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Lana Clarkson, a moderately successful B movie hottie moving into middle age, had recently begun working at the Sunset Strip House of Blues as a ticket taker and hostess in an effort to get her career back on track. AP writes: “She wasn’t thrilled to have people from the industry …

Concert at the Ryman in Nashville tonight part of Guthrie celebration.

It is one of the perverse laws of life that those who need the least get the most: Really need a loan? You won’t get it. Have cash galore? The loans come looking for you. Check out the swank swag Grammy performers and presenters – virtually all multi-millionaires – receive …

Martin Atkins is one of the most central figures in the evolution of post-punk and industrial music: drummer for PIL, Ministry, Killing Joke, Damage Manual; founder and leader of evolving collective Pigface; founder and owner of Invisible Records and Underground Inc.; producer, remixer. Pigface will be touring the US in …

While Hollywood is full of the misguided, foolish, and self-loathing who view America as the enemy, there are also many who don’t: “In how people are thinking, there’s definitely an approach that says, ‘The government is not the bad guy,’ ” said Sean Daniel, an executive producer of “The Hunted,” …

How many times have you heard this conversation or something like it? “I love Tony Blair, he’s our best friend in the world.” “Is he queer or what?” “No, he’s just English.” That cracks me up no end – I’m chortling loudly right now. But it’s not funny how important …

Cast your memory back to that first ecstatic headphone experience with Dark Side of the Moon, with or without chemical enhancements, with or without the Wizard of Oz sync: the album cover symbol of a single white light split through a prism, revealing the surprising internal complexity of the spectrum, …

The Michael Jackson doc airing Thursday on ABC debuted last night in the UK. The British tabs have gone wild over this: When Bashir asked Jackson about his friendships with children, Jackson said: “I have slept in a bed with many children,” including actor Macaulay Culkin (news) and his brother …

The bitch is back: Courtney Love arrested in London after transatlantic flight from LA, charged with “suspicion of disruptive behaviour and endangering an aircraft”: She had been travelling in Virgin’s Upper Class cabin when she allegedly became disruptive and the captain called police, an airline spokeswoman said. ….A Virgin Atlantic …

Although I am pro-war at this point, it’s not as though I am dancing in the tulips about it. One of the most heartening things about President Bush’s State of the Union speech was his honest admission that war always brings sorrow, destruction and unintended consequences – although I can’t …