Warren Beatty was honored American Film Institute with a Life Achievement Award at Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Photo Credit: Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
June 13, 2008 () - Warren Beatty was honored American Film Institute with a Life Achievement Award at Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2008.
Beatty's body of work as a star, producer, director and writer includes Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Reds, Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy and Bugsy.
A dinner ceremony featured highlights from Beatty's four-decade career in entertainment and included tributes by Dustin Hoffman, Halle Berry and Barbra Streisand.
Past honorees include Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Young filmmakers honoured with student Oscars
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Eleven U.S. college students received cash prizes and trophies Saturday for short films competing in the 35th annual Student Academy Awards.
The gold medal prize for narrative films went to Rajeev Dassani of the University of Southern California for the film "A Day's Work."
The top prize for animation was presented to Nicole Mitchell of the California Institute of the Arts for "Zoologic"; the documentary winner was Laura Waters Hinson of American University for "As We Forgive."
The prizes are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the Oscars. Winners get $5,000 for gold medals, $3,000 for silver medals and $2,000 for bronze.
Student awards were presented by Jason Reitman, director of 2007 best-picture nominee "Juno"; cinematographer Caleb Deschanel; Emmy-winning director Todd Holland; and academy president Sid Ganis.
Established in 1972, the Student Academy Awards are intended to support young filmmakers. Past winners include Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, John Lasseter and Trey Parker.
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Foo Fighters' Led Zeppelin Wembley Gig To Hit The Big Screen
Foo Fighters recent residency at Wembley Stadium in London will hit the big screen later this month.
On June 24th 50 cinemas across the UK will broadcast footage from both nights, including the band's unexpected collaboration with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and John Paul Jones.
The footage will be broadcast in HD Surround Sound at 8.40pm in Vue cinemas.
As previously reported, Page and Jones joined Dave Grohl’s band during their encore, playing Led Zeppelin songs ‘Ramble On’ and ‘Rock and Roll’.
It was the first time that Led Zeppelin had reunited to play their own songs since their one off show at the O2 Arena in London last December.
You can see a selection of our photos from the band's residency below...
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Bonnie Raitt
Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Genre(s):
Blues
Rock: Blues
Discography:
Bonnie Raitt and Friends
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Road Tested
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
The Bonnie Raitt Collection
Year:
Tracks: 20
Souls Alike
Year:
Tracks: 11
Luck Of The Draw
Year:
Tracks: 12
Longing In Their Hearts
Year:
Tracks: 12
Long a critic's favorite, singer/guitarist Bonnie Raitt did non begin to win the like commercial-grade achiever due her until the release of the competently titled 1989 blockbuster Nick of Time; her ten percent record album, it rocketed her into the mainstream cognizance nearly deuce decades after she showtime committed her unparalleled blend of blues, rock candy, and R&B to vinyl radical. Born in Burbank, CA, on November 8, 1949, she was the girl of Broadway star John Raitt, topper known for his prima performances in such smashes as Carousel and Pajama Game. After pick up the guitar at the eld of 12, Raitt felt an prompt affinity for the megrims, and although she went cancelled to advert Radcliffe in 1967, within 2 years she had dropped extinct to commence playing the Boston family line and blues society electric circuit. Signing with renowned blues managing director Dick Waterman, she was before long playing alongside the likes of idols including Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell and in time earned such a strong report that she was gestural to Warner Bros.
Debuting in 1971 with an eponymously titled endeavor, Raitt immediately emerged as a critical favourite, applauded not only for her soulful vocals and attentive song excerpt but besides for her guitar art, turning heads as one of the few women to play bottleneck. Her 1972 followup, Pass on It Up, made better use of her eclectic tastes, featuring material by contemporaries like Jackson Browne and Eric Kaz, in addition to a number of R&B chestnuts and regular trine Raitt originals. 1973's Takin' My Time was much acclaimed, and end-to-end the midsection of the x she released an LP each year, reverting with Streetlights in 1974 and Household Plate a year later. With 1977's Sweet Forgiveness, Raitt scored her first-class honours degree important pop airplay with her come to get across of the Del Shannon classic "Walkaway"; its review, 1979's The Glow, appeared around the same time as a massive all-star anti-nuclear concert at Madison Square Garden mounted by MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy), an organization she'd co-founded before.
End-to-end her career, Raitt remained a attached activist, performing hundreds of benefit concerts and on the job indefatigably on behalf of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. By the early '80s, however, her have career was in trouble -- 1982's Jet Light, while greeted with the usual good reviews, over again failed to break her to a wide audience, and spell commencement act on the review, Warners unceremoniously dropped her. By this time, Raitt was too battling dose and intoxicant problems as good; she worked on a few tracks with Prince, simply their schedules ne'er aligned and the material went unreleased. Instead, she last released the jumble Nine Lives in 1986, her worst-selling elbow grease since her debut.
