777 Update

"the news, not the bull...."



hello and welcome 2 another edition of the 777 update, a Prince/0(+>/Artist
news update which is not afflicated with Paisley Park in any way. Much news
has been happening since last month and a few suprises thrown in last
minute...so R U ReAdY? Then let's go.....



Item #1- a New Movie staring Prince/0(+>???



Director Jordan Brady announced over the weekend that an "unofficial" sequel
to "Purple Rain" is in the works. the working title is "Velvet Hail". Brady
says, "It's about an aging rock star who was hot in the 80's who now shops
for pork chops" (hmmm don't you mean tofu brady?) he continues, "It's a spoof
and it'll be a musical. "Purple rain was probaly a 45 minute movie if you
take out all the musical numbers....really a short story with a bunch of funk
numbers" Brady has in mind for Prince's competitor in "velvet Hail" will none
other be Chris Rock. That is who he has in mind, no contracts have been signed and no movie company has yet backed the project. Brady's latest
movie, which is in post-production, "Wakin' up in reno",which cast features
newly married billy Bob Thornton(who i now refer to as lucky bastard),
Natasha Richardson, patrick Swaze and Charlize Thereon, is considered by
hollywood standards a new kid on the block. He has very little clout but the
buzz on this movie has been very well recieved, so basically if "reno" is
even a small success, "Velvet hail" could very well be picked up and given
the go. Paisley Park had no comment on this situation and his publicist
could not be reached. Maybe this will be discussed at upcoming press
conference.



Item #2-prince: a Celebration at Paisley Park June 7-13th



Tickets went on sale for this once in a lifetime event saturday at
1800newfunk.com for only $70 dollars including passes to the park during the
day and admission to the paisley parties everynight and the concert of all
concerts, on june 13th "the man" himself will be perforing at the U of
Minnesota, there are still tickets available at this time, and daily passes
will be sold for 15 bucks and June 3rd more concert tickets will be released. There was talk earlier this year of special goodies being made available for
visitors of the paisley parties, remixes and etc.....lets see if that holds
true....maybe like in Ohio, there will be a prince or prince protege look a
like night thrown in the mix.....



Item #3- Press conference May 16th tour/name change to happen?



there will be a press conference today in Manhatten so look for details on
media outlets plus mtv and vh-1 to show snippits of conference. The press
conference is to discuss the upcoming celebration in Minneapolis and the tour
itenerary. Thier has been more speculation then ever that 0(+> will be going
back to the name of Prince. Every year around his birthday, small articles
circulate but more then ever ,this year it has been reported by some major
new outlets.....sparking speculation as well is that the concert on june 13th
is 2 be by "the man" himself...no 0(+> or artist...could he be toying with
us? Or is it true? 7 is his favorite number and on June 7th it will be 7
years since the name change. he is supposedly going to drop by the offices
of mtv/vh-1 2 hand over the new video "hot wit u", i wonder if eve's rap or
herself is in the video? Let's see if he even stops by there. No word yet if him and L.A. Reid (new honcho at Arista records) have agreed to promote rave.
I am sure that will come up in conference as well as details to the special
edition "Rave". Hopefully he will answer questions from the media as he did
when having the press conference for the "jam of the year". Just want to know
if he is really serious about this movie or if it is some made up mumbo jumbo.



the Update was to be sent out after the press conference but we wanted to
make sure that we could be one of the 1st to break the new movie plans and a
day later would have insured us that we would not be the first...so expect a
mini-update shortly with the ? of the month included



J7 from the Update is going to attend the celebration and is thinking about
meeting some "purpleheadz"(but will his shyness make him back out?) so if
anyone is planning on attending, let us know, especially people from
Minneapolis, even if J7 does not attend, at least others of the update can
hang out together.



Special thanx 2 Prince.org for posting the update, and for all the letters we
have recieved, I wish the giving away of the "livin 2 die" track was less
plagued with internet problems but i hope all enjoyed the track who recieved
it



If you have not money ordered the new book by Per nelson and the Uptown
staff, "days of wild" i suggest you do...this is the ultimite Prince bible
and should be in all "purpleheadz" book shelves and coffee tables.



Thank you for not copying this list and sending unsolicited email to the
recievers of the Update.....this is gonna be one exciting summer don't you
think? =-) be wild y'll J7