February 28, 2005
STATIC-X Part Ways With Guitarist TRIPP EISEN
STATIC-X have split with guitarist Tripp Eisen following reports that Eisen was arrested by authorities in two states on charges that include kidnapping, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The charges stem from two separate incidents involving sexual relations with minors. The group's official statement reads, in part, "STATIC-X has parted ways with guitarist Tripp Eisen, effective immediately. Tripp is currently dealing with personal issues that prohibit him from being able to fulfill his commitment to the band. No replacement has yet been chosen. STATIC-X is in the studio putting the finishing touches on its fourth Warner Bros. album, scheduled to be released in May. The band will tour this summer in support of the record."
Eisen has been in police custody since his February 24 arrest, but was scheduled to appear in Central Justice Center Court in Santa Ana, California, on Monday afternoon (February 28), according to MTV.com. It's expected the guitarist will remain in police custody in California until he's cleared for extradition to New Jersey.
SECOND SEASON OF SHOWTIME’S “FAMILY BUSINESS” NOW ON DVD / New Season Premiers March 12
FAMILY BUSINESS, the late night reality series from SHOWTIME about an average family trying to make a living in the adult entertainment industry premieres on Friday, January 30 at 11:00 PM ET/PT. A hilarious blend of real-life absurd situations, eccentric characters and of course skin, FAMILY BUSINESS focuses on the charismatic Adam Glasser and his alter ego, “Seymore Butts,” as well as his meddling, but well-meaning mom Lila and his cantankerous cousin Stevie, who together run their production company. The half-hour show premieres in its regular time slot at 11:00 PM on Friday nights, as part of SHOWTIME’s late night block.
This unique blend of comedy and reality, which is for adult audiences only, follows Adam as he faces the same problems that many people encounter - running his own company, juggling a hectic schedule and looking for the love of his life. Adam's life is like anyone else’s--almost. As an adult film producer and director, his everyday challenges may be a little more unique. This season, Adam deals with fame and his new female fans, Lila tries to get her cookbook published and Cousin Stevie renews his vows in Vegas, complete with the bachelor party he never had.
The first season of FAMILY BUSINESS premiered on SHOWTIME in February 2003. The show is executive produced by multiple Emmy Awardâ-winning producers Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner, executive producers of the CBS series “Big Brother.” FAMILY BUSINESS is also executive produced by Jay Blumenfield and Anthony Marsh.
The first season of FAMILY BUSINESS is now available in stores on DVD and VHS The three-disc set includes: all 10 episodes from the first season, a family tree, interviews with Adam and his family, deleted scenes, hilarious commentary and more.
Season 3 Premieres March 12th at 11:30pm ET/PT Showtime's late-night reality series about an average family in the adult entertainment industry, has been renewed for a third season with 10 all new episodes.
The Cash Legacy: Johnny, June Boxes Due
The music of country music's most beloved couple will be celebrated with a pair of upcoming Columbia/Legacy multi-disc sets. Due June 7, "Johnny Cash -- The Legend" and June Carter Cash's "Keep on the Sunny Side -- Her Life In Music" will blend well-known and rare tracks in deluxe packages boasting extensive liner notes and vintage photography.
"The Legend" will span four discs and 107 Cash tracks, covering 1955-2002 and all of the Man in Black's major recordings for the Sun and Columbia labels. Seven of the included tracks are previously unreleased, including "It Takes One To Know Me." That track was written by his wife's daughter, Carlene Carter, as a teenager, and recorded in 1977. Carter recently added vocals to the recording that appears here.
The other unreleased tracks are "Doin' My Time," "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again," "When I’m Gray," a demo version of "Down In the Valley" and a version of Billy Joe Shaver's "You Can't Beat Jesus Christ" that all date to the early 1980s, and a 1973 recording of "I've Been Working On the Railroad"
A limited-edition package will include a hardcover coffee table book, a bonus CD recording of Cash's first radio appearance in 1955 and a DVD featuring the 1980 CBS television special "Johnny Cash -- The First 25 Years."
The two-disc "Keep On the Sunny Side" examines the 64-year career of his wife, a member of the seminal Carter Family and a spirited and soulful songwriter and performer in her own right. The set boasts 40 songs culled from such labels as Arhoolie, RCA, Dualtone and Columbia.
RAMMSTEIN: 'Keine Lust' Video Posted Online
RAMMSTEIN's video for "Keine Lust", the fourth single from their latest CD, "Reise Reise", has been posted online at VideoPimp.com.
The "Keine Lust" clip was shot in January with director Jörn Heitman, who had previously helmed the group's videos for "Amerika" and "Ohne Dich", among others.
RAMMSTEIN's "Keine Lust" single is scheduled for release on February 28 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as a maxi-single, a limited-edition digipak single, and as a two-track.
Recorded primarily in Spain (El Cortijo Studio, Malaga), "Reise Reise" (translated as "Voyage, Voyage" or "Journey, Journey") is the follow-up to "Mutter", which entered the chart at No. 77 back in April 2001.
"Reise Reise" sold 26,716 copies in the United States in its first week of release in mid-November to debut at position No. 61 on The Billboard 200 chart.
Simon Baker On Romero's Land of the Dead
Source: SCI FI WIRE
Simon Baker, star of George Romero's upcoming zombie sequel film Land of the Dead, told SCI FI Wire that he had a bloody good experience shooting it. "In classic George style, there's a lot of subversive social comment," Baker said in an interview while promoting his latest project, The Ring Two. "It's a good time, historically, to make a film like it. I got really into that and enjoyed that aspect of it."
Baker added: "At the same time, because I was never really a huge zombie movie fan, I was impressed by this. George's movies are at a different level, on an absolutely different level. He does so much more than just make a zombie movie. I'm what you could call a reluctant hero. We've got a great cast: Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, Robert Joy. It was a good experience. I had a really good time making it. We shot in Toronto for 40-something nights. I think we had one or two split days, but the rest of the movie was shot at night. And it wasn't warm by any means. We finished shooting on the 24th of December, I think, and it was freezing. Even though it was cold and difficult I had a lot of fun making that movie."
Universal Pictures will unleash Land of the Dead on Oct. 21.
February 27, 2005
NINE INCH NAILS: U.S. Tour Dates Announced
NINE INCH NAILS will be performing exclusive shows in select cities across the United States in April and May of 2005 in support of their new release, "With Teeth". Newly confirmed dates are as follows:
Apr. 27 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
Apr. 28 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
Apr. 30 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
May 03 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Theatre
May 04 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Theatre
May 06 - Chicago, IL @ Congress Theatre
May 07 - Chicago, IL @ Congress Theatre
May 09 - Toronto, ONT @ Koolhaus
May 10 - Toronto, ONT @ Koolhaus
May 12 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
May 13 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
May 15 - NY, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
May 16 - NY, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
May 18 - Philly, PA @ Electric Factory
May 19 - Philly, PA @ Electric Factory
May 21 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
May 22 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
May 24 - Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theatre
May 25 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs Bar-B-Q
May 27 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
May 28 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
May 30 - San Diego, CA @ Soma
May 31 - San Diego, CA @ Soma
For additional U.S. and European dates, visit NIN.com
February 26, 2005
'The Devil's Rejects' To Arrive In July
Rob Zombie's second project as a feature film director, "The Devil's Rejects", has had its release date moved up to July 22 from the previously announced August 12. The decision to change the release date was apparently made by Lion's Gate Entertainment after a "killer test screening" on February 10 that established the movie as "the highest-testing movie in the history of the company," according to Zombie. "After the [test screening] they picked a small group of about 20 to discuss the film. 18 of the 20 rated the film as excellent and the other two rated it as very good. Hey, what more can I ask for?" stated Zombie.
"The Devil's Rejects" is the sequel to Zombie's directorial debut, 2003's "House Of 1000 Corpses". The rocker-turned-filmmaker has said that this movie will be much darker and nastier than its predecessor.
"The Devil's Rejects" follows "House"'s evil Firefly family as they flee from a cop bent on revenge for the murder of his brother in the first movie, according to Launch Radio Networks.
In addition to returning cast members like Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, "The Devil's Rejects" boasts an assortment of actors long associated with the horror genre, including "Halloween"'s P.J. Soles, Ken Foree from the original "Dawn Of The Dead", Michael Berryman from "The Hills Have Eyes" and Steve Railsback of "Helter Skelter" and "Ed Gein" fame.
STATIC-X Guitarist Busted On Sex Assault, Kidnapping Charges
Ken Serrano and Chris Jordan of New Jersey's Asbury Park Press have issued the following report:
He told the 14-year-old Sayreville girl he was "T-Rex" and he liked to impersonate the guitarist for the heavy metal band they both liked, STATIC-X, authorities said.
But the 39-year-old man accused of meeting the girl through the Internet, driving from Pennsylvania and sexually assaulting her in an Old Bridge shopping center in January was no impersonator, police said.
Tod Rex Salvador, who goes by the stage name Tripp Eisen, a guitarist for STATIC-X, was apprehended Thursday in Orange County, Calif. by two detectives from New Jersey, authorities said.
Salvador, of Burbank, Calif., was charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a minor through the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison on the kidnapping charge alone.
When Det. Scott Crocco of the Old Bridge Police Department and Det. Sgt. David Jones of the state police encountered Salvador, he had just gotten out of jail.
Police in California arrested Salvador on Feb. 10 after finding him sleeping in a parked car with a girl with whom he had just had sexual intercourse, said Jon Fleischman of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Salvador was charged with committing a lewd act with a child and was released after posting $100,000 bail, Fleischman said.
Following his arrest Thursday technically on a fugitive warrant from New Jersey, Salvador was turned over to the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. He is being held there without bail while he awaits extradition to New Jersey, authorities said.
"We've confiscated several computers to examine them to see if there are other victims," Lt. Kevin Rehmann of the New Jersey State Police said. "We suspect there may be in several other states."
STATIC-X is one of the most popular groups to emerge from what's known as the nu-metal scene of the late 1990s that spawned bands like KORN.
The band released its debut album, "Wisconsin Death Trip", in 1998. The album went gold, selling half a million copies. A new album is scheduled for release later this year.
