The Streets' Mike Skinner To Make Feature Film

The Streets frontman Mike Skinner has revealed that he wants to set up a picture show career subsequently he records the group's final album.


Skinner, who has previously declared that the Streets� fifth album testament be the last, said the get out of the big screen was a big inspiration for him.


�As soon as I finish the fifth Streets record album, which will take me to the end of my record deal, I�m going to make my first film,� he told the Sun.


�It will seem like a objective but stimulate the narration of a fictional film.�


Skinner added that the visualize would evolve from his popular online TV series Beat Stevie


�We�ve started entrance episodes for short film festivals like Sundance. The plan is to do longer episodes and work up to doing the film,� he said.


�But the uncut movie will be very different to Beat Stevie.�


The Streets liberation their one-quarter album �Everything Is Borrowed� next month.

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Gwen Stefani - Stefani Rossdale Welcome Baby Zuma

GWEN STEFANI and GAVIN ROSSDALE ar parents once more after the COOL singer gave birth to a baby boy in Los Angeles on Thursday (21Aug08).

Little Zuma Nesta Rock was born by C-section at Cedars Sinai Medical Center only after midday.

The rock couple's first logos, Kingston, turned two in May (08).

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Depression Prompts Thoughts Of Death In Cancer Patients

�Cancer patients are trey times more than likely to think they would be "better off dead" or to contemplate suicide than the rest of the population - a Cancer Research UK study reports online today.*


Patients were almost likely to have these thoughts if they had substantial nuisance and particularly if they had life-threatening emotional distress.


The study highlights the need for more support services to be uncommitted for cancer patients and that this is particularly important in the area of pain management.


Almost 3,000 outpatients took part in the report at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre.


The patients, wHO had a range of cancers, answered a computerised questionnaire around their physical and emotional symptoms.


Among the questions, patients were asked: "Over the last two weeks how much have you been bothered by the following job: thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way?" Patients could answer: "not at all," "several days," "more than than half the years" or "most every sidereal day."


Of the 2,924 patients world Health Organization took piece, nearly 8 per centime said they had thoughts of beingness better off dead or of pain themselves. This compares with a figure of hardly 2.6 per centime in a similar survey of the general population conducted in Australia.


Lead author Jane Walker, based at the Edinburgh University, said: "It is torment that, despite improvements in cancer attention, a square number of patients feel they would be better off dead.


"We know that depressive disorder is vulgar in patients who get cancer only it is often lost. Pain is also a big problem. Treating patients' symptoms as well as their disease might amend, and even save, their lives."


Dr Lesley Walker, Cancer Research UK's director of cancer information, aforementioned: "It is normal to experience distraint after a cancer diagnosing. But for some patients emotional distress or depression becomes a problem in itself and may lead to suicidal thoughts. Cancer specialists and GPs can buoy provide treatment, with the help of psychiatrists if necessary."


*Journal of Clinical Oncology

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- Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK's vision is to beat cancer.


- Cancer Research UK carries out world-class research to better understanding of the disease and find out how to prevent, diagnose and treat different kinds of cancer.


- Cancer Research UK ensures that its findings are secondhand to meliorate the lives of all cancer patients.


- Cancer Research UK helps people to understand cancer, the advance that is being made and the choices each person can make.


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The Jacksons to be honored in L.A.

LOS ANGELES () - The Jacksons will have a life-time achievement awarding during acting rights group BMI's eighth annual Urban Awards on September 4.

Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson will be bestowed with the Icon award during the ceremony, which honors the most-performed R&B/hip-hop songs of the past year in the BMI repertoire.

A BMI spokeswoman said Michael Jackson has yet to confirm his attendance, only the others will on hand at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills. As honorees, the Jacksons will non perform. Other artists, as yet unpredicted, will rent the phase to cover the group's songs.

Starting out as The Jackson 5 in their hometown of Gary, Ind., the siblings found fame at Motown Records where they enjoyed a string of hits beginning with 1969's "I Want You Back."

Later smashes included "Enjoy Yourself," "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" and "State of Shock" with Mick Jagger, released in 1984 at the superlative of Michael Jackson's stardom.

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Review: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at Auckland Town Hall

Judging by the large, enthusiastic audience for the first of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Splendour of Beethoven concerts, Beethoven's name remains synonymous with box-office gold.Conductor Wolfram Christ fervently took the cause of the music from the mighty call-to-arms on strings that opens the Egmont overture.An Allegro seemed to emerge organically from this introduction and an inevitable momentum ensued until the final Coda, unbridled in its bustling triumph, drew the work to a close.Beethoven's C minor Concerto featured Bernd Glemser, a German pianist known through his fine recordings of Prokofiev and Schumann.The tightly knit collegiality of soloist, conductor and orchestra was apparent early on, particularly in the development section of the first movement.Minutes later, Glemser was on his own, determined to equal the drama of the entire concerto in the few pages of Beethoven's cadenza.The Largo was heavenly. The opening piano statement, with its persuasive rubato, presented Beethoven in the vanguard of a new romantic generation rather than alongside those composers who had gone before.




