big-budget fare as "Volcano," "Flightplan" and "State of Play" and more personal writing-directing assignments such as "Shattered Glass," "Breach" and the forthcoming "Hurricane Season" at Universal.
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Snoop orders Beyonce to 'make babies'
Snoop Dogg has ordered Beyonce Knowles to "start making babies".
The rapper - who has three children with wife Shantay Taylor Broadus - told the former Destiny’s Child singer to speed up her family plans with new husband Jay-Z.
Snoop said: “I told them to go home and start making babies. They should, that's the next step as far as marriage, having kids and add on to the family, so hopefully that's what they'll do!”
Snoop also revealed his own secret for a happy marriage.
He added to People magazine: “Communication, and being able to fight and get back up - to have misunderstanding and then get some understanding - that’s the secret.”
Beyonce, 26, and 38-year-old Jay-Z tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Jay-Z’s New York apartment in April.
Last year, Beyonce insisted she wouldn't pressurise the rap superstar into having children, saying: “You can't rush a man into anything whether it's a relationship, marriage or having children. When he's ready he'll let you know."
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Ryoji Ikeda
Artist: Ryoji Ikeda
Genre(s):
Dance
Other
New Age
Discography:
Dataplex
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Op.
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Matrix Cd1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Time And Space
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
0 C
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Japanese minimalist electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda is a starring digit among the modern crop of computer-based musicians exploring the esthetical possibilities opened up by digital production technologies. Released through his possess CCI Recordings, the U.K.-based Touch label, and Staalplaat, among others, Ikeda's music engages the digital recording and production treat now, playing up pernicious glitches and interruptions typically emended out of that action and combine them with deeply complex and disjointed collages of samples, pure tone electronics, and heavily treated digital noise. More recent releases have added elements of the experimental post-techno subgenre-scape to Ikeda's hard disk stew, with bits of jungle, nickname, and minimum techno cropping up between the crackles and whines. Vaguely related -- at least in spirit -- to American minimalist and computing device composer such as LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Terre Thaemlitz, and John Bischoff, Ikeda's crop is as well in close harmony with German and Austrian post-techno artists such as Farmers Manual and Rehberg/Bauer, with whom he has collaborated live. Mostly unknown in Japan, his crop as a solo artist and in collaboration with Japanese audio/video company Dumb Type has gained him a wider audience in the U.S. and Europe.
The Cure thrill capacity crowd at Hollywood Bowl
The Cure thrilled a capacity crowd at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday night (May 31) by performing a marathon three-hour set.
Frontman Robert Smith and longtime bassist Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper and guitarist Porl Thompson ran through hits including 'In Between Days', 'Pictures Of You' and 'Love Cats' as well as more obscure numbers.
The band also previewed new material from their forthcoming album, which is due out in the US on September 13 and will be preceded by the release of a new single on the 13th of each month.
Smith hardly said a word during the set, but he seemed to bask in the crowd's adoration, scooping up flowers that were thrown onto the stage by audience members and smiling beneath his mass of black hair.
Huge sing-alongs were inspired by 'Just Like Heaven' and other hits, and crowd members danced in the aisles of the seated venue throughout the night.
The evening culminated with no less than four encores, which ended with the crowd-pleaser 'Boys Don't Cry'.
The Cure played:
'Underneath The Stars'
'Prayers For Rain'
'A Night Like This'
'The Walk'
'The End Of The World'
'Lovesong'
'Sleep When I'm Dead'
'To Wish Impossible Things'
'Pictures Of You'
'Lullaby'
'From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea'
'The Perfect Boy'
'Hot Hot Hot!!!'
'The Only One'
'Push'
'Friday I'm In Love'
'In Between Days'
'Just Like Heaven'
'A Letter To Elise'
'Never Enough'
'Wrong Number'
'One Hundred Years'
'Baby Rag Dog Book'
'If Only Tonight We Could Sleep'
'The Kiss'
'At Night'
'M'
'Play For Today'
'A Forest'
'The Lovecats'
'Let's Go To Bed'
'Freakshow'
'Close To Me'
'Why Can't I Be You?'
'Boys Don't Cry'
The Cure will continue their extensive US tour throughout the month, concluding with a performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall on June 21.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Frontman Robert Smith and longtime bassist Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper and guitarist Porl Thompson ran through hits including 'In Between Days', 'Pictures Of You' and 'Love Cats' as well as more obscure numbers.
