"I loved coke," says star Mirren

Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren has revealed that she used cocaine during the early 1980s.

In an interview with GQ magazine, Mirren revealed that she stopped-up taking the drug when Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was captured, and was believed to be making money from the drug.

During the interview Mirren was asked whether she had always taken whatever drugs.

She replied: "A bit of the skinny [cannabis] when I was younger."

When asked if she had taken anything else, Mirren said: "A bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a bunch, just a little piece at parties."

"But what all over it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early Eighties.

"He was hiding in South America and living off the payoff of beingness a cocain baron."

She added: "And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that mo I had never grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain."

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Kottonmouth Kings

   
Artist: Kottonmouth Kings

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Cloud Nine

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 22


   
 Koast II Koast

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 24


   
 Hidden Stash III (cd2)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


   
 Hidden Stash III (cd1)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


   
 Kottonmouth Kings No. 7

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 21


   
 Joint Venture

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 23


   
 The Kottonmouth Experience

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Fire It Up

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 23


   
 Classic Hits Live (cd2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Classic Hits Live (cd1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Rollin Stoned

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 22


   
 Hidden Stash, Vol. 2 : The Kream Of The Krop

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16


   
 Royal Highness

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 18

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Self-described "psychedelic rap music punk oliver Stone" outfit the Kottonmouth Kings emerged from Orange County, CA, in 1994. Comprising other Humble Gods frontman Brad Daddy X, rappers Saint Vicious and D-Loc, DJ Bobby B, and "visual assassin" Pakelika, the chemical group first power train attracted attending with the rail "Suburban Life," which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Shrieking 2 and became a mod stone radio hit. After issuance an EP, Stoners Reeking Havoc, on their possess Suburban Noize label in early 1998, the Kottonmouth Kings released the uncut Royal Highness on Capitol that summer. Hidden Stash followed a year later, and their tierce album, High Society, pushed them into the mainstream. Gigs with D12 and Bionic Jive followed in light 2001, just prior to the expiration of Hidden Stash, Vol. 2 : Kream of the Krop. A one-fifth studio phonograph recording album, Rollin' Stoned, which was produced by Brad X, appeared in October 2002. The self-explanatory Hellenic Hits Live gain the streets in 2003 patch the banding continued their expanding upon of the Suburban Noize empire, putt out DVDs and CDs by rappers and punk bands. Their 2004 button, Fervour It Up, came knocked out on the stoner's vacation, 4/20. The Kings returned in 2005 with their seventh album, a self-titled effort that featured guest shots from like-minded pals like Cypress Hill and Tech Nine. Unfortunately, the combo was forced to prorogue their summer circuit when D-Loc sustained a foot accidental injury. Koast II Koast became the band's eighth studio full-length in June of 2006. The compilation Hidden Stash III appeared at the conclusion of the twelvemonth with a new album, Cloud Nine, arriving in 2007.

Deepak Chopra

   
Artist: Deepak Chopra

   Genre(s): 
Easy Listening
   

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Discography:


   
 Serenity - Ambient Meditation

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Dubbed "the poet-prophet of alternative medication" in the pages of Time, Deepak Chopra domed to outside fame at the van of the self-help publishing detonation, later expanding his multimedia system imperium to include a serial publication of new age-themed albums recorded in quislingism with musicians including Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. Born in New Delhi in 1947, Chopra was the son of preeminent Indian cardiologist Krishran Chopra. He of necessity followed his father's footsteps and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968. Upon relocating to the U.S. iI old age by and by, Chopra interned at a New Jersey hospital before chronic his studies at Burlington, MA's Lahey Clinic and the University of Virginia Hospital. A board-certified practitioner of interior medicine and endocrinology, Chopra taught at Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine earlier he was appointed foreman of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital. He too established his have private endocrinology praxis, just following a return trip to New Delhi he found himself more and more at odds with the guiding principles of Western medicine, embracement rather the image that good wellness represents more than the mere absence of physical disease. In 1985, subsequently coming together transcendental meditation founder and guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Chopra resigned his NEMH position to focusing on holistic medication, casting his set with Ayurveda, an ancient Indian organisation of natural healing, and foundation the Massachusetts-based American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine.In 1989, Chopra published his number one record, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, combining elements of Hinduism and Western science to posit the body as a "web of intelligence operation" that can fight off disease and senescence via meditation and clean living founded the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. After ripping with the transcendental meditation sect in 1993 amid allegations the Maharishi was attempting to control his writing and public speaking engagements, Chopra published his breakthrough campaign, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old, merchandising more than C,000 copies the day after his appearance on television's Oprah Winfrey Show. More than a dozen like-minded self-help bestsellers followed, among them The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing. In 1995 Chopra founded the California-based Chopra Center for Well Being, fundamentally abandoning all guise of clinical practice by declining to even lend oneself for a state medical licence. Despite pointed criticisms of his beliefs and practices -- as good as the hypocrisy of admonishing physicalism while living in a multi-million-dollar mansion house and driving a Jaguar -- Chopra remained an immensely pop digit, and after releasing a series of lucrative audiobooks, in 1998 he issued the album A Gift of Love, recruiting celebrity pals like Madonna and Goldie Hawn to read classical Indian poetry over Middle Eastern-inspired support tracks. Three years later Chopra teamed with longtime protagonist Dave Stewart for Grow Younger, Live Longer.

