Off The Record...

Donnas

Get Skin Tight

Opening their third album with the sound of a fly unzipping, the Donnas come charging out of the exposed opening like a lawless mob of switchblade toting, detention hall schoolgirls. These ladies roll out rude, retro-inspired guitar hooks at a feverish rate, capturing the spirit of teenage trash culture as well as anyone since the Ramones. Nothing will sound better pumping out of the speakers of your rusty junker than this.

At The Movies...

Big Daddy

To impress a girl, an underachieving toll booth operator adopts a son, only to discover he has to raise the boy all by himself.  Pretty tough when Adam Sandler is just a kid himself.  With jokes and plot lines that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time, Sandler delivers another flick with blockbuster clout.  If you haven’t gotten his humor by now, you never will.  Sandler may never win an Oscar, but his fans couldn’t care less.

On Video...

Rushmore

When an over-achieving 15 year-old falls for the school's new first grade teacher, he's determined to out-man his friend Mr. Blume, a steel tycoon and school benefactor, for her affections. With its off-the-wall story line and characters, Rushmore stays one step ahead of sappy sentimentality as it uses dark humor to explore three lonely lives in search of emotional repair. Funny and charming, you've never seen anything quite like this before.

The Buzz...

Jim Carrey, Don Knotts, Roberta Flack and Sting will get spots on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.

Actor Tim Robbins has donated the uniform he wore in the cult-classic 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Godfather author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola are planning a fourth installment of the Mafia series, with Andy Garcia and Leonardo DiCaprio already on board.

Official sources deny the next Batman movie will co-headline Superman but the Joker reportedly may return, according to The Bat Cave fan site. A new script is said to be at Warner Bros. that is entitled Batman: the Joker's Revenge.

CBS paid $6 million for first broadcast rights of next month's Wild Wild West big screen adaptation, starring Will Smith. The film will likely make it to the small screen in the fall of 2002.

Aerosmith have backed out of the Woodstock festival July 23-25 in Rome, N.Y.  The band's publicist cited mutual production problems and scheduling conflicts.

Since being taken over by the subterranean menace Tyrannus, the Hulk has caused a lot of damage. Now the Avengers, Wolverine and the Thing take him on, one at a time in issues #7-9, according to YourMan@Marvel.

In order to avoid a box office killing NC-17 rating, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had to censor their upcoming film.

Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is close to signing on as a correspondent for the NBC 'Today' show. 

A private collector purchased love letters written by J.D. Salinger for $156,500 in a controversial auction Tuesday, only to promptly offer to return the letters to the reclusive author, who is known for fiercely fighting for his privacy.

After being offered dozens of projects since starring in the smash hit Rush Hour, Chris Tucker has decided on his next film, Guess Who's President, with Tucker playing the chief executive in a comedy he co-wrote with Barryl Quarles.

Late Night host Conan O'Brien has inked a multiyear deal to develop and produce programming for NBC.

Howard Stern and former Sliders exec Tracy Torme are working on a new sci fi animated comedy, Doomsday, about a family searching for a new home and traditional values amid post-apocalyptic ruins. Stern will voice a special character on the show, which will be marketed for prime time.

A TV version of The Legend of Sleeping Hollow will hit the small screen before Tim Burton's feature film debuts in November.  

Nicole DeBoer will star with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez in Rated X--Showtime's biopic of porno kings Artie and Jim Mitchell.

Cash machines at Bank United have incorporated iris-scanning capability that allows customers access to their account with an ATM card. An earlier scan of customers eyes is stored in the banks database.

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