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Monday, January 12, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

GLASVEGAS guitarist Rab Allan talks to Straight about the year that saw him leave his Rocky-esque day job. Bassist Paul Donoghue talks to the San Jose Mercury News about the evolution of the band's sound.  And the combo returned to the US, playing "Geraldine" for Dave in the Ed Sullivan Theater.

M WARD talks to Billboard about the broader production on his upcoming album, which will have cameos from Lucinda Williams, Grandaddy's Jason Lytle and Ward's She & Him partner, Zooey Deschanel.

MERZ did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, one previously unreleased. "The absolutely ideal opening paragraph to an essay about UK songwriter Merz would be a verbatim pasting of the lyrics to 'The Rainbow Connection.'" But he doesn't sound like Kermit.

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN played the Bowery Ballroom on Friday; you can download the show via nyctaper.

SHARON LITTLE, who has been opening for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss on tour, played the World Cafe on Friday, so you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

BETTYE LaVETTE: The NYDN has reaction to the R&B vet's re-invention of The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" at this year's Kennedy Center Honors.

IGGY & THE STOOGES: Mike Watt, bassist for the Minutemen, Firehose and the reunited Stooges, remembers the late Ron Asheton.  Canada's Globe & Mail caught up with Iggy on the set of a vampire movie before Asheton's death.

ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS frontman Antony Hegarty talks to The Scotsman about the band's upcoming LP and the forehead as billboard.

AMY WINEHOUSE has been targeted by Islamic extremists.

MERLE HAGGARD is suing environmental activists for misusing his name.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES went to these folks --  and to Kate Winslet twice. Slumdog Millionaire won Best Drama; Vicky Cristina Barcelona won Best Comedy or Musical.  30 Rock won Best TV Comedy; Mad Men won Best TV Drama. Photos here.

JOHN TRAVOLTA, mourning the death of his 16-year-old son Jett,  canceled his appearance at the Golden Globe Awards.

MICHAEL C. HALL eloped with Dexter co-star Jennifer Carpenter on New Years Eve.

PRINCE HARRY who wore a Nazi uniform to a 2005 costume party, was caught on video making racial remarks to fellow British soldiers.

FERGIE & JOSH DUHAMEL got hitched in Malibu over the weekend.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Gran Torino gets the checkered flag in a massive 29 million dollar upset, about 10 million more than most predictions.  This weekend pays for the 25 million production budget and may put Clint Eastwood into the Best Actor race when Oscar noms come out on the 22nd.  This weekend is the biggest of Clint Eastwood's career -- unless you just for inflation, which would put the opening of 1978's Every Which Way But Loose on top, but shhh.  The debuts of Bride Wars and The Unborn were left in mortal combat for second and third place, with the brides on top by about 500K with 21.5 million.  And these are the estimates; the actuals might but the horror filck ahead.  Bride Wars is more likely to have legs, though; last year's 27 Dresses opened in the same ballpark and ended up with over 70 million total.  Marley & Me dropped a surprising 53 percent to fourth place with 11.4 million. Benjamin Button dropped big, but will cross the 100 million mark by next weekend.  Indeed, there were a lot of big drops below the fold, including Bedtime Stories, Valkyrie, and Seven Pounds.  Oscar bait like Slumdog Millionarie and Doubt dropped back out of the Top Ten.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie, who has been lying low since the birth of her 5-month-old twins, is thinking about a brief return to film.  Shocka.

PATRICK SWAYZE was hospitalized for pneumonia on Friday. His co-stars are upbeat that the cancer-stricken actor will recover.

GLOBAL WARMING: Accelerated by the Internet.  And yet Al Gore invented the Internet.  The irony.

PAKISTAN: The Taliban launched a major assault on a Frontier Corps base housing an elite counterterrorism force early Sunday morning, sparking a battle that killed at least 10 Pakistani paramilitary troops and more than 40 Taliban fighters.

IRAN: Buried in an NYT story headlined "U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site" is news that the 140-page classified version of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate suspected that Iran had 10 or 15 other nuclear-related facilities, never opened to international inspectors, where enrichment activity, weapons work or the manufacturing of centrifuges might be taking place. The IAEA and analysts across the political spectrum were highly skeptical of the declassified NIE at the time.  So two questions that might be asked are about the political motives behind the declassified version and why the NYT is even now burying the lede.  And the answer to that second question might help explain why the NYT is at serious risk of going bankrupt this year.  Meanwhile, Iran is using front companies to buy tech for roadside bombs to kill US troops in Iraq.

IRAQ: Local forces are developing engineering capabilities, including explosive ordinance disposal; current plans are to fill out the Iraqi Army engineers during 2009 and 2010.

MOOSE take a helicopter ride from Utah to Colorado. UNRELATED: Baby moose falls into a basement bedroom in Spokane, WA.

BATS & MAGGOTS ruin a honeymoon.

THE BIRDS: After gulls attack a couple in Laguna Beach, the man is charged with animal cruelty for fighting back.

PET HOARDING: 180 stranded kittens rescued by scary-looking bikers.

MILITANT GOOSE knocks out power to 600 homes... in the village of Goosnargh.  No word on squirrel involvement... yet.

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