The record release party for Korn's ''Untouchables'' is coming soon to a theater near you. On June 10, the day before the album is released in stores, the band will perform live at an undisclosed New York City location, and the concert will be simulcast to about 40 movie theaters nationwide equipped with digital projectors. (Think of it a pay-per-view gig in a really big living room.) Korn is billing this as the ''first-ever live digitally simulcast concert exclusively in movie theaters,'' though Sugar Ray staged a similar event last summer. ''We just like to throw a great f------ party for our fans,'' the band said in a statement. Of course, you could also catch the quintet live and in person when they tour, starting June 20.
TUBE TALK Joey Buttafuoco, Dustin Diamond, Darva Conger, and Manute Bol won their respective bouts on ''Celebrity Boxing II,'' but they all got their butts kicked by Alan Jackson and Martin Sheen. NBC's season finale of ''The West Wing'' drew 16.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen, while CBS' telecast of the drew 13.3 million. The much-hyped Fox special, averaged just 10.1 million viewers, 5 million less than watched the first round of hammerin' has-beens duke it out in March. Still, if there was big winner among the boxers, it was Buttafuoco, who saw viewership spike to 12 million during his no-holds-barred match with the wrestler formerly known as , Joanie Laurer....
The trial of Ethel Kennedy's nephew Michael Skakel for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley is still very much underway, but cable's USA is already preparing to shoot a TV movie about the case starting in July. It'll be based on the book ''Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley'' by Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles cop notorious for his role in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The case was also the source of another book-turned-TV movie, Dominick Dunne's roman a clef ''A Season in Purgatory.''...
Two days after NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker said he thought that a glut of nostalgia programming had ''killed the golden goose,'' NBC has announced the order of six episodes of ''Rerun,'' which will feature tongue-in-cheek reenactments of the scripts of sitcom kitsch classics like ''The Facts of Life'' and ''The Partridge Family.'' (It's like what was done on stage in the early '90s with ''The Real Live Brady Bunch.'') Cast members have not been named yet, but NBC plans to launch the series in mid-July....
Imagine a cross between ''Kids Say the Darnedest Things'' and HBO's lurid ''Taxicab Confessions.'' That was the pitch for ''Small Talk,'' a reality pilot to be produced and hosted by Jamie Foxx. The kids would still be saying the darnedest things, but from inside a van. The WB has picked up the show as a possible midseason replacement.
