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WILLA FORD SWEARS OFF TEQUILA Sexy singer WILLA FORD was so sick after 'N SYNC star CHRIS KIRKPATRICK forced her to down shots of tequila, she can't go near the strong liquor again. The I WANNA BE BAD beauty, who dated BACKSTREET BOYS hunk NICK CARTER, enjoys drinking alcoholic beverages but she can't cope with tequila's extreme intoxicating effects. She says, "Chris Kirkpatrick was buying shots for everybody, and I said, 'I can't do it!' He was like, 'C'mon, Willa, you're a p**sy.' Pardon my language. "And I threw it back, went straight to the bathroom, yakked
it out."
MMC - Best of '89 Mickey Mouse Club spotlights Britney Spears,
Justin Timberlake, & Christina Aguilera Walt Disney Co. is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Disneyland this Summer, and as part of that celebration they are releasing several DVDs. One of these we've already posted separate news about, The Mickey Mouse Club - The Best Of. This covers the original 1955 series. But 1977 saw the revival of the show as The New Mickey Mouse Club, though it didn't last long (despite Mousketeer talent that included The Facts of Life's Lisa Whelchel). In 1989 they tried again though, with The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, or "MMC" for short. It was a a success, natch. It lasted until 1994, and at the end of the show's run it featured three of the brightest upcoming stars that would take the pop world by storm in the years to come: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera. Now, as part of the Disneyland 50th Anniversary celebration, Buena Vista Home Entertainment is bringing out MMC - The Best Of Britney, Justin, and Christina. Amazon.com has a pre-order listing for this, a single-disc offering that comes out on July 12th. Amazon is selling it for $10.49, based on a $14.99 SRP. We owe our gratitude to every reader who wrote in about the Amazon listing. We've covered everything they told us about the release, but Buena Vista took it a step further and provided cover art as well. You can see it below, and it mentions that there will be Concert Footage, Hometown Profiles, "and much more!" My, but those three look young on the cover. Running time is 90 minutes. Stay tuned, and we'll let you know if we find out anything more.
Faith Hill, Favre raise money for breast cancer BILOXI, Miss. - Mississippi celebrities were on hand on Saturday to help Brett and DeAnna Favre raise money for breast cancer patients. The "A Night of Faith" benefit concert at the Grand Casino included a performance by Faith Hill and appearances from her husband Tim McGraw, country singer Blake Shelton and former member of 'N Sync Lance Bass. About 800 people attended the dinner, auction and concert. The Favres hoped to raise $500,000 to establish a fund to help breast cancer patients at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport and Forrest General in Hattiesburg. DeAnna Favre was diagnosed with breast cancer in October and recently completed chemotherapy. She is currently undergoing radiation treatments. "Life is short. Everyone believes they'll live forever,"
Brett Favre told the crowd. "When something like this happens,
it hits home. Regardless of how much money you make, how famous
you are, no one is immune to tragedy."
Cameron Diaz rushed to hospital Cameron Diaz was rushed to hospital after she fell from a chest of drawers and knocked herself unconscious. The sexy star was reportedly standing on the furniture to reach the top of a wardrobe, when she slipped. Her singer boyfriend Justin Timberlake, who heard the crash, ran to their bedroom to find the blonde beauty passed out on the floor and bleeding badly from a head wound. Worried Justin called the emergency services and meanwhile managed to talk her round to consciousness. Paramedics at the scene thought the actress - who said she couldn't move - had broken her back and rushed her to hospital. The 32-year-old star was diagnosed with back strain and had 19 stitches across her head. A friend is quoted by Britain's Sun newspaper as saying: "Justin
was frantic with worry. Cameron was passed out cold and covered
in blood from her head wound. He was freaked out. He managed to
bring her round by talking to her and holding her but she couldn't
move. He even insisted on staying by her side in the ambulance.
"At first paramedics feared she had broken her back. Although
she was bruised, fortunately it was just badly strained."
Cameron was reportedly packing away her and Justin's camping equipment
and rucksacks on top of the wardrobe. The pair had just returned
from a holiday to South Africa earlier that day.
