The 11-year-old songstress who captured the country’s attention last year on New Zealand’s Got Talent is set to release her first album. Competition runner-up Jessie Hillel can’t wait to hear the final cut of the album With Love, recorded in Auckland, which will hit the shelves on April 26.
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Tonto takes centre-stage
To watch a snippet of The Lone Ranger is to empathise with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white man playing Tonto, one of the most famous American Indian stereotypes of all time, might work.
Review: Olympus has Fallen
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R16) (120 minutes) Directed by Antoine Fugua Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman Calling all Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sly Stallone fans. Thought your favourite genre of gun-slinging, knife-stabbing, punch-crushing, all-action movie was left for dead in the ’90s Think again
No spice in your life
Spice Girl Melanie Brown will not appear on Channel Nine’s Australia’s Got Talent, with a judge ordering an injunction preventing her from working for any Australian network other than Seven remain in place.
Humphries won’t ‘back down’
Kris Humphries is reportedly looking to prove estranged wife Kim Kardashian staged their honeymoon. The 32-year-old reality star and 28-year-old professional basketball player are currently embroiled in a bitter divorce battle.
Phoenix declare Bankrupt!
Success doesn’t seem to have clouded French band Phoenix’s minds. While their 2009 album was titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, tipping their hat to the famous composer, they named the follow-up simply Bankrupt! The title of the band’s fifth album, out tomorrow, is a nod to the beauty of failure, guitarist Christian Mazzalai says.
Oh Their God!
Book review: The Red Tent
Meet the Pippa of Thatcher’s funeral
There are several things you don’t expect to hear at a funeral, especially at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. “This event is in desperate need of a Pippa Middleton” would be one of them
Brosnan backs a black James Bond
If M can be a woman, why can’t James Bond be black Pierce Brosnan is recommending it, suggesting during promotions for the UK release of the film Love is All You Need, that when (and if) Daniel Craig should choose to put down the Walther PPK, actor Colin Salmon should get a shot.