Troubled star Lindsay Lohan is finally out of jail early. Lohan served only 14 days out of her 90 day sentence and is now required to go on a three month stay in a rehab facility.

The actress was released a little after midnight on Sunday and was whisked off to an unnamed rehab facility. Lohan did not walk out of the front entrance and was instead loaded into vehicle inside the jail and taken away. According to paparazzi reports a van with a police escort arrived at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. In previous celebrity incarcerations, the stars have walked out to meet the waiting paparazzi after their release. Paris Hilton in particular was very accommodating of everyone there after her and spoke with the media and high fived the guards outside the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Facility. The facility has also held Michelle Rodriguez who carried out only 18 days of her 180 day sentence.

Those who are held for non-violent crimes have their sentences reduced significantly, due to their good behavior as well as overcrowding issues. She was arrested for the first time in 2007 when she crashed her car; she was arrested two month later for cocaine possession as well as driving under the influence of alcohol. Despite the setback Lohan is still doing well in her career; she stars in Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” and in the biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace. Lohan also released a new line of clothing while she was in jail.

It is difficult to be in different parts of the world at the same time but events and catastrophes keep on happening all over the globe either simultaneously or on separate internals. How do you keep an eye on all the events that happen in a single day from San Francisco to Singapore? Well, though there are many options talk radio is one of the best methods to stay aware. Online radio services not only inform about local and national news but also international news as well. There channels which air the news from San Francisco, Canada, London, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Cleveland etc. News from both BBC and CBC are available online on these internet radios.

If news does not interest you, you could always refresh your memory by listening to some 80s music. There is no better way of remembering your past than to listen to the music of those olden times and becoming captivated by it. Have you ever tried listening to the oldies in the dark, with all the lights switched off and just the earphones plugged I your ears? You get immediately transferred to that golden period of your life.

Jazz music is what the younger generation likes or maybe the older generation likes it too. Well, whatever the age is of a person listening to these online radio channels there is one similarity among all of these people and that is their undying passion and love for music and entertainment.

Disney is on the verge of green lighting a Muppets movie and is anxious to get things right. In this regard, they are going the same way they went with the upcoming release of “Tron Legacy” and have enlisted the help of Pixar.

Pixar has an exemplary record when comes to movie releases. Every single movie has been nothing short of financial success. Even rarely, every movie has been found favorable by all critics. Add to this the fact that Pixar keeps winning Oscars and you can see why Disney is so intent on keeping its subsidiary involved in important projects.

In the case of “Muppets“, Disney called on part of Pixar’s “Brain Trust”. Pixar president Ed Catmull and filmmakers Michael Arndt, Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and John Lasseter made themselves available for the consultation. Muppets director James Bobin, producers Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman and the movie’s lead star Jason Segel participated from Disney’s side.

The reach out to Pixar may be viewed as a sign of desperation or brilliance, but whichever it is it happens to be the right one. Recently, Disney movies have had a rough time at cinemas with “Prince of Persia” and the nesest release “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” not delivering to expectations. Both those movies and two others (”When in Rome,” “The Last Song“) were projects that were begun by the previous administration. Therefore the new administration, it appears, wants to prove a point.

So far Pixar and Disney have not commented on the outcome of the meeting.

While the eighties was all about glam rock that included long hair, riveting guitar solos, melodic vocals, 90s music brought gems like Kurt Cobain, Metallica and a blast of bands that brought on the thrash metal era while pop music also changed from the synth-pop sounds of the eighties.

Almost every glam band disappeared during this era except for the phenomenon now known as Guns N Roses. And their story has continued on into the New Millennium with no band receiving as much attention as this band has.

Talk radio fueled the fire, with interviews speaking of gossip amongst both factions of Gnr while the whole nation went into shock as Kurt Cobain committed suicide. All in all, there was some spice when it came to the music scene of nineties.

It was only in the late nineties that class acts such as Mr. Big and Van Halen among other bands began to resurface to play new material, and the radio was there once again to give us all the latest news while streaming radio did their bit too, for those who lived outside the United States.

Now, with the internet in full flow, not only can listen to interviews, listen to band songs from the nineties but also read bios and watch rockumentaries of these bands as well.

And why not, a little walk down memory lane never hurts anyone.

Actress Lindsay Loahn will be spending several weeks of jail time as her punishment in violation of her probation for DUI. The said facility where she will be locked in is located far away from Hollywood - inside a commonplace two storey structure which stands next to a busy road inside an industrial area. The actress is to start her sentence on July 20 at the unwelcoming 16-year old prison in Lynwood California called the Century Regional Detention Facility located downtown southern Los Angeles. Lohan is said to be housed inside the 2,200-bed structure’s special needs area, where she is to live alone for her well-being.

Because of jail overcrowding and the program that gives credit to the inmates for their good behavior, nonviolent female law offenders such as Lindsay Lohan would usually serve about 25% of their sentenced jail time according to Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles’ County Sheriff Department. This would mean that Lohan’s 90-day jail time could be cut to approximately 3 weeks, which is actually the time for the advance screening of the movie “Machete”, which opens September 3 wherein Lohan plays as nun. This is not the first time that the actress has been to jail. It can be recalled when Lohan spent 84 minutes of lockup in this same facility in 2007 for the same crime - DUI.

The sentence was reduced from the original one day lockup period due to jail overcrowding. During the sentence, she was fingerprinted, searched and locked in bars but the officials have allowed her to keep her street clothes on.

