Gloria Gaynor - The Things They Say 8354 & other: May 2008

Donald Trump - Trump Sues Israeli Developer

DONALD TRUMP has filed suit against an Israeli developer who allegedly used his name to boost sales of a luxury property development - demanding a share of the profits.

The real-estate mogul has filed legal papers at Manhattan Supreme Court claiming he licensed the name Trump Plaza to luxury condo builder, Crescent Heights Diamond, for the construction of a 70-storey tower in Israeli capital Tel Aviv.

Trump allegedly signed a deal giving a 25 per cent share on each unit sold in return for the use of his brand name.

But the company later sold the $44 million (GBP22 million) land to another development company for $80 million (GBP40 million) and Trump insists he deserves a slice of the $36 million (GBP18 million) profit.

He tells The New York Post, "They (Crescent Heights Diamond), announce with tremendous fanfare that Trump is their partner. Then, instead of building, they flip the site. They used my name to pump up the value, then made a big profit.

"We put this site on the map, and under the contract they are obligated to complete the project. They are not good representatives for the great state of Israel and they should be ashamed of themselves."

Crescent's lawyer Saul Sack refutes the claims, saying Trump "is not entitled to any compensation", adding, "The lawsuit is without merit."

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E Street Band's Keyboard Silenced

The E Street Band is mourning one of its own. Danny Federici, the longtime organist and keyboard player for the Bruce Springsteen-fronted group, died Thursday afternoon of melanoma at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The rocker, who reportedly battled the disease for three years, was 58. "Danny and I worked together for 40 years—he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together," Springsteen said in a statement posted on his official website. After taking a leave of absence from the band in November to focus on his treatment, Federici last performed with Springsteen and the others March 20 in Indianapolis. Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Saturday in Orlando have been postponed. "You couldn't help but miss Danny's presence," former Los Angeles Times pop-music critic Roger Hilburn told the paper Thursday, referring to a Springsteen concert he attended last week in Anaheim, Calif. "Without him, the band was not whole." A native of Flemington, N.J., Federici hooked up with the future Boss in the late 1960s, jamming at the famed Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., and, by 1969, playing in the band Child. The E Street Band as it's more or less known today—Federici, saxophonist Clarence Clemons, guitarist Steven Van Zandt, bassist Garry Tallent, Nils Lofgren, drummer Max Weinberg, etc.—took shape in the mid-'70s, after which Springsteen and his fellow Jersey boys (and honorary Jersey boys) collaborated on a series of now-classic albums, including the seminal Born to Run in 1975 and 1984's Born in the U.S.A (which featured Federici on both organ and glockenspiel). Springsteen took off to do his own thing in the late '80s but reunited with the E Street Band in 1999 for a ragingly successful 15-month world tour. During their time sans Springsteen, the various band mates teamed up with each other on solo projects and, in 1997, Federici released the soft-jazz instrumental album Flemington, which he followed up with 2005's Out of a Dream. Between his two solo projects, Federici hit the studio with Springsteen and the E Street Band to record The Rising, an urgently timely and lyrical—and platinum-selling—ode to the post-9-11 world, which went on to win the Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2003. The group's latest effort, Magic, came out Oct. 2 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after moving more than 335,000 copies. It earned a Grammy nod for Best Rock Album, but Springsteen had to be content with only three wins, for Best Rock Solo Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song, both for "Radio Nowhere," and Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Once Upon a Time in the West."

Eva Mendes checks into rehab: reports

Hollywood star Eva Mendes has entered rehab to tackle substance-abuse problems, according to a report by People magazine.
The 33-year-old star of 'We Own the Night' is reported to have been undergoing treatment at Utah's Cirque Lodge centre for several weeks.
A representative for Mendes People's website: "Eva has been working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support. Out of respect for Eva's privacy, we do not wish to discuss further details."
Last year Cirque Lodge was in the headlines after actress Lindsay Lohan checked into the facility following dual arrests for drink-driving.
Mendes is one of the best known Latino actresses in Hollywood, having risen to prominence after landing a role with Denzel Washington in 2001 hit 'Training Day'.
Later this year she will appear in a remake of 'The Women', starring alongside Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Bette Midler.

