�Morphotek�, Inc., a underling of Eisai Corporation of North America, announced that it has opened clinical sites in the European Union (EU) as part of the company's MORAb-009 Phase II study. The study is evaluating MORAb-009, a monoclonal antibody antibody to mesothelin, as a first-line treatment for patients with pancreatic cancer. The randomised, controlled, double-blinded trial will compare MORAb-009 plus gemcitabine with a placebo plus gemcitabine.
Morphotek has presently qualified 33 clinical sites in the United States and Canada to carry its Phase II study that started earlier this year. The company has opened four-spot clinical sites in Spain and received regulatory favorable reception in Spain, Belgium and Germany and 17 sites have been qualified in these countries. Regulatory approval for this study is also pending in Argentina. These approvals expand the ability to evaluate the efficacy of this compound in patients outside of the United States.
"We are highly pleased to receive blessing for the MORAb-009 Phase II trial sites in the EU," said Martin D. Phillips, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Morphotek. "A distinguished group of clinical investigators treating pancreatic cancer patients throughout the European Union have expressed an involvement in novel biologic therapies for this typically fatal disease. We look forth to the possible participation of extra European clinical sites for this compound as well as others in our pipeline."
MORAb-009 is an IgG1 antibody that recognizes a cell surface glycoprotein called mesothelin, which is over-expressed on a number of epithelial-derived cancers. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) discovered the antigen from studies that evaluated a series of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) generated from splenocytes of mice immunized with human neoplasm cells. The antibody has been found to elicit anti-tumor personal effects via blockade of mesothelin to bandage to its ligand present on conterminous cells and immune-effector responses. Phase I studies of the antibody in patients found the molecule to be well tolerated at, or downstairs, the maximum tolerated dosage and clinical observations from those studies suggested antitumour responses in a number of patients.
Pancreatic cancer is unremarkably discovered at an advanced stage; in its earlier stages it is typically asymptomatic. It is the eighth near common grounds of death from cancer the Crab in manpower and women worldwide, accounting for more than 227,000 deaths per year. More than 37,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic crab each year in the United States and around 50,000 people in the European Union.
About Morphotek
Morphotek�, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of protein and antibody products through the use of a novel and proprietary gene development technology. The technology has been successfully applied to a wide variety of cell lines and organisms to return genetically various offspring that are desirable for pharmaceutic product development in the areas of antibody therapeutics, protein therapeutics, product manufacture, drug butt discovery, and improved yield traits for commercial applications. The company is presently focusing its platform on the development and fabrication of therapeutical antibodies for the handling of cancer, inflammation and infectious disease. For more information, please visit hTTP://www.morphotek.com.
About Eisai Corporation of North America
Eisai Corporation of North America is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Eisai Co., Ltd., a research-based human health care (hhc) company that discovers, develops and markets products passim the worldly concern. Eisai focuses its efforts in three therapeutic areas: neurology, gI disorders and oncology/critical care. Eisai Corporation of North America supports the activities of its operating companies in North America, which include: Eisai Research Institute of Boston, Inc., a discovery mathematical operation with strong organic chemical science capabilities; Morphotek, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the growing of therapeutical monoclonal antibodies; Eisai Medical Research Inc., a clinical development group; Eisai Inc., a commercial operation with manufacturing and marketing/sales functions; and Eisai Machinery U.S.A., which markets and maintains pharmaceutical manufacture machinery.
