Daily entertainment news covering Sid Vicious en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/15/review_500_days_of_summer Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:37:12 EST Entertainment News 130317@http://www.starpulse.com/news At some point most guys have had at least one Summer Finn in their lives. Someone who was in every way perfect and for a short period of time, she reciprocates those feelings.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/05/10/celebrity_birthdays_may_117 Sun, 10 May 2009 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 119783@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to "Kenan and Kel" star Kenan Thompson (1978), Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965), U2 singer/humanitarian Bono (1960), Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (1957; d. 1979), Traffic guitarist Dave Mason (1946),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/03/17/sid_vicious_tops_controversial_rocker_po Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:31:03 EST Entertainment News 114331@http://www.starpulse.com/news Hell raising Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious has been voted the most controversial rocker of all time.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/19/examining_the_music_biopic Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:07:37 EST Entertainment News 98316@http://www.starpulse.com/news The biopic is a longstanding Hollywood tradition. There are the big budget epics like the now infamous Elizabeth Taylor vehicle "Cleopatra," David Lean's masterpiece,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/15/bad_guy_oldman_shows_good_side_in_dark_k Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:49:53 EST Entertainment News 92749@http://www.starpulse.com/news LOS ANGELES (AP) - In some earlier parallel universe of Batman's Gotham City, it might have been Gary Oldman instead of Heath Ledger cackling and conniving as the maniacal Joker.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/12/hotel_documentary_recreates_nancy_spunge Mon, 12 May 2008 17:30:00 EST Entertainment News 87194@http://www.starpulse.com/news The fatal stabbing of Sex Pistols rocker Sid Vicious' American girlfriend has been recreated in a new documentary about New York's famed Chelsea Hotel.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/10/celebrity_birthdays_may_79 Sat, 10 May 2008 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 86479@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to "Kenan and Kel" star Kenan Thompson (1978), Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965), U2 singer/humanitarian Bono (1960),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/14/a_new_yorker_s_guide_to_spotting_celebri Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:25:13 EST Entertainment News 84188@http://www.starpulse.com/news Imagine carrying loads of shopping bags while pushing aside walls of doe-eyed tourists, teenage Elle Woods' carrying baby Bruisers, and cell phone yelling brokers in Armani power suits. When three strangers from nowhere decide to casually stroll in your way, you lose patience and BAM!, you shove the middle man aside.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/27/sarah_borges_and_the_broken_singles_rele Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:30:00 EST Entertainment News 75660@http://www.starpulse.com/news Following 2007's critically acclaimed hit "The Day We Met," roots-punk-rock songstress Sarah Borges and her band The Broken Singles will release a new video for the second single, "Stop And Think It Over."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/12/07/biographer_to_make_ultimate_sex_pistols_ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:47:07 EST Entertainment News 70461@http://www.starpulse.com/news Writer Alan Parker has been recruited to make a new movie about notorious late Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious. The 42-year-old has written three books on the life of the punk legend - real name John Simon Ritchie - and has now been approached by Ipso Facto films to direct a docu-drama about the bassist.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/18/the_sex_pistols_to_reunite_for_anniversa Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:06:52 EST Entertainment News 60365@http://www.starpulse.com/news Punk icons The Sex Pistols are set to play a one-off gig in London to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Surviving members Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will reunite for the special performance at the British capital's Brixton Academy on November 8th.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/04/notable_quotables_169 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:00:25 EST Entertainment News 58520@http://www.starpulse.com/news "We are not going to end up like them (Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen). We're in love and have everything to live for." Troubled soul star Amy Winehouse is adamant she and husband Blake Fielder-Civil will not meet the same tragic end as the Sex Pistol's frontman and his girlfriend, who were both heroin addicts. Vicious died aged 21 in 1979.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/25/marc_anthony_blasts_critics_saying_hecto Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:40:51 EST Entertainment News 53113@http://www.starpulse.com/news Marc Anthony has hit out at claims Latin music legend Hector Lavoe is undeserving of a biopic. Anthony plays Lavoe, one of the most famous Spanish-language singers of the 1970s, in El Cantante - alongside his wife Jennifer Lopez as Lavoe's wife Puchi.