Pick Hits

Off The Record

Aerosmith - A little South of Sanity

Featuring Aerosmith live on the recent Nine Lives outing and the not so recent Get A Grip tour, this album is a virtual greatest hits package done live, chronicling the 28 year old band right back to their first album. Every hit the band has had in the last 10 years is included here and it's been over a decade since the last Aerosmith live album, so Sanity is a great way for fans old and new to experience this legendary group in full audio assault.

On TV

Judge Judy

Maybe it's just one more thing we can blame on O.J., but TV viewers are more than ready for a judgment day. She's the queen of the judge shows as she dishes out her brand of tough love. Just over five feet tall and with a Brooklyn accent, Judy isn't what most of us picture when we think of a judge. But she very quickly lets everyone know that she owns her courtroom, and that she won't take any bull. One thing for certain, she always makes justice fun to watch.

On Video

Small Soldiers

Toy soldiers come alive in this special effects laden saga of a reformed military contractor that takes over a toy manufacturer and ends up putting military technology into mass-produced toys, setting off a war between foot-high GI armies the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite. A little violent for the younger viewers, but lots of fun for the PG-13ish crowd.

The Buzz...

To celebrate the release of his first live album, Garth Brooks Double Live, Brooks and his band will play a set in a Los Angeles studio which will then be broadcast in more than 2,300 Wal-Marts nationwide.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has failed in her attempt to stop the Internet Entertainment Group from posting nude photo's of her taken over 20 years ago. IEG attorney Alan Isaacson, who also defended publisher Larry Flynt, said that the photos were newsworthy, and therefore protected under the First Amendment.

A sequel to the cult animated movie Heavy Metal is finally in the works, with $15 million in financing secured from the Imperial Entertainment Group.

A movie based on video shooter Duke Nukem is casting its lead with an eye toward capturing the brawny, violent action hero the game's fans expect.

ABC plans to rework its new version of Fantasy Island by replacing the exec producers with Beverly Hills 90210 vet Charles Rosin. ABC reportedly wants different sorts of storylines on the show.

The phenomenal success of the Backstreet Boys is being proven as RIAA has just certified them as having sold some 7 million albums. That puts them on the hunt for top-selling album for 1998

Will Smith is about to build a studio complex in Philadelphia according to a report in the Daily News, and Sean Connery is teaming up with Sony Pictures in a $100 million deal to build the first Hollywood studio in Britain.

Fox TV has confirmed that the X-Files episode Triangle will be shot in letterbox format, with some scenes filmed with 360-degree camera angles.

I Dream of Jeannie will be one of the first projects for the newly formed New Millennium Entertainment production company.

Sylvester Stallone may star in the Universal film Fatalis, about a group of saber-toothed tigers who awaken in the modern world as a result of El Nino and run amok in Los Angeles.

The co-creator of Pamela Anderson's show, V.I.P., used to beg stars to appear on the syndicated program. Now JF Lawton has a waiting list of celebs wanting to be on the show. The stars play themselves being protected by Anderson, who plays a bodyguard.

Singer Sarah McLachlan's musical credibility took center stage in a Canadian courtroom Monday as a trial began in a dispute over who wrote four songs on her debut Touch album.

Nintendo of America has won the right to sell and distribute two video games based on George Lucas's upcoming Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

Jason Priestley isn't taking any breaks after finishing his mutli-year stint as Brandon on Beverly Hills 90210. Right now, Jason's busy editing the documentary of rock's Barenaked Ladies that he directed. 

Meanwhile, the real Kiss was bogged down in L.A. traffic after its Halloween concert at Dodger Stadium. The rockers walked the last six blocks to their hotel in full stage makeup, unnoticed amid costumed revelers on Sunset Boulevard.