Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay to pen script
Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay own been engaged to adjust "The Boys" for Columbia.
Neal H. Moritz and his Columbia-based Original Films shingle are producing the project, which adapts the comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
The book follows the adventures of a CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or eliminate them.
Kickstart's Jason Netter and attorney-cum-producer Ken Levin are likewise producing.
UTA-repped Manfredi and Hay have "Aeon Flux," "The Tuxedo" and "Crazy/Beautiful" among their credits. They likewise wrote the comic book adaptation "R.I.P.D.," which is in development at Universal.
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Monday 1 September 2008
Friday 22 August 2008
Laurence Fishburne joins CSI cast
Stage and screen star Laurence Fishburne's last turn as a series regular on network television was the role of Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s kids demo Pee-wee's Playhouse.
So the acclaimed actor - better known for playacting dark, brooding characters - says he looks forward to his new TV gig as a forensics investigator with disturbing tendencies on the hit CBS detective drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Not that he had of all time seen the series before his first meeting with the show's executive producers, Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar.
"I mat a little stupid and embarrassed that I hadn't watched the show prior to having a get together with them," Fishburne, 47, acknowledged in a conference call with reporters for the announcement that he is joining the show's cast.
"But I'm happy to say that the episodes that they sent me to look at were really, in truth engaging and really terrific, and kind of dark and moody, like a lot of the work that I've actually been involved in," he added. "So I'm very excited."
Famed for his movie work as Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy and his Oscar-nominated role as Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, Fishburne is slated to make his CSI debut in episode nine-spot of the show's forthcoming ninth season.
CSI, which averaged 17 jillion viewers lowest season, ranks as CBS's top-rated render and the third most-watched scripted series in all of US prime time.
Mendelsohn and Shankar hailed Fishburne as their "dream" casting choice.
He was hired to replace worker William Petersen, who has starred since the show's inception in 2000 as Gil Grissom, the smart as a whip head of a Las Vegas police force crime scene unit, and is departure the series to follow other creative pursuits.
PROFESSOR WITH 'DISTURBING' PAST
Producers said Fishburne and Petersen will overlap for two episodes, in all likelihood airing in mid-December of early 2009, before Petersen's exit. Production on those episodes is set to begin side by side month, they said.
Fishburne will join the cast as a medical doctor and expert in criminal behavior who, after being forced out of his vocation as a research diagnostician, became a college professor and ends up tortuous in a CSI investigating, Shankar said.
Fishburne's character, world Health Organization does not yet have a advert, specializes in probing the underlying causes of fierce, aggressive behaviour, "tendencies he disturbingly sees within himself," according to CBS weigh materials.
But Shankar said producers have backed off an earlier approximation that the character's have genetic profile might tally that of many serial killers.
CSI first Baron Marks of Broughton Fishburne's return to the CBS network two decades after his recurring role as the psychedelic Cowboy Curtis with Paul Reuben's Pee-wee Herman character on the children's television exhibit Pee-wee's Playhouse.
Fishburne's other small-screen credits include the HBO television movies Miss Evers' Boys, for which he won an Emmy, and The Tuskegee Airmen.
He as well won an Emmy for his edgar Albert Guest appearance in the pilot episode of the transitory Fox series Tribeca.
Fishburne latterly completed a Broadway run, and earned a Tony Award nominating speech, for his role as Thurgood Marshall in the one-man designate Thurgood.
In 1992, he north Korean won a Tony for his stage performance in the August Wilson play Two Trains Running.
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Tuesday 12 August 2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Sanaa Hamri's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 works utterly as a soap opera squeezed into a feature-length package and dispensed to its (rather female) adolescent demographic. The four "sisters," now college-aged but still trading their magical down in the mouth jeans, reunify with disoriented relatives, endure pregnancy scares, chase their dreams to exotic locales, and receive crucial, worked up elements of themselves in the strangest of places. Like Vermont, for instance.
