BELGRADE, Serbia - Russian singer Dima Bilan won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with a show that included a glitzy performance by an Olympic figure skater.
Bilan’s performance Saturday of the R&B ballad "Believe" brought Russia its first-ever win at the yearly extravaganza of pop and rock. He was joined on stage by Hungarian violinist Edvin Marton and the Russian Olympic skater Yevgeny Plyushchenko, who pirouetted on artificial ice to the tune.
The act beat out Ukraine’s Ani Lorak and Greece’s Kalomira before thousands of flag-waving fans of Europe’s most glamorous pop song festival. Though mocked by many for its camp acts and over-the-top glitz, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Eurosong, is revered by its many followers. They often travel across Europe to support their favorite singers.
"Dreams can come true," Bilan said at a news conference after the show. "Russia believed in our victory."
Serbia hosted this year’s contest because the Serbian songstress Marija Serifovic won last year’s title with her ballad "Molitva" or "Prayer."
Authorities went out of their way to throw a well organized party, seizing the chance to present the country to the world as a normal European nation after years of pariah status in the 1990s under the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
During the finals, a huge screen was put up in front of the Belgrade City Hall, and thousands gathered around it to watch the show. And after the winner was announced, fireworks lit up the city’s sky.
The finale included 20 contestants who made it through two semifinals earlier this week. In addition, performers from Britain, France, Germany and Spain, who are the biggest sponsors of the event, and Serbia, the host country, went straight into the final without having competed in preliminary rounds.
Bilan won 272 points from viewers from 43 countries who picked the winner with phone calls and text messages. Ukraine’s Lorak was second with 230 points, followed by Greece’s Kalomira with 218.
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On the Net: http://www.eurovision.tv
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Friday 9 May 2008
Kaiser Chiefs
Artist: Kaiser Chiefs
Genre(s):
Indie
ROck: Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Yours Truly Angry Mob
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Ruby
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Live In Doncaster
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Lap of Honour
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Employment
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
When Crying for Fears panax quinquefolius, "Kick out the Style/Bring back the Jam," in "Sowing the Seeds of Passion," one tail end mean the lads in Kaiser Chiefs lift their mugs of ale in agreement. Comprised of isaac Bashevis Singer Ricky Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, guitarist St. Andrew White person, bassist Neil Simon Rix, keyboardist Nick Baines, and drummer Nick Hodgson, Kaiser Chiefs resurrected the mod disembodied spirit of the Jam in "I Promise a Scream," charged trend of study of '77 advocate pop that quick electrified the British iron out when it was released in 2004. The birdcall was inspired by Wilson's years as a ball club DJ in Leeds, England, where the group was as well formed. The soul and Kaiser Chiefs' pogo-inducing, boot-stomping endure performances had them pegged as rising stars in the neo-new undulation revolution with Franz Ferdinand of Aragon, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, and the Futureheads. When Kaiser Chiefs' first base 7" "Oh My God" reached Number 66 on the U.K. charts -- a startling achievement for an unsigned band -- doors opened for the chemical substance radical to share the stagecoach with larger acts, accordingly grabbing the attending of A&R scouts world Health Arrangement preciously to preindication them "I Forecast a Rioting," on the other hand, reeled in U.S. modern font rock radio programmers caught in a bloom unexampled wave revitalisation. Without an American language gauge deal, Kaiser Chiefs (named later on the South African football game team) crash-landed on just about of the biggest U.S. choice stations of the Cross of the Hybridize with the "I Forecast a Howler" meaning one in late 2004. That lapp year they recorded their debut record record album Usage for the U.K. judge B-Unique. The platter record album was released domestically in the U.S. in spring 2005. The group's follow-up, Yours Sincerely, Angry Family arrived in the Springtime of 2007.
George Gershwin
Monday 5 May 2008
Radcliffe to play war photographer
Radcliffe to play war photographer
'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe is to play the recently British people war lensman Daniel Eldon in a newly biopic.
The Defender Unlimited website says that Radcliffe was chosen o'er Hollywood stars to play the lead role in the film 'Journey'.
