Wednesday 3 September 2008
Cell Genesys Halts VITAL-2 GVAX Trial In Advanced Prostate Cancer
Thursday 14 August 2008
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Friday 27 June 2008
Castle
Artist: Castle
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Castle
Year: 1993
Tracks: 7
Robert De Niro - De Niro Smith Attend Mandelas Birthday Dinner
Thursday 19 June 2008
Katie Holmes - Katie Holmes Set For Broadway Stage Debut
Katie Holmes is to make her Broadway debut in a production of an Arthur Miller play, it has been confirmed.
It was reported in March that Holmes was in negotiations to take a role in a revival of Miller's World War II drama All My Sons and according to show producer Eric Falkenstein, the actress has now been confirmed to take to the stage this autumn.
The Dawson's Creek star will act alongside John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson for the production, for which opening dates will be announced shortly, Playbill.com reports.
All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit in 1947, tells of businessman Joe Keller (Lithgow) whose supply of defective parts to the military resulted in the deaths of 21 pilots during the war but who escaped jail after he pinned the blame on his business partner Steven Deever.
Wiest is to play family matriarch Kate Keller with Wilson as their idealistic son Chris, whose faith in his father is shattered when he learns the truth of Joe's complicity in the sale of the damaged airplane parts.
And Holmes, who has not appeared in a play since high school, is to play Ann Deever, the fiancee of Chris as well as being the daughter of Joe's imprisoned colleague.
Speaking earlier this month, Falkenstein said that Holmes was "very well suited" for the role.
"There is an additional layer of soul to Ann and from the work I've seen of Katie, she has always impressed with multi-faceted characters. She would nail it," he told OK! magazine.
The producer moved to deny suggestions that Holmes' celebrity - enhanced since her marriage to Tom Cruise - would detract from the play.
"The fact remains that she has a tremendous record of performances. I think Katie is a tremendous actor. Whenever she decides to come to the stage she'll be terrific."
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Thursday 12 June 2008
John and Jen's Romantic Dinner Date
On the eve of TomKat's big housewarming bash at their Beverly Hills home, another little party of a much smaller nature was going on just down the street at the Beverly Hills Hotel!
That's right, new couple John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston were spotted sharing an intimate and romantic dinner at the BHH's posh Polo Lounge on Saturday night.
An eyewitness tells OK! the two looked very much in love and only had eyes for each other.
UPDATE: As of 11 p.m. PT, Jen and John left the Polo Lounge but were still in the hotel. Room for two please?
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Friday 6 June 2008
Shane MacGowan
Artist: Shane MacGowan
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
The Crock Of Gold
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
The Snake
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
A surpassing singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose infamous sottish doings, stinky teeth and drug-fueled excesses often threatened to occult his reputation as a performer, Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his home returned to their native Ireland, where he spent the first base respective eld of his life immersed in the traditional music of the Irish culture. When MacGowan was six, the family touched to London; in that location his talents as a writer gradually blossomed, and he won a number of poetry contests prior to his projection from schoolhouse at the age of 14 for ownership of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first base Sex Pistols concert, and quickly became a regular at local punk shows; he before long formed his possess band, the Nipple Erectors (renamed the Nips later on cathartic their 1978 debut single "King of the Bop"). Despite finding a mentor in the Jam's Paul Weller, the Nips were for the most part unsuccessful, and disbanded in late 1980; MacGowan so took a chore in a record storage, now and then filling in with his admirer Spider Stacy's stripe the Millwall Chainsaws.
When the Chainsaws shortly split up as well, MacGowan and Stacy formed the Pogues -- originally dubbed Pogue Mahone, Gaelic for "osculation my piece of tail" -- along with accordionist James Fearnley, bassist Cait O'Riordan, guitar player Jem Finer, and drummer Andrew Rankin. Hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passionateness of punk, the Pogues chop-chop developed into ane of the to the highest degree well-thought-of and colourful bands of their epoch, scoring a number of U.K. hits including "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Fairy story of New York" and recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and 1988's If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetence for alcoholic drink and drugs swelled to mythological proportions, he grew increasingly undependable, often missing live performances (including a series of 1988 dates hatchway for Bob Dylan). By the fall of 1991, the other Pogues had eventually had enough, and he was dismissed from the band. As MacGowan's imbibition problem worsened, many feared for his life; apart from a 1992 duet with Nick Cave on "What a Wonderful World," he was largely silent for several years, making only the occasional bibulous concert or tv set appearance. In 1994, however, he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a young band, the Popes; after making a fitting St. Patrick's Day debut carrying into action at a London taphouse, the mathematical group -- which likewise included guitar player Paul McGuinness, bassist Berni France, drummer Danny Pope, tenor banjoist Tom McAnimal, guitar player Kieran 'Mo' O'Hagan and whistle histrion Colm O'Maonlai -- entered the studio to commence recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's followup, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.
Sunday 1 June 2008
Paris Hilton: ‘Me and Benji are the perfect match’
Paris Hilton says that she and new boyfriend Benji Madden are “the perfect match”.
The socialite — who has been dating the Good Charlotte rocker for the past three months — says she has never felt so strongly for a man before; and the couple have already thought about marriage.
She says, “He wants to get hitched and we’ve talked about it. I’d wear a beautiful white dress, probably Dolce and Gabbana.
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