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Piers Morgan Blasts ‘Gruesome’ Madonna

Piers Morgan claims Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl was ”gruesome” and insists she mimed all of her routine.

Piers Morgan claims Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl was “gruesome”.

The talk show host – who has had a long-running feud with the ‘Hung Up’ singer – was not impressed with Madonna’s routine during the halftime show of the NFL game on Sunday (05.02.12) because she looked like a “drunken aunt”.

He told TV host Chelsea Handler: “That Super Bowl performance – it was like watching your mad drunken aunt at Christmas, wasn’t it? I keep reading all these celebrities tweeting like, ‘Wasn’t she awesome?’ No she wasn’t! She was gruesome!

“But at least I’ve found that I have one common ground with Madonna: neither of us have sung live at the Super Bowl. She was lip syncing the whole damn thing. I was singing along with her and trust me, she wasn’t singing.”

Piers – who has banned Madonna from his talk show – has made no secret of his dislike of the ‘Material Girl’ hitmaker and has often spoken about several clashes they have had.

He once said: “There was a bread roll throwing incident in London in the mid ’90s; there was an incident at a hotel in the south of France at the Cannes Film Festival involving a photographer and a bodyguard. And there’s been an incident involving a pub owned by her recently departed husband, Guy Ritchie, where my brother was the manager.”

Smith Charged With Possession

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Smith Charged With Possession

Former child star Taran Noah Smith has been charged with cannabis possession stemming from his arrest earlier this month (Feb12).

The actor, best known for his role in U.S. comedy show Home Improvement, was pulled over in Los Angeles County and cited for driving under the influence of marijuana.

He was arrested after cops searched the vehicle and found drugs. He has now been charged for misdemeanour possession, according to Tmz.com.

If found guilty he faces up to 18 months behind bars and a $1,500 (£937) fine.

He is due back in court next month (Mar12).

Liza Minnelli Minnelli Axes Hot In Cleveland Shoot

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Minnelli Axes Hot In Cleveland Shoot

Liza Minnelli has been forced to pull out of her role in Hot In Cleveland due to an ankle injury.

The Cabaret star was due to fly to Los Angeles to shoot a cameo in the sitcom next week (begs13Feb12) but she’s bowed out citing health issues.

She has been told not to travel after a recent X-ray scan confirmed her ankle has still not completely healed following an accident at her home in November (11).

Producers are now scrambling to find a replacement for Minnelli, who was due to play an eccentric talent agent.

A spokesperson tells TVGuide.com Minnelli hopes to make a future appearance on the TV series.

Al Pacino Al Pacino Honoured With Medal By Preside

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Al Pacino Honoured With Medal By President Obama

Hollywood icon Al Pacino and country singer Mel Tillis have been honoured by U.S. President Barack Obama for their contributions to American culture.

The stars were among the 17 honorees feted at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday (13Feb12) – Oscar winner Pacino and Tillis joined sculptor Martin Puryear and pianist Andre Watts as the recipients of the 2011 National Medal of Arts, while award-winning poet John Ashbery and pianist/author Charles Rosen were among those presented with the National Humanities Medal.

Obama told the guests of honour, “We are told we are divided as a people, then suddenly the arts have the power to bring us together. You… bring new possibilities to all of us. That’s a special trait.”

UBS Said to Sell Contingent Capital Notes in Dolla

By Ben Martin

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — UBS AG plans to sell contingent capital notes in dollars this week, according to two people with knowledge of the sale.

The dollar-denominated notes will mature in February 2022 and are callable from February 2017 Replica Watches, the people said. The securities are permanently written down if the bank’s capital falls below a certain level.

BNP Paribas SA, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG and Societe Generale SA are managing the deal with UBS.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Ben Martin at bmartin38@bloomberg.net

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Thailand Stocks Big C Supercenter, PTT, Sri Trang,

By Anuchit Nguyen

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in Thailand trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of the close in Bangkok.

The SET Index rose 0.5 percent to 1,135.92, the highest close since Aug. 2.

Rubber producers: Sri Trang Agro-Industry Pcl (STA TB), Thailand’s biggest publicly traded rubber producer, gained 1.4 percent to 21.1 baht, the steepest advance since Feb. 3. Thai Rubber Latex Corp. (Thailand) Pcl (TRUBB TB) increased 2.5 percent to 4.94 baht.

Rubber futures climbed 2.7 percent to 326.8 yen a kilogram ($4,117 a metric ton), the highest settlement level since Sept. 22, on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange.

Big C Supercenter Pcl (BIGC TB), a unit of France’s Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, jumped 4.6 percent to 136.50 baht, a record close. The company was upgraded to “buy” from “hold” by Suttatip Peerasub, an analyst at Maybank Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Pcl, the nation’s largest stock brokerage Replica Watches, who cited the company’s new store expansion. The analyst also increased the share-price estimate to 158 baht from 131 baht.

Brooker Group Pcl (BROOK TB), a provider of business consulting and market research services, slid 7.5 percent to 0.99 baht, the most since Oct. 20. The company plans to sell 145.2 million new shares at 1.05 baht each in a private placement, it said in a regulatory filing.

