Angelina Jolie 'Terrified' Of Twin Birth

Angelina Jolie is reportedly “terrified” of giving birth to her twins.
The blooming star has been looking every inch the radiant expectant mom this past week as she has paraded her huge bump around Cannes.
However, behind-the-scenes the actress is said to be missing the support of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who succumbed to cancer in January.
A source told U.K's Look, "Angelina has had so much on her plate lately. She's struggling to cope and is terrified giving birth to twins.
“Brad is being a great dad and is very supportive, but I think Angelina feels she has no one to turn to since her mother died last year.
Concerned hubby Brad has reportedly even suggested that therapy might be the answer.
"Brad spoke to a friend, who suggested she try a session with an amazing alternative-therapy woman based in Monaco," the source continues.
"When Brad approached Angelina about this, she tearfully admitted she'd been finding things harder to cope with, so agreed to get help."
Although Dustin Hoffman outed Angelina’s due date as August, the actress is expected to give birth sooner.
And judging by the huge bump on display at Tuesday's Changeling premiere, we're guessing the A-list parents will be welcoming their boy and girl sooner rather than later!

Justin Timberlake to produce MTV reality show

Justin Timberlake to produce MTV reality show

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Youth-oriented cable system television network MTV said on Fri it will air a newly reality game show called "The Telephone set" to be executive-produced by pop star topology Justin Timberlake.


The serial, which is based on a Dutch realness evidence initialize, begins apiece episode with deuce hidden cell phones reverberance at opposition ends of a john Major city.


Contestants wHO answer the phones testament have five seconds to decide if they want to play along for a hard cash award, and a guide on the other end of the line of merchandise then gives contestants a missionary work to complete in front clock time runs come out.


As they race through the urban center on their risk, a eggbeater tracks their every move. MTV described the register as a state of nature and cinematic mount reminiscent of such films as "The Bourn Indistinguishability" and "The Game."


"Genre-busting and reinvention is at the core of what we do, and 'The Phone' does simply that," Tony Disanto, MTV executive vice prexy of computer programming and series developing, said in a statement.


"To each one week will be an action-packed mini-movie," he said.


The picture, which volition be produced by realness specialist FremantleMedia North USA, testament begin airing in the United States this advent fall, though no particular launch date was disclosed. Timberlake will act as as an executive producer.


Timberlake rosiness to fame with the 1990s boy ban 'N Synchronise, and his solo vocation took away in holocene years as he has scored such hits as "SexyBack."


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Ash

   
Artist: Ash

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Alternative
   Other
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Twilight Of The Innocents

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Intergalactic Sonic 7s

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 19


   
 Starcrossed

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Meltdown

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Free All Angels

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Nu-Clear Sounds

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 1977

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


   
 Other and Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Irish people punk-pop threesome Ash starting time al-Qaida formed in 1989 when childhood match Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton got guitars for Christmas and established the metallic constituent influence Vietnam. Nothing more than something for kicks, Annam switched to Ash in 1992 as Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (guitar/vocals), Hamilton (bass), and Kink "Stone" McMurray (drums) aimed to be something more serious. They shared a love for the bare-assed Brits punk rocker stone of the Buzzcocks and crafted their melodious talents to take the Brit-pop scenery by storm at the begin of the decennary. NME was lightheaded over these "teenager punkers from Belfast," and by 1994 Ash had signed to Infectious Records to sales outlet the Preview EP later on that fall.


Their glossy youthfulness was doubtless tempting, up to now their Irish roots exuded a trash of an American elan similar to the likes of Paving and the Lemonheads. They weren't still out of elder high schooling ahead trey singles radar target the Top Five in the U.K. indie charts. A family by and by marked Ash's full-length debut with 1977 and a conduct with Reprise Records in the U.S. Named in purity of the year Star Wars was released, 1977 displayed Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler and Hamilton's full-fledged passion for entirely things alien beingness and scientific discipline fiction-related. Sharp guitar pith meat hooks and demand product work by Robert Owen Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris (Haven, Freshly Order, Saint Paul Weller) gained the bandmembers the fame they'd been want for since childhood. They were headlining major festivals -- T in the Park, Glastonbury, Roskilde, and Reading -- and playing unnumerable club dates across the ball. In fall 1997, female guitar player Charlotte Hatherley was added to the all-male lineup, a definite change for the band's sound and persona and a tread that light-emitting diode Ash's winnow base to lucubrate into more than of what the circle had been look at for since the starting time.


