What Who anthem next?

The big question about expanding the CSI franchise to a fourth, fifth or even sixth series is this: Will the producers run out of Who songs before they run out of cities?

Rock legends The Who provide the signature licks for CSI (Who Are You?) and CSI: Miami (Won't Get Fooled Again). The surviving members of the group, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend, rocked CBS' "upfront" to advertisers in New York this past May.

Executive producer Anthony Zuiker told critics in Los Angeles this weekend that choosing a third Who anthem was a little trickier.

"We had four songs in contention," he said. Zuiker's choice was Behind Blue Eyes. Viacom/CBS top executive Les Moonves, obviously a Who fan himself, chose Baba O'Reilly.

"And I said, 'Yes sir,' " said Zuiker. "I'll be darned, that man is always right."

While the lyrics to Baba O'Reilly don't seem to fit a forensic crime series as well as the other two CSI songs (it's a spiritual love song), Zuiker feels there is some common ground. "We'll choose the appropriate lyrics," he said. Hey -- it has to work better than Squeeze Box.

CSI: NY, starring Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes, premieres Sept. 22.

Kirsten Dunst, Jake Gyllenhaal split

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal, the young stars of two of Hollywood's big summer movies, have ended their romance.

Dunst, the co-star of "Spider-Man 2," and Gyllenhaal, who appears in the disaster epic, "The Day After Tomorrow," have gone their separate ways, his publicist told The Associated Press Tuesday.

Annett Wolf wouldn't provide details of why they stopped dating, but confirmed they broke up "some time ago." Dunst's representative, Stephen Huvane, didn't immediately return a call for comment.

"It's been a while, but they have remained the best of friends," Wolf said.

The 22-year-old Dunst and Gyllenhaal, 23, began dating about two years ago after being introduced by his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who appeared with Dunst in "Mona Lisa Smile."

Carlton CD Due in Fall

"Harmonium" shows singer-songwriter's darker side

Vanessa Carlton will release Harmonium, the follow-up to her 2002 Grammy-nominated debut Be Not Nobody, on October 19th. The album's first single "White Houses," featuring Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham on acoustic guitar, will hit radio in August.

Carlton recorded the album in San Francisco with boyfriend and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephen Jenkins co-producing, and it promises to be much darker than its predecessor.

"I'm singing about suicide, insomnia and paranoia," Carlton told Rolling Stone last year, during the sessions. "There's nothing piano recital-y about it. It's goth."

"I think I'm more evolved, more secure in who I am," she continued. "I'm beyond the diary-confessional chapter of my writing."

They Are Back! Are They?

Asia plans to release a new studio album titled "Silent Nation" on Aug. 31, which is its first release for InsideOut Records. The label describes the 10-song set as "a conscious return to the melody-rich, hard-rock style of Asia's early albums, particularly 1982's self-titled blockbuster and the 1983 follow-up 'Alpha.'"

Rhino Box Surveys Fertile '80s Underground

The fertile alternative and college scenes of the 1980s that fueled the commercial modern rock explosion of the following decade are the basis for Rhino's latest comprehensive musical survey. Due Oct. 5, "Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground" boasts 82 tracks spread across four discs from a diverse cast of U.K., Australian and American artists.

The collection is impressive and educational in its sheer depth and diversity. Punks (Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Bad Brains) share space with the Paisley Underground (Prefab Sprout, Dream Syndicate), electronic popsters of "Madchester" (New Order, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses), miserable romantics (the Smiths, the Cure), beautiful noisemakers (Pixies, Sonic Youth, Ministry, Mission Of Burma), jokers (Camper Van Beethoven, the Dead Milkmen) and a new generation of rock poets (the Replacements, X, Kate Bush).

But while the styles and genres are widely dissimilar, commonality is found in the impression each act made on the era's cutting-edge music fans. The success of "Left of the Dial" (named after a Replacements song about college radio) comes in identifying, in most cases, the precise song from which those careers sprouted and took root.

Many of the included acts went on to become familiar, even household names. Obviously falling into that category are R.E.M. ("Radio Free Europe"), the Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Hollywood (Africa)") and the Pretenders ("Message of Love").

Other examples are more nebulous, such as the Sugarcubes ("Birthday"), which featured pre-artisté Björk on vocals. Or Killing Joke ("Wardance"), whose Youth became an in-demand producer (Crowded House, the Verve, Dido).

Some songs found on "Left of the Dial" represent massive hits or artistic peaks the acts never again rivaled. Examples include the Church's "Under the Milky Way," a smash pop single that proved to be an unmatchable albatross for the Australian group; or Suicidal Tendencies' epic skate punk ode to the frustration of misunderstanding, "Institutionalized," which predated a chase of thrash metal glory that delivered the group to a different audience.

While a handful of cuts might seem obscure to any but the most knowledgeable, many -- Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says," Black Flag's "Rise Above," among them -- stand firm as the epoch of an influential musical revolution.

