If you were a ten-year-old boy in 1970 Brazil, you had one thing on your judgment: The
Brazilian football association football team acting in the World Cup. But for young Mauro (Michel
Joelsas), his exhilaration for Pel� is overshadowed by his parents' departure.
In that historic year, the Brazilian population wasn't just united by one the greatest
soccer teams ever assembled. It was likewise dealing with increasingly belligerent activity
by a absolutism eager to arrest whatsoever non-conformists. So while Mauro collects nat
ional squad trading cards and plays out matches with his tabletop soccer game, his
parents
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation - movie review
Monday, 23 June 2008
Nbc - Ge Shares Plunge Analysts Urge Nbc Spin-off
Shares of Universal NBC parent General Electric plunged to their lowest point in
five years Monday after JPMorgan analyst C. Stephen Tusa cut his rating of GE stock
to neutral. Tusa, a longtime booster of GE stock, acknowledged that he was wrong
in his assessment of the company's performance. GE has been under pressure to spin
off its entertainment units, with analysts maintaining that GE chief Jeffrey Immelt
has little understanding of the business. Among other complaints, some critics say
that the company's strategy to remake its MSNBC cable channel into a platform for highly
opinionated broadcasters on the left, while improving the channel's ratings, is tarnishing
NBC News's reputation for balance and restraint.
17/06/2008
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Naomi Campbell lashes out at fashion industry
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has said the fashion industry is more racist than ever and has hit out at the lack of black faces on magazine covers and catwalks.
Speaking to The London Paper, the Streatham-born Campbell said: "Women of colour are not a trend. That's the bottom line. It's a pity that people don't always appreciate black beauty."
She added: "In some instances, black models are being sidelined by major modelling agencies. Fashion needs to go back to the way it used to be when wonderful designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace and Azzedine Alaia had a great line-up of beautiful women - white, black, Chinese, Hispanic."
Campbell, 37, admitted that her supermodel friends helped her career by taking a stand against racism.
"Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say, 'If you don't pick Naomi to be in your show, then I don't want to be in it'", she recalled.
Talking about how she received one of her biggest career breaks in the fashion industry she said: "The only reason I got the cover of French Vogue was because Yves Saint Laurent called up and told them he'd pull his ads if they didn't."
The star spoke out after her former boss admitted racism was still rife in the industry.
Carole White, head of the Premier model agency, who represented Campbell for 17 years, said: "A black girl has to be perfect to get work. The bookers are told, 'Don't send any ethnic girls'."
She added: "I showed a picture of a new black girl to an agent in Milan, and he actually recoiled. He said, 'We don't have black girls in Milan. It's impossible.'"
Speaking about her former client she said: "Black models never make money. Even Naomi Campbell didn't make money like the white girls did, she was always offered less."
Speaking to The London Paper, the Streatham-born Campbell said: "Women of colour are not a trend. That's the bottom line. It's a pity that people don't always appreciate black beauty."
She added: "In some instances, black models are being sidelined by major modelling agencies. Fashion needs to go back to the way it used to be when wonderful designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace and Azzedine Alaia had a great line-up of beautiful women - white, black, Chinese, Hispanic."
Campbell, 37, admitted that her supermodel friends helped her career by taking a stand against racism.
"Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say, 'If you don't pick Naomi to be in your show, then I don't want to be in it'", she recalled.
Talking about how she received one of her biggest career breaks in the fashion industry she said: "The only reason I got the cover of French Vogue was because Yves Saint Laurent called up and told them he'd pull his ads if they didn't."
The star spoke out after her former boss admitted racism was still rife in the industry.
Carole White, head of the Premier model agency, who represented Campbell for 17 years, said: "A black girl has to be perfect to get work. The bookers are told, 'Don't send any ethnic girls'."
She added: "I showed a picture of a new black girl to an agent in Milan, and he actually recoiled. He said, 'We don't have black girls in Milan. It's impossible.'"
Speaking about her former client she said: "Black models never make money. Even Naomi Campbell didn't make money like the white girls did, she was always offered less."
