Austin Powers star Verne Troyer says he's "very pleased" after a court ordered his alleged sex tape be removed from the internet.
The diminutive actor filed a $20 million lawsuit against TMZ.com on Friday, accusing the site of violating his rights by publishing and airing extracts from the saucy film.
The website was forced to pull off a 25-second film clip on Friday evening after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order that had been requested by Troyer's attorneys.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled Troyer's motion "demonstrated that he will suffer irreparable harm to his reputation" if the tape was distributed.
And Troyer's attorney, Tracy Rane, said Troyer is "very pleased" by the ruling.
A spokesman for Troyer adds, "Mr. Troyer is extremely distraught by the recent exploitation of his private life."
Kevin Blatt, who provided TMZ.com with the tape - was named as a defendant in the suit. He claims he has not been served legal papers, but called the case "baseless".
The temporary order imposed by Gutierrez expires on 7 July.
Monday 30 June 2008
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Luni Coleone ''Lunasicc''
Artist: Luni Coleone ''Lunasicc''
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Mr.Lunasicc
Year:
Tracks: 14
A Million Words, A Million Dollars
Year:
Tracks: 16
Sugar Ray
Monday 16 June 2008
Back To The Future - The Things They Say 8322
"A lot of people like it. My kids won't watch it. As soon as they see me in bed with a duck they turn it off". BACK TO THE FUTURE star LEA THOMPSON on her flop 1996 film HOWARD THE DUCK.
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
Experts Conclude De La Hoya Pictures Were Faked
Pictures of American boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya wearing an all-in-one fishnet outfit and stiletto heels have been declared by experts to be fakes. Former stripper Milana Dravnel dropped her $25 million (?12.5 million) lawsuit against the super welterweight on Monday after experts decided the saucy snaps, which appeared online last year , were digitally altered. Dravnel had planned to sue the boxer for slander, claiming he urged her to sign a agreement that she could not prove the pictures were real. De La Hoya's lawyer Judd Burstein tells the New York Daily News, "Oscar's always claimed the photos were false. We had experts conclude they were doctored. She was facing very large damages and so she agreed to drop the case. The case would have been dismissed anyway."
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Report: Mariah Carey ties the knot with new love
One day after news emerged Mariah Carey has been sporting a huge diamond engagement ring, new reports allege she has already tied the knot with beau Nick Cannon. Latina.com reported the couple wed yesterday in a 'very impulsive' small ceremony on an undisclosed island.The ceremony was attended by a few close friends of the couple, including rapper Da Brat.The New York Post confirmed the news, reporting the ceremony was held at a home Carey recently bought in Eleuthera, the Bahamas. The newspaper reported a source as saying there was no pre-nuptial agreement: "There wasn't time." The Touch My Body singer was recently photographed wearing a large diamond ring - very similar, if not identical to the ring Cannon gave his former fiancee, Victoria's Secret Model Selita Ebanks.A source close to the 38-year-old star said: "Mariah is happier than she has ever been, and she puts a lot of that down to being with Nick. When he asked her to marry him, she had no hesitation in saying yes."
The couple met in March when Nick, 27, directed the video for Mariah's new single Bye Bye.Mariah - who was previously married to record executive Tommy Mottola - recently revealed any man would find it hard to compete with the amount of "adoration" she gets from her fans worldwide.She said: "I've always had really low self-esteem, and I still do. What is weird about that is being on stage, and the love that you get, and the adoration that you feel from your real fans. It's hard for a partner to compete - just imagine."- NZHERALD STAFF, BANG SHOWBIZ
The couple met in March when Nick, 27, directed the video for Mariah's new single Bye Bye.Mariah - who was previously married to record executive Tommy Mottola - recently revealed any man would find it hard to compete with the amount of "adoration" she gets from her fans worldwide.She said: "I've always had really low self-esteem, and I still do. What is weird about that is being on stage, and the love that you get, and the adoration that you feel from your real fans. It's hard for a partner to compete - just imagine."- NZHERALD STAFF, BANG SHOWBIZ
Keith Urban - Fascinating Fact 5424
KEITH URBAN made one lucky fan's dream come true at the CMA Country Festival in Nashville, Tennessee at the weekend (0608Jun08) when he gave away the guitar he was playing. The generous Aussie star jumped into the audience during his show, signed his instrument and gave it to a fan.
