Ben Kingsley earns Golden Space Needle

Honored for 'Elegy' at Seattle fest

Ben Kingsley will be honored with a 2008 Golden Space Needle award for acting during the Seattle International Film Festival.


Kingsley will be presented the award on Mary 25 prior to the premiere of "Elegy," an upcoming Samuel Goldwyn release in which he stars, and he will also be feted at a tribute dinner. The Seattle fest runs May 22-June 15.

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Celebrity chef Keith Floyd collapses

Celebrity chef Keith Floyd collapses

Telecasting chef Keith Floyd has reportedly been hospitalised after collapsing at his friend's public house.
According to reports, the chef became ill sooner this week spell staying at The Chesters gin mill, run by his friend John Herschel Glenn Jr. Geldard.
The causal agent of his collapse is non so far known but the chef's factor Stan Putting surface told BBC Radio Stoke: "It's probably exhaustion. He was in hospital a year ago with a similar complaint."
"He recovered from that, so let's hope he recovers from this. We infer he's stable," he said.
Floyd's champion Geldard said: "He is not doing very well. I've just been go through to the hospital now."
The chef recently returned from a trip to Siam.

Former Blue star Ryan charged with assault

Former Blue star Ryan charged with assault

Former boyband vocalist Shelton Jackson Lee Ryan has been charged with an attack on a cab driver, UK constabulary give birth confirmed.
The 24-year-old ex-Blue asterisk, wHO latterly appeared in the ITV show 'Hell's Kitchen,' is accused of assaulting a cabbie pursuit a nestling dealings stroke in Surrey on Newly Year's Eve last yr.
He was charged with green assault later answering bail at Reigate Constabulary Station.
A Surrey Constabulary spokeswoman said Ryan will come out at Redhill Magistrates' Homage on 29 Feb.
Blue officially split in 2005 to pursue solo projects. They sold all over 7m records, including trey UK No Ace singles and albums, ahead splitting up.
They were reportedly set for a reunion tour and album last year which has so far failed to happen.

Dr Phil visits Spears during hospital stay

Dr Phil visits Spears during hospital stay

Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly received a chat from television system therapist Dr Phil McGraw.
Spears reportedly received the visit during her stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical examination Midpoint in Los Angeles, where she was admitted following a custody dispute over her 2 pres Young children at her base.
Spears was taken to the hospital for rating after law officers observed her to be under the influence of an terra incognita nub. She was discharged on Saturday.
According to People mag, Dr Phil McGraw visited the singer and her family during her stay in infirmary.
SAM Lufti, a friend of the isaac Merrit Singer, said: "I witnessed Dr Phil being implausibly influential in helping the family unify. His meeting with Britney has certainly made a positive degree impact inculcation seeds of encouragement and reality inside her."
He as well said: "In the nearly future it is probably that more information may be shared with the public with the hopes of better savvy a state of affairs as serious as this."
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has today ordered Spears' children to be placed in the fillet of sole care of her ex Kevin Federline, suspending the pop star's tribulation rights until "further order of the court".
A hearing has been set for 14 Jan which will determine how the custody conflict will go forward.

CD: Madonna, Hard Candy

CD: Madonna, Hard Candy

Hidden away at the end of Madonna's oft-derided 1992 album Smut is a song called 'Secret Garden'. Recorded earlier she'd popped come out Lourdes, at a time when the wolves of artistic exhaustion and media overkill seemed to be snapping at her heels, it's a strikingly introspective and personal patch of work, which now has a prophetic lustre. Spell its lyrics map out antecedently uncharted emotional terrain, the musical theater backdrop prefigures the extent to which the best records Madonna was sledding to make in the advent decennium and a half - 'Ray of Light', 'Music' and 'Hung Up', to list simply trine - would outdo the expectations anyone (even pop's branding iron lady herself) had a right to have of them.