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Download Brand New Sin mp3
 Artist: Brand New Sin: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Metal Discography:  Tequila Year: 2006 Tracks: 14  Recipe For Disaster Year: 2005 Tracks: 13 When harlan Fisk Stone fans think of Syracuse -- ane of the cities in upstate New York -- they a great trade think of hardcore nerve and the straightedge bowel movement, which has used touchwood to promote uninfected living, vegetarianism, and spirituality. Many straightedge bands take been zealous supporters of the Hare Krishna faction; arguably, straightedge has oft functioned as a Hindu-minded eq of Christian rock, although many straightedge bands have leaned to the left politically and have, in some cases, vehemently lambasted Christian pop and rock artists wHO supported the Republican Party. Despite Syracuse's reputation as a punk/straight-edge town, non every band that came from that arena in the '90s or 2000s had a straightedge connexion. Syracuse metal gang Brand New Sin has nada at all to do with straightedge; if anything, these rowdy, long-haired, tattooed, decadent, hell raising headbangers well-grounded like they ar rebelling against everything that Syracuse's straightedge scene has stood for. Kris Wiechmann, 1 of the band's trey guitarists, showed how politically wrong he could be when he equated Brand New Sin's self-titled debut album with "the first-class honours degree drinkable an alcoholic takes afterward walk out of rehab," which isn't exactly the sort of thing a straightedge vegetarian teetotalist would crow around. Blistering and forceful as still consistently melodic, Brand New Sin has been influenced by a variety of alloy and hard rock music bands, and those influences ambit from Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and Guns N' Roses to Pantera and Metallica. There ar besides traces of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Southern stone in the band's material, which has the sorting of bluesy, muddy border that southern outfits like Alabama Thunder Pussy and Hammerlock have got brought to alternative metal. Although Brand New Sin has kempt sum of '70s and '80s influences, the ring has sufficiency of a Corrosion of Conformity/Down influence to invalidate sounding flat out retro and be relevant to the '90s/2000s alternative metallic element scene. However, Brand New Sin doesn't bugger off into rap-metal at all -- the Syracuse headbangers show no awareness of hip-hop-minded nu metal bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn, (hed)pe, Fat, Rage Against the Machine, and Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem. In the '90s, some of Brand New Sin's members belonged to a Syracuse stripe called Godbelow, which favored a metal/punk portmanteau. But when they wanted to do something different -- something with more bluesy, miry leanings and a southern influence -- Brand New Sin was born in the early 2000s. While other metal bands had short Joe or five members, Brand New Sin had 6 thanks to a lineup that consisted of lead vocaliser Joe Altier, bassist Chuck Kahl, drummer Mike Rafferty, and no less than three guitarists: Slider (earthly concern Health Organization likewise provides background cognition vocals), Kris Wiechmann, and Ken Dunham. In June 2002, Brand New Sin's self-titled debut album (which Peter Walker produced) was released by the Jersey City, NJ-based Now or Never Records. A yr later, drummer Kevin Dean was added to the band. Brand New Sin erstwhile once again united Walker for the recording of their second record album. The Black and Blue EP and the band's sophomore drive, Recipe for Disaster, were both released in 2005. |
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Tony Romo worked to restore Jessica's confidence
New Delhi (ANI): Jessica Simpson's beau Tony Romo has helped the pop singer restore her confidence and catch over her divorce from Nick Lachey. The American footballer helped the brokenhearted singer get over her failed marriage and bucked up her to release a country album.
"Tony tells Jessica not to countenance life pass away her by," China Daily quoted a source as saying. "Tony is as well the first to boost Jess well-nigh her body! Jessica admits she has packed on a few pounds only she doesn''t care. She is loving life and isn''t trying to be Daisy Duke," the source added.
Though the 28-year-old singer admits that she is in love with Tony but isn''t sure if she is ready to tie the knot with him. She said: "We''ve been together for seven to almost eighter from Decatur months now. I don''t really cognize about marriage ceremony bells - I silent love him, and I''m still with him, so that''s a good polarity."
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"Tony tells Jessica not to countenance life pass away her by," China Daily quoted a source as saying. "Tony is as well the first to boost Jess well-nigh her body! Jessica admits she has packed on a few pounds only she doesn''t care. She is loving life and isn''t trying to be Daisy Duke," the source added.
Though the 28-year-old singer admits that she is in love with Tony but isn''t sure if she is ready to tie the knot with him. She said: "We''ve been together for seven to almost eighter from Decatur months now. I don''t really cognize about marriage ceremony bells - I silent love him, and I''m still with him, so that''s a good polarity."
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Redmond O'Neal pleads guilty to drug charges
MALIBU, Calif. —
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Redmond O'Neal, the son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, has pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and methamphetamine.
The 23-year-old O'Neal pleaded guilty Thursday in a Malibu court to the two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of drugs. As part of a plea deal, a second DUI charge was dismissed.
He was placed on three years' probation on the misdemeanor charge and fined about $1,700.
The district attorney's office says O'Neal also was ordered to remain in drug treatment until a hearing next month to determine if he can enter a drug-diversion program on the felony charges.
O'Neal was arrested January 26th after he was stopped for speeding on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
HMV Canada: "Indestructible" by Disturbed tops CD sales list
TORONTO - The following is HMV Canada's top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending June 4.
