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THE KAN8A8 CITY STAR Tuesday September 27 2005 wwwkansascitycom 3 showtime etc? MOLD' HEIGHTS Family takes unrated movie straight to DVD By ERIC WINKLER The Kansas City Star Gretchen Wilson MUSIC She was here for the party on her first album Now Gretchen Wilson is Jacked for her highly anticipated second effort Some of her high-profile competition today includes for Sean Paul and from Sheryl Crow Today is another long-awaited date for Guy" freaks right next to May 1 2005 when the show resumed new episodes on Fox three years after being canceled because the straight-to-DVD movie Griffin: The Untold should be in stores today The plot revolves around baby Stewie and his quest to find out who his real father is With quasi-British accent thirst for world domination and intense hatred of mom Inis what "Family viewer wondered if he was sired by someone other than his dimwit-ted dad Peter? And what fan salivating at the chance to see a nearly 90-minute (unrated) version of the show that already pushes the envelope of what the FCC (or Fox censors) will allow? We talked by phone to producerwrit-ervoice actor Mike 1 lenry 39 about the show the new DVD and how close it all came to ending on 911 I know you do several voices on the show You do Cleveland and the greased naked deaf guy A I do Cleveland Cleveland Jr and Herbert the old man who is on paper route A lot of people are creeped out by him but no worse than having someone Herbert on your sow w10 people absolute farce so anybody who is thinking at all real or based on anything other than farce needs to just go have another beer (laughs) move on to the DVD movie pretty cool for us to do a longer-for-mat piece It was cool to be able to do kind of fourth-wall jokes where treating the characters as if maybe not just characters Maybe actors We kind of treaded a line where we basically addressed what they did during the downtime when "Family was canceled And it kind of gave them all an existence beyond just their family involvement in Quahog It was also fun to be able to cuss There are a few pretty outrageous things on there that would never air on any kind of network except maybe HBO Why do a direct-to-DVD movie as opposed to a big-screen film? And 1 noticed that there are three parts to it so was it originally three episodes? Eventually no time soon each of the three acts will air as individual episodes Also out today: Devotees of early electric Dylan and Springsteen can service their jones for taut tumbling imagery and crunchy organic tunes with the Ike Reilly Faithful" not to like about a cynic who vows Will Let You Cult darlings Big Star were "retro" 30 years ago Now on the comeback trail with their new set is a virtual music museum paying homage to the varied glories of the '60s cultural revolution Buddy Guy who performs Saturday at the Ameristar Casino lures in some great collaborators and cool covers on 'Em In" Neil Young revisits his much-loved folky acoustic side and reflects on his life and career on Wind" with material that has been earning favorable comparisons to his classic and a Time" sets A packed-in DVD adds video recordings of the sessions Alt-country music notable Ktyiy Mattea reaches deep down inside for Out of Neo psychedelic nerd rockers Gran-daddy drop the short and quirky From the Diary of Todd Ryan Adams and the Cardinals do City with guest Norah Jones seasoned jazz singer Dianne Reeves does the music for "Good Night and Good Luck" the film biography of Edward Muitow and Ric Ocasek steers the low-octane Finally the Band is duly honored with a five-CD-plus-DVD box set Musical History" Devotees will jump especially for the 37 previously unreleased audio and video recordings amid the Iff performances (plus 108-page hardback book) in the box Jonathan Takiff Knight Ridder Newspapers FOX Stewie above left sets off to find his father on Griffin: The Untold on DVD today Mike Henry does the voice for the greased deaf guy left For a longer version of this interview with Mike Henry go to KansasCity-com and click on The extra stuff between them before and after the story with the premiere (the characters are seen arriving in limos) all that stuff will never air The whole thing may air on a movie channel or something Frankly I think Fox was real keen on doing something with the DVD mar ket because of the success of the "Family box sets I think if we did a feature a theatrical release probably want to approach it as just one piece as opposed to something that can be dissected into three It looks like the show has been doing well in the ratings What kind of feedback have you been getting since resurrection? Well anonymously famous When I meet people who through an ordinary conversation discover that I'm working on the show say 10 times a week somebody kind of freaks that