Washington (ANI): Latin star Ricky Martin is the new founding father of counterpart baby boys, born by a surrogate mother, his representatives make confirmed.
"In the late week, Ricky Martin became a gallant father by the birth of twin sons," People quoted his rep, as saying. "The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, ar healthy and already under Ricky's full-time care," the rep said in a statement. "Ricky is joyful to get this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children," the rep added.
The boys' names and the placement of their birth have not been released. The "Livin' La Vida Loca" singer, 36, is a longtime supporter of children's causes around the earth through his Ricky Martin Foundation.
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A closer look at the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter webisodes
John Edwards shares the outline of a manner of speaking with Rielle Hunter, world Health Organization produced a four-episode Web series around the candidate. (Photo course credit: Webcastr.com)
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Star Wars - 300 Million In 10 Knights
Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight is taking aim at another box-office record, hoping to reach $300 million in domestic ticket sales faster than any other film. Today's (Friday) Daily Variety observed that the movie "has a real shot" at doing so by the end of the weekend, thereby hitting the $300-million mark in 10 days. The current record is held by last year's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , which reached $300 million in 16 days. Star Wars -- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith did it in 17 days and Spider-Man 3 in 19. The chances of The Dark Knight remaining a superforce at the box office this weekend appear to be enhanced by mediocre tracking for the films that are making their debut this weekend, including the new X-Files sequel and the comedy, Step Brothers . "Everyone's playing for No. 2 this weekend," Sony marketing chief Jeff Blake told the Los Angeles Times. Moreover, some analysts have noted that a large percentage of moviegoers who bought tickets for the Batman film earlier in the week were return customers. The film grossed a phenomenal $24.5 million on Monday, $20.9 million on Tuesday and $18.4 million on Wednesday, to bring its total gross on Wednesday to $222.1 million. Assuming that the film earned $15-18 million on Thursday, it would need only to do about 40 percent percent of the business it did last weekend between today and Sunday to hit $300 million in 10 days.
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Spin Doctors
Artist: Spin Doctors
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Indie
Discography:
Two Princes: The Best Of
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Nice Talking To Me
Year:
Tracks: 11
There were many pseudo-hippie, jam-oriented blues rockers in New York during the early '90s, merely entirely the Spin Doctors made it clayey. And they made it heavy because they non only when could absorb themselves in a channel, but they besides had concise pop skills. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and "Deuce Princes" were smartly written singles, broad of clean, blues-inflected licks and coaxing pop melodies. Pocket Full of Kryptonite had been around for nearly a class when MTV and radio began playing "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong," just once they started playing it, they couldn't stop. The Spin Doctors became an overnight sensation, selling millions of albums close to the world.
Their secondment record album, 1994's Turn It Upside Down, didn't sell very well when it was released, largely because the number one single, "Cleopatra's Cat," was a failed experimentation in funk. But the secondment unmarried, "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast," was in the nervure of "II Princes," and the album began to sell after the strain was released. In the summer of 1996, the Spin Doctors released You've Got to Believe in Something. After the album failed to make an effect on the charts, the Spin Doctors were dropped from Epic in the fall of 1996. After a couple of days, the radical found a newfangled label; their low record for Uptown/Universal, Here Comes the Bride, appeared in the summer of 1999. It was seemingly their swan song, however. By this gunpoint original members Eric Schenkman (guitar) and Mark White (bass) had left the band, and Barron's voice was failing him. The Spin Doctors stony-broke up, and the superlative hits set Just Go Ahead Now appeared like a peg in their casket. Their journey wasn't quite o'er, however. The band reunited for a series of shows in 2001 and 2002, and they ill-used that impulse to head plump for into the studio, where they recorded Nice Talking to Me. The album was released by Ruff Nation/Universal in fall 2005.
Celebrities the Candidates Can Do Without
As celebrity ties go, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton don't social station high on your distinctive presidential nominee's must-have list.
We can feign then that Sen. John McCain knew what he was doing when, in a recent ad, he attempted to associate Democratic contender Sen. Barack Obama, the oft-described "rock star topology" of the 2008 crusade, with two women world Health Organization made stepping out of a car without whatever underwear a national obsession.
"He's the biggest celebrity in the reality," the ad's narrator intones as the screen cuts from pictures of Obama addressing a crowd in Berlin to images of Hilton and Spears. "But, is he ready to lead?"
Spears and Hilton did not actively, or regular passively, endorse Obama -- it remains unknown if they fifty-fifty know world Health Organization he is -- only McCain even so drew a line connecting the bill poster girls for celebrity fluff to a politician world Health Organization has likewise found his way onto the shroud of the celebrity powder store Us Weekly and the entertainment course of study "Extra."
"It wasn't exactly a coincidence that McCain chose those particular women for that ad," said Kelli Lammie, a communications professor at the State University of New York at Albany, world Health Organization studies the impact of celebrity endorsements on candidates.
"McCain is trying to wee-wee a connectedness there. Would you want either of them linear the country? Of course of action not," she said. "He is trying to suppose Hilton and Spears ar just fluff and so is Obama. He mightiness be great at wafture to cameras, but that doesn't beggarly he knows anything almost foreign policy."
Beyond simply comparison Obama with the lightweight celebrities, some have seen the ads as racially tinged, aforementioned Albert May, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University.
Celebrities sometimes bring a candidate much-needed attention. Oprah Winfrey helped draw 30,000 people to an Obama rally in South Carolina in December, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R- Ark., made his endorsement by Chuck Norris a fundament of his ad campaign.
"My plan to secure the border? Two words," Huckabee joked in an ad early on in the Republican primary. "Chuck Norris."
Another reason to keep celebrities around? Money.
In the primaries, Barbara Streisand gave $2,300 each to Democrats Sen. Hillary Clinton, quondam Sen. John Edwards and Obama. George Clooney likewise wrote a $2,three hundred check to Obama.
McCain got that same amount from both Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer and "Saturday Night Live" captain Lorne Michaels.
But not all celebrities are created equate, and patch you can't hold a candidate responsible for every crackpot, crackhead, miscreant or moron wHO pins a button to his lapel, Americans ar paying care. And on that point are some stars and socialites the candidates would prefer to have nada to do with.
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