My First MTV Movie Awards, By Kim Stolz & other

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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."

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.

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