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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tuesday Apr 1 14:59 AEDT Woody Allen sues garments maker for $11mTuesday Apr 1 11:59 AEDTAP - Woody Allen has asked a founded on court to piece a clothing body of at least $US10 very great number ($A11 million) for featuring him on billboards in Hollywood and New York.A action filed in US District Court in Manhattan says the dramatic artist and guide does not endorse commercial products or services in the United States.The suit in law says his non commercial regularity makes the May 2007 American Apparel billboards “especially extraordinary and damaging.” American Apparel Inc. hasn’t replied to a handset message seeking comment.Allen’s lawsuit describes him as among the most of influence figures in the relation of American film and a man who has maintained strict restrain across the projects through which he is associated.Allen won a best director Oscar since Annie Hall.
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NEWS residence > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tuesday Apr 1 14:59 AEDT Cusack ’stalker’ arrested againTuesday Apr 1 11:58 AEDTAP - A woman who was ordered to stay at a distance from John Cusack has been arrested on dubiety of stalking the actor and violating a restraining order, magistrates say.Emily Leatherman was taken into custody Sunday eventide after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were called to Cusack’s area, where a cab driver reported that a passenger didn’t have adequate money to emolument in quest of the ride to receive there, department spokesman Steve Whitmore uttered.As the deputies were responding to the situation, they were flagged down by Cusack. “He told them he recognised the woman in the Obsoletehackney and that she had been stalking him,” Whitmore said.He aforesaid deputies found testimony at the exhibition that led to the arrest, but he declined to detailed, citing the examination.Leatherman was arrested for the sake of investigation of stalking, violating a restraining adjust and petty theft. She was being held on $US150,000 ($A164,000) bail.Whitmore aforesaid the 33-year-old female is “considered a transient in the Santa Monica area.”A call to Cusack’s publicist wasn’t immediately returned.In July 2006, Cusack was granted a temporary restraining order stipulating that Leatherman stay at minutest 150 metres away from him, his home, his work, his car and offices or companies in what one. he does trade.In pay court to papers, Cusack reported Leatherman “is showing unusual interest by stalking, throwing long erudition of interest through my fence in bags through rocks and screwdrivers in the interior of, making unannounced visits to offices of people I work with in some attempt to meet by me and listing my address at the same time that her own for the time of a late keep back.”Leatherman has claimed she single sent Cusack sum of two units letters.
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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT word Tuesday Apr 1 06:58 AEDT Garrett speech to lead chorus in succession S3Tuesday Apr 1 00:03 AEDTArts Minister Peter Garrett give by means of be disposed combine his two areas of expertise when he presents the keynote talk mention at the inaugural Song Summit Sydney (S3) this week.Speaking upon the body the poultice The Politics of artifice, Mr Garrett will draw upon his years as the frontman of Aussie totter outfit Midnight Oil for example he opens the three-day event for songwriters this Thursday, April 3.”The exploit of creating a work probably a song through the calamitous labour of invention gives up something uncommon which at common end entertains, at the other, feeds the fire,” Mr Garrett declared. “And in the case of the Australian music industry, along the tendency of action provides a only reflection of our ideals, our values and of pursue combustibles for our economy.”Presented by APRA/AMCOS and the NSW sway, the summit is dedicated to the art and craft of songwriting, with music creators, managers, publishers, technicians, marketers, lawyers and divide makers getting in union to learn, network and work out.”Mr Garrett has a sharp awareness of not only the cultural regard of minstrelsy, but also its eminently expressive common and relating to housekeeping value,” APRA/AMCOS chief executive Brett Cottle said.”S3 delegates elect accept an unparalleled opportunity to exercise the sense of hearing Mr Garrett, single in kind of Australia’s leading songwriters, about the moment and the timetocome of the arts and melody inside a civic carcass.”The summit bequeath also feature high profile national and worldwide delegates, including The Shins frontman James Mercer, UK songster Sandi Thom, Thirsty Merc’s Rai Thistlethwayte, Josh Pyke and Evermore.They will provide expert advice to aspiring songwriters who give up their compositions for public military.S3 executive producer Sally Howland said they had received more than 200 applications from songwriters absent to acquire their work critiqued.”The standard of the entries is actually skilful,” Ms Howland aforesaid.”I was a borer frightened as to what we were going to get, but there’s some really, really good stuff and in fact there’s a couple of acts that are standouts.”Howland said the top would give a leg up to people trying to fashion a procedure in the music manufacture.”I look for it will exist those ambitious to try to fashion out a course of conduct that have a destiny of self belief in their own talents, who don’t necessarily have any networks or connections in locate,” she said.”When we started facing we had no aspirations that (one of the expert panelists) puissance payattention to a piece of music and that somebody might get signed from it.”But it could subsist a really unconditional consequence, that is not beyond the realms of odds.”Songwriters be possible to register to have existence part of S3 at www.songsummit.com.au.
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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tuesday Apr 1 06:59 AEDT Roddick planning to marry model DeckerTuesday Apr 1 06:32 AEDTWorld figure six Andy Roddick is planning to marry 20-year-old copy Brooklyn Decker. “The couple wanted to tell their kindred and close friends elementary but that good recent accounts book of travels fast,” uttered a note on American Roddick’s official Web location (www.andyroddick.com). “With their hot roam schedules, Andy and Brooklyn plan to appreciate their engagement and will look to set a espousals date.” Decker has appeared to the degree that a swimsuit model in Sports Illustrated magazine. Sixth seed Roddick continues his Sony Ericsson Open campaign with a third-round union against Czech qualifier Ivo Minar in Miami later on Monday.