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Paul Horn
Artist: Paul Horn
Genre(s):
New Age
Easy Listening
Folk
Ethnic
Other
Discography:
Inside the Taj Mahal I and II
Year: 2001
Tracks: 25
Brazilian Images Transparent
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Tibet
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Africa
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
The Peace Album
Year: 1988
Tracks: 15
Traveler
Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
Paul Horn In Kashmir
Year: 1968
Tracks: 6
Riviera Concert (23-1-1980)
Year:
Tracks: 5
In India and Kashmir
Year:
Tracks: 13
When one evaluates Paul Horn's calling, it is as if he were deuce people, pre- and post-1967. In his early years, Horn was an fantabulous cool-toned altoist and flute player, piece afterwards he became a young years flautist whose mood music is often c. H. Best used as background euphony for speculation. Horn started on pianoforte when he was quaternity and switched to alto at the eld of 12. After a stint with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra on tenor, Horn was Buddy Collette's replacement with the popular Chico Hamilton Quintet (1956-1958), playing alto, transverse flute, and clarinet. He became a studio apartment instrumentalist in Los Angeles, only also launch time during 1957-1966 to record cool malarkey albums for Dot (by and by reissued on Impulse), World Pacific, Hi Fi Jazz, Columbia, and RCA, and he participated in a memorable live session with Cal Tjader in 1959. In addition, in 1964, Horn recorded one of the number one Jazz Masses, utilizing an orchestra staged by Lalo Schifrin. In 1967, Paul Horn studied transcendental speculation in India and became a teacher. The following year, he recorded unaccompanied flute solos at the Taj Mahal (where he enjoyed interacting with the echoes), and would go on to record in the Great Pyramid, tour China (1979) and the Soviet Union, record using the sounds of slayer whales as "accompaniment," and establish his possess label Golden Flute. Most of Paul Horn's ferment since the mid-'70s is focused on new eld rather than jazz.
Natural Born Killers - 6/10/2008
Violence got the star treatment in the early ‘90s. With much of America feeling powerless to stem the crime and gang culture that seemed to be on the rise, we began to react to the ocean of carnage that dominated popular culture. Congress held hearings about violence on television, the finishing moves in Mortal Kombat, and Body Count’s otherwise obscure gangsta-metal single “Cop Killer.” For a while, blaming the pervasiveness of fake violence for real-world murder and assaults came to be as fashionable as flannel shirts and ripped jeans.
And yet, America kept consuming it. Snoop Dogg sold millions of CDs, video games amped up the gore, and children could quote the grisly details of the O.J. Simpson murder trial as if it were written by Dr. Seuss.
Among this bipolar atmosphere of fascination and revulsion, Oliver Stone made Natural Born Killers. Not quite a satire, not quite an exploitation flick, NBK was an epic, frenzied, wildly entertaining meta-movie that skewered the sick symbiosis between violent criminals and the media/Hollywood/celebrity complex. It was met with acclaim by those who got it, and derision by those who didn’t.
The mayhem of NBK begins when Mickey (Woody Harrelson), a working-class bumpkin whose spirit has been poisoned by too much TV, rescues his teenage girlfriend Mallory (Juliette Lewis) from her household. The home, a filthy sitcom set complete with incessant laugh track, is lorded over by a darkly abusive and unforgettable Rodney Dangerfield.
Mickey’s liberation of Mallory begins an amoral Southwestern road trip of killing, hallucinogens, torture, kidnapping, and more killing. At the end of each spree, they leave one survivor to tell the story to a ravenous press. Their exploding fame, popularity even, drives sadomasochistic super-cop Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore) to hunt the two like a ravenous grizzly stalking prey, while tabloid TV producer Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr. with a sleazy English accent) tries to get the “get” with the couple as their reputation grows.
