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Elliott Smith News

Nothing is sacred in movie business (The Olympian) In Hollywood, it's hard to leave well enough alone. When there's money to be made, nothing is sacred -- that's why you're seeing dead actors pop up in commercials, remakes galore and actors mining the same territory again and again. WMBR?s Top Five Songs About Smack (The Tech) You probably know this as the song from those Royal Caribbean ads. But its about smack. And its not one of those deals where after the song becomes big, people on the internet talk about how it COULD be about smack ? I?m looking at you ?Hotel California.? Realistically, UW faces impossible task (The Olympian) The slogan for this year's UW football team is, "There's A Corner About To Be Turned," an appropriately vague sentiment that adequately sums up the murky future of the Washington program. Canadian Idol Gets Weird (ChartAttack.com) With only four competitors left striving to be the next Canadian Idol, you'd expect things to heat up. But Monday night's episode had too many awkward moments ? and not all were during performances. Jennifer O'Connor (Spin) What? On her heart-wrenching 2006 record, Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars , Jennifer O'Connor treads lightly in Elliott Smith territory, mourning the deaths of her two sisters (one from brain cancer, another in a car accident) with acoustic guitar in hand, letting melody soar above sadness. But through catharsis comes acceptance, and on her new record, the John ...

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