Many had written Raitt off when she teamed with producer Don Was and recorded Nick of Time; apparently out of the spicy, the LP north Korean won a smattering of Grammys, including Album of the Year, and overnight she was a mavin. 1991's Fortune of the Draw was too a blast, yielding the hits "Something to Talk About" and "I Can't Make You Love Me." After 1994's Longing in Their Hearts, Raitt resurfaced in 1998 with Fundamental. Atomic number 47 Lining appeared in 2002, followed by Souls Alike in 2005, both on Capitol Records. A year later on, Fair Raitt and Friends was released, featuring guest appearances from Norah Jones and Ben Harper among others.
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Viktor Lazlo
Artist: Viktor Lazlo
Genre(s):
Vocal
Discography:
Loin De Paname
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Viktor Lazlo
Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
She
Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
A fashionable and sultry singer, Sonia Dronier became Viktor Lazlo when Belgian producer Francis Depryck observed her and cast together a parcel divine by strong gender and black and white film. Born in Lorient, France, Dronier fagged her college long time studying and modeling in Brussels, Belgium. After she fagged some prison term tattle accompaniment vocals in Depryck's band Lou & the Hollywood Bananas, the producer rounded up a coif of nostalgic and noir-flavored songs and renamed her after a persona in the Humphrey Bogart classical Casablanca. The fashionable uncut She began her career in 1985 with a shuffle of songs song in French, English, and Spanish. A French-language cover of Julie London's "Cry Me a River" ("Pleurer stilbesterol Rivières") became a big arrive at crossways Europe a year after. In 1987 she hosted the televised pass around of the Eurovision competition, which was held in Belgium that year. That same year she had another Euro hit with "Dyspneal," a pas de deux with American isaac Bashevis Singer James Ingram. After a move back to France in 1989 she released a series of successful albums before the ambitious Verso appeared in 1996 with funk and dub influences and a guest appearance from the graeco-Roman reggae rhythm section of Sly & Robbie. Critical response to the album was so irresistibly overconfident that Dronier claimed interviews promoting the release had focused on her music rather of her wearing apparel for the first base time in her career.
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Lil Wayne's Carter III Projected To Sell A Million Copies
Lil Wayne's sixth album, The Carter III, is reportedly on pace to being the highest selling rap album of the year.
According to Billboard, the album is projected to sell over 1,000,000 copies by next week and will most likely grab the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
The Carter III, which hit shelves Tuesday (June 10), features guest appearances from Jay-Z, Fabulous, Robin Thicke, Juelz Santana and Busta Rhymes, among others.
According to Billboard, the album is projected to sell over 1,000,000 copies by next week and will most likely grab the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
The Carter III, which hit shelves Tuesday (June 10), features guest appearances from Jay-Z, Fabulous, Robin Thicke, Juelz Santana and Busta Rhymes, among others.
Charlie Sheen & Brooke Mueller To Marry Tonight?
Charlie Sheen and fiancé Brooke Mueller are planning to exchange vows in a ceremony on Friday evening, according to the latest reports.
Friends of the soon-to-be Mrs Sheen are also claiming that the real estate investor is pregnant, the pair having been “busy working on having a baby" for a couple of months.
With any luck Denise Richards' reaction to her ex-husband's nuptials will be captured for posterity on her new reality show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated.
"They had to tell Denise when it was, because they wanted the girls to come, but she doesn't know where it'll be," a source tells the NY Daily News' Rush & Molloy column.
"Who knows? She may even crash the event with a camera crew."
We’d watch!
Friends of the soon-to-be Mrs Sheen are also claiming that the real estate investor is pregnant, the pair having been “busy working on having a baby" for a couple of months.
With any luck Denise Richards' reaction to her ex-husband's nuptials will be captured for posterity on her new reality show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated.
"They had to tell Denise when it was, because they wanted the girls to come, but she doesn't know where it'll be," a source tells the NY Daily News' Rush & Molloy column.
"Who knows? She may even crash the event with a camera crew."
We’d watch!
New blood invigorated Broadway
Rookies among strong crop of Tony nominees
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.
Not that Dickens' most quotable line from one of his most popular novels couldn't be applied to the now receding-from-memory 2007-08 theater season.