That doesn't mean, by whatever stretch, that this Sisterhood sequel offers a balanced moviegoing experience capable of entertaining the random ticket buyers wHO stumble in because The Dark Knight is sold out and don't recognize the difference between weakened Levi's and the traveling pants of the title. Knowledge gleaned from the 2005 film is imperative, while familiarity with the four books in author Ann Brashares' Sisterhood series will only help.
Pants 2 spends equal time with each girl. After a brief stint on an archaeologic dig, athletic Bridget (Blake Lively) books a trip to Alabama to observe the grandmother she never knew (Blythe Danner). Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is the one world Health Organization thinks she might be having a baby with her loyal beau (Leonardo Nam). Lena's (Alexis Bledel) new human relationship with male person model Leo (Jesse Williams) helps her overcome feelings for Kostas (Michael Rady) -- until the Greek hunk comes back into her life. Seriously, this sounds like The Young and the Restless. At least Carmen (America Ferrera) has normal problems. She's acting in a Shakespearean play, and has fallen for her British co-star (Tom Wisdom, whose resemblance to a young Heath Ledger is uncanny).
Lively and Bledel are decent. Tamblyn and Ferrera are better. The workforce do what they canful in support, though this isn't their show and they know it. Pants 2 appeals to girls world Health Organization, like the characters, ar entering the final stages of teendom and are learning more about their potential futures as working professionals and independent women. Based on that description, if Pants 2 fits you, wear it with pride.
Skittles: Taste the rainbow.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Monday 30 June 2008
Winners of Cash Prizes Totaling $252,000 Announced for Jose Iturbi Music Competition Presented by Cunard Line
SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 23 -- The recipients of cash
prizes totaling $252,000 for The Second Annual Jose Iturbi International
Music Competition at UCLA -- the highest cash prizes of any piano and
singing competition worldwide -- were announced Friday, June 20 (Vocal) and
Saturday, June 21 (Piano) at Schoenberg Hall.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080623/LAM080)
Thirty year-old Soprano Angela Meade earned the competition's $50,000
First Place Vocal prize by wowing the audience and judges with her dazzling
programme which included Pensar en el by Arrieta, Estrellita by Ponce and
Verdi's Pace, pace mio Dio. Currently a resident artist at Philadelphia's
Academy of Vocal Arts, Ms. Meade has collected top prizes from many
national and international competitions and is looking forward to future
debut engagements with the Dallas Opera and Teatro alla Scala plus several
projects with The Metropolitan Opera.
Hailing from the Ukraine and Germany, 26 year-old Mariya Kim's
performance was equally stunning, earning her the $50,000 First Place prize
in the Piano competition with a programme that featured Navarra by Albeniz,
Gershwin's Prelude No. 3 from Three Preludes (1926) and Rachmaninoff's
Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 (No. 3 in B Minor, No. 5 in D flat Major and No. 4
in E minor). Kim just returned from Seoul, Korea, having won First Place in
the 2008 Seoul International Music Competition. Among her many top
competition prizes, she won First Place in the "XVII Concorso
Internationale per Pianoforte e Orchestra Citta di Cantu" (Italy), and was
a prize winner of the Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano,
Italy -- both in 2007.
