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LUCAS REFUSES TO GIVE AWAY SITH PLOT JUST WEEKS BEFORE RELEASE
By 586 MEDIA on Monday, February 7, 2005 at 10:50pm | No Comment
LUCAS REFUSES TO GIVE AWAY SITH PLOT JUST WEEKS BEFORE RELEASE

George Lucas has stunned fans by refusing to give away the entire plot of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

Sith, the final chapter in Lucas’ space and hairstyles sextuplet will open worldwide on 19 May. But despite much speculation from hardcore fan websites Lucas is giving nothing away.

"I’m not giving anything away" an unusually secretive Lucas told DVDTalk.com.

Lucas’ baffling decision has understandably

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knockoff*project presents classic album covers, stolen and butchered
By 586 MEDIA on Monday, February 7, 2005 at 3:07pm | No Comment
knockoff*project presents classic album covers, stolen and butchered

If you are a long-term music/vinyl afficionado you need to stop what you are doing and immediately visit knockoff*project, which has painstakingly collated hundreds of original album covers alongside hundreds of rip-offs.

It is widely known, for example, that the Clash borrowed a fron cover from Elvis, but so too did Tiny Tim, Hasil Adkins and one Tony Blair, among others.

So too we see the look and feel

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REM’s Micheal Stipe a nut for bisexual gingers
By 586 MEDIA on Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:53pm | No Comment
REM’s Micheal Stipe a nut for bisexual gingers

REM's Micheal Stipe has shocked an unshockable world with revelations that he had a 'bisexual awakening' on an Easter Sunday, aged 13, in a bath, with two gingers. We're not making this up...

PERIOD DRAMA ALERT: BBC spends £8m on ‘Bleak House’; Johnny Vegas to appear
By 586 MEDIA on Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 12:11am | No Comment
PERIOD DRAMA ALERT: BBC spends £8m on ‘Bleak House’; Johnny Vegas to appear

Matthew Kelly, the veteran Stars In Their Eyes presenter, will head up a new BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, funded by licence payers to the tune of £8,000,000...

New Order insulted by Gwen Stefani; Hooky in four-letter outburst
By 586 MEDIA on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 8:06pm | One Comment
New Order insulted by Gwen Stefani; Hooky in four-letter outburst

Gwen Stefani's new album is "shite", according to New Order's Peter Hook.

The bearded Mancunian (aka Greatest Living Bassist) and Barney were invited by Oxfam-styled Stefani to guest on her new album.

Having taken up the offer to record with her (Barney did some backing vocals and Hooky was unleashed in the usual way) everything went quiet, even after the album was released... with

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Pavement’s Malkmus prepares to release Face The Truth
By 586 MEDIA on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 7:44pm | No Comment
Pavement’s Malkmus prepares to release Face The Truth

Joyful news, readers: Stephen Malkmus will release his third album, called Face The Truth, on May 24.

Boyfriend’s hunky mate was more than enough shoulder to cry on
By 586 MEDIA on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 6:44pm | No Comment
Boyfriend’s hunky mate was more than enough shoulder to cry on

Dear Dennis,

Last week me and my boyfriend Dave were out drinking with his best mate, Rob. We all had way too much to drink and Dave and me ended up getting into a blazing row, with him storming off.

I was really mad and determined that he wasn’t going to spoil my fun as usual, and Rob was up for staying

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586 launches hecklerspray blog – welcome, reader…
By 586 MEDIA on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 3:34pm | No Comment
586 launches hecklerspray blog – welcome, reader…

Welcome to hecklerspray. We're here to slay.

Our team of brutal critics will report and review the latest entertainment news with a suitable amount of bile, given the low-rent nature of many songs, videos, films, tv shows and dubious celebrity mishaps.

Hecklerspray will focus on the very best and worst that popular culture has to offer, from A-Z-list red carpet fashion disasters to the coolest

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