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Dick Clark: The Man Who Changed TV » Gossip
Dick Clark on the set of "American Bandstand"
Clark's influence endures today with such stars as Ryan Seacrest.
Without Dick Clark, there would be no Ryan Seacrest. Hell, afterwards "America's Oldest Teenager" there would be no "TRL," and maybe no MTV.
Clark, who died at age 82 on Wednesday (April 18) afterwards adversity a affection attack, never sang a agenda or appear an album. He wasn't the artist of a ball chic or a characterization bang-up or alike a decidedly hip guy. What he was, though, was a visionary.
And as abundant as any accomplished who played a guitar, ample out how to mix two turntables and a microphone, wiggled his achievement or invented the abutting big complete in music, Clark was active in authoritative pop music pop.
He brought bedrock and cycle into America's active apartment in the 1950s, aloof as the complete of adolescent America was abashing parents, abashing the calm radio programmers of the day and auspicious teenagers to shake, bang and roll. Admitting he dressed like a martini-swilling ad controlling and was determined about befitting a austere tie-and-jacket dress cipher on his long-running signature show, "American Bandstand," Clark lived by one simple assumption back it came to anticipation music: "It's got a acceptable exhausted and you can ball to it."
Most importantly, back he took over "Bandstand" and went civic in 1957, Clark put teenagers on TV at a time back the best accepted shows were aimed at their parents' generation, including "Gunsmoke," "I Love Lucy," "The Danny Thomas Show" and "General Electric Theater." He let them see themselves on TV, which seems like no big accord to today's YouTube-ified teens, but was a adumbration for the aboriginal bearing to abound up in advanced of the tube.
An MTV VP recalls his aboriginal job in television, alive for the backward Dick Clark.
With one of the longest runs in TV history (1957-1989), "Bandstand" became a acute stop on any above artist's promotional rounds. And with acceptable reason: The appearance drew an admirers of added than 20 actor at its peak, bisected of whom were reportedly adults. Among the acts that lip-synced their hits on the affairs and got their aboriginal above acknowledgment over the years: Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, Chuck Berry, the Doors, Pink Floyd, Prince, Kurtis Blow, Cher, Devo, LL Cool J, INXS, Bon Jovi, Run-DMC, Madonna and the Talking Heads.
Clark would babble the artists up and, alike as the years went on and the styles afflicted from the buttoned-down 1950s to the freewheeling 1960s, disco-dancing 1970s and new-wave 1980s and the show's access waned, Clark's activity for the hits of the day was unwavering. The times changed, but Clark appeared ageless, his abounding arch of beard and adolescent smile as abundant a basic of the appearance as the agog dancing of its absolute stars: the audience.
Though altercation would after acceleration over Clark's claims that he chip the appearance in 1957 (as able-bodied as a about career-derailing besom with the allurement scandals of the 1950s), what is absolute is that Clark offered a appointment for both atramentous and white artists at a time back there were few. The afterimage of atramentous and white kids dancing calm additionally aggressive one of TV's added constant music programs, "Soul Train," whose afresh asleep arch light, Don Cornelius, was sometimes referred to as the "black Dick Clark."
Ryan Seacrest, Snoop Dogg and added celebs ache Dick Clark.
Clark didn't aloof circuit the hits, though. He created the arrangement for the avant-garde multitasking media mogul, a crimson best up by his beneficiary apparent, the calm Ryan Seacrest. He helped aftermath or executive-produce added than 7,500 hours of programming, from the Golden Globes, American Music Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards, to mind-numbing prime-time boner like "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes." He generally boasted that his was not the alley beneath taken, but the cheesy, awash freeway arranged with apathetic couch potatoes aloof attractive for a fun diversion, which he was blessed to provide.
Clark accomplished television advisers that teenagers had the ability to advance the cultural aggravate and that they were accepting a huge appulse on music, movies, appearance and, yes, alike politics. Added importantly, "Bandstand" helped pave the way for the Top 40 radio architecture and helped move bedrock and cycle into the movies and beyond.
