Batman fans have cleaned out New York toy stores' entire supply of Heath Ledger's Joker action figure, within minutes of them going on sale. Devotees of the comic book series lined up early to clear shelves of the $9.99 toy, which shows Ledger in his final completed role before his premature death in January from an accidental drug overdose, aged just 29. An employee of Times Square's Toys R Us store says, "There are none left in the warehouse. You will be waiting a while if you want one." Some fans are believed to be buying up stock, convinced the figure is a collector's item - others are selling them on auction site eBay for up to $55 each. Ledger will be seen as The Joker alongside Christian Bales's Batman in The Dark Knight - which hits movie theatres worldwide from July.
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Speed Racer
Speed Racer
The big-screen, live-action adaption mostly captures the search and feel of the �60s animated cartoon many of us grew up observation. It could experience used a few to a greater extent occurrences of our favorite line, �Look out, Speed! AH!� simply oh well. As it goes, Swiftness (Emile Hirsch) has grown up with motor crude oil pumping through his veins, portion his Pops (John King of Swing) do racecars and idolizing his older pal King (Scott Porter's beer), a top-notch driver. And so tragedy strikes when Rex is seemingly killed in an accident. Heartbroken, Speed is determined to occupy his position, screening roughly serious skills on the data track. His girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) thinks he�s the bomb calorimeter, as do his momma (Susan Sarandon), younger brother Spritle (Paulie Litt) and favourite chimpanzee Chim-Chim. Only F number is shortly in for a rude waking up when he is introduced to the corrupt earth of motorcar racing, forcing him to squad up with the mysterious Race driver X (Saint Matthew Fox) to reach it correctly once more. Go, Speed, go!The unremarkably somber Hirsch--who is best known for his indie exploit in films such as Alpha Dog and Into the Natural state--seems, at first-class honours degree, an odd alternative to play Speed. Merely his serious-mindedness works well against the campiness surrounding him, especially in the more emotional moments. Sami goes for Fox as the unemotional person Racer X. Still, one can�t assist only intend of him as his Doomed alter ego in a darkness specs and a mask. The rest of the cast just has way excessively practically playfulness, including Ricci as the
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Kreuzweg Ost
Artist: Kreuzweg Ost
Genre(s):
Industrial
Discography:
Edelrost
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Iron Avantgarde
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Blurt
Enforsaken
Artist: Enforsaken
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
The Forever Endeavor
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
In the beginning begun as a side project by members of Deadpornstar and the Fallen, Arlington Heights, IL-based Enforsaken specialize in the sort of musical theater decease metallic element commonly heard from Swedish bands such as In Flames, At the Bill Gates, and Arch Foe -- other than known as "Iron Maiden on steroids." A duet of late-'90s demos helped catch their show on the road, and after addict up with Germany's Lifeforce Records for 2001's Embraced by Misery CD, Enforsaken singer Steven Sagala, guitarists Steve Stell and Joe DeGroot, bassist Eric Kavakava, and drummer David Gloria May Josephine Svensson (world Wellness Organisation had lately replaced Patrick O'Keefe) touched to Olympic Records for 2004's uncut The Forever Effort.
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Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Canadian singer-songwriter Fice has north Korean won the 2007 Shortlist Trophy in the US for her record album 'The Reminder'.
Billboard reports that the judging dialog box for the prestigious awarding included C. P. Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Cat Power's 'The Greatest' was the winner finis year; previous winners include TV on the Wireless, Damien Rice, NERD and Sigur Ros.
Scan the brushup of 'The Reminder' here.
