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Monday, May 09, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

J MASCIS drops a video for "Is It Done" from Several Shades of Why.

THE CARS are advance streaming Move Like This.

ROME: Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi assemble many of the surviving performers of classic '60s and '70s Ennio Morricone scores - and, in half a dozen memorable cases, pairs them up with the vocals of Norah Jones or The White Stripes' Jack White.  The album is advance streaming via NPR.

WHY? did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

ROBBIE ROBERTSON (The Band) stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

JOLIE HOLLAND dropped "Gold and Yellow" in advance of Pint of Blood.

THE WHO: "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," live in '65.

ROBERT JOHNSON, the most influential blues player of all time, would have turned 100 yesterday.  He was profiled by Weekend Edition and PopMatters.

GLASVEGAS talks to NME the making of 'Euphoric Heartbreak', and how crippling shyness, learning to talk to girls, sleep deprivation and whiskey all played a part in the LP's inception.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART's Kip Berman theorizes about alt-rock at amNY. (Thx, LHB.)

SMASHING PUMPKINS will never reunite in its classic lineup, according to Billy Corgan.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Thor rules the cineplex with 66 million dollars, about 10 percent above the tracking predictions.  And the God of Thunder has already pulled in almost twice as much as that overseas, meaning the risk of spending 150 million on a lesser-known character will pay off big for Marvel and Paramount.  Fast Five placed with 32.5 million, a 62 percent drop that is steep, but typical of the franchise.  Fast Five is also raking it in overseas.  Jumping the Broom shows with 13.7 million against a 7 million budget, surprisingly beating the debut of Something Borrowed, which took in 13.1 million against a 35 million budget.  Rio rounds out the Top Five (despite losing lucrative 3-D screens to Thor) with 8.2 million.  Rio's 45 percent drop is fairly big, but the birds have brought home 114 million US and 265 million overseas against a 90 million budget.

THOR REDUX:  In Friday's review, I wrote that I wasn't sure Kenneth Branagh needed to direct because Thor isn't Shakespeare.  However, Branagh makes the case that there are some similarities at the end of this io9 piece. Skim to the end to avoid mild spoilers.

LINDSAY LOHAN does a racy photoshoot and denies John Travolta is recruiting her into Scientology.

CHARLIE SHEEN: Kelly Preston now backs his account of the infamous 1990 shooting incident.

PAUL McCARTNEY and his girlfriend of four years, Nancy Shevell, are engaged to be married.

PAULA ABDUL rejoins SIMON COWELL on The X Factor, along with previously announced judges Cheryl Cole and Antonio "L.A." Reid. Nicole Scherzinger  and Steve Jones will host.

TARA REID partied so hard her tooth fell out? Too funny to check.

WILL SMITH has emerged as the frontrunner to star in Quentin Tarantino's next film, Django Unchained, a spaghetti Western about a slave in the Old South who teams with a German bounty hunter to search for his wife.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS has a new trailer out, featuring Havok.

LIBYA: Pro-Gaddafi forces bombed four fuel storage containers in the port of rebel-held Misrata, destroying the city's fuel supply.

SYRIA: Government tanks and troops entered the city of Baniyas, penetrating Sunni enclaves; protesters formed human chains.

EGYPT: Twelve people were killed after more than 500 Salafists gathered outside a Christian church in a Cairo suburb to demand that a woman rumored to have converted to Islam be released. Egypt's ruling military council has lifted the entry ban against the nephew of Anwar Sadat's assassin and nearly 2000 others, many of them Islamists who went to Afghanistan in the 1980s.  More than 2000 secular political activists met to try to create a unified movement to press for deeper democratic reforms.

IRAQ: Eighteen people, including al Qaeda's governor for Baghdad and seven security officers, were killed during a failed jailbreak. Security forces in Mosul killed the governor of Ninewa for al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq.

PAKISTAN: The CIA may have focused its war on al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal badlands but Osama bin Laden's killing exposes the limits of drone strikes and the need to broaden intelligence in cities. A senior official in Pakistan's civilian government told ABC News, "Elements of Pakistan intelligence -- probably rogue or retired -- were involved in aiding, abetting and sheltering the leader of al Qaeda."

A DOG really wants to fetch, but the statue won't play ball.

ALLIGATORS: Chicks dig 'em. Or possibly not.

A BOA CONSTRICTOR that interrupted a memorial service in Dauphin County, PA, last week has found a temporary home at the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary in Manheim.

CHIMPS have at least 66 distinct gestures they use to talk to each other.

THE CATS OF WAR: Slate goofs on the "Dogs of War" stories linked here last week. (Thx, Lance.)

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