Britt Plunkett runs his forearm across his head, pushing sweat off his brow. “I actually took a picture of the thermostat,” he says. “I just had to record it: 99 degrees.”For Paul Rudd, the decision to star in Jay Roach’s new comedy, “Dinner for Schmucks,” was an easy one. “I thought the script was really funny,” he says. “That was it. It was kind of a no-brainer.” Of course Rudd, who’s built an impressive resume of smart comedies, was just as enamored of the man behind the camera. Though Lilith Fair returned from an 11-year hiatus to a very different musical landscape, it is one that Sarah McLachlan and Co. helped lay the blueprints for more than a decade ago.Although facts on the famed Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding, which is rumored to happen this weekend, are tighter than Hillary Clinton’s smile, some details have leaked out. Sources report that groom Marc Mezvinsky has “hurt” his father’s family by not inviting them to the wedding (Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling investors out of $10 million.He may play the part of a high-end gigolo in “The Extra Man,” but offscreen, Kevin Kline continues to be quite a charmer.
A new podcast goes live every Monday“It’s been kind of a curse and a blessing. It broadened people’s awareness of RadioNowhere, but at the same time I think people think, ‘Oh that’s not a very imaginative name.’”
PROFILE. When talking about music, Christopher Laird will occasionally borrow phrases from archaeology.
“I have always been one of these people that likes to unearth something,” he says when discussing the ethos of the Web site he began seven years ago, RadioNowhere.org.
The programming on his site and on his own weekly podcast, which celebrates its second anniversary today, is an eclectic blend of new discoveries and his own historical digs.
The playlist on his most recent podcast ranged from an artist-of-the-week spotlight on the fledgling L.A. electro band Anavan to a musical side project from the television classic “Laverne & Shirley” as part of a segment Laird calls the Vinyl Dungeon.
“There’s a lot of bands that I was quite fond of in my formative years,” he says, “when their record deals expired, so did their records and they’re virtually impossible to find.”
Laird is based in England, but his 200,000 or so listeners are based around the globe.
“Norway, Australia, Hong Kong,” he rattles off the locations from where he has seen his downloads originate. “We have a listener that’s stationed in Afghanistan in the U.S. military. You know it’s weird to see a statistic in Afghanistan popping up. … That’s just amazing, I think.”
His accent is a mix of his Nebraska origins and the adopted country where he has lived for more than a decade, and his voice is filled with the enthusiasm that is needed to pursue such exploratory programming.
The site generates several other shows from like-minded DJs such as Ruby Wright, who runs a themed bi-weekly show called “Ruby’s Chicky Boil Ups.” The most recent podcast was called “Fools and Idiots” and featured tunes like “Description of a Fool” by A Tribe Called Quest and “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan.
“We’re able to have this great, enthusiastic group of volunteers,” says Laird. “We just have a real passionate love for radio.”
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