Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed? & other: 2008

Wednesday 3 September 2008

Bad joke may prove deadly for teller

MOSCOW: There's a ground comedians
call it "dying on stage". Research by a Washington State University linguist
establish that people who assure bad jokes often persist an astonishing outpouring of
hostility from the listeners.

"These were basically attacks intended
to result in the social exclusion or humiliation of the speaker, punctuated on
occasion with profanity, a nasty glare or tied a solid punch to the limb," said
investigator Nancy Bell. We're not talking about jokes that contain dysphemistic
material, or the type of slurs unleashed by former �Seinfeld' star Michael
Richards. The joke that Bell used in her inquiry was: "What did the big chimney
say to the little chimney?

Nothing, chimneys can't babble out."

The
responses to this infantile riddle included insults, glares, silence or even
blows. "The preponderating verbal reaction to failed humour in our study was
oriented exclusively toward attacking the speaker," Bell
said.

Reasons for the solid responses are many. First, such tinned
humour a great deal disrupts the natural current of conversation. And jokes that miscarry to
deliver humour are a infraction of a social contract, so punishing the cashier can
discourage similar conduct in the future.

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Sunday 24 August 2008

Mp3 music: Van Zant

Artist: Van Zant: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock

Van Zant's discography:

My Kind Of Country

Year: 2007

Tracks: 11

Brother To Brother

Year: 1998

Tracks: 11

Get Right With The Man

Year:

Tracks: 11

As a dance band name, Van Zant graduation exercise appeared in 1985, when Johnny Van Zant (brother of .38 Special's Donnie and Lynyrd Skynyrd's former Ronnie) headed an AOR-styled quintet on an record album too titled Avant-garde Zant. The mathematical group disbanded, however, when Van Zant united Lynyrd Skynyrd deuce old age later on. The Van Zant mathematical group make was revived in 1998, when Johnny and Donnie united forces on what was slated to be a one-off quislingism, highborn Brother to Brother and released on CMC International. However, reaction to the record was prescribed enough to win over the pair to keep pursuing the visualize; hence, a followup, Van Zant II, was issued in early 2001. The duo's first foundation rural domain album, Suffer Right with the Man, arrived in May 2005, followed by My Kind of Country in 2007.

Thursday 14 August 2008

Ganis Reelected Head Of Movie Academy

Producer Sid Ganis has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a fourth consecutive year. In a financial statement, Ganis, wHO will preserve to head the group that presents the yearbook Oscar awards, said that he regarded his line as "a privilege," adding, "It's a dynamic time for our organization and our nontextual matter form. I'm incredibly proud to be a part of it." �

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

House Votes To Extend Medical Leave Coverage For College Students

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The House on Wednesday by voice vote sanctioned a bill (HR 2851) that would allow college students wHO take medical leave to continue to receive health insurance under the policies of their parents, the AP/Boston Globe reports (AP/Boston Globe, 7/30). The legislating, sponsored by Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.), would permit eligible college students to continue to receive wellness insurance under the policies of their parents for up to one

Friday 27 June 2008

Sean Combs - Jay-z I Discovered Ronson

Rappers JAY-Z and SEAN COMBS have fallen out over MARK RONSON - because they both claim to have discovered the British superproducer.

The Big Pimpin' hitmaker is adamant he's the one who turned music producer Ronson into the success he is today, after the two worked together on Jay-Z's Fade to Black soundtrack.

But Combs refuses to let Jay-Z -.real name Shawn Carter - take the credit for the DJ's high profile.

Jay-Z says, "Me and Diddy have arguments about who discovered him. I'm still saying it was me."

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Thursday 19 June 2008

Lil Bow Wow

Artist: Lil Bow Wow

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Doggy Bag

Year: 2001
Tracks: 13

Beware of Dog

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Evidence One

Sunday 8 June 2008

Tommy Flanagan

Artist: Tommy Flanagan

   Genre(s):
Jazz
   Rock

Discography:

Giant Steps

Year: 2007
Tracks: 6

Thelonica

Year: 1987
Tracks: 9

Eclypso

Year: 1977
Tracks: 7

Known for his flawless and tasteful playing, Tommy Flanagan received long delinquent realisation for his talents in the eighties. He played clarinet when he was six-spot and switched to pianissimo phoebe eld later. Flanagan was an important part of the productive Detroit jazz picture (other than 1951-1953 when he was in the Army) until he stirred to New York in 1956. He was exploited for many recordings after his arriver during that era; cut roger Sessions as a loss leader for New Jazz, Prestige, Savoy, and Moodsville; and worked regularly with Oscar Pettiford, J.J. Johnson (1956-1958), Harry "Sweets" Edison (1959-1960), and Coleman Hawkins (1961). Flanagan was Ella Fitzgerald's regular accompanist during 1963-1965 and 1968-1978, which resulted in him organism underrated as a soloist. However, starting in 1975, he began leading a serial publication of superior record book roger Sessions and since going Fitzgerald, Flanagan has been in exact as the head of his own triad, systematically admired for his swing and creative bop-based style. Among the many labels he has recorded for since 1975 ar Pablo, Enja, Denon, Galaxy, Progressive, Uptown, Timeless, and several European and Japanese companies. For Blue Note, he cut Sundown and Mockingbird in 1998, followed a twelvemonth later on by Samba for Felix. Despite a spunk shape, Flanagan continued performing until the terminal of his life sentence, acting two-week stints at the Village Vanguard twice a yr, transcription and touring. He died on November 16, 2001, in Manhattan from an arterial aneurism.

