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...series Tommy Lee Goes to College, the Mötley Crüe drummer heads for the University of Nebraska, gets a hot chemistry tutor and tries out for the band. But he's not the only college-bound celeb...
...fixed firmly to the earth, a production of dust and blood and stone. In the jolting opening scene, the villainous Fire-wind's (Sun Hong-lei) army mows through an innocent town with all the subtlety of a chain saw. Dressed like members of some death-metal rock band, complete with pale white makeup and black leather body armor, the bad guys decapitate and dismember with glee, wielding savage hooks and spears. Tsui's camera lingers on slashed throats and chopped hands twitching in the dirt. Even the good guys use massive medieval swords with serrated edges, weapons that seem...
...called, forms the oddly beautiful center of an exhibition around which the artist has placed other "relics" from the voyage, including maps meticulously hand-painted by Stevenson. Starting off in Sydney last May, "Argonauts of the Timor Sea" traveled to the U.K. in November, where the artist recruited a band of local Sea Scouts to (unsuccessfully) sail the vessel off the coast of Kent. From Aug. 27, the raft completes its unlikely journey at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK), an art space in northwest Germany...
DIED. VASSAR CLEMENTS, 77, low-key, genre-busting bluegrass fiddler whose inability to read music didn't impede a lengthy career that included high-profile gigs with Paul McCartney, B.B. King and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others; of cancer; in Nashville...
DIED. ESTHER WONG, 88, no-nonsense proprietor of Madame Wong's, a renowned L.A. music venue in the late '70s that showcased rock, punk and New Wave bands, including Oingo Boingo and the Knack; in Santa Monica, Calif. She auditioned groups by listening to demo tapes in her car; she threw the tapes of acts she didn't favor out the window. A stern disciplinarian, Wong once halted a live set by the Ramones until band members cleaned up graffiti they had scrawled on a bathroom wall...