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Aerosmith,the veteran rock band said they were bringing a little of 1975 back on a long-delayed album of new material to be released this summer to coincide with a US tour. The band said they were working on finishing up the albumthe first of new material since 2001s Just Push Playahead of the tour,but kept the title under wraps. The camaraderies there,theres some songs that are new rock,and old rock and middle-of-the-road rock,and blues,piano. Joe Perry singing a couple of songs,Im playing the drums,Joey sings,just all kinds of stuff, frontman Steven Tyler said. Aerosmith,whose previous attempts to make a new album were dogged by a litany of health problems and internal strife,said they had been working with their long-time producer Jack Douglas to bring a little bit of 1975 back.
Billy Crystal,the 64-year-old actor and comedian,for the first time in a decade,is actually a leading man. He plays opposite Bette Midler,66,as Artie Decker,a grandpa who takes charge of his daughters three children in Parental Guidance,set for release by 20th Century Fox. Crystals new movie is the kind of heartwarming,wisecracking comedy that used to be written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel,the funny guys who turned out Parenthood back in 1989. The script,based on a story by Crystal,was rewritten by Ganz,who is 63,and Mandel,62. The mission,he explained,was to add a couple of antique elementsdepth and stronger relationships among charactersthat were hallmarks of their work on Crystals City Slickers and Mr Saturday Night.
