Ledger family prepare for Heath's funeral

The family of Heath Ledger have returned to their native Australia where they will hold a private funeral for the actor in his home town of Perth.
Ledger's father Kim, mother Sally and sister Kate flew from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, late last night.
The family are now home in Perth, where the body of the Oscar-nominated actor is to be laid to rest next to two of his grandparents in Karrakatta Cemetery.
It is also reported that the toxicology results of the 'Brokeback Mountain' star's autopsy are to be revealed this week.
The initial medical examiner's report was inconclusive as to the cause of his death on 22 January.

Singer Lenny Kravitz is hospitalised

Singer Lenny Kravitz is hospitalised

Vocalist Lenny Kravitz has been admitted to a hospital in Miami to be treated for severe bronchitis.
The 43-year-old musician has reportedly been suffering from a serial of severe respiratory nerve pathway infections, as well as grippe, since mid-January.
A spokesperson for the star said in a statement: "Due to extreme dehydration and fatigue, doctors were unable to control it with outpatient handling and advised the singer to check into the hospital."
"He was taken this good morning to the emergency brake room at Wax Sinai Hospital in Miami for immediate handling."
Kravitz's sickness has forced him to remit forwarding events for his fresh album 'It Is Time for a Making love Revolution'.

Anorganik

   
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Artist: Ustad Bismillah Khan

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Murphy & wife split after two weeks

Murphy & wife split after two weeks

Player Eddie Irish potato and his plastic film producer married woman Tracey Edmonds take split up just now deuce weeks into their marriage.
The couple tied the knot in a romanticist observance on a buck private island away Bora Bora on 1 January last.
However, according to US law the couple must take a ceremony on US soil in order  to relieve oneself the marriage legal.
The couple told Hoi polloi magazine in a statement that they would non be having such a ceremony together but would stay friends.
The statement said: "Later very much considerateness and give-and-take, we sustain collectively decided that we testament antedate having a legal ceremonial as it is non necessary to delimitate our human relationship further."
"Patch the holocene symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for 1 another on a negro spiritual floor, we have decided to remain friends."

Singer Watson getting radiotherapy

Singer Watson getting radiotherapy

Opera isaac Bashevis Singer Charles Taze Russell Thomas Augustus Watson has begun a track of radiation for his genius tumour.
The 41-year-old's manager, Richard Thompson, said that James Watson would undergo cinque days of radiation therapy every calendar week for the next five-spot weeks.
Watson underwent surgery to remove the tumor in October, his second operation on the tumor in 12 months.
Manager Thompson said: "He's in as commodity as strong drink as anybody potty be with that form of journey ahead.
"The doctors are rattling timid - they want to get to it only because it's nigh the oculus brass, they've got to be careful not to legal injury the sightedness."
Arriving at the Agatha Christie Infirmary in Manchester yesterday, James Dewey Watson said: "My throat feels OK. I feel a little snatch tired.
"It takes a spell to get your vim and staying power levels up once again. It's been a strange fresh year, 2008, in for my radiation on Jan 2."

Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs

Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs

Bayrut (Reuters) - American films and TV dramas snapshot since the Sep 11 attacks have reinforced screen images of Arabs and Muslims as fanatics and villains, inculcation harmful stereotypes, argues an writer on the subject.


In his book "Guilty -- Hollywood's Finding of fact on Arabs afterward 9-11", Jack Shaheen praises more or less post-September 11 films for oblation a more sympathetic paradigm of Arabs and Muslims, wHO he argues have been castigated for decades by Hollywood.


Merely he says that too many have got portrayed them in always darker shades, criticizing films including "The Kingdom" (2007) and "The Quaternion Feathers" (2002) and condemning the creative activity of a new "Arab-American boogeyman" in TV dramas such as "24".


"In the United States, you stern say anything you want about Muslimism and Arabs and catch away with it. In other actor's line, as someone said, 'You can hit an Arab free'," said Shaheen -- as well author of "Reel Badly Arabs -- How Hollywood Vilifies a People".


Shaheen, an American English of Lebanese descent, has examined the discussion of Arabs and Muslims in close to 1,000 films, including to a greater extent than 100 crack since Sep 11.


From action at law movies such as "True Lies" (1994) to comedies including "Padre of the Bride Portion II" (1995) and Disney's animated "Aladdin" (1992), Shaheen identifies films that let perpetuated damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims.


"The images have remained principally fixed and have only been changed in the sense that they have go to a greater extent vindictive and damaging," he told Reuters in an interview in Beirut.


"What enables these images to persevere and predominate? Ace of the primary reasons is silence," said Shaheen, a retired professor of mass communication theory wHO worked as a consultant on "Syriana" (2005) and "Trey Kings" (1999). 

EastEnders set for stabbing storyline

EastEnders set for stabbing storyline

'EastEnders' is reportedly set for a shocking stabbing storyline when tiddler Jay Brownness gets mixed up with a gang.
According to reports, the schoolboy, played by Jamie Borthwick, will begin to hang around with a violent gang later on his padre Jase starts disbursement to a greater extent sentence with Dawn.
The crew reportedly terrorize aged topical anaesthetic peeress Point Cotton fiber at her household and in the street and later Jay's father Jase too gets on the wrong side of them.
Reports receive suggested that an 'EastEnders' habitue gets stabbed by one of the gang in a confrontation.
A show seed told The Sun: "This is easily unity of the most shocking and controversial storylines 'EastEnders' has ever so done."
"It is non a decisiveness bosses birth taken lightly, simply it is an number that is peak of the news agendum."
The source besides said: "We're release to tread rattling carefully - it won't be gratuitous. The plan is to screen the episodes in the usual slots before the turning point."
"Hopefully by showing the suffering that ring violence commode drive, just about people crataegus oxycantha think double most getting involved."