Jim Irsay: Last News

Brent Lang Executive Editor Quiver Distribution has acquired the North American rights to “Off the Record,” a drama that written and directed by stuntwoman turned filmmaker Kirsten Foe. The film stars Rainey Qualley (“Mad Men“) and Ryan Hansen (“Veronica Mars”).

Eric Clapton‘s iconic guitars – named “The Fool” – has become one of the most expensive guitars ever at auction.On Thursday, November 16, the musician’s 1964 custom-painted psychedelic Gibson SG was sold for $1.27 million (£1.03 million) at Julien’s Auctions. The six-string instrument was sold as part of the three-day music auction event “Played, Worn and Torn: Rock N’ Roll Iconic Guitars and Memorabilia” at the Hard Rock Café in Nashville.Per Guitar World, the guitar is the same ’64 SG that Clapton played when he and his Cream bandmates were creating their second LP, ‘Disraeli Gears’.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress and singer Rainey Qualley (Love in the Time of Corona) and Ryan Hansen (Party Down) have been attached to lead roles in the indie music drama The Whisper Network, which is shooting in and around Los Angeles later this year. 

Another football tragedy. Former NFL star Tony Siragusa died at the age of 55.

Kurt Cobain in the video for Nirvana‘s 1991 hit ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has been sold at auction for £3.5million.The left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang, in a Lake Placid Blue finish, was sold off as part of Julien’s Auctions’ three-day Music Icons event, which ran across this weekend (May 20-22) at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York and online.The winning bid came from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who had previously displayed the guitar and now owns it outright.“I am thrilled to preserve and protect another piece of American culture that changed the way we looked at world,” Irsay said of the purchase. “The fact that a portion of the proceeds will go toward our effort to kick the stigma surrounding mental health makes this acquisition even more special to me.”The Cobain family are set to donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale to the Colts’ Kicking The Stigma campaign about mental health awareness.Cobain spoke highly of Mustangs, calling them his favourite guitar in a ’91 interview with Guitar World.“I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars,” Cobain told the publication.

running from early March into April.The main attraction at the event, dubbed Kerouac @ 100, is certainly the original 120 foot “On The Road” scroll, the original manuscript Kerouac typed out while living on West 20th Street in Chelsea.“Jack changed his writing style for this new novel, which becomes ‘On the Road,’” explained Kerouac’s nephew, Jim Sampas, a music producer and the literary executor of Jack Kerouac’s estate. “He doesn’t want to stop to change sheets of paper in the typewriter and uses this teletype paper so he can write in a continuous flow.”On loan from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s personal collection, the scroll is part of “Visions Of Kerouac,” an exhibit of artifacts co-curated with the UMass Lowell Kerouac Center (on display Mar.