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Post-Easter (and an Easter server issue), what I have is...   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 02, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ready Player One tops the chart with 41.2MM over the holiday weekend (51.2MM since Wed) against a 175MM budget.  Worldwide totals for Spielberg are 181.2MM, but figure the marketing and other P & A costs mean it likely has to clear 300-325MM as a rough guess to make a profit.  It will get a little help from the weakish calendar of releases (outside maybe Rampage) until Infinity War arrives in a few weekends.  Tyler Perry's Acrimony places with 17.1MM against a reported 20MM budget, his best non-Madea openining in years.  Black Panther shows with 11.3MM and its total will likely pass Titanic by week's end. I Can Only Imagine takes the fourth slot with 10.8MM on a leggy 21 percent drop (and 55.6MM against a 7MM budget).  Pacific Rim: Uprising, last weekend's champ, skids 67 percent to gross 9.2MM -- a viction of Spielberg (tho this sequel was always a play for Asan markets).

STEVEN BOCHCO, the strong-willed writer and producer who brought gritty realism and sprawling ensemble casts to the small screen with such iconic series as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, died Sunday morning. He was 74.

LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER, I'll be back tomorrow.

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B-52s, The Aces, Dr Octogon, Patti Smith, Belly, Chvrches, Moses Moses Moses   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, March 30, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE EASTER WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE B-52s!  Live at the Capitol Theater, circa 1980.  Your setlist includes: Lava, Give Me Back My Man, 6060-842, Devil In My Car, 52 Girls, Quiche Lorraine, Dirty Back Road, Private Idaho, Strobe Light, Runnin' Around, Rock Lobster, Dance This Mess Around, Planet Claire, Party Out Of Bounds, Downtown, and 53 Miles West Of Venus.

THE ACES advance stream When My Heart Felt Volcanic.

DR OCTOGON advance streams Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation.

PATTI SMITH plays the Mountain Stage.

BELLY shares "Stars Align."

CHVRCHES shares "Never Say Die."

MURRAY HEAD: "One Night In Bangkok." Mostly for the sheer 80s cheesiness, but also because today this is a blog with everything, including Yul Brynner.

DAVID BYRNE surveys the soundtrack of his life at Pitchfork.

ICEAGE talks to Stereogum about heir new album Beyondless and fumbling towards inspiration.

SUEDE's debut turns 25.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Pat Boone's godawful teenage-suicide tragedy "Moody River."

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Ready Player One, which is currently scoring 77 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Tyler Perry's Acrimony, which was not screened for critics, and God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, scoring 20 percent.

REN & STIMPY creator John Kricfalusi allegedly preyed on young female fans and had a 16-year-old girlfriend.

WESTWORLD dropped a Season 2 trailer.

RYAN SEACREST's accuser has filed a police report.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER may not support Cynthia Nixon's campaign for governor of New York, and her silence dooms any possibility of a third Sex and the City movie.

JUSTIN THEROUX: Moving on from Jennifer Aniston with... Aubrey Plaza?  Or ar they just old friends from Parks and Rec?

ALISON MACK: Is a Smallville alum in danger of being arrested in a sex trafficking case?

JESSICA CHASTAIN talks to Vulture about Salomé, Al Pacino, nudity and more.

WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS?  Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brynner starts to look good by comparison.  And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it  -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal, originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up o­n The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses.

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Joan Shelley, Wolf Alice, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Ready Player One, Koalas   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS: "I Think We're Alone Now," at the Village Square

JOAN SHELLEY streams a covers EP called Rivers & Vessels.

WOLF ALICE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD stopped by World Cafe.

SNAIL MAIL shares "Pristine."

 

SOCCER MOMMY shared a video for "Cool."

THE LEMON TWIGS: Brian D'Addario talks to Brooklyn Vegan and shares two new tracks. Awww yeaaahhh.

DREAM WIFE: "We're not holding back at all."

STEVE ALBIMI talks to Narduar about lighting farts on fire with Nirvana, smashing toilets with Ty Segall, and much more.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Roy Orbison's tense, operatic two-minute masterpiece "Running Scared."  The B-side was Love Hurts"!

 

READY PLAYER ONE is a Steven Spielberg film adapted from a book clearly inspied byt eh peak blockbuster version of Spielberg -- and arena where Spielberg has not often played lately.  And perhaps it is all of this -- or the virtual relaity where much of the action occurs -- that gives off a slight feeling of virtual Spielberginess.  Or prehaps Spielberg is now at a place in his life where he cannot tap into that vintage Spielberg thing in exactly the same ways as decades ago. But he remains a master directo, and so even the virtual Spielberg is quite entertaining, and generally better than others who have tried to be virtual Spielberg (looking at you, J.J.).  Obviously, it's more fun the more rooted you are in the pop culture of the 80s and early 90s, but with plenty for those who are not.