The band also previewed new material from their forthcoming album, which is due out in the US on September 13 and will be preceded by the release of a new single on the 13th of each month.
Smith hardly said a word during the set, but he seemed to bask in the crowd's adoration, scooping up flowers that were thrown onto the stage by audience members and smiling beneath his mass of black hair.
Huge sing-alongs were inspired by 'Just Like Heaven' and other hits, and crowd members danced in the aisles of the seated venue throughout the night.
The evening culminated with no less than four encores, which ended with the crowd-pleaser 'Boys Don't Cry'.
The Cure played:
'Underneath The Stars'
'Prayers For Rain'
'A Night Like This'
'The Walk'
'The End Of The World'
'Lovesong'
'Sleep When I'm Dead'
'To Wish Impossible Things'
'Pictures Of You'
'Lullaby'
'From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea'
'The Perfect Boy'
'Hot Hot Hot!!!'
'The Only One'
'Push'
'Friday I'm In Love'
'In Between Days'
'Just Like Heaven'
'A Letter To Elise'
'Never Enough'
'Wrong Number'
'One Hundred Years'
'Baby Rag Dog Book'
'If Only Tonight We Could Sleep'
'The Kiss'
'At Night'
'M'
'Play For Today'
'A Forest'
'The Lovecats'
'Let's Go To Bed'
'Freakshow'
'Close To Me'
'Why Can't I Be You?'
'Boys Don't Cry'
The Cure will continue their extensive US tour throughout the month, concluding with a performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall on June 21.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Jamie Oliver - Oliver Unhappy With Government Approach To School Meals
Jamie Oliver had criticised the government for its refusal to commit to long-term plans over healthy school dinners.
The celebrity chef launched a high-profile campaign to improve the quality of meals in UK schools after his Jamie's School Dinners TV programme had uncovered a worrying amount of junk food on the menu of schools across Britain.
A government white paper introduced in 2004 introduced tougher minimum standards for school meals and outlined a new vocational qualification for school catering staff in a bid to press the promotion of healthy eating.
But speaking at the Hay Festival in Powys, Oliver related his continuing frustration at the government's approach to the issue.
"I've been through three education secretaries and two prime ministers," he told interviewer Rosie Boycott.
"They won't commit to a ten-year plan."
He continued: "I think feeding our kids is the cogs of our country. It shouldn't have anything to do with politics. But I am trying to pace myself so I'm shutting up about it for around 18 months."
The TV chef said he had been disheartened by the quality of many children's packed lunches - even seeing some with lunchboxes containing the Red Bull energy drink and McDonald's fast food - and pressed the need for teaching children to cook.
"Food is so important and we have let it go," he told the audience. "Kids should be able to leave school and know how to make a stew or a stir fry."
In response to Oliver's remarks, a spokesperson for the School Food Trust, the government body set up in 2005 to improve school meals, said the agency recognised the long-term needs of transforming food in schools.
"After an entirely expected difficult start there's no doubt that the corner's been turned," she told the BBC.
"So while nobody's expecting to see a massive change over night the truth is that everyone is completely committed to this for the future."
24/05/2008 08:02:31
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Hart says Pink is the love of his life
Pink's estranged husband Carey Hart has described the singer as the love of his life, despite the fact that the couple have now separated.
Speaking to People magazine, the racing driver said: "Above and beyond everything, we are the best of friends and she is the love of my life."
He also dismissed rumours of any animosity between the pair, saying: "We talk all the time."
Pink previously stated that the split from was "not about cheating, anger or fighting", assuring her fans that she still believed that Hart is a "good man" and urging them to support him too.
Speaking to People magazine, the racing driver said: "Above and beyond everything, we are the best of friends and she is the love of my life."
He also dismissed rumours of any animosity between the pair, saying: "We talk all the time."
Pink previously stated that the split from was "not about cheating, anger or fighting", assuring her fans that she still believed that Hart is a "good man" and urging them to support him too.
Michael Lohan Retracts Lindsay Lesbian Confirmation
Michael Lohan claims his confirmation of daughter Lindsay’s lesbian relationship with Samantha Ronson has been “twisted and misrepresented”.
