Kid rock helps start scholarship fund

Kid rock helps start scholarship fund

DETROIT — Kid Rock and his Made in Detroit clothing company are working with Wayne State University to help start a college scholarship fund for area music students.

The Detroit apparel line will create 2,500 limited edition T-shirts bearing the school’s name and the “Made in Detroit” logo, which features a factory worker, carrying a large wrench, in silhouette.

University spokeswoman Francine Wunder says Wayne State hopes to raise $25,000 initially from the sale. The “Kid Rock Scholarship” will be available to students studying the business and performance sides of music.

Kid Rock is from the Detroit area.

‘Spring Awakening’ will close in January

NEW YORK — Broadway’s “Spring Awakening” is succumbing to the chilly winds of January.

The Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater pop-rock look at youthful sexual and social anxieties in late 19th-century Germany will close Jan. 18 after a two-year, 859-performance run, its producers said.

The show is the third Tony-winning best musical to announce in recent days that it will fold in early 2009. Also closing: “Hairspray” (Jan. 4) and “Monty Python’s Spamalot” (Jan. 18).

“Spring Awakening,” based on Frank Wedekind’s classic drama, opened on Broadway in December 2006 and won eight Tonys including best musical.

Rampling, Kar-wai to receive film awards

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Actress Charlotte Rampling and director Wong Kar-wai will receive awards for their contributions to modern cinema at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Rampling will receive the lifetime achievement award for her “impressive portrayals of some of the most memorable female characters in modern cinema,” the festival said Wednesday.

Wong will be honored with the visionary award for “capturing the beauty of the fleeting moment on the silver screen.”

The festival opens Nov. 20.

Rampling’s screen credits include 1974’s “The Night Porter.” Wong directed the 2000 film “In the Mood for Love” and the sequel “2046.”

Today’s birthdays

Actress Jaclyn Smith (“Charlie’s Angels”) is 63. “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is 62. Musician Bootsy Collins is 57. Guitarist Keith Strickland of The B-52’s is 55. Actor Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”) is 47. Singer Natalie Merchant is 45. Country singer Keith Urban is 41. Actor Tom Cavanagh (“Ed”) is 40. Actor Jon Heder (“Blades of Glory,” “Napoleon Dynamite”) is 31. Singer Mark Barry of BBMak is 30.