Glamor model Jordan is pursuing her dream of becoming a Playboy cover girl.
The lads mag favorite, real name Katie Price, has been in American for the past two-weeks — and is planning to visit magazine boss Hugh Hefner.
A source said: “She�s already made friends with one of Hugh�s girlfriends, Holly, in an attempt to get back on the Playboy books.
Monday 26 May 2008
Thursday 22 May 2008
Nine films on Foreign Oscar longlist
Nine films on Foreign Oscar longlist
Baseball club films have gone fore to the next daily round of balloting in the Best Foreign Speech Film category for the Oscars.
Sixty-three films, including the Irish-language film 'Kings', had earlier qualified in this class.
The nine-spot films in contention ar: 'The Counterfeiters' (Republic of Austria), 'The Class My Parents Went on Vacation' (Federative Republic of Brazil), 'Days of Darkness' (Canada), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'The Unknown quantity Woman' (Italian Republic), 'Mongol' (Kazak), 'Katyn' (Republic of Poland), '12' (Russia) and 'The Trap' (Serbia).
The Academy Award nominations testament be announced on Tues 22 Jan with the awards ceremony pickings place on Sun 24 February.
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Gladys Knight
Artist: Gladys Knight
Genre(s):
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Before Me
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Good Woman
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Gladys Knight and The Pips - Greatest Hits
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Ace of the groovy mortal singers, Gladys Knight was a performing artist from her puerility eld, forming the Pips with her comrade Merald and a pair cousins. They made the Top Ten-spot in 1961 with the heavily doo wop-influenced "Every Beat of My Spunk," and recorded more or less very well, nowadays overlooked pop-soul sides for the Madness and Maxx labels in the betimes and mid-'60s, sometimes under the teaching of songster Van McCoy. A twin singles from this geological period of time, "Letter Full of Tears" and "Giving Up," made the Top 40, merely Horse didn't achieve her commercial stride until she touched to Motown in 1966. Steeped in the religious doctrine tradition, like so many mortal singers, Knight & the Pips developed into single of Motown's nearly reliable acts of the Apostles, although they never quite scaly the commercial-grade or artistic high of mate stars on the pass judgment like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations. With Norman Whitfield providing the production and a goodness look at of the songwriting, the Pips fit into the mainstream of Motown's automobile well, scaling big hits with about rabble-rousers (wish "Friendly relationship Check" and the archetype version of "I Heard It Through the Grape"), mainstream midtempo soul ("It Should Get Been Me" and "The Destruction of Our Road"), and smooth ballads like "If I Were Your Fair sex."
In 1973, Knight had her biggest Motown hit with "Neither One of Us," which made number deuce; shortly later, she and the Pips left Motown for Buddah. The radical members were in brief superstars in 1973-1974, reeling away the smashes "Midnight Train to Sakartvelo" (their only number 1), "I've Got to Function My Imaginativeness," and "Topper Thing That Ever Happened to Me." This ranked as just about of their topper real, only Horse in short affected toward an easy listening, grownup modern-day management, unitary that she's retained to this daylight. Now playing severally from the Pips (wHO do retired), her days as a high-charting star concluded later on the mid-'70s, although she stiff clean popular, and retained an active agent recording calling into the new millennium, aperient At Finale, an platter album of urban R&B, on MCA in 2000; 1 Voice, a gospel jell, on Many Roadstead Records in 2005; and In front Me, an record album of jazz standards, on Verve in 2006.
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