The Christian yesterday claimed that the pair’s affair was "evident to anyone with half a brain."
However, he now denies the comment was directed at the Mean Girls star.
He tells Access Hollywood: "I never said anything like that about Lindsay or a relationship with Samantha. I never looked at the pictures! I never looked at any derogatory pictures that were purportedly posted on the Internet, so how could I comment?
"It (the quote) was applied towards Lindsay. It was twisted and misrepresented. That's Lindsay's business. Lindsay can make her own life choices, that's between her and God."
The Christian yesterday claimed that the pair’s affair was "evident to anyone with half a brain."
However, he now denies the comment was directed at the Mean Girls star.
He tells Access Hollywood: "I never said anything like that about Lindsay or a relationship with Samantha. I never looked at the pictures! I never looked at any derogatory pictures that were purportedly posted on the Internet, so how could I comment?
"It (the quote) was applied towards Lindsay. It was twisted and misrepresented. That's Lindsay's business. Lindsay can make her own life choices, that's between her and God."
Lily Allen under surveillance by US Government - Tabloid Hell
Lily Allen has been supposedly kept under surveillance by the US Government due to suspicions that she may have taken drugs, it is reported.
The Daily Mirror claims that since cannabis was found on her tour bus in Canada six months ago Allen has had to submit urine for testing on a regular basis and avoid being photographed in dubious areas in order to gain a US visa.
The newspaper quotes an anonymous source close to the singer as saying: "Lily felt like Big Brother was constantly watching her � it was freaky.
"Lily had to have her pee regularly checked and then blood tests on top to prove she wasn't on drugs before the US government would give her a working visa.
"She was terrified to be photographed anywhere that people may have been taking drugs in case she got linked to them. She even started staying in instead of going out clubbing in case certain people got the wrong idea."
Lily Allen was successful in being awarded a visa, and has travelled to Hollywood to continue work on her new album. See pictures of Lily Allen working on her album on the Lily Allen MySpace blog.
The Daily Mirror claims that since cannabis was found on her tour bus in Canada six months ago Allen has had to submit urine for testing on a regular basis and avoid being photographed in dubious areas in order to gain a US visa.
The newspaper quotes an anonymous source close to the singer as saying: "Lily felt like Big Brother was constantly watching her � it was freaky.
"Lily had to have her pee regularly checked and then blood tests on top to prove she wasn't on drugs before the US government would give her a working visa.
"She was terrified to be photographed anywhere that people may have been taking drugs in case she got linked to them. She even started staying in instead of going out clubbing in case certain people got the wrong idea."
Lily Allen was successful in being awarded a visa, and has travelled to Hollywood to continue work on her new album. See pictures of Lily Allen working on her album on the Lily Allen MySpace blog.
Amy Winehouse - Winehouse In Further Video Shame
Amy Winehouse has been caught on another video which shows her surrounded by evidence of drugs and singing racist chants.
The home video footage was filmed by husband Blake Fielder-Civic, who is currently in prison facing trial for GBH and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The video, which was reportedly handed to the News of a World by a friend, shows Amy, 24, and another woman singing racist football chants to the tune of children's song 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'.
However they have replaced the words with 'Blacks, pakis, gooks and nips' followed by: 'And deaf and dumb and blind and gay'.
A coffee table can be seen in the background displaying six cigarette lighters and a substance which looks like heroin on a foil.
In another section Blake, 26, asks Amy to perform a sex act on him in the public stairwell of a hotel. This is followed by a confused sequence showing shots of the steps and carpet.
Further footage shows Amy asleep while a friend Eddie discusses which drugs they have taken. He tells Blake 'A little bit of E, a little bit of C and a few beers, watched telly, smoked crack.'
Several photos of Amy have also been released including pictures of her surrounded with a pipe made from a bottle, and silver foil which appear to be drug taking paraphernalia.
The friend who released the video and photos claimed she did it to show the hold Blake has on Amy.
"Blake's clearly the instigator behind the idea of them having risky public sex. It looks like the camera was a new toy he wanted to try out," the source told the News of the World.
She added: "Some might say Blake's been the unwitting architect of Amy's downfall. But to risk all Amy's achievements and all her future by committing this sort of material to camera is beyond the pale."
08/06/2008 19:19:10
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