Look, we're not going to get on Entertainment Weekly for spending an entire issue on lists of the "New Classics" — "the 1000 best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and more of the past 25 years" — because we love lists. We love making them, we love reading them, and we especially love attempts to list new canons, because they allow for endless argument and nitpicking. Also, they sell magazines, we're told.
Similarly, it's not worth the trouble to go into some huge rant about how the only thing stupider than putting Madden Football way down at No. 50 is putting The Things They Carried way down at No. 31. Nonetheless, enormous lists like these, made by a magazine determined to mix highbrow and lowbrow, yield some really hilarious pairings — list entries that we call head-slappers, because No. 14, say, is so obviously a million times better than No. 13 that it makes you slap your head. After the jump, the ten biggest head-slappers in EW's 1,000th issue.
In ascending order of egregiousness:
58. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
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59. Battlestar Galactica
90. Napoleon Dynamite
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91. Back to the Future
9. Friends
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10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
20. The Lion King
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21. Schindler's List
74. Play
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75. Born in the U.S.A.
1. The Road
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2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Jersey Boys
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6. Fences
54. Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
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55. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
52. Waiting to Exhale
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53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
And, most ridiculous of all:
25. Shrek
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26. Hoop Dreams
The EW 1000 [EW]
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
Flavio Venturini
Artist: Flavio Venturini
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Luz Viva
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Para sempre
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Cole'o Perolas
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Meus Momentos 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Meus Momentos 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Trem Azul
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Flavio Venturini and Toninho Horta
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
O Talento de Flavio Venturini
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
Andarilho
Year: 1984
Tracks: 12
Flávio Venturini highly-developed celebrated solo work, along with his work in the 14 Bis, unitary of the most of import contemporary vocal/instrumental groups in Brazil. A fellow member of the Clube da Esquina mathematical group of composers from Minas Gerais, he has had his compositions recorded by Peter Gabriel, Milton Nascimento, Nana Caymmi, Beto Guedes, Leila Pinheiro, Jane Duboc, EmÃlio Santiago, and Simone, among others. His several hits include "Todo Azul do Mar," "Caçador de Mim" (with LuÃs Carlos Sá), "Espanhola" (with Gutemberg Guarabyra), "Planeta Sonho" (with Vermelho/Márcio Borges), "Pensando em Você" (with Kimura), "Nascente" (with M. Antunes), and "Clube da Esquina 2" (with Lô Borges/Márcio Borges/Milton Nascimento). His low amber record as a solo artist was with his record album Noites Com Sol (1994).
Venturini started to study music at 15, pickings up the piano accordion. After for a while, he enrolled at the Fundação de Educação ArtÃstica de Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), studying musical perception and pianissimo. He would later study musical composition and arranging with Walter Smetak, Ernest Widmer, Bruno Kiefer, Ailton Escobar, Cláudia Cimbleris, and Rogério Duprat. His earliest performances happened in the '60s in the Winter Festivals of Minas Gerais. In the '70s, he participated with local bands such as the Shines, Os Turbulentos, and Crisalis that played balls. He too participated in the Festival Estudantil da Canção, Festival Universitário de Belo Horizonte (winning the second home), and the Festival Internacional da Canção/FIC (1970, International Song Festival, Rio de Janeiro). In that 10, he had already joined the mathematical group known as Clube da Esquina, performing in the shows Fio da Navalha with the composers from Minas Gerais country such as Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Tavinho Moura, Toninho Horta, Vermelho, and Zé Eduardo, among others. After 1974, he became a member of O Terço when he touched to São Paulo. Having worked with that mathematical group until 1977, he had in this year his song "1974" performed by the Royal Ballet of Canada in a tour through Canada and the U.S. His "Nascente" was included on Milton Nascimento's LP Clube da Esquina No. 2 (an album on which he likewise participated as an instrumentalist). Venturini and Beto Guedes were invited on the tour that launched the album. In 1979, he formed the 14 Bis with Vermelho. Venturini's solo career started in 1982 (unbroken in parallel with the work for the 14 Bis until 1987), a year in which he recorded the LP Nascente. Also in 1982, he started to save music for the cinema, having composed soundtracks for the award-winning films Quando Os Morcegos Se Calam, Viagem de Ônibus, and Instinto Animal. He too wrote soundtracks for the film Aleluia Gretchen (SÃlvio Back) and for the flirt Hilda Furacão. In 1989, he participated in the Free Jazz Festival and performed at the Circo Voador with Toninho Horta in a show that was recorded and released in 1987. Following that, he performed several shows with Lô Borges, Zé Renato, Beto Guedes, and Wagner Tiso, including Minas Em Concerto. His earliest external performances happened in the '90s in the U.S. and Canada. At Santiago de Compostela (Espana), Venturini participated in the Missa disk operating system Quilombos during the remembrance of 500-year anniversary of the breakthrough of the Americas.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
Hulk Hogan - Hogans Prison Transfer Plans Uncovered In Taped Calls
Wrestling star HULK HOGAN is reportedly planning to call a court hearing to appeal to have his imprisoned son NICK BOLLEA transferred to another penitentiary.
