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Monday, January 31, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JENN GRANT goes door-to-door to "Getcha Good." A snappy start to your week.

BRIGHT EYES is advance streaming The People's Key

THE WATSON TWINS do three free songs for Daytrotter.

AMOS LEE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

CASS McCOMBS drops "County Line" in advance of Wit's End.

TELEVISION: "Horizontal Ascension" is an early recording from a 1974 rehearsal, when Richard Hell was in the band.

TALKING HEADS: A vintage clip of "Psycho Killer" from the OGWT.

JOHN LYDON talks to the L.A. Times about "Mr. Rotten's Scrapbook," a limited edition mishmash of his drawings, paintings, photos, poems, scribbles and reminiscences.

GANG OF FOUR: Jon King talks about the new LP with All Things Considered, which adds tracks and a montage of bands inspired by the Gang.

LIZ PHAIR talks to BlackBook about her years in Wicker Park (a/k/a Guyville).

BETTY LaVETTE talks to the Raleigh News and Observer about Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Rite tops the chart with 15 million against a 37 million budget; it's a weak showing, but Anthony Hopkins is likely big enough globally to save this one. No Strings Attached drops to the No. 2 slot with 13.7 million -- a decent hold ensuring a decent hit, most likely due to weak competition and Natalie Portman buzz.  The Mechanic and The Green Hornet are in an estimated dead heat at 11.5 million, with The King's Speech within spitting distance at 11.1 million in its first wide weekend.  Jason Statham continues to make cost-effective movies; Green Hornet held well considering the Statham competition; and King's Speech is a classic platform release for an Oscar contender.  Below the fold, Oscar nomination buzz helped True Grit more than Black Swan, but the latter has now grossed seven times its production budget.

CHARLIE SHEEN has checked back into rehab, but tells RadarOnline: "People don't seem to get it.... Guy can't have a great time and do his job also?" Sounds like he's committing to sobriety!  As for the "great time" part, there's the 30K check he wrote to an adult video actress during the last party to land him in the hospital.

JESSE JAMES: Ex-wife (and ex-adult video actress) Janine Lindemulder was arrested just outside Austin, TX this morning on a warrant for harassing Jesse in a series of "abusive" phone messages.

DEMI LOVATO completed her stint in a treatment facility and is already back in L.A.

DAVID ARQUETTE has also checked out of rehab.

KATE HUDSON explains why she kept her pregnancy on the downlow.

CLINT EASTWOOD: As he takes on the story of J. Edgar Hoover, the filmmaker talks about movie lawmen, his Korean War days and the flat tax.

HENRY CAVILL (The Tudors) has landed the role of Superman in the Zach Snyder reboot.

THE DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats! Tom Hooper's win for The King's Speech may give him or the picture momentum in Oscars voting.

THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats! Even more momentum for The King's Speech, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman..

CHARLIE CALLAS, a rubber-faced comedian who cavorted on television and the nightclub circuit in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, often punctuating punch lines with sound effects emanating from his motormouth, died on Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 83.

EGYPT: The Lede blog at the NYT is as good a place as any to follow stories and social media on the continuing street protests in Egypt. It appears that the US would prefer some sort of managed transition to a more open and democratic society, in hopes of giving more secular reform groups a chance to catch up to the more organized Muslim Brotherhood.  But the US likely has little leverage at this juncture, as David Warren and Leslie Gelb note in their assessment of the downside for the US and the West generally.

TERROR in the US: Said Jaziri, a radical cleric from Tunisia who was deported from Canada in 2007, was arrested as he was being smuggled across the Mexican border in the trunk of a car.

IRAQ's security forces are confronting significant problems as the US military prepares to withdraw from that country by the end of this year, according to a new report by a top oversight official.

IT'S KITTY MIDNIGHT MADNESS at the Winnepeg Humane Society! Come on down!

LUCKY KITTEN rescued from a lightpole and adopted.

A FISH beauty treatment craze, where customers' dead skin is nibbled off their feet by garra rufa fish, has raised concerns that the fish would have to be starved to behave in this way.

BANDIT RUBIO, a Chihuahua, wins a celebrity impersonation contest as Donald Trump.

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