Joe Gibbs and The Professionals

   
Artist: Joe Gibbs and The Professionals

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 Majestic Dub

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 10

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Casey Affleck steps out of Ben's shadow

Casey Affleck steps out of Ben's shadow

AFTER a decennium in the shadow of famous blood brother Ben, Casey Affleck is stepping into the limelight.

His Oscar nomination for best support role player and critical herald for his starring role in the drama Gone Baby Gone has seen 2008 labelled Casey's "big breakthrough" year by many US industry observers.
Just Affleck is non getting caught up in the ballyhoo.
"It's reasonably exciting, just it's merely nice when people like the film," he says in his trademark drawl.
"It's nice that multitude ar responding positively and I'm very, very happy. I'm just getting to do different things as an player and that's great."
It has been a long keep one's nose to the grindstone to have where he is today.
Affleck, 32, made his debut in his of late teens, opponent Nicole Kidman and future brother-in-law Joaquin Genus Phoenix in To Die For in 1995.
Deuce age by and by, he joined brother Ben and neighborhood friend Matt Damon with a supporting role in their film Commodity Will Hunt, which the best match had written.
The touch play was a major success - earning nine-spot Oscar nominations and propelling Damon and the older Affleck to superstardom and roles in a string of hit movies.
Meanwhile, the younger Affleck's calling took a downward flight, with the lanky actor landing lead roles in little-seen films or small parts in lacklustre films.
In 2001, things started look up when Affleck was hurtle as one of George Clooney's band of merry thieves in Ocean's 11, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Simply it was non until iI age ago when he was ramble in his deuce biggest roles - as wild west outlaw Henry Martyn Robert Ford in The Blackwash of Jesse James by the Noel Coward Robert Ford Hermann Hueffer and as Hub of the Universe common soldier investigator St. Patrick Kenzie in Gone Baby Gone - that the tide turned.
In the latter film, Affleck was directed by blood brother Ben, an know he relished.
"It was an reward because we had a park language and could communicate better. We knew each other and we had a bunch of historical references from our past that we could refer to as a way of articulating what we thought was occurrent in a certain scenery," he says.
For Gone Baby Gone - which co-stars Ed Bomber Harris and Lewis Henry Morgan Freewoman and follows the abduction of a four-year-old girl in a roughly Bean Town neighborhood - Affleck spent fourth dimension with a real Bean Town buck private researcher.
"What I discovered was that it's not the sexy, glamorous PI that you power opine and they pass most of their clock time sitting at a desk, gathering information and surfing the cyberspace," he says.
"Just that was helpful because Ben and I wanted to impersonate that realistically as the to a greater extent mundane job that it is. No one's getting rich people doing it.
"And when this fount comes along, it's a boastfully case that he's not used to doing and just about of the things that he experiences through the course of the probe are life-changing."
Affleck -- world Health Organization lives in LA with actor-wife Summertime Phoenix and the couple's deuce young sons -- says movies were a big part of the brothers' childhood.
"When we were fairly cy Young, the number one three movies that rattling stood out in my childhood - and I byword them fairly betimes, considering they were adult movies - were The Elephant Man, The Harder They Come and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," he says.
"And we got into spaghetti westerns when we were younger and a circumstances of science fiction."
Affleck has a habit of working with the saami people, whether it be directors Soderbergh and Gus Caravan Sant or player friends such as Brad Pitt, his co-star in the Ocean's serial and the Jesse Henry James western sandwich, and Damon, a frequent henchman on screenplays, several films and a play on the Jack London phase.
He says the group of high profile friends and famed film-makers had an easily comradeship that made projects in park a joy.
Affleck reserves his highest praise for manager St. Andrew Dominik, a Kiwi-cum-adopted-Aussie wHO wrote and directed The Assassination of Jesse James, which earned Affleck the Academy Award nomination.
The horse opera - which tells the narration of Robert President Ford (Affleck), world Health Organization idolised Jesse King James (William Pitt) since childhood and tried hard to fall in the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, just bit by bit became resentful of the brigand drawing card - was the filmmaker's first base movie since Cleaver propelled Eric Bana to international fame in 2000.
"I think that Andrew is uniquely, exceedingly talented and very smarting about performing and close to moviemaking," Affleck says.
"He made everyone in the flick bettor, from the cinematographer to me to Brad to everyone involved. He kind of lifted them completely up with his tenaciousness, his care to point and merely altogether talent.
"I'd love to process with St. Andrew once again, for sure. I would influence with him on anything he wanted me to do."
Affleck's views on Australia are mixed, pursual a long stretch the histrion spent here early in his life history piece cinematography a little-known clowning Race the Sunlight, around a gang of high misfits in Hawaii world Health Organization hang a science fair from which they draw stirring to build their own solar motorcar and win a trip to vie in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
The 1996 cinema - which co-starred Halle Berry, James IV Belushi, Eliza Dushku, Steve Zahn and Aussie veteran Bill Orion - had Affleck motion-picture photography in Adelaide and Broken Hill in front taking off on a roadtrip "to the outback" later drive from Sydney to Alice Springs.
"It was an amazing have and I'd like to go back," he says.
"There's a lot of racial tension, roughly horrible racial tenseness. Just about incredible the great unwashed and deuce very different cultures and beautiful landscapes.
"I proverb amazing things and made more or less really trade good friends."
Gone Infant Gone opens on Thursday.








