Christopher Nolan is riding high. As Oppenheimer's worldwide box office gross approaches $1 billion — a staggering total that few could have predicted half a year ago — the director is taking a victory lap in a new cover story for Variety. As part of the extensive new interview with journalist Brent Lang, Nolan addressed one of the biggest criticisms of his latest film: That it does not depict the horror unleashed on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when J. Read More...
A new Chuck Berry song, titled “Big Boys,” was released Wednesday, just days after the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer died at age 90. It was also announced Wednesday that Berry’s final album, Chuck, will be arriving this summer. The collection was first announced on Berry’s 90th birthday in October, and this week, his family revealed they would still be moving forward with the album’s release. “While our hearts are very heavy at this time, we know that Chuck had no greater wish than to see this album released to the world,” they said in a statement on his Facebook page, “and we know of no better way to celebrate and remember his 90 years of life than through his music. Read More...
Cisco Adler is famous for a lot of things — he’s the son of Lou Adler (the legendary ’60s producer who’s worked with everyone from the Mamas and the Papas to Cheech and Chong), the ex-boyfriend of The O.C. star Mischa Barton, the guy with the exceptionally large pair of testicles (a portrait of them was posted on perezhilton.com) — but being a musician is not one of them…yet. But with the VH1 show The Rock Life (airing Mondays, following Rock of Love) set to feature the daily struggles of Whitestarr, the slop-rock band Adler formed some seven years ago, he’s hoping to change that. Read More...
