Wednesday, April 28, 2010

'American Idol' boots another finalist

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Siobhan Magnus really has something to roar about now.

The 20-year-old glass ventilator with a gusto for wailing at a finish of her "American Idol" performances was separated from a Fox singing competition Wednesday.

The judges praised Magnus' enterprising delivery of Shania Twain's "Any Man of Mine" upon Tuesday's show, but a Marstons Mills, Mass., woman perceived a fewest spectator votes.

Joining Magnus in a bottom three were 27-year-old construction worker Casey James of Fort Worth, Texas, as well as 26-year-old personal tutor Michael Lynche of Queens, N.Y.

The judges complimented James' delicate understand of "Don't!" as well as Lynche's soulful delivery of "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" upon a dusk of tunes from Twain's songbook.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Condon to direct fourth 'Twilight' film

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Director Bill Condon, who already knows a little something about gods as well as monsters, is set to direct a fourth as well as last movie in a "Twilight" series, "Breaking Dawn."

Summit Entertainment, which is releasing a extravagantly renouned evil spirit franchise, said Wednesday which Condon would take a helm for a ultimate installment. The script is being created now, with stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson as well as Taylor Lautner returning.

Condon won an Oscar for a screenplay of his 1999 movie "Gods as well as Monsters." He also destined "Dreamgirls" as well as "Kinsey" as well as constructed a 2009 Academy Awards rite with Hugh Jackman as host.

The third movie in a series based on Stephenie Meyer's books, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," is set to come out Jun 30.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Shania Twain brings out the best in 'Idol' singers

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Not so fast, Crystal Bowersox.

The other "American Idol" finalists rose to a occasion Tuesday during an evening of Shania Twain tunes upon a Fox singing contest. After weeks of unashamed praise, a show's judges weren't so overwhelmed with a folksy rendition of "No One Needs To Know" from a usually enthralling 24-year-old musician from Toledo, Ohio. They still kinda liked it though.

"It's kind of impossible for we not to be good," decider Kara DioGuardi said.

Aaron Kelly, a sheepish 17-year-old tall school student from Sonestown, Pa., won behind a judges with his sepulchral take upon mentor Twain's "You've Got a Way," that included becoming different a lyrics from "the approach we have love" to "the approach we uncover love." Simon Cowell pronounced a ardent opening made Kelly seem like a "different artist" after weeks ho-hum endeavors.

"Tomorrow's gonna be genuine tough," Ellen DeGeneres declared after Kelly performed.

The other male singers additionally had no complaint nailing Twain's tunes, together with 24-year-old paint sales clerk Lee Dewyze of Mount Prospect, Ill., with an edgy "Still a One," 26-year-old personal trainer Michael Lynche of Queens, N.Y., with an emotional "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" as well as 27-year-old musician Casey James of Fort Worth, Texas, with a raw "Don't!"

"This could be a good thing in your wheelhouse," Randy Jackson sensitive James.

Siobhan Magnus sealed a uncover by strutting opposite a stage as well as by a assembly while crooning "Any Man of Mine." Jackson later told the

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

People: Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby

NEW YORK (AP) - Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from her husband, Jesse James, as well as is adopting the baby boy as the singular parent.

"Yes, we have filed for divorce," the 45-year-old Oscar-winning actress pronounced in an talk with People magazine, posted Wednesday upon its website. "I'm unhappy as well as we am scared."

Bullock as well as James, 41, began the embracing the cause routine 4 years ago, the People essay said, as well as brought 3 1/2-month-old Louis Bardo Bullock home in Jan though decided to keep the news to themselves until after the Academy Awards.

In the interview, Bullock pronounced she is savoring her new maternal status.

"You wake up, we feed, we burp, we play, we do laundry," she said. "I'm still in which theatre where I'm just amazed with him as well as at life."

"All we pronounced when we met him was, 'Oh, there we are.' It was similar to he had always been the part of the lives."

The baby, called Louie, is named after jazz good Louis Armstrong, who had quite touched Bullock with his signature song, "What the Wonderful World," she said. The kid was born in New Orleans, the city where Bullock as well as James had both spent time after Katrina.

Bullock pronounced she as well as James sought to pull no strings as they submitted to the typically time-consuming screening process, with no thoughts to the gender or credentials of the kid they competence receive.

"We someway knew the right small person would come," she said.

Bullock pronounced she got the call which the baby competence be accessible for embracing the cause during what she described as "the media craziness of the awards season." Deciding to invulnerability Louis from which turmoil, she kept his arrival dim from all though the few trusted associates as well as desired ones. Her hold up (and his) became an ongoing routine of privacy as well as diversion.