This is not a normal movie, even for Oliver Stone. Mickey and Mallory’s scattered psyches splatter the screen with rapidly switching media that jumps from sitcom to animation to cheesy movie set to video to grainy black-and-white, often for just seconds at a time. And Stone makes NBK exhilarating by artfully adorning the killing scenes with imaginative photography and rock music, incurring among his audience the uncomfortable effect of simultaneously enjoying and tsk-tsking the violence. Some critics labeled it hypocrisy, but NBK brilliantly leaves the attentive viewer with more questions as to whether they’re part of the solution or the problem itself. It’s as if Stone is saying, “Of course entertainment is violent and violence is entertaining. Look, I’m doing it right now. So what are you going to do about it?”
Natural Born Killers is neither porno nor sermon; it’s both, and it works miraculously.
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Clint Eastwood - Fascinating Fact 5347
CLINT EASTWOOD teased his CHANGELING star ANGELINA JOLIE on the set of the film by referring to her as "the Tomb Raider" and "Angie DICkinson".
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Eva's pink dress sparks pregnancy rumours
Eva Longoria has sparked rumours she is pregnant.
The Desperate Housewives star - who is married to basketball player Tony Parker -showed off a possible baby bump in a tight pink dress at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Fashion Awards in Los Angeles on Monday night.
Eva has made no secret of her desire to start a family with the San Antonio Spurs star in the future.
She said last year: “Tony and I would love to have kids.”
The 33-year-old actress would not be the first star to keep her pregnancy under wraps.
Angelina Jolie, who is expecting twins with partner Brad Pitt, refused to confirm the happy news until she was promoting her new movie Kung Fu Panda at the Cannes Film Festival in France last month, despite displaying her obviously pregnant figure in variety of tent-like dresses.
Eva’s publicist refused to comment on pregnancy rumours, saying: “We do not talk about clients' personal lives.”
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Natasha Bedingfield spreads 'Sunshine'
Thanks to her songs "Unwritten" and "These Words (I Love You, I Love You)," Brit-pop star Natasha Bedingfield [ tickets ] found fame in the United States in 2005. But that wouldn't be the case if she hadn't penned a song for younger brother and fellow artist Daniel Bedingfield."I was surprised it was a hit," Bedingfield said during an interview with LiveDaily. "It's because it was a song I wrote just as a birthday present for my younger brother. When 'Unwritten' did that well, it was really, really exciting. But I wasn't thinking about trying to please people with that song."Well, she did, and the ubiquitous song made its way on to a commercial for a hair-care line. Two years after its release, "Unwritten" lost out to Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy.Bedingfield forged ahead with her new album, "Pocketful of Sunshine," which spawned the summery hit "Love Like This," and now she has embarked on her first headlining tour of the United States. (The itinerary is included below.) On the eve of the tour, Bedingfield could barely contain her excitement. "I'm really excited about this tour coming up," she said. "This is the first time I'm headlining a US tour. There's lots of dates. Today is the dress-rehearsal day. I guess they call that 'production day.' We try out all the lights, and the whole set. It's going to be cool."While the album "Unwritten" told tales of female empowerment, "Pocketful of Sunshine" is a logical follow-up, covering her experience since then. "My first album was definitely about independence and individuality and making the most of every moment," Bedingfield said. "Really, I've done a lot of that in my life. I've really experienced a lot and the next album is the next step up from that, with the experiences that happened along the way."It's about relationships, the ups and downs, and even just growing up. There's some songs on the new album about when your parents try and tell you how your life should be. You're like, 'Actually I just need your heart right now, not your mind.' It's very soulful music--pop music with meaning, really." Millions of folks heard her "pop music with meaning" when she appeared on "American Idol" toward the end of season seven. She was able to witness, first hand, the snarkiness of "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, as well as the backstage room with the final three contestants. "It was great to perform on 'American Idol,'" she said. "It was really quite exciting to be backstage with all that tension of people wondering if they're going to be in or out that week. "Simon kept his arms crossed throughout the whole performance. It was like, 'Are you trying to scare me or something Simon?' Every time I saw him, I would say cheeky things. He ended up saying, 'You're quite lippy aren't you?' I said, 'Yep, I am,'" she added with a laugh.
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