Former Hear'Say singer Suzanne Shaw is to marry her DJ boyfriend of three geezerhood Jason King.
Commenting, Shaw aforesaid: "We couldn't be happier about our decision and can't wait to take up planning our wedding and married lifespan together."
Twenty-six-year-old Shaw was antecedently in a relationship with actor and singer Darren Day; they had a son together.
Quite a good share of Claude Chabrol's tasty cocktail of romance and jealousy, A Girl Cut in Two, has at peace by before you realise that, in essence, goose egg much of consequence has happened. This is not a bad thing, and is more a will to Chabrol's talent behind the tv camera that he's able to keep his film engaging well past the point that it should have any real right to be. It gives the film a certain drifting quality, even if nonpareil knows that something more momentous is waiting in the wings.
Chabrol, who likewise co-wrote the script with C�cile Maistre, based his story in some measuring rod upon the sensational case of famous architect Stanford White's dispatch at Madison Square Garden's rooftop field in 1906. A definitive "murder of the c" case, the White slay had a plethora of salacious details for titillation, a number of which Chabrol cannily appropriates for his possess scenario. Set in the present day in Lyon, A Girl Cut in Two seems at first gear like another portrait of an ennui-cloaked artiste, whose fame and fortune no longer excites him. Charles Saint-Denis (Fran�ois Berl�and, splendid in his understatement here just as he was in Tell No One) is an aging novelist of incomparable fame surviving the double-dyed life. He lives on a beautiful estate, is feted for his work almost nonstop, has a wife wHO doesn't appear to notice or care about his habitual flirt, and the money to do basically whatever he wants. Being a famous novelist on the prowl, it doesn't take tenacious for Saint-Denis to cypher in on one of Lyon's about attractive individual females, the quite young and innocently beautiful Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier).
While Deneige, who lives at home with her eminently reasonable and disapproving mother, is falling desperately in sexual love with the much senior Saint-Denis (who's something of an arrogant buffoon, in addition to being a first-degree manipulator of the impressionable young), she's likewise being chased by a man her own eld. Looking like a Gallic Jude Law who's been on a months-long booze-up, Paul Gaudens (Beno�t Magimel, marvelously dissolute) is the scion of a local pharmaceutical hazard, as blase as he is flush. A snakelike avatar of louche misbehavior, Gaudens is all pout and preen, lazing about in tightfitting velvet coats and lachrymation up the town in his bouncy sports cable car when he's not scheming how to make Deneige his.
In no particular hurriedness to propel his tarradiddle to its conclusion, Chabrol takes his time line drawing the attractions and manias in this eminently neat little love triangle, and provides stack of entertainment along the way. Sagnier's beauty is played to maximum effect (she looks here like a fresh-faced and younger Penelope Ann Miller), as is her oddly innocent inexperience. When Saint-Denis decides to prepare her in the darker mysteries of desire (a point at which the film skirts and narrowly avoids ludicrousness), she's emotively torn between her desire for love and an approving father figure, and left emotionally broken between the deuce. Having Gaudens (who's as used to getting what he wants as is Saint-Denis) leap impetuously into this fragile relationship has an poignantly bull-in-the-china-shop effect.
Once Chabrol starts trying to tie his story together, however, the briefly intoxicating mist of desire, jealousy, and rampant wealth dissipates quite chop-chop. Although this was to the highest degree likely the desired burden, blowing away the na�ve attitudes held by his characters and showing them the results of their actions, it doesn't needs make for a ordered or touching story. Although A Girl Cut in Two does come with an initially heady and alcoholic give up, that proves to be a fugitive impression. Once viewers ar done with Chabrol's presciently crafted only fleeting film, its personal effects are quite an easily tossed off; no worries roughly hangovers here.
Aka La Fille coup�e en deux, A Girl Cut in Half.
That'd be the top half.
Unlike many stone legends, Gene Simmons did not turn up in a household where music filled the halls.
"It was a quiet household," Simmons said. "I come from a broken in home. My father left hand us when I was 6 or 7 years old, and my mother worked from sun up until sundown, so in that location was never any music at home."
Instead, he discovered rock 'n' roll music "naturally" by listening to the wireless. Simmons said the early rock he listened to "crawled into my blood."
Born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, in 1949, Simmons was the only tyke of his mother, Florence Klein, a holocaust subsister. Simmons and his mother immigrated to the United States when he was 8 geezerhood old. They settled in Queens, N.Y., and Chaim adopted a more American-sounding name: Eugene.
Simmons attended Richmond College in New York and gradational with a degree in education. After college he had a number of positions: He was a sixth-grade teacher in New York's Spanish Harlem, an assistant to the editor of Glamour magazine, and a food shop cashier.
In 1973, Simmons settled on his real passion. Along with his friends Peter, Paul and Ace, he formed the band Kiss.
The mind behind the band was that they would "take no prisoners." While Simmons admits that "we didn't quite know what that meant," the group took on a bold bluster
onstage that made it famous.
"At the beginning, this was a four-headed wolf called 'Kiss' that had the balls to acquire up onstage and seize the earthly concern by the scruff of its neck and proclaim. 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world,'" Simmons said. "The rally
Silver Jews’ scatterbrained auteur David Berman has always been — despite his music’s dark overtones — one for a laugh. But this album is something new: There’s the tongue-in-cheek lament “Suffering Jukebox,” bouncy perseverance anthem “Strange Victory, Strange Defeat,” even an oddball jam in “Party Barge.” Now in his forties, Berman seems, dare we say, at peace. And it’s to our benefit: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is more than a calm, joyous affair — it’s a triumph.
GREY'S ANATOMY star BROOKE SMITH's godfather is ROBERT REDFORD.
DWAYNE 'THE ROCK' JOHNSON is single again after wrapping up divorce proceedings with his now ex-wife DANY GARCIA.
The wrestler-turned-movie star split from Garcia earlier this year (07) after ten years of marriage and their divorce was made final last week (beg19May08).
The former couple have a seven-year-old daughter, Simone, and Johnson will pay $22,000 (GBP11,000) a month in child support, according to papers filed at Mimi Dade County Court in Florida.
Both parents will share custody and also pay $5,000 (GBP2,500) each a month into a trust fund to cover Simon's education, according to TMZ.com.
Victoria Beckham believes her husband David is better looking than new Hollywood pal George Clooney.
The miserable cow has become good friends with the Michael Clayton star having shared a flight on Giorgio Armani’s private jet earlier this month.
She also attended his star-studded 47th birthday bash in New York last month with her England soccer star beau.
She says: "I have only just got to know George. He was so nice, a real gentleman and absolutely hilarious. He has a great sense of humour.
"But I think David is better looking than him. Definitely."
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