The world according to Dan.

The TV news personality wars continue as CNN hires ABC’s Connie Chung.

Brian Wilson has caught a new wave, to Europe.

Pat Summerall is finally stepping down as a football broadcaster.

Bob Cole, you’re next! Please?!?

After weeks of trying to find out of it was true, we now know that the rumour was true! EMI has dumped Mariah Carey, but given her a $28 million pay- off.

I’d go away too for that kind of money!

If you missed it on Saturday Night Live you should watch Kevin Spacey spoofing “Star Wars.” May the force be with YOU!

Jazz vocalist Peggy Lee has died at the age of 81. R.I.P.

Weezer gives new album an actual title

Weezer’s next album will have a name instead of a colour.

The band’s website confirmed that Weezer’s new disc has been dubbed “Maladroit,” after the name was suggested by a fan on the group’s bulletin board.

Dubbing the album “Maladroit” “means that the ‘colour’ theme will not be revisited this time around. Maladroit, by the way, means inept, clumsy, awkward or unskilled.

The site said the new disc will include “Take Control,” “Dope Nose” and “Keep Fishin’,” all of which were tried out in concert during the last year. The band has also been posting demos for the new album online. Want to hear some of those demos?

Indiana Jones 4 is finally set to go! FINALLY!!

Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford have still got an Indiana Jones thing going on. Foxnews.com reports that the fourth Indiana Jones film will be Spielberg’s next project, once he completes work on “Catch Me If You Can,” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. “We have a title, but we’re not ready to announce it,” Spielberg told Foxnews.com after Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, which honoured Ford with a career-achievement prize.

Spielberg also revealed that his wife, Kate Capshaw, will appear in the film. Ford told Foxnews.com that the only hesitation in returning to the Indy Jones character was the lack of a decent screenplay.

“It was always about getting the right script, and now we have it,” he said. Over the years, a number of screenplays and rumours have circulated through movie-buff circles, involving everything from Jones fending off an alien invasion to discovering the lost continent of Atlantis.

One screenplay, later reported to be the work of an over-ambitious fan, was dubbed “Indiana Jones And The Sons Of Darkness,” and featured the daredevil archeologist battling Russians to retrieve part of Noah’s Ark. Still another involved flying saucers and Area 51, but the strangest of all was “Indiana Jones And The Garden Of Life,” which saw Jones searching for signs of Adam and Eve.

In June 2000, it was reported that “The Sixth Sense” writer-director M. Night Shyamalan had been hired to write a screenplay for a sequel to be filmed in 2002. There’s no indication so far of which scenario will be tackled in “Indiana Jones 4,” or whether Shyamalan’s screenplay is the version to which all parties have agreed.

Meanwhile, as Spielberg prepares for “Catch Me If You Can” and “Indiana Jones 4,” he’s also editing his upcoming film “Minority Report,” a futuristic thriller with Tom Cruise. His busy schedule means that Spielberg won’t go ahead with his long-planned adaptation of Arthur S. Golden’s best-selling novel “Memoirs Of A Geisha.”

“I’m not going to do it,” Spielberg told Foxnews.com. “It’s over.”

But, there will finally be an Indiana Jones 4!! Man, do I hope it’s better than A.I.- Artificial Intelligence!

The Virtually Unknown Rosamund Pike Joins The New JAMES BOND Movie

Rosamund Pike (Wives and Daughters) will play Miranda Frost in the upcoming James Bond film, joining Halle Berry as the film’s two main Bond girls.

In related news, Pierce Brosnan has said he’ll likely sign on to star in at least one more Bond movie.

After a pretty mild few months of winter, it is finally starting to get cold enough to just want to stay home and watch a movie. So here are the new releases for Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002.

KISS OF THE DRAGON (VHSr & DVD)- This Jet Li action-fest is a good but not great Luc Besson-produced film about a Chinese government agent who becomes trapped in a deadly conspiracy while on assignment in Paris. The DVD offers audio commentary from Jet Li, co-star Bridget Fonda, and director Chris Nathon, as well as a few featurettes and storyboard to scene comparisons. What the DVD does not do is explain why Bridget Fonda is in this movie.

ROCK STAR (VHS & DVD)- The once Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, and Jennifer Aniston star in this story of a “…wanna be, who got to be.” You got to be skipping this one. Unless you like pure cheese. Then you should give it a shot! Just don’t shoot your TV!

BULLY (VHS & DVD)
NINE INCH NAILS: AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN (VHS & DVD)
VENOMOUS (VHSr & DVD)
G-SAVIOUR (DVD)
STRANGE DAWN: STRANGE WORLD (VHS & DVD)
PURPLE NOON (DVD)
CHILDREN OF PARADISE (Criterion) (DVD)
BELLE DE JOUR (DVD)
LIVE FROM THE MET, Vol. 1 (DVD)
MATTER OF TRUST (VHS & DVD)
PLAYBOY: JOANIE LAURER NUDE – WRESTLING SUPERSTAR (VHS & DVD)
FARSCAPE #10: NERVE, HIDDEN MEMORY (DVD)
ARTHUR GOES ON A FIELD TRIP (VHS)
ARTHUR MAKES A MOVE (VHS)

Plus… Sell-through VHS & DVD releases of CARMEN JONES, HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK, THE FIVE HEART BEATS, SOUL FOOD, WAITING TO EXHALE and LIGHT IT UP.