Van Tango

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Some Might Say

Alex Kapranos caused mayhem after the band's concert in Singapore when he invited fans back to his hotel. He had been miffed when told he couldn't eat in the hotel lobby by the manager. So he invited fans to a party at the hotel. Around 150 turned up and met the boys for food. Now that's sweet - and sour - revenge. Check out their concert pics.

Kate Moss is set to star in a Hollywood blockbuster as a beautiful socialite who enjoyed numerous lesbian affairs. She has been offered the plum role in director Ang Lee's forthcoming flick based on the life of legendary 60s siren Dusty Springfield. Charlize Theron, will brush up her beehive and lay on the mascara to take on the role of the gay star but Moss is lined up to play one of her early loves. The film will follow the Brit singer's life from her birth in Hampstead, north London, to her death from breast cancer in 1999. Kate's character is thought to be based on a lover that Springfield met in privileged party circles. Our source said: "Kate's the ideal choice to play the love of Dusty's early life. She's beautiful, aloof and she epitomises swinging London.
"There'll probably be sexual scenes but as Ang is behind the camera they will be very tastefully done. Kate's character breaks Dusty's heart and sparks off the chain of tumultuous relationships that dogged her throughout her life." Oh it's the L word kinda show.. Definitely would be more popular than Ang Lee's previous project.

Kate Moss has been voted the most stylish British woman of all time. She has beaten the likes of Princess Diana and Erin O'Connor to win the top spot in the Grazia magazine poll that named the top 50 stylish Brits. Keira Knightly surprisingly made it to third place..very strange. Stella McCartney was fifth, Twiggy sixth then Cat Deeley, Posh Spice, Elizabeth Taylor and Rachel Weisz. Grazia editor Jane Bruton said: "Kate Moss may have tripped up recently, but with 17% of readers voting her as Britain's Most Stylish Woman, she never seems to put a fashion foot wrong. It's great to see the varied interpretations of what being stylish is with such a wide range of women making it into the poll." No doubt half the women in the poll won't even be recognisable in a few years time...

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore shopping in Beverly Hills.

Paris Hilton celebrates her 25th Birthday Party at a club.

Samaire Armstrong showing off her new phone to a cameraman.

Create your own personalized South Park character!

The Cribs - live @ leeds

Muse have confirmed that their new single "A Crying Shame" will be released on May 16. The single arrives the same month as the as yet untitled new album. Woooo!

Pete Doherty stormed from The Strokes gig in London on Friday night after his pal was refused entry. He turned up to the celebrity-packed event at the Hammersmith Apollo, but promptly stomped off after security refused to let in his mate. Probably just as well for him - his ex-girlfriend, Katy, was spotted at the gig with a new mystery man, and Doherty's estranged Libertines bandmate Carl Barat was also in attendance. Keane, Coldplay's Jonny Buckland and Sam Herlihy from Hope Of The States were also spotted at the concert. The sad thing was not Pete failing to meet up with Katy, but him missing out coming face to face with his ex-pal from Dirty Pretty Things.

Pete Doherty gives his first broadcast interview since his release from Pentonville prison. Watch it.

Kylie Minogue has denied reports that she is to marry her French beau Olivier Martinez on an island in France this year. It was reported that the mother Kylie's fella, Rosemarie Martinez had said: "My son has promised we will be flown over for the big day. We're just rejoicing that she and my son can now go ahead and make the plans they've wanted to make for so long." However, in a statement, Kylie's publicist said: "This is just not true." Maybe one day it will?

Kylie is reportedly ignoring medical advice to give up her pop career and will embark on her Australian tour in November. The tour would go ahead, although her Australian representatives would not confirm it. "We have stated the dates will be held later this year," a Frontier Touring spokeswoman said. A source revealed that Kylie had undergone her last radiation treatment on Friday and was now planning her life after cancer. "She has been told it would be best for her to give up pop - because the music world can be so relentless and tiring. Doctors have drummed it into her that she must take it easy." the source said. As a result, her Australian Showgirl tour is expected to be a scaled-down version of the extravaganza she staged in Britain and Europe. Can't wait to see her performing on the big stage again.

