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That band of Hitchens fans Radiohead will have a new album out in June titled 2 + 2 = 5.
And looks like the bio-documentary on Hitchens by the guerrilla video (and anti-war) journalist Stephen Marshall is going forward. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20030127/RVMARS/Arts/thearts/thearts_te mp/5/5/12/
"Last year, Marshall directed Eminem's controversial White America music video and last week GNN won the runner-up award at the Sundance Online Film Festival for the seven-minute antiwar video S-11 Redux.
...At last year's festival, they met executives from Interscope Records, which opened the door for the Eminem video.
Directed by Marshall, with graphics designed by phong.com (a young team led by Anson Vogt, who lurk in a wired-up shack called the Bat Cave, somewhere in the boondocks outside Chilliwack, B.C.), the video was too controversial for heavy rotation on MTV. But the GNN visuals got lots of exposure when they were projected on JumboTron screens across the United States during Eminem's recent concert tour. The images paint a dreary picture of a nation populated by cloned, Ritalin-addicted children who idolize the rapper, much to his own amusement. The animation segments are intercut with scenes of police brutality, U.S. Senate hearings and news headlines reporting rising teen drug use and school violence." ----------- Didn't Eminem just win a Grammy? The youth must be suckers for the "inflated style."
Peter