Brittany Snow has been singing the praises of some hookers she met after studying them for movie research, and even claims that some of them looked like her!
The Hairspray star plays prostitutes in new films Finding Amanda and Black Water Transit and her research left her convinced that most hookers are sweethearts.
She says: "I learned a lot about where they were from and their mindset and how they went about getting to that profession.
"I don't agree with it but I think, after talking with these girls, there's definitely a connection that I have to these girls and what they're all about.
"That stigma that people have is really interesting. There's definitely a notion that the girls come from broken families and they're all messed up and on drugs and crazy.
"That was not the case at all for the girls that I talked to, thankfully. I felt like I was talking to a friend of mine. They were very articulate; they went to high school. Some of them went to college and have kids.
"Some of them looked exactly like me."
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Stimmhorn
Artist: Stimmhorn
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Inland
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Schnee
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Melken
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Stimmhorn is one of Switzerland's truly imaginative bands. Combining natural sounds, man-made instruments, and overtone singing, the group's concerts, in churches and standardised acoustically intentional spaces, experience been described as "technoparty or privy religious ritual." Formed in 1995, Stimmhorn represents the combined vision of multi-instrumentalist and singer Christian Zehnder, world Health Organization combines Mongolian partial singing and yodeling, and brass and woodwinds player Balthaser Streiff. A professional musician since 1985, Zehnder (born in 1961) studied music with Raymond Laback and Japanese philosophy with Tokne Nomaka. Alphorn, Buechel, trumpet, and cognate role player, Streiff (born in 1963) is a graduate of the jazz school in Luzern. In addition to playacting with Stimmhorn, he continues to teach trumpet and Alphorn.
Miley Cyrus - Whos That Girl More Saucy Cyrus Snaps Online
Teen sensation MILEY CYRUS has been caught up in a fresh photo scandal after saucy shots of a girl, who resembles her, stripping have appeared online.
The snaps are similar to those which appeared on website MySpace.com last month (Apr08), and come just weeks after the 15 year old was forced to defend her decision to pose topless in a bedsheet for a Vanity Fair shoot.
In the new pictures, a girl bearing an uncanny likeness to Cyrus holds a t-shirt up with her teeth, showing a bare stomach and red panties.
According to blog Oceanup.com the snapshots were emailed to pop star Nick Jonas when the pair dated last year (07).
If the shots prove to be genuine, the pictures will further compromise her image as a child-friendly star, and pile pressure on her employers at Disney to address her penchant for posing provocatively.
Although Cyrus apologised for the Vanity Fair photoshoot, she refused to accept she shouldn't pose in private snaps.
After the last set of pictures appeared on MySpace, she said, "For me, I was like, `It's not a big deal.' But they got spread around. Like someone copied and pasted and said, 'Oh my God, look at this, and blah blah blah.'"
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Groovenics
Artist: Groovenics
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Groovenics
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Many assumed that the wave of blue funk alloy bands that cropped up in the later '90s (Korn, Limp Bizkit) had began to drop dead down by the new millennium, merely south Florida's Groovenics unbroken partying like it was noneffervescent 1999. The six-piece stria (singer K*rl Michaels, guitarists Jim Austin and Matt Swig, bassist Pete Carmichael, drummer Mike Darookie, and keyboardist Josh Mullenix) specializes in the testosterone-heavy sound of the two aforesaid bands. Their self-released debut album, Wedgie Fever, was issued in 1999, as the group open local shows for such big time acts as the Misfits, Mötley Crüe, Less Than Jake, and Drain STH, and built up a following. In gain to victorious awards from both Jam Magazine's Jammy Awards and the South Florida Slammy Awards (Stria of the Year, Best Vocalist, Best Bassist, and Best Local Release), Groovenics besides appeared on both Billboard's and Talent Net's specialization charts. By 2001, the sestet was signed to Spitfire Records, which promptly issued their self-titled sophomore effort. The guys called it quits, however, in September 2003. A distich members went on to play in Suicide City.
Dave Gilmour to perform 'Atom Heart Mother' with tribute band
Dave Gilmour is to perform Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother' live this month � with a Pink Floyd covers band.
The instrument suite from the prog legend's fifth album � and first UK Number One - is being performed as part of the Chelsea Festival at Cadogan Hall on June 14 and 15 by its co-composer Ron Geesin.
The show will feature a 10-piece brass ensemble from The Royal College Of Music, cellist Caroline Dale, Canticum - a 40-strong chorus � and Italian Pink Floyd tribute band Mun Floyd.
However Geesin has revealed today (June 2) that Pink Floyd guitarist Gilmour will take part in the second performance on June 15.
'The Atom Heart Mother Suite', a six part instrumental that featured on side one of the band's album 'Atom Heart Mother'.
To check the availability of Atom Heart Mother Suite tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
The instrument suite from the prog legend's fifth album � and first UK Number One - is being performed as part of the Chelsea Festival at Cadogan Hall on June 14 and 15 by its co-composer Ron Geesin.