The French media has reported that actress Paris Hilton was momentarily detained after a small amount of marijuana was detected by sniffer dogs on July 17. Reports from the French newspaper Corse Marin states that the actress was caught with possession of the illegal substance (approximately one gram of marijuana) in the Figari airport. It was said that Hilton was aboard a private jet on July 16 going to the French Mediterranean Island when she was held for interrogation but was released after about half an hour in detention.

In Corse Matin’s website, the column stated that Paris Hilton was aboard with powerful individuals from Malaysia, who were travelling from the capital of France to Porto Cervo, Sardinia. Meanwhile, in Hilton’s Twitter account (TwitLonger), Paris stated on July 17 “Just to put an end to these rumors. The stories saying I have been arrested are completely false!” “I am having the best vacation of my life”. Not a month ago, Paris Hilton was detained right after the World Cup match of Brazil and Netherlands came to a close in Port Elizabeth, South Africa when the actress was suspected to have possessed marijuana, but the accusation was dropped after a midnight court hearing. These cases as well as DUI’s are not new to the actress.

It can be recalled back in 2007 when Hilton was accused of reckless driving and driving under the influence. She pleaded no contest, and had to spend 45 days in custody. After spending half of her sentence, the actress announced in US TV that her experience made her evaluate the effects of partying, and concluded that she will be dedicating her time helping raise funds for people suffering from multiple sclerosis and breast cancer.

Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan have successfully collaborated in the past and their latest partnership will be judged against the success of those past endeavors. “Inception” is the third collaboration between the two men and the soundtrack is titled “Inception: Music From the Motion Picture”. Previously, Zimmer had composed the soundtracks to Nolan’s extremely successful “Batman Begins” (2005) and “Dark Knight” (2008). Zimmer said that Nolan had been discussing the movie with him for almost a year before a script was handed to him.

He said that at that point, it became obvious that some radical thinking was required. This meant more ideas being fired back and forth between himself and Nolan. Once filming started, Zimmer visited the set to get into the mood of things and to get a feel for the atmosphere. But strangely, he was not allowed to watch the edits as Nolan wanted him to work independently.According to Zimmer, this was in line with the theme of the movie which was “shared dreaming”. The concept on a very basic level was that if two minds work on the same project at the same time, their minds would get attuned them to the same pattern of thinking; therefore arriving at the desired result. So the first time Zimmer saw the edit was when the soundtrack had been ported on to it. His reaction - “It was surprising how well it worked”.

Finally the visual effects category appears to be getting more recognition. The Academy Awards next year will feature five nominees instead of the three that have so far been the norm. The board of governors also changed rules governing the Feature Animation category. The minimum length of these features has been brought down from 70 minutes to 40 minutes. This puts it on par with other feature film categories.

The changes seem to represent the ever growing impact of animation in the present filmmaking business. Graphics, stop motion animation and such have been growing quality and importance for a while now. But sadly it has lacked the recognition. The fact that Andy Serkis was refused a nomination for his role as “Gollum” in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy is still a sticking point for many.

In other news, James Cameron will bring back his blockbuster hit “Avatar” one more time to limited cinemas. Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D theaters will start showing the movie from August 27th onwards. But this won’t be quite the same “Avatar” you’ve seen before. Eight minutes of new footage, including action scenes and new creatures, will be added to the movie. Cameron said that this release was in response to fans who want to spend more time on the fictional planet-moon of Pandora.

So far the extended version will be available only to the domestic market. But if it does well, it might make it out worldwide as well.

There were howls at midnight on Wednesday and none of them came from any canine maws. Instead they were howls of anguish as boyfriends and husbands alike took their partners to watch the newest installment of the “Twilight” saga.

“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” opened midweek and in a true show of strength raked in at least $30 million. Impressive as that maybe for a midweek opening, the success is highlighted further when you consider that it broke the record for an opening night haul in the series. The second movie in the series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, gathered over $26 million last year; but it opened on a Friday which obviously guaranteed it more traffic. Summit Entertainment, the movie’s distributor, could not give a final accurate figure as the total tally would only be arrived at on Thursday morning. However, they were quite confident that that it would be well past the $30 million mark by then.

The movie can only expect to go from strength to strength, as it is poised to run rampant over a massive five day run helped by the 4th of July weekend. The current record for the five day weekend is held by the sci-fi thriller “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and stands at $200 million. “Eclipse” looks set to sail past that figure with ease.

Success in that league will only ensure rapid processing of the next two movies in the saga; “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1″ and “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2″ are set to be released in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

When Buggles sang the song, ‘Video killed the Radio star’, perhaps it was too early to see the dominance of the internet in our lives. Not only has it taken multimedia to the next level but it is virtually a treasure trove of information about musicians, their history and their upcoming releases.

Be it country music or indie music, the internet gives you the latest information on their latest releases, the scoops about who they are dating and whom. But there is one more medium that has taken the world by storm: internet radio. You can listen to your favorite artists such as Garth Brooks and so on and so forth using this medium if you have a broadband connection and are able to look for them over the internet with ease.

While some people are more inclined towards devotional music, there are numerous Christian music radio stations that one can tune into in no time as well. Whether you like Christian Rock legends such as Petra, Third Day or even the softer music of Amy Grant and so on and so forth, one can begin their morning with some heart-lifting music.

Again, this all depends on the mood of the viewer, and so there are several radio stations that have been made available for their listening pleasure. So, get on the internet and spend your time listening to the music that you’ve always been wanting to listen but haven’t been able to access otherwise.