DualDisc Format Takes Off

Six months after the low-key launch of the CD/DVD hybrid known as DualDisc, major labels are planning a big show of faith in the fledgling format: Two of April's highest-profile releases -- Bruce Springsteen's Devils and Dust and Rob Thomas' solo debut, Something to Be -- will be available only as DualDiscs. The format pairs a standard CD on one side of a disc with a DVD on the flip side that offers video content and, often, a surround-sound mix of the record.

DualDisc versions of the new Nine Inch Nails and Bon Jovi albums are in the works, and a flood of extras-packed reissues -- from AC/DC's Back in Black to David Bowie's Reality -- are already exploiting the format. "In the long term, we definitely see a transition from CD to DualDisc," says Thomas Hesse, president of global digital business for Sony BMG. Sony, which owns Springsteen's label, Columbia Records, formed a consortium last year with the other three major record companies to promote the new discs.

DualDisc's video content echoes the bonus material on movie DVDs. Devils and Dust, for instance, includes arty footage of Springsteen performing his new songs solo, shot by famed rock photographer Danny Clinch. As with regular music DVDs (record labels' fastest-growing sales category), fans can't easily trade the videos online. "DualDisc is certainly part of the process of helping to stop piracy," says Paul Bishow, a vice president of marketing at Universal Music Group, which is releasing the NIN and Bon Jovi records.

The first album to debut on DualDisc, Simple Plan's Still Not Getting Any..., has gone platinum since its release last fall. Recent albums by Omarion, Jennifer Lopez and Judas Priest are available on both DualDisc and standard CD; each has sold at least thirty percent of their total in the new format. "Retailers have been surprised at how big DualDisc sales are," says Best Buy VP Jennifer Schaidler.

But DualDisc prices, which can be one to three dollars more than standard CDs, may be an obstacle to wider acceptance. In part because of additional manufacturing costs (seventy cents more per disc, one executive says), labels charge higher wholesale prices for DualDiscs. "Our feeling is it should be the same price as a CD," says Russ Eisenman, senior vice president of marketing at Tower Records. "But if that extra dollar pays for content that the consumer finds valuable, then it's fine."

Five DualDiscs You Need:

Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust

What's cool: Springsteen tells the stories behind powerful new songs like "Long Time Comin'."

Highlight: Bonus footage of an acoustic Springsteen performance shot by photographer Danny Clinch.

AC/DC - Back in Black

What's cool: A spiffed-up mix means "Hells Bells" rings louder than ever. Includes interviews and rare live footage.

Highlight: The Young brothers show how they wrote "You Shook Me All Night Long."

Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless

What's cool: Enhanced sound and a backstage documentary beef up Good Charlotte's snot-nosed 2002 album.

Highlight: The MTV-style doc shows them getting tattoos, going to the zoo and meeting preteen fans.

David Bowie - Reality

What's cool: Bowie's 2003 comeback album is amped up with a 5:1 surround-sound mix and video extras.

Highlight: A surreal short film in which the singer conducts an interview with himself.

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

What's cool: Reznor revisits his 1994 masterpiece with souped-up sound and three music videos.

Highlight: The "Hurt" video, an intense, spooky solo performance from the Downward Spiral tour.

'Next Gen' Stars Visit 'Enterprise' Finale

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Two stars of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" will help bring the four-season voyage of the current "Trek" series, "Enterprise," to an end.

The final two episodes of the show are scheduled for Friday, May 13, and will focus on the forming of the Federation and the role the Enterprise plays in it. "Next Generation" regulars Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis will appear as their characters from that series, William Riker and Deanna Troi.

The network announced in February that this season of "Enterprise" would be its last, resulting in howls of protest from "Trek" fans and a drive to raise enough money to finance another season of the series. Thus far the effort, organized at TrekUnited.com and SaveEnterprise.com, has raised just over $3.1 million, with $3 million of that coming from a trio of deep-pocketed anonymous donors.

The group hopes to raise $32 million, the cost of production for a full 22-episode season.

