Director linked to new Cruise film & other: May 2008

Friday, 30 May 2008

Mighty Murray rises again

Aussie singer-songwriter Pete Murray hasn't always been a musclebound hunk with a legion of fans and a lap-of-luxury lifestyle. Okay, he's had the distracting pecs and bottomless blue eyes for a while, but the path to the top has been anything but smooth. At 18, Murray was competing in the national athletics championships when his father died of a heart attack: devastated, Murray pulled out. At 19, the champion rugby player and swimmer injured his knee, which wiped out dreams of a sports career. A decade later (following travel, sports-science study and a smattering of small gigs with his band The Stonemasons) he moved from Brisbane to Melbourne to try to make it in the music world. "It was hell. I oculdn't afford to buy lunch and I was getting anxiety attacks; I'd hate going to sleep because I knew I'd wake up at 3am sweating and thinking 'I'm 32 and where's my life going?'" Now 38 and one of Australia's best-selling singers, Murray - who dropped into New Zealand last week for the release of fourth album Summer at Eureka - looks back on that time in Melbourne as though he can't quite believe everything's worked out.

Just as he was about to call it quits with music and return to Brisbane and the sports-science study he'd pressed pause on, Murray got an inkling things were "picking up". He turned up to a larger-than-normal-capacity gig to see a crowd spilling down the street. "I remember thinking 'What else is on here tonight?'. Thousands of people couldn't get in and for the first time I heard the crowd sing all the lyrics from start to end. It blew me away." As it did when Sony BMG called - and shortly afterwards signed him. Since then, Murray and his folk/rock/pop sound have had a meteoric rise. His two albums Feeler (2003) and See the Sun (2005) both reached number one on the Australian charts, Feeler sales reached platinum six times, and Murray's already been nominated nine times for the Arias (Australian Record Industry Association Awards). And it's not just Australia that's got Murray mania: in fact, for the past two years he's been so busy touring offshore, most recently across Europe, that he has rarely played back home. That recent lack of local exposure, and a newly shaggy mane, meant Murray was finding it easier to walk the streets unnoticed. Well, sort of. "A lot of people come up and say 'You're a dead ringer for that singer Pete Murray', and I say 'Yeah, I get that all the time'." But now he's promoting and touring again in Australia, he can no longer feign being his own doppelganger. He admits yes, a few female fans have batted their eyelashes at him. "It's fine," he smiles. "My wife Amanda finds it a bit hard." Understandable, given her husband was voted among the world's 25 most beautiful people in Who Weekly in 2004.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Dame Edna told to rest after surgery

Aboriginal Australian comedian Barry Humphries, famous for his lineament Bird Edna Everage, has been ordered by doctors to stay for sixer months.
The 73-year-old star has reportedly been forced to cancel a number of shows and appearances due to complications chase vermiform appendix operating theater.
A spokesman for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival said: "He's going in for surgical operation this hebdomad as in that location make been complications."
The spokesman continued: "He has been told by his doctors to remove a six-month rest."

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

Artist: Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Captivating Melodies of Sitar

Year:
Tracks: 2

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Vidna Obmana, Capriolo Trifoglio, Diego Borotti

Artist: Vidna Obmana, Capriolo Trifoglio, Diego Borotti

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:

Landscape In Obscurity

Year: 2000
Tracks: 1

Pamela Anderson's marriage is annulled

Pamela Anderson's marriage to Crick Haym Salomon has been annulled, according to motor inn documents.
The reasonableness for the annulment, according to the documents filed at Los Angeles Superior Court, is fraud.
Former 'Baywatch' star Marian Anderson married Haym Salomon in Las Vegas last Oct. The twosome separated in Dec.
The 40-year-old actress was antecedently married to isaac Bashevis Singer Kid Rock and Motley Crue lead Tommy Leeward.
Haym Salomon, world Health Organization antecedently had a relationship with Paris Hilton, was married to 'Beverly Hills 90210' star topology Shannen Doherty.

Alex Bueno

Hammond quits new home after just 70 hours

Crown Gear's Richard Hammond was in his freshly home for just 70 hours before deciding to make a motion endorse to his old one.
Hammond, 38, presently realised the fresh seat was not for him - and now faces a nightmare flier of up to €60,000 for changing his intellect.
The TV sponsor and his family left hand their rented farmhouse in Gloucestershire for a new home in Buckinghamshire on Friday.
However, he lasted only if trey days in the property before decision making that the change in "life style" didn't suit him.
He told the Mirror paper: "It only took us a match of years to realize we were changing a life-style that suits us. It's an expensive object lesson.
"I got in that location first, fix for the removal hands. And as they started unloading, I began to curiosity. Everything was smart, and preferably posh and cover girl, but could we conform to in?
"When Mindy and the girls arrived, I persuasion 'This isn't right'."

U2 3D concert film to get cinema release

U2 have confirmed details of the passing of their much-anticipated 3D concert moving picture, 'U2 3D'.
The celluloid, which is the first gear digital 3D, multi-camera, real time production, will be shown at Cineworld, Movies at Dundrum and Movies at Swords - all in Irish capital - from 22 February. It will besides be screened at SGC Dungarvan.
Directed by Catherine James Cleveland Owens and Chump Pellington, the film was injection in Buenos Aires during the South American leg of the Irish Gaelic band's 'Vertigo' world enlistment in 2006.
Nina from Carolina digital 3D cameras were used to capture over one C hours of 3D footage, which includes performances of U2 classics such as 'One', 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'Pride (In the Name of Beloved)'.
Along with the 3D digital mental imagery, the picture show features 5.1 Besiege Sound in a call to pay fans a cinematic experience that is as close as possible to eyesight the band inhabit.
'U2 3D' will receive its world premier at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January.

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