People & Celebrities
Little Steven comes up from the underground
By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Like the "Sopranos" scene where he and Adriana went for a ride, Little Steven Van Zandt got behind the wheel of his own FM radio show three years ago with vengeance in mind.
"I don't know how we got there, but there was a radio format for every kind of music except new, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll," the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band said by phone from New York recently.
Satellite and nonprofit radio outlets have broadened formats since then, but you still won't find a cooler two hours of straight-ahead rock 'n' roll on the radio than "Little Steven's Underground Garage."
Van Zandt's syndicated show ties together rockabilly from the '50s, doo-wop and garage-rock from the '60s, punk from the '70s and bands from today that echo those sounds.
Little Steven comes up from the underground
By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER
Like the "Sopranos" scene where he and Adriana went for a ride, Little Steven Van Zandt got behind the wheel of his own FM radio show three years ago with vengeance in mind.
"I don't know how we got there, but there was a radio format for every kind of music except new, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll," the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band said by phone from New York recently.
Satellite and nonprofit radio outlets have broadened formats since then, but you still won't find a cooler two hours of straight-ahead rock 'n' roll on the radio than "Little Steven's Underground Garage."
Van Zandt's syndicated show ties together rockabilly from the '50s, doo-wop and garage-rock from the '60s, punk from the '70s and bands from today that echo those sounds.
'Last Kiss' an honest, messy look at love -- or so he says
By LISA HEYAMOTO
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
There's love and then there's movie love.
Movie love involves adorable banter and problems of the they're-secretly-in-love-with-each-other-but-some-elaborate-misunderstanding-is-keeping-them-apart variety.
Love involves hard-won compromise, occasional doubt and obstacles that are not the least bit charming if they're not disastrous.
Zach Braff wanted to make a movie about love.
The 31-year-old actor had been feeling that no one was making real movies about real people _ honest, messy films that people like himself would want to see.
"The Last Kiss," he said, is exactly that.
"The subject matter has been dealt with in a glossed-over, studio-movie way," Braff said of real-life love.
The littlest big cover girl. . . and the stir she's causing
By ALISON apROBERTS
The Suri with the adorable fringe on top has finally arrived.
There she is looking bright-eyed at the world from the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, snuggled inside her father's jacket as her parents, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, gaze at her.
After two decades, the 'resident hunk' still knows his role
By TERRY MORROW
When Don Diamont joined the cast of "The Young & The Restless" 21 years ago, he was younger, more restless and willing to take the shirt off his back.
Now, he's older, more settled but still willing to show off the old pecs on the venerable soap (12:30 p.m., EDT, weekdays, CBS).
"I was around 22 when I started the show.
Brody talks about fact-meets-fiction 'Hollywoodland'
By DIXIE REID
Adrien Brody will always be known as the jubilant Oscar winner who swept surprised presenter Halle Berry into his arms for an honest-to-goodness Hollywood-heartthrob kiss.
And now here he is, all gangly arms and legs, happily impulsive making the rounds with director Allen Coulter to talk about the fact-meets-fiction noir film "Hollywoodland."
It also stars Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins and Robin Tunney.
Brody, 33, (who won the Oscar in 2003 for his leading-man performance in "The Pianist") plays a fictional down-on-his-luck private eye named Louis Simo who is hired to look into the 1959 suicide of real-life actor George Reeves (played by Affleck, who gained 20 pounds for the role.)
Reeves was beloved by millions of American children as TV's Superman.
'Factotum' a labor of love for Matt Dillon
By DIXIE REID
Charles Bukowski was a novelist, a poet, a short- story writer and a raging alcoholic. He loved women, many women. He lived hard and fast, a low-life kind of life, and wrote exhaustively of it, turning out reams of work in his 73 years.
Star light, not so bright
The summer seemed to start with the best of Tom Cruise _ his new movie and stories about his and Katie's baby, Suri. It ended with the worst of Tom. "South Park's" controversial episode about him ("Trapped in the Closet") picked up an Emmy nomination and Paramount last week ended its relationship with him.
How Jessica Simpson went wrong. . .and how to fix it
By SAMANTHA ETTUS
With the summer drawing to a close and the Emmys passing uneventfully last week, extraordinary attention is still being showered on one story that has held us captive throughout the year _ the trials and tribulations of MTV's Newlyweds: Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson.
It was impossible to predict that less than one year after their split, Lachey's career would be on fire and Simpson's in a free fall.
Really Cookin'
By TERRY MORROW
As a child, comic Dane Cook kept his funny business strictly at home.
"At home, I enjoyed comedy," he says. "That was my release, kidding with my family. I would entertain my family in the house.