A call placed to the band's publicist at Warner Bros. was not returned. A management company, The Firm, referred calls to Salvador's Los Angeles-based attorney, Mark Werksmen, who did not return calls.
Police said the Sayreville girl met Salvador on a web site where he used the screen name "groverygodadat" under the heading "never married male looking for female."
"He tells the girl he's a fan of the band and portrays himself to look like the guitarist in (STATIC-X)," Rehmann said.
He drove out to Old Bridge on Jan. 7 from Pen Argyl, Pa., in a truck belonging to a Pennsylvania relative, said Lt. Robert Weiss of the Old Bridge Police Department. Salvador, who once lived in New Jersey, was back in Pennsylvania from the West Coast on an extended holiday visit.
Police said he had consensual sex with the Sayreville girl in the truck in the parking lot of the shopping center. The girl's mother found out about the assault and went to Old Bridge detective Thomas Montagna, Weiss said.
On Thursday (Feb. 24), Salvador was apprehended in Orange County, Calif. by two detectives from New Jersey in connection with an incident last month where he allegedly met a 14-year-old girl from Sayreville, New Jersey through the Internet, drove from Pennsylvania and sexually assaulted her in an Old Bridge shopping center. He was charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a minor through the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Asbury Park Press. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison on the kidnapping charge alone.
According to authorities, Salvador told the 14-year-old Sayreville girl he was "T-Rex" and he liked to impersonate the guitarist for the heavy metal band they both liked, STATIC-X, reports the Asbury Park Press.
February 24, 2005
Stern Settles Up with Clear Channel
SOURCE: E! Online
Howard Stern is making nice with an old nemesis, Clear Channel Communications.
Stern and the behemoth radio broadcaster have settled their dueling multimillion-dollar lawsuits for an undisclosed amount.
The legal brawl dates back a year, when Clear Channel booted Stern from the airways in six cities because his syndicated radio show did not "conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting." The company had been slapped with nearly $500,000 in FCC fines for Stern's onair antics during an April 2003 show, and, in the wake of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, were especially jittery. Clear Channel pulled the plug for good after a caller dropped the N-bomb on Stern.
Stern fired back with a $10 million federal lawsuit that claimed the broadcaster violated the terms of their contract. "I'm under attack," Stern said at the time.
Then, Clean Channel retaliated with a $3 million countersuit that alleged Stern and his distributor, Infinity Broadcasting, violated their contract by airing indecent programs.
But it seems some sort of middle ground has been found. According to a statement from Clear Channel Wednesday, a deal has been struck.
"We are pleased to resolve this contractual dispute with Howard Stern without further legal expense and delay," Andrew Levin, Clear Channel's executive vice president and chief legal officer, said in the statement. It is unclear whether Stern's show will reappear on Clear Channel stations--as of Thursday morning, it was still off the air.
Stern is still carried on about 100 other stations nationwide and a televised version of the radio program airs weeknights on E! Entertainment Television (E! and E! Online are part of E! Networks).
Stern, who's not long for the traditional radio world, didn't immediately comment on the settlement.
In October, the self-proclaimed King of All Media unveiled a new five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio. He said he was thumbing his nose at censors by taking his show off the FCC-regulated airways and on to uncensored satellite.
Stern is counting down his remaining terrestrial days on his Website (www.howardstern.com)--he's got 10 months and 12 days left on his contract with Infinity. He'll kick off his Sirius broadcast Jan. 1, 2006.
In other news, Stern is getting some props for his highly publicized battles with his detractors. He was just handed the Wired Renegade award from Wired magazine for his efforts against the FCC and for his switch to Sirius.
Editor-in-chief Chris Anderson says the award is given to people who are "mavericks, visionaries and dreamers who inspire us as they transform our culture."
Hunter S. Thompson Ashes To Be Fired From Cannon
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide last weekend, wanted to exit this world in a style befitting his extraordinary life: being fired from a cannon, a friend revealed.
The larger-than-life writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" stated in his will that he wanted his ashes to be fired out of a cannon following his funeral, plans for which have yet to be announced.
"I believe he wanted to be shot out of a cannon," friend Troy Hooper told AFP.
"I understand it's in his will," said Hooper, associate editor of the Aspen Daily News, based near the Colorado home where Thompson, 67, apparently shot himself on Sunday.
"That's Hunter's style. That's how he would want it. He was a big fan of bonfires and explosions and anything that went bang and I'm sure he'd like to go bang as well," he said.
Hooper, who became friends with father of "gonzo" journalism about five years before his death, cited reports that Thompson told his son, Juan, that his after-life ambition was to become cannon fodder -- literally.
"That's exactly the kind of stuff he would say all the time," he said of one of the most important American literary figures of the 20th Century.
It was Juan Thompson who found his father's body in his rural home in Woody Creek, near the ski resort of Aspen, after he apparently shot himself in the head on Sunday night.
Hooper, who saw Thompson last week, said Thompson had been in pain following recent back surgery, following a hip replacement and after he broke his leg recently.
But Thompson, famed for his LSD- and alcohol-fuelled literary exploits, did not seem "more distraught than usual" in the days before he died, Hooper said, adding that Thompson was "often either up or down."
Sheriff's department investigators in Woody Creek, where Thompson lived for more than 40 years, said he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Thompson became a sharp-witted icon of 1960s counter-culture after the publications of "Fear and Loathing" in 1972 in which he pioneered "gonzo" journalism, in which the writer inserts himself and his personal views into the story.
His work, written in the first person, hit a chord with America's youth at the height of the unpopular Vietnam and the social rebellion of the 1960s and 70s.
Thompson described the birth of gonzo journalism in a 1974 interview with Playboy, saying he was covering the Kentucky Derby on deadline, but "I'd blown my mind, couldn't work."
"So finally I just started jerking pages out of my notebook and numbering them and sending them to the printer. I was sure it was the last article I was ever going to do for anybody."
Thompson rose to fame in 1966 with the publication of his book "Hell's Angels," the story of his infiltration of the then-feared Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, an adventure that got him savagely beaten.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the apocryphal tale of a wild, drug-fuelled weekend spent in the desert gambling hub of Las Vegas by protagonist Raoul Duke, a thinly-disguised version of Thompson.
The adventure was recreated in a 1998 Hollywood film starring Johnny Depp .
The stories of Thompson's heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.
His other works include "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," a collection of articles he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the election campaigns of then-president Richard Nixon and his opponent, Senator George McGovern.
Batman Is Psycho And Savior
Christian Bale, who plays the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Batman Begins movie, told SCI FI Wire that his Batman combines elements of two previous roles he's portrayed: Jesus Christ and the American Psycho. "He's very much an American psycho of sorts and, yeah, also certainly has Christ-like symptoms," Bale said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "And, yeah, you know, [you see it in] the battle between [his] spirit and ... flesh and, with Bruce Wayne, the battle between the philanthropy his father taught him and was a great example to him for and the need for vengeance, which is incredibly strong." Bale played Jesus in the 1999 telefilm Mary, Mother of Jesus and gained fame as the title character in 2000's theatrical film American Psycho.
Bale said that he views Batman as conflicted. "Because his heart is telling him, frankly, that he wants to kill," he said. "But he cannot do it. He's been taught differently from childhood, and he knows that it is wrong. But, still, it's an overwhelming urge that he's had to pull back, rein in, all the time."
Bale added that this version of the Batman story, the fifth in Warner Brothers' recent franchise, is particularly relevant to these unsettled times. "I don't want to give away too much, but what Scarecrow [Cillian Murphy] is doing, and which Ra's Al Ghul [Ken Watanabe] and everybody [is up to], is very similar to the anthrax scare that people [went through]," he said. "It's very similar to the possibility of chemical, biological warfare, etc., going on. The notion also of the mentor that Bruce Wayne chooses to go and train with being a man with a triple-barreled name [who] lives in caves kind of on the run: You can't help but take a look and say, 'Hmm. There's a lot of relevance to it.' I think also the age-old thing of the ever-widening gap between rich and poor. And the nature of power and corruption. I think all of these things are particularly relevant, yeah. And I think it should be. Because this is American mythology. It should be in keeping with the times. If it's not, it's missing the point." Batman Begins opens June 17.
Two Shelved 'Hellraiser' Films to See the Light of Day
Source: Bloody Disgusting
Is Dimension Films ready to blow the dust off Pinhead and wake him up for some more carnage? If you head on over to Amazon.com you'd see they have release dates listed for both of Dimension Films' upcoming direct-to-video 'Hellraiser' films. Hellrasier: Deader is set for release on June 7th while Hellraiser: Hellworld will be hitting shelves on September 6th. Obviously this isn't official, but it's at least something. Come on Dimension, this is motherfucking ridiculous.
Garbage Breakup Ends With New LP
Source: www.mtv.com
SANTA MONICA, California — It's been awhile since we've heard from Garbage, but don't worry, they didn't break up. Or maybe they did.
"It depends on which one of us you ask," bassist/guitarist Steve Marker said during a recent visit from their Madison, Wisconsin, home base to Los Angeles. "I think we took a break, but some of us think that we broke up, so we haven't even resolved that yet. We should probably talk about that. It got pretty weird between the four of us, and the music wasn't really happening, so we took a break. There were times when it felt like we should break up, I suppose, but it didn't quite happen, obviously."
During those times, the band struggled with agreeing on a direction for the new tunes, but in time Garbage regrouped, agreed on a sound and recorded Bleed Like Me, due April 12.
"It sounds to us now like it was done quicker than our other records, but it did take us almost two years," drummer Butch Vig said. "There's less layering, less electronic things. It's basically just a really loud guitar record."
The album's first single, "Why Do You Love Me," officially hit the airwaves Tuesday, with a Sophie Muller-directed video to follow shortly behind.
"It's a very melodic ... Phil Spector girl-group sped-up-fast kind of song," Marker said. "It's one of my favorite cuts on the record. It's gonna be a challenge to play live, especially for our drummer. It's very fast."
"It also has one of the most metal riffs we've ever done," added guitarist/bassist Duke Erikson.
On the track, singer Shirley Manson questions her appeal to a lover and then questions his motivations and eventually his loyalty. "I'm not as pretty as those girls in magazines," she sings in the first verse.
