Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Charlie's Angels Actress Farrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer with Her Family at Her Bedside

Farrah undergoes more tests in her battle against cancer in May

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:36 AM on 26th June 2009

Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett yesterday lost her two-year battle with cancer.

The 62-year-old actress, who became an icon to millions during the 1970s, died in a hospital in Los Angeles surrounded by her family and friends.

A devout Catholic, the Charlie's Angels star was read the last rites this morning.

It had been her last wish to marry actor Ryan O'Neal, who she had a son with during a stormy relationship that lasted for 27 years.

But the wedding was not believed to have taken place due to the amount of medical care she needed.

O'Neal, 68, was at her side throughout her final days and was seen leaving the hospital after her death in tears.

In a statement O'Neal said: 'After a long and brave battle with cancer, our beloved Farrah has passed away.

'Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world.'

A dazed and exhausted Ryan O'Neal prepares to leave the St. John Medical Center in Santa Monica after Farrah's death

O'Neal said they planned to honour Fawcett with a funeral service at the Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles within the next few days.

Throughout Ms Fawcett's cancer battle - which was chronicled in a recent TV documentary Farrah's Story - the pair have been inseparable.

The actress's Charlie's Angel co-star Jaclyn Smith said: 'Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels.'

Farrah and Redmond O'Neal, who is currently in rehab following his third drug arrest in as many years

She died just an hour after her troubled son Redmond, 24, was due in court to face a judge over his ongoing drug case.

He failed to turn up at court for his 9am hearing because of his mother's worsening condition and his case was put back to 1.30pm.

It is not known whether he will be granted special leave to attend his mother's funeral from prison.

Fawcett was first diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2006 and had surgery to remove a tumour that year. But a year later the cancer had returned and had spread to her liver.

That wholesome, toothy grin atop a breast-revealing red bathing suit beamed down from an astonishing 30 million posters around the world for a decade or more after 1976 - and transformed its owner from an aspiring shampoo model into one of the most admired and lusted after women of her generation.

Yet, as the years passed, and long before her final battle with cancer began, the strikingly beautiful face of Farrah Fawcett, who died in Los Angeles yesterday aged 62, was ravaged by drugs and alcohol - as well as less than successful plastic surgery - and saw her descent from a modern goddess into a dreadful parody of a once stunning woman.

By the time of her death, Fawcett was barely recognisable as the all-American beauty who once claimed the hearts of Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, George Clooney and, most famously of all, the star of the film Love Story, Ryan O'Neal.

Indeed, as the years sped by, Fawcett became as famous for her tumultuous personal life as for her talents as an actress or a poster girl.



That was less than just. For Fawcett - who married her fellow 1970s television star Lee Majors, forever known as the bionic Six Million Dollar Man, in July 1973 - was an accomplished actress who might have made her name in the first series of Charlie's Angels, as a female private eye, but went on to demonstrate her considerable range.

In particular, she was to prove that she could display agonising emotion in a string of acclaimed performances in dramas such as The Burning Bed, in 1984, in which she played a battered and bewildered wife and - shortly afterwards - in Extremities on both stage and television as a rape victim who turned the tables on her attacker.

Yet, tragically, her personal life, with its domestic violence, drug use, addiction to alcohol and a desperate desire to retain her youth by cosmetic surgery, came to overshadow her true abilities.

Indeed, by the end, Fawcett's life had descended into soap opera - not least in her relationships with men, and notably O'Neal, who was at her bedside when she died, together with their 24-year-old son, Redmond.

The truth is that her years were fraught with drama - and domestic violence. O'Neal's actress daughter Tatum maintained that her 6ft 1in tall father beat Fawcett repeatedly during their turbulent relationship.

'Farrah was innocent,' she maintained. 'Dad was a Svengali for her. He took over her life, but there was a price. He had a terrible temper and was very violent.'



For her part, Fawcett would only admit: 'Ryan was a physical person. He was a bully, but I was never afraid of him.'

