Adam Yauch's "Gunnin'" Premieres; Nestle Corporation Complains

It's been a big week for Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's new career in the movie business: Last night his new documentary Gunnin' for that #1 Spot had its New York premiere at Magic Johnson's theater on Fredrick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. The basketball film follows eight of the nation's top high school prospects as they converge for a game at Harlem's famous Rucker Park; last night, towering top NBA pick Kevin Love — who's featured in the movie, and also happens to be the nephew of Beach Boy Mike Love — showed up to toss toy basketballs into the crowd. Prospects Brandon Jennings and Lance Stephenson made the scene as well. Yauch got some more press when the film Flow — which his distribution company, Oscilloscope Pictures, is putting out — angered representatives of the Nestlé Corporation at the Nantucket Film Festival. Nestlé, a co-sponsor of the Festival, is heavily criticized in the film for its initiatives to privatize the water supply in developing countries.

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Song Stories

“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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