Spears sends Palin present

Actress Jamie Lynn Spears wants Bristol Palin to know she�s not alone in the unwed teen mom spotlight, so she�s sent� a fear package of fancy embroidered burp cloths to the 17-year-old significant daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the New York Daily News reports.
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�Dear Bristol: Hang in there!!!!! XXOO,� the carte from Spears read, underscoring the challenges she, too, has faced.

The younger baby to singer Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn, 17, gave birth to Maddie Briann Aldridge in June and is engaged to swain Casey Aldridge, just as Bristol Palin is limit to wed her baby�s father, Levi Johnston.

Spears� gift is being sent to the Alaska state capital, a spokesman for Petit Tresor, the West Hollywood shop that took the order told the Daily News.

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Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth

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Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.

Mortier, former head of the Salzburg Festival and electric current boss of the Paris Opera, agreed in February 2007 to become the City Opera's general coach and artistic director. He said he rejected "propositions from different opera houses in Spain and Germany."

"I told them that I was committed to New York City Opera and signed my contract," he said Tuesday.

Mortier said he submitted a joint application to run the Wagner festival at Bayreuth with Nike Wagner, one of the composer's great granddaughters, because "function of the Wagner sept insisted." A joint tender by deuce other keen granddaughters, Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, is regarded as the favorite aim into Monday's meeting of the fete board.

The composers grandsons, Wolfgang and Wieland, became heads of the festival in 1951 and following Wieland's death, Wolfgang became sole director in 1967. He announced in April that he would quit later on this year's festival ends this week.

"Wolfgang Wagner wants his daughter Katharina as successor," Mortier said. "Nobody knows at the moment what will happen. Anyway, with their six-week season (plus rehearsals period), the Bayreuth fete should not affect my work for NYCO. On the contrary, it could reinforce the international stature of City Opera."

Mortier said that if his Bayreuth bid succeeds, it "could also move over a signal to the (City Opera) board members to give full fiscal support to the new vision" for the company.

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One Last Hope

   
Artist: One Last Hope

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 A Tribute to Preston

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5

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Lost star eager to leave 'paradise'

'Lost' star Matthew Fox has become the latest cast member to reveal that he's eager to complete filming the series because he's sick of its Hawaii location.
Fellow actor Evangeline Lilly recently confessed that she did not enjoy working on the series' Oahu set because she is allergic to so many things there.
Now Fox has admitted he no longer likes living there while filming.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the major benefit of being a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500 mile trek into the South Pacific to get a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was living in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."

John Anderson

   
Artist: John Anderson

   Genre(s): 
Country
   

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Discography:


   
 Easy Money [Enhanced]

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11

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Neo-honky tonker John Anderson was born in Apopka, FL, in 1955 and grew up hearing to rock candy & stray, until he observed country euphony at age 15 through Merle Haggard. He affected to Nashville in the early '70s, viewing up at his sister's house with no warning, and worked a variety of singular jobs (including one as a roofer for the Grand Ole Opry) piece playing clubs at night. Eventually, all the difficult put to work paying off with a undertake for Warner Bros., and Anderson released his first-class honours degree individual in 1978. His self-titled debut album appeared in 1980 and helped signal the climb of the new diehard movement, drawing critical praise as well. Soon the hits started to pile up: "1959" and "Volaille Truck" became his first-class honours degree res publica Top Tens in 1981, and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (Merely I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" went Top Five later that yr. 1982's "Hazardous and Blue" was Anderson's first-class honours degree chart-topper, and he duplicated that exploit doubly in 1983 with "Sinister Sheep" and the million-selling "Swingin'," the latter of which was the biggest-selling res publica single in Warner Bros. history. Anderson returned to the Top Ten several times over the succeeding few years, to the highest degree notably with 1984's "She Sure Got Away with My Heart," merely by 1987 his commercial momentum had stalled, and he and Warner parted slipway.Anderson continued to record steady and mounted a major return in the early '90s, starting with 1992's Seminole Wind. Its statute title course went to number two, and the followup, "Straight Tequila Night," went all the way to number one; "When It Comes to You" besides made the Top Five. Anderson scored some other number one in 1993 with "Money in the Bank" and hit the Top Five triplet times over 1994-1995 with "I Wish I Could Have Been There," "I've Got It Made," and "Bend Until It Breaks." Though he hasn't been endorse since, Anderson's albums and singles go along to hold the lower reaches of the country charts -- grounds of a still-solid fan basis. What was termed a counter album of sorts, Easy Money, produced by John Rich of Big & Rich celebrity, appeared in 2007.

Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams to Play Doctor

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Spacey Shrinks: Kevin Spacey will lead the ensemble cast of Shrink, a movie that's sadly not a hilarious comedy about literal shrinking, but rather a drama about being a psychiatrist for celebrities (including Robin Williams and Gore Vidal). Come on, Gore Vidal, can't Spacey shrink just a little bit? Gore Vidal (punching us in the face): "No." [Variety]

RDJ Invades DreamWorks: Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in Cowboys & Aliens for DreamWorks, the pulpy Wild West story of cowboys and Indians who team up to stop an alien invasion. The Hollywood Reporter acts like our eleventh-grade English teacher and helpfully points out that aliens represent "the American imperialist drive to conquer," which is only marginally less interesting than imagining RDJ continuing his Tropic Thunder spree and playing a black cowboy sheriff. "Hey, it worked in Blazing Saddles." [HR]

Any Given Raimi: Sam Raimi will direct The Given Day for Columbia, based on Dennis Lehane's as-yet-unpublished novel about post-WWI Boston, the Spanish flu, and a police strike that almost destroys the city. Lehane is like crack for directors, on a hot streak with Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone, and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. It seems like the only question left on Raimi's mind is, "How do I get Bruce Campbell in this movie?" [Variety]



Wiseman Gears Up: Len Wiseman, who somehow found a way to make John McClane PG-13 in Live Free or Die Hard, will direct video-game adaptation Gears of War for what's left of New Line Cinema. Chris Morgan (Wanted) is rewriting the script, possibly because the original draft was too much like this fan-made A-Team version. [Variety]

I, Kasdan: Screenwriting colossus Lawrence Kasdan will write Warner Bros.' Robotech, the adaptation of the sprawling eighties anime show about guys putting on giant robot suits and fighting aliens. Be excited because Kasdan wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, but be afraid because he also wrote Dreamcatcher. [HR]

Damages Hurt: In his first regular TV role, William Hurt will join FX's Damages, reuniting him with Glenn Close for the first time since The Big Chill (yet another Lawrence Kasdan script). Hurt will play one of Close's clients, and it turns out they share a past that is "more than just professional." Why so coy, Variety? What, did they go kayaking together and then win a jelly-bean-counting contest? [Variety]

Josef Suk - violin, Andre Navarra - cello

   
Artist: Josef Suk - violin, Andre Navarra - cello

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Sonate for violin and cello (1919 - 1921)

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 4

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