In a series of taped phone conversations obtained by website TMZ.com, the former wrestler - real name Terry Bollea - can be heard making arrangements for a secret trial with his son Nick. The 17-year-old is currently serving an eight-month sentence after pleading no contest to felony reckless driving following a horrific car crash in Clearwater, Florida, which left his friend John Graziano critically injured.
In one of the recorded calls, Hogan can be heard telling the teen he will not be appearing at the courthouse, because he feared his presence would attract unwanted press attention and inadvertantly pressure the judge "not to do the right thing".
Hogan then advises his son against telling his mother - the star's estranged wife Linda - about their plan, fearing she would arrive at the hearing with her divorce lawyers and draw more attention to the court date.
Bollea also tells his father of his plans to arrive in court "in my jumpsuit, for the sympathetic factor".
It is believed Bollea will be asking to be released from Florida's Pinellas County Jail, and even request to be put under house arrest, after making his wishes known in another conversation - which has yet to hit the internet.
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"We're still asking people to buy our record, but we're putting as much free stuff out there as possible. It's like the shopping channel that gives you a trampoline for buying a running machine." COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN on the thinking behind the group's recent free single download and streaming concert give aways.
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Arrested Development movie planned?
Popular US sitcom 'Arrested Development' is to be made into a movie, according to the shows star Jason Bateman.
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Amy Winehouse gets dad to pick up Ivor Novello award
Amy Winehouse has won at the Ivor Novello Awards this afternoon (May 22), but though she attended the ceremony she did not pick up her prize.
Instead the singer called on her dad to pick up the award as 'Love Is A Losing Game' was named Best Song Musically And Lyrically at the lunchtime ceremony held at the Grovesnor House Hotel in London.
Her father, Mitch Winehouse explained: "I don't know what I'm doing up here. Amy couldn't make it, but she is getting better and sends you all her love."
He added: "She wants to thank her manager Ray. If there's a Victoria Cross in music then he should get it!"
Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' took the Album award, though the band could not attend the ceremony. They sent a message explaining they were "proud" of the album and thanked their publisher for "taking a leap of faith with the download".
Meanwhile, Robert Plant presented Phil Collins with the International Achievement award.
"Phil is one of the top five UK drummers we've ever had," explained the Led Zeppelin frontman. "Phil helped me a lot when I started my fledgling career, I came off the mothership with scars and Phil helped me a lot, I owe him a debt I'll never repay."
Accepting the award Collins hinted that he would not tour any more, as was reported recently, but said he "would never give up songwriting".
He also thanked the gorrila from the Cadbury's advert which features his song 'In the Air Tonight'. "It hasn't gone unnoticed that he's better looking and more talented then me, so I'm going to offer him the Genesis gig", he said.
The 2008 winners were:
Best Selling British Song: 'Beautiful Liar' - Beyonce and Shakira
International Achievement: Phil Collins
Best Contemporary Song: 'People Help People' - Cherry Ghost
Best Televison Soundtrack: 'Oliver Twist'
Album Award: 'In Rainbows' - Radiohead
Inspiration Award: Jazzie B
PRS Most Performed work: 'Shine' - Take That
Classic Music Award: Jonathan Dove
Best Song Musically And Lyrically: 'Love Is A Losing Game' - Amy Winehouse
Outstanding Collection: Gabrielle
Best Original Film Score: 'Atonement'
PRS Outstanding Contribution To British Music: Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook
Songwriter Of The Year: Mika
Special International Award: Dianne Warren
Lifetime Achievement Award: David Gilmour
The event was attended by the likes of Mark Ronson, Mick Hucknall, Bernard Butler, Elbow, Brett Anderson, The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, Mika, Take That and Kate Nash.