Drugs were another of the demons that haunted Fawcett's life.

Though she liked to maintain she never touched them - a claim that was hard to sustain - what is not in doubt is that Redmond has had serious drug problems. In 2004, Fawcett broke down in tears in a Texas courtroom when she admitted that her son was 'still addicted to heroin'.

A year earlier, prosecutors had agreed to dismiss a cheque forgery charge against him on condition that he complete a drug treatment programme. But he failed to do so and was taken back to court.

These personal dramas were to take their toll on the emotionally demanding actress.

In 1997, when she finally split from the overweight O'Neal after a 17-year affair punctuated with ferocious rows, she descended into despair - drowning her sorrows with tequila and cannabis, locking herself in her bedroom for hours at a time and staying in bed until mid-afternoon.

As she spiralled out of control, she turned to reality television, making a toe-curling, six-episode show about herself called Chasing Farrah for an obscure cable channel.

That did nothing to help her reclaim her fame or popularity. Only a few years ago, Movieline magazine asked ironically: 'Try this multiplechoice question: Farrah Fawcett is (a) a Seventies icon who's an underrated actress; (b) a celebrity shoplifter and drug addict; or (c) a nut top pure and simple.' Tragically, it wasn't entirely a joke.

Her reputation had been shot to pieces by a notorious appearance on the David Letterman show shortly after her break-up from O'Neal, during which she mumbled incoherently for almost 20 minutes. The American tabloid press insisted that she had both drug and alcohol dependency problems.

But the 5ft 6in Texas-born star firmly denied it, maintaining that she didn't even drink - 'except for champagne and tequila'.

Every bit as depressing was Fawcett's refusal to acknowledge that she could grow old gracefully, a decision that led her into ever more disastrous cosmetic surgery.



One internet site, Awful Plastic Surgery.Com, even dubbed her 'the new bride of Wildenstein' - a reference to the grotesque cosmetic surgery undertaken by American heiress Jocelyn Wildenstein.

'In 1998,' the site said acidly, 'she looked older, but still nice. By 2003, with cheek implants and a nose job, she looked deformed.'

In addition to full facelifts, as well as eyebrow and eye lifts, the star also had the tip of her nose raised, 'leaving her nostrils gaping', in the words of one leading plastic surgeon.

'The tragedy for Farrah is that it didn't save what might have been a wonderful career,' one Hollywood insider explained.

But then Fawcett was never actually very interested in becoming an actress.

The girl christened Mary Ferrah Leni Fawcett, born in the small oil town of Corpus Christi, Texas, in February 1947, was the daughter of an oil field contractor. She had started out so innocently, all but unaware of her striking beauty when she reached the University of Texas in 1966 to read microbiology.

Gregg Lott, an American footballer who was her boyfriend at university, described her at the time as 'gorgeous - like a frisky palomino, all legs, teeth and spirit'.

Modelling and casting agencies started to call on account of her staggering looks, and Fawcett dropped out of university after a year to try her luck in Hollywood, where she changed her first name to Farrah.

'I never had a burning desire to be an actress,' she said later. 'I came to Hollywood as a lark.'

Lark or not, her looks rapidly started winning her small roles on seriessuch as The Flying Nun and The Partridge Family.

Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, she had her first brush with the law, when she was convicted of stealing a pair of nylons from a department store and placed on probation.

Nevertheless, it was her introduction to actor Lee Majors, eight years her senior, in 1968 that changed her life. The couple rapidly became a Hollywood legend, and shortly after their marriage he got the part of Colonel Steve Austin, the bionic Six Million Dollar man, blessed with apparently superhuman powers in the eponymous television series.

Majors became a star overnight, and Fawcett - who renamed herself Fawcett-Majors - appeared as a guest in four of her husband's early episodes. Those shows, together with that poster of her wearing a swimsuit, created a sensation.

She attracted the attention of producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, who cast her as Jill Munroe, one of three Charlie's Angels in the 1976 television series. As one producer put it: 'Farrah is the one everyone remembers. She epitomised the freedom of women in the Seventies. She was a free spirit.'

