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Trans World Entertainment to Host Second Quarter 2008 Results Conference Call

ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trans World
Entertainment Corporation (Nasdaq: TWMC) announced today that it testament host
a teleconference call for members of the financial community on Thursday,
August 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM ET to discuss its press release, which will be
issued on the same day before the market opens, regarding its second
quarter 2008 fiscal results. This call volition be simultaneously webcast at
the Company's website, hTTP://www.twec.com.

Trans World Entertainment is a leading speciality retailer of
entertainment software program, including music, video and video games and related
products. The Company operates nearly 800 retail stores in the United
States, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico,
primarily under the names f.y.e. for your entertainment and Suncoast and on
the web at http://www.fye.com, http://www.wherehouse.com, http://www.secondspin.com,
http://www.samgoody.com and hypertext transfer protocol://www.suncoast.com.

Certain statements in this release set forth management's intentions,
plans, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the next based on current
facts and analyses. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated in such statements. Additional information on factors that may
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Fox seeks to stop WB's "Watchmen" after court win

LOS ANGELES () - Twentieth Century Fox aforementioned on Monday it volition seek an injunction to block release of the Warner Bros movie "Watchmen" after a Los Angeles court ruled a copyright lawsuit against Warner

Cbs - Network Ratings Plunge

The TV networks offered up a night of virtually uninterrupted reruns Monday night
-- and saw their ratings plunge to their lowest level of the year as a result. Fox
led the pack with an average 5.0 rating and an 8 share. CBS averaged a 4.8/8. ABC
placed third with a 3.9/7 and NBC trailed with a 3.5/6. The highest-rated show of
the night was CBS's Two and a Half Men with a 5.8/10; the lowest-rated was
ABC's The Mole with a 2.7/5.

17/06/2008

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"Must Read" a must-see documentary

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fans of the fascinating documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" might want to take a gander at "Must Read After My Death," which is in competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival.


Like that earlier film, this one incorporates a wealth of home movies and audio tapes to document the behavior of a dysfunctional family over a period of years. The secrets revealed here are not quite as shocking as the hints of child molestation captured in "Friedmans." Still, this is an equally intriguing and unsettling look at the turmoil hidden behind the white picket fences of suburbia.


Charley and Allis were married after World War II and raised four children in Hartford, Conn. (Their last name is not given because of privacy concerns by their surviving children.) They seemed to have a compulsive desire to document their lives because they left thousands of feet of home movies as well as numerous tape recordings that chronicle their problems. Some of the recordings were made at the behest of their psychiatrist, who reinforced the prejudices of the era regarding a woman's place in the home.


Although Allis was a strong-willed woman, she was encouraged to subordinate her own needs to those of her husband, a drinker and philanderer. Their children suffered as a result of this psychodrama. Two of them were sent to mental institutions, and one of them died as a teenager. Eventually, Charley also died under mysterious circumstances, after Allis confronted him about his failings.


Technically, the film is limited by the quality of the home movie footage, but it remains engrossing, if not quite as explosive as "Friedmans." The director, Morgan Dews, happens to be the couple's grandson, and he was granted access to the tapes after Allis' death.


Given the resistance to documentaries at the box office, the film will find only a limited audience. But that audience will be riveted.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Martial

   
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Scarlet Johansson's On-screen Kiss With Penelope Cruz

David Torn / Bebo Baldan

   
Artist: David Torn / Bebo Baldan

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Rock: Electronic
   

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 Earthbeat

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 5

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Aconite Thrill

An Sook-Sun

   
Artist: An Sook-Sun

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Ethnic
   

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 Knowing the Sound

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10

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James Mcavoy - Mcavoy Let Jolie Take Kissing Control

R.E.M. picks up the pace with 'Accelerate'

Touring behind “Accelerate,” their most frantic, euphoric album in two decades, R.E.M. is a band recharged. Unlike the last few efforts, R.E.M.’s 14th album is meant to be played live - which makes sense considering it was partly written and arranged during five shows at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, last summer.
Affable and psyched for the road, guitarist Peter Buck got on the phone in his home in Seattle to tell us just what to expect at Friday’s show at the Comcast Center - and why the band’s previous album was like “invading Iraq.”
Herald: Most of “Accelerate” is made up of short, simple, upbeat rock songs, seemingly great songs to play live. Are there any that just aren’t working on the tour?



