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Here's an update along the Long Road to the release of Long Road Out Of Eden: the track list has been revealed! The first Eagles studio album in 28 years will have 2 discs and 20 songs total, as follows:
DISC ONE:
01 No More Walks In The Wood | 02 How Long | 03 Busy Being Fabulous | 04 What Do I Do With My Heart | 05 Guilty Of The Crime | 06 I Don't Want To Hear Anymore | 07 Waiting In The Weeds | 08 No More Cloudy Days | 09 Fast Company | 10 Do Something |
11 You Are Not Alone
| DISC TWO:
12 Long Road Out Of Eden | 13 I Dreamed There Was No War | 14 Somebody | 15 Frail Grasp On The Big Picture | 16 Last Good Time In Town | 17 I Love To Watch A Woman Dance | 18 Business As Usual | 19 Center Of The Universe | 20 It's Your World Now |
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ABC, 'Wonderfalls' Duo Get ReligionTim Minear, Todd Holland producing televangelist dramaHaving had a rough run of luck at FOX -- "Drive," "The Inside," "Wonderfalls" -- writer-producer Tim Minear is taking his next project to ABC.
Minear and fellow "Wonderfalls" alum Todd Holland will executive produce "Miracle Man," a drama about a disgraced televangelist who finds a path to redemption. ABC outbid FOX for the project by offering a pilot commitment.
"It's about losing everything and starting over and finding that there is a higher purpose in life," Minear tells The Hollywood Reporter. "It's about a man who says, 'I don't know how to be good, but I'll try to be better.'"
The show will cover familiar ground for Minear, who attended evangelical schools growing up and whose father is an engineer for Christian radio shows. "Miracle Man" will take some cues from the scandals that brought down the likes of Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, but Minear says the show won't make light of anyone's beliefs.
"It's a love letter to the religious," he tells the HR.
The show will focus on a fallen televangelist who has lost all faith -- until he discovers that God is working through him to perform actual miracles. Minear will write the script and Holland, who's also an exec producer of ABC's midseason comedy "Miss/Guided," will direct. Twentieth Century Fox TV is producing the pilot.
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Joss Whedon announces new script, updates projectsBy Tamara Brooks July 28, 09:26 PM "Before [the Q&A], I want to answer the question that's been on all of your minds. I can see it in your beady little eyes - What have I done of you lately? Well, I wrote Wonder Woman...and that's enough about that." And thus began fan-favorite Joss Whedon's panel Saturday late-afternoon. A lot of people showed up to honor the man many call their master now, greeting him with two lengthy ovations. Breaking News:
"I'm getting sick and tired of not entertaining you guys enough." To that end, Joss is concentrating on doing "smaller scale" projects in order to get more works finished and out to the mass on a faster pace. "There are so many really creepy things swimming around in my head and I really need to get them out." That got the crowd very excited, and rightly so. Starting with "Drew Goddard is tall and kinda sexy," Joss then announced that the two of them have collaborated on a script called Cabin In The Woods - "The horror film to end all horror films. Literally." It's not on the market yet but with a statement like that, it should be pretty dang interesting to say the least. Projects in the works: - Goners - Joss is in the process of rewriting the fantasy/thriller and is his primary focus.
- Ripper - The Buffy spin-off featuring Giles the Watcher is in talks/negotiations and, depending on the script, "there's a very real possibility that in the next year [he'll] finally be able to film" it. Stating that he had diner with Anthony Stewart Head "the other night" about it, "As [Head] said, "I'm for it." It will be a 90-minute piece produced for the BBC with distribution later. There are more discussions to be had but "everyone seems to be on the same page...[and it] can happen, should happen, will happen soon."
- Sugar Shock - Joss' first original comic creation with Fabio Moon doing the art. Launched yesterday on Dark Horse's MySpace and is 100% free.
- Serenity - A new comic is launching in late Winter from Dark Horse. Also, the Collector's Edition of the movie will be released August 21st. When someone shouted out for a sequel to the film, Joss responded by saying the new DVD edition of was coming out because "people keep buying the damn thing," implying that it's a possibility.
- He's also composing the score for a short ballet he's doing with Summer Glau. The crowd dug the idea prompting Joss to state in surprise, "Boy, was I expecting silence." Entitled The Serving Girl, he's already found a choreographer and will film it once he's finished the score.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer Comic - In regards to the current volume, officially known as Season 8, when asked if and when Oz (played by Seth Green) returns, Joss stealthy replied, "I can't tell you when but you don't have to ask if." He later added that while he doesn't know how long Season 8 will be ("I can't stop writing the Buffy comic. It's like a drug."), he "definitely know[s] how [it] ends and [he knows] how Season 9 begins."
- When asked if he was doing anything more with the character Fray, a vampire slayer of the future, he replied with a yes. Adding "[I'm] not sure if I'm supposed to be saying that...but I did."
- Angel: After The Fall - The comic he's working on with Brian Lynch, who will be the writer. It will be a twelve-issue maxi-series from IDW that shows what happens after the series finale battle with the evil law firm known as "Wolfram and Hart. " "What happens is very bad," he says conspiritiorily.
Projects not in the works:
Angel movies - "It's called Bones - Season 2."
Heroes - He was asked if he's been asked to direct any episodes and if he would. While he loves the show and would be honored, Joss regretfully doesn't have the time to really get involved, especially since he "can't do a little bit of anting."