"It's a weird, weird song that kind of deals with three different things in my life going on at one time," Manson explained. "I can't actually articulate it very easily without sounding like a turd. ... I always feel like I have this duty to explain the lyrics, and I always feel like such a turd doing it, so I just decided on this record I'm not gonna do it."
At the start of recording Bleed Like Me, Garbage attempted to work with an outside producer for the first time, John King of the Dust Brothers, but the sessions proved unproductive.
"It made us realize that we do what we do in our own bizarre little way, and nobody else can really help us do that," Erikson said. "In that way it was good; it kicked us in the butt and made us go back and kind of reevaluate where we were at and realize that what we do is really important to us, and we are the only ones who are really gonna get it done. It was kind of seductive to think that maybe someone else was gonna come in and solve all of our problems, but in the end you gotta do it yourself."
Garbage did, however, bring in a guest musician for a track called "Bad Boyfriend," which Manson described as a "filthy, lusty rock song."
"I ran into Dave Grohl at a Christmas party, and after drinking a couple of beers with him, a little light bulb popped up, and I was like, 'Dave, you've got to play drums on one of the new Garbage songs,' " recalled Vig, who knew Grohl from producing Nirvana's Nevermind. "He was like, 'OK, dude, just give me a call.' And we did and we didn't hear anything for two months, and all of a sudden we get a call saying, 'Dave can be in the studio tomorrow.' He came in and did three takes on it, and by the third take he nailed it."
Grohl only played on the one tune, but his presence was felt on all of Bleed Like Me.
"Once he played the drums on that track, that kind of set the bar for how we wanted the rest of the songs on the album to sound," Vig said. "That really forced us to ramp it up more on 'Bad Boyfriend' and 'Metal Heart' and some of the other tracks."
GARBAGE.COM ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TICKET PRESALE
The Garbage Fan Club web site is pleased to announce another member-only presale. Register for membership now in order to take advantage this exclusive North American ticket pre-sale . Don't forget we're still in preview mode - the full site will be ready March 1st!
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Check out the updated tour page on Garbage.com and get ready for some North American shows! We have tickets held aside for Garbage.com members at the following gigs:
* Warfield in San Francisco, CA on April 10th
* Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on April 14th
* TLA in Philadelphia, PA on April 16th
* Metropolis in Montreal, QUE on April 24th
* State Theatre in Detroit, MI on April 27th
* Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, WI on April 28th
* Orpheum Theatre in Madison, WI on May 1st
On Thursday, February 24th at 9:00am EST go HERE(www.garbage.com/tickets/) to get tickets in North America!
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February 21, 2005
BREAKFAST WITH HUNTER (DVD)
From www.filmthreat.com by Eric Campos
2003, Un-rated, 91 Minutes, Wayne Ewing Films, Inc and Gonzo International
While speaking briefly with Wayne Ewing before seeing his documentary Breakfast With Hunter at the Arclight in Los Angeles about eight months ago, he alerted me to the fact that, even though the film was just beginning its journey on the festival trail, he was already working on a super special collector's edition DVD with all sorts of cool bells and whistles to play with. Two hours later, I drunkenly stumbled out of the theater with the thought of this DVD coming down the road in the near future keeping me on my feet. Well, it's finally here and even though it's not as tricked out as I thought it was going to be, it's still a super special collector's edition for any lover of Hunter Thompson's work as the film itself provides a look inside the life of the good Doctor that very few would be able to capture. A longtime friend and neighbor of Hunter's, Ewing was granted access to Owl Farm and allowed to videotape Hunter during a time when he was battling the Aspen City Police and watching his most notorious work, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," transform into a motion picture.
Special features include bonus footage of Hunter working with various artists including P.J. O'Rourke, Don Johnson and the late Warren Zevon - nothing shockingly special here, but good for the ol' archives anyway - but the star attraction bonus feature is the running commentary by Ewing and Hunter. Apparently it was a real bear to get Hunter to sit still for a commentary, but Wayne finally pulled it off...even if he only gets Hunter to sit through the first half hour. It's an interesting listen - if Hunter's talking it's always interesting at the very least - but nothing too incredibly insightful. Surprisingly, when Ewing is on his own, that's when the commentary gets really good as he can just relax and tell his side of the story of how it was like being the invisible man in all of these scenes in the life of Hunter presented us. Once again, the one scene that sticks out is the fight between Alex Cox and Hunter that ended Cox's relationship with the "Fear and Loathing" film. Without the commentary, this scene is an amazing piece of video, incredibly tense, but with the commentary, it gets even more tense as Wayne describes himself crouched on the sofa with his camera, praying to God that the verbal confrontation didn't turn to physical violence. Wayne knows Hunter a lot better than any of us ever will, so you believe it when he voices his concern about Cox's well-being. Ewing continues to provide plenty of insight into the rest of the film, making this commentary something like a sequel - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner with Hunter. This is definitely one for the fans!
HUNTER S THOMPSON July 18, 1937 - February 21, 2005: NEW EDITORIAL
I have posted a tribute to HST's influence on my writing, and life in editorials.
- AZ
Hunter S. Thompson Dead At 67
(CNN) -- Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, who unleashed the concept of "gonzo journalism" in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself in the head Sunday at his home near Aspen, Colorado, police and his family said.
"On February 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado," said a statement issued by Thompson's son, Juan Thompson, to the Aspen Daily News as reported by the Denver Post.
"The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy, and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family."
A dispatcher for the Pitkin County Sheriff's Department confirmed Thompson's death.
Thompson, 67, was associated with the "New Journalism" movement of the 1960s, in which writers took a more novelistic and personal approach to their subjects. His account of a drug-fueled trip to cover a district attorneys' anti-drug conference as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine was the seed of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," perhaps his best-known work.
Subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream," the 1971 book included his lament on the passing of the 1960s and its "sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil."
"There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs," he wrote. "We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
In "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72," he described the campaign leading to Richard Nixon's re-election as president with terms like "brutal" and "depraved," speculating that Democratic Sen. Ed Muskie was under the influence of an obscure African psychoactive drug and bemoaned Nixon's looming victory by proclaiming, "Jesus, where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to become president?"
Other works included "The Great Shark Hunt," a collection of Watergate-era essays; "Generation of Swine," his lament on the youth of the 1980s; and his account of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential win, "Better than Sex." His lone novel, "The Rum Diaries," was published in 1998, while a collection of letters, "The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman," came out in 1997.
In recent years, he wrote a column for the sports network ESPN's Web site. In his most recent piece, posted February 15, he describes shooting at golf balls like skeet with a friend near his longtime home -- he called it "a fortified compound" -- outside Aspen.
"The general reaction here is shock and dismay, because he was such a figure in town," Aspen resident John Hoag told CNN.
Still, Hoag said, Thompson remained a private person. "The most news we heard from him was when a pack of dogs killed his peacock, Attila, and he broke his leg in Hawaii last year."
Thompson also was the model for the character of "Uncle Duke" in the "Doonesbury" comic strip. But Thompson strongly disliked the characterization, once telling an interviewer that he would set "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau on fire if the two ever met.
In later years, however, Thompson said he had made peace with the "Uncle Duke" portrayal.
"I got used to it a long time ago," he told Freezerbox magazine in 2003. "I used to be a little perturbed by it. It was a lot more personal ... It no longer bothers me."
In 1980, actor Bill Murray portrayed Thompson in the film "Where the Buffalo Roam." And in 1998, the film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was released, based on Thompson's book and starring Johnny Depp as the journalist. A new film reportedly is in production based on Thompson's novel "The Rum Diaries."
The writer himself, Hoag said, will be missed. "There's no one in the world these days who writes the truth ... as he seems to, to me," he said. "He spoke to the world and said what people were afraid to say."
Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself
By ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer
ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide.
Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time.
Besides the 1972 classic about Thompson's visit to Las Vegas, he also wrote "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72." The central character in those wild, sprawling satires was "Dr. Thompson," a snarling, drug- and alcohol-crazed observer and participant.
Thompson is credited alongside Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese with helping pioneer New Journalism — or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" — in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story.
"He may have died relatively young but he made up for it in quality if not quantity of years," Paul Krassner, the veteran radical journalist and one of Thompson's former editors, told The Associated Press by phone from his Southern California home.
"It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible," quipped Krassner, founder of the leftist publication The Realist and co-founder of the Youth International (YIPPIE) party.
"But every editor that I know, myself included, was willing to accept a certain prima donna journalism in the demands he would make to cover a particular story," he said. "They were willing to risk all of his irresponsible behavior in order to share his talent with their readers."
The writer's compound in Woody Creek, not far from Aspen, was almost as legendary as Thompson. He prized peacocks and weapons; in 2000, he accidentally shot and slightly wounded his assistant trying to chase a bear off his property.
He also is survived by his son, Juan Thompson.
Born July 18, 1937, in Kentucky, Hunter Stocton Thompson served two years in the Air Force, where he was a newspaper sports editor. He later became a proud member of the National Rifle Association and almost was elected sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party banner.
Thompson's heyday came in the 1970s, when his larger-than-life persona was gobbled up by magazines. His pieces were of legendary length and so was his appetite for adventure and trouble; his purported fights with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner were rumored in many cases to hinge on expense accounts for stories that didn't materialize.
It was the content that raised eyebrows and tempers. His book on the 1972 presidential campaign involving, among others, Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and Nixon was famous for its scathing opinion.
Working for Muskie, Thompson wrote, "was something like being locked in a rolling box car with a vicious 200-pound water rat." Nixon and his "Barbie doll" family were "America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the werewolf in us."
Humphrey? Of him, Thompson wrote: "There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack Hubert Humphrey is until you've followed him around for a while."
The approach won him praise among the masses as well as critical acclaim. Writing in The New York Times in 1973, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt worried Thompson might someday "lapse into good taste."
"That would be a shame, for while he doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity," he wrote. "And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."
February 20, 2005
This Thursday THRILL KILL KULT LIVE! and The Return Of Jacky Blacque
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Smoking Gun Smokes Out Jackson Case?
Has the gagged Michael Jackson molestation case been unbound?
The Smoking Gun on Thursday published 805 pages of purported Jackson grand-jury testimony--and said it was busy scanning more.
