Rapper LIL WAYNE has been hit with yet another lawsuit after reportedly still failing to pay for work carried out on his custom Bentley in 2005.
The Lollipop hitmaker - real name Dwayne Carter Jr. - is already being sued for breach of contract by California car customiser LeMarck deAndre, after allegedly reneging on a deal to cover costs totalling $80,000 (GBP40,000) for modifying his 1999 Bentley Arnage.
In the original lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of California in December (07), deAndre claimed he initially received a payment of $78,507 (GBP39,253) from Carter in August 2006 - 10 months after the invoice was originally due.
The late payment broke their agreement and deAndre cancelled the job altogether.
But deAndre has now filed another suit against Lil Wayne for a further $123,800 (GBP61,900) in damages.
And he blames the rapper's "financial illiteracy" for the blunder.
He says, "My direct observation and experience with Dwayne M. Carter's financial and personal irresponsibility over the years has taught and demonstrated to me that he has become the 'new symbol of financial illiteracy and slavery in/of the 21st century' and this is unequivocally not fiction nor is it a misunderstanding.
"For a little over five years, I have been involved with the consistent and perpetual business behavioural illustrations of Dwayne M. Carter's high-level of financial illiteracy, lack of liquidity, leveraged acquisition liability accumulation and below zero net-worth; as well as lack of business communication, character, and integrity - all learned behaviours - and the primary reasons for non-payment."
Wednesday 25 June 2008
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Sludge
Artist: Sludge
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Scarecrow Messiah
Year:
Tracks: 8
Glasvegas preview debut album in Oxford
Friday 13 June 2008
Shakira shakes it at charity event (+pics)
A lineup of Latin mega-stars including Shakira, Ricky Martin and Alejandro Sanz performed simultaneously on stages in Buenos Aires and Mexico City over the weekend, raising awareness for the needs of poor children in Latin America.
Outspoken Colombian rocker Juanes, one of the most anticipated performers at Saturday's event, was absent due to problems with his plane.
Organised by the Fundacion Alas (Latin America in Solidarity Action), the concerts, which have been widely referred to as the Latin American version of 2005's Live 8 anti-poverty concerts, brought together more than 380,000 people in the Mexican capital's Zocalo plaza and the riverside Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires.
Mexican magnate Carlos Slim and Howard Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett, donated $200 million to combat poverty in Latin America.
In Buenos Aires, the eight-hour show took off with a performance by Mexican bombshell Paulina Rubio. At dusk, as the moon rose over the River Plate, Uruguayan singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler performed his Oscar-winning song Al Otro Lado del Rio, from The Motorcycle Diaries.
Rockers Fito Paez and former Soda Stereo frontman Gustavo Cerati came out for the most magical moment of the night, together singing Cerati's hit Crimen and Paez's anthem Ciudad de Pobres Corazones.
At the end of the show, Alas founder Shakira took the stage with Sanz for their chart-topping duet La Tortura.
Shakira also perfumed with Mercedes Sosa, the popular Argentine who is an emblematic figure of Latin American social commitment.
Shakira closed the concert with Cerati, singing Soda Stereo's spine-tingling homage to Buenos Aires, En la Ciudad de la Furia.
In Mexico City, David Bisbal started a marathon show for the thousands in the city's historical center who were undeterred by day-long rain. Hosted by Miguel Bose, co-founder of Alas, the concert featured, among others, Mexican popular heroes Tigres del Norte, Timbariche, Ricardo Montaner, Babasonicos, Chayanne, Emmanuel and Aleks Syntek.
Martin surprised the audience by singing his crossover hit Livin' la Vida Loca in English, ostensibly to take awareness of the concert beyond Spanish-speaking borders.
Mexico's classic rockers Mana performed their recent hit Labios Compartidos, followed by the evocative Donde Jugaran los Ninos (Where will the Children Play).
"It's time that the politicians stop losing time arguing about unimportant issues and that they focus on the children," Mana singer Fher Olvera told the crowd.
"Our attitude is going to force them to do it."
However, other than some artists' declarations and short messages shown on the screens during the show (32 million children in the region live on less than a dollar a day, according to the foundation), there was little information available to demonstrate how Alas and its artist members were working directly to improve the quality of life for Latin American youth.
But the excitement in Mexico continued with the appearance of Juan Luis Guerra, who appropriately for the day, performed Ojala que Llueva Cafe.
