Off The Record...

Buckcherry 

Buckcherry     

These barely-scruffed L.A. boys have gambled on the U.S. hunger for another dose of brazen hard rock, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  Literally blasting rap, dance and sappy ballads of the charts, Buckcherry uses three chord masterpieces to recapture the era of stadium rock with pummeling rhythm sections and multilayered guitars.  Co-produced by Terry Dale and Steve Jones (of Sex Pistols fame)

At The Movies...

The Mummy

A Librarian wants to follow in her parents' footsteps by doing some archaeological digging up of ancient Egyptian treasures. Her brother wants to go along to pocket some treasures so he'll have nonstop drinking funds for life. The two, due to some odd circumstances, wind up with the happy-go-lucky adventurer (Brendan Fraser) as their guide, when all hell breaks lose.  A cross between Indiana Jones mixed with Abbott and Costello, this is superb family entertainment with nonstop thrills.

On Video...

Velvet Goldmine

Story of the rise and fall of a mythical 1970s glam rock god who fakes an onstage shooting at the peak of his fame and then suddenly disappears when the hoax is revealed.  A journalist digs into the story via interviews with the star's wife, lovers and friends 10 years later. Its a sensual romantic musical video homage to a rock time gone by.

The Buzz...

Universal Studios' new theme park, Islands of Adventure, featuring Marvel Super Hero Island will open May 28.

Internet search site Yahoo!, has released Yahoo! Radio, a new Web service that offers 10 music channels, ranging from Alternative Rock to Celtic.  The player also contains an artist info button that links to a site offering the listener more information on the artist and music as each song plays.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate has no right to claim ownership of footage of the civil rights leader delivering his I Have a Dream speech, says a CBS News lawyer.

King's family is asking CBS to pay for using the footage in a documentary the network sold on videotape.

Monica Lewinsky's appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend gave the show its best ratings this season with an average audience of 10.3 million viewers, based on Nielsen Media Research.

A larger-than-life banner featuring German supermodel Claudia Schiffer was draped over Berlin's landmark Memorial Church Monday in a controversial move to fund renovations to the damaged structure.

Before you can get your hands on that Alice In Chains box set in fall, the band will release a 15-song sampler June 29. Nothing Safe, The Best of the Box will include a new single, Get Born Again, along with rare versions of older material.

Larry Sanders veteran Jeffrey Tambor may be elected mayor of Whoville in the upcoming live action Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Molly Shannon, Jim Carrey and Christene Baranski are among those cast for the film.

The Mummy pulled in $44.7 million over its weekend premiere, the best opening weekend of 1999 to date and the top non-holiday May weekend of all time.

Neve Campbell hinted that her character who survived the first two Scream movies faces a quick death in Scream 3. Campbell mentioned it took just three weeks to shoot her scenes for the movie.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be back with a new LP, Californication, in June - marking the return of guitarist, John Frusciante.

In the first golf event to air in network primetime, David Duval and Tiger Woods have signed on to meet in a one-round match that will be shown live this summer on ABC.

A computerized X-ray security scanner, much like the full body scan Schwarzenegger went through in Total Recall, will allow a fully clothed individual to be totally X-rayed completely through the body.  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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