Rage Against The Machine were forced to stanch their headline set on the Main Stage at Leeds Festival tonight (August 23) to prevent a crowd crush.
The band stopped abruptly nigh the end of fourth track 'Bombtrack', and isaac M. Singer Zack de la Rocha asked the crowd to all pack a few steps back.
It is believed a jam was seen to be developing in the audience by security measures, who informed the band of the situation in order to avoid whatever injury.
Rage Against The Machine paused their put for about three minutes while the crowd stirred back, then launched fiercely back into 'Bombtrack' where they had left off.
The band took to the stage in their usual clothes tonight, rather than the Guantanamo-style boilersuits they came on with at Reading Festival last night (August 22).
The setlist was also slightly different from last night, omitting fan favourite 'Wake Up' and adding in tracks such as 'Renegades Of Funk' and 'Down Rodeo'.
Frontman de la Rocha said little passim the coif, which byword a massive crowd - who regularly gasped and cheered at Tom Morello's guitarwork - turn up to see the ring, .
The band linked blazon and raised fists as they left hand the stage after the band's regular closer and crowd favourite 'Killing In The Name'.
Rage Against The Machine played:
'Testify'
'Bulls On Parade'
'People Of The Sun'
'Bombtrack'
'Know Your Enemy'
'Bullet In The Head'
'Renegades Of Funk'
'Guerilla Radio'
'Down Rodeo'
'Calm Like A Bomb'
'Sleep Now In The Fire'
'War Within A Breath'
'Freedom'
'Killing In The Name'
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Saturday, 16 August 2008
Some Types Of Leukemia Are Addicted To Notch Proteins
�The leukemic cells in a tumid proportion of individuals with a variant of leucaemia known as T-ALL receive mutations in the NOTCH1 gene. These mutations lede to the generation of Notch1 proteins that have increased body process, however, it is non known whether they have sufficient increased activity to actually initiate the disease.
New data, generated by a team of researchers, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, have now indicated that only uncommon T-ALL-associated NOTCH1 mutations have the ability to induce cells to become leukemic in mice (these uncommon mutations generated Notch1 proteins with far greater increased activity than the Notch1 proteins generated by the more common mutations).
However, although the more than common mutations were non themselves able to cause cells to become leukemic in mice, they were able to accelerate the onset of leukemia induced by other genetic mutations.
The authors therefore indicate that all T-ALL leukemic cells with mutations in the NOTCH1 gene ar "addicted" to Notch and that this study provides support for the rating of Notch signaling pathway inhibitors as a treatment for cancer of the blood.
"Leukemia-associated NOTCH1 alleles ar weak tumour initiators just accelerate K-ras-initiated leukemia"
Mark Y. Chiang, Lanwei Xu, Olga Shestova, Gavin Histen, Sarah L'Heureux, Candice Romany, M. Eden Childs, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Jon C. Aster and Warren S. Pear
J. Clin. Invest. doi:10.1172/JCI35090
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New data, generated by a team of researchers, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, have now indicated that only uncommon T-ALL-associated NOTCH1 mutations have the ability to induce cells to become leukemic in mice (these uncommon mutations generated Notch1 proteins with far greater increased activity than the Notch1 proteins generated by the more common mutations).
However, although the more than common mutations were non themselves able to cause cells to become leukemic in mice, they were able to accelerate the onset of leukemia induced by other genetic mutations.
The authors therefore indicate that all T-ALL leukemic cells with mutations in the NOTCH1 gene ar "addicted" to Notch and that this study provides support for the rating of Notch signaling pathway inhibitors as a treatment for cancer of the blood.
"Leukemia-associated NOTCH1 alleles ar weak tumour initiators just accelerate K-ras-initiated leukemia"
Mark Y. Chiang, Lanwei Xu, Olga Shestova, Gavin Histen, Sarah L'Heureux, Candice Romany, M. Eden Childs, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Jon C. Aster and Warren S. Pear
J. Clin. Invest. doi:10.1172/JCI35090
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The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) is the publication of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an honor society of physician-scientists.
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
Delta Goodrem: Elevation
When Delta Goodrem was cast in Australia's long-running serial "Neighbours" in 2002, the adolescent didn't care for the "bad girl" character written for her -- and had the audacity to renege on the potentially career-making persona.
