Angels and Demons

The latest of Tom Hanks “Angels & Demons” was premiered in Rome. After the controversies that The Da Vinci Code attracted, Tom’s latest release seems to follow the same pattern with – Angels & Demons. Ayelet Zurer would be his co-actress and Ewan McGregor plays a catholic operative. Dan Brown’s novel, is the source of inspiration for the movie, the director being Ron Howard.

 The movie has attracted controversies already. Vatican has some things to say against the movie. In fact, Hindu’s in India have criticized “Angels & Demons” as well. They have accused the move to have showed a wrong and disturbing aspect of mercantile greed, which was just not required.

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American Idol

With the ever growing funds that the American Idol show is making every one think. Despite the fact that the audiences for the show is shrinking but the same is not reflected in the revenue figures for the show.

The way the show is created and how it is progressing, in no time the outlook of the broadcasters and networking agencies would deem to change. Clearly, as per the records of the last three years American Idol has been losing viewers but still it is the top rated television serial.

The show is apparently earning from other deal that it has with ice cream, trading cards, iTunes partnerships, and AT&T. These deals have considerably pooled in for the American Idol profitability.

The financial statements of the 19 Entertainment being the parent company revealed the same.

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American Idol

The last week the biggest at the American Idol was not the actual elimination but the people who were lined up combating elimination came as a surprise. Adam Lambert who was almost crowned as the American Idol by the viewers as well as the judges was ironically standing along the bottom three.

Eventually Matt Giraud was ousted. It was surprising to see Adam Lambert instead of Allison Iraheta who is the least popular finalists. However, looking at the history of American Idol, the unexpected should be the expected one, as clearly the last week history repeated itself.

American Idol has shown inclination towards the once who have been growing rather than the once being on the peak early. It’s quite clear that one has to show improvement in order to be out there or else elimination is the way out.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson’s 1st show in the last 15 years, at the London’s O2 Arena; it is anticipated that he could earn more that $50 millions from this much awaited 50 show stand.

Burbank, Calif, is the place where the King of the Pop – Michael Jackson has been rehearsing for the last 4 weeks. The 50 show series would start on July 8, 2009. Each show would have the capacity of 15,000 people each and the ticket would be around $115, considering that the gross revenue would go up to $90 million.

Other VIP and secondary sale package would take the figure to more than $100 million. Add another $15 million for the merchandise sales as anticipated.

The deal that Michael Jackson has with the producer/promoter AEG Live would get him about $50 millions form the net sale of the north alone. $20 million production bill is footed by the company.

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Paula Abdul

Amongst the other judges Paula Abdul is also nourishing the singling talent of America at the American Idol. At the eighth American Idol season, Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Kara DioGuardi along with Paula are judging the contest. American Idol has been in news for some reason or the other. The latest elimination of Matt Giraud took every one with surprise. However, Paula Abdul’s mental state of mind in the Tuesday’s show has created controversies around her being drunk on the show.

Paula Abdul has reportedly taken the responsibility of acting a little weird but hasn’t admitted the reason of her being drunk. Ladies’ Home Journal’s June issue revealed that Abdul has a reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome condition for which she has been taking medication. Paula Abdul seems to have been blaming the mediation especially the pain killers she consumes for the weird behavior. It almost confirmed that all the judges would be back the nest season however, Paula Abdul being there isn’t sure.

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Nicholas Cage

During the shoot of Nicolas Cage’s latest movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, things turned ugly and grew out of proportion when during the shooting of a car chase took an unexpected turn. It was early in the morning on Monday when the car bounced off the curb injuring a person and hitting one more on the streets of New York as confirmed by the Access Hollywood. On the site of The New York Post a video has been posted where in a car chase is seen on the 7th avenue at around Times Square vicinity in New York. As a matter of fact, the video has a chase scene between a Mercedes & a Ferrari.

The chase sequence got out of control when Ferrari swerved and hit a bystander on to the side walk. It knocked over the lamp post which in turn fell on the other person at the site. The chase sequence not only got ugly but seemed real too.
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Tom Hanks

Not many people would be able to digest the fact that this year marks the 25th year of Tom Hank’s association with the acting profession. He was noticed in “Splash” and also contributed his acting talent that wasn’t noticed that well in Bachelor Party and He Knows You’re Alone in 1980.

With the success that “Splash” saw, it was clear that Tom Hanks was not a one film wonder star of “Bosom Buddies” he was an actor who could carry a movie on his own acting talent. Bachelor Party wasn’t that great a hit, but it showed that Tom could have his own version of sardonic humor that could turn the movie 360 degrees, delivering more than what the audiences would have expected of him. There after he took roles that were lighter and more comic. He also did the darker & dramatic roles as well.
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Ryan O' Neil

This was the first time during an interview Ryan O’Neal spoke to PEOPLE about his partner, Farrah Fawcett. He almost had tears in his eyes while speaking about his long time pal. He seemed really concerned about Farrah Fawcett’s illness as she is combating cancer for the last 2 and half years.

Farrah Fawcett, now 62 was an American actress. She was one of the most desired women in the 1970s and 1980s. Her hairstyle was imitated by the youth of America at that time. Ryan O’Neal, now 68, claims to not know his world with out Farrah Fawcett. He right now is playing the role of a caretaker around Farrah Fawcett. He seems to have been equally moved by her devastating illness. Cancer being an insidious disease was affecting Farrah Fawcett, as Ryan O’Neal had never spoken around her anal cancer being spread to the other parts of her body, even her liver. He said that doctors confirm that she is in a comfortable state however the medication is almost discontinued. Farrah Fawcett reportedly stays in bed.
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Rocky Mountain News Paper

An average American resident would start the day by checking the news of news sites like CNN.com or the official website for the LA Times. For entertainment he would prefer to log on to the related site. For getting a glance on the sensex or to know the fluctuation in the Forex market he would have his favorite sites book marketed as My Favorite on his PC. So much so that if he would be informed about a story that has happened locally as is available in the local papers, he would want to Google for the news to get hands on facts about it. This is not the story of just one average American resident; every one is giving up the readership of newspaper and switching the new era & concept of news paper reading “internet news”

The Rocky Mountain News is one of the newspapers that had to face death in front of the new style of internet news reading. This was a 150 year old newspaper legacy. There are more newspaper companies that are either closing down or are on a verge of filling bankruptcy.
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Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle, 47, a resident of a small village in Scotland, who used to sing in a local pub there, has proved that American Idol is not the only platform that has been provided to the talented singers. She sang “I Dreamed a Dream” mesmerizing the audiences, on the stage of another reality show called Britain Got Talent 2009. Simon Cowell was one of the panel members and is also judging at the singings contesting for the title of American Idol.

11th April 2009, was the first time that she performed on television. The viral video for the same swept the internet and recorded about 2 million viewers of the same. It seems that her anonymous life has been transformed; she met with the officials of the Sony BMG music.
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