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1. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, who is currently recovering from salivary gland cancer, says that’s he ready to get back to work, and that the group’s next album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part One, will drop this fall. [via MTV]
2. An insider says that George Clooney was in on the Oscars gag: “It was something George and Alec [Baldwin] agreed upon… It was a ‘follow-my-lead’ sort of thing.” [via NYDN]
3. How much was Sandra Bullock‘s Oscar win worth? Apparently lot less than Jeff Bridges’ was. [via Vulture]
4. An amended edition of James Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake is set to be published next week with 9,000 “minor corrections and alterations.” [via Irish Times]
5. Massive debtor/celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm that should preserve her archive. [via Reuters]

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Adam Yauch Wants to Drop Hot Sauce this Fall

After being diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland last summer, the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch is on the mend and thinking about music again. The MC, who underwent surgery and treatment in the fall, told Entertainment Weekly that he’s ready to get back to work.

The religion of rap singer Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beasties)
The religious affiliation (religion) of Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA of the Beasties, a practicing Buddhist, and front-man for the rap group Beastie Boys.

http://www.adherents.com/people/py/Adam_Yauch.html -

I’ve been a fan of the Beastie’s since the 80′s and also attended their Tibetan Freedom Fests in the 90′s. I remember Radiohead, U2, Beasties, Bjork, Oasis, and so many other amazing bands all on one stage in 1 day for only like $50/day! These fests and Adam’s charity The Milarepa Fund are here.
http://www.beastiemania.com/qa/milarepa.php

Something good for all Adam & Beastie friends to check out. :)

As we eat, Dechen attempts to feed Yauch a piece of squash, but he’s having none of it: He ducks and weaves, laughing as he grabs her wrist, his fingers looking impossibly pale against her creamy, coffee-colored skin.

http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/randommca/mca1.html

His life really began to take shape at age 10 when he took his fathers 8mm camera and created his first short film. He called it “My Drunken Toenail.” When he told his family about his idea for his film they thought it absurd, but it was the dawning of the era of the French new wave, and abstract and absurdist filmmaking was just on the eve of exploding.

http://www.oscilloscope.net/bios/bio_hornblower.html

Beastie Boys track on benefit CD gets leaked after 15 years on the shelf.

A nameless former A&R assistant for Columbia Records has posted an unreleased 1995 planned benefit CD for Leonard Peltier, an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The benefit CD was planned to help raise awareness of Peltier’s situation and help pay for his legal fees. Beastie Boys were among the artists who supported Peltier and contributed a song to the album. The Beastie Boys also supported Peltier by performing at the Leonard Peltier benefit concert in April 1994, which was organized by Rage Against the Machine.

http://www.mictomic.com/2010/03/beastie-boys-track-on-benefit-cd-gets.html

Adam Yauch is so interested in film that he created a division of his company Oscilloscope Laboratories called Oscilloscope Pictures. Here he gives his top 10 film list to Criterion. It’s heavily Kurosawa.

http://www.criterion.com/explore/57

33 things you should know about the beastie boys:
-Madonna thinks she made out with Adam Yauch.
The Beastie Boys were the opening act on Madonna’s 1985 Virgin tour and were routinely booed by uninterested, largely preteen fans. “I thought [the Beasties] were adorable. I think I made out with Adam Yauch once in their dressing room,” Madonna recalled in a 1998 interview.
-Yauch loves snowboarding
-Yauch’s favorite eminem song is Lose Yourself
-Rancid was Adam Yauch’s wedding band.

http://www.blender.com/guide/67523/33-things-you-should-know-about133the-beastie-boys.html

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