According to the Associated Press, Led Zeppelin confirmed Tuesday that it will headline the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival, will be held June 13-15 in Manchester, Tenn. Tickets go on sale Feb. 16.
Update: Seventeen minutes later, the AP retracted this story.
It seems the people of Hoboken, N.J., have a super dispute on their hands. Mayor David Roberts told the Newark Star-Ledger that the city is thinking of renaming a street to honor Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who lives in Hoboken.
Some residents don't think the Super Bowl MVP deserves it. Said one person who lives in Eli's building: "Just because he lives in town? I think it’s too much, it's ridiculous. He's not a historical person."
I give you the Hillary Nutcracker. Whether you love her or hate her, this gift kind of works either way. And for $24.95, $29.95 with Hillary brand nuts, you can crack your nuts with her legs of steel. They're available at Urban Outfitters, too.
Britney Spears' mother, Lynne, filed a restraining order against the man who she alleges is running Brit's life.
Business man Osama "Sam" Lutfi reportedly is a bad dude, at least according to one quote from Lynne Spears in which Lutfi told her, "If you try to get rid of me, she'll [Britney] be dead and I'll piss on her grave."
Why do I have the sudden urge to sing "Who Will Save Your Soul"?
I like Josiah's motivation and his Southuhn accent. At first his British-heavy singing kinda freaked me out, but you know, it kinda grew on me. Maybe I'm just a sucker for homeless kids.
I'm glad the judges gave him a second chance. We'll see how far he goes. Maybe he'll at least get an apartment out of the deal.
I'm really excited about Amanda, not only to see where her growly voice takes her, but also to see what kind of makeover they give her!! Methinks there's a pretty girl beneath the skunk-streak hairdo ...
"I go to high-school as a 9th grade repeater." Own it, dude!
Nathan planned to go in and give Simon a taste of his own medicine. But he'd have a little more room to talk if he could actually sing. I like the way Simon asked, "Do you want to listen or do you want to be a smaht-ahss?"
Aw, Alexandra's vocals were suh-weet!! She's so young and she sang "My Funny Valentine" with so much control and worldliness. And her grandma was so cute, especially when she asked Alex not to make her cry on camera. Awwww ...
"Simon, you betta be ready, cuz I'm comin'. And I'm gonna give you more. And more. And more." The outfit may be cute, but her Vanessa Carlton performance is anything but. This girl put the "R" in ridonkulous.
Man, talk about diarrhea of the mouth. Little Miss South Florida Fair was a fountain of nonwisdom. But pretty cute, somehow. Her voice was pretty good, though if she makes it to the top 24, she won't make it far. That's my prediction, you read it here first!!
I can't believe this girl lost her dad two days before the audition and was able to be there to sing. And now she's singing beautifully. Damn, I'm not sure if I can take it. Whew. Eyes watering.
Just wow. First off, that guy J.P. was a music major?!? Yikes. "I am not that bad!" he tried to argue. Well, I don't even know that Rascal Flatts song he did, but I'm sure they thought it was "that bad." OY!!
I was sufficiently freaked out by this guy's soul patch, and then he started doing that demonic-eye thing! He made it through to Hollywood, but Simon was right: Karaoke-a-rama!
Here's hoping Hotlanta brings the hotness tonight for the last audition episode. And I sho is glad it's the last one. I thought this stage of the competition would never end. Live blogging begins in 8 minutes...
Conventional wisdom will tell you that CNN is the place to be tonight for all the returns. But you know, Anderson Cooper, Larry King and their cohorts just don't do it for me. They just play interview clips, repeat the same information over and over and, honestly, they don't have enough fun.
MSNBC, on the other hand, is nothin' but fun. It's a bit of a boys' club, I realize, but these boys know what they're talkin' about. Up front you've got Chris Matthews -- who's always quick to jump to an entertaining conclusion -- and his counterpart, the pessimistic-yet-hilarious Keith Olbermann. For analysis, you can't get much better than Brian Williams, Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw. And usually they'll bring in David Gregory and Tucker Carlson for good measure. OH, and I love the way election specialist Chuck Todd always starts explaining why they can't project the winner seconds before he's interrupted with the announcement that they've projected the winner. That's classic.
So, when you tune in tonight (and I certainly hope you do), give the MSNBC gang a try. They're the best in the biz. AC360 can suck it.
Last weekend a friend a I went to see The Savages, an indie film featuring Laura Linney (Oscar nom, whoohoo!) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (no Oscar nom -- they crazy).
If someone asked me what this movie was about, I would say reality. An unrealistically witty reality, but one that is still almost too real to watch on the big screen. (Kind of like when you watch yourself on home videos.)
Anyway, the two aforementioned actors play grown-up siblings from a dysfunctional family who are forced to grow up a little more when they have to figure out what to do with their aging father. A father who apparently abandoned them when they were children. So it's really a story about aging, forgiveness, and unconditional love. I expected them to leave their dad on the street, but apparently a nursing home leads to just as much guilt.
Go see it, and then start contributing more to your 401K.
A young man entered Quick and saw a record. Yes a record. I'm old school like that. It was Shaq's 12 inch of I'm Outstanding. Just in case you forgot. Check it out.
The coroner's report on the death of influential Texas rapper Pimp C is in, and it says he died from an accidental overdose of a combination of codeine and promethazine. The drugs are key ingredients in "syrup," a narcotic of choice in Southern rap circles that was most famously celebrated by Three 6 Mafia and Pimp C's group UGK in the 2000 single "Sippin' on Some Syrup."
The coroner's office said Pimp C suffered from sleep apnea, which causes people to stop breathing for up to 30 seconds at a time while sleeping. That illness combined with large amounts of prescription-strength cough syrup is what killed the rapper, the coroner's office said.
Pimp C, born Chad Butler, was 33 when his body was found Dec. 4 at a West Hollywood hotel.
I've just emerged from a weekend-long viewing experience that restored my faith in law dramas. In other words, I wolfed down 13 episodes of the FX show Damages. I think my colleague Chris Velez talked up this show just after it started to air, but I always wait for the DVD set so I camp out in front of the tube and not sleep for days (there really should be a support group for this kind of thing).
Glenn Close plays the most compelling character of her career as hard-to-figure-out ballbuster Patty Hewes. Damn, she's fun to watch. So is Ted Danson, who in the role of crooked CEO Arthur Frobisher will completely demolish your memory of that bartender on Cheers.
That said, the MVP of this cast is Australian actress Rose Byrne, who plays a young lawyer hired by Close's character. The story's really told from her view, and it's fascinating to see the character completely transformed by her dealings with her cutthroat boss.
I'm telling you -- get Damages and watch it a little slower than I did. You won't even realize a writers' strike is going on.
Lenny Kravitz, It Is Time for a Love Revolution: Our handsome hero sees whatever old rock and funk records he can mimic, and tries to be celibate at the same time. See an interview with him here.
Sheryl Crow, Detours: Her big-hit days are likely behind her, but that probably more due to radio issues -- where exactly do you hear her now? -- than anything else. And as long as she doesn't go back to slick-pop mode like "Soak Up the Sun," maybe it's for the best.
While their writers are on strike, Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert (and to a lesser extent, Jon Stewart) have been filling time with a feud over who "made" Mike Huckabee. On last night's episode of Late Night, the feud descended into a WWE-style battle royale. Watch it here.
Even thought their record makes the Rangers look good, ABC introduced the new Bachelor last night on Dance War, according to OK! magazine. He's Matt Grant, a 27-year-old British "global financier."
The new season of The Bachelor premieres next month.
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