Post by Stacey on Jul 20, 2007 11:13:20 GMT -5
Sacha Cohen Hits Bum Notes
-British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen's singing has reportedly been cut from Tim Burton's forthcoming SWEENEY TODD movie, because it's so bad.
The Borat and Ali G creator plays Signor Adolfo Pirelli - the arch-rival of Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - in the big screen version of the hit musical.
British newspaper The Sun reports Burton has given Cohen permission to rap his songs, because his singing voice isn't good enough. A film insider says, "Pirelli is a notoriously demanding role with some difficult songs.
"Any professional singer would struggle. So Sacha has been told to go for a rap style. It will be a bit like Jim Broadbent's performance in Moulin Rouge!. That won him a BAFTA. "Sacha is going to do a fantastic job but he couldn't cut it with the singing. His voice was too low."
Lohan Surrenders To Police In May Crash
-BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lindsay Lohan turned herself in to face charges of driving under the influence in connection with the Memorial Day weekend hit-and-run crash that sent her into rehab.
Accompanied by her attorney, the 21-year-old actress surrendered at the Beverly Hills Police Department Thursday afternoon to be fingerprinted and photographed, Officer Brian Ballieweg said.
Lohan's blood-alcohol level at the time of the crash was above California's 0.08 percent legal limit, Ballieweg said. He wouldn't disclose how high it was. She is also faces a misdemeanor charge of hit and run, he said.
Lohan was released on her recognizance. A court date was scheduled for August 24.
A message left early Friday with her publicist was not immediately returned.
Lohan and two other adults were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 convertible when she lost control and crashed into a curb and shrubs on Sunset Boulevard on May 26, police said.
Lohan got into a second car and was driven to a hospital in Century City for minor injuries, police said. The others in her car were not hurt.
Officers received a 911 call about the accident and traced her to the hospital.
Last week, Lohan checked out of a rehabilitation center after more than six weeks. It was her second stint in rehab this year. She said in January she had checked into rehab for substance abuse treatment.
The surrender was first reported by TV's "The Insider."
Rowling Parts With Harry Potter
-LONDON (Reuters) - It is a classic rags-to-riches tale.
In the mid-1990s, author J.K. Rowling was a single mother claiming state benefits and writing in Edinburgh cafes while her daughter napped. She had no agent or publisher and planned to return to teaching to make ends meet.
Just 10 years later, in February 2004, the creator of the Harry Potter stories was declared the first dollar-billionaire writer by Forbes magazine, and her personal fortune has swelled since as more books and films appeared.
Joanne Rowling, 41, has questioned estimates of her wealth in the past.
But there is no doubt that she is one of the world's most famous authors, and probably its most successful, having sold 325 million copies of the first six books in her seven-book Harry Potter series.
The seventh and final installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," is expected to break publishing records when it hits the shelves on July 21, ending months of media hype and frenzied anticipation among millions of Potter fans worldwide.
It comes shortly after the release of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth Hollywood adaptation. The first four films earned around $3.5 billion at the box office.
Rowling has talked of the downside to her fame and fortune, but the Potter success gave her a sense of self respect she did not have as an unemployed, single mother.
"Yes. I don't feel like quite such a waste of space any more," she said in a 2003 interview, when asked whether success had changed her. "I totally felt a waste of space. I was lousy."
IT BEGAN ON A TRAIN...
Rowling was born in 1965 and enjoyed telling stories to her younger sister Di from an early age. She said she was writing "almost continuously" from the age of six, and as a teenager harbored thoughts of one day becoming an author.
Rowling attended Exeter University in England, where she studied French, before moving to London where her longest job was working with Amnesty International.
According to her online autobiography, the idea for Harry Potter first came to Rowling on a crowded train from Manchester to London, but because she did not have a pen she developed the character of the boy wizard in her mind.
She began writing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that evening.
In December, 1990, her mother died after suffering from multiple sclerosis for several years, an event which Rowling said "changed both my world and Harry's forever."
The following year, she moved to Portugal as an English teacher and met and married journalist Jorge Arantes, with whom she had her first child Jessica. The couple later divorced.
Rowling left Portugal for Edinburgh, where her sister Di was living.
There she finished her novel, writing most evenings and dashing into cafes when Jessica fell asleep in her pushchair.
She managed to find an agent, Christopher Little, but it took him a year to find a publisher to agree to print the first Harry Potter novel -- Bloomsbury in London.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" went on sale in 1997, winning several awards and helping earn the author a U.S. publisher.
In December, 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray, an anesthetist, and the couple have had two children.
Faith Hill's Body And Face Replaced?
-The cover of this month's Redbook has a stunning photo of country megastar Faith Hill. Well, someone resembling Faith Hill!
Britney's New 'Video' Look
-Britney Spears was snapped in this Western stripper '60s widow getup, an unfortunate look for the video of her first song in years, "Get Back."
Brit's up-to-there skirt revealed a pair of black silk panties, which inspired gratitude in paparazzi assigned to photograph the pop mom hot mess.
"Get Back" might be the hoped for comeback tune for Miss B, after two kids, a divorce, various trips to rehab, a head-shaving lark, an unsettling tirade with an umbrella, estrangement from her mother and an unforgettable series of shocking panty pix and crotchographs.
