Brandy will not face crash charges

Brandy will not face crash charges

Grammy Award-winning vocalist and actress Brandy testament non face charges in a Dec 2006 car barge in in Los Angeles that killed a 38-year-old woman.
Police force had recommended that the former star of the TV comedy 'Moesha', whose real refer is Brandy Norwood, facial expression vehicular manslaughter charges in the four-vehicle crash.
The incident began when Brandy's Land Rover struck another gondola from behind on an LA thruway.
A interpreter for the LA Metropolis Lawyer said that there was insufficient evidence from which a jury could find the 28-year-old guilty beyond a reasonable question.
Brandy had been veneer up to one twelvemonth in poky and a $1,000 very well if charged and convicted of vehicular manslaughter for the 30 Dec 2006 crash.
Relatives of Awatef Aboudihaj, world Health Organization was killed in the crash, give birth filed a $50m wrongful death cause against the headliner.
Investigators ruled come out of the closet alcohol and drugs as factors in the crash and said in that respect was no grounds that Brandy, world Health Organization was only in her car, was victimisation a cell earphone or was otherwise distracted.
Brandy bristle on the recording scene in 1994 and north Korean won a Grammy in 1998 for her duet with singer Monica on the hit song 'The Boy is Mine'. Her quartern album, 'Afrodisiac', was released in 2004.

Trespasser scare at Brad Pitt's house

Trespasser scare at Brad Pitt's house

According to police reports a 25-year-old man was arrested yesterday at the Los Angeles home of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their four children.
Ship's officer Karen Adam Smith said a




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Doo doo doo: 'Smoke on the Water' still top riff

Doo doo doo: 'Smoke on the Water' still top riff

I almost died from superbug says Burke

I almost died from superbug says Burke

Actress Kathy Calamity Jane has revealed that she intimately died after catching a superbug in hospital.
The 43-year-old




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Jade is voted out of BB: Celebrity Hijack

Jade is voted out of BB: Celebrity Hijack

Beaut queen Nag has go the low gear contestant to be voted out of 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack'.
The 21-year-old moult a snap when she was told that she had doomed come out of the closet in the populace

Joe Dolan remembered in Mullingar

Joe Dolan remembered in Mullingar

To a greater extent than 2,000 multitude gathered at the Duomo of The Nazarene the King in Mullingar for the funeral of the singer and entertainer Joe Dolan.
Among the start to come at the funeral this dawn were leading figures in the Irish people amusement manufacture, including  Paddy Kail, Dicky-seat Rock, Ronnie John Drew, Brendan Goodwill and Oliver Barry.
The homily at the Dirge Raft was delivered by the Fr Brian Darcy.
The mourners heard how the 68-year-old singer secretly gave tens of thousands of euro to the poor during his career.
Speech production to a assemblage at the Cathederal, Fr Darcy said Dolan had wanted the donations to persist buck private throughout his liveliness.
Fr Darcy said that Dolan and his band were pioneers of the Celtic language Tiger epoch because they brought pleasure and amusement to a very dull country in the sixties.
The interment after the funeral mass was in Walshestown Necropolis.

Into the Wild leads Actors Guild nominations

Into the Wild leads Actors Guild nominations

The nominations for the Screen Actors Social club Awards let been announced with the Sean Penn-directed 'Into the Wild' lead the shortlist.
The film's principal, Emile Hirsch, is nominated for the Best Actor awarding, with co-stars Hal Holbrook and Catherine of Aragon Keener shortlisted in the Best Supporting Player and Actress categories severally.
The cast of 'Into the Wild' ar also nominated for the C. H. Best Cast honor.
Shortlisted with Hirsch for Best Histrion ar George Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Daniel Day-Lewis ('There Will Be Blood'), Ryan Gosling ('Lars and the Real Girl') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Agatha Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Vie en Rose'), Angelina Jolie ('A Powerful Heart') and Ellen Page ('Juno') are nominated for Topper Actress.
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Mischa Barton to arrive in Belfast tonight

Mischa Barton to arrive in Belfast tonight

Former 'OC' star Mischa Barton is due to arrive in Capital of Northern Ireland tonight for the public premier of unity of the biggest movies to be filmed in the metropolis.
The glamorous Hollywood champion, world Health Organization played troubled adolescent Marissa Peter Cooper in 'The OC', will join Academy Award winners Richard Attenborough and Shirley MacLaine at the premiere of the romantic wartime heroic poem 'Closing the Ring' tomorrow night in the city.
The picture, directed by Attenborough, was shot in Belfast last twelvemonth and tells the tragic story of a doughnut establish on a alfred Hawthorne overlooking the city 50 geezerhood subsequently an American B-17 bomber crashed at that place.
Spanning deuce continents and over five-spot decades, it emerges the last death wish of the artilleryman was that he wanted the ring returned to his girl in United States of America.
Oscar winner Brenda Fricker and acclaimed actors Pete Postlethwaite, Neve Joseph Campbell and St. Christopher Plummer ar as well among the cast.
The pic is loosely-based on real events surrounding the doss down of an American hoagie which was returning to its base in Nutts Corner near Antrim.
The motion-picture show, role of which is set in North Carolina, was also filmed in Toronto.
The securing of the pic was a major coup for the Northern Irish Republic Film and Television system Commissioning which has since been able to attract a number of high profile screen projects to the city by converting an old paint hallway in Capital of Northern Ireland docks into the Titanic Film Studio.
Billhook Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and Tim Jerome Robbins slam the children's science fiction epic poem 'City of Ember' in Capital of Northern Ireland this year and histrion Ben Kingsley, world Health Organization north Korean won an Academy Award in the championship role of Attenborough's 'Gandhi', is presently shooting 'Man on the Run' about an IRA rat.
'Closing the Ring' has already boosted the vocation of Belfast actor Marty McCann, wHO, on the durability of his execution, landed an audition with Steven Steven Spielberg and then a office in the review to the television series 'Band of Brothers'.
Stormont Civilisation Pastor Edwin Poots and Economy Diplomatic minister Nigel Dodds volition tomorrow host a lunchtime reception for the movie's stars.
As the Hollywood team arrived in the city, 'Closing the Ring's producer, Belfast-based Jo William Gilbert, radius of her pridefulness over Northern Ireland's role in the making of the movie.
"With the majority of 'Closing the Ring' crack on location in Capital of Northern Ireland, including the Cave Alfred Hawthorne, the eastern United States and north of the city as well as filming on the stages of the Titanic Studios and at Bangor's Clandeboye Estate, it proves that Northern Irish Republic has strong certification as a film making hot spot," she said.
Find out Richard Attenborough's interview on 'The Tardily Late Show' here.

Hudson cast in Secret Life of Bees

Hudson cast in Secret Life of Bees

Oscar victor Jennifer W. H. Hudson, King Latifah and Sophie Okonedo ar to star in the big cRT screen version of the Sue Thelonious Sphere Monk Kidd novel 'The Secret Biography of Bees'.
Form reports that Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys ar too in negotiations to join the plastic film, which tells the level of a 14-year-old wHO runs away from home and is taken guardianship of by trinity eccentric person beekeeping sisters.
Shooting on the celluloid is due to begin on 9 January in North Carolina.
'The Secret Life of Bees' is due out later this class.