The News Review:
- ‘The government never rewarded me when I won world titles’
- Jolin Tsai to break into movies
- David Dhawan takes a break!
- Sing out strong – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Excerpt from’Can’t Buy Me Love’
- Entertainment & the Arts | The Week Ahead | Seattle Times…
- All smiles at Pacolet festival
‘The government never rewarded me when I won world titles’
Calcutta Telegraph – Oct 21, 2007
Talk of life outside billiards and Advani says he’s not tied to the game. “For me there is more to life than snooker” he says. The commerce graduate loves to hang out with friends break dance and worships Michael Jackson. He’s been itching to watch a horror film but his friends are too scared to accompany him. So Advani so far single makes do by enjoying films such as Dhamaal with his pals. Advani grew up in Bangalore after spending some years in Kuwait where his father who died when he was six had a business. After the first war in Iraq the family moved back to India.
Jolin Tsai to break into movies
china.org.cn – Oct 21, 2007
I’m always doing something. I’ll always look for more stuff to help me grow up. Tsai’s break into movies could generate recognition outside the Chinese-speaking world where other local pop singers often fail because of differing music tastes and language barriers. Tsai first made a name in 1999 by winning first place in an MTV singing competition with a cover of the Whitney Houston song The Greatest Love of All. Her first album Jolin 1019 came out a year later and sold more than 400000 copies in Asia. She has released nine albums altogether. The most successful Dancing Diva sold more than one million copies following its release last year… Her first album Jolin 1019 came out a year later and sold more than 400000 copies in Asia. She has released nine albums altogether. The most successful Dancing Diva sold more than one million copies following its release last year. Her latest album Agent has sold 150000 copies since its release in September. cn ctober 21 2007).
David Dhawan takes a break!
Times of India – Oct 21, 2007
Comic king DavidDhawan is taking a chill pill and is enjoying the success of Partner. I won?t be doinganything this year. All I want is to focus on my reality-dance show and enjoythe success of Partner? he laughs. Now if he?s going tosimply laze back and bask in glory we guess we?ll have to wait anotheryear to see a little fatter well-rested Dhawan back in action with the sequelof Partner. getElementById(”storydiv”).
Sing out strong – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Oct 21, 2007
It’s partly the chance towin a bit of cash (although the sums at stake are modest – $50000tops). But mostly it seems to be the opportunity to get on stagewith a mike in hand and belt out a song – or part thereof – thathas them squirming and squealing like toddlers in urgent need of anap. They like to dance as they sing too. Apparently there’s awhole world of people out there – not typically people I know -who spend their days jiggling cheerfully and unselfconsciously tomusic. In the bleachers a large audience is also like totallystoked. They too can think of no better way to pass an evening thandancing in the aisles clapping their hands and singing along totop-10 hits from decades past. Can they all be members of Hillsong?r is there just something about music – especially top-10 pophits music that catches the general public’s imagination – thatdissolves inhibitions and engenders a sense of joie de vivre… We had singing-plus-surgery in ChicagoHope and singing-plus-lawyering in Ally McBeal(David E. Kelley does love a song’n'dance routine). This year alone The Choir of Hard Knocks was abreak-out hit for the ABC with the feelgood one-two oftriumph-over-tragedy plus singing. Although the show rated itspants off and the choir itself toured very successfully thesinging itself wasn’t that great. But that hardly seemed tomatter. n Ten Idol has long been a ratings triumph combiningbad singing (the auditions) good singing (the top 100) and greatsinging (the finals) with the drama of the journey and the hookof audience participation. The ABC hasn’t been above exploiting most of those ingredientsin its own highbrow way with peratunity z.
Excerpt from’Can’t Buy Me Love’
USA Today – Oct 21, 2007
Phillips started him out on a ballad “I Love You Because. ” The performance like that of nearly every ballad Presley would ever record was cloying and overdrawn. Then during a break in the session Elvis began to fool around with a blues song he knew called “That’s All Right”; Moore and Black fell in behind him and Phillips rolled the tape. f the many astonishing things about Elvis Presley nothing is more astonishing than the fact that Elvis “never did sing anywhere in public” (outside of a couple of high school talent shows) before he started making records with Sam Phillips at Sun. For all its romantic associations with dance halls and honkytonks rock ‘n’ roll was born and reared as the child of records and radio. That the prime exponent of this new style of music should be a singer who possessed no prior professional experience was an anomaly; but it was also a telling sign of the way that record-making would change the very nature of music-making in the years ahead. Presley’s inexperience was all the more astonishing in light of the opinion held by many of his fans that he would never sound much better on a record than he did on “That’s All Right… Then during a break in the session Elvis began to fool around with a blues song he knew called “That’s All Right”; Moore and Black fell in behind him and Phillips rolled the tape. f the many astonishing things about Elvis Presley nothing is more astonishing than the fact that Elvis “never did sing anywhere in public” (outside of a couple of high school talent shows) before he started making records with Sam Phillips at Sun. For all its romantic associations with dance halls and honkytonks rock ‘n’ roll was born and reared as the child of records and radio. That the prime exponent of this new style of music should be a singer who possessed no prior professional experience was an anomaly; but it was also a telling sign of the way that record-making would change the very nature of music-making in the years ahead. Presley’s inexperience was all the more astonishing in light of the opinion held by many of his fans that he would never sound much better on a record than he did on “That’s All Right. ” Not only were most of the mannerisms that would define his vocal style present at the creation—from the sudden swoops in register to the habit derived from gospel singing of starting his lines with a throat-clearing “well” that gave whatever followed the feeling of a retort; even more impressive was the extent to which his first professional recording was marked by the trait that has characterized every great popular singer: the absolute assertion of his personality over the song. From this it might be concluded that Presley was simply a “natural.
Entertainment & the Arts | The Week Ahead | Seattle Times…
Seattle Times – Oct 21, 2007
FestivalsTurkish Cultural FestivalTDAY Music and dance performances exhibits documentary films food and children’s activities on the culture of Turkey. today Center House Seattle Center (206-684-7200 or… ” Seattle Children’s Theatre launches a new season with a likely cash cow: the wildly popular youth musical that first appeared on the Disney cable channel and is now all over the place. It’s about what happens when a “jock” and a “brain” decide to break away from teen stereotypes and try out for a high-school show. It’s been given a rousing staging here that should delight the 8-to-12 set with its cheerful performances energetic dancing and positive vibes.
All smiles at Pacolet festival
Spartanburg Herald Journal – Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription… – Oct 21, 2007
Wilkinson listened closely as dance leader Beckee Garris in the 17th annual Greater Pacolet Area Indian Summer Festival explained the tradition inviting the audience to make a small circle inside a larger one. “We will pass by many times hoping our paths will also cross many times in life then walk to the middle and scream as loud as you can. You have to stay holding hands throughout the dance. Don’t let go and break the circle” Garris said. Coming back to her family Wilkinson said she would be unable to comply holding her son in her arms. ffering encouragement her grandmother Pamela Rogers urged her to return to the circles. “He couldn’t care less” Rogers told her.