Papa Cyrus says he was surprised by Miley's Vanity Fair photo

NEW YORK — Billy Ray Cyrus says he wasn't around when Annie Leibovitz photographed his 15-year-old daughter, Miley, wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed, for the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

"I wasn't there at the time," the 46-year-old country star said in an interview Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show.

"[Miley's] publicist was there, and everyone seemed in control," he said. "I didn't know they [were] gonna strip her down and wrap her with a blanket."

"So I was surprised when I saw it, you know, but ... stuff happens. That's life. Things happen and sometimes things get a little out of control, and you just gotta deal with life," he said. "Again, it's peaks and valleys and ups and downs."

Cyrus, who co-stars with Miley in Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana," said Leibovitz was a "good person and a great photographer" but looking back, he would have stayed to chaperone the photo shoot.

Another photo in the Vanity Fair spread that caused a stir was the image of Miley in a black tank top that revealed her midriff as Cyrus held her in his arms.

When asked if that photo was a mistake, Cyrus said: "It's not a mistake to me. If it is to someone else, I'm sorry if I offended somebody, but no, that's just a daddy that loves his daughter a whole lot."

Cyrus said he and Miley "got caught up in this adventure that we've gone through with this dream, and what we do for a living. ... We both love acting, we love making music and we love each other. I'm her dad and she's my daughter, so if a daddy hasn't hugged his daughter recently, I'd recommend he does."

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Ernesto Cortazar

   
Artist: Ernesto Cortazar

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Miscellaneous
   Other
   Instrumental
   

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Discography:


   
 Conciertos

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Legend Of The Sea

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nativity

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Moments of Sol'itude

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Triste Trovador

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Timeless Classics

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Maja

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Leaves in the wind

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Just for you

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Days Of Innocence

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Ballerina

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Will Smith Has No Soul

How else do you explain the fact that Will was all smiles outside Staples Center last night -- when the Lakers suffered one of the most spirit-crushing losses in NBA history?

Oh, right -- he's got a movie coming out.






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Probst: Production problems on `Survivor: Gabon'

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. —

Jeff Probst says the upcoming season of "Survivor" has already hit a few snags.

"Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden" has been plagued with several preproduction problems, Probst told The Associated Press at the opening of the new restaurant Gordon Ramsay at The London West Hollywood on Wednesday. The dilemmas for the 17th season of the CBS reality show, which begins filming in Africa later this month, range from encroaching animals to slow shipments.

"Our shipping has been really delayed," Probst said. "One aspect of 'Survivor' that is different from a lot of shows is that we have to ship throughout the season, and we're about 30 days behind now, which is a major problem. We're going to be fine on the show, but the crew housing is not there. We're going to be in tents."

Other than the habitation hindrance, Probst also said a crane had fallen over and a cargo hold containing about $100,000 worth of food had gone missing. The lumber used for building props and set pieces for challenges and Tribal Council, however, had safely arrived. Probst said the "Survivor" crew was also having an issue with something that was already present: wildlife.

"We have a danger problem with animals that we're trying to figure out how to handle," the "Survivor" host said. "There's so much truly wild life out there, we're not sure what to do. We don't want the animals around for a safety reasons, but we'd love to have a hippo sneak in every so often. I just got a call from our executive producer that we've got hippo tracks at base camp."

"Survivor: Gabon," which will feature 18 castaways living in the wilderness in the West African country, will be filmed in high-definition and is slated to premiere in the fall. It's the first time the competitive reality series has returned to Africa since its Kenya-set third season. Probst said he doesn't think the snafus will halt production.

"These things for us usually have a way of turning into good things," he said.

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Weezer, The Red Album

Weezer have been releasing records with varying commercial and cult success for 14 years, and their latest offering The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist. The noticeable difference with this, their sixth effort, is that it lacks a sense of coherency and direction, probably as a result of frontman Rivers Cuomo relinquishing overall control and making the creative process a free-for-all. This has worked in places, but overall the tracks feel unfinished and distract from the increased experimentation originally intended.

Like its predecessors there are that handful of truly amazing power-pop tracks which demand you sit up and pay attention, or dance around your room. Lead single Pork and Beans, alongside Troublemaker and Everybody Get Dangerous exemplify Cuomo's signature punchy cords and lyrics, drenched in satirical wit and geeky bravado. Flanking these musical powerhouses are several slow burners which benefit from a few listens. They are like a pleasant country drive you're quite enjoying, until you realise each hedgerow looks like the next and you are left wondering why you got in the car in the first place.

