U.S. comic Jerry Seinfield's lawyer has hit out at the suit filed by U.S. chef Missy Chase Lapine - branding the case "bogus". Lapine sued Seinfeld's wife Jessica in January , stating her best selling cookbook Deceptively Delicious "brazenly plagiarised" her own book The Sneaky Chef. Both books describe how to hide healthy ingredients in children's foods. And after hearing of the legal action, Seinfeld appeared on U.S. TV show The Late Show and made jokes about the "vegetable plagiarism" facing the pair. Lapine added a defamation charge against funnyman Seinfeld over comments he made. And the star's legal team insist the comments were all to be taken in good humour, as Seinfeld is a well-known comedian and therefore is expected to be funny when being interviewed, and dismiss the lawsuit filed by Lapine as "absurd". Seinfeld's lawyer Orin Snyder tells America's E! news, "Nobody who was listening to Jerry Seinfeld thought he was doing anything but making very funny jokes. Nobody believed him to be stating facts. "Everyone understood him to be doing what he has done so well for so many years, which was telling jokes and entertaining. So the claim against him is frivolous and we have asked the court to dismiss it too." And Snyder insists the suit against the Seinfeld's is ridiculous, stating he find's it shocking Lapine believes she owns the copyright over age-old recipes. He adds, "This is a bogus lawsuit. It is absurd that this plaintiff would try to take credit for the idea of hiding healthy food in kids' meals. People have been using this obvious cooking technique in their kitchens for generations. Not surprisingly, it is easy to find countless other cookbooks and articles using this age-old idea that were written decades before this plaintiff claims to have invented it."
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Celtic Spirit
Artist: Celtic Spirit
Genre(s):
Other
Celtic
New Age
Discography:
Celtic Dream II
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Lyra Ii
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Celtic Dreams II
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Lyra
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Reflection Of Nature
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Superfly And Shakka
Artist: Superfly And Shakka
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Discography:
![[2004] Hate My Bassline (Incl Factor](http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/19/19308/alb_77433_th.jpg)
[2004] Hate My Bassline (Incl Factor
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The Tudors make Emmys shortlist
Cannonball Adderly
Artist: Cannonball Adderly
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Jazz Masters 31
Year:
Tracks: 16
One of the great alto saxophonists, Cannonball Adderley had an high-spirited and happy sound (as opposed to many of the more than serious stylists of his generation) that communicated immediately to listeners. His thinking intro of his music (often explaining what he and his musicians were departure to play) helped make him one of the well-nigh popular of all jazzmen.
Adderley already had an conventional life history as a high school striation film director in Florida when, during a 1955 visit to New York, he was persuaded to sit in with Oscar Pettiford's grouping at the Cafe Bohemia. His playing created such a sensation that he was before long gestural to Savoy and persuaded to play jazz full-time in New York. With his jr. brother, cornetist Nat, Cannonball formed a quintet that struggled until its breakup in 1957. Adderley and then linked Miles Davis, forming part of his super sextette with John Coltrane and participating on such classical recordings as Milestones and Tolerant of Blue. Adderley's arcsecond attack to word form a little Phoebe with his brother was much more than successful for, in 1959, with piano player Bobby Timmons, he had a hit recording of "This Here." From and then on, Cannonball e'er was able to work steady with his band.
During its Riverside old age (1959-1963), the Adderley Quintet in the first place played soulful renditions of hard bop and Cannonball rattling excelled in the straight-ahead settings. During 1962-1963, Yusef Lateef made the chemical group a sextette and piano player Joe Zawinul was an of import new member. The break of Riverside resulted in Adderley signing with Capitol and his recordings became step by step more commercial-grade. Charles Lloyd was in Lateef's place for a class (with less success) and then with his leaving the radical went endorse to beingness a quintette. Zawinul's 1966 musical composition "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" was a brobdingnagian come to for the mathematical group, Adderley started double on soprano, and the quintet's later recordings emphasised long strain statements, foetid rhythms, and electronics. However, during his last class, Cannonball Adderley was revisiting the yesteryear a spot and on Phenix he recorded novel versions of many of his before book of Numbers. But before he could evolve his music whatsoever further, Cannonball Adderley died of a sudden from a fortuity.
Paris Hilton Makes Good On Charity Donation
Paris Hilton is living up to her promise to become a better person, after making an “extremely generous” donation toward the construction of a medical building at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, hospital officials said Thursday.
Hilton, 27 made a financial contribution towards the 460,000-square-foot Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, which is expected to open in 2010 - however, officials will not reveal how much she donated.
“The children I have met through my involvement with Childrens Hospital have truly touched my heart,” Hilton said in a statement.
“I am proud to make a donation and lend my name to the fundraising effort to help children who are facing terribly serious illnesses.”
The socialite has been criticized in the past year over failing to put action behind her comments made to CNN’s Larry King, after she spent 23 days in jail last year for violating probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges.
