One of the best part of July 4th is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and this year’s did not disappoint! I can’t believe they both ate 64 hot dogs without hurling. I am ready to hurl and I didn’t have any!
Enter to a win a Legacy Recordings celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Billy Joel’s The Stranger with a re-release prize pack!!! The prize pack includes original album, a previously unreleased 1977 Carnegie Hall performance, as well as a card to download the entire album digitally. All you have to do is E-Mail me the answer at SeriouslyOMGWTF@yahoo.com to “Which song off of The Stranger became the title of a Broadway musical based on Billy Joel’s music?” by July 15th with your name and address! A winner will be selected at random.
Legacy Recordings proudly celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Billy Joel’s breakout album “The Stranger” with the release of two special editions — a 2 CD Legacy Edition and a Deluxe Limited Edition including 2 CDs plus a bonus DVD — of the best-selling multi-platinum collection which catapulted Joel into the upper ranks of pop music superstardom. Each of the 30th Anniversary editions of “The Stranger” will be available online and in stores on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
Originally released in September 1977, Billy Joel’s fifth studio album, “The Stranger,” marked the first of Joel’s highly successful collaborations with producer Phil Ramone, whose mastery of the recording studio provided a sublime sonic context for Joel’s timeless songs and classic performances. “I was very happy that we chose Phil Ramone,” said Billy Joel in a recent interview for the 30th Anniversary edition of “The Stranger.” “He got it right away.”
The resulting collection became one of the top-selling albums of the year (peaking at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart); won two Grammys (Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Just The Way You Are,” “The Stranger” was nominated for Album of the Year); overtook Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as Columbia Records Top Selling Album of the time, and generated four indelible singles — “Just The Way You Are (#1 Adult Contemporary, #3 Pop Singles); “Only The Good Die Young” (#24 Pop Singles); “She’s Always A Woman” (#2 Adult Contemporary, #17 Pop Singles); and “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (#17 Pop Singles) — that remain radio staples to this day.
Go Your Own Way: Susan attends a free speech fundraiser for the film, “Deep Throat.”
Seriously what was CBS.com thinking when they came with that viral video to promote Swingtown?
Even though that promo is lame, Swingtown isn’t so check it out on CBS tonight at 10p!!!
Would you go see a musical about Victoria and David Beckham? Well you might have a chance to do that because a theater company in Dublin, Ireland is putting one on called MacBecks according to OK!.
“We’re very excited by the script," says Ronan Smith of Long Road Productions, which is behind the staging of the satirical sing-song affair. "It borrows from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo & Juliet."
According to reports, Posh will be portrayed as an ambitious Lady Macbeth for whom husband David sacrifices his career.
Seriously not only is the wax version of Tyra Banks prettier and thinner than the real one, it also looks more real than her. Maybe we can replace the real with her on America's Next Top Model! C'mon how much better would ANTM be without her 2 cents every 5 seconds!
WENN is sadly reporting that Mario Lopez turned down a $200,000 offer to bare it all for Playgirl. The newly single Mario said, "It's not something for me at the moment." When will it be the right moment….Whhhheeeeeeennnnnnnn?
Katie Holmes is going to make her Broadway debut in All My Sons this fall, but if the pre-ticket sales are any hint how she will do, she is already a failure according to the NY Post. One ticket broker bought a 1,000 tickets in anticipation of her debut and he hasn't sold a single one. Not only is he feeling the heat or should I say chill, but so is the productions itself.
"Where are all the Scientologists? Don't they want to see her?" jokes one person, who requested anonymity for fear that the followers of L. Ron Hubbard would hunt him down and make him read all 10 volumes of "Mission Earth."
Talking about the Scientologists someone involved with the production said that they have all been asked to sign confidentially agreements. What do they have to talk about? How bad she is? We have all seen her act, we know she can't. I feel bad for the producers who thought she would be selling point, but then again didn't they see box office numbers for Mad Money? Were there even numbers for that movie?
While Watch with Kristin's 90210 2.0 gossip is all about Shannen Doherty in talks to come back and Tori Spelling out, her E! co-worker Marc Malkin is all about the new Peach Pit. The new Peach Pit is actually the Kokomo Cafe, but this is only a temporary residence for the Peach Pit because they are building an exact duplicate of it on a soundstage. Oh and there is one more big development about the popular 90210 hang out…Joe Tata aka Nate is back behind the counter and involved in their lives!
I am so excited and can't wait for 90210 2.0 on The CW this fall!!!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins are still weeks away according to her doctor who held a presser at the Nice, France hospital she will be staying at until babies 5 and 6 are born. The doctor said there is no due date for their arrival according to AP.
"Mrs. Angelina Jolie and her husband, Mr. Brad Pitt, told me to tell you that she is doing absolutely fine," said the doctor, apparently unaware that the actors aren't married.
"Her hospitalization at this stage in her pregnancy is totally normal for a patient who had a Caesarean (section) during her first pregnancy," he said.
What isn't normal is the Brangelina clan have four rooms reserved at the hospital for the family and security. Which I guess isn't that much compared to the compound they are renting there.