The saving grace of this album is The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations On A Shaker Hymn), with a glorious mish-mash of styles, ideas and genres that would sit most happily in an obscure Swedish prog set. If this is the future of the aging Weezer then the future is sounding good. That is if the band concentrate more on this type of intensive diversity, and less on the sort of mediocre meandering on the second half of the record. An album easily dismissed on first listen, this is actually better than you think.

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Razorlight - Razorlight Frontman Named For Climate Change Gig

Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell is to play an exclusive concert as part of a campaign to change proposed climate change laws.

The Big Ask, a climate change campaign organised by Friends of the Earth, has played an integral role in convincing the government to commit to legally binding reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.

However, carbon emissions from the aviation and shipping industries have not been included in the new law, leading the likes of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, KT Tunstall, comedian Sean Hughes and Borrell to back The Big Ask's 'virtual flight' initiative.

Borrell is to play a one-off acoustic show in front of a commercial jet in the aviation room of London's Science Museum to highlight the importance of including aviation emissions in the Climate Change, and called on fans to lend their support to the campaign.

"The Big Ask has been very successful in making the Climate Change Law a reality," he explained.

"But it seems unbelievable that the bill and the government plans to ignore emissions from aviation and shipping. Those industries should absolutely be included in calculations.

"I want to help make sure people know what's happening while there's still time to influence the law."

The Golden Touch star added: "The more people who get on board and email their MP at www.thebigask.com, the more chance we have of getting a sensible law."

Yorke described the Climate Change Bill as "fantastic news" and said "as many people as possible" should take part in the campaign to stress the importance of including the UK's share of international aviation emissions in the bill.

Fans have until May 27th to win tickets to the show.


20/05/2008 00:02:01

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John Taylor hits out at Madonna

Washington (ANI): Duran Duran star John Taylor has hit out at pop queen Madonna for copying one of their ideas. Taylor accused Madge of having copied their collaboration with Justin Timberlake and super producer Timbaland for her new album. Madonna had teamed up with Timberlake and Timbaland to record songs for her new album Hard Candy, with her single 4 Minutes, featuring the two, having become a chart topper across the world. According to Taylor, the Evita singer had stolen the idea for the duet from the 1980s rockers, after Duran Duran joined Timberlake and Timbaland in the studio for their 2007 album Red Carpet Massacre. Taylor, who also founded two supergroups Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders, insisted that he was not surprised by her moves.

Rip it up and art again

Jarvis Cocker, David Shrigley, Franz Ferdinand, Irvine Welsh and Samantha Morton are among 25 musicians, actors, artists and authors whose original artwork will adorn copies of Edwyn Collins's upcoming single. The Home Again seven inch will be available only in record stores in the UK, with buyers having a one-in-sixty chance of nabbing a copy with a celebrity-"customised" sleeve.

The former Orange Juice frontman is releasing the single in a limited run of 1,500 and, in what Collins's website calls a "Willy Wonka golden-ticket tradition", fans won't know whether they've lucked out until they get home and take the record out of its packaging.

Each single contains a paper sleeve printed with one of Collins's distinctive pencil drawings. But 25 of these drawings have been coloured or added to by celebrity fans of his. These include include Richard Hawley, the Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley and Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller.

Collins suffered a major brain haemorrhage in February 2005 and his physical rehabilitation is ongoing. As part of his therapy he has had to relearn how to draw, this time with his left hand, and it's one of these drawings which decorates the single.

Home Again was the title track on his 2007 solo album, recorded prior to his illness. All profits from the single will go to Connect, an aphasia support organisation that helped Collins during his recovery.

On June 9, Collins will perform with Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame and launch an exhibition of the customised record sleeves at the Social, in London. The exhibition continues for four weeks, and the Home Again seven inch - golden tickets and all - will be released on June 23.

Click to see our gallery of Edwyn Collins's sleeves.

