Briefly: John Lennon Movie, Savage Garden, Prince's Disdain, Hank Williams, Sr., Jorg Haider

VH1.com reported that NBC is searching internationally for an actor to play John Lennon in a TV movie.

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Savage Garden will close the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, worldpop.com reported.

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In an anti-record industry essay on his website, Prince had this to say about music fans:

"...some people just consume music. They want a copy of a song bcuz everyone else is in2 the song. They don't really care about top-notch sound quality, as long as it is more or less 'CD quality.' They don't really care about the rest of the contents of the album bcuz all they really like is the hit single that every radio station and music TV station is playing non-stop. They just want 2 b able 2 listen 2 the track over and over again until they wear it out, they effectively consume it--and then turn 2 something else. They r not really interested in music as an art 4m, but rather as a 4m of disposable entertainment--always looking 4 the latest hit which is going 2 displace the previous chart topper in their social environment, so that they r sure they stay 'hip' 2 the latest trend."

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Mercury Records Nashville will release "Alone With His Guitar," a collection of Hank Williams' demos and in-studios, on Sept. 19.

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According to Qonline, Jorg Haider, leader of Austria's right-wing Freedom party, recently recorded a rap song about Carinthia, the province of which he is governor.