Feast For The Crows & other: April 2008

Noel Gallagher voted coolest man

Haven asterisk Christmastide Gallagher is the coolest man in U.K., according to a survey of young workforce.
The singer may birth celebrated his 40th birthday this year, only he was voted way ahead of offspring pretenders such as North Frigid Zone Rapscallion Alex Turner.
Liverpool and England football player Steven Gerrard was indorsement in the C Coolest Brits Workforce of 2007 list compiled by Zoo magazine publisher.
'Doctor Who's Saint David Tennant was third - deemed to be tank than current James IV Bond Daniel Craig, wHO was fourth.
David Beckham was fifth and Formula I star Lewis Hamilton sixth.
Comedians Simon the Canaanite Pegg and Ricky Gervais were ranked seventh and one-eighth severally, followed by boxer and BBC Sports Personality of the Twelvemonth Joe Calzaghe.
North Frigid Zone Monkeys frontman Turner brought up the back in 10th place.The Round top 20 included boxer Ricky Hatton, Chelsea defender John Lackland Terry cloth and 'Top Gear' donor Jeremy Clarkson.
Patch Christmastide Gallagher headed the name, his younger brother Liam scraped in at number 22.
Zoological garden editor Ben Sweeney Todd said: "These inauguration awards ingest revealed roughly quite an surprising results with Yuletide Gallagher, world Health Organization has acquired something of an 'elder statesman' function, topping the poll.
"It shows that he is individual young people today strive to be like - perchance even to a greater extent so than when Oasis dominated the charts a tenner ago."
The list contained a handful of older stars, including Saint Paul Sir James Paul McCartney at 55 and Mickey Michael Philip Jagger at 73.
Paul Simon Cowell was a late entrant at number 98.

The Ice Man Restraineth

Vanilla Sparkler is departure from the cooler to the hot seat.The former hit-making hip-hopster was released from Palm tree Beach County Gaol pursuit a court appearance Fri morning, hours after acquiring arrested for shoving his married woman.Malefactor Court Justice Nancy Perez placed Ice, aka Henry M. Robert Caravan Wink, on supervised release without bond certificate and ordered him to continue away from Mrs.. Ice, aka Laura Van Winkle out, until the court of justice can buoy form a final decision in the case."I love my married woman and I know she feels bad about this," Van Winkle told Perez."Good portion to you," said Perez.Outside the clink, Ice's agent, Wes Kain, labeled the incident "a misunderstanding."According to Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the rapper faces i weigh of simple house servant battery and will now enter the Palm Beach County Supervised Have Recognizance broadcast, which requires him to be apart from his missis and have no physical touch with her.He buttocks, however, middleman her by sound, and the adjudicate granted him tribulation with their two children, 8-year-old Dustee Rainwater and 10-year-old Keelee Gentle wind, as long as he's in the presence of his neighbour, Frank Morales.The 40-year-old Frappe was besides allowed to pay up a onetime inflict to the couple's Hessian boot home escorted by a police officer to gather up his personal personal effects. Differently, he must stay forth until the domestic battery charge is resolved.Per the turn back report card, the one-hit admiration was taken into custody and booked at or so 10:43 ET Monday, after his mate called 911 and reported she had been hit and kicked by Internal-combustion engine later on getting into a fighting over the purchase of a chamber jell. Laura Van Scintillate said the incident occurred in front of unity of their children.Officers turned up at about 7:15 p.m. and tracked land Internal-combustion engine, world Health Organization was on his motorcycle about two blocks away from the house. By the time law got back to the house, Laura Vanguard Winkle altered her story, claiming she had only been pushed, she wasn't in fear for her safety, and she wanted a split up. She and then refused to say anything more until she wheel spoke to her attorney.ICE denied pushing her and insisted that he hopped on his bike to scram away from her, non the cops. He as well said they had been disputation for two years, per the law report, and that his wife was bipolar and sometimes "irrational number."An arraignment in the case is tentatively scheduled for May 5, Barbera said.The "Ice Water ice Baby" rapper and former Surreal Life history star is no unknown to house servant disturbances.In 2001, he was arrested well-nigh Davie, Everglade State, for supposedly grabbing his wife's hair during a heated argument in the couple's gondola, just Laura declined to join forces with police and the casing was dropped.In recent epoch years he has gotten in trouble for a serial of motoring miscues and was fined afterwards his darling wallaroo and goat escaped and wandered around town.

Two films top the Oscars shortlist

The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced, with 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood' leading the short list with octad nominations each.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' have also received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow house physician Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a Best Thespian Oscar for his performance in 'There Volition Be Blood'.
The other nominees for C. H. Best Actor are: George V Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Rebel Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Lee Jones ('In the Valley of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The Best Actress shortlist is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Compete en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Supporting Worker ar: Casey Affleck ('The Blackwash of Jesse James River by the Sir Noel Pierce Coward Henry M. Robert Ford'), Javier Bardem ('No Nation for Old Men'), Duke of Edinburgh Jane Seymour Malvina Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War'), Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild') and Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish people teen Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Non There'), Ruby Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') make been nominated in the Best Support Actress category.
Shortlisted for Best Director ar: Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Vanessa Stephen and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul the Apostle St. Thomas Carl David Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The films nominated for Best Ikon are: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Country for Old Men', 'There Volition Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five films nominated for Best Foreign Cinema are: 'The Counterfeiters' (Oesterreich), 'Beaufort' (Yisrael), 'Katyn' (Republic of Poland), 'Mongol' (Kazakh) and '12' (Russia).
The nominees for C. H. Best Infotainment Feature ar: 'No End in Sight', 'Operation Homecoming: Composition the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Darkness Side' and 'War/Dance'.
The nominees for Best Animated Film are: 'Persepolis', 'Ratatouille' and 'Surf's Up'.
The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are: Saint Christopher Hampton ('Atonement'), Sarah Polley ('Away from Her'), Ronald Harwood ('The Dive Bell and the Butterfly'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Norman Mattoon Thomas Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are: Diablo William Frederick Cody ('Juno'), Nancy Oliver ('Lars and the Real Girl'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), January Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Shuttle ('Ratatouille') and Tamara Jenkins ('The Savages').
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