Wedding is always associated with a fairytale, especially when it concerns celebrities. People all over the world are following their prep process, than searching the best shoots on the Internet to be a bit dreamy to have the same on their wedding or at least to have a small topic to chat. Women get anxious when looking at the wedding gown of Kate Middleton or Kim Kardashian. It is the ceremony itself that produces even more stunning effect on public, if it is not a secret one. (Celebrities tend to keep such things in secret, you know!).
Today, we would like to show you the best out of the best photos of the most beautiful celebrity wedding, pointing to every little thing. Of course, including the bride’s gown. In addition, we will place into the spot light the best weddings of 2016. But don’t forget to take some handkerchiefs since you are likely to drop some tears. So, let’s get started!
The most beautiful celebrity weddings ever
To begin with, we would like to mention that really breathtaking wedding is not usually about some extravaganza or a huge party celebrated with thousands of guests and the lights of world cameras everywhere. Besides, the expectation of common white dress and black smocking. The celebrity’s decision are usually unexpected though there are some exceptions. Let’s take for example John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The couple had rather unexpected attire for the wedding: the bride was in white (which is still important) miniskirt and the bride was wearing knee socks. Other couple demonstrated quite lavish celebration of their wedding. Just remember about Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen.
In this part of the article we are going to talk about various marriages – old and new – which are still inspiring the world.
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince tied the knot on July, 1 2011 in the Cotswold. The gown of the bride was made by their friend John Galliano. Being together for two years, having a trip together to Thailand they decided to get married when watching Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. That film became their turning point of all their live.
The immortal song “The Ballad of Yoko and John” points to one of the most astonishing events of the last century. The couple got married in March, 1968, after John Lennon’s divorce. Yoko Ono expresses the style of the epoch to the fullest, wearing white miniskirt, knee socks, white hat and large sunglasses. They dedicated their honeymoon to peace calling it “Bed-in for peace”. Eventually they were together until John Lennon’s death in 1980.
We’re moving fast from the previous century to our days and are interested in Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wedding. The couple started dating in 2012, not long after the divorce of Kim from Kris Humphrey. After their daughter North West was born in 2013 they decided to tie a knot. And that is after 10 years of being acquainted. They met for the first time in 2004 at Kim’s another wedding. The wedding ring which Kim was presented with is now famous all over the world. It was 15-carrat Schwartz ring. Guys, just imagine it! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West got married on May 24, 2014. The ceremony was held in Florence and the bride was wearing brilliant dress by Givenchy.
Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney is another couple to be put in the spotlight. The ceremony of the event was held in Venice, Italy in September, 2014. They were first seen together in London in autumn 2013. The hotel Cipriani was housing the event of the Hollywood star wedding. More mesmerizing is the fact that the bride changed her outfit many times. She was seen wearing Oscar de la Renta gown during the ceremony, than Dolce&Gabbana, Alexander McQueen.
These weddings have already much time as passed away, while weddings of the previous year are still in the mass media top news lists and google search list as well. That’s why we are ready to take the upper hand in this chart list and tell you some facts about the best weddings of 2016.
Amusing celebrity weddings 2016
2016 was very reach for the events in different fields that it is quite difficult even to try to count at least some of them. But was is more alluring for us it is the wedding, the celebrity wedding. It is always interesting and informing to follow such events if you are the person to be curious about all these stuff.
Perhaps the most huge wedding had Ciara and Russell Wilson. The groom presented his future wife with 16-carat ring as it was spotted when the rumors about their engagement were all around. The ceremony was taking its place in Peckforton Castle, England. Ciara was in Roberto Cavalli’s dress. On that day all the Instagram and social accounts of the couple were shouting: “We are the Wilsons”. The place was truly magnificent. It became famous since Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes used this place as scene production, without mentioning some other TV-shows.
Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson got secretly married on July 13 somewhere in the Arizona having intimate ceremony and only the closest beside them. People say that it all was before they went to the Olympics to Rio. Soon Michael spotted this new on his account. The couple had the second wedding in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The background for the ceremony was the beach with beautiful palm trees, warm sunshine. All these contributed to the general atmosphere of the dreamy spot. In addition, to make it still more breathtaking everything was decorated with greenery and the arch as well was made with flowers and greenery.
Audrina Patridge said I do to the Australian biker Corey Bohan in Hawaii during calm and beautiful ceremony. The bride had a very romantic white gown by the Pallas Couture, an Australian designer. The gown was decorated with lace boho. The hair-do was also pretty: the hair was done in loose waves. She had a red flower tucked behind her ear.
Kimberly Walsh and Justin Scott got married on the Caribbean Barbados Island. Justin was her long term love, so we believe that at last the dream came true. The couple was surrounded by the closest friends and relatives. As Kimberly said in some interviews she would gladly to go all over it once again to live it through and experience all the emotions and feelings. They were dating for 12 years, since 2004, when they both were working with the same record label. Justin proposed to Kimberly only in September 2014 after she gave birth to their child, son Bobby.
Margot Robbie became a married woman after being in long relationship with Tom Ackley. They tiered the knot in December. They started dating in 2013 when the couple met in France during the World War II drama set. Since that moment they were living together in London. The image of Margot showing the ring on her finger made a storm after it appeared on her Instagram account.
On May 21 another couple tiered the knot in Valla de Bravo, Mexico. It was a private ceremony dedicated to Eva Longoria and José Bastón wedding. Their relationship got public in 2013 and became engaged in December 2015. Victoria Beckham, Eva’s best friend, supported the bride in all possible ways, giving helpful pieces of advice throughout the whole important day. What’s more, Victoria was one of the witnesses of the wedding. But that is not the last helping hand from her. Eva was wearing a bridal gown by Victoria. We wish everybody had such a friend!
This summer Agyness Deyn and Joel McAndrew had a very charming wedding ceremony in Brooklyn Heights. The model was in midi-dress by Molly Goddard, famous London designer, during the ceremony of her wedding with hedge fund manager. To complete the look, the flowers of the bouquet were properly chosen. These were orchids and wheat. The atmosphere of the event was very intimate with only the dearest friends and relatives.
Anna Campbell is a well-known bridal designer, celebrated for her wedding dresses, became a married woman already. Her wedding is outstanding at least to the fact that she had four wedding dresses of her own design. All these was done to be astonishing during her wedding ceremony with Murray Thompson.
Of course, what a wedding of an outstanding public without beautiful dress. These are the things girls all over the world are dreaming about since their childhood. Our imagination makes us the allusion to the huge amazing white wedding gown and a handsome man beside us. Such dreams and marriages described above may be used as an evidence that life is alive and still breathing. And to make it powerful even more we should fight for it. We should start he battle with choosing the right wedding gown to be ready since every moment of the life is quite unexpected.
The most mesmerizing celebrity wedding dresses
Beatrice Borromeo was like a Greece goddess at her wedding in 2015 wearing Armani Prive gown. The impression was crowned with high lock. She was in complete harmony with her husband’s attire. There was nothing extra and we consider this look on of the perfect ones.
Solange Knowles had a rather unusual wedding attire. It was not a dress as you can see from the image above. It was a kind of a costume by Humberto Leon for Kenzo. The color of the attire is also not a common one. It is ivory. Though it may seem rather odd to have such appearance for the wedding, still they are completing each other as far as we can judge from the image. We believe, that if you want some extravaganza in your wedding gown, let it be like this one.
On Juli 2011 Kate Moss was in bias cut gown during her tying the knot with Jamie Hince. The dress was made by Kate’s friend John Galliano. The idea of the dress was to achieve the style of the 30th. We believe that the idea was fulfilled on the large scale due to the abandon usage of chiffon and tulle.
The huge bomb of the 2011 was the marriage of the Duck and the Duchess of Cambridge. That was probably one of the most expected and beautiful weddings of the present day in the Royal Family. The Duchess of Cambridge was in Alexander McQueen’s dress made by Sarah Burton. The white gown was richly decorated with lace. It was mentioned that the author was inspired by Jackie Kennedy’s weeding dress.
Victoria and David Beckham wedding has all the rights to be called the most costly one. It was a pretty penny for the couple to renew their wows and recreate the atmosphere. But they did it! And of course we should mention the dress of Victoria. It was the same she wore in July 1999. Though she changed her attire so fast that it was difficult to follow. But the famous dress by Vera Wang was spotted. And sure thing, remember David’s suit. Of, we love them matching!
We want to crown our list with Gwen Stefani in white and pink gown. In 2002 she got married in that ombre gown with Gavin Rossdale. The wedding attire was by John Galliano for Dior.
Our company believes that everything we think about is quite possible and the most important at this point is the desire to move on and to change yourself and world around. That’s why our contribution to the revolving world is in following: we make every moment of the big day memorable. Our team is always at your hand to make best celebrity weddings a part of your reality and make you feel yourself as a true Hollywood star when going through the photos of your wedding.


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Brecken had the honor to have been the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Milwaukee-based band, Bella Cain, playing over 200 shows a year in front of some of the biggest crowds and opening for some of the most notable names in country music. After several meetings, co-writes and trips down to Nashville, the place he now calls his second home, Brecken secured a publishing deal with Rhyme Partners Music Publishing on music row. He’s excited that it’s his turn now as a solo artist to continue pursuing his dreams.


