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The gang's back: Werewolves, vampires and all

"Breaking Dawn" (Little, Brown and Company, 754 pages, $22.99) by Stephenie Meyer: The heartbreakingly beautiful vampires, patriotic werewolves and emotionally torn humans ar back for one last round in "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and lowest installment in the fanatically loved "Twilight Saga" series.

It's a rule book with some surprises. But the big event takes place near the tale's beginning, going away the rest of the pages free to detail (and detail, and detail) the shockwaves.

Like the other books in the series, "Breaking Dawn" is a story of a community of vampires living relatively peacefully among humans. It examine what happens when a lamia and human fall in love, and the implications for their friendships, families, and life itself.

Fans will enjoy a satisfying exploration of the relationship of the lamia Edward, the human Bella and the werewolf Jacob - a relationship reeling from a real curveball. The look at Bella and Edward takes the issues of freewill, sacrifice and egoism to a new level.

Meanwhile the folks of Forks, Wash., where the vampires have set, have their own problems as the tenuous pact between the vampires and werewolves is tested, stretched, and re-tested.

Series fans testament find much here to love: piquant characters, dandy humor, a distracting obsession with beaut, focus on the minutiae of emotions.

But casual readers may thwarted with a lot of build-up and little action.

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Tune in ... "BET AWARDS '08" - 'The Hottest Ticket on Television' - Premieres Tuesday, June 24 at 8:00 P.M.*

Hosted By D.L. Hughley, "BET AWARDS '08" Features Performances by Ne-Yo,
Rihanna, Keyshia Cole, Marvin Sapp, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Kanye West,
Lil Wayne, Nelly, Usher and Young Jeezy, With Appearances by Terrence
Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Gabrielle
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NEW YORK, June 23 -- Rihanna, Ne-Yo, Keyshia Cole, Usher,
Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Nelly, Marvin Sapp, and
Young Jeezy are all on board to perform at BET AWARDS '08. In addition, LL
Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, Terrence Howard, Jennifer Hudson,
Gabrielle Union, Mary Mary, Lauren London and Kevin Hart will be on hand as
presenters, and Jill Scott will perform a special tribute to legendary R&B
icon Al Green, who is receiving BET's Lifetime Achievement Award. Quincy
Jones, celebrated producer/arranger/composer, is also being honored this
year with BET's prestigious Humanitarian Award for his outreach to young
African-Americans through the Listen Up Foundation. Hosted by actor and
comedian D.L. Hughley, BET AWARDS '08 premieres live from Los Angeles'
Shrine Auditorium on Tuesday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m.*

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Tagged as "the hottest ticket on television," BET AWARDS '08 brings
together the biggest stars in music, sports and entertainment for an
electrifying evening. For the past seven years, the BET AWARDS has boasted
unforgettable moments such as Michael Jackson's surprise appearance during
James Brown's tribute; Rick James in his final duet with Teena Marie; Will
Smith presenting Muhammad Ali with the first-ever Humanitarian Award;
Prince onstage backing Chaka Khan; Stevie Wonder, Yolanda Adams and India
Arie in a powerhouse tribute to Rufus' first lady of funk; Destiny's
Child's steamy lap dance; the reunion of one of hip hop's most beloved
trios, The Fugees; and last year's touching opening performance with
Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Holliday.

BET has once again teamed up with Cossette Productions, the famed
producers of the GRAMMY Awards(R) and the seven record-setting BET AWARDS
shows, to handle production of the telecast. Stephen Hill, BET Executive
Vice President, Music and Programming, along with Lynne Harris-Taylor, BET
Vice President of Specials, will executive produce the telecast.

BET AWARDS '08 will be sponsored by Dodge, Pepsi, Verizon Wireless,
General Motors, P&G, Target, CIROC Vodka and Ford.

Log onto BET.com for BET On Blast video highlights, photos and
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Caribbean. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a
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BIG BROTHER: Battle Of The Bust Ups!

Another day, another Big Brother row, and recent tensions have not been a let down, especially during the task. But that’s not the only thing causing upsets in the house. Groups are already beginning to form.

As usual, Alex was at the centre of the majority of the rows. She argued with Rex when she selfishly declared she was quitting the task, even after the housemates had taken a vote to carry on. Understandably Rex was a little irritated by Alex’s behavior and we all know by now that Alex doesn’t like to be questioned. She let rip with one of her lectures about how if she wants to stop she will and nobody tells her what to do!