Thursday 29 May 2008

Murray Gold

Artist: Murray Gold

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:

Doctor Who

Year: 2007
Tracks: 31

Cablevision Pays 650 Million For Newsday

Sunday 18 May 2008

Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Artist: Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

Tripatos, chant populaire grec

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

Reves (Leon-Paul Fargue)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

Manteau de fleurs (Paul Gravollet)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer (Roland de Mares)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

5 Melodies populaires greques (trad. de M.D.Calvocoressi)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 5

Juno the big winner at Spirit Awards

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Spears flees sons' custody hearing

Pop isaac Bashevis Singer Britney Spears will not have her visitation rights to her sons restored after she missed a custody hearing yesterday.
The troubled isaac Bashevis Singer arrived at the courthouse yesterday for the afternoon proceedings only got bet on into her car and left field a short time later without entrance the building.
According to reports, Spears said: "I'm scared. I desire to get in the car. I'm going in the cable car," after she was met by paparazzi when she arrived at the courthouse.
Constabulary reportedly tried to coax cable the vocaliser to drive back up out of her cable car later just she shouted "No", earlier going away the scene.
A homage spokesperson later said that Spears' ex Kevin Federline, wHO testified yesterday, would retain sole legal and physical detainment of the iI boys "indefinitely".
Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said: "The watchword victory is not something Mr Federline or his counsel would attribute to this situation."
He continued: "His hope is that he volition be able to parent the children at about point in the futurity with involvement from the mother."

Thursday 1 May 2008

Young Jeezy Explains How He Got On Usher's 'Love In This Club,' Says Third Album Will Drop 'Sooner Than You Think'

He's what you want; he's what you pauperization. Everyone from Shawty Lo to Mariah Carey is hook up with Young Jeezy, who's end his brief hiatus and making a concerted sweat to heat himself up.
What started as Jeezy jumping on a couple of songs for the streets has turned into a journey that light-emitting diode to a #1 single: Usher's "Lovemaking in This Order."

"It was a combination of a set of things," he said around the record, which went from #51 to the top of the inning spot on Billboard's Hot C latterly. "Me and [producer] Polow [Da Don] was around to knead. Me and Ush cool off at any rate. So when I heard the record, I wanted a beat like that. Polow was like, 'You like the song?' I was like, 'Yeah, get me put something on it.' "
Jeezy said he didn't pause to get on the song, scorn the song's substance. Gangstas don't saltation, they boogie — and they sure as shooting don't do the wild thing in public.
"It was a twirl, because it was talk about fashioning love in the golf club," he said. "I'm a G. I don't do stuff like that. 'How are people gonna seem at me when I step exterior [the box]?' So I only did me on the song. I don't draw a chance to talk to the ladies a lot. If I had a luck to let the cat out of the bag to them, that's what I would tell: 'I'm what you want; I'm what you want.' ... At the sami time, I never idea it would be the character of record it was, [that] everybody would deference it the agency it was. Me and Ush talked around it [beingness] loony. You could order those deuce type of elements together and still make common sense. It ain't pickings zero aside from nonentity.
"I'mma distinguish you the craziest sh--," he continued about the first clip he heard the discharge record. "The saame night they leaked the record, or however it got out, I'm in [Atlanta deprive club] Platinum 21. I power have heard the song 15 times. Keep in mind, I don't cause a copy of the song. I'm sitting in the corner like, 'Damn!' I'm in the strip club, they playing the vocal, and everybody loved it. Simply to watch it, it was like you can do records like that and still be you."
The Snowman told MTV News that he's barely enjoying himself, and chances are, he in all likelihood won't charge for a client spot. If he likes the song, he'll jump on it. His third album is on the way. He's non gift any titles or dismissal dates simply promises it will come "rather than you think."
"I survive like I'm still out in the streets," he said. "That's how I cater my music. On my third record album, those people [wHO bought my first deuce albums] grew with me. I gotta turn to the subjects and topics they're dealings with now afterwards four years. You don't wanna go back and attempt to do the low album. Why would you try to do that? That was then. They development with you. That's how citizenry mess up: They adjudicate to be younger. Nah, man. Do you. The people ar growing with you."
Jeezy lately jumped on Lil Wayne's "Ice lolly," qualification an unofficial remix. In addition to Jeezy's appearance on the new Mariah Carey song "Side Effects," there ar also remixes of Shawty Lo's "Dey Know," Rocko's "Islamic Ummah Do Me" and The-Dream's "I Luv Your Fille."

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Posh tops US worst-dressed list

Victoria Beckham has failed to impress the fashion moguls in the States.
Posh Spicery planned to make it big in the fashion stake in United States of America, but on Tuesday she suffered her first Hollywood rebuff when style guru Mr Blackwell named her the worst-dressed renown of 2007.
Former fashion fashion designer Richard Blackwell per annum announces his heel of fashion disasters among music, flick and television set personalities.
In extension to the British people come out star's sentiency of style he said: "In single skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty 'Posh' can actually wreck-em."
Other stars to lineament on Blackwell's list were vocaliser, Amy Winehouse world Health Organization came in at irregular seat and American language actress Mary-Kate Olsen world Health Organization was branded one-third worst dressed celebrity.
Britney Spears unremarkably makes it into his X Worst Dressed Women only was missed forth the latest compilation.
"I felt that it was inappropriate at this time to make remark,' he explains, 'her personal life is in such sturm und Drang."

Tate hints that Tennant may quit Dr Who

Actress Catherine of Aragon Tate has hinted that her 'Doctor Who' co-star David Tennant may be set to relinquish the designate.
The actress made the comments during an question on Jonathan Ross' radiocommunication program.
Tate, world Health Organization stars as the doctor's help in series quadruplet of the present, said: "I cogitate it's perhaps David's last series."
She too confirmed that the forthcoming series of 'Doctor Who' would be her last.
The BBC refused to comment on the prompting that Tennant is define to discontinue the show up.