Just after midnight, Bose sang a duet with Ana Torroja of Mecano fame.
His set was followed by a spectacular finale with the participants reuniting on the Mexico City stage to sing the chorus to his hit Te Amare.
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Hayden Goes Both Ways
18-year-old Hayden won't talk about dating her much older co-star Milo Ventimiglia, but had no problem revealing she's had a little lady-tongue action. Just when Hayden Panettiere couldn't get any sexier, she goes and tells the UK edition of Glamour magazine about her experimental ways (via Just Jared). Hayden said, "It's great to be single. It's great to have boyfriends. Or girlfriends. There are occasions when you kiss your best friend growing up, having fun and goofing about. Like perfecting your technique!"
Yes. Practice does make perfect.
Larry Ditches LaLa for Louis
Larry Birkhead is leaving Hollywood so Dannielynn can have a more normal life. Birkhead tells People he bought a 10,000 square-foot, 6-bedroom, fixer-upper in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Looks like his photography career is really paying off!
At this point Larry and Anna Nicole's little girl will be bi-costal traveling back and forth between Kentucky and Anna Nicole's home in L.A. Larry wanted Dannielynn to grow up in the house her mother and brother lived in, but says he may unload the property because its filled with memories of Anna and doesn't have a backyard or any kids in the neighborhood for Danielynn to play with.
Paris Hilton Still Empty Inside
The day Paris Hilton actually gets pregnant won't be that exciting -- because she's been pregnant at least 1000 times before according to the rumor mill. The latest story said the heiress was expecting with her BF Benji Madden, but those rumors were quickly shot down after she had a taste of champagne while taping her new reality show and then later partying it up in Vegas (via People). The world can breathe a sigh of relief.Party Favors: Eliot's Prostitute Closing Trap ... Cindy Margolis Desperate for Love?
Ashley Dupré has kept a low profile since she brought down the Governor of NY and then gave the rest of us a look at what the Gov had for himself, when Joe Francis released video of her in "Girls Gone Wild". Ashley was rumored to testify in her lawsuit against Joe Francis at the end of June but her people say she's not opening her mouth anytime soon (NY Daily News). ...Being a hot, single model is hard for a lady. Cindy Margolis is looking for a little action and holding a "Win a Date With Cindy at the Playboy Mansion Sweepstakes" in this month's issue of the nudie mag (via NY Daily News).
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Kate Moss Parties Her Hair Off...Literally
Kate Moss literally partied until her hair fell out last night.
The model - currently in Berlin 'on business' with boyfriend Jamie Hince - was leaving the launch party of new fragrance 'Velvet Hour' at the city's Watergate Club when her blonde extensions made a bid for freedom and ended up in a tussled heap on the floor.
Earlier in the day, the supermodel was snapped arriving at the Hotel de Rome with her bony cleavage and dimply thighs on display, courtesy of a revealing tailored dress.
Meanwhile, Topshop tycoon Sir Phllip Green is said to be spending £100,000 to fly the model out for a luxury holiday after she complained of feeling "a bit run down".
"Kate phoned him in tears, saying she is exhausted from too much travel and emotionally battered," a source is quoted by The Sun as saying.
"She also said things between her and Jamie were strained because of his European tour with The Kills and his bandmate Alison Mosshart not wanting Kate around the band when they’re gigging.
"So Sir Philip is flying Kate and Jamie to Spain for absolute pampering."
Looks like her frazzled hair could also do with a bit of TLC.
The model - currently in Berlin 'on business' with boyfriend Jamie Hince - was leaving the launch party of new fragrance 'Velvet Hour' at the city's Watergate Club when her blonde extensions made a bid for freedom and ended up in a tussled heap on the floor.
Earlier in the day, the supermodel was snapped arriving at the Hotel de Rome with her bony cleavage and dimply thighs on display, courtesy of a revealing tailored dress.
Meanwhile, Topshop tycoon Sir Phllip Green is said to be spending £100,000 to fly the model out for a luxury holiday after she complained of feeling "a bit run down".
"Kate phoned him in tears, saying she is exhausted from too much travel and emotionally battered," a source is quoted by The Sun as saying.
"She also said things between her and Jamie were strained because of his European tour with The Kills and his bandmate Alison Mosshart not wanting Kate around the band when they’re gigging.
"So Sir Philip is flying Kate and Jamie to Spain for absolute pampering."
