Snoop Dogg - Rap Star Snoop Dogg Facing Ban On Australia Tour

Snoop Dogg may be prevented from touring Australia with Ice Cube in October, it has emerged.

The rapper, real name Calvin Broadus Jr, received headway this calendar week for the dual headlining tour, just a year after he was refused permission for a visa application to host the MTV Australia Video Music awards.

But following a freshet of world complaints some his criminal record, immigration officials may reconsider their decision.

"As a result of public concern and interest, the department has decided that in fact we will be undertaking a more thorough assessment of Mr Broadus' character," a senior in-migration official told the Reuters news agency.

Snoop was sentenced to five years of probation relating to gunman and do drugs charges in April 2007 and was denied accounting entry to Australia later that month, later on the country's Department of Immigration and Citizenship cited concerns regarding his previous criminal convictions.

He was likewise cautioned for affray at London's Heathrow airport in April 2006, when Snoop and his entourage vandalised a duty-free store by throwing whiskey bottles after some members of the group had been denied entry to the British Airways first class waiting area as they were fast-flying in thriftiness class.

However, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship this week decided to lift a ban imposed on the 17 million-selling rapper by the country's previous conservative administration.

In reception to the decision - which follows a design of softened immigration pentateuch under prime minister Kevin Rudd's Labour administration - family groups have pointed to the rapper's rap music sheet of drug and firearms charges, as well as an acquittal for murder.

"Snoop Dogg trades in toxic messages of jeopardize, violence, misogynism and outlawry," Angela Conway, of the Australian Family Association, told the Herald Sun newspaper.

Immigration officials have now begun a new assessment of Snoop's deplorable record, the spokesperson confirmed.

"We've advised his tour promoter and he and Mr Broadus will have an opportunity to respond. We clearly will look at his criminal history," he added.

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Hall & Oates stay busy with more shows, solo projects

Daryl Hall [ ] and John Oates [ ], world Health Organization spent the month of July playing their have respective solo shows, volition re-team for a modern batch of late-summer and fall concerts.

The hitmakers take up their joint roadwork Friday (8/15) nox in Las Vegas, and a smattering of shows are illogical across August, September and November. In addition to his shows with longtime partner Hall, Oates will slip in a few more solo gigs. Details are included below.

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Meanwhile, likewise on Friday, the latest episode of Hall's release web demonstrate, "Live From Daryl's House," will premier at the show's site. Featured acting with Hall in the forthcoming 10th episode is Canadian electrofunk duo Chromeo.

"It's not every day that you meet the unmarried biggest influence of your band, let alone get to jam with them in a laid back and creative atmosphere," Chromeo's Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) said in an announcement posted at the "Live From Daryl's House" site. "Filming 'Live From Daryl's House' was one of the highlights of our musical

Labeouf May Never Recover From Car Crash

LATEST: SHIA LaBEOUF has a chance of never recovering from the injuries he sustained in a car crash, according to his attorney.

The actor was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week (27Jul08) after his truck flipped across a road and collided with another vehicle in Hollywood.

He was charged with driving below the influence (DUI) and suffered serious hand injuries in the smash, which have disrupted shooting on his new movie Transformers 2.

The 22-year-old's attorney Michael Norris reveals LaBeouf's hand is "crushed" and runs the risk of infection.

Norris tells People.com, "The force of (the) impact immediately flipped Shia's vehicle over, and, as a final result, Shia's left hand was crushed.

"Shia underwent four hours of surgical process on Sunday and has been convalescent since then. His doctors remain hopeful that he will fully recover, but due to extensive surgery and the nature of the injuries, there corpse a substantial risk of both infection and other complications."

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Documentarian Les Blank on ‘All in This Tea’ and Going Too Far With Werner Herzog

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At first glance, the subjects of esteemed filmmaker Les Blank’s 40-plus-year career as a documentarian appear to have little to do with one another: After all, this is a man who followed up films about Werner Herzog (Burden of Dreams and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe) with films about garlic, polka music, and women with gap teeth. His latest, All in This Tea — made in collaboration with Gina Leibrecht and opening today at Cinema Village — follows David Lee Hoffman, an American tea expert and importer, as he travels around China looking for and discoursing about tea. Hoffman is a classic Blank visionary: A man determined to go anywhere and do anything to find the absolute best leaves, and who won’t let anything stand in his way. Blank talked to Vulture about pissing off Werner Herzog, battling Indians in South America (or at least considering it), and why that Lipton tea you’re drinking might actually be dust swept up from a factory floor.

