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Ninety percent of the time the music for a movie soundtrack really has nothing to do with the story of the movie. Most of the time, it seems they use the music in a movie to manipulate the audience's emotions. Just in case you didn't get that a scene was supposed to be emotionally heavy, like a son returning home from war to his family, the strings swell in an attempt to pull one more tear from your eye. On the other hand, there are the occasional movies where the composer and the director have made an effort so that instead of reflecting the emotions, the music works to reflect certain themes in the film.
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The singer was shaken but undeterred; she caught another flight home a few hours later. “I’m pretty spiritual about it,” she said Wednesday. “I turn it over to God and think, ‘There’s nothing I can do about it.’ And I also think, ‘What are the odds?’ I’ve been flying for 18 years and had one emergency landing. That’s pretty good.” Yearwood, her sister and some friends were returning Aug. 18 from a three-day, 60-mile walk in Boston to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer research fund when they heard a loud pop. Yearwood, 43, said the front left window of the plane had cracked. “We never lost cabin pressure, so we didn’t have to use our oxygen masks.
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Recorded about two months prior to his death in March of 2005, Do You Believe In Gosh? is comedian Mitch Hedberg’s first posthumous release. Only 37 years old at the time of his death in a New Jersey hotel room, it’s still likely a bitter and depressing pill for his fans to swallow.

Hedberg’s on-stage persona was unique: wearing sunglasses and often times performing with his eyes closed or with his hair in front of his face (a way to manage stage fright was the usual explanation), he delivered his jokes in an odd slacker cadence that could make the most banal aspects of life seem hilarious.

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Lee Osborne denied being involved in the drug related killing of 29-year-old Jon Bartlett, last week, as alleged gunman John Seton, 24, went on trial at the Old Bailey. The hotly tipped British hard house producer is accused of giving Seton a new phone, renting a transit van for him and harbouring him until he could flee to Holland where he was arrested last year and extradited to England. Old Bailey prosecutor Victor Temple QC told the court Seton had confronted Mr Bartlett over a ВЈ24,000 drug debt and shot him dead in a quiet side street in Chislehurst, Kent. “It was an unequal confrontation which culminated in the two men arguing,” said prosecutor Victor Temple QC.
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For a large portion of Generation X and Y video game devotees, after a long day of working in the concrete jungle, the ultimate way to unwind is via a rousing game of Guitar Hero or Rock Band — wailing along with their favorite artists. And for others who are mostly female — as a natural progression from the innocence of singing into one’s hairbrush– some still find themselves belting out pop songs at stoplights with their windows rolled all the way up while imagining that for five minutes they’ve become Madonna or Gwen Stefani.
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