Posted by Shane Hale | Posted in Entertainment | Posted on 22-02-2010
It is pretty crazy that it had come to a point that some one places a price on your head and constantly harasses you once someone places a price for photo opportunity on your head. Even though these guys claim the stars need them for PR and publicity. They constantly try and go above and beyond harasses and provoking stars.
I mean it is obvious that these guys had a run in before and they were harassing Travis Barker. I really think these guys definitely get what they deserve. I love the way TMZ turns things around to protect their beloved camera henchmen. The dude lost a best friend and was in a bad plane wreck where he went through extensive burn treatment. Give the guy and his kids a break!
Warning:
The camera footage is horrible becareful it may make you dizzy as if you were drunk bobbing and weaving through a parking lot at a first person point of view.
This was the cleverly devised climactic tune belted out by 62-year-old ‘General’ Larry Platt. The rap, which he claimed to have written himself, was accompanied by an impressively physical dance that had the man break dancing.
“I have a horrible feeling that song could be a hit,” is all Simon could muster by the end of it, adding, “I don’t think this is the last we’ll hear from you.”
Sadly, Platt’s age automatically disqualified him – contestants can’t be older than 28 – which begged the question of why they let him into the audition in the first place.
His unique number was reason enough.
“American Idol” producers played up the song so much, they had everyone singing and taking part. During a montage following Platt’s audition, Randy Jackson could be seen dancing by his side, and other contestants outside where chanting its addictive chorus.
“Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground!”
The evening’s Atlanta episode was peppered with a few other auditioners hoping for some “Idol” fame. At the same time, as is expected with these audition-themed episodes, several were clearly more interested in chasing that William Hung fame.
But among them were singers seeking real “American Idol” gold, and were invited to Hollywood, such as the guitar-garbed Holly Hardin, country-crooner Vanessa Wolfe, Keia Johnson and Brian Walker.
Hardin’s get up appeared to be an instant ticket out the door, but the 20-year-old’s voice impressed the judges (all except Mary J. Blige, this episode’s guest judge, who seemed to spend much of the episode laughing). Brian Walker, a 25-year-old cop from Tennessee, showed he had soulful vocals with his take on “Superstar.”
Next week, “American Idol” auditions wanna-be stars in Chicago.
Posted by Shane Hale | Posted in Entertainment | Posted on 13-01-2010
Conan O’Brien is not going to take one for the team. The host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show” released a statement this afternoon saying that he would not move his show from 11:35 p.m. to 12:05 a.m. to make room for Jay Leno’s return to late night.
Since news broke last week that NBC wanted to move Jay Leno out of prime time and put him back in late night, speculation has centered around whether O’Brien would be willing to move his show or walk.
In a statement, O’Brien said that he was disappointed but “after only seven months with my “Tonight Show” in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their horrible difficulties in primetime in making a change in their long established late-night schedule. … So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it.”
The decision will likely allow NBC to return the “Tonight Show” to Jay Leno, where it would run for a full hour.
Posted by Shane Hale | Posted in Entertainment | Posted on 02-09-2009
Hoax video of Michael Jackson creates online stir
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER (AP) – 6 hours ago
BERLIN — A hoax video purportedly showing Michael Jackson emerging from a coroner’s van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the Internet, German broadcaster RTL said Tuesday.
The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but it has been picked up by other Web sites around the world.
“We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos,” spokeswoman Heike Schultz of Cologne-based RTL told The Associated Press. “Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead — and the response was breathtaking.”
Jackson died June 25 in Los Angeles.
The video — posted under an “anonymous source” — shows a coroner’s van entering what seems like a parking garage and the King of Pop getting out of the back with another person. The lighting is bad, the sound muffled and the footage appears amateurish.
“Unfortunately, many people believed it was true,” Schultz said. “Even though we tried to create the video in a way that every normal user can see right away that it is a fake.”
She said the video was shot near Cologne — “definitely not in the U.S.” The van in the video had the word “CORONER” printed in English, suggesting it had been recorded in America.
RTL admitted to the hoax in an Aug. 26 report on its daily news show Explosiv.
Hoaxes and rumors commonly spread like wildfire on the Internet. Videos of flying saucers and impossible stunts routinely are among the most-viewed on video-sharing sites, though purported evidence of the deceased being alive is less common than false rumors of someone’s death.
The rise of Twitter and its real-time microblogging has quickened the pace. American actor Patrick Swayze, who is battling pancreatic cancer, had to declare that he is still alive this year after thousands of Twitter users spread news that he was dead. Actor Jeff Goldblum had to do the same.
The RTL spokeswoman said some Jackson fans were upset by the German broadcaster’s actions.
“We didn’t want to dishonor Michael Jackson, but we needed a strong name to get this experiment going,” Schultz said. “Had we used Britney Spears, then the fans of Britney would have complained.”
AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle in New York contributed to this report.
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Posted by Shane Hale | Posted in Entertainment | Posted on 15-04-2009
Once again the latest trend on Google today was Susan Boyle from British Idol. She was a 40 something older lady who went out confident and ready to sing.
Susan Boyle totally stunned Simon and the British Idol Crowd with a Jaw dropping performance. Below is a link to the performance pretty awesome to see someone who may on the outside look rough around the edges and being judged before she actually said or sang anything. She totally dominated the performance! Check it out! Goes to show you that you can do anything you put your mind too!
