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-- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the same title, has signed on to write a Run-DMC biopic. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he'll adapt Bill Adler's book Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC for the horribly named production company DJ Classicz, which hopes to secure the involvement of Run, DMC, and Russell Simmons. Weirdly enough, this won't be the first...
ContactMusic — Former THE SMITHS frontman MORRISSEY has shocked fans by stripping off and posing nude to promote his new single.
The singer and his four bandmates are pictured completel... more info
Rolling Stone — The Now That’s What I Call Music! compilation series may be coming to TV, thanks to American Idol’s 19 Entertainment and producer Simon Fuller. While details of the s... more info
USA Today Music — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a four-song, 12-minute set at halftime of the Super Bowl. Springsteen took ...
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Pitchfork — -- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the... more info
Pitchfork — -- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the... more info