Pamela has always dreamed of becoming an actress. And so she came to the film studio to go through the casting and get a major role in the new film. To pass the interview you need to give the right answers to the questions and you can help the sex girl in this.
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A widow has said a song released to honour her husband, with help from top musicians, was "absolutely beautiful".
Riccardo Criscenti, from Bedfordshire, died from a heart attack in January, shortly after contracting Covid-19.
The 45-year-old professional singer and musician had never released a song of his own as he was too much of a "perfectionist", said his wife Zdena.
One of his demos recorded in his shed was completed thanks to other music stars and his young daughter Valentina.
The track - The Sea Carries Away My Tears - became reality when Martin Sutton of the Songwriting Academy, of which Mr Criscenti was a student, agreed to produce it.
He said a "superstar" cast worked on it for two weeks, including Pam Sheyne on backing vocals, who wrote Genie In A Bottle for Christina Aguilera, and Eliza Carthy on fiddle.
Mrs Criscenti told that despite her husband's career, he had not released his own material - even though he wanted his music to be heard.
His voice and guitar for the song had been recorded in the studio in his shed at their home in Dunstable, but it never saw the light of day.
"He always said, 'I just need one song'," said Mrs Criscenti.
"It's really difficult to talk about it. Rick spent so much time in his studio, to put stuff together and you can hear his heart and soul in that song.
"Every time I listen, I'm just waiting for him to come back from his shed."
She said during the pandemic he sang in his garden for his neighbours and "everyone loved it".
"That was just Rick, he just tried to cheer up everyone," she said.
Mrs Criscenti said without Mr Sutton and his team, the song's release "wouldn't have happened", adding she was "so grateful - it's so powerful and emotional and absolutely beautiful".
The track has been released on various online platforms, including Spotify and YouTube.
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Have you been a cartoon addict? Well, there are people existing on earth that are so much obsessed with it , that they actually turn themselves into their favourite disney characters. Suprised? Don’t be, because this is for real , and we’re going to show you the real life barbie and how amazing her transformation has been. Pixee Fox, the Swedish-born model, first came into limelight when she got 6 of her ribs removed to get her figure in proportion. Not just any proportion, she wanted an hour-glass figure, literally.
1. Meet Pixee Fox
She’s a 27 year old swedish celebrity and is well known for her barbie look.
2. The hourglass figure
To attain an exact barbie look, she has even undergone a surgery where in she removed her 6 ribs to attain the hourglass figure.
3. Imitates cartoon characters
This is her corpse bride look. And like this, she has tried many other disney character looks that you’ll be amazed to see.
4. Spent over £500,000
That’s the approximate amount of money that she has spent on her surgeries.
5. The long list of surgeries
The list of her surgeries goes on from liposuction to butt lift. She has undergone 200 surgeries til date.
6. Wears corset everyday
Just to trim her waist down to 16 inches , she wears corset each and every day.
7. Obsessed with ariel
She’s obsessed with ariel and always wanted to look like her.
8. Got eye implants
She flew to India to get her eye colour changed as such dangerous operations aren’t done in Europe or america.
9. Undocumented surgeries
The actual no. of surgeries that she went through is unknown , as many of them just went undocumented.
10. Future plans
Her website claims that she has even bigger plans for future. Does that means – More surgeries?
11. Cartoon lover
She claims to be a cartoon lover and that they inspire her.
12. Always wanted to do this
The real life barbie says that she always wanted to do this, and that she also had to go against her family for this.
13. The living cartoon
That’s what she calls herself on her Instagram profile.


Pete Davidson Web Worth And Earnings 2021
For further schooling, he enrolled himself at St. Francis College but dropped out of the identical as a result of career prospects in comedy. He is identified with Crohn’s disease and is present process an intravenous therapy. A few years after Davidson’s father’s death, he began doing stand-up comedy throughout the family and then showed his talent to his associates. Davidson had a stage concern initially, and his pals helped him lots to overcome that concern. It was they who forced him to carry out at one of many greatest phases of the standup comic in New York.
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Personal Life Of The Comic:
Pete Davidson is best famous for his efficiency in Season 40 of Saturday Night Live. His different tv credit embody Comedy Underground and Philosophy and Guy Code on MTV. This well-known sketch comic and the stand-up comedian was the primary SNL comedian to be born in the final decade of the twentieth century. His father was a New York City firefighter who perished in service through the September 11 attacks.
- Still working exhausting to make his mark on the tv landscape, Davidson landed a guest position on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and a starring function on a Fox pilot that wasn’t picked up.
- Speaking of huge breaks, if there is one thing budding comedians strive for is to star in a movie, or no less than be within the operating for a Showtime or Netflix comedy particular.
- Davidson first tried stand-up comedy at age sixteen in a Staten Island bowling alley, the place a bunch of pals, understanding of his comedy aspirations, dared him to take to the stage.
- Emmy has a big ardour for helping others and motivating folks.
- She is a young Swedish girl from Uppsala, who is presently touring all over the world.
It is believed that he earns $15,000 per episode of Saturday Night Live. He is best recognized as one of many main cast members on the comedy present ‘Saturday Night Live’. He touches upon matters corresponding to marijuana, sex, and relationships. He talks about incidents from his awkward highschool experiences to living in a dormitory during his transient stint at St. Francis College. Davidson jokes about highly sensitive topics, including the loss of his father through the September eleven attacks. He says he finds that it empowers him to deal with the sensation of powerlessness that experiencing such tragedy at a young age inflicted upon him.
Taylor Lautners Web Value 2021: Bio, Age, Height, Income, Girlfriends
Due to his many initiatives, he has accrued a number of hundreds of thousands of dollars. While there isn’t any method for the general public to know exactly how much money Pete Davidson has, in accordance with a number of reviews he has an estimated web price of $6 million. Given the truth that Davidson is finest identified for his most high profile job, people might assume that his money came from that alone. However, in reality, Davidson has made cash in plenty of alternative ways through the years. On high of that, Pete Davidson lives together with his mother to this day in order that has to be saving him some kind of cash, despite the fact that she moved into his residence. She is a younger Swedish lady from Uppsala, who’s presently touring around the world.


Kim Jong Un’s girlfriend was in a pop group and this is the video for their song “Excellent Horse-Like Lady”
Kim Jong-il may be gone, but fortunately for the rest of us, his talent for the unutterably bizarre appears to have been hereditary.
His son, Kim Jong-un, has provided us all with a treat in the form of his alleged girlfriend’s pop career.
Other hits apparently included “Footsteps of Soldiers,” “I Love Pyongyang,” “She Is a Discharged Soldier,” and “We are Troops of the Party”.
It’s said that Kim Jong-un first dated Hyon about ten years ago, but it is speculated that Kim Jong-il felt her to be an unsuitable partner for a future leader of a totalitarian regime, and separated them. Now with crazy-daddy out of the picture, Hyon is back on the scene, and there are rumours that they are already married and just waiting for the opportune moment to break the good news to the already-delighted-because-they-have-to-be population of North Korea.


"It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism."
― Eddie Vedder
Serena Williams Criticized For Wearing A Catsuit(Op-Ed)
by Associate Editor: Christina Maldonado 19’
Serena Williams, new mother, and 23 Grand slam champion was denigrated and disparage, because she decided her health was important, but also her ambition for tennis was not going to stop her from playing. The French Tennis Federation President--Bernard Giudicelli-- disapproved William’s fashion choice: a black, Nike catsuit. Giudice said, “It will no longer be accepted” and “One must respect the game and the place.”
Giudice says there will be a dress code, which is not yet in effect, but it certainly will not include the catsuit Williams wore(they have the ability to do this).The Championships, Wimbledon has a dress code that says attire should be “almost entirely white.” Williams wore this type of outfit, because she suffered from blood clots after giving birth and the suit was designed to aid circulation. The bigger issue is that Williams was criticized by how she looked during her game rather than how she played the game.
These tennis players do not attend these tournaments to give fashion statements. They attend to embrace their industrial work, their confidence, their skill, and their passion. Serena Williams is an idolized woman, because she strives to be her best self, embraces who she is, and encourages others. This woman has tennis in her veins; you cannot say she does not respect the sport or the place, because she lives for tennis. She lives for what motivates her and what makes her stronger.
A majority of the people embraced the outfit, confidence, and inspiration Williams continues to offer. William’s went to Twitter to showcase her outfit, and received appreciation, and support from her fans by tweeting, “Catsuit anyone? For all the moms out there who had a tough recovery from pregnancy-- here you go. If I can do it, so can you. Love you all!!”
Here are a few responses via Twitter:
“She is my favorite superhero.” -- @VTjdfCA
“Love it queen!(heart-eye emoji).” -- @RenasArmyFans
“QUEEN! We are so enormously proud of you. Welcome back(blowing a kiss emoji).” --@landyklk
“Serena, Thank you for your unending inspiration. We are so proud of you. Working that catsuit gurl!!!” -- @RoxanaRReeves
The public supports whatever Williams chooses to wear, because they respect her as a person and as a tennis player, so they’re mainly focused on her performance--good or bad-- and should not be evaluated about whether or not she looks appealing(she’s not wearing a tiny skirt. How dare she?).


