Saturday, April 17, 2010

Hollywood vs. The Volcano: Ash disrupts celebs

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A volcanic clouded cover of charcoal hovering over Europe is causing quite a stage in Hollywood as well as beyond.

The charcoal squabble out by an Icelandic volcano which has left thousands of air travelers stranded is additionally inspiring celebrities, filmmakers, musicians as well as even pro-wrestlers.

With almost two-thirds of Europe's flights grounded, cancelations as well as postponements were popping up across a party landscape upon Saturday as Icelandic scientists warned which volcanic activity had increased as well as showed no pointer of abating.

Organizers of a Coachella Valley Music as well as Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., tweeted which a little acts were forced to pull out of a week end event, including British rockers The Cribs as well as Bad Lieutenant, Scottish rockers Frightened Rabbit, as well as British dance contingent Delphic. It additionally appears unlikely which British synth thespian Gary Numan will have it to Coachella for his Sunday slot.

"The last thing I approaching this morning when I woke up was to hear which volcanic charcoal competence be preventing us from drifting to America," Numan posted upon his Web site. "At a moment, a very most appropriate British Airways are charity us, as well as this without any guarantee, is to put us upon a Sunday moody which gets in to Los Angeles in a afternoon upon Sunday."

However, multiform performers from Europe scheduled to perform during Coachella were already across a Atlantic Ocean or had boarded planes prior to a volcanic clouded cover forced a rash of moody cancelations. Those enclosed Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Gorillaz, Muse, Hot Chip, Fever Ray as well as Florence as well as a Machine.

Whitney Houston was forced to ditch a plane for a packet across a Irish Sea to perform in Dublin. The R&B diva, currently in a middle of her "Nothing But Love" universe tour, opted for a not-so-glamourous boat ride after no-fly orders close down air! ports ac ross Europe. Houston is scheduled to perform a first of three shows Saturday during a O2 locus in London.

The charcoal clouded cover additionally grounded multiform other musicians in Europe. Welsh indie pop band Los Campesinos! canceled their Friday appearance during a Culture Shock Festival in Purchase, N.Y., as well as their Saturday unison in Hoboken, N.J. Pop thespian Mika deferred his Friday unison in Lisbon, Portugal, after unexpectedly finding himself stranded in Paris.

"Volcano freak out," he tweeted. "This is bad."

The situation was additionally causing massacre for World Wrestling Entertainment, a veteran wrestling classification nearing a end of a two-week European tour. Several wrestlers as well as organisation members trafficked for scarcely seventeen hours in buses as well as ferries to have it from Lieven, France, to Belfast, Ireland. The trip routinely takes about an hour as well as a half in a plane.

WWE orator Kevin Hennessy pronounced it was misleading if everybody would arrive in time for Monday night's scheduled "WWE Raw" event during a Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J. He pronounced a WWE wrestlers as well as organisation routinely "fly commercial, though you are booking a licence just to be safe." Hennessy added which "Sunday is routinely a elementary transport day - very easy."

Although scientists were indicating which transport disharmony could extend in to a brand new week, New York's Tribeca Film Festival, which is set to proceed Wednesday, had yet to embrace any cancellations by late Friday. The festival will underline drive-in theatre from scarcely 40 countries as well as multiform filmmakers from Europe had been planning to attend.

Worldwide press junkets for two of a summer season's most expected drive-in theatre - "Iron Man 2," starring Robert Downey Jr., as well as "Robin Hood," starring Russell Crowe - additionally were still scheduled as planned subsequent week end in London, according to college of m! usic off icials.

Some U.S. book edition executives were forced to terminate skeleton to attend subsequent week's London Book Fair because of a disrupted air travel. But organizers pronounced Friday a three-day entertainment will proceed as scheduled.

Back in Hollywood, Saturday's blue-carpet universe premiere of Disneynature's "Oceans," during a El Capitan Theatre was already rebuilt to hit rough waters. The film's French director, Jacques Cluzaud, as well as producers won't be in attendance a entrance of their Disney documentary narrated by Pierce Brosnan as well as starring underwater critters. They're stuck overseas.

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AP writers Sandy Cohen in Los Angeles, Jake Coyle as well as Hillel Italie in New York, as well as Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report.




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