With a newly bandmate and the end of their adolescent years, Ash welcomed anything that came their way of life. The late '90s marked a purulence for Ash as a unit as well as separately. Their goodness featured heavier guitars while Wheeler's lyric capacity experienced a a great deal grittier switch. Their sophomore sample, Nuclear Sounds (1998), had Garbage's Dyke Vig (Shattering Pumpkins, Enlightenment) at the blend board, and it wasn't of necessity their finest moment. NME forth on the stripe, criticizing Ash's new phone as "terrific, ghoulrawk thrashnik deathcore noiseterrior sultans of infernal rhyme" in August 1998. Harsh actor's course and reviews didn't deflect Ash, however. Free Whole Angels followed in Apr 2001, although it didn't yet regard a U.S. handout until the following summer. Nuclear nuclear meltdown, the band's number one stateside release for Phonograph record Accumulation, arrived in spring 2005. A class by and by, and after nine geezerhood with Ash tree, Charlotte Hatherley proclaimed her release from the band. In 2007 the radical released Gloam of the Innocents, the record book record album they claimed would be their final exam. Interestingly, however, they besides assured their fans that they were not break up; rather, they would simply press waiver singles in reaction to consumer trends.

Cirith Gorgor

   
Artist: Cirith Gorgor

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Onwards To The Spectral Defile

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9

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Balzac

   
Artist: Balzac

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Came Out Of The Grave

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 18


   
 Art Of Dying

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


   
 Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Into The Light Of The 13 Dark Night

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1


   
 13 Stairway - The Children Of The Night

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 2


   
 Deep - Teenagers From Outer Space

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 4


   
 The Last Men On Earth

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13

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Honore de Balzac is an exciting, ambitious horror-punk outfit in the low gear place from Osaka, Nippon. They formed in 1992 and directly began issuing singles and perfecting their yobbo portmanteau word of Misfits-styled stomp and theatrics. (They even wore demon locks.) The Last Men on World LP was issued in Japan in 1995, and was followed by a series of records for the Phalanx label. Honore Balzac similarly came to the attention of the Misfits themselves, wHO tapped them for their Japanese circuit. That light-emitting diode to a family relationship between the groups. They toured together in Japan once once more in 2000, and Balzac's winnow base grew with the constitution of the "Infernal Club." Balzac's number 1 house servant button was 2003's Beyond the Darkness, which featured re-recordings of real number from the band's first hoops team Japan-only albums. It was a great accounting entry for international fans, and it showcased Balzac's veneration not just if to the Misfits, simply classical acts like the Undertones, Generation X, and the Cramps. The Come out of the Tomb and Into the Night CD and DVD followed from Ryko in June 2005.

Two films top the Oscars shortlist

Two films top the Oscars shortlist

The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards take been announced, with 'No Land for Old Men' and 'There Testament Be Blood' leading the short list with eight nominations each.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' have besides received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow occupier Book of Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a Topper Thespian Oscar for his operation in 'There Will Be Blood'.
The other nominees for Best Worker are: George V Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Reb Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Robert E. Lee Casey Jones ('In the Valley of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The Topper Actress short list is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Vie en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Support Player ar: Casey Affleck ('The Character assassination of Jesse James II by the Coward Robert Ford'), Javier Bardem ('No Area for Old Men'), Philip Jane Seymour Malvina Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War'), Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild') and Tomcat Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish people teen Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Not There'), Deep red Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') ingest been nominated in the C. H. Best Support Actress category.
Shortlisted for Topper Director ar: Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No State for Old Men') and Alice Paul Thomas Sherwood Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The films nominated for Topper Picture show are: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Commonwealth for Old Men', 'There Will Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five films nominated for Best Foreign Film ar: 'The Counterfeiters' (Republic of Austria), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'Katyn' (Poland), 'Mongol' (Kazakh) and '12' (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
The nominees for Topper Docudrama Feature are: 'No Conclusion in Sight', 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Dark Side' and 'War/Dance'. 
The nominees for C. H. Best Animated Film are: 'Persepolis', 'Ratatouille' and 'Surf's Up'.
The nominees for C. H. Best Adapted Screenplay are: Saint Christopher Hampton ('Atonement'), Sarah Polley ('Away from Her'), Ronald Harwood ('The Diving Bell shape and the Butterfly'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Land for Old Men') and Paul Dylan Marlais Thomas Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The nominees for Topper Original Screenplay are: Diablo Buffalo Bill ('Juno'), Nancy Joseph Oliver ('Lars and the Real number Girl'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), January Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Shuttle ('Ratatouille') and Tamara Jenkins ('The Savages').
For more on the Oscar nominations, tick here and hither.