Sharing the album artwork with the tracklist, ‘hidden’ in a darkish image, Louis wrote: ‘I’m so excited to lastly tell you that my new album Faith Sooner or later is out 11th November. Louis Tomlinson introduced his second solo album after sharing some teasers over the previous few days. Former One Route member Louis Tomlinson has dropped the news that his upcoming second solo album, Religion In the future, will be arriving this fall. Faith In the future will be the comply with-up to Louis’ Prime 5 album ‘Partitions’ released in, featuring songs ‘Miss You’ and ‘Two of Use. He later gained two extra half-siblings, twins Doris and Ernest. Hearken to your favorite music now — curated for fans, by followers — on Audacy’s Louis Tomlinson Radio, and extra!
The corporate employed approximately 26,000 people and operated greater than 245 amenities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and China. Morris purchased the company in 1944 for $200,000, making money down the cost of $50,000. ARIA Award for Music of the 12 months. ARIA 2019 Tune of the Year Award. Check out everything we know up to now in regards to the upcoming album. Louis’ followers have been keen to find out what the previous One Direction singer had in retail for them, and now he is giving them the small print. Lately, the second that the One Direction line-up was chosen by judges Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger, and Simon Cowell become uploaded to YouTube by X Factor. Dixon served as a guest choice on three separate occasions throughout this series as a stand-in for one more choice: for Scherzinger, who could not attend an audition episode attributable to different commitments; for Osbourne, who couldn’t attend an audition episode due to a protracted-standing again harm; and for Cowell, who could not attend a stay episode.
The video showed the three judges with headshots of the singers putting them collectively as a brand new band. The French squadron sailed between the cutters and Louis Tomlinson shop luggers on the one aspect and the three British ships on the opposite, so the small vessels fled back to Plymouth. There were a complete seven shops by the time Wasson’s turned into received by Goldblatt’s in 1967, which blanketed 3 shops in Indianapolis-area procuring centers and in malls situated within the cities of Kokomo, Anderson, and Bloomington. This web page was edited on 19 October 2021, at 22:33 UTC. Mann, Olly 18 October 2013. “The X Issue: the place has all the joke contestants gone?”. We’ve lightened the second pic that Louis shared, and as to be anticipated, it appears to be like the tracklist for his upcoming album faith in the destiny.


Comic book writer, artist and director Frank Miller has said that he’d like to see Carrie Kelley in a DC movie in a recent interview with ComicBook.com on the red carpet premiere of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“Oh, Carrie Kelley, if they do it, I’ll be very jealous of any appearance of Carrie Kelley,” Miller said. “Carrie Kelley would be the big one. I love my little Joker robots, and lots of other characters like his goofy sidekick, but Carrie Kelley is the one that broke my heart.”
Another of Miller’s creations is Elektra, Daredevil’s common partner and lover. The character was recently brought to life in season 2 of Netflix’s Daredevil starring Charlie Cox as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, Elodie Yung as the red masked Elektra and Jon Bernthal as the unforgiving Punisher. When talking about the character’s appearance in the series 3 months prior to the season’s release, Miller boasted a slightly different opinion by saying:
“They can do whatever they want, that is not her.”
He went on in the most recent interview to differentiate his work-fore-hire characters such as Carrie Kelley and Elektra and the work that he owns such as Sin City.
“I’ve had a good long time doing work that I’ve made up out of whole cloth,” Miller said. “I own ‘Sin City,’ if there’s a ‘Sin City’ movie, I’ll make it. With Batman, I’m contributing to a mythos that’s been around for a long time. I’ve had a great time contributing to it, I will gladly contribute to it again, and I want to see what other people do. It’s a big party, we can all join in.”
For those not in the know, Carrie Kelly is the female Robin who appears in The Dark Knight Returns universe and goes on to become Catgirl in The Dark Knight Strikes Again. The character took over the mantle from Jason Todd and made her first appearance in 1986. Now, Kelly is a major part of the Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert and Janson.
Interestingly, there were rumours that the character would be making an appearance in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman but this rumour was soon quashed.
Miller is currently hard to work on the fourth addition to his Batman: The Dark Knight series.
You can catch Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in cinemas now.


ALL ABOUT FISH
“Perhaps Fish’s greatest talent lies in his lyric writing. His introspective lyrics, often dealing with his own personal problems and addictions, can in many cases be considered fine poetry…”
Derek William Dick, better known as FISH (born 25 April 1958), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and actor. He achieved prominence as the lead singer and lyricist of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion from 1981 until 1988. In his solo career he has explored contemporary pop and traditional folk and rock.
Music critics have acknowledged Fish for his voice, which has been described as both “distinct” and a “conflation of Roger Daltrey and Peter Gabriel”, while his lyrics have been praised as “poetic prose”. Fish was voted number 37 in the greatest voices in rock by Planet Rock listeners in 2009.
CURRENT LIVE BAND
Fish – Lead Vocals
John Mitchell – Electric/Acoustic Guitars
Steve Vantsis – Bass Guitars; Keyboards; Backing Vocals
Liam Holmes – Keyboards
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Doris Brendel – Backing Vocals


|Portrait of Princess Elizabeth c.1546|
|'The Rainbow Portrait' of Elizabeth I c.1600|
Just a brief post to acknowledge that 480 years ago today Elizabeth I was born at Greenwich Palace in London. She was the first and only surviving child of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, but her birth was met with mixed emotions as her gender was a disappointment but the fact a healthy baby had been born was cause for celebration. She is thought to have been named after both of her grandmothers, her paternal grandmother Elizabeth of York and her maternal grandmother Elizabeth Howard. From birth she was styled as Princess Elizabeth and she was considered heir presumptive while her parents continued to hope for the birth of a son. Three days after her birth she was christened with Archbishop Cranmer, the Marquess of Exeter, the Duchess of Norfolk and the Dowager Marchioness of Dorset standing as her four godparents. At the time none of them would have thought that the little princess would one day become Queen of England and one of the most successful monarchs that England has ever had.
Elizabeth by David Starkey
Elizabeth the Queen by Alison Weir


Afro hop Singer Miles, Was Signed to Pluckyhits Global Records
Amos Iyere popularly known as Miles, was signed to Pluckyhits Global Records.
Born in the late 90’s in Jebba, Kwara State, Miles hails from Irua, Esan central local government area of Edo State in the South-Southern part of Nigeria.
Having spent three years in the Nigerian music industry, Miles have proven to be skillful, creative and talented.
He intends to use music which has always been his passion as a tool to effect positive change in the Nigerian society and the world at large.
Apart from music, Miles is also a seasoned entrepreneur and a footballer, and is soon to release a hit single titled ‘African Lady‘ featuring his brother Enlino.


Havana, Cuba. – The name of Lourdes Margarita Torres may sound unknown to most. However, if we just say Lourdes Torres, everyone will realize right away that it is a popular Cuban singer and songwriter with an amazing musical curriculum.
She was born in Guanabacoa in 1940 and her musical career began when she was 12 years old. She joined Maria Adams’ choir and sang with it many times in the Major Comedy Theater. Then in 1953, Lourdes Torres experienced one of the landmarks of her lifetime.
She was only 13 years old when she visited Maestro Ernesto Lecuona to show him her singing skills. When she heard her, the remarkable Cuban musician gave her the score of his song “Sin encontrarte.”. He accompanied her at the piano in her debut and young Lourdes Torres had to sing it again at the audience’s request.
She was Ernesto Lecuona’s disciple and the maestro farsightedly wrote about her: “Lourdes Torres has a warm voice, with a privileged and velvety tone and great character (…) she will get far if she develops her skills appropriately, namely character and voice. That´s how Rita Montaner and Esther Borja started. Lourdes is a discovery of mine that will be a great success.”
After her first performance with Lecuona, the young singer continued her path in lyrical singing, under his guidance. In the meantime, she also studied music theory, piano, ballet and singing at Havana Municipal Conservatory. She had remarkable professors, like Alberto Alonso in ballet, and Zoila Galvez and Maria Adams in singing.
In 1956, at the age of 16, she started singing popular songs. Soon after, she became the vocalist of duets, trios and quartets, like “Anaya”, where she also played vibraphone. The young singer from Guanabacoa was likewise soloist in the popular Luis Santi’s band. In “Tropicana” Cabaret, she joined the mezzo soprano segment of Paquito Rodino’s choir, which accompanied celebrities like Nat King Cole and Mexican Pedro Vargas. As a soloist, she shared the stage with stars of the size of Benny More, Fernando Alvarez and Orlando Vallejo.
In 1961, she became lead singer of “Los Modernistas”, a vocal ensemble with which she shared 32 of the 33 years of its existence. After this experience, she went on as a soloist and sang in Cuba and overseas scenarios, namely Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
We must also highlight her work as composer, since she has written over 200 songs of the most diverse genres. Some of her best-known titles are “Un nuevo sentimiento me sorprende” and “Fue asi que te olvide.” More than 60 singers in our country have included the latter in their repertoire.
“Los Modernistas” was founded in 1960 by Miguel de la Uz and Gilberto Aldanaz, both coming from “Los Faxas.” There was also Eugenio Fernandez, who had been part of a similar ensemble in “Tropicana” Cabaret. The female voice in those days was not Lourdes Torres, but Yolanda Brito, who came from “Los Astros” quartet and the choir of CMQ TV and radio station.
In 1961, singer Yolanda Brito left “Los Modernistas” and its members convened an audition to choose her successor. The third of 22 candidates was chosen. It was no other than young Lourdes Torres, who was meant to stay 32 out of the 33 years of existence of the ensemble.
In their 33 years of musical career, the quartet always offered a varied repertoire that included diverse genres, like traditional Trova, bolero, guaracha, mozambique and ballads. Some of their hits were Osvaldo Farres’ “Teresa”; “Prague”, from the soundtrack of “Waltz for a million” motion picture, Armando Larrinaga’s “Sali a buscar mi felicidad” and even some Silvio Rodriguez’s songs, before he was famous. “Los Modernistas” also included in their repertoire a few songs written by Lourdes Torres herself.
In addition to their vast repertoire, the quartet also did choruses for some stars, like Rene Cabell, Fernando Albuerne, Blanca Rosa Gil, Ignacio Piñeiro, Rosita Fornes and Luis Carbonell.
“Los Modernistas” recorded about 400 songs for broadcasting in Cuba, but unfortunately, only one album. The same happens to Lourdes Torres, because so far the outstanding vocalist has not been able to leave her mark in the phonograms world. Nevertheless, she remains active as a soloist and has offered her art for more than a decade at “Dos Gardenias” Complex and other places. Luckily for our music, Lourdes Torres goes on with his career as vocalist and songwriter.
By: Grisel Chirino
Translated by: Pedro A. Fanego


