Friday, July 22, 2005

Chris Rock will narrate a new tv series, inspired by his experiences in the 1980s in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The show will focus on Rock's trials while attending a predominantly white junior high school. Very similar to my situation, I too, went to an all white school.

Courtney Love was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital after complaining of feeling faint, but she was discharged soon after. Love was attending an entertainment industry gathering at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel when she felt ill. A Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said officers called to the Roosevelt shortly past midnight took a crime report under the name of "Courtney L," but she declined to give further details, saying the report was confidential.

A city fire department spokeswoman, said fire personnel responded to a drug overdose call at the Roosevelt at one minute after midnight and transported someone to the hospital.

I once dropped acid at the Roosevelt. I'm not proud, but it was one of the most amazing times of my life.

Warner Home Video presents "Batman vs. Dracula." The feature-length cartoon, will be released directly to DVD Oct. 18. You know that it's gotta be good with a title like that...

Michael Bay gets so little critical respect. It's really sad. I wish I could make him feel better. Bay's flicks such as Armageddon, The Rock and Pearl Harbor are regularly slammed by critics, but his box-office numbers - $738 million for five films - are explosive.

His latest, The Island, arrives today. The sci-fi thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as clones fleeing before their organs can be harvested. Positive feedback from critics after a recent screening caught the filmmaker off guard. "I'm used to them hating everything I do," he says.

I find that so hard to believe. I mean the part about, "Positive feedback..."

But I'll hand over my hard earned ones to see it.