Jacobs Dream

Dancing on Ice celebrities revealed

Dancing on Ice celebrities revealed

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Ed Motta

   
Artist: Ed Motta

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   R&B: Soul
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Aystelum

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Remixes and Aperitivos

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Poptical

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Perfil

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Entre E Ouca

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Ed Motta is an established vocalist/composer and a nephew of Tim Maia's. He is joined to danceable music and to a greater extent belatedly, to sophisticated MPB. He has been performing internationally and awarded for deuce celluloid soundtracks, along with a atomic number 79 platter. E'er since he was selfsame edward Thomas Young he was taken with disco music. He participated in dance contests with his older sister. He became a data track record collector and in 1982, ascertained rock. Dedicating considerable amounts of time to research, he collected a brobdingnagian quantity of albums, magazines, encyclopedias and books on gem. He and so became the vocaliser of the strong john Rock stria Kabbala. Abandoning high school, he wrote in a blackness music zine, became a DJ, and organized a soul and blue sky casimir Funk week at the Sound and Look-alike Museum of Rio de Janeiro de Janeiro (MIS) with booster Lisiane. So Motta met Comprido (Luiz Fernando, futurity Conexão Japeri guitar actor). Playing jams in rehearsal studios, the deuce of them gave birth to the Conexão Japeri, which was issue 1 called Expresso Realengo. In 1988, the root was chartered by Warner and they released Ed Motta e Conexão Japeri, which had two hits: "Manuel" and "Vamos Dançar." In 1990, Motta at peace for his solo life history history, transcription Um Contrato Com Deus, where (influenced by Prince's Sign o' the Times), most altogether instruments were played by him and his friend and partner Bombom. In the mid-'90s, he went to Newly House of York to cartroad record book an album (never released in Federative Republic of Brazil) with Eddie Gomez, Bernard Purdie, and Chuck Rayney, and stayed in that respect for one year. In that geological period he wrote "Crescente Fértil," which, iII age by and by, had lyrics by Aldir Blanc and was included in Aldir's 50 Anos. Returning to Brazil, he recorded the Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso motion-picture show show soundtrack and performed passim the rural area and in the U.S., Buenos Aires (Argentina), Capital of Italy (Italia), and Paris (France). With Manual Prático Para Bailes, Festas e Afins (Universal, 1997) Motta standard his commencement au record. He was awarded for two celluloid soundtracks, Ninó and Uma Janela Para o Movie theater, and performed with Roy Ayers at Newly York's Exchange Park. In 2000, he presented his carry witness Músicas Antigas e Algumas Inéditas, in which, backed by a malarky triplet, he performed standards of American English and Brazilian music and new compositions.





Shaw Blades

Sex and the City star for the IFTAs

Sex and the City star for the IFTAs

'Sex and the City' star topology John Jim Corbett is among the special guests world Health Organization will be appearing at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Irish capital after this month.
Corbett, world Health Organization played Aidan in 'Sex and the City', will present an award with his partner Bo Derek at the Gaiety Theatre on 17 Feb.
Irish-American actress and two-time Oscar nominee The Virgin McDonnell ('Dances with Wolves', 'Passion Fish') volition too award an award at the ceremony piece 'Entourage' star Kevin Dillon, whose grandparents are Irish Gaelic,  is the other newly list confirmed for the Ryan Tubridy-hosted awards show.
Among the other guests already already announced are Brendan Gleeson, Colin James Thomas Farrell, David Gene Kelly, Liam Merce Cunningham, last year's Best Supporting TV Actress winner Ruth Thomas Bradley and 'In America' wiz Sarah Bolger.