From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #236 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, October 4 2005 Volume 14 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Nooz [Eb ] Jeff, which team is your team [Jill Brand ] Dylan Tribute Telegraph report [Carrie Galbraith ] MD on the way out? [Larry Tucker ] Reap [Eb ] another reap [Eb ] Random note [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:11:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Nooz Myers over the moon about new The Who film 13:13pm 30th September 2005 Austin Powers star Mike Myers is to play the late Keith Moon in a film about The Who's wild drummer. The band's lead singer Roger Daltrey is producing the movie, which is finally getting off the ground after 10 years. Myers first became interested in the role several years ago, but was too busy to sign on the dotted line. But movie bible Variety reported that he is now set to play one of his great heroes. He has already wrapped production on "Off the Pole," a biography of another hero: catcher Carlton Fisk. Moon died from an overdose of prescription drugs in 1978, at the age of 32, after securing a place in rock history. Myers, 42, who last appeared on screen in The Cat In The Hat, a movie adaptation of the famous Dr Seuss story, met Daltrey in 2002 to talk about the project, and the singer endorsed him. The movie is being made with Spitfire Pictures, which produced Martin Scorsese's documentary Bob Dylan: No Direction Home. Moon's penchant for blowing up toilets, heaving televisions out of hotel windows and letting off fire extinguishers set the rock 'n' roll standard for trashing hotel rooms. His frenzied drumming style provided the inspiration for the Muppet character Animal. Moon once rigged his drum kit to explode at the climax of My Generation during an appearance on American TV - causing guitarist Pete Townshend's hair to catch fire, and Moon to get injured as well. The Who's bassist John Entwistle was found dead in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2002 on the eve of a US tour by the band. Townshend and Daltrey recently reunited to sing versions of classics Who Are You? and Won't Get Fooled Again at the Live 8 anti-poverty concert. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:21:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Jeff, which team is your team Jeff wrote: Having to root for a Padres-White Sox World Series is a really depressing. Go Padres.... I forget who you root for, Jeff. My Pats lost big time today. I can't be too greedy, though. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:37:07 +0100 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Dylan Tribute Telegraph report From the Belfast Sunday Telegraph. It starts out with the paragraph: "Dylan is hot again, for a while. Before everyone gets sick (again) of Bob Dylan, after the Martin Scorsese's Arena documentary has granted him some time in the sun, his songs, and his myth, get a little rehearsal for what's going to happen when he enters the greatest exile of all, death." ...it continues on going over pretty much everyone who performed and attributing a Dylan period to each performer, and then gets to this little bit... "Former Soft Boy Robyn Hitchcock trips through "Visions of Johanna" as the lethally camp Dylan that ended up infecting the sloshed glamorous Englishness of Syd Barrett and David Bowie." Thought you'd all like to know. From a quieter Northern Ireland this week. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:57:09 -0400 From: Larry Tucker Subject: MD on the way out? This is sure to disappoint a few of us recordists out there, though I suspect many of us have already moved on to hard drive and flash recorders. I don't think the potential for the Minidisc was ever fully realized. http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1900 Larry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:14:35 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Reap [Ahh, who remembers the days when people could be famous ONLY for appearing on game shows? I wonder if Brett Somers will attend the funeral....] New York-WABC, October 3, 2005) - Actor Nipsey Russell, known as "the poet laureate of television," passed away yesterday afternoon at Lenox Hill Hospital. Eyewitness News has learned Russell died of cancer, confirmed his longtime manager, Joseph Rapp. He was in his early 80s. Rapp said Russell was born in 1923, although some reports had him born in 1924. The manager said his age was never clear because Russell did not retain a birth certificate. Russell achieved his first major role as Officer Anderson in "Car 54, Where Are You?" He appeared on a string of game shows and variety shows, such as the "Dean Martin Roasts," "Laugh-In," "Jackie Gleason Show," among many others. Russell delighted audiences with short poems, earning him the nickname "the poet laureate of television." He appeared on "The Tonight Show" and many other very popular talk shows of the day. While he did not appear in many film roles, he will be remembered for his role of the Tin Man in the 1978 "The Wiz." The movie was a box office failure, but since the movie has been considered a cult classic. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:24:17 -0700 From: Eb Subject: another reap Hamilton Camp. If you can't place the name, check www.hamiltoncamp.com He probably has much greater achievements, but I always picture his hilarious guest spot on "WKRP in Cincinnati," where he portrayed the wheeling-dealing stereo salesman during a flop promotional "remote broadcast." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:11:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Random note I think "Arrested Development" has taken a serious dip in quality this season. It seems clear that they're straining to make the humor more "broad," due to the show's dire ratings problem. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #236 ********************************