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Off The
Record...
Golden Smog
Weird Tales
Tales is the third release from
the alt-country supergroup featuring Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, the Jayhawks'
Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, and
Run Westy Run's Kraig
Johnson. For this album the boys enlisted Big Star co-founder Jody Stephens to
play drums. Think of a great roots rock band playing in a small club after
hours just for the fun of it, and you'll have a good idea of what this album is
like.
At The
Movies...
Patch Adams
Robin Williams stars as Dr.
Hunter "Patch" Adams, a medical student in the '70s who defied conventionality
by incorporating a radical sense of humor into an unorthodox style of practicing
medicine. Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura, Liar Liar) directs this portrayal of a man's
struggle to help others as he learns from being both a patient and a doctor.
Pure fun.
On Video...
The Slums
Of Beverly Hills
Wonderfully funny and gentle
coming-of-age-comedy about a 15-year-old girl's growing problems, her rising
sexuality and her dysfunctional family, who move from dump to dump in Beverly
Hills so the kids can stay in the better Beverly Hills schools. Complicating
matters is the arrival of a messed-up cousin, whose stay with the family poses
both a salvation and a threat. Though set in 1976, there's more than nostalgia
here. Highly recommended.
The Buzz...
Barbra Streisand has
accepted an offer of more than $10 million to appear at the MGM Grand Hotel in
Las Vegas on Millennium Eve.
A rare in-concert recording of
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. will soon be
hitting music stores. The upcoming live album, titled The Summit, features the
Rat Packers in a live concert recorded in Wheeling, Illinois, in 1962.
The X-Files may attempt
to clear up some of its mysteries this season. Two major characters will die,
Scully will come to believe in Mulder's theories, and the mystery of Samantha
Mulder's kidnapping and Alex Krycek's mysterious bosses will be revealed.
The movie industry took in a
record $6.88 billion this year, easily beating last year's take by almost ten
percent. 1.39 billion tickets were sold.
Kate Mulgrew plans to
seek an early release from her Star Trek: Voyager contract to devote more
time to her children and her husband-to-be, Tim Hagen. Jason
Alexander of Seinfeld fame has signed to play an alien leader named Kurros
on the series.
DirecTV is debuting a series
based on the novel The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, renowned
creator of Sherlock Holmes. In the series, as in the book, Professor
Edward Challenger leads an expedition to a lost world of dinosaurs in Central
America.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
cast members may well cross over to the new Angel series when it debuts,
according to Buffy creator Joss Whedon.
MGM reports a victory in its
legal battle with Sony over the James Bond film rights. An agreement
with former Bond producer Kevin McClory allowing remakes of
Thunderball led to Sean Connery's last Bond film, Never Say Never
Again, and Sony wants to make more James Bond movies.
Athena Marie Rolando, 19, was
arrested on charges of misdemeanor trespassing after a caretaker found her
asleep in Brad Pitt's Hollywood Hills home, wearing the actor's clothes.
Richard Donner, who
directed the four Lethal Weapon movies, is set to direct the next
Batman film for Warner Bros., and wants Mel Gibson to play the Caped
Crusader.
The Black Crowes have
announced the first eight shows of their forthcoming tour. They'll begin Feb. 11
in Milwaukee.
Former Rolling Stones
manager Andrew Loog Oldham has sued British alt-rockers the Verve
for royalties on their Bitter Sweet Symphony, which samples the Stones'
The Last Time. Oldham seeks $1.6 million from the band.
Star Wars creator
George Lucas stated that the three films currently in production will be the
last of the series.
Spin Executive Editor Craig Marks
Monday filed suit in New York against Marilyn Manson, alleging the star
had his bodyguards assault him. Marks is seeking $24 million in damages.
Black Sabbath guitarist
Tony Iommi is at work on a solo album, and he's going to let a fan name
it. You can enter the contest at his website at www.iommi.com/splash.htm.
Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl are
among the guests on the disc. |
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