Ten rocking music biopics

By admin
for Better World Eevents

Published: February 8, 2010

Whether they’re overcoming odds to reach stardom, battling inner demons or dealing with tragedy, the personal histories of our musical heroes are made for the big screen.

“My One and Only” begins with Renee Zellweger, playing a woman based on George Hamilton’s mother Anne, discovering her husband with another woman. It’s the catalyst that sends Anne on a quest to find a new husband in 1953 America. Zellweger says she had a great time stepping into the era of old Hollywood.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that “Hurt Locker” producer Nicolas Chartier will not be allowed to attend the March 7 awards.

Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as “the voice of Latin America” for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.

It may be only the first week of November, but Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” got the holiday season started at the box office.

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Michelle Duggar, star of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” was rushed to an Arkansas hospital over the weekend.

Hip-hop artist Lil Wayne pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.

Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz could lose the right to her entire portfolio of world-famous photographs if she doesn’t meet a Tuesday deadline to pay back a $24 million loan she is alleged to owe.

If those coveted 20-something readers can’t identify with Hugh Hefner, maybe they will with “The Simpsons.” Marge Simpson is the magazine’s latest cover girl — an attempt to bring in some younger readers.

The set design for “Mad Men” throws you back in time.

In a decade filled with questionable fashion choices, 2009 was the capstone.

A retired prosecutor whose comments in a 2008 HBO documentary threatened to derail a 31-year-old sex case against film director Roman Polanski now says he lied.

Beam her up, Scotty! The former “Dallas” star has booked a trip on the first passenger spacecraft.

Tiger Woods appears to be moving on, bringing up a big question: When will Woods return to golf?

The History Channel’s premiere of “The People Speak” aims to aid the rediscovery of American history.


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