The final episodes will explore how the United Federation of Planets came to be. The first, which concludes a two-episode arc, finds the Enterprise trying to stop a human isolationist leader (guest star Peter Weller, "RoboCop") who's threatening to destroy Starfleet Command.

The finale will flash ahead six years, as Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) and his crew return to Earth for the decommissioning of the ship and the signing of the Federation charter. Frakes and Sirtis will appear in a sequence set on the holodeck.

Seinfeld's TV Dad Dies

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Barney Martin, who played Jerry Seinfeld's father Morty on more than 20 episodes of "Seinfeld," died on Monday (March 21) at the age of 82.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Martin suffered from cancer.

An Air Force pilot in World War II, Martin served as a New York policeman before beginning a Broadway career that included such classics as "South Pacific" and the original production of "Chicago." Among Martin's film credits are a memorable part in "The Producers" and the role of Liza Minnelli's father in "Arthur" and its sequel.

Although Phil Bruns originated the part of Morty Seinfeld, Martin took over the character in the show's second season in the episode titled "The Pony Remark" and made regular appearances until the show's 1998 finale.

A regular television guest star throughout the '70s and '80s, Martin cameoed on some of the decades' best, such as "The Odd Couple," "Hill Street Blues," "St. Elsewhere," "Murphy Brown" and "The Wonder Years."

Madchen Amick Has Three Loves

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) "I'm representing the single women out there," says actress Madchen Amick, "dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking."

Starting Thursday, March 24, Amick begins a five-episode stint on NBC's "Friends" spin-off "Joey" (other announced airdates are April 21 and 28), playing Sarah, the new love interest for Hollywood neophyte Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc).

"It's actually new territory for Joey," Amick says, "because the audience never really saw him engage any one girl. This is the first time you really see him romantically involved and everything that goes with that. It's time for Joey to grow up."

Amick has also been playing the recurring role of social worker Wendall Meade, the latest love interest of Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle), on NBC's "ER."

And, Amick appeared in the pilot for ABC's "Jake in Progress," playing Kylie, the date of the title character, played by John Stamos. In the original idea, the whole season was to track this single date.

"It didn't work out that way," Amick says. "It's too bad, I thought that was a great idea."

Asked which of these three TV hunks is the best kisser, Amick says, "Hmmm, I didn't get to kiss Noah very often; didn't get to kiss Stamos at all. But I've had a lot of kisses with Matt, so I have to say, it goes to Matt."

In the meantime, Amick is doing what almost every other actor without a steady gig is doing -- auditioning for pilots. She's not thrilled with what she's seeing.

"It seems like the pilots, in general, are written well," she says, "but I didn't see any concepts that were different than anything else. It was very heavy in dramas as well, not that many comedies. But they always follow the trend of what's on right now."

Amick speaks from experience when it comes to TV projects that are out of the ordinary. During the 1990-91 season on ABC, Amick played Shelly Johnson on "Twin Peaks," created by Mark Frost ("Hill Street Blues") and film auteur David Lynch ("Dune," "Blue Velvet," "Mulholland Drive").

"'Twin Peaks' hit big and fast," Amick recalls. "It was one of the first things I had done. I was fresh out of Reno, Nev., innocent and young, came to Hollywood."

Kyle MacLachlan starred as FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who arrives in the bizarre Pacific Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks to investigate the mysterious death of prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).

Although the show, a late midseason replacement, only aired two seasons (the first was quite brief), it has continued to live on in TV lore and among its devoted fans as one of the strangest, but most original, series to ever air on network television.

"As far as I understand," Amick says, "Lynch never intended it to be more than one season. It was not a good mixture with the network. The network never believed it; never stood behind it. They just wanted to bury it. They put us against 'Cheers' on Thursday night."

While Amick may have worked on more conventional hits since, she says, "Everything hasn't ever really lived up to that. It was such a rare, special thing. It changed television for its time. It introduced me to a world and a creator like David Lynch, which is completely different than everyone and anything else, but completely brilliant at the same time.