Charlotte Church has received an apology from the teenage boy who stole four of her precious gold discs. The discs were stolen from her mum's guesthouse earlier this month. The boy who took them, Leighton Price, anonymously returned the discs a few days later and has been trying to explain his action in a Cardiff magistrate's court. It seems that a mixture of alcohol and bravado caused the young boy to steal the discs...something he later regretted. His solicitor said in court: "When he sobered up, he realised what he had done and he did his best to put it right. He even rang the hotel, anonymously, to make sure nobody else found them. It was a moment of madness that wouldn't have happened had it not been for the amount he had drunk." Well, we've all been there...haven't we?

Some of the worst pick-up lines ever!

Ride A White Horse (e-card)

Rock chick for the Rock DJ?? Robbie Williams has fallen big time for a hell-raising girl rock guitarist who is six feet tall! Friends says 5ft 10in Robbie is "smitten" with Lisa Leveridge and they have gone on a series of dates in Los Angeles including a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day. Robbie was introduced to Lisa, by her best friend Courtney Love. One of his friends revealed: "Robbie is completely bowled over by Lisa. Not only is she stunning looking, but she's bright and very straight-talking. They met around Christmas and hit it off immediately. He's hoping that he's finally found someone he can have a proper relationship with. She understands the showbiz thing and has been a bit of a wild child, so they have a lot in common." They first met at Teddy's Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. Since then they have enjoyed intimate dates at the trendy Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard where Robbie's been staying in a high-class suite. That lady is older than him if i'm not wrong she is in her late 30s. But does he care about that? Nah.

Costume Ball party this Fri!

Create your own photocube pics.

Tana From The Apprentice in the Bedazzler video ad!! Wahahahaa... Remember Tana from The Apprentice TV show - who's obsession with that arts and crafts rhinestone and stud setting gizmo - The Bedazzler - led her group on a long taxi ride out to Staten Island and back?

Bangkok Rock Fest Festival (18-19 Feb) review

The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous (video)

Listen to Arctic Monkeys sharing their thoughts on their album. Hear what they got to say about their early demos, studio life, album artwork, etc..

Keane have completed the yet-to-be-named follow up to 2004's Hopes And Fears after keeping their distance from exterior pressures. Speaking to the BBC, Richard Hughes explained "I think to start off with we felt a lot of pressure, but I think we reached the point where we thought actually if we keep worrying about what everyone's going to think, this is going to turn out to be a rubbish album." Hughes then went on to describe the new record as "a weird rock and roll beast of an album". Interesting... Anyways, Keane have been the butt of many Gallagher brother criticisms over the years.

Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes. The research suggests the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove. Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy with than consciously weighing up the pros and cons of the problem. Thinking hard about a complex decision that rests on multiple factors appears to bamboozle the conscious mind so that people only consider a subset of information, which they weight inappropriately, resulting in an unsatisfactory choice. In contrast, the unconscious mind appears able to ponder over all the information and produce a decision that most people remain satisfied with. Ap Dijksterhuis at the University of Amsterdam and colleagues recruited 80 people for a series of lab-based and "real-world" tests. The participants were provided with information and asked to make decisions about simple and complex purchases, ranging from shampoos to furniture to cars.

In one of the tests, half of the participants were asked to ponder on the information they were given and then decide which among similar products to buy. The other half were shown the information but then made to perform a series of puzzles including anagrams and simple arithmetic. At the end of the puzzle session, the participants were asked to make a snap decision about the products. "We found that when the choice was for something simple, such as purchasing oven gloves or shampoo, people made better decisions - ones that they remained happy with - if they consciously deliberated over the information," says Dijksterhuis. "But once the decision was more complex such as for a house, too much thinking about it led people to make the wrong choice. Whereas, if their conscious mind was fully occupied on solving puzzles, their unconscious could freely consider all the information and they reached better decisions." However, the unconscious mind appears to need some instruction. "It was only when people were told before the puzzles that they would need to reach a decision that they were able to come up with the right one," Dijksterhuis said. If they were told that none of what they had been shown was important before being given the puzzles, they failed to make satisfactory choices. "At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we're not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things."
reported by Alex Banks

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