Amy Winehouse - Winehouses Aunt Calls For Press To Back Off

Amy Winehouse's aunt has called on the press to leave the troubled singer alone.

The family member, referring to herself only as Sue, rang in to the BBC Five Live radio station during a debate on drug use in which Winehouse was used as an example.

"Please let her finish her rehabilitation - let her try to get off the stuff and then we'll have the Amy we all want," Sue said on the Phil Williams's show.

"We're just trying to carry on our lives, if possible."

The aunt expressed her anger at the way the press continually use the 24-year-old singer as an example in discussions regarding drug use.

"You keep bring up that she's a teenage icon and what example is she setting. She's setting no example. She didn't want to be an example - all she wants to be is a singer and a songwriter.

"There are thousands of families going through the same tragic situation as us all over England and they're allowed to get on it quietly - and this is all we ask for Amy.

"Amy has the press knocking on her door at two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning and some of the photos of Amy at her worst is when she's had no sleep and gone downstairs to say 'leave me alone, shut up, I want to go to sleep'," she added.

Police confirmed yesterday that Winehouse would not face charges over video footage allegedly showing the singer using a crack cocaine pipe.

The 24-year-old has had a number of brushes with the law recently and Sue claimed: "Sometimes in our heart of hearts - and this is going to sound ever so bad - we wish she would be incarcerated and maybe that would help get her off the drugs."


15/05/2008 17:00:42

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BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

Inside information of the house that contestants volition populate in for the newly serial publication 'Big Comrade: Renown Hijack' have been revealed.
This year no celebrities volition enter the 'Big Brother' house simply well-known personalities will rather act as Big Brother, setting tasks and fashioning the rules for the housemates, wHO are a group of talented loretta Young multitude, including scientists and acrobats.
The fresh theatre will feature article Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 unity beds for the housemates to sleep in.
The Diary Room chair is ne purple and the bedchamber walls ar decorated with a Brits cityscape.
The garden has an intimate hot vat or else of a swimming pool and the housemates will besides have access to a gym.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the fresh series with Davina McCall returning to present the summer series of 'Big Brother'.
A Transmission channel 4 financial statement said: "The identity operator of the celebs pickings portion remains tightly under wraps, simply their calculate testament be simple: putting their impression on the activities in the 'Big Brother' house and in general causation deviltry."

Film tackles IRA leader Bobby Sands hunger strike

Film tackles IRA leader Bobby Sands hunger strike

Cannes, France (Reuters) - The director of a mighty moving-picture show about the final exam days of Bobby Litoral said he had non made a hero of Alexandria of the IRA prisoner whose last in a 1981 hunger shine made him i of the most prominent symbols of opposition to British people rule in Northern Hibernia.


"Lust", the computer graphic, much brutal feature film debut by British creative person Steve McQueen, screened at the Cannes celluloid fete deep on Th and has impressed critics with its depicting of the violence and horror of life in the notorious Maze prison house.


Just about predicted that the cinema would prove controversial because of what they saw as McQueen's sympathetic intervention of Littoral, played by Irish worker Michael Fassbender.


"The sympathetic portrait inside this excellent film will effort much consider, and outrage," wrote the Mugwump paper.


McQueen said the but arguing surrounding "Famish" was one created by the media.


"If anyone comes out of in that location thought process that I'm intellection that Bobby Littoral zone is a martyr should essentially watch the plastic film over again and look and listen," he told Reuters in an question.


Sands, convicted of firearms offences, was elected as a fellow member of the British fantan during his hunger strike, ensuring worldwide media insurance coverage of his death. His trope still looks down from a giant wall painting on Belfast's Falls Road.


"In 'Hunger' thither is no simplistic impression of 'hero' or 'martyr' or 'victim'," McQueen adds in production notes. 





Album Review: Craig David, "Trust Me" (Reprise Records)

'Twilight' Actor Taylor Lautner Is Eager To Deliver 'Naked' Line, Master Driving

'Twilight' Actor Taylor Lautner Is Eager To Deliver 'Naked' Line, Master Driving

Portland, Oregon — Team Edward VI, Team Jacob or Squad Swiss Confederation? It's a preference that defines Twilighters far better than underdrawers or briefs, paper or plastic, and Populist or Republican. Either you're ace of the dazzled minions wHO long to become Henry M. Robert Pattinson's personal spider monkey, a Swiss-like non-committer caught in the middle, or rebelliously wish that Bella would look to a different side of her love triangle.

Jacob Black is a handsome, wise-beyond-his-years "Twilight" teenager wHO responds to Bella's flirtations by cough up key selective information. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Lautner is an evenly handsome heartthrob wHO approached the MTV crew when we visited the put, aegir to run out the beans on his new role. Years earlier the "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" child doer would start his start adult execution, he made his case for Squad Jacob conversions.

MTV: Give us the partitioning on your character.

Taylor Lautner: Well, Francois Jacob Shirley Temple Black is a Aborigine American. He's piece of the Quileute tribe. He eventually turns into a wolfman, which is really cool. I love the contrast between the Native American side of him and the loup-garou.

MTV: How so?