"It can work. It can be brilliant, and it can be embraced. It's like he went into Hollywood and said, 'No, no, it can work. I've seen it. It doesn't have to be your average, cookie-cutter, safe thing. It can work.'"

Michael J. Anderson, who made memorable appearances as the backward-talking little person in the "Twin Peaks" series and subsequent movies, now is one of the stars of HBO's Depression-era dark fantasy "Carnivale." While Amick says she doesn't follow that show, she did audition for its Sunday-night timeslot neighbor, the gritty Western "Deadwood."

"When they were casting it," she says, "my representation was trying to get me on it. But they wanted to go very different, very quirky. They didn't want any conventional beauties in it. I'm not a conventional beauty. Visit me when I wake up in the morning -- I'll fit in."

With the show very likely to return for a third season, Amick hasn't given up hope. "I'll be a drifter who blows through town," she says. "I could come in, lighten things up and then saunter off into the sunset."

Weezer Fleshing Out Spring Tour Plans

Weezer has begun confirming North American tour dates around its previously announced April 30 appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., kicking off April 26 in Vancouver. Twelve dates are on tap through May 14 in Atlanta, to be followed by another 12 in Europe and Japan through mid-August.

The group will be out in support of its new album, "Make Believe," due May 10 via Geffen. First single "Beverly Hills" can be streamed from the band's official Web site. The mid-tempo track, with shades of 1994 hit "Say It Ain't So," is already garnering airplay at KROQ Los Angeles, WXRK New York and KNDD Seattle (which has played it more than 20 times since last Friday).

Billboard.com understands that "Make Believe" is still not fully mixed. The set will be the follow-up to 2002's "Maladroit," which debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 and has sold just shy of 580,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Here are Weezer's North American tour dates:

April 26: Vancouver (Commodore Ballroom)
April 27: Seattle (Moore Theatre)
April 29: San Francisco (Warfield)
April 30: Indio, Calif. (Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival)
May 3: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
May 4: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
May 5: Detroit (State Theatre)
May 6: Toronto (Kool Haus)
May 8: Boston (Avalon Ballroom)
May 10: Philadelphia (Electric Factory)
May 11-12: New York (Roseland)
May 14: Atlanta (Tabernacle)

Jolie sizzles atop 'FHM' sexiest list

Move over, Britney Spears!

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie, 29, has been voted the sexiest woman in the world by readers of FHM, a men's magazine. Spears, who topped the "100 Sexiest Women" list last year, did not even make the cut for 2005.

FHM editor Scott Gramling blames the Spears snub on her marriage to Kevin Federline. "She was taken off the market. It broke the hearts of men 18 to 35."

Jolie, who was No. 2 last year, "is mysterious, outspoken, outlandish, very smart."

In the biggest comeback, Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher, 40, came in at No. 7; she last appeared at No. 55 in 2001.

Other ranked hotties: tennis star Maria Sharapova (No. 19); rocker Gwen Stefani (No. 30); the Olsen twins (jointly No. 32); Housewives' Eva Longoria (No. 38); and actress Roselyn Sanchez (No. 100).