CDs
1 Indestructible - Disturbed
2 Weezer (Red Album) - Weezer
3 Here I Stand - Usher
4 "Sex and the City" Soundtrack - Various Artists
5 Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
6 The Best of - Radiohead
7 Watershed - Opeth
8 Rockferry - Duffy
9 Hard Candy - Madonna
10 Love at the End of the World - Sam Roberts
Country
1 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
2 Carnival Ride - Carrie Underwood
3 Kicking Stones - Johnny Reid
4 35 Biggest Hits - Toby Keith
5 Watershed - k.d. lang
6 Julianne Hough - Julianne Hough
7 More Country Heat 2008 - Various Artists
8 Good Time - Alan Jackson
9 Enjoy the Ride - Sugarland
10 Still Feels Good - Rascal Flatts
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Lohan, Murphy top the Razzie nominees
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy have each scored multiple nominations for this year's Razzie Awards.
Celebrating Hollywood's worst in Film, the Razzie nominees were announced ahead of the Oscar nominees.
Lindsay Lohan's thriller, 'I know Who Killed Me', in which she plays two characters who may or may not be the same person, received nine Razzie nominations, amongst them Worst Picture of 2007.
For her Worst Actress nomination, Lohan polled more heavily than any star since Sofia Coppola in 'The Godfather Part III,' according to Razzie founder, John Wilson.
2007 may have been the year Eddie Murphy won an Academy Award nomination for his role in 'Dreamgirls', but that didn't prevent his film 'Norbit' from receiving eight nominations.
Besides a nod for Worst Picture, five of those went to Murphy alone, more than any one person has ever received in a single year.
"We decided that each of his characters was so offensive that he deserved individual nominations," said John Wilson.
Adam Sandler ('I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry') and Cuba Gooding Jr ('Daddy Day Camp', 'Norbit') joined Murphy in the Worst Actor category, along with Nicolas Cage ('Ghost Rider')and Jim Carrey ('The Number 23').
The 'winners' of the 28th Razzies will be announced on 23 February, a day before the Oscars.
Celebrating Hollywood's worst in Film, the Razzie nominees were announced ahead of the Oscar nominees.
Lindsay Lohan's thriller, 'I know Who Killed Me', in which she plays two characters who may or may not be the same person, received nine Razzie nominations, amongst them Worst Picture of 2007.
For her Worst Actress nomination, Lohan polled more heavily than any star since Sofia Coppola in 'The Godfather Part III,' according to Razzie founder, John Wilson.
2007 may have been the year Eddie Murphy won an Academy Award nomination for his role in 'Dreamgirls', but that didn't prevent his film 'Norbit' from receiving eight nominations.
Besides a nod for Worst Picture, five of those went to Murphy alone, more than any one person has ever received in a single year.
"We decided that each of his characters was so offensive that he deserved individual nominations," said John Wilson.
Adam Sandler ('I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry') and Cuba Gooding Jr ('Daddy Day Camp', 'Norbit') joined Murphy in the Worst Actor category, along with Nicolas Cage ('Ghost Rider')and Jim Carrey ('The Number 23').
The 'winners' of the 28th Razzies will be announced on 23 February, a day before the Oscars.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Sir Paul Mccartney - Mccartney To Design Johanssons Wedding Dress
SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY's fashion designer daughter STELLA is desperate to create a wedding dress for bride-to-be SCARLETT JOHANSSON.
The actress announced her engagement to actor boyfriend RYAN REYNOLDS at Monday night's (05May08) Costume Institute Gala in New York.
And MCCartney is hoping she will be asked to design the gown.
She tells People.com, "I'm definitely doing her wedding dress.
"She doesn't know it yet."
And MCCartney jokingly suggested she already has a design in mind: "You know, some kind of dodgy, black thing. Latex! Latex for Scarlett!"
MCCartney designed Madonna's wedding dress for her 2000 wedding to Guy Ritchie.
