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...Purple (whose ubiquitous Smoke on the Water recounts the Montreux Casino catching fire during a Frank Zappa concert in December 1971) to Johnny Cash, this year's program once again ranges across all moods and styles. Jazz master Herbie Hancock will play with Chinese classical piano sensation Lang Lang; studio legends Steely Dan are on a double bill with a quintessential live act, the Dave Matthews Band; and New York City bassist Bill Laswell, purveyor of "collision music," is bringing along Japanese turntablist DJ Krush. "Who knows what will happen?" asks Nobs. "Everyone has total carte blanche...
Transformers 2, sequel to the 2007 hit based on the '80s TV cartoon series, is expected to have earned an astral $201 million, according to Paramount, its producing studio. That's nearly a third higher than the previous top Wednesday-to-Sunday take - $152.4 million, for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 - and within a hair of the all-time five-day total, $203.7 million (Friday to Tuesday), for last year's The Dark Knight. Add the $200 million or so that this Armageddon for machines picked up in foreign theaters over the same stretch, and you have a $400 million...
...years as a jazz musician, Huey Long, 105, played the banjo and guitar. Once primarily a studio musician, he later spent time touring with the Ink Spots, a popular quartet, and performing with stars like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...
...John Mayer (johncmayer): Dazed in the studio. A major strand of our cultural DNA has left...
...Studio CEOs, and especially CFOs, will note that the past three winning movies were made for peanuts, with weekend grosses that were greater or nearly as much as their respective budgets; The Hangover cost $35 million to produce, The Proposal $40 million. By next weekend, the Bullock film should outearn the Denzel Washington-John Travolta thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, whose budget was about $100 million. By then Bullock's film will also exceed the theatrical earnings of Duplicity, the comeback film of Julia Roberts, Bullock's main rival over the past 15 years as Hollywood...