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Fans of the wildly popular band Dispatch had better be ready. It’s all coming down in one fell swoop...
...into a wrestling match, tag team, with Zeppelin, CCR and Crosby, Stills and Nash, and then I’d add Anthony Kiedis from the Chili Peppers—I don’t know. We’re a mutt. We’re not a pure blood band...
Remember when Friends was still around? Those were happier times for actors--when the ones with hit shows could band together and demand sky-high salaries from their networks. TV actors JORJA FOX and GEORGE EADS, longtime supporting-cast members of CBS's No. 1--rated drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, must have been clinging to that million-dollar dream when they recently asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed...
There is one problem with the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. "Yeah, I know. It's that word, monster," says the film's co-director Joe Berlinger, alluding to "monsters of rock," the band's popular moniker. "We put that in there for Metallica fans, but I worry it's going to give other people the wrong idea." Indeed, from the title you might presume the movie is a Spinal Tap-ish diary of the world's best-selling heavy-metal band as it plays exotic locales, worships Satan and has sex with groupies on giant piles of cash...
...Metallica are hardly over their dysfunction. Towle still visits once in a while, and during the band's current 18-month world tour, Ulrich says, "we've had two or three, well, blowups isn't the right word. But right away we were able to sit down and talk it through. We're never going to be the same people, but now we actually appreciate our differences." Those differences are in sharpest relief when they discuss Monster. Ulrich feels "liberated and proud." Hetfield, who began the movie as such an emotional recluse that he barely remembers assenting...