Instead the singer called on her dad to pick up the award as 'Love Is A Losing Game' was named Best Song Musically And Lyrically at the lunchtime ceremony held at the Grovesnor House Hotel in London.
Her father, Mitch Winehouse explained: "I don't know what I'm doing up here. Amy couldn't make it, but she is getting better and sends you all her love."
He added: "She wants to thank her manager Ray. If there's a Victoria Cross in music then he should get it!"
Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' took the Album award, though the band could not attend the ceremony. They sent a message explaining they were "proud" of the album and thanked their publisher for "taking a leap of faith with the download".
Meanwhile, Robert Plant presented Phil Collins with the International Achievement award.
"Phil is one of the top five UK drummers we've ever had," explained the Led Zeppelin frontman. "Phil helped me a lot when I started my fledgling career, I came off the mothership with scars and Phil helped me a lot, I owe him a debt I'll never repay."
Accepting the award Collins hinted that he would not tour any more, as was reported recently, but said he "would never give up songwriting".
He also thanked the gorrila from the Cadbury's advert which features his song 'In the Air Tonight'. "It hasn't gone unnoticed that he's better looking and more talented then me, so I'm going to offer him the Genesis gig", he said.
The 2008 winners were:
Best Selling British Song: 'Beautiful Liar' - Beyonce and Shakira
International Achievement: Phil Collins
Best Contemporary Song: 'People Help People' - Cherry Ghost
Best Televison Soundtrack: 'Oliver Twist'
Album Award: 'In Rainbows' - Radiohead
Inspiration Award: Jazzie B
PRS Most Performed work: 'Shine' - Take That
Classic Music Award: Jonathan Dove
Best Song Musically And Lyrically: 'Love Is A Losing Game' - Amy Winehouse
Outstanding Collection: Gabrielle
Best Original Film Score: 'Atonement'
PRS Outstanding Contribution To British Music: Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook
Songwriter Of The Year: Mika
Special International Award: Dianne Warren
Lifetime Achievement Award: David Gilmour
The event was attended by the likes of Mark Ronson, Mick Hucknall, Bernard Butler, Elbow, Brett Anderson, The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, Mika, Take That and Kate Nash.
Georgetown hosts music fest this weekend
Forget the influx of new residents and the growing business district. The surest sign yet that Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood has arrived is the lineup for its music festival this weekend.
The list of artists and bands taking the stage for the Georgetown Music Fest today and Saturday reads like a who's who of rising and established locals: PWRFL Power, Thee Emergency, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Cancer Rising, Carrie Akre, Hypatia Lake and more than two dozen others.
It all goes down in the south-of-downtown nabe on three outdoor, all-ages stages (plus the 21-and-up stage at Jules Mae) starting at 4 p.m. today and at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
Find the full lineup and schedule online (www.georgetownmusicfest.com) where you can also get information on tickets for the fest, being held in the 6000 block of Airport Way South, Seattle; $17 at the door, $26 for the two-day pass (800-838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com).
Seattle Times staff
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Universal Sifts Its Ashes
Last week's devastating fire at Universal Studios, which destroyed the company's vault holding thousands of prints of movies and TV shows, may have been more serious than originally believed, Daily Variety reported today (Thursday). The trade paper noted that while studio executives had stated following the fire that the prints were replaceable since the original negatives were stored elsewhere, striking prints from older films is no simple matter. "There might be issues with the negative fading, or it could have shriveled," George Eastman House curator of Motion Pictures Patrick Loughney told Variety. David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, observed that some of the movies may have been shot in Technicolor, which used a printing process rather than a chemical one -- a process that no longer is used. "You're not going to get a print of the same quality," he said. On the other hand it was reported that many copies of the prints had been stored at other locations and some of the Universal City collection were in circulation or in the studio's shipping depot at the time of the fire. Moreover all of the films were reportedly insured.
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The Easy Access Orchestra
Artist: The Easy Access Orchestra
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Discography:
The Affair
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
My First MTV Movie Awards, By Kim Stolz
MTV News correspondent blogged about her first MTV Movie Awards experience. "This was one of the most exciting weeks -- and, of course, learning experiences -- of my life," she wrote.
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