Winslet steps in for pregnant Nicole

Kate Winslet has stepped in to replace pregnant Nicole Kidman in World War II drama 'The Reader' after the Australian star was forced to pull out of the film earlier this week.
Kidman confirmed yesterday that she is expecting a baby with her husband Keith Urban.
The star withdrew from 'The Reader' after learning of her pregnancy. She was due to begin shooting with director Stephen Daldry later this month
Winslet, who was originally offered the role but had to decline because the shoot clashed with her commitments to upcoming film 'Revolutionary Road', has now signed up to star in the movie opposite Ralph Fiennes.

Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea

Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea

Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in the secretive state of North Dae-Han-Min-Gook, it emerged yesterday.
Rock and crop up possess been banned in the world's well-nigh isolated land because of fears over western influences.
Simply the legendary English singer and guitar player has been asked to perform in the capital Capital of North Korea next year, according to the Financial Times.
Diplomats believe the feeler shows that the communist state wants to build cultural harry Bridges with the Due west, even though discussions over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in rule to the idea, according to the newsprint.
The request comes as the Freshly House of York Philharmonic performs in Capital of North Korea followers a request from the country's officials.
The Symphony is the low gear major US cultural mathematical group to perform in Magnetic north Korean Peninsula, which US President St. George Bush classed as function of the "axis of evilness".
The Magnetic north Korean State Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform in Capital of the United Kingdom this summer as part of the orchestra's biggest of all time circuit, and Clapton has been invited to the state in return.
A Second Earl of Guilford Korean official told the Financial Times: "We desire our euphony to be understood by the western earth and we want our people to see western music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked fourth part in Pealing Stone Magazine's list of the hundred Greatest Guitarists of Totally Clock time.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll up Hall of Fame an unprecedented trey times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.




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Lou Pearlman sentenced to 25 years

Lou Pearlman sentenced to 25 years

Boy striation maker swindled $300 mil





Orlando -- Lou Pearlman, the adult male wHO created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Synchronize, was sentenced Midweek to 25 long time in federal soldier prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life sentence nest egg.
It was the maximum sentence the male child ring mogul could receive for allegedly swindling more or less $300 million from investors and banks since the early 1980s.
He pleaded guilty in Mar to two counts of confederacy and single counts of money laundering and presenting a traitorously claim in bankruptcy court.
U.S. Dominion Evaluate G. Edward Kendall Sharp noted that many victims were Pearlman's relatives, friends and retirees in their 70s or 80s world Health Organization lost everything.
"The sympathy constituent just doesn't break away very high with the court," Sharp said.
Still, the judge said he would reduce Pearlman's sentence by single calendar month for every $1 billion returned to investors. It wasn't pass how, or if, investors would of all time be compensated.
"I want to aver clearly that there's no tummy of amber out there," department of Defense lawyer John Fletcher Peacock butterfly said.
Prosecutors aver Pearlman scammed individuals come out of an estimated $200 jillion, and sir Joseph Banks out of another $100 million.
The court was packed with victims, some of whom gave emotional testimony. Another two dozen or so waited outside.
"Over the past times nine months since my halt, I've come to realise the scathe that's been done," Pearlman said in a short court statement. "I'm truly sorry and I excuse for what's happened."
Peacock said Pearlman meant to pay back whole the investors, and noted he had returned about $103 million.
He said Pearlman got caught up in lawsuits -- too alleged fraudulent business practices -- over his other than successful amusement ventures in the nineties that prevented him from returning the money.