The postings come about a month after the Website, along with ABC News, first made public excerpted testimony of Jackson's young accuser. At the time, both the prosecution and defense teams decried the leaks, essentially confirming their authenticity
As of Friday, there were no new condemnations of the latest Smoking Gun scoop, although Jackson's camp seemed to find comfort in some of its contents.
Jackson's official news Website posted a FoxNews.com story, based on the Smoking Gun documents, about how the singer's accuser told the grand jury that he referred to his alleged Neverland tormentor as "Daddy," or "Daddy Michael."
Jackson blasted the grand-jury leaks earlier. With the blessings of the court, the pop star released a statement on Jan. 30 saying that he deserved a fair trial and maintaining that the "information" heard by the grand jury was "disgusting and false."
California's Santa Barbara County convened a grand jury to hear testimony in the Jackson case last spring. The proceedings resulted in a 10-count indictment against the entertainer. Jackson has pleaded innocent to the charges, which include molestation, conspiracy and plying a child with intoxicating substances.
According to the Smoking Gun (TheSmokingGun.com), the grand jury heard from 41 witnesses--from the accuser to the flight attendant, who told of Jackson's predilection for being served wine ("yucky Kendall Jackson") in Diet Coke cans, to the public-relations expert, who said a Jackson attorney gleefully talked of making the accuser's mother "look like a crack whore."
Chief among the new posts were 154 pages of testimony that the Smoking Gun says was delivered by the accuser--all but outed now, if not identified, as a former cancer patient who turned 15 in December--over two days on the stand in March and April of 2003.
The choicest contents of the boy's professed testimony are by now familiar to those with a working knowledge of the case: The boy says Jackson showed him naked pictures of women (cracking, "Got milk?" at the sight of a woman's breasts), nicknamed him "Apple Head," spoke of the importance of masturbation and then masturbated him, got him woozy on "Jesus Juice" (wine in a soda can), Skyy vodka and Jim Beam bourbon and held the boy and his family against their will at Neverland Ranch.
One new detail contained in the boy's supposed complete testimony: Jackson kept a mannequin in his bedroom, and on one occasion, he pretended to have sex with it in front of the accuser and his younger brother.
The alleged molestation is said to have occurred in the weeks after the boy taped an interview with Jackson for the Martin Bashir documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which aired on ABC in February 2003.
The Smoking Gun's mother lode of documents also includes the purported testimony from the accuser's brother, mother and sister, the attorney who represented the family of the accuser in the 1993-94 Jackson molestation investigation and the therapist who turned on authorities to the family at the center of the current case. In all, the Website says it has obtained 1,903 pages of testimony.
Jackson was not called to testify before the grand jury.
Leading news organizations such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, did not publish accounts of the professed leaks Friday, with the L.A. Times saying it could not confirm that what the Smoking Gun has posted is the same document that's supposedly sealed up at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
The Smoking Gun, meanwhile, was confident it had the goods.
"Like any reliable news operation, we meticulously source and verify stories before publishing," the site said in a statement. "Our many stories on the Michael Jackson investigation--including this week's on the grand jury testimony--are no exception."
The Jackson trial, still in the early phases of jury selection, is on hold until Tuesday. Proceedings were suspended earlier this week when Jackson took ill with the flu and required an overnight hospitalization.
Meanwhile, in another development, music legend Quincy Jones, already on Jackson's star-studded list of possible defense witnesses, might not be the singer's best character witness, Celebrity Justice reports.
While Jones has told confidantes that he never saw any criminal behavior by Jackson toward children, the TV show says, the record producer was worried that his friend's "sleepovers with boys" would be his downfall.
"We are told Quincy Jones actually did an intervention on several occasions. Going to Michael Jackson and saying, 'Look, this is inappropriate. It's wrong, and it could bring you down if you don't stop,' " Celebrity Justice executive producer Harvey Levin said on Thursday's program.
Jones worked with Jackson on his three biggest solo album hits, Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad and also produced "We Are the World," which was cowritten by Jackson.
IGGY POP To Release 'Live San Fran 1981' On DVD
Music Video Distributors and Target Video have announced the home viewing release of "Iggy Pop – Live San Fran 1981" for worldwide distribution on DVD.
This is the Godfather of punk, dressed in drag, in an exceptionally energetic performance for a crazed-crowd in San Francisco. Over the 30-plus years of Iggy Pop's career, one thing has always remained constant, his absolute devotion and dedication to the live show. From the chaos of the early STOOGES shows to his recent work with the TROLLS (as well as the reformed STOOGES), no one can deny that Pop is the epitome of live rock action.
While this DVD may look rough and raw to 21st century eyes, it is also the best representation of Iggy live during an otherwise pitifully undocumented era of his career. Fronting a crack band featuring BLONDIE drummer Clem Burke and future DAVID BOWIE guitarist Carlos Alomar, Pop is as unpredictable and dominant as ever (no small feat since he is sporting a mini skirt, garters and stockings for most of the show). Filmed on November 25, 1981 near the end of their tour supporting his 1981 album "Party", Iggy and co. are raw and ready for business. "Live San Fran 1981" provides a snapshot of a hungry artist at the top of his game in front of an adoring crowd.
"Iggy Pop – Live San Fran 1981" track listing:
01. Some Weird Sin
02. Houston Is Hot Tonight
03. Eggs On Plate
04. Rock & Roll Party
05. Bang Bang
06. Lust For Life
07. Pumpin' For Jill
08. I'm A Conservative
09. T.V. Eye
10. 1969
11. Dum Dum Boys
12. I Need More
Iggy Pop - Vocals
Carlos Alomar - Guitar
Gary Valentine - Guitar
Rob Duprey - Guitar
Mike Page - Bass
Clem Burke – Drums
"Iggy Pop – Live San Fran 1981" will be released on April 19 through Music Video Distributors.
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February 19, 2005
'Seed of Chucky' Unrated DVD Delayed
Universal is having trouble making up its mind with their DVD release of Seed of Chucky. First it's one thing, then another. Well hopefully the new June 7th release date will stick and the unrated version of the disc better stick! Read on for the news. Don Mancini's fifth 'Childs' Play' stars Brad Dourif (voice), Jennifer Tilly (voice and actress), Billy Boyd (voice), John Waters, Redman, Debbie Lee Carrington and Hannah Spearritt.
DVD Answers reports:
Universal has announced the Seed of Chucky in which Jennifer Tilly and Brad Dourif return for the follow-up to Bride of Chucky. This time Billy Boyd also joins the cast, providing vocals for the homicidal dolls offspring, Glen, the seed of the title. The film will be available in rated and unrated form from the 7th June, with each setting you back around $29.98. Each disc will include English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 Surround tracks along with English, French and Spanish subtitles. Extras on both will include an audio commentary with director Don Mancini and Jennifer Tilly, a Family Hell-iday Slide Show in which the Chucky family hosts the first viewing of their exploits through Paris, New York and Hollywood, a new Conceiving The Seed of Chucky feature that takes a look at two decades of Chucky films, Jennifer Tilly's video diary from The Tonight Show and FuZion Up Close with the Seed of Chucky stars which contains revealing interviews with Chucky and Tiffany.
Journalist Says Subpoenaed on Stern
By Gary Hill (Reuters)
NEW YORK - A self-described celebrity journalist who is a frequent guest on raunchy radio host Howard Stern's shows said on Saturday U.S. securities regulators had subpoenaed him in a probe of possible insider trading in Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. stock.
Chaunce Hayden told Reuters the Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites) had ordered him to appear on Wednesday in New York to give information about trading in shares of Sirius, Stern's future radio home.
Hayden said he had made an on-air prediction that Stern would leave broadcast radio for satellite radio and then coincidentally had been in the studio when the shock jock, a frequent target of federal radio regulators over decency issues, announced in October he would move to Sirius in 2006.
An SEC attorney in a phone call said he "wanted to know why I was up in the studio the day Howard made the announcement and if I heard anything that day, if there was anything spoken about, and he said he had a bunch of other questions as well," Hayden said.
He said he himself had never owned stock except in a 401-K retirement fund. Sirius stock rose more than 15 percent on the first day of trading after Stern's announcement.
Hayden said he hung up the first few times the SEC attorney called. "I thought it must be a prank from one of the Howard Stern guys so I kept hanging up the phone. Then when I got the subpoena, I realized it was not a prank, it's for real."
Hayden said that when he himself had interviewed for a job at Sirius, he asked if the satellite radio system was going to hire Stern rivals Opie and Anthony, and the interviewer had told him, "We're holding out for Howard Stern."
"With that information plus the hearsay and speculation," Hayden said, he made his cable TV prediction.
"Then several weeks later Howard made the announcement live on the air that he was doing it and it just so happens, and it was just a coincidence, I was the only journalist in the studio that day he made the announcement."
Sirius spokesman Patrick Reilly told Reuters he had no comment on the reports, but said, "We have no reason to believe this matter involves Sirius or any actions of its officers, directors or employees, and neither Sirius nor any of its officers, directors or employees have received a subpoena in this matter."
An SEC spokesman had no comment.
A spokesman for Stern could not immediately be reached for comment.
On Oct. 6, Stern said he would leave his program, syndicated by Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting unit, when his contract expires in January 2006. He said his five-year deal with Sirius was worth $500 million.
The fledgling satellite radio market pits Sirius -- which has just above 1 million subscribers -- against larger XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., with 3.2 million.
The Federal Communications Commission fines broadcast radio but not satellite radio for content it finds indecent. (Additional reporting by Caroline Drees)
Old Pueblo To Distribute Clown Porn
San Diego, California, February 18, 2005 -RAMCO Productions, www.ramcoproductions.com the San Diego upstart that is taking the Adult Industry by storm, has just inked a non-exclusive deal with Old Pueblo Distribution to deliver Clown Porn (the Movie).
www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=8105
Based solely upon their creativity (and a sizeable bribe), Old Pueblo's President, Arnold Stein has gone against his better judgment and signed the lunatics at RAMCO Productions. Noting that there is nothing else resembling Clown Porn in the adult DVD market, Arnold wanted to work with a company that offered a completely new product.