Fame was to transform Fawcett - inflating her already headstrong nature into 'one giant ego' - but it also brought problems to her marriage. Majors hated his wife's sudden success and started to insist that she should be home every evening at

6.30 to put his supper on the table.

Trapped between her husband and her career - and furious that she was being paid only £5,500 per episode - Fawcett announced she was leaving Charlie's Angels at the end of the first series in 1977. Furious, Spelling and Goldberg sued her for breach of contract and won.

As a result, she was forced to appear in a further six episodes during the next two years, though a £3million contract with cosmetics giant Faberge consoled her, as did the £250,000 a day she was capable of earning for television commercials. But she was gaining a reputation for being 'difficult'.

In 1979, when Majors left to go on location, he asked his close friend

After Charlie's Angels, Fawcett wanted to show her range and some of her best work featured characters who were victims or caught in domestic turmoil. She was a battered wife in The Burning Bed, a rape victim in Extremities, the unfaithful wife of a preacher in The Apostle and a mentally unstable woman in Dr. T and the Women.

Fawcett's hair set a fashion trend and was one of the most talked-about styles in Hollywood. The New York Times called it 'a work of art that looked as if it had just come out of the sea and been tossed by the wind into a state of careless perfection' and was 'emblematic of women in the first stage of liberation - strong, confident and joyous.'

Fawcett was nominated for three Emmys and six Golden Globes but never won.

Before stardom, Fawcett had small roles in 1960s and '70s television shows such as Mayberry, R.F.D., Three's a Crowd, I Dream of Jeannie, Marcus Welby, McCloud, The Flying Nun and The Partridge Family.



Resource: Daily Mail

Saturday, June 27, 2009

A Tribute to Michael Jackson - The King of Pop


(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

Michael Jackson will never be forgotten and here at Music2Nite, we'd like to pay tribute to him and illustrate some of our favorite moments. He was one of the best pop artist, a genius who managed to do much more than any other artist ever managed to do. Don't focus on his personal life, just remember the music.

Here are some of my favorite songs/videos, of course there are many, many more!

























Discography: This includes a large part of Michael Jackson's songs, but there are many more, such as all of the Jackson 5 albums.

Tracklisting: "Off The Wall"

1. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
2. Rock with You
3. Working Day and Night
4. Get on the Floor
5. Off the Wall
6. Girlfriend" (McCartney)
7. She's out of My Life" (Tom Bahler)
8. I Can't Help It
9. It's the Falling in Love
10. Burn This Disco Out

Tracklisting: "Thriller"

1.Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (Jackson)
2.Baby Be Mine" (Temperton)
3. The Girl Is Mine" (with Paul McCartney) (Jackson)
4. Thriller" (Temperton)
5. Beat It" (Jackson)
6. Billie Jean" (Jackson)
7. Human Nature" (Bettis/Porcaro)
8. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (Ingram/Jones)
9 The Lady In My Life" (Temperton)

Tracklisting: "Bad"

1. Bad
2. The Way You Make Me Feel
3. Speed Demon
4. Liberian Girl
5. Just Good Friends (Duet with Stevie Wonder)
6. Another Part of Me
7. Man in the Mirror
8. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
9. Dirty Diana" (Jackson)
10. Smooth Criminal" (Jackson)

Extra track on the CD
11. Leave Me Alone" (Jackson)

Tracklisting: "Dangerous"

1. Jam (written by Michael Jackson)
2. Why You Wanna Trip On Me (written by Teddy Riley & Bernard Bell)
3. In The Closet (written by Michael Jackson & Teddy Riley)
4. She Drives Me Wild (written by Michael Jackson & Teddy Riley)
5. Remember The Time (written by Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley & Bernard Bell)
6. Can't Let Her Get Away (written by Michael Jackson & Teddy Riley)
7. Heal The World (written by Michael Jackson)
8. Black Or White (written by Michael Jackson & Bill Bottrell)
9. Who Is It (written by Michael Jackson)
10. Give In To Me (written by Michael Jackson & Bill Bottrell)
11. Will You Be There (written by Michael Jackson)
12. Keep The Faith (written by Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett, & Michael Jackson)
13. Gone Too Soon (written by Larry Grossman & Buz Kohan)
14. Dangerous (written by Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell & Teddy Riley)

