What’s Going On – Stan Winston, CDs, movies

And back to our regularly scheduled programming…

• Special effects expert Stan Winston has died. You know his work in “Jurassic Park,” “Edward Scissorhands” and “Aliens.”

• This possible actors’ strike has some people a little worried.

• Metallica’s new record is….(drum roll)…..“Death Magnetic.”

• Speaking of new CDs, Michelle Branch is working on a new one.

• According to a new poll in England, nearly all music fans copy music illegally. Really?, she asks sarcastically.

• Entertainment Weekly counts down the top 100 new movie classics. That link is to the first 25.

More Savannah stuff – I just received an e-mail from a Daily Journal reader who just came back from Savannah as well. She said the wait to get into Paula Deen’s Lady & Sons was four hours.

I noticed this past week that they’ve installed little mister things to rain down some mist on those poor souls who spend four hours in the stifling Savannah heat for a Paula Deen meal. Eek! I think it’s time she opened up another restaurant in that town.

Speaking of that, the Lady & Sons in Savannah caught on fire Sunday night, but luckily they were able to put it out quickly and it reopened Monday.