Karl THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
… with POWER POP (REDUX)! For whatever reason, I have considered Summer the ideal season for gems like Badfinger's "No Matter What" (which Pate covered on occasion) and "Baby Blue", and even Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" and Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me." Ditto for more obscure tracks like The Rubinoos "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (see also their vintage cover of "Please Please Me"), Off Broadway's "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," and Pezband's "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Close Your Eyes."
PATTERSON HOOD visits World Cafe.
GINA BIRCH shares "Doom Monger."
GWENNO shares "Y Gath." A long way from the Pipettes.
THE STARTING LINE shares "Sense of Humor."
PURITY RING returns with "many lives + part ii."
MATT BERNINGER, on the cosmic connection between sad dads and teenaged girls, and more.
MICKY DOLENZ was nearly cast as Fonzie on Happy Days.
RIDLEY SCOTT is done with Alien.
JIMMY FALLON did not anticipate people disliking him after he became famous.
DIDDY TRIAL: A woman testified that during their three year relationship, 90 percent of their time together was during drug-fueled, days-long “freak-offs” where she was coerced into performing sex acts with male sex workers.
TOM CRUISE set a Guinness World Record.
SETH ROGEN & JASON SEGEL relive 27 years of friendship.
HALLE BERRY & VAN HUNT may get around to marriage soon.
HUGH JACKMAN & RYAN REYNOLDS bought a pro sailing club.
TOM FELTON: Malfoy once more.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON may star in a Tulsa King spin-off.
WES ANDERSON could not land Jodie Foster.
AMC finally caved in to pre-movie advertising.
ENZO STAIOLA, best known for playing, at the age of 9 years old, the sad-faced son Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Neo-realist masterpiece Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves), has died. He was 85.
THE DOG helped preserve the illusion.
DOGGO or Dervish?
A FRIENDLY CHEETAH wants pets from a wildlife photographer.
EVEN A POLICE DOG wants pets.
