Stereogum (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Actor Tim Robbins curated the WTF?! Festival this weekend in Culver City to raise money for the ailing non-for-profit Actors' Gang arts organization, inviting fellow actor Ben Gibbard and his rock star wife Zooey Deschanel to perform amidst three days of plays, film screenings, and various other artsy happenings. LA Snark reports that David Crosby joined Ben and Zooey on some Everly Bros tunes, and...
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin stepped out in NYC last night for the NYC premiere of "The People Speak." The program, which features celebrities reading important documents from America's past, will debut on the History channel December 13. Both Matt and Josh are producers of the project that features Danny Glover, and John Krasinski made a late, low-key entrance to pose for photos before heading...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
UTA board member Tracey Jacobs made the announcement this morning to the agency that talent agents Billy Lazarus and Shani Rosenzweig have been promoted to the UTA partnership. Both joined the agency about 10 years ago. Lazarus, who reps clients such as Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Dempsey, Sigourney Weaver, Joseph Fiennes, Sandra Oh, Hope Davis, Kyra Sedgwick, and Emily Watson, joined the agency from...
Fenway West (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Red Sox decided the recession was over and raised ticket prices for the 2010 season. We can only hope the increased revenue will be used to sign a good hitter. The Bruins annoucned they would be playing a charity game at Fenway on Jan. 2nd featuring team alumni: Bruins fans will have the opportunity to watch as Bruins legend and current Vice President Cam Neely returns to the ice to skate with...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
DJ Tim Sweeney has plenty to be happy about these days, not the least of which is that his long-running radio show Beats in Space turns ten this year. In addition to featuring his own eclectic selections, BiS has hosted a who's who of dance music's finest as guests on the show, with the likes of Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler, Carl Craig, Lindstrom and many others either sending in mixes...
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Tim Robbins. Photo courtesy The Collegian . Guys, Tim Robbins seriously needs your help; he's in trouble. Well, more accurately, his passionate outlet, The Actors' Gang , is in trouble. You see, the Gang spends so much time and money helping out everyone from schoolchildren to their Culver City community at large and in rehabilitating convicted felons, things are getting tight. But Tim and the rest...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: The Chum Bucket Amy Winehouse 's dad might release an album. The music world trembles with excitement. [ Angry Ape ] Pearl Jam bust out their Energy Dome headgear for a solid Devo cover. [ Youtube ] The Owl City "adult onesie" kicks off a new era of band merchandising. [ Idolator ] Actor Tim Robbins plays DJ on KCRW. [ KCRW ]
Music News & Events (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Did you know Tim Robbins’ father was a singer in a popular folk group? Neither did I! The actor has music in his blood and dropped by our studios to talk about how much it has defined his life – from the song his mother sang to him as a child to ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
The Dish Rag (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Who cast Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Ralph Fiennes, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Halle Berry in their early career-making films? Legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann. She talks with Elle magazine...
Working Stiffs (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By Pat Remick There were two "fun" things on my list of 2009 goals: seeing a moose in the wild and meeting author Dennis Lehane. I figured that fulfilling either would be fascinating – and I was correct. I met goal No. 1 in June when, using the “but it’s my birthday” excuse, I dragged Husband No. 1 and Son No. 2 to northern New Hampshire to find not one, but four,...
Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Miss Cellania is the very clever 'nym of a Kentucky-based full-time blogger, radio producer, and more-than-full-time mother . She consistently puts up very imaginative and insightful content at her home blog but in her other gigs at mental_floss and Geeks Are Sexy. I love mental_floss so that's where I first learned of Miss C. (She's also been very kind to link to us on occasion despite her reputation...
The Wicked Stage (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
In the competition for most disgusting comment in the Atlantic's new Gore Vidal Q&A --and there's some stiff competition--I'd nominate this: Atlantic: What is Ted Kennedy’s real legacy? Vidal: It’s nothing. Remind me again why Tim Robbins likes this guy ?
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Illustration via the indefatigable iOwnTheWorld.com "TALK-SHOW host David Letterman has been recorded on tape having sex with a female staff member - and he is worried that the footage will eventually be leaked, it's reported today." -- News.com.au It was interesting when Pamela Anderson's "leaked" to the Internet because she still looked like, well, "Pamela Anderson"...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Master thespian Ben Gibbard brought his Jack Kerouac-celebrating collaboration with Jay Farrar to Los Angeles on a busy Friday which had the pair (along with Death Cab resident beard Nick Harmer) record a session for KCRW before headlining a show at the El Ray with Long Winter main mind John Roderick in the early slot. The kind folks at KCRW allowed our photographer Andrew Youssef to shoot the session,...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Hugo Chávez is having a movie moment. The Venezuela president is the subject of a fawning Oliver Stone documentary. He's had visits from Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Kevin Spacey. (And, of course, Tim Robbins, if it even needs to be said.) And, as I pointed out last month, his anti-golf politics have a lot in common with Alex Cox's "Repo Man" sequel -- trendy! And now, Chávez...
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