Velvet Underground Speaking of soirees, Soiree Sundays at the Raleigh celebrated
its first anniversary last Sunday. My, how the year flew. It seems
like just yesterday when the event was in its infantile stage
featuring less than A-list celebs like J.C.
Chasez singing Kumbaya at the party's bonfire. Today,
Chasez would be eclipsed by much-larger-than-life types who would
speak to the ex-N'Syncer only if Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria
hadn't dumped his booty. More Than 33,000 Petition Signatures The Commodores, Take 6 and American Idol Stars Deliver More Than 33,000 Petition Signatures on Capitol Hill to Support Music Education CARLSBAD, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night at a special The celebration capped a full day on Capitol Hill for representatives
of
CDVS: LCD Soundsystem Vs. Basement Jaxx
According to the recent Grammys, Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton--the production duo known as Basement Jaxx--created the best dance record of 2004 with Kish Kash, a groove-heavy, ultra-polished take on their trademark progressive house. The disc features a wide array of guest vocalists, including the super-raw Dizzee Rascal and ex-NSYNCer J.C. Chasez. But the most danceable, highest energy tracks are the Prince homage "Right Here's the Spot," featuring bassist/diva Meshell Ndegeocello; "Cish Cash," racing electroclash with post-punk icon Siouxsie Sioux; and the 2:25 burst of guitar fun "Living Room," in which Buxton sings. A month after Kish Kash, a dance-punk record called Echoes was released in September 2003. It was by The Rapture and it was produced by the DFA, another duo well-versed in the art of ass-shaking beats. James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy took a sloppy indie rock band and produced one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year, a feat that helped create tremendous buzz for any future releases by the duo. LCD Soundsystem, Murphy's project, easily surpasses the promise he showed in the DFA. We're talking cowbells. We're talking drum machine beats on top of live drums. We're talking Talking Heads-style vocals, taunting you on top of rubbery bass lines, melting guitar noise and liquid synthesizers--truly hot shit. LCD Soundsystem comes as two discs. The first is Murphy's real album, which is a little inconsistent but still packs plenty of fun ("Daft Punk is Playing at My House," "Disco Infiltrator") with its filler. But the second disc, a collection of previously released singles, is the true prize. Each of the seven tracks runs long and dynamic, especially the intoxicating "Beat Connection" and "Yeah." Throw it on and watch your party get cooler. Thanks to its rock flourishes, Kish Kash is certainly one of
the better dance records of recent years. But LCD Soundsystem
is the first must-have record of 2005 for those who rock, those
who dance and everyone in between.--Brock Radke
Popping across Pop-to-movies cross-fertilisation continues apace as Justin
Timberlake confirms that he has taken the lead role
in a forthcoming biopic of Elton John, and Jamelia is rumoured
to have been offered a chance to be the next Bond girl.
Character Studies PBS' "Character Studies" Series to Feature Interviews with Sondheim, Peters, Buckley, McDonald, Stritch, Cook and More Eli Wallach, Eric Stoltz and Phylicia Rashad will host a new documentary series for PBS that launches next month. Entitled "Character Studies," the monthly series will examine the most significant characters from the worlds of dramatic and musical theatre. The half-hour program kicks off April 6 on WNET/Thirteen with an exploration of the character Amanda from Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and will feature interviews with Julie Harris, Olympia Dukakis, Ruby Dee, James Naughton, Martha Plimpton and Sam Waterston. "Character Studies" is set to air at 10:30 PM ET with a repeat broadcast April 10 at 2:30 PM; check local listings. Executive producer Tony Vellela said in a statement, "'Character Studies' is a biography show about these great characters, from Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night, to Rose in Gypsy and Mark in Rent. We treat them like real people, and look at their stories, their relationships, where they came from and how they have had a lasting impact on all our lives. To do that, we're interviewing at least three actors who have all played the same role, and in addition, we hear from directors who have created these plays, choreographers and designers, and when possible, the creators — playwrights, librettists and composers. And we've been fortunate enough to talk with many of the actors who originated these roles." The series will continue in May with an examination of the character of Rose in the classic musical Gypsy; A Raisin in the Sun's Ruth will be explored in June. Among the artists who have already been interviewed for the fledgling documentary series are Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Ethan Hawke, Joan Allen, Audra McDonald, Elaine Stritch, Edward Albee, Joey Fatone, Arthur Laurents, Arthur Miller, Robert Sean Leonard, Barbara Cook, Shirley Jones, Mark Brokaw, Estelle Parsons, Anthony LaPaglia, Judith Ivey, Betty Buckley, Wendy Wasserstein, Chita Rivera, Jerry Mitchell, Ruby Dee, Uta Hagen and Stephen Sondheim. Future episodes will profile West Side Story's Anita, The Heidi Chronicles' Heidi, Fences' Troy, M. Butterfly's Song, Our Town's George, Rent's Mark, A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche, The Music Man's Prof. Harold Hill and Marian and Carousel's Julie. How the role of mothers have changed will be examined in a one-hour special in May, "Stage Mothers—Mother Stages." Producer Vellela adds, "Our primary objective is to create
a program that is entertaining. These unique, classic characters,
who span the last 75 years, have fascinating stories to tell."