Employers must pay for workplace music

It has been estimated that over half a million businesses in the UK are playing music illegally, and most don't even know it.

Whenever music is played publicly, basically anywhere outside the home, a licence is required.

For businesses, if they are playing music which staff or customers can hear, they must pay the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for a licence.

By law, if you play copyrighted music in public, you need to have permission from the writers of it - money is paid to the artist via the PRS' licence.

According to BBC Newsbeat, many businesses do not realise that even playing the radio at work could land them a hefty fine.

Even taxi drivers need a licence if their passengers can hear the music they're playing.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the PRS have begun legal proceedings against Lancashire Police for playing music in their gym and over phones without the appropriate licence.

Nicola Roberts Robbed of �2,000 Worth Of Clothes

Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts has been robbed of �2,000 worth of her designer clothes.

The 'No Good Advice' singer -- who recently split from boyfriend Carl Davies -- reportedly called in police after a package from posh online store Net-APorter went missing.

A source tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "Nicola had two deliveries couriered to her hotel in Manchester but only one, containing a handbag from Harrods, got to her.

"The other was signed for but mysteriously disappeared. Nicola was distraught as it contained a gift for her mum.

"Police were called in to question hotel security but her stuff is still missing."

Meanwhile, after completing their sell-out tour, the girl group -- who shot to fame on TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 -- return to the studios on Monday to start work on a new album.

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HBO's Polanski film causes dispute

Did judge insist that any court hearing be televised?

Did the Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over a 1997 meeting that would have paved the way for Roman Polanski to return to the U.S. insist that any court hearing -- which would have ended the now-30-year-old case in which the director pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with a minor -- be televised?


That is the new dispute that has broken out in the wake of HBO's Monday night airing of Marina Zenovich's documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired."


The docu, which played Sundance and Cannes, originally concluded with a statement that an agreement had been reached that would have disposed of the case without further jail time, but the judge insisted the hearing be televised. Because of that condition, Polanski, fearing a media circus, did not return.


Calling that assertion "a complete fabrication," court officials Monday called on HBO to change the docu's final wording. The version that aired that night said the court insisted only that the hearing be held in open court.


But on Wednesday, Douglas Dalton, who represented Polanski, and Roger Gunson, the former deputy district attorney who prosecuted the director, issued a joint statement contradicting that version. They said they met in 1997 with Judge Larry Paul Fidler, a new judge on the case, who was willing to end Polanski's probation without further jail time as long as the hearing was televised.


Dalton recalled that "Fidler would require television coverage at the proposed hearing," while Gunson said "television coverage (was) discussed at the meeting."


"It is our shared view that Monday's false and reprehensible statement by the Los Angeles Superior Court continues their inappropriate handling of the Polanski case," they said.


Richard Doyle, director of the District Attorney's Specialized Prosecutions Bureau, rejects that version of events. "There was no requirement that the hearing be televised," he said, adding a new caveat that the promise of no further jail time was not guaranteed. "While additional prison time would be unlikely if Mr. Polanski's conduct has been favorable over the last three decades, prison always remains a possibility."

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Rhythm & Hues sets up Malaysian shop

VFX & animation facility also has facilities in India

Rhythm & Hues Studios, the Los Angeles-based VFX & animation facility whose credits include the upcoming "The Incredible Hulk" from Marvel Studios and "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" from Universal, has signed an agreement with the government of Malaysia to set up operations in Kuala Lumpur.


The company also maintains two bases in India, with facilities in Mumbai and Hyderabad.


R&H will open in Malaysia this year in temporary space while a building is constructed that would allow the company to grow over time to accommodate about 200 staffers. The construction is expected to take less than two years.


Staffers from Los Angeles and India will travel to Kuala Lumpur to train young local talent.


Earlier this year, the company's work on "The Golden Compass" earned it an Oscar in visual effects.


