Sonny Bono in 1998 after allegedly skiing into a tree at the Heavenly Ski Resort in Nevada. A decade later FBI agent Ted Gunderson is claiming Bono was beat to death by a hitman who made it only look like Bono had collided with a tree.Gunderson, who's been researching Bono's death for the last 10 years, believes he was killed because the singer-turned-politician was about to uncover an internat...
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So while abroad, people are hyped about a Black man pitted against a white woman as Democratic presidential candidates. Some aussies told me it gave them renewed faith that the US wasn't going down the shitter.With the mortgage crisis and sinking economy, I wouldn't be shouting 'hail marys' yet, but I do think it's worth some sort of musical celebration.On that note, I present a weird subcultu...
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How much do you think Phil Spector still resents Sonny Bono?Sonny basically took the whole Wall of Sound premise and, like Phil, built it around a female voice, combined it with the folk-rock-protest thing, and through himself into the bag as a co-performer, and took it all the way to the bank. I remember a late '60s Rolling Stone interview where Spector dismissed Bono as a pretender (pointing ...
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From IMDB.com:*New Blu-ray Incryption Makes Movies Unplayable on Some Sets*Owners of Blu-ray high-definition players have discovered that new movies released in the format by Twentieth Century Fox won't play on models manufactured before June of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Wednesday).In June, the newspaper noted, a new level of encryption technology known as BD+ went into...
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Last week I linked "David Pogue's":http://www.davidpogue.com/ hilarious "Ode to the R.I.A.A.":http://mog.com/mickimicki/blog_post/40679. Pogue, for those who don't know him, is a technology/computer columnist for the NYT. Lately however he seems to have found a new calling as a lyricist... because this week, instead of his usual tech-related views and gadget reviews, he dropped yet another kill...
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