Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series

The Oscar-winning film 'Crash' is to become a TV series.
The drama will be shown on the Starz network in the US this year and the film's director, co-writer and producer, Paul Haggis, and co-writer and producer, Bobby Moresco, are among those involved in the new show.
This is only the second time a film which has won the Best Picture Oscar has been turned into a TV series: 'In the Heat of the Night' was the first.
Commenting, Haggis said: "I'm very happy that Lionsgate [the show's co-producer] and Starz have decided to develop 'Crash' into a series. Ironically, my initial impulse was to present the material in a format for television. I am thrilled it's coming full circle and can't wait to see how it expands and transforms."
Production on the 13-episode first series is set to begin in the spring.
Haggis' new film, 'In the Valley of Elah', is currently in cinemas. Read the review here.

Beyonce will be mad with rumours: Rowland

Beyonce will be mad with rumours: Rowland

George Washington (Ani): Singer Kelly Rowland has dismissed reports that her former band-mate and close crony Beyonce Knowles is pregnant. The ex-Destiny's Baby isaac Bashevis Singer laughed forth the rumours by locution that Beyonce would be "mad" if she heard the latest buzz. Reports that Knowles is pregnant surfaced online last calendar month, exactly days after her secret New York wedding to hip-hop whizz Jay-Z. Only Rowland, world Health Organization was a node at their wedding ceremony, insists Knowles is non about to enter motherhood. The isaac M. Singer also continued to avoid questions approximately the widely reported wedding ceremony. "Everybody keeps talking well-nigh this hymeneals that purportedly happened. That's a interrogation that you'd have to ask her!" Contactmusic quoted her, as expression. Of the baby rumours, the Forge isaac Bashevis Singer laughed, "You know what's funny close to this, entirely trey of us (Destiny's Child members) have been pregnant at one time. We were on degree and supposedly we looked pregnant!"







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How many dudes roll like this?

How many dudes roll like this?

He blew a loudspeaker at 38,000 feet, near came to blows with 50 Cent's suite and was named the Best Newly Seeland Creative person at the MTV Australia Awards. It's whole in a weekend's work for our man Scribe.

Things started off peacefully...

Baby joy for Sex and the City star

Baby joy for Sex and the City star

'Sex and the City' lead Chris Noth is celebrating the birth of his get-go kid, a baby boy, with his long-term girlfriend.
Tara James Wilson gave birth to 3.5kg Orion St. Christopher Noth in Los Angeles on Fri.
A voice told People.com: "I am happy to confirm that Chris Noth and Tara Wilson are the proud parents of a happy and healthy babe son. Chris and Tara ar thrilled and entirely are doing well."
53-year-old Noth, wHO plays Mr Big in the hit designate, met the mother of his newborn spell workings at his Fresh House of York legal community, The Cutting Elbow room.
They ar due to star together in the new movie 'Frame of Mind'.

Asha

   
Artist: Asha

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Silent Night

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Civilized Stress

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Chosen by You

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Art Of Love

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 Resurrection

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Music For Love

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6


   
 Love Is The Only Prayer

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Prophecy

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Marriage Of The Sun and Moon

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 Field Of Stars

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 7


   
 Single As Love

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 A Concert Of Angels

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 5


   
 Fiery Moon

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 5


   
 Amadora

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 7


   
 Wings Of Fire

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 6


   
 Mystic Heart

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 8


   
 Open Secret

   Year:    
Tracks: 7


   
 Celestine

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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British-born new years composer Asha displayed a natural endowment and a mania for committal to writing music even during early on childhood. He began writing simpleton songs at the age of tercet, a passion that evolved into a love sprightliness function with the radio set pass catcher. Inspired by Radio Luxembourg acting Crony Charles Hardin Holley, Vanguard Chloe Anthony Wofford, and Elmore Leonard Cohen, Asha began writing family music and protest songs in his teens. Upon discovering his negro spiritual route in his ahead of time 1920s, he turned to a more assailable compositional elan, approach report and music as pure emotion, choosing lyrical capacity subsequently on. Though unable to translate or spell music, Asha produced pieces that much involved flesh out orchestration. Drawing influence from hellenic composers such as Antonio Vivaldi and Pachelbel, as well as folks music music styles from the British Isles, South America, and the Middle East, he created a reasoned that resonated deep with his audiences. Asha's human being relationship with Newly Human race Medicine (a sound out stemming from the mind-body-spirit healing tradition) began in the betimes '90s -- his fertile career with the pronounce produced more than 15 records in as many long fourth dimension, and his albums get get meditation and relaxation method mainstays the creation over. Asha continues to frame and record, in do-gooder to perusal Jungian psychological science and offering versatile services in spiritual steering.

IFI announces its new director

IFI announces its new director

The freshly Theatre director of the Irish Motion-picture show Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will subscribe up the position in autumn 2008.
Glennie has previously worked as Director of the Model Humanistic discipline and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Freshly House of York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Moore Foundation and the Irish Museum of Modern Nontextual matter.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chair of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of experience in strategic cultural planning and of running and workings in public cultural institutions both in Ireland and internationally. We ar delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to confidential information one of the country's well-nigh popular cultural venues into an exciting stop in its history."
Among the newly projects to be undertaken by the IFI are a refurbishment of the IFI eye in Dublin's Eustace Street; a coaction with the Dundalk Institute of Technology on a newly facility for the Irish whiskey Photographic film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.