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Entries from LAist tagged with 'bettemidler'

November 16, 2007

Just surfacing amongst the depths of the Pitchfork servers comes the prospect of an unreleased P.T. Anderson short film featuring our beloved Elliott Smith. From the article: "In this film, wrote Wholphin [the one who linked to the story on Cigarettes and Red Vines,] Smith plays a Rastafarian basketball player. While Smith's publicist confirmed said short film exists, further details on it are scant at best. We don't know its title, for one, nor......

Continue Reading "Elliott Smith Featured in P.T. Anderson Short?"

February 8, 2007

It's all Sondra Prill all the time here at LAist. At least for a few days. Who is Sondra Prill? A Florida woman with a lot of chutzpah and very little self-awareness, who made a slew of karaoke videos for her cable access show back in the 1980s, many of which have been resurrected on YouTube. All I can say about her take on this Bette Midler song is: God is watching us.......

Continue Reading "Sondra Prill - Part II (From A Distance)"

February 6, 2007

It all started with talk of Posh & Becks moving to Los Angeles. Then it was about Posh and the Spice Girls and their horrible videos. The conversation turned to boy bands of the same era (give or take) and their horrendous videos that often seemed sexually, well, questionable. LAist has now officially laughed ourselves silly watching these old videos and have to share them with you. They have a certain, "this can't possibly......

Continue Reading "Boy Band Lunch Break - Westlife"

October 11, 2006

120 Days - 120 Days (Vice) Baldwin Brothers - The Return of the Golden Rhodes (TVT) Bitch - Make This/ Break This (Kill Rock Stars) Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (V2) Jimmy Buffett - Take the Weather With You (RCA) Chavez - Better Days Will Haunt You (Matador) Lloyd Cole - Antidepressant (One Little Indian) Cobra Starship - While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets (Decaydence) Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards......

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