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Your Weekly Hollywood Update

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Eminem Too Expensive for 'Glee' Hit musical comedy  'Glee'  may be one of the most successful shows on television, but they're not big enough for Eminem.  The Fox series, which has built itself into a $500 million dollar brand, has featured performances of popular songs like Rihanna's  'Take a Bow ,' Cee-Lo's ubiquitious  'F--- You'  and several Billy Joel standards, but Slim Shady's music was reportedly too expensive for the show.  In a candid interview, 'Glee'  creator Ryan Murphy explained that they had planned to perform Em's '8 Mile' anthem  'Lose Yourself' on the show, but were unable to afford the license, which would have cost them a whopping $200,000. Click here for more info. on this story.  ............. The Boxer Rebellion is Predicted to Blow Up... If you have seen the flick Going the Distance , you heard this band there.  The Boxer Rebellion was just named Billboard's Artists to Watch 2011...

ISLE OF THE DEAD / RKO - 1945

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Welcome to Mondo Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite we gots more Boris for your enjoyment, released just after WWII ended. Val Lewton is co-producer. The story goes like this... On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people get trapped there by a quarantine for the plague. To make things even more creepy, a superstitious old peasant woman that lives there suspects one young girl of being a vampiric sort of demon called a Vorvolaka! The tagline reads... "One of these six will be BURIED ALIVE! None can hear their screams on this far-off horror island! None can stop the terrors a man-monster holds in store!" The music is by heavyweight, Leigh Harline. Leigh had 195 composing, 102 music department and 37 soundtrack credits! Check some of this out, for Disney's PINOCCHIO (music: "When You Wish Upon A Star" 1939 - uncredited, "Little Wooden Head" 1939 - uncredited, "Give A Little Whistle" 1939 - uncredited, "Hi-Diddle-

TURIST ÖMER UZAY YOLUNDA aka "The Turkish Star Trek" (1973)

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Well, the way things were going, Shock just wasn't working out, so with the line up we've got planned, I was going to change it to Silly Saturday, then I considered Schizoid Saturday, maybe Sardonic Saturday, or we could get really interactive and go for Suggestion Saturday, but I think I've settled on Sarcastic Saturday for a week or two! It really doesn't matter much right now, because any kind of logic you try and use will be thrown out with the Saturday Suds when you're dealing with something like what we've got tonight! I was blind, and it took the wisdom of Professor Grewbeard to open my eyes, so I could see, and share it with you, so here you go...without further delay...it's the "Turkish Star Trek!" "Turkish Star Trek," those are words that are just not meant to be used together, and make for an Experience I'm pretty sure even Jimi wouldn't have been ready for! Wow, man, what the F was that?? Okay, let's roll, here'