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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
This stunning retrospective captures for the first time both the highlights and rarities of Sting's enduring solo career. The box set features:
- Three CDs with 45 re-mastered tracks personally curated by Sting.
- All of Sting's top 40 hits includingSeven Days, Englishman In New York, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, If I Ever Lose My Faith In You and Fields Of Gold.
- A DVD with previously unreleased footage of Sting's 2005 Irving plaza show.
- Hardcover book featuring intimate photos, lyrics and introduction by Sting.
An absolute must for any Sting fan, Sting: 25 Years is out now. Don't miss out - order your copy today!
COMING SOON - STING: THE BEST OF 25 YEARS!
2CDs with 31 remastered tracks, including several remixes and previously unreleased live versions of "Message In A Bottle," "Demolition Man" and "Heavy Cloud No Rain". Sting: The Best Of 25 Years is out on the 24th October.
On Monday, Sting will be appearing on CBS-TV's "Late Show with David Letterman"as a guest and the musical performer. Don't be too surprised if Sting winds-up performing on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" by Thanksgiving, too.
Universal Music UK's blog, Umusic, is a great way to keep up on new and old artists signed to Universal's eight well-known labels-including our old pal, Pixie Lott, of course, on Mercury Records, whose new album comes out in the U.K. on November 7th.
If you're interested in a knowledgeable contrast to the Obama-besotted American MSM, might I suggest you becoming familiar with Euronews? http://www.euronews.net/
Pixie Lott - Boys And Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7y1MdlXclM
Rejecting Ambassador Pixie Lott's'Boys And Girls'policy paradigm, two reporters at the New York Times and POLITICO's Ben Smith on his blog say that it was actually a case of "Boys against girls" over Libya in the Obama Cabinet.
IF this sort of story had happened under Bush 43, David Brooks would be saying that misplaced sentimentality had weighed-in at the worst possible moment, when clear-headed logic and action was what was necessary. But it's Obama, so... POLITICO.com Boys against girls over Libya? By Ben Smith March 20, 2011 pol There's been quite a bit of chatter today about the notion that a cadre of human-rights-minded women -- Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton -- fought and won an internal debate over Libya. But White House officials and close observers outside government pushed back hard on the idea of a crucial internal split Sunday, arguing that Obama was pressed to action not by the internal dynamic but by the situation on the ground. Read the rest of the post at: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Boys_against_girls_over_Libya.html
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New York Times Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton By Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers March 18, 2011 WASHINGTON — In a Paris hotel room on Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya.
Only the day before, Mrs. Clinton — along with her boss, President Obama — was a skeptic on whether the United States should take military action in Libya. But that night, with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces turning back the rebellion that threatened his rule, Mrs. Clinton changed course, forming an unlikely alliance with a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention.
Read the rest of the article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html But if it fails, will Susan Power ever be seen again on TV news chat shows while Obama is president? Or will that be blamed on Gen. Mullen? Hmm-m...
----- By the way, since it was NOT mentioned in the South Florida news media -and I looked- in the ramp-up to Obama's Latin America trip, Brazil abstained on the U.N. vote on Libya. It had a chance to do something of significance-it blinked. Again. And this is the country that actually wants to be a Permanent Member of the U.N. Security Council? Nej tack!!!
That my friends is why despite its large size and immense resources, Brazil remains firmly seated at the children's table, not the adult table, until further notice, no matter what the Miami Herald's reporters and columnists churn out by the barrels about their alleged grandness.
That perpetual adolescence plus, well, it's too self-congratulatory nature, and, frankly, being a country that most Americans could really care less about -because it has done so little that most Americans care about or respect, much less, what well-informed Americans care about or respect. Brazil is a very large Belgium, and Americans care not a whit about Belgium, either.
