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[> "My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star" on the WB network. (r) -- Carol, 19:20:11 03/14/02 Thu

I know he's in this series because he is one of 5 cast members identified in a photo that accompanies the following review. But he's not mentioned in the review: not a real big part, apparently.

WB 'Rock Star' gets cheeky
March 14, 2002
BY PHIL ROSENTHAL TELEVISION CRITIC CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

The consensus seems to be that Oliver Hudson has a great butt. This is the stated view of no less than three people in the first half-hour of his new series, the WB's "My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star," an amiable but cliche-burdened **1/2 adaptation of a British comedy that makes its debut with back-to-back episodes at 7 tonight on WGN-Channel 9.

Hudson plays a budding rocker named Jace Darnell, and the reviewers of said posterior would include his would-be girlfriend/unemployment-office case worker/techno-pop record spinner/keyboardist, a male mid-level middle-aged bureaucrat, and a precocious Brownie scout, who seems to speak for her entire awestruck troop at the sight through a bedroom window of Jace in his briefs dancing his fanny off to Duran Duran.

The preferred term in "Rock Star" for Hudson's gluteus maximus is the three-lettered variation, even from the blunt little Brownie, which should give you an idea of the level of sophistication we're dealing with here.

Hudson comes by his great asset--and this TV show--by a logical pedigree. In fact, if the story of "Rock Star" doesn't grab you, you can bide your time playing "Six Degrees of Oliver Hudson's Rear End."

His mom is Goldie Hawn and his sister is Kate Hudson. His dad is recording star and erstwhile actor Bill Hudson, who was one-third of the trio that gave the world the 1974-75 CBS Saturday morning series "The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show," when he, like Oliver today, was only 25 years old and could be forgiven his youthful indiscretions.

Papa Hudson, who would divorce Goldie and marry "Laverne & Shirley" co-star Cindy Williams, once appeared in a TV movie called "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park," which starred Kiss leader Gene Simmons, the longtime companion of Shannon Tweed, who plays Oliver's mom in "Rock Star."

Oliver's dad in "Rock Star" is Michael Des Barres, whose ex, famed former groupie Pamela Des Barres, was last seen dating Michael Richards, whose short-lived sitcom last season was a lot less funny than this, especially if you don't count the scene in which a microphone stuck in Jace's pants (don't ask) is mistaken for something else (please don't make me tell you what).

Jace's deservedly struggling band, Slip Dog, seems headed, even in a best-case scenario, for one-hit-wonder status inasmuch as the players seem to have only one song in their repertoire. It's a Cranberries-esque ditty that's at least easier to listen to than the overprocessed pap heard on the WB's "Popstars," and thank God it's a catchy jingle because you hear it a lot.

Slip Dog looks like it was modeled on the Scooby-Doo road show. You have the spacey guitarist (Kevin Rankin), the female bass player (Lauren Hodges) with a penchant for kicking her male counterparts in the rhythm section, a series of drummers a la "This Is Spinal Tap" and the new keyboardist (Emmanuelle Vaugier) with the high opinion of Jace's bottom. There's also the requisite, straight-from-the-catalog sleazoid manager (Rick Overton).

Jace's dad is a frustrated former rocker himself. Johnny Lydon (or Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols fame) was originally cast, but Des Barres got the part. Unfortunately for Des Barres, MTV last week debuted "The Osbournes," a docu-comedy starring rock star Ozzy Osbourne and his family, and there's no way Des Barres can appear to be anything but a pale imitation.

The biggest problem for "My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star" is it never surprises. You see the jokes coming a mile off. On a clear night, its plot twists are probably visible from space. So the WB might be right when it pushes Hudson's posterior in our faces as this show's drawing card.

Not being an expert on butts, I wouldn't know. I'm just a TV critic.

My question is whether he can pull a show out of it.

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[> [> Re: "My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star" on the WB network. (r) -- trish lyn, 13:38:17 03/18/02 Mon

Kris Lemche probably wasn't mentioned in the review because his character didn't appear until the 2d ep -- he's the band's new drummer

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