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New "Boss" and SLGTM, Live Josh Ritter, Lewd Kenyan Monkeys   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 27, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS full line-up played "My Rights Versus Yours" on The Late Show.  At the end, note that Dave is so heading to chat up Neko Case after the taping.  The dawg.

"THE BOSS" had a track from his upcoming album pop up on the Internet.  The blog which posted it removed it at his label's request, but you just might still be able to stream it on the ol' HM at the link.

BONO is Jesus in a piece of celeb-art.  Which you probably knew, just not that it was literally true.

SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME is streaming a new track, "When I Lose My Eyes," at TheirSpace.  It's a more offbeat than their prior, retro-60s sound, as is "Make A Plan," which you can stream or down load via the 'Gum.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKER patterson Hood talks to the Birmingham News about his and Mike Cooley's second decade in the band.

PENNY LANE was closed after two doormen were injured in a shooting at a bar and restaurant in Liverpool.  And then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain.  Very strange.

WISELY wisely got The Office's Jenna Fischer to star in the kida Garden State-y, kinda McCartney-esque "Through Any Window."  There's also a clip of Jenna explaining the backstory at the link.

SIOUXSIE SIOUX does not like -- but accepts the inevitability -- of Internet leaks of her new material.

AMY WINEHOUSE defended her husband in a series of texts with gossip-blogger PerezHilton after the couple were involved in a violent row which left them both bloodied and bruised.  Ugly pics at the link.

JOSH RITTER:  The acclaimed singer-songwriter played a full gig for the World Cafe on Friday, streamable now via NPR.

THE SHINS and THE HOLD STEADY are deemed the "summer's hottest rock bands," but "no spring chickens" by the Sunday Times of London.  Hey, try to make me feel older!

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The troubled singer has checked back into rehab following claims that he attacked a female photographer, while the supposedly sober supermodel's friends fret over her post-breakup weight loss and out of control behavior.

OWEN WILSON was taken to the hospital Sunday in Los Angeles.  The ever-reliable Star magazine and National Enquirer claim that he sliced his left wrists and took an indeterminate amount of pills.  That would be very sad, even if he turned up wearing tribal war paint.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Superbad retained the top spot of the box office, pulling in 18 million, with 68 million so far on a 20 million budget.  The Bourne Ultimatum placed with 12.4 million (185 million total US), while Rush Hour 3 showed with 12.3 million (breaking 100 million in 16 days, as opposed to the sequel's seven).  New releases Mr. Bean's Holiday came in fourth with 10.1 million, Jet Li's War was fifth with 10 million and Scar-Jo's The Nanny Diaries debuted with 7.8 million.  The new entries dropped The Simpsons Movie to seventh with 44 million (173 million total US), Stardust to eighth with 3.9 million (a disappointing 26.4 million total on a 70 million budget) and Hairspray to ninth with 3.4 million.  Rounding out the Top Ten is Nicole Kidman's bomb The Invasion, which has made 11.5 million on an 80 million budget.

SUMMER BOX OFFICE:  The new releases may not have topped the charts, but Hollywood is happy that this summer is heading toward a record-breaking season, with box office receipts currently running $3.8 billion, up 10 percent over 2006 and 6 percent over 2004, the previous most lucrative summer. For the year, the number of tickets sold (admissions) is up almost 3 percent from last year; that's really the figure to watch, as box office dollars are not adjusted for inflation and ticket prices continue to creep up.

ROGER EBERT is having a thumb war with Walt Disney.

KATE HUDSON:  Caught canoodling (and then some) in a Pacific Pallisades supermarket with new bf Dax Shephard.

MADONNA is bringing Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, fashion designer Donna Karan and more to Israel for Rosh Hashana -- as part of a Kabbalah Center tour, natch.

TONI BRAXTON is secretly battling breast cancer, according to the ever-reliable National Enquirer.

BRITNEY SPEARS was pulled over for speeding en route to Vegas, where she was seen dropping by magician Criss Angel's hotel room at 2 a.m. on Friday, and leaving at 9 a.m.  Meanwhile, officials from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were at the pop tart's house to investigate why her dog was wearing a cast.

