THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
… with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells – "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine – "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos – "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers – "Lies"; The Outsiders – "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five – "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds – "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators – "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love – "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves – "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes – "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown – "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."
PETER GABRIEL shares "Till Your Mind Is Shining."
BLEACHERS shares "The Van."
OF MONTREAL shares "When."
GETDOWN SERVICES shares "Radiator."
COURTNEY LOVE has claimed one of the most significant lyrics in the chorus of Nirvana‘s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ is actually about Sonic Youth‘s Kim Gordon.
TURNSTILE's former guitarist was arrested for attempted murder of the frontman's Dad.
RICHARD THOMPSON talks Uncut through some of his finest albums.
HAILEE STEINFELD & JOSH ALLEN welcome a baby girl.
BLAKE LIVELY: A judge has thrown out her sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni, but let stand claims of breach of contract, retaliation and aiding and abetting in retaliation.
GLENN CLOSE is set to be immortalized outside will the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with a hand and footprint ceremony.
MERYL STREEP is making The Corrections.
J.J. ABRAMS is downsizing Bad Robot.
RYAN GOSLING exits the next film from the Everything Everywhere All At Once team.
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES might be remade properly?
LOUIS C.K. is back on Netflix.
SHARON STONE names Hollywood's best kisser.
OSCAR ISSAC barely met the cast on X-Men: Apocalypse.
DENNIS QUAID will be honored by The National Entertainment Awards Academy for Military and Veterans.
WALTER CRONKITE may get a biopic.
RETRO THE WEATHER CHANNEL: The hottest program running?
WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS? Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, the granddaddy of Biblical epics, a spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brynner starts to look good by comparison. And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it — like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) — has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal, originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up on The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses. It may lose viewers to the Final Four this year, but even though I own a copy, there's something to be said about the communal tradition of its broadcast on network TV. BONUS: The making-of story is now the subject of a novel.
A LONELY LIZARD sees his first female.
WHEN THE BORDER COLLIE runs out of sheep.
MOLLIE THE BORDER COLLIE has been found alive after a week following an extraordinary helicopter search and rescue mission.
A PUPPER makes fetch happen.
RAMS meet their match.
THE WORLD'S OLDEST TORTOISE: Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.