This was even more evident when Glemser invested his passage work with a Chopinesque gleam.High spirits prevailed in the Rondo, making much of flitting shifts from minor to major, and delivering quite a sting in its breakneck closing pages.After interval, Christ wrought wonders with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. The Introduction was appropriately spacious, with strings soaring effortlessly from the woodwind background while a transition into F major was seamless.The dance of the Vivace was perfectly gauged as was the detail and pacing of the Allegretto, a slow movement only in the context of the music surrounding it.The orchestra handled the to-and-fro of the Presto with a winning naturalness, even if string intonation was not always as reliable as it might have been.The Finale did not cheat those expecting a frenetic work-out, although violins had problems asserting their obsessive riff of a melody over metronomic orchestral beats.It's not over. Glemser returns with the Emperor Concerto on Thursday, and offers a recital of romantic fare at the Museum come Saturday - concerts not to be missed.

Chris Martin gives Radio 4 interviewer the cold shoulder

Chris Martin has long been known as a reluctant rock star, a man who prefers a quiet life of yoga practice and vegetarian dinners at home rather than a red carpet lifestyle.

Yesterday, the Coldplay frontman further consolidated his reputation as the quiet man of pop, by walking out of an interview for a Radio 4 arts programme, Front Row, saying he didn't like "having to talk about things".

The musician, 31, abandoned the interview to promote Coldplay's new album nine minutes into the recording, telling the programme's presenter, John Wilson, that he was "not really enjoying this".

The album, Viva la Vida (or Death to All his Friends), which was released on Thursday, is set to become one of the fastest – and biggest-selling records in chart history. After selling 125,000 copies in its first day, it could see Coldplay outsell their 2005 album X&Y, which sold 465,000 in its first week.

The new album is almost certain to take the top spot in the album chart on Sunday. The group are EMI's best-selling act and the latest album is said to be crucial for the record company, which is attempting to revive its fortunes with more people downloading music illegally.

A BBC report said Martin appeared uncomfortable from the start of the interview. Asked about a speech he made at a music awards ceremony in 2005 when he said the band would be away "for a very long time", Martin said: "I always say stupid things and I think Radio 4 is the place that will most remind me of that."

When Wilson asked whether the album's full title reflected the band's obsession with death, it was received with some hostility by Martin, who accused Wilson of being manipulative.

"I wouldn't agree with you there at all, no. I'd say you're intentionally twisting me into saying something I don't really mean," he said.

Martin then appeared to hesitate after Wilson asked him about the inspiration for lyrics of a song dealing with the subject of a deposed dictator.

When Wilson asked that Martin move closer to the microphone, the musician asked: "Can I have two minutes – is that all right?" before walking out.

Wilson asked him whether he was feeling under pressure, to which Martin said: "No, no ... yes, I just don't like to talk about things."

Wilson turned to Coldplay's drummer, Will Champion, asking: "Have I upset him?" Champion replied: "I don't think so."

Champion continued with the interview until Martin came back into the studio to answer a final question about whether he was attempting to find new musical territory with the album. Martin answered simply: "Um, yes, yes, yes ... exactly."

It is not the first time thatMartin has shown a strong aversion to media attention, having previously scuffled with photographers in London and New York.

Famous walkouts

* The former Conservative MP John Nott walked out of an interview with the late Robin Day at a Tory party conference in October 1982, after he was called a "here-today, gone tomorrow politician". Reflecting on it years later, Nott called it a "rather silly interview".

* The Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb walked off The Clive Anderson Show in 1996 after a verbal sparring match during which Gibb remarked: "We used to be called Les Tossers" and Anderson replied: "You'll always be Les Tossers to me."

*Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly unplugged his microphone during an interview with the American television network CBS in October 2007 saying he was "very busy, very busy". Recording the programme 60 Minutes, the French President said: "I don't have time. I have a big job to do." After being persuaded to return to the set, he cut short the conversation when he was asked about his estranged wife C�cilia.

*Tom Cruise walked out of an interview with the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet S�ndag, after the conversation turned to his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman. A reporter mentioned Kidman and the two children that she and Cruise adopted. "Now you've gone over the line," Cruise said, adding: "Now, unfortunately, I have to end this."

*S Club 7 walked out of a BBC 3 interview in 2003 after being asked about the discrepancy between what the group earned and what they were paid.

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Amy Winehouse's Husband 'Offered 200,000 Pound Bribe'

A pub landlord who was attacked by Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, accepted a £200,000 bribe not to give evidence about the incident, a court has been told.



Fielder-Civil and another man, Michael Brown, have pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on James King outside the Macbeth in east London in June 2006.



However, prosecutor Sean Larkin told Snaresbrook Crown Court today (June 10th) that a deal had been struck between both parties that would "effectively throw the case”.



According to Mr Larkin, two other men, Anthony Kelly and James Kennedy, acted as middle men in the deal, which would involve Mr King leaving the country.



This would have meant that both Fielder-Civil and Brown would have been found not guilty of assault.



But the plot was exposed when Mr King, who has pleaded not guilty to attempting perverting the course of justice, and Kelly tried to sell details of the arrangement to a journalist working for the Daily Mirror newspaper.



Mr Larkin said that when the journalist, Stephen Moyes, asked whether Fielder-Civil's wife was involved in the financial aspects of the deal, Kelly told him: “'Who do you think is paying for it, of course she is'.”



Despite Kelly's claim, Winehouse was cleared in February of having any involvement in the case, reports the BBC.



Fielder-Civil faces a maximum of five years in jail over the assault charge.

You can view our pictures of Winehouse and Fielder-Civil below...

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