I will soon tell you in this space about a simple test those self-evident, self-promotingHerald reporters and columnists won't dare do publicly because it would so easily show the absurdity and emptiness of their grand pronouncements about Brazil. Like so many of their previous overwrought words about the importance of South America to the U.S. in the future, it just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
From interior designer and the founder of Modern Chic HomeJulie Thigpen's blog, belle maison, http://www.bellemaison23.com/ and specifically, the August 30th photo above:http://www.bellemaison23.com/2010/08/quote-of-week_30.html
A relaxing view, some shade, a slight breeze and cool drink, and a comfortable chaise lounge chair to read and nap in before an al fresco meal with some good friends. That's the life for me!
Am I relaxing in Dorset or near Pixie Lott's home in Essex or somewhere in the Stockholm archipelago? Or even south of Göteborgin our very own doppelgänger ofHallands län? http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands_l%C3%A4n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halland_County
Not entirely sure, but I am certain sure of some things: No heat, no humidity, no sudden downpours, no buzzing cell phones! http://www.modernchichome.com/ http://www.bloglovin.com/en/home/us/0/1/
Some great suggestions from Julie: http://www.thedecorista.com/2010/05/six-to-bliss-julie-thigpen-edition.html
The latest PixieLott video from August 23rd performing "Easy" at the V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apIuIr8eK8
http://www.youtube.com/user/pixielott
More 2010 V Festival videos and interviews at: http://www.vfestival.com/
Below, the TV commercial that'll be running during the Super Bowl 44 telecast on Sunday. Robin Hood opens nationally May 14th, 2010.
Starring: Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian, William Hurt as William Marshall, Mark Strong as Sir Godfrey, Mark Addy as Friar Tuck, Oscar Isaac as Prince John, Danny Huston as King Richard, Eileen Atkins as Eleanor of Aquitaine, with Max von Sydow. Directed by Ridley Scott
http://www.robinhoodthemovie.com/
Below, the longer trailer I previously posted here.
Matthew Macfadyen, who plays The Sheriff of Nothingham in Robin Hood is an actor I've been following for quite a while, as he is almost always pitch-perfect in every role he plays. He first came to my attention when he was so compelling as the brilliant but emotionally conflicted MI-5 agent Tom Quinn in TV's Spooks (MI-5), and then played Mr. Darcy in the terrific 2006 film production I loved of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, opposite the beautiful and beguiling Keira Knightley.
More recently he was fabulous as the lead of Arthur Clennam in the Andrew Davies adaption of the BBC-1 TV miniseries of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, which was telecast here on PBS as part of Masterpiece Classic, which, in my opinion, may've been the single best thing on TV last year. It deserved to win the 2009 Emmy for Best Miniseries it garnered. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/index.html
The quality of every single episode was so amazing that I just hated when it came to an end on Sunday nights and I had to wait another week to see what happened. I may've even loved it more than I did Cranford, which is saying something. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/cranford/index.html
Months later, I was somewhat surprised to discover how many people I knew who confessed to me that, while they don't "usually watch PBS," they got hooked on this production because it was so damn believable.
If you agree, be sure to watch writer Andrew Davies discuss the characters and his adaption of Dickens here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/slideshow.html
Next Masterpiece Classic program is Northanger Abbey, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/northangerabbey/index.html
As if being so good in top-rate TV shows and films wasn't enough to create envy, Matthew Macfadyen is also the husband of the fabulous actress Keeley Hawes, who was MI5 agent Zoe in Spooks and who more recently starred in BBC America'sAshes to Ashes.
Keeley, as a brunette, is exactly like the girl I married in a recurring dream I had when I was in high school in North Miami Beach, and life here in hum-drum South Florida was just too boring to contemplate when I wasn't involved with sports or politics. In my dream, she and I lived in Essex but commuted to the City for our great jobs, me in advertising and her in film/TV. In later dreams, we had a daughter that looked a bit like, well, Romola Garai -who just playedEmma- but who sings more like Essex's own adorable Pixie Lott. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/emma/index.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/emma/watch.html
Thanks a Lott, Pixie: Students in her home town get a music lesson in the form of a free gig http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1248806/Thanks-Lott-Pixie-students-home-town-music-lesson-form-free-gig.html
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