Jess bid to be as BIG as Dolly

ASPIRING popstar JESSICA SIMPSON is desperate to be the next DOLLY PARTON.

The sexy Texan, world Health Organization starred in fly-on-the-wall express Newlyweds with ex-hubby NICK
LACHEY, is determined to be as BIG as her rural area idol.

And with her blonde locks and zaftig physique, it's not just now the singing
stakes she'll be mirroring.

Little sister ASHLEE is as well blooming to a lower place her baste, with a
swelling bust as she prepares to welcome her first child with PETE WENTZ
into the earth.

The Dukes of Hazzard star said: "Dolly is awesome! I idolise her. And she
is beautiful. I would love to be just like her. I have worked with her and
it was great.

"It was really exciting - I am blessed, C per cent."

Jess, who is set to release her first land album Do You Know in September,
has a long journey ahead to rival 26 No. 1 singles and 42 Top 10 country
albums.

She recently admitted she had been in an abusive relationship and her coming
tune Remember That is based on her own experiences.

When quizzed by Elle magazine, Jess said: "I don't want to verbalize about it,
but I have emphatically experienced maltreat in a way that I would tell citizenry to
take their bosom and run."

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Montreal writer Rawi Hage wins Irish prize for debut novel 'De Niro's Game'

DUBLIN, Ireland - Montreal writer Rawi Hage won one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes Thursday for his debut novel "De Niro's Game."

Five judges from Ireland, Britain, Spain and the United States selected the Beirut-born Hage for the $155,000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He beat 136 other books from 45 countries, all of them works published in English in 2006. All the books had been nominated by libraries worldwide.

"De Niro's Game" is about two childhood friends who take different paths to survive amid civil war and paramilitary crime in the Lebanese capital.

Hage, 44, fled Beirut in the early 1980s, studied at the New York Institute of Photography, and settled in 1991 in Montreal where he has built a career as a photographer and essayist.

The judges praised "De Niro's Game" as "an eloquent, forthright and at times beautifully written first novel. Ringing with insight and authenticity, the novel shows how war can envelop lives."

Hage received the prize in a ceremony at Dublin City Hall - and declared himself "a fortunate man."

"After a long journey of war, displacement and separation, I feel that I am one of the few wanderers who is privileged enough to have been rewarded, and for that I am very grateful," he said.

Hage said he sought to follow a tradition of authors "who have chosen the painful and costly portrayal of truth over tribal self-righteousness."

The other finalists were "The Attack" by Yasmina Khadra; "Let It Be Morning" by Sayed Kashua; "The Woman Who Waited" by Andrei Makine; "The Sweet & Simple Kind" by Yasmine Gooneratne; "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones; "The Speed of Light" by Javier Cercas, and "Winterwood" by Patrick McCabe - the lone Irish finalist.

The prize is run by Dublin's public library system and financed by a Connecticut-based management consultancy called Improved Management Productivity and Control. IMPAC has its European headquarters in Dublin.

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The Specials - The Specials Reform For Autumn Shows

British ska icons THE SPECIALS are to reform for dates this autumn (08).

The shows will mark the Ghost Town hitmakers' first concerts in 25 years.

The reunion comes after five years of negotiations between the once-feuding bandmates.

Frontman Terry Hall tells Billboard.com, "We've solved those problems and hopefully got over them (because) seven 50-year-old men together in a room is not very pleasant, no matter who you are.

"We're getting on great and that's all you can hope for, really.

"We're doing a block of rehearsals in June and then once we've done that, we'll see when we're ready."

The group enjoyed a string of hits at the height of the twotone movement before splitting in 1981, when original members Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding formed Fun Boy Three.

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Mika is eager to win a Brit Award

Mika is eager to win a Brit Award

Pop vocaliser Mika has said that he would love life to win a Brit Prize at tonight's observance.
Public speaking to The Dominicus, he said: "Quite honestly I'd love to win unity. I'd care to fuck off British people Male merely the competition is fierce."
The vocalizer, world Health Organization faces competition from Lead That in the categories of C. H. Best Album and Charles Herbert Best Bingle, said: "Accept That ar a Brits institution now."
Mika besides said that he would sexual love to envision his friends in Muse picking up an awarding.
"I really leslie Townes Hope that they win because they really deserve it," he said.