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Music
John Fogerty lends a little This summer’s version of
Creedence to his ‘Revival’ USA TODAY’s annual
Beach TV guide offers a
True to its title, John
Fogerty’s Revival evokes
the swamp pop, rocka-
billy stomp and guitar
chomp of his Creedence
Clearwater Revival hey-
Summer choice: Set your mind on
recline and bask in the
glare of the screen, or
beach TV
day. get in the swim and lose
The solo album, due
Sept. 25, marks his first a little brain flab.
new material for Fantasy
Records, now part of Either way you go,
Concord Music Group, Bill Keveney has some
will color
after his 30-year feud
By Norman Seef, Fantasy Records
with the label over his
CCR catalog.
advice on cable shows —
Fogerty: New songs Among the dozen from itsy-bitsy,
attack Bush and starlets. tracks are the twangy
Broken Down Cowboy, teenie-weenie to plus-
spiritual The River Is Waiting, the wry Creedence
size, at least for their
your world
Song and a pair of blistering attacks on the Bush ad-
ministration, Long Dark Night and I Can’t Take It No
More, with a lyrical reference to an early hit: “Your
networks — that will
daddy wrote a check and there you are, another for- protect you from repeat
tunate son.”
It Ain’t Right blasts rehab-prone celebutantes, and exhaustion. But you’ll
Don’t You Wish It Was True imagines a world of “no
more armies, no more hate.” have to figure out how
— Edna Gundersen to attach the satellite
dish to your umbrella.
Dip into
more shallow
pleasures, 13D
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At the 1970 Bath Festival: Robert Plant, left,
John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.
‘Mothership’ of Zeppelin about to land
Fans of Led Zeppelin’s heavy blues-bruised hard
rock already have scooped up 200 million copies of
the influential British group’s classic albums.
Now comes Mothership, a two-CD compilation of
24 remastered tracks culled from all eight studio al-
bums. The set, due Nov. 13 on Atlantic/Rhino, was
handpicked by surviving founders Robert Plant, Jim-
my Page and John Paul Jones and
Coming boasts such signatures as Whole
Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven,
attractions Kashmir, Dazed and Confused and
Rock and Roll. A deluxe edition
includes a 90-minute DVD of live footage.
Also on Nov. 13, Warner Home Video will issue a
new DVD version of concert film The Song Remains
the Same, in 5.1 surround sound and expanded to
include 14 songs from the 1973 Madison Square
Garden shows. Among the extras are performances
of Misty Mountain Hop and The Ocean, a BBC in-
terview and a Cameron Crowe radio show.
Both projects are offered in multiple configura-
tions; details at ledzeppelin.com.
— Edna Gundersen
American Body Shop here,” explains the articulate but addled Rob
Comedy Central, Sundays, 10:30 p.m. ET/PT
(Nick Offerman).
You know all those automotive reality Fun factor. First, these guys are dysfunc-
shows where they can turn a clunker into a tional and politically incorrect, à la The Office.
classic? This isn’t one of them. The fictional Second, more than feelings can be hurt
failures at this Phoenix-area garage steal when gasoline, blowtorches and drills are in-
coins from the money tray, return “fixed” volved. Third, you’re not their customer.
cars with extra parts and strap a Peruvian Service guarantee. “Never expect any
By Mikki Ansin, Showtime immigrant underneath a vehicle for diagnos- kind of character growth. No one evolves,”
In recovery: Six months later, Michael (Jason tic road tests. A smaller person would be says creator Sam Greene, who based this
Isaacs) is still dealing with his near-fatal beating. preferable for the last task, but “midgets are parody — at least the non-litigious parts of it
too expensive” and youngsters off limits — on a friend’s body shop. “The business at- By David Lindsey Wade, Comedy Central
“with the child labor laws the way they are tracts a lot of odd people.” The dented and the demented: Nick Offer-
Television man, left, and Peter Hulne star as bodymen.
‘Brotherhood’ takes on all shades of gray Illustration by Web Bryant, USA TODAY
The differences between right and wrong, good
and bad, are murky on Showtime’s Brotherhood, the
drama set in Providence featuring Jason Clarke as
rising politico Tommy Caffee and Jason Isaacs as his
Polar bears: The coolest characters in film
gangster brother, Michael.
When we left Michael in last season’s cliffhanger,
he was lying in his own blood outside a wedding re-
ception, brutally beaten. When Brotherhood returns
Sept. 30, it is six months later, and Michael is still
dealing with his near-death experience, says creator By Anthony Breznican Lord of the North.” the first Chronicles of Narnia movie
Blake Masters. USA TODAY Polar bears are proving to be popular Ursus maritimus also has a role in the
“He’s used to being a force of nature who just im- representatives of their threatened en- upcoming magical adventure The Gold-
poses his will on people, and now it’s a struggle,” he Move over, penguins: There’s a new vironment. en Compass.
says. “If anything, he has become more human.” frosty superstar in town. The baby bear Knut, raised in captiv- In that film, based on the first His
As the season progresses, Masters says, Tommy Polar bears are coming into vogue in ity at the Berlin Zoo, became an interna- Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman,
“continues to struggle with the battle between the both documentary and fiction while tional sensation and poster-bear for cli- a young girl explores a parallel universe
quest for power and the battle for good. Are the two also serving as cuddly new icons of the mate causes, including an Annie where people’s souls are represented by
mutually exclusive?” Cop Declan Giggs (Ethan Em- environmental movement. Leibovitz cover shoot for Vanity Fair’s animals and talking polar bears in or-
bry) “goes down a real rabbit hole attempting to do Their first big-screen test will be the “Green Issue” in May. Animated polar nate armor are warriors. Though the
the right thing.” What is clear in Brotherhood is that storybook documentary Arctic Tale, bears also illustrated the perils of melt- bear is a side character, it takes center
nothing is clear. which uses real nature footage of polar ing ice caps in Al Gore’s hit An In- stage in promos for the Dec. 7 movie.
“What you’ll see as we go forward is that morally bears to tell a fable about Nanu the cub convenient Truth. Russell Schwartz, marketing chief for
gray world view is going to be as charcoal as ever, and her struggle to survive in a shifting Arctic Tale co-director Sarah Robert- Compass distributor New Line Cinemas,
that people continue to do bad things and bad peo- climate. That film opened Wednesday in son says the creatures have an effect on says the bear is a striking visual. “Yorek
ple continue to do good things. You’ll see all the limited release. (Review, 14D) how people feel about pollution be- speaks with a human tongue and helps
messiness of life in all its variety of shades of gray.” What’s behind the polar bear charis- cause “they have an incredible will to the girl on her quest. I guess you would
— Peter Johnson ma? survive. And if an animal like the polar call him a samurai bear,” Schwartz says.
“Anything small and cute, people are bear is not able to make it because of “It shows this is a much rougher world
very attracted to that. Their cubs look global warming, maybe we’re doomed, she travels through.”
friendly,” says Arctic Tale co-director too.” The real bears are tough stuff, too,
Adam Ravetch. “The adult bears also are The bears are making their mark with Robertson says: “They come from in-
a mighty predator. People look to the By Paul Nicklen, National Geographic and Paramount
the science-fiction and fantasy crowd, credibly hostile lands that we couldn’t
polar bear as a noble animal — smart, in- They’re hot: Polar bears are the stars with appearances on TV’s Lost and as imagine being in. So we project our feel-
telligent, masterful. It’s like the animal in the environmental fable Arctic Tale. the witch’s fearsome chariot-pullers in ings on these animals.”