Augmenting the music on "Left of the Dial" -- which carries a suggested list price of $64.98 -- are liner notes by music critic Karen Schoemer (Newsweek, The New York Times), interviews with SST Records founder/Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn and Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson. Also featured are personal essays by Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson and Dream Syndicate member/Down There Records founder Steve Wynn.

Here is the full "Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground" track list:

Disc one
"Radio Free Europe," R.E.M. (Athens, Ga.)
"Going Underground," the Jam (Woking, England)
"A Forest," the Cure (Crawley, England)
"Holiday in Cambodia," Dead Kennedys (San Francisco)
"I'm in Love With a German Film Star," Passions (London)
"I Will Dare," the Replacements (Minneapolis)
"That's When I Reach for My Revolver," Mission Of Burma (Boston)
"Johnny Hit and Run Pauline," X (Los Angeles)
"Just Like Honey," the Jesus And Mary Chain (Glasgow, Scotland)
"Black Celebration," Depeche Mode (Basildon, England)
"Tell Me When It's Over," the Dream Syndicate (Los Angeles)
"Hollywood (Africa)," the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Los Angeles)
"Temptation," New Order (Manchester, England)
"Ghosts," Japan (London)
"A Song From Under the Floorboards," Magazine (Manchester, England)
"Oblivious," Aztec Camera (Glasgow, Scotland)
"Don't Want To Know if You Are Lonely," Hüsker Dü (St. Paul, Minn.)
"Rise Above," Black Flag (Hermosa Beach, Calif.)
"Back in Flesh," Wall Of Voodoo (Los Angeles)
"Cattle and Cane," the Go-Betweens (Brisbane, Australia)

Disc two:
"Message of Love," the Pretenders (London)
"Vienna," Ultravox (London)
"Freak Scene," Dinosaur Jr. (Amherst, Mass.)
"This Charming Man," the Smiths (Manchester, England)
"Stigmata," Ministry (Chicago)
"Ways To Be Wicked," Lone Justice (Los Angeles)
"Wardance," Killing Joke (Notting Hill, England)
"Enola Gay," Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (Liverpool)
"Mirror in the Bathroom," the English Beat (Birmingham, England)
"Fairytale in the Supermarket," the Raincoats (London)
"Behind the Wall of Sleep," the Smithereens (Carteret, N.J.)
"Political Song for Michael Jackson To Sing," Minutemen (San Pedro, Calif.)
"Punk Rock Girl," the Dead Milkmen (Philadelphia)
"Still in Hollywood," Concrete Blonde (Los Angeles)
"Love Will Tear Us Apart," Joy Division (Manchester, England)
"Blister in the Sun," Violent Femmes (Milwaukee)
"Lake of Fire," Meat Puppets (Tucson, Ariz.)
"Amplifier," the dB's (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
"When Love Breaks Down," Prefab Sprout (Newcastle, England)
"Goo Goo Muck," the Cramps (New York)
"This Corrosion," Sisters Of Mercy (Leeds, England)
"Senses Working Overtime," XTC (Swindon, England)

Disc three:
"The Cutter," Echo & The Bunnymen (Liverpool)
"Pay To Cum!" Bad Brains (Washington, D.C.)
"Birthday," the Sugarcubes (Reykjavik)
"Madonna of the Wasps," Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians (London)
"We Care a Lot," Faith No More (San Francisco)
"Teenage Riot," Sonic Youth (New York)
"To Hell With Poverty," Gang Of Four (Leeds, England)
"Fa Cé-La," the Feelies (Hoboken, N.J.)
"Ana Ng," They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
"Swamp Thing," the Chameleons UK (Middleton, England)
"The Mercy Seat," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (London)
"I Look Around," the Rain Parade (Los Angeles)
"All That Money Wants," Psychedelic Furs (London)
"Under the Milky Way," the Church (Sydney)
"Rise," Public Image Ltd. (London)
"Kundalini Express," Love And Rockets (London)
"Gravity Talks," Green On Red (Los Angeles)
"Adrenalin," Throbbing Gristle (Manchester, England)
"She Bangs the Drums," the Stone Roses (Manchester, England)

