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Playlist of the Day: The Sailors Come Home Sweet Home

After a sunny two week holiday in Tehran, the 15 British sailors were suddenly released and are now safely back in the U.K. Think they’ll be partying in London? “Release the Hostages” – NoFX “A Sort of Homecoming” – U2 “Green, Green Grass of Home” – Johnny Cash “Everything’s Forgiven” – Paul K & the Weathermen “England Swings” – Roger Miller

Published: 2007-04-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Playlist of the Day

Fabian Basabe Goes in the Back Door

Fabian, not so fabulous.Photo: Getty ImagesRyan Adams signed a contract to put out a collection of prose next year. Former "It" boy Fabian Basabe threw a fit when he was denied entrance to a Rock & Republic party at the Chateau Marmont. (He ended up sneaking in the back door.) Derek Jeter was "all over" a gorgeous brunette who wasn't girlfriend Minka Kelly while having a late-night snack with her at Geisha on East 61st Street. Uma Thurman and Jennifer Garner both may be pregnant.The Who's upcoming tour is expected to net the band $100 million, though Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are insisting on separate travel arrangements, hotel accommodations, and dressing rooms 'cause they hate each other right now. Ryan Phillippe's girlfriend, Abbie Cornish, got her hair dyed blonde at the Neil George Salon, which is the same place his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon goes to. (Cornish even got her hair dyed the same shade as Witherspoon's.) Retailers in East Hampton have been forbidden from installing a soda fountain (Dylan's Candy Bar), giving away snow cones (Ralph Lauren Rugby), having an a cappella group sing outside (Tiffany & Company), or putting up balloons and signs on the Fourth of July (various places) because town officials are very protective of maintaining the tony vibe. Lauren Conrad demanded that three security guards escort her into a party at Lily Pond in East Hampton. Jive executives are trying to get Britney Spears into the studio to record her new album, though she's mostly interested in her TV and movie career right now. Supermodel Marisa Miller says she sometimes gets fan-mail requests for strands of her hair. Kimora Lee Simmons's launch for her Fabulosity collection for JCPenny at Hiro turned into a disaster because there were no seats and people ended up stealing a lot of stuff. Tao owners Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss will open a new club and restaurant at the Palazzo in Vegas at the end of August. Gwen Stefani is pregnant with a boy. John Mayer stage

Published: 2008-07-18 Provider: New York Magazine

Australians Chloe Maxwell and Mat Rogers welcome Phoenix

Actress/model/TV presenter Chloe Maxwell, 31 and rugby league player Mat Rogers, 31, welcomed a daughter on September 21st. Phoenix, joins Maxwell Danger, 14 months, and Jack, 10, and Skyla, 7, from Mat's previous relationship with Michelle Miller. Matt posted in a blog entry; I’m very excited as Chloe just gave birth to our second child [and] my fourth. She is a very cute little girl. Life is good at the moment. Chloe and our baby daughter Phoenix have come home and both are doing very well. Source: Mat Roger's Blog

Published: 2007-10-03 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog Keywords: Aussie, It's a girl!, Unusual names, Australia, Chloe Maxwell, Mat Rogers

All A.O. Scott Really Needed To Know, He Learned From His Kindergarteners [Small Times]

The heavily-reported decline of the American movie critic hasn't touched New York Times first-stringer A.O. Scott, who has gradually outgrown and stabilized our wildly fluctuating regard for him over the years. After a long period of wondering where he might have found all this new maturity and gravitas, a perceptive Scott reader points out today that like Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, James Agee and all the greats who preceded him, he simply stole from his kids:"One recent afternoon I was sitting at my computer studying old clips of Gene [Siskel] and Roger [Ebert]. After a while my daughter sat down next to me. We watched in silence for a while, and then she said: 'These guys are always fighting. Even when they both like a movie, they have to fight about why it's good.' That may not be an exhaustive definition of criticism as a discipline or a mode of thought, but it strikes me as a pretty good summary." —April 13, 2008 "On Christmas, my annual busman's holiday, I took my daughter to see Enchanted, a just-right movie for her if ever there was one. Its blend of satire and sweetness, princessy romance and feminist pluck was expertly calibrated to satisfy a third-grade girl. Which was just the problem. At the end, as is my custom (I have to get my insights from somewhere), I asked her what she thought. 'It was good,' she said. 'But I felt like I knew what was going to happen the whole time.'" —Jan. 11, 2008 ... "Shrek the Third, directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui from a script with a half-dozen credited begetters, already feels less like a children's movie than either of its predecessors. (This may be why I liked it better than the others. But then again, so did my kids.)" —May 18, 2007 So on and so forth, going all the way back to the early days of 2002 — hence the evolving critical voice apparently informed by sassy youngsters who know better. It's a savvy move from Scott, who clearly saw the writing on the wall and anticipated a hostile m

Published: 2008-04-15 Provider: Defamer Keywords: AO Scott, Critics, New York Times, Small Times

Jude Law & Jonny Lee Miller: Wimbledon Watchers

Jude Law and his best bud, fellow British actor Jonny Lee Miller, look on from the stands during the men’s singles first round match of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at London’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on (Tuesday) June 22. The pair, along with Jude’s oldest son Rafferty, watched as Roger Federer of [...]

