Report: Amy Winehouse has emphysema

Amy Winehouse has early stage emphysema and her lungs have been damaged by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday.

The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has an irregular heartbeat, and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs.

"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying. "There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She has 70 percent lung capacity."





The 24-year-old soul diva collapsed at her north London home Monday after signing autographs for a group of fans and was taken to a London hospital for tests. She remained there all week.

She is still scheduled to sing at a concert in London on Friday celebrating the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the South African Nobel Prize-winner, and plans to take part in the Glastonbury music festival the following day.

Mitch Winehouse said it would be good for his daughter to perform.

"When she's been inactive work-wise then that's when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn't any reason why she can't do Glastonbury," the paper quoted him as saying.

He also pleaded with her drug-taking friends to stay away from her.

"What hope does she have if people are taking drugs around her," he said.

Chris Goodman, spokesman for Amy Winehouse, said "If that's what Mitch says, that's what he says. It sounds right."

Mitch Winehouse could not immediately be reached for comment.

Jennifer Aniston Denies Feud With Actress

A rep for Jennifer Aniston has come forward to deny reports that she is feuding with fellow ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ co-star Jennifer Connelly, calling the rumors “absolutely absurd.”
The story about the former ‘Friends’ actress excluding Connelly from a group cover shoot with marie claire magazine came about after U.S. tabloid Life & Style printed the claims.
However, “there is no drama whatsover,” Aniston’s rep explained to Us magazine.
“marie claire wanted Jennifer alone. It was our idea to make it a group cover as Jennifer has a smaller supporting role in the film.”
Aniston’s rep also stated that there was no feud between the stars, saying, “Jennifer got along great with Jennifer Connelly.”
Watch the trailer for ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ below.

Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Former screen siren Bardot convicted in race case

PARIS —

A Paris court on Tuesday convicted Brigitte Bardot of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.

The court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner.

A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation's quarterly journal.

In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts."

She was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.

French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.

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Tragic Despoiling of McLovin Continues

Photo illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images, iStockphoto
Just days after the world witnessed his shocking loss at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night, McLovin's seemingly bottomless downward spiral continues apace with this "Rush & Molloy" report on the debauched soirée following Saturday's Spike TV Guy's Choice Awards (at which McLovin also left without a trophy):

At the after-party at the Playboy Mansion, Christopher Mintz-Plasse seemed to have the most fun — albeit reluctantly. The 18-year-old star of Superbad was standing by the bar when a group of thirtysomethings recognized him.

"Dude, you're doing a shot," one said, handing him what looked to be whisky.

"I can't!" the underage actor pleaded. But after a moment, Mintz-Plasse obliged — then headed toward the Playmates cavorting in the pool.

We can only pray that his mom does not read our blog.

In awards, Carell hits the mother lode [NYDN]

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Cannes Film Festival - The Class Wins Palme Dor At Cannes

French film The Class, about life in a Paris school, has won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Using real students and teachers the film follows the lives of the school's inhabitants for a year in the French capital.

During his acceptance speech, the film's director Laurent Cantet claimed he had aimed to make a movie that was "a reflection of French society – multiple, many-faceted, complex".

Other awards presented by the panel of judges, led to Sean Penn, included best first feature film for Hunger, a movie about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

Benicio Del Toro was declared best actor for his portrayal of Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's Che.

"I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," De Toro said during his acceptance speech.

The best actress award went to Brazilian actress Sandra Corveloni for her performance in Line of Passage.

Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve were also both presented with lifetime achievement awards at the prestigious French film festival.


26/05/2008 09:10:01

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Peter Gabriel

   
Artist: Peter Gabriel

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Soundtrack
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Hit (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Hit (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Up

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Long Walk Home (The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Long Walk Home

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Birdy

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 OVO: The Millenium Show

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 OVO: Millennium Show

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Ovo: Millennium +1 (Ltd Edition)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 OVO

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Secret World Live (CD 2)

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 5


   
 Secret World Live (CD 1)

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Secret World Live

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Us

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 [1989] Passion Music for The Last Temptation Of Christ

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 21


   
 Passion - Music for the Last Temptation of Christ

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 21


   
 Passion

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 21


   
 SO (Remastered 2002)

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 So

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 Plays Live (CD 2)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Plays Live (CD 1)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Plays Live

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Security

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 Peter Gabriel IV Security

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 Peter Gabriel 4

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 Deutsches Album

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 8


   
 The 3rd Studio Album

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10


   
 Peter Gabriel III

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10


   
 Ein Deutsches Album

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 9


   
 The 2nd Studio Album

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peter Gabriel II

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peter Gabriel - Ii - Scratch

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Peter Gabriel 1: Car

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 9


   
 Peter Gabriel 1

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 9

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As the drawing card of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock candy to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, merely he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more than cerebral soil, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The track record, as well as its deuce similarly highborn successors, accomplished Gabriel as a critically acclaimed cult artist, and with 1982's Security, he began to go into the mainstream; "Seismic disturbance the Monkey" became his first Top 40 strike, pavement the way for his multi-platinum breakthrough So in 1986. Accompanied by a series of groundbreaking videos and the act peerless single "Maul," So became a multi-platinum hit, and Gabriel became an external star. Instead of capitalizing on his sudden success, he began to explore other interests, including transcription soundtracks and operative his society Real World. By the prison term he returned to pop with 1992's Us, his mass audience had washy aside and he spent the residuum of the '90s working on multimedia system projects for Real World.