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Saturday, 24 May 2008
Janet Jackson
Artist: Janet Jackson
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Pop
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Dance
Discography:
20 Years Old
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
I Want You
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
All Nite (Don't Stop)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Doesn't Really Matter
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
All For You
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
The.Remix.Collection CD2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
The.Remix.Collection CD1
Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
Golden Rock Ballads 20 years Later
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
The Velvet Rope
Year: 1997
Tracks: 22
Design of a Decade: 1986-1996
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Design Of A Decade
Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
That's The Way Love Goes CDS
Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
Janet
Year: 1993
Tracks: 27
Rhythm Nation 1814
Year: 1989
Tracks: 20
Control
Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Dream Street
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Janet Jackson
Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Velvet Rope
Year:
Tracks: 22
Together Again (Maxi)
Year:
Tracks: 6
Few celebrity siblings lavatory emerge from the shadows of their already famous relations to become superstars in their have correct and with their possess distinct personalities. That's precisely what Janet Jackson did in decorous one of the biggest female pop and R&B stars of the '80s and '90s. Since her breakthrough in 1986 with the album Control, Jackson's calling as a hitmaker has been a model of consistency, rivaling Madonna and Whitney Houston in footing of pop up chart success over the long draw. A great function of the reason was that Jackson unbroken her level of tone control very high; her singles were always expertly crafted, with indelible pop hooks and state of the art product that kept up with contemporaneous trends in urban R&B. Once established, her broad-based attract never really swaybacked all that much; she was able to head off significant career missteps, musical and other than, and successfully shifted her figure of speech from a strong, independent young woman to a aphrodisiac, grow grownup. With a string of multi-platinum albums under her whack, she showed no signs of slowing down in the new millennium.
Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born May 16, 1966, in Gary, IN. She was the youngest of baseball club children in the Jackson kinsperson, and her old brothers had already begun performing unitedly as the Jackson 5 by the metre she was born. Bitten by the acting bug at a edward Young age, she first-class honours degree appeared onstage with the Jackson 5 at age seven-spot, and began a sitcom performing career at the age of x in 1977, when manufacturer Norman Lear selected her to join the cast of Unspoiled Times. She remained thither until 1979, and subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes (1981-1982) and A New Kind of Family. In 1982, pushed by her father into stressful a vocalizing career, Jackson released her self-titled first album on A&M; a twosome of singles scraped the lour reaches of the charts, simply on the solid, it made very small noise. She was vomit in the melodious series Fame in 1983; the next yr, she issued her irregular album, Dream Street, which sold even more than under the weather than its herald. Upon turning 18, Jackson rebelled against her parents' close superintendence, eloping with a member of another musical home, isaac Merrit Singer James DeBarge. However, the relationship speedily make the rocks and Jackson wounding up moving back into her parents' domicile and having the marriage annulled.
Jackson took some clock time to second thought her musical career, and her father hired her a young manager, John McClain, wHO isolated his youth charge to train her as a terpsichorean (and make her lose weightiness). McClain hooked Jackson up with producers/writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, whom she'd seen perform as members of the Minneapolis funk outfit the Time. Jackson collaborated with Jam and Lewis on nigh of the tracks for her following record album, Mastery, which presented her as a confident, tough-minded lester Willis Young woman (with a easygoing face and a sense of humor) pickings charge of her living for the get-go meter. In financial backing of Jackson's new persona, Jam and Lewis crafted a set up of dressed, computerized support tracks with slamming beatniks that owed more to heavy, hip-hop-tinged funk and urban R&B than Janet's older brother Michael's music. Control became an out-of-the-box make, and finally spun off sestet singles, the first five of which -- "What Have You Done for Me Lately," the take in phrase-inspiring "Filthy," the number one "When I Think of You," the form of address rails, and the lay "Let's Wait Awhile" -- hit the Top Five on the pop charts. Jackson was hailed as a role model for youth women and Mastery eventually sold all over pentad 1000000 copies, establishing Jackson as non just a star, simply her own woman. It as well made Jam and Lewis a monstrously in demand production team.
For the hotly hoped-for follow-up, McClain precious to labour Jackson toward more overtly sexual territory, to which she objected strenuously. Instead, she began collaborating with Jam and Lewis on more socially conscious material, which formed the backbone of 1989's Rhythm Nation 1814 (the "1814" purportedly stood for either the letters "R" and "N" or the year "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written). Actually, keep for the claim caterpillar tread, most of the record's singles were bright and romantically themed; four of them -- "Miss You Much," "Risky venture," "Blackened Cat," and "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" -- polish off number one, and three more -- "Speech rhythm Nation," "All right," and "Come Back to Me" -- reached the Top Five, devising Jackson the first creative person ever to bring forth seven Top Five hits off of nonpareil album (something non fifty-fifty her comrade Michael had accomplished). Aside from a greater enjoyment of outside samples, Regular recurrence Nation's sound mostly resembled that of Ascendence, just was precisely as well crafted, and listeners embraced it sky-high, purchasing over captain Hicks meg copies. Jackson undertook her first real tour (she'd appeared at high schools around the rural area in 1982) in support of the album and it was predictably a shattering success. In 1991, Jackson capitalized on her success by jumping from A&M to Virgin for a reported $32 1000000, and besides secretly marital choreographer and longtime fellow René Elizondo.
