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“Blade Runner: The Final Cut” — as the definitive director’s cut is titled — was scheduled to play at the New York Film Festival Saturday night, opens at the Ziegfeld in New York and the Landmark in Los Angeles on Friday, and comes out in December in a five-disc set with scads of extra features.

An earlier director’s cut played in theaters 15 years ago to great fanfare and is still available on DVD. But the new one is something different: darker, bleaker, more beautifully immersive.

Singer James Brown, known as the "Godfather of Soul", has died at the age of 73, his agent has said.

He was admitted to hospital in Atlanta after being diagnosed with severe pneumonia but died at 0145 local time (0645 GMT), said Frank Copsidas.

The star was famous for hits including I Got You (I Feel Good), Papa's Got a Brand New Bag and Living in America.

This was designed by Michael Richards I guess...

I want to take these guys out drinking... Of course I have no idea who the hell they... and then again I would prolly have to buy them drinks... I don't actually want to do that... But they are funny!

Clever little skit...

Who knew Santa had a brother... Out next Xmas.

On the 5 Train!
NSFW due to Language

Members of the record industry are worried about the internet.

New technology has led to far greater availability of cheaply-priced music.

Discounted charts album from online retailers can take business from traditional high-street stores, while the illegal sharing of files threatens sales of official releases, labels say.

The past year has also seen the rise of social networking sites such as MySpace, seen by some as a great way to reach potential fans and, with unsigned acts, talent-spotters who can offer record deals.

But it is easy for material to be placed online illegally - and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, now in his 30th year in the business, has particular concerns.

He is among leading figures who have been gathering in London to mould the music industry for a digital future.

I liked - I laughed, I cried... It was better than Cats.

For all you fans of that fantastic, under rated music that's been making skin heads dance like maniacs for years! Here's the history of Oi! from Mr. Gary Busheel himself.

For some MP3's of good skin head music, click here.

"Hey"!
Thanks YBNBY.

My friend Mark Tracy has produced and edited a film being shown in this year's Tribecca Film Festival. The premier is on May 6th at 3:00 pm and tickets are $12.

It is invitingly simple to give the brutal 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center the catch-all moniker of ""September 11,"" as if by giving the disaster a date, we quite literally put it in the past. But for the thousand or so volunteers who showed up at the Jacob Javits Center immediately after the attacks, the hard reality of September 11 lasted far longer. In The Heart of Steel (produced in partnership with The September 11th Families Association), we are introduced to a group of people who thought of September 11 as an ongoing disaster rather than just a dark day. Nicknamed the Renegade Volunteers for their resilient nature and unorthodox volunteer methods, these ordinary citizens from throughout the tri-state area left their various real estate, teaching, and investment banking jobs to distribute food and supplies to the rescue workers. Initially they were given inventory jobs, but as the days passed and the Renegade Volunteers began to take shape, their involvement deepened. Within a week, they had amassed a number of army transport vehicles and a supply station the size of a Home Depot. When transport became to difficult, they decided to set up a makeshift supply house less than 2 yards away from ground zero. Despite huge shards of glass still dangling from the windows of office buildings, the motley crew dispensed water and new boots to steelworkers and firemen. Judging from their heartfelt and often tearful interviews, it is obvious that not one of them has forgotten the day of September 11, or the subsequent months that they devoted to that day.