Posted Jun 2nd 2007 3:01AM by TMZ Staff
Meteorologically speaking, this weekend marks the official beginning of "June gloom" in Los Angeles, a period during which each day begins with a deep fog. But some celebs chose to get an early jump on the foggy phenomenon.
Kobe Bryant: During a week when Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James logged one of the greatest playoff performances in NBA history (as well as classiest post-game press conference), KB went public with his whining and clanged one off the respectability rim not once, or twice but ... oh hell, who's counting anymore? It all ended with Lakers owner Jerry Buss making time (before his annual vacation in Italy) to assure his star that all efforts will be made to turn the team into a contender again. And sure enough, rumors were flying at press time about a possible trade involving Indiana Pacer Jermaine O'Neal. But wait ... does Kobe really want to shack up with another guy named O'Neal? Doesn't he remember what happened last time, all of this week's Shaq rift denials notwithstanding?
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Filed under: The Z List
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Posted Sep 24th 2006 1:00PM by TMZ Staff
The life of a rock star -- is a statement that has spurred dreams, changed lives, and produced the world's greatest (and and not so great) music. It is a combination of words that most people do not have the opportunity to understand yet alone live. Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, one of the leading musical forces in America's late 1970's introduction to new wave, had the opportunity to live and understand it in the way that it was always meant.
All the way from Copeland's days prior to his time with The Police he has been hailed as a great musician. So as Stewart walks through the aisles of Amoeba Music in Hollywood, and talks music it is as though you are part of a record-store rite of passage from one of the most successful players in the industry to all the young dreamers out there. He drops knowledge about every time and genre from modern-day pop like Paris Hilton and Beyoncé to rockers like The Raconteurs to some of the greats like Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, and Bob Dylan.
The aisles of Amoeba also provided the ability to share his inspiration for purchasing the 8mm camera that caught an American (and British) dream -- life inside his band, The Police -- all the way from obscurity to one of the biggest names in music history. From broken down hotel rooms and getting paid £5 per show, to their days of groupies and being on top of the musical world. It's all there, captured moment by moment, from inside the band on Copeland's documentary 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'.
Filed under: Music
Tags: Stewart Copeland, StewartCopeland, The Police, ThePolice
