Elton John says he’s helping Eminem fight drugs

Posted on February 5th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Elton John says he has been helping American rapper Eminen fight drug problems for more than a year.

John told BBC Radio Saturday that as a recovered drug abuser he is happy to help people if they want the assistance but drugs make people so cocky and arrogant that they often reject help.

John says Eminem is succeeding in his well-publicized battle against substance abuse.

Book Talk: Ali Shaw makes magic with debut novel

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

British writer Ali Shaw drew inspiration from fairy tales for his debut novel and to magical effect, with “The Girl With Glass Feet” published to great acclaim.

The novel will be published in the United States in January.

The novel, which has been short-listed for the Costa First Book Award, is a set in a snowbound, remote land where winged creatures and albino animals live and Ida MacLaird is slowly turning into glass when she falls in love.

Gilliam preserves Ledger’s last bow on `Parnassus’

Posted on January 26th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Terry Gilliam has endured so many obstacles on his films, his life story could be the stuff of some cosmic filmmaker’s wild fable about a hamstrung artist, titled “The Curse of Gilliam.”

His latest, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” seemed doomed after star Heath Ledger died midway through the shoot.

Tiger, Elin go separate ways for holidays: reports

Posted on January 25th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Tiger Woods is reportedly yachting to the Bahamas for the holidays to escape the firestorm over his sex scandal while his wife Elin is said to be off back to Sweden for Christmas with her family.

“Hes devastated at everything he has lost,” the magazine quoted the source as saying. “He will go through some dark times.

Tom Ford swaps fashion for film with ‘Single Man’

Posted on January 24th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with “A Single Man,” the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California.

“It’s funny, because everyone was so supportive,” Ford said. “And now that I’ve made the film, quite a few people have said to me, ‘Isn’t it nice you did that when everyone was laughing at you?’”

Songwriters play central role in new music books

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

The John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting team broke up 40 years ago but their influence lives on in music, pop culture and now in two prominent new books about music.

Hilburn, 70, is a throwback to when music writers such as himself carried enormous influence, and had the access and longevity to get to know musicians better than few in the media do today.

Actors’ techniques draw from rival sources

Posted on January 16th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

When Peter Sarsgaard looks back on his training, he philosophically says, “I really swallowed that pill.”

Today, he acknowledges a far broader range of influences. As a supporting actor in “An Education,” the low-budget British film about a young girls relationship with an older man, he says he drew on a host of other sources to create his morally ambivalent character.

Nick Cannon puts a `halo’ on kid heroes

Posted on January 10th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

At 29, Nick Cannon has been a standup comedian, movie star, TV show host, comedy show star, producer and rapper - he may have Diddy beat for the title of mogul with the most hats.

In an interview this week, Cannon talked about the TeenNick Halo Awards, what it’s like to be a network chairman, and trading ideas with his wife, Mariah Carey.

MTV’s Tony DiSanto defends “Jersey Shore”

Posted on January 9th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Protests, ads pulled, reported threats — and the second episode hasnt even aired yet.

DiSanto started at MTV as an intern two decades ago, and his team is responsible for hits such as “The Hills” and “Americas Best Dance Crew.” Along the way hes seen the network navigate the occasional controversy.

Elvis Costello enjoys TV role as “carnival barker”

Posted on January 1st, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin

Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected “Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane,” arrived June 9 on Hear Music.

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