Hilton told King that the experience caused her to reevaluate the role partying played in her life, and that she wanted “to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis”, however, once released from prison she appeared to return to her previous lifestyle.
Photo courtesy of Regent Releasing’s.
Hilton, 27 made a financial contribution towards the 460,000-square-foot Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, which is expected to open in 2010 - however, officials will not reveal how much she donated.
“The children I have met through my involvement with Childrens Hospital have truly touched my heart,” Hilton said in a statement.
“I am proud to make a donation and lend my name to the fundraising effort to help children who are facing terribly serious illnesses.”
The socialite has been criticized in the past year over failing to put action behind her comments made to CNN’s Larry King, after she spent 23 days in jail last year for violating probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges.
Hilton told King that the experience caused her to reevaluate the role partying played in her life, and that she wanted “to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis”, however, once released from prison she appeared to return to her previous lifestyle.
Photo courtesy of Regent Releasing’s.
Hossam Ramzy
Artist: Hossam Ramzy
Genre(s):
Other
Ethnic
Discography:
Sabla Tolo II: Further Journeys Into Pure Egyptian Percussion
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Baladi Plus
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Tabla Solo
Year:
Tracks: 13
Secrets Of The Eye
Year:
Tracks: 9
Faddah
Year:
Tracks: 8
Best Of Om Kolthoum
Year:
Tracks: 7
Egyptian native Hossam Ramzy is the leader and headman percussionist of Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble, charles Herbert Best known to Western listeners as the financial support group featured on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's No Quarter tour and album. Ramzy began performing the darabouka (Egyptian tabla) at a young age, often to his father's disheartenment. He touched to Saudi Arabia as a teen, erudition his cunning piece encouraging himself by playing trap drums for radio and television programs. In 1975, he touched to England to study jazz drumming for a piece, and finally recorded an record album called Unveiling to Egyptian Dance Rhythms. Peter Gabriel heard the disc and invited Ramzy to play on Passion, his soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ. Before embarking on the Page/Plant tour, Ramzy too worked with Joan Armatrading, Marc Almond, Electric Light Orchestra, Debbie Harry, and Killing Joke. His Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble has too recorded all over a 12 albums, on which Ramzy attempts to represent Egyptian and Arabic music he hopes Western audiences testament be able to empathize and apprize through his arrangements, speech rhythm choices, mixing touches, and tempos. In 2000, Ramzy released Sabla Tolo: Journeys Into Pure Egyptian Percussion and El Amar. Gypsies of the Nile-Rahhal followed in early 2001.
Nas' New Tape Gets 'The Streets Ready' For Upcoming Album; Lil Wayne Had His People Call Jay-Z: Mixtape Monday
Artists: Nas and DJ Green Lantern
Representing: Queens
Mixtape: The N----- Tape
411: "This sh-- is gonna have the streets right [and] have the streets ready for the album." 'Nuff said about Nas' new mixtape, The N----- Tape. Nas and DJ Green Lantern recently forged one of the best street CDs this year. Nas had to go through his vault and give up some rare and unused vocals to the Evil Genius, who created soundscapes around the words for soil-burning songs.
"I was like, 'Let me get some exclusives. I wanna make a movie,' " Green said of the project.
"We went to the studio, and this man's work speaks for itself," Nas said. "He gave me some of the joints. Some of the joints sounded like they were right for the album. I had to snatch them for the album. We really getting it done. It's coming out right."
Sure enough, some of Green's material will find its way onto Nas' untitled official LP on July 15.
"One and a half," Lantern said about how many records will appear on the opus. " 'Black President' is on there. There's another one called 'Like Me.' It was supposed to be for the mixtape. He gave me a cappellas that wasn't out yet. I made a song around it. New beat, had somebody come and make a hook. It's like some pimp sh--. Nas loved it. He put another verse on it and said, 'I need it for my album. Don't put it on the mixtape.' When they did the final cut of the album, ['Like Me'] got cut, but it's on the international release and the iTunes and Amazon.com exclusive."
Joints To Check For
» "Cops Keep Firing." "I took the a cappella and made a verse, then Nas added an extra verse, because he was so inspired," Green Lantern explained.
"I had the rhymes for this last year," Nas added. "But I didn't want to do this kind of record until this man made me see this is the type of record I need to do."
» "Gangsta Rap" remix. "[Nas] said a couple of things in the verse I thought was good to start the tape off with," Green Lantern said. "I made a beat to kinda let his raps breathe so he could be rhyming. I wanted to let the rhymes say what it needed to. The beat wasn't too busy, but the beat was still hard. I wanted it to be a nice opener. Normally, somebody would start the tape with something people never heard before. I said, 'I'm just gonna do it.' That was really for the Nas fans, the rap zombies that are on top of everything."
» "Legendary." "Salaam Remi ... is scoring the [Mike] Tyson documentary," Green said. "Him and Nas have a great relationship, obviously, so maybe that will be on there. From hearing the song, I want to see that documentary. That 's one of the more fiery joints on there."
Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week
» Big Mike and DJ Thoro - Grand Theft Audio 3
» DJ A-Smooth - The Youngest in Charge
» DJ Rell and Gucci Mane - Wilt Chamberlain: The Mixtape
» G-Unit - Sincerely Yours
» KD a.k.a. Han D Man - Worldwide 33
'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
» Ace Hood - "You Already Know"
» B.G. (featuring Lil Wayne, Juvenile and Trey Songz) - "Ya Heard Me"
» The Boss Hogg Outlawz (featuring Ray J) - "Keep It Playa"
» Corey Gunz (featuring Ryan Leslie) - "Get Right Tonight"
» David Banner (featuring Nas) - "Middle Finger"
» Nipsey Hussle (featuring the Game) - "Bullets" remix
» Young Buck - "Taped Conversation"
Celebrity Faves
The-Dream has a huge record called "I Luv Your Girl" that nobody is getting tired of. The singer's track about pilfering another guy's chick has everybody singing its contagious, dismissive bridge: "F--- thaaaaatttt n---a." Dream thanks Island/ Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid for the inspiration to make the song.
"L.A. told me that my album sucked," Dream joked. "He told me I need to go make another song. He said, 'The whole album sucks. Why did I bother with you?' All those sorts of things. I was like, 'You playing, man.' Nah, he didn't say that."
Dream also said that when he sings the bridge in his high-pitched voice, on the record, he is definitely not referring to Mr. Reid.
The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground
Lil Wayne has a million copies under his belt and is slated to start his Tha Carter III tour this week. One of the album's standout tracks is Weezy's collaboration with Jay-Z, "Mr. Carter." Wayne told us last week that Hov was just a phone call away. Weezy co-managers G. Roberson and Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua used to be execs at Roc-A-Fella records.
"Shout-out to my [other manger] Cortez, my man G. My man Hip Hop," Wayne said. "I asked them. I said, 'That's y'all big homie. I want a record.' And I sent him that one. I thought that was perfect. I already had three verses to it and everything. I sent it, and the rest is history."
An alternate version of "Mr. Carter" has leaked since the release of TCIII featuring some of those unused raps Wayne described.
The Carter III song "Don't Get It" — or, as the streets call it, "Misunderstood" — garnered some talk because of the way Wayne goes after the Reverend Al Sharpton at the end of the record. In no uncertain terms, Birdman Jr. tells the rev he has no respect for him. Sharpton responded through the media, saying he refused to address anyone who doesn't say anything "substantive" in their music. Weezy has zero concern.
"Obviously, I don't have any thoughts on nobody's response, because I wouldn't have said what I said [if I cared]," Wayne said. "I don't care what nobody thinks or feels about what I said. I think and feel what I said. I believe in it. No one has to side with me. My daughter smiles every time she sees me." ...
Why'd they get him started? Gorilla Zoe told us last week in Atlanta that being able to eat has only made him hungrier. After he released his debut album, Welcome to the Zoe, several months ago, he jumped right back in the studio to record mixtapes and his sophomore LP.
"Really, it means that I've tasted success," Zoe explained of the album's title, Don't Feed the Animals. "It's over now! You know how when you go to the zoo and your parents tell you, 'Don't feed the animals. Don't give them the peanuts, 'cause they gonna want more. Don't feed a dog raw beef — he's gonna wanna taste that blood again.' I've done tasted that money, homie. That's what it means. Get-money time."
For other artists featured in Mixtape Monday, check out Mixtape Mondays Headlines.
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Get on The Fringe: Wednesday�s Festival list
1. A Brief History of Petty Crime
After last year�s sell-out show exploring his history of (un)employment, Brit Jimmy Hogg returns to this year�s Fringe Festival with another one-man show detailing his history of misdemeanors and persistent proximity to imprisonment. At 8:30 p.m., Comedy Bar, 945B Bloor St. W.
2. Sarah Hennessey Time
The Toronto comedienne�s one-woman show on the anxieties of being at loose ends in your 20s features meditations on late-night shopping and the implications of kolbassa. At 8:45 p.m., George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Pl.
3. Sherlock Holmes & the First English Gentleman
The play that puts a fictional crime-fighter, Sherlock Holmes, on the case of the Piltdown Man, the 20th century�s first great scientific hoax. The third production since 2000 of the play by Toronto musician, writer and accountant Doug Warwick. At 6:30 p.m., Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College St., 3rd floor
4. Notes From The Pit: A Monologue with Music
Accompanying herself on the cello, Helen Kopec recalls the unique adversities she faced after moving from Calgary to Atlanta to play classical music in the American South. At 7 p.m., The Rivoli 334 Queen St. W.
5. My Autopsy
Eastern spirituality meets oddball humour in Hamish Boyd�s morbid comedic one-man show, which manages to fit in Jesus, Dracula, Jimi Hendrix and a body burning on the River Ganges. At 10:30 p.m., Theatre Passe Muraille Main Space 16 Ryerson Ave.
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