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/13/notable_quotables_141 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:19 EST Entertainment News 51380@http://www.starpulse.com/news "I love America. What better place to bring up children?" Posh Spice Victoria Beckham can't wait to start her new life in Los Angeles. "It'll be sent to me the night it's released, so I won't be queuing up for it. But I'm not getting it earlier than anyone else."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/05/johnny_rotten_s_drugs_rant Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:34:35 EST Entertainment News 50126@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former hell raiser John Lydon has begged his rock colleagues to stop glamorizing drugs, recalling how they destroyed his Sex Pistols band mate Sid Vicious in 1979. Lydon - better known as Johnny Rotten - is saddened music stars continue to advocate illegal substances nearly 30 years after Vicious died of an overdose aged just 21.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/29/the_ramones_join_advertisement_hullabalo Tue, 29 May 2007 13:11:09 EST Entertainment News 44547@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Ramones have waded into the dispute over footwear giant Dr. Martens' controversial advertisement which uses dead rock stars in heaven to promote boots. The company has already apologized to Courtney Love for featuring her late husband Kurt Cobain in the commercial. Now the brother of Joey Ramone - also depicted in the ad - is demanding a similar response.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/25/shoe_boss_apologizes_to_courtney_love_fo Fri, 25 May 2007 08:35:14 EST Entertainment News 44140@http://www.starpulse.com/news The boss of footwear giant Dr. Martens has apologized to Courtney Love for featuring her late husband Kurt Cobain and other dead rockers in an advertisement. David Suddens is unreservedly sorry for the campaign, which only appeared in the U.K. and showed the Nirvana legend sitting on a cloud wearing an angelic robe alongside the caption 'Dr. Martens. Forever'.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/24/courtney_love_blasts_dr_martens_over_kur Thu, 24 May 2007 11:49:58 EST Entertainment News 44035@http://www.starpulse.com/news Courtney Love has blasted footwear giants Dr. Martens for featuring her late husband Kurt Cobain in a recent advertisement. The campaign, which only appears in the U.K., shows the Nirvana legend sitting on a cloud while wearing an angelic robe - with the words 'Dr. Martens. Forever' in the picture.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/10/celebrity_birthdays_may_42 Thu, 10 May 2007 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 39865@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to "Kenan and Kel" star Kenan Thompson (1978), Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965), U2 singer/humanitarian Bono (1960), Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (1957; d. 1979), Traffic guitarist Dave Mason (1946), comedy movie director Jim Abrahams (1944), country legend Mother Maybelle Carter (1909), silver screen star Fred Astaire (1899; d. 1987), and Austrian composer Max Steiner (1888; d. 1971).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/05/10/celebrity_birthdays_may_10 Wed, 10 May 2006 03:00:11 EST Entertainment News 5879@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to "Kenan and Kel" star Kenan Thompson (1978), Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965), U2 singer/humanitarian Bono (1960), Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (1957; d. 1979), Traffic guitarist Dave Mason (1946), comedy movie director Jim Abrahams (1944), country legend Mother Maybelle Carter (1909), silver screen star Fred Astaire (1899; d. 1987), and Austrian composer Max Steiner (1888; d. 1971).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/02/02/rotten_blames_himself_for_sid_vicious_de Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:32:07 EST Entertainment News 2602@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon blames himself for the problems leading up to the death of band member Sid Vicious because he had no chance to overcome his drug addiction. Lydon, AKA Johnny Rotten, fears the pressure of being in the band prevented Vicious, real name John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, from facing up to the heroin habit which killed him in 1979 at the tender age of 21.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2005/11/28/2006_rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_inductee Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:45:36 EST Entertainment News 812@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation today announced its 2006 Inductees. This year's class includes Black Sabbath, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols, plus the Lifetime Achievement Award going to Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss. The Twenty-First Annual Induction Ceremony will be held Monday, March 13th 2006 in New York at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Here's some more info on this year's inductees...

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