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9 Reasons Why ‘Godmother Of Punk’ Patti Smith Still Rules

Here are 9 reasons why Patti Smith rules, in honor of her birthday.

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9 Reasons Why ‘Godmother Of Punk’ Patti Smith Still Rules

In Honor of the Fine New Footloose Soundtrack, 5 Great Covers of ’80s Movie Anthems

I can’t help that the new Footloose movie’s soundtrack is excellent. Trust me, I resisted , but the new collection of old tunes is a proper tribute to Kenny Loggins’s heyday and a thoroughly modern update. Accordingly, we’re revisiting five other covers of ’80s soundtrack gems. Let’s hear it for these five great cover versions; let’s give them all a hand!

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In Honor of the Fine New Footloose Soundtrack, 5 Great Covers of ’80s Movie Anthems

Who Should Play Patti Smith in the Just Kids Movie?

Rock legend Patti Smith set the literary world on fire last year with her memoir Just Kids , a sensitive, longing look at her friendship with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The book mostly chronicles their years in New York prior to her fame as a punk poetess from the mid-’60s to the mid-’70s — before Horses revolutionized Ginsbergian rock. Now word is out that Smith is adapting the National Book Award winner into a screenplay with Gladiator scribe John Logan. Who should play the inimitable lady on the big screen?

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Camilla Parker Bowles — Hasidic Jew?

Filed under: We’re Just Sayin’ Here’s Prince Charles’ second wife Camilla Parker Bowles in England on Tuesday (left) — and a Hasidic Jewish man in Poland (right).One of them could use a shave.We’re just sayin’. See Also Rock Icon Patti Smith — Hasidic Jew

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Jim Carroll, Author

Jim Carroll , the former drug addict turned prolific poet and writer of The Basketball Diaries , died of a heart attack on Friday at his residence in Manhattan. He was 60.

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Jim Carroll, Author

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar team up to record Kerouac album

The last time Ben Gibbard split off from the rest of Death Cab for Cutie to record an album's worth of songs, that album was the Postal Service's Give Up, and half a million sensitive indie types swooned.

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Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar team up to record Kerouac album