Oscar nominations 2010: the full list NO U2's Winter
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Music (original song)
Almost There, from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans, from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname, from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
Take it All, from Nine by Maury Yeston
The Weary Kind, from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett ...
guardian
3.2.10
Lady GaGa, U2's Bono 'To Sing On Lionel Richie's 'We Are The World' Remake'
It's been claimed...
February 01, 2010 by Jason Gregory
Lady GaGa and U2 singer will both appear on Lionel Richie's charity single for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti, it's been reported.
The two acts will join the likes of Usher and Jennifer Hudson on the remake of Richie and Quincy Jones' hit, 'We Are The World'.
As many as 100 singers could eventually feature on the song, which is being produced by RedOne, according to E! Online.
'We Are The World' was originally released in 1985 to help raise money for famine relief in Africa.
Last month, it was claimed the song's co-author Michael Jackson could also make a posthumous appearance on the new version.
It is the latest song to be released in aid of the victims of the earthquake in January.
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Bono have already released 'Stranded', while Simon Cowell's all-star remake of 'Everybody Hurts' by R.E.M. is out on February 7.
gigwise
It's been claimed...
February 01, 2010 by Jason Gregory
Lady GaGa and U2 singer will both appear on Lionel Richie's charity single for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti, it's been reported.
The two acts will join the likes of Usher and Jennifer Hudson on the remake of Richie and Quincy Jones' hit, 'We Are The World'.
As many as 100 singers could eventually feature on the song, which is being produced by RedOne, according to E! Online.
'We Are The World' was originally released in 1985 to help raise money for famine relief in Africa.
Last month, it was claimed the song's co-author Michael Jackson could also make a posthumous appearance on the new version.
It is the latest song to be released in aid of the victims of the earthquake in January.
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Bono have already released 'Stranded', while Simon Cowell's all-star remake of 'Everybody Hurts' by R.E.M. is out on February 7.
gigwise
No elevation for U2 Tower until 2011
31 January 2010 By Gavin Daly
The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold for another year. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, saying it will not go ahead until next year at the earliest.
It is the latest setback for the skyscraper project, which had already been put on hold for a year because of the deterioration of the property market and the economy.
The tower was to be developed by Geranger, a consortium made up of U2,Sean Merlyn’s Ballymore Properties, property developer Paddy McKillen and architect Norman Foster. The consortium was named preferred bidder for the project in October 2007 and the 130metre tower was originally due to be completed next year.
The consortium is understood to still be interested in the development, but the DDDA has delayed following board discussions late last year. It says it will still consider whether to go ahead with the project if conditions improve.
The DDDA has been at the centre of controversy over a number of developments. It is facing large losses from its involvement in the buy-out of the former Irish Glass Bottle Site in Ringsend for €412 million. That site is now valued at €65 million.
sbpost
31 January 2010 By Gavin Daly
The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold for another year. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, saying it will not go ahead until next year at the earliest.
It is the latest setback for the skyscraper project, which had already been put on hold for a year because of the deterioration of the property market and the economy.
The tower was to be developed by Geranger, a consortium made up of U2,Sean Merlyn’s Ballymore Properties, property developer Paddy McKillen and architect Norman Foster. The consortium was named preferred bidder for the project in October 2007 and the 130metre tower was originally due to be completed next year.
The consortium is understood to still be interested in the development, but the DDDA has delayed following board discussions late last year. It says it will still consider whether to go ahead with the project if conditions improve.
The DDDA has been at the centre of controversy over a number of developments. It is facing large losses from its involvement in the buy-out of the former Irish Glass Bottle Site in Ringsend for €412 million. That site is now valued at €65 million.
sbpost
27.1.10
Brothers
All’s fair in love and war.
In Jim Sheridan’s English language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama Brodre, love is war as two siblings – polar opposites – are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.
Like the original film, Brothers is distinguished by emotionally raw performances and an escalating tension as the characters’ underlying rage and guilt gradually bubble to the surface.
Shrugging off his Spider-Man costume, Tobey Maguire is a revelation as a soldier haunted by his experiences at the hands of the enemy, whose deep psychological wounds threaten to tear his family apart.
Jake Gyllenhaal plies roguish charm as the black sheep of the family and Natalie Portman is in sparkling form as a doting mother, desperately searching for affection in the midst of grief.