So how did you first get interested in tea?
I met David Hoffman at the annual Himalaya Fair, which is just a couple of blocks from my house in Berkeley. He was there in his tent, giving out teas, and we got talking. I was also looking for a project I could also use to learn digital filmmaking. And I was ready for some adventure; my life had gotten too boring. So pretty soon I got a plane ticket, a video camera, a manual for the camera, and I was off.



You actually had to bring the manual with you?
Yes. I had previously shot a wedding, and a memorial service using video, and I brought a high-quality microphone, but when I plugged the microphone into the camera, it shut off the sound. So what I wound up filming had no sound.

Were they frustrated that they got the great Les Blank to film their event, only to have him screw up the sound?
Yes. But I was the most frustrated.

Watching this film, I kept thinking, Boy, I’d love to have some of that tea, but I bet it’s ridiculously expensive.
We had a scene in the film that I liked very much, but which we ended up not using: David takes a box of regular teabag tea, like Lipton, and he opens one of the teabags and all this dust flies out. He explains that you can measure the dust that comes out of a teabag and then price according to how much you pay for it, and it’s on a level with the very finest tea. And it really is dust — it’s the stuff they sweep off the floor when they’re making the good tea. Also, you can take the fine quality tea and then re-steep it over and over again, so you get your money’s worth.

I really enjoyed that the film doesn’t feel like a polemic, like so many other documentaries today.
My approach is to see what’s there and to tell the stories I find. It’s a problem for me, in fact, because I don’t approach things the way Morgan Spurlock or Michael Moore do. I suppose if I was doing it to make money, then I’d do it the way Michael Moore does it, but I like to think I’m creating a lasting work of art that people will still come to years later. I’ve been able to keep my head above water.

A lot of your films are about other artists. Do you find yourself butting heads with them when you’re shooting?
I try to give the artist a lot of room, but sometimes I might step out of line. During Burden of Dreams, I got a bit exasperated with Herzog [who was filming Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazonian jungle], and said, “Why don’t you just shoot the ship going up the hill and then turn the damn thing around and just bring it back down and no one will ever know you didn’t go across the top?” He was furious. I knew I’d gone too far.

You’ve made movies about a lot of extreme personalities over the years. What’s the craziest thing you ever shot?
I came close to doing something else that was crazy on Burden of Dreams. The neighboring Indians attacked the first day we were there. They tried to kill some of Herzog’s Indians, and the Indians we were with decided to form a war party to go and avenge them. Herzog said, “If you were a documentarian worth your salt, you’d take your camera and go with the raiding party.” The thought horrified me, so I told Werner that I would do it only if he would do it, thinking that there was no way he would. And he said, “Sure, we’ll meet at daybreak.” I couldn’t sleep a wink that night. He came into my tent in the morning and said that he’d thought about it and didn’t think it would look good for the director of a film to go on a war party. So we didn’t go, and he never got to find out how terrified I was. —Bilge Ebiri

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Kiss - Simmons Vows To Keep Make-up

KISS star GENE SIMMONS has vowed never to ditch the band's trademark face paint again.

The bassist stopped using the iconic make-up for 13 years during the 1980s. But Simmons insists it will never happen again.

He says, "It takes two hours to put that make-up on. That's work that other rock bands don't have to do.

"Sometimes I wish I was in a band that can just get up on stage in jeans and T-shirts. But then I remember there is nothing like the feeling I get from being The God of Thunder - that sense of power."

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Clooney: Kidman will be 'a perfect mother'

George Clooney has congratulated Nicole Kidman on the news that she is pregnant by saying she will make 'a perfect mother.'
Clooney and Kidman have been long-term friends, with the actress famously betting her friend $10,000 that he would still be a bachelor when he turned 40 in 2001.
Clooney told People magazine: "I'm thrilled for her. [She'll be] a perfect mother. She'll be great. She'll be a tall mother."
Kidman confirmed yesterday that she is expecting her first child with husband, Keith Urban.
She already has adopted children with Tom Cruise, 15-year-old Isabella and 12-year-old Connor.