Disc four:
"Monkey Gone to Heaven," Pixies (Boston)
"Uncertain Smile," (original 7" version)," the The (Swadlincote, England)
"Bela Lugosi's Dead," Bauhaus (Northampton, England)
"Christine," Siouxsie And The Banshees (Bromley, England)
"Straight Edge," Minor Threat (Washington, D.C.)
"I Want To Help You Ann," the Lyres (Boston)
"Our Secret," Beat Happening (Olympia, Wash.)
"Jane Says," Jane's Addiction (Los Angeles)
"World Shut Your Mouth," Julian Cope (Liverpool)
"Running up That Hill," Kate Bush (Bexleyheath, England)
"Sex Beat," Gun Club (Los Angeles)
"Take the Skinheads Bowling," Camper Van Beethoven (Santa Cruz, Calif.)
"Institutionalized," Suicidal Tendencies (Venice, Calif.)
"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops," Cocteau Twins (Grangemouth, Scotland)
"24 Hour Party People," Happy Mondays (Manchester, England)
"I Want You Back," Hoodoo Gurus (Sydney)
"Suburban Home," Descendents (Los Angeles)
"A Pair of Brown Eyes," the Pogues (Kings Cross, Ireland)
"Jet Fighter," the Three O'Clock (Los Angeles)
"Moving To Florida," Butthole Surfers (San Antonio, Texas)
"A New England," Billy Bragg (Barking, England)

New Alias?

Cinescape is reporting that ALIAS creator J.J. Abrams may replace the departed Joe Carnahan as director for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3.

Does Whatever a Raimi Can

SPIDER-MAN 2 director Sam Raimi talked to the BBC about the upcoming second sequel: "I just finished this morning [Monday July 12] -- I mean the basic story. I'd been working on it with my brother....It's going to follow the natural progression of the growth of these two individuals, Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker...I'm not certain if Harry will become the Goblin or not..."

BACK ON THE JOB

Exclusive sources telling E! News Live that Jorja Fox will report back to work at CSI and it was just a misunderstanding with CBS.

Coming Soon On DVD

Warner Home Video is rumoured to FINALLY be at work on a Blade Runner: Special Edition.

The bad news is that instead of a 3 or 4-disc ultimate edition, featuring all of the different versions of the film, it will likely just be one of the studio's 2-disc editions, featuring only the recent "director's cut" version of the film, the Channel 4 On the Edge of Blade Runner documentary and perhaps a few other odds and ends. Look for it sometime in the first half of 2005.

Oh well.

Spidey's Webbing His Way Home

Expect Columbia TriStar's Spider-Man 2 in mid-November as a 2-disc set (note that a more elaborate special edition is already in production for release at a later date).

Also coming from Columbia TriStar in November are the first two seasons of TV's Seinfeld, complete with extras featuring all of the show's cast members.

And if you are a moron and need to own a moronic movie, the recent summer piece of trash known as White Chicks is due on disc in October.

What about Shrek 2?

The folks at Animated-News.com have scored an early look at the menus for DreamWorks' Shrek 2, along with a few details on the extras.

As with the original film's DVD release, this 2-disc set - streeting on November 5th - will feature both anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) and full frame versions of the film, along with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Surround audio.

Extras will include a pair of audio commentary tracks (one with directors Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, and another with producer Aron Warner and editor Mike Andrews), along with behind-the-scenes featurettes, interactive games and much more. We expect further details to be announced soon by the studio.

And on the subject of another long-awaited DVD release, the Integral Naked website has just posted a new (and rare) audio interview with Matrix co-director Larry Wachowski, in which he gives some interesting details about Warner's forthcoming (and yet to be announced) Matrix Trilogy special edition DVD box set.

According to the site (and interview), the set is planned for release in October.

Brothers Larry and Andy reportedly declined to do audio commentary on the films themselves, apparently "fearing that whatever they said would turn into dogma." So they've tapped friends and fellow I.N. über-thinkers Ken Wilber and Cornel West to do the commentary on all 3 films for the set.

And there you go! Start saving up for all of these now!

Online gambling site includes Canadian Idol odds on its roster

TORONTO (CP) - A gambling company in the Caribbean has taken note of the popularity of Canadian Idol.

BetWWTs.com says 18-year-old Kalan Porter is the one most likely to win the record deal at nine-to-five odds. That means for every $5 gamblers put up for the blond-haired student from Medicine Hat, Alta., they'd win $9. Wild card winner Elena Juatco, a 19-year-old from Vancouver, is considered the second most likely to win at seven-to-two odds.

She's followed by 23-year-old Theresa Sokyrka, of Saskatoon, at four-to-one odds.

Wednesday marked the beginning of the next round of competition on the show. That's when the Top 10, whittled down from 9,000 who auditioned, will begin to be eliminated.

Broadcaster CTV will be adding some celebrities to mix this year with Gordon Lightfoot and Lionel Ritchie scheduled to make appearances later in the season. They will be helping the wannabe-pop stars practise songs from their respective songbooks.

Thousands of new definitions in latest revision of Canadian Oxford Dictionary

TORONTO (CP) - Canadians have a new word for a selfish hockey player (puck hog), a boy-crazy older woman (cougar) and the colourless rows of cubicles that make up the modern workplace (cube farm).

These entries are among thousands of updated words and meanings in the second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, which hits stores at the end of the month. Although some may seem so common that they barely merit a special mention, editor Katherine Barber said it is precisely those types of words that need to be recorded.