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Herardo Nunes
Artist: Herardo Nunes
Genre(s):
Classical
Folk
Discography:
Calima
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Flamencos En Nueva York
Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
Ordinary Boys singer Preston back with ex?
Friday, 30 May 2008
Mighty Mighty Bosstones expand reunion plans
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones [ tickets ] continue to ramp up their return to active performing status with a new co-headlining run in July with the Dropkick Murphys [ tickets ].The ska/punk outfit, which returned from a three-year hiatus last year and has performed a handful of shows since last fall, will kick off the outing July 7 in Chicago. The Bosstones/Murphys tangle will stick close to home for the two Boston bands on the first part of the tour before closing with two California dates later in July.In August, the Bosstones will handle a slot at the Punk Rocks 2008 festival in Morrison, CO, along with NOFX, Bouncing Souls and others. All of the band's currently scheduled dates are included below.The group hasn't released a full-length album of new material since 2002's "A Jackknife to a Swan," which it toured behind extensively before announcing an indefinite hiatus late the following year. Vocalist Dicky Barrett became the studio announcer for ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late-night talk show, while bassist and co-founder Joe Gittleman recorded two albums with his side project, Avoid One Thing, before that band announced its own hiatus.The Bosstones recorded three new songs last year as part of a b-sides and rarities collection, "Medium Rare," which hit stores in December. The new tracks--"This List," "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" and "The One With the Woes All Over It"--were all recorded last fall following the band's October reunion announcement.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Flobots Fight To Make The World, And Your Cubicle, A Better Place
Flobots Fight To Make The World, And Your Cubicle, A Better Place
You likely already acknowledge this, but "Handlebars" — the now-ubiquitous rock-radio
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Mark Ronson label teams with Interscope
Mark Ronson label teams with Interscope
Newly York -- Manufacturer Mark Ronson has partnered with Interscope to
spread his Allido Records label. The first fruit of the roast
venture volition be an album from Washington-based MC Wale.
The go-go-influenced MC made a call for himself with the Internet
track "Nike Boots" featuring Lil Anthony Wayne and the mixtapes "Scion A/V
Presents: Wale vs. 45 Male monarch" and "C Miles & Running."
The doorknocker is besides prepping for release next calendar month "A Mixtape About
Cypher," inspired completely by the TV show "Seinfeld." Included
amid the music is a skit featuring an visual aspect by show principal Julia
Louis-Dreyfus.
Wale's as-yet-untitled debut is slated for outlet this year. "Weal
created his possess seethe," Allido co-owner Rich people Kleiman said. "He took
what he created in his hometown and became this unspoken prodigal
boy of Washington D.C., D.C. Everyone from Jay-Z to RCA sabbatum with Wheal
and loved him. Nix from D.C. has worked before, just Strake has
the core sound of D.C. with the commercial message appeal of
hip-hop."
Allido launched in 2004 as an freelance imprint. The troupe has
released several albums and served as music supervisor on a
compilation series for the Hard Rock Hotel Group and several films,
including the Academy Award-nominated "Half Nelson." But death year,
Ronson's fame grew exponentially after he produced Amy Winehouse's
multiple Grammy Award-winning "Back to Joseph Black" record album, which earned
him a producer of the class prize.
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Obituary: Keith Smith
Obituary: Keith Smith
Care others of his generation, the jazz trumpeter Keith Bessie Smith, world Health Organization has died aged 67 pursuit a affectionateness attack, recognised a special career, that of replicating pure Freshly Orleans-style traditional idle words. Inspired by Joseph Louis Barrow Armstrong and Henry "Red" Allen, he set around edifice a plug instrumental technique and devoted himself all to malarky performance. Among the most widely travelled of Brits players, John Smith made an early pilgrim's journey to Newly Orleans, where he sought come out of the closet and befriended pioneer jazzmen.
