Jack White has spoken out most his quislingism with Alicia Keys on the topic song for the coming James Bond film 'Another Way To Die'.
The White Stripes and The Raconteurs frontman, world Health Organization wrote, produced and sang on the track, aforementioned that he's been missing to get together with Keys for quite a while.
�After a twosome of eld of deficient to collaborate with Alicia Keys, it took James Bond himself to finally make it happen," White said in a statement. "Alicia put some electric energy into her breath that cemented itself into the charismatic tape. Very inspiring to watch.
He added that the collaborationism "gave me a new voice, and I wasn't myself anymore. I drummed for her voice and she mimicked the guitar tones, and then we joined our voices and screamed and moaned about these characters in the plastic film and their isolation, having no one to confidence, not fifty-fifty themselves. Maybe we became them for a few minutes."
White aforementioned that the Memphis Horns played on the song, which is the first duet in Bond history, as well as "some of Nashville's finest. It might be the number one analogue Bond theme in 20 geezerhood. We cherished to push soul into those tapes, and join the kinsfolk of Barry, Bassey, Connery and Craig," he said.
The film, 'Quantum Of Solace', is due to rack up theatres in November. Meanwhile, White kicks off a series of European festival dates with The Raconteurs on Saturday (August 23) and begins a North American tour on September 16.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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John McCain's Plan For Veterans Includes Proposals For Faster Care, More Options
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain released his proposed health aid package for U.S. veterans over the weekend, and among the most prominent aspects of his design are a more rapid response to veterans' medical needs, a Veterans' Care Access Card and a targeted feat to address the necessarily of female veterans world Health Organization are the victims of sexual assault. While veterans groups suppose they suffer no objections to the senator's proposals, they are wary that a design to air vets to private doctors will drive up the price of government-funded care.
Among the specifics of McCain's plan:
� To aid vets wHO can't get under one's skin to a Veterans Affairs hospital because of geographic constraints, long waiting lists or a lack of specialized facilities, he proposes that no vet have to drive more than an 60 minutes for aid and that they receive routine care within a week, urgent care inside 24 hours and specialty care inside a month.
� A Veterans' Care Access Card would be created, which would postscript ordinary VA care for low-income veterans and those with illnesses or injuries incurred during military avail, permitting those who can't get "timely and seize" care at a VA facility to receive upkeep at a private one.
� He would build on his co-authored Wounded Warrior Act, which was among the first lawmaking to address injuries specific to the modern war on terror by providing enhanced screening and treatment.
� He called for a better response from the VA to the "specialized health care needs of women veterans, including victims of sexual assault."
� He would establish a Wounded Warrior Resource Center, which would give vets accessible information and clear pathways to rehabilitation, as well as text file the semipermanent needs of the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
� He would expand educational programs for family members of veterans to learn them how to decently care for their injured or ill loved ones.
� An eight-point be after would be enacted to overhaul the Veterans Disability system, which includes comprehensive, ongoing training for VA employees world Health Organization process claims, more answerableness for claims processors, converting the claims-processing system into a paperless one that will provide instant hunting capability, and providing vets with disabilities the proper treatment, rehabilitation and training they indigence to return to generative, fulfilling lives.
Senator McCain, world Health Organization is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, where he sustained dangerous injuries as a captive in a prisoner-of-war camp, has also proposed what he called an "aggressive program to reintegrate veterans into civilian society." That plan includes his recent support for the "GI Bill for the 21 Century," as well as an increase in outreach to homeless veterans to provide transitional housing, proper health and disability benefits, and job training. It also includes efforts to provide meaningful employment to veterans in federal positions and secure that they are not discriminated against in hiring by employers.
Finally, McCain vowed to persist in working to increase the death gratuity benefit for the families of veterans who are killed in combat, an effort he has supported in the past, including in 2003, when he co-sponsored legislating to forked the payment.
Joe Davis, Director of Public Affairs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. said he had no real objections to what McCain was proposing, simply he vowed to prevent a close eye on it. "These are all things that are either going on already or need more 'oomph' to get them going in Washington," aforementioned Davis. "There's nothing controversial about it."
The one vista of McCain's proposal that Davis aforementioned he and many of his cohorts are closely monitoring is the Access Card, which Davis wants to do sure doesn't end up driving veterans away from the VA to the private sector for maintenance. "There is merit to helping some veterans world Health Organization live in extremely rural areas to get charge," he said. "But we want to make sure it's non the start of a process that will raise medical prices because the VA volition have to pay that non-VA doctor's fees, which will non be the same as the invoice if the government provided the care."
Rival presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has proposed a plan that has a number of similar elements. His includes a vow to permit more veterans to access VA tending by wheeling back a 2003 banning that excluded some "modest income" veterans, and would increase maintenance for polytrauma vision deterioration, prosthetics, spinal cord injuries and women's health. Additionally, it would establish a "zero tolerance" policy for veterans falling into homelessness by expanding programs to help them avoid reach that status.