Tracklisting: "History"

DISC ONE:

Billie Jean (written by Michael Jackson)
The Way You Make Me Feel (written by Michael Jackson)
Black Or White (written by Michael Jackson)
Rock With You (written by Rod Temperton)
She's Out Of My Life (written by Tom Bahler)
Bad (written by Michael Jackson)
I Just Can't Stop Loving You (written by Michael Jackson)
Man In The Mirror (written by Siedah Garrett & Glen Ballard)
Thriller (written by Rod Temperton)
Beat It (written by Michael Jackson)
The Girl Is Mine (written by Michael Jackson)
Remember The Time (written by Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley & Bernard Bell)
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (written by Michael Jackson)
Wanna Be Startin' Somthin' (written by Michael Jackson)
Heal The World (written by Michael Jackson)

DISC TWO

Scream (Duet with Janet Jackson) (written by Michael and Janet Jackson, James Harris III & Terry Lewis)
They Don't Care About Us (written by Michael Jackson)
Stranger In Moscow (written by Michael Jackson)
This Time Around (written by Michael Jackson)
Earth Song (written by Michael Jackson)
D.S (written by Michael Jackson)
Money (written by Michael Jackson)
Come Together (written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
You Are Not Alone (written by R. Kelly)
Childhood (Theme from Free Willy 2) (written by Michael Jackson)
Tabloid Junkie (written by Michael Jackson, James Harris III & Terry Lewis)
2 Bad (written by Michael Jackson)
HIStory (written by Michael Jackson, James Harris III & Terry Lewis)
Little Susie (written by Michael Jackson)
Smile (written by John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons)

Tracklisting "Blood On The Dance Floor":

Blood On The Dance Floor (written by Michael Jackson)
Morphine (written by Michael Jackson)
Superfly Sister (written by Michael Jackson)
Ghosts (written by Michael Jackson & Teddy Riley)
Is It Scary (written by Michael Jackson, James Harris & Terry Lewis)
Scream Louder - Flyte Time Remix (written by Michael and Janet Jackson, James Harris & Terry Lewis)
Money - Fire Island Radio Edit (written by Michael Jackson)
2 Bad - Refugee Camp Mix (written by Michael Jackson)
Stranger In Moscow - Tee's In-House Club Mix (written by Michael Jackson)
This Time Around - D.M Radio Mix (written by Michael Jackson)
Earth Song - Hani's Club Experience (written by Michael Jackson)
You Are Not Alone - Classic Club Mix (written by R. Kelly)
History - Tony Moran's History Lesson (written by Michael Jackson)

Tracklisting "Invincible":

1. Unbreakable
2. Heartbreaker
3. Invincible
4. Break Of Dawn
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. You Rock My World
7. Butterflies
8. Speechless
9. 2000 Watts
10. You Are My Life
11. Privacy
12. Don't Walk Away
13. Cry
14. The Lost Children
15. Whatever Happens
16. Threatened



Awards: find a long list of Michael Jackson's musical achievements and awards here.





May you rest in peace, we will never forget you.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Breaking News: Michael Jackson Dies


Michael Jackson has gone too soon, on Thursday, June 25th at 2:26 p.m. Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest.

Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine read a statement on behalf of his family:

“It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until the results of the autopsy are known.”

He continued: “The personal physician who was with him at the time attempted to resuscitate my brother. As did paramedics who transported him to the hospital.”

“Upon arriving at the hospital at approximately 1:14 p.m., a team of doctors, including emergency phsyicians and cardiologists, attempted to resuscitate him for a period of one hour and they were unsuccessful.”

