'Last of the Summer Wine' and 'Porridge' actor Brian Wilde has died at the age of 86.
The actor's son, Andrew Wilde, said that his father died in his sleep of natural causes last night.
He also said that Wilde had suffered a fall around seven weeks ago and had not recovered.
According to the BBC, Wilde's agent Nick Young said: "He will be sadly missed by colleagues and family alike. He brought a great deal of laughter into many people's lives."
Wilde was best known for his role as Foggy in the BBC comedy series 'Last of the Summer Wine'. He played prison officer Barraclough in 'Porridge'.
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Madonna too busy to attend adoption ruling (+video)
LILONGWE, Malawi - US pop star Madonna will not attend the final court ruling on her request to adopt a Malawian child because she is busy with other engagements, her lawyer said.The High Court is expected to approve Madonna's bid to formally adopt 2-year-old David Banda at a final session on Thursday. Malawi's government and David's father - his only surviving parent - have endorsed the adoption."We are going to court on Thursday, but Madonna will not be there because she is not coming," Madonna's lawyer, Alan Chinula said. "The judge has indicated that he cannot object to her being absent when making the ruling."Chinula said Madonna had "other engagements," which he declined to disclose.A court clerk said Madonna's lawyer has asked for a later court date - the singer's third request for a postponement - because their client "had other business matters to deal with." He confirmed the judge could go ahead without her.The adoption has been controversial, with critics accusing the government of skirting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi, a southern African nation ravaged by an AIDS epidemic that has left more than 1 million orphans.
But one of Malawi's fiercest critics of Madonna's adoption bid, the Human Rights Consultative Committee, said on Monday it was no longer interested in pursuing the case, removing another obstacle.Madonna began adoption proceedings in 2006, and David has been living with the singer and her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, in their London home since then. She took custody of David when he was 13 months old after his father had placed him in an orphanage following the death of his wife.David's father, Yohane Banda, told Reuters Television this week, "This is what I wanted, that Madonna should keep the child."- REUTERS/Nielsen
But one of Malawi's fiercest critics of Madonna's adoption bid, the Human Rights Consultative Committee, said on Monday it was no longer interested in pursuing the case, removing another obstacle.Madonna began adoption proceedings in 2006, and David has been living with the singer and her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, in their London home since then. She took custody of David when he was 13 months old after his father had placed him in an orphanage following the death of his wife.David's father, Yohane Banda, told Reuters Television this week, "This is what I wanted, that Madonna should keep the child."- REUTERS/Nielsen
Danger Danger
Artist: Danger Danger
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Rare Cuts
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Cockroach (CD 2) - Ted Poley, 1993
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Cockroach (CD 1) - Paul Laine, 1994
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Return Of The Great Gildersleeves
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Four The Hard Way
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Dawn
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Screw It
Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
Danger Danger
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Just like whatever musical movement, when such glam metal pretty boys as Poison and Ratt arrive at the big meter in the late '80s, legion aper acts of the Apostles followed in their path; one being Danger Danger. Like the aforementioned bands, the quintet -- Ted Poley (vocals), Andy Timmons (guitar), Bruno Ravel (bass), Steve West (drums), and Kasey Smith (keyboards) -- motley pop hooks and good looks with hard-edged guitar riffs, landing a deal with Epic in 1989. The same year byword the release of the group's self-titled debut, spawning the single/video "Naughty Naughty," which enjoyed a few airings on MTV's Headbanger's Ball program. The album failed to break in the grouping through to the big sentence, only the mathematical group stuck to their guns and issued further albums: 1992's Screw It, 1995's Dawn, 1998's Four the Hard Way, and 2000's Return of the Great.
Thomas Dolby
Artist: Thomas Dolby
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
Gate to the Mind's Eye
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Though he never had many hits, Thomas Dolby became one of the most recognisable figures of the synth-pop movement of early-'80s new wave. Largely, this was due to his skillful marketing. Dolby promoted himself as a tolerant of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnassed the mogul of synthesizers and samplers, exploitation them to make catchy pop and light electro-funk. Before he launched a solo life history, Dolby had worked as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; his most noteworthy work as a songwriter was "Fresh Toy," which he wrote for Lene Lovich, and Whodini's "Magic's Wand." In 1981, he launched a solo life history, which resulted in a number of minor hits and 2 big hits -- "She Blinded Me with Science" (1982) and "Overactive" (1984). Following "Overactive," his life history attenuate away, as he began producing more than frequently, as well as exploring new synthesist and calculator engineering. Dolby continued to track record into the '90s, but by that prison term, he was stringently a cult do.
