Mötley Crüe’s clothing-optional drummer Tommy Lee is sitting out a few shows in the coming days because he burned his hand last week… while playing with a set of sparklers. (Perhaps he was celebrating the Fourteenth Of August?) Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx addressed his bandmate’s injury in a blog post that recalled the best bits of the band’s classic tell-all The Dirt, and announced that a dude from Sevendust would be filling in for Lee for the coming shows: More »
In advance of their upcoming Battleground Earth series, Tommy Lee and Ludacris have done an ad for Planet Green, the network for the environmentally conscious that launched yesterday. More »
Tommy Lee and Ludacris will star in Battleground Earth, an upcoming 10-part series for the new cable network Planet Green, which will launch June 4. The show, a sequel to the 2001 blockbuster Battlefield Earth: A Saga Of The Year 3000 will feature Tommy Lee as Johnny “Goodboy” Tyler, the character who lead a successful uprising against the Psychlos, an alien race that conquered the Earth in several minutes a millenium earlier, only to decide they’d only set up shop in Denver. Ludacris will play Jerl, one of the survivng Psychlos left on Earth, determined to re-enslave the human race. John Travolta will reprise the role of Terl, the main villain from the original film, in the series premiere.
What with Motley Crue apparently being on hold while Vince and Nikki duke it out over whether or not the band will sign with Live Nation, Tommy Lee is embarking on a DJ tour that’ll take him to a St. Patrick’s Day party, Ireland, and one of those annoying clubs where they have beds laid out instead… More »
Make up your damn mind! Five days after the “Kid Pebble” dick-measuring contest and one day after it was announced Mr. Lee would be leaving Motley Crue (this time…forever!), Tommy’s biggest publicity week in eons closes out with him claiming that he doesn’t really wanna break up with his common-law wives of almost three decades after all:
File this under: Stuff I’m going to presume against hope is just a vicious Internet rumor because my ailing heart just couldn’t take it. But yes, Tommy Lee has apparently departed Motley Crue amidst lawsuits against the band’s former manager and claims that reality TV has rendered Lee even more of a lovable dolt than he was before. According to a press release from the band, said former manager, Carl Stubner, was playing fast and loose with the band’s money, even going so far as to hawk the band’s tickets at inflated rates that went right into his own pocket. But moreover, they claim that Stubner’s stewardship of Lee’s career has sullied the good name of the Crue itself:
Tommy Lee has bravely stepped forward to tell how he was pushed in the girls lockerroomcruelly slapped around by noted girlyfighter Kid Rock on his Web site:
Let the pointless recap of the thing we capped in real time last night continue! (Well, okay, we didn’t know about this one at the time.) More »