"Once these words become part of general vocabulary, you can't remember not having them," she said.

This update to the tome first released in 1998 adds only words and phrases the editors feel have become firmly entrenched in the language.

"We have a rule of thumb for the new dictionary entries - we have to have 15 examples from 15 different sources before we put it in the dictionary," Barber said, adding it takes about 10 years of use for a word to make the move from fringe expression to dictionary-worthy.

"We can't put every ephemeral word in the dictionary. We have to be convinced it's sticking around in the language," she said.

Barber pointed out Canadians' unique use of English continues to provide her and the other lexicographers on the project with new entries.

"Canadians are using Canadian English all the time without realizing it. We have about 2,200 Canadianisms in the dictionary," she said. "Most people don't realize 'butter tart' is a Canadianism, 'eavestrough' is a Canadianism."

For the past few years, editors have been surveying samples of the printed word across the country - everything from newspapers to grocery store flyers - and coming up with possible new entries for this revision. The mutability of the language means it's a never-ending job.

Barber's team encountered several surprises when researching this edition. For example, the everyday word for the orange simulated cheese-flavoured snack, Cheezies, is made-in-Canada. South of the border, they're called "cheese puffs" or "cheese twists."

"It's the ordinariness of (Canadianisms) which tends to surprise us," she said.

And the challenge goes beyond making sure there's a u in colour. Barber said Canadian English has a host of alternative word meanings, spellings and even pronunciations to contend with.

The context for Canadians is different as well, said Barber, pointing out that the vast hockey and curling vocabularies her team included isn't likely to be found in the equivalent American or British reference book.

"Hardly anyone puts curling vocabulary in dictionaries," she said.

But she rejected the idea that the dictionary, which she has worked on since 1991, is shaping the language.

"We don't delude ourselves into believing that just because a word is in the dictionary that people will keep on using it," she said.

In addition to new words and meanings, the latest edition includes a reference list of Canadian prime ministers and new biographical entries for 100 notable Canadians - including one horse. This revised dictionary includes a brief item on Northern Dancer, the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.

Since its release six years ago, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has sold more than 190,000 copies. The new edition includes 300,000 definitions.

Here are some of the new entries in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, second edition:

Canadianisms:
- Alberta clipper
- double-double
- May Two-Four

Sports:
- puck hog
- beer league
- sno-pitch

Sex:
- studmuffin
- sexcapade
- cougar

Technology:
- hacktivist
- netizen
- blog

Health:
- SARS
- West Nile Virus
- erectile dysfunction

Slang:
- geek chic
- jiggy
- SOL

Family:
- co-parent
- commuter marriage
- nanny cam

Fired 'CSI' Actor Denies Salary Holdout

LOS ANGELES - Fired "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" actor George Eads says he wasn't staging a salary holdout when he missed work — he overslept. He hoped what he called a "big misunderstanding" with CBS and its chief, Leslie Moonves, will be resolved by the end of the week and he will be back to work on the hit drama, Eads said Wednesday.

"Yeah, definitely, I look forward to going back," he told a Television Critics Association meeting. He was on hand to publicize his upcoming TV movie "Evel Knievel," airing July 30 on TNT.

Eads and "CSI" co-star Jorja Fox were dumped by CBS last week after failing to show up for the start of production on the upcoming fifth season. The network said they had demanded raises beyond their contracts.

The actors reportedly were making $100,000 per episode for the series, which airs about 24 episodes a season.

CBS had no immediate comment on Eads' remarks, network spokesman Chris Ender said Wednesday. A call to Fox's publicist was not immediately returned.

"They think it's about money and it's not," Eads said. "I overslept. ... I woke up white as a sheet 3 1/2 hours after I was supposed to be on the set."

He called in, said he was on his way and was told, "Don't bother," Eads said. The Texas native compared himself to a football star who makes a similar error.

"It's like I'm the quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys and I overslept the first day of practice," he said. "I'd expect the coach to have me run hills and run wind sprints until the sun goes down, not you know, completely fire me."

Asked if CBS had sought an apology from him, he replied: "Let me tell you, I've apologized nine ways to Sunday. It's a big misunderstanding, straight up."

"I want all this to work out. 'CSI' is a part of who I am," Eads said.

Eads said he wants to speak with Moonves to resolve the issue but had yet to reach him. He compared getting hold of Moonves, a top executive with CBS parent company Viacom, to reaching the mysterious Charlie in "Charlie's Angels."

"If after I've spoken to him from my heart he knows exactly what the situation is, he's the boss. It's still up to him."

At a session last Sunday with the TV critics, Moonves called the firings a fair business decision.

"There comes a point where we feel a contract is a contract. ... We all have to look out for the future of the network television business," said Moonves, co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom.

Eads echoed those comments Wednesday, saying he agreed "a contract is a contract."