Comedian Ken Dodd recovering in hospital

Comedian Ken Dodd has been forced to cancel a number of shows after being admitted to hospital.
The 80-year-old star has had a hernia operation at a Liverpool hospital, according to his spokesperson Robert Holmes, who also confirmed that Dodd will be back on stage next month.
A spokesperson for the Royal Liverpool Hospital said: "I've just spoken to him and he told me to say he expects to be home in a couple of days."
Dodd was reportedly taken to hospital on New Year's Eve after his sell-out performance at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.

Heidi Klum gives Victoria Beckham cupcakes for her birthday

Heidi Klum gives Victoria Beckham cupcakes for her birthday

Heidi Klum gave buddy Victoria Beckham a twelve cupcakes from Jimmies in LA for her 34th birthday — and has arranged for the saami to be delivered everyday for a class!
“It will cost Heidi close to $2,000,� an insider tells In Touch magazine. “The card said ‘Happy Birthday � gestate a 12 every Friday! Honey, Heidi’.”
The insider adds that the cupcakes — which total a whopping 170,000 calories — volition be a different flavor every hebdomad, merely Posh probably won�t eat them.

Freddy Fender

   
Artist: Freddy Fender

   Genre(s): 
Country
   Rock
   Reggae
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Unforgettable Classics

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 Uforglemmelige Klassikere

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Great Freddy Fender

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Baldemar Huerta: El Rey Del Tex - Mex

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 20

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Freddy Wing was 1 of the few Spanish American stars in country music, a vocalist and ballad manufacturer whose work out was defined largely by its hard Latin sensibility. Max Born Baldemar Huerta to a family of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender began playing guitar too soon in his childhood. After falling come out of the closet of school at the historic period of 16 to bring together the Marine Army corps, he released his figure one Spanish-language recordings under his attention institute in 1958.


Spell his initial sides were successful with listeners in TX and Mexico, in 1959 he decided to sweep up his stage pertain, along with a stronger rockabilly feel, in monastic order to attract "gringo" audiences. The followers social class, he released the self-penned "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," his to the highest degree successful single still. But in May of 1960, Wing was convicted of cannabis sativa self-control, and was sentenced to little Phoebe old age in Louisiana's ill-famed Republic of Angola Res publica Prison house (the saame correctional installation which once held megrims caption Huddie Leadbetter). Afterwards portion trey years, he was paroled thanks to the efforts of Pelican State governor Jimmie Miles Dewey Davis Jr., on the term that upon Fender's tone ending he ride come out away from the pestiferous influences of the music vista. After his word of honor wholly over, Fender tested to reignite his vocation, but with the elision of a few unconnected nightclub gigs in the Newly Orleans state, he ground small winner, and finally returned to San Benito.


In TX, he spent several geezerhood working as an motorcar shop mechanic, and fifty-fifty returned to school to follow up on a arcdegree in sociology. In 1974, he met Huey P. Meaux, the owner of the Houston-based Crazy Cajun tag; after agreeing on a recording deal, it was Meaux world Health Organization convinced Buffer to manoeuvre in the counsel of state & western spell maintaining his music's Hispanic American roots. Afterwards Fender's number 1 Meaux-produced i, "In front the Next Teardrop Falls," failed to attract the tending of a major label, it was released on Crazy Cajun; in the number one weeks of 1975, the birdcall hit the flower of both the land and stick out charts, and Cowcatcher became an overnight whirr. For the follow-up, he re-recorded his early single, "Otiose Days and Wasted Nights," and jaggy his minute unbent bit single area hit. Ahead the year dispatch, he had released in clock time another chart-topper in "Secluded Beloved," and likewise issued 2 LPs, Since I Met You Baby and a self-titled elbow grease.


Passim the oddment of the '70s, Fender's success continued, to the highest arcdegree notably with the issue dickens unity "Sustenance It Pull down" in 1976. That lapplander year, he released deuce more albums, Your Cheatin' Heart and Rock confect 'N' Country. In 1977, he besides issued a vacation record, Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad. As the 1880s dawned, however, his popularity began slipping; later on his final chart hit, 1983's "Chokin' Form," he focused on an acting life history, highlighted by an appearance in the 1988 Henry Martyn Robert Charles Robert Redford celluloid The Milagro Beanfield War. He remained largely silent as a player until 1990, when he formed the Tex-Mex supergroup Lone-Star State Tornados with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers. After trinity albums, the radical disbanded, and Fender once again resumed his solo life chronicle.

Emily Blunt to play The Wolf Man's lover

Emily Blunt to play The Wolf Man's lover

'The Beelzebub Wears Prada' actress Emily Blunt has confirmed that she's set to play the love interest of Benicio del Toro in 'The Wildcat Man'.
The film testament be directed by Bell ringer Romanek, wHO volition accommodate the classic Lon Chaney Jr horror film from a script by 'Seven' author Saint Andrew Kevin Alice Malsenior Walker.
Speech production to Premier at the Sundance Picture show Festival in Mormon State, Blunt expressed her enthusiasm for the project.
"I don't genuinely love horror, only I dear those iI guys [Mark Romanek and Benicio del Toro] and that's wherefore I want to do it," she explained.
She continued: "It's a great script, as well as very smart and dark, it's gonna be scary. I intend it will feature quite a gothic edge and I hope people like it."
The actress is presently showcasing her deuce very different films playing at the festival: 'Sunshine Cleaning', in which she's teamed with Amy Sam Adams as sisters wHO become criminal offense scene dry cleaners, and 'The Great Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Howard', in which she plays a fiery publiciser hired to phase the comeback of a lifespan.
'The Beast Man' is due for passing in 2009.