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BLUE SWEDE: "Hooked on a Feeling," introduced by the late Don Kirshner. Ooga-Chucka.
NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, turgill Simpson, and more.
BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Squeeze, Dutch Interior, and more.
MOUNTAIN GOATS & MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER cover World Party and Christine Fellows.
GIRL SCOUT shares "Crumbs."
JENNY BETH & MIKE PATTON share "Look At Me."
FUGAZI shares some Albini Sessions.
MICHAEL STIPE joined Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy on "These Days" and "The Great Beyond."
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD, whose performance at Woodstock — in which he led a crowd of 400,000 through a subversive cheer before starting his satirical antiwar song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” — struck a chord so deep, it often obscured the variety and scope of his career, died on Saturday at his home in Berkley, Calif. He was 84.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Hoppers tops the chart with 46MM, which is at the low end of the projections, but still the best Pixar debut since Coco. Scream 7 places with 17.3MM on a steeep 73 percent drop. The Bride! shows with 7.3MM against an 80-90MM budget which is bomb territory.
SPEAKING OF PIXAR, threequels are in the works. And Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter gave the obvious explanation for cutting LGBTQ themes from Elio.
THE WRITERS GUILD AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats!
PARAMOUNT eyes changes to its studio lot if the WB deal closes.
DARYL HANNAH is big mad about her portrayal in FX's "Love Story."
ELIJAH WOOD: Fame, horror and why he's returning to Lord of the Rings.
ALAN TRUSTMAN, the Harvard-educated lawyer who pivoted to Hollywood and wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films “Bullitt” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” has died. He was 95.
JEREMY LARNER, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford-starring The Candidate, has died. He was 88.
STEPHEN HIBBERT, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Mad TV” to a cult role as the Gimp in “Pulp Fiction,” died March 2 in Denver, Colorado. He was 68.
A STOLEN BIRD is reunited with its owner.
CATS & DOGS, living together…
THAT'S NOT A LEAF. Not at all.
