And the 90-minute finale will be preceded by an eight-hour marathon of every episode this season, starting at 8:30 a.m. Big & Rich, featuring Cowboy Troy, will perform. LeAnn Rimes is due to return from her recent hospitalization to host. If someone asked, 'Did you guys get along?' I'd say no.The final showdown of "Nashville Star" (USA, 10 p.m.) is between Erika Jo Heriges, Jody Evans and Jason Meadows. ''The first night I watched it,'' Johnny Ramone said, ''I thought, 'Whoa, this is dark.' It actually disturbed my sleep.
More than anything else, the film chronicles a band chasing a breakthrough hit that never comes. Among its highlights are the last known interview with Joe Strummer, the Clash frontman, before he died of a heart attack in December 2002 early performance footage of the Ramones at the famous Manhattan club CBGB's, in which they fight with each other onstage over which song to play and several hilarious observations from the spacey (but incisive) Dee Dee. (It has since been shortened to 90 minutes.) But its tracing of the band's origins from glue-sniffing toughs from Queens to kings of punk resonated with a sincerity and sweetness that won over critics and the audience. The version of the film that played at Slamdance and the TriBeCa Film Festival was a bit unwieldy at more than two hours. ''She was like, 'Wow, do you have all the music rights?' I was like: 'Yeah! Sure! Totally!' I had no idea what she was talking about.'' Penelope Spheeris, the director of the punk rock documentary ''The Decline of Western Civilization'' as well as ''Wayne's World,'' introduced ''End of the Century'' at the Slamdance festival. Fields laughs at how clueless he was then.
RAMONES DOCUMENTARY MOVIE
''We assumed we would make such a great movie that the Ramones would just love it and sign off, and someone would say: 'It's great. Meanwhile, distributors were offering them $30,000 for the rights to the movie. They owed Chinagraph, an editing house, another $150,000 and they estimated they would have to spend several hundred thousand dollars more to secure the rights to music and concert footage. Gramaglia and his brother, John, a producer, had amassed a debt of about $65,000 in production expenses. By the time the film was presented at Slamdance, Mr. The film's release has been further complicated by the filmmakers' financial situation. Joey and Johnny, in fact, never reconciled before Joey died of lymphatic cancer in April 2001. Joey and Johnny did not talk to each other during the 15 more years the Ramones toured until they retired in 1996. And Joey Ramone, the singer, was dumped by his fiancée, Linda, for Johnny in the early 80's. A cast of drummers came and went because they were either too drunk, too opposed to constant touring or too upset over not getting a larger share of the money from T-shirt sales. Dee Dee Ramone, the bassist, was a heroin addict (he died of an overdose in 2002). Johnny Ramone, the guitarist, ran the band like a dictator. But while the Ramones presented a united front on their album covers - black leather jackets, canvas Converse sneakers and bowl haircuts - the band was fraught with tension and jealousy among its members. With their super-fast, two-minute, three-chord songs, the Ramones almost single-handedly created punk rock in the mid-70's, inspiring bands from the Clash to U2 to Pearl Jam along the way. The filmmakers, Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields, say the movie has not been released after nearly seven years of work because of the very same tenuous relationships they hoped to document. It has been praised in Variety, Entertainment Weekly and The Los Angeles Times for its unflinching portrayal of the dysfunction that both fueled and undermined the Ramones.Ībout the only thing the film hasn't gained is a release date.
It has attracted a following among influential figures like Nicolas Cage and the director Jim Jarmusch. OVER the last 15 months, ''End of the Century,'' a documentary about punk rock's founding fathers, the Ramones, has been shown at major film festivals in New York, Toronto and Berlin.
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