Thursday, April 14, 2011

X Factor?s Cher Lloyd launches comp to find dancers for music video

Cher, 17, who finished fourth last year will audition the over-18 hopefuls in London on April 27.

She is looking for dancers with "enough swagger to be in a music video and the passion and talent for street and contemporary dance".

She says wannabes don't need professional experience.

Cher, from Malvern, Worcs, will release her single later this year after working with US artists including her former mentor Cheryl Cole's pal Will.i.am in Los Angeles.

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/3528699/X-Factors-Cher-Lloyd-launches-comp-to-find-dancers-for-music-video.html

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Little White Lies: Why 'Le Big Chill' will leave you cold

By Chris Tookey
Last updated at 1:22 AM on 15th April 2011

Verdict: A long, hard slog

Rating: 2 Star Rating

Little White Lies sets out to be a Gallic Big Chill and ends up like a less comedic Grown Ups.

It’s about shallow, materialistic Parisians going on holiday while one of their number, a hedonistic party animal (Jean Dujardin), lies in hospital after a motor accident.

Mostly they seem obsessed not with their friend, but with their love lives.

Self-indulgent slog: The usually outstanding Marion Cotillard fails to lift this dreary film

Self-indulgent slog: The usually outstanding Marion Cotillard fails to lift this dreary film

Wealthy heterosexual restaurateur Max (Francois Cluzet) is upset that his best male friend (Benoit Magimel) is in love  with him. 

 

Ludo’s ex-girlfriend (Marion Cotillard) is struggling with commitment issues over her latest one-night stand. Two other men mope about the women who have dumped them.

There are more crude sexual references than you’d expect in an otherwise sophisticated French comedy.

The unhelpful American influence extends to the soundtrack, which features incongruous music by the Band and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and an excruciatingly mistimed version of My Way.

Guillaume Canet’s direction is self-indulgently flaccid, and his screenplay unstructured. It’s way too long at 154 minutes, but the biggest problem is the lack of momentum and character development.

The film drags its way to a tragic ending that allows the group’s elder statesman, an oyster farmer (played by real-life oyster farmer Joel Dupuch) to deliver a few home truths about showing off,  callousness and bourgeois hypocrisy, before the friends come together in a feelgood moment of lachrymose companionship.

I wish I could say I felt enlightened and enriched. Mostly, it made me feel in need of a good, long holiday.

 

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1377075/Little-White-Lies-Why-Le-Big-Chill-leave-cold.html?ITO=1490

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Cold weather: It's Sherlock Holmes for slackers

By Chris Tookey
Last updated at 12:47 AM on 15th April 2011

Verdict: Strong premise, weak execution

After too lengthy a preamble where nothing happens, Cold Weather develops into an intriguing little mystery thriller, as two amiable slackers who are fans of Sherlock Holmes (Cris Lankenau and Raul Castillo) attempt to use detection to track down a missing friend.

Some will respond to the  film’s mumbling minimalism and there is something mildly heart-warming in seeing aimless individuals gaining a sense of purpose.

Cold weather leaves the audience cold: Despite admirable influences of Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, the film cannot live up to its hopes

Cold weather leaves the audience cold: Despite admirable influences of Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, the film cannot live up to its hopes

Writer-director Aaron Katz elicits a few smiles as his heroes puff on a pipe in a vain attempt to activate their brain cells.

 

But the film fails to deliver a story exciting or intelligent enough to match its Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler influences.

 

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1377095/Cold-weather-Its-Sherlock-Holmes-slackers.html?ITO=1490

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Pirates movie to show at Cannes

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is to be shown out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organisers have announced.

Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow is joined by Penelope Cruz in the fourth instalment of the hugely successful Disney franchise.

Jodie Foster film and Scottish director Lynne Ramsey's film of best-selling book We Need to Talk About Kevin will also be screened.

The festival runs from 11 to 22 May.

The previous Pirates movie, At World's End, earned more than $960 million (£590m) worldwide in 2007.

The new film sees Depp's Jack Sparrow on the trail of the fountain of youth and sees him come up against the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, played by British actor Ian McShane.

The Beaver, which will also be shown out of competition, reunites Mel Gibson with his Maverick co-star Jodie Foster.

The latter both directs and appears in its story of a depressed toy company executive who uses a beaver hand puppet to communicate with his family.

Terence Malick's long-awaited The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, is also to be shown during the festival as part of the main competition line-up.

So will Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest film The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio Banderas.

Cannes favourite Lars Von Trier, who won the prestigious Palme d'Or for Dancer in the Dark in 2000, will return to the event with his new film Melancholia.

Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland feature in this tale of two sisters who find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Sean Penn plays an ageing rock star in director Paolo Sorrentino's English language debut This Must Be the Place.

In all there are 19 titles competing for the Palme d'Or, with another 19 films showing in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.

This year's festival will begin on 11 May with a screening of Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris.

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is to receive an honorary Palme d'Or on the opening night, while actor Robert De Niro will chair this year's main competition jury.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-13079785

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Sally Field cast in Lincoln film

Actress Sally Field is to star opposite fellow two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's film about Abraham Lincoln.

Field, 64, who won best actress Oscars for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart, will play the iconic US president's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

Spielberg said Field would bring "fragility and complexity" to the part.