Goodrem had already signed a development deal with Sony Records and felt the part didn't suit the hopeful tone of her music. "It's hard now to believe I had the courage to do that," the 23-year-old says. But as it turns out, show producers wanted to fly with Delta and rewrote the role of shy coffee-shop staffer/budding singer "Nina Tucker" to her liking�and she signed on.
Goodrem has certainly made good on not being bad�but her story has since played out with more real-life melodrama than any soap. When her latest album, "Delta," arrives July 15, it will represent the culmination of five topsy-turvy years.
Her first single "Born to Try" (Columbia)�introduced on "Neighbours" in 2003�rallied to No. 1 at home in Oz, while her debut album "Innocent Eyes" spent 29 weeks as a chart-topper, selling 14-times platinum and winning seven Australian Recording Industry Assn. Awards. The record also made her a star in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece, Sweden and Japan.
And then her career came to a precipitous halt when late that year, at 18, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that attacks the immune system. A U.S. launch on Columbia was compromised; single "Lost Without You" reached No. 18 at AC, but too weak to promote it, Goodrem's planned album was scrapped.
After chemotherapy and radiation, her 2004 sophomore CD "Mistaken Identity" was released in established territories and, not surprisingly, displayed a starker lyrical side. Goodrem says, "I was young, but never na�ve, and found strength as a woman. I know it was intense, even tiring." Fans stood alongside (even as she retired from "Neighbours"), with another No. 1. Then, "Delta" in 2007 became her third consecutive chart-topping disc. "The title reflects that I'm my own person now, I've learned a lot," she says. "You can only control so much in life."
Now, she returns to the States�all told with a string of eight No. 1s among 13 top 40 Australian singles to date. Signed to Mercury's resurrected imprint Decca in the U.S., Goodrem has a mighty proponent in label president David Massey�a former global A&R exec for Sony who was integral in grooming her in 2002.
It's a slightly reconfigured "Delta" arriving Stateside. The first single, the uptempo, piano-fervent "In This Life"�produced by Grammy Award winner John Shanks and co-written by Goodrem and fianc� Bryan McFadden (formerly of hitmaking Irish boy band Westlife)�is bulleted at No. 35 at adult top 40. She's partnered with ION Television for its fall launch, including on-air imaging and exposure of "In This Life" and "Believe Again" (a No. 2 single in Oz). She'll appear at the American Cancer Society's fall charity Dreamball and the Jorge Posada Foundation's seventh annual Heroes of Hope Gala, hosted by Kelly Ripa, both in New York.
In addition, Goodrem recorded a duet, "Right Here With You," with fellow Aussie and cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John for the July album release "Olivia Newton-John & Friends: A Celebration in Song," with proceeds to benefit her Cancer and Wellness Centre.
"It's even more rewarding that I get to come back and start properly," Goodrem says of her U.S. relaunch. "I'm hungry for this and committed to being a new artist. I feel like I was always meant to do this, like there's a chip in my body that says, 'OK, what's next?'"
Additional reporting by Christie Eliezer in Melbourne and Andre Paine in London.
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Goodrem had already signed a development deal with Sony Records and felt the part didn't suit the hopeful tone of her music. "It's hard now to believe I had the courage to do that," the 23-year-old says. But as it turns out, show producers wanted to fly with Delta and rewrote the role of shy coffee-shop staffer/budding singer "Nina Tucker" to her liking�and she signed on.
Goodrem has certainly made good on not being bad�but her story has since played out with more real-life melodrama than any soap. When her latest album, "Delta," arrives July 15, it will represent the culmination of five topsy-turvy years.
Her first single "Born to Try" (Columbia)�introduced on "Neighbours" in 2003�rallied to No. 1 at home in Oz, while her debut album "Innocent Eyes" spent 29 weeks as a chart-topper, selling 14-times platinum and winning seven Australian Recording Industry Assn. Awards. The record also made her a star in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece, Sweden and Japan.
And then her career came to a precipitous halt when late that year, at 18, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that attacks the immune system. A U.S. launch on Columbia was compromised; single "Lost Without You" reached No. 18 at AC, but too weak to promote it, Goodrem's planned album was scrapped.
After chemotherapy and radiation, her 2004 sophomore CD "Mistaken Identity" was released in established territories and, not surprisingly, displayed a starker lyrical side. Goodrem says, "I was young, but never na�ve, and found strength as a woman. I know it was intense, even tiring." Fans stood alongside (even as she retired from "Neighbours"), with another No. 1. Then, "Delta" in 2007 became her third consecutive chart-topping disc. "The title reflects that I'm my own person now, I've learned a lot," she says. "You can only control so much in life."
