Full DAILY TITAN Effect September 9, 2004 Smile! You’re being watched... ‘Paparazzi’ hits theaters *Dave MatthewsFILM: Band*Projekt Revolution* *Gram Rabbit*Halifax* *Vanity‘Paparazzi” Fair*Flashback Favorites* and ‘Vanity Fair” What’S Inside Contents 3) MUSIC AND HOLLYWOOD - ASI Productions Interview with Gram Rabbit and Presents: Jill Jackson’s Hollywood Halifax 4) FILM - Paparazzi and Halifax will bring their special brand of rock and roll to the TSU Pub on Thursday at noon. Vanity Fair Hailing from Thousand Oaks, the band began in 2002 when they released their demo “Start Back at Start.” 5) CONCERTS: Dave Matthews After their fi rst tour, three members of the band went their separate ways. Lead vocalist Mike Hunau and guitarist Chris Brant went on a search for the perfect Band and Projekt Revolution lineup. The current incarnation of Halifax was solidifi ed in 2002 when drummer Tommy Guindon, guitarist Adam Trabish and bassist Kevin Donlon joined the band. 6) FLASHBACK FAVORITES: On their album “A Writer’s Reference,” Brant and Trabish complement each other Homer’s Iliad and Guns N’ Roses perfectly with booming and striking riffs. Guindon’s precision drumming gives Donlon’s bass a solid backbone to evolve upon. Vocally, Hunau sounds typical of the genre, holding his own against singers like 7) PITSTOPITSTOP - Comics, triviatrivia and The Used’s Bert McCracken or Dan Marsala from Story of the Year. more Although they are comparable to many TRL punk bands, they try hard not to limit themselves to a particular style of music. “We’re not pop punk, we’re not screemo,” said Trabish. “We’re good old rock and 8) TELEVISION - Fall TV preview roll with good vocals and loud guitars.” Based on their formula of heavy songs mixed with thoughtful lyrics and catchy On the cover: Daniel Baldwin and a posse of cameramen vie for the at- music, Halifax will be a name heavily thrown around the music scene in the tention of rising star Cole Hauser in the new thriller “Paparazzi.” Read upcoming year. the full review on Page 4. (Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.) 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Do HOLLYWOOD ... Imagine be- wasn’t she great in “The Princess you wanna stay?” And I am will- ing just 18 years old and already Diaries”? ... And I’m fed up to my ing to bet your answer would be selling a manse worth $8 million. kazoo with pics and inane items “Yes!” if you were here. Frankie Muniz doesn’t have to imagine it -- he’s doing it. And about Paris Hilton. Enuf already! Von Rabbit serves as ringleader No word as yet as to when pro- for the four-member circus that when he sells that one, the star of “Malcolm in the Middle” has his duction starts on Dan Brown’s is Gram Rabbit. Todd Rutherford “The DaVinci Code,” which, in- is singer-guitarist, Tracy Lyons- sights set on a $4 million pad, a wee bit smaller than the one he cidentally, was on the L.A. Times Tarr is second guitarist and Travis best-seller list for more than 80 Cline is the sample master. owns now. The smaller digs has only four bedrooms and four baths, weeks! Knocked off recently by Heralding from Joshua Tree, the larger, fi ve bedrooms and fi ve Sue Grafton’s “R Is for Rico- the aptly titled debut album “Mu- baths. Scaling down, eh whut? chet.” Meanwhile ... sic to Start a Cult To” has some- JOE HUI/For the Daily Titan thing for everyone, from your in- Local rockers Gram Rabbit want you to join their cowboy-and-alien- HOLLYWOOD IS READ- ner cowboy to your outer desire to worshipping cult. ING: “The Winds of Change” by dance. Martha Grimes (Viking). More They sat down with me out- ‘60s and everything that happened piece on us. Our crowds have Richard Jury and Melrose Plant side their van behind the Echo in then. And just anything that’s dif- been getting a lot bigger, which and all her other fun characters Los Angeles and answered some ferent—not one specifi c thing. is cool. in a well-plotted mystery about questions. We’re not trying to be one spe- Our record release party in the a missing 4-year-old girl. ... “On cifi c genre, just kind of infl uenced desert, that show was really awe- Thin Ice” by Cherry Adair (Bal- LM: How long have you guys by anything that excites us. some. It’s a building process but lantine). A romp through Alaska to been together? TR: Everything really changed the residency has really helped in keep you cool on a hot summer’s JVR: Todd and I met four years when we moved to the desert. It getting our name out there. I’m day or night. ago and that’s when the little start just kind of opened us up to ev- actually feeling a little sad. This is *** began. erything. our last night at the Echo, our fi fth BITS ‘N’ PIECES: Have you LM: What are your major in- JVR: Todd wrote the song week in a row. I’m feeling kind of King Features Syndicate noticed? Ashton has cut his hair fl uences, musical or otherwise? “Cowboys and Aliens” and that nostalgic. We’ve got to move on Frankie Muniz short, short. Demi likes it that TLT: How much paper do you was kind of the theme song of the I guess. way. Tom Cruise starring; Steven Jack Nicholson went on record have? (We all laugh) band. That was kind of the desert LM: What do you want your Spielberg directing. Quite a par- saying “Marlon Brando was the JVR: For me it’s everything I to us, the alien aspect and the old audience to come away with? lay, wouldn’t you say? It will be consummate actor.” The two ec- have ever listened to my whole west that kind of tipped everything JVR: I want them to feel some- a pic for Paramount, “War of the centrics were neighbors in their life just growing up—taking pi- off, being out there, the mystical, thing that maybe they haven’t felt Worlds,” a modern-day adaptation mountaintop homes, and interest- spiritual and cosmic stuff. for a long time, like feeling some ano lessons—I think I have been of the H.G. Wells classic about a ingly got along very well. infl uenced by classical stuff as far LM: What kind of feedback kind of emotional niche and mak- Martian invasion of the Earth. No Mary-Kate Olsen spotted at a as my keyboard parts. have you been getting from fans? ing them think or giving them a start date as yet, no casting, but restaurant with her boyfriend. And Growing up when MTV fi rst TR: The residency here at the new sensation that they haven’t stay tuned. ... As for Tom C.’s pri- she was EATING! So, all must be came out and watching all the Echo has been really cool because gone out and seen or felt for a vate life, I don’t know any more well. new bands in the ’80s and in high we’ve gotten a lot of publicity. long time; just something really about that, either. However, I do Please! Madonna now wishes school going to see punk rock We got a huge feature in The L.A. exciting and new, like they just know that Nicole recently rented a to be referred to as Esther/Ma- bands and fi nding out about the Times and the Weekly did a little found this little secret. Pacifi c Palisades manse, and that donna. TLT: The idea that each indi- Tom is welcome to see the kids at Anna Kournikova and En- vidual can walk away with some- any time.