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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TOM WAITS gives a reading of a "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis."

HOLIDAY ALBUMS are streaming at Spinner.

WU LYF: Manchester's mystery band hits KEXP with a live set.

GEM CLUB played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

GARY CLARK, JR. played World Cafe Live; you can stream the gig on demand.

WYE OAK plays Brenda Lee's "Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day" at the A.V. Club Undercover.

ST. VINCENT: Annie Clark tlks to the CBC about the making of Strange Mercy, with embedded audio.

THE TOP 30 UNDER 30 in the music biz, according to Forbes. Giant midgets!

BREAKOUT BANDS for 2012, according to PopMatters (plus links to all the PopMatters 2011 lists).

HENRY ROLLINS, at Wal-mart.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO -- opening with 82 percent on the ol' Tomatometer -- is one freaky beeyotch, in a good way.  I have not read the books ar the Swedish film franchise they launched, so be aware I have no point of comparison.  All I can say is that David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac) returns to edgy material with aplomb after The Social Network.  Rooney Mara (who had a small but critical role in TSN) has a star turn here, but Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgaard, Christopher Plummer and Robin Wright all put good feet forward here.  Also, screenwriter/exec producer Steven Zaillian (full disclosure: a friend of the family, sort of) can still deliver a fine adaptation (if Moneyball wasn't evidence enough).  I had read the plot was convoluted, but I had no trouble following it and had surmised one of the mysteries a bit in advance, which is odd given that I don't actively try to solve movie mysteries in advance.

DEBRA MESSING and her husband, Daniel Zelman privately separated earlier this year after a 10 year marriage.

JON BON JOVI: Tweets of his death are greatly exaggerated.

GERARD BUTLER nearly lost his life in a surfing accident.

SEAN PENN & MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO had an angry bust-up at LAX, with Alonso branding Penn a "communist [bleep]hole" after he called her a "pig" in front of a stunned crowd.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Hugh Hefner admits he initially had doubts about featuring the embattled actress on Playboy's cover.

BRITNEY SPEARS's other ex-hubby (of 55 hours) Jason Alexander slams her new engagement.

TOM CRUISE falls more in love with Katie Holmes every day. Aw... so stop the gossip.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Christopher Nolan plans only to alter the sound only slightly in response to complaints that Bane's dialogue is hard to hear in the preview running before Mission Impossible 4.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY has a trailer online.

PAKISTAN: The chief of Pakistan's defense committee says Washington put on hold US drone strikes after the deadly November raid along the Afghan border so as not to "worsen" the already strained ties with Islamabad. The strain is also costing Pakistan money.

AFGHANISTAN: Vice President Joe Biden said the Taliban is not the enemy of the US. ISAF said that night raids against the Taliban would continue.

IRAQ: The government issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tariq Hashimi for running death squads that attacked security forces. Hashimi has fled to the Kurdish regions. Three of Hashimi's bodyguards have been arrested on terrorism charges.

BABY HEDGEHOGS can be noisy.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: One Queens mother says she is never opening up her windows again, after her baby's room was broken into, by a burglar, a squirrel.

A CAMEL gets frisky in a TV interview.

MR. & MRS. DEER celebrate the holidays at the historic Greene County Courthouse.

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