Now, she returns to the States�all told with a string of eight No. 1s among 13 top 40 Australian singles to date. Signed to Mercury's resurrected imprint Decca in the U.S., Goodrem has a mighty proponent in label president David Massey�a former global A&R exec for Sony who was integral in grooming her in 2002.
It's a slightly reconfigured "Delta" arriving Stateside. The first single, the uptempo, piano-fervent "In This Life"�produced by Grammy Award winner John Shanks and co-written by Goodrem and fianc� Bryan McFadden (formerly of hitmaking Irish boy band Westlife)�is bulleted at No. 35 at adult top 40. She's partnered with ION Television for its fall launch, including on-air imaging and exposure of "In This Life" and "Believe Again" (a No. 2 single in Oz). She'll appear at the American Cancer Society's fall charity Dreamball and the Jorge Posada Foundation's seventh annual Heroes of Hope Gala, hosted by Kelly Ripa, both in New York.
In addition, Goodrem recorded a duet, "Right Here With You," with fellow Aussie and cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John for the July album release "Olivia Newton-John & Friends: A Celebration in Song," with proceeds to benefit her Cancer and Wellness Centre.
"It's even more rewarding that I get to come back and start properly," Goodrem says of her U.S. relaunch. "I'm hungry for this and committed to being a new artist. I feel like I was always meant to do this, like there's a chip in my body that says, 'OK, what's next?'"
Additional reporting by Christie Eliezer in Melbourne and Andre Paine in London.
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Pixar - Wall-e Straight In At Number One In Us Box Office
WALL-E, the animated film about a waste compacting robot, has stormed to the top of the US box office in its first week on release.
The Pixar film took $62.5 million (£31.3 million) in its opening weekend.
The film is Pixar's ninth straight number one film and equalled Monsters Inc opening takings.
The Angelina Jolie film Wanted took $51.1 million (£25.6 million) to chart in second place.
While last weekend's number one, Steve Carell's Get Smart, dropped to number three.
Making up the top five films were the Jack Black animated film Kung Fu Panda and Edward Norton's Incredible Hulk.
The comedy Love Guru, starring Mike Myers, claimed the sixth spot and Harrison Ford's return to the iconic role of Indiana Jones with the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull charted at seven this weekend.
The film has now taken almost $300 million (£150 million) in the US alone.
The Happening, Sex and the City and You Don't Mess with the Zohan made up the US top ten.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Thermo
Artist: Thermo
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Arde En Mi
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Mexican goon pretend Thermo were launched in their home town of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in the mid-'90s. Roy Cañedo, Ivan Perez, and Alain Buitrago (the band's beginning guitarist) met in secondary school in 1994, rounded out by Mike iI geezerhood later. The beginning to blaze the emocore trail south of the border, the band developed a reputation for mixing lush vocal harmonies with guttural screams, delicate melodious passages stellar into muscled metallic element riffs. Thermo released their debut, Arde en Mi, without the documentation or guidance of a track record label. Surprisingly, they were able to bring about "major-label" results with an independent button, garnering even airplay and invitations from enceinte venues. The record hit identification number 52 on national charts, an awing acquirement for whatever indie creative person, permit solitary for a number one picnic. As Thermo's fan nucleotide grew and reputation flourished, so did their desire to create a truly unique standout follow-up to their well-loved premiere. The band traveled to Sweden to work out with the crew at Tonteknik recording studios, veteran producers of groups like Cult of Luna, In Flames, and Refused. Mike (keyboards), Ivan (guitars), Kirby (guitars), Meyer (bass), and Roy (drums) were successful in their efforts, scorn finding themselves knocked out on a new artistic branch. The March 2007 release of Bajo el Control del Radar ground favor with national audiences, earning Thermo their beginning time slot on the Billboard charts.
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Juan Luis Guerra
Artist: Juan Luis Guerra
Genre(s):
Latin
Pop
Other
Latin: Dance
Discography:
La Llave De Mi Corazon
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Festival Vina Del Mar 2006
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Para Ti
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Encuentro
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Coleccion Romantica Cd2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Coleccion Romantica Cd1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Ojala Que Llueva Cafe
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Mudanza Y Acarreo
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Grandes Exitos
Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
Areito
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Ni Es Lo Mismo Ni Es Igual
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Fogarate
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Bachata Rosa
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Mientras Mas Lo Pienso
Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
El Original 4.40
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Bachata
Year:
Tracks: 4
In his native Dominican Republic, merengue wiz Juan Luis Guerra is considered a poet and musician of the hoi polloi. He and his band 440 ar much loved passim the Latino world and he has become one of the new wave of artists responsible for for revitalizing the tropical music that had been languishing during the tardy '80s from ham and lack of invention.
