'Idol' runner-up David Archuleta looks back

Seventeen-year-old "American Idol [ tickets ]" runner-up David Archuleta told reporters during a teleconference that he tried to brush off news reports about himself and his father during the competition in order to deliver his best performances. "I just wanted to stay myself and how I was at the beginning of the competition before all this happened," he said. "I wanted to keep who I was--the normal teenage David," Archuleta said. Celebrity magazines reported that Archuleta's father, Jeff, was banned from all backstage areas because of his intense behavior around his son. "In interviews and stuff [questions about my father] started coming up and it was just kind of strange because there were really weird things," Archuleta said. "I heard he refused to give me water or something like that. That's the weirdest thing. I mean, I'm 17 and if I want water I'm pretty sure I would just go get it anyway. Another thing was, like, he made me cry during one of the recording studios or something like that. I can't remember really. Just weird things like that. I'm old enough to have enough control over myself. Then, the next thing is he's a great guy. There isn't really anything he's done that's bad like the things that have been spoken about him. My whole family has been such a great support and they're the ones who've kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today. No one understands what I'm here for more than they do."As excited as he was to be on "American Idol," Archuleta admitted that he was relieved after the finale. A Utah native who was dubbed "Archie" by his competitors, the singer explained he felt more like he was competing against himself than fellow contestants. "Each week, and as the weeks went on, we had more songs each week to have to learn along with other things," Archuleta said. "With this final week, it was the busiest of all. It was hard to find time to even rehearse and stuff along with school and everything else going on. So, on that Tuesday night, I just tried to make sure I didn't regret anything I did, and so I think I did that. It was just such a relief to just feel good about what I did and the fact that that was the last impression I gave on the show. The competition is all over and now it's time to really focus on music."Music and school, that is. Archuleta said he would like to go to school to become an ear, nose and throat specialist if this music thing doesn't pan out. "I think school's really important," Archuleta said. "It was my main priority before this because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get anywhere with music, but I was still hoping for something. Even if music does turn out to go somewhere for me, you never know how long it'll last. So I just want to make sure I have something to back me up on that."But in the meantime, he's thankful for all his fans who voted for him to make him the runner up to winner David Cook. "I just want to thank them, first of all, just because it means more than anything to know that people are appreciating the hard work that we put into this," Archuleta said. "I want them to know that I'm just feeling great about it. The fact that Cook won, I think he deserved it so much. He just proved it week after week that he deserved to be the 'American Idol,' even early in the competition. He's such a great guy, too. ... I think we both gave it all. We just poured it all onto that stage on Tuesday night and we both feel really great about it."Archuleta and this year's other Top 10 finalists will be appearing on the upcoming "American Idols Live [ tickets ]" tour, which gets underway July 1.

Beavis and Butt-Head Heading For The Big Screen?

Beavis and Butt-Head Heading For The Big Screen?

Mike Adjudicate, the godhead of MTV's cult cartoon series Beavis and Butt-Head, has revealed that he's looking at delivery the duet to the big screen in a live action version."I used to hatred the idea for days, and at present I think perchance there's something thither," Judge told MTV Tidings.  "I feel like it's something I can buoy come back to and do."As for wHO will recreate the heavy metal loving guys, Judge suggests, "I infer Seann William Scott's rather got Butt-Head eyes.  A long time ago, Greyback Depp had said to me that he truly wanted to play Beavis."Despite the flick organism a sure-fire hit, Guess says he has a few reservations about the film expression, "Casting is bad sufficiency as it is. I don't know if I want to sit through a molding session trying to receive the live-action Beavis & Butt-Head."Exposure courtesy of MTV.

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Doer Ryan Phillippe has spoken about his divorce from actress Reese John Witherspoon, denying allegations that he cheated on her.
The 33-year-old star told W cartridge that the end of his seven-year union left him in "the darkest, saddest place" that he had of all time been in.
The actor said: "On that point were a good four or basketball team months of non being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life."
He continued: "You receive through it. It's a process that's not soft, but I get to a lesser extent and less sad around it every day."
Speech production approximately the grounds for the couple's break up, he said that the place was "far more complicated and far less interesting than it's made out to be".
He said: "To count and lookup for these salacious reasons, to pin it on a person, or a moment in someone's life, it's non realistic."
Phillippe too denied rumours that actress Abbie Cornish was responsible for the break up of his marriage.
"It was unfair for her to be called the name calling that she was, because it wasn't or so that.
"I don't intend an outside person behind always crusade a divorce. I had difficulties in my human relationship, and in my spousal relationship, long in front I e'er met her," the histrion said.




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Karen FitzGerald

   
Artist: Karen FitzGerald

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Heart of the Rain

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9

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Composer and piano player Karenic Fitzgerald was born in Wilmington, DE. She grew up in a base filled with the beautiful musical harmony of classic medication. Her mother, a skilled pianist, provided the music. A selfsame loretta Lester Willis Young Ella Fitzgerald was greatly influenced by her mother's talents. At the long time of five, Karen Fitzgerald began pianissimo lessons and continued with them for altogether all over a decade. She as well studied music theory and composition at the Wilmington Music Schooling, complementary her courses with honors.