Since premiering their debut feature at the AEE in Las Vegas, RAMCO Productions has been actively making the rounds promoting the release of Clown Porn (the Movie). The film's two stars, Jenna Brooks and Hollie Stevens, even competed in the "Stupid Bowl" on Howard Stern's radio program in full clown get-up, with Jenna Brooks taking home the $5,000 first prize. RAMCO has also enjoyed coverage in the form of articles and reviews from several other major media outlets. Attention of this sort for a brand new company pushing its first title is very encouraging.
"At RAMCO Productions, we find it easy to work with people like Arnold at OP because they are positive and easy-going just like ourselves." Says RAMCO's President and co-founder, Chris Spoto. "For a well-established company like Old Pueblo, that can pick and choose who they represent, to approach an industry newcomer with one title is a testament to their forward thinking."
Clown Porn (the Movie) - combining hot adult action with zany sketch comedy - has drawn many (mostly positive) reactions from viewers. As is often the case with change and innovation, offering a new form of creative expression is not without its drawbacks…
"Howard Stern panned us pretty good - he obviously doesn't like clowns very much, and we have received some hate mail as well, but the movie is much more than just folks dressed up like clowns fucking. There is an overriding comedic theme throughout the film, and we hope viewers give it a chance on the level as a comedy as well as it being porn - or at the very least as a good drug movie... All of the interest generated just goes to show that Clown Porn elicits a response from people, so in one sense we have succeeded in what we have set out to do."
Be on the lookout for Clown Porn (the Movie) on the shelves of your favorite Adult store soon, brought to you by RAMCO Productions and Old Pueblo Distribution. Stores & Distributors Call Arnold 520-319-5709 or email arnold for all orders. Pre-sale orders encouraged. Street Date:3/1/05
Former MISFITS Guitarist Seeks Vocalist For New Band
Former MISFITS guitarist Doyle is looking for a singer for his GORGEOUS FRANKENSTEIN project. The group's debut album will reportedly be produced by ex-MISFITS frontman Glenn Danzig and will be released through Glenn's label imprint, Evilive. Interested parties should send a demo and a photo to:
Mercenary Management
ATTN: Doyle Submissions
8491 Sunset Blvd, #179
W. Hollywood, CA 90069
GORGEOUS FRANKENSTEIN reportedly features Doyle's wife as one of the go-go dancers.
As previously reported, Doyle will join Glenn Danzig for a special 30-minute set of MISFITS classics at at least two DANZIG East Coast shows in early March. The dates are as follows:
Mar. 01 – New York, NY @ Spirit Performance Center
Mar. 02 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
DANZIG's Feb. 28 show at The Roxy in Boston, Massachusetts may also feature a special appearance by Doyle.
Danzig and Doyle had previously shared the stage in December in Los Angeles and Las Vegas in what was being billed as their first joint appearance in 20 years. "It's the closest thing to a MISFITS reunion anyone is ever going to see!" Danzig had previously said.
February 18, 2005
Peter Fonda to Ride with Ghost Rider
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Peter Fonda is in talks and Donal Logue has joined the cast of the Nicolas Cage starrer Ghost Rider for Columbia Pictures.
Based on the Marvel Comics property, Ghost Rider is an action-adventure about Johnny Blaze (Cage), a stunt motorcyclist who saves the world from evil spirits that cross over from beyond.
Fonda will play the role of Mephistopheles, and Logue will play Mack, Johnny's chief mechanic and best friend who soups up Johnny's motorcycles for his stunts.
Mark Steven Johnson is directing the film, which also stars Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, and Sam Elliott.
MINISTRY Songs Featured In Award-Winning Documentary
Ministry Live In Chicago Photo by Dan Locke for MK
MINISTRY's songs "No W" and "Waiting" are featured in the documentary film "Murderball", which took the Sundance Audience Award for favorite documentary, and a jury prize for its editing. This moving film chronicles the lives of quadriplegics playing indoor rugby in wheelchairs rigged like Mad Max vehicles. More information is available at St. Petersburg Times and Entertainment Weekly.
Digital Playground Releases Devon: Erotique Trailer
AZ and Devon photo by Karlton
VAN NUYS, Calif. - Digital Playground has announced the release of the video trailer for Devon: Erotique, which is the second title from new director Celeste.
The video, which will hit the street on March 3, features Digital Playground exclusive Devon performing alongside fellow contract girl Jesse Jane in their first production of the year.
Tereza Ilova, Nikki Benz, Rachel Rotten, Nautica Thorn and Roxanne Hall also perform in what the company calls “a dreamy tale of decadence and debauchery.”
Digital Playground President Samantha Lewis said, "Celeste is one of the most visionary and conscious artists I have had the pleasure of knowing."
Celeste made her directorial debut with Story of J, which featured Jesse Jane.
Viewers can download the video Devon: Erotique trailer by visiting www.digitalplayground.com/mov/devon_erotique.html
"One Night In Paris" Earns Rick Solomon $7 Million (So Far)
"Birds of a feather...."
Source: UPI
(This one goes out to the person who didn't think it's outsell Ramela and Tommy's video. Told you so. - AZ)
Hollywood- Videotaping his sex romp with Paris Hilton has earned Rick Solomon $7 million, enough to buy a posh pad in the Hollywood Hills, "Celebrity Justice" reports. Solomon closed the deal this week after plunking down $3.4 million for the home just down the street from his buddy, "Spiderman" star Tobey Maguire, who helped him pick out the dream digs. The property has a pool, a master bedroom with a shower with a beautiful view and a state-of-the-art media room.
Even though he denied releasing clips of the videotape, "One Night In Paris," that turned up on the Internet, Solomon says the Hilton family is blaming him anyway. "They're trying to bury me," Solomon said at the time. "They're making me look sleazy."
Porn distributor David Joseph of Red Light District said last year the tape has "sold more copies than any video in the history of porn."
February 17, 2005
Anti-Porn Ad Runs in USA Today
Source Adultfyi.com by Gene Ross
Movie Gallery is "wolf in sheep's clothing"
Porn Valley- The story of Movie Gallery's pending $1.2 billion buyout of Hollywood Entertainment/Family Video last month www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=7867 had the American Family Association up in arms.
So you better believe the full page ad taken out Tuesday in USA Today as well as The Washington Post and The Oregonian hwww.victimsofpornography.org/images/Movie_Gallery-USAToday.pdf has the AFA thumbprints all over it.
Since the merger had been announced, the AFA has been putting out the notion that there will be, in essence, 4500 corporate-style porn stores across American carrying and renting XXX tapes.
I was talking to Bill Margold this morning about this since it was Margold who brought it to my attention. "It was a huge ad in the paper," says Margold who was curious why this hadn't become a big story in the porn community as well.
The ad goes on to tell people that they should be aware that if the name Hollywood Video sounds familiar it's because they have 1900 Family Video stores throughout the country. "If the name Movie Gallery isn't, it's because their 2,200-plus stores are in similar secondary markets," says the ad. "But they're currently negotiating to buy Hollywood's nationwide organization."
The ad is lending the idea that this is a whole wolf in sheep's clothing merger and that the nation will be saturated in porn as a consequence: "Putting them right where they want to be- in front of your family," states the ad.
The ad then refers readers to a piece written in thedeal.com, January 28, 2005 by Richard Morgan which is only accessible if you're a paid subscriber to The Deal, so one might wonder about the kickbacks, residuals and ulterior motives in that reference.
Apparently the front organization in this campaign is Victims of Pornography.org. Signees to the ad include the usual anti-porn suspects, Citizens for Community Values, The American Family Association, Concerned Women for America. Morality in Media, American Decency Association, Parents Television Council and National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Familes.
"What a crock of shit," says Margold. "A page in USA Today can't be cheap. This is a heavy-hitting ad.
Billy Idol Ends 10-year Absence With 'Devil's Playground'
Melodic punk rock troubadour Billy Idol has revealed details of his first new studio album in over 10 years.
'Devil's Playground' is set for release on March 22 across the US and is his first with new label Sanctuary:
"Enough!" said Idol in a statement, "2005 is the time for an original punk rocker to show his stuff."
The former Generation X rocker, who scored huge hits with 'White Wedding' and 'Dancing With Myself', says he distanced himself from the music business to 'regenerate, get free of myself and make an album for the right reasons."
The 50-year-old made a number of cameo appearances on screen in recent years, including Oliver Stone's 1991 Doors picture and 1998's The Wedding Singer.
First single release will be 'Scream'. A major US/European tour schedule is expected later this year.
Summer Haze Signs Exclusive With Old Pueblo Distribution
TUCSON, Ariz. - Pro-am performer-producer Summer Haze www.clubsummerhaze.com has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Old Pueblo Distribution, according to owner Arnold Stein. First releases are Vols. 4 and 5 of her series Behind Closed Doors.
“I am beyond excited to bring Summer Haze under the Old Pueblo umbrella,” Stein told AVN.com. “She introduces new girls to the industry and captures the reality of the porn lifestyle like no one else can.”
Haze, billed as one of the “Top 20 Feature Entertainers,” is a dancer with a busy itinerary who shoots scenes with other dancers while on the road. Her adult video career began in scenes for Dave Cummings and Wildlife Productions, before she started shooting on her own.
Haze Xperience, her production company, is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, but she and husband-partner Craig Valentine make videos wherever she happens to be performing.
“The camera is on the road and it catches everything it sees,” Valentine told AVN.com. Haze is host and commentator and always appears in one sex scene.
Beginning with Behind Closed Doors 6, Haze’s DVDs will be fully interactive, Valentine said. They make DVD releases only and do not produce Web content.
Valentine called their deal with OPD “very open and very lucrative.” With their own replication and printing facilities in Miami, they are able to deliver OPD a fully finished product.
First volume of their Search for the Next American Blowjob Queen will be ready for release in March. Also in production are a lesbian series and a handjob line, and they hope to shoot two full-length features this year.
OPD will also distribute Haze’s Couples Fantasies, a swinger-themed line that, according to Valentine, is the only line with real swingers and hardcore sex. Vol. 1 received a AAA 1/2 rating in the January 2005 AVN.
Valentine said he sold the first three volumes of the Closed Doors series to a British company, but has since bought back Vol. 1 and plans also to retrieve the other two.
