Home Secretary: “We need to control Glitter”
August 27, 2008 – 9:18 pmHome Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that she does not want Gary Glitter to be able to travel abroad once he has returned to Britain.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that she does not want Gary Glitter to be able to travel abroad once he has returned to Britain.
‘Samantha is using Lindsay’
August 27, 2008 – 9:17 pmMICHAEL Lohan says DJ Ronson is dating his daughter to boost fame and sell her book
Carmen and Kim’s cat fight
August 27, 2008 – 9:17 pmVIDEO SPECIAL: TWO of America's curviest stars wrestle in skimpy oufits in new film
Meet Britney - but she’s a he
August 27, 2008 – 9:16 pmMALE impersonator Derrick Barry looks so hot, David Hasslehoff questions his sexuality
V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford
August 27, 2008 – 9:16 pmThe V Festival has reached its 13th anniversary by continuing to confound. Detractors point to its role as giant brand management machine, a suspicion helped by Wag-obsessed coverage beforehand. Here, wellies are a fashion statement, even in sunny weather, and if you are not boozing or listening to music, you are watching dancers cavort in underwear on the Sloggi stage.
Album: Joan Baez, Day After Tomorrow (Proper)
August 27, 2008 – 9:15 pmNo one does gravitas quite like JB. She does it without self-doubt. And if that great whipping silken flag of a soprano is rather diminished now (small mercies, you might say), Joan's sense of solemnity has not diminished one whit.
Lil Wayne Almost Didn’t Get ‘Got Money’ — Pitbull Had It First
August 27, 2008 – 9:15 pmHit song's beat made the rounds before landing with Weezy, according to production duo Play N Skillz.By Shaheem Reid Lil Wayne in "Got Money" Photo: Universal Motown Records Lil Wayne's current single is one of the biggest songs from Tha Carter III, but the Fireman almost didn't get "Got Money" — the record was originally intended to be a Pitbull collaboration with T-Pain. "Shout-out to Pitbull, he helped us put it together," Skillz — of the production team behind the track, Play N Skillz — said of the cut. "It's the biggest record out right now, and we're making it rain." "I did the record back when I was on TVT [Records], and unfortunately TVT didn't clear the song," Pitbull explained recently in Houston. "That's a crazy story," Play, the more vocal of the duo, said Monday. "We went to the West Coast and demoed the record with the skeleton hook on the track. ... Going ...
“Frozen River” by Melissa Leo
August 27, 2008 Р9:14 pmThe fearless performance of Melissa Leo as mom-in-distress Ray is what the emotional success of Frozen River hinges on. To her credit, Leo inhabits Ray completely. In the film, the devil is in the details. There's the dirt under Ray's chipped fingernails and the deep-worn lines on her weather-worn face. There are also the split ends in her unglossy mane of dry, red hair. Ray is a woman with no luxuries, placed in the frozen, gray and depressed tundra of northern New York, nestled near the Canadian border. She is hardened by the knocks that life has habitually socked her with. She has two kids whom she feeds with popcorn and Tang. She doesn't have enough cash in her pocket to afford more than $7.74 in gas. Indeed, Ray is the epitome of every white trash clich̩ there is. And that includes having a selfless heart when it ...
“Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom” by Paolo Bonacelli
August 27, 2008 – 9:14 pmQuestions raised by films like Salo are often concerned with boundaries of decency. What is the line between poetic and pornographic? Striking and vulgar? Art and smut? Director Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, whose title alone indicates the mildly traumatizing viewing experience one can expect, has been called both high art and exploitative filmmaking. It's difficult to argue either either stance with conviction; the film is as coarse as it is intellectual, and sometimes it occupies both realms simultaneously. It is violent, gratuitous, and easily one of the most difficult, disturbingly visceral movies you will ever experience. After being condemned, banned in some countries, and ignored for years, The Criterion Collection has reissued it for audiences far and wide to discover—if they're willing to brave the assault. "Controversial" does not begin to describe Salo's graphic content, which was adapted from a work by the Marquis de ...
Cowgirl Jessica looks the part
August 27, 2008 – 9:13 pmHER music won't win any awards but Jess's sexy cowgirl clothes continue to impress