Following his departure from Genesis in 1976, Peter Gabriel began work on the first of trey back-to-back eponymously highborn albums; each record was named Saint Peter the Apostle Gabriel, he aforesaid, as if they were editions of the same magazine. In 1977, his first solo album appeared and became a soften success due to the single "Solsbury Hill." Another self-titled track record followed in 1978, so far received relatively weaker reviews. Gabriel's third eponymous album was his artistic breakthrough. Produced by Steve Lillywhite and released in 1980, the album established Gabriel as one of rock's most ambitious, innovational musicians, as good as one of its well-nigh political -- "Biko," a vocal around a murdered antiapartheid militant, became one of the biggest protest anthems of the '80s. "Games Without Frontiers," with its eery chorus, intimately reached the Top 40.


In 1982, Gabriel released Surety, which was an even bigger success, earning positive reviews and sledding gold on the forcefulness of the startling video for "Shock the Monkey." Just as his solo career was pickings off, Gabriel participated in a round Genesis reunification in order to finance his WOMAD -- World of Music, Arts and Dance -- Festival. WOMAD was intentional to bring versatile world musics and impost to a Western consultation, and it presently sour into an yearly event, and a live forked album was released that yr to record the outcome. As Gabriel worked on his fifth album, he contributed the soundtrack to Alan Parker's 1984 plastic film Birdy. His score was highly praised and it north Korean won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes that year. After innovation Real World, Inc. -- a tummy devoted to development bridges betwixt engineering science and multi-ethnic humanistic discipline -- in 1985, he realised his twenty percent album, So.


Released in 1986, So became Gabriel's commercial breakthrough, largely because his Stax court "Sledge" was blessed with an innovative video that combined stop-action vitality with live military action. So climbed to figure 2 as "Maul" make number one, with "Braggy Time" -- featuring a video very alike to "Maul" -- stretch the Top Ten and "In Your Eyes" hitting the Top 30. As So was horseback riding high on the American and British charts, Gabriel co-headlined the showtime benefit tour for Amnesty International in 1986 with Sting and U2. Another Amnesty International Tour followed in 1988, and the following year, Gabriel released Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, a solicitation of instrumentals used in Martin Scorsese's cinema. Passion was the furthest Gabriel delved into worldbeat, and the album was widely acclaimed, victorious the Grammy Award in 1989 for Best New Age Performance. In 1990, he released the hits compilation Shaking the Tree.


Gabriel laboured long on the pop music follow-up to So, finally releasing Us in the saltation of 1992. During the recording of Us, Gabriel went through a number of personal upheavals, including a afflictive disunite, and those tensions manifested themselves on Us, a much darker record than So. For diverse reasons, non the least of which was the fact that it was released half a dozen years after its forerunner, Us wasn't as commercially successful as So, disdain cocksure reviews. Only one single, the "Maul" knockoff "Steam," reached the Top 40, and the album stalled at pt gross sales. In 1993, Gabriel embarked on the near ambitious WOMAD duty tour to appointment, touring the United States with a roll including Crowded House, James, and Sinéad O'Connor, with whom he had an on-off romantic relationship. The following year, he released the double-disc Mysterious World Live, which went amber. Later in 1994, he released the CD-ROM Xplora, one of many projects he developed with Real World. For the next 3 age, Gabriel concentrated on developing more multimedia projects for the company.

New U2 movie premieres at Sundance

U2's new concert film 'U2 3D' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday night.
Speaking to the Associated Press before the screening, U2 guitarist The Edge said: "I was really hoping we weren't crap after all these years. Luckily we weren't."
He was joined at the screening by singer Bono, drummer Larry Mullen and bassist Adam Clayton.
Commenting on seeing himself in 3D on a cinema screen, Bono said: "It's kind of horrific. It's bad enough on a small screen. Now you get to see the lard arse 40-foot tall."
The film, which is the first digital 3D, multi-camera, real-time production, will be shown at Cineworld, Movies at Dundrum and Movies at Swords - all in Dublin - from 22 February. It will also be screened at SGC Dungarvan in Co Waterford.