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Weird Al Yankovic,the 51-year-old singer,music producer and parodist whos been poking fun at pop stars and popular culture for over three decades,has decided that success in parody rock isnt that hard to figure out. Yankovic who turned Michael Jacksons Beat It into Eat It and Madonnas Like a Virgin into Like a Surgeon,to name only a couple of his hits,says its pretty simple. My albums are more successful if they are released concurrently with a single thats very topical and maybe celebrates a pop-culture event of serious magnitude, he says. His latest album Alpocalypse has a parody of Lady Gagas Born This Way,which he has recast as Perform This Way.
Bradley Cooper,the Hangover star,will now portray Lucifer,the fallen angel turned ruler of Hell,in a film version of Miltons Paradise Lost,The Associated Press reported. The original epic,told the story of mans first disobedience,and the fruit of that forbidden tree that was used by Satan to tempt Adam and Eve away from God. Australian government officials said last week that the special-effects-heavy Paradise Lost film would be directed by Alex Proyas,the director of big-budget action features including I,Robot and Knowing,and would be filmed largely at the Fox Studios in Sydney with some financial incentives from the government of New South Wales.