Dolby's interest in music arose through and through his pursuit in computers, electronics and synthesizers. The son of a British archaeologist, Thomas Dolby (b. Thomas Morgan Robertson, October 14, 1958) in the beginning tended to college to study weather forecasting, merely he was soon side-tracked by electronics, specifically musical equipment. He began building his possess synthesizers when he was 18 days previous. Around the same time, he began to find out how to play guitar and forte-piano, as well as how to plan computers. Eventually, his schoolmates gave him the nickname of "Ray M. Dolby," which was the name for a noise-reduction applied science for audiotapes; he would eventually take the nickname as a phase appoint.
In his tardy teens, Dolby was chartered as a touring wakeless engineer for a variety of post-punk bands, including the Fall, the Passions and the Members; on these dates, he would use a PA system he had reinforced himself. In 1979, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club with Bruce Woolley, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left wing the group and coupled Lene Lovich's funding band. Dolby gave Lovich his song dynasty "Unexampled Toy," which became a British rack up in 1981. That same year, he released his first gear solo single, "Urges," on the English sovereign mark Armageddon. By the fall, he had sign-language with Parlophone and released "Europa and the Pirate Twins," which closely cracked the UK Top 40.
Ray M. Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he appeared on Foreigner's 4, Def Leppard's Pyromania and Joan Armatrading's Walk Under Ladders. Also in 1982, he wrote and produced "Magic's Wand" for Whodini; the single became one of the first gear million-selling whang singles. Even with all of these achievements, 1982 was most noteworthy for the release of Dolby's low solo album, The Golden Age of Wireless, in the summer of 1982; the track record reached number 13 in England, patch it was nearly disregarded in America. "Windpower," the low single from the record, became his low gear Top 40 UK rack up in the late summer.
In January of 1983, Dolby released an EP, Blinded by Science, which included a tricky issue called "She Blinded Me with Science" that featured a cameo vocal show by the notorious British eccentric person Magnus Pike, world Health Organization too appeared in the song's promotional telecasting. Blinded by Science was a nonaged hit in England, simply the EP and the individual became major American strike in 1983, thanks to MTV's heavy airplay of the "She Blinded Me with Science" video. Eventually, the song reached telephone number five on the US charts and it was included on a resequenced and reissued version of The Golden Age of Wireless, which sickly at telephone number 13 in America.
The Flat Earth, Dolby's second record album, appeared in early 1984 and was supported by the single "Overactive." The individual became his biggest UK strike, peaking at telephone number 17. Though The Flat Earth reached number 35 on the US charts, Dolby's momentum was already beginning to slow -- none of the singles released from the album nutty the American Top 40. Nevertheless, Dolby was in demand as a collaborator and he worked with Herbie Hancock, Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, and Dusty Springfield. During 1985, he produced Clinton's Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends, Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen (Two Wheels Good in the US), and Joni Mitchell's Dog Eat Dog, as well as supporting David Bowie at Live Aid. Also in 1985, he began composition plastic film stacks, starting with Fever Pitch. In 1986, he composed the dozens for Gothic and Leslie Howard the Duck, to which he credited himself as Dolby's Cube. That recognition lED to a suit from the Dolby Labs, world Health Organization eventually banned the musician from using the name "Dolby" in conjunction with whatever other refer than "Thomas."
Aliens Ate My Buick, Dolby's long-delayed third record album, appeared in 1988 to poor reviews and weak sales, fifty-fifty though the single "Airhead" became a small British strike. That same twelvemonth, Dolby married actress Kathleen Beller. For the pillow of the later '80s and early '90s, Dolby continued to score films, producing and he began construction his have information processing system equipment. His fourth record album, Astronauts & Heretics, was released in 1992 on his new label, Giant. Despite the presence of invitee stars wish Eddie Van Halen, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Ofra Haza, the album was a flop. The following twelvemonth, Dolby founded the electronic computer software program company Headspace, which released The Virtual String Quartet as its first programme. For the pillow of the '90s, Headspace occupied to the highest degree of Dolby's time and energy. In 1994, he released The Gate to the Mind's Eye, a soundtrack to the videotape Mind's Eye. Also that twelvemonth, Capitol released the greatest-hits collection, Retrospectacle.