Projects in production include "Land of the Lost," "Cirque du Freak" and "State of Play." The studio is also in the process of developing its own creative properties.

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‘Lost’: See the Alternate Endings

This morning Good Morning America showcased the two alternate endings the producers of Lost filmed in an attempt to foil spoilers. It didn't work, but the alternate endings are pretty cool to look at. Who else could've been in that coffin? Who else could have starred in season five's Weekend at Bernie's remake? And did anyone else think the second one was Steve Carell until Robin Roberts shouted the character's name? We guess we're just not used to seeing these characters all cleaned up.

Brian Wilson to release new album in September

Brian Wilson is set to release his first album in four years this September.

'That Lucky Old Sun', a concept album about the former Beach Boys star's childhood in south California, will be released on September 1.

The album, featuring 11 tracks, a vocal excerpt and four narrative pieces written by 'Smile' collaborator Van Dyke Parks, was first performed at London's Royal Festival Hall in September 2007.

'That Lucky Old Sun' is the first album of new work from Wilson since 2004's 'Gettin' In Over My Head'.

The singer and songwriter also released a reworked version of 'Smile' in 2004, a 'teenage symphony to God' that was left unreleased and unfinished in 1967.




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D.J. From "Roseanne": 'Memba Him?!

Michael Fishman became somewhat famous for playing Roseanne's son D.J. Connor on "Roseanne." Guess what he looks like now!




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Madonna - Madonna Scores European Double

MADONNA has proved to be the real Queen of Pop - she's scored a double atop the European singles and albums charts.

The superstar's collaboration with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, 4 Minutes, is the best-selling song in Europe for the third week running, while her new LP Hard Candy has overtaken Duffy's Rockferry to land the number one position on the European albums chart.

The Welsh singer is now at two, while Amy Winehouse's Back To Black is still flying high in third place.

In the singles chart, the top four remain unmoved - Duffy's former number one Mercy is at two, Estelle's American Boy featuring Kanye West is at three, and Enrique Iglesias' Tired Of Being Sorry sits at four.

The only new entry in the top five is German reality TV star Mark Medlock's new release Summer Love, which enters at five.

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Manchester United - Wayne And Coleen Set To Marry In Italy

Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin are expected to get married later today.

The couple are currently in the Italian Riviera and media reports suggest they will tie the knot later on Thursday.

The ceremony is expected to take place at the Villa Durazzo, the same location as singer Rod Stewart's wedding to Penny Lancaster last year.

Rooney and McLoughlin grew up in the same area of Liverpool and met when they were just 12 years old before starting to date when they were 16.

Reports claim the couple are set to spend around £5 million on their big day.

Half of the cost is thought to be covered by OK! magazine, though, after securing exclusive rights to the wedding.

A number of Rooney's team-mates are expected at the ceremony and Irish boy band Westlife are believed to be performing.


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Mann crafts characters

With her seventh solo album recently released and two decades of success behind her, including an Oscar nod, singer/songwriter Aimee Mann has a lot to smile about.

Just don�t ask her to.

She makes it clear she despises this type of request in her new CD title @#%&*! Smilers, which audiences are expected to insert their own curse word into. It�s pointed at a phrase Mann and a friend coined to describe people who feel the need to tell others to be more � well, smiley.

The characters in Mann�s 13-song pop collection would likely share this sentiment. They include a drug addict, a has-been, an insecure artist and a host of other troubled personalities.

�I think it�s a mix of both (real and fictional characters) � there�s definitely songs about people I know, but a lot of it is fictional,� says Mann about Smilers, released on her own SuperEgos label.

Highly praised for her lyrics (characters and situations in the 1999 movie Magnolia were written based on her songs), Mann�s carefully crafted storytelling is often confessional and/or cautionary.

�(Songwriting) is good for the kinds of things that you can�t really talk to anybody about and you can barely sort of even explain to yourself. It�s a way for your subconscious to kind of communicate with your self,� Mann explained.

In synth-pop opener Freeway, the former �Til Tuesday front woman documents the struggles of a drug-addicted friend.

�I think everybody struggles with obsession to a certain extent because I think it�s a mechanism by which people make themselves feel better ... It gives you the illusion of control and power.�

And while the Los Angeles-based singer stays true to her soulful pop sound, Smilers differs from her other work in its lack of electric guitar. A decision she says was made during recording because �we just didn�t need it.�

Instead, Mann focuses on keyboard, acoustic guitar and synthesizers.

For instance, the last track, Ballantines, is an almost cabaret-sounding tune, albeit telling the disheartening story of a one-time hot shot now down on his luck. 

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