Guerra is the logos of a professional baseball player and grew up side by side to the National Music Gallery. As a teenager, he was influenced by the Beatles and by the music of the U.S. hipsters. Initially, he taught himself the basics of guitar playacting, just after taking a contest, accompanied the National Conservatory on a scholarship. One of his instructors then helped Guerra catch into the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts and the many genres of jazz. In time, he constitute he lost his native Dominican Republic and so returned to experiment with blend local African-influenced music, folks songs and jazz with his group 440. The ring takes its list from the universal joint tuning traffic pattern of the A note, 440 Hertz. The name was chosen by Guerra's comrade José Gilberto wHO victimized to sit and catch them rehearse. One day he commented that they seemed so haunted with staying in perfect melody that they should call themselves that.
Their debut album, Soplando, made little shock. For their future efforts, Mudanza y Acarreo and Mientras Más Lo Pienso Tu, Guerra and 440 began adding merengue and lightning-quick riffs of "perico ripiao," and suddenly constitute success with a cy Young crowd tired from hearing the same quondam thing. The new music, called "bachata-merengue," presently north Korean won considerable acclaim in the Dominican Republic. The mathematical group was selected by their government to represent the nation in the International Music Festival of OTI, the Oraganization of Iberoamerican Television. In 1988, Guerra and 440 had one of their biggest hits, Ojalá Que Llueva Café, which became the third best-selling album in Latin America. That year he mixed-up his lead vocalizer, Maridalia Hernández, wHO left to act on her solo career in Europe, leaving Guerra to turn the new lead vocalizer. In 1991, he released Bachata Rose which became a smash hit passim the Americas and won Guerra his low Grammy in the U.S. The album was particularly popular in Los Angeles and before long Guerra and his ring were touring. His future album, Areito, caused argument in the Dominican Republic for oral presentation tabu against social injustice that the urgently pitiful felt Guerra had never personally experienced. Still, he mustiness be given credit for his serious-mindedness and interest in improving things in his oft-troubled homeland. Musically, Guerra changed directions again for his 1995 crusade Fogaraté. This album corporate more of the progressively democratic African soukous music. It became quite popular. His 1998 loss Ni Es Lo Mismo Ni Es Igual garnered Guerra three Grammys for Best Merengue Performance, Best Tropical Song for "El Niagara en Bicicleta," and for Best Engineered Album at the low annual Latin Grammy Awards in fall 2000.
Friday, 13 June 2008
Fink
Artist: Fink
Genre(s):
Electronic
Rock
Electronic
Rock
Discography:
Distance and Time
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Acoustic Soul
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Fresh Produce
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Fink is the recording sobriquet of Finian Greenhall, wHO has made the unlikely musical travel from beingness an ambient techno trip-hop creative person to a serious singer/songwriter in less than a x. Born in Bristol, England, Greenhall was taken up with guitar as a teenager, thirstily exploring the indie setting. Then he ascertained raving, and the guitars went out the window as he immersed himself wholly in ambient techno. Greenhall recorded an record album of techno beat generation with Lee Jones (aka Hefner) that was finally released under the make EVA by Kickin? Records in 1995. The record attracted the attention of Ninja Tune Records, which gestural Greenhall as a trip-hop artist. Billing himself as Fink, Greenhall released a pair of EPs, 1997's Finkfunk and 1998's Presence Side Blunt Side, on Ninja Tune's Ntune imprint, then delivered the full-length Fresh Produce in 2000. But Fink was undergoing a ocean change, and had picked up the guitar over again. By the fourth dimension the folky and acoustic-based Biscuits for Breakfast was released (again on the Ntune label) in 2006, Fink had completed the transformation from electronica artist into a fully fledged singer/songwriter, a move that ab initio baffled his fan base.
This Bud's For Belgium?