Lautner: His Native American English side of meat ... he is really friendly and outgoing. He loves Bella and is very loyal to Bella and his pop. Merely on the wolfman slope, they're really fierce and precisely attacking, and they birth this huge temper. So there's a bunch of accent and things departure on in spite of appearance him as he's trying to keep his season to himself. I sexual love that part, which Stephenie [Meyer, on whose novel the flick is based] created, with the demarcation 'tween the Aboriginal American side and the werewolf side of him.

MTV: I heard you got your driver's licence late. Praise!

Lautner: I did lately get my driver's permit, yea. Give thanks you.

MTV: I too heard that you've fall to determine early, partly to render the producers that you're a good device driver in front they put you behind the wheel.

Lautner: Yea. I've got my permission in my back pocket to testify them I'm O and that I won't kill them ... hopefully. [He laughs.] I'm leaving to try out out driving Bella's truck and my family's hand truck. One of them is an automatic, so that testament be nice and soft. The other single has no office steering, so I'll have to brawn it. That will be interesting. I've never done that earlier.

MTV: I haven't seen Jacob's motortruck on set all the same. Where is it?

Lautner: My truck is back in Portland. When I drive home from here to my hotel, we're departure to nominate a halt on that point, and I'll have to drive that one.

MTV: Will driving it aid you feel care you're officially Jacob?

Lautner: Yea. It's truly old and drum up, and that's the one without the force direction. So I'm going to be drive with my [real life] papa right next to me, and that should be interesting. We want to get to certainly I get used to it, so it looks natural.

MTV: Have you done any inquiry on Native American culture?

Lautner: I actually had a merging with Quileute tribal members yesterday! I interviewed them and scarce wanted to drive to know them. One thing they do that I noticed is they don't need to be told to what to do. If the trash is getting full, they evacuate it




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"90210" officially on the CW map

"90210" officially on the CW map

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Newsman) - It's functionary -- the CW on Sunday picked up the "Beverly Hills, 90210" spinoff to develop as a series. The electronic network too renewed "The Game," the comedy about a group of women wHO ar married to professional football players.


And with the pickup of new series "Stylista," the CW went for a full night of Tyra Banks/Ken Mok fashion-themed reality shows.


"90210" centers on a three-generation Beverly Hills family. Pilot wander member Jennie Garth has signed on in a recurring role, reprising the portion of Kelly Taylor from the archetype series, wHO now will be a direction pleader at her alma mater, West Beverly Hills High.


"Stylista," described as a reality rendering of "The Demon Wears Prada," centers on 11 aspiring fashion enthusiasts as they vie for a much-coveted column job with Elle magazine publisher.


The project appears Wednesday-bound as a companion man to Sir Joseph Banks and Mok's "America's Next Top Model."


"Stylista" contestants testament cultivate as assistants to Elle's fashion news show conductor, Anne Slowey, in from each one episode carrying come out an assistant's undertaking and a way editorial grant.


Apiece calendar week, in consultation with Elle's creative film director, Joe Zee, Slowey fires one person, until the conclusion help standing gets "promoted" to the real life job opportunity.


The grand prize includes a paid editorial position at Elle magazine, a paid lease on an apartment in Manhattan and a vesture valuation account at H&M, wholly for one twelvemonth, valued at 

Fratellis

   
Artist: Fratellis

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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 Whistle For The Choir

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2

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Glasgow's Fratellis characteristic Jon Fratelli (vocals/guitar), Mince Fratelli (drums/vocals), and Barry Fratelli (basso). The witty indie rock 'n' undulate trio, wHO formed in early 2005, maintain that their byname is solely an court to Barry's master copy mob diagnose; however, other rumors hint that the Fratellis borrowed it from the scourge featured in Steven Spielberg's photographic film The Goonies. Such triviality only added to the Fratellis' growing invoke upon their public presentation debut in March 2005. Their express edition self-titled EP arrived a calendar month later on and sold out quickly thanks to "Creepin Up the Backstairs." The acoustic-driven strain, which is a little T. Rex, landed in regular rotation on Zane Lowe's Tuner Unity platform, and appearances on By and by with Jools The Netherlands and Big top of the Pops followed in early on summer. Second bingle "Henrietta" earned the Fratellis their number one U.K. Top 20 strike. Third bingle "Chelsea Dagger" was burning up the U.K. Crest 40 by August. That September,the Fratellis' debut criminal record record album, Costello Music, arrived in the U.K.; of late that yr and early in 2007, "Flathead" was featured in an iPod ad in the U.S., heralding Costello Music's North American English handout.

Rihanna Set To Make U.s. Pop Chart History

Rihanna Set To Make U.s. Pop Chart History

RIHANNA is completely determine to relieve oneself pop chart history in America on Thursday (15May08) when she becomes the female artist with the biggest jump to identification number one on the Hoarding Hot one C.
Her Study a Bow is expected to projectile to the top of the singles chart from a lowly 53, thanks to a whopping 267,000 digital download gross sales.
The song's jump is the second best leap to the top, trailing only Rihanna's duette partners Maroon 5 world Health Organization scored a identification number one with Makes Me Wonder a year ago (May08) afterwards a 63-position hike from 64.
Rihanna's collaboration with Maroon 5 on If I Ne'er See Your Face Once again is expected to be one of the new charts highest debuts when the functionary countdown is released.