Here is the complete list

1. Angelina Jolie
2. Jennifer Garner
3. Paris Hilton
4. Charlize Theron
5. Halle Berry
6. Alyssa Milano
7. Teri Hatcher
8. Pamela Anderson
9. Scarlett Johansson
10. Lindsay Lohan
11. Keira Knightly
12. Salma Hayek
13. Cameron Diaz
14. Leeann Tweedon
15. Mariah Carey
16. Jessica Simpson
17. Beyonce Knowles
18. Carmen Electra
19. Maria Sharapova
20. Jennifer Love Hewitt
21. Jessica Biel
22. Jessica Alba
23. Brooke Burke
24. Jenna Jameson
25. Heidi Klum
26. Vida Guerra
27. Christina Aguilera
28. Kristin Kreuk
29. Faith Hill
30. Gwen Stefani
31. Jennifer Lopez
32. The Olsen Twins
33. Shania Twain
34. Beth Ostrocky
35. Many Moore
36. Josie Maran
37. Janet Jackson
38. Eva Longoria
39. Adriana Lima
40. Reese Witherspoon
41. Jennifer Aniston
42. Jamie-Lynn DiScala
43. Tara Reid
44. Maggie Grace
45. Elizabeth Hurley
46. Eliza Dushku
47. Kate Hudson
48. Anna Benson
49. Natalie Portman
50. LeAnn Rimes
51. Penelope Cruz
52. Mischa Barton
53. Eva Mendes
54. Jenny McCarthy
55. Katherine Heigl
56. Lucy Liu
57. Jennie Finch
58. Maggie Gyllenhaal
59. Amanda Righetti
60. Kate Bosworth
61. Estella Warren
62. Anna Kournikova
63. Landi Swanepoel
64. Sarah Michelle Geller
65. Gisele Bundchen
66. Neve Campbell
67. Uma Thurman
68. Catherine Zeta-Jones
69. Nicole Kidman
70. Emaa Bunton
71. Kate Beckinsale
72. Katie Holmes
73. Morgan Webb
74. Heather Graham
75. Evangeline Lilly
76. Shakira
77. Rachel Bilson
78. Kaley Cuoco
79. Amanda Beard
80. Sofia Vergara
81. Ashanti
82. Denise Richards
83. Molly Sims
84. Alessandra Ambrosio
85. Kelly Ripa
86. Mayra Veronica
87. Jamie Pressly
88. Jennifer Connelly
89. Monica Bellucci
90. Kristi Leskinen
91. Logan Tom
92. Kelly Clarkson
93. Jennifer Hanson
94. Courtney Hansen
95. Alicia Keys
96. Brande Roderick
97. Natalie Gulbis
98. Milla Jovovich
99. Rebecca Romijn Stamos
100. Roselyn Sanchez

Singer Whitney Houston Enters Rehab Again

NEW YORK - A year after her first reported stay in rehab, Whitney Houston has again checked into a rehabilitation facility. "Whitney Houston has re-entered a rehabilitation facility today," her publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told The Associated Press Wednesday. She declined to provide details.

The news was first reported by syndicated entertainment TV show "Access Hollywood."

In March 2004, Houston checked herself into an undisclosed rehabilitation center.

After years of denying drug use, the pop diva said she had used cocaine, marijuana and pills in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Primetime" in 2002.

She has said she was using the power of prayer to help her get over drugs.

In January 2000, Houston left behind a bag at an airport in Hawaii that allegedly held less than half an ounce of marijuana and three partially smoked marijuana cigarettes; a petty misdemeanor drug charge was dismissed when a counselor said Houston didn't need treatment for substance abuse.

Houston, 41, has been working with producer Clive Davis on a comeback album.

The Grammy-winning singer is known for her rendition of "I Will Always Love You" and her role in the 1992 film "The Bodyguard." Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown have been married since 1992 and have an 12-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

Brown has a history of drug and alcohol arrests.

The couple live near Alpharetta, a suburb north of Atlanta.

Costello's 'King' Receives Rhino Revamp

NEW YORK (Billboard) - "King of America," the 1986 album that saw Elvis Costello ditch the Attractions and turn introspective and even rootsy, is the latest of the artist's catalog titles lined up for reissue via Rhino.

Due April 26, the Warner Bros. set is expanded to two discs, the second of which boasts a host of Costello's solo demos, as well as rare Coward Brothers and live recordings.

The set was originally credited to the Costello Show Featuring the Attractions and Confederates, since one song -- "Suit of Lights" -- survived scrapped recordings with Costello's longtime band that were intended to make up half of the album.

The rest of the set features a crack lineup of musicians that includes guitarists T-Bone Burnett and James Burton, drummers Jim Keltner, Mickey Curry, Ron Tutt and Earl Palmer, bassists Ray Brown and Jerry Scheff, keyboardist Mitchell Froom and multi-instrumentalist T-Bone Wolk.

