Singer Amy Winehouse Dead at Age of 27

Amy Winehouse

Tragic news... Talented british singer Amy Winehouse was found dead on Saturday (23 July), at her North London house.


Troubled, Grammy-winner signer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her North London home. She was 27 years old. The award-winning artist, famous for hit like "Rehab" from the critically acclaimed album "Back to Black" was discovered by the emergency services in the late arternoon, around 15:54pm. Her death was being treated as "unexplained", but sources said she had died of a drug overdose. 


Metropolitan police confirmed the death of the singer, notorious as her off-stage excesses as her music.
In a statement, the London Metropolitan police said: "Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained."


A statement from Amy Winehouse's U.S. record label said: "We are deeply saddened at the sudden loss of such a gifted musician, artist and performer. Our prayers go out to Amy's family, friends and fans at this difficult time."


Last mounth, Amy canceled her European tour after a performance in Serbia where she seemed completely out of it.


The singer was born Amy Jade Winehouse on 14th September 1983 in Southgate, London.
Winehouse has had a troubled life which has included various stints in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction.
She's battaled drug addiciotn for years, having most recently checked back into rehabilitation in May.


Winehouse was last seen with her goddaughter, Dionne Bromfield, earlier last week when the teenager performed at the iTunes festival.


Unfortunately, another great artist is gone... Rest in peace Amy Winehouse.
Our condolences to her family.


Watch Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" video.

Natalie Portman Gives Birth To Baby Boy!

Natalie Portman is a mom! The baby is the first child for the Oscar-winning "Black Swan" actress and her fiance, Benjamin Millepied.


The Oscar-winning "Black Swan" actress welcomed a baby boy with her fiancé, choreographer Benjamin Millepied. No details were available about the baby's name.


Portman, who turned 30 last Thursday, announced in December that she was pregnant and planned to marry her boyfriend, French ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied. The, couple met on the set of "Black Swan", announced their pregnancy and engagement in December, but Natalie kept quiet on the sex of the baby. The baby is their first child.


Natalie Portman has had a busy year: In addition to winning an Oscar and Golden Globe for her role in "Black Swan", she has appeared in the films "Thor", "No Strings Attached", "Your Highness", "Hesher" and "The Other Woman".

In January, Portman said that she was going to take a break after the baby was born: "I'll be out of the public eye," she said, adding that she will figure out any future acting opportunity "as it comes."

Congratulations to the charming Natalie Portman!

The White iPhone 4!

Apple announced the availability of the white iPhone 4.

The white iPhone 4 is available since April 28th.
Unlike the black version it's able to reflect all colors of the visible spectrum, making it white.

See the Apple iPhone 4 white review :

Natalie Portman : "I'm a Pleasure Seeker, Not Self-Punisher"

Actress Natalie Portman -- who Sunday won a Golden Globe for her performance in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" -- went method for her role as tortured ballerina Nina Sayers.

Living a role for a movie is hard work -- living the physically punishing life of a ballet dancer is even harder. But it's worth it when you get awarded with a Golden Globe for your efforts.

Though at a press conference in London she said she was more of a "pleasure-seeker" than a "self-punisher," Portman described the grueling training she underwent for the film, and how mid-way through shooting the film she suffered a dislocated rib.
"We were doing five hours a day of training that was three hours of ballet and then we would swim a mile and tone for two hours," Portman said.
"You really understand the discipline, the rigor, the willingness to work through physical pain," she explained of the physical demands on ballet dancers.

Not only did she have to train as a ballerina, she also had to embody the friable emotional state of a young girl cracking under pressure.
"I think the really tricky part was balancing the physical with the emotion," she said.

"Black Swan" is set in a fictional New York ballet company, where highly strung young women battle it out for star roles. Portman plays a corps dancer given the role of a lifetime: that of the Princess Odette in Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, Swan Lake.
But not only does her character have to portray the good princess Odette, who is turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer; she also plays the sorcerer's daughter Odile, the black swan of the film's title.

Dancing as the two swans proves psychologically unsettling for Sayers, a good girl required to turn bad for the role of Odile. She is goaded by the ballet company director (played by French actor Vincent Cassel) into exploring her dark side for the role.

Portman explained that she was drawn to the world of ballet, which she sees as "a particularly female art form that is still dominated by men," because she wanted to represent the "larger world of women, you know, where one woman gets too old, or out of shape, and there's a younger woman that's going to be slipped into her place."
Exploring that world is fitting for an actress used to working in Hollywood since childhood.

Portman was born in 1981 in Jerusalem and moved to America soon after. She made her acting debut in 1994 as Mathilda Luc Besson's film "Leon," about the relationship between a young girl and a hit man.

Portman, now 29, said she was pleased to have had the experience of her 20's before embarking on the demanding role of Nina. She likens her experience as a child actress to that of her character in "Black Swan."

With a Golden Globe win, many are wondering if Portman will get an Academy Award nomination too.
But while she says she finds the awards buzz "flattering," Portman also said that audience reaction is most important to her.

"Just to see people engaging so passionately about it is your greatest dream while making a movie," she said.