Depressingly, scenes set in Afghanistan are just as relevant today as they were five years ago when Bier’s picture collected numerous awards on the festival circuit.
Tommy Cahill (Gyllenhaal) is released from prison, having served his time for armed robbery.
He begins to rebuild his life by re-establishing links with his parents Hank (Sam Shepard) and Elsie (Mare Winningham), who have always shown preference to his golden boy brother, Sam (Maguire).
The first few days are difficult and Hank makes no bones about flaunting his admiration for Sam, a well-respected captain in the Marines, who is about to embark on his fourth tour of duty.
However, Tommy gets to prove his worth when Sam is dispatched to Afghanistan and his helicopter is shot down over enemy territory.
With his sibling presumed dead, Tommy lends his support to Sam’s beautiful wife, Grace (Portman), and her two daughters, Isabelle (Bailee Madison) and Maggie (Taylor Geare).
Over time, Tommy and Grace grow incredibly close but their mutual attraction, which spills over into a single kiss, is quickly extinguished when Sam is found alive, having been held captive and tortured by the Taliban.
Denials of an affair fall on deaf ears and it is only a matter of time before Sam declares war on the people he holds most dear.
Brothers is an accomplished distillation of Bier’s superior 2004 film.
Performances are exemplary across the board, including a terrific supporting turn from youngster Madison as the daughter who resents her father’s return and screams with tear-filled eyes, ‘I wish you’d stayed dead!’ Maguire and Portman don’t convince as childhood sweethearts but her on-screen chemistry with Gyllenhaal simmers nicely, especially in the pivotal scene where they flirt while enjoying a joint and listening to U2.
‘I took you for more of an ‘N SYNC fan,’ giggles Tommy.
Like the war in Afghanistan, which creates divisions in the Cahill household, there is no swift or neat resolution to the characters’ ordeal.
The casualties are high.
•Release Date: Friday 22 January 2010
•Certificate: 15
•Runtime: 104mins
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This article was posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 2:33 pm.
expressandstar
All’s fair in love and war.
In Jim Sheridan’s English language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama Brodre, love is war as two siblings – polar opposites – are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.
Like the original film, Brothers is distinguished by emotionally raw performances and an escalating tension as the characters’ underlying rage and guilt gradually bubble to the surface.
Shrugging off his Spider-Man costume, Tobey Maguire is a revelation as a soldier haunted by his experiences at the hands of the enemy, whose deep psychological wounds threaten to tear his family apart.
Jake Gyllenhaal plies roguish charm as the black sheep of the family and Natalie Portman is in sparkling form as a doting mother, desperately searching for affection in the midst of grief.
Depressingly, scenes set in Afghanistan are just as relevant today as they were five years ago when Bier’s picture collected numerous awards on the festival circuit.
Tommy Cahill (Gyllenhaal) is released from prison, having served his time for armed robbery.
He begins to rebuild his life by re-establishing links with his parents Hank (Sam Shepard) and Elsie (Mare Winningham), who have always shown preference to his golden boy brother, Sam (Maguire).
The first few days are difficult and Hank makes no bones about flaunting his admiration for Sam, a well-respected captain in the Marines, who is about to embark on his fourth tour of duty.
However, Tommy gets to prove his worth when Sam is dispatched to Afghanistan and his helicopter is shot down over enemy territory.
With his sibling presumed dead, Tommy lends his support to Sam’s beautiful wife, Grace (Portman), and her two daughters, Isabelle (Bailee Madison) and Maggie (Taylor Geare).
Over time, Tommy and Grace grow incredibly close but their mutual attraction, which spills over into a single kiss, is quickly extinguished when Sam is found alive, having been held captive and tortured by the Taliban.
Denials of an affair fall on deaf ears and it is only a matter of time before Sam declares war on the people he holds most dear.
Brothers is an accomplished distillation of Bier’s superior 2004 film.
Performances are exemplary across the board, including a terrific supporting turn from youngster Madison as the daughter who resents her father’s return and screams with tear-filled eyes, ‘I wish you’d stayed dead!’ Maguire and Portman don’t convince as childhood sweethearts but her on-screen chemistry with Gyllenhaal simmers nicely, especially in the pivotal scene where they flirt while enjoying a joint and listening to U2.
‘I took you for more of an ‘N SYNC fan,’ giggles Tommy.
Like the war in Afghanistan, which creates divisions in the Cahill household, there is no swift or neat resolution to the characters’ ordeal.