“Our family requests that the media please respect our privacy during this tough time, and may Allah be with you Michael, always,”

Music2Nite will provide you with further details as they will come in and will of course feature a special post for Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson the music legend died at 50 years old.



Monday, June 22, 2009

Beyonce Knowles - Discography., EPs, Single As lead artist

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EPs

Year Title Chart positions
U.S. U.S. R&B U.S.
Latin
2004 Live at Wembley
  • Released: April 27, 2004
  • Label: Columbia
17 8 -
2007 Irreemplazable
  • Released: August 28, 2007
  • Label: Columbia
105 41 3
2009 Above and Beyoncé: Dance Mixes
  • Released: June 16, 2009
  • Label: Columbia
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Singles


Year Title Chart positions Album
U.S. U.S. R&B U.S. Dance UK
CAN AUS IRL NZ GER NLD ITA
As lead artist
2003 " Crazy in Love" (featuring Jay-Z) 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 6 2 5 Dangerously in Love
" Baby Boy" (featuring href="Sean Paul) 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 4 8 1
" Me, Myself and I" 4 2 3 11 7 11 4 18 35 14 25
2004 " Naughty Girl" 3 8 1 10 2 9 2 6 16 10 17
" Dangerously in Love 2" 1 23 17 41 1
2006 " Déjà Vu" (featuring Jay-Z) 4 1 1 1 5 12 3 15 9 17 4 B'Day
" Ring the Alarm" 2 11 3 1
" Irreplaceable" 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 11 17 8
" Upgrade U" (featuring Jay-Z) 2 12 11
2007 " Beautiful Liar" (featuring Shakira) 3 70 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 1 1
" Get Me Bodied" 2 68 10 2
" Green Light" ( Freemasons remix) 3/4 12 46 18
2008 " If I Were a Boy" 7 3 16 2 1 4 3 2 2 3 1 4 I Am... Sasha Fierce
" Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 7 1 1 1 2 2 1 4 2 8 1
2009 " Diva" 2/6/8 19 3 1 72 40 50 26 5 73
" Halo" 8 5 16 1 4 3 3 4 2 9 5
" Ego" 2 58 6 15
" Sweet Dreams" 32 29



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Friday, June 19, 2009

Black Eyed Peas Total Billboard Chart Domination


Black Eyed Peas currently hold the #1 album as well as the #1 & #2 singles in the country!!!

THE BLACK EYED PEAS’ THE E.N.D. ENTERS THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 CHART AT #1

The Black Eyed Peas debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart with their latest release, THE E.N.D. Their fifth studio cd marks the group’s highest debut of their career with 304,109 in first-week sales. This is the biggest sales week for the group, outperforming their previous cd, Monkey Business, which sold 291,164 in June 2005.

“Boom Boom Pow,” the first single from three-time Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum Interscope recording artists The Black Eyed Peas, holds the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for eleven consecutive weeks and #1 on the Top 40 chart for five consecutive weeks. Since its release eleven weeks ago, “Boom Boom Pow” has sold over 2,802,286 million digital downloads. In its first week of release, the second single “I Gotta Feeling” is #1 on the digital songs chart with 249,133 in digital downloads and debuts at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This is the first time any act has occupied the top two spots on the Hot 100 with songs from the No. 1 album of the week since OutKast did it on Feb. 7, 2004.

The exclusive deluxe version of The E.N.D., available only at Target stores nationwide and Target.com, includes four new songs, six remix hits and additional video content.

Rolling Stone calls THE E.N.D., “the best thing the Black Eyed Peas have ever recorded” and Entertainment Weekly raves, “pure Top 40 nirvana.” USA Today confirms “it’s booming, electrified pop with plenty of Pow” and The New York Times says, “’Boom Boom Pow’ arrives like a fusillade of punches and kicks, an onomatopoeia traveling at warp speed.”