A critical success, "King of America" found mediocre commercial acceptance upon release, reaching No. 39 on The Billboard 200.

Although a cover of the Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" received the lion's share of rock radio's attention at the time, several songs on the album are top favorites among fans, including "Brilliant Mistake," "Indoor Fireworks," "The Big Light" and "Glitter Gulch."

The new edition's 21-song second disc relies heavily on solo demo recordings to differ it from Rykodisc's 1995 reissue of the title. In addition to several songs that made it through to the original album, there are other notable demos, including "Having It All" and "I Hope You're Happy Now." Only one new live recording not on the Ryko edition appears on the new set, a version of Buddy Holly's "True Love Ways."

While the recordings of "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me" and "The People's Limousine" by the aforementioned Coward Brothers, which consisted of Costello and Burnett, were included on Ryko's version of "King of America," they are still a necessary inclusion relating to this period of Costello's career.

During a Q&A session at last week's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, Costello insisted that reissuing his catalog again is not a ploy to confuse or milk the cash of his diehard fans.

"It is for those who missed it the first time around," he said, not for "those obsessed with having everything."

Start growing those muttonchops again, Hugh Jackman!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jackman is confirmed to return as Wolverine in X-Men 3. In talks with Twentieth Century Fox to return as well are franchise stars Halle Berry (Storm), Patrick Stewart (Professor Xavier), and Ian McKellen (Magneto).

This time, they'll be working for a new director. It's relative newbie Matthew Vaughn, the British producer-turned-director who may be better known for being married to supermodel Claudia Schiffer than for his film career.

Vaughn's sole directing credit to date is 2004's Layer Cake, which has yet to be released on this side of the pond; it's a stylish London-set gangster movie in the vein of the ones he produced for Guy Ritchie.

Vaughn also has a deal with Warner Bros. to direct a big-screen version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the 1960s TV spy series that starred Robert Vaughn, whom Matthew believed was his father until paternity tests proved otherwise a few years ago.

It's not clear who else from the first two X-Men movies will return.

One actor who probably won't be coming back is James Marsden (Cyclops).

Director Bryan Singer, who left the Fox franchise last summer to direct Warner's upcoming Superman Returns, took Marsden with him.

He'll play Richard White, who'll compete with Clark Kent (Brandon Routh) as a love interest for Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth).

Superman Returns began shooting this week and will continue through August, while X-Men 3 is due to shoot in July. It has a scheduled release date of May 26, 2006.

Harry Situation

In court affidavits filed last week, a Teton County prosecutor swore that Kelly Frank confessed to the FBI that he had plotted to kidnap David Letterman's toddler Harry from the Late Show host's Montana ranch. Nonetheless, the Associated Press reports, Frank pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to felony charges surrounding the alleged plot to kidnap 16-month-old Harry and his nanny and ransom them for $5 million. He was ordered to remain jailed pending bail of $600,000, with his next court date scheduled for April 5.

Frank, who's on probation for a felony conviction for intimidating a woman, was fingered by erstwhile friend and coworker Robert Gondeiro and arrested last Monday. Gondeiro told investigators that Frank, a handyman and painter who had worked at the Letterman ranch, tried to enlist him in the kidnap plot. Frank was charged with felony solicitation, felony theft (authorities said he confessed to overcharging Letterman between $1,000 and $1,500), and misdemeanor obstruction (for his initial denial to investigators).

Frank's attorney, Jim Hunt, acknowledged to AP that his client had discussed the kidnap scheme, ''but with no purpose of carrying it out.'' He called the discussion a ''lighthearted conversation.'' His explanation echoed that of Frank's fiancée, Laurie Johnson, who told reporters over the weekend that Frank's remarks had been taken out of context, and that Gondeiro turned him in because of a grudge he'd been carrying against Frank ever since a squabble they'd had at work.

Letterman, who'd issued a statement of gratitude to the police and FBI investigators on Friday, spoke for the first time about the plot on Monday's Late Show, his first broadcast since reports of Frank's arrest surfaced last Thursday.

