Jordan Levin: Singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado makes a smart entry into the Latin music market (McClatchy Newspapers)
Nelly Furtado's musical career has been filled with drastic changes. She started as a funky hip-hop / fusion phenomenon, soaring to success with her 2000 debut "Whoa, Nelly" and its Grammy-winning hit "Fly Like a Bird," then veered into a Brazilian-tinged world-beat detour. She returned to the mainstream in 2006 with the bestselling, sexy pophip-hop of "Loose."
Interview with DJ Skribble (thecelebritycafe.com)
DJ Skribble started out with Young Black Teenagers in the early 1990s, did a turn on several MTV series including 'Spring Break' and 'The Grind,' and is now rated one of the top DJs in America. This award-winning artist can be seen in the new film biography on the late rapper Big Pun, with whom he remixed 'Must Be The Music.' DJ Skribble spoke with TheCelebrityCafe.com's Lawanda Johnson about the rapper's legacy and what it takes to be a DJ today.
Charlie wrote:
Gamble and Huff's TSOP was the theme for Soul Train, which featured a lot of other fine music over its run.
~ Tony In Philly answered:
Soul Train
Woo Woo
Sally said:
"L'shanah Tovah!" Greeting for the Jewish New Year! (And, a wonderful year for all who read this here!)
When I read, "TSOP [The Sound of Philadelphia]," the first show that popped into my mind was the weekly disco dance show, "Soul Train." I had just married when that show took to the air, had moved to Denver (which I though was a real "hick" town) and was missing all my disco dance clubs like crazy. I used to watch "Soul Train" on my TV every week, and loved the dancers - it was sort of a Black, "American Bandstand." Those were the days my friend - proving that one's life can only be appreciated in retrospect...
The kid & I attended the Narbonne/Poly High football game at Veteran's Stadium, but we left in the
middle of the 4th - the fog was really rolling in and Poly's Jackrabbits were ahead 28 - 6 (final score was 28 - 14, Poly).
OMG - another birthday!
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Ofice', followed by a RERUN'Community', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Will Ferrell hosting, music by Green Day.
ABC fills the night withLIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW fills the night with FRESH'AVP Crocs Volleyball Tour'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Picture Perfect'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lonesome Dove', followed by the movie 'Lonesome Dove', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 Glasshouse
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Campania
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 4 Cyberwoman
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Total Eclipse
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Jimmy Carr
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Total Eclipse
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Jimmy Carr
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Total Eclipse
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Jimmy Carr
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 25 Smith
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Doyle
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Whittington (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Waiting...', followed by the movie 'Still Waiting'.
FX has the movie 'Transporter 2', followed by the movie 'Ghost Rider'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Beyond The Da Vinci Code', and 'Angels & Demons Decoded'.
IFC -
[7:05 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[8:00 AM] Kiru
[10:00 AM] Waking Ned Devine
[11:35 AM] Food Party
[11:45 AM] Pizza
[1:15 PM] All Over Me
[2:50 PM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[3:45 PM] Waking Ned Devine
[5:20 PM] Food Party
[5:30 PM] Pizza
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] Office Space
[9:30 PM] Mistress
[11:25 PM] La Perra
[11:45 PM] Food Party
[12:00 AM] Wrong Door
[12:30 AM] Modern Toss
[1:00 AM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[1:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:00 AM] Office Space
[3:30 AM] Mistress
[5:20 AM] Pizza (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Phantom Racer', followed by the movie 'Open Graves'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Good Morning Heartache
[06:40 AM] The Hip Hop Project
[08:15 AM] Love Songs
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Hoosiers, The Black Keys & Manu Chao
[12:00 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 1
[12:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 2
[01:00 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3
[01:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 4
[02:00 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 5
[02:30 PM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6
[03:00 PM] Love Songs
[04:45 PM] I Love Your Work
[06:45 PM] Paris Je T'aime
[08:55 PM] Jeu
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone
[10:00 PM] This is England
[11:45 PM] Tokyo Jim
[12:00 AM] Backstage
[02:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone
[02:45 AM] I Love Your Work
[04:40 AM] This is England (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actor Antonio Banderas presents actress Salma Hayek with the Anthony Quinn Award for Industry Excellence during the taping of the 2009 NCLR Alma awards at the Royce Hall in Los Angeles September 17, 2009. The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) gives out the ALMA awards to honor outstanding Latino artistic achievement in television, film and music. The show airs September 18 on ABC.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter walked away with the feature film award for their "WALL-E" screenplay Thursday at the annual Humanitas Awards, which honor TV and film writers whose work enriches human understanding.
In his acceptance speech at the Beverly Hills Hotel luncheon, Reardon noted that to keep themselves thematically on-point while writing their script, the "WALL-E" scribes referred to their animated protagonist as Johnny Humanity-Seed.
Michael R. Strobl and Ross Katz were honored in the 90-minute category for writing the HBO film "Taking Chance," Jason Katims was lauded in the 60-minute category for his "Tomorrow Blues" episode of "Friday Night Lights," and Aseem Batra received the prize in the 30-minute category for her "My Last Words" episode of "Scrubs."
