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| Madonna and Guy Richie at the Punchbowl Pub "Mr Guy Richie's Birthday"Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:12:30 -0800 by mybabyjunior19Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), known as Madonna, is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City for a career in modern dance. After performing as member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album in 1983, and then produced three consecutive number-one studio albums on the Billboard 200 in the 1980s and four more since year 2000.Madonna is known for exploring religious symbolism and sexual themes in her work. This drew criticism from the Vatican in the late 1980s.[2] In 1992, she founded an entertainment company, Maverick, which published a book of photographs (Sex). She also released a studio album (Erotica) and starred in a film (Body of Evidence) with erotic themes. These works generated negative publicity and coincided with a fall in commercial sales in the 1990s.[3] Madonna's career was revived in 1998, when the release of her album Ray of Light garnered critical acclaim.Madonna has acted in 22 films. Although many failed critically and commercially,[4] she earned a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1996 film Evita. In 1996 Madonna gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes Maria (also known as Lola) by personal trainer Carlos Leon before marrying film director Guy Ritchie in 2000. She and Ritchie have two sons, Rocco and David Banda, a Malawian boy they adopted in 2006, which caused media allegations they violated that country's adoption laws.Madonna has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by various sources.[5][6][7] She is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America as the best-selling female rock artist of the twentieth century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States with 63 million certified albums.[8][9] Guinness World Records list her as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time and the top-earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of US$490 million, having sold over 200 million records worldwide.[10][11][1 2][13] On March 10, 2008, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[++++++++++++++ +++Guy Lionel Ritchie (born 10 September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire[1][2]) is a English screenwriter and film director.On 22 December, 2000, he married the American pop singer and actress Madonna at Skibo Castle in Scotland. They have a son, Rocco, born 11 August 2000 in Los Angeles, California, and have adopted a Malawian baby boy, David. On 15 October, 2008, British media reported that a split was "imminent" between Ritchie and Madonna.[15] The split has since been confirmed by their spokesperson[16] and Ritchie and Madonna are said to go public with the split because they "cant bear to live with the pretence any longer".[17]It has been reported in October 2008 that Ritchie is dating actress Kelly Reilly, whom he has cast in the lead role of his current film, Sherlock Holmes. [18] [19]On 18 May, 2000, Ritchie was arrested by the police after he assulted a 20-year-old man outside the Kensington home he shared with the singer, causing actual bodily harm.[20]Ritchie was the inspiration for, and is the subject of, singer Robbie Williams' single "She's Madonna" from his 2006 album Rudebox.Ritchie started training in Shotokan karate at the age of seven at the Budokwai in London, where he later achieved a black belt in judo.[21] He also has a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.[22] Ritchie is a fan of Chelsea Football Club.[23]Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage was dissolved by District Judge Reid by decree nisi at the clinical Principal Registry of the Family Division in High Holborn, London. Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 40, entered into a compromise agreement for Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, and divided the children's time between Ritchies London home and Madonnas in New York, where the two will be joined by her daughter Lourdes, 12, from a previous relationship. Ritchie waived rights to any part of Madonnas wealth.[24] .[25] On December 15, 2008, it was announced by Madonna's spokeswoman that the singer had agreed a divorce settlement with Ritchie, the terms of which grant him between £50million and £60million, a figure that includes the value of the couple's country house in England. It is thought to be the biggest divorce payout in history. [26] The statement also confirmed that custody of the couple's children had yet to be finalised.[27]. Related: madonna "guy ritchie" london "punchbowl pub" | |
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| Britney Spears - Do Somethin'Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:12:20 -0800 by iVesssTube"Do Somethin'" is a single by Britney Spears, the third and final single taken from her 2004 (see 2004 in music) Greatest Hits: My Prerogative compilation. "Do Somethin'" was written by regular Spears collaborators Christian Karlsson and Henrik Jonback, among others, and was produced by Bloodshy & Avant, also responsible for her hit "Toxic."Britney made her directorial debut with the music video for Do Somethin', though she had assistance from previous Spears collaborator Billie Woodruff ("Born to Make You Happy," "Overprotected").Aft er an opening scene in which the camera takes the audience through a metal tunnel leading up to a door reading "Mona Lisa," we find Spears and her crew performing a dance routine. Next, the girls make their way into Britney's pink hummer and drive among the clouds in the sky. As it turns out, their location is a club named Hole in the Wall. Once at the club, Spears and friends attempt to liven things up by dancing suggestively, seeing as everyone there besides them are stiffs. Following their dancing, they get up on stage and toy with the guys at the bar. The ending of the video has Spears singing into a microphone with her friends as her band.In November 2007, Louis Vuitton won a suit of 80,000 EUR in damages after their brand appeared in the 2005 video for 'Do Somethin'. The French luxury company won a court injunction in Paris to keep the video (in which Britney drives a pink Hummer with a counterfeit Vuitton cherry blossom monogrammed dashboard) from