Twin Peaks Blogging

For those of you who know me well, you are more than aware of my deep love for all things involving David Lynch. The director, writer and artist could be one of my favorite people in Hollywood ever, mainly for his disturbing looks at small town USA, without the rose colored glasses. Lynch’s worked grabbed me at a young age, but the project that remains my favorite is the serial “Twin Peaks”, which is now available for viewing on Fancast.com. Whitney over at PopCandy posted about Fancast the other day and how they brought on Lara Flynn Boyle to discuss her work on Twin Peaks this week. Boyle is blogging everyday and discussing with readers and commenters in promotion of the genre expanding television program. Lara said that her time on the show was where she “learned” how to be an actress and that working with Lynch on such an inspired project was remarkable. She also said that as opposed to other hit shows of the 1990’s, all the lead female characters got along extremely well.

Boyle also chronicled her time on “The Practice”, which is now available as well on Funcast. The collector’s edition of the “Twin Peaks” was just released finally on DVD, with some great features and interviews, as well as a set of postcards I will using to stylize my “T.P” tattoo. In other “Twin Peaks” news, Madchen Amick, Shelly Johnson on “Peaks”, has signed on to join the cast of “Gossip Girl” as a cougar type who shows a strong interest in Nate, played by Chase Crawford. And David Lynch is curerntly working with another fascinating director Werner Jerzog on a murder/drama movie.

Daily Rounds....

So this weekend was riddled with cupcakes, family members, surly puppies, and unfortunately disasters worldwide. I discussed a Tom Cruise article I have been penning or typing technically, but with a few morning updates, i.e. Valkyrie being postponed once again, I am re-editing it and will publish it later today. I only let y’all know because I have some overzealous TC/Scientology info fans that are quite interested in his going ons and flatteringly enough, what I think about it. Anyways, let’s get to the Daily Rounds….

* Thousands were killed in a 7.9 magnitude earthquake, which hit central China this weekend. At this time, around 10,000 people were found to be dead from the quake and miles and miles of ruins surrounding the area. China has already released around $3 million to respond to the after effects of the disaster. While this was going on, Mynamar finally accepted aid from the US after the devastating cyclone it suffered from last week. Oxfam is reporting that we are looking towards a public-health catastrophe if survivors of the cyclone did not begin to receive aid and the medical attention they needed.

* Jenna Bush, twin daughter of our President, was married this weekend in a quiet ceremony at the Bush family’s home in Crawford,TX. And to be honest, it looked like quite a pretty ceremony and her gown was gorgeous.

* And I thought Jay Leno was boring. Well look out for NBC’s late night line up come 2009. When Jay Leno is forced out retires, Conan O’Brien will replace him as the lead in for the late night line up and NBC announced its plans to have Jimmy Fallon take over the Conan time slot. No explanation from the network why they wanted to make their viewers fall asleep at 12:40 AM, but this story has just begun. While the guy is affable, Fallon is almost a picture perfect example of how not to need an overwhelming talent can actually be a valuable thing in Hollywood.

* David O. Russell strikes again. I can’t believe this dude can movies anymore. Nikki Finke is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel left the set of Russell’s latest film after SAG pulled the plug over financing. This is latest part in the saga that is Nailed the first being James Caan, a veteran of Hollywood for over 40 years, leaving the set and movie when he could no longer work with the “difficult” Russell.

* Finally, Jackie Warner from Bravo’s Work Out said some insanely harsh things about a gym client of one of her staff member’s on last week’s episode. The comments were directed towards a women and her breast implants. What was not known by Warner was the woman was a Breast Cancer survivor and her boyfriend overheard the nonsense. Brian, the women in question’s trainer and pain in the butt to Jackie, was fired over a confrontation about the negative comments. Well I was offended by the episode and thankfully so were sponsors, since Propel water by Gatorade pulled all their sponsorship of the series after the incident. For a chick who appreciates “strong women”, I would have liked a little more than that nonsense directed towards a breast cancer survivor. Feel free to echo my sentiments with Bravo.

* Jennie Garth has been confirmed as a recurring character on the 90201 spin off for the CW. Also rumored to be a part of the cast is ex-costar, Tori Spelling. I can not wait for this hot mess!

* Alec Baldwin defended himself on 60 Minutes this weekend over his divorce from Kim Bassinger and the very public custody battle. I don’t care what anyone says, I honestly believe this crackerjack. And speaking of Long Islanders, Lindsay Lohan is reportedly having problems with her “close friend” Samantha Ronson. The two were reportedly fighting at a West Hollywood club the other night and Lohan needed to be comforted by Lauren Conrad.

Later today hopefully, we will publish the Tom Cruise piece.

ENJOY!

Perez Hilton + Warner Music

Ok, I really don’t like to slam the whole blog movement, because one day I wouldn’t mind it helping out this old gal, but this just too much. NY Times is reporting that Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavandeira, is in talks with Warner Music for his own label. Yep, you heard right. While I give Perez credit for outing closeted actors and sucking Hollywood's ass to make himself a celebrity, this is way too much. See, the thing with his “predictions” is that they are usually submitted by the readers. It is not like Perez is scouring clubs all over the country for the next best things, which most A&R reps do. What he does is utilize his website, which garners an insane amount of traffic each day, to publicize acts that are on the verge of breaking big. And sure, his site gets so much traffic, which might have something to do with the level of self-promotions, that anything on his site is going to pick up traffic for themselves. But this is incredibly different then doing the A&R for a small imprint on a major label.

Just ask Ultragrrrl, aka Sarah Lewitinn, who actually had a large amount of experience breaking bands to mainstream, i.e. My Chemical Romance, before most adults in the record business heard of them. The original music blogger, who became a celebrity with her pocket dj books and stints on "I love the 90's", gathered so much attention for her predictions that Island/Def Jam Records gave her own imprint in 2005. But just last year, her small imprint, Stolen Transmission left Island/Def Jam Records, after record sales and promotions were weak. With hands on experience at music mags, like SPIN and channels, like VH1 and Fuse, if she couldn’t make it work with a major label, how can Perez?

Since details are yet to be confirmed on Perez’s deal, everything is alleged right now, but so far he is expected to get $100,000 a year, as well as bonuses and sales percentages on bands and artists that do extremely well. Hilton promotes shows in various major cities, has incredible hits on his site and now has a voice on VH1, so odds are any band that finds their way to his label will do well for the first few years. And now I am wondering will Perez be sharing any of this anticipated wealth with his contributors, the readers of his site? Odds are, not so much.

Let’s just hope we aren’t going to see a bunch of album covers with “jizz stains” all over it.