The remaining winners of the week-long Vocal competition were:
$25,000 Second Prize - Andrew Garland, 31, USA
$15,000 Third Prize - NaGuanda Nobles, 31, USA
$3,000 Spanish Prize - Andrew Garland, 31, USA
$3,000 American Prize - NaGuanda Nobles, 31, USA
$3,000 President's Prize - Jamilyn Manning-White, 23, USA
$3,000 People's Choice - Rodell Rosel, 32, Philippines/USA
The remaining winners of the week-long Piano competition were:
$25,000 Second Prize - Anastasia Markina, 29, Russia/USA
$15,000 Third Prize - Tommaso Cogato, 27, Italy;
(three-way tie) Stepan Simonian, 26, Russia/Germany;
Chetan Tierra, 24, USA
$3,000 Spanish Prize - (tie) Mariya Kim, 26, Ukraine/Germany;
Anastasia Markina, 29, Russia/USA
$3,000 American Prize - Yevgeniy Milyavskiy, 23, Belarus/USA
$3,000 President's Prize - Margarita Muzychenko, 22, Russia
$3,000 People's Choice - Chetan Tierra, 24, USA
"The talent of this year's competitors was staggering," said Donelle
Dadigan, president of the Jose Iturbi Foundation. "Our finalists are truly
destined for superstardom. Interest in the final rounds was so intense that
hundreds of people lined up in hope there would be last minute
cancellations."
Six finalists received cash prizes of $2,000 in addition to the $1,000
received by each of the 12 semi-finalists.
In addition to cash prizes of $50,000, the First Place winners will
present a Cunard Command Performance(TM) aboard Queen Mary 2 during the
April 26, 2009, Transatlantic Crossing from New York to Southampton,
England.
Also during the voyage, Donelle Dadigan will be joined by members of
the esteemed judging panel to present a series of classical music
discussions and Q&A's in association with Cunard Insights(TM), the line's
award-winning Guest Enrichment Programme. Guests sailing on this voyage
will also hear from the winners about their experiences as young musicians
competing to win the world's only weeklong competition that adds features
of "American Idol" to the world of classical music. Highlights of the 2008
Competition will be broadcast via Cunard's onboard stateroom television
system.
"We look forward to welcoming Angela Meade and Mariya Kim aboard Queen
Mary 2 to present a very special Cunard Command Performance(TM) for our
guests," said Carol Marlow, president and managing director of Cunard Line.
"Their exclusive appearance will surely be a memorable highlight of the
voyage," Marlow added.
Photos and biographies of the winners can be viewed at
http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org. In addition to presenting sponsor
Cunard Line, sponsors of the 2008 Jose Iturbi International Music
Competition include Alliance Bank, The Beverly Hilton, Fields Pianos and
The Luxe Hotel.
About Cunard Line
Cunard Line, operator of the luxury ocean liners Queen Mary 2, QE2 and
Queen Victoria has long been synonymous with the quest for new discoveries
and the epitome of British refinement since the company's first
paddle-wheeled steamer, Britannia, crossed the Atlantic in 1840. Cunard
voyages bring together like-minded travelers who relish the Cunard
hallmarks of impeccable White Star Service(TM), fine dining, sophisticated
adventure, the legacy of historic voyages and transatlantic travel.
Cunard Line is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines. The
exclusive alliance also includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America
Line, Princess Cruises, Costa Cruises and The Yachts of Seabourn. Sharing a
passion to please each guest, and a commitment to quality and value, member
lines appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Together they offer
exciting and enriching cruise vacations to the world's most desirable
destinations.
About The Jose Iturbi Foundation
Created in 1985 by Donelle Dadigan and Marion Seabury, The Jose Iturbi
Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to
continuing the legacy of concert great Jose Iturbi, and to fulfill his
desire of bringing to the public's attention today's greatest emerging
classical pianists and vocalists. The foundation's goal is to globally
expand the passion for classical music through dynamic competition and
compelling live performance. The competition distinguishes itself by giving
the largest cash prizes ($50,000 each) for first place winners for solo
piano and voice in the world. Last year, the foundation gave away $268,000
in prize money for the winners of The Jose Iturbi International Music
Competition.
One of the greatest concert pianists of his time, Jose Iturbi was also
a composer, conductor and performer of international acclaim who starred as
himself in seven MGM musicals including "Anchors Away" (1945) starring
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. He was the first classical musician to
receive a Gold Record representing record sales in excess of one million
and receive a star on the world-famous Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
Iturbi felt that classical music should be a more recognizable part of
everyone's entertainment. It was his hope that through live concerts,
motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and public forums,
a larger number of people would learn to love classical music and attend
live concert performances. For rules and regulations on The 2008 Jose
Iturbi International Music Competition, go to
http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org. Ticket requests are available online
for the public to attend all rounds of the competition on a first come
first served basis.