Hollywood Privacy Watch - Sightings JC Chasez and AI runner-up/has-been
Justin Guarini at Shelter last Wednesday night for a USO Kick
Off tour. Justin was wearing a baseball cap & appeared to
have chopped of all his Sideshow Bob hair. Now he just looks like
some guy you might have went to high school with.
Kindred spirits Or, like StorySide:B, which traces its origin to an American Idol-style talent contest on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, you can seek out that guy with Creed. "We knew after the first meeting that we definitely wanted to work with him," the band's manager, Chris Rolandelli, says of Hanson. "In this business, it's tough to find a real honest person, and he's probably the most honest, straightforward person I've come across." The core members of Hanson's small staff have been with him for between nine and 14 years, back to his days as a bar owner and promoter in Tallahassee. Unlike Lou Pearlman, the high-end boy-band impresario whom Hanson says he has never met, financial controversies haven't surfaced in the wake of the success of Hanson's artists. He concedes that times have been leaner since Creed's peak, and staffers have felt it. "Right now, I'm not making any money," says Hanson. "I'm investing back into the artists." In addition to StorySide:B, that list includes work with POD spin-off Accident Experiment, Christian acts Mute Math, Paramore and Family Force Five, plus a mainstream solo project from 'N Sync alum Chris Kirkpatrick. Paramore and Mute Math, recently signed to Atlantic and Warner Bros. respectively, will be showcasing at the upcoming South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. Although those bands have found major-label interest, Hanson knows that others might not without him. "We've made ourselves available because of the lack of interest on the part of a lot of major labels," Hanson says. "We're trying to cover all the bases from all stages of development. That's what it's all about at a time when the business is downsizing." Faith doesn't hurt either.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI Montreal-born actress is heating up the big screen Chriqui -- who guest starred on The O.C. earlier this season
and will appear in four films in '05 (including Waiting . . .
with Ryan Reynolds and The Crow: Wicked Prayer with Tara Reid)
-- is used to sharing the screen with teen idols. In fact, her
major film break was On the Line in 2001, starring 'N Sync's Lance
Bass and Joey Fatone. "It might seem like it,
but I really don't have a thing for pop stars," laughs Chriqui."It's
a coincidence, I swear."
Disney's felicitous casting The original Mickey Mouse Club, debuting in 1955, made a star of Annette Funicello. The first, ill-fated revival in 1977 at least gave a start to Lisa Whelchel, soon to be Blair in The Facts of Life. But in just one season, the 1990s All New Mickey Mouse Club, Disney's revived comedy-variety show found a cast destined to dominate preteen pop culture. The cast in season six of the revival (which debuted in 1989)
included Keri Russell and Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera,
Justin Timberlake, Timberlake's
future N'Sync bandmate J.C. Chasez
and Burlington's Ryan Gosling (now of The Notebook fame). You
Can't Do That on Television, the Canadian show whose format the
mouse club may have been aping, could only boast Alanis Morissette.
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