The worst of times? OK, not exactly Dickens' version of the French Revolution but a crippling 19-day stagehands strike in November. It left Broadway reeling in millions of dollars of losses, facing a disgruntled public and trying to salvage what had promised to be the best of times, the most play-heavy fall season in years.
The total gross for the season, according to trade group the Broadway League, was $937.5 million, about $1 million shy of the previous year. And attendance slipped slightly, too, to 12.27 million, down from 12.3 million in the 2006-07 season.
Out of the wreckage came one drama -- Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" -- that managed to win nearly unanimous critical praise, survive the season and begin collecting every award in sight, with the Tony for best play assuredly in its grasp when the winners are announced Sunday at Radio City Music Hall. CBS will televise the ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. EDT.
The season was awash in players new to Broadway, from Letts to such performer-writers such as Stew of "Passing Strange" and Lin-Manuel Miranda of "In the Heights."
But Letts' examination of a supremely dysfunctional Oklahoma family, vividly brought to life by an accomplished ensemble of actors from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, wasn't the only fine play in town.
Conor McPherson's "The Seafarer," the story of a Christmas Eve poker game with one very devilish participant, was another. Tom Stoppard returned with "Rock 'n' Roll," a look at recent Czech history, primarily in the 1960s, and the music that came out of that era.
It's a real skill getting an audience to laugh. But David Mamet did it in "November," his scabrous comedy of presidential wheeler-dealering that features Nathan Lane at his most delightfully apoplectic and Tony-nommed Laurie Metcalf. Mark Rylance displayed remarkable physical comedy skills as a nerdy visitor to Paris, the setting for "Boeing-Boeing," an expertly resuscitated sex farce from the swinging 1960s.
Stew and company slowly built an audience for "Passing Strange," an unconventional musical biography that, despite critical cheers, wasn't an instant hit. But along with "In the Heights," look for them to score Sunday at the 2008 Tony Awards. Both are in serious contention for best musical.
Yet toughest ticket honors went to "South Pacific." Along with "Gypsy," starring the indefatigable Patti LuPone, and a projection-savvy production of "Sunday in the Park With George," nostalgia never looked or sounded better.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.
Not that Dickens' most quotable line from one of his most popular novels couldn't be applied to the now receding-from-memory 2007-08 theater season.
The worst of times? OK, not exactly Dickens' version of the French Revolution but a crippling 19-day stagehands strike in November. It left Broadway reeling in millions of dollars of losses, facing a disgruntled public and trying to salvage what had promised to be the best of times, the most play-heavy fall season in years.
The total gross for the season, according to trade group the Broadway League, was $937.5 million, about $1 million shy of the previous year. And attendance slipped slightly, too, to 12.27 million, down from 12.3 million in the 2006-07 season.
Out of the wreckage came one drama -- Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" -- that managed to win nearly unanimous critical praise, survive the season and begin collecting every award in sight, with the Tony for best play assuredly in its grasp when the winners are announced Sunday at Radio City Music Hall. CBS will televise the ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. EDT.
The season was awash in players new to Broadway, from Letts to such performer-writers such as Stew of "Passing Strange" and Lin-Manuel Miranda of "In the Heights."
But Letts' examination of a supremely dysfunctional Oklahoma family, vividly brought to life by an accomplished ensemble of actors from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, wasn't the only fine play in town.
Conor McPherson's "The Seafarer," the story of a Christmas Eve poker game with one very devilish participant, was another. Tom Stoppard returned with "Rock 'n' Roll," a look at recent Czech history, primarily in the 1960s, and the music that came out of that era.
It's a real skill getting an audience to laugh. But David Mamet did it in "November," his scabrous comedy of presidential wheeler-dealering that features Nathan Lane at his most delightfully apoplectic and Tony-nommed Laurie Metcalf. Mark Rylance displayed remarkable physical comedy skills as a nerdy visitor to Paris, the setting for "Boeing-Boeing," an expertly resuscitated sex farce from the swinging 1960s.
Stew and company slowly built an audience for "Passing Strange," an unconventional musical biography that, despite critical cheers, wasn't an instant hit. But along with "In the Heights," look for them to score Sunday at the 2008 Tony Awards. Both are in serious contention for best musical.
Yet toughest ticket honors went to "South Pacific." Along with "Gypsy," starring the indefatigable Patti LuPone, and a projection-savvy production of "Sunday in the Park With George," nostalgia never looked or sounded better.
Selena Gomez: No Feuding With Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez wants everyone to know she's not feuding with Miley Cyrus.
For about the past six weeks, Gomez has been dubbed "the next Miley Cyrus," with Disney execs hoping ...
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