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12.12.12.: Hollywood Mogul Can’t Reunite Led Zeppelin, Isn’t Happy About It

12-12-12 Concert

12-12-12 Concert Benefiting The Robin Hood Relief Fund To Aid The Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

The Risky Fuel household experienced an electric jolt of concern recently after finding out that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein didn’t appreciate an uncomfortably valid characterization Sarah made about Kristen Stewart in an article she wrote about the aftermath of the 12.12.12 documentary gala screening at TIFF 2013.

During a post-screening Q&A Weinstein talked about how, for $500,000, they had arranged for the Twilight actress to meet ‘n’ greet with an Arabian prince while at the charity concert to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy. And, there’s more… but you’ll have to ask her about it in person.

Let’s just say we had the conversation “What if I get blacklisted?” Our conclusion: you can’t blacklist people who don’t actually have much of anything to be blacklisted from, so here’s to being poor, powerless, insignificant and… free.

Weinstein was also mighty unhappy the concert’s organizing posse couldn’t force Led Zeppelin to reunite.

To actually understand what all I’m talking about, head over to Huffington Post Music Canada and read the story here.

 

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TIFF 2013: Andre 3000, Alice Cooper, Mos Def In Movies Coming To Fest

Jimi 3000

Jimi 3000

The first round of films has been announced for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and there are lots of music-related movies to be investigated.

Tom Hiddleston, best known as Thor nemesis Loki, will play a punk vampire in Only Lovers Left Alive, Outkast’s Andre 3000 will be Jimi Hendrix in All By My Side, Mos Def is in a film called Life Of Crime and Mike Myers turns a run-in with Alice Cooper’s guardian into Supermench: The Legend Of Shep Gordon.

There are more movies to be announced still, but Sarah’s got the lowdown on these and more for Huffington Post Music Canada.

To read the full story go here.

 

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10 Best Music Related Movies At TIFF

Snoop Lion, Rob Zombie's Lords Of Salem & Peaches

Snoop Lion, Rob Zombie’s Lords Of Salem & Peaches

Now that the excitement of the Toronto International Film Festival has died down, Sarah took some time to make a list of her favourite music-related films she saw.

Topping the list was PeachesPeaches Does Herself, but Rob Zombie‘s The Lords Of Salem and Snoop Lion‘s Reincarnated were also among those worth checking out.

To read the whole list head over to Spinner here.

 

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11 Lessons Learned From Spike Lee’s ‘Bad 25’ Michael Jackson Documentary

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Spike Lee‘s much-anticipated Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25 debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.

It’s a pretty thorough though slightly fan-ish look at Jacko’s Bad album.

Sarah saw it and wrote about the 11 lessons she learned from the film for Huffington Post Music Canada.

You can read about them by going here.

 

 

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Picture Day Proves A Crossroads Reunion For Party Band Elastocitizens

Picture Day

Picture Day

One of the buzziest films of TIFF 2012 was the Canadian-made Picture Day thanks to the performance of emerging gal power actress Tatiana Maslany.

While she’s the star, the glue that holds the film together is the party rock band the ElastoCitizens and their real-life lead singer/actual movie actor in the film, Steven McCarthy.

Sarah talked to McCarthy about the film and his maybe reunited, maybe broken up, maybe on-hiatus band for Spinner.

You can read the story by clicking here.

 

 

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