Anheuser-Busch, which spends more on television sports advertising than any other company, has received an unsolicited $46-billion buyout offer from the Belgian brewer InBev SA, known principally in the U.S. for its Beck's and Stella Artois brands. The all-cash bid of $65 a share represents an 11 percent premium over its current price. (Shares in the company immediately soared to $62 in after-hours trading.) Within hours of the announcement of InBev's offer, opposition to it burgeoned, with many critics opposing the sale of what they regarded as an American institution to a foreign company. A website, SaveAB.com, offers to provide yard signs to citizens in St. Louis, the headquarters of the company, to protest the acquisition.
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Hella
Artist: Hella
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
There's No 666 in Outer Space
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Church Gone Wild-Chirpin' Hard
Year: 2005
Tracks: 24
Church Gone Wild - Chirpin Hard CD2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Church Gone Wild - Chirpin Hard CD1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The Devil Isn't Red
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Indie rockers Hella consist of guitar player Spencer Seim and drummer Zach Hill. The deuce number one got unitedly in the springtime of 2001, development a following about the Sacramento area that won them a record administer on 5 Rue Christine Records. Their debut LP, Defy Your Horse Is, appeared in 2002, and accomplished Hella's chaotic coming to instrumental noise rock. The duet proven prolific, issuing the LP Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass on Narnack in 2003, The Devil Isn't Red for 5RC in 2004, and the bivalent record album Christian church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard on Suicide Squeeze in 2005. The CD/DVD jazz band Denseness Face/Homeboy followed from 5 Rue Christine in November of that class. After cathartic the EP Acoustics in tardy 2006, Hella moved to Ipecac Records -- 5RC had folded after the going of flop Slim Moon -- and regrouped with guitarist Josh Hill (cousin to Zach) and bassist Carson McWhirter, both of whom had been in a dance orchestra with the span before they had get Hella, as well as vocalist Aaron Ross (it was, in fact, the inability to find a vocalist that caused the initial dissolution and formation of the duet Hella). Their first gear record as a fivesome, There's No 666 in Outer Space, was released in January 2007.
Gwen Stefani To Give Birth To Goth Baby
Gwen Stefani and her husband Gavin Rossdale are hoping their unborn baby will be a goth and are painting the tot’s nursery black as a result.
The couple is expecting their second child this year, but have chosen not to find out the sex of the new arrival.
And, instead of opting for more traditional nursery colours like blue, pink or yellow, they are painting the new baby's room black so the decor will be suitable for either sex.
And former Bush frontman Rossdale is excited about their unusual decorating plans.
He tells OK!: "We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Plus we are going to put him in a black room. It'll be a goth baby so it doesn't matter if it is a boy or a girl."
Stefani and Rossdale already have one son together, two-year-old Kingston.
The couple is expecting their second child this year, but have chosen not to find out the sex of the new arrival.
And, instead of opting for more traditional nursery colours like blue, pink or yellow, they are painting the new baby's room black so the decor will be suitable for either sex.
And former Bush frontman Rossdale is excited about their unusual decorating plans.
He tells OK!: "We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Plus we are going to put him in a black room. It'll be a goth baby so it doesn't matter if it is a boy or a girl."
Stefani and Rossdale already have one son together, two-year-old Kingston.
Street Kings - movie review
Cops countermanding the law, using the close-knit nature of their badge to secretly
settle scores on the street, have long since become a cinematic clich�. The police
have gone from donut-munching jokes to felons in blue and black finery. From the
decent beat officer taking bribes to buffer his paycheck, to the undercover operative
in so deep he no longer remembers what side of society he's on, "to protect and serve"
has been modified -- at least in the movies -- to "pervert and steal." Street Kings, th
e latest motion picture inspired by a story from James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential), dabbles freely
in this kind of corrupt no man's land, and for the most part, it's a thrilling journey.
Alcoholic police detective Todd Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) has just finished wrapping
up a notorious kidnapping case when Captain Jack Wander (Forest Whittaker) gives
him the bad news. His ex-partner Terrence Washington (Terry Crews) is talking to
Internal Affairs, and bureau head Captain James Biggs (Hugh Laurie) is looking to take
Ludlow down. Before he can intimidate his former friend into not snitching, a pair
of gang bangers kill him. Desperate to clear his own name in the death, Ludlow begins
to investigate. Soon, he's linking the crime to a couple of local drug dealers who seem incapable
of committing the hit. With Wander on his side and Biggs on his back, it will take
all the street savvy he has to solve the case -- that is, if someone doesn't try
and permanently stop him too.