KIRSTEN DUNST'S swanky SoHo hotel suite was robbed, with two crooks swiping her 13K handbag, wallets, cash, cameras and an iPod, according to the NY Post, which asks the obvious question: "Where was Spidey when she needed him?"

OPRAH WINFREY, MICK JAGGER and the FRENCH HOTEL are among the dozens of stars subpoenaed to appear in Detroit on Sept. 22 to testify in a rap record producer's 900-million-dollar  federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by Canadian border officials.  University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Professor Lawrence A. Dubin thinks that "autograph-seekers should not start lining up for the event."

HAYDEN PANETIERRE was reportedly flooded with pr0n after joking about being able to buy it now that she's 18 yrs old on The Late Show.

THE DARK KNIGHT was back in Chicago's financial district in the south end of The Loop, including Anthony Michael Hall.  How did I miss that bit of casting?

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and DAVID BECKHAM are among the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot, according to the uber-reliable News of the World, based on a "chilling internet video" posted on YouTube.  Not quite, but still crazy.

CARTOON JIHAD:  Berke Breathed tells fans that the Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 are being withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post (presumable for fear of offending Islamic extremists).  The strips may be viewed in a large format on their respective dates at Salon.com.  Editor & Publisher has details.

IRAQ:  In a rare joint TV appearance, Iraq's top Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation (though it seems like they still need to work on some, including the draft oil revenue-sharing law).  Prime Minister al-Maliki also claimed that the country's biggest Sunni Arab political party had agreed to join a new alliance with Shiites and Kurds to end political paralysis, but a top official of that party denied it.  Voices of Iraq reported that the tribal Anbar Salvation Council said it had finished preparing a list of names of a number to occupy cabinet positions vacated when the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front ministers quit the Iraqi government.  Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington lobbyists with close ties to the White House 300K to help with Allawi's efforts in the US to promote himself and undermine Maliki.  Allawi's Iraqi National List withdrew from the government on Friday.

IRAQ II:  Bill Roggio rounds up recent security ops in Baghdad and ops against AQI and Shia militias around the country.  The governor of Salah al-Din Province said Thursday that the Salah al-Din provincial council had established, in cooperation with the "Salah al-Din Salvation Council," six detachments of fighters that would operate in restive areas of the province.  The NYT reports that there is a debate between commanders in the field who favor slow reductions and senior generals at the Pentagon who favor cutting the number of combat troops more deeply.  The Times of London reports on just how fragile some of the new alliances with insurgents are.

IRAQ and the MEDIA:  The Associated Press is trying to move the goalposts for US success in Iraq, now focusing on the fact that while this year's "surge" of US troops "has succeeded in bringing violence in Baghdad down from peak levels... the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago."  This is followed by statistics comparing 2006 with 2007, which tell us nothing about the success of the new US strategy, which began in mid-February, and was not fully phased in until June.  That casualties may increase year-over-year should surprise no one who has studied war; it has been understood since at least Clausewitz that escalation (often to the point of exhaustion by the losing side) is one of the essential  features of war.  A look at the big picture for the last two years shows that the new strategy is reducing civilian casualties nationwide -- at least for the time being.  It is probably too early to say whether this is merely an interruption or a truly new trend, particularly when everyone understands the enemy is likely to make an effort to spike the numbers ahead of the September report and affect the US political debate.

ANARCHIST PROTESTER SHARKS disrupted a bikini-clad celebration of the Little Mermaid.  Definitely something fishy in the state of Denmark.  Video at the link.

KENYAN MONKEYS have been making "lewd signs" at women and children trying to harvest crops south of Nairobi.  The farmers feel so harassed that Kenya's Wildlife Service is sending in animal-control teams to confront the animals.

SNAKE on a PLANE in Brookhaven Mississippi.

BLINKY the TWO-HEADED CALF was euthanized after suffering from collapsed lungs.

A SLUG PLAGUE of almost 15 billion has hit the UK, due to plentiful rain, warm temperatures and a shortage of sun.  At least folks will have plenty of time to escape.

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