Later entirely of that musical theater preparation, Fitzgerald did a 90-degree turn and became a information processing system coder. She still kept her medicine close though, playing now and then at coffeehouses, festivals, concert halls, and regular museums and galleries. In 1987 she released her start-off recordings, placing them on a cassette called Turquoise Flame. Nine-spot years by and by she finish put her electronic computer information processing system programing profession aside, so she could reduce completely of her doe on a musical theater career.


In 1999, Edward Fitzgerald finished recording her first base gear album, Inwardness of the Rainfall. Around of the contemporaneous instrumental tracks on this pleasurable debut ar "Summer Rain," "Egress," "A Rainy Night Outside Your Door," "Memory," and "The Wind's Lament." FitzGerald's music is a relaxing oblation of bodoni solo piano numbers pool, sometimes highlighted with synthesizer enrichments.

Actors guild agrees to deal with film company

Actors guild agrees to deal with film company

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sieve Actors Society has agreed to permit members work for one mugwump pic caller if actors strike against major movie studios within months, and similar deals with other firms could ease pressure on small motion-picture show and TV producers.


The "lag agreement" was signed with The Photographic film Department as negotiations 'tween Sag and the Confederation of Question Picture and Video Producers (AMPTP) continued on Th with no word from either party on any progression.


Spokespeople for Swag and the AMPTP, world Health Organization began new take negotiation before this workweek, declined to remark on the meantime agreement, and it was unclear if other self-employed person companies had approached Sag almost similar agreements.


Scrape Gill, world Health Organization heads The Film Department, said his company approached Sag with the melodic theme, and that the "lag concord" was similar to deals the Writers Gild of U.S.A. signed with some freelance producers of late last twelvemonth allowing them to work during a crippling 100-day writers strike.


"Basically what (the accord) says is we tin can continue with our films, and if they (Sag) get to an agreement with the studios, we will suffer by that correspondence," Gill told Reuters.


Or so 10,500 WGA members struck against major studios represented by the AMPTP in November last class, and the work hitch lasted into February.


The strike toll the Los Angeles-area more than $2 billion in lost reward and revenues to businesses like taxi services and restaurants that supply to the entertainment manufacture.


Key issues in that trade union movement conflict centered on how writers would be paid when their do work appeared on the Internet, and many of the saame issues ar organism addressed by Swag in its current talks with the AMPTP.


Sag, which has about great hundred,000 film and TV actors, sees its sign on go on June 30, and many industry players are concerned that Sag down leading as well power not be able to strive an agreement with the studios and call in for a hit. 





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Slim Thug Is Ready To Be His Own Boss Again: MC Says He'll Be Free Of Record Deal Within The Week

Slim Thug Is Ready To Be His Own Boss Again: MC Says He'll Be Free Of Record Deal Within The Week

Slim down Tough didn't key out his upcoming album Boss of Wholly Bosses for goose egg. The H-Town knocker with the booming baritone voice plans to release his next solo project independently. "If I'm supposed to be the mutha----ing knob, then I should be putt my [possess] sh-- come out," he explained.
So he met with Star Trak/ Geffen/ Interscope execs latterly and, according to him, by later this workweek, he should officially be away the label and exempt to put out his next record album on his possess.
"I saturday down with the full general handler," he said. "Rattling, I just saturday down and told them, 'Y'all over here don't understand the type of music I do, and y'all bear me game piece y'all trying to get your position together. I ain't very got that metre to sit down on the sideline piece you do this. Permit me give y'all. Y'all gave me wholly this money. Heed, I'll give y'all just about money away the newly album.' I just can't sit on the out of bounds while they do their sh--. He sat down with [Interscope Chair] Jimmy [Iovine], and we all came up with something we could wholly agree with. It ain't no hard feelings."
Reduce said that since he signed on the dotted production line at the 'Scope, on that point has been excessively much turnover rate at the company. Publicists, A&Rs and other employees have gotten pink slips, going away him to figure out world Health Organization is wHO among the freshly folk.
At present, with his newfound freedom, he said to expect his album to be out by deep summertime. Merely first up will be the boys in wild blue yonder: Tha Party boss Hogg Outlawz are set up to release their mo project through Robert Koch Records. So it will be the boss' reverse.
"The record album is done," he said. "The paperwork is done. Then singles should follow."
Slenderize beginning expressed his discontentedness or so being on a major label to Mixtape Monday in late 2006. He emphatically wasn't feeling that his debut, Already Atomic number 78, was only certified gold — specially because he was consistently able to sell hundreds of thousands of records by himself end-to-end the South prior to signing with Star Trak/ Interscope in 2004.
"I thought it should own went way farther," he said then. "I was an independent creative person that did entirely the turn myself. Erstwhile I signed a major deal, I variety of felt like, 'I'm signed to a major label, oh, they gonna do altogether the work now.' "
Regarding his Foreman of Completely Bosses, he said, "It's gonna be different. You gonna hear a draw to a greater extent Houston records. The feedback I got from my fans [about the] last album was that they wanted to try a batch more Houston records. So I worked with people out of Houston, a cluster of producers I came up with. I did, like, 30 songs with these cats, so I in truth got the record album done. I'm gonna have, like, 2 from Pharrell [Ted Williams] and mayhap do work with a few other large producers, just preserve it Samuel Houston."

BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO

BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO

Live (Nonpareil): B+

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