If you love the game of pool, this film provides some great table footage and dialogue. Poolhall Junkies is full of action, on the table and in the streets.
Ice Cube has landed the starring role in the “XXX” sequel with Van Diesel stepping aside. Director Rob Cohen has also opted out of the sequel to the 2002 action film about an extreme-turned-secret agent, and will be replaced by “Die Another Day” director Lee Tamahori. The film will begin production in the summer and hit theaters in 2005.
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“Sixty Six to Timbuktu” a two-CD solo collection from former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant is due out on November 4th. The 35 set traces Plant’s career, starting with his first solo single in 1966 through a live performance this year in Timbuktu. The first disc features material from his first solo albums, while the second disc contains more osbscure material. It’s full of rarities, bonus tracks, his work with pre- Zeppelin groups Listen and the Band of Joy and side projects like “Philadelphia Baby,” recorded under the Crawling Kingsnakes, a one-off that included Dave Edmunds and Phil Collins.
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Now that fall has officially arrived and chilly nights aren
The Del McCoury Band won top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards. The group took home the entertainer of the year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter won in the instrumental categories for bassist and fiddler of the year.
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Courtney Love, 39, was found early Thursday outside a Los Angeles home where she had allegedly broken the windows in an attempt to enter, police spokesman Don Cox said. She was arrested and booked for investigation of using illegal drugs, posted $2,500 bail and was released.
Hours later, police and paramedics in Beverly Hills responded to an emergency call and took a woman to a hospital for treatment, according to a story in Friday’s editions of the Los Angeles Times. Law enforcement sources told the newspaper that the woman was Love and that she had overdosed. It was not immediately known what her condition was.
Love was arrested earlier this year in London for allegedly verbally abusing cabin staff on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles. She was later released.
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Music mogul and Grammy-winning songwriter Kenneth Gamble has assembled a team to develop a proposal for a museum devoted to rhythm & blues music in Philadelphia. The proposed development would serve both residential and retail needs. A closed African American museum purchased by Gamble several years ago would also likely be part of the facility.
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Already establishing a storied career in front of the camera, now Nicholas Cage has decided to step behind the scenes, making his directorial debut with Sonny.
The Barenaked Laides will be release a new album on October 21st entitled “Everything For Everyone.”
Coldplay, will be release a two-disc live DVD/CD, called Coldplay Live 2003 on November 4th.
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