Off The Record...

Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society

Sonic Brew

Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde is back doing what he does best.  The first single, Bored to Tears, is a Sabbath induced rocker while songs like Spoke in the Wheel and Beneath the Tree are reminiscent of his previous solo efforts which included southern rock and acoustic influences.  Something Wylde calls “Alcohol Fueled Brewtality”, BLS has concocted a lethal mix of straight up, hard-edged music.

At The Movies...

Entrapment

An insurance investigator convinces her bosses that a Master Thief, Mac (Sean Connery), is ripping off their clients, costing their company millions. She goes undercover and convinces Mac to rob a museum with her, but what are her real intentions?  Not relying on vulgarities or body counts, this film is a classy suspense thriller that will keep you enthralled through the entire show. 

Play This...

Allstar Baseball 99

A must for the sports game fan, Allstar Baseball 99 has great graphics and a really cool create your own player device which will help you design your own customized super-jock.  Lots of options allowing you to play a whole season, an exhibition game, or choose the stadium you want to play in.  Play is exceptional, and with all the different combinations, two games will never be the same.

The Buzz...

Hugh Downs, who has been a fixture as host of ABC's 20/20 since its second week in 1978, said Wednesday he's leaving the show in September.

A playing card company suspended an employee it says printed marked decks that allegedly were used to cheat a casino of hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Blackjack players were able to identify high cards through the slight alteration on the card backs and increase their odds of winning.

A woman who paid $1 for an old book at a Netherlands flea market found etchings inside by Dutch master Rembrandt that sold for $50,000.  The woman bought the book last month in the Dutch city of Utrecht. She found the etchings pressed between the pages along with a third etching by one of Rembrandt's students.

Harvey Ball, creator of the smiley face, says he'll send a smiley face pin to Marilyn Manson with Lighten up, Marilyn written on it. Manson cut short a show when he discovered a smiley face sticker stuck on a stage prop.

Tickets for Woodstock '99 generated $7 million their first day on sale last week, setting new Ticketmaster records in both regular and online sales. The Woodstock '99 festival will be held in Rome, N.Y., July 23-25.

Two films of interest to Star Trek fans, Denise Crosby's Trekkies (a documentary on fans) and Mark Altman's Free Enterprise (about Shatner groupies) will be released this summer.

Showtime is planning a 4-hour Outer Limits marathon At 8 p.m. ET on May 14 to celebrate the series' 100th episode of the series. The new episode, "Tribunal," concerns the son of a concentration camp survivor working to bring a war criminal to justice with the help of a time traveler.

Sarah Michelle Gellar will host Saturday Night Live's season ender on May 15.

WWF fave Sable will make a guest appearance in the second season premiere of the Sci Fi series First Wave. The female wrestler is set to play Lucas, an equally formidable alien assassin sent from the home world to eliminate Cade Foster in the episode Target 117.

Farm Aid '99 has been set for Sept. 12 in Bristow, Va., and co-founders Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson will perform. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young could be on the bill this year, too.

A Falls Church, VA-based firm boasts it will soon distribute a quick, computerized X-ray security scanner much like the full body scan action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger went through in Total Recall. American Security and Control says the Conpass X-1280 allows a fully clothed individual to be totally X-rayed completely through the body and computer processed to reveal a completely detailed image. The image is processed in 10 seconds and will detect humans carrying such items as contraband, gold and precious jewels, microchips, weapons or drugs.

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