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A 1922 Rudolf Valentino film, long considered lost, has turned up – tell that one to Antiques Roadshow: The Dutch national film archive discovered the copy of melodrama Beyond the Rocks in a private collection left to the Filmmuseum. The movie, also starring Gloria Swanson, is in good condition apart …

Disney is making a film out of Douglas Adams’s comic sci-fi classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which incidentally began life as a radio series on the BBC. John Malkovich has been added to the cast in a role created by Adams for the film: It will also star Sam …

Though they are mainly a bunch of commie pacifist peaceniks with dangerous hair, I love my buds at the great punk label Epitaph. This year Epitaph is providing much of the firepower for the 10th anniversary of Vans Warped Tour. I remember vividly going to the first Vans tour when …

Hanging at Hangar 1018

Certainly the central topic of our time, and with this group debating the fur is sure to fly. Go Hitch! KCRW TO AIR FESTIVAL OF BOOKS DEBATE: “U.S. and Iraq One Year Later: Right to Get In? Wrong to Get Out?” On Monday, April 26th, from 2 to 4 PM …

An Eric and Dawn production, by way of Kevin.

In an article for MSNBC.com on the Ten Best Bands in rock history, I picked the Grateful Dead as number four: The Grateful Dead Out on the road today/I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head/Said ‘don’t look back, you can never look back.’ (Don …

I have pics but they’re buried in boxes best left undisturbed, but my high school baseball teams from ’72-75 (hey Merle, you out there?) had the longest hair ever. EVERYONE on the team had serious flow and some of us had CRAZY long hair (I hadn’t discovered conditioner yet) – …

We announced the lineup of this year’s Lolla a couple of weeks ago. I just got in an update that, frankly, is rather impenetrable, or maybe that’s just the mind of Perry Farrell: The Lollapalooza 2004 is quickly shaping up as this summer’s most provocative and exciting musical extravaganza. Genre-blurring …

Simpsons creator Matt Groening is finally appearing as a guest for the first time on this Sunday’s show: Although Groening’s image has appeared on “The Simpsons,” including a framed photo on the wall of Comic Book Guy’s store, this will be his first speaking role on the animated series, Fox …