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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Ear Candy: Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" as performed by Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds

As a tribute to George Michael's arrest this week, here is a cover of his Wham! hit, "Careless Whisper" performed by Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds. The link is good for only 7 days, so get it while it's hot!

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2.28.06: This Week's "What the Fug?" Award

I used to LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Corey Haim. If Tiger Beat had his picture on it, I bought it. I might even have the story they did about the perfect date with Corey, where we met up with his buds from The Lost Boys at the arcade.


BEFORE DRUGS


AFTER DRUGS




After some drug problems, Corey is now clean and sober, talking to students about not doing drugs, starting to make new movies, rockin' a head band, and apparently eating well, despite his 1997 bankrupcy.

Monday, February 27, 2006

6 Things You Never Really Cared to Know about Cameron Crowe

  • Eric Stoltz has appeared in Crowe's first 4 films: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Wild Life, Singles & Jerry Maguire. Stoltz's character in Jerry Maguire, Ethan Valhere, throws Jerry his bachelor party. Stoltz's party-thorwing character in Say Anything is also named Valhere.
  • Crowe's mother, Alice Marie Crowe, appeared in 6 of his films: Say Anything, Singles, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky & Elizabethtown.
  • Soundgarden's song, "Spoonman", can be heard in Singles, but it was then an unnamed tune. "Spoonman" was actually the name of a song by the movie's band, Citizen Dick, and was not on the soundtrack. It wasn't released by Soundgarden until 1994.
  • Speaking of Citizen Dick, it was made up of the following grungers: Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Eddie Vedder, better known as the guys in Pearl Jam. Gossard and Ament were members of Mother Love Bone, whose lead singer, Andrew Wood, OD'd in 1990. Wood's life was the supposed inspiration for the film.
  • In two different movies, two of Crowe's characters vow to become "Mr. New" after a bad break-up: Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything & Steve Dunne in Singles.
  • I had a Citizen Dick t-shirt but it was "borrowed" by a friend in 1995 and I've never seen it again.
  • I guess that last one was more about me the Cameron Crowe. Moving on...
  • Crowe, who wrote all of his movies, based Almost Famous on his life as a teen reporter for Rolling Stone.


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