Looks like her frazzled hair could also do with a bit of TLC.
Carrie Underwood - Underwood Im Gross
Country beauty CARRIE UNDERWOOD laughs off her reputation as a sex symbol, insisting she's awkward, nervous and has bad habits.
The former American Idol winner claims fans shouldn't believe the image she portrays onstage, on TV and in magazine photoshoots, and they'd all be stunned if they spent time with her in private.
Underwood tells America's Cosmopolitan magazine, "I don't consider myself sexy... I'm kind of a nervous person in general.
"I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot!"
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Play it again: Mission of Burma turns old albums into new shows
Playing a classic rock album front-to-back in concert should be a gambit for nostalgia-milking dinosaur bands: Certainly Roger Waters owes most of his 21st century fortune to the practice. But it isn’t Rush with “2112” or Yes with “Fragile” spearheading the trend.
Rock’s leading indie, underground and cult bands are fueling the fad. Artists from Mission of Burma and Built to Spill to the Lemonheads and Camper Van Beethoven are playing their milestone releases live in 2008.
Thursday night, Boston’s Mission of Burma performs 1981’s “Signals, Calls and Marches” at the Paradise. Friday the quartet returns to do 1982’s “Vs.” Thorny, brutal slices of post-punk, the albums were recently reissued by Matador. Burma figured doing them live would be good promotion.
“In some skewed way it seemed to make sense,” Burma guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller said. “When we were touring for (2006’s) ‘The Obliterati,’ we kind of nuked all the old stuff from the set list. Partly because we suspected we might be doing the old stuff when the reissues came out.”
Many in the indie rock crowd like the idea because no one thought they’d like the idea.
“This is all very un-Mission of Burma,” Miller said. “We have only done the same set twice. It was in 1979 and it was a disaster.”
The whole-album concert is becoming incredibly chic among Burma’s peers. New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties has sponsored a series of entire-album events called “Don’t Look Back” since 2005; the inaugural show featured Western Massachusetts rockers Dinosaur Jr. doing “You’re Living All Over Me” and Boston’s Lemonheads doing “It’s a Shame About Ray.” When the deluxe CD of “Ray” was released two months ago, the Lemonheads celebrated by playing it in full at the Paradise.
“ATP set the precedent, but now there’s a tradition for doing this,” Miller said. “This summer we’re playing at the Pitchfork festival doing ‘Vs.’ After us comes Sebedoh doing ‘Bubble and Scrape’ and then Public Enemy doing ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions (to Hold Us Back).’ ”
The practice will likely continue to grow as more bands get hip to the notion of reliving their not-so-distant heyday.
“As far back as I can remember I liked the idea of hearing my favorite bands doing my favorite albums,” said Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch, who will perform 1997’s “Perfect from Now On” at the Orpheum on Sept. 27.
“The idea of going to a show knowing exactly what to expect is really interesting to me,” Martsch said. “But it seemed like a lot of work to do just one show. We’re going to bring along John McMahon, who played cello on the album. To take the time to integrate John and work out the sound kinks and add keyboards, it made sense to do a whole big tour.”
For the first time in many of these indie bands’ histories, they’ll be paying attention to details their messy, unrehearsed genre usually ignores. No Waters-esque lasers or smoke or flying pigs, but plenty of chord changes to remember.
“We’ve had to learn 12 new songs,” said Miller. “Not new songs but resuscitated songs, some that we haven’t played since 1980. Relearning them can be kind of dizzying.”
Mission of Burma, at the Paradise, Thursday night with Cul de Sac, Friday with A.K.A.C.O.D. Tickets: $20; 617-562-8800.
Rock’s leading indie, underground and cult bands are fueling the fad. Artists from Mission of Burma and Built to Spill to the Lemonheads and Camper Van Beethoven are playing their milestone releases live in 2008.
Thursday night, Boston’s Mission of Burma performs 1981’s “Signals, Calls and Marches” at the Paradise. Friday the quartet returns to do 1982’s “Vs.” Thorny, brutal slices of post-punk, the albums were recently reissued by Matador. Burma figured doing them live would be good promotion.
“In some skewed way it seemed to make sense,” Burma guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller said. “When we were touring for (2006’s) ‘The Obliterati,’ we kind of nuked all the old stuff from the set list. Partly because we suspected we might be doing the old stuff when the reissues came out.”
