August 16, 2007–Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band will release their first album in five years on October 2, 2007. “Magic,” the first album with his E Street Band since the September 11-inspired “The Rising,” is Springsteen's return to rock 'n' roll after two acoustic-based efforts, “Devils & Dust” and “The Seeger Sessions.”

August 10, 2007–The theatrical release of Scorsese's concert docu about the Rolling Stones has been postponed to next April, distributor Paramount Classics said. The studio needs more time to set up the promotional campaign for “Shine A Light,” noting that the band is busy touring Europe until August 26.

With his charisma and penchant for self-destruction, H?©ctor Lavo?© (played in the film by Marc Anthony) was as much of a rock star as Afro-Caribbean music has ever known. He was also one of the most intensely emotional vocalists in the history of Latin American culture–a man whose passion and swing transcended his Puerto Rican origins, resonating with music lovers throughout the world.

After 18 seasons, 400 episodes, and innumerable awards and honors (including a Peabody and 23 Emmys) “The Simpsons” has become a feature-length movie. To refresh your memory, here are short bios of the colorful members of the Simpson clan: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

Christensen takes the decade approach, focusing on political movies about wars (All Quiet on the Western Front), farmers (The Grapes of Wrath), anti-Communism (My Son John), nuclear energy (The China Syndrome) the Vietnam conflict (The Deer Hunter), foreign policy (Missing, The Killing Fields), etc. The Great Depression features prominently in the book as one which produced more explicitly political films (Frank Capra's output, for example) than subsequent decades.