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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TOM SNYDER, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.  Stereogum can point you to his greatest rock moments (except for John Lennon's final interview) with Johnny Rotten, The Clash, U2, KISS and more.  BONUS:  Snyder with Jerry Garcia and Ken Kesey.

NEW RELEASES:  1990s, Bat for Lashes, Josh Rouse, an Americana comp and more are streaming via Spinner.  Polly Paulusma gets a US release date for Fingers & Thumbs; you can stream partial tracks from her "Media" page.

DON HENLEY takes on a lake-eating monster in east Texas.

DEVENDRA BANHART is streaming two advance tracks from his upcoming LP at HisSpace.

LED ZEPPELIN hits iTunes. Oh, the humanity!

THE WHITE STRIPES hit the beach in the new video for "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)."

REALLY GUILTY PLEASURES:  Blender magazine asked indie musicians for their favorite bad albums.

LENNON & McCARTNEY:  Licorice Pizza has posted the infamous bootleg A Toot and a Snore in ‘74; you can jukebox it via the ol' HM. 

DESERT ISLAND DISCS, PART 2:  Marooned -- a follow-up and homage to Greil Marcus's classic rock 'n' roll book, Stranded -- asks the same question of a new generation: What album would you bring to a desert island, and why?  The albums are essayed by a number of authors, including Mountain Goat John Darnielle.  The Chicago Reader finds Greil Marcus playing the curmudgeon.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  Friends say the supposedly sober supermodel is desperately missing the troubled singer, but is determined to move on.  Doherty, meanwhile, has rekindled his relationship with Nadine Ruddy -- the ex Moss had banned him from seeing during their relationship.

BONO & PENELOPE CRUZ, strolling down the beach hand-in-hand in St Tropez, has naturally stirred Gallic gossip.

THE FRENCH HOTEL:  Though E! Entertainment Television has decided not to renew The Simple Life, the reality show in which the heirhead starred with on-and-off pal Nicole Richie, she has landed a role in the big-screen musical Repo! The Genetic Opera.  Her camp is denying reports that her behavior has so appalled her grandfather and head of the Hilton clan, Barron Hilton, that he has cut off her £25 million inheritance.

BRITNEY SPEARS and Kevin Federline have officially divorced.  The custody and spousal support orders are secret... for now.

THE SIMPSONS:  The Best Week Ever blog has posted a list of Simpsons lists, from "Sexiest Ladies of The Simpsons" to the "Top 10 Religious Episodes of The Simpsons."  BONUS:  How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper.

INGMAR BERGMAN, one of the film world's acknowledged greats, was spotted walking with Death on the beach.

JESSICA ALBA dumped Cash Warren because "He wasn't ready for marriage, and Jessica is," says an insider, who thinks they will reconcile.  No more free milk for you, mister!

FAITH HILL would prefer it if you left hubby Tim McGraw's nether regions alone.  Video at the link.

BRADGELINA reportedly are prepared to give up acting and move to Berlin, where they can avoid the paparazzi.  Sure.  Just in case, you better look at the new pics of Jolie as a sexy water demon in Beowulf while you have the chance.

JESSICA BIEL & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE are avoiding being caught canoodling.  The author wonders when we'll see the official PDA; my guess would be the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

ANGIE EVERHART & JOE PESCI are engaged?  Well, he is a funny guy. (NSFW, natch.)

IRON MAN:  The four minute teaser Jon Favreau & Co. brought to Comic-Con caused the crowd multiple geekgasms.  And the answer to the question is, "Yes. Black. Sabbath."  Hope you see it before the studio lawyers get there!  And here! Or, as a last resort, here.  UPDATE:  Finally, someone got a little clever with titles and tags.

ABU HAMZA, the hook-handed radical Muslim cleric serving seven years for inciting the murder of non-Muslims, may be getting bullied in Britain's in Belmarsh jail.

IRAN:  A reporter for London's Guardian visited Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan and asks the obvious question, "why is the government in such a rush to enrich fuel, when it has no nuclear power plants in which to use it?"

IRAQ:  Prime Minister al-Maliki visited Diyala province, meeting with local political, military and tribal leaders as officials try to capitalize on the momentum of the recent military sweeps through Baquba.  Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.), just back from leading a Congressional delegation to Baghdad and Ramadi, said he saw signs of progress and was impressed by Gen. David Petraeus; Rep. McNerney said he still favors a timeline to get troops out of Iraq, but is open to being flexible "in terms of when it might end."  The US military confirmed that the 1920 Revolution Brigades have reconciled with the Iraqi government and the US military.  Blogger Michael J. Totten goes on a night raid in Baghdad: "Most of the time it's so quiet. But it's the quiet of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, not of rural Middle America."  Reconstruction efforts are being hampered by elements of the Iraqi gov't, though the US is also making progress with micro-loan projects.  The L.A. Times has a sobering look at the Iraqi Interior Ministry.  Longtime NYT Baghdad bureau chief John Burns suggests that talk of US withdrawal is impeding political reconciliation.

IRAQ and the MEDIA:  Yesterday, I noted a lame piece on the TNR "Baghdad Diarist" controversy in the Columbia Journalism Review.  The author of the piece is now trying to backpedal, yet still without acknowledging that it was questions raised by Iraq vets that have landed diarist Pvt. Beauchamp in hot water; without them, civiian pro-war bloggers wouldn't have had much to go on.  The author may be compounding his original error -- by e-mailing milblogs that he wasn't writing about them, which naturally raises the question, "Why not?"

UK GREAT WHITE SHARK UPDATE:  The world's greatest shark hunter vows to land the shark spotted off the coast of Cornwall, but -- much to my delight -- added: "The problem with shark-hunting in Britain is no one's really got a big enough boat."  Of course, this means we must go to the video. (NSFW)

THE LITTLE MASTER really wanted no part of a Sri Lankan religious ceremony.

A THUNDERBIRD is terrorizing San Antonio, TX?

AN ABANDONED GATOR was found in a moving pillowcase on a New York beach last weekend.

FROG in your toilet freaking you out?  Could be worse.

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