Artist of my Summer: Charli XCX
After a rather explosive and prolific 2012, Charlotte Aitchison, better known as Charli XCX is finally dropping a proper LP this spring. True Romance will feature four of her best known hits, “You’re The One,” “Nuclear Seasons,” “You (Ha Ha Ha),” and “So Far Away” along with eight new tracks.
Here’s why you should be paying attention:
- Her catchy, massive goth-pop tunes have been named some of the best tracks of 2012 amongst music critics.
- You know that Icona Pop anthem, “I Love It” that you’ve been blaring in your car without a care in the world? Yep, she was a featured artist.
- Because “You’re The One” redefines what pop music can do in this internet-obessed, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it culture.
- Listen to Nuclear Seasons just once and you’ll understand. Seriously.
Watch out for Charli XCX this summer because her trajectory is only going higher.
View the tracklist and her 90s inspired, Spice Girls-gone-grindhouse video for “You (Ha Ha Ha)” here.


In 2006, he received the Honorary Degree from the University of the Pacific and a similar award from the University of Southern California in 2007. For his compositions, Eastwood was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006; he won the Satellite Award for Best Original Song in 2007 and he was twice nominated for the Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Songwriter. In 2007, he was the first contender for the Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award for his work on Memoirs of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, an annual ceremony presented by the MPAA167.
On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame. At the end of the following year, in France, Eastwood was awarded the Legion of Honor. The French president at the time, Jacques Chirac, declared that he gave “to understand the complexity of America, with its greatness and with its fragilities, with the impetus of its dreams and with its worried questions” 168.
On September 22, 2007, Clint Eastwood was named Doctor of Music by the Berklee College of Music during the Monterey Jazz Festival. He was a long time member of the board of directors of this university. On receiving this honor, Eastwood declares in his speech that it is “one of the highest honors [that has been] bestowed upon him” 169. The following year, he received the National Board of Review award for best actor for his performance in Gran Torino170.
On April 29, 2009, the Japanese government announced that Eastwood had been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Stripes and Ribbon, which is the third largest of the eight classes associated with this award171. At the end of the year, he was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor168. In 2010, he was awarded the American National Medal of Arts for his service and contribution to national cinematic art. It is the highest award given to an artist in America. Among the awards for which he has been nominated include six Oscars, three BAFTA Awards, two David di Donatello Awards, two Césars, nine Golden Globes and four Saturn Awards. In addition, he was part of the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival five times and he won two awards at the Venice Film Festival. Among the prizes he has won are four Oscars, three Césars, two DGA Awards, two Golden Globes, seven Kinema Junpo Awards, two Satellite Awards and a Palme d’honneur at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
He received in Lyon the Prix Lumière 2009 of the first Festival Lumière for the whole of his career. Clint Eastwood is also decorated with the Order of Arts and Letters, with the rank of officer.
In the French version, Jacques Deschamps doubles the actor for his character of the “man without a name” in the Dollar Trilogy (1964 to 1966) by Sergio Leone172 (made up of Pour une handful of dollars, And for a few dollars more, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 172).


With more than thirty years of experience, and countless credits to her name—fifty in film and television alone, plus extensive commercial, voice-work and theatrical projects, as well as four separate Gemini and Genie nominations—Elva Mai Hoover is the very definition of a working actor. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, she has also appeared at the Stratford Festival, and played leading roles in regional theatres all across Canada. Continuing TV roles have included Elvira Lawson on Road to Avonlea, Mrs Edison on The Edison Twins, and Ted’s Mom on Queer as Folk. Recently, she’s appeared in films and TV movies like Down the Road Again (Sequel to Goin’ Down the Road), Murdoch Mysteries, Flashpoint, and Rookie Blue, as well as stage plays like Doubt, Harvest, Half Life, Rabbit Hole, Romeo and Juliet, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Homeward Bound, and The Bush Ladies. Elva is also a well-known teacher of voice-over and a successful voice-over performer. These days, she is the proud grandmother of Callum who fills her life with love.
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It’s easy to look around at what’s happening in the earth today and be tempted to feel afraid or dismayed. Circumstances may seem overwhelming. Maybe your business is struggling, maybe you lost your job, maybe you’re struggling in a relationship or concerned about the economy. During times like these, it’s important to remember that God has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us. In fact, not only is He with us, He has promised to strengthen us and harden us to difficulties. That means, when tough times come, they just bounce right off of you. You don’t allow your circumstances to steal your peace and joy. You have the attitude that says, “This may be a big problem, but my God is bigger!
Photo Op of the Day: Miguel’s Stage Dive FAIL
During last night’s 2013 Billboard Music Awards, R&B singer Miguel attempted to soar over a crowd of fans to the other side of the stage while performing the song “Adorn,” but unfortunately ended up kicking a fan right in the head on his way down. The 27-year-old singer, who finished his act before reuniting with her in the backstage after the show, later told reporters that the fan managed to avoid any serious injury (thankfully), but the incident has already inspired quite a few image macros and clever photoshopped images.


By now, it’s old news to say that Bob Dylan is frequently hailed as America’s greatest singer/songwriter. Undoubtedly, on every countdown, Dylan and his work are rated among the very highest. For five decades this guy has been making great music, and yet with this one album, Highway 61 Revisited, all of Bob Dylan’s talent is exhibited. After really listening to Highway 61 Revisited and reading the lyrics, it is pretty clear that the highly revered titles given to the singer have been rightfully earned. This album’s lyrics are very original and the new, different method of songwriting really works.
The first and most striking aspect of Bob Dylan’s lyrics is that they are neither predictable nor typical. In so many songs today, especially popular music, there is a definite conventional formula that is followed and I do not think Bob Dylan ever fell victim to the prescribed formula. However, despite his songs’ originality, they are all still very catchy and gained mainstream success. Dylan is the perfect example of a genuinely talented individual who has fairly earned his title.
Another part of Dylan’s appeal is that the audience can actually feel his brain churning and creating all sorts of innovative and interesting phrases. After reading the lyrics to the album, it undeniable that this is a crazy talented artist and for me, it is difficult not to get caught up in his thought process. In Ballad of a Thin Man, he incorporates “F. Scott Fitzgerald” into the lyrics. Even if Dylan’s lyrics were completely meaningless and unenjoyable, I think people would have still taken note of him, simply because of his novel writing style. Not only does Highway 61 Revisited take on a completely inventive, unpredictable new formula of music writing, but that new formula is amazingly good.


