Beavis and Butt-head - More details for Volume 2

When Beavis and Butt-Head first appeared on MTV more than a decade ago, critics dismissed them as brainless couch potatoes who did nothing but watch TV and make lewd jokes about bodily functions. Today we know they were ahead of their time. Beavis and Butt-Head's unique idiocy profoundly changed television, movies, pop culture and the world. This historic box set, personally edited by creator Mike Judge, includes their finest episodes, specials, promos and guest appearances that so enriched a grateful and stupid nation. Creator, Mike Judge has chosen his next set of favorite episodes & music videos for this collector's edition box set.

Paramount and MTV have released more information on the second volume of Beavis and Butt-Head, featuring 40 cartoons (226 mins) selected by Mike Judge. Here's what we can expect:

Music Videos:
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Seaweed: Kid Candy
Pantera: I'm Broken
Mercyful Fate: The Bellwitch
Compulsion: Delivery
Madonna: Secret
Six Finger Satellite: Parlour Games
Pizzicato 5: Twiggy, Twiggy
Rush: Stick It Out
Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees
Extreme: Hole-Hearted
Helium: Pat's Trick
MC 900 Ft. Jesus: If I Only Had A Brain
Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis & Butt-Head, Part 2
Butt-Bowl '94
Butt-Bowl '95
Butt-Bowl '96
MTV 20th Anniversary Special
Calvin Klein Ad Parodies
Moron-a-thon Clips
Unaired I Love the 90's Segment
Beavis and Butt-Head Promos
Montages
Previews

The set goes on sale June 6.

Electronic Arts rolls out The Godfather game

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc. on Tuesday said its highly anticipated, but much delayed, video game based on the popular "Godfather" films is now in U.S. stores, and will debut in Europe on March 24.

The company saw its stock rise by 3.95 percent in early market trading to $54.75.

Last July it pushed back the launch of "The Godfather The Game," sending its shares lower, when it said the game would not make the crucial Christmas retail delivery window.

The game, created via a licensing relationship with Viacom Inc. affiliates Paramount Pictures and Viacom Consumer Products, is available for Sony Corp.'s. PlayStation 2, Microsoft Corp.'s. Xbox and also for personal computers. It is based on the Mario Puzo book and Paramount Pictures movie and features some of the voices of the original actors.

The Godfather game was developed by EA Redwood Shores which created other game franchises including Lord of the Rings and Tiger Woods PGA Tour.

Jewel Trips Through "Wonderland"

For the follow-up to 2003's 0304, Jewel first ducked into the studio with a group of Nashville pros to self-produce a new, folky, Pieces of You-style album. But she didn't like the results, so she rerecorded the entire thing with Green Day producer Rob Cavallo, who gave her introspective songs a slick sheen.

In a matter of weeks, the pair reworked every cut live, overdubbing only percussion, for what would become Goodbye Alice in Wonderland, her new album out May 2nd.

"It tells the story of my life from Alaska to being homeless to that little bottle that said 'Drink me,' which was my career," she says.

The record finds the singer-songwriter exploring a number of musical styles -- from the country tinge of "Stephenville, TX" and upbeat pop of "Satellite," to the folksy opening one-two punch, "Again and Again" and "Long Slow Slide." "I'm a Gemini," Jewel says to explain her range. "I have a lot of moods."

To give her moods a flow, she programmed Alice's thirteen songs -- all recorded live -- as if the album were a concert. "I start in a certain place," she says, "bring it up into sort of a rock set, and then I come back down."

Though a downloader herself, Jewel says she still wants people to listen to Alice as a whole entity. "I'm old-fashioned about records," she confesses. "I want people to hear the whole record in the order I put it in."

Thinking of taking her new material on the road, Jewel adds, "If I can, I'd love to play the record from top to bottom."

Shrek 3 News

DreamWorks Animation has updated their official site and with it they've unveiled the title and storyline for the next Shrek movie.

Titled Shrek the Third the movie finds Shrek and Fiona reluctantly reigning over Far, Far Away. But if they can find the heir to the throne and bring him back, they can return to their swamp. While Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots are in search of the heir, Fiona holds off a coup d'etat by Prince Charming.

Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Bandera will all be returning to provide voice work. Also joining the cast will by Justin Timberlake as Artie, the aforementioned "heir to the throne".

Shrek the Third is due for release in May 2007.

"SNL" skit puts YouTube on map

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It took a "Saturday Night Live" skit featuring a rap about cupcakes and "The Chronicles of Narnia" to put YouTube on Hollywood's radar.

Not long after "SNL" aired the segment December 17, the clever lyrics to what was known as "Lazy Sunday" made its way to the Internet. YouTube in particular saw its traffic shoot up, with 5 million streams over 45 days -- making it the most-watched clip on the site for a time.

Nearly two months went by before NBC Universal's legal department began reaching out to viral video sites including http://www.YouTube.com requesting that the clip be removed, along with hundreds of other clips culled from its airwaves. NBC had already posted "Sunday" on http://www.NBC.com at no charge; the skit also is available for $1.99 on Apple's iTunes along with other NBC programs.

Since then, NBC has made a steady stream of "SNL" product available on new platforms, but YouTube hasn't left the picture. A skit featuring Natalie Portman this month drew another demand of removal from NBC.

And what would an Internet phenomenon be without spawning countless parodies. "Sunday" has generated more than a few versions of "Lazy Monday," picking up on the theme of hopelessly white kids trying to rap. Two standouts are "Lazy Muncie," in which two denizens of the titular Indiana town give shout-outs to Midwest franchises like Bob Evans, and "Lazy Monday: Middle East Coast," which runs subtitles under Al-Jazeera footage featuring Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri ("Let's go down to the village/and mac on some goat milk").