The E.N.D. is The Black Eyed Peas’ first original new album since Monkey Business (released May 2005), with worldwide sales of more than 9 million copies. Monkey Business generated Grammy Awards for “Don't Phunk With My Heart” and “My Humps.” The Black Eyed Peas have sold over 26 million cds worldwide.

New Mariah Carey Song - Obsessed


"Obsessed" is Mariah Carey's first single from her upcoming album "Memoirs of an Angel", due to be released on August 25th. Here are Mariah's thoughts on her new song: "This is one of my favorite songs ever. I love the whole album. I'm completely immersed in it. I can't wait for you to hear it."

Basically the new song is a shot back at Eminem, the lyrics say: “Why you so obsessed with me? Lying that you’re sexing me?” the Greenlawn native sings in the chorus, before delivering the kiss-off “You’re delusional. Boy, you’re losing your mind.”




New Beyonce Video - Broken Hearted Girl


Beyonce has just released the music video for her latest single "Broken-Hearted Girl". The video starts with a tearful Beyonce's crying in her jeep before it moves to her frolicking on a beach, presumably with the man who would later break her heart.

The next single "Sweet Dreams" which Beyonce will release will have a futuristic feel to it and most, if not all, will be in color.



Chaka Khan To Receive Walk of Fame Star!


Chaka Khan has earned herself a star on the Hollywood of fame. It was officially announced yesterday through the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

In 2006, Chaka Khan was honored by BET for her contributions to music at the BET Awards.

Bryan Adams, The Funk Brothers, Alan Jackson, Van Morrison, Marco Antonio Solis, Ringo Starr, ZZ Top and posthumously Roy Orbison are among the other many stars who will be receiving a star in 2010.



This version of the song became a million-selling smash in the U.S. and UK, and it helped to relaunch Khan's career. The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1984, matching her previous highest pop chart position from ten years prior (the 1974 hit single, "Tell Me Something Good", which she recorded with the band Rufus). The single reached #1 on both the U.S. dance and R&B charts in late 1984, remaining atop both for three weeks apiece. In addition, the song also reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart. While touring with Prince in 1998 in support of her collaborative album, Come 2 My House, Khan and Prince performed "I Feel for You" as a duet. (Wikipedia)

Carly Smithson and The Fallen


Former Evanescence band members Ben Moody, John LeCompt, Rocky Gray, and Marty O'Brien are forming a new band with former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson.

The Fallen, and that their first single, "Bury Me Alive," will be available for free download starting Monday at
wearethefallen.com.

the band will start touring in September and release songs in small batches, "so there's always new music and new reasons to come to another show," according to Moody.

Here's Carly Smithson's version of "Bring Me To Life", does she really measure up to Amy Lee?




Here's Amy Lee and "Bring Me To Life":





Christina Aguilera's Radio

Clear Channel Radio and Front Line Management have joined forces to create artist personal experience (a.p.e.) radio, a company which will allow music acts to produce their own channels for online radio.

Christina's extremely excited about this opportunity:

"Fans always write to ask me what I like and listen to, which makes this such a great opportunity for me to share my musical inspirations with them.

"My channel is going to be a special place for my fans to find out about my new music, upcoming tours and lots of other news and original content. It's going to be fun."

Thursday, June 18, 2009

David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over


David Guetta and Kelly Rowland collaborated on a new beat titled "When love Takes Over". Kelly officially released it a few days ago through Positiva Records.

David Guetta and his latest club smash continues to cause a sensation across the globe. Racking up nearly 4-million hits on Youtube, 'When Love Takes Over' featuring Kelly Rowland is currently No.1 in the UK midweek singles chart, steaming to the top of the chart by a huge margin.

Maybe Kelly finally found her market, if she'll continue featuring in tracks like this she'll do great in Europe.


Sunday, June 14, 2009

Robert Pattinson in Twillight



By : Laremy Legel, Nov 17, 2008

Last weekend a group of us movie-website folk descended upon Beverly Hills to talk to Robert Pattinson. They didn't give us much time, but here is what we learned about the newest sensation:

Question: So are they still going to let you cut your hair?