ERIC SINGER PROJECT To Tour Europe
According to KISS Kollector Online, KISS drummer Eric Singer and former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, along with former MÖTLEY CRÜE singer John Corabi and ALICE COOPER bassist Chuck Garrick, will be touring Europe as ESP (ERIC SINGER PROJECT) in April and May. While Singer is on a tour break with KISS, and Kulick is in between tours with his current band GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, the two wanted to join forces for a tour of Europe after a handful of shows together as UNION (also with John Corabi in the band, but with Jamie Hunting on bass) last month.
Dates in Denmark (April 28), Holland (April 29) and Germany (April 30) have already been confirmed, while dates for Spain, Sweden, Belgium and other countries are being finalized. ESP's setlist will mainly consist of KISS hits and obscure KISS songs that have never before been played live, along with selections from MÖTLEY CRÜE, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, ALICE COOPER and other classic rock bands.
Playboy Names Jenna One of Word's Sexiest Women
(SCOTTSDALE, AZ) -- Playboy Magazine has anointed adult superstar Jenna Jameson as one of the world's 25 Sexiest Celebrities.
The March issue of the magazine ranks Ms. Jameson near the top of a list that includes Jamie Pressley, Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton, Jenny McCarthy, Victoria Silvstedt, Carmen DeCesare. She is the only adult star on the list.
It's not the first time Ms. Jameson has been so honored. Readers of FHM magazine annually rank her as one of the world's sexiest and most beautiful women.
About Jenna Jameson:
According to New York Magazine Jenna Jameson is a "cultural icon." her book about her life and adventures from the ReganBooks imprint of HarperCollins, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, was a New York Times bestseller list. Ms. Jameson has debated at Oxford University in England, been profiled by the E! True Hollywood Stories in one of its highest-rated shows, hosted E!'s Wild On program and made countless television appearances. She controls her own film production company and is the chairwoman of ClubJenna, Inc., a product licensing and Internet management firm that handles the Web activities for more than a dozen top adult stars, operates ClubJennaMall.com, a popular online retail store and has a free non-explicit Website, JustJennaJameson.com. Vivid Entertainment Group has selected Jenna as a Vivid Girl and films produced by her own production company are distributed by Vivid. Ms. Jameson, who began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl, has appeared in thousands of magazine articles and on hundreds of magazine covers from Playboy, New York, Esquire and Penthouse to Glamour, Paper, Cosmopolitan, Allure and Jane. FHM ranks her as one of the 100 Most Beautiful Girls in the World and VH1 says she is among the "100 Hottest Hotties."
THE BATMAN RETURNS
Kids' WB! unveiled its 2005-2006 lineup on Wednesday, including the return of The Batman for a second season that will include Batgirl and airs on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. and will also air weekdays at 4:30 p.m.
"In this captivating second season, The Batman will face a little competition to protect the citizens of GothamŠfrom a teenaged girl -- Batgirl. She has just flown into town to do her part in keeping the streets safe from the most dangerous and occasionally hysterical super villains out there. Is there enough room in Gotham for two Caped Crusaders?"
February 16, 2005
The International Fantastic Four Teaser!
We've talked about it and now we can give you a first online look at the new international teaser for 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four, hitting theaters on July 8th. www.video.craveonline.com/video/comingsoon/?showVideo=463&statsid=26&pid=1
Marvel's beloved superhero team comes to the big screen. Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic, who can elongate his body; Susan Storm / Invisible Woman, who not only can become invisible at will but can render other objects invisible; Johnny Storm / Human Torch, who can shoot fire from his finger tips and bend flame; and Ben Grimm / The Thing, a hideously misshapen monster with superhuman strength, together battle the evil Doctor Doom.
Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, and Julian McMahon star in the Tim Story-directed film.
AC/DC: More 'Family Jewels' Details Revealed
www.Billboard.com has revealed more details about AC/DC's upcoming "Family Jewels" DVD, due March 29 in North America via Epic.
Disc one focuses on AC/DC's Bon Scott-led period from 1975-1980, featuring videos for "High Voltage", "Jailbreak", "Let There Be Rock", "Walk All Over You" and "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)", among others. Live versions of "Riff Raff", "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Show Business" are also included, as are a host of small-screen appearances, among them a performance on Spanish television just 10 days before Scott died in 1980.
AC/DC's Brian Johnson-led era is chronicled on the second disc, beginning with videos for "Hells Bells", "What Do You Do for Money Honey", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" and the title cut from the 1980 album "Back in Black". Also included are videos for "Who Made Who" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" stemming from the band's soundtrack to the 1986 Stephen King film "Maximum Overdrive", a live version of "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" taped in Detroit in 1983 and the DVD debut of videos for "Clipped" and "Fly on the Wall".
"Family Jewels" track listing:
Disc One:
01. Baby Please Don't Go (TV, 1975)
02. Show Business (live, 1975)
03. High Voltage (video, 1975)
04. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll) (video, 1976)
05. T.N.T. (TV, 1976)
06. Jailbreak (video, 1976)
07. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (TV, 1976)
08. Dog Eat Dog (TV, 1977)
09. Let There Be Rock (video, 1977)
10. Rock'n'Roll Damnation (video, 1978)
11. Sin City (TV, 1978)
12. Riff Raff (live, 1978)
13. Fling Thing/Rocker (live, 1978)
14. Whole Lotta Rosie (live, 1978)
15. Shot Down in Flames (video, 1979)
16. Walk All Over You (video, 1979)
17. Touch Too Much (video, 1979)
18. If You Want Blood (You've Got It) (video, 1979)
19. Girls Got Rhyme (TV, 1980)
20. Highway to Hell (TV, 1980)
Disc Two:
01. Hells Bells (video, 1980)
02. Back in Black (video, 1980)
03. What Do You Do for Money Honey (video, 1980)
04. Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution (video, 1980)
05. Let's Get It Up (live, 1981)
06. For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (live, 1983)
07. Flick of the Switch (video, 1983)
08. Nervous Shakedown (video, 1983)
09. Fly on the Wall (video, 1985)
10. Danger (video, 1985)
11. Sink the Pink (video, 1985)
12. Stand Up (video, 1985)
13. Shake Your Foundations (video, 1985)
14. Who Made Who (video, 1986)
15. You Shook Me All Night Long (video, 1986)
16. Heatseeker (video, 1988)
17. That's the Way I Wanna Rock'n'Roll (video, 1988)
18. Thunderstruck (video, 1990)
19. Moneytalks (video, 1990)
20. Are You Ready (video, 1991)
SAMMY HAGAR Solo Tour With Michael Anthony On Bass
According to www.LiveDaily.com, VAN HALEN frontman Sammy Hagar will return to the solo circuit this spring during his Mexican-themed "Cinco de Cabo" tour.
Hagar and his band, THE WABORITAS, will kick off the outing with a three-night stand at his Cabo Wabo club in Lake Tahoe, NV; the April 29-May 1 run marks the one-year anniversary of the venue, a spin-off of the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, nightspot that Hagar and VAN HALEN opened in 1990.
VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony will join Hagar during the upcoming roadtrip.
SAMMY HAGAR & THE WABORITAS tour dates:
Apr. 29-30 - Lake Tahoe, NV - Cabo Wabo @ Harrahs
May 01 - Lake Tahoe, NV - Cabo Wabo @ Harrahs
May 06 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel/Casino
May 07 - Mashantucket, CT - Foxwoods Casino
May 10 - Green Bay, WI - Oneida Casino
May 12 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
May 13 - Rosemont, IL - Rosemont Theatre
May 14 - Maryland Heights, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion
DANZIG - The SISTERS OF MERCY - DIMEBAG Events Next Week at NEO
MK, 94.7 The Zone and NEO are happy to announce:
Twisting Roses Scedule Two Chicago Area Shows
The Chicago area rock band Twisting Roses will be performng two shows in the next month around Chicagoland.
Feb 25th - North Beach Chicago - 1551 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 @ 8:00pm
March 5th - Dundee Park District - Dundee, IL @ 7:30pm
Headed up by protégé 13 year old Kristy Rose a natural born rocker and the youngest member of Twisting Roses. The band is a trio rounded out by Ian Painter (bass) and Mike Summaria (drums). TW have played coast to coast, gathered a bevy of awards and press and are a your band to keep an eye on. A young band who actually play their instruments.
Even more impressive is there list of endorsers including Dean Guitars, Madison Speakers, Morley Pedals, George L's Cables, Jim Dunlop Picks, Coffin Case, and GHS Guitar Strings.
See www.twistingroses.com and www.kristyroserocks.com for more info.
I LOVE RICH At Wolrds Largest Car Show
I LOVE RICH is playing on the Chrysler stage at the CHICAGO AUTO SHOW this year, playing @ 5:00 pm on Feb. 19th, which is a Saturday night. So if the Auto Show is your thing (and really, who's ideal evening doesn't revolve around paying 10 bucks to walk around and look at cars you'll never be able to afford) come out and see some rock as well.
Saturday Feb 19th
The Chicago Auto Show
at McCormick Place
on the Chrysler stage
5:00 PM sharp
NINE INCH NAILS New Video
According to a posting on The NIN Hotline, footage for NINE INCH NAILS' video for "The Hand that Feeds", the first single off their upcoming "With Teeth" CD, was shot this past weekend in Pleasant Hill, San Francisco and Oakland (all in California). The video is being directed by Ian Inaba, from the Guerrilla News Network, who previously directed the video for EMINEM's "Mosh".
One worker on the scene said, "[Trent Reznor] never sounded better. I couldn't help but be totally overcome with energy and excitement when I heard the song for the first time." Another commented, "I'm still wiped out from shooting for this video, but I gotta tell you, it's going to be awesome!"
"With Teeth", is scheduled for release in the U.S on May 3 (one day earlier internationally). The CD, which is said to be "more song-orientated" than 1999's "The Fragile", was recorded in part at Sound City Studio in Van Nuys, Ca., and features a guest appearance on drums by former NIRVANA drummer/current FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl. Mixing duties were handled by Alan Moulder (THE CURE, SMASHING PUMPKINS). The album's first single, The Hand That Feeds, is expected to go for radio adds during the coming weeks.