Full list of designers:

John Squire, Irvine Welsh, Jeremy Deller, Norman Blake, Samantha Morton, Paul Cook, Franz Ferdinand, Nicky Wire, Harry Hill, Pete Fowler, Pam Hogg, Billy Childish, Pete Shelley, Tracey Thorn, Jarvis Cocker, the Cribs, Bob London, Bernard Butler, Sebastian Lewsley, David Shrigley, Graham Coxon, Andrew Weatherall, Tim Burgess and Richard Hawley


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Alejandra Guzman

   
Artist: Alejandra Guzman

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Dance
   Other
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Indeleble

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Lipstick

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 En vivo

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 20


   
 Agresivamente tuya

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


   
 Soy

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


   
 Serie Platino: 20 Exitos

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 19


   
 Algo Natural

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 Eternamente Bella

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cambio De Piel

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Enorme

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Al Borde De La Locura

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14


   
 Libre

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 Flor De Papel

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Dame tu amor

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 8


   
 Bye mama

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 La Guzman [CASSETTE]

   Year:    
Tracks: 16

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Singer/actress Alejandra Guzman was born into a playing family, the girl of Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and Mexican rock star Enrique Guzman. Appropriately sufficiency for a famous person child, she made her first TV visual aspect when she was scarcely two months old. She spent her childhood preparing to be a well-known performing artist in her own veracious, tattle, terpsichore and traveling with her mom's theatrical company. Following her mother's wishes, she didn't pursue a perfoming calling in full until she ruined school; after she gradational, the 17 year-old Guzman appeared in a production of Mame with her mother. From that day, she knew she wanted to be a singer.


Afterward teaming up with producer Miguel Blasco, Guzman recorded her debut album Pass Mama, which was number one in Mexico within years of its vent. She released albums nearly yearly afterwards her debut and enjoyed a big, enthusiastic fanbase throughout Latin America. Though Guzman encountered some personal problems in the mid and recent '90s, including a stay in rehab and a divorce, she brought her life history full circle in 1998 by coming into court onstage with her mother once more, this time in a production of Romany, and released her twelfth album Algo Natural in 1999.





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Michael Lohan on Living Lohan: ‘Dina’s trying to be a real mom for the camera’

Dina Lohan’s new E! reality TV series ‘Living Lohan’ premiered last night — and Lohan patriarch Michael has given his insight, and believes it’s just his ex-wife — with whom there’s no love lost — trying to be a “real” mom for the camera.

Michael, who was married to Dina for 22 years — 1985-2007 until their divorce — gave his opinions in the US version of OK! magazine.

He says, “If I were to look at things from a wordly perspective, I would probably have a lot to say about exploitation, hypocrisy and even deception � and maybe at a later date, I might just do so.

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Pete Wentz - The Things They Say 8371

"She is a WENTZ. I don't know what she is with her stagename, I don't think she's decided that yet - but, legally, she's a Wentz." Rocker PETE WENTZ on his new bride ASHLEE SIMPSON's new name.

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Author McCabe among IMPAC nominees

'Winterwood' by Irish author Patrick McCabe is among eight books shortlisted for this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
The shortlist was selected from 137 titles nominated by public library systems worldwide.
Among the other titles are three works of fiction set in the Middle East, as well as books by Russian, Spanish and Sri Lankan authors.
The IMPAC Award is worth €100,000 and is the world's most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Four of the final eight books are published in translation.
The full shortlist is:'The Speed of Light' - Javier Cercas (Spanish) in translation'The Sweet and Simple Kind' - Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Lankan)'De Niro's Game' - Rawi Hage (Lebanese)'Dreams of Speaking' - Gail Jones (Australian)'Let it be Morning' - Sayed Kashua (Israeli)'The Attack' - Yasmina Khadra (Algerian) in translation'The Woman who Waited' - Andrei Makine (Russian) in translation'Winterwood' - Patrick McCabe (Irish)

Robbie Williams wakes Austria dungeon victim

The infamous victim of abuse from her grandfather Josef Fritzl, who kept her in a dungeon in Austria until authorities found her recently, woke from a two-month coma by listening to Robbie Williams songs.

Williams' hits were played to Kerstin Fritzl through headphones for three days before she left the coma.

According to The Sun, Fritzl, 19, who had never been in the open air before she was rescued earlier this year, is now able to dance to the songs, and has indicated that she wants to see Williams play live.

Her doctor, Albert Reiter, explained: "She was sitting up in bed, waving her arms and dancing. One night I had to order her to finally go to sleep at 3am as she kept listening to Robbie Williams' CDs."