The News Review:
- Talk about a Big Break …
- Final Day Notes
- Has upstart Manchester stolen auld Edinburgh’s festival glory?
- Foo Fest rolls back the years
- Sophie’s choice
- Reporter misses record by one burpee
Talk about a Big Break …
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 15, 2007
“Everyone was just looking at me but they were used to me by then. Because I know what it is like to be working at an ice cream store and now I know what it’s like to be on a movie set and you have to be very grateful for every day you have. ” Blonsky’s enthusiasm never once dampened during the six-month shoot in Toronto which substituted for the streets of Baltimore where John Waters set his story about plump teenager Tracy who realizes her wildest dream when she’s chosen to be on an “American Bandstand”-like ’60s TV dance show. Meeting Blonsky an 18-year-old making her professional debut who steals “Hairspray” from a bunch of pros the temptation is to call her Tracy because their career trajectories are almost identical. In San Francisco to entertain during the Gay Pride Parade Blonsky is no less peppy with an audience of one in a hotel room. Dressed in a paisley top black tights and big hoop earrings she gestures often pulling on loose curls that frame her face. Her hair looks to have been sprayed but not lacquered like in the movie and it’s considerably deflated.
Final Day Notes
ESPN – Jul 15, 2007
“I also know there’s 12 completion days remaining and I’m hoping I can fish all 12 days” Reese said. Classic conversationWith the2007 Elite Series season entering the stretch run anglers can start looking more clearly at their place in the Angler of the Year standings. Especially the bubble boys — the guys looking to get into the big dance early next year in Greenville S. site of the 2008 Bassmaster Classic. A bad James Taylor pun notwithstanding — “In my mind I’m going to Carolina …” the time to zero in on one of the 37 at-large bids is at hand. Two anglers Takahiro mori (41) and Cliff Pace (45) sit just outside in AY points but will make up ground with 6th and 5th place finishes respectively… “It was so much fun” he said. “Those 2- and 3-pounders just knock it in the air. But it’ll break your heart. He bagged only 14-4 on Day Four in ceding the second-place position to Reese.
Has upstart Manchester stolen auld Edinburgh’s festival glory?
The bserver – Jul 15, 2007
K so that’s hardly innovative but I would have flown halfway round the world to see the two dance together. Last time was in Havana and Valdes running a fever but dancing none the less ended the show by swooning into Acosta’s arms and being carried off in an ambulance. Poots a treacherous Scot doesn’t see Edinburgh and Manchester in conflict. Speaking at the after-show party for Il Tempo… Perhaps that is the Scottish renaissance. r perhaps Munro reveals the difficulty. There are so many festivals now why should artists bother travelling? The Edinburgh festival used to break international acts every year. So Poots’s brilliant strategy in Manchester has been to make his festival innovative and full of ideas. He has a long way to go. There were plenty of empty seats at Il Tempo.
Foo Fest rolls back the years
Providence Journal – Jul 15, 2007
CDs don’t have the warmth. When you have a really good $300 or $400 turntable the vinyl sounds great. ”Jackson figured he would break even for the day — he’d make a few hundred dollars but would spend most of it on other albums. Later last night many of those downtown would have said that live music is the best. Roger Ceresi and the Allstarz swing band part of a slew of entertainment at last night’s WaterFire had hundreds groovin’ on a makeshift dance floor in the Sovereign Bank Plaza down the street from AS220. Christina Murray of Northbridge Mass. had her pink Bohemian skirt really moving as she swiveled by her lonesome until her dance partner returned… ”Jackson figured he would break even for the day — he’d make a few hundred dollars but would spend most of it on other albums. Later last night many of those downtown would have said that live music is the best. Roger Ceresi and the Allstarz swing band part of a slew of entertainment at last night’s WaterFire had hundreds groovin’ on a makeshift dance floor in the Sovereign Bank Plaza down the street from AS220. Christina Murray of Northbridge Mass. had her pink Bohemian skirt really moving as she swiveled by her lonesome until her dance partner returned. Even little ones had fun just watching even if they could see very little through their masks. This weekend’s WaterFire had a Venetian theme like centuries ago when Italians had masquerade balls.
Sophie’s choice
The Age – Jul 15, 2007
Photo: SuppliedSophie Ellis-Bextor back with a new album talks popwith Neil McCormick. Sophie Ellis-Bextor is proud to be called a pop star. “Pop is adirty word in some circles” she says… I think of all of that as beingpop. In 2000 Ellis-Bextor launched her solo career by collaboratingwith Italian DJ Spiller on the club classic Groovejet (If ThisAin’t Love). A series of disco-flavoured hits followed(notably Murder n the Dance Floor) their shinyproduction married to arch knowing lyrics. “I don’t like pop music that’s just an advert for the individualperforming it” says Ellis-Bextor. “The Paris Hilton album was soboring. It just ticked all the boxes. Records like that give pop abad name.
Reporter misses record by one burpee
Canoe.ca – Jul 15, 2007
The logic was this — I can easily run a mile and I cartwheeled through most of my childhood. Put the two together and I’d have a record. But things changed since I quit dance lessons in my late teens. Maybe it’s the few inches I’ve grown since then or maybe my equilibrium has gone off-kilter. When I set out to practise cartwheels earlier this month in a not-so deserted rugby field I did not make it to 10 before I found myself on my backside dizzy and nauseous… A quick Internet search showed Ashrita Furman a Queens N. man who holds the most Guinness titles recently performed 40 squat thrusts to break the record — on the back of an elephant. I had no elephant — even though a pair of pachyderms were briefly available in Newmarket last week — but I hoped my attempt on solid ground would be good enough for the record books. (A note to other would-be Guinness record holders: Be sure to register your claim on their website guinnessworldrecords. com before making your attempt and follow the rules they set out). The big day arrived.