''Last week, my family and I were involved in a little legal activity, and fortunately everything turned out fine, but I want to just take a second here to thank some people,'' Letterman told his audience. He specifically thanked four of the lawmen involved, as well as "the great people of Choteau, Montana.'' Curiously unmentioned was Gondeiro.

Canadian Idol runner-up Sokyrka to release debut CD next month

TORONTO (CP) - Canadian Idol runner-up Theresa Sokyrka is set to release her first album next month.

Sokyrka, the bespectacled Saskatoon songstress who placed second to Idol champ Kalan Porter, has signed a distribution deal with MapleNationWide to get her indie release in stores for April 26.

The CD, entitled These Old Charms, will include folk songs, jazz standards and some original compositions.

As runner-up Sokyrka has struggled to find an outlet for her music while Porter's win gave him an automatic record contract with powerhouse label BMG, which recently merged with Sony Music.

Sokyrka's new deal is hardly lucrative. She'll be on the hook for advertising and promotion.

Sokyrka is currently touring Ontario, where she remains low key.

Sadly, she remains very, very over-exposed in her home province.

Sideways co-star Thomas Haden Church squares off against Spidey

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Filmmakers have unveiled Spider-Man's newest nemesis, who will be played by Thomas Haden Church. Just which villain he'll play remains a mystery, though.

Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, which announced Church as the bad guy for Spider-Man 3 on Tuesday, were keeping mum on the actual character he will bring to life from the many enemies the superhero has fought in the comic-book series.

With Tobey Maguire returning as the hero and Kirsten Dunst back as girl-next-door Mary Jane Watson, Spider-Man 3 begins filming early next year and is due in theatres May 4, 2007.

Church follows Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man and Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2.

"In addition to the ongoing relationship between Peter Parker and M.J., these films are driven by the great actors who have brought our villains to life," said Sam Raimi, director of the Spider-Man flicks. "Thomas Haden Church will be a fantastic and challenging new nemesis."

A co-star in the 1990s sit-com Wings, Church earned a supporting-actor Academy Award nomination for his role as a randy bachelor on a last fling in the road-trip tale Sideways.

Blake Says He Has Clear Conscience

LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake says he has a clear conscience after his acquittal on charges he killed his wife, but he also has an empty bank account and owes a fortune in taxes.

Blake's remarks, scheduled to air Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," were from his first television interview since the acquittal. Portions of the interview also aired Tuesday.

Blake told interviewer Barbara Walters the public still is debating his guilt or innocence.

"People right now either love me or hate me," he said. "The other day I went to the farmer's market, and everybody was hugging me and stuff, but there were people on the outside saying, 'Murderer.'"

"Is your conscience clear?" Walters asked.

"Of course it's clear," Blake replied.

Asked about a wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by children of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, Blake said that "they're going to have to stand in a long line" to collect any money.

"Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him," he said. "I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'"

The ex-"Baretta" TV star is scheduled to give a videotaped deposition in the lawsuit April 5. The trial is scheduled to begin July 7.

Bakley was shot twice as she sat in the couple's car in 2001 outside a restaurant where they had just dined. Blake contended that he had gone back inside to retrieve a gun he carried for protection and that some unknown assailant killed his wife in the few minutes he was away.

Bakley was the mother of Blake's young daughter. She had been married several times, had a criminal record for mail fraud and reportedly made a living scamming men out of money with nude pictures of herself and promises of sex.

In part of the interview that aired Tuesday, Blake said he did not know who killed his wife but suggested it could have been "somebody whose father was taken for a ride or something like that."

"She made a lot of enemies," he said.

Jurors acquitted Blake of first-degree murder and one count of solicitation of murder. A judge dismissed a second solicitation charge after jurors deadlocked.

Blake had previously appeared in a separate interview with Walters before his acquittal, claiming he had reason to live for his daughter, Rosie, who is currently in the custody of Blake's adult daughter.

"It's all about Rosie. It's always been about Rosie," Blake said in that interview. "The greatest gift in the world, and I'm going to try to mess it up by being selfish?"