Never really surprising us, even as it crackles with cinematic energy, Street Kings is
an inherently engaging crime drama. Even though we know where the narrative is going
before the characters do, and grasp the ambiguous moralizing right up front, Tra
ining Day screenwriter David Ayers, delivers a gritty, gratuitous entertainment. As
only his second time behind the camera (the first being the underrated Harsh Times), he
finds the proper balance between urban crime and uptown punishment. Sure, the casting
is a little bizarre (Cedric the Entertainer as a hard-nosed heroin addict? Hugh Laurie
as a brutish Internal Affairs chief?), but for every odd beat, Ayers has an acti
on movie answer. There are many moments when this standard police procedural feels
like a contemporary Chinatown filtered through a subtler Scarface. At other instances,
it all falls apart.
Reeves finally shakes his post-Matrix malaise to deliver a finely tuned turn as Ludlow.
Face puffy with the initial stages of gin blossoms, and his attitude soured as much
as soused, he comes across as defiant, but dour, capable of great heroism. That is,
when he isn't violating every protocol and Constitutional protection imaginable. He is
matched well by Whitaker, who seems permanently wound up and amplified here. Their
scenes together arc with unexpected dramatics. Along the edges, Fantastic Four's Chris
Evans and comedian Jay Mohr offer intriguing takes on the good cop/bad cop dynamic.
Even Cedric and Laurie manage to overcome our expectations to deliver key performances.
It's just too bad then that Street Kings doesn't offer up anything new or original. Indeed,
fans of Curtis Hanson's Oscar winning Ellroy adaptation from 1997 may be able to
predict the ending without seeing the entire storyline. Yet Ayers delivers enough
genre basics, turning the narrative in ways that make the clich�s seem clever, that
we don't mind revisiting these stale situations. Calling a film derivative is usually
considered detrimental. For Street Kings, being an above-average example of an overused
idea is not necessarily a bad thing. An influx of invention would have made this
a modern classic. As it stands, it's solidly serviceable.
You'll never take me alive, coppers! Oh, I guess you will.
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Carlos Santana and Alice Coltran
Artist: Carlos Santana and Alice Coltran
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Illuminations
Year: 1974
Tracks: 5
Nick Didkovsky
Artist: Nick Didkovsky
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Body Parts
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, teacher, and calculator euphony programmer. Since 1989, Didkovsky has victimised a computer to bring about in full orchestrated music for his band, Doctor Nerve. He has presented document on his work at conferences and has served in-residence at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and at Dartmouth College. Didkovsky studied electronic music with composers Christian Wolff (Dartmouth College College) and Gerald Shapiro (Brown University), and standard a Masters Degree in computer music from New York University in 1987. Didkovsky has performed with Fred Frith's Guitar Quartet and John Zorn's New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands. His work has been featured at Manhattan's Bang On A Can Festival.
The CD Transforms: The Nerve Event Project came about as a result of 44 "Spunk Events" on the Doctor Nerve CD, Beta 14 Ok. The Nerve Events are sound events of two to six-spot seconds in continuance, which listeners ar bucked up to program on their CD players, so participating in the making of music. After Jason Willett and Steve MacLean sent Didkovsky pieces they had composed with the events, Didkovsky distinct to commission over 20 other artists to submit deeds built on the Nerve Events. The means ranged from customs duty digital signal processing and information processing system handling to low-tech sample and multi-track recording. Artists included Ted Apel, Thomas Dimuzio, Dave Douglas, Tom Erbe, Mark Howell, Henry Kaiser, Henry Lowengard, Ray Guillette, and Larry Polansky.
Lindsay Lohan poses nude in tribute to Monroe
Actress Lindsay Lohan has posed nude in homage to Marilyn Monroe for the new spring fashion issue of New York magazine.
Lohan recreated the legendary actress' final 1962 photo shoot for Bert Stern with the veteran photographer himself.
According to People magazine, the 21-year-old star said she was comfortable being nude before the camera.
She said she was also aware of the parallels between Monroe's tragic fate - dead from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines - and that of Heath Ledger.
Referring to Ledger, Lohan said: "You know, it's also tragic what just recently happened to someone else. They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."
Lohan recreated the legendary actress' final 1962 photo shoot for Bert Stern with the veteran photographer himself.
According to People magazine, the 21-year-old star said she was comfortable being nude before the camera.
She said she was also aware of the parallels between Monroe's tragic fate - dead from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines - and that of Heath Ledger.
Referring to Ledger, Lohan said: "You know, it's also tragic what just recently happened to someone else. They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."
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