The casualties are high.
•Release Date: Friday 22 January 2010
•Certificate: 15
•Runtime: 104mins
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Visit our concert reviews timeline
This article was posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 2:33 pm.
expressandstar
24.1.10
Belfast goes back in time for new U2 movie
Film-makers have turned back the clock in Belfast's Lower Donegal Street
The filming of a new movie linked to the Irish supergroup U2 has taken part of Belfast city centre back by three decades.
The feature film, titled "Killing Bono", is being made in and around the city over the next six weeks.
Waring Street and Lower Donegal Street have been dressed to portray a vision of London in the late 1970s.
Traffic diversions will be in place on Sunday and Monday but rush hour traffic will not be affected by the filming.
The film, which has been described as a "music-based comedy", is set during U2's formative years in north Dublin and London.
It is based on the memoirs of Bono's schoolfriend, Neil McCormick, who is now a music critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"Killing Bono" tells the story from the point of view of the rather less successful rival band which he set up with his brother in the late 1970s.
The film is directed by the Belfast-born director Nick Hamm and has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen, with help from Invest NI
It is hoped the film will be released in the summer of 2010.
bbc
Film-makers have turned back the clock in Belfast's Lower Donegal Street
The filming of a new movie linked to the Irish supergroup U2 has taken part of Belfast city centre back by three decades.
The feature film, titled "Killing Bono", is being made in and around the city over the next six weeks.
Waring Street and Lower Donegal Street have been dressed to portray a vision of London in the late 1970s.
Traffic diversions will be in place on Sunday and Monday but rush hour traffic will not be affected by the filming.
The film, which has been described as a "music-based comedy", is set during U2's formative years in north Dublin and London.
It is based on the memoirs of Bono's schoolfriend, Neil McCormick, who is now a music critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"Killing Bono" tells the story from the point of view of the rather less successful rival band which he set up with his brother in the late 1970s.
The film is directed by the Belfast-born director Nick Hamm and has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen, with help from Invest NI
It is hoped the film will be released in the summer of 2010.
bbc
Carolin dedicated life to helping others
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By Sean Dalton, Heritage Newspapers
Dexter's Laurence Carolin, a teenager who had suffered from brain cancer since 2007, died Jan. 15.
Carolin, a 15-year-old Dexter Community Schools student, carved out a unique niche for himself that had little to do with his diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme – a dangerous type of brain cancer.
Last summer Carolin decided he was going to live a "high quality life" by being an advocate for impoverished people in Africa suffering from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Carolin was surrounded by family at his home in Scio Township during his final moments, according to his mother, Lisa Carolin.
Earlier this year she told the story of her adopted son and how he took an altruistic course after receiving an opportunity from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to meet the band U2 – particularly Carolin's hero Bono.
When the Foundation discovered that they would not be able to make Carolin's wish happen, they offered him another wish.
He told the Foundation staff to donate the money that had been set aside for his wish to the United Nations Foundation, which is one of Bono's charities of choice.
When Bono heard that Carolin had donated the $5,000 wish fund he decided that he just had to meet Carolin.
On Sept. 12, 2009 Carolin and his parents took a trip to Chicago to attend a U2 concert at Soldier Field courtesy of the One Foundation.
Carolin continued to be an advocate for the sick and starving in Africa, even from his own wheelchair and sick bed.
"We must stand tall," he said in an essay last year. "We must not turn our backs and let this thing called poverty live on, and continue to kill thousands of Africans every day.
"This is our generation's time to get their boots on and start marching. It's our generation's time to get their thinking caps on. It's also our generation's time to use their voice."
Carolin's voice and message has inspired over $20,000 in donations to the United Nations Foundation and other charities, according to his mother.
He also inspired a group of Dexter residents to raise funds for Nothing But Nets, a global grassroots campaign to prevent malaria, which affects 500 million people each year, through $10 donations that went towards the purchase of insecticide-treated bed nets.
"In 2007, my easy life was challenged," Carolin wrote in a letter to Bono. "By opening my eyes to war, poverty and disease around the world, I realized that I was in a position to help make a difference."
He will continue to make a difference thanks to the Carolin family, who have set up a memorial fund to carry on their son's important work. The fund will continue to support the United Nations Foundation.