Labour MP aces NZ Music Month quiz

Labour MP Winnie Laban goes to the top of the class this month, after scoring 98 per cent in fellow MP Judith Tizard's annual Zealand Music Month quiz.Ms Tizard, the Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, challenged ministers to take the 25-question quiz to support New Zealand music.Today, it was revealed Ms Laban pipped NZ First MPs Ron Mark and Doug Woolerton and Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton by just half a per cent to win first place.The questions covered topics from across the musical spectrum.Participants were asked to name the two New Zealand artists who performed at the New Zealand Memorial Dedication in London in 2006; which New Zealand band won the Smokefree Rockquest in 2000; and which anniversary the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra celebrated this year.Ms Tizard said most of the participants had sought help from staff, families and friends.




"... but whether they already knew the answers, asked around or did their research, I'm pleased that my colleagues took such an interest," Ms Tizard said.She said New Zealand music had "well and truly arrived".In 2001, only 6 per cent of album sales for New Zealand Music Month were by New Zealand acts - that had grown to around 20 per cent now.Creative industries formed a "vital plank in growing an innovative New Zealand," she said.- NZPA

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Dr Phil visits Spears during hospital stay

Dr Phil visits Spears during hospital stay

Toss off singer Britney Spears has reportedly received a visit from television system therapist Dr Phil McGraw.
Spears reportedly received the visit during her bide at Cedars-Sinai Health check Nerve center in Los Angeles, where she was admitted chase a custody dispute over her deuce young children at her home.
Spears was taken to the hospital for evaluation after law officers observed her to be under the influence of an alien meaning. She was discharged on Saturday.
According to People magazine, Dr Phil John McGraw visited the vocalist and her family during her stay in infirmary.
Surface-to-air missile Lufti, a friend of the vocalist, said: "I witnessed Dr Phil being incredibly influential in helping the menage unify. His meeting with Britney has for certain made a positive shock instilling seeds of encouragement and reality within her."
He too said: "In the almost future it is in all likelihood that to a greater extent information may be shared with the populace with the hopes of better understanding a site as serious as this."
A Los Angeles Superior Motor inn judge has now ordered Spears' children to be placed in the fillet of sole care of her ex-husband Kevin Federline, suspending the pop star's tribulation rights until "further order of magnitude of the court of justice".
A hearing has been place for 14 Jan which volition fix how the custody struggle will go.




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Willoughby defends her TV wardrobe

Willoughby defends her TV wardrobe

Television presenter Holly Willoughby has defended her wardrobe for the reality show 'Dancing on Ice' after criticism from viewers.
According to reports, members of the public have complained that the presenter's dresses are too revealing.
Responding to the complaints on ITV show 'Loose Women', Willoughby said: "It's just the weirdest thing that has ever happened - like I've been living in someone else's world the last two weeks."
"My body dictates that it suits certain things, so I always wear the same style of dress. Unfortunately those are the things that get attention. It would be nice if the publicity was, 'Isn't she good at her job?'."
She also told The Mirror: "I can't believe the stir it caused. I like to wear feminine clothes and I've had people coming up to me in the street saying how much they liked it."




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Rhys-Meyers to move in with Pete Doherty?

Rhys-Meyers to move in with Pete Doherty?

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is set to become flatmates with Pete Doherty, according to reports.
The Daily Star has reported that the Irish actor has become close friends with the troubled frontman, following the death of Rhys-Meyers' mother last month, and the pair are now said to be hunting for a pad in east London together.
Rhys-Meyers, who is currently starring in 'August Rush', was left homeless last week after his ex-girlfriend Reena Hammer forced him to move out of her Camden home.
A source told Daily Star: "Jonathan's mother died last month, leaving him heartbroken. Then his girlfriend split with him, forcing him to move out of her north London apartment.
"Although Jonathan spends a lot of time filming in Los Angeles these days he still needs somewhere to stay while working in London. So when a mutual friend suggested he and Pete could get a flat together, Jonathan jumped at the chance."
Rhys-Meyers and the Babyshambles frontman, who recently completed a stint in rehab for drug addiction, have reportedly started looking at properties and sources believe they will be a good influence on each other.
One said: "Jonathan's friend knows that he has had a really rough time of it recently and that Pete has too."