Never content to be barely a jobbing "trad" player, he brought an entrepreneurial flair to jazz presentations, putt together all-star groups and promoting themed concerts. These were professionally managed affairs with TV tie-ins, supported by plentitude of packaging. Having operated a mail order record business, he by and by founded his own idle words disc label and was assiduous in aggregation memorabilia, corresponding regularly with ex-serviceman players.Adam Smith was from Isleworth, Middlesex, and started come out as an technology draftsperson, his first base pic to classic jazz advent from his older brother's record collection. "I left school at 15, whole obsessed with this music," he said, determined to learn to play.In 1957 he acquired a second hand trumpet for £7 and, not long after, joined clarinettist Norrie Cox's band, devoted to the less sophisticated Freshly Orleans style of players such as clarinettist George Carl Lewis. He as well helped to shape the Freshly Teao Brass Band, its white-capped marchers including trombone player Chris Samuel Barber and herald Sight Colyer.Nowadays fully master, Smith moved apace from one traditional band to another, including a stint in Deutschland with trombone player Mac Isadora Duncan and a period with Bobby Mickleburgh's Confederates, a mathematical group that donned Confederate army uniforms, and made quite an impact on television. He then formed his Culmination Jazz Band in 1962 before bearing off to the US, to Freshly Orleans and on to Los Angeles, where he played informally with many of his heroes. He was by and by to spend a yearner period in New Orleans, where he worked regularly in pick up bands, likewise development a fish-and-chip commercial enterprise, sold from a cart, until the local maffia muscled in and paid him to take out of townsfolk.Anxious to deliver US jazz artists to British audiences, Smith brought the piano player Alton Purnell to the UK, later forming the Fresh Orleans All-Stars, a band packed with great US veterans, including the celebrated if fiery bassist George "Pops" Nurture and trumpeter Alvin Alcorn. Traveling throughout Europe with them only whetted his appetite for to a greater extent of the real thing, and he and outset wife Witta emigrated to America, where Smith once again pursued his dream, playacting with any number of distinguished musicians in Fresh Orleans and New House of York.He accepted an offer up from the Danish pastry bandleader Pa Bue in 1972 and became one of his Viking bandsmen for iI age. Bessie Smith then toured solo and played in Africa, ahead relocating to the West Rural area and starting Hefty Jazz. In 1985 he took this band, one of the best he ever lED, to the US, where they played in Newly House of York clubs and at festivals for a month - the Freshly York Times' John Lackland S Wilson admiring his "broad, driving urging". He as well began to bring surviving Armstrong stripe members over to U.K. for his successful Wonderful Man of Louis Neil Armstrong shows, later making concert packages devoted to the music of Cuban sandwich Hoagy Carmichael (starring vocaliser George V Renown) and C Geezerhood of South Jazz with isaac M. Singer Elaine Delmar.More late based in Federal Republic of Germany and in demand altogether over the continent, Smith returned to United Kingdom with his third gear married woman Lioudmilla, continuing to book shows for his striation until really of late. At his charles Herbert Best, he was one of the to the highest degree expressive Brits malarky trumpeters, firmly rooted in the Louis Armstrong style, whose variety of feel was unmatched in traditional circles.Always feisty and sometimes combative, Joseph Smith was married and divorced trey times. He is survived by his former wives.· Keith Saint John Joseph Smith, jazz trumpeter and bandleader, max Born MArch 19 1940; died Jan 4 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Mega-Platinum Recording Artists Motley Crue and Revolutionary Music Video Game Rock Band Team Up to Make History
Mega-Platinum Recording Artists Motley Crue and Revolutionary Music Video Game Rock Band Team Up to Make History
Motley Crue First Band Ever to Acquittance A Brand-New Single, 'Saints Of Los
Angeles,' Through Tilt Band Beginning Apr 15
Rock Band Joins Crue Fest; Circuit Launches July 1st
New House of York, Apr 15 -- Deuce of rock & roll's biggest
powerhouses - mega-platinum recording artists Motley Crue and revolutionary
euphony video game John Rock Band - ar joining forces to make history. Harmonix
and MTV Games announced today that Mixture Crue testament be the beginning band to
release their brand-new bingle, "Saints Of Los Angeles," as a downloadable,
playable racecourse through Rock Band. The lead, released on Motley Records,
will be available for download for $0.99
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Krishna Premi Dasi
Artist: Krishna Premi Dasi
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Nectar Of The Holy Name
Year: 1985
Tracks: 8
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