November 6th, 2019 is a very important day in my life, so I thought I’d make this post to talk about what it means to me. November 6th is the day I first watched Mother India starring Nargis, a film that changed me forever for a number of reasons. In addition to introducing me to Bollywood and my favorite actress ever, it is also one of the best films I have ever seen. For the uninitiated, Nargis Dutt was considered one of the most talented Indian actresses of her time- I think she’s the best ever of any nationality, in any time period.
Released in 1957, Mother India has been compared to Gone with the Wind in its scope and impact in cinema. It remains one of the highest grossing Indian films of all time, was one of the most expensive ever made, was the first to be nominated for an Oscar, and is Nargis’s magnum opus, among other things. In fact she was so excellent in this movie that people told her to stop acting as she would never be able to top it. And she did stop acting, save for one film she made in the 60s. Even though this is not a film review but a post about Nargis, it is impossible to separate her from the role of Radha. On the film set is where she met her future husband, who saved her from a fire. And she became the first actress to receive a Padma Shri for her performance. There are many, many things I can discuss about this movie and I probably will in a later post, but the entire film all revolves around Nargis. All of it. She could have been acting against wooden props and nothing would change, it was THAT focused on her. She literally had to play a woman from her marriage to almost her death, encompassing so many emotions that I can’t even get into it right now. I know acting is just a job but I don’t know how she did it. Nobody else could.
We had to watch Mother India for a film class, so I got to experience it in a theater too. I will never forget anything about how I felt that night, what I saw, and how I reacted to it. It was literally like a seismic shift in my life. I vividly remember being about halfway through the movie and thinking, “okay, this is the best actress I have ever seen”. I was just in complete awe of her. This scene cemented that opinion for me. I remember walking to my apartment on campus in the dark, sitting by a chair in the lobby and just thinking and trying to process everything. And then I tweeted this:
Almost immediately, I started to stan her harder than I have ever stanned anyone before. Within a few days I made an Instagram for her, changed my Twitter username to nargisji, ordered a book about her, like you name it I have done it. I don’t think I can ever really explain how much I love her and connect to her, nothing will ever be enough. She was just the sweetest, most charitable, most talented, gorgeous person to ever live. I literally cry thinking about her sometimes. I have looked up so many anecdotes about her that I might make a post about that too, and a few have even made me cry as well (a lot of things make me cry). I cannot get enough of her honestly, I have to know everything because she’s just everything. And EVERYONE loved Nargis, everyone. She could do no wrong, her nickname was “Baby”. She had tons of fans probably just as intense as me. Surprisingly, a lot of them were in Russia. Here she is there promoting a film:
What’s so amazing to me about Nargis is that she was a total renaissance woman- she didn’t even want to act but she was so naturally gifted at it. A director literally showed up at her house and asked her to read lines when she was 14 years old and they hired her on the spot. And actually, he sort of guilt tripped her into it, he told her people would be fired if the movie didn’t get made with her specifically in the lead role. Honestly it’s sort of sad-her family made her the breadwinner when she was very young, which is still not that uncommon. But Nargis always liked helping people other than herself, and never complained outside of letters she wrote to her husband. She was also a very gifted writer, and I’ll post pictures of that underneath this post.
Nargis has been described by others as resilient, very generous, humble, spirited, and a well-rounded person. She described herself as introverted and basically resilient. I could talk about how talented she is as an actress for years but her post Mother India life was probably what Nargis would want us to remember her by: a mother and a social worker. Despite how talented and revered she was, she gave up acting to raise her family. As her daughter put it, “Mom never regretted quitting films. She’d say, “I reached my peak. I’ve given so much to my work. I want to enjoy the other things of life. Family is what I want. It’s not a sacrifice.” Nargis wanted to be a doctor all her life, but instead of that she took up social work after her marriage and excelled at it. In a documentary her daughter Priya made about Nargis, someone described her as genuinely interested in what she was doing-this wasn’t a star type of thing to make her look good. She actually gave a shit.
“Giving a shit” was kind of her thing. Nargis was so passionate and loved the people in her life very very deeply. I mean there was never a time where she wasn’t throwing parties for her kids, helping out at their school, cooking, knitting stuff for them, trying to make her husband happy by having a perfect home, talking to her friends constantly, helping out at The Spastic Society where she was the first ever patron (not very PC, it refers to cerebral palsy and they changed the name later), she was a politician at one point, she met Mother Theresa, she even raised her brother’s children. She gave so much of herself to others all her life and was so kind, and that is maybe her greatest legacy. Anyone who knew her and who has talked about her makes a mention of it. These are passages from a book by an actor who knew her.
Nargis dedicated entire self to her family and after she died, they fell apart and had to learn how to put themselves back together again without her help. She died 40 years ago and the Dutts still talk about her regularly. Look who’s hanging in the back of her daughter’s icon! Priya is my favorite child of Nargis because she described herself as almost physically attached to her and talks about her the most. She helps run the Nargis Dutt Foundation, which works towards health care, women’s empowerment, and education among other things. They also have a charitable trust set up in her name.
Despite all that I’ve said so far, Nargis wasn’t a perfect person and she wasn’t always an angel. These complexities make me appreciate her as a human being more. I talk about her very glowingly but she has fucked up. She had an affair with director Raj Kapoor for almost 10 years, and she really thought he would leave his wife for her that entire time. Finally she broke up with Raj and apologized to his wife years later. People never begrudged her for it because she basically never bothered Krishna Kapoor or anyone really, handled it with grace never talked about it for the rest of her life after she walked out. But I mean…don’t do that, sis. She told her husband she wished it never happened. Nargis was also known to have quite a temper, said shitty things about a director once, and has made at least one very mean comment about another actress. That’s about it. Her good qualities far outweigh the bad, and people are complicated.
Because God isn’t real, Nargis unfortunately did not get to grace us with her presence on earth for very long. She died when she was only 51 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. This is literally like the hardest kind of cancer to detect early and because of that it is almost always fatal- I know because I looked it up and made myself really upset. The worst thing about it is nobody deserves the amount of true suffering she went through. And yet-the worst kind of agony imaginable was saved for the most wonderful human being that has ever lived. I said “God isn’t real” more as a figure of speech but after she died, her family really did remove statues of gods and put pictures of her in place of them. I can’t say I blame them. They stopped believing because nothing worked no matter how hard they prayed, but she still stayed alive. This woman had 7 surgeries done and a hole in her side that they left open because they were worried another surgery would kill her, she had to prick her fingers and have dialysis done, she went under a coma and came out of it, she was known as the miracle woman of Sloan Kettering and she still passed away just days before the debut of her beloved son’s first movie. In fact the cancer was GONE, but she died from an infection because her immune system was so weak. Nargis told her husband that wanted to be there even if she had to be in a wheelchair, so they left a chair empty for her at the premiere. This is all very, very bleak and makes me so angry, it’s just a reminder of how cruel nature or God or whatever you want to call it can really be. But her innate goodness still shines through in the most touching way that still resonates today through her legacy. Despite all of what she went through, she told her husband that she shouldn’t have been brought to New York for treatment. When he asked her why, she said that everyone should be able to have the same access to great healthcare that she did.
This is the kind of human being she was. She was literally on her deathbed still thinking about other people.
This touched Sunil and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to her request. He set up the foundation for her and made a documentary about cancer, among other things. Nargis wouldn’t want us to dwell on her sad her death was, she wanted to help others, and through the foundation she gets to do that to this day.
This is a MONSTER of a post that I didn’t plan on making. I will definitely make more Nargis posts in the future- I haven’t even gotten into her relationship with her husband which is so fascinating. I am super emotional and I’ll probably watch another one of her movies later this week-maybe Shree 420. I was going to today but time always gets away from me. Truthfully, I have been putting off watching her filmography even though I know virtually everything about her because I don’t want to run out of movies, and I know I can always rewatch them but it’ll hurt. She died years before I was born but I still miss her so much. I think she’d find my stanning method amusing and she’d be shocked to even have fans. I am definitely the most active one right now, there was another Nargis account on instagram that had pictures even I haven’t seen but she deactivated 😦 Anyway, I just wanted to put this into the universe today. I love you forever, Nargis. You are the best actress of all time, one of my favorite people and you always will be. ❤
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She most recently ran a successful boutique talent agency to represent some talented actors, writers and directors who needed a strong cheerleader!
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Confessions of a Shameless Name-Dropper
Adventures in the Music Business
By Mark Cabaniss
About the book
The music business has taken Mark Cabaniss on adventures far from his native state of North Carolina…from Nashville to Broadway to Hollywood and back. In celebration of his 25th year in the music business, this self-admitted “shameless name-dropper” tells witty and inspiring stories of his fun connections through the years in Confessions of a Shameless Name-Dropper. Join him as he shares the inside scoop of his encounters with legendary entertainers Bob Barker, Andy Griffith, Shirley Jones, Steve Allen, Dick Clark, Sherwood (Gilligan’s Island) Schwartz, Rupert Holmes, Doc Severinsen, and more. In between the anecdotes of these and others, he gives an account of his own career journey with insight and behind-the-scenes stories about the inner workings of several top music business companies, while celebrating the transforming power of music and the arts.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Casey is a Brooklyn musician and longtime friend of SuperForest. He's got a project called Balene and is about to release his first album.
Take a gander at this:
A very nice promo, no?
What I really like about Casey is that he wrote and recorded the songs, shot and edited the promo, and is now on the verge of enacting his plans for releasing said album, which he is doing in a very modern way.
Instead of printing the usual couple hundred cd's, Casey is selling vinyl records, and each record coming with a code that allows you to download the album as mp3's. Smartilocks and the three bears.
He's a one man DefJam!
SuperForest recently scored an interview with Mr. Brooks. Let's hear what he has to say:
Nicey nice, Mr. Brooks!
Phantom Sea is set to drop in a month or so. We'll keep you posted.
Casey T. Brooks, you are a SuperForest Celebrity!


“To me, the two-minute-ten-second single was power,” Morrissey told Rolling Stone in 1986, recalling his prefame days of obsessive music fandom. “It was blunt, to the point.” The Smiths proved themselves masters of the form right out of the gate. With its striking fade-in intro, slashing drums, reel-’round-the-cemetery harmonica, and Johnny Marr’s searing jangle, “Hand in Glove” was an anthem of loneliness and disaffection that touched a communal nerve, launching an astonishing run of U.K. hits for the band. As Morrissey recalled in his memoir, “The release of ‘Hand in Glove’ told me, at least, that I existed.” J.D.
This was posted on The Smiths 'official' YouTube channel this past Thursday. Apologies if this was posted previously, í never saw it.
It says it's available in 4K, which is clearly bollocks, as it's BBC videotape which is probably barely HD, let alone UHD.
But still a nice clean, 'live' version. Unlike the 'Complete Picture' version.
As Morrissey prepares to release his 13th solo album, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, it feels instructive to reflect on the demise of The Smiths. The group has, after all, cast a shadow over everything he has done in the past 33 years.
The obvious reason for looking back is that for the Morrissey of today, there is a sense of looming finality. Pariah status beckons for the former generational icon. His 2019 endorsement of the far right New Britain party, and his claim – the latest in a series of outrageous outbursts – that...
Here are the acts we would rather not bury the hatchet any time soon, from The Smiths and One Direction to OutKast and Oasis.
it seems NME is at it again.
An obvious one, yes, but for good reason. The Smiths’ break-up was particularly messy – they had already parted ways before the release of their fourth album, 1987’s ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’, amid a toxic atmosphere that included Morrissey running out of the studio as soon as he was done recording and Johnny Marr saying he “didn’t form a group to perform Cilla Black songs”. But the aftermath was even messier: a bitter royalties dispute, decades of barbed words exchanged as well as the band members’ increasingly divergent political views (Marr recently responded to reunion rumours by wryly suggesting they get...


