Singer Adele welcomes voice rest from a noisy world

LOS ANGELES: Grammy winner Adele, who swept the awards show with best album, record and song of the year, told reporters backstage that being forced to rest her voice after recent surgery was a welcome change.  
   
“It’s actually been really, really peaceful,” said the radiant 23-year old British chanteuse after the awards show during which she belted out a soaring rendition of “Rolling In the Deep” in her first live performance since vocal cord surgery late last year.  
   
After it was over, her doctors ordered her not to speak and to rest her voice.  
   
“It was a bit traumatic with having to have the surgery,” she said, but noted that she enjoyed having to quiet down in such a loud world. “Everything is so noisy in my world, it was actually a bit of a blessing in disguise,” she said.  
   
“Thank God my voice healed and I stuck to all the rules that they gave me, and I’ve actually never been happier. I found great happiness when I was ill. I was glad to be back, but I really enjoyed having to be quiet. I’m so mouthy it was quite nice to be forced to be quiet,” she said. AGENCIES 

Buena Vista musician declines to go to Grammys

HAVANA: A top Cuban musician from the Buena Vista Social Club has declined to go to the United States to attend the upcoming Grammy Awards ceremony, website Cubasi reported.

In an interview with the website on Friday Eliades Ochoa said he had received a US visa but would stay home instead.

“I prefer to play here in Cuba, in front of my people, rather than go to the Grammys,” said Ochoa, 65. “I said it even before the visa came: I prefer to remain in Cuba and play for my people.”

He did not specify whether he himself had applied for the visa.

Ochoa’s album “Afrocubusmo,” which represents a mixture of traditional Cuban and African music, was nominated for a Grammy award.

“The nomination itself was an award for us,” the musician said. “It was a recognition of Cuban traditional music, of our roots. And if we win a Grammy, so much the better.”

Ochoa is currently on a concert tour promoting his new album, “A Bolero for You,” with performances scheduled in Havana and Varadero.

The Grammys ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday. AGENCIES

“Hugo,” “The GirlL With The Dragon Tattoo” and “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2” Win at 16th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards

TrendPK.com:The Art Directors Guild (ADG announced winners of its 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in nine categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during black-tie ceremonies at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The awards took place before an audience of more than 700, including guild members, industry executives, studio heads and press. ADG President Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony with Paula Poundstone serving as host for the third consecutive year. Ben Vereen performed as a special musical guest. Production Designer Tony Walton was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Hall of Fame inductees were Robert Boyle, William Darling, and Alfred Junge. The team from the HARRY POTTER films, including Executive Producer David Heyman, Producer David Barron; directors Christopher Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, and David Yates; creator and author J.K. Rowling; screenwriters Steve Kloves and Michael Goldenberg; production designer Stuart Craig; art director Neil Lamont and set decorator Stephenie McMillan, were honored for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery. At the start of the awards ceremony, the ADG debuted two short films, by filmmaker Cindy Peters. The first film provided a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 16th annual awards show. The second film “75 Years of Inspirational Design: A Personal Reflection in Eight Chapters” featured Production Designers, Albert Brenner, Terry Marsh, James D. Bissell, Jeannine Oppewall, Rick Carter, Rick Heinrichs, Roy Christopher and Guy Hendrix Dyas. The 16th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards were produced by Production Designers Tom Wilkins and Greg Grande.

Presenters for this year’s awards included Ed Asner, Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), James Cromwell (The Artist), Melanie Lynskey (Up In The Air), Penelope Ann Miller (The Artist), Kevin McHale (Glee), Gary Oldman (Tinker, Taillor, Soldier, Spy), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma), Max Greenfield (New Girl).

ADG awards recognition always goes to the Production Designer, Art Director, Assistant Art Director and their team of each nominated and winning project.

WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2011:

Period Film

HUGO Production Designer: Dante Ferretti

Fantasy Film

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY
HALLOWS PART 2 Production Designer: Stuart Craig

Contemporary Film

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt

WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN IN TELEVISION FOR 2011:

One-Hour Single Camera Television Series

BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Episode: 21 Production Designer: Bill Groom

Television Movie or Mini-Series

MILDRED PIERCE Production Designer: Mark Friedberg

Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series

MODERN FAMILY
Episode: Express Christmas Production Designer: Richard Berg

Episode of a Multi-Camera, Variety, or Unscripted Series

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Episode: Host Justin Timberlake, Production Designer: Keith Ian Raywood, Eugene
And Musical Guest – Lady Gaga Lee, Leo Yoshimura,
N. Joseph De Tullio
Awards, Music, or Game Shows

83rd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Production Designer: Steve Bass

WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR
COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS FOR 2011:

ACTIVISION: CALL OF DUTY
Modern Warfare 3 Production Designer: Neil Spisak

Art Director David Utley designed the set and the room décor using over 450,000 crystals, in a multitude of different applications and styles. Sponsors for the 16th Annual ADG awards include: Set and Décor Sponsor ; Platinum sponsors are Warner Bros. Pictures and The Walt Disney Studios. Gold sponsors Fox Studios Production Services, Paramount Pictures, United Talent Agency and Universal Studios Property, Drapery, Sign, Greens, Stage and Mounting Shops; Silver Sponsors include Aztek Inc./On Air Design, Dazian, Fox Searchlight, FX Network, Home Box Office, IATSE Local 729, IATSE Local 829; Montana Artists Agency, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Studio Facilities and WME. Media sponsors are The Hollywood Reporter, Shoot Magazine and Variety. Tarin Wilson of plan A events is the event planner for this year’s ADG awards.

ADG Awards are open only to productions, when made within the U.S., by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.

About the Art Directors Guild:
The Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) represents nearly 2,000 members who work throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world in film, television and theater as Production Designers, Art Directors, and Assistant Art Directors; Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists; Illustrators and Matte Artists; Set Designers and Model Makers and Previs Artists. Established in 1937, ADG’s ongoing activities include a Film Society; an annual Awards Banquet, a creative/technology community (5D: The Future of Immersive Design) and Membership Directory; a bimonthly craft magazine (Perspective); and extensive technology-training programs, creative workshops and craft and art exhibitions. The Guild’s Online Directory/Website Resource is at www.adg.org.

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Emma Watson talks dressing down in normal life

TrendPK.com: Emma Watson may be a fashion icon to many women out there, but she thinks that is just her style on the red carpet and not in her everyday life.

Watson recently spoke to French ‘Elle’ about how she prefers to dress down in her normal life when she isn’t being the public persona of “Emma Watson,” states UsMagazine.com. “When I don’t have to play Emma Watson in public, I’d rather not put myself ‘out there,’ I have to be more careful with my look in my everyday life,” Watson said about not having the same style on a normal day.

In fact, she thinks her style off the red carpet is nothing to talk about: “My problem is that I am a little bit boring. I don’t wear designer bags or big sunglasses.”

Do you like her red carpet style? How about her everyday looks?

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Could Demi Moore have been smoking K2 Spice?

TrendPK.com: It’s still fairly unknown what Demi Moore was doing before her recent hospitalization, but the 911 call did reveal that she had been smoking something similar to incense.

Now, it is being rumored that Moore could have been smoking K2 Spice which is allegedly a legal herbal incense that is spiked with powerful designer drugs, states RadarOnline.com.

It is also rumored that this kind of drug would cause the kind of convulsion that it is believed Moore had.

What do you think happened that night?

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Amy Winehouse’s family, friends unhappy with fashion show modeled like her

TrendPK.com: Designer Jean Paul Gaultier recently tried to pay homage to the late Amy Winehouse with a fashion show that had models walking down the runway wearing her hairstyles and trademark makeup.

However, while he may have been trying to do something nice with this, her family and friends do not find it flattering at all, states E! News. “We don’t support the Jean Paul Galtier sic collection. It’s in bad taste,” Mitch Winehouse, Amy’s father, posted on Twitter.

And Amy’s friend, Kelly Osbourne, seemed to feel the same way: “Although @JPGaultier was paying homage to my friend & icon to the world, I found it to be lucratively selfish and distasteful.”

What do you think? Was it in bad taste?

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Royal bride’s dress designer finally unveiled

LONDON: Royal bride Kate Middleton’s wedding dress was designed by Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton, ending months of fevered speculation in the fashion world over who would create one of the most talked-about outfits of the decade.

The dress featured a hand-made lace applique over an ivory-coloured bodice and skirt, made of silk and satin.

The identity of the designer and details of the dress were kept a closely guarded secret by St. James’s Palace throughout the build-up to Middleton’s wedding to Britain’s Prince William.

A special marquee was erected outside the entrance to Middleton’s London hotel to prevent anyone getting an early glimpse of the dress before she stepped out of her car outside the abbey.

Newspapers and websites around the world have run several “scoops” identifying the designer, but none were ever confirmed.

Names put forward in articles and blog postings have included Bruce Oldfield and Sophie Cranston of the Libelula label.

The fashion world has taken a close interest in 29-year-old Middleton’s clothes choices in recent months, with industry insiders predicting that she could have a huge influence on high street sales.

Endless comparisons have been made between Middleton and William’s late mother Princess Diana, a style icon by the time of her death in 1997 aged 36.