Many in the indie rock crowd like the idea because no one thought they’d like the idea.
“This is all very un-Mission of Burma,” Miller said. “We have only done the same set twice. It was in 1979 and it was a disaster.”
The whole-album concert is becoming incredibly chic among Burma’s peers. New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties has sponsored a series of entire-album events called “Don’t Look Back” since 2005; the inaugural show featured Western Massachusetts rockers Dinosaur Jr. doing “You’re Living All Over Me” and Boston’s Lemonheads doing “It’s a Shame About Ray.” When the deluxe CD of “Ray” was released two months ago, the Lemonheads celebrated by playing it in full at the Paradise.
“ATP set the precedent, but now there’s a tradition for doing this,” Miller said. “This summer we’re playing at the Pitchfork festival doing ‘Vs.’ After us comes Sebedoh doing ‘Bubble and Scrape’ and then Public Enemy doing ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions (to Hold Us Back).’ ”
The practice will likely continue to grow as more bands get hip to the notion of reliving their not-so-distant heyday.
“As far back as I can remember I liked the idea of hearing my favorite bands doing my favorite albums,” said Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch, who will perform 1997’s “Perfect from Now On” at the Orpheum on Sept. 27.
“The idea of going to a show knowing exactly what to expect is really interesting to me,” Martsch said. “But it seemed like a lot of work to do just one show. We’re going to bring along John McMahon, who played cello on the album. To take the time to integrate John and work out the sound kinks and add keyboards, it made sense to do a whole big tour.”
For the first time in many of these indie bands’ histories, they’ll be paying attention to details their messy, unrehearsed genre usually ignores. No Waters-esque lasers or smoke or flying pigs, but plenty of chord changes to remember.
“We’ve had to learn 12 new songs,” said Miller. “Not new songs but resuscitated songs, some that we haven’t played since 1980. Relearning them can be kind of dizzying.”
Mission of Burma, at the Paradise, Thursday night with Cul de Sac, Friday with A.K.A.C.O.D. Tickets: $20; 617-562-8800.
Hot Dog! Tori Has the Baby!
Despite her best efforts to make her newborn sick, Tori Spelling –- everybody now, sigh of relief –- gave birth without incident. Mazel tov!Stella Doreen McDermott was born yesterday via C-section, and weighed six pounds, eight ounces, and no amount of listeria-laden soft-serve or hot dog could keep the baby from kicking healthily and happily. "I've have my beautiful little girl and now I'll have my little girl," she told People.
Tori and hub-manservant Dean McDermott already have a one-year-old boy, Liam Aaron. Oh, and their reality show starts next week.
R. Kelly's Limp Defense
So R. Kelly's pricey defense team closed their case in his kiddie-porn trial yesterday, after just two days and only 12 witnesses.And the buzz is that their low-ball strategy – wherein they failed to call the alleged video victim as a witness – could backfire and send their client to the clink for a long time. Leaving her out, says one expert to the Chicago Sun-Times, might cause jurors "to speculate she had some inducement not to testify."
The prosecution returns today to hammer home their point about the mole.
Bros Get Plenty of B.J. in Brody's Show
Brody Jenner's new series is both brilliant and despicable.The ultimate bro will be getting his own MTV strip, reports the Hollywood Reporter, in which a bunch of guys get to compete in man-sport like skydiving and dealing with the paps, and if they don't make the cut, they will have to leave the show's bachelor pad dripping wet in a swimsuit, holding their bag.
Even better, the bros will get "group date" and "alone time" with B.J.
Party Favors: New Edition's Bivins – Charles is in Charge! ... "Celeb Circus" Hazardous to Health
Michael Bivins – yep, the one from New Edition – is working these days as an analyst for TNT covering the NBA (who knew?) and tells CYInterview.com not to worry about his on-air chum Charles Barkley's gambling: "He's a grown man." ... They're not clowns per se, but the celebs on NBC's "Celebrity Circus" are definitely finding out just how silly the circus can make you look. The New York Post reports that Christopher Knight, Stacey Dash, and Janet Evans have all been nicked – and repaired – in the making of the show.
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Indie filmmakers brace for hit from recession
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - How vibrant is the independent film scene? How much does it depend on the major film festivals? How useful are the markets that accompany them?