Clark eventually confused into bold shows, TV movies and children's programming beneath his Dick Clark Productions banner. And if you demand to apperceive why Seacrest seems like he's everywhere these canicule — from "American Idol" to "New Year's Rockin' Eve," abundant awards shows and executive-producing assorted Kardashian shows and added TV — it's because he advised at the knee of his figure and has blooming his able career on the man who laid the foundation. With backing that included aggregate from themed restaurants to a amphitheater in Branson, Missouri, it's not a amplitude to say that Clark's access accomplished into the avant-garde realms of hip-hop and pop, area moguls from Diddy to Jay-Z, Justin Bieber and Rihanna accept adapted by dipping their toes into the worlds of perfume, beverages, announcement agencies and cosmetics.
Nobody absolutely stays always young, but Clark accepted that you can break always adolescent at heart.
Ted Nugent Gets Secret Service Visit After Obama Comments » Gossip
Ted Nugent
'I support them and I'm looking forward to our meeting tomorrow,' Nugent says of the Secret Service appointment.
At this point in his career, Detroit rocker Ted Nugent is accepted for a two things besides such brand hits as "Cat Scratch Fever": cutting animals and adage potentially actionable things about Admiral Obama.
The Motor City Madman was at it afresh aftermost week, back he said of the Obama administration, "We charge to ride into that battlefield and chop their active off in November," while accessory the National Rifle Association's anniversary acquisition in St. Louis. He added that he would be "dead or in jail" abutting year if Obama was re-elected, which appears to be the badinage that becoming him the absorption of the President's aegis detail.
According to Reuters, Nugent, 63, said on Wednesday that the U.S. Secret Service had requested a affair with him afterward the criticism of Obama. During an actualization on Glenn Beck's radio appearance on Wednesday, Nugent told the bourgeois talker, "We absolutely accept heard from the Secret Service, and they accept a duty, and I address them. I abutment them and I'm attractive advanced to our affair tomorrow."
Nugent, a ardent gun rights enthusiast and bourgeois supporter, is set to accomplish in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on Thursday (April 19) night. Back asked to affirm the meeting, a Secret Service agent beneath to comment. In a account appear later, agent Brian Leary said, "We are acquainted of the adventure with Ted Nugent, and we are administering adapted aftereffect ... We admit an individual's appropriate to abandon of accent but we additionally accept a albatross to actuate and investigate intent."
The Secret Service is tasked with attention the admiral and investigating any threats or perceived threats to his safety. In a presidential acclamation year back Obama is accepted to face a boxy claiming from presumptive Republican applicant Mitt Romney, the Democratic National Committee was quick to jump on the altercation and use it in a fundraising email beatific out on Monday. DNC administrator Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said of Nugent's comments that, "Threatening abandon -- or whatever it is that Nugent's aggressive -- is acutely above the pale."
Nugent, who has antecedent referred to the Obama administering as, "Vile, evil, America-hating," brushed off those allegations during his sit-down with Beck, abstinent that he was calling for abandon adjoin the Commander-in-Chief. "Every advertence I made, whether it's a attempt beyond the bow or targeting the enemy, it consistently concluded the book with 'in November at the aborigine booth,'" said the rocker, who has accustomed Romney.
Less than 24 hours before, Nugent appeared on addition bourgeois allocution radio appearance and doubled-down on his comments, anecdotic himself as, "A atramentous Jew at a Nazi-Klan assemblage ... and there are some power-abusing, base monsters in our federal government that abhor me because I accept the adventurousness to allege the truth." He additionally referred to Wasserman Schultz as a, "Brain-dead, apathetic idiot."
Kristen Stewart A 'Gung-Ho' Action Star In 'Snow White' » Gossip
Kristen Stewart in "Snow White and the Huntsman"
'Huntsman' director Rupert Sanders also discusses the 'fiendish' Charlize Theron for MTV News' Summer Movie Preview Week.
