Archive for April, 2007

Sideshow | Baldwin leaves a nasty voice mail

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

JENNIFER GRAYLOCK / Associated Press Ireland and dad, Alec Baldwin, in 2005, clearly happier times. He apologized for calling her a "rude, thoughtless little pig." The sometimes hideous custody battle between

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Attorney wins a key ‘American Idol’ contest

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter, ESQ.) - It was a brutal audition. Before a panel of judges, Howard Siegel took center stage for a key performance during the second season of “American Idol.”
But this contest wasn’t shown on television, and the singers in the room sat in quiet examination, listening to Siegel’s explanation of what a respected entertainment lawyer could do about their contract situation.

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Attorney wins a key “American Idol” contest

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter, ESQ.) - It was a brutal
audition. Before a panel of judges, Howard Siegel took center
stage for a key performance during the second season of
"American Idol."

But this contest wasn't shown on television, and the
singers in the room sat in quiet examination, listening to
Siegel's explanation of what a respected entertainment lawyer
could do about their contract situation.

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Mega Mann

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

REMEMBER HOW red hot the contemporary music schedule used to be each summer at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts?

Then a rival shed, the Sony Blockbuster Entertainment Center (now called the Tweeter Center) opened on the Camden waterfront in 1995 and lured away almost all of the big contemporary music acts with its larger capacity and fatter paychecks.

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The center’s pop bill is prime

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The pop music schedule this year at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts is the best in many a summer, with choice shows including double bills of John Prine with Patty Griffin, and Lyle Lovett with k.d. lang, a pair of stylish front men in Morrissey and Rufus Wainwright, and both Elvis Costello and the Decemberists playing along with the Mann Festival Orchestra.

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Fallen ‘American Idol’ Now Blogger: Clay Aiken Gay, Chris Richardson?

Monday, April 16th, 2007

A former American Idol contestant who was also Hollywood publicist says Clay Aiken is definitely gay.  JJ says not only is Clay gay, but there are other Idol’s who fancy the man-type.
Jonathan Jaxson
has been making quite a few waves since his arrival on the internet. JJ has targeted everyone from Kim Kardashian to Ryan Seacrest. Whoever made this guy mad is apparently going to pay. And even if you didn’t make this guy mad, it appears you might be in his cross-hairs anyway.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Diane Sawyer in Mideast

Friday, April 13th, 2007

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer reported from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia this week.  (ABC News)
April 14, 2007 —
 The landscape is forbidding and inescapable. Blinding, terrifying sandstorms come without warning, turning something so peaceful into a sudden, pummeling black night.

And a small thing that tells you what it is to be female in Saudi Arabia — we couldn’t find a ladies’ room when we needed it. Our guides went to the men’s room and cleared them out for us.

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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 April 2007

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

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we feel inadequate about some aspect of our lives, we work
to submerge those feelings with compensations and defenses.
Evidence is that in the case of George W. Bush, deep
feelings of inadequacy and powerful defensive behaviors
employed to …
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world and oversee our operations in each geographic bureau,
so I’m happy to talk about anything that you’re interested
in. You’ll find me knowledgeable on some issues, completely
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UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken Draws Attention to the Critical Needs of Children in Afghanistan

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken Draws Attention to the Critical Needs of Children in Afghanistan 26 minutes ago
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Richard Alleyne of U.S. Fund for
in New York, +1-212-880-9177, RAlleyne@unicefusa.org NEW YORK and KABUL,
, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Clay Aiken concluded a recent trip to Afghanistan
today by heralding the progress being made in children’s education.

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Idol Star Spotlights Afghanistan

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

‘American Idol’ Star And UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken
Spotlights Afghanistan
New York, Apr 11 2007
5:00PM
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill
Ambassador and singer Clay Aiken is currently on his first
visit to Afghanistan, aiming to raise awareness about the
hope and promise he has seen in the young people of the
war-torn country.
“The people here are very strong and
they are very proud of their country,” Mr. Aiken

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