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Federal Court: Anna Nicole Smith Estate Will Not Receive Any Money From Late Billionaire Husband

Admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:41:05 +0000

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the estate of the late Anna Nicole Smith will not receive any portion of the estate of her deceased Texas billionaire husband, according to The Associated Press.

The ruling ends a 15-year legal battle between Smith and the son of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. Smith, then 26, and Marshall were married for one year before he died at the age of 90 in 1995. Following his death…

Flashback: Big Star Classics By Beck, Wilco, Elliott Smith and More

Admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:48:05 +0000

This week the rock world lost Alex Chilton, so we’re devoting our Flashback to covers of Big Star songs by artists ranging from Beck to Wilco to the Bangles, who perform the classic “September Gurls” in the video above. As Rob Sheffield wrote in his remembrance of Chilton, the singer was “the ultimate indie cult hero”, who despite “years of hard living, always seemed indestructible — and thanks to his music, he always will be.”

Below, watch four artists — Beck, Bat for Lashes, This Mortal Coil and Jeff Buckley — take on Third/Sister Lovers’s “Kanga Roo,” while Wilco, Garbage and Elliott Smith each cover “Thirteen.”

Beck – “Kanga Roo”

Bat for Lashes – “Kanga Roo”

Jeff Buckley – “Kanga Roo”

This Mortal Coil – “Kanga Roo”

Wilco – “Thirteen”

Elliott Smith – “Thirteen”

Garbage – “Thirteen”

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Kevin Smith Booted from Flight for Being “Too Wide for the Sky”

Admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:06:23 +0000

Kevin Smith was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., Saturday because he was deemed too fat for the seats, he wrote in a barrage of angry Twitter posts.

The Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back director said he was booted by the captain after he was seated because he was considered a “safety risk.”

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“I know I’m fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?” he wrote, maintaining, “I broke no …

Pseudo Mr. & Mrs. Smith Prequel On the Way Without Pitt or Jolie

Admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:43:29 +0000

And we’re back again with our (at least) daily announcement of a reboot, sequel, prequel; this time word comes from NY Mag’s Vulture that Fox’s Regency Enterprises is moving forward with Mr. & Mrs. Jones, a pseudo-prequel to the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith which spawned the paparazzi’s even more intense obsession with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. However, the flash to the past will not feature Pitt and Jolie, but rather is sort of an origin story of a similar but differently named couple, showing how a pair of twenty-something spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training. How fun.

As much as I enjoyed Mr. & Mrs. Smith, this feels cheap to me. Mr. and Mrs. Smith didn’t know they were spies when they were married, so that added a decent level of comedy to the fun action. All this concept does is set up a fake marriage between spies, likely with the idea that they’ll really fall in love, but have marriage problems while working undercover. Seems like a lot of the potential for some humor is already going to be covered by Tina Fey and Steve Carell in Date Night, the only difference being trained spies vs. innocent civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course there’s the chance it could turn out all right (mostly dependent on who they actually cast in the project), but I can’t help but find more than the intended similarities between this concept and Vulture’s reference to Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.

Obviously, the real motivator here is money, and not only making it, but spending less of it to get this made. A real sequel bringing back Pitt and Jolie with lots of expensive action would be quite the costly endeavor. But you’d think with as much as the studios love to bank on safe tentpoles that will draw in a crowd, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which raked in $478 million worldwide) with Jolie and Pitt would be well worth the cost. But this is just another in Hollywood’s trend of extending familiar titles, without all the expensive familiar faces, for better or worse. Stay tuned to see who will be playing Mr. and Mrs. Jones in this. Anyone interested?

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