With tensions high between Alex and Rex they had a further row when Rex ‘dared’ to send Darnell to ask for Alex’s lighter – Alex ‘politely’ replied that he couldn’t use it. Later on when Rex picked up her lighter Alex retaliated by snatching the lighter back and sharing another rant about how she has earned every thing in her life, which she later privileged BB to as well.

Away from the confrontation machine that is Alex, Rachel and Dennis had a falling out as the camp dancer felt chatterbox Rachel was ‘patronizing’ him. However, the fireworks failed to start and after Dennis started crying, he and Rachel hugged and made up – disappointing!

Amongst all this arguing, there was also plenty of time for a bit of good old fashion bitching! Mario, Lisa and Alex were, unsurprisingly, having a pop at Steph for as Mario put it “not making much of an effort” Hmm! Then later on Rex and Stephanie were in the bedroom bitching about the house’s real-life couple – Steph feels that they don’t like her, as Lisa keeps giving her evils – there is going to be one massive bust-up when this comes to a head!

Who in the house do you think will have the biggest argument? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Division of Laura Lee

   
Artist: Division of Laura Lee

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Black City

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12

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Swedish garage kindling iV Division of Laura Lee emerged in the mid to previous '90s, assembled out of trim parts in the Swedish hard-core music underground. Comprised of vocalist/guitarist Per Stålberg, guitarist David Ojala, bassist Jonas Gustavsson, and drummer Håkan Johansson, DOLL was soon acting shows wherever it could. The band debuted on wax in 1998, issuance the There Is a First Time for Everything EP, and a split up release with the American post-hardcore chemical group Milemarker. Another split up EP followed in 1999 from Car Crash, this time with Impel. The Division self-released At the Royal Club in 1999, and the collection of singles and odds 'n' sods tracks served as a full-length until its signing with Burning Heart in 2001. The label released the Pretty Electric EP before issuance the Division's proper full-length a year afterward. Mordant City institute the group infusing nervy musical tradition of Fugazi with rowdier elements closer to Supergrass or its brethren in the Hellacopters. It enjoyed American promotion via Epitaph, and was supported through tours with the (International) Noise Conspiracy and Soundtrack of Our Lives. Das Not Compute arrived in 2004.

Jimmy Buffett - Accident At Buffett Concert Site Costs Worker His Foot

A construction worker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has had his foot amputated following an accident that took place during the set up for a JIMMY BUFFETT concert.

The 23-year-old man was helping to prepare for this weekend's (14Jun08) Buffett gig at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday evening (10Jun08) when a crane fell on him.

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Bands as Father's Day - Friday Fun

It's Friday again, and once more we're wasting time until the pub opens with our increasingly, ahem, famous 'bands as' game.

This week, in honour of it being Father's Day on Sunday (June 15) we're thinking up Bands as Father's Day stuff.

Here's what we've come up with so far:

Gay Dad
Pissed Genes
Ad-opted-am And The Ants
The Tragically Hip Replacement
The Flaming Slippers
Cigar Kelly
Dadness
Mannfred Old Mann
Salt N' Papa
Pa-donna
Radiohead Of The family
Kin Of Leon

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McCrary Hits Back At Steffans' Assault Claims

Latest: Actor Darius McCrary has filed a restraining order against estranged girlfriend Karrine 'Superhead' Steffans, refuting her recent allegations of vehicular assault. Last Thursday , the former X-rated actress-turned-author filed a police report against McCrary, accusing him of hitting her with his car and injuring her right foot. But Family Matters star McCrary has hit back with the legal order in a bid to keep the hip-hop video star well away from him. In his account of the car incident, he claims Steffans "jumped on the trunk of my car and then the roof of my car". He adds, "She started beating my vehicle and windows", before trying to break the car windows "with her fist". In a separate incident, he accuses Steffans of abusing him: "(She) slapped me so hard that she hit a bystander." According to documents obtained by website Tmz.com, McCrary also accuses Steffans of stalking, verbal and physical abuse, and damage to property worth an estimated $3,500 (?1,750).