“I wanted to be able to record everything that I wanted to do and if I don’t get done with the list, at least they can look at it and they can know what dreams I had for them when I was a youngmom,” said Crawford.
One item on Crawford’s list was meeting Bubba, morning radio show host for Star 100.7. Friday morning, Crawford was able to cross that item off her list. She joined Bubba on the air to share her story.
“I’ve always been a listener and I love your show and you make me laugh so hard, on the way to chemo every Thursday, that is what we listen to,” said Crawford.
Bubba, almost speechless, says he was humbled to be on Crawford’s list.
“Hopefully we can look back at this bucket list and say oh my, I really never needed that, that would be the best,” said Bubba.
Crawford is asking others to help her with her bucket list. If you’d like to see it, click here.
If you’d like to follow her battle with cancer, you can click here.


NUNZIA SCHIANO (President of the Jury).
Born and raised in Portici (Na), where she attended the Liceo Orazio Flacco, she is known to the general public for the role of Mattia Volpe’s mother in “Benvenuti al Sud” (2010). She has been reconfirmed in the same role in the sequel “Benvenuti al Nord” (2012).
Nunzia Schiano mainly plays comic roles, as evidenced by “La valigia sul letto” (2009), with Eduardo Tartaglia and Biagio Izzo. She has collaborated several times with Alessandro Siani (“Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo “, 2006) and starred in Leonardo Pieraccioni’s movie ” Il paradiso all’improvviso ” (2003). In 2011 she is in the cast of “Napoletans”, by Luigi Russo, with Maurizio Casagrande and Massimo Ceccherini and also in the cast of “La kryptonite nella borsa ” by Ivan Cotroneo. In 2012 she plays an aunt of the protagonist of Matteo Garrone’s “Reality”. In 2015 she is in the cast of Francesco Albanese’s “Ci devo pensare”, with Francesco Albanese and Barbara Tabita. In 2016 she plays the mother of the protagonist Enzo Iupparello in Sergio Colabona’s film “Vita, cuore, battito”. Among the latest films in the cinema: “Nove lune e mezza” by Michela Andreozzi (2017), “Dogman” by Matteo Garrone (2018) and “Se son rose …” by Leonardo Pieraccioni (2018). Also worthy of mention are some significant participations in generalist TV dramas, such as in “Rimbocchiamoci le mani” with Sabrina Ferilli on Canale 5 in 2016, “I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone” in 2017 and in 2018 “L’amica geniale”, and for Fox “Romolo and Giuly, la Guerra mondiale italiana”. She is very appreciated and always busy in the theater, between one set and another.
Actor, director, writer and actor’s coach, he attended the La Scaletta Theater school in Rome directed by Giovanni Diotajuti; he made his debut at the Taormina Festival ’87 in the company of Gabriele Lavia in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” followed by Sophocles’ “Edipo Re” He passes into the company of Luigi De Filippo interpreting texts by Machiavelli (“La mandragola”) and Scarpetta (“L’amico di papà”, “’ Na Santarella”,”Miseria e Nobiltà”). He deals with texts by Pirandello and young contemporary authors in the company directed by Nello Mascia. He plays with Anna Mazzamauro in “Eva contro Eva” directed by Gino Zampieri. In the 2015/2016 season, he plays the double role of assistant director and interpreter of Avvocato Nocella, in Eduardo De Filippo’s masterpiece “Filumena Marturano” with Gloriana directed by Nello Mascia. In the 2016/2017 season it is Vittorio Elia in the staging of “Christmas at the Cupiello house” with Luigi De Filippo.
In 2017/2018 he played Jack, Monica Guerritore’s husband in “Mariti e moglie” from the Woody Allen movie of the same name with Francesca Reggiani. On television he is the protagonist of “Non è vero ma ci credo” by Peppino De Filippo in the role of the hunchback Sammaria for the Palcoscenico ’92 series and, again on Rai Due, interpreter of “Cani e gatti” for Palcoscenico ’96. In cinema he works with Pasquale Squitieri in “Atto di dolore”, in the German TV film entitled “Felicità in prestito”, in “La vita degli altri” by N. De Rinaldo and in “Quo vadis baby” by G. Salvatores. For Canale5 he took part in the soap opera “Vivere” and the sitcom “Casa Vianello”. In 2003 he played the role of Corradino in the fiction “Luisa Sanfelice” directed by the Taviani brothers. In 2004 he was actor’s coach in the fiction “Una famiglia in giallo” directed by A. Simone.
In 2005 he participated in the series “Don Matteo 5” directed by E. Marchetti and “La stagione del crimine 2” directed by D. Maiorca and he was a regular guest in the role of the likeable Nando in the 10th series of “Incantesimo” Raiuno. For the same network in 2015 he was in an episode of the series “E’ arrivata la felicità 2” directed by Francesco Vicario. From 1999 to 2010 he was Actor’s Coach for the fiction entitled “La squadra” (in which he also took part as an actor in the role of PM Lorenzo Menale) and “La nuova squadra – Spaccanapoli”. Over the years he has dedicated himself to the production, writing, interpretation and direction of all the works of the company he founded and directed “Artisti Civili” including the documentary “Anna Politkovskaja – Concerto per voce solitaria” and “Non cercare la logica dove non l’hai messa tu ”(2016), winners of several prizes. As part of the Troisi Prize, he was awarded the Cremanum d’Argento 2011. National Award “Carlo La Catena 2013” for civic commitment, with the high patronage of the Presidency of the Republic, the Ministry of the Interior, the Campania Region, the Province and The municipality of Naples. Italy Human Rights Award 2016 – Free Lance International Press.
He was born on 9 September 1983 in Naples. In 1992 he made his debut in the cinema at a very young age with the films “Ci hai rotto papà” by Castellano and Pipolo and “Io speriamo che me la cavo” by Lina Wertmüller. He becomes famous playing the role of Spillo in the two seasons of the TV miniseries “Amico mio” (1993 and 1998), with Massimo Dapporto, with whom he returns to work in the two seasons of “Casa Famiglia” (2001 and 2003); in the last year he has also played the role of Pino, a young bartender, in the TV series “Il bello delle donne 3”. In 2008, 2010 and 2011 he took part in the three seasons of the TV series “Tutti pazzi per amore”, where he played Gennaro Capone (one of the water polo players trained by Paolo, Emilio Solfrizzi). In 1994 he conducted 24 episodes for RAI2 of Josleine’s “Il grande Gioco dell’oca” at Gigi Sabani’s side. He alternates roles in various theatrical performances including Giacomino in “Pensaci Giacomino” with Carlo Croccolo directed by Livio Galassi, in 2004. In the 2007/08 season and in the following one, she is Kitkat in Roberto Saviano’s “Gomorra” directed by Mario Gelardi, a show that has over 400 performances in Italy and abroad.
With this role, he won the Girulà award for best young actor. In the 2010 season he co-starred on stage alongside Marina Confalone in the show “Sam Capuozzo”. In the same year he is Sanguetta, protagonist of the show “La città perfetta” by Angelo Petrella directed by Giuseppe Miale di Mauro, with whom he made his debut at the Teatro Festival Italia. With this role he won the Landieri award as the best young actor of the 2010 season. In 2011 he was one of the protagonists of Roberto Saviano’s “Santos” show. In 2012 he is the creator of the theatrical show “Siberian Education” by Nicolai Lilin directed by Giuseppe Miale di Mauro. In the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons he is among the protagonists of the theatrical show “Il sindaco del rione Sanità” by E. de Filippo directed by Mario Martone. He is also among the protagonists of the film version, of the same Eduardiana work, which was in the official competition in Venice76, winning il Leoncino d’oro. He is currently busy on the set of “Natale in casa Cupiello” directed by Edoardo De Angelis.
In 2017 he made his directorial debut with his first short film “Sensazioni d’amore” of which he is also the protagonist. His first work in these two years has collected over forty official selections between Italy and abroad, winning several prizes. He is one of the founders of the Nest Napoli Est Teatro, which he has been managing its artistic direction since 2013. He is a partner of TerraNera, a young production company that already boasts several works with which it has been awarded 2 Silver Ribbons. He graduated from Sapienza – University of Rome, in “Performing Arts and Sciences”.


Lady Catherine d'Aubigny
Van Dyck painted this portrait of Catherine (1620?-50) around 1638, at the time of her marriage to George Stuart, Lord d’Aubigny (1618-42), King Charles' cousin. The garland she is holding alludes to her newly wedded state. Widowed after he fell at the battle of Edgehill, she was involved in a failed Royalist plot to take over London in 1643 and was briefly held in the Tower. She subsequently remarried to James Livingston, first Earl of Newburgh, and died in The Hague. Her son George later inherited his uncle’s title as Duke of Richmond and took for his third wife the lovely favourite of Charles II, Frances Stuart.


