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Stigmata
Billy Corgan/
Various Artists
There's something
righteous about Billy Corgan, infamous leader of the Smashing Pumpkins, choosing
to compose the instrumental score for Stigmata, a religious-themed supernatural
thriller. Corgan teams with keyboardist Mike Garson, one of David Bowie's
longtime musical associates. The result is a fairly compelling collage of
'50s-style electronic music, trip-hop and reggae dub techniques, spare
keyboards, Indian and Arabic music and orchestral string passages. Corgan's
effort here has to be rated a success, It's as spooky as the man himself.
At The
Movies...
The Astronaut's
Wife
A courageous,
honored NASA astronaut (Johnny Depp) and his beautiful school teacher wife (Charlize
Theron) star in this sci-fi nightmare. For two minutes, astronaut Spencer
Armacost loses total consciousness while on a bold space shuttle mission,
returning home just barely alive and a bewildered hero. To his wife Jillian,
something seems strangely amiss from the moment he returns to earth. Full of
twists and turns that unravel at a steady heart-pounding beat, as Depp turns in
another strong character performance.
On Video...
Go
An edgy comedy about a group of young urbanites whose lives collide in one
24-hour period surrounding a botched drug deal. Misadventures involve sex,
partying, Las Vegas antics, and multi-level marketing, with four separate but
related stories told using overlapping time frames. The gimmick works here as
you follow these kids' descend into a labyrinth of wrong turns and bad choices,
knowing it will all work out in the end. A very interesting black comedy.
The Buzz...
Ricky Martin
is joining the ranks of Michael Jackson, Madonna and the Spice
Girls by inking a deal to become Pepsi's newest soft-drink pusher.
Keanu Reeves
may soon have a deal that will pay him $30 million to reprise his role of Neo in
two Matrix sequels. What's more, he'll have script approval over both films.
The Regis Philbin-hosted Who
Wants To Be a Millionaire, has been a surprise hit among viewers entranced
by its boom-or-bust format. Four episodes of the quiz show were ranked in
Nielsens top 10 shows last week, helping ABC to a strong second-place showing
in the ratings.
Actors Jenna Elfman and
David Hyde Pierce have been named as hosts of the Primetime Emmy Awards,
airing live, Sept. 12 on Fox.
Toho Entertainment
is making a new Godzilla movie, Godzilla 2000 Millennium. The movie will
be released in theaters in Japan, and then on video in America six months
later. This time Godzilla will be fighting a space monster called Orga.
All-time box
office records are falling as The Phantom Menace moves across Europe.
The prequel set record opening numbers in Germany, Spain, Austria, Denmark and
Sweden. Internationally, the film has made $270 million.
Artisan Entertainment, purveyors
of The Blair Witch Project, have acquired a new script entitled Alison ,
a thriller about a college girl who will go to any length to get out of debt.
Sarah Michelle Gellar is planned to star.
After two years
away from the road, Type O Negative will pack up its dark, dense sounds
for a U.S. tour that kicks off next month.
Janet Jackson's former
chef filed a lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court against the singer claiming that she
misappropriated his name to obtain appetite suppressants.
The Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) recently discovered that Pioneer Video
Manufacturing was manufacturing hundreds of unauthorized sound recordings. The
company avoided legal proceedings and settled with the RIAA for $9.1 million.
Joshua Leonard, of the
superhot Blair Witch Project, is alive and well and starring in a soon to
be released film. This fall, The Blur of Insanity will hit the theaters, with
Josh playing the role of a young college student and his four friends who live
off-campus somewhere in the woods of Vermont, shunning school, and the rest of
society. |
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