Week in Review: Gold Medals Not Won By Michael Phelps

Inspired by the motivational lyricism of Lil Wayne, swimmer Michael Phelps has already scored an astonishing six gold medals at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, dominating not just his sport but also headlines and TV coverage. Did anyone else do anything interesting this week? Yes! At an untelevised ceremony, gold medals were awarded in the following events:

100m Boycott: Disability groups disturbance over Simple Jack.

Individual All-Around Crappy Songwriting: Katy Perry.

Men's Heavy-Weight Garage-Emptying: Billy Joel.

Sex-Scene Directing: Woody Allen.

Synchronized Surprise Awesomeness: the Jonas Brothers.

Men's Mid-Weight Hammy Acting: Samuel L. Jackson in The Spirit.

Unexpected Job-Having: McLovin.

Bat-Eating: Jack Black in Tropic Thunder.

French-Horn-Hating: New York Times.

Astonishing Pop-Cultural Ignorance: Anthony Lane.

400m Appearance-Faking: MF Doom, Yang Peiyi (tie).

50m Finger-Blast: Don Draper.

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Losoul

   
Artist: Losoul

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Getting Even

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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The make of dance music Germany's Peter Kremeier produces as Losoul is a cross of the several strains of house he has been open to since a stripling during the recent '80s, all the patch adding a dollop of his possess playful innovation. While Kremeier's material has been thrown in with the residue of the typeset dubbed micro-house, his work doesn't fall victim to the pseudo-style's occasional tendency to pass into prissiness. After a series of six-spot singles for Playhouse scattered between 1996 and 2000, Kremeier released his first full-length with Belong. The record book was released the same year as his labelmate Isolée's Rest, which truly received a lot of attention in the entreat -- just alas, this possibly stole some of the thunder from Belong's greatness and overshadowed it. Kremeier, world Health Organization is frequently united by vocalizer Malte, has as well worked under the Don Disco false name.

Reido

   
Artist: Reido

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Doom
   

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Discography:


   
 F:all

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5

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Icone

   
Artist: Icone

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 Singles And Remix

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 40


   
 Invisible (Inc Six Senses Remix)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


   
 The way home (original mix)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Sintra Incl Nick Bennison Remix Vinyl

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


   
 Astra

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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Charles Randolph celebrates 'Birthday'

To adapt Stanley N. Alpert's nonfiction work

Talk about a surprise party.


United Artists has hired writer Charles Randolph to adapt Stanley N. Alpert's nonfiction work, "The Birthday Party."


In "The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival," Alpert, a former assistant U.S. attorney, describes the 25-hour kidnapping ordeal he endured in a Brooklyn apartment in 1998 the night before his 38th birthday. Randolph already has filed a draft.


Meanwhile, UA will shoot additional scenes for its second film, the Tom Cruise-starrer "Valkyrie," next month, with a February release planned. The studio has a handful of additional films nearing a greenlight and several others, including "Ranger's Apprentice" and "An Ordinary Spy."


Randolph is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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NBC boosts sports stable with acquisition

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC Sports is taking a further step into Olympic sports with the acquisition of World Championship Sports Network, a small television network and online site that televises year-round competitions.


The 3-year-old Los Angeles-based company, which is owned by InterMedia Partners, will be known as Universal Sports. NBC Universal has made an unspecified investment in the company and will jointly control it with InterMedia Partners. Universal Sports will continue to be run by its management team, Claude Ruibal and Carlos Silva.


WCSN has rights deals with most but not all Olympic sports, including track and field, gymnastics, swimming, World Cup skiing, beach volleyball and curling. It doesn't have the rights to World Cup soccer, figure skating or tennis, however.


The partnership kicks off Thursday and Friday with coverage of early-round Olympics trials in gymnastics and diving.


"The whole vision of this is that we can give the fans 24/7 access to these sports," Silva said.


The TV channel has about 2 million subscribers, with coverage in such smaller markets as Buffalo, N.Y., and Detroit. Ruibal said he hopes the association with NBC Universal will help the channel to build distribution, though it likely won't have a place in the extensive coverage NBC Universal is planning for the Summer Games in Beijing.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Hugh like Austin Powers: Hurley

Elizabeth Hurley is convinced she would be a mother of five if she had continued her romance with Hugh Grant because the pair met when they were in their early 20s, imdb.com reports.

Hurley, 43, and Grant, 47, dated for 13 years before parting ways in 2000 � but the pair remain close friends and confidants to this day.

And the pals even joke they would now be parents to an enormous brood if they hadn�t chosen to end their relationship.

Hurley tells the July issue of Harper�s Bazaar magazine, �Sometimes Hugh and I can get morbid and say we could have had five children by now because we were together since we were 21.

�There was never a time when either of us wanted it.�

But the Bedazzled star, who has been married to Indian businessman Arun Nayar for a year, insists she would like to see Grant finally settle down.

She adds: �Women flock to Hugh. He�s like Austin Powers. Everyone worships him.�

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