George Carlin passed away last night from heart failure. Carlin was a legend, a comic genius, and a true original. His importance to the cause of free speech and as a nonconformist icon cannot be overstated.
I had the special privilege of seeing him live twice. The first was in Las Vegas several years ago, right after his wife had died. The show was full of energy and anger, yet smooth, flawless and groundbreaking. That was probably the best live comedy I've ever seen.
The second time was right after he had heart surgery, and his performance, while always strong, exhibited a fatigue that showed Carlin was not his old self. From what I heard, though, he eventually recovered well from the surgery and was performing actively up until his death.
I like to say that Carlin's greatest talent was his ability to seamlessly insult the audience, while making them love every minute of it. But he wasn't an insult comic -- he was an observational comic, an expressionist, a linguist and a poet. He was a perfectionist on stage, and his timing and mastery of his material were impeccable. George, we'll miss you.


McKenna Roberts was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. At age 3 she began modeling and was soon working on her first job for Joah Love. From there McKenna went on to work for big name companies including Forever 21, H&M, and Nordstrom. She has worked numerous jobs for Disney, being seen year round on the Disney Store’s website and in store.
McKenna’s first television appearance was on the Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat, and since then has done episodes of CSI: Cyber and Extant. In early 2013 McKenna booked the recurring role of Matilda Ashby on the Emmy award winning daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, and was seen on the daytime drama until early 2017 when the character was aged. Since leaving the soap McKenna continues to audition and her feature film Skyscraper will hit theaters in July 2018.
McKenna loves to act, sing and dance. She played Petunia in the Hollywood Kids Academy’s production of Alice in Wonderland and has been nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series. When not acting and modeling McKenna enjoys painting, swimming, going to basketball games and having family movie nights. She has recently found a passion for cooking, taking local classes and preparing new recipes for her family to enjoy!


First material from Dar es salaam-based and Tamaduni Muzik emcee, One the Incredible, for 2013. This is flames and Uno shows the world that he can also deliver his craft in English too. This is not his first material in [...]
Another perfect soundtrack for cuffing season courtesy of Illadeph’s own funky soulful singer, Bilal Oliver. His forth studio album, Bilal has kept collaborations to bare minimum with only Jazz pianist and producer, Robert Glasper, scoring a feature. Click the image [...]
New Jersey-bred and former Flipmode Squad emcee, Rah Digga, join forces with Australian beatsmith, M-Phazes, for this single off Coalmine Records highly anticipated compilation album Unearthed, which is scheduled for an early second quarter release, 2013. Featuring Westcoast’s, Fashawn and [...]
K’naan’s highly anticipated album Country, God or the Girl is in stores and to celebrate the release of his 5th studio album, the Somali-born, Toronto-based rapper offered his fans a glimpse into his life with a mini-documentary that traces his [...]
New visual from S.A emcee, Khuli Chana featuring KayGizm. HazzadazMove is the first single from the highly anticipated sophomore album Lost in Time that drops in the 1st week of November both in digital and physical format. The single is [...]
Latest offering from the 21-year-old vocalist and rapper from Brooklyn Newyork. The 6-track free mixtape features the newcomer covering works from several rap heavyweights, like Eminem’s “Cleaning out my closet” where she raps about her past sexual abuse and the [...]
Naija emcee and a regular here, Fecko, has linked up with Netherlands-based, Naija rapper/singer/songwriter, Tha KardinaL of KP2. The track, To the Top is produced by Tha KardinaL. Listen below and leave your comments.
Brooklyn emcee, Talib Kweli is joined by Curren$y and K. Dot on this S1 (of “Power” fame) produced track all three of them articulating various roadblocks in life with Kweli using the Arab Spring to illustrate the socio-political struggles of [...]


It’s hard to believe that Ray Lamontagne spent his childhood living in friends’ back yards and even a chicken coop! It’s even harder to believe that he can come from that background to successfully sell 40,000 copies of his hit album ‘Trouble’ in the UK. All his hard work and patience has certainly paid off and his musical career is set to grow and grow.
‘Trouble’ sounds so natural and Ray’s husky voice belts out the notes, making you feel all warm and glowing. After listening to this track you just crave for more as it definitely gets you swaying until the urge to jump up and start singing along overpowers you.
The second track, ‘Burn’, is more chilled than ‘Trouble’ but, although it’s calmer, Ray’s voice is still thick with emotion. This is a slick and soulful rendition of the song and you’d never guess it was recorded live.
This is one for fans of James Morrison with a bit of added depth from the rich vocal. Ray Lamontagne is most certainly worth a listen.


Skating in 70s. Laura Thornhill.
Andrew Catlin Shane MacGowan Undated
Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The gingerlady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you talking in my head
I don’t think I could love this photo anymore than I already do 😍
Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster on the set of ‘The Munsters’, 1964-66.


Mike Tyson Mysteries Season 2 Episode 4
When a guest goes missing from the set of the late night interview show, Mike and the team are off to New York. But more importantly, will anyone remember it’s Marquess’ birthday?
Serie: Mike Tyson Mysteries
Episode Title: Last Night On Charlie Rose
Air Date: 2015-11-23


Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and recent nominees Michael Fassbender, Barkhad Abdi, Sally Hawkins and June Squibb are among the actors who’ve been asked to join the Academy’s ranks.
Maud! Elaine Cassidy yesterday and she was so lovely. It’s only showing until 26th July, but if you get the chance, I’d recommend Fathers and Sons at the Donmar.
A few years ago James Lucas, of London Fields, took a rough script to his friend and colleague Mat Kirkby, a commercials director at Ridley Scott Associate Films. He’d written it on a three-hour flight to Bucharest. Kirkby saw potential in the work and so the pair set about an after-hours collaboration to bring the story to life.
“I made her (Hawkins) this little sort of mousy character that you maybe underestimate,” he says. “You perhaps learn that she’s actually very tenacious and she doesn’t want to let go of this guy.”
Hawkins, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for her part opposite Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, is extraordinary in the role. The camera is zoomed on her desperate features for a good portion of the film’s 20-minute running time, capturing a fluid facial performance that brilliantly bears the weight of an extremely heavy situation.
Kirkby explains that during filming the actress would work through the entire script in single takes. “She’d get into the whole flow of this 20-minute performance and feel it. She was shaking and crying and after each take she had to have a good old sit down,” he says. “I don’t know if I’ll ever see anything like that again. It was like watching it happen live, it was quite incredible.”
Having waited close to a year for confirmation that Hawkins would be available for the project – with a two-week window confirmed at short notice – the Academy Award-winning Broadbent signed up two days later. “So one was ten months and one was two days,” Kirkby says. “You get someone like Jim Broadbent straight away because he would love to do it opposite Sally.”
Full article: eastendreview.co.uk
June 16th, 2014.
Sally Hawkins attends the Glamour Women of the Year at Berkeley Square Gardens where she also picked up a Best Film Actress award. 3rd June 2014.


You’ve seen her work on the pages of Vibe, WWD, Essence, Teen People and many more. As a true fashionista, you probably have mimicked the looks she’s created for stars inclubding Mary J. Blige, Usher, and Kimora Lee Simmons. Who am I talking about? None other than New York City-based stylist Mary Lafayette. Mary recently sat down with Maisy Fernandez of Velocity News Weekly for an interview regarding getting runway looks on a shoestring budget.
Here’s a snippet of what Mary had to say in Maisy’s article, Cheap Chic:
“There are many designers out there that make good, quality merchandise at a fraction of the higher-end designer cost,” said Mary Lafayette, a New York-based stylist and image consultant who has worked with Mary J. Blige, Usher and Kimora Lee Simmons. “If it’s good quality and doesn’t look cheap, you can never tell.”
To read more about what Mary had to say, read Cheap Chic here.


We featured Cara Delevingne last year as the newest "it girl"and model to explode onto the fashion scene. She's come a long way since then dominating the fashion world and stealing everyone's hearts with her quirky attitude. The 20 year old is featured in Interview magazine in one of her more striped down spreads. The black and white editorial shot by Peter Lindbergh focuses on her natural beauty and sets a beautifully moody scene. To get to know Delevingne's charming personality head over to the Interview website to read her full interview.


