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Friday 30 May 2008

Babyshambles - Dohertys Late Gig Arrival After Cat Death

Troubled BABYSHAMBLES rocker PETE DOHERTY fought back tears at a London gig on Tuesday (27May08), after burying his beloved pet cat just hours before he was due to go on stage.

The star apologised for arriving late to the show at the capital's Brixton Mass venue, telling fans he had been forced to lay the animal to rest at the roadside before heading to the performance.

Before his arrival at the gig, the eager rock crowd were told the star was "en route" due to his kittens acting "crazy".

And, once he arrived, the star told fans told fans the tragic reason for his tardiness: "Sorry I'm late. But considering I've had to bury one of my cats at the roadside I've done pretty well to be here."

Doherty was spotted taking his beloved pet cat to a vet near his home in Wiltshire, England last week (begs19May08).

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Sunday 11 May 2008

Spice Girls 'sorry' over cutting tour short

The Spicery Girls have apologised for cutting their world circuit dead after receiving literary criticism from their fans.
The grouping previously blamed "family commitments" for the tour termination originally than scheduled only media reports suggested that the members were combat with apiece other.
The Spice Girls late cancelled dates in Australia, South Africa, China and Genus Argentina.
Mel C said: "There has been a circumstances of scrap in the media o'er the end few days so we wanted you to get a line it from the horse's mouth."
"We're really sorry non to be able to get to totally the places we wanted to," she said.
Victoria Beckham added: "Our kids indigence to go back to school and we always said our families ar our priorities. Sorry we haven't got to encounter everybody."
Geri Halliwell said: "The tour's gone actually yearner than we anticipated. We opinion we were release to go with i gig, that's how it started - and then we planned until the end of Jan, and so we in reality extended it."
Mel B addressed rumours of a rift in the camp by saying: "We hate from each one other? Are you kidding? We love for each one other."

Delirious - movie review

I have seen Steve Buscemi in person, and he is non peculiarly ratlike -- he's actually
a snatch dapper, well-nigh handsome. Merely on screen, Buscemi persists in embodying the most
rodentlike of characters -- twitchy, scraggly, often lurking in the shadows. His voi
cing of Templeton the (actual) rat in the live-action Charlotte's Web seemed to a lesser extent perfective tense
casting than foregone conclusion.

Buscemi's quality in Tom DiCillo's Delirious is Les Galantine, a "licensed professional"
lensman wHO is undistinguished even by paparazzi standards and ratlike still
by Buscemi standards. An irritable lone hand, Les roams alleys and back entrances with
a take of similar-minded (just slightly to a lesser extent desperate) shutterbugs, grasping for shots
of stars like pop sensation D'Harma (Alison Lohman). It's at one of these melees
that he bumps into the affably homeless Toby fillpot jug (Michael George Dibdin Pitt); shortly Toby fillpot jug has a reluctant,
unstable ally and a place to rest. Les, in turn, has mortal to heed to his rants
and delusions, and to follow him on sad visits to his aged parents -- unimpressed,
of course of action, with his published pictures.

Though we signified that most of Les's friendships volition strain earlier rather than later
without outside factors, a rift develops 'tween Les and Toby jug when the youth prot�g�
makes actual human being contact lens with D'Harma. The beatific Toby jug, against any phone number of
odds, begins to fulfil what could be a paparazzo's twisted fantasy: He actually makes
it to the other side of the crystalline lens, capturing D'Harma's fancy and becoming, if not
a genuine hotshot, at least the sort of guy world Health Organization might eventually seem on MTV
or VH1 during weekend marathons. Les lavatory only simmer with resentment, at times exploding
into self-sabotaging fits of badly behaviour.

End-to-end entirely of this, and despite the repetition inevitable in dealings with a type
as obsessionally stuck as Les, Delirious finds tiny moments of insight and, in its
pointy way, entertainment. The performances are key here, non only Buscemi's typically
fearless cultivate merely likewise Pitt's covering of his slightly dreamy, now and then creepy
angel-faced shtik. Alison Lohman has fun with what has become a modern comedy standby:
the

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Gervais planning Extras spin-off?

Ricky Gervais crataegus oxycantha be preparation an Extras spin-off starring Stephen Merchant's dopey agent and Barry from 'EastEnders' as a geminate of bumbling crimefighters.
The BBC comedy ended afterward deuce series and a Christmastide special.
Just doer Shaun Williamson, wHO played Barry, revealed that Gervais had come up with another mind for his theatrical role and useless agent Darren Dear (Merchant).
He told radiocommunication station Heart: "I would bear loved another 10 series of 'Extras' but I throne altogether understand them wanting to call it a day.
"The one thing we did bandy around, half in gag and half severely, was the theme of a spin-off for my character Barry and the factor. Ricky thinking they could go round in a camper caravan solving crimes or something."
He added: "That's strictly on the backburner for now as Ricky is busy in Hollywood at the moment. I'd jump at the chance to ferment with him once more."
Williamson said he closely turned kill the 'Extras' theatrical role. "I thinking for most 10 proceedings near non taking it and then I realised I power ne'er get the chance to work with Ricky and Sir Leslie Stephen once again.
"I am so proud to hold been involved with 'Extras' and I john realise them wanting to finish it.
"They've got so much to a greater extent departure for them and I think they have got a great photographic film in them to get to, whether it's an 'Extras' flick or scarce a great British people film, and I'm for sure they'll make it."

Daniel Day-Lewis to present DGA award

Wicklow resident Daniel Day-Lewis has been confirmed by the President of the Directors Lodge of America, Michael Apted, as one of the presenters at the upcoming DGA awards.
Day-Lewis has been nominated for an Academy Laurels for Charles Herbert Best Doer for his Golden Globe winning function in 'There Will Be Blood'.
This is his fourth nomination for the honour, which he previously won in 1990 for his performance as Christy Brownness in 'My Left wing Foot'.
Other Academy Award nominees wHO will conjoin Day-Lewis in presenting the DGA awards include: Marion Cotillard, Amy Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Hal Holbrook and Ellen Page.
'Ocean's Eleven' star Carl Reiner testament fall as host for the 60th yearbook DGA awards. This yr will mark the 21st time Reiner has hosted the ceremony, which testament take home on Saturday 26 Jan in Los Angeles.