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Nick Cave

   
Artist: Nick Cave

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Abattoir Blues and Lyre Of Orpheus (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 No More Shall We Part

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Secret Life Of The Love Song

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 2


   
 Murder Ballads

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Unknown and Unreleased

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


   
 I Had A Dream Joe

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 4


   
 Henry's Dream

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Good Son

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


   
 Tender Prey

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 11


   
 Your Funeral My Trial

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 Kicking Against The Pricks

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 14


   
 The First Born Is Dead

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 9


   
 From Her To Eternity

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 10

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After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring sometime Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, dying, dear, America, and violence with a outlandish, sometimes self-consciously eclecticist hybrid of vapours, gospel, rock 'n' roll, and arty post-punk, although in a more subdued fashion than his work with the Birthday Party. Cave besides allowed his literary aspirations to come to the forefront; the lyrics ar story prose, heavy on literary allusions and myth-making, and take some divine guidance from Leonard Cohen. Cave's gloomful lyrics, dark musical arrangements, and deep baritone horn voice recall the albums of Scott Walker, world Health Organization likewise obsessed over death and honey with a terrorisation passion. However, Cave brings a brawny amount of post-punk experimentalism to Walker's epic dark pop.


Spelunk released his commencement album with the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity, in 1984, which contained a noteworthy cover of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto," foreshadowing much of Cave's style and topic topic on the followup The Firstborn Is Dead. Kicking Against the Pricks, an all-covers record album, bust the dance orchestra in England with the aid of "The Singer," which rack up number one on the U.K. independent charts. The record album too reinforced Cave's reputation as an original interpreter and a vocal styler of note.


Following 1986's Your Funeral...My Trial, Cave took a two-year foramen from recording, partially to appear in Wim Wenders' 1987 photographic film Wings of Desire, and then returned with Fond Prey, which featured Cramps guitar player Kid Congo Powers and Cave's strongest vocal performance up to that point. Cave's productivity picked up vastly over the next two years subsequently he kicked a heroin habit. He had deuce books (1988's King Ink, a assemblage of lyrics, plays, and prose, and 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, a novel) promulgated; appeared in the 1989 Australian photographic film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead as a captive; recorded a soundtrack to the plastic film with Harvey and Bargeld; and released 1990's The Good Son, his most relaxed, quiet album. Cave received his ascribable as one of the ahead figures in alternative rock when he was invited to perform on the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza turn to raise his Let Love In record album. Early in 1996, he released Remove Ballads, a assemblage of songs about murder. Mangle Ballads became Cave's most commercially successful album to date, and, with typical contrariness, he followed it with the introverted and personal The Boatman's Call in early 1997. A spoken word release, Privy Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999. Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part. Nocturama was released in 2003, and the double-album Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus followed by the end of 2004.

Brad Pitt - The Things They Say 8560

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Sweet Treats For Hefner's Birthday As Playmates Give Naughty Chocolates

Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner had a series of naughty sweet treats for his recent 82nd birthday, including chocolate body parts and a cake presented to him by a nude Pamela Anderson. The aging porn mogul celebrated his birthday in April and he's still munching his way through the risque molded chocolate body parts of his three Playmate companions. But even they were shocked when Hefner's favourite pin-up, former Baywatch beauty Anderson, showed up to hand over his cake - naked. Kendra Wilkinson, one of Hef's three girlfriends, says, "I think it was the perfect surprise for him - Pam Anderson, walking out with a cake naked... what can get better than that?" Wilkinson tells Us Weekly magazine she gave her man a white chocolate replica of her naked butt. She adds, "I molded my ass, so I could call it 'chocolate starfish'. It was white chocolate, and I put a dark chocolate little thing right in the middle."


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Abc - Only A Handful Of Viewers Watching Abcs Webcast

Despite its effort to attract younger viewers to the online version of ABC World
News With Charles Gibson, only 145,000 people accessed the ABCNews.com webpage
that links to the webcast, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Wednesday).
The 15-minute webcast includes clips from the television broadcast as well as stories
about technology and pop culture. In an interview with the Journal, ABC News
President David Westin said that he is looking for ways to "reinvent" the online
newscast and is considering replacing it with a series of video updates throughout the
day. The newspaper's report said that while the ABC News webside recorded 7.8 million
page views on Monday and usually averages about 8.4 million, many of those checking
out the site -- some three million -- click on "soft" news photos, including stills
of celebrities and the "pregnant man."

11/06/2008

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