in- See FAMILY GUY E-7 MUSIC Meet Meal loaf Meat Loaf performs at 8 pm Thursday and 9 pm Friday at the Ameristar Casino Tickets cost $70 to $95 Call (816) 444-2637 More Meat on the menu DVDVIDEO storyline in the Out of series which has been fueled as much by songwriter Jim overblown goth-pop as Meat Loafs quest for sex Meat Loaf says Out of Hell could be ready for release as early as next year And yes Steinman the man responsible for Meat Loafs biggest hits will be penning the tunes had some health issues and (was) really physically not up to par to sit in the studio for a long time and do it" Meat says Michael Beinhom (who has worked with Ozzy Osbourne and the Red Hot Chili Peppers) is going to produce and Jimmy is not quite sure what the album is going to sound like Out of was produced by Todd Rundgren completely out of his mind Out of Hell was produced by Jim Steinman completely insane Michael Beinhom is as odd as the other two so I have no idea" Meat has been trying out one of the tunes called When I on the of the tour The tide is to let fans know Meat Loaf still throws a one-of-a-kind party After all the of the is that magic elixir that cures morning-after aches and pains that I have hangovers the next day (after a show)" Meat says it feels like one after it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night Meat will be there to wave his ever-present red handkerchief and fire up our adolescent urges with randy baseball analogies emotional thing does not change" says Meat call him Meat he likes it) who is taking part in a conference call from a hotel room in New York City just another stop on his world-spanning of the Dog story (of does not change especially the right (part) Emotionally people have been the same for a long time I think cavemen land of got into this realm as well they just used clubs and hit women over the head and dragged them by the hair" He adds: don't know about the Middle East I know how they relate to by the Dashboard Meat Loaf 53 whose father called him when he was just a tyke is known for staging woolly and wild-haired shows part concert part theater all mayhem nothing subtle about them And all these musical orgies later the big man says he has no problem firing up the faithful expect the best that I can give them on that Meat says all comes back from playing high school football There By SEAN DALY St Petersburg Times For a man named after a blue-plate special who had his last truly great album almost three decades ago Meat Loaf is one white-hot ticket There are certainly greater mysteries floating unsolved in the pop music universe is Elvis still alive who killed Kurt Cobain up with Garfunkel's hair but Meat Loafs utterly seductive grasp on a Still-ravenous classic-rock audience is a stumper for sure When tickets for the Dallas-born rocker's recent show in Clearwater Fla went on sale the date sold out in no time flat With demand so ferocious a second show was added A similar thing happened with the Ameristar Casino in Kansas City The show originally scheduled for Sept 17 was moved to Friday and a second show was added for Thursday night The man bom Marvin Lee Aday who has also acted in such cult Classics as Rocky Horror Picture and Club" says lk success is directly tied to our Universally animalistic instincts (or something like that) For instance a reason impossible to turn off by the Dashboard light" when it comes on the radio for the rest of our lives When DANIEL BEREHULAKGetty Images Meat Loaf was swinging it at a conceit last year in Australia He performs twice at the Ameristar this weekend And now for something completely complete? Complete Monty Flying DVD set being released today is allegedly assuredly and probably positively the total TV series output of the English comedy -troupe that gave us the ministry of silly walks dead parrots and faulty Spanish Inquisitions The biggest rental deal is likely the animated hit with the voices of Ewan McGregor and Robin Williams Z'TZ' Also in stores today: Gilmore Girts: plete Fourth Season" Hospital: the of Dogtown" "Spongeflob SquarePaMrfha Complete Third Season" iv i (Jv -WmJTripkttfJHtfrr theirs" Meat calls his current traveling show little fireball an aerobic workout my Jane Fonda be dusting off all of his hits including Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do (now heard in a Dr Pepper commercial) from multiplatinum Out of Hell II: Back Into Music historians could spend eons trying to locate a legitimate were a couple of signs (in the locker room) and the head coach misspelled a couple but beside the point As you went onto the field and you came from the field on both sides of die door (there was a sign that said) 110 percent And that's how I relate to that Your job is to motivate the audience I have never failed on a dead audience to get them alive If dead it's my fault not.