Writing for Other Comics - Coming to the end of what his wife refers to as his "Merry Marvel Midlife Crisis", Joss wants to "concentrate on smaller, creator-owned things and filmed entertainment" and will only do solo-shot issues here and there, if any.
When asked if he was working on a musical, while he'd love to, Joss state that "musicals are the single hardest thing to write...Not only is it my dream, it is a plan. As I live, it will happen but I'm not sure when."
A fan brought up the possibility of Joss directing the seventh and last Harry Potter film when the time comes. Whedon expressed his interest in his usual understated manner - "Yeah, I could probably find a weekend for that." Other Highlights:
An fan requested he do the "Dance of Shame". His response? "Guys...you're killing me. I love you, but I'm not going to dance."
A young boy got up to the microphone and really won everyone over. He became a fan because his dad wanted him to watch Firefly. Initially reluctant because his father usually has "lame taste," five minutes into it and he was hooked. His question: "What was going through your mind when you came up with the idea? Were you watching Star Wars and said, wow, I wonder what would happen if Clint Eastwood was in this?'" Joss responded, "No, but from now on yes."
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BUFFY NEWS
Updated 7/6/2007I was going through some old mail, and came across this email. Edited for secrecy . . . ! We were making plans for Tales of the Vampires, even as I was wrapping up the original Buffy monthly. From: Scott
Date: July 7, 2003 4:01:59 PM PDT
To: Joss
Subject: Tales of the Vampires & Buffy
Joss,
Hope you had a good 4th of July. I spent it with hillbillies, so of course it was great.
You should have received a package of art samples by now. Please note the paintings by Eric Powell (The Goon, Arkham Asylum) and Ben Templesmith (Criminal Macabre); both of these are guys I'm considering for covers. Your feedback appreciated ...
Also, I would love to get some input from you on what to do with the regular Buffy comics series. My (modest, attainable?) dream: You give me one page telling me where to go after the conclusion of Season Seven. I really want to move beyond the TV show, but I don't want to do it without your approval and a little of your guidance. I could have said my dream is you writing this for me, but I'm trying to be realistic. I would of course do whatever you wanted with the damn thing, and would really like some direction. What do you say?
ScottNote the date. July 2003. That was the first time I asked Joss to guide the comic beyond the show. We wrote back and forth a couple times that day, and his immediate response was that it sounded good, but not that he'd have any more involvement than what I suggested. It was another email, two years later, when he first used the terms "Season Eight" and "exec produce." I seldom go through old email, but we're working on the Buffy Panel to Panel art book, which includes Tales of the Vampires, so I was doing some digging. I no longer have the email when Joss sent Season Eight #1, but as you can see, this email, four years old, set those wheels slowly in motion. It was more than two years before I had the first script-lo and behold, from Joss himself-and so much more than a page of direction. When he first used that term, "exec produce," in October 2005, I didn't think much of it. I never know what people mean when they apply film terms to comics. "Cinematic storytelling"? For a lot of people that just means panels that are wider than they are tall. "The comic writer is the director"? Then who's the writer? I think I've seen people use the Executive Producer credit in comics, and usually it's either been the editor (who should more accurately be called Best Boy, Caterer, or Assistant to Mr. Bonaduce), or the Editor in Chief or Publisher, or maybe the rights holder. Joss is actually none of those things on the Buffy comic. He's the Executive Producer.  The job that Joss did on the TV show, there's no perfect parallel in the world of comics-just as no title in comics is exactly the same as "director." Hell, even "writer" in comics doesn't really mean the same thing as it does in film. He was the boss, to whom everyone had to defer-including any writers, directors, or Assistants to Mr. Bonaduce. He guided the creative direction. Executive Producer can mean different things, and involve different tasks, but in Joss's case on Buffy--comics or TV--it means that the overall story comes from him, that the individual stories are worked out directly with him, and that each script goes through him. All talent is hired under his direction. Just the other day, we sent the script for Buffy #10, written by Joss, to artist Cliff Richards, my old buddy from the old run of Buffy comics. But it was Joss's idea to hire him. I offer opinions, sometimes Joss even asks for 'em, but it's all up to the big guy. Another advantage--with an Executive Producer like Joss on board, Fox gives us a pretty open field to play in. There's no better way of doing a licensed comic--because the studio has no desire to interfere with the guy who gave them the thing in the first place. Thank god. Joss has years of experience of making great stories while working with talented writers. That was his job on every episode of Buffy, though he shared it on Angel and Firefly, and later season of Buffy. He knows how to give those writers the room to do their best work, while making sure that everything stays true to the vision and style. But just as Jane Espenson's episodes of Buffy (or Angel or Firefly) were usually the funniest, you can expect her contribution to be a crackup--and Brian K. Vaughan's Faith arc, starting in September, will absolutely read like a BKV comic. I mean, why else would the Executive Producer have approached him? Don't forget about the Equality Now auction on Ebay. Go to this link http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=joss-whedon-supports-charity, or type in www.ebay.com/josswhedon. The auction doesn't end until July 12, so turn in them bottles and cans and do your part for Equality Now and Joss. See you in San Diego! 
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The first Eagles album of new tracks in more than 28 years will be out in October. And Thursday, the first single, How Long, from the album Long Road Out of Eden, hits radio at noon ET. The video for How Long premieres at midnight ET on Monday on Yahoo.com and later on Country Music Television. The album will be sold only through Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Walmart.com.
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