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Wednesday July 5 2006 1 3B SAY ANYTHING a mother changed me I am more feminine more confident as a woman It is all very natural an Grammy-winning Canadian singer Nelly urlado who plans to take her 2 year-okl daughter Nevis on tour to promote her new hit album Loose OUR SPIN ON ENTERTAINMENT NEWS REVIEWS TOMORROW: What to know before you go to the World Series of Video Games in Grapevine IN LIFE ARTS COUNTRY MUSIC REVIEW I CONCERT Lukas Nelson plays with his dad Willie and Harmonic Tribe at the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic on Tuesday STAR TELEGRAMJEFFERY WASHINGTON in the Fort Worth Stockyards Starr offers a fresh take on concert tradition By PUNCH SHAW SrFUAl TO TUT STAR TELEGRAM GRAND PRAIRIE Drumming legend Ringo Starr performing with the latest version of his All-Starr Band made an important contribution to rock roll in his concert at Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie on Monday night Not that there is anything new in that Starr has had profound influence on a number of aspects of the art of rock percussion since his days as one-fourth of the greatest thing that ever happened iapopular music from the way drummers hold their sticks to how they are presented onstage (they up on stands before Ringo) But possibly historical moment was not directly musical This particular gathering of rockers worked well as a band but when Richard Marx and Billy Squire are part of the act it is not likely that important new musical trails will be blazed and they were not Starr was as enthusiastic and charming as ever chatting with the sparse audience of 2208 and even accepting birthday gifts from fans (he will turn 66 Friday) But his trot through his own list of usual suspects Yellow Submarine Photograph It Come Easy et al) was merely a pleasant revisit to a place we have all been before Fellow skins technician Sheila who has participated in several of these All-Starr tours and Texan Edgar Winter provided some of the best performances of the night An extended version of the Frankenstein was one of the highlights of the evening But it was near the end of the concert that Starr did something that will (hopefully) change rock shows forever he blew the cover on the faux encore Near the finale of the 2 2-hour performance Starr humorously explained to the audience that since know we are coming back and you know we are coming there was no need to leave in the first place So he and his All-Starrs launched into their planned encore With a Little Help From My Friends without the usual preface of a transparently false exit It was a typical bit of honesty from one of the most genuine and easy-to-love musicians in the history of rock Let us all hope he has started yet another tradition 10000 fans enjoy picnic BY STEFAN STEVENSON STAR TFLKRAM STAFF WRI IT FORT WORTH There was a little rain mud and no bonus act of the stature of Bob Dylan but Willie annual Fourth of July Picnic in the Fort Worth Stockyards was still a success More than 10000 people attended the daylong event which is 10000 fewer than last year The rain put the concert more than an hour behind schedule and Ray Price David Allan Coe and Willie and Family hit the stage as of 11 pm But the crowd at the picnic in its third consecutive year in Fort Worth discouraged by the delays or weather There were just too many good vibes wafting from the stage by bands such as Stoney Larue Randy Rogers Band and Harmonic Tribe a reggae band from Hawaii which may have caught ear when he was at his home in Maui Nelson made an appearance with his son Lukas and the Harmonic Tribe earlier in the evening After playing guitar with his son Nelson took over for Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth He explained that the song was conceived on Christmas Day 2003 as he sat in front of his TV watching news reports about the war in Iraq It was a serious moment in a day filled mostly with old-fashioned sing-along Texas country music Kris Kristofferson came on at 10:30 pm and played Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Com to create the Sparrow character The second in the series Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest opens Friday Pirates of the Caribbean star Keira Knlghtley 21 says her family has a history of anorexia but insisted Tuesday in London that she does not have an eating disorder got a lot of experience with anorexia my grandmother and greatgrandmother suffered from Kmghtley said "I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't" Producer pardoned Dubai's ruler pardoned American producer Dallas Austin on Tuesday hours after he was sentenced to four years in prison for possession of cocaine two of the producer's lawyers said Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued the pardon but Austin has not yet been released from jail said the lawyers A court sentenced Austin who has creat Tuesday July 11 pm ing Down sounding much crisper than he did during the 2004 picnic Other highlights included version of Forever Young which had 20-year-olds who may never have heard the original version singing along Randy Rogers Band which is in the mold of Cross Canadian Ragweed (they even played a Ragweed song) lived up to their good reviews as they ripped through This Time Around Kiss Me in the Dark and Been Down which the college kids ate up It just college kids enjoying themselves Older fans sang along to Billy Joe Shaver Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band which played a Nelson picnic since the 1970s The Dirt Band did a fast-paced fiddle-filled version of Get Back ed tunes for Madonna and Janet Jack-son to prison earlier Tuesday his defense team said The court had also ruled that the 34 year old should be deported from the United Arab Emirates after serving his prison term Celebrity birthdays Singer musician Robbie Robertson is 63 Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 58 Musician Huey Lewis is 56 Baseball pitcher Rich Gossage is 55 Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn is 47 Actress Edle Falco is 43 Rapper RZA is 37 Rhythm-and blues singer Joe is 33 Singer Jason Wade of Lifehouse is 26 Notable death on this date orvrvpr Retired vice admiral and war hero James Stockdale Ross Perot 1992 presidential running mate died in Coronado Calif at age 81 Compiled from wire and online reports 1 IN I a 01 (CZEMr PEOPLE WATCH Lo seeks injunction Jennifer Lopez paid her ex husband OJani Noa $125000 not to air their dirty laundry for monetary gain but he is proceeding with his plans to publish a tell all book about their marriage her lawyer said in court documents Lopez is requesting that a Los Angeles judge issue a preliminary injunction against her first husband to whom she was married from February 1997 to January 1998 Lopez says that Noa has admitted to making disparaging state Learn CTOTMirmij ments about her in his book proposal has revealed intimate details solicited paid media interviews attempted to sell private videos and demanded $5 million after he signed a confidentiality agreement According to court documents Noa's book proposal describes in explicit detail what he says was his first sexual encounter with the star 'Pirates' roundup Keith Richards is not the first person one would think of as a father figure but Johnny Depp says that all about to change The Rolling Stones guitarist is lined up to play the swashbuckling father of Captain Jack Sparrow in the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series Depp said Tuesday in London Depp 43 I has said he adopted Richards' body language and mannerisms ft I A Mitel l4irs 4 A ptfnvr V4rU ll i mvtf jge- A I ftSgSlKa tfedBnnfeGMS tfi) Itfijrajr -jfr -t iVujk ri i lx a AI paa lvi 3m.