Neil Diamond - Diamond My First Wife Made Me A Star

Legendary crooner NEIL DIAMOND credits his first wife with his successful music career, because she inspired him to begin writing songs.

The Sweet Caroline hitmaker realised he had a talent after he successfully seduced Jayne Posner with a heartfelt song when he was a lovesick teenager.

Diamond explains, "I was 16 and had a crush on a girl, and I wrote a song, about 'I love you so much, let's run off and get married.' I played it for her and she married me.

"So I said, 'I've got to try this again'. It was pretty bad, but it worked."

Diamond married Posner in 1963 when he was 23. They divorced six years later. He is currently dating Australian singer Rachel Farley.

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nUmiXXX

   
Artist: nUmiXXX

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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 SoftWare as HardWare

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Tracks: 10

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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Too Cool to Be Forgotten’

Middle-aged Andy Wicks has tried everything to quit smoking, and while he doesn't really believe in hypnosis, he figures it couldn't hurt. But then the hypnotherapy transports him to 1985 and high school — and he can't figure out how to get back. Today on the Comics Page, we're proud to present an excerpt from Too Cool to Be Forgotten, a funny and poignant graphic novel by Alex Robinson, acclaimed author of beloved indie graphic novels Box Office Poison and Tricked.

Too Cool to Be Forgotten debuts this weekend at the MoCCA Art Festival in New York and will be published in July by Top Shelf Productions.




Too Cool to Be Forgotten, by Alex Robinson

Rob Lowe - Lowe Calls For Court To Dismiss Accusations

LATEST: Actor ROB LOWE is asking a Santa Barbara, California court to dismiss portions of his former nanny's countersuit against him.

In documents released on Thursday (15May08), Lowe claims that many of Jessica Gibson's accusations against him are "completely unfounded."

And his attorney Larry Stein insists nine of her accusations are "subject to immediate dismissal because she has failed to even allege the essential elements of a claim of relief."

Stein targets a number of alleged wage violations, for which Gibson countersued Lowe last month (Apr08), as the items that should be dismissed.

Gibson also alleges that Lowe repeatedly exposed himself and touched her inappropriately - claims that the actor denies.

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Jessica Simpson breaks up with Tony Romo

New York (ANI): American pop singer Jessica Simpson has reportedly split with her quarterback boyfriend Tony Romo. According to a report in TMZ.com, the couple, who have been dating since November 2007, have quietly parted their ways. An Us Weekly spy overheard Romo as telling his friends that he was single again, and it was that same night that Simpson was spotted on a drinking binge with her pals, reports the New York Daily News. While they were still seeing each other, Simpson had publicly spoken about her Dallas Cowboys quarterback beau, telling Glamour magazine in its June issue that Romo is her "future husband." As for Romo, a close friend of his told Us Weekly in February that he thinks the two will wed.

Kola Kid

   
Artist: Kola Kid

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5

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Diahann Carroll

   
Artist: Diahann Carroll

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Accompanied By The Andre Previn Trio

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nobody Sees Me Cry

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 11

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Actress and singer Diahann Carroll was natural Carol Diann Johnson on July 17, 1935, in the Bronx, NY. Beginning her music vocation at an former age, Carroll was the recipient of a Metropolitan Opera erudition for studies at New York's High School of Music and Art at a bare x years of age. While silent a teen, Carroll began on the job parttime as a role model, a TV actress, and as a night club isaac Bashevis Singer, star to her Broadway debut (the Harold Arlen/Truman Capote production House of Flowers) and her picture show debut (the modern version of Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast Carmen Jones) both in 1954. More picture show work came her way (including the 1959 celluloid version of Porgy & Bess), as well as a Tony Award in 1962 for her work on the Broadway production No Strings. Beginning in the late '50s, Carroll launched a successful recording calling, issuance albums on a unconstipated footing throughout the next deuce decades (including such titles as 1957's Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen, 1960's Diahann Carroll and Andre Previn, and 1962's The Fabulous Diahann Carroll, among many others).


In the previous '60s, Carroll starred in the TV sitcom Julia, for which she was nominative for an Emmy Award and the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The '70s saw Carroll give arguably the finest playing performance of her vocation in 1974's Claudine, for which she was nominative for an Academy Award. Carroll would return to TV work in the mid-'80s with her personation of businesswoman Dominique Devereaux on the remove dark scoop opera Dynasty, piece she earned her second Emmy nomination for a guest appearing on the comedy series A Different World (also during the same decennary, Carroll published an autobiography, 1986's Diahann). In the '90s, Carroll starred in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and toured the U.S. performing greco-Roman Broadway standards in Almost Like Being in Love: The Lerner and Loewe Songbook. 2001 saw the release of the 16-track digest Nonentity Sees Me Cry: The Best of the Columbia Years.





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