A service will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church at 6805 Mast Road at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Another service is planned for 1 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Nie Funeral Home at 3767 W. Liberty Road Ann Arbor.
heritage
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By Sean Dalton, Heritage Newspapers
Dexter's Laurence Carolin, a teenager who had suffered from brain cancer since 2007, died Jan. 15.
Carolin, a 15-year-old Dexter Community Schools student, carved out a unique niche for himself that had little to do with his diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme – a dangerous type of brain cancer.
Last summer Carolin decided he was going to live a "high quality life" by being an advocate for impoverished people in Africa suffering from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Carolin was surrounded by family at his home in Scio Township during his final moments, according to his mother, Lisa Carolin.
Earlier this year she told the story of her adopted son and how he took an altruistic course after receiving an opportunity from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to meet the band U2 – particularly Carolin's hero Bono.
When the Foundation discovered that they would not be able to make Carolin's wish happen, they offered him another wish.
He told the Foundation staff to donate the money that had been set aside for his wish to the United Nations Foundation, which is one of Bono's charities of choice.
When Bono heard that Carolin had donated the $5,000 wish fund he decided that he just had to meet Carolin.
On Sept. 12, 2009 Carolin and his parents took a trip to Chicago to attend a U2 concert at Soldier Field courtesy of the One Foundation.
Carolin continued to be an advocate for the sick and starving in Africa, even from his own wheelchair and sick bed.
"We must stand tall," he said in an essay last year. "We must not turn our backs and let this thing called poverty live on, and continue to kill thousands of Africans every day.
"This is our generation's time to get their boots on and start marching. It's our generation's time to get their thinking caps on. It's also our generation's time to use their voice."
Carolin's voice and message has inspired over $20,000 in donations to the United Nations Foundation and other charities, according to his mother.
He also inspired a group of Dexter residents to raise funds for Nothing But Nets, a global grassroots campaign to prevent malaria, which affects 500 million people each year, through $10 donations that went towards the purchase of insecticide-treated bed nets.
"In 2007, my easy life was challenged," Carolin wrote in a letter to Bono. "By opening my eyes to war, poverty and disease around the world, I realized that I was in a position to help make a difference."
He will continue to make a difference thanks to the Carolin family, who have set up a memorial fund to carry on their son's important work. The fund will continue to support the United Nations Foundation.
A service will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church at 6805 Mast Road at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Another service is planned for 1 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Nie Funeral Home at 3767 W. Liberty Road Ann Arbor.
heritage
19.1.10
Eno: 'Bono is hated in Britain' - January 19, 2009
Legendary producer Brian Eno is convinced U2 frontman Bono is "hated" in Britain, because the public can't stand seeing a pop star meddle in international affairs.
The Irish rocker is well known for his humanitarian work and philanthropic efforts over the years, and he has also met with a string of high profile world leaders, including former US President George W Bush, as part of his campaigning.
But Eno is adamant the singer's attempts to dabble in world politics have made him unpopular in the UK, because Brits think he should stick to making music.
He tells BBC TV show Arena, "Bono commits the crime of rising above your station. To the British, it's the worst thing you can do.
"Bono is hated for doing something considered unbecoming for a pop star - meddling in things that apparently have nothing to do with him. He has a huge ego, no doubt about it. On the other hand, he has a huge brain and a huge heart. He's just a big kind of person. That's not easy for some to deal with.
"They don't mind in Italy. They like larger-than-life people there. In most places in the world they don't mind him. Here (in Britain), they think he must be conning them."
yahoo
Legendary producer Brian Eno is convinced U2 frontman Bono is "hated" in Britain, because the public can't stand seeing a pop star meddle in international affairs.
The Irish rocker is well known for his humanitarian work and philanthropic efforts over the years, and he has also met with a string of high profile world leaders, including former US President George W Bush, as part of his campaigning.
But Eno is adamant the singer's attempts to dabble in world politics have made him unpopular in the UK, because Brits think he should stick to making music.
He tells BBC TV show Arena, "Bono commits the crime of rising above your station. To the British, it's the worst thing you can do.
"Bono is hated for doing something considered unbecoming for a pop star - meddling in things that apparently have nothing to do with him. He has a huge ego, no doubt about it. On the other hand, he has a huge brain and a huge heart. He's just a big kind of person. That's not easy for some to deal with.
"They don't mind in Italy. They like larger-than-life people there. In most places in the world they don't mind him. Here (in Britain), they think he must be conning them."
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