Melanie C Expecting Her First Child

Melanie Chisholm is meaning with her first kid and plain announced the news yesterday (August 21) along with her partner Thomas Starr.

As Chisholm is the last of the girl band to have children, a source tells The Mirror: "Melanie loved being around their kids on the band's recent spell and is delighted she's now i of the gang."

"Melanie is over the moon at the candidate of seemly a mum for the first time," the source added.

Chisholm latterly ruled out another Spice Girls spell, after the band reformed for a world tour.

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Artist: Tony Scott: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Folk New Age     Discography:      Yoga Meditation    Year: 1964    Tracks: 9      Music for Zen Meditation    Year: 1964    Tracks: 9 Since going New York in 1959, Tony Scott (a whirligig bebop-oriented clarinetist) has been an bore domain traveler world Health Organization enjoys exploring the folks music of other countries. Unfortunately, his post-1959 recordings take been few, far between, difficult-to-locate, and sometimes world-wide, just Scott was an unheralded initiate in both domain music and new eld. Tony Scott tended to Juilliard during 1940-1942, played at Minton's Playhouse, and then later trey years in the military he became one of the few clarinetists to play bop. His coolheaded pure tone (heard at its topper on a 1950 Sarah Vaughan academic term that as well includes Miles Davis) stood stunned from the more than hard-driving playing of Buddy DeFranco. Scott worked with a spacious variety of major players (including Ben Webster, Trummy Young, Earl Bostic, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill, Buddy Rich, and Billie Holiday), lED his have record dates (among his sidemen were Dizzy Gillespie and a loretta Young Bill Evans) which ranged from bebop and cool to free improvisations (all ar presently hard to settle), and graded with DeFranco at the whirligig of his field. Regrettably the clarinet was non exactly a popular legal document in the fifties (as opposed to during the swing era) and Tony Scott remained an obscure identify out-of-door of jazz circles. In 1959, he gave up on the U.S. and began wide tours of the Far East. He played Eastern hellenic euphony, recorded meditation music for Verve, and, other than some brief visits to the U.S, has lived in Italy since the 1970s where he has sometimes experimented with electronics.

The Clay Baby Is Born

Good news, Claymates: The Claynation has welcomed its first heir.

Clay Aiken and platonic baby-making partner Jaymes Foster welcomed their first-class honours degree child together in North Carolina this morning.

"I'm sure you know...I hate putt the cast off before the horse," AIken wrote on his land site. "Not my way to tempt fate. But I wanted to stop by, if only for a second, so you could be the first folk I tell...HE'S HERE!

"My darling friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken (No hyphens. One first name. One middle name. One last name)."

Aiken also confirmed what his mother, Faye Aiken, let slip earlier this morning.

"Parker was natural at a hospital in North Carolina just this morning at 8:08 a.m. Wow...8:08...08/08/08," he wrote, adding that the tyke tipped the scales at 6 pounds, 2 ounces and measured in at 19 inches.

"The little man is healthy, felicitous, and as loud as his dad. Mama Jaymes is doing quite easily also. The Aiken kin, the Foster family, and the Parker family are all thrilled."

Parker is the surname of Aiken's belated stepfather, whom the singer has oftentimes credited with helping raise him.

The American Idol alum's mother turned proud nanna was the very first to announce the new arrival this morning, phoning in to Raleigh wireless station WRAL.

The elder Aiken said the newborn did not inherit dad's flaming red mop up, instead dissipated dark hair. Upon seeing his progeny, the "Measure of a Man" isaac Merrit Singer was "grinning from ear to ear," she said.

Foster's pregnancy was confirmed in May by a rep for her brother, fabled music top banana David Foster. He verified what everyone was intellection and proclaimed that the "couple" had conceived the child through and through in vitro fertilization.

Aiken, 29, and Jaymes Foster, whose age has been pegged somewhere around the 50-year mark, take been friends for years. She worked on several Aiken albums, including A Thousand Different Ways and On My Way Here.

Although theirs is not a romantic kinship, the duet plan to raise the baby together.

(Originally published on Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:05 a.m. PT.)

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Lohan's mother set for own TV show

Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina and sister Ali are to star in a new reality TV show.
Reuters reports that the series, which has the working title 'Living Lohan', will follow the mother as she works on her 14-year-old daughter's career in showbusiness.
The series will begin this summer on the E! network.
E! said the programme would "follow Dina as she works double duty as mom and manager to help Ali try to follow in her big sister's famous footsteps".
Commenting on the series, Lisa Berger, Executive Vice President of Original Programming for E!, said Dina Lohan was "an incredibly hard-working, passionate mom that I think our viewers will find both relatable and highly entertaining".

Tim Russert: is warmly remembered on 'Meet the Press' on Sunday

NEW YORK - Tim Russert's chair was empty on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, two days after his unexpected death.

But Russert was very much present on the full-hour tribute to this giant of political journalism who hosted NBC's public-affairs program for more than 16 years.

"His voice has been stilled," began Tom Brokaw, who led the conversation, "and our issue this sad Sunday morning is remembering and honouring our colleague and our friend ...."