On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival and its attendant market, The Hollywood Reporter discussed those matters with four experts: Newsweek film critic David Ansen; Kirk D'Amico, president and CEO of Myriad Pictures, a production and sales company; talent agent Cassian Elwes, co-head of William Morris Independent; and Mark Gill, CEO of finance and production company the Film Department.
THR: LET ME THROW OUT A STATEMENT: THE INDEPENDENT FILM
SCENE IS AS FLOURISHING AS IT HAS EVER BEEN. TRUE OR FALSE?
GILL: True, with a bullet in the wrong direction. There's more money in it, certainly, than there ever has been before. There's more studio interest than there has been before. But there are two parts of it that are falling apart: One is that the sort of movie that's really hoping to get into Sundance, of which there are 5,000 a year, can't seem to find distribution or a way to get to the audience. And the other is that all the money that's fueled a lot of this boom is about to go away.
THR: THE MOVIES THAT CAN'T GET INTO SUNDANCE BEING THE
ULTRA-LOW-BUDGET MOVIES?
GILL: The under $7 million or $8 million movies. The market for those is extremely tough. Every now and again, there's a "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) and everybody gets excited and thinks: "I could have that too."
On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival and its attendant market, The Hollywood Reporter discussed those matters with four experts: Newsweek film critic David Ansen; Kirk D'Amico, president and CEO of Myriad Pictures, a production and sales company; talent agent Cassian Elwes, co-head of William Morris Independent; and Mark Gill, CEO of finance and production company the Film Department.
THR: LET ME THROW OUT A STATEMENT: THE INDEPENDENT FILM
SCENE IS AS FLOURISHING AS IT HAS EVER BEEN. TRUE OR FALSE?
GILL: True, with a bullet in the wrong direction. There's more money in it, certainly, than there ever has been before. There's more studio interest than there has been before. But there are two parts of it that are falling apart: One is that the sort of movie that's really hoping to get into Sundance, of which there are 5,000 a year, can't seem to find distribution or a way to get to the audience. And the other is that all the money that's fueled a lot of this boom is about to go away.
THR: THE MOVIES THAT CAN'T GET INTO SUNDANCE BEING THE
ULTRA-LOW-BUDGET MOVIES?
GILL: The under $7 million or $8 million movies. The market for those is extremely tough. Every now and again, there's a "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) and everybody gets excited and thinks: "I could have that too."
Latitude
Artist: Latitude
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
40 Degrees North
Year: 1987
Tracks: 9
Latitude
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Tatum - The Dog Made Me Do It!
Tatum O'Neal is playing the oldest blame game in the world for her crack attack –- it was the dog's fault!In this case, she tells the New York Post, it was the death of her dog Lena that set her off in the spiral that ended with her allegedly buying crack on a street corner. "My daughter and I had to put her down. It was too horrible for words," says the ex-kid star.
She adds that the cops "came and saved me" from doing crack. Of course, she pleaded not guilty to actually buying the crack yesterday.
"Nashville" Wannabe Corn Gets Creamed
The drama is already roiling on "Nashville Star" – and show is just starting to tape! TMZ hears that Charla Corn, an original member of the top 12 go the axe from producers because they thought she wasn't up to "Star" snuff.So as chance would have it, guy group Third Town had to get on a plane at 2 am Monday to get to Nashtown for the morning. No word on what's happened to Charla, but she'll be missing the show's big move from USA to NBC.
We also hear that Taylor Swift will be performing on the premiere.
SJP – I Do Not Follow LiLo Anytime, Anywhere
Sarah Jessica Parker is super steamed that a dress designer put her in a dress for the big "Sex and the City" premiere that had been everywhere before – including on Lindsay Lohan!The New York Times first reported that SJP wore a Nina Ricci gown to "SATC" that – horrors! – had been worn earlier in the month by socialite Lauren Santo Domingo and then – before that – by Lindsay Lohan in a Disney ad campaign. That just won't do, says Sarah: "It's just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again."
Party Favors: Universal Blaze Blamed on Blowtorch ... Allan Houston Gets Back to the Playground
L.A. County fire officials say that the blaze that engulfed Universal Studios' backlot in flames was caused by workers using a blowtorch to heat asphalt roofing shingles, according to the L.A. Times. ... While old combatants Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce battle it out in the finals, we hear that ex-NY Knick Allan Houston is hosting a celeb b-ball tournament at legendary Rucker Park on Sunday, June 14, as part of his 5th annual Father Knows Best retreat – a program that focuses on dad-son relationships.
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