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Was given a lute as a gift, Sting then was inspired to create an album of lute music. And after such work hard in the studio, the singer will have his new album released in October later this year.

The as-yet untitled set, a disc full of 16th century music performed on the lute, reportedly will be issued on the classical label Deutsche Grammophon. "It's a strange record, a delightful record and I think people will be intrigued by it," Sting says about the new album while adding "The album is voice and lute, there are a few four part harmonies that I sing and it's all music from the 16th century."

The self-proclaimed King of Pop Michael Jackson is slated to accept MTV Japan's Legend Award on Saturday May 27th, 2006, and thus marking his first public appearance since his trial acquittal last June.

While will appear at MTV Japan's Video Music Awards takes place at Yoyugi Olympic Stadium to receive his honor, a career-spanning accolade awarded to artists for extraordinary contributions to music and music videos, Jacko will also launch an Asian tour besides plans to visit Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

First spotted together with Paris Hilton's former boyfriend Stavros Niarchos 5 days before he and Hilton split last month, Lindsay Lohan seems really enjoys the guy's companion for they were seen appearing together for several times.

They were found kissing on May 15 at the Manhattan nightclub Butter to then have party together at Bungalow 8 until 3 a.m. followed by an appointment in an Elefant concert at Webster Hall by May 17 before meeting friends at Bungalow 8 once again.

Previously dragged Jean Doumanian to court due to his objections to some of the edits she had conducted to his six films, Woody Allen sadly had to face the fact that he lost the case when New York judge stated that Doumanian still had the editing rights to the features on May 25.

The director had been particularly dissatisfied with her decision to replace certain words in the features instead of just bleeping them out, but Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried decided to turn in favor on Doumanian, who argued that she preferred a word substitution as TV networks didn't really go for the bleep approach.

Refusal is bitter, but that does not mean that it will stop one's determination to produce something and that was what Sofia Coppola exactly did when making her latest biopic film, "Marie Antoinette", which encountered its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night of May 24.

The director originally intended to cast French cinema legend Alain Delon as Louis XV in the film, but much to her disappointment, the star in turn refused to join in. "I had a meeting with him and he told me he didn't want to be in the movie," so she told the newspaper Metro. "He thought it was not a good idea for an American to make a movie about a French story. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and I was not going to let him stop me from making the movie," she added.

There won't be dolls for The Pussycat Dolls as plans to launch plastic miniatures of the six-girl group were scrapped by American parenting groups which at last prompted toymaker Hasbro to shelve the potentially lucrative product.

The protests to stop the toys hitting stores reportedly started Monday May 22nd, 2006 and by Wednesday morning the manufacturing company had received around 2 000 letters and emails of complaint.

Negative reaction following the release of movie "The Da Vinci Code" keeps flowing down and this time reaches Sri Lanka as President Mahinda Rajapakse has publicly announced the country's ban over the film feature according to the state-run Colombo Daily News.

Becoming the first Asian country to do so, Sri Lanka, also based on the newspaper's report, has issued the order on an appeal by the Catholic Bishops Conference which accused the picture to be the product of a "totally perverted mind and ... adversely affects the most sacred beliefs of our people."

For those who wait in anticipation for the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's first child, marking the calendar from now on to June 3 is probably worth to be carried out as the actress has determined to deliver her offspring by the date at the latest, whether the process is natural or induced.

In their preparation, the twosome have already flown their obstetrician/gynecologist to Namibia's Burning Shore resort so that if Jolie has not yet given birth by the specified date she will get it induced instead.

Madame Tussauds in New York has on Thursday May 25th, 2006 unveiled its latest wax creation of Britney Spears.

The wax figure features the pop superstar suspended upside down from a stripper pole, appearing as she looked in 2000, before getting married or having a child.

As the fifth season of Fox's hugely successful reality program "American Idol" eventually came to its finale on May 24, it is the gray-haired soul singer Taylor Hicks who at last was named the show's winner after gaining the highest point of votes of million viewers all around the States.

Becoming the oldest "American Idol" winner to date, the Alabama native gloriously beat down beautiful ballader Katharine McPhee to secure a lavish recording contract while also will see his first-single release in the next few days. "Thank you America! I'm living the American Dream," so he joyously screamed at the end of the show.

Returning from their two-week honeymoon in Fiji, newlyweds Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott seems to have fixed on the same intention to start a family as they both like the idea of having a baby as soon as possible.

"I would love a little girl," so McDermott told Us Weekly. "We just would want a healthy one." Agreeing her husband's statement, Spelling added, saying "We are going to have many, so there's plenty of opportunity for a girl." Good luck for both of you then.

This year's Tony Awards sure will be a shining star-studded affair for the organizers for the event have revealed their plan to feature 60 celebrity hosts to represent each year of the theatre world's prize-giving ceremony as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Among the hosts, there certainly are notably names like Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Cynthia Nixon, Martin Short, plus Mark Ruffalo.

Following the debate whether Mischa Barton was really forced to leave Fox popular series of "The O.C" or not, the show creator, Josh Schwartz, finally gave his remark concerning the matter. Concluded to kill Barton's character, Marissa Cooper, in the series' season finale aired May 18, the man firmly claimed that the elimination was purely a creative decision and had nothing to do with the actress.

"She was a complete professional," he commented earnestly. Nevertheless, a source close to the program has informed that the character was actually killed to raise the show's profile as it lately had tough struggle in the ratings. "Everybody's talking about The OC again, and that's exactly what they want," so the person said.

The 41st annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards held Tuesday night May 23rd, 2006 saw the winning of several notable musicians. Among the many winners at the prestigious event, there was Brooks & Dunn who nabbed two awards all at once, one of which was for Vocal Duo category while the other one was for Song of the Year for "Believe".

Elsewhere, the Male Vocalist award went to Keith Urban and the Female Vocalist prize was given to Sara Evans. Besides them all there were also Rascal Flatts and Jason Aldean to mention some others, each of which brought home the award for the category of Vocal Group and New Male Vocalist. As of the Female Vocalist award the winner was Carrie Underwood who at the same time also won Single Record of the Year for "Jesus Take the Wheel".

Reports on the street mention that immigration officials have banned M.I.A. from entering the US. Further report claims that the singer has been failed in her bid to get a U.S. visa.

Explaining on what actually happens, M.I.A. reveals that she actually was scheduled to work with acclaimed hip-hop production pioneer Timbaland on the record. And in an online message posted at her MySpace site she said "I was mennu work with timber startin' this week...I'm locked out! They wont let me in! Now I'm strictly making my album outside the borders"