"Just the doctors' visits were filled with decoys a! s well a s dim cars," she said. "People which we had worked with for years couldn't assimilate because we wouldn't let them in to my residence for (Oscar rite gown) fittings."

James as well as Bullock distant in Mar after five years of marriage, following reports which the luminary motorcycle builder as well as reality-TV star had been unfaithful.

Bullock won the Oscar for many appropriate actress for her role in the blockbuster strike "The Blind Side," upon Mar 7. Within days of her win, the cheating allegations became public as well as Bullock went in to seclusion.

It was the steep tumble from the romance resonating in between them at the Golden Globes in January. Accepting her many appropriate actress award, Bullock told James from the stage, her voice enormous with emotion: "There's no surprise which my work got improved when we met you. Because, we never knew what it felt similar to for someone to have my back."

After the revelations, James publicly apologized to Bullock as well as his children, Sunny, 6; Jesse Jr., 12; as well as Chandler, 15. He not long ago returned home after the 30-day stay in the diagnosis facility where he sought assistance for "personal issues," the People story said.

In the make the difference posted upon the People website, James called Bullock "the adore of my life, though deliberation the pain as well as extinction we have caused her, it would be greedy to not let her go."

He said, "The adore we have for Louis cannot be put to words. Not having him around to adore as well as to hold has left the outrageous hole in my heart."

He vowed to overcome an unspecified obsession which he pronounced has taken from him "two of the things we adore the many in life."

When asked about either James had cheated, Bullock pronounced she "had no thought about anything."

"I did the only thing we could do, as well as which was to pack sufficient clothes to live on, get all of Louis' things as well as ge! t out of town. My main concern was Louis."

When asked either James will have any grave parenting role, she replied, "I will be adopting as the singular parent. Anything else will be taken day by day."

Of her attribute with James' 3 children, Bullock said, "I do not wish to know what hold up is similar to though those kids. ... Whatever we need to do, in the healthiest way, we are starting to be co-parenting."

Looking forward to hold up though James, Bullock said, "I really do not know how the paths will join in the future, though the father we have well known Jesse to be with all the kids is one which we goal Louis can knowledge one day, no make the difference how Jesse as well as we go upon with the lives."

News of the embracing the cause fast seized the courtesy of Bullock watchers as well as associate celebrities alike.

On Wednesday morning's "Live! With Regis as well as Kelly," horde Regis Philbin held up the copy of People magazine, which shows Bullock smiling at her baby son as she binds him aloft.

"It's not really easy to adopt the baby," Philbin said.

He's cute, chirped co-host Kelly Ripa.

"Lucky small guy, too," pronounced Philbin.

And upon ABC's "The View," co-host Joy Behar marveled which no one, "not the Pope, not Barbara Walters," had well known about Bullock's baby.

"But we knew." Why didn't she say anything? "I forgot," Behar joked.

Many rallied to Bullock's invulnerability upon Facebook. By midday Wednesday, some-more than 6,000 had clicked which they "liked" an earlier-formed organisation dubbed "Team Sandra Bullock!" ("Team Jesse James" had the most reduce following of some 50 people upon the amicable network.)

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Amy Winehouse bruises ribs in fall at home

LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse is being treated for painful ribs during the London clinic after falling during home.

The essence diva's spokesman says Winehouse additionally suffered the cut above her eye after she tripped as well as fell during her north London house on Saturday.

Spokesman Chris Goodman said Tuesday which the 26-year-old thespian is recovering during the private clinic, as well as is approaching to be fine.

Winehouse shot to stardom with the Grammy-winning album "Back to Black" in 2006, but her song has been overshadowed by drug use, authorised run-ins as well as the vigourous marriage which ended in divorce final year.

Goodman says she has been recording brand new material with writer Mark Ronson.


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Monday, April 26, 2010

8 girls injured as frenzied Justin Bieber fans rush venue

SYDNEY (AP) - Thousands of demoniac teenagers, who outlayed a night camped out by Sydney Harbour available a unison by pop star Justin Bieber, surged toward a venue Monday morning, sending during slightest 8 girls to a sanatorium as well as injuring several more.
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Gosselin kids allowed to appear on mom's new show

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kate's 8 have been free to crop up on their mom's upcoming being show.

A spokesman for a Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry says producers have performed child-labor permits for Kate Gosselin's twins and sextuplets to crop up with