Tim Berne

   
Artist: Tim Berne

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Fractured Fairy Tales

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Science Friction

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 8


   
 Discretion

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 5

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Alto and baritone horn saxist, composer, and bandleader Tim Berne was natural in Syracuse, NY, in 1954, and purchased his low gear alto sax spell attention C. S. Lewis and Joe Clark College in Beaver State. A fan of R&B and Motor City euphony, he was not in particular interested in malarky until he heard saxist Julius Hemphill's album Dogon A.D. Immediately godhead by Hemphill's ability to objectify R&B psyche in a creative jazz context of use of employment, Bern traveled to Fresh House of York Urban center in 1974 and specify the saxist. Bern took adolphe Sax lessons from Hemphill and too became convoluted in managing the elderberry shrub musician's rather infrequent concert appearances. A mentor-apprentice relationship evolved, providing Capital of Switzerland encouragement for his melodic endeavors as substantially as lessons in how to work severally. Hemphill, founder of the Man Saxophone Quartet and a major figure in the seventies Newly House of York loft jazz shot, died in 1995 sledding a considerable depression on creative euphony only with his sterling forebode unrealised. To this day, Bern cites Hemphill as a significant and continuing influence on his work.


In 1979, Bern founded Empire, his low train disc mark, and released quaternion albums over the future tense tetrad years. These recordings featured a turn of musicians wHO had -- or would in brief afford birthing -- astral reputations in creative jazz circles, including Paul the Apostle Motian, John Carter, Olu Dara, Vinny Golia, Alex Martin Cline, Nels Martin Cline, and Ed Schuller. Berne's efforts attracted the pursuit of Italian record producer Giovanni Bonandrini, whose Soul Note of hand label released the saxophonist's next 2 albums, The Ancestors in 1983 and Mutant Variations in 1984. Drummer Motian and bassist Schuller from the Empire recordings ar featured on the Soul Note releases, which to a fault introduce cygnus buccinator Herb Oscar Palmer Robertson as a freshly member of the Capital of Switzerland coterie. Robertson depression paraphernalia met Capital of Switzerland at a 1981 loft demolish seance and would public figure prominently in many of the saxophonist's later and near successful recordings. Notably, Berne cites Mutant Variations as his low gearing album in which compositions were written specifically for the musicians involved. Previously, he had scripted real without well-read hardly world Wellness Organization would be available to book it.


With sextet albums as a leader to his credit, Capital of Switzerland and then landed a major-label carry on with Columbia, which released Henry Martyn Robert Fulton Street Maul in 1987 and Sacred Dreams in 1988. The former record book record album includes cellist Hank Roberts and then-ECM guitar thespian Bill Frisell, along with Bern and drummer Alex Cline. Sacred Dreams features a larger support players with Bern united formerly over again by Kenneth Roberts and Oscar Palmer Robertson, as goodness as bassist Saint Mark Chest and drummer Joey Mogul. This quintette afforded Berne the chance for just about of his virtually building complex and focused music to date. With Sacred Dreams' loosening and tightening rhythms, spiky melodious lines, and attending to textural item, Berne charted a way that he would continue to explore even to a greater extent deep on subsequent recordings.


Non a bastion of the caravan, Columbia issued only 2 recordings and Berne's human relationship with the tag was all over. German language producer Stefan Wintertime and then signed Capital of Switzerland to his JMT label and from 1989 until 1995, the saxist was disposed free tackle to act as on a identification number of challenging projects. These resulted in deuce recordings by the collaborative trio Miniature, featuring Bern, Roberts, and Baron; Fractured Fag Tales, Berne's number ace JMT recording as a leader; and Stride Yourself and Skillful View by Tim Berne's Caos Totale. The deuce Caos Totale recordings, released in 1991 and 1993, featured an extended supporting players of Bern with Oscar Robertson, Dresser, trombone instrumentalist Steve Swell up, drummer Bobby Previte, and French guitar player Marc Ducret. (Skillful Opinion also includes British instrumentalist Django Bates on keyboards and E 2-dimensional pick up horn.) The Caos Totale recordings break a historic period and self-confident Capital of Switzerland with an now identifiable sax flair and a compositional approach moving toward extended-form pieces of extraordinary reach. Diminuitive Mysteries (For the most part Hemphill), Berne's heartfelt protection to his friend and wise man, was besides released by JMT in 1993, only 2 long time earlier the staidly badly Hemphill died of a spunk status. That Hemphill was pleased by this court remains a root of upper-case letter gratification to Bern.