At around the saame time that she was writing this blueprint for the next phase of her calling, Timbaland and Pharrell Williams were bandmates in their impeccably named senior high ensemble Surrounded by Idiots.Presumption how laughably high a dimension of the past 10 years' finest hip hop and R&B artefacts have had single of these 2 men's room name calling on them, there is a riveting historic inevitability almost the musical theme of their irresistible forces colliding with Madonna's realty object, just in time for her 50th natal day. The big question is, canful the music these three let made together play off or even surpass Madonna's collaborations with Jellybean Benitez, William Orbit or Stuart Price? The serve turns come out to be a resounding 'yes' and 'no'.As its claim suggests, Hard Candy is a hood, nuggety confection offering plenitude for listeners to bewilder their dentition into. Just from 'Candy Buy at"s routinely lascivious gap (memoranda from 50 Cent: 'Can I have my sung back up?') to the cod-symphonic quasi-closure of 'Devil Wouldn't Recognize You', the lion's ploughshare of this record album constitutes a foil-fresh selection-box of variations on familiar themes. Even as Timbaland's hallmark dense, booming clatter kick-starts the low i '4 Minutes', it's severely to escape the signified that entirely concerned are going through the motions - effortlessly, sometimes brilliantly - merely going away through and through the motions, none the less.Whenever Hard Confect threatens to stupefy boring, something always happens to recapture your interest, but the three songs in which Madonna Louise Ciccone actually seems to fake a genuine connection with her musical helpmate leave the rest of the album in the shade. Apiece panel of this triptych involves Pharrell Tennessee Williams. This partnership got off to a badly begin with last year's grisly Be Earthly concern dirge 'Hey You', but in the course of 'She's Non Me"s blissfully heartfelt six proceedings, it really hits its stride. 'She's not me/ She doesn't have my appoint,' Madonna reminds a married person wHO dares to look elsewhere, over a thrillingly off-kilter kerfuffle of whistles, handclaps and partly muted fade-outs. 'Incredible' picks up the disco-fundamentalist baton and flies with it into an enchanted cloudscape of Mid-eighties pop cotton candy, where the dominicus simultaneously orbits around Debbie Gibson and OMD. Then 'Spanish Lessons' adopts a delightfully schoolmistressy tone which ultimately ends up organism considerably less patronising than 'La Isla Bonita'.Listening to these trey fantastic songs and so looking at the gynaecological cover shot, which - for completely the self-consciously modern trappings of Hard Candy's coming into the world (pre-portioned up into Silvikrin adverts, mobile phone perks and Japanese TV composition tunes) - leaves citizenry no selection simply to key this album as Madonna's 'latest waxing', the fulcrum of the delicate balance betwixt her populace and common soldier selves is suddenly discernible. That photo's not a 144 misestimation; it's the impression of Dorian Gray in blow.· Download: 'She's Non Me'; 'Incredible'; 'Spanish Lessons'

Kellie Pickler's chosen charity wins big

Kellie Pickler's chosen charity wins big

Capital of Tennessee -- Patch Kellie Pickler
took rest home the most trophies at the 2008 CMT Awards on Mon,
it was her designated polemonium van-bruntiae, the AARP Foundation Grandparenting
Program, that took home the most money.

The charity garnered $15,000 thanks to Pickler's trey wins and CMT
Unity Country, the cable channel's pro-social initiative that donated
$5,000 to for each one winners' charity of choice.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Taylor Sceloporus occidentalis helped secure a $10,000 donation for St.
Judas Children's Research Hospital with her wins for telecasting of the
twelvemonth and female person video.

In completely, CMT I Country will award $70,000 on behalf of CMT Award
winners. MusiCares, the Nutrient Allergic reaction & Anaphylaxis Network, the
American Liver Foundation, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Nashville Humane Tie-up and the American
Cancer Gild were among the other charities that benefited from
the night's wins.










Yesterdays Rising

Borders(R) to Publish Tribute to Jazz Legend Lionel Hampton in 'Flying Home'

Borders(R) to Publish Tribute to Jazz Legend Lionel Hampton in 'Flying Home'

'Flying Home' Good Book and CD Liberation Available Entirely at Borders
Nationwide

ANN Mandril, Mich., Apr 15 -- Today, Borders released its
latest scoop deed, "Flying Abode: Lionel Lionel Hampton Celebrating hundred Age
of Commodity Vibraharp" written by Sir Henry Morton Stanley Scrunch up with a preface by Wynton
Marsalis. "Flying Home" is a photograph retrospective of jazz pioneer Hampton's
life, musical comedy talents, famous performances and contributions to companionship.
This beautiful collectors' book comes packaged with an scoop CD
containing about of the never-before released collecting of Hampton's topper
performances. Both the "Flying Home" book and CD ar merely available at
Borders stores crossways the land beginning today.

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