Writer-director Cherien Dabis won the Sundance feature film award for "Amreeka," and Arika Lisanne Mittman took the children's live-action award for her "Spencer's 18th Birthday" episode of "South of Nowhere."
US actor Danny Glover, left, kisses US singer Harry Belafonte during the inauguration of a new center that promotes Caribbean cinema in Havana, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Belafonte said he was disappointed President Barack Obama has not done more to improve relations with the communist-run island, but that he was hopeful progress would come soon.
Photo by Franklin Reyes
A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.
Ernie Anastos of Fox affiliate WNYW was bantering with the weatherman Wednesday night when he cheerfully dropped an F-bomb on the air. What he likely intended to say was, "Keep plucking that chicken."
Anastos didn't appear to recognize the error, though co-anchor Dari Alexander's eyes bugged out after he said it.
Just before the flub, Anastos told weatherman Nick Gregory, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast," a play on an old chicken commercial.
Anastos, an Emmy-winning anchor, has been a mainstay on New York's evening news for more than three decades.
Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was forced to cut short a concert in Spain late Friday after he became ill and collapsed on stage, Spanish media said.
A member of his band, Javier Mas, said Cohen suffered a "severe attack of indigestion" and vomiting but that his situation was not serious, the newspaper El Mundo reported on its website.
It said Cohen, who turns 75 on Monday, was performing "Bird on the Wire" about half an hour into the show in the eastern city of Valencia when he lost his balance as he went to pick up a guitar.
He was saved from falling by backup singers, but moments later he collapsed again and was helped off stage to receive treatment from a medical team.
Emmylou Harris presents the award for the Jack Emerson Executive Lifetime Achievement at the Americana Music Association awards show in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.
Photo by Josh Anderson
Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.
The last episode took an upbeat, life-affirming tone, complete with a scene that gathered many of the characters at a picnic in the park on a beautiful day.
"Guiding Light" began on radio in 1937, then moved to TV in 1952. In recent decades it was set in the midwestern town of Springfield, where it focused on the Spaulding, Lewis and Cooper clans.
On Oct. 5, CBS will fill the slot "Guiding Light" is vacating with a new edition of the game show "Let's Make a Deal."
Fox News Channel's competitors are firing back at the network over newspaper ads claiming Fox alone covered last weekend's protest in Washington, D.C.
The ads placed Friday in the Washington Post and two papers owned by Fox's parent company include a headline saying other networks missed the story, including ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN.
Fox's taunt drew immediate reaction from the rival networks, all of whom quickly offered up descriptions, transcripts and video of their rally coverage. Some denounced Fox for falsehoods, with CNN's Rick Sanchez telling Fox "You lie" on the air.
A Fox marketing executive defended the ad in a statement, claiming the other networks either ignored or marginalized the protest story.
Musician Tom Waits arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Photo by Darren Calabrese
Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector says life behind bars is driving him "insane".
"This 24/7 lockdown life is slowly driving me insane and killing (me)," Spector, 69, wrote in a letter to a fan that was posted online on Friday.
In the letter written in July to a fan that was obtained by pop culture website Gawker.com , Spector complained that he was unable to "say goodbye" to anyone, or organize his business affairs before going to prison.
"How cruel but apparently not unusual," Spector wrote. "And they call this a 'civilized' society. Bugs live more civilized beneath their rocks!".
Prosecutors say Redmond O'Neal has pleaded no contest to bringing drugs to a jail facility and will be sent to a yearlong rehab program.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says the son of actors Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett entered his plea Friday. He will be released from jail and allowed to enter a residential treatment program.
The younger O'Neal has been held since his April arrest for carrying drugs onto the property of a jail north of Los Angeles. It was the latest in a string of drug-related arrests for the 24-year-old.
O'Neal also received three years of probation but faces six years in prison if he gets in trouble again.
Buddha shaped pears are seen in an orchard in Weixian county, Hebei province September 10, 2009. Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside moulds, local media reported. The pears cost around 50 yuan (7.32 USD) each.
Photo by Pillar Lee
A judge on Friday threw out a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former "The Price is Right" employee against CBS and former host Bob Barker.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey dismissed the case after finding there were no issues for a trial to resolve, attorneys handling the case said.
Deborah Curling sued Barker and the network in October 2007, alleging she was improperly fired from the show and forced to endure a hostile work environment.
Curling claimed she was dismissed because she testified in a former co-worker's wrongful termination case. She also accused Barker of making racist and anti-Semitic jokes, but Mackey determined she hadn't proven that claim.
Thousands of Michael Jackson's Mexican fans have won the world record for most people to dance to the song "Thriller" simultaneously in one place.
Jamie Panas of Guinness World Records says that 13,597 people performed the dance routine on Aug. 29, which would have been Jackson's 51st birthday.
The fans, many dressed as zombies, danced to "Thriller" in Mexico City led by a Michael Jackson impersonator in sunglasses, a sequined black jacket and white glove.
The previous record was held by a group of 242 students at the College of William & Mary.
The arch of a double rainbow crests as the sun rises looking west from southeast Spokane, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.
PHoto by Christopher Anderson
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