COREY FELDMAN says he was attacked and stabbed in Los Angeles Tuesday night, though there now seem to be differing opinions.

ROSEANNE: The sitcom returned to stunning ratings.

DAWSON'S CREEK hits 20 with a cast reunion.

SEAN PENN wrote a novel. He went full Penn. You never go full Penn.

DONALD GLOVER denied being to busy to write a Deadpool TV series.

ISLE OF DOGS, reviewed by dogs.

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM may become a billion-dollar Amazon production.

 

QUARRELING KOALAS: Two male koalas were caught wrestling in Australia, reportedly, over a female koala just out of view.

A DOGGO rescues a frozen bird.

HAWKS are attacking people in Connecticut.

A KANGAROO fights a golf course flag.

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Frankie Cosmos, Fenne Lily, All Songs, Coyote   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SNIFF 'N THE TEARS: "Driver's Seat," from the Boogie Nights soundtrack and Craig O'Neill's vault.

FRANKIE COSMOS is advance streaming Vessel.

FENNE LILLY has seven tracks from her upcoming LP online.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from Guided by Voices, John Prine, Hearts Hearts and more.

THE SIDEKICKS share "Twin's Twist."

 

Q-TIP & DEMI LOVATO play Elton John and Kiki Dee.

PRINCE had an extremely high level of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in his body at the time of his death, according to a toxicology report.

THE WORLD'S FIRST BOWIE STATUE has been unveiled in Aylesbury, the town in England where Ziggy Stardust debuted.

MANIC STREET PREACHERS: "People can tell if you don't mean it."

THE NUMBER ONES ooks at Ricky Nelson's gentle, stereotype-happy "Travelin' Man."

 

WHICH HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS bit Beyoncé’s face? Inquiring minds want to know. (Is it Sanaa Lathan?)

R. KELLY has been accused of training a girl as a sex slave since she was 14 years old.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN sells his Greenwich Village house for 26MM.

ANGELINA JOLIE isn't interested in getting back in the dating game just yet.

DEADPOOL 2 inexplicably released a "clean" trailer.

READY PLAYER ONE dropped a behind-the-scenes featurette.

SUPERMAN turning up in Shazam, executive produced by Dany Garcia?

 

A COYOTE atop the New York State Museum was tranquilized.

WHY I RESCUED A BOBCAT KITTEN and raised him as family.

BIG CATS nd other endangered animals do best in places where there’s no wireless coverage.

FOUR COWS went to Antarctica in 1933.

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Kacey Musgraves, Jenny & the Mexicats, Molly Tuttle, Gypsy   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE BUZZCOCKS play "16 Again" and "Nothing Left" on the OGWT for Twofer Tuesday.

KACEY MUSGRAVES advance streams Golden Hour.

JENNY & THE MEXICATS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

MOLLY TUTTLE plays the Mountain Stage.

STEPEHN MALKMUS & THE JICKS shares "Shiggy."

SIBILLE ATTAR shares “I Don’t Have To” and "RUN" in time for Twofer Tuesday.

TRAVELLER shares "Hummingbird."

 

LEON BRIDGES shares some "Bad Bad News."

PAUL McCARTNEY gets over two and a half hours of appreciation and analysis with guest Mark Davis.

LANA DEL REY says her legal difficulties with Radiohead are over. So how similar are "Get Free" and "Creep," and did Radiohead have a legitimate complaint?

ALTAR ROCK: Is doing a ‘Christian record’ no longer a career killer?

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Ernie K-Doe's New Orleans R & B oldie "Mother-In-Law."

 

CAPTAIN MARVEL, set in the 90s, will feature some familiar MCU faces.

SOLO: An actor compares its different directors for Vulture, an account in no way encouraged by the House of Mouse nosiree bub.

NICKELODEON ended its long relationship with one of its most prolific series creators, Dan Schneider. For years Schneider had been under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars of his shows.

STEVEN SPIELBERG doesn't think Netflix movies should be eligible for Oscars.

NETFLIX scoops up the Monty Python catalog.

TIFFANY HADDIS, the  breakout star of Girls Trip, has some odd views on turpentine.

CHRISTIN AGUILERA, sans makeup.

 

GYPSY THE CAT was rescued after three days atop a utility pole.

TWO "TRAINWRECKED" ACTORS are locked in a bitter dog cutody dispute.

THE NATIONAL ZOO awaits the arrival of its first baby gorilla in nine years.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Invading the SoCal coast in force.

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