Decade after ‘Fargo,' Coens return to Minn.
Will the Coen brothers ever return to their native Minnesota to film another movie?
Yeah sure, you betcha!
Joel and Ethan Coen haven't made a movie in Minnesota since their 1996 Oscar-winning “Fargo,” but come March they plan to roll cameras for “A Serious Man,” set in their home town of St. Louis Park, a Minneapolis suburb.
The brothers helped scout locations this summer, said Lucinda Winter, executive director of the Minnesota Film and TV Board.
“They looked in Richfield, Brooklyn Center, maybe Hopkins - neighborhoods that would match the one they grew up in,” she said.
The film is about a Jewish college professor during the 1960s. According to the online entertainment journal FilmJerk.com, the main character is bedeviled by children who lift his wallet, a wife who wants a divorce, an intense grad student and a hot neighbor who sunbathes in the nude.
Actress could face jail after second violation
Actress Michelle Rodriguez violated probation again in a drunken driving case by failing to complete her community service and not following an alcohol education program, prosecutors said.
Rodriguez went to court Friday to answer to the latest claims by the city attorney's office, which said the former “Lost” actress submitted a document stating she performed community service on Sept. 25, 2006, but later admitted she was actually in New York City that day.
The document was required as part of the 30 days of community service Rodriguez was ordered to serve for violating probation in a 2003 drunken driving case.
Members of System of a Down form new band
Scars On Broadway may sound like the name of an avant-garde theater production, but it's really a new band featuring members of Grammy-winning rock group System of a Down.
Guitarist Daron Malakian, 32, and drummer John Dolmayan, 35, have begun recording the new group's debut album, Dolmayan announced Friday on the band's official MySpace site.
System of a Down is on hiatus, according to its own official Web site.
Singer Serj Tankian's solo debut album, “Elect the Dead,” is scheduled for release Oct. 23. Bassist Shavo Odadjian's side project Achozen is set to release an album next year, according to System of a Down's site.
Known for hard-driving politically charged tunes, System of a Down snagged a best rock performance Grammy award in 2006 for “B.Y.O.B.” off 2005's “Mezmerize.”
- From wire reports
Yeah sure, you betcha!
Joel and Ethan Coen haven't made a movie in Minnesota since their 1996 Oscar-winning “Fargo,” but come March they plan to roll cameras for “A Serious Man,” set in their home town of St. Louis Park, a Minneapolis suburb.
The brothers helped scout locations this summer, said Lucinda Winter, executive director of the Minnesota Film and TV Board.
“They looked in Richfield, Brooklyn Center, maybe Hopkins - neighborhoods that would match the one they grew up in,” she said.
The film is about a Jewish college professor during the 1960s. According to the online entertainment journal FilmJerk.com, the main character is bedeviled by children who lift his wallet, a wife who wants a divorce, an intense grad student and a hot neighbor who sunbathes in the nude.
Actress could face jail after second violation
Actress Michelle Rodriguez violated probation again in a drunken driving case by failing to complete her community service and not following an alcohol education program, prosecutors said.
Rodriguez went to court Friday to answer to the latest claims by the city attorney's office, which said the former “Lost” actress submitted a document stating she performed community service on Sept. 25, 2006, but later admitted she was actually in New York City that day.
The document was required as part of the 30 days of community service Rodriguez was ordered to serve for violating probation in a 2003 drunken driving case.
Members of System of a Down form new band
Scars On Broadway may sound like the name of an avant-garde theater production, but it's really a new band featuring members of Grammy-winning rock group System of a Down.
Guitarist Daron Malakian, 32, and drummer John Dolmayan, 35, have begun recording the new group's debut album, Dolmayan announced Friday on the band's official MySpace site.
System of a Down is on hiatus, according to its own official Web site.
Singer Serj Tankian's solo debut album, “Elect the Dead,” is scheduled for release Oct. 23. Bassist Shavo Odadjian's side project Achozen is set to release an album next year, according to System of a Down's site.
Known for hard-driving politically charged tunes, System of a Down snagged a best rock performance Grammy award in 2006 for “B.Y.O.B.” off 2005's “Mezmerize.”
- From wire reports
