Archive for January, 2009

Michael Jackson in deep financial trouble

The good ship Michael Jackson is sinking in red as you read this.
Jackson was sued yesterday by one of his old friends, director John Landis, who says he’s owed around a million dollars by the singer in royalties for their classic “Thriller” video. This comes on the heels of settling a $7 million lawsuit with [...]

A sit down with Richard Marx

 

Richard Marx has kept a low profile over the past few years, preferring to work behind the scenes as a songwriter and producer for ‘N Sync, Keith Urban and Sister Hazel, among others. But that doesn’t mean the man who dominated rock radio in the late ’80s, selling 30 million albums worldwide [...]

Review of the latest 80s movie remake- My Bloody Valentine (in 3D!)

Genre fans are nothing if not specific, boiling films down to their bare-bones essence for purposes of classification. Only they could invent a term such as “Canuxploitation” for horror films of the 1970s and ’80s made in Canada.
Cross-pollination with new technology yields “My Bloody Valentine 3-D” as a result. Part remake, part continuation of the [...]

Singer Boy George sentenced to 15 months in prison

Boy George was jailed for 15 months today for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.
The 47-year-old former Culture Club singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, imprisoned Audun Carlsen during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his flat in Shoreditch, east London.
Sentencing the musician at Snaresbrook Crown Court [...]

School of rock: What happened to the synthesiser revolution?

With the news that Florian Schneider is leaving Kraftwerk after 40 years, it’s time to ask an important question: What happened to the synthesiser revolution? Was it destroyed by guitar-wielding Luddites or did its pioneers go undercover and win by stealth?
Keyboards will always sound like the shock of the new, mainly because the future suggested [...]

Where are they now: The cast of 80s hit Fame

It was the television and movie phenomenon that influenced fashion for a generation and had us all rushing out to buy leggings and leg warmers.
Now, more than a quarter of a century after Fame first hit our cinemas and TV screens, it’s about to become cool all over again thanks to a new documentary on [...]

The Terminator, Freddy Krueger And Other ’80s Icons Kick Off The Search For The Greatest Badass Of All Time

Rambo, Boba Fett and Indiana Jones are all contenders for the title.

What would happen if you took every butt-kicking, name-taking, trash-talking movie character in the history of the cinema, locked them in a steel cage and announced that only one would be coming out alive? These are the questions that your MTV News Movies team [...]

PopWatch has a Q&A session with Adrian Zmed

Adrian Zmed, soon to be on VH1’s new reality show “Confessions of a Teen Idol” sits down with PopWatch for a Q&A Session.

When we asked which castmate on VH1’s newest celebreality show, Confessions of a Teen Idol (premieres Jan. 4), you most wanted us to catch up with, the overwhelming (and proper) response was Adrian [...]