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Off the Record

Rollins Band - The Only Way To Know For Sure

The Rollins Band has always gone through a constant changing of identity over the years, the music has moved smoothly from a defiant punk sound to a classic rock blend of '70s and modern day anguish. The current lineup includes the rhythm crew of L.A.'s Mother Superior. Featured on this album are 28 tracks that complement a history of in your face music with the Rollins' Band cutting through fan faves like Disconnect, What's The Matter Man, and Get Some Go.  This live album pulls it off by maintaining the power expressed from the studio to the stage.

At the Movies

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Fan enthusiasm demanded a third installment of this popular series. The evil plot at hand this time around comes from Goldmember, a Dutch criminal madman from 1975, who plans to use a tractor beam to bring a meteor of solid gold crashing into the Earth, flooding the planet, and killing all of humanity. To stop him, Austin Powers must travel back in time to team up with his old girlfriend, Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles), where he also discovers that his father (Michael Caine) has been kidnapped as part of Goldmember's evil scheme. It's a vast conspiracy that eventually leads Austin to seeking the unlikely help of Dr. Evil. This series is all about Mike Myers contagious energy, which he continues to deliver. Yea baby!

On Video

The Time Machine

This is an imaginative reworking of H.G. Wells' classic novella by the author's great-grandson, director Simon Wells. Though the original story and the 1960 film of the same name focused on political and social matters, this version is more down to earth. The time traveler (Guy Pearce) builds his time machine not so much to explore the future, but to go into the past to prevent the murder of his fiancιe. When his attempts at stopping fate fail, he jumps into the future to find out if there is any way to change the past. There he discovers that humans have evolved into two groups – the hunters and the hunted. Now he must fight to save himself, and all of mankind, in a final desperate battle. Superb special effects.

The Buzz...

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Late-night television host Conan O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies for the 54^th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards show on NBC this fall.

Writer David Goyer recently hinted at the possibility of a Blade: The Vampire Hunter television series due to the overwhelming success of the movies by New Line Films.

The much-anticipated Brian Michael Bendis scripted, CGI MTV Spider-Man series (based on the movie continuity), has been delayed due to major rewrites prompted by the success of the film.

Fox has given the green light to a second installment of its summer reality hit American Idol.

Universal Pictures has optioned a feature film based on the Midway video game franchise Spy Hunter with wrestling superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson attached to star as Alec Sects, a former F-15 pilot employed by International Espionage Services as a member of the Spy Hunter team.
 

Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the studio has struck a deal with acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron to direct the third installment of its successful Harry Potter franchise. The film will be titled Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
 

HBO and producers from the network's smash mob hit the Sopranos revealed that there are talks of producing a big-screen version of the series when it ends its run next year.

The Ren and Stimpy Show is coming back to TV. TNN has tapped John Kricfalusi, creator of the early '90s animated cult classic, to produce all new adventures featuring the duo.

Rock vocalist Ann Wilson is on her way to a healthier heart, losing 50 pounds since surgeons placed a Lap-Band device around her stomach to reduce her food intake.

Former Baywatch star and Playboy model Traci Bingham stopped traffic in Berlin by wearing a lettuce bikini to promote vegetarianism.  Bingham, spent more than half an hour posing for the cameras wiggling between a famous steak restaurant and Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm shopping street.

Executive producer Bruce Helford is plotting a complete overhaul of The Drew Carey Show, which took a ratings hit last season on the struggling ABC network and is moving to 8 p.m. Mondays in September.

The first commercial radio station to make its broadcasts available over the Internet has suspended its Webcasts, saying it can't afford new royalties.

New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi recently completed the music video for Everyday, the first single and music video from the band's upcoming Island Records album, Bounce, due October 8 in the U.S.

Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town, recorded in October 1978 in front of more than 26,000 fans at Australia's Sydney Opera House, has hit the DVD stands.  Among the Thin Lizzy standards featured on the disc are the title track, Jailbreak, and Cowboy Song.

While this is nothing more than a rumor at this point, there is a strong possibility of Shawn Michaels returning to the ring to wrestle Triple H at WWE's August pay-per view, SummerSlam.

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