Buck: “Sing for the Submarine” may be the one we don’t play every day because it’s the longest and the hardest to get right. It’s the one where we’re all listening to each other but not playing with each other. We’ve all got a different part that interlocks with the others and if one person is off a little bit it sounds like the preverbal train wreck. But that’s the exception.
The songs on the new album started out long but were shortened and speeded up. Why the need to tighten “Accelerate” down to 11 songs in 34 minutes?
(Bassist) Mike (Mills) was saying on the last tour that all the songs are way better live than on the record. So he suggested we play all the songs live before we record them. In Dublin we played them for five days and it really helped. We realized which songs needed to be faster, which ones could lose a verse or chorus.
Is the tautness of the new album a direct response to what went wrong with the previous one, “Around the Sun?”
Yeah, to a certain degree. For me it was more the way that Mike and (singer) Michael (Stipe) had been guiding us to work in the studio. It drove me insane. It didn’t work on the last record and everyone realized it by the end of the recording. So my whole feeling was to be really positive, “Hey guys, we’re a great band. We can do this, but we can’t do it like that.” For me, it was a matter of focus.
And the last record didn’t have focus?
The last record was like invading Iraq. We didn’t know what we wanted to accomplish. We didn’t know what winning would be. We had no way of getting out of it once we started it. It was kind of adisaster. This record we knew what we wanted to accomplish. We’d written the songs, we’d played them live, we knew we wanted it to be really pointed and concise.
This tour is almost like a little festival. How did you decide on Modest Mouse and the National as openers?
We always pick our opening bands and we really like those bands. The only question was, is it something our fans would be into? I think it’d be great to have a free jazz band open for us, but I don’t know if anyone would like it. They’d probably say, ‘(Expletive) these guys for bringing this (expletive) here.’ With these openers we don’t all do the same thing but we still complement each other.
A lot of the press you’ve gotten lately has been along the lines of the old R.E.M. is back. Does this mean we’ll be hearing “Radio Free Europe” or other ’80s songs?
In Dublin we made a point of playing really old, obscure stuff that we never play. That was really fun, but I’m not sure how many people know that stuff. (Laughs) But we do know how to play it. We’ll have 80 or 90 songs to pick from. We’ll try to keep it so there’ll be different stuff every show. There are the four or five songs we always play at big shows, “Losing My Religion” and “Man on the Moon” and such. But if we do those and the whole new record we’ve still got an hour to play.
With such a fast, rushing record, do you worry the songs will become messy blurs in concert?
Some of them we don’t need to worry about speeding up because we just can’t play them any faster. (Laughs) But my job is to accompany the singer and the song. If I can’t get the song across because of tempo then I’m not doing my job.

Probe 7

   
Artist: Probe 7

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Drum & Bass
   

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 Partisan (PART008)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 2

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Drew Barrymore tells Oprah about new romance

Actors Drew Barrymore and Justin Long joined Oprah Winfrey yesterday to talk about their new romance.
'Die Hard 4' star Long sat in the audience as Barrymore was interviewed by Winfrey.
When asked about her relationship with Long, Barrymore said: "It's the best. This relationship is great; it's healthy and it's productive and it's supportive and it's full of humour."
Barrymore's production company, Flower Films, is producing Long's new film, 'He's Just Not That Into You', which also stars Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson.
When asked what he loved about the actress, Long said: "She smells great... (and) she's the most compassionate person I've ever met."
Twice-divorced Barrymore then added: "All our friends get along great, which is awesome because we travel together in packs. We're having an excellent time."
Thirty-three-year-old Barrymore was previously married to Jeremy Thomas, whom she divorced in 1995, and later married comedian Tom Green before the couple divorced in 2002.

Tom Waits returns to the road with searing two-hour set

PHOENIX - Tom Waits doesn't play live very often, so when he does, it's an event.

The elusive musician began his Glitter and Doom tour Tuesday with a searing two-hour set that traipsed through his 20-album catalogue. The show at the Orpheum Theater is the first of 28 Waits plans to play in the United States and Europe.

Waits rewarded fans with a non-stop set of familiar and re-imagined tracks from throughout his 35-year recording career.

Wearing a grey three-piece suit and a black bowler, Waits twisted and trembled as he sang, wringing his gruff trademark growl from every cell of his body. He stomped his feet, wagged his fingers and flailed his arms, conducting his band with subtle hand gestures all the while.

Waits anchored the spare stage, decorated only with coloured light and a backdrop of broken bullhorns and dismembered brass instruments. His shadow loomed large behind him.

The 58-year-old singer-songwriter embodied as many onstage personas as his work does musical genres. He was a passionate preacher and the audience his congregation on the bluesy "Jesus Gonna Be Here" from 1992's "Bone Machine." Moments later, he was an animated ringleader on the polka-flavoured "Rain Dogs," from the 1985 album of the same name.

He was a defiant rock 'n' roller strapped with a guitar on the rebellious "Goin' Out West," a lonely bluesman on "Anywhere I Lay My Head" and an old-fashioned crooner on a jazzy interpretation of "Murder in the Red Barn."

He played half a dozen songs from 1999's "Mule Variations," including the heartfelt ballad "Picture in a Frame" and the tongue-in-cheek Messianic tribute, "Chocolate Jesus," which he sang through a bullhorn.

Sitting at the grand piano, Waits reached back 30 years to sing "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" and 20 for "You're Innocent When You Dream."

Waits peppered his set with playful banter, responding to shouts from the audience and explaining a ridiculous formula for calculating the weather without a thermometer. And he took time out for fun, donning a disco-ball bowler hat just to enjoy the light effects. But he didn't stray from the music for long, packing more than two dozen tunes into a set that was sure to satisfy any fans that made the trip.

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'I made Madonna cry like a baby. She cried for a long time'

Pharrell Williams admitted he reduced Madonna to a sobbing wreck while working on her recent album 'Hard Candy'.

The producer said he made the icon cry like a baby during recording sessions for the record.

"I totally made her cry like. Like a baby. I had to get her a towel," he told The Shortlist. "We were alone recording the album and she kept talking a lot of rubbish, so I shouted a lot of rubbish and she started crying her eyes out."

The N.E.R.D man admitted he had been quite nasty to Madonna, but said he had no plans to make their scrap public until the singer spoke about it herself.

"I just said some really nasty stuff, I guess. And yeah, she cried for a really long time actually," he said. "To be honest I can't believe she told someone about it. The whole situation was quite intense. It's totally weird to make Madonna sob, but even stranger when she tells everyone, 'Pharrell made me cry'.

In the meantime, check out Williams' collaboration with The Strokes' Julian Casablancas and Santogold.

To listen to the song head to Pharrell Williams' artist page now, scroll down, then launch the Media Player.