airing on European TV stations.The civil court ruling also ordered the videos producer to pay $117,600 for damages to Vuittons image, and $1,470 per day until the video is removed from the Internet.Named in the suit are Spears record label, Jive, its parent company Zomba Label Group and Sony BMG and MTV.com, where the video has appeared.Britney Spears is not directly linked to the court proceedings.Though "Do Somethin'" was never officially released in the U.S., it managed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 at #100 through aid of digital downloads. However, downloads were very weak and the single peaked at only #49 on the Hot Digital Songs chart."Do Somethin'" achieved more success on a worldwide scale, reaching the top ten in several nations. The single peaked at #6 in the UK and has sold 90,000 copies.In Latin America, the single became Spears' fourth entry in the Latin America Top 40. The single debuted at #35 in April, 2005, and peak at #12 six weeks later. Related: britney spears do somethin' | |
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| The End of American Civil Society?Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:05:52 -0800 by jwoodswceThis vid connects the consequences seen in Ethiopia to the American bailout frenzy.** Draft Script **The other night I was watching a heart rending story about unnecessary growing poverty and famine in Ethiopia. As I picked out the unexamined details from the report, I recognized how easy it would be to profitably solve these problems, with a consequence that Ethiopia would be prosperous and well feed; however, I realized that I assumed a system of laissez-faire capitalism that would be both necessary for success and totally unacceptable to the people victimized by lack of it. They would rather watch their children die painfully than accept the justice of respecting the right of another man to live free from the initiation of force and fraud.As I IMd back and forth with a friend while watching the video, I painfully observed that Ethiopia sounded like some backwards countrylike the Bush-Obama America.How can I explain this to those that may have just been offended by that statement, when they should be more offended by the truth of my statement?In our foreign policy, the US correctly identifies the want of a vital civil society in other countries suffering under authoritarian governments. A civil society being the aggregate of those institutions of free association acting independently of the government. The co-optation by government of independent associations generally leads to the growth of extremist religious organizations as the principle channel for expressing political dissent. If we recognize that an authoritarian state contradicts the requirements of man to live as man, how does that condition develop? There is recent historical precedent of liberal democracies transforming into authoritarian regimes, who strangled civil society with governmental controls. I refer here to European fascism.As Alfredo Rocco explained at that time, fascism stresses the necessityof sacrificeeven up to the total immolation of the individual, in behalf of societysociety is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends. [1]There were echoes of these words from 1925 from both sides of the recent American election.The Bush Administration is best described as an Orgy of Sacrifice, as the President wantonly solicited the destruction of greater values to achieve lesser values for the benefit of the collective good. This administration undermined private institutions through public-private partnerships and initiatives, private means under public control directed toward the attainment of social ends. Predictably, this led to a private collapse.Now, we are promised more public help to the private sector, with more public control. A public contribution to leverage the looting of remaining private values to be sacrificed upon the alter of the social good. As this private collapse--caused by the exhaustion of toting socially mandated burdens--continues, the line of bailout beggars grows and they eagerly seek to be yoked by the Congress to the task of achieving social ends.The erosion of American civil society accelerates. William Ferris (you may call him Dr. Ferris if you prefer) has attempted to persuade us that there is a need for a federal Department of Culture to revitalize our national spirit by strengthening our cultural programs at every level. [2] Joseph Goebbels would be proud that his legacy for government directed public enlightenment has been embraced. America has tasted the poison of authoritarianism, and it has sickened us. Now is yet another moment of choice, shall we follow the bailout whims of Congress and drink more poison, or free ourselves to its ill effects by rejecting altruistic paternalism and embracing life affirming values and virtues: Reason, Justice, Freedom, Production, and Achievement?[1] L. Peikoff, Ominous Parallels, p. 17; quoting The Political Doctrine of Fascism, an address delivered at Perugia, 8/30/1925. [2] W. Ferris, Put Culture in the Cabinet, New York Times, 12/26/2008, http://www.nytimes.c om/2008/12/27/opinio n/27ferris.html Related: obama bailout civil society ethiopia famine public private congress reason freedom justice production achievement ayn rand capitalism mixed economy regulation | |
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| Cymro ar BBC AmericaThu, 08 Jan 2009 01:40:33 -0800 by worthalot2Hello from Welsh Author Clive Worth, West Wales UK, I need to let you know that I am on BBC America for the 5th time with my sex doc, I was on Sky UK People last Sat, This was the 5th time I been on with them as well and my 17 UK TV appearance with 1 of 5 documentaries that I have done, I been on TV 37 times all over the world, that's counting my UK ones as well as BBC America 4 times, Australia 3 times, Europe, Canada and New Zealand. Sadly most People in Wales do not know this, 3 of my docs can be seen on Google Search, (My 100,000 lovers), (Love Rat & Proud) & (Studs of Suburbia), it is 9 years for me off the drink, being on TV again makes it all worth while as well as having my second book out, (Internet Dating Kings Diaries), My main aim is to help other alcoholics out there because I have gone from a alcoholic to a Sexoholic, Related: cymro ar bbc america | |
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