Out in 2012, the film is based Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Field can currently be seen opposite Calista Flockhart in TV series Brothers and Sisters, for which she won an Emmy in 2007.

In 1979's Norma Rae, Field played the title role in the tale of a Southern mill worker's fight to unionise her workplace.

1984 drama Places in the Heart saw her play a Texas widow desperate to keep her cotton farm running during the Great Depression.

Day-Lewis, 53, cast as Lincoln after Liam Neeson dropped out, won best actor Oscars for My Left Foot in 1990 and for There Will Be Blood in 2008.

Meanwhile, another Abraham Lincoln-related film - The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford - is out in the US on Friday.

James McAvoy and Robin Wright star in the film which tells of Mary Surratt, a woman accused of playing a part in Lincoln's 1865 assassination.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-13077847

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Zeta Jones has bipolar disorder

Catherine Zeta Jones has revealed she has been treated for bipolar disorder.

Catherine Zeta Jones has received treatment for bipolar disorder after dealing with the stress of her husband's battle with throat cancer.

Zeta Jones, 41, made a decision to check into a "mental health facility" for a brief stay, said her publicist.

Michael Douglas, who was diagnosed last year, said in January his tumour had gone and he was beating the disease.

Last September, Zeta Jones said she was "furious" that doctors failed to detect the cancer earlier.

Bipolar, also known as manic depression, causes severe mood swings, that usually last several weeks or months.

Zeta Jones's publicist Cece Yorke said the actress sought treatment for the condition following the stress of her husband's cancer fight.

"After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her Bipolar II disorder," said Yorke.

"She's feeling great and looking forward to starting work this week on her two upcoming films."

It is unclear when Zeta Jones, who is from Swansea, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder or where she received treatment.

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What is bipolar disorder?

Bipolar, also known as manic depression, causes severe mood swings that usually last several weeks or months and can be:

  • Low mood, intense depression and despair
  • High or "manic" feelings of joy, over-activity and loss of inhibitions
  • A "mixed state" such as a depressed mood with the restlessness and over-activity of a manic episode

Exact causes are not known, but it is thought the following play a part:

  • Genes seem to be important; if you have a relative with bipolar disorder, your chance of developing it is higher
  • There may be a physical problem with the brain systems which control mood
  • Stress can trigger mood swings

People suffering Bipolar II have more than one episode of severe depression, but only mild manic episodes

Source: Royal College of Psychiatrists

Mark Davies, from mental health charity Rethink, said the actress had shown courage in revealing the disorder as there was still a stigma around mental illness.

"Although she'll be feeling pretty fragile and vulnerable, she will have - in a sense - given some comfort to a lot of other people who are probably suffering in silence and probably feeling a great deal of fear," he added.

Mr Davies said the disorder could be triggered by a range of factors and that no individual case was the same.

He said the star was likely to be given medication and talking therapy, recognised as increasingly effective in cases of serious mental illness.

About 1% of the population suffers from bipolar disorder.

Alun Thomas of the Welsh mental health charity Hafal said: "The important part of this news is Catherine has sought help.

"Many parts of the press can sensationalise this but I think it's important to discuss the issues sensitively and raise awareness.

"Many creative and famous people have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder... there are many people out there who have recovered and gone to be very productive in their lives."

Shortly after her husband was diagnosed with cancer, the actress revealed she was "furious" that doctors failed to detect the disease earlier.

In an interview with People magazine last September, she said: "He sought every option and nothing was found. I knew something was up. He knew something was up."

"It makes me furious they didn't detect it earlier," she added.

The star, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Chicago, was made a CBE by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in February.

She first found fame in the UK on the small screen in the 1991 comedy drama, the Darling Buds of May, before heading to Hollywood to star in Entrapment, Traffic and The Mask of Zorro.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-wales-13073676

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Beyonce hires all the dancer ladies

That will help Glastonbury-goers master the moves before the festival this June.

The festival headliner has spent more than £60,000 flying dancers from as far away as Nigeria as well as across America to California's Mojave desert this week.

The big-budget promo, thought to be for the release of Girls, is being shot by FRANCIS LAWRENCE - the director behind WILL SMITH monster flick I Am Legend and videos for a string of stars including LADY GAGA, THE BLACK EYED PEAS and BRITNEY SPEARS.

Girls is the first single from Beyonce's fourth studio album - set to be released later this year - and masterminded by DIPLO and Londoner DJ DAVE TAYLOR.

The track features a sample from their electro group MAJOR LAZER's 2009 single Pon De Floor - which had a video that featured all kinds of naughty dancing.

If Beyonce busts out any of the moves from that promo Glasto chief MICHAEL EAVIS won't be able to help but get stuck into the free love.

Regal ... Beyonce dons gold headdress for new video

Regal ... Beyonce dons gold headdress for new video

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The sexy singer's Egyptian-style headdress is appropriate garb for the festival's Pyramid Stage.

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Girl power ... Beyonce on set

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But the skimpy hotpants and bra combo she wore with it was enough to raise the temperature in the sand dunes.

Even notorious minx Cleopatra would have thought twice about flashing that much flesh.

Bootylicious ... Beyonce on set

Bootylicious ... Beyonce on set

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Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3524792/Beyonce-hires-all-the-dancer-ladies.html

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