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Old man Eastwood expecting; Oasis announces its future
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Clint Eastwood is a daddy-to-be! The 66-year-old actor and his wife Dina Ruiz, a California TV anchor are expecting their first child in January. Although it is Ruiz's first baby, Eastwood has three children from previous relationships.
TV personality Greg Kinnear plans to leave NBC's "Later" to follow a career in film instead. The actor made his decision after receiving a role in the upcoming film "Old Friends," in which he will star opposite Jack Nicholson. Last year, Kinnear launched his new career with the film "Sabrina," starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond. Kinnear's final episode was taped on Sept. 18.
You better work. Winona Ryder is currently training six hours a day for a role in her next film. Starring opposite Sigourney Weaver, the young actress will take on the part of an android in "Alien: Resurrection," the fourth "Alien" film that is due next summer. Also, look for Ryder this November to star in "The Crucible" with Daniel Day-Lewis. Hmmm ... "Alien" and "The Crucible." Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum!
Director Carroll Ballard really did not want his new film "Fly Away Home" to be rated G. After all, who wants to see a G movie? So instead, he added lots of nudity in order to make it a heartwarming triple X tale of a father, his daughter and her geese. Just kidding! But Ballard did add a few swear words to get a PG.
Music
Oasis is expected to announce their future plans at a hastily-arranged press conference in London, following the cancellation of a series of forthcoming overseas tour dates. The conference, likely to be held on Sept. 26, will explain the reasons behind cancelling the remaining five dates of their U.S. tour and a European tour, which was due to start in Dusseldorf on September 26, with four more U.S. dates planned for November.
Ignition, Oasis' management team said, "Noel and Liam are spending time together and getting over their jetlag. Unfortunately, the band will not be touring in the foreseeable future but in every other respect will continue to function as a band." The band's third album is expected to be released next spring.
On the same day that Oasis' future was thrown into doubt, Bush completed work on their second album. It was mastered at London's Abbey Road Studio last Thursday and is set for a possible worldwide release by MCA around Thanksgiving.
Just days after his family held a private funeral for him in Brooklyn, rapper Tupac Shakur will be remembered by his peers in the rap community. Death Row Records, Shakur's label, announced yesterday that a memorial service will be held today in Los Angeles. As might be expected given
Skakur's violent death, security will be tight.
Soundgarden has begun their own headlining tour in Glasgow, Scotland with a show at Barrowlands. The tour - 24 European shows have been announced thus far - will take the band through Spain, England, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Finland and Norway and will wrap up on Oct. 18 at the Icestadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Then it's back to the U.S.; the group kicks off a 23-show North American tour Nov. 6 and will even be coming through Detroit. Meanwhile, the group's third video, for "Blow Up the Outside World," will be directed by Devo's Gerry Casale.
Green Day's dedicated fans can quench their thirst for the band's music by tracking down a rare live EP that's just now coming to the U.S. in very limited quantities. The seven-song disc, "Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking," was recorded live in Tokyo, Prague and St. Petersburg in early 1996 and is a limited-pressing, international and Japan-only collector's item that contains the tracks, "Armatage Shanks," "Brain Stew / Jaded," a cover of the Operation Ivy song, "Knowledge," "Basket Case," "She," "Walking Contradiction" and a special unreleased bonus track sung by Tre called "Dominated Love Slave," which can be found only on the true Japanese version. The EP was released in late July in Japan, Australia and selected markets in Europe only.
Soundgarden is touring in Europe this month - they will kick off an American tour Nov. 23.