Pedro Iturralde and Paco de Lucia & other: August 2008

Sunday 31 August 2008

Lindsay Lohan lashes out at father on blog

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Lindsay Lohan had words for her male parent on her blog. The 22-year-old actress lashed out at fatherhood Michael by calling him a "public embarrassment" and a "rowdy" in a MySpace web log entry posted Thursday. Earlier in the week, Michael said in an question with E! that Lohan gal buddy Samantha Ronson was "victimization" his daughter.

Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, confirmed the post by Lohan was legitimate.

"If you get something to say to me, suppose it to my boldness - that's what I have believed my whole life - don't be a coward and state it to others showtime, let alone all the media in the world," Lohan wrote.

The father and daughter have publicly quarreled for years. Lohan said in the dash-happy web log post that she tried and true to draw things work in hopes "of having a father again" and "wanting things to change" despite what her mother and siblings have bygone through with him.

Lohan continued: "Having aforesaid that - the people were right, and he is in time to modification - but this time, without his daughter by his side - he has become a world embarrassment and a tough - to my kinsperson, my co-workers, my friends and a girl that means the world to me (it's obvious world Health Organization that is)."

The "Mean Girls" star went on to say that she believes her father is addicted to fame, and if he truly cared nigh her, he would regard her wishes. She besides said than Ronson and Lohan's mother Dina would never "sell me kO'd." Lohan terminated the post by saying that she had a therapist and it's not a camera operator at x17 (the fame photo agency and Web site).

In a separate post, Ronson aforesaid she was angry when she first-class honours degree heard almost Michael's approach on her and called him a man "world Health Organization is so desperate for attention that he goes to the media whenever possible." Ronson went on to say she felt "no need to publicly defend my role in Lindsay's life - I'm just bad that she likes me more than him."

After the blog entries were posted Thursday, Michael told OK! magazine in an exclaiming point-heavy statement that his concerns most Ronson were all generated by ex-wife Dina, world Health Organization stars alongside their 14-year-old daughter Ali in the E! reality series "Living Lohan." Michael called Dina a "money-loving, fame-seeking, self-serving deceiver."

"All I want is for Lindsay to be healthy and in a good family relationship," he besides said in the financial statement. "I want her to use the gifts she has in the best ways and to help others! I said it from the very root: Show me who you walk with and I will recite you wHO you are! People may deceive us, but our eyes and facts don't! OPEN YOUR EYES!!!"

Michael, a former Wall Street agent, married Dina in 1985. They settled a long-simmering divorce in August, though they returned to royal court in New York in the first place this year over custody issues. Michael was released from prison in March 2007 after serving closely two geezerhood for attempted assault and driving patch intoxicated.

In New York, in the meantime, one of Lindsay Lohan's uncles, Paul Sullivan, was sentenced to one year and unitary day in prison after fraudulently claiming that his company lost business because of the Sept. 11 attacks. Sullivan also was ordered to repay the $646,000 loan that he had defrauded the Small Business administration.

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Swank buys French Women Don�t Get Fat

Oscar winner Hilary Swank could star in a film variant of the bestselling book of account 'French Women Don't Get Fat'.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Swank's production company has picked up the rights to the book, and she may prefer to take the lead role herself.

'French Women Don't Get Fat' is a lifestyle book which aims to show how French women last out slim despite eating unhealthful food.

The book was a worldwide hit and proved especially democratic in the US, reaching Number One on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list with author Mireille Guiliano appearing on 'Oprah' and numerous other big US TV shows.

According to a release from Swank's company 2S Films, the modern film volition be a romantic comedy about a "girl-next-door bubbly company middle manager world Health Organization learns some tough life lessons which help her become the woman she's always cherished to be".

The role would non be Swank's first in an adaptation; she lately starred in the film version of Cecelia Ahern's 'PS, I Love You'.

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Monday 11 August 2008

Cedar Walton

Artist: Cedar Walton

   Genre(s):
Jazz

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Vol. 35

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Tracks: 10

One of the about valued of all unvoiced bop accompanists, Cedar Walton is a versatile pianoforte player whose funky touch and telling melodious sentiency has graced the recordings of many of jazz's superlative players. He is also unitary of the music's more underrated composers; although he has always been a super representative of standards, Walton wrote a issue of first class tunes ("Photomosaic," "Ugetsu," and "Bolivia," to discover a few) that ground their way into Art Blakey's book during the pianist's early-'60s erolia minutilla with the Jazz Messengers.

Sir William Walton was showtime taught piano by his female parent. After attendance the University of Denver, he stirred to New York in 1955, ostensibly to play music. Instead, he was drafted into the Army. Stationed in Germany, Walton played with American musicians Leo Wright, Don Ellis, and Eddie Harris. After his fire, Walton stirred indorse to New York, where he began his career in businesslike. From 1958-61, Walton played with Kenny Dorham, J.J. Johnson, and Art Farmer's Jazztet, among others. Walton coupled Blakey in 1961, with whom he remained until '64. This was possibly Blakey's most influential group, with Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. Walton served prison term as Abbey Lincoln's accompanist from 1965-66 and made records with Lee Morgan from 1966-68; from 1967-69, Walton served as a sideman on many Prestige albums as well. Walton played in a band with Hank Mobley in the early '70s and returned to Blakey for a 1973 tour of Japan. Walton's own band of the period of time was called Eastern Rebellion, and was comprised of a rotating draw that included saxophonists Clifford Jordan, George Coleman and Bob Berg, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Billy Higgins. In the '80s and '90s, Walton continued to lead his have fine bands, recording on the Muse, Evidence, and Steeplechase labels. In accession to his many quantifiable accomplishments, Walton is less well known as the first pianist to record, in April 1959 with John Coltrane, the tenorist's daunting "Giant Steps" -- unlike the unfortunate Tommy Flanagan a month later, Walton wasn't compulsory to solo, though he does comprehensive examination resplendently.

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Mick Fleetwood's daughter out of hospital

Mick Fleetwood's six-year-old girl Ruby was released from a Los Angeles infirmary yesterday (7/31) after organism admitted in critical condition July 18 following a pool chance event that left her unconscious.

Fleetwood's wife, Lynn, said the doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are stunned by the child's speedy retrieval, according to a press release. "Based on the condition Ruby was in when she arrived at the hospital 12 days ago, none of them expected her to have come this far in such a short time," Lynn Fleetwood said.

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Ruby and her twin sister, Tessa, were on a playdate with close family friends at a pool in the Hidden Hills country of Los Angeles when the accident occurred. The girl had been doing somersaults in the pond when she became confused, swallowed a high quantity of water and lost consciousness.

The Fleetwood family aforesaid that Ruby is nowadays walking on her own, drawing, kick a ball, and recognizing more of her casual words and objects.

Ruby will continue treatment as an outpatient at UCLA Medical Center.

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