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Music Biopics: What's Been Done, What's In The Works, & What We Want

The biopic is a longstanding Hollywood tradition. There are the big budget epics like the now infamous Elizabeth Taylor vehicle "Cleopatra," David Lean's masterpiece,

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Bad Guy Oldman Shows Good Side In 'Dark Knight'

LOS ANGELES (AP) - In some earlier parallel universe of Batman's Gotham City, it might have been Gary Oldman instead of Heath Ledger cackling and conniving as the maniacal Joker.

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Music Review: Alejandro Escovedo Rocks Hard On CD

Many rockers glorify one aspect of their personalities, be it sexuality, anger, cockiness, or mysteriousness. But Alejandro Escovedo has spent the last two decades stripping away artifice in order to expose raw emotions and personal truths.

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Hotel Documentary Recreates Nancy Spungen's Murder

The fatal stabbing of Sex Pistols rocker Sid Vicious' American girlfriend has been recreated in a new documentary about New York's famed Chelsea Hotel.

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Celebrity Birthdays, May 10

Happy Birthday to "Kenan and Kel" star Kenan Thompson (1978), Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965), U2 singer/humanitarian Bono (1960),

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A Guide To Spotting Celebrities In New York City

Imagine carrying loads of shopping bags while pushing aside walls of doe-eyed tourists, teenage Elle Woods' carrying baby Bruisers, and cell phone yelling brokers in Armani power suits. When three strangers from nowhere decide to casually stroll in your way, you lose patience and BAM!, you shove the middle man aside.

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Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles Release Sophomore CD

Following 2007's critically acclaimed hit "The Day We Met," roots-punk-rock songstress Sarah Borges and her band The Broken Singles will release a new video for the second single, "Stop And Think It Over."

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Biographer To Make 'Ultimate' Sex Pistols Movie

Writer Alan Parker has been recruited to make a new movie about notorious late Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious. The 42-year-old has written three books on the life of the punk legend - real name John Simon Ritchie - and has now been approached by Ipso Facto films to direct a docu-drama about the bassist.

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The Sex Pistols To Reunite For Anniversary Gig

Punk icons The Sex Pistols are set to play a one-off gig in London to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Surviving members Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will reunite for the special performance at the British capital's Brixton Academy on November 8th.

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Notable Quotables

"We are not going to end up like them (Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen). We're in love and have everything to live for." Troubled soul star Amy Winehouse is adamant she and husband Blake Fielder-Civil will not meet the same tragic end as the Sex Pistol's frontman and his girlfriend, who were both heroin addicts. Vicious died aged 21 in 1979.

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