The show will feature a 10-piece brass ensemble from The Royal College Of Music, cellist Caroline Dale, Canticum - a 40-strong chorus � and Italian Pink Floyd tribute band Mun Floyd.
However Geesin has revealed today (June 2) that Pink Floyd guitarist Gilmour will take part in the second performance on June 15.
'The Atom Heart Mother Suite', a six part instrumental that featured on side one of the band's album 'Atom Heart Mother'.
To check the availability of Atom Heart Mother Suite tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
Responding to cancer reports, Paul Newman says he is 'doing nicely'
NEW YORK - Paul Newman, responding to unconfirmed reports that he is ill with lung cancer, has issued a statement that he is "doing nicely."
Newman's spokesman, Jeff Sanderson, issued a one-line statement late Tuesday.
Artistic directors of Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse cited unspecified health issues when they announced last month that the 83-year-old screen legend would not direct "Of Mice and Men" this fall.
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Protesters attack MTV office in Mumbai, India
MUMBAI, India —
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Police arrested 70 Sikh protesters after the MTV music channel's office in western India was vandalized over posters showing a Sikh girl massaging a man, officials said Tuesday.
On Monday, protesters smashed windows with rocks, tore banners and damaged furniture in the MTV office in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, police inspector Raju More said.
The protesters said the posters, which promoted the reality show "On the Job2," offended Sikhs, More said. Sikhs comprise more than 2 percent of India's 1.1 billion people.
Police later released the protesters on bail, he said.
Satish Maneshinde, MTV's attorney in Mumbai, called it an unfortunate incident. He said no one was injured in the attack.
Maneshinde said MTV would consider the protesters' demands to remove the posters.
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Cosma
Artist: Cosma
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Cusanam (Black and White Rmx)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Nonstop
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Unrelesed
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
The Time Has Come (Ep)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Simplicity
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
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Sex Pistols - Rotten Slams Humourless Coldplay
THE SEX PISTOLS frontman JOHNNY ROTTEN has slammed COLDPLAY for creating boring music - insisting he feels sorry for fans who pay to see the "humourless" group perform live.
Rocker Rotten, real name John Lydon, is convinced the Yellow hitmakers take themselves too seriously - and is adamant their music suffers as a result.
He says, "I pity the poor b*****s who have to watch them. They are utterly humourless.
"I met them a few years ago, said hello and realised they were just men in anoraks. They looked like a gang of little poncy masturbators.
"There is no fun, they don't offer joy. Their music has a couple of quite nice tones here and there but it's a box of tosh (rubbish) sold to slightly inadequate, half-baked people."
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Spice Girl Mel B To Replace Sharon Osbourne On X Factor?
Now that Sharon Osbourne has quite X-Factor, Simon Cowell is eyeing up potential judges to join the team, and is keen to recruit Spice Girl Melanie Brown.
Osbourne quit the show, fronted by Cowell, last week with many believing her feud with former co-host Dannii Minogue being the main factor in her decision to leave.
And now Cowell is keen to sign Scary Spice to his judging panel, reports the News of the World.
A source tells the publication: "Mel's in pole position to join the judging panel. She's ideal and Simon Cowell is eager for her to join the team."
Osbourne quit the show, fronted by Cowell, last week with many believing her feud with former co-host Dannii Minogue being the main factor in her decision to leave.
And now Cowell is keen to sign Scary Spice to his judging panel, reports the News of the World.
A source tells the publication: "Mel's in pole position to join the judging panel. She's ideal and Simon Cowell is eager for her to join the team."
Juanes, Hammersmith Apollo, London
Juanes is a global celebrity unknown to most British audiences. You won't hear him on mainstream radio because he only sings in Spanish, and you won't hear him on specialist world music shows because he is too commercial. I doubt that he is bothered. After all, he has sold well over 10m albums worldwide, has had massive hits in Europe as well as in the American Latin market, and has already won 12 Grammies. He is a hero in his homeland, Colombia, and every Latin rock fan in town seemed to have turned out for this packed, entertaining show.
In some ways Juanes is the Latin American answer to both Springsteen and Bono. As well as a proven ability to write catchy rock anthems, he is a high-profile campaigner on issues such as landmines. Now in his mid-30s, he came on stage dressed in black, looking as if he spends considerable time at the gym, and crashed into a series of gutsy, full-tilt ballads, from No Creo En El Jamas to Clase De Amor, that were both epic and melodic, if never wildly original. He may write great lyrics, but there is no translation on his album sleeves, and none was provided here, for he only spoke one sentence in English ("thank you for being here"). Not that his fans complained. They cheered the sing-along ballads, and kept cheering when he switched to rock-reggae on Bandera de Manos or added some non-remarkable guitar solos to the relentless attack of a six-piece band that sounded far more western than Latin. There were occasional reminders of his roots, as with the Colombian-influenced rhythm and melody of his massive hit, the slinky La Camisa Negra, or the final burst of rock-salsa, but for much of the time, this was a classy mainstream rock show in Spanish.
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