Jazz pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane, wife of the late tenor sax giant John Coltrane, died Friday, according to Reuters.
After [John's] death in July 1967 at age 40, she raised the couple's children, continued playing and expanding upon his music and devoted herself to the study of Eastern religions, adopting the Sanskrit name, Turiyasangitananda.
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You'll like The Aquaman Shrine.
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Ronnie Spector has a new album out later this year with guest appearances by Keith Richards, Patti Smith, the Greenhornes, the Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner, the New York Dolls' David Johansen and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
"Everybody on the album, they're really friends of mine in real life. They brought everything to it," says Spector, who's particularly happy that the Ronettes will be going into the Hall of Fame in the same class as Smith. And she was proud of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, who took a very serious approach to his guest appearance on the Amy Rigby-written "All I Want."
The album, Last of the Rock Stars, is out already in the UK. No date for the U.S. release is given.
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Action Figure Insider has lots of exclusive pics of the Hot Wheels TV Batmobile, which is out in 1/64 scale next month and in 1/18 and 1/43 models this fall.
Check availability of Batmobile toys at Amazon.
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The producers/writers of "Lost" are planning a definite end to the series--at some point.
...executive producer Carlton Cuse said at a Sunday press panel that the show’s producers are in the process of “picking an end point to the show.”
“Once we do that,” he told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, “a lot of the anxiety and a lot of these questions, like, ‘We’re not getting answers,’ a lot of those will go away. They really represent an underlying anxiety that this is not going to go well or that we don’t know what we’re doing."
...Producers would not offer specifics on when that end point would come, but there were a few clues that the show’s fifth season might be its last.
The show (finally) returns from hiatus Feb. 7.
Best "Lost" Sites.
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Production of a new Flash Gordon TV series, to air on the Sci Fi Channel, is set to begin soon. Twenty-two episodes have been ordered.
The characters of Ming, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov will be brought back for a contemporary retelling of the comic-strip story created in 1934 by Alex Raymond. The strip is still distributed internationally by King Features Syndicate.
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Check out a groovy 1963 National Geographic article exploring the wonders of Disneyland.
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A couple of nice links from Journalista!:
It's the 60th anniversary of Milt Caniff's "Steve Canyon" strip.
The New York Times profiles collectors of vintage comic strips.
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"The Sopranos" returns to HBO April 8.
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