John Lennon Originator Of Heavy Metals'Devil's Horns' ?
Source: www.earcandymag.com
Over the last few years there have been two artists that have claimed to have created the famous heavy metal "devil's horns" hand signal: Ronnie James Dio (BLACK SABBATH) and Gene Simmons (KISS).
You know the "devil's horns" signal? It is the universal heavy metal sign for "you rock", usually used in unison with the music at heavy metal concerts. Not to get satanical or anything, but the sign is supposed to represent the sign of the beast, with horns represented by the index finger and pinkie raised. If you raise both hands with this sign, the band "really rocks!"
That are two heavy metal rockers from the '70s both laying claim. Ronnie James Dio claimed to have created the gesture before joining BLACK SABBATH in 1978. Gene Simmons also claims credit, writing in his 2002 autobiography that it was the bass-playing demon of KISS that created the international heavy metal symbol. So there is no evidence that the symbol was created earlier than the '70s...or is there?!
We have discovered irrefutable photographic evidence that is was none other than Beatle John Lennon that created the famous sign in 1967. Furthermore, it was even used in animation for the BEATLES "Yellow Submarine" (just check the original vinyl album cover). These are two photographic images that can be tied down to specific years PRIOR to the '70s.
The photo of Lennon giving the sign appeared in one of the first BEATLES pictures in which the band promoted the upcoming "Yellow Submarine" animated movie. Since the BEATLES changed appearance often and were one of the most photographed icons of the '60s, it is possible to date the photo between June and October of '67. "Yellow Submarine" was being animated between '67 & '68, so the cartoon image of John flashing the heavy metal sign can also be verified date-wise. Although the film "Yellow Submarine" was released in 1968, the vinyl album (on which one can clearly see Lennon displaying the sign) was not released in the U.S. until 1969. But that is still years before Ronnie James Dio or Gene Simmons!
What other ties does Lennon have to heavy metal? Well, he claimed that the BEATLES song, "Ticket To Ride" was "one of the earliest heavy metal records ever made". How fitting that it was Lennon who also created the best-known symbol of heavy metal!
POWERMAN 5000 New Recording
POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider One has posted the following message on the group's official message board:
"O.K., so here's a long overdue update. First off, the new record is just about done. We still have to track a bit more and then mix, but I'm pretty sure we are done writing. Although who knows... No official release date yet, because we are exploring all the options in terms of getting this thing into your grubby little hands.
"What is it going to sound like? Well, let's just say if you like calculated, bloated HOOBASTANK ballads or radio friendly nu metal or over-produced, auto-tuned, cookie-cutter rock, then you will hate the new POWERMAN 5000 record. Now, I'm NOT going to say the standard bullshit like, 'This is our heaviest, most brutal record yet.' That's so boring and predictable. Not to mention, not true. I will say that, this record is raw and real.
"My goal on this one was to put together a bunch of songs that were meant to be played live. The kind of songs you could jam on with your friends in a garage band. I don't know, it is what it is. Rock 'n roll, punk rock, metal, whatever... it's PM5K. I'm digging it!!!
"We are getting back on the road soon. I'm sure most of you have seen a handful of West Coast gigs popping up. There will be more to come. We will be touring a little differently this year. Instead of long drawn out runs, we will be doing shorter regional blasts. So, we will be hitting the East and the Midwest and the South. Just not right in a row. We will let you know when all dates are confirmed.
"Who the fuck can you expect to see on stage?! With the revolving door in this band, sometimes I'm not even sure myself. I'm pretty certain I'll be there. Mr. 7 and Siggy will be there. Adam, sadly, will not be joining us for this run of West Coast dates. He is active in the writing and recording of the new record, but is opting out of the live performance end of things (atleast right now). Hitting the stage on guitar will be ex-ALIEN ANT FARM guitarist Terry Corso and ex HALFCOCKED guitarist Johnny Rock. I must tell you the rehearsals with these guys have been blazing!!
"As I always say, 'don't be afraid of the future'...
"Well, that's enough for you to chew on for now. THANX for being the coolest fans around, see you on the road."
February 15, 2005
New Batman Begins Pictures Surface
Warner Bros. Pictures has released new Batman Begins pictures on the official website www2.warnerbros.com/batmanbegins/index.html Included are pics of the Batmobile, Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, Katie Holmes as Rachel Dodson, Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as Lt. James Gordon, and Ken Watanabe as Ra's Al Ghul.
Gunman Who Shot BRUCE KULICK Gets 10 Years In Prison
According to a posting on former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick's official web site, www.kulick.net the gunman who shot Kulick on Sunset Blvd. in 2003 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the incident. "Justice is slow, but I know alot of my fans were curious to hear what happened," Bruce writes on his web site.
On Oct. 15, 2003, Kulick attended a concert by MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil at the Key Club on Sunset Blvd., and left the with a friend at 1:30 a.m. As he walked down the Strip, he heard gunshots. He looked down to see a hole through his leather pants, right above the knee. Next thing he noticed, blood was coming down his leg.
Kulick heard a second bullet whiz past his ear and realized he'd been grazed in his head by it.
The EMS crews arrived immediately and took him to the hospital.
"I'm very grateful for the immediate response of both the crowd and the doctors, and — obviously — the EMS crews," Bruce said the day after the shooting. "I'm fine and very thankful to be alive."
PAUL STANLEY Attends Pre-GRAMMY Party
According to a posting on the KISS fan site KissNews.de, KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley was among the attendees at the annual Clive Davis pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hills hotel last Saturday (Feb. 12) in Beverly Hills, California — one day prior to the 47th Grammy Awards. Stanley attended the party with girlfriend Erin Sutton see photos from KissNews.de and is said to have mingled with people like Jimmy Page, Clive Davis and former KISS songwriting collaborator Desmond Child. A recap of the evening's events from legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin follows:
"Sitting at our table is Paul Stanley, who tells me he is addicted to my website - he reads it in the middle of the night when he can't sleep (Gene Simmons probably would - if I paid him) and his girlfriend Erin. He tells [Jimmy Page] he can't tell if I namedrop him or Slash the most. The bright lighting is suddenly obscured by a figure nearly as big as the ballroom we're in. It's Steven Segal... I am not joking, he is physically HUGE. A bit like a Buddha — well, he claims to be into Eastern Religion when he is not killing 5000 people with one hand. Much to our surprise he's at our table. Paul, Jimmy and I watch him consume all of the dessert — he puts his glasses on then consumes two tiers of pastries from giant plates... I mean everything. We're all nudging each other, trying not to laugh."
One of this year's Grammy winners were MOTÖRHEAD, who were honored in the Best Metal Performance category for their cover of METALLICA's "Whiplash". The track was produced by Bob Kulick, who recently produced a KISS tribute album entitled "Spin the Bottle".
Marazene Shoot "Execute" Video
On February 10th-13th, the video for "Execute", a track most recently featured on Matrix:Revolutions DVD and scheduled to be released on MARAZENE's debut album, "Resin-Hate" was shot in Chicago. Joseph Elsey (U Press Play Productions), whose work on the cult/camp zombie/horror spoof "Stay Dead" attracted the band from the get-go, directed the video.
"There was an immediate connection between Joe and MARAZENE" bassist Dietrich Thrall explains. "We'd discussed several avenues of collaboration including the possibilities of doing some scoring and contributing soundtrack material for a feature Joe had been working on and even a Mini Movie for Marazene Material. The video for "Execute" is the end result. He's [Joe] got great energy and we knew he was the right person to handle something we all felt was the next big step for MARAZENE."
Members of Marazene remain tight-lipped about the videos visual direction but didconfirm the use of a green screen.
Vocalist TJXC sums up the philosophy behind the videos theme, "We want to give everyone who hasn't had a chance to see Marazene up close and in person a sampling of the Marazene live experience. This is something incredibly special for us and something we feel certain our friends/fans will find special as well."
The video footage is currently in editing and is expected to be finished in several weeks.
Marazene's next show is February 24th @ Double Door hosting the Damage Manual CD Release Party with DJ Acucrack, SuperSport, and Maggot Twat. Invisible Records/Underground Inc founder Martin Atkins will guest DJ between sets.
Debbie Gibson Poses Nude For Playboy
She's got legs. (Thanks jSIN)
One-time teen Pop sensation Deborah Gibson/Debbie Gibson is posing nude in the March issue of Playboy magazine, reports Liz Smith in The New York Post. The pictorial will coincide with a new single titled "Naked." Debbie Gibson or Deborah Gibson is also readying a remake of the Daryl Hall & John Oates classic "Rich Girl" for a forthcoming album.
So there is an 8 page pictorial featuring Deborah Gibson in the March issue of Playboy Magazine which debuted at newsstands February 11th!
Deborah Gibson is a creative force in the entertainment industry who does it all! She has single handedly transcended music and entertainment trends and fads. Deborah stands poised at the top, embarking on the second phase of her hugely successful pop career.
Deborah Gibson (Debbie Gibson) exploded on the pop music scene at the tender age of 16. She quickly became the youngest person ever to write, produce and perform a #1 single ("Foolish Beat"), a record which she still proudly holds to this day. Deborah Gibson has sold over 16 million albums worldwide to date. Her extraordinary career has garnered her #1 Billboard hits, Platinum albums, ASCAP Songwriter of the Year honors, sold-out audiences around the world and rave reviews for her starring roles on Broadway.
Growing up in Long Island, Deborah Gibson began performing with her sisters in Community Theatre at the age of five. By the time she was twelve years old she was already a professional Broadway actress pursuing a recording career. The dream was realized by sixteen, when Deborah was signed to Atlantic Records. Her first single "Only In My Dreams" went right to the top of the charts around the world.
Following were several more top five hits and the #1 single "Foolish Beat". Her debut album "Out of the Blue" (see here) sold over five million copies. With this, Deborah Gibson established herself as a household name and immediately confirmed that position with her triple platinum follow up #1 album "Electric Youth" (see here) and the #1 single "Lost In Your Eyes". Deborah Gibson's recording legacy includes 1990's Gold album "Anything Is Possible," 1993's "Body Mind Soul," 1995's "Think With Your Heart," (see here) 1997's "Deborah" and 2001's "M.Y.O.B." (see here).