Brokaw and a half-dozen others were seated in front of the "Meet the Press" set and its angular table, left vacant, where Russert had presided as recently as last week.

Brokaw noted that Russert had a large wooden sign in his office that read: "Thou Shalt Not Whine," which Brokaw then supplemented with "Thou shalt not weep or cry this morning. This is a celebration."

But a bit later he choked up, recalling Russert's words of awe at how far a working-class kid from Buffalo like himself could rise: "What a country!" he would marvel.

Among those gathered were presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and political pundit Mary Matalin, with Maria Shriver - the former NBC News correspondent and currently California's first lady - on a remote hookup.

All agreed that Russert was tough but fair in his interviewing, and that he, as a former political operative himself, loved politics and politicians.

What he didn't like, said consultant-pundit James Carville, was an elected official or anybody else who wasn't prepared to face him.

"The biggest insult to him was someone who came on and ... didn't take the show seriously," Carville said.

It was a mistake they quickly regretted, because Russert took his stewardship of "Meet the Press" as a sacred trust.

"He would spend all week preparing," said executive producer Betsy Fischer.

PBS' Gwen Ifill, a former NBC correspondent, called the program "The Church of Tim."

"I would actually get a pass from my own pastor to not be in church on Sunday if I was gonna be on 'Meet the Press,"' she said with a smile.

MSNBC commentator Mike Barnicle added that Russert's son, Luke, had told him the day before that the program was "Tim's second son."

However fitting Sunday's tribute, it was a cruel irony that Russert had become the big story, particularly in the midst of a like-no-other presidential race that he was covering with his customary gusto.

Guests he had planned to grill Sunday were senior officials from both campaigns.

All that changed with Russert's death from a heart attack Friday. He was stricken while preparing for the broadcast at his network's Washington bureau.

NBC aired a prime-time tribute Friday night, then devoted Saturday's "Today" show to his life and career. His passing dominated rival cable-news networks and news-talk shows.

Russert was the face of political news for NBC as well as cable sibling MSNBC, serving as chief political analyst, a frequent correspondent and an election-night fixture, besides his off-camera duties as NBC News' Washington bureau chief.

He had become almost synonymous with the top-rated "Meet the Press," the TV institution he reinvented while becoming an institution himself.

He had been its host since 1991 when the show, the longest-running on television, already was in its 45th year.

Several tape montages on Sunday's tribute displayed Russert in action, pressing subjects from Ross Perot to Louis Farrakhan. Politicos including John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton were seen telling Russert they had no interest in running for the White House.

The abrupt void Russert leaves is unprecedented in network TV news.

Even the tragic death of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings in 2005 followed his much-publicized battle with lung cancer and his four-month absence from the airwaves.

There was no immediate word on who would host "Meet the Press" next week, or in the weeks after that.

Drawing the program to a close, Brokaw observed "this would not have been just another Sunday for Tim: This is Father's Day."

Any regular viewer of "Meet the Press" knew Russert was a devoted son (of "Big Russ," about whom he wrote in a best-selling memoir) and father (to Luke).

But the final moments - eerily yet aptly - were of Russert signing off from his host's chair, proud and cheery, with Father's Day greetings to all.

For an instant, viewers might have wondered: Who will Russert be grilling next week?

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Cameron's 8 Simple Rules to the Big Screen

'The Devil Wears Prada' producer Wendy Finerman is bringing W Bruce Cameron's book '8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter' to the big screen.
Cameron's '8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter' is the sequel to his bestseller-turned-hit TV series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron is adapting his semi-autobiographical novel into a comedy with co-writer Cathryn Michon, author of the 'Grrl Genius Guide' book series.
The film will offer wry commentary in the same vein as his 2001 book '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter', the basis of ABC's eponymous series starring the late John Ritter.
The plot will revolve around a divorced dad juggling a younger girlfriend and two daughters who both get engaged at the same time.
The book's subtitle, 'And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not That Anyone Is Paying Attention)' provides a clue to the central theme.

Rose Mcgowan - Mcgowan Exercised With Broken Foot

Actress ROSE MCGOWAN is so dedicated to her regular exercise regime, she continued to workout even when she'd broken her foot.

The Grindhouse star was running late for a workout with her trainer last month (Apr08) when she picked up the injury - but she felt so bad for keeping her instructor waiting, she decided to endure the pain while she exercised instead of making her way to a hospital emergency room.

She tells People.com, "I thought I'd kept my trainer waiting too long downstairs, so I was running and my foot just hit the edge of the doorway. It just happens to be (made of) stone and that didn't work out well!

"But I did not miss my workout. I stuck ice on it, did my upper body, and then went to the hospital."

And MCGowan admits she was in tears by the time she did see a doctor - but it was not because of the pain from her broken foot.

Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday (22May08), MCGowan - who was wearing a Dolce + Gabbana dress with one Sergio Rossi heel - recalls: "The doctor thought I was crying because I was in pain but I told him it was because I have to go to Cannes and I refuse to wear flats (flat shoes).

"Tonight I put padding beneath the case and now it's the same height as the heel. Genius!"

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