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People

Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex With Prostitutes, Suit Claims

10:29AM Richard Rushfield | Poor Guitar Hero. All they want to do is show cartoons of rock stars bouncing around and having fun, and now everyone’s gotta get all uptight about it. More »
Big Screen

Brett Ratner Too Important To Focus On Playmates Or Directing

6:29AM Richard Rushfield | As any Master of the Universe can tell you, the key to success is an ability to multi-task. And to always be talking into a phone so you look busy and important, especially when hot girls are around. More »
Music

Hey Look, It’s Video Of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.

7:25AM John Cook | Courtney Love and Dave Grohl love money more than their dead husband and bandmate, so they let Activision include him as a video-game character in Guitar Hero where people can make him sing Bon Jovi songs. Here’s a fan’s tribute. More »
People

Kurt Cobain Brought Back To Life As Playable Video Game Character

1:30AM Foster Kamer | Well, if Gus Van Sant’s rockstar suicide porn Last Days wasn’t vicarious enough for you, you can now play as a Kurt Cobain-like character in Guitar Hero 4, replete with the infamous Daniel Johnston shirt. Via Fimoculous, game trailer below. More »

To Make the ‘Guitar Hero’ Movie, Brett Ratner Needs You To Stop Buying the Game

7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | While conducting interviews at the VMAs yesterday, the nearby booth advertising Rock Band 2 was the cacophonous bane of our existence — though no one was more unhappy to see it than director Brett Ratner. As you may recall, the Defamer-beloved auteur (and big penis enthusiast) aspires to direct a film adaptation based on Rock Band’s rival video game franchise, Guitar Hero. Since the idea continues to boggle our minds, we knew we had to venture a question, even if the resulting Defamer-on-Ratner interaction threatened to spin the world off its axis. Fortunately, the Rush Hour 3 helmer was every bit the gentleman. We blame the heatstroke. [MTV] (Video after the jump) More »

‘Guitar Hero: The Movie’ Rich In Ratnerian Themes Of Artistic Fakery

3:02AM Seth | Art-eschewing, mainstream-tentpole- project-maker Brett Ratner’s love for the video game sensation known as the Guitar Hero knows no bounds. His obsession with the instrument sim and its groupie-nailing expansion packs stems back to his formative years at NYU film school, when he’d busk in Washington Square Park, playing as many Police songs as he could using the four notes he was capable of eliciting from a harmonica. The first time he picked up Hero, it gave him the same quaternary musical thrill (”Smoke on the Water,” for example, became a four-colour kaleidoscopic “red red blue/green green blue blue/red red green/ yelllooowww”), and he since has gone about incorporating the game into many of his smaller projects—everything from Miley Cyrus videos to Mariah Carey videos. But an actual Guitar Hero movie? He’d love a crack, he told MTV Multiplayer: