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| ‘12 Years A Slave’ actress Nyong’o in line for Bafta Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:52 AM PST Nyong'o is considered the frontrunner for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award alongside French actress Lea Seydoux, the star of the intense lesbian love story "Blue Is The Warmest Colour". British actors Will Poulter, star of "We're The Millers" featuring Jennifer Aniston, and George MacKay – who got his big break starring alongside Clive Owen in "The Boys Are Back" – were also among those shortlisted. Nyong'o made her movie debut in "12 Years", based on the true story of a free African-American man who was kidnapped in the 19th century and forced into slavery. Directed by British filmmaker Steve McQueen, the movie has seven nominations for the US Golden Globes, 13 at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and four for the Screen Actors Guild awards. Seydoux joined Poulter and MacKay in London to celebrate their nominations. The French actress, who has admitted how difficult she found it to endure the long sex scenes in "Blue Is The Warmest Colour", said that starring in the highly acclaimed film had changed her life. "It was a big success in France and all over the world," she said. "So all the people are very touched by the film, and I'm very proud of the film and the fact that everybody loves it." Poulter, 20, began acting as a child and made his name in 2007's "Son Of Rambow" but admitted it had been a new experience for him to star in the big-budget "We're The Millers". He said: "I remember my first film being a very small British independent and the second one being a big American studio shot in Australia and I was very young then, and that was my only experience of big-budget films. "So when 'We're The Millers' came along I really didn't feel I was even capable of it. I was like 'I've only ever done this once before, I don't think I can do it again, I just scraped through the last time'. "But it was fantastic to be involved in something like that and a real dream come true to work with the likes of Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. I was very, very lucky." The nominees were selected by a group of jurors including "Quantum of Solace" actress Gemma Arterton and film critic Mark Kermode. The award is decided by public vote and the winner will be announced at the Bafta award ceremony on February 16. - AFP, January 6, 2014. |
| New Bruce Springsteen album ‘High Hopes’ goes online Posted: 06 Jan 2014 02:32 AM PST Television network CBS had announced it would host the Internet-only pre-release after the conclusion of this week's episode of "The Good Wife" at 0300 GMT (11am MYT) yesterday in a unique tie-in with the top-rated legal drama. But American fans of the New Jersey-born rock 'n' roll voice of blue-collar America - whose first album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." came out on January 5, 1973, two years before "Born to Run" established him as a musical powerhouse - were delighted to discover the audio stream unexpectedly going online earlier in the evening. Initial reviews were upbeat. "Once again, Springsteen is the minister in the chapel, offering guidance, sympathy and, occasionally, a raised fist of solidarity with the dispossessed," wrote pop music critic Tris McCall of the Star-Ledger newspaper in Springsteen's home state. "By the time that track draws to its haunting conclusion, you'll likely find that despite the rocky start, the album's familiar themes of hope, redemption and love's ability to trump adversity have worked their magic the way they do on any good Springsteen release," added Pete Chianca at Blogness on the Edge of Town, a blog devoted to the 64-year-old rock icon. As a CBS spokeswoman told AFP this week, the online stream is available only in the United States, ahead of the general release of "High Hopes" on January 14. In Paris, only the title track – released in November as a video – could be heard on the website; the other 11 songs came up as "currently not available". Cryptically, Springsteen's Twitter feed said yesterday: "More advance album streams to be announced soon." Some lucky fans already have "High Hopes" – Springsteen's first album since "Wrecking Ball" in 2012 – on their personal digital players after it briefly leaked out on Amazon.com as an MP3 download last weekend. No explanation has been given for the apparent snafu. Springsteen's label is Columbia Records, a Sony Music Entertainment subsidiary formerly owned by CBS that was behind the surprise online release of Beyonce's eponymous fifth album on December 13. That record remains on top of the Billboard 200 chart, having sold more than 1.3 million copies. Eagerly anticipated, "High Hopes" is a mix of cover versions, studio outtakes and re-recordings that Springsteen - who has concerts upcoming in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand - has called "music I always felt needed to be released", although he's already played many of the numbers live. Three songs will feature on next week's episode of "The Good Wife", after yesterday's programme – which ran in the same time slot as the season premiere of "Downton Abbey" on public television – ended with an invitation to viewers to log on to the audio stream. Nine tracks on "High Hopes" feature Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, who stood in for guitarist Steve Van Zandt on Springsteen's tour of Australia last year, and two include Clarence Clemons, the much-loved E Street Band saxophonist who died in 2011 at the age of 69. "Down in the Hole" has Springsteen's children on backing vocals – including his youngest Sam, who turned 20 yesterday. Springsteen's visit to the Vietnam war memorial in Washington inspired "The Wall", while "American Skin (41 Shots)" recalls the now virtually forgotten killing of a 23-year-old unarmed immigrant from Guinea, Amadou Bailo Diallo, by New York police officers in 1999. Among the three cover versions, Springsteen takes Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream" and makes it so much his own, it's hardly recognizable from the minimalist original released in 1980 by the seminal New York electropunk duo. - AFP, January 6, 2014. |
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