Obama has also pledged to fight employment discrimination against vets, help make the transition to civilian life easier, update paper records to an electronic system and to the full fund the VA. He has besides vowed to expand veteran soldier centers and improve mental health intervention and traumatic brain injury care.
Davis aforementioned both plans offer benefits that are very unspoiled for veterans but that the "hardest test" volition be acquiring the items on a budget and passed through Congress.
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Dark Nebula
Artist: Dark Nebula
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Dreamfuel
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Robotic Tongue
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
The 8Th Sphere
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
100% Pure Brainwater
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
The Door (single)
Year:
Tracks: 2
The 8th Spthere
Year:
Tracks: 9
Daso and Pawas
Artist: Daso and Pawas
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Night Express EP (FLASH005) Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Jeff Gordon: Champ On the Track & In the Sack
Bands as Batman: 'The Dark Knight' - Friday Fun
It's Friday once more, and today, in honour of the film that's sweeping the nation (and dominating office conversation) right now � 'The Dark Knight' � we're thinking of bands as Batman-related stuff to waste time until the pubs open.
Here are a few we've come up with so far:
Manfred Batman
Killing Joker
Fountains Of Bruce Wayne
Nick Batcave
Cat Power Woman
Batman For Lashes
Robyn
Cape Nash
Kaiser Chief O'Hara
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Here are a few we've come up with so far:
Manfred Batman
Killing Joker
Fountains Of Bruce Wayne
Nick Batcave
Cat Power Woman
Batman For Lashes
Robyn
Cape Nash
Kaiser Chief O'Hara
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Bo Bice
Artist: Bo Bice
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
The Real Thing
Year:
Tracks: 11
Husky-voiced American Idol tattle sensation Harold "Bo" Bice hailed from Helena, AL, and brought his Southern sensibility with him to the one-quarter season of Fox's long-running talent contest. Bice competed weekly against fellow rocker Constantine Maroulis, his long haircloth, vanessa Stephen bottoms, and drug carpeting tunics against Maroulis' biker jacket and stockpile of New York City ruffle. Eventually Bice north Korean won out (to the shock of some Idol fans), and went all the mode to the winner's dress circle where he was AI runner-up to corn silk Oklahoman Carrie Underwood. The following summer Bice participated in the common sendIdol tour with his young man contestants; he besides endured the traditional intrude into his past life, which had plainly included brushes with do drugs possession. In the meanwhile, the discharge date of his debut album was pushed support. Substantial Thing finally arrived in December 2005. Produced by Clive Davis, it featured collaborations with rockers Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) and Richie Sambora, as well as songwriting pros John Shanks and Max Martin.
'Voice' of WALL-E: Robot sounds toddler-inspired
Juno star drops out of Rami horror movie
Actress Ellen Page has pulled out of Sam Raimi's new horror movie 'Drag Me To Hell'.
The 'Juno' star had agreed to play the lead role in the film, however scheduling conflicts have now forced her to withdraw.
Shooting was due to get underway on March 17 in a bid to wrap before the possible Screen Actors Guild strike on June 30, but was then delayed.
However, the new date clashed with Page's forthcoming roles in psychological thriller 'Peacock' and Drew Barrymore's directorial debut 'Whip It!'
A statement from producers Ghost House Pictures and financier Mandate Pictures, read: "We were racing to start production so that we could accommodate Ellen's schedule.
"But like so many other productions trying to start before the potential SAG strike date, this one needed more time and we had to push back the start of production."
The 'Juno' star had agreed to play the lead role in the film, however scheduling conflicts have now forced her to withdraw.
Shooting was due to get underway on March 17 in a bid to wrap before the possible Screen Actors Guild strike on June 30, but was then delayed.
However, the new date clashed with Page's forthcoming roles in psychological thriller 'Peacock' and Drew Barrymore's directorial debut 'Whip It!'
A statement from producers Ghost House Pictures and financier Mandate Pictures, read: "We were racing to start production so that we could accommodate Ellen's schedule.
"But like so many other productions trying to start before the potential SAG strike date, this one needed more time and we had to push back the start of production."
Lumidee
Artist: Lumidee
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Other
Discography:
Unexpected
Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
Grimey Street (Special Edition)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Vocalist Lumidee (innate Lumidee Cedeño) began telling and rapping at the age of 12, and was 19 years old when her recordings first off the streets. After graduation, the Spanish Harlem native strung-out up with producer DJ Tedsmooth to record the single "Never Leave You (Uh-Oooh)" for his sovereign Straight Face label. Lumidee claimed that her telling sounded off-key on the sung dynasty because DJ Tedsmooth presented her with a different mount caterpillar tread than the reggae-based Diwali musical rhythm he later added. Regardless, the song proven infectious and north Korean won "Hottest Song" on New York's Hot 97, causation major labels to line up with offers. Universal won, and released her full-length debut, Near Famous, in 2003. Unexpected, her second album, followed for TVT in 2007 and was prefaced with a cover of Patrick Swayze's "She's Like the Wind."