Middleton’s dress differed radically from that of Diana at her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981, a frilly, flouncy cream number designed by Elizabeth Emanuel which reflected the times in which it appeared.

Before Friday’s wedding, Emanuel told Reuters that Middleton was older and more assured in terms of fashion than the shy 20-year-old Diana, and so was likely to know better what she wanted for the big day.

“With Diana she was very young, when we were introduced to her and fashion was not one of her big interests so she didn’t really have her own sense of style,” Emanuel said.

“But Kate Middleton does. She’s worked in fashion. She knows what suits her.” AGENCIES

New GoldenEye 007 screens released

Activision has released new screenshots for the Wii remake of GoldenEye 007. The game, which is being developed by Dead Space: Extraction team Eurocom, is a re-imagining of the classic Nintendo 64 first-person shooter.
Bruce Feirstein, the writer of the original GoldenEye, is returning to the story and bringing it up to date, complete with Daniel Craig’s more visceral Bond replacing Pierce Brosnan’s.
The screens show various different terrorist-types standing around menacingly or firing their weapons at some off-screen threat – we’re guessing it’s Bond.
Martin Hollis, the designer of the N64 version of GoldenEye 007, has attacked Activision bosses over the company’s decision to revive the game for Wii.

Lakme Fashion Week

Anam bold and beautiful Sherawat Mallika ongoing Fashion Week with a week on Friday. However, it was Bollywood beauty does not show stopper, but attended the event as special guests from the fashion designer Anita Dongre. While explaining the reason for not choosing Sherawat stopper also found, the designer was quoted “I called her just a friend to attend the exhibition. In fact, showstoppers my two Rajasthan dancers who came all the way from Jaipur and did a wonderful job.

“The artist Faten pinging Dongre` s summer dress collection. “She was dressed in one of my design, and was wearing a dress cotton yellow organic federate in the summer of my 2011 Group “Dongre said after the presentation.

In the collection and promoted culture in Rajasthan popular. Intensive use of embroidery on the cuffs, necklines and yokes in gold and silver witch seen.

“It was a source of inspiration Rajasthan, I enjoyed designing it, and everyone was wearing clothes bandni which was inspired by a new state of Rajasthan,” said Dongre. He said, “I really want to promote folk art.

Rajasthani dancers were my way of saying that India should be a treasure popular with artists, and I think from now on in every show, and I’m going to get popular artists from all over the country. I will put them on the ramp and I think they deserve to be recognized, “he said Dongre. And other celebrities who came to express their joy Dongre included Sunidhi Chauhan, Isha Koppikar, Diana Hayden, Dipannita Sharma, Gurinder Chadha, Tisca Chopra and Vidya Malvade.

michael beuke

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio executed a hitchhiker Thursday who admitted to killing one motorist who gave him a ride and shooting two others during a three-week string of shootings that terrorized the Cincinnati area in 1983.

Michael Beuke, 48, died by lethal injection at 10:53 a.m. EDT at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, about 90 minutes after the Ohio Supreme Court turned down his final appeal.

While on the gurney, Beuke recited the Roman Catholic rosary for 17 minutes before he died, choking back tears as he repeatedly said the Hail Mary. He also expressed his sorrow to the families of his three victims.

Beuke, dubbed by the media as the “homicidal hitchhiker,” spend a quarter century on death row, where he said he had a spiritual conversion. He expressed remorse for his crimes and said in an unsuccessful request for clemency that he accepted responsibility and prayed “that God will ease the pain I have caused my victims.”

Beuke was emotional as the hour of his death neared, crying frequently in his cell at the Lucasville prison, said Julie Walburn, an Ohio prisons spokeswoman.

He was convicted Oct. 5, 1983, of aggravated murder for the death of Robert Craig, 27, of Cincinnati and was sentenced to death. He also was found guilty of the attempted slayings of Gregory Wahoff of Cincinnati and Bruce Graham, then from West Harrison, Ind.

Late Wednesday night, Beuke lost appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, failing to convince the majority that he’d been on death row so long the execution would be unconstitutionally cruel and serve no purpose and that prescription medicine he takes could interfere with a drug used in Ohio’s backup execution method. The state did not have to resort to the backup Thursday. Beuke died by Ohio’s primary, intravenous injection method.

The Ohio Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay Thursday morning, turning aside an appeal related to a previously unsuccessful claim that brain damage contributed to Beuke’s violent behavior. His lawyers said recent brain scans and expert conclusions showed Beuke suffered from moderate to severe brain damage.

He was the 38th person put to death in Ohio since the state resumed the practice in 1999.

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