Artist: The Eastern Bloc
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Freedom Or Death
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Love and Honor
Preparing for a film role can be daunting, but as the daughter of Will Smith, Willow Smith didn�t have to go far for acting advice, reports People News Online.
�My dad gives me tips,� Willow told People last week at the New York City premiere of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, in which she co-stars. �He says listen to the director and feel the moment.� And did she feel the moment? �Yes, I did.�
Willow, who hit the red carpet with her mom Jada Pinkett Smith and brother Jaden, also enlisted her family to assist in the wardrobe department.
�My mom helped and the stylist helped,� said the 7-year-old actress of her premiere attire: a sequined shirt, Capri pants, Tory Burch shoes and strands of green and red woven into her braids.
As for her Kit Kittredge attire, �I didn�t have a lot of makeup,� said Willow. �Basically, for me it�s just clothes, clothes, clothes, shoes.�
The child actress, who also appeared in her dad�s film I Am Legend, enjoyed tapping into her creative side on screen.
�It�s really fun,� says Willow of acting. �Because on the set, the directors tell you something and you can do it a whole different way. And they will still like it.�
And with dad Will starring in the film Hancock on July 2, the same day Kit Kittredge opens, which Smith does Willow think will do better at the box office? One word: �Me.�
TORONTO - "Passchendaele," the First World War epic from Canadian actor and filmmaker Paul Gross, is opening this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, starring Gross and Caroline Dhavernas, will have its world premiere at the festival when it opens on Sept. 4. "Passchendaele" was inspired by the story of Gross's grandfather, an Alberta veteran of the First World War. Gross wrote and directed the film.
Piers Handling, the director of the film festival, called the film "personal and passionate" and significant to both Canadian film and Canadian history.
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
Nicole Kidman started crying the first time she saw her baby on an ultrasound machine.
The Moulin Rouge actress - who is expecting her first biological child with husband Keith Urban - was so overwhelmed with joy when she saw the image, she couldn’t hold back the tears.
She said: “When I first saw the baby on the ultrasound, I started crying. I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime. I like the unpredictable nature of it.
“To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely. I don't believe in flittering around the edges of things. You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.”
Nicole also revealed she loves all aspects of being pregnant.
She added to America’s Vogue magazine: “The whole experience is so primal. But I'm glad I've learned to let things flow. I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
"So to be given the blessing of a child at this stage of my life, you just say, 'Wow, this was meant to be'.”
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Chris Martin has walked out of an interview with BBC Radio 4 in discomfort at being questioned about Coldplay's new album.
The frontman was being interviewed for the station's art programme Front Row when he asked to leave the studio after nine minutes of discussion.
Will Champion, the four-piece's drummer, was left alone in the studio to answer the questions of interviewer John Wilson until his bandmate returned to stammer an answer to the final question.
The band's fourth album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends was released on Thursday June 12th and is expected to shatter sales records for the year, with HMV estimating more than 250,000 copies will be sold in its first three days on release.
However, Martin appeared uncomfortable with being interviewed about the album and its lyrical content.
"I wouldn't agree with you there at all, no," said Martin after Wilson questioned whether the album's title reflected an obsession with death.
"I'd say you're journalistically twisting me into saying something I don't really mean," he added.
And when Wilson asked if the band started with the song Viva La Vida and "the idea within that song of the deposed dictator looking back at his life", Martin replied: "I'm not enjoying this. Can I have two minutes?"
When asked if he was feeling the pressure, he explained: "I just don't like talking about things."
Judging by the album's sale figures, Martin can afford to let his music do the talking after it sold more than 100,000 copies on its first day on release.
According to HMV, the speed with which Viva La Vida is flying off the shelves means it has the potential to become the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history behind Oasis' 'Be Here Now', which sold 695,761 copies in its first week when it came out in August 1997.
"This rate of sales exceeds even our optimistic forecasts, and shows how massively popular a band Coldplay remain despite having been away for the best part of three years," said HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo.
"Aside from having a substantial core fanbase, Coldplay are one of the few acts that can genuinely connect with a much wider audience."
13/06/2008 12:23:19