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A Stephen Gately Death Film, By Mark McGowan

October 22, 2009

Stephen Gately Death Film: Voodoo, Hearts And Livestock

Stephen Gately has died. Mark McGowan has a theory as to how a Stephen Gately died.  And a shocking video…

Stephen Gately Death Film: Voodoo, Hearts And Livestock

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The Most Bizarre Halloween Costumes

The Most Disgusting, Offensive And Tasteless Halloween Costumes

The World’s Fattest Man Is Paul Mason: Pictures

October 21, 2009

MR Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. Mr Mason last achieved a fame of sorts in 2002 when he weighed 56 stone and needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation. Back then, a firecrew removed his bedroom window, dismantled a brick wall and fence and took him off in a forklift truck.

Paul Mason is big. He now weighs in at an impressive 70 stone.

Now read on…

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Ondi Timoner’s We Live In Public At The BFI

October 7, 2009

Grand Jury Prize – Documentary – Sundance Film Festival, 2009

“Bone-Chilling. Deserves an audience as expansive as MySpace…Tops on every level!” Variety

“Riveting – a compelling cautionary tale…” New York Times

“I can’t express enough how awesome this film is, or how horrifyingly revealing of where our own society has headed.” San Francisco Bay

On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.

Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC will be released in the UK by Dogwoof on 13 November 2009 and will premiere at the BFI 53rd London Film Festival on 23 October 2009.

Director Ondi Timoner is the first and only two-time Grand Jury Prize winner in Sundance history, after her previous winner DIG! She will be available for interviews. Josh Harris will also be available – please contact Debbie Murray at Aim Publicity to organise.

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Kerry Katona Keeps Working For Iceland

October 5, 2009

KERRY Katona’s bloopers video - outtakes from her Iceland videos (because saying ‘Mum’s gone to Iceland’ is not as easy as it looks”) - is a plot to make us see her zazy funny side. Yeah, really:

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Tamara Ecclestone Opens Les Ambassadeurs’ Red Room

MODEL and TV Presenter Tamara Ecclestone - who also happens to be daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone - joined forces with The Red Room girls at a photo call in Central London to announce a celebrity / VIP fundraising event in aid of The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.

Les Ambassadeurs Club one of the most exclusive gaming businesses in the world is opening a stunning new members club within its magnificent building in London’s Mayfair (just off Park Lane). The club named The Red Room will open with a celebrity/VIP party on November 2nd 2009. The opening night will raise funds for The Cinema and Television Benevolent
Fund, featuring a luxury auction hosted by TV auctioneer Charlie Ross and Tamara Ecclestone, who offered her services and a fabulous Formula 1 auction item for the charity.

The Red Room will feature The Red Room Girls who will be the club’s cocktail waitresses, dressed in an iconic red uniform, designed by leading designer Wendy Olver. At today’s photo call six of the following Red Room Girls took part: Holly Rye, Kimberley Milner-Lunt, Sissel List, Nneka Frances Ikedife, Ekaterina Nechaeva and Ivonnet Martinez.

Casinos are not dead…

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Michael Jackson For The Record

October 1, 2009

TODAY’S Michael Jackson book is Michael Jackson: For The Record. The press release:

The King of Pop’s sudden death on 25th June 2009 shocked the world, and a glut of hastily written biographies quickly followed, but this book is different: this book is a revised and expanded edition of the no.1 best selling Michael Jackson book on amazon.com, in the days and weeks following his passing.

The first edition of ‘Michael Jackson: For The Record’, published in 2007, was Chris Cadman & Craig Halstead’s fourth book about the King of Pop and, like their previous books, it focused on what Michael’s legion of fans want to read about: his music. Here’s what a couple of Michael Jackson fan sites had to say about the first edition:

‘…it’s an incredible guide for Michael collectors and fans alike. Cadman and Halstead are wonderful researchers, and have amassed a wealth of information in this work…’
(MJ News Online)

‘If I had to say, what sticks out most in my overall view of the book, I would have to say: dedication. So much information, so much attention to details, and so precisely gathered.’
(Jackson Village)

Now, in response to numerous requests from Michael Jackson fans around the world, Cadman & Halstead have completely revised and expanded their best selling ‘For The Record’. As well as detailing the hundreds of songs Michael was involved with over the years, solo and with his brothers, the second editions also focuses on the King of Pop’s albums, his home videos, his films and short films, his books and his chart successes, and it includes complete USA & UK discographies. The book, like the first edition, is published by Authors On Line Ltd.

Only now, following his tragic death at the age of 50, is Michael Jackson’s genius being recognised. Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, stated: ‘The more I think about Michael, and talk about Michael, the more I think that King of Pop is not good enough. I think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.’

Nearly all the books published about Michael Jackson, since his passing, fall into one of three categories: heavily illustrated books, books focusing on the scandals in his private life, and rushed biographies written in 3-4 weeks or less. Michael’s ever loyal fans want and deserve more – and they will find it in ‘Michael Jackson: For The Record’.

Never mind the quality get a load of the size:

Words: 158,500.
Pages: 515.
Size: Crown Quarto.
ISBN: 978-07552-04478-6
Retail Price: £16.95

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