It's bright from all we've apparent from the "Snow White and the Huntsman" trailers, photos and behind-the-scenes bastard peeks that this blur is a dispatch bean for Kristen Stewart in abounding ways.
When MTV News bent up with the film's director, Rupert Sanders, recently, he explained how anybody complex in the activity stepped up their bold for this avant-garde booty on a medieval story.
"Kristen is a actual driven, visceral, automatic actress. From a director's point of view, it's abundant to get into her headspace," he explained. "We did a lot of assignment calm on the calligraphy and character, and she absolutely helped acquaint me how that appearance was feeling, which absolutely helped my activity accepting the appearance onscreen. Kristen was accomplishing a lot of her achievement work, she was benumbed horses, she was jumping from aerial precipices into freezing algid water, she was angry dwarves — she's gung-ho.
Sanders said Stewart's co-star Charlize Theron was appropriately assertive with account to the lengths she went to booty her adorableness into a aphotic and abhorrent place.
"[She] becomes fiendish," Sanders said. "She was accommodating to get in tubs of atramentous oil, amidst by asleep ravens, and clamber her way out. For a director, what's abundant about these two actors is that they will go above what you ask of them, and I anticipate it absolutely shows in the performances they've given. They're both actual clashing any achievement I've apparent either of them deliver."
The first-time affection administrator promised that admirers will not be aghast by what they'll see onscreen back the blur opens June 1.
"What I'm best appreciative of is that it's not a airheaded cine in that respect. It's big and it's ballsy and there's lots of activity sequences, but it absolutely hits you," he said. "There's not a lot of weeping, but it's a actual acute ride. You're absolutely at the bend of people's boundaries. There are new means of seeing action, which I'm aflame about. It's a actual avant-garde booty on a medieval blur but doesn't feel like we're aggravating to do annihilation contemporary or of the minute. It still feels practical."
It's Summer Cine Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you absolute interviews, clips and photos for the best advancing summer movies. Get accessible to gorge on central looks at "The Avengers," Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami," Kristen Stewart's "Snow White," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and more!
'Men At Work' Flute Player Greg Ham Dead At 58 » Gossip
Greg Ham in 1985
Ham is best known for playing the flute solo on 'Down Under.'
Men at Work affiliate Greg Ham, best accepted for arena the iconic canal abandoned on the Australian group's 1982 hit "Down Under," was begin asleep in his Melbourne home on Thursday (April 19) at the age of 58.
According to the Associated Press, in befitting with bounded customs, Victoria accompaniment badge would not affirm any capacity of the afterlife or whether the artist died of apprehensive circumstances. His anatomy was apparent afterwards two accompany who had not heard from Ham for a while went to analysis on him.
"There are a cardinal of alien aspects to it which has acquired our appearance actuality today, and we're acceptable the bounded detectives to actuate what has occurred," Detective Senior Sergeant Shane O'Connell told reporters.
Though Men at Work enjoyed all-around success in the aboriginal 1980s with their #1 anthology Business As Usual, which independent the hits "Who Can It Be Now" and "Down Under," they came beneath analysis in 2009 back a publishing aggregation claimed that keyboardist/saxophonist/flutist Ham's abandoned was aerial from a admired children's bivouac song, "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree." The aggregation sued, and in 2010, a adjudicator disqualified that the bandage had affected the melody and that it should pay 5 percent of accomplished profits.
The song was accounting by Men at Work accompanist Colin Hay in 1978, a year afore Ham abutting the bandage and added the solo, which cloister abstracts said he'd appropriate in adjustment to accord the tune some "Australian flavor." CNN appear that Ham testified that he'd arch the song while growing up in the 1950s and was "pretty sure" the Kookaburra tune was in his school's songbook. Though Hay said he wasn't acquainted of the aboriginal until abundant later, the AP appear that the altercation had advised heavily on Ham, who was afraid it would mar his agreeable legacy.
"It has destroyed so abundant of my song," he told an Australian cardboard afterwards the 2010 ruling. "It will be the way the song is remembered, and I abhorrence that. I'm awfully aghast that that's the way I'm activity to be remembered — for artful something."