Quruli with Rip Slyme
Artist: Quruli with Rip Slyme
Genre(s):
Pop: Japan
Discography:
Juice
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Madonna - Madonna Gets Support From Bandas Father
American Idol - Sweeps Swept By Low Ratings
It certainly didn't look like a sweeps week last week as many ordinarily top-rated
television shows recorded some of their lowest ratings ever. Even the No. 1 show,
American Idol, saw a worrisome drop in audience figures. The Associated Press
observed that CBS's CSI: Miami had its smallest audience ever. CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation drew its second smallest audience ever for an original episode.
(The smallest audience was recorded a week earlier.) ABC's Grey's Anatomy
recorded its smallest audience since moving to Thursday nights two years ago. NBC's Deal
or No Deal had its third smallest audience. For the week overall, CBS continued
to lead with an average 6.5 rating and an 11 share. ABC placed second with a 6.0/10.
Fox came in third with a 5.7/10. (It ranked first among adults 18-49, however.) And
NBC trailed with an average 4.3/7.
The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:
1. American
Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 14.5/23; 2. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 13.6/21;
3. Dancing With the Stars (Monday), ABC, 11.8/18; 4. Dancing With the Stars
(Tuesday), ABC, 11.4/17; 5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.1/17;
6. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 10.8/17; 7. Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 10.2/16; 8.
NCIS, CBS, 9.4/15; 9. CSI: Miami, CBS, 9.2/15; 10. House, Fox,
8.8/13.
07/05/2008
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Former top model found dead in Paris
The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to become an internationally-acclaimed model, was found in the Seine River, Parisian police have said.
Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and other renowned designers was found on Thursday near the Garigliano bridge in Paris.
According to police an autopsy showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the possibility that the 47-year-old may have fallen into the river accidentally.
She had been missing since January and was last seen returning home from a party.
She lived in a houseboat near Paris' Alexandre III bridge, and her handbag was later found on board the boat.
The Guinean-born model told The Associated Press in 1994 that she ran away to Europe at 17 aiming to be a model. Her big break came when a designer at Lanvin spotted her in a line-up.
After quitting the catwalk, she turned to speaking out actively against female circumcision, describing her own experience at age 9-years-old in a book, 'Katoucha, In My Flesh', which was published last year.
"I will never get the incomparable pain out of my head": she wrote in the book, which she dedicated to her three children.
Vanity Fair's fashion and style director, Michael Roberts, said Katoucha was: "One those girls who used her fame to spotlight the misfortunes of others."
In the months before her death, Katoucha took on her first film role, playing a beautiful and rebellious woman, said Leandre-Alain Baker, director of 'Ramata'.
Filming is complete but a release date has not yet been set.
Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and other renowned designers was found on Thursday near the Garigliano bridge in Paris.
According to police an autopsy showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the possibility that the 47-year-old may have fallen into the river accidentally.
She had been missing since January and was last seen returning home from a party.
She lived in a houseboat near Paris' Alexandre III bridge, and her handbag was later found on board the boat.
The Guinean-born model told The Associated Press in 1994 that she ran away to Europe at 17 aiming to be a model. Her big break came when a designer at Lanvin spotted her in a line-up.
After quitting the catwalk, she turned to speaking out actively against female circumcision, describing her own experience at age 9-years-old in a book, 'Katoucha, In My Flesh', which was published last year.
"I will never get the incomparable pain out of my head": she wrote in the book, which she dedicated to her three children.
Vanity Fair's fashion and style director, Michael Roberts, said Katoucha was: "One those girls who used her fame to spotlight the misfortunes of others."
In the months before her death, Katoucha took on her first film role, playing a beautiful and rebellious woman, said Leandre-Alain Baker, director of 'Ramata'.
Filming is complete but a release date has not yet been set.
Jennifer Aniston & John Mayer Make Out At Movie Bash
Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer continue to fuel speculation they are an item – this time by reportedly making out at the wrap party of the actress’s new movie.
Following a second romantic weekend together, the couple attended the wrap party of Aniston's upcoming film, Marley & Me, at Nikki Coconut Grove, where Mayer shielded the former Friends star from the paparazzi as she climbed out of a car.
The two reportedly shared kisses at the lounge, where they listened to a DJ play '80s music hits before heading back to their hotel.
The pair sent gossips into a frenzy after they were seen embracing on a Miami, Florida beach last month.
Mayer the Player later hinted the rumours are true - insisting the camera never lies - but the stars have yet to confirm their relationship.
And on Saturday, they were photographed enjoying another romantic tryst at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami, Florida.
In the photos, Aniston, 39, and Mayer, 30, are sitting in poolside lounge chairs, eating salads and whispering into one another's ears, reports People.com.
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