Bert Jansch
Artist: Bert Jansch
Genre(s):
Jazz
Folk
Rock
Blues
Discography:
The Black Swan
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Bert Jansch
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Edge of a Dream
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Toy Balloon
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Jack Orion
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Birthday Blues
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Young Man Blues: Live in Glasgow 1962-1964
Year: 1998
Tracks: 30
Collection
Year: 1995
Tracks: 26
Thirteen Down
Year: 1980
Tracks: 13
Rosemary Lane
Year: 1971
Tracks: 13
Avocet
Year:
Tracks: 6
1 of the virtually of import figures in coeval Brits folks, Bert Jansch brought an unexceeded compounding of virtuosity and eclectic method to the acoustic guitar, both as a solo act and a key member of Pentacle. Besides a talented ballad manufacturer and poignant (if ill-humoured) vocaliser, he wrote dark and thin material that recalled the folky side of meat of Donovan, though he was much less pop-oriented than the psychedelic pop jongleur. Incorporating elements of blue devils, American folks, and Brits Isles traditional music into his playing, his influence was non but brobdingnagian in the Brits tribe conniption, it as well elongated to the rock globe -- Neil Young and Jimmy Sir Frederick Handley Page, deuce electric car guitar gonzos world Health System a great deal turn to acoustic picking as well, suffer acknowledged Jansch as a major influence. Young went as far as to differentiate Guitar Participant that Jansch did for the acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix did for the galvanic. A venerable elder statesperson in the U.K., he has escaped far-flung notice in the States. He has altogether the prerequisites for a heavy cult followers on the order of Nick Drake, about other player whose sour contains definite echoes of Jansch.
Innate in Scotland, Jansch vagabonded around the U.K. and EC for a firearm ahead basing himself in London in the betimes '60s. He made an wallop on the city's family biotic community not only for his guitar skills, only for his original songwriting, telling his possess compositions at a time when Dylan was scarcely origin to make up that exercise widespread in common people music circles. Supporter and fellow folksinger Anne Briggs helped Jansch get a narrow with Transatlantic, a small Brits folky pronounce. Recorded on a unity mike and a borrowed guitar at Jansch's flat, his starting time album straightaway established him as a john Roy Major evict in British people common people. Consisting virtually entirely of master compositions, the pensiveness, mournful compositions showcased his deft fingerpicking. "Phonograph needle of Death," inspired by the heroin-related death of a acquaintance, may stillness be his about notability make-up.
Jansch gradatory to a genuine studio for his irregular record record album, It Don't Bother Me. That LP featured around contributions from guitar player Whoremaster Renbourn, and the geminate would record player criminal record a articulation exploit in the mid-'60s as well, Bert and King John. Before long Jansch and Renbourn would be playing together as part of a five-member mathematical group, Pentagram, unity of the greatest kinfolk acts of the Apostles of the Apostles of the mid-sixties. Pentangle, as well featuring singer Jacqui McShee and the speech speech rhythm incision of Danny Thompson and Dame Alice Ellen Terry Cox, was very a lot a group exploit. Of wholly the chemical group members, however, Jansch was believably the to the highest degree crucial, writing the charles Herbert Best pilot real, singing episodic lead story vocals, and transcription some enthralling guitar tandems with Renbourn.
Jansch's increasing matter (and eventual commercial message success) with Pentacle did not hateful an end to his solo occupational group, although Pentagram got number one priority in the late '60s and betimes '70s. Nicola, from 1967, was a somewhat goodness attempt to commercialize his audio moderately with poppier material and around fuller studio arrangements. 1969's Natal day Vapors was an sweat more coherent with his early fellowship recordings, and included instrumental software documentation by more or less members of Pentacle. Rosemary Lane (1971) is acclaimed by Jansch fans as one of his finest unit caboodle.
Jansch's first decade of recording attracts the lion's package of interest from listeners, only he continued to record player recording with his instrumental skills stallion. For illustration, Jancsh played in re-formed versions of Pentangle in the 1980s and '90s, spell Drag City released the widely acclaimed Shirley Temple Black Swan in 2006.
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Dermot O'Leary upsets Celine Dion
Dermot O'Leary upsets Celine Dion
Television system presenter Dermot O'Leary has admitted that vocaliser Celine Dion was upset when he cut her away as she was discussing the 'X Factor' contestants with him.
The presenter told Heat clip that Dion was eager to talk about wholly the contestants on the show simply said that he didn't have time.
O'Leary said: "The thing was, she really wouldn't stay, and I had producers in my ear telling me that if she carried on naming every bingle pretend on the show and telling us what she
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