Despite his fears, "Down Under" charcoal the actionable canticle for Australia and came in fourth in a 2001 music-industry analysis of the best Australian songs. Men at Work bankrupt up in 1985, and Ham had been alive as a guitar abecedary in contempo years.
'Survivor One World': Troyzan Goes Crazy » Gossip
Troyzan on "Survivor: One World"
As Leif gets sent packing and Tarzan rises, Troyzan suddenly emerges as the least likable player on the 'One World' beach.
Two weeks ago, if you had told me that 50-year-old columnist Troy "Troyzan" Robertson would be my atomic admired actuality on "Survivor: One World," I would accept pushed you in the mud and shouted in your face, "This is my island!" OK, conceivably article a little beneath aggressive, but I still wouldn't accept believed you.
Then Wednesday night happened.
Troy, with his aback adjoin the bank and few to no allies to about-face to, did the alone things he could to survive adjoin the anew adequate women's alliance: He affected to acquisition addition hidden amnesty idol (after arena his the anniversary before), he won the abutting amnesty challenge, and afresh he ... rubbed it in everyone's faces with an F-bomb for acceptable measure? Bad, Troyzan! Bad!
Unlike Tyrion Lannister of "Game of Thrones" fame, you acutely do not accept how the bold is played. On "Survivor," it's not abundant aloof to win: Bodies accept to like you too, in adjustment to defended their votes in the end. Troy's annoyance over accepting no allies angry into an absolute exact advance on anyone and anybody still active on that beach, finer ruining every adventitious he had at accepting ally in the bold admitting accepting a lot to action a abeyant new alliance. For addition who appeared to be so acceptable at this bold aloof a few weeks ago, the actual blast and bake of Troyzan — still crashing, still afire into abutting week, apperception you — was absolutely abashing to behold.
MTV News' account "Survivor" babble with backstab amateur and approved analyst Rob Cesternino continues this week, absorption on Troy's collapse, Leif's ousting, Tarzan's hasty acceleration as a austere adversary and the connected Kimsanity at the "Survivor" auction.
MTV: My assessment of Troyzan sunk actual low actual bound this week. I acknowledge a guy accomplishing what he has to do to survive, but not alone is there no charge to be an a--hole about winning, not alone is there no cardinal upside, he's absolutely actively damaging his affairs to win, in the absurd accident that he makes it to the end.
Rob Cesternino: You know, it's adamantine to acquisition a bearings area you're acclaim adjoin the back-against-the-wall underdog. Somehow, Troyzan is now accepting bodies basis adjoin him because of the way he's accustomed on. There's a lot of whining that he's doing. None of it is advantageous to his survival.
MTV: Sabrina said it well: Alike if you're acceptable challenges, alike if you're surviving, you accept to be agreeable to win in the end.
Cesternino: It's absolutely true. But in some awe-inspiring way — and I don't anticipate that this is what's activity on — it could assignment to Troyzan's advantage a little bit in that he becomes so bellicose that he's no best a blackmail to win the game. At some point, bodies ability think, "I charge to go to the end with Troyzan, because everybody hates him." He's absolutely committing bold suicide one way or the other. He ability be able to accomplish it to the end by actuality such a affliction to everybody larboard in the game, but I don't anticipate that's what he's accomplishing strategically.
MTV: Right. He's bound acceptable the Phillip [from "Survivor: Redemption Island"] of the season. That was declared to be Tarzan's job!
Cesternino: Not alike Phillip. Phillip wasn't hated enough, I don't think. Troyzan's acceptable added of a Russell Hantz, addition who anybody has all these adamantine animosity towards. Whereas Phillip got on people's nerves, I don't anticipate anybody hated him. It's aloof the way Troyzan keeps accustomed on. It's undercutting what he's aggravating to do strategically. He can't body alliances while pissing everybody off in the game. How are Alicia and Christina activity to go and be in an accord with him back he's cogent them "don't f--- with me, this is my island!" It's tough.
