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Show DAILY Friday, March JO, 2007 HERALD 13 Eye Spy CELEBRITY NEWS AND NOTES I.- - A f Juliens Auctions The Edge is donating his favorite instrument a 1975 Gibson Les Paul guitar, to an auction benefiting Music Rising, a to replace musical equipment lost or charity he destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The sale of the guitar and other items ends April 21 with an event at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. I ' U2's The Edge to auction favorite guitar Proceeds will help replace musical instruments lost in Katrina to the auction Web site. Bandmates Adam Clayton donated a bass guitar, Larry Mullen gave a pair of tom-todrums and Bono donated a pair of Emporio Armani sunglasses. "It's some great poetry to ask the people like myself, who've earned a good living THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from rock 'n' roll, to donate items to an auction that would The Edge is donating his favorite instrument to an help protect and stave off the decline of the music culture in auction benefiting Music Rising, a charity the U2 guitarist the Gulf Coast," he said. New Orleans is the soul of to replace musical American music, so the Irish equipment lost or destroyed rocker said he felt compelled by Hurricane Katrina. to help after hurricanes KaHe's logged thousands of hours of stage and studio time trina and Rita. He created Music Rising in 2005 with on the 1975 Gibson Les Paul. The musician has record producer Bob Ezrin used the guitar throughout his and Gibson chairman Henry Juszkiewicz. years with U2. "One of the good things "I wanted to give something about globalization is it has really significant that would created a single international really mean a lot for me to music community, and I feel give. It deserved something that I would miss," The Edge very much part of it," he said. told The Associated Press by "So this doesn't seem like it's someone else's problem. It's phone from France. The Icons of Music aucreally our problem, too." The Edge, whose real name tion, administered by Julien's d is David Evans, first discovAuctions, features 196 ered the area's rich musical items, including a culture as a young member saxophone signed by former of U2. He was intoxicated by President Clinton, a guitar that belonged to Jimi Hendrix the city's jazz funerals, where scores of musicians parade and an original Elvis Presley down the street in colorful recording contract. costumes covered with flowAn exhibit of auction highers and feathers. lights will travel from Los "Jazz came out of New Angeles to Dublin, Ireland, and London before the sale Orleans, and that was the ends April 21 with an event forerunner of everything," he said. "You mix jazz with Euroat Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Fans may bid online or pean rhythms, and that's rock n' roll really. You can make in person. The Edge's guitar was the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans expected to fetch between $60,000 to $80,000, according with the jazz funerals." Sandy Cohen r - f I liill i if imms i - rock-relate- JIM COOPERAssociated Actor Rainn Wilson plays a science teacher in "The Last Mimzy," which recently opened " " " " ' in theaters. Press ' J Rainn Wilson expands his film roles, with a new movie now in theaters Sandy Cohen THE ASSOCIATED H PRESS is work as a mortician's appren tice got him noticed. His turn as eccentric paper salesman Dwight Schrute made him famous. Now producers can't seem to get enough of actor Rainn Wilson. A star of NBC's Emmy-winnin- g comedy "The Office," and an alumnus of HBO's hit drama "Six Feet Under," Wilson is being offered roles for the career. And whenever first time in his "The Office" goes on hiatus, he takes them. The latest such role is as a disarmingry normal science teacher in the family film "The Last Mimzy," which opened Friday. ' - ar t How has "The Office" changed your life? Wilson: I get recognized a lot. When you're an actor on a TV show that people love, and you play kind of a goofbalL they instantly AP: think that they're your best friend. I'm there with my wife and kid and they're wanting to engage in having a buddy buddy conversation. I try to be nice and grateful to my fans my billions and billions of fans. But at the same time I like to keep my privacy going a little bit. AP: What is it about the show that has connected with so many people? Wilson: No matter how absurd the humor gets, it's believable and grounded and people identify with the characters. They've just kind of fallen in love with the world and the characters. Our show is really like appointment television. Of the 10 million people who watch our show, a very large percentage tune in every week and have to see every show to find out what's going to happen next. AP: "Six Feet Under" was like that, too. Wilson: I've been so hicky. There's been so much kind of dreck on television and I have been on two of the greatest shows. AP: How did you get involved with "The Last Mimzy"? Wilson: Director Bob Shaye sent me the script and offered me the role. For an actor who's been struggling for 13 or 14 years professionally to all the sudden be getting scripts sent, it's insane. I read it and I was deeply and genuinely moved by it. AP: Is there a dream role for you? What is the goal? Wilson: I'm really kind of living the goal right now. I'm pretty much living the life I really always wanted to have and that's a pretty extraordinary thing. : v fly:- LAUREN VICTORIA . i BURKEAssociated the daughter of "Crocodile Hunter' Steve who was killed by a stingray on Sept. 4, 2006. Bind! Irwin is Press Irwin, Bindi Irwin's nature series to debut in June THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ( ' -- f-- Bubbly Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, will make her debut this TV summer as a nature-lovin- g said Tuesday. She began filming with her father in early 2006. Steve Irwin died last Sep. tember after a stingray's poisonous barb pierced his chest while he was diving in the host. Great Barrier Reef . His wife, "Bindi: The Jungle GirL" Terri, and Bindi, decided to finish filming the weekly series, designed to help get more children interested in wildlife con- the network said. Steve Irwin will appear in servation, premieres June 9 on scenes shot before his death the Discovery Kids ChanneL Bindi win interact with a vaand in other archival footage, riety of animals, from koalas . Discovery publicist David to elephants and snakes, while Schaefer said Wednesday. Bindi will also host "My explaining how all animals both cute and Daddy the Croc Hunter," a one-honeed to be given respect special that will air and protection, the network June 8 on the Animal Planet. . |