CNN Entertainment News: 30 November 2008
December 1st, 2008 • CNN News, Entertainment
- What MFSB really meant
The music of Philadelphia International Records sounds effortless, and no wonder: It was about family, say founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. That’s what you hear on all those hits by the O’Jays, Delfonics, Stylistics and others. - Onboard with Eric Clapton
In his autobiography, Eric Clapton admits that he enjoys nothing more than sitting in a deck chair on a white sandy beach watching his children playing in the sea. - Author: The Beatles were a ’spiritual force’
When John Lennon remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then “bigger than Jesus” his comments prompted outrage in the U.S. But this weekend the Vatican’s newspaper paid tribute to the band on the 40th anniversary of the release of their “White Album” in an article interpreted by some as a papal pardon for Lennon. - Review: ‘Australia’ weighed down by artifice
When the subject of Australia is as ambitious as the character of an entire country, and the filmmaker is as effusive as Down Under’s native son Baz Luhrmann, a ballsy Aussie cinematic razzle-Bazzle is to be expected. To be longed for, actually. - Review: ‘Milk’ is a terrific film
Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant have a proposition for us: a biopic dedicated to the memory of San Francisco activist and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, who was murdered by a fellow supervisor in 1978. - Il Divo spreads ‘popera’ across the world
Yet another scale Il Divo has mastered: scaling the heights of success. The group is the brainchild of “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell, who saw a potential market for an international, “popera”-style act after the success of the Andrea Bocelli-Sarah Brightman duet “Time to Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro).” - Red Carpet Close-up: Bambi Awards
- What’s next for ‘Twilight’?
The first movie to be adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s breakout hit — about the chaste romance between rebel vampire Edward and a shy high school girl named Bella — left many, if not all, of the author’s fans in a state of religious ecstasy. Plans for the next installment, “New Moon,” are under way. - ‘Four Christmases’ debuts in No. 1 slot
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