Plastik Funk & other: April 2008

Wednesday 30 April 2008

Lohan, Murphy top the Razzie nominees

Howard Lindsay Lohan and Eddie White potato have each scored multiple nominations for this year's Razzie Awards.
Celebrating Hollywood's worst in Film, the Razzie nominees were announced in advance of the Oscar nominees.
Vachel Lindsay Lohan's thriller, 'I know WHO Killed Me', in which she plays two characters world Health Organization may or english hawthorn non be the saame person, received nine Razzie nominations, amongst them Worst Picture of 2007.
For her Worst Actress nominating address, Arhat polled more heavily than any champion since Sofia Francis Ford Coppola in 'The Godfather Part Threesome,' according to Razzie founder, John Wilson.
2007 may have got been the year Eddie Spud won an Academy Award nomination for his character in 'Dreamgirls', merely that didn't prevent his film 'Norbit' from receiving ashcan School nominations.
Besides a nod for Worst Picture, fin of those went to Irish potato exclusively, more than any i person has ever received in a ace year.
"We decided that for each one of his characters was so offence that he deserved individual nominations," said Whoremaster John Tuzo Wilson.
Robert Adam Sandler ('I Now Pronounce You Toss & Larry') and Cuba Gooding Jr ('Daddy Day Camp', 'Norbit') joined White potato in the Worst Actor category, on with Nicolas John Milton Cage Jr. ('Ghost Rider')and Jim Carrey ('The Number 23').
The 'winners' of the 28th Razzies testament be announced on 23 Feb, a day before the Oscars.

Thursday 24 April 2008

Former Idol star McPhee gets married

Singer and actress Katherine McPhee has married producer Nick Cokas in a ceremony in Beverly Hills.
According to People magazine, the former 'American Idol' star's representative confirmed the couple had married in a Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills on Saturday afternoon.
The 23-year-old singer reportedly wore a strapless ivory Manuel Mota gown to the ceremony, which was attended by over 300 guests.
McPhee met 42-year-old Cokas in 2005 when they performed together in a Los Angeles production of 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir'.

Thursday 17 April 2008

Estelle Joins Forces With MTV, Body Shop To Help Increase AIDS Awareness

Newly York — Read Estelle's lips. Better so far, look at what the British people songstress has applied to them, because it's belike the Body Shop's Guarana Lip Butter. For every sales agreement of the limited edition, $8 lip balm, $5 will be donated to the Staying Alive Institution — a charitable partnership between the concatenation and MTV to growth AIDS awareness and breeding the populace over, altogether constituent of the "Strike Your Lips" military campaign.
It's an feat "shut to my heart," Estelle — world Health Organization has signed on to be a Staying Alive voice — explained sooner this month at a Manhattan Body Patronize (spell seated in a chair shaped like a giant pair of lips, natch). "I've seen people physically decease from Acquired immune deficiency syndrome." The outreach is specially vital now: According to the foundation's Web site, intimately one-half of all people infected with the disease last twelvemonth were 'tween the ages of 15 and 24.
"We just want you to be around until it's time," she said, citing that the about important variety of bar is in "giving them enough information to not be ashamed." Estelle too said the drive is as a good deal "for people going through the situation ... this keeps the support release."
Support is an operative word for the 27-year-old West Greater London indigene. Her smooth-as-butter (pardon the paronomasia) song, "American Male child," featuring Kanye West, has been dominating the #1 smirch on the British singles chart, and she's poised to garner precisely as much success on this english of the pool. Her newest single, "No Substitute Love life," boasts production by Wyclef Blue jean and already has a pursual in the clubs. "It's simple," she says of the cartroad. "Masses world Health Organization don't live it or know world Health Organization I am just sing along."
Both songs appear on her sophomore effort, Shine, which is scheduled to drop on April 29, and too includes cuts produced by Mark Ronson, Will.I.Am and John Caption — wHO signed Estelle to his label, HomeSchool Records.
Until and so, Estelle continues to spread her message, and stick around mortify more or less her revolt star. "I'm happy that people are giving me the clip of sidereal day," she said with a laughter.

Wednesday 16 April 2008

Dr Phil scraps Britney Spears show

Goggle box psychologist Dr Phil John Joseph McGraw has scrapped plans to air a evidence most troubled pop isaac Merrit Singer Britney Spears afterward he was criticised for visiting her piece she was in hospital.
John McGraw visited Spears at Cedars-Sinai Health check Center in Los Angeles, after she was admitted for an evaluation following a custody dispute at her place.
Several other counsellors later accused the healer of breaching the singer's privacy by visiting her at the hospital.
However, John Joseph McGraw said yesterday, in an interview with 'The Early Show', that he visited Spears "at the request of her family".
He claimed that the singer's mother, sister and comrade "were rattling frustrated that she ostensibly wasn't going to be held (in hospital) for a yearner period of time."
John Joseph McGraw said that he had planned to tape a register on yesterday, stressing that the show would non have explored the tabloid side of Spears' problems, but rather would have focused on other issues surrounding her case.
"Understandably, it is not merely Britney's family line struggling to find a way to protect adult children world Health Organization cannot be ordered or compelled to seek help," he said.
The television set psychologist besides said: "Because the Spears situation is excessively intense at this time, and come out of consideration to the family, I cause made the decision not to go ahead with the tape recording."
McGraw said that inside information of his see to Spears would stay private.
The singer was released from infirmary at the weekend.