MTV: On paper, the accord he's proposing makes sense: the three actual men additional the two women who are acutely at the basal of the totem pole. You accretion a five-to-four majority over the added women. The numbers add up. But Troyzan couldn't advertise it. He's become such an bellicose guy that no one agreed to what was absolutely a appealing acceptable deal.
Cesternino: That's the arresting thing! He has the appropriate plan and he fabricated a acute argument. For Alicia, I anticipate she threw the bold abroad tonight. If I'm Alicia, why not go in a five-person accord with Troyzan, Tarzan, Leif and Christina? Who's assault her out of that crew? Those are the four easiest bodies to exhausted in the board appropriate now, and she's the alone one who could possibly win out of that group. Why wouldn't she jump address to that group? But there are means in this game. Bodies are abashed to accomplish moves. They aloof anticipate everything's activity to assignment out for them in the end — but it's not!
MTV: There was never a moment area I was afraid about Kim's safety. I wasn't alike afraid for Tarzan. I feel like the adventure would accept fabricated a bigger accomplishment to accent that crisis if he was absolutely on the chopping block. It had to be Leif, who had his fun moments, but all-embracing didn't accept abundant of an appulse on the season. Were you afraid at all to see Leif go? Was there annihilation he could accept done abnormally in adjustment to stay?
Cesternino: I don't know. If you would accept told me pre-season that there would be a little actuality on "Survivor" and he was activity to aftermost 10 episodes on the appearance and he's activity to be absolutely unmemorable, I would accept alleged you a crazy person. That actuality said, Leif absolutely seems like a nice guy. But it additionally seems like he never absolutely had any abstraction of what was activity on in the bold at any point. Alike for an adventure area he's voted off, he was about on the show. He was the Purple Kelly of this season! Though Leif did accept one abundant moment for the road: back he was in the ocean with Tarzan abrasion him. That was appealing great.
MTV: Added and more, Tarzan's aloof breaking out as the brilliant of this show. He was abundant in this adventure again. And it wasn't aloof him patting Leif on the head, he absolutely did able-bodied in the bold this week. He was additional abode in the challenge, he gave that accessible pep allocution to Troyzan in a actual chic and well-articulated way, and back advance came to shove, he fabricated the acute vote: It was either activity to be Tarzan or Leif activity home, so Tarzan voting for Leif absolutely fabricated faculty over voting Kim, like Leif did.
Cesternino: You know, I anticipate he knows what's activity on a little bit. I don't anticipate it was aloof a attempt in the dark, him throwing a vote at Leif. I anticipate he's with the women. We're not absolutely actuality apparent who he's with appropriate now, but I get the faculty that he's with the women. Because he alike says to Troyzan, "Look, I'm aggravating to exhausted you." I get the faculty that he's not on the aforementioned folio as Troyzan. He hasn't gone forth with any of Troyzan's affairs to vote out Kim — they didn't vote together. I would be actual afraid if Tarzan gets voted out afore addition woman leaves the game. They don't attending at him as a threat. They attending at him as a guy who can't win. Back they're bottomward to seven maybe, that's back the girls ability alpha activity afterwards one another, and Tarzan's still in the game. Kim didn't feel like she was in any danger, no amount what Troyzan was doing. She didn't alike allocution about arena the idol. If Troyzan was absolutely accepting abutting to authoritative article happen, I anticipate she ability accept played it.
MTV: The bold is absolutely afoot!
Cesternino: It is! We don't apperceive who Tarzan's letter [won at the auction] was from, either. And what's activity to appear to his car?
MTV: That's a abundant question. [Laughs] I adulation the "Survivor" auction; it's consistently my admired claiming on the show. This season's booty was great. Our babe Kim was the bright achievement there.
Cesternino: Kim was absolutely the champ — and so were we! Usually on "Survivor," you accept to get naked to get the amber and peanut butter. But Kim got naked and afresh paid for amber and peanut butter. She could accept aloof dead two birds with one bean by activity in the battery to get the amber and peanut butter! That wasn't abundant "Survivor" thinking.
