Victoria Beckham to appear on Oprah

Victoria Beckham is going to attempt to woo U.S. TV audiences into supporting her fashion label by appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show later this year, imdb.com reports.

The former Spice Girl has taken up the offer to appear on the talk show in a bid to prove she is not just a soccer star�s wife, reports Britain�s Sunday Mirror newspaper.

A source tells the publication, �She�s spoken to Oprah�s TV firm Harpo and wants to prove she isn�t just David Beckham�s wife but has a career in fashion.�

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Guy Mcaffer

   
Artist: Guy Mcaffer

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Meet the Spartans - 6/3/2008

If Airplane! is the Mad magazine of cinematic lampoons, then Meet the Spartans is its subpar competitor, Crazy. Produced and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, this feeble spoof of 2007's surprise hit 300 is a year too late and several million brain cells too short. After delivering the appalling Spy Hard, Date Movie, and Epic Movie, the team has tricked yet another studio suit into letting them hurl this excremental example of their sodden, slapdash satire at audiences. No one aside from 14-year-old dweebs who've yet to know the touch of a woman will be laughing, however.



Following the Frank Miller/Zack Snyder spectacle beat for beat (King Leonidas -- Sean Maguire -- takes a dedicated group of Spartans to the Hot Gates to defend his city against the advancing Persian horde and their God King Xerxes -- Ken Davitan), Freidberg and Seltzer bloat their unbelievably bad script with every past-its-shelf-life pop culture reference imaginable -- including Carmen Electra. There are nauseating nods to Shrek, American Idol, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Deal or No Deal, Ugly Betty, Donald Trump, Transformers, Borat, and You Tube whiner Chris Crocker. When not foraging through those whose 15 minutes of fame expired several TMZ stories ago, Meet the Spartans is advancing child abuse, homophobia, and ethnic pigeonholing as part of its "only a joke" kind of insult humor.



Granted, there is some negligible joy to be derived from seeing Maguire pile-drive a preschooler into the ground, WWE style, or watching a semi-dressed Davitan prance around in disturbing body jewelry. But those microscopic pleasures are offset by stretches of mind-numbing idiocy. Meet the Spartans is the kind of film that doesn't even bother to get lookalikes that look alike. The Spears substitute's not bad (she definitely overstays her redneck rube welcome) but the other supposedly famous faces look like rejects from a low rent celebrity impersonator convention. If an omnipresent narrator didn't tell us who we are purportedly looking at, we'd never guess their ersatz identity.



But it's the courting of anti-gay stereotypes that really sinks Spartans. While we don't get limp-wristed lisping or outright mincing, there are sequences where old school disco ("I Will Survive" gets played, twice) and unmanly skipping suggest the soldiers' alternative lifestyle leanings. Even Greek society is given the obvious clich�d goose when Leonidas explains that women in his city are greeted with high fives, while men who meet exchange open mouth tongue kisses. Certainly a film as sloppy and silly as this one has no real malice or bad intentions towards homosexuals directly. But as with other recent examples of unintentional intolerance (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, anyone?), there's no class in going for the cheap laugh.



While not as hateable as the demoralizing sports send-up The Comebacks (which has been known to actually swallow one's soul), Meet the Spartans is comedy for the certifiably unsophisticated. It never gets to the heart of why 300 was such a kitschy cult commodity, nor does it offer any real insight into the targets it's taking down. Even a last act battle sequence that tries to replicate the slo-mo mayhem of Synder's direction looks paltry in comparison. Nothing more than a collection of media talking points pretending to be clever, the lack of imagination and intelligence is more than fatal. But its biggest sin is also the most startling -- Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?



Special features on this unrated DVD include a commentary track, gag reel, trivia game, and a handful of making-of featurettes.







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Coldplay Debut's Two Music Videos For New Single (Video)

Coldplay have debuted two new music video's for their latest single, 'Violet Hill', with one of them comprised of clips of world leaders including George Bush dancing, interspersed with visions of war and violence. The new song is taken from their highly anticipated new album, 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends', which will be released in June.Watch both versions of the 'Violet Hill' videos below; the Mat Whitecross directed 'Dancing Politicians' video is first. Photo courtesy of EMI. 

Minogue 'deeply touched' by her OBE

Minogue 'deeply touched' by her OBE

Kylie Minogue has been awarded an OBE in British people Queen Elizabeth I II's Freshly Year's Honours List.
Minogue, 39, said she was "deep touched" to aim the honor from the land she calls her adopted home.
The star topology thanked her British fans for their passion and reinforcement during her convalescence from knocker cancer.
The OBE comes near 20 days since 'I Should Be So Lucky' became the singer's starting time UK Number I.
Public speaking from Australia, she said: "I am most as surprised as I am honoured to be awarded an OBE by Her Stateliness The Queen.
"I feel deep touched to be acknowledged by the UK, my adopted dwelling house, in this way.
"This end year I ingest felt so often love and support from everyone as I took greater stairs back into the public domain, and it is with absolute gratitude and delight that I say farewell to 2007 and look forward to what the Freshly Year volition add."
The 39-year-old vocalizer spent the Yule holiday in Melbourne with her house.
Others to be honoured included veteran soldier presenter Michael James Parkinson, world Health Organization received a knighthood, and worker Ian McKellen, world Health Organization will join the Order of the Companions of Pureness.

The Holloways member breaks hand after fight

The Holloways member breaks hand after fight

The Holloways' bassist/vocalist Bryn Henry Watson Fowler broke his hand last night (Crataegus oxycantha 12) at the Glasgow Strathclyde Students' Association in a fight with security department guards.

Fowler and his bandmates were terpsichore at the venue after playing a gig in that respect when, according to the band's voice, they were hassled by security guards world Health Organization "got out of hand".

A fight soon esculated and Fowler's hand was broken during the fracas. He was taken to hospital where he had an X ray, where a small break was revealed.

Scorn the discontinue, the band ar sic to keep on their electric current UK circuit.

The Holloways will playact:

Liverpool Society of Students Stanley Theatre (Crataegus oxycantha 13)
Leeds University Trade union Mine (15)
Hull University Union Sanctuary (16)
Loughborough Students' Brotherhood (17)
Uxbridge Brunel Students� Union Academy (18)

To check the handiness of The Holloways tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.




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Thom Yorke: no more free Radiohead albums

Thom Yorke: no more free Radiohead albums

When Radiohead have their fans download In Rainbows for free close year, many commentators declared that the band's decision could potentially reinvent the music industry. However, for future releases they testament believably un-reinvent it, as Thom Yorke has admitted."I think it was a one-off response to a particular office," Yorke told the Hollywood Newsperson this week. "It was unity of those things where everyone was request us what we were loss to do."










Is that wholly it takes for Yorke and his bandmates to turn the industry model on its head? That everyone merely ask them: "What are you loss to do?"Spell the band's determination was non the earth-shattering rotation that more or less pundits described it as, it has for certain left an impression on the industry. We have since seen similar experiments by Ennead In Nails and the Charlatans, not to mention a raft of near-instant album releases by the Raconteurs and Gnarls Barkley. And, of course, Coldplay's newly vocal, Violet Hill, was released this week as a free download.Nonetheless, it now seems that Yorke would rather put the djinny back in the bottle, releasing Radiohead's time to come albums in the oil production, traditional way. "I don't cogitate it would have the saami import now, if we choose to render something aside once more. It was a import in time," he said.
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They surely wouldn't win as many headlines. Perchance Radiohead were more interested in having their discover in the history books, disdain Yorke's anti-celebrity stance?





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