Once on Virgin, Jackson specify almost revamping her good and image. Her 1992 duo with Luther Vandross from the Mo' Money soundtrack, "The Best Things in Life Are Free," was a major R&B polish off, likewise stretch the pop Top Ten. The following twelvemonth, she besides resumed her playing life history, co-starring in acclaimed director (and former jr high classmate) John Singleton's Poetic Justice, along with rapper Tupac Shakur. But neither genuinely hinted at the sexy, seductive, fully adult persona she unveiled with 1993's janet., her Virgin debut. Jackson trumpeted her new image with a notorious Rolling Stone cover picture, in which her topless configuration was covered by a geminate of workforce belonging to an spiritual world "admirer." Musically, Jam and Lewis specify aside the synthesized funk of their first two albums with Jackson in favor of warm, inviting, mildly undulating grooves. The album's lead undivided, the slinky "That's the Way Love Goes," became Jackson's biggest polish off ever so, spending eight weeks at number unitary. It was followed by a predictably long parade of Top Ten hits -- "If," the number nonpareil ballad "Once again," "Because of You," "Any Time, Any Place," "You Want This." janet.'s debut showing at issue 1 made it her third straight chart-topping album, and it went on to sell nigh vII one thousand thousand copies.
In 1995, Janet and Michael teamed up for the unmarried "Wow," which was supported by an work out, award-winning, space age tV that, upon culmination, graded as the to the highest degree expensive music video ever made. The unmarried debuted at number pentad on the pop charts, merely bit by bit slid down from at that place. In 1996, A&M issued a retrospective of her years at the mark, Designing of a Decade 1986-1996; it featured the Virgin polish off "That's the Way Love Goes" and a few new tracks, one of which, "Fugitive," became a Top Five polish off. Jackson also signed a new contract with Virgin for a reported $80 meg. Yet patch working on her following album, Jackson reportedly suffered an emotional breakdown, or at least a severe bout with depressive disorder; she later on elevated eyebrows when she talked in several interviews around the cleansing value of chocolate enemas as theatrical role of her treatment. Her next record album, The Velvet Rope, appeared in 1997 and was touted as her most personal and intimate work to escort. The Velvet Rope sought-after to combine the sensualness of janet. with the more socially conscious parts of Musical rhythm Nation, commixture songs just about issues like domestic pervert, AIDS, and homophobia with her to the highest degree sexually explicit songs ever so. Critical view on the record album was divided; some applauded her ambitiousness, patch others establish the record too bloated. The lead American single "Together Again," an lament for AIDS victims, was a number ane hit; besides popular on the wireless was "Got 'til It's Gone," which featured rapper Q-Tip and a sample of Joni Mitchell over a reggae beat. "I Get Lonely," featuring Blackstreet, was some other big hit; merely on the whole, The Velvet Rope didn't prove to be the blockbuster singles gravy that its predecessors were, which was believably wherefore its gross sales stalled at around three 1000000 copies.
Thomas J. Jackson toured the world over again, and stayed on the charts in 1999 with the Top Five Busta Rhymes duet "What's It Gonna Be?!"; her appearance in the video remade her as a glitzy, unnaturally costumed, single-name diva. In 2000, she appeared in the Eddie Murphy funniness Nutlike Professor II: The Klumps, and her soundtrack donation, "Doesn't Really Matter," became a number ane single. Unfortunately, Jackson's married couple to Elizondo had turn constrained and the couple divorced in 2000, sparking a courtroom battle over her musical income. Jackson returned with a new record album, All for You, in 2001, which largely continued the sensual tone of janet. and The Velvet Rope; it debuted at number ane, merchandising over 600,000 copies in its first week alone. The title track was issued as the album's first base single and quickly topped the charts, followed by another sizeable hit in "Individual to Call My Lover."
