Gee, we figured the problem was two egomaniacs teaming up to work on material neither knew nor cared a thing about, but maybe we’re wrong. According to Julie Taymor, former director of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, it was the audience—not its indifferent makers and their faulty cables—that are responsible for the musical fiasco. “Twitter [...]
Bono and The Edge may tell the media that Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is only “90% done,” but that didn’t stop them from rolling the red carpet out for the powerful pals at Tuesday’s opening night performance. Among the celebs on hand for the musical’s first “official” performance (following months of notorious “previews”) were [...]
These are the kind of legendary stories that you pass on to your kids! U2 is playing a couple of concerts up in Canada this week and apparently the weather gets kinda tricky up there, eh? Someone who understands this better than anyone now is Bono who got stuck in a downpour along with his [...]
Read Bono‘s lips: no new delays! The U2 singer, who performed with Spider-Man: Turn Of The Dark star Reeve Carney and guitarist The Edge on American Idol Wednesday, swears that the revamped musical will be ready for its June 14th premiere date. “We’re opening Spider-Man on the 14th,” he said. “I promise it’s not been [...]
The 2011 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, gave is some pretty awesome moments on air, even though the carpet fashion was lacking. We have to give props to Senor Chang Ken Jeong for having the ability to humiliate himself on stage for laughs! But everything anyone [...]
While Julie Taymor isn’t leaving Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as previously rumored, she’s definitely not running the show anymore. The producers finally announced last night that Boy From Oz director Phillip William McKinley would be “joining the creative team.” “Julie Taymor is not leaving the creative team,” they swore. “Her vision has been at [...]
Is there any ’90s alt-rock god Courtney Love didn’t get her hooks in? She married Kurt Cobain, slept with Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan, fought in court with (and against) Dave Grohl, shot drugs with Weiland, slow danced with Bono and Eddie Vedder and is still BFF with Michael Stipe. Now she’s told Howard Stern [...]
Will the most expensive Broadway musical of all time even hit the stage? Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the $54 million Julie Taymor-Bono collaboration has suffered another set back, with Tony winner Alan Cumming dropping out to star on the TV drama The Good Wife instead (ouch!). “It’s like a lover who dumped you and [...]
The official Hope for Haiti Now telethon lineup has just been announced, and this show is going to be even bigger than we had imagined. Rarely, if ever, have so many of the world’s biggest musicians mobilized so quickly with Hollywood elite (plus President Clinton and Oprah) to lend a helping hand in a time [...]
When news broke that George Clooney‘s Hope for Haiti Now telethon would airing Friday at 8PM EST on VH1, MTV and just about every channel on your television set, scant details were available as to which celebs would be involved in the show. But that didn’t stop us from starting our Official Hope For Haiti [...]