See Also
prizes totaling $252,000 for The Second Annual Jose Iturbi International
Music Competition at UCLA -- the highest cash prizes of any piano and
singing competition worldwide -- were announced Friday, June 20 (Vocal) and
Saturday, June 21 (Piano) at Schoenberg Hall.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080623/LAM080)
Thirty year-old Soprano Angela Meade earned the competition's $50,000
First Place Vocal prize by wowing the audience and judges with her dazzling
programme which included Pensar en el by Arrieta, Estrellita by Ponce and
Verdi's Pace, pace mio Dio. Currently a resident artist at Philadelphia's
Academy of Vocal Arts, Ms. Meade has collected top prizes from many
national and international competitions and is looking forward to future
debut engagements with the Dallas Opera and Teatro alla Scala plus several
projects with The Metropolitan Opera.
Hailing from the Ukraine and Germany, 26 year-old Mariya Kim's
performance was equally stunning, earning her the $50,000 First Place prize
in the Piano competition with a programme that featured Navarra by Albeniz,
Gershwin's Prelude No. 3 from Three Preludes (1926) and Rachmaninoff's
Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 (No. 3 in B Minor, No. 5 in D flat Major and No. 4
in E minor). Kim just returned from Seoul, Korea, having won First Place in
the 2008 Seoul International Music Competition. Among her many top
competition prizes, she won First Place in the "XVII Concorso
Internationale per Pianoforte e Orchestra Citta di Cantu" (Italy), and was
a prize winner of the Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano,
Italy -- both in 2007.
The remaining winners of the week-long Vocal competition were:
$25,000 Second Prize - Andrew Garland, 31, USA
$15,000 Third Prize - NaGuanda Nobles, 31, USA
$3,000 Spanish Prize - Andrew Garland, 31, USA
$3,000 American Prize - NaGuanda Nobles, 31, USA
$3,000 President's Prize - Jamilyn Manning-White, 23, USA
$3,000 People's Choice - Rodell Rosel, 32, Philippines/USA
The remaining winners of the week-long Piano competition were:
$25,000 Second Prize - Anastasia Markina, 29, Russia/USA
$15,000 Third Prize - Tommaso Cogato, 27, Italy;
(three-way tie) Stepan Simonian, 26, Russia/Germany;
Chetan Tierra, 24, USA
$3,000 Spanish Prize - (tie) Mariya Kim, 26, Ukraine/Germany;
Anastasia Markina, 29, Russia/USA
$3,000 American Prize - Yevgeniy Milyavskiy, 23, Belarus/USA
$3,000 President's Prize - Margarita Muzychenko, 22, Russia
$3,000 People's Choice - Chetan Tierra, 24, USA
"The talent of this year's competitors was staggering," said Donelle
Dadigan, president of the Jose Iturbi Foundation. "Our finalists are truly
destined for superstardom. Interest in the final rounds was so intense that
hundreds of people lined up in hope there would be last minute
cancellations."
Six finalists received cash prizes of $2,000 in addition to the $1,000
received by each of the 12 semi-finalists.
In addition to cash prizes of $50,000, the First Place winners will
present a Cunard Command Performance(TM) aboard Queen Mary 2 during the
April 26, 2009, Transatlantic Crossing from New York to Southampton,
England.
Also during the voyage, Donelle Dadigan will be joined by members of
the esteemed judging panel to present a series of classical music
discussions and Q&A's in association with Cunard Insights(TM), the line's
award-winning Guest Enrichment Programme. Guests sailing on this voyage
will also hear from the winners about their experiences as young musicians
competing to win the world's only weeklong competition that adds features
of "American Idol" to the world of classical music. Highlights of the 2008
Competition will be broadcast via Cunard's onboard stateroom television
system.