Robert Pattinson: I already did cut it. Someone asked, "Is it true you haven't washed it for six weeks?" and I said "I haven't washed it for four years!

Question: How did you end up on the Twilight soundtrack?

RP: By accident. I think Nikki gave a CD of stuff I'd recorded on my computer to Catherine. I'd recorded it years ago. I think Catherine put it into a cut and I didn't even realize what it was at first. It kind of fit really well. I didn't really think about it other than I didn't know I was going to be on the soundtrack. I wanted to do it [under] another another name because I thought it would be distracting ... which it has been. It was probably all a big mistake. But I like the idea. I think the song fit there. I didn't think it sounded like me, so I thought it would just kind of work. I'm not trying to get a music career out of it or anything.

Question: Is it harder to act supernatural or American?

RP: I never really saw him as an American guy, the character, even though he's got an American accent. I'm not playing a jock, which is typically American. Like you don't have to do hand signs or anything or little handshakes, that type of stuff. So I guess the supernatural thing.



Question: But you did have to learn how to play baseball...

RP: I've been asked this everywhere. "So I understand you're crap at baseball..." I just didn't care. I think sports are stupid. Catherine Hardwicke was so determined to make me look like a professional baseball player. She had this coach trying to teach me the "ready" position, like a little squat. I was like, "Seriously, I'll do it on the day. You don't have to teach me." But Catherine wanted to see it, in front of all these extras. It was just very embarrassing. So for the rest of the shoot, whenever Catherine couldn't decide how to block a shot I'd say, "I think I should be doing my ready position." But yeah, I'm terrible at baseball. I'm terrible at every sport apart from running, but I'm terrible at that now too.


Question: Talk about the use of music here, how the music sets up the feel of the Cullens.

RP: It's the outsider thing. It's always been associated with goth culture. It's become more mainstream now; everyone seems to be emo now. Because young people feel like they don't connect with anything anymore. There is no such thing as an insider anymore. Everybody feels like outsiders. Vampires are kind of the definition, anyone who preys on the rest of humanity is obviously going to be an outsider in society. All the other supernatural things are ugly, or they're silly. I don't know what music is inspired by fairies ... or zombies. It's quite difficult to say, "I'm obsessed with zombies, they're so cool!"

Question: Do you consider Edward to be emo?

RP: I don't really know what emo is to be honest. Does it mean you're in touch with your emotions? I think he's kind of the opposite. He's spent his entire life repressing everything. He's kind of ashamed of himself when he lets his facade of formality break. When Bella comes into his life. He doesn't want to feel anything. He wants to make his world smaller and smaller because he doesn't feel like he belongs in it. He either want to be a human or die because his existence is completely pointless. That's why he doesn't talk to anyone. He doesn't really feel anything in the book apart from when Bella comes. He's literally counting the cracks in the wall and stuff. Every single day is exactly the same thing. If he feels anything he shuts it down immediately. He doesn't let himself feel anything at all, so I guess it's the opposite. Or he's a closet emo.



Question: So you've read the book ... what was it like to have to live up to this expectation of being the most beautiful man?

RP: I read the book like five months before casting. I read the first 50 pages, up until when he gets introduced and I was just like, "No." Because I was really fat last year as well. So it was just like embarrassing. I thought the whole thing was embarrassing, even turning up to the audition. I hadn't read the whole book before the audition, but even [from] the four-line synopsis -- "Edward is the perfect being. He's so witty and beautiful. He's crazy and funny. He'll open doors for you. He'll drive you in his Volvo." -- I thought even turning up would be embarrassing.



I still believe the initial reaction, when I was first cast, was the true reaction. Everyone now is like "Okay, I love the books so much I'll go with it. He's beautiful. Whatever." But the initial reaction was 100 percent "He's completely wrong for it." And I agree with them. I didn't play it like some guy who knew he was beautiful. I still don't really feel it. I don't feel it at all.