Published: 2009-06-23 Provider: Just Jared Keywords: Jonny Lee Miller

Roger Miller's Widow WINS Claim For 'King Of The Road' Copyright

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including "King of the Road." A federal judge ruled last week that Mary Miller and Roger Miller Music, Inc. own the copyrights to the songs the artist published in 1964. Those songs also include: "Dang Me," "Chug-A-Lug and "You can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd." U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes also in said in a written order Thursday

Published: 2010-03-23 Provider: Huffington Post

'Strangely Shrill' Katie Holmes Hijacks Broadway [The Reviews Are In]

The Katie Holmes Road Show and Protester Revival landed last night near Times Square, where the star made her Broadway debut amid a devoted crowd of tourists, family and Scientology nemeses flanking 45th Street. The reviews — and the heartfelt pleas for calm — are in after the jump. No one was anticipating miracles from the Schoenfeld Theater, where Holmes joined John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson and Dianne Wiest for the premiere of Arthur Miller's 1947 breakthrough All My Sons. So no one seemed disappointed that they didn't get them: Despite his best, unfailingly self-promotional intentions, Fox's Roger Friedman dampened expectations earlier this week, and the word so far from New York's more authoritative drama critics took care to treat Holmes as just another distinguished board-treader: · "The very different leading actresses — the stage veteran Ms. Wiest and the neophyte Ms. Holmes, in her Broadway debut — are sad casualties of [director Simon] McBurney’s high-concept approach. [...] Ms. Holmes delivers most of her lines with meaningful asperity, italicizing every word. This Ann is straight from the school of the Erinyes (those avenging furies from Greek mythology), and I didn’t believe for a second that she really loved the honorable, naïve Chris." — Ben Brantley, The NY Times · "A starry cast has been assembled to yell their lungs out, including the distinguished John Lithgow and, in her Broadway debut, Katie Holmes, known in her (less than) private life as Mrs. Tom Cruise. [...] Lithgow starts in a sunny, benign fashion, but eventually finds himself screeching alongside Holmes, looking tough under a glossy wig, and the all-American Wilson." — Clive Barnes, NY Post · "Holmes, a TV and film vet, makes a fine Broadway debut. Her rather grand speech pattern takes getting used to, but she seems comfortable and adds a fitting glint of glamour. Dancing with Lithgow, kissing Wilson, she makes you forget about her being Mrs. Tom Cruise. At times, however, Holmes is stran

Published: 2008-10-17 Provider: Defamer Keywords: The Reviews are In, All my Sons, Katie Holmes, Scientology, Tom Cruise

Coachella Festivals Puts Celebrities In A Blender And Mixes Em' Crazy

A wacky assortment of Hollywood types flocked to the Indio, CA desert this weekend for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Prince was the big act of Saturday evening, and I would sweat my ass off in the desert, too surrounded by clouds of Patchouli and annoying hipsters texting each other about how much the artists have sold out this year to see Prince. The rumors that he got almost 5 million to play were deemed false by tour organizers. But look at the wacky mix of celebs! Melanie Griffith? The Hoff? There's Sienna Miller! And the Hilton sisters with that hot little minx David Katzenberg. Kimberly Stewart looking like her hairdresser really hates her ass and finally showed her. The festival goes from Friday to Sunday. Besides Prince, other peforming artists included my favorite Canadian lesbian twin sister band Tegan & Sara, Death Cab for Cutie, Kraftwerk, the newly reunited Portishead (how does that chick stand the heat?), Jack Johnson and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters. So I guess I would have just gone on Saturday? Cause - blech. How in the hell does Dita Von Teese look like she just came out of Vogue in 90 degree weather? That broad has icewater in her veins. Sienna Miller looks like that girl who's selling friendship bracelets and/or blowjobs for a ride home. Photos: SplashNewsOnline.com More photos of the celebrities featuring Dita Von Teese, Sienna Miller, Kelly Osbourne, Kimberly Stewart, Jared Leto, Nicky Hilton, Paris Hilton, Benji Madden, David Katzenberg, Pink, Melanie Griffith and David Hasselhoff at the Coachella Music Festival are after the jump.

Published: 2008-04-27 Provider: A Socialite's Life