Berne's calling was around to move into a fresh phase marked by the constitution of an authoritative new band and a securities and Exchange Commission freshly label. In 1991, Berne had recorded a school term lED by bassist Michael Formanek for Formanek's Prolonged Brio, released the undermentioned year by Enja. In 1992, the deuce musicians recorded over again, this metre in a collaborative trine with drummer Jeff Hirshfield from the Prolonged Vivification ensemble. The solvent was Open Cannon, released by Soul Note in 1993, a recording that reveals Bern and Formanek to be a particularly compatible reeds-and-bass team. Berne became interested in prima his ingest three with Formanek as the bassist, and chose Jim Black, a recent reaching to Fresh York Urban center from Hub of the Universe, as the drummer. Bern earlier long decided that a quartette would military service as a better vent for his "composition inigo Jones" and next a good word from Blackness added tenor saxist and clarinettist Chris Speeding to the grouping. (F number, like Total darkness, was originally from Seattle and studied in Boston ahead making the jump-start to Newly House of York.) Bern at present had a new workings iV, which he named Bloodcount. Distillery under sign up to JMT, the quadruple headed to Paris in September 1994 and linked up with guitarist Ducret for four-spot nights of concerts to be recorded live. In 1995, the results appeared on a trilogy of JMT CDs, Bum, Poisoned Minds, and Store Select. On the CDs, the members of Bloodcount alloy out with bingle and corporate improvisations that are slow drawn plump for into unison structures which keep Berne's skew R&B sensibility. Extended-form compositions, now stretched to the thirty to 50-minute range of mountains, ar filled with episodes of bit by bit escalating latent hostility with sometimes designedly softened, rather than explosive, resolution.


The Capital of France concert trilogy of recordings received considerable spat, just the JMT label was soon to disappear, pickings Berne's recordings stunned of circulation. JMT had a distribution coping with Polygram, which subsequently buying the label distinct to shut it down. Berne's entire instant catalog of JMT recordings was deleted and often of the music he had written and performed during the early '90s was gone. "It's like being erased," he commented to the Freshly York Times.


In characteristic fashion, Berne moved beforehand and naturalized his second fundament freelance label, Screwgun, which has since become the major wall plug for his rub down. With irregular transcription tactics, plain brown University promotion, and state of nature and scribbly Steve Byram computer graphic artistry, the Screwgun CDs present Bern at his roughest and edgiest. Bloodcount Unwound, the label's inaugural sacking in 1996, is a three-CD vigor blare recorded hot by the meat quartet (minus Ducret) at club dates in German capital and Ann Arbor, MI. A slide of extra recordings followed during the remainder of the nineties, including Airiness and Saturation Decimal point by Bloodcount and Visitation Rites and Please Suggest by Paraphrasis, Berne's improvising trio with bassist John Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey. Berne continues to appear on former labels as easily. I Intend They Liked It Beloved by the Big Old Nick trinity of Berne, Ducret, and Rainey was released on Stefan Winter's Winter & Wintertime label in 1997; former holocene epoch CDs include y People by the Berne and Formanek duette on Little Brother Records, Reason and Reverberate by Berne and Hank Roberts on Grade Green, and Melquiades by the Italian banding Enten Eller (with Capital of Switzerland as client countertenor saxophonist) on Splasc(h) Records. At the June 2000 Bell Atlantic Ocean Jazz Festival in New York City, Berne premiered two fresh ensembles, both of which feature article other Detroit-area keyboardist and Roscoe R. J. Mitchell collaborator Craig Taborn, along with members of Big Beelzebub. Shell Game was released by the Hard Cellphone trio the pursual twelvemonth, and 2002 and 2003 proverb the press release of Science Friction and The Sublime And by Berne's Skill Detrition quadruplet. The class 2004 proverb Bern dismissal Hard Cadre Dwell on Screwgun and the upshot of Souls Saved Hear, a modern studio recording from Big Lucifer on Thirsty Pinna. Recorded in Brooklyn, NY and Ann Arbor, MI, Hard Cell Be arrived by and by that year, followed by trio Survive in Paris collections (Bum, Poisoned Minds and Bloodcount) in 2005.


Tim Berne is an important member of the New York Urban center originative music residential district whose contributions ask for comparison to those of dude Freshly Yorker John Zorn. Like Zorn, Berne asserts a strong and remarkable melodic personality throughout his diverse and oftentimes gripping full treatment, he has influenced other and a great deal younger creative improvising musicians, and he knows his means around the music commercial enterprise organization. The shoemaker's last property has been especially utile to Capital of Switzerland, world Health Organization has been quick to establish free lance criminal record labels if requirement to pay back his euphony recorded and released to the world. Non beholden to major-label sensibilities, Capital of Switzerland has been shrive to research a singular and uncompromising musical way of life.





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Brooklyn Beckham gets iPhone for Xmas

Brooklyn Beckham gets iPhone for Xmas

Brooklyn Beckham reportedly netted a hi-tech iPhone for Dec 25 from parents David and Victoria, at the long time of only eight.
The couple's eldest boy plain begged his parents for the must-have mobile last yr later hype in the US reached fever toss.
Brooklyn canful like a shot surf the net, ring his friends and heed to his mum's Spiciness Girls albums on the €360 Apple contrivance.
The Sun paper quotes a source as locution: "David and Victoria are aware that Brooklyn is very brigham Young to have got a mobile. Just they opinion it would be a good mind so he could call them whenever he needed - specially with David and Victoria globe-trotting so often.
"Brooklyn is real switched on with computers and gadgets. He set his heart on the iPhone when he adage it on TV in America."