Northern Lite

Artist: Northern Lite

   Genre(s):
Dance
   Pop
   Electronic
   Other

Discography:

Unisex

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

Temper

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Something

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

Reach The Sun

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Small Chamber Works

Year: 2000
Tracks: 10

Northern Lite, an electro-rock radical, carved kayoed a estimable ecological niche for themselves on the German euphony setting, not but via their track record releases and remixes, just besides via their possess label, 1st Decade Records. Andreas Kubat and Sebastian Bohn -- a vocaliser and DJ, severally -- formed Northern Lite in 1997 in Erfurt, Thuringia, patch guitarist Larry Lowe later joined in 2001, delivery an ingredient of john Rock music to the group's manner of electronica. Lowe eventually left the group in 2004, release on to form the solo move Fujimo, and was replaced by guitar player Sascha Littek. Northern Lite made their recording debut in 2001 on first Decade Records, their have Erfurt-based label; that year they issued respective releases: Trusting Blind, Ways Ain't Working, Care for Me Better, and Trusting Blind Remixes -- in that order of magnitude, each on 12" vinyl -- in addition to a uncut record album, Small Chamber Works. Subsequent days brought many more releases on 1st Decade, including the full-length albums Give the Sun (2003), Normalize (2005), and Unisex (2006). In 2006 Northern Lite saw the first-class honours degree of their releases register on the German charts, when "What You Want" climbed to number 61 on the singles chart as Unisex climbed fifty-fifty higher, to number 29, on the album graph. The group returned to the German charts in 2007 with "Enemy," a coaction with Chapeau Claque that peaked at figure 51. Northern Lite likewise has a farsighted lean of remix credits geological dating back to 2001; among the more than noteworthy are Peaches' "Set It Off" (2002), Rammstein's "Rosenrot" (2005), Schiller's "Die Nacht... Du Bist Nicht Allein" (2005), and Yello's "Planet Dada" (2005).

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages

Artist: Barrence Whitfield and the Savages

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Year: 1992
Tracks: 10

Live Emulsified

Year: 1992
Tracks: 12

'Prince Caspian' release date mistake

For "Indy" billboard campaign, more is more

By Carl DiOrio

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Spielberg loves
billboards. That's the simple explanation for those giant
double-billboard promos for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull" throughout Los Angeles, as well as the huge
Indy messages plastered around all four sides of Madison Square
Garden in New York.

Paramount mounted a big outdoor-advertising campaign in
2007 for the Spielberg-produced "Transformers," and when the
studio was strategizing how to scream "event pic!" in marketing
the Spielberg-directed Indy sequel, the creative hyphenate had
just one suggestion: more.

"Steven said, 'I know they always do big billboards in
L.A., but let's do them all over,"' said Steve Siskind,
executive vice president advertising and marketing at
Paramount.

That enthusiasm led to the MSG placements adjacent to
commuter-nexus Penn Station as well as major billboard
"dominations" -- that's what the industry calls it when you
really "own" a site, Siskind noted -- in Chicago, San
Francisco, Houston, Dallas and elsewhere. Airports were
targeted in several hub markets.

Several Los Angeles sites were selected for their proximity
to freeways.

"I guess it's kind of a trains, planes and automobiles
strategy," Siskind chuckled.

To make the Los Angeles locations stand out, Paramount went
to CBS Outdoor and other vendors of billboard sites it uses
throughout the year and asked whether there was a chance of
adding adjacent sites to allow one message to run across two
billboards.

Paramount execs said they believed it was the first time
anyone has employed multiple billboards for a single movie
message.

Sienna Miller - Miller Hates Nude Scenes

Actress SIENNA MILLER hates stripping off on-screen - because she can't stand the idea of her father seeing her naked.

The blonde beauty worries so much about her beloved dad seeing her in steamy scenes, she warns him to cover his eyes when she appears undressed.

She says, "I get embarrassed, especially if my dad watches them. I get embarrassed watching them myself. But sometimes you just have to do it."

But the British star insists on performing realistic sex scenes - by refusing to wear a bra in bed.

Miller explains, "It has to be realistic and I think it is probably very rare that people have sex with their bra on so if you are going to do it, just do it. That's my motto."

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