| David Bowie hits 'SpongeBob' Holy Grail | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:05:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK: David Bowie's career will take a dive next year - as he joins the cast of the popular underwater cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants for a guest appearance. Bowie said on his Web site blog that he would be the voice of a character called Lord Royal Highness on the Nickelodeon network's hit children's cartoon series next year. "It's happened. At last. I've hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs," Bowie, 59, said on his Web site (www.davidbowie.com/bowie/journal/index.php) on Wednesday. "We, the family, are thrilled. Nothing else need happen this year, well, this week anyway." Bowie has a six-year-old daughter, Alexandria, with his wife, the model Iman. The singer has had a long list of acting credits, appearing in the films "Merry Christmas Mr.... | |
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| | | Home Video Shows Ramsey Suspect As David Bowie Wannabe | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:33:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | DENVER -- Home video recently shown on ABC's Good Morning America shows a slightly different picture of the suspect in the center of the JonBenet case. The video, obtained by the National Enquirer, sheds new light on who John Mark Karr is. The then-28-year-old Karr, with a mullett haircut, is seen singing at a friend's wedding and mugging for the camera with his ex-wife and children by his side. "We're told Karr thought of himself as something of a pop singer. He wanted to be the next David Bowie," said Barry Levine, executive editor of the National Enquirer. .... | |
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| | | The Raconteurs cover 'Teenage Kicks' at Carling Weekend: Reading | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:11:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | John Peel's favourite song proves to be a weekend highlight The Raconteurs covered legendary DJ John Peel's favourite song 'Teenage Kicks' at the Reading leg of the Carling Weekend tonight (August 25). Jack White marked his return to Reading after several visits with his other band The White Stripes by playing a storming version of The Undertones classic on the Radio 1/NME Stage . The band played a set drawn from their debut album 'Broken Boy Soldiers', as well as a host of other covers including Nancy Sinatra's 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)', The Stooges' 'TV Eye' and 'It Ain't Easy', the Ron Davies song made famous by David Bowie on his classic 1972 LP 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars'. Speaking earlier to NME.COM, White said: "I love coming to Reading - British festivals are always the best." He added: "It's a good room we're playing in - I saw Be Your Own Pet and The Fall in there earlier and it sounded great." The set was: 'Intimate Secretary' 'Level' 'Steady, As She Goes' 'Together' 'It Ain't Easy' 'Store Bought Bones' 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)' 'Broken Boy Soldier' 'Floating' 'Yellow Sun' 'Blue Veins' 'Teenage Kicks' 'Hands' Stay tuned to NME.COM/festivals for full coverage from both sites of the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals including news, pictures and blogs, and check out next week's issue of NME out August 30 for the ultimate festival review.... | |
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| | | Brazil's Seu Jorge scores with tour, aims album at US | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:04:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian songwriter and actor Seu Jorge survived years of homelessness. Now he hobnobs in Hollywood and sells his samba-infused pop globally. He has just completed a successful North American tour, including a show in June at the Bonnaroo alternative music festival in Tennessee, to promote his album "Cru." Next he plays across Europe with dates from Scotland to France. .... | |
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| | | David Aldridge | Iverson is still a crowd favorite | | Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:06:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Saturday brought the fans - his fans - from all over the Washington area, to a double-A ballpark in the suburbs for a charity softball game. They were there to see gospel superstar Yolanda Adams, who sang the national anthem a capella, sweet as you please. They were there to see hip-hop star Nelly (a former high school baseball star in St. Louis who showed surprising opposite-field power with a first-inning homer). But it was the guy with the retro Dale Murphy No. 3 Braves jersey who got the loudest, most sustained cheers of the evening. "I'm a Dale Murphy fan," Allen Iverson said. "I just wanted to wear my own number." Could be, though Iverson was 7 years old when Murphy won the first of his two National League MVP awards.... | |
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