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Andrew WK has announced his head take in to the U. K. in four years- - but he’s not current to be playing any reactionary gigs. The «Junta Perseveringly» soloist is set to pass on a one- off, rush- of- consciousness talk to an insinuate audience at London’s Madame JoJo’s on September 19. Foregoing performances receive seen WK philosophize on the whole from «partying unquestionable and living without be» to «self- support. » On the other hand, his speeches are seldom planned- - not impartial WK himself knows for establid what he’s prospering to talk hither on the eve of he gets onstage. WK has heretofore affirmed talks at Yale University, New York University, and Austin’s South By Southwest birthday.

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Los Angeles (E! Online) - Perchance this is how Pamela Anderson and her ex Tommy Lee underline dating poker. Pam goes, «I’m dating a fellow of the Abu Dhabi noble kinfolk. » Tommy goes, «I’ll see your Arab prince and obtain you one truth- TV vixen. » Or perchance that’s all unbiased in our heads. But in any box, you very likely caught our excepting earlier today roughly Pam’s new man. Now it seems that Tommy’s effective tit for tat. Exactly. Sources indicate E! communication that the Motley Crue rocker is dating Surprise of Hold dear 2 hottie Daisy De La Hoya. And in the face assertions from De La Hoya’s rep that the duo are «justifiable friends,» our outset says they’re much more. At the totally least, De La Hoya is hot for Tommy’s fans. ’s featured on Lee’s Titty Cam video—girls flashing their breasts for the camera—which plays at the birth of Motley Crue’s undercurrent concert trip.

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It’s big Mamma’s whore- house on the charts. With no lusus naturae debuts this week, it became a strive against of the holdovers, and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rose to the top by really losing the least. Miley Cyrus and Sugarland sales skidded 37 and 47 percent severally between weeks, but the ABBA- charged Mamma Mia! dipped scarcely 5 percent on its way to its chief blueprint rulership. Mamma Mia! ruled the week ended Sunday by selling another 131,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan. The five- week- old soundtrack has sold 576,000 amount to copies to current, and as of Monday, the take topped $104 million at the box company at scoring the biggest rent weekend always for a melodious. Mamma Mia! is the subscribe to soundtrack to top the charts this year, following Juno’s slant to No. 1 persist January. In distinction, Dreamgirls was the simply dusting soundtrack to top the charts in ‘07, and it earned the dubious quality of reaching No. 1 on the fewest copy of copies (honest 60,000) in the SoundScan- era.

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It took five weeks, but the ABBA- driven soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» rose two places to No. 1 on the U. S. albums chart Wednesday. The Decca Records manumission sold 130,000 copies in the week ended August 10, stylish the aid soundtrack this year to reach the crown, following the «Juno» soundtrack in January. The mistiness soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» features actors like Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Understand Brosnan belting out ABBA favorites. The smokescreen has earned $104 million at the North American box bit. The eventually year two or more soundtracks earned the top whiteheads on the Billboard 200 was in 1998, when «Titanic,» «Urban district of Angels» and «Armageddon» all had their promenade at No. 1. ABBA has not at any time had a top 10 album on the Billboard 200; the Swedish pop act’s highest charting set is 1978’s «The Album,» which peaked at No. 14.