Nathan Lane - Lane Becomes An Addams

NATHAN LANE has reportedly signed up to play GOMEZ ADDAMS in upcoming Broadway musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

The cult TV show-turned-movie franchise is being set to music and transformed into a stage spectacular which will hit New York next year (09).

And now it has been revealed that The Producers star Lane will reportedly take on the lead role, alongside former Frasier actress Bebe Neuwirth who will play Gomez's wife Morticia, according to Variety.com.

Lane is also in talks to star in the musical adaptation of 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can, playing the role made famous by Tom Hanks.

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Nicole Kidman - Kidman In Tears Over Ultrasound

NICOLE KIDMAN was so overcome with emotion when she first saw her unborn baby she burst into tears.

The actress admits the moment she saw the ultrasound capped a magical day for her and husband Keith Urban.

She tells Vogue magazine, "I started crying. I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime.

"To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely.

"I don't believe in flittering around the edges of things. You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur."

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The Blue Cats

   
Artist: The Blue Cats

   Genre(s): 
Rock & Roll
   

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Discography:


   
 The Tunnel

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12

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A daughter of the revolution

Castro's kid to help out with 'Crash'-style movie on Cuba

Writer-producer Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar for co-writing "Crash," is teaming with Austin-based Artists Relations Group to bring to the big screen the story of Alina Fernandez, the only daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.


Moresco, who might also direct the project, will produce via his Moresco Prods. shingle. John Martinez and Noel Tristan produce for ARG.


Fernandez, a product of an affair while Castro was married to his first wife, spent her childhood in the country's shadow, only learning at age 10 that the man who visited her at night and whom she saw on TV every day was her father. In 1993, Fernandez disguised herself as a Spanish tourist and fled first to Spain, then to the U.S., where she has been living in exile ever since. Fernandez is recognized worldwide as one of the most outspoken of Castro's relatives.


The producers are not planning to do a biopic or a simple escape story but are envisioning a multiplot story a la "Crash" that will show the Cuban and American perspectives and ideologies along with Fernandez's story. The project also will be seek inspiration from her memoir.


"For the last 20 years, I have been trying to show what is going in my country, trying to make people be a little more aware of how glorious we are and how many limitations we have," Fernandez told The Hollywood Reporter. "We are your neighbors, yet you know so little about us. It's going to be a good opportunity to show (audiences)."


Fernandez will be involved in the film as a story consultant as well as with media relations for the project.


Financing for development was provided by the Lamy Group. The project is out to writers.

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End Of Green

   
Artist: End Of Green

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Gothic
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Dead End Dreaming

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Last Night On Earth

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Infinity

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9

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Mariah Carey’s new husband listened to her music growing up

Mariah Carey’s new husband used to listen to the singer’s music when he was growing up, Nick Cannon’s half-brother has revealed.

“He was a fan,” Reuben Cannon said, adding that the pair share a “real and honest love” for each other.

“That is what is going to keep them together,” he said. “He loves her more than any other girl.”

Reuben said that Nick “definitely wants kids” with the ‘Touch My Body’ singer, but “I am not sure exactly if now is the time,” he said. “Both of their careers are crazy right now.”

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Harry Potter - Fascinating Fact 5392

HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING is to auction off her 800-word prequel to the hit wizard franchise next month (Jun08) to raise funds for the British Dyslexia organisation.

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Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse is reportedly wearing diapers while visiting her husband in jail.

Sammy Hagar - Hagar Forms Supergroup With Smith Anthony Satriani

SAMMY HAGAR, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS drummer CHAD SMITH, guitar legend JOE SATRIANI and former VAN HALEN bass player MICHAEL ANTHONY have formed a new supergroup.

The trio plans to record a new album under the name Chickenfoot.

Smith tells ThePulseofRadio.com he became involved in the project simply because he's a neighbour of Hagar's in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

He says, "If you're in Cabo, of course you know Sammy 'cause he rules the joint.

"He's a really nice man, he's a great guy actually. Somehow he's taken a liking to me, and we played in Vegas, and we played some cover songs - we're a good cover band now.

"Him and Joe got together up at his place and they wrote, like, five things together, and we'll see."

Hagar adds, "We've written eight, nine songs... When people hear the music, it's Led Zeppelin. It's as good as that. I know that's a mighty bold statement... We could rival Zep!"

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Lektroluv

   
Artist: Lektroluv

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Lektrokuted

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1


   
 The New Preskriptions Of Dr Lektroluv

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 Infekted by Dr Lektroluv

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 Dr. Lektroluv 5

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 An Elektion Of Elektrifying

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Carla Thomas

   
Artist: Carla Thomas

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 The Queen Alone

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Platinum Collection

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 20

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In the glorious decade and a half of sound that was Stax in the '60s and early '70s, Carla Thomas was the Queen of Memphis Soul. She was born in Memphis in 1942, and 18 age later she recorded a duette with her sire Rufus Thomas, giving the fledgeling Satellite label its get-go tasting of success with the regional hit "Movement I Love You." As her eighteenth birthday john Drew near, she cut her first gear solo undivided, the stripling ballad "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)." Written a few days earlier and rejected by Vee-Jay in Chicago, it gave Satellite its first national hit, break the Top Ten grade on both the R&B and pop charts. Shortly thereafter Satellite became Stax, and Carla proceeded to claw her way onto the national charts another 22 times with such god slices of soul as her answer song to Sam Cooke, "I'll Bring It on Home to You," as well as "Let Me Be Good to You," "Babe," "Hiker" (with Otis Redding), and "I Like What You're Doing to Me." Carla released captain Hicks solo albums and, with Redding, one duet record album on Stax between 1961 and 1971. In 2007 a alive album she recorded for Stax at Washington's far-famed Bohemian Caverns plunk for in 1967 was released in its integrality, including an impromtu cameo fructify from her sire, Rufus Thomas.

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie pays tribute to Bo Diddley

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie has hailed the late Bo Diddley, who died of heart failure on Monday (June 2).

The singer explained that he was a huge fan of the legendary guitarist, and said that his style went on to influence many subsequent axemen.

"I heard The Rolling Stones play [ song] 'Not Fade Away', which used the Bo Diddley beat," he said. "Then when I heard Bo Diddley himself, I thought, oh, amazing, it comes from that. It's pretty hard to pull that beat off. Johnny Marr's guitar playing is Johnny Marr being Bo Diddley.

"I love those Chess records he made: 'Who Do You Love?', 'Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover'. I've got footage of him playing live in the '60s, it's amazing."

Check out Bo Diddley's greatest video moments on the NME Office Blog now.

For more on Bo Diddley and a biography visit Bo-diddley.com or check out Bo Diddley's Wikipedia entry.

Bo Diddley was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987.