Question: So were you looking at all the blogs for reaction?

RP: No, initially I did. But my mom sent me some stuff, which she thought was really funny, when I was already in America. They had this picture from this Viking film I did where I looked like someone had beaten me in the face with a frying pan. I was wearing this disgusting wig. And they were like "THIS is Edward." It was a petition, which they were going to send to Summit saying, "We will not go and see the movie." It got up to 75,000 signings. This is about three days after I got cast. I was thinking, "Thanks for sending that mom!" That was my welcome into Twilight.



Question: But now people want all the Robert Pattinson news they can get. Can you say anything about Little Ashes?

RP: I did two little movies last year. Without Twilight I don't know what would happen to them. They would get like one theater. Tiny. I love it when people come up to me and say, "I'm not actually a fan of yours from Twilight, I'm a fan of yours from the poster of Little Ashes." It's so funny.

Question: Has your life changed? Can you still walk down the street?

RP: I don't [do] too much walking down the street. I'm always doing interviews or going into rooms where everyone is screaming. I go to different cities in the world for screaming sessions.

Question: Do you ever wish for a time before the internet?

RP: Definitely. It feeds the worst part of your soul. When you have nothing to do and you go on, when you're too tired to read a book. I'll read the news, you go on to the New York Times, you get bored and go on IMDb. Then you realize how pathetic you are. I have to delete my history. It is kind of addictive, but at the same time pathetic.

Question: How do you handle that swing of emotions, from 75,000 signatures to being on the cover of EW?

RP: It's the same thing either way. I prefer sticking with the people who said they hated me. At least you've got to fight for something then. My dad said success and failure were both impostors. That's the best way to go about acting, especially when everything is so extreme. Little girls saying, "I want to have your babies!" And it's "Like, you don't. Seriously." I don't even want to have my babies.





Source : film.com

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Black Eyed Peas - The TODAY Show Performances


The Black Eyed Peas livened up NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza for the “Today” show concert series on Friday. The Peas performed “Boom Boom Pow,” “I Gotta Feeling,” and “Pump It.” The Black Eyed Peas are currently promoting The E.N.D. which is their first new album in four years.












Friday, June 12, 2009

Beyonce Knowless - Studio Albums Discography.

Beyonce Knowles performingBeyonce Knowless's Discography as below table

Studio albums

Year Title Chart positions Certification Sales
U.S. U.S. R&B UK

AUS CAN IRL NET
NZ GER FRA JPN CH BEL NOR IT SP PT MEX
2003 Dangerously in Love
  • 1st studio album
  • Released: June 24, 2003
  • Formats: CD
1 1 1 2 1 1 4 8 1 14 12 2 3 1 16 16
  • (Australian Recording Industry Association)ARIA: Platinum
  • (British Phonographic Industry)BPI: 3x Platinum
  • IFPI: Platinum
  • (Recording Industry Association of America)RIAA: 4x Platinum
  • Worldwide: 11,000,000+
  • US: 4,655,000
  • UK: 1,100,000
  • Europe: 1,000,000
2006 B'Day
  • 2nd studio album
  • Released: September 5, 2006
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1 1 3 8 3 3 5 8 5 12 4 2 7 6 10 5 8
  • (Australian Recording Industry Association)ARIA: Platinum
  • (British Phonographic Industry)BPI: 2x Platinum
  • IFPI: Platinum
  • RIAA: 3x Platinum
  • Worldwide: 6,000,000+
  • US: 3,200,000
  • UK: 600,000
  • Europe: 1,000,000
2008 I Am… Sasha Fierce
  • 3rd studio album
  • Released: November 18, 2008
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1 1 3 8 6 1 6 6 17 20 3 10 10 2 16 7 7 66
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • IFPI: Platinum
  • RIAA: 2x Platinum
  • Worldwide: 4,000,000+
  • US: 2,204,580
  • Europe: 1,000,000





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