'WALL-E' earns $23.2 million on opening Friday
'Wanted' takes in $19 million
Moviegoers gave a big, warm hug to Disney/Pixar's "WALL-E" on its opening day Friday. But even as the G-rated animated movie topped the day's boxoffice returns, Universal's R-rated "Wanted" gave it a run for its money, as the action pic roared out of the gate with a powerful second-place showing.
Setting up shop in 3,992 theaters, "WALL-E," a futuristic tale of robot-love that had critics across the country swooning, took in an estimated $23.2 million for the day. That puts it on track for an opening weekend gross that¹s sure to be in the high $60-million range.
And with enough kiddies storming the matinees and critic-driven adults taking in the evening screenings, there's even the possibility that "WALL-E," directed by Andrew Stanton, could challenge the all-time best Pixar openers, "The Incredibles" ($70.4 million) and "Finding Nemo" ($70.2 million).
Meanwhile, even though it labored under the restriction of its R-rating, "Wanted," in which James McAvoy¹s everyman mixes it up with assassins played by Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, beat the odds, grabbing an estimated $19 million in 3,175 theaters. That puts the film on a trajectory for a weekend gross in the upper $40 million to lower $50 million range, and by Monday morning should make its director Timur Bekmambetov the new go-to action guy in Hollywood.
As for the holdovers, Warners' "Get Smart," entering its second weekend, grossed about $6.6 million on Friday, down just over 50% from its opening Friday gross of $13.4 million.
Despite competition from "WALL-E," DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda," in its fourth weekend, hung on in fourth place with a Friday haul of $3.5 million.
Paramount's "The Incredible Hulk" rounded out the top five with its Friday gross of $2.9 million, as "The Love Guru" limped into sixth place with $1.9 million.
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Good Charlotte - Madden Makes Sweet Music With Hilton
GOOD CHARLOTTE star BENJI MADDEN is helping girlfriend PARIS HILTON revive her flagging music career.
The rocker - who has already penned a song about Hilton - is helping the hotel heiress with the theme song to her upcoming MTV reality show, Paris Hilton: My New BFF.
She tells E! News, "Benji and I have been working hard on it. He's helping me write the lyrics for the song and then I'll sing it, too."
And Hilton reveals plans for a follow-up to her 2006 debut album Paris.
She adds, "I'll have another album come out, for sure. I just don't know when yet. I only have the summer off, then I'll be taping another season of BFF. But an album is something I'll do."
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Conductor James Levine to have kidney removed
NEW YORK —
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James Levine will have a kidney removed in surgery this week, causing the conductor to miss the remainder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood season.
The 65-year-old music director of both the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera will need six weeks of recovery time, the BSO said in a statement Tuesday. He is expected to be back on the podium for the start of the Met and BSO seasons in September.
Levine's kidney is being removed because of a cyst that is causing pressure and discomfort. No other treatment will be necessary, the BSO said.
"It is extremely frustrating that I need to have this surgery now," Levine said in a statement. "My projects at Tanglewood have been planned so carefully and coordinated in such detail by the festival administration. I especially regret not being here with Elliott Carter for his 100th birthday celebration, which I was looking forward to more than I can say."
Levine conducted the BSO in the opening of its Tanglewood season last weekend in a concert performance of Berlioz's "Les Troyens."
He is due back at the Met to conduct a pre-opening performance of Verdi's Requiem on Sept. 18 to mark Luciano Pavarotti's death last September. He opens the Met season on Sept. 22 and the BSO season two days later.
Levine, who conducts while seated on a chair, has had some health problems in recent years. He has sciatica, and in March 2006 he tore his right rotator cuff when he tripped and fell on the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall during ovations that followed a performance.
After the operation, which kept him from performances for four months, Levine lost a significant amount of weight.
He has been music director of the BSO since 2004 and music or artistic director of the Met since 1976. He made his Met debut in 1971.
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Miley Cyrus - Cyrus I Want To Be The Next Madonna
Teen sensation MILEY CYRUS is determined to be the next MADONNA - citing the pop superstar as her ultimate inspiration.
The Hannah Montana singer/actress hopes for a long and successful music career and is convinced she will be able to ape the Holiday hitmaker by constantly changing her image.
Cyrus tells America's People magazine, "Madonna always reinvents herself, and that's what I want to do. Whatever comes my way that sounds good, that's what I want to do. Whether it's designing clothes or photography or whatever."
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