MCS Steel Pcl (MCS TB), a steel producer, dropped 7.2 percent to 9.65 baht, the largest decline since Sept. 26. Net income in 2011 declined 41 percent to 476.3 million baht ($15.5 million).

PTT Pcl (PTT TB), Thailand’s biggest company, climbed 2.9 percent to 354 baht, the highest close since May 31. PTT plans to increase oil and gas production to 900,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day and annual coal output to 70 million metric tons by 2020. The company also plans to plant oil palm over 500,000 hectares of land by 2020, Supattanapong Pumeechao, senior executive vice president, said after the market close on Feb. 17.

–Editor: Tony Jordan

To contact the reporter on this story: Anuchit Nguyen in Bangkok at anguyen@bloomberg.net

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Xstrata Focusing on Securing Approval for Philippi

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Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Xstrata Plc is focused on securing environmental clearance and local government approvals for its $5.9 billion Tampakan gold-copper project in the Philippines, Sagittarius Mines Inc. President Peter Forrestal said in a speech in Manila today.

Sagittarius is a joint venture between Xstrata and Indophil Resources NL.

To contact the reporter on this story: Cecilia Yap in Manila at cyap19@bloomberg.net

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Russia to Close Gap in Local, Export Gas Prices to

By Scott Rose

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Russia should narrow the gap between domestic and export prices for natural gas as part of a planned tax overhaul to be undertaken by the next government, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

The new government should consider “drawing additional revenue from the gas industry through the increase, and by evening out, domestic prices and foreign prices,” Siluanov told reporters at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk today.

Russia shouldn’t raise taxes, including a planned return of the payroll tax to 34 percent, as part of the possible shift in revenue sources, he said. The higher domestic gas prices and other shifts in the tax burden shouldn’t hurt Russian companies, Siluanov said.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is seeking to return to the Kremlin in a March 4 vote and has said President Dmitry Medvedev may replace him as premier. A committee of policy analysts are working on a policy program for Putin called Strategy-2020, which includes an overhaul of the tax code.

The new government should also consider taxes on property and an alteration to how revenue is divided between the federal government and the regions, Siluanov said today.

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Deadmau5 Deadmau5 Wears Skrillexs Phone Number On

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Deadmau5 Wears Skrillex’s Phone Number On Grammy Awards T-Shirt

Deadmau5 and Skrillex; what a pair of jokers – you’d think that the occasion of the biggest music awards show of the year might get to the two producers a little, but the pranksters instead saw it as a stage to play out some vintage horseplay with Deadmau5 undoubtedly coming on top by appearing at the ceremony with his pal’s mobile phone number printed on the t-shirt he was wearing.

The first news of the prank came on Twitter – as most things tend to these days – as Deadmau5 tweeted on Skrillex picking up the Grammy for Best Remix “Congrats to skrillex for the best remix grammy :) can’t say I’m not proud,” all well and lovely – except then he followed with “But skrillex, doesn’t mean you’re safe from getting the ultimate mau5 trolling experience :) prepare! ;) hahaha love u!”

Who knows whether the fast-rising dub-step producer saw that Tweet, if he did he’d be sure to have been worried, and any fears were confirmed when his friend appeared on TV wearing attired printed with his personal phone number on and the phrase “u mad bro?” underneath. “Haha deadmau5 just wore my phone number on his fokin shirt on tv gotta retire this phone,” replied Skrillex who Tnt Magazine then claimed tried to get his own back on the mouse-hat wearing artist by setting up a call forwarding to his phone. Deadmau5 is evidently some sort of pranking King however, and had already told his phone company not to allow such a thing. Dastardly!

Mtv Fazer Confirms NDubz Album For 2013

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Fazer Confirms N-Dubz Album For 2013

British rapper Fazer is adamant N-Dubz will reunite for a new album next year (13), despite a string of fallouts between the hip-hop group’s members.

The trio took a break from recording as an ensemble last year (11) to focus on solo projects, with singer Tulisa Contostavlos also taking up a seat on the U.K. version of The X Factor.

It subsequently emerged that Contostavlos and her bandmate Fazer were in a relationship, but they split earlier this year (12).

The act’s third member, Dappy, revealed he has cut ties with Contostavlos, who is also his cousin, saying, “We don’t talk anymore. It’s upsetting. I’d love to be able to hold her, cuddle her and give her a kiss again.”

But despite the band’s bust-ups, Fazer has announced N-Dubz will meet up to record a new album in 2013.

He tells Mtv News, “We are on hiatus, we’re all good. We are just taking some time out.

“In the last four or five years, I don’t think there has been a period for more than a month when we haven’t been on TV, had a video out, a single out, an album out, our own TV show – we’ve been dominating the TV and the media.

“The only thing for us is to keep our fanbase going and to keep people excited about the whole N-Dubz thing, so we thought take a break, give people a chance to breathe but at the same time, don’t give them a chance to breathe.

“Tulisa has been killing it on The X Factor, Dappy has been killing it with his solo records and I’ll be doing the same this year, so it gives everyone a chance to capitalise on their own fanbases as well as the N-Dubz one.

“Then we will come back collectively next year to record another N-Dubz album.”