Over the years, Catalonia has attracted many famous people, from Hollywood actors to artists, singers and writers. Many have fallen in love with the region’s charm, its landscapes, and of course its towns and cities, packed with amazing architecture and unique culture. Here are just a few of the celebrities who have fallen under Catalonia’s spell.
The Hollywood actress Ava Gardner first arrived in Barcelona in 1950, when she was just 29 years old. From here, she travelled to the Costa Brava and the picturesque town of Tossa de Mar, where she filmed the movie Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. This film was the first to put Costa Brava on the tourist map. It was here that she became involved with the Catalan bullfighter Mario Cabré, and where her long love affair with Spain would begin. Gardner became so enamoured with Tossa de Mar that the townspeople even built a statue of her looking over the village, which still stands today. Later in her life, she would visit Barcelona and Spain often. After her marriage to Frank Sinatra ended she become involved with another Spanish bullfighter – Luis Miguel Dominguín and spent time living in Madrid.
Madeleine Caroll was an English actress who worked in both the UK and America, and was best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps. Caroll first visited Barcelona and the Costa Brava in 1934, and fell in love with the region, which would continue to call her back for the rest of her life. She even bought some land in the village of Sant Antoni de Calogne to construct her house – the Castell Madeleine. In between filming in Hollywood, it was here that she came to escape. Like Gardner, there is now a statue of Caroll in Sant Antoni de Calogne. Although Caroll eventually moved down to Malaga, it was always the Costa Brava that held her heart.
Another fan of Catalonia’s Costa Brava was Truman Capote, author of famous books such as In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Capote in fact, learned about the region’s charms through a mutual friend of Caroll’s. Capote spent a lot of time in the Costa Brava during the 1960s, and mainly based himself in and around the town of Palamós. It was here in two different apartments, overlooking the beach, that he wrote In Cold Blood.
With Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra visiting in the 1950s, it seemed that Catalonia was the place to be for the Hollywood elite. Elizabeth Taylor liked the region so much that she decided to spend a holiday there with her then husband, singer Eddie Fisher. The couple arrived in Barcelona and boarded a yacht in Barcelona’s port, which would take them up to the Costa Brava. While there, Taylor and Fisher went to S’Agaró and stayed at the luxury hotel Hostal de la Gavina, which still stands there today. Taylor returned to the Costa Brava later that same year to film Suddenly, Last Summer based on the play by Tennessee Williams. It was shot in San Feliú de Guíxols, Sant Antoni de Calogne and S’Agaró.
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood has been to Catalonia many times to perform, but there was just something about the city of Barcelona that kept calling him back. He loved it so much in fact that he decided to buy an apartment here. Wood and his wife Sally Humphries bought their Eixample apartment back in 2014, and have kept coming back here over the years. Now they like to enjoy the city with their kids too. There’s even a Ronnie Wood hotel suite at the Hotel Palace in Barcelona to honour the rock star.
Ronnie Wood during a concert.
Maria Callas was an America-Greek opera singer and was renowned throughout the world for her voice during the mid 20th century. She came to Barcelona to perform at the Liceu Opera House in 1959 and adored the city so much that she decided to return here in secret in 1974. This time she recorded an album with Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé. During her time in the city, she stayed at Hotel Manila on La Rambla, which has now been turned into Le Méridien.
Another singer who sang with Montserrat Caballé was, of course, Freddie Mercury, who recorded the song Barcelona with her for the ’92 Olympic Games. It was long before they recorded that song however, that Freddie came to Barcelona to meet her. Mercury arrived in 1987 to meet Caballé at the former Hotel Ritz in Barcelona. It’s said that immediately when he met her, he sat down at the piano to improvise Exercises in Free Love, and the part he wanted her to sing. Mercury had been a fan of Caballé’s ever since he saw her perform at the London Opera House in 1983. It took the pair 18 months to complete their album with many trips back and forth between Barcelona and London. Unfortunately, Mercury was unable to sing Barcelona with her at the opening ceremony because he died eight months beforehand. (Together: Caballé and Mercury in the first picture of the blog).
The writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, arrived in Barcelona in 1936, amidst a Civil War. A strong believer in socialism, he wanted to help fight against the Nationalist army. During his time in the city, he was sent to fight on the front line in Zaragoza. When he returned to Barcelona in May of 1937, he stayed with his wife at the Hotel Continental, but was caught up with fighting again in the city. After returning to the frontline they managed to escape back to England in June 1927, where he famously wrote Homage to Catalonia. Although his time in Barcelona was not always pleasant, it remained a place close to his heart. Today, you can visit the Plaça de George Orwell in the Gothic Quarter, which pays homage to the author.


During Hiddleston’s second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton, of Hamilton Hodell. While still doing student plays, he began doing British television, landing parts in Stephen Whittaker’s adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby for ITV, the BBC/HBO co-production Conspiracy, and as Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill, inthe BBC/HBO drama The Gathering Storm. On graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Hiddleston won his first film role, playing Oakley in Joanna Hogg’s first feature, Unrelated. He also appeared in the leading role of Edward in Joanna Hogg’s second feature, Archipelago, and had leading roles in Declan Donnellan’s company Cheek by Jowl’s productions The Changeling, and Cymbeline. His Donmar Warehouse credits include Cassio in Michael Grandage’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor to critical acclaim and later Lvov in their West End revival of Chekhov’s Ivanov. His TV credits include Magnus Martinsson in the BBC detective drama Wallander, Bill Hazledine in Suburban Shootout, John Plumptre in the BBC costume drama TV film Miss Austen Regrets and William Buxton in the BBC drama series Return to Cranford.
Tom is best known for his portrayal of Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film, Thor. He was invited to audition by Kenneth Branagh, the film’s director, after having previously worked with Branagh on Ivanov and Wallander. “Ken has had a life-changing effect. He was able to say to the executives, ‘Trust me on this, you can cast Tom and he will deliver’. It was massive and it’s completely changed the course of what is available to me to do. Ken gave me my break.” In the beginning, he originally auditioned for the part of Thor. “I initially auditioned to play Thor. That was what I was being considered for, because I’m tall and blonde and classically trained, and that seemed to be the mold for what Thor was, he was to be a classical character. And it was in my auditions. I owe this entirely to Marvel and their open-mindedness, they saw something that they thought was interesting. They saw some temperament that they liked.” The casting director gave Hiddleston six weeks to bulk up, so he went on a strict diet and gained twenty pounds of muscle. In the end, Branagh decided he was more suitable as the antagonist and cast him as Loki. To prepare for his role as Loki, Hiddleston trained in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira.
In 2011, he portrayed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in writer-director Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, the noble Captain Nicholls in War Horse, a film based on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Freddie Page, a RAF pilot in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea, alongside Rachel Weisz. He reprised his role as the supervillain Loki in the 2012 movie The Avengers. While filming a scene with Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, the film’s director, Joss Whedon told the fighting duo that the scene didn’t look real enough, so Hiddleston told Hemsworth to really hit him for the fight scene. “I said to Chris, ‘Dude, just hit me. Just hit me because I’m protected here and it’s fine.’ He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, it will look great. Just go for it.'” Hiddleston will reprise his Loki role again in Thor: The Dark World (2013), which started filming in July 2012. In 2012 he appeared in the BBC Two series The Hollow Crown, portraying Prince Hal in the TV-movie adaptations of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I & II and Henry V in Henry V.
Hiddleston will star in the film adaptation of Elliott Chaze’s 1953 crime novel Black Wings Has My Angel, as escaped con Tim Sunblade. Costarring with Anna Paquin and Elijah Wood, filming was originally supposed to start in September 2012 but in an October 2012 interview, Hiddleston divulged that filming would be put on hold due to the recent births of Paquin’s twins and her wanting to take time to be a mother. Hiddleston said, “It was a sort of fun noir thing, but it’s way, way off in the future. It’s just Thor 2 at the moment.”
In 2013, Hiddleston will play vampire, Adam, in Jim Jarmusch’s film Only Lovers Left Alive with Tilda Swinton as Eve and Mia Wasikowska. Hiddleston narrated the audio book The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner, poetry for iF Poems on iTunes, for the British Museum on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and was the voiceover for BBC’s documentary on the Galapagos Island.
Read more about Tom’s film projects on their individual pages:
- Black Wings Has My Angel
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Thor: The Dark World
- London Project
- The Hollow Crown
- Out of Time
- The Avengers
- War Horse
- Friend Request Pending
- The Deep Blue Sea
- Midnight in Paris
- Miss Austen Regrets
- The Gathering Storm
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby


Johnny Ventura, in the Feast of Fire
The city of Santiago de Cuba is all decked out in its 500 Anniversary with the visit of Johnny Ventura for the first time in Cuba, Dominican popular singer who has confirmed his participation in the 35 Caribbean Festival, who will make sure the people will dance with his performances on July 4 and 5 at 20:30 p.m. at the Heredia Theater of this Caribbean city.
The outstanding musician’s real name is Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano. He was born on March 8, 1940 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A singer, lawyer, businessman and politician with a fruitful career in the genre of Merengue and known as "El Caballo Mayor ''. Ventura was very popular in his country in the decades of 60,70 and 80.
His discography is composed of 105 productions, being the most prolific Dominican artist in this regard and whose recordings have been awarded with 28 gold records, two platinum, also a Latin Grammy in 2004 and a Grammy for Excellence for his career in 2006.
Many regard him as the Father of Modern Merengue, others call him The Joy of the country, The Merenguero of the Century, The Living Legend of Merengue, The National Industry of Joy, El Caballo Mayor, Mr. Merengue or the Son of the People.
His musical work is well known by the people of Santiago that enjoy a fully his contagious rhythm and remembers having danced at carnivals with "Patacón pisao" therefore they wait his performances with great expectations.


6:30p - Doors
7:00p - WJF Sessions Combo Opener
An "all-star" group featuring the top high-school-aged jazz musicians in the Wichita area.
7:30p - Show
At the age of 18, Rudy Love was touring the US with Little Richard. By the 1970s, he was working as a pilot vocalist for The Temptations and Marvin Gaye, his songs were being recorded by Esther Phillips and Isaac Hayes, and he was appearing on records with Ray Charles and Sly Stone. Yet, his solo career and the albums he produced with his Love Family band failed to achieve success, due partially to dodgy record label practices that saw his recordings distributed under the names of other artists. Now, at the age of 70, Rudy Love is beginning to see his work rediscovered by artists including Jay-Z, and is finally achieving the respect he has long deserved.
Featuring interviews with legendary musicians George Clinton and Mick Fleetwood, THIS IS LOVE is a story of artistic struggle told with a sense of redressing past injustices. Exposing the shady industry wheelings and dealings that stretched throughout the 1960s and 1970s, John Alexander's documentary tells Rudy Love's story with deep respect for an incredible artist, and shows Rudy now, still going strong and filled with the love of music that has made his life's work celebrated amongst enthusiasts worldwide.