Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The top-5-selling singles and albums on iTunes for the week ending Oct. 18:
Singles:
v“Back to December”: Taylor Swift
v“Like a G6”: The Cataracs, Far East Movement, Dev
v“Just a Dream”: Nelly
v“Just the Way You Are”: Bruno Mars
v“Only Girl [In the World]”: Rihanna
Albums:
v“Charleston, SC 1966”: Darius Rucker
v“BTR”: Big Time Rush
v“I Am Not a Human Being”: Lil Wayne
v“Free Wired”: Far East Movement
v“Sigh No More”: Mumford & Sons
“In Performance at the White House” (9 p.m., PBS): There’s no need to hide your love of show tunes tonight. Nathan Lane is the master of ceremonies for “In Performance at the White House,” a show celebrating some of Broadway’s biggest hits. Among those scheduled to appear are Audra McDonald, Marvin Hamlisch and Idina Menzel.
TV Listings, B8
entertainment news
Film shot in Valley available on DVD
YOUNGSTOWN
“The Last Vampire on Earth” will be released on DVD Nov. 9, and pre-orders are being taken at familyvideo.com, blockbuster.com and netflix.com.
The film, directed by Vitaliy Versace and written by Mandie Abraham, was shot entirely in the Youngstown area in 2009. It stars McKenzie Grimmet and Michael Bole.
“The Last Vampire” follows the relationship between a young woman suffering from a terminal illness and a young man who is an immortal vampire. The film was premiered last winter at Main Street Theater in Columbiana.
Bagpipe player in free concert
GREENVILLE, Pa.
Bagpipe player Patrick Regan will give a free concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Holy Trinity Church, corner of Penn Avenue and Clinton Street. Regan will perform selections of American music and hymns, traditional Scottish and Irish airs, reels, jigs and classical bagpipe music.
Regan, of Pittsburgh, is the director of bagpiping at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. For more information, call the church office at 724-588-8870 or go to holytrinitygreenville.org.
Mark Twain is back on best-seller list
NEW YORK
It’s never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists.
Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiography, released in full upon the centennial of Twain’s death, have for the past few days placed the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. It is outpacing new works by Ken Follett, John Grisham and Jon Stewart.
“The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1” comes out Nov. 15 from the University of California Press.
Excerpts have appeared over the past several decades, but Twain’s strong opinions on current affairs and other matters were left out, at his request. He had said that it was best to wait 100 years after his death for the whole book to be released.
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