Patch Jackson played out a great deal of 2001 and 2002 on the road supporting All for You, she also launch sentence for some guest appearances, most notably with Beenie Man on his Tropical Storm LP and Justin Timberlake on Justified. By 2003 she was back in the studio, working once once again with Jam and Lewis on tracks for a new record album; extra producers included Dallas Austin and Kanye West. Later that year, it was revealed Jackson would subscribe to role in an MTV-produced extravaganza during halftime at the Super Bowl. 2004 began with an Internet news leak of the upbeat Austin production "Simply a Little While." The singer's camp rolled with the punches, oblation the course to wireless as an authorised digital download, simply the bombinate this business caused was minuscule in comparison to the nightmare union of disembarrass exposure and bad publicity that Jackson's next hazard caused. Appearing at halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII as scheduled, Jackson performed "All for You" and "Rhythm Nation" in front bringing kO'd surprise guest Timberlake for a duet on his strike "Rock Your Body." But the real surprise came at song's end, when a motion from Timberlake caused Jackson's costume to shoot, exposing her correct, punctured boob on unrecorded television to hundreds of millions of viewers.
The incident caused furious backpedaling and apologizing from Timberlake, Jackson, the NFL, CBS, and MTV, which swore no previous knowledge of the alleged "wardrobe malfunction," and light-emitting diode to speculation over how Damita Jo -- Jackson's approaching album and her first in trey long time -- would be standard. But while the argument gave Jackson both heartbreak and a bit of dislodge advertising, it was too the impetus for a national consider on public impropriety. A federal commission was set up to investigate lubricity, the FCC enacted tougher crackdowns on TV and radio programs broadcast medium questionable content, and dead everyone from pundits to politicians to the man in the street had an judgment on Janet Jackson's pectus. Later that March, the singer softly started devising the talk show rounds. She was still apologizing for the incident, but she was too promoting Damita Jo, which Virgin issued at the end of the calendar month. Largely considered a disappointment, the album still sold over deuce jillion copies oecumenical and earned three Grammy nominations. 20 Y.O. followed two age subsequently, and though it was reviewed more than favorably than Damita Jo, it was off the Billboard cc album chart after 15 weeks. Jermaine Dupri, Jackson's dear sake and the executive producer of the record album, was so perturbation over Virgin's want of support that he left his post as prexy of Virgin's urban division.
Artie Shaw
Artist: Artie Shaw
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Non Stop Fligh
Year: 1996
Tracks: 18
The Essence of Artie Shaw
Year:
Tracks: 12
Chant
Year:
Tracks: 23
14 Songs
Year:
Tracks: 19
One of jazz's finest clarinetists, Artie Shaw ne'er seemed fully satisfied with his musical life-time, invariably break up successful bands and running away from success. While Count Basie and Duke Ellington were satisfied to lead just one orchestra during the swing eRA, and Benny Goodman (due to unwellness) had two, Shaw lED five, all of them distinctive and memorable.
Later growing up in New Haven, CT, and playing clarinet and alto topically, Shaw spent portion of 1925 with Johnny Cavallaro's dance band and then played off and on with Austin Wylie's band in Cleveland from 1927-1929 before joining Irving Aaronson's Commanders. After moving to New York, Shaw became a shut associate of Willie "The Lion" Smith at block sessions, and by 1931 was a busy studio musician. He retired from music for the first time in 1934 in hopes of composition a book, only when his money started running taboo, Shaw returned to New York. A major turning point occurred when he performed at an all-star big ring concert at the Imperial Theatre in May 1936, surprising the audience by playing with a train quaternary and a speech rhythm section. He used a similar conception in putting together his first-class honours degree orchestra, adding a Dixieland-type front assembly line and a vocalist patch retaining the string section. Despite some fine recordings, that special lot disbanded in early 1937 and so Shaw put in concert a more conventional big band.
The surprisal achiever of his 1938 recording of "Begin the Beguine" made the clarinetist into a sensation and his orchestra (world Health Organization featured the strain of Georgie Auld, vocals by Helen Forrest and Tony Pastor, and, by 1939, Buddy Rich's drumming) into one of the to the highest degree popular in the universe. Billie Holiday was with the band for a few months, although only ane recording ("Whatsoever Old Time") resulted. Shaw establish the pressure of the band business difficult to deal with and in November 1939 suddenly left the bandstand and touched to Mexico for two months. When Shaw returned, his number 1 sitting, utilizing a big cosmic string section, resulted in some other major hit, "Frenesi"; it seemed that he could non outflow succeeder. Shaw's third regular orchestra, wHO had a string segment and such lead soloists as trumpeter Billy Butterfield and piano player Johnny Guarnieri, was one of his finest, waxing maybe the greatest interpretation of "Stardust" along with the memorable "Concerto for Clarinet." The Gramercy Five, a small group formed out of the band (victimization Guarnieri on cembalo), also scored with the million-selling "Peak Ridge Drive."