-News attained from Yahoo.com/TMZ.com
-British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen's singing has reportedly been cut from Tim Burton's forthcoming SWEENEY TODD movie, because it's so bad.
The Borat and Ali G creator plays Signor Adolfo Pirelli - the arch-rival of Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - in the big screen version of the hit musical.
British newspaper The Sun reports Burton has given Cohen permission to rap his songs, because his singing voice isn't good enough. A film insider says, "Pirelli is a notoriously demanding role with some difficult songs.
"Any professional singer would struggle. So Sacha has been told to go for a rap style. It will be a bit like Jim Broadbent's performance in Moulin Rouge!. That won him a BAFTA. "Sacha is going to do a fantastic job but he couldn't cut it with the singing. His voice was too low."
Lohan Surrenders To Police In May Crash
-BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lindsay Lohan turned herself in to face charges of driving under the influence in connection with the Memorial Day weekend hit-and-run crash that sent her into rehab.
Accompanied by her attorney, the 21-year-old actress surrendered at the Beverly Hills Police Department Thursday afternoon to be fingerprinted and photographed, Officer Brian Ballieweg said.
Lohan's blood-alcohol level at the time of the crash was above California's 0.08 percent legal limit, Ballieweg said. He wouldn't disclose how high it was. She is also faces a misdemeanor charge of hit and run, he said.
Lohan was released on her recognizance. A court date was scheduled for August 24.
A message left early Friday with her publicist was not immediately returned.
Lohan and two other adults were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 convertible when she lost control and crashed into a curb and shrubs on Sunset Boulevard on May 26, police said.
Lohan got into a second car and was driven to a hospital in Century City for minor injuries, police said. The others in her car were not hurt.
Officers received a 911 call about the accident and traced her to the hospital.
Last week, Lohan checked out of a rehabilitation center after more than six weeks. It was her second stint in rehab this year. She said in January she had checked into rehab for substance abuse treatment.
The surrender was first reported by TV's "The Insider."
Rowling Parts With Harry Potter
-LONDON (Reuters) - It is a classic rags-to-riches tale.
In the mid-1990s, author J.K. Rowling was a single mother claiming state benefits and writing in Edinburgh cafes while her daughter napped. She had no agent or publisher and planned to return to teaching to make ends meet.
Just 10 years later, in February 2004, the creator of the Harry Potter stories was declared the first dollar-billionaire writer by Forbes magazine, and her personal fortune has swelled since as more books and films appeared.
Joanne Rowling, 41, has questioned estimates of her wealth in the past.
But there is no doubt that she is one of the world's most famous authors, and probably its most successful, having sold 325 million copies of the first six books in her seven-book Harry Potter series.
The seventh and final installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," is expected to break publishing records when it hits the shelves on July 21, ending months of media hype and frenzied anticipation among millions of Potter fans worldwide.
It comes shortly after the release of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth Hollywood adaptation. The first four films earned around $3.5 billion at the box office.
Rowling has talked of the downside to her fame and fortune, but the Potter success gave her a sense of self respect she did not have as an unemployed, single mother.
"Yes. I don't feel like quite such a waste of space any more," she said in a 2003 interview, when asked whether success had changed her. "I totally felt a waste of space. I was lousy."
IT BEGAN ON A TRAIN...
Rowling was born in 1965 and enjoyed telling stories to her younger sister Di from an early age. She said she was writing "almost continuously" from the age of six, and as a teenager harbored thoughts of one day becoming an author.
Rowling attended Exeter University in England, where she studied French, before moving to London where her longest job was working with Amnesty International.
According to her online autobiography, the idea for Harry Potter first came to Rowling on a crowded train from Manchester to London, but because she did not have a pen she developed the character of the boy wizard in her mind.
She began writing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that evening.
In December, 1990, her mother died after suffering from multiple sclerosis for several years, an event which Rowling said "changed both my world and Harry's forever."
The following year, she moved to Portugal as an English teacher and met and married journalist Jorge Arantes, with whom she had her first child Jessica. The couple later divorced.
Rowling left Portugal for Edinburgh, where her sister Di was living.
There she finished her novel, writing most evenings and dashing into cafes when Jessica fell asleep in her pushchair.
She managed to find an agent, Christopher Little, but it took him a year to find a publisher to agree to print the first Harry Potter novel -- Bloomsbury in London.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" went on sale in 1997, winning several awards and helping earn the author a U.S. publisher.
In December, 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray, an anesthetist, and the couple have had two children.
Faith Hill's Body And Face Replaced?
-The cover of this month's Redbook has a stunning photo of country megastar Faith Hill. Well, someone resembling Faith Hill!
Britney's New 'Video' Look
-Britney Spears was snapped in this Western stripper '60s widow getup, an unfortunate look for the video of her first song in years, "Get Back."
Brit's up-to-there skirt revealed a pair of black silk panties, which inspired gratitude in paparazzi assigned to photograph the pop mom hot mess.
"Get Back" might be the hoped for comeback tune for Miss B, after two kids, a divorce, various trips to rehab, a head-shaving lark, an unsettling tirade with an umbrella, estrangement from her mother and an unforgettable series of shocking panty pix and crotchographs.
-News attained from Yahoo.com/TMZ.com