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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tuesday Apr 1 06:58 AEDT Anna Nicole’s son died of drug overdoseTuesday Apr 1 06:30 AEDTTabloid destiny Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel died of a drug overdose, an inquest jury in the Bahamas ruled. The seven-member jury took 73 minutes to make way to its unanimous verdict after coroner William Campbell had directed them to goback person of three options. He said they could decide 20-year-old Daniel Smith died of “non-dependent lampoon of drugs,” or by “accident or reverse,” or they could return an render free of access verdict. Daniel’s grandmother, Virgie Arthur, was unhappy with the outcome because the coroner had limited the options, precluding a finding of killing of a human being, related her attorney, Neil McCabe. Daniel died at Doctors Hospital in the Bahamian essential of Nassau on Sept. 10, 2006, while visiting his mother and her newborn daughter, Dannielynn. He had flown into the Bahamas from the United States the ignorance before. Two autopsies concluded that he died from a “cocktail” of recipe drugs, including methadone. Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 of every accidental prescription drug overdose in Florida in February 2007 and is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Nassau by the side of her son. At the time of her death, the former pin-up model and reality TV luminary was embroiled in a long-running legal struggle very the will of her recently groom, billionaire oil tycoon Howard Marshall. They had conjugal when she was 26 years old and he was 89. Smith’s death touched from a electrifying court battle past the disposal of her corpse and duress of Dannielynn. The suckling was found to subsist the daughter of Smith’s former beau, Larry Birkhead, and not her companion, Howard K. Stern. A Los Angeles judge this month declared Dannielynn the individual heir to her chief’s order, meaning the child could inherit a multimillion-dollar destiny if the dispute betwixt Smith and her slow spend frugally’s kinsmen is wonted in her favor.
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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tuesday Apr 1 06:59 AEDT Kylie denies Martinez marriage rumoursTuesday Apr 1 06:43 AEDTKylie Minogue has dismissed reports she will wed French actor and constructer love Olivier Martinez attached situation for the time of a concert in the Czech Republic in May.Minogue appeared bewildered when quizzed about the reports for the time of a live interview on US TV.”News to me,” Minogue, a visitant on NBC’s Today morning show, uttered. “Noooo!” Australia’s detonation princess also dismissed rumours she has rekindled a falsehood through Martinez following their crack good by a year ago.The Today interview marked the source of Minogue’s novel assault in continuance the US music charts, with her album, X, released in America on Tuesday.When Today armed force Matt Lauer asked Minogue about the Czech nuptials report, she referred to Martinez in the gone rigid.Minogue told Lauer she had “dated” Martinez.Lauer, noting her answer, replied: “Dated - past tense?”"Yes,” Minogue answered.”in this way in that place’s no rekindling and no assurance in the future that I need to know about?” Lauer, continuing the probing questions, asked.”No,” Minogue replied.Minogue, who turns 40 in May, has dominated album and singles charts in Australia, Britain, Europe and Asia, on the other hand has not had the identical good in the US.Over the nearest week she will blitz the US media, singing two songs have life on America’s version of Dancing with the Stars, which has an auditory of more than 20 million viewers, on Tuesday night.Minogue also has interviews booked on TV talkshows, including NBC’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show and CBS’ Late Late elucidate through Craig Ferguson.Lauer asked Minogue for what cause it was so unyielding for her to translate her Australian, British, European and Asian map dominance to the US.”It’s a notoriously austere market,” Minogue aforesaid. “You have so various denominations with radio. To comprehend where I sudden in the compass of that market is sometimes difficult.”Minogue, who also spoke during the interview about her 2005 battle with pap cancer, joked about substance honoured by dint of. Queen Elizabeth II with the Order of the British Empire (OBE).”It’s a larger deal,” Minogue related. “My parents are coming besides (to London) for the stateliness. I thought I already had enough vowels in my name and now I keep OBE on the end.”Lauer asked if the OBE meant he would gain to curtsy the next season she arrived at the Today studios in quest of an interview.”You could curtsy,” Minogue laughed. “You could nod … No, you don’t be the subject of to do anything.”The Today interview was conducted inner part an NBC studio in Manhattan visible to pedestrians from a street external part.About 30 paparazzi lined up outside with long lenses for the period of the interview, shooting Minogue through a window.whenever Lauer personal to the photographers Minogue jokingly asked admitting that the seat Today had given her offered the good in the highest degree silhouette.”I accomplish hope you’re giving good angles according to the cameras,” Minogue related.
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NEWS HOME > ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Monday Mar 31 10:19 AEDT Hillary raves about Mick Jagger, StonesMonday Mar 31 08:23 AEDTAP - Call her a Honky Tonk Woman: Hillary Rodham Clinton is a great fan of the Rolling Stones.Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign flat Sunday early part of the day, the Democratic presidential contender said she was eager to look to Shine a Light, the new documentary about the legendary asylum band that was directed by dint of. Martin Scorsese and opens in the US without ceasing Friday.Clinton reported she attended her capital Stones show as a high tutor senior in 1965, and has seen them a few times from that time then. She praised Mick Jagger, the band’s 64-year-old lead singer, and said she admired his labour ethic. “If you rush to a Stones concert today and I have been, it’s fair astonishing,” Clinton said. “He has this incredible presence. He is very disciplined, he plant out, and he’s incredibly devoted to what he does.”The film, chronicling a Stones performance at the New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2006, likewise features a cutting of guitarist Keith Richards rendezvous Clinton’s 88-year old-mother, Dorothy Rodham. The Clinton Foundation, the maker president’s philanthropic effort, held a fundraiser for the period of one of the concerts.Clinton uttered her head is an even bigger adherent of the Stones.”I thought she was going to reasonable levitate,” Clinton uttered of introducing Rodham to Richards and Jagger.
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