Despite all this, Shaw broke up the orchestra in 1941, only to reform an even larger one afterwards in the year. The latter group featured Hot Lips Page along with Auld and Guarnieri. After Pearl Harbor, Shaw enlisted and lED a Navy band (unfortunately unrecorded) ahead acquiring a medical put down in February 1944. Later in the year, his new orchestra featured Roy Eldridge, Dodo Marmarosa, and Barney Kessel, and establish Shaw's possess style becoming quite mod, almost boppish. But, with the end of the sweep epoch, Shaw once again skint up his band in early 1946 and was semi-retired for respective eld, performing classical euphony as much as jazz.
His last attempt at a big banding was a short-lived 1, a boppish social unit world Health Organization lasted for a few months in 1949 and included Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, and Don Fagerquist; their modern music was a commercial flop. After a few days of modified musical natural process, Shaw returned one concluding time, recording extensively with a interlingual rendition of the Gramercy Five that featured Tal Farlow or Joe Puma on guitar along with Hank Jones. Then, in 1955, Artie Shaw for good gave up the clarinet to follow his dreams of being a writer. Although he served as the frontman (with Dick Johnson playing the clarinet solos) for a reorganised Artie Shaw Orchestra in 1983, Shaw never played once again. He received mickle of publicity for his eighter marriages (including to actresses Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, and Evelyn Keyes) and for his odd autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella (which barely touches on the music business organization or his wives), but the outspoken Artie Shaw deserves to be topper remembered as one of the truly nifty clarinetists. His RCA recordings, which were reissued in complete fashion in a perfectly done Bluebird LP series, bear only been made available in step-by-step fashion on CD.
Boots and Braces
Artist: Boots and Braces
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
11 Pints of Oi!
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
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Rihanna To Launch Underwear Line?
Rihanna already has her own line of umbrellas, but now she is hoping to launch a collection of underwear.
The singer cashed in on her huge hit Umbrella by bringing out a range of colourful rain protectors, and now admits she feels under pressure to follow in the steps of other Hollywood stars and build her own brand.
However, the Barbados-born star wants to opt for a more seductive line of apparel from her fellow stars.
She says: "There might be a clothing line on the horizon, maybe underwear."
The singer has leant her name to brands in deals with cosmetics giant Clinique, retailer H&M and Secret deodorant.
The singer cashed in on her huge hit Umbrella by bringing out a range of colourful rain protectors, and now admits she feels under pressure to follow in the steps of other Hollywood stars and build her own brand.
However, the Barbados-born star wants to opt for a more seductive line of apparel from her fellow stars.
She says: "There might be a clothing line on the horizon, maybe underwear."
The singer has leant her name to brands in deals with cosmetics giant Clinique, retailer H&M and Secret deodorant.
Johansson responds to wedding rumours
Despite a report in the New York Daily News that Scarlett Johansson is soon to be heading down the aisle with her boyfriend Ryan Reynolds, the 23-year-old has denied that she is engaged.
Johansson's representative told OK! magazine, "There is no truth at all to the Daily News piece."
Canadian-born Reynolds, who is eight years Johansson's senior, ended his engagement to singer Alanis Morissette in February of 2007 and began dating 'The Lost in Translation' star in March.
Johansson has previously been linked to a number of high profile actors including Benicio del Toro and Jared Leto.
She also had a two-year relationship with her 'Black Dahlia' co-star Josh Hartnett, before they split at the end of 2006.
Johansson can next be seen opposite Natalie Portman in Justin Chadwick's new film 'The Other Boleyn Girl', which is due for release later this year.
Johansson's representative told OK! magazine, "There is no truth at all to the Daily News piece."
Canadian-born Reynolds, who is eight years Johansson's senior, ended his engagement to singer Alanis Morissette in February of 2007 and began dating 'The Lost in Translation' star in March.
Johansson has previously been linked to a number of high profile actors including Benicio del Toro and Jared Leto.
She also had a two-year relationship with her 'Black Dahlia' co-star Josh Hartnett, before they split at the end of 2006.
Johansson can next be seen opposite Natalie Portman in Justin Chadwick's new film 'The Other Boleyn Girl', which is due for release later this year.
Bruisers
Artist: Bruisers
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
In The Pit
Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Cruisin' For A Bruisin'
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
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