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WINNING PAIR: The long-awaited release of San Diego sensation Adam Lambert’s first full studio album, For Your Entertainment, is now set for November 23. Apparently, any delay has been less about the music than the look. Amazon.com’s first post of the album cover showed a full-length shot of the American Idol star in his signature black leather. The newer version is a close-up of Lambert’s face. Interesting timing here: Lambert’s CD release coincides with the release of Britain’s Got Talent phenomenon Susan Boyle’s first CD. Both covers feature the respective singers posing with their hands cupping their faces. Coincidence? Perhaps. Meanwhile: Boyle’s choice of music is eclectic, to say the least. In addition to her signature “I Dreamed a Dream,” she warbles The Monkees’ “Daydream Believer.”
ENTRE NEWS: Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer/director Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) has resigned from the Church of Scientology after 32 years of membership over the San Diego church’s support of Prop. 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative on the ballot last June. The local Scientology church was listed along with other churches supporting the initiative. A spokesman now says that was a mistake, but the church has declined to take a stand on gay marriage ... Joseph Wambaugh, who writes tales of Hollywood cops from his Point Loma aerie, has another winner with Hollywood Moon, due later this month. The third in a trilogy that returned ex-cop Wambaugh to his old haunts, is “his best book yet,” according to Stephen King. Publisher’s Weekly says it’s “... so on target readers will feel they are riding shotgun.” ... Despite rampant rumors that Comic-Con would abandon San Diego in 2010, it looks like our city’s biggest convention draw is secure for another year. Word was that Comic-Con had outgrown San Diego’s facilities, but its Web site was recently taking reservations for “Preview Night” here on July 21, 2010.
ON THE BOARDS: Three La Jolla Playhouse productions have found homes in New York, on and off Broadway simultaneously. The Night Watcher, a Stage to Page program during the 2008 Playhouse season, off Broadway at the 59E59 Theaters. Restoration, a Playhouse world premiere earlier this season, will have a run at the New York Theatre Workshop next spring. And Memphis just opened — to mixed reviews--at the Shubert Theater on Broadway. The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood judges it “slick but formulaic.” His Times colleague Ben Brantley calls it “The Michael Bolton of Broadway musicals.”
SAN DIEGANS’ INK: Perry Chen, the 9-year-old movie maven and media magnet, is already something of a San Diego celeb. Now he’s going coast to coast. His movie talk show for kids, aired on wsRadio as “Perry Previews the Movies,” will be getting national promotion during the holidays ... Arturo Kassel and Ryan Johnston, the duo behind Wisknladle restaurant, are off on an Italian odyssey — and getting a write-off. They’re doing research for their next local restaurant concept: Italian. Surprise ... Big win for the San Diego Film Commission — and for local coffers: The pilot for Terriers, an hour-long comedy series starring Donal Logue that was filmed in Ocean Beach, has been picked up by the FX Network. Another 12 episodes begin filming here in December.
THE BOTTOM LINE: My sincere thanks to the reader who sent me a press release for an upcoming “Free Manure Management Seminar” in Lakeside. But, sorry, I’m just up to here in politics right now.
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