Attack outside club leaves Moby perplexed

Attack outside clubleaves Moby perplexed
BOSTON -- Techno artist Moby was attacked by two men while signing autographs outside a nightclub after a radio station-sponsored holiday concert, police said.
According to police and witnesses, Moby, whose real name is Richard M. Melville, was approached by the men about 1 a.m. Thursday outside the Paradise Rock Club. One of the men punched Moby in the back of the head and on the right side of his face, breaking the singer's glasses and cutting and bruising his face.
When two club security guards tried to stop the attack, the assailants sprayed a Mace-like substance at Moby, Moby's manager and the guards, and then fled, police said.
Moby, 37, declined medical attention.
The assailants said nothing during the attack, and the motive is unknown, said Paradise manager Jeff Marshall.
During the concert, Moby, a self-described pacifist, had spoken out against aggression and violence.
He wrote on his Web site that he is not angry about the attack, just mystified about the motive. He has asked the attackers to post an explanation.
Moby is electronic music's first bona fide superstar. His 1999 album "Play" sold 10 million copies. For the past two years, the Connecticut native has headlined a touring festival that has featured guests such as David Bowie.
Mel Gibson signs onfor new 'Mad Max' film
Petroleum may be scarce in the post-apocalyptic Australian Outback, but the "Mad Max" franchise has apparently not run out of gas.
Mel Gibson has signed on to play the Aussie road warrior a fourth time, in an adventure called "Fury Road" for Twentieth Century Fox. He'll earn $25 million for the picture, which is budgeted at $104 million and will shoot next May, Entertainment Weekly reports.
George Miller, who wrote and directed the first three movies, will perform the same duties again. ("Road Fury" will mark his first directing gig since the more family-friendly "Babe" movies in 1995 and '98. It'll be the first Max movie since 1985's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.")
Miller has kept details of the screenplay classified.
"The script's been so tightly controlled, it would have been easier to get into the NSA National Security Administration," Fox production president Hutch Parker says.
Today's Birthdays
Jazz musician Clark Terry is 82. "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt is 80. Actor-playwright George Furth is 70. Actor Hal Williams is 64. Actress Patty Duke is 56. Pop singer Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn) is 56. Entertainment executive Michael Ovitz is 56. Actress Dee Wallace Stone is 54. Rock musician Cliff Williams (AC/DC) is 53. Rock singer-musician Mike Scott (The Waterboys) is 44. Singer-musician Peter "Spider" Stacy (The Pogues) is 44. Actress Cynthia Gibb is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brian Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 27. Actress Tammy Blanchard is 26. Model Bridget Hall is 25.