"We look forward to welcoming Angela Meade and Mariya Kim aboard Queen
Mary 2 to present a very special Cunard Command Performance(TM) for our
guests," said Carol Marlow, president and managing director of Cunard Line.
"Their exclusive appearance will surely be a memorable highlight of the
voyage," Marlow added.
Photos and biographies of the winners can be viewed at
http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org. In addition to presenting sponsor
Cunard Line, sponsors of the 2008 Jose Iturbi International Music
Competition include Alliance Bank, The Beverly Hilton, Fields Pianos and
The Luxe Hotel.
About Cunard Line
Cunard Line, operator of the luxury ocean liners Queen Mary 2, QE2 and
Queen Victoria has long been synonymous with the quest for new discoveries
and the epitome of British refinement since the company's first
paddle-wheeled steamer, Britannia, crossed the Atlantic in 1840. Cunard
voyages bring together like-minded travelers who relish the Cunard
hallmarks of impeccable White Star Service(TM), fine dining, sophisticated
adventure, the legacy of historic voyages and transatlantic travel.
Cunard Line is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines. The
exclusive alliance also includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America
Line, Princess Cruises, Costa Cruises and The Yachts of Seabourn. Sharing a
passion to please each guest, and a commitment to quality and value, member
lines appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Together they offer
exciting and enriching cruise vacations to the world's most desirable
destinations.
About The Jose Iturbi Foundation
Created in 1985 by Donelle Dadigan and Marion Seabury, The Jose Iturbi
Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to
continuing the legacy of concert great Jose Iturbi, and to fulfill his
desire of bringing to the public's attention today's greatest emerging
classical pianists and vocalists. The foundation's goal is to globally
expand the passion for classical music through dynamic competition and
compelling live performance. The competition distinguishes itself by giving
the largest cash prizes ($50,000 each) for first place winners for solo
piano and voice in the world. Last year, the foundation gave away $268,000
in prize money for the winners of The Jose Iturbi International Music
Competition.
One of the greatest concert pianists of his time, Jose Iturbi was also
a composer, conductor and performer of international acclaim who starred as
himself in seven MGM musicals including "Anchors Away" (1945) starring
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. He was the first classical musician to
receive a Gold Record representing record sales in excess of one million
and receive a star on the world-famous Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
Iturbi felt that classical music should be a more recognizable part of
everyone's entertainment. It was his hope that through live concerts,
motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and public forums,
a larger number of people would learn to love classical music and attend
live concert performances. For rules and regulations on The 2008 Jose
Iturbi International Music Competition, go to
http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org. Ticket requests are available online
for the public to attend all rounds of the competition on a first come
first served basis.
See Also
Emmerdale star Pallett set to quit
'Emmerdale' actress Roxanne Pallett is set to leave the show at the end of this year.
According to the show's official website, the actress, who plays Jo Sugden in the soap, plans to pursue a career in the West End.
Emmerdale series producer Anita Turner said: "Roxanne has given a fantastic performance and it will be an eventful six months for Jo."
Pallett's character Jo was recently at the centre of a domestic abuse storyline.
After filming the harrowing scenes for the show, Pallett revealed that she was once in an abusive relationship herself.
According to the show's official website, the actress, who plays Jo Sugden in the soap, plans to pursue a career in the West End.
Emmerdale series producer Anita Turner said: "Roxanne has given a fantastic performance and it will be an eventful six months for Jo."
Pallett's character Jo was recently at the centre of a domestic abuse storyline.
After filming the harrowing scenes for the show, Pallett revealed that she was once in an abusive relationship herself.
Sunday 29 June 2008
Aural planet
Artist: Aural planet
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Ambient
Discography:
Acoustic Plantation Releases
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Lightflow
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
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