2/10/2005
12-time Academy Awards producer takes control
Gil Cates is not a man to let someone run at the mouth because they're famous. In an Academy Awards show producer, this quality is essential. With many emotional stars more than willing to exceed their 45 second limit for an acceptance speech, keeping the awards show going in a timely fashion is...
1/29/2005
Former Spice girl releases second solo album.
If nothing else, one has to admit that Emma Bunton has spunk. Formerly Baby Spice of the Spice Girls, she has released her second full-length solo album entitled "Free Me." Trying to break away from an image that is fixed in the public memory is insanely difficult, and the impression that the...
1/6/2005
Andre 3000 to play opposite Mark Wahlberg.
Andre 3000, the more visible half of Outkast, is spreading his wings into the movie business. According to the "Hollywood Reporter," Andre will be playing the brother of Mark Wahlberg, both of them committed to avenging the death of their mother. The film is as yet untitled, but "Four Brothers"...
1/5/2005
Will Eisner passed on early this week.
Will Eisner is widely considered to be the father of the modern comic book, or graphic novel. In fact, he is said to have coined that term himself and used it to describe his book "A Contract With God" to combat the idea that stories told with a series of pictures could never be anything but...
12/24/2004
Movie version of
Hollywood just loves to glamorize things, and the film version of The Phantom of the Opera is no exception. On stage, the singer playing the Phantom went through hours of makeup in order to look horrifically disfigured. The part of his face that was showing wasn't that great on the eyes, so you...
12/15/2004
Band on tour in 2005, with guest star
The band members of Queen have announced their intention to go on tour with Paul Rodgers in early 2005. This is not the first time the Bad Company singer has performed with Queen- they played together at the band's induction into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame in September. The chemistry between...
12/10/2004
There's a strange satisfaction that can be gained by looking the hipster population in the eye and saying, "I listen to operatic power metal. What are you going to do about it?" It helps when you can back that statement with a band that actually knows what they're doing. Nightwish hails from...
12/10/2004
Comic-based series comes to a close.
Blade: Trinity, the final chapter in the action-packed vampire film series, opened this week. The past two films have clearly established that Blade is not the hypersensitive type of vampire, dressed in black velvet and agonizing over his lot in life. He does dress in black, but that's where the...
11/19/2004
Mail order bride recieves damages.
Centuries ago, a man's parents would look at the daughters of the village and decide which one would make the best wife for their son. As society progressed, this practice fell into disuse. Young people no longer wanted their marital decisions made by another party. However, it almost seems as...
11/11/2004
Most normal people envy high-profile Hollywood stars. After all, everyone adores them, they get to wear the newest, most expensive fashions and basically make truckloads of money simply on the weight of their image. But like most things on the other side of the fence, being a star has its...
