Pick Hits

Off The Record

Big Shiny Tunes 3 - Various Artists

Muchmusic scores another smash with this follow up in a highly successful series. A veritable who’s who of today’s hot music scene, look for this one to fly off the shelf just like it’s predecessors. Featuring the Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Matthew Good Band, and the Goo Goo Dolls, you can’t go wrong with this pick, and it can save you a bundle on buying 17 discs just for the one hit.

At The Movies

Enemy Of The State

Will Smith stars as an aggressive attorney and devoted family man whose life is turned upside down when he becomes the unwitting recipient of highly sensitive information regarding the recent murder of a US Senator. This film works wonderfully on a number of levels, as an action thriller, and as a thought-provoking examination of the state of privacy in our modern, high tech age. Enemy of the state stays with you long after the jump cuts, pulsating music, and myriad explosions have stopped ringing in your ears.

On Video

Sliding Doors

Smart drama with a story telling twist about a twentysomething PR exec, Gwyneth Paltrow,  whose life goes in two distinct directions, literally, when she decides to take a train home from work. Two different and simultaneous plots unfold side-by-side, one story has Paltrow catch her train and come home in time to catch her boyfriend with another woman, the other story has her miss the train and miss her philandering beau's escapade. The narrative flip-flops seamlessly between the two stories.

The Buzz...

CBS will include footage not seen since 1964 when it rebroadcasts Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on Monday, Nov. 30.

Lucasfilm has been trying to cope with a flood of Internet surfers attempting to download the trailer for Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace from its Web site www.starwars.com, The site has been receiving as many as 400 hits per second

Marilyn Monroe topped the list of Playboy Magazine's 100 sexiest stars of the century, released Monday, with Jayne Mansfield, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot and Cindy Crawford ranked in the top five.

The Fox Family Channel has scheduled The 25 Days of Christmas, a more-than-175-hour programming block that begins in December and includes numerous animated specials.

A man bid $62,000 at auction for a poster from the 1933 classic King Kong, a bid one auction expert said was a record for a movie poster.

Shania Twain led the field in nominations for the American music awards receiving a total of five.  The Canadian diva was followed closely by Will Smith who nabbed four nominations.

Microsoft bazillionaire Bill Gates his wife, Melinda, are donating $20 million to the Seattle Public Library. It's the biggest single gift ever made to a public library system

Fans will have to wait just a little longer to see the new animated series Batman Beyond. Kids' WB! has announced the show will now premiere on Jan. 16.

Phish won't do their annual weekend-long concert festival next summer, instead, they're planning a three-day end-of-the-millennium bash, possibly in Oahu, Hawaii. Their preferred site is the ranch where Steven Spielberg filmed Jurassic Park.

If that old concert T-shirt is worn and faded, don't panic just go to S'Crue. The Glam band from the 80's, Motley Crue has opened a store at 7201 Melrose Ave.

Kate Mulgrew intends to leave Star Trek: Voyager after her contract expires in the year 2000. Mulgrew said she would like to return to New York and work in the theater.

Dennis Rodman has filed to annul his quickie wedding to former Baywatch babe, Carmen Electra, citing fraud and unsound mind. Heck, I could’ve told you that….

Van Halen plan to begin work on their next album soon after wrapping up their Van Halen III tour Dec. 11 in Puerto Rico. They hope to release it next year. Beating them to the stores will be their former singer Sammy Hagar, whose Red Voodoo is due March 23.

The TV movie that kicks off the Witchblade live-action TNT series has been delayed until at least January 1999. One reason might be that Image, Top Cow and TNT still haven't chosen an actress to star as Sara Pezzini, bearer of the Witchblade.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise are reportedly considering working together on a science fiction film called Minority Report.