Off The Record

Vince Neil: Live at the Wiskey

The track listing, which shows that out of the twelve songs on this release, only one originates from a Vince Neil solo album should be your reason to run out and buy it. All the crucial Crue songs are here with Red Hot being one of the more vocally challenging tunes that Vince could have picked, and in truth, he does as well as he can, and consequently, it turns into one of the better tracks. S.O.S and Home Sweet Home are also expectedly delivered here, as is the set closer Live Wire, which meaningfully puts this night to rest. The bottom line is we would rather hear Vince singing these songs backed by the La Joya High School Marching Cheetahs than the rest of Motley playing them with another vocalist ala John Corabi.

At The Movies

Freaky Friday

Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), are not getting along. They don't see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not in each other's taste in men. Everything soon changes when two identical Chinese Fortune Cookies cause a little mystic mayhem. On the next morning, their Friday gets freaky when Tess and Anna find themselves inside the other's body. In a dreadful summer of obnoxiously aggressive and empty sequels, it’s refreshing to find a quaint comedy extolling the virtues of thoughtful consideration and selfless love this pleasantly entertaining.

Amanda Bynes stars as Daphne, an irrepressible American teen that impulsively hops a flight to meet the aristocratic father (Colin Firth) she never knew. Determined to fit into dad's world, Daphne stifles her vibrant personality to be the perfect debutante while plunging into a whirl of garden parties, fashion shows and more. With the help of Ian (Oliver James), Daphne discovers it's not worth being her father's daughter if that means abandoning who she really is. She's going to remain true to herself. It's all geared to the tween sensibility (and consumerism) filled as it is with glamorous trips to London shops, the tireless pursuit of a cute English boy and endless mischief.

The Buzz...

Warner Brothers is bringing The Dukes of Hazzard to the silver screen. Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker must really love race car movies because he's apparently agreed to star as Bo Duke opposite It-Boy Ashton Kutcher as his cousin Luke. Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack, Barbershop) has been cast the Dukes' portly nemesis, Boss Hogg. Most surprising is the rumor that pop star Britney Spears is being considered to play Daisy Duke. The script for The Dukes "is still being wrestled into shape." No word yet on when filming will begin.

Disappointed movie bosses are pointing the finger of blame at video game Tomb Raider - Cradle Of Life after the Angelina Jolie stared sequel of the same name bombed at the box office. Executives at Paramount were left stunned when the much-hyped action movie took only $21.8 million on its first weekend at the American box office, less than half of what the original installment bagged in the same time frame. They cite the critical mauling given to the latest computer game as the reason cinema goers are deserting the archeological franchise.

Old School alum Will Ferrell is set play Maxwell Smart in a big-screen remake of the classic TV comedy Get Smart for Warner Bros. The show will star Ferrell as a bumbling secret agent who goes up against the forces of KAOS, an evil organization bent on taking over the world.

Mikhail Baryshnikov has joined HBO's Sex and the City to play Sarah Jessica Parker's new romantic interest. Parker herself persuaded the famous dancer to take the role of Alexander Petrovsky, an artist "of extreme importance," for the eight episodes that will conclude the series.

Dimension Films is putting West Craven's upcoming werewolf film, Cursed, on a four-week hiatus reportedly to improve the special effects used for the films lead lupine and tinker with the finale as well.

Kim Basinger is slated to star in director Joel Zwick's Elvis Has Left the Building, a comedy about a cosmetics woman whose life is strangely entangled with Elvis Presley.

Suicidal Tendencies vocalist Mike Muir has begun filming an episode of Discovery’s Monster House in which they will transform his place in some crazy way. The episode is slated to run sometime during the week of Halloween. Check out suicidaltendencies.com or dsc.discovery.com for actual airtime and date.

The Rock has agreed to star in King Kamehameha. The movie, which the studio hopes will be a Polynesian version of Braveheart, is based upon the 18th century Hawaiian tribal leader who conquered the seven Hawaiian islands and made them a single kingdom under his rule. Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious) is slated to direct the film which is set for a 2005 release.

Waylon Jennings tribute album will feature Metallica front man James Hetfield on a solo cover of Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand. The process was unique for Hetfield as he not only sang, but played all the instruments (including the drums) on the track.

A fourth American Pie movie could be in the offing. Word on the street is that American Baby could follow American Wedding providing the latter has a reasonable time at the box office.

limpbizkit have completed work on their much-delayed, still-untitled fourth album, tentatively due in September 23. The first single, Eat You Alive, which debuts on radio this week offers a clean break from rap-metal with a sound halfway between Metallica and Disturbed. Fans can also catch cuts of new tunes Behind Blue Eyes and Stick ‘Em during bizkit’s current Summer Sanitarium tour.

Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige are on board for a Sept. 4 free concert at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to kick off the 2003 NFL season. Organizers are eyeing additional acts for the event, including Kid Rock and Aerosmith. The show will precede the first NFL game of the year later that evening between the Washington Redskins and New York Jets at D.C.'s FedEx Field.

For her fourth album, Mandy Moore is moving away from teen-leaning pop to interpreting an array of songs she says hold great meaning for her. Due Oct. 21 via Epic, Coverage finds Moore interpreting songs by the likes of Elton John, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Joe Jackson, Carly Simon, the Waterboys and XTC, among others.

Unfortunately the filming of Marvel’s Ghost Rider, originally set to begin shooting early next year, has been delayed. Nicolas Cage committed to two other movies (Jerry Bruckheimer-produced caper National Treasure and The Weather Man directed by Gore Verbinski) instead of waiting for director Mark Steven Johnson to finish his rewrite of the script.

Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) is hard at work with Blade filmmaker David Goyer creating the script for Batman 5. Their Batman project is said to be more of a direct sequel to the previous films and not the much talked about Year One, vs Superman or Batman Beyond takes that have been previously developed.

Baring her bits in Swordfish and then in Monster's Ball seems to have worked wonders for Halle Berry. E! Television conducted a poll with saw Berry win the award for the “Best Body of 2003”, something that may never have been achieved had she kept her clothes on.

Jennifer Garner, who earned herself two Emmy nominations for the role of Agent Sydney Bristow on the hit series Alias, finalized a deal which will keep her on the show for the next five seasons, and secure her a substantial pay raise too.

Morale on the set of rock matriarch Sharon Osbourne's upcoming talk show is dangerously low. Pre-production has been beset by a wealth of problems and celebrity guests have proved difficult to book with only David Spade and Bow Wow lined-up.

Eminem is taking on yet another alter ego. The rapper will voice an as-yet-unnamed puppet for the third season of Crank Yankers, the Comedy Central hit centered on prank phone calls.

Movie insiders fear Ben Stiller's new flick Envy will bypass the cinema and go straight to video. The funnyman's new comedy, about two business partners who fall out over an invention that evaporates dog waste, has been rescheduled numerous times and now looks set to miss the big screen altogether.

Various Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or picked up by the schools themselves. Backers of the new plans hope that giving students subsidized unlimited access to legal services will develop the habit of subscribing to music, shifting students' consumption patterns toward legal setups.

One of the best selling computer games of all time, Half Life, has been around for a number of years yet still drags gamers back to their computers in the wee hours, such is its enduring appeal. Well, the game's movie rights are currently doing the rounds in Hollywood so it may not be too long before we see Gordon Freeman's triumphant return on the big screen.