Metallica take announced a live receiving set show from their HQ.
The band will play tracks from their eagerly hoped-for album, 'Death Magnetic', out September 12, and new World chat with a couple of Foo Fighters.
Speaking on their website Metallica.com the ring said: "You may have heard a little something about a radio establish being broadcast live from our identical own HQ . . . well, we figured it would be a set more fun if we invited some 'Tallica fans to come hang with us and low and behold, one thing light-emitting diode to another and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins actually aforesaid yes!"
Fans tin tune in to Metallica.com at 6pm (PDT) on September 4 to catch some of the action at law.
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Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Saturday, 23 August 2008
LiveDaily News Break Podcast, August 21: Mary J. Blige, Filter, Jonas Brothers and more
Today's LiveDaily News Break podcast features news and tour selective information about Mary J. Blige [ ], Filter [ ], Tim McGraw [ ] and Alison Krauss. We'll as well find out which albums make up the Top 5 on this weeks' chart.
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Robert Downey Jr's risky role reversal
When Robert Downey Jr put on dark even off for celluloid comedy Tropic Thunder, the actor ventured into the racially charged territory of blackface�- an old showbiz convention that is no laughing matter.
Downey said he initially apprehensive that his portrayal of a gabardine actor playing a black man could hurt his career, and he barbellate at organism given what he idea would be the most controversial use in the film directed by Ben Stiller.
But so far, Tropic Thunder, which opens future week in New Zealand, has generated no repercussion against the 43-year-old asterisk of Iron Man.
Hollywood's history with blackface, a manner of wearing wigs and makeup to caricature slaves or ex-slaves in the 19th and early 20th centuries, dates to the start of the moving-picture show industry just has mostly stopped take out in cases of caustic remark and comedy.
Downey told reporters in late interviews that his theatrical role was a satirical sendup of worker narcissism, and different from older uses of blackface that strengthened harmful stereotypes.
"It's entertainment that's set up by people who are high-minded sufficiency to non be racist or offensive," he said.
"The whole film is based on the idea that what we (actors) do at some level is offensive and who we are, at some layer, is vile and pathetic, which is the accuracy and non the sojourner Truth. But the part of it that is the truth, is entertaining."
Downey portrays an Australian actor named Kirk Lazarus who is playing a black u. S. Army sergeant in a war movie being filmed in the jungle.
When one of the characters is kidnapped by dose dealers, his buddies must rescue him by playacting, in real life, the way their characters were acting in the movie.
In the case of Lazarus, he continues playing the sergeant even after cinematography stops, and his overzealousness earns him mockery from a real black actor played by Brandon T Jackson.
LONG HISTORY
In Hollywood, many stars appeared in blackface until it fell out of favor during the 1950s civil rights movement.
Comic icons the Marx Brothers put on blackface in the 1937 movie A Day at the Races, as did actors Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the 1941 moving picture Babes on Broadway.
A 100 years agone, immigrant audiences from countries such as Italy and Ireland - who oft were not considered "white" by native-born Americans - went to blackface shows to gag at outsiders and feel white, said Mark Golub, an expert on blackface who teaches at Scripps College in California.
But blackface was not only popular with immigrants, it too played into widespread anti-Semite sentiments, experts said.
"By the supremacy of whiteness, black had to, by necessary, be its foil, be its paired," said Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Najee Ali, president of the Los Angeles-based polite rights chemical group Project Islamic HOPE, said he saw Tropic Thunder in a screening and that Downey avoided being offensive by rising above buffoonery.
But Ali, who is black, aforesaid he worries it could lead to more offensive portrayals.
"Blackface is still blackface, and I think it's important that we have to halt allowing ourselves to be perceived as clowns to the pillow of the world," he said.
Director Stiller, 42, said he idea about casting a black actor playing a white man for the persona, but changed his mind.
"A white guy playing this black role to challenge himself the most in a way that's wrongheaded and passing too far, to me that was the funnier idea," Stiller said.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Growth Of Drug-Device Combination Products Impacting The Way Drugs Are Developed
�As the point-of-care for drug therapy shifts from the clinic to the home,
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Kim Skovbye and Klaus Schonning
Artist: Kim Skovbye and Klaus Schonning
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Heartland
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Scandinavia
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Timbaland Gets Married
Timbaland apparently got married on Tuesday!
The 'Scream' hit maker tied the knot with his long-term girlfriend Monique Idlett in a low-key ceremony in Virginia, keeping in touch with their 'hood' by wearing sweat pants.
The couple also plan to hold a formal ceremony for family and friends on Caribbean island Aruba on June 22.
The couple already have a daughter together, Reign, who was born in November.
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Monday, 9 June 2008
Party at Heath Place Too Ghostly
A chi-chi party that is being thrown one floor above the place Heath Ledger died has just been 86'd.We're told the building owners weren't informed Calvin Klein was throwing a glitzy, tight-invite soiree tonight in the penthouse, one floor above the unit where Ledger lived and died.
Owners just shut down the shindig. A TMZ spy spotted Eva Mendes arriving at the party just minutes ago and then abruptly leaving. We're told there is a fleet of 25 BLS limos that have arrived to shuttle guests to a different location.
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