In 1992, Deborah Gibson returned to her theatrical roots by taking a star turn in the Broadway production of Les Miserables as "Eponine." She broke box office records in the London West End production of Grease as "Sandy," then took the stage in the U.S. Broadway Tours of Grease and Funny Girl playing "Rizzo" and "Fanny Brice" respectively. Deborah Gibson returned to Broadway as "Belle" in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," followed by her critically acclaimed performance as "Gypsy Rose Lee" to Betty Buckley's "Mama Rose" in "Gypsy" at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
In February 2000, Deborah Gibson starred as "The Narrator" in the national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Then, in December 2001, Deborah starred, in a 3 month engagement, as "Cinderella" in the national production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" to Eartha Kitt's "Fairy Godmother". In October, 2002, Debbie Gibsongraced the stage as "Velma Kelly" in Boston's North Shore Theatre's production of "Chicago", a role she will do again at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City, July, 2003. Deborah Gibson returned to Broadway in February 2003, for a 4 month stint as the "saucy, sexy Sally Bowles" at Studio 54 in "Cabaret".
Alan Keyes' Daughter Comes Out
SHE'S A LIBERAL!
--Chicago Tribune
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The daughter of conservative firebrand Alan Keyes announced her homosexuality at a gay rights rally here Monday, publicly revealing for the first time what had been an open secret during her father's failed Illinois senatorial campaign.
Maya Marcel-Keyes, 19, spoke only obliquely of her sexual orientation in a brief speech before a crowd of several hundred people outside the Maryland State House.
Though she spoke mainly of the troubles of homeless gay youth, Marcel-Keyes addressed the difficulties she faced growing up as the daughter of one of the country's most outspoken opponents of homosexual lifestyles and gay marriage.
"Liberal queer plus conservative Republican just don't mesh too well," she said.
Her father, who is on the West Coast giving speeches this week, issued only a terse statement about his daughter's coming out.
"My daughter is an adult, and she is responsible for her own actions," the statement read. "What she chooses to do has nothing to do with my work or political activities."
Keyes drew national attention during the Republican National Convention last year when he called homosexuality an act of "sexual hedonism." Asked later if Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, is a selfish hedonist, Keyes answered that she is.
A day after that interview, Keyes defended his statements, saying he would feel the same about his own daughter, although he wasn't questioned about her at the time.
"If my own daughter were a homosexual or a lesbian, I would love my daughter, but I would tell my daughter that she was in sin," he said.
Marcel-Keyes said Monday that her father's private stance toward her homosexuality has been consistent with his public statements on the subject.
Last week, she was forced to move out of Keyes' Chicago apartment because of her sexual orientation and left-wing political activism.
Despite being "finally cut off," as she wrote in her Weblog, Marcel-Keyes said that she had received an outpouring of support. The Point Foundation has even offered her a scholarship to attend Brown University in the fall, she said.
The gay rights advocacy group Equality Maryland invited Marcel-Keyes in November to speak at the rally, and she considered the decision for a month before deciding to talk about her sexuality.
Her orientation was the subject of constant rumors and speculation during her father's campaign, when reporters and Internet blogs discovered her online diary, which only thinly disguised her identity.
Nevertheless, questioned about her relationship with her parents Monday, she spoke fondly of them.
"I love my parents very much, and they love me," she said
February 13, 2005
HAPPY VD FROM MK
Well, for those of you "lucky in love" we'd like to wish you all a Happy Valentines Day. And for all of you sinners and players of the field, we'll drink one for you this evening.
We dedicate the following song to you which was written by the great Peter Steele. If you cannot relate, you are not human.
The Dream Is Dead (Valentines Day Song by Type O Negative)
Champagne glass of blood and wine
On chocolate hearts alone I dine
Candles weeping waxing tears
Ten for roses each one a year - disappear
Arrows fester in my heart
Each memory another dart
Love and death both colored red
Showing my past, the dream is dead
Another lonely Valentine's Day
I can't believe things turned
out this way
And though I hate to see you go
I know it must be so
Another lonely Valentine's Day
Nobody will break your fall
All for none, yeah, none for all
Nothing's so cruel as the truth
Join the Festival of Fools
Nobody will break your fall
All for none, yeah, none for all
Nothing's so cruel as the truth
Join the festival, my fools
Another lonely Valentine's Day
I can't believe things turned
out this way
And though I hate to see you go
I know it must be so
Another lonely Valentine's Day
The dream is dead.
Type O Negative Update From Johnny
Johnny Kelly posted the following at www.typeonegative.net/news.php
How's everyone doing? I understand that many of you are a little uptight that there hasn't been a Type O update in quite sometime. A lot of you have been asking for updates regarding Peter's health. There really isn't much to report other than he's doing fine and his health is improving daily. There is still a lot of work to be done for the next record but we'll have more news about it in the upcoming weeks. Thanks for being patient.
johnny
Danzig Dates with Johnny and Tommy Victor is playing guitar
Johnny is back on the road with Danzig for a US tour. He's in LA now rehearsing and the dates are below:
DATE CITY VENUE
02/18/05 Sauget, IL Pop's
02/19/05 Detroit, MI Harpo's
02/21/05 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
02/22/05 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
02/24/05 Toronto, ON The Guvernment
02/25/05 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre
02/26/05 Covington, KY Madison Theatre
02/28/05 Boston, MA The Roxy
03/01/05 New York, NY Spirit
03/02/05 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
03/04/05 Norfolk, VA The NorVa
03/05/05 Atlanta, GA Coca Cola Roxy Theatre
03/06/05 Buena Vista, FL House Of Blues
03/08/05 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tea Room
03/09/05 San Antonio, TX Sunset Station
03/11/05 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
03/12/05 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
03/13/05 Tucson, AZ Coconuts
03/15/05 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
Official George Romero Website Updated
After sitting dormant for months and months, George Romero's official website www.georgeromero.com has finally been relaunched. At the site you can watch journals, check out his exclusive promotions (X-box and ipod skins) and has a media section set up.
Official 'Return of the Living Dead' Websites
The official website www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com has gone live for both Return of the Living Dead Necropolis and Rave to the Grave. At the site you'll find tons of stills, a promo trailer and behind-the-scenes featurettes. It appears to be more of an EPK, but it's got the goods you want! So check it out. Both films are set to hit (video?) this year.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CEVIN KEY
MK wishes cEvin Key a HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! The Skinny Puppy legend was born this day February 13, 1961.
Cheers!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Henry Rollins
We also wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Henry Rollins. And on this day in 1866 Jesse James's gang committed its first bank robbery.
You're in good company man.
NINE INCH NAILS: "With Teeth" Track Listing
NINE INCH NAILS have posted a teaser for their upcoming album, "With Teeth", at their official web site www.nin.com/visuals/with_teeth_teaser.html Check it out at this location. In addition, the band have unveiled the track listing for the new CD. It is as follows:
01. All The Love In The World
02. You Know What You Are?
03. The Collector
04. The Hand That Feeds
05. Love Is Not Enough
06. Every Day Is Exactly The Same
07. With Teeth
08. Only
09. Getting Smaller
10. Sunspots
11. The Line Begins To Blur
12. Beside You In Time
13. Right Where It Belongs
"With Teeth", is scheduled for release in the U.S on May 3 (one day earlier internationally). The CD, which is said to be "more song-orientated" than 1999's "The Fragile", was recorded in part at Sound City Studio in Van Nuys, Ca., and features a guest appearance on drums by former NIRVANA drummer/current FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl. Mixing duties were handled by Alan Moulder (THE CURE, SMASHING PUMPKINS). The album's first single, The Hand That Feeds, is expected to go for radio adds during the coming weeks.
February 12, 2005
"Inside Deep Throat" Plays Chicago
For people living in and around the Chicago area, documentary "Inside Deep Throat," will be shown at the Century Centre Cinema starting this weekend.
For movie times, call 773-509-4949
GOOD NEWS ! Tom Cruise Ices Iron Man
Source: Sci Fi Wire
Tom Cruise told SCI FI Wire that he has pulled out of a proposed Iron Man movie. "It's not happening. Not with me," Cruise told reporters during a break in filming on the set of his current movie, War of the Worlds, in Piru, Calif. "They ... came to me at a certain point, and you know, when I do something, I want to do it right. And, you know, if I commit to something, it has to be done in a way that I know it's going to be something special. And that ... as it was lining up, it just didn't feel to me like it was going to work."
Cruise had been attached to the on-again, off-again film adaptation of the Marvel Comics series. But he said that he's no longer involved. "I need to be able to make decisions and make the film as great as it can be, and it just didn't go down that road that way," he said. He added: "I've never just made a movie to make a movie. I've always made them because I really was interested in the story. I wanted to make that kind of picture and see what it would take, and it was an adventure for me. For that, it just wasn't panning out. So far. You know, as of yet."
RICK RUBIN and WMG REUNITED
Rick Rubin has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Records to house American Recordings, according to a story in the N.Y. Post. This brings American back to its former home, following stops at Columbia and Island Def Jam. It also reconnects Rubin with his homie Lyor Cohen, who inked American to IDJ before becoming the U.S. head of WMG.
Tom Sizemore Uses Fake Penis In Attempt To Cheat Drug Test
SOURCE: NY Post
WWW- "BLACK Hawk Down" star Tom Sizemore has been thrown in jail after being caught trying to cheat on a drug test by using a fake penis contraption.
On Thursday, Los Angeles Judge Antonio Baretto ordered Sizemore's arrest because of the failed test, a violation of his probation on a domestic violence conviction involving ex Heidi Fleiss in 2003. Deputy City Attorney Robert Cha told "Celebrity Justice" that officials caught Sizemore using a plastic penis, attached to a pair of men's underwear, that held a container of clean urine. Apparently the actor has tried a similar ruse in the past. Baretto told Sizemore, who says he's destitute and living in a garage in Whittier, Calif., that his drug use is "out of control" and set bail at $25,000. Sizemore, who's been trying to get permission to go to Cambodia to make a new movie, tried to elicit sympathy by claiming he's about to become a father. It didn't work.