MTV: But a $40 battery and a $240 basin of amber and peanut adulate isn't such a bad accord out there, either.
Cesternino: Yeah, that was a acceptable deal. [Laughs]
MTV: Addition abundant moment from the auction: Troyzan and Christina's behest war over the amnesty claiming advantage. It played out as you'd expect: Troyzan goes (almost) all in, with Christina afraid to absolutely allowance the deal. That's been her MO all division long. What can she do to accomplish herself noticed in the game?
Cesternino: I don't apperceive what Christina is accomplishing in the game. She didn't bid on anything. It's aloof appropriate of her bold in general. She's at the auction, the money is in her hands, and she's aloof not affairs stuff. I don't apperceive what's activity on. She's in the game, she has a vote, and they're aloof not counting. There's no adventitious that she's accepting accomplished the final bristles or six in the game, because she's so ashore on the sidelines.
MTV: Looking ahead, what are Troyzan's affairs of survival? Is there annihilation he can do strategically and socially to get to the end, or does he charge an amnesty run to win?
Cesternino: He does accept his assignment cut out for him. I consistently watch "Survivor" afterwards the merge, and really, I'm watching for the weeks area there's an odd cardinal of bodies larboard in the game. Those are the weeks area you tend to aloof charge one actuality to about-face things up — like at seven, to accomplish the breach four to three. Back there are eight bodies left, like there's activity to be abutting week, it's activity to be hard, because you charge to get two bodies to switch. Now with Leif out of the game, he'll absolutely charge a cardinal of bodies to switch. I aloof don't see that accident at this point in the bold unless article absolutely desperate happens.
Dick Clark Remembered By Mentee Ryan Seacrest On 'American Idol' » Gossip
Ryan Seacrest remembers Dick Clark on "American Idol"
'He taught me how to do television,' Seacrest says of his 'dear friend' and 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' co-host.
On Wednesday night, aloof hours afterwards the apple abstruse that TV figure Dick Clark had anesthetized away, his beneficiary credible Ryan Seacrest took to the "American Idol" date to pay admiration to his coach and friend.
"We can't activate tonight's appearance afterwards acknowledging the casual of a television avant-garde and my baby friend, Dick Clark," he said at the top of the broadcast. "Without Dick, a appearance like this would not exist. He will be absent greatly."
Seacrest accustomed Clark's groundbreaking assignment ablution shows like "American Bandstand" as a antecedent for "Idol." "Our thoughts and our prayers go out to his family," he added. "I apperceive that he's in a bigger place, saying, 'Hey, let's get on with the show, OK?' You got it, boss."
After the show, Seacrest acclaimed that it wasn't accessible captivation it calm while hosting the show. Clark took the "Idol" host beneath his wing, and Seacrest had helped the fable host "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" back 2006.
"This is a abundantly affecting day for so abounding bodies — admirers of music, admirers of television, broadcasters and absolutely me personally, as Dick Clark was one of those absurd antecedents of our business," Seacrest told reporters afterwards the show. "He accomplished me how to do television.
"I advised him as a kid, and I had the advantageous befalling to assignment with him for several years on New Year's Eve. And so I am sad and I am beholden for what he has accustomed us, and absolutely what he has accustomed me. It was a boxy night to do the show. I absence him, and there was cipher like him."
Another abutting acquaintance of Clark's, Jenny McCarthy, opened up about accident the TV legend. She had additionally formed with him on his anniversary New Year's Eve back-bite and on the American Music Awards, which he helped create. "I feel accustomed to accept formed with the allegorical Dick Clark on the American Music Awards and New Year's Rockin' Eve. He was a abundant man who consistently encouraged anybody to accord their best," McCarthy said in a account to MTV News. "He will be dearly absent and his spirit will be always in my heart, abnormally counting bottomward the account to midnight every New Year's Eve to come."
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