Madonna has reportedly hired the same divorce lawyer used by Paul McCartney in his recent dispute with ex-wife Heather Mills.
According to sources, Mads was "impressed by (the lawyer) Fiona's work for Sir Paul and the way she handles herself in the public eye. She is a consummate professional."
Latest reports say that Madonna met with laywer Fiona Shackleton to discuss her case, however Madonna's reps have refused to comment.
SHIA LaBEOUF has apologised for using the word "faggot" to describe a pal in a boozy YouTube.com video.
The Indiana Jones + The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull star says he's "embarrassed" by the online footage, which first surfaced on Monday (09Jun08).
The clip, in which the actor challenges a pal to slap him around the face, has since been pulled from the website.
A spokesman for LaBeouf tells Eonline.com, "The video tape that is currently being circulated is several years old and captures Shia playing a game amongst friends in which he uses a derogatory word towards a friend.
"He regrets having used the word in any capacity and is very embarrassed that this footage is being seen by anyone."
The video is just the latest embarrassing incident for LaBeouf - he was arrested last year (07) for refusing requests to leave a drugstore in Chicago, Illinois and an arrest warrant was issued for him in March (08) after he was accused of failing to turn up to court to face a charge of smoking in a prohibited area in California.
The trespassing charges were dropped and LaBeouf pleaded guilty to the illegal smoking charges and was ordered to pay a $500 (GBP250) fine.
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Anne Hathaway gave Steve Carrell pink eye when they kissed in new movie Get Smart.
The 25-year-old beauty - who stars as Agent 99 in the spy comedy - said she was suffering from itchy eyes when she filmed a particularly raunchy scene with her co-star Steve.
She said: “There was a health scare last year and a certain contact solution, I won’t say the name of it but it was the one that I use - gave you conjunctivitis. I also had a sinus infection at the same time.
"So I had to go up to Steve, my eye is red, puffy and dripping green - I’m snotty and I’m just like 'Come here!' "
However, Anne revealed she was unaware she had pink eye - more commonly known as conjunctivitis - and was forced to ring the film’s producer Alex Gartner to warn him.
She added to Fox News: "I told Alex, ‘You might want to call Steve and let him know I had pink eye and my tears kind of got in my mouth, so he might want to worry about that!’
“But I'd do the kiss again in a heartbeat!"
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The woman who tried to sue COLIN FARRELL for sexual harassment has been cleared of prostitution and loitering charges.
Dessarae Bradford was exonerated from all hooker accusations in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday (20May08).
Delighted Bradford says, "The jury took a little over an hour to reach their unanimous decision, and I have been cleared of all charges."
Since her arrest in November (07), Bradford has reported the officer who landed her in trouble.
She says, "He is still now under investigation by internal affairs because of this matter.
"My brilliant attorney, Jessica Canada, and I are now preparing the civil court documents required to now sue the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) for $20 million, because of the public defamation, false arrest, profiling, racism and other police misconducts that I experienced and that I am still emotionally disturbed by.
"The court papers will be filed against the LAPD this month."
Cheering, but also odd. There's something unlikely about their critical superlatives and next-big-thing status, not least when you read the kind of wildly uncommercial names that keep getting dropped in relation to the Austin trio's sound. They have been compared to jerky Marxist hardcore punks the Minutemen. They have been compared to largely forgotten late-1960s heavies Blue Cheer. Most terrifying of all, one writer conjured a comparison to IQ, an 80s neo-prog band largely notable for making Marillion seem like something achingly fashionable produced by DFA and big at Horse Meat Disco.
Still, it all seems intriguing, as does debut single and opening track Let's Talk About It. It offers a concise summary of White Denim's sound, dubbed "grog rock" by drummer Josh Block for its unlikely simultaneous resemblance to two theoretically never-the-twain genres: rudimentary 1960s garage rock and tricksy, technically adept 70s prog. You can see why people are excited, not least about the vocal style of James Petralli, which draws together two diametrically opposing styles: the raw, unadorned white blues shouter and the mannered delivery of Antony Hegarty.
Let's Talk About It's other constituent parts - distorted bass, clattering percussion, and a fabulous, thrashy riff - are just about held together by the frantic drumming of the jazz-trained Block. White Denim are really good at playing in a way that thrillingly suggests they're just clinging on to a song by their fingernails, that any second, everything could collapse into chaos. After a couple of minutes, that's exactly what happens. Let's Talk About It falls apart in a mass of electronic beeps, feedback, flailing guitar and lo-fi, dub-inspired effects that audaciously lasts as long as the song itself.
You would hesitate to call Let's Talk About It a template for what follows: White Denim's scope is broader than just garage rock, taking in country rock, Randy Newman-ish piano pop, fiddly prog guitar riffs and louche Stones imitations with equal aplomb. Nevertheless, it announces that White Denim boldly devote as much time to diffuse experimentation as they do to songwriting. That is a fantastic idea, as long as the experimentation has some kind of cumulative effect. Often it does: Mess Your Hair Up commences with another winning proto-punk clatter, then goes off on a journey so serpentine and strange that you end up hitting the rewind button at its conclusion, unable to remember exactly it started out. Elsewhere, particularly on Look That Way at It and WDA, you're confronted with music that's not really going anywhere, nor conjuring anything up that's particularly striking, beyond the striking sense that you're listening to three men in a caravan faffing about for want of something better to do.
It's a feeling compounded by White Denim's position as one of those experimental rock bands unshakable in the belief that experimental rock is somehow incomplete without a side order of zany, as if White Light White Heat might have achieved true greatness if Lou Reed had blown a few raspberries during Sister Ray, or Joy Divison's motorik journey into darkness would be significantly improved had Ian Curtis worn a multi-coloured afro wig and played the swanee whistle. If you don't adhere to this belief, it's almost impossible not to find people who do pretty wearying, which may well curtail your enjoyment of Workout Holiday, an album you can't hear without imagining the band members making conspiratorial I'm-such-a-loony faces at each other while they play. Your own tolerance will dictate how irritated you are by the fact that when White Denim come up with a riff like that found on Don't Look That Way at It - a real earworm - they feel compelled to sing along with it in funny little voices.
You're left with a promising-but-flawed debut album and some puzzling superlatives: "magnificent", "instant classic" and so on. Perhaps the latter tell you more about the times than they do about White Denim. After all, when most putatively alternative rock bands are desperate for mainstream success, it's easy to get over-excited about an album that has tunes, but clearly isn't going end up in the background of Hollyoaks or Grey's Anatomy, and clearly isn't for everyone.
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In stories June 8 and June 9 about rapper Warren G, The Associated Press erroneously reported details of his arrest. Warren G, whose real name is Warren Griffin III, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance; he was not arrested on charges related to drugs. Prosecutors declined to file charges. Some versions of the story also misidentified his agent. Al Hassas says he no longer represents Griffin.