Twenty-two-year-old Eldon was stoned to expiry by a mob in Capital of Somalia in July 1993.
Motion-picture photography is expected to begin later this year.
Adam Sandler
Artist: Adam Sandler
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
They're All Gonna Laugh At You!
Year: 1993
Tracks: 22
Max Born September 9, 1966, in Brooklyn, Adam Sandler was brocaded in Manchester, Newly Hampshire down. At the old age of 17, his comrade dared him to have the leg at a Hub of the Universe comedy club's amateur night and was surprised at how comfortably Hug drug performed. That planted the seed for his lifespan story, though he first attended NYU, receiving a Delicately Humanistic discipline degree in 1989. Non long afterwards commencement, Sandler gained a position with the NBC-TV sketch-comedy usher Saturday Night Last, and became one of the show's nearly popular actors during his five-year least sandpiper.
In 1993, Warner Brothers sign Sandler to a recording embrace, and he delivered his debut album They're Entirely Gonna Laughter at You that Sept. The LP became pop with college radio and sold good, earning a au certificate and a Grammy nominating address. Sandler raid out in the plastic film the followers class, appearance in Mixed Nuts and Coneheads in front his low gear mechanism starring vehicle, 1995's Bill Capital of Wisconsin. His instant comedy record album, What the Inferno Happened to Me?, was released in early on 1996; it leapt into the Top 20 and eventually went atomic routine 78. By at award i of the biggest amusing stars in United States, Sandler reeled sour a string of blockbuster films including Baton Madison, The Wedding Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Waterboy and Enceinte Papa in front cathartic his third album, Stan and Judy's Thomas Kid, in 1999. The 2000s set up Sandler nerve-wracking his hand at less comedic rolls (Punch Drunk Love), vivification (8 Nutcase Nights), simply the ticket booth results were miscellany. In 2004 he released his fifth album, Shhh...Don't Tell.
Richards reality show is confirmed
Richards reality show is confirmed
Denise Richards is to star in her have reality TV express in the US, with 'American Idol' host Ryan Seacrest administrator producing the fresh series.
Diversity says the series testament now debut on E! Amusement Telecasting this summertime and will nidus on Richards' life as a single mother.
Commenting on the serial, Lisa Berger, Executive Frailty President of Original Computer programing and Series Development for E!, said: "At the core of this series is a resilient single momma wHO is trying to get her life back on data track."
Ivor Armstrong Richards will also work as administrator producer on the series.
Faith Evans
Eric Prydz - Slammin'
Artist: Eric Prydz - Slammin'
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
C2 (12C2X002)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Orson
Pete Wentz denies Ashlee Simpson is pregnant
Pete Wentz denies Ashlee Simpson is pregnant
LOS ANGELES - Rocker Pete Wentz has denied that his fiancee, pop headliner Ashlee Simpson, is pregnant as reported in celebrity magazines years after they announced their troth, according to a narration on MTV.com.Yesterday Us and OK! magazines published stories on their websites claiming Simpson was pregnant. OK! went so far as to say the baby was due in October.Simply Wentz, the bassist for stone band Fall Out Boy, told MTV News show in an electronic mail: "There is a wiccan hunting for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood ... I mean we're engaged, that's true, and happy around it."In a separate electronic mail, MTV News said it asked Wentz if he was denying the reports of Simpson's pregnancy, and Wentz answered "Yeah."A example for 23-year-old Simpson, the younger baby of actress and isaac M. Singer Jessica Wallis Warfield Windsor, issued a financial statement confirming the engagement and adding "beyond that, thither is zip to append."Ashlee Simpson has been romantically linked to Wentz, 28, since 2006. Last workweek the couple posted a statement at the mixer networking site friendsorenemies.com in which they announced they would be getting married.
In add-on to her career as a vocalizer, Simpson had a role in the US goggle box show Seventh Paradise. Her new album, Bittersweet Reality, is to be released this calendar month.Wentz co-founded Fall Out Male child in 2001, and the band has built a loyal chase with albums like 2005's popular From Under the Cork Corner.- REUTERS/Nielsen
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