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Movies, TV, DVDs, CDs — 35 things for your 2009 to-do list, from January to December!
1. Pineapple Express DVD
Judd Apatow producing, Seth Rogen and James Franco starring as a modern-day Cheech and Chong and a supporting cast that includes Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Bill Hader and Gary Cole, the crème de la crème of character actors — what more could you ask for in a pot comedy/action/crime thriller? Perhaps cast commentary, deleted and extended scenes and a gag reel, which are all featured on the rated, unrated and Blu-ray versions of the must-see DVD. (Jan. 6)
2. 24
Tony’s alive! Tony’s alive! And while the return-from-the-dead of a major character might sound like a hokey soap opera plot, devoted fans of Fox’s 24 will be thrilled with the return of Jack Bauer’s pal and former CTU colleague, even if Tony has thrown in with a group of domestic terrorists. Season 7 also brings a new president — a female POTUS, played by Cherry Jones — a new power-mad corporate baddie (played by Jon Voight) and the demise of CTU. As for Jack, just as the U.S. Senate puts him on trial for some of his torture tactics, the FBI asks for his help in thwarting a group of domestic terrorists … the ones led by Tony Almeida. (Jan. 11)
3. American Idol
There are plenty of changes afoot as Idol kicks off its eighth season on Fox: a revert to half-hour results shows; no Idol Gives Back charity event; 36 semifinalists instead of 24; the return of the judges’ wildcard selections for finalists; and fewer early episodes devoted to the more outrageous (think William Hung and that “I Am Your Brother” guy from last season) auditioners. And no worries: though those showdowns between delusional contestants and prickly judge Simon Cowell might be less commonplace, there promises to be much drama as the presence of new female judge Kara DioGuardi puts more pressure on Paula Abdul to be … coherent. (Jan. 13)
4. Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House
And speaking of drama, there will be plenty in this VH1 spin-off of Dr. Drew Pinsky’s Celebrity Rehab, as D-list rehabbers move into a sober living facility to continue to deal with their addictions. Porn star Mary Carey, model Amber Smith, rockers Steven Adler and Seth Binzer, American Idol alum Nikki McKibbin and LAPD brutality victim Rodney King are among the Sober House residents, but the real drama will unfold when comedian Andy Dick — whose very un-sober antics have sparked tabloid stories for years — checks in. (Jan. 15)
5. Battlestar Galactica
The good news: 10 new episodes of BG will unspool throughout the winter. The bad news: They’re the final 10 episodes of the series. But the second half of season 4 will include a supersized finale and the revelation of the final Cylon, and there’s more news to keep the BG devoted from crying in their frakkin’ beers. An Edward James Olmos-directed BG TV movie, The Plan, will air after the series finale, while Sci Fi Channel announced last year that it had given the thumbs-up to a 2010 spin-off series Caprica, which will follow the Adama family 50 years before the time of the action in BG. (Jan. 16)
6. United States of Tara
Dexter, Weeds, The Tudors — Showtime has become a worthy rival to HBO in the original cable series race, which is why this dark comedy — created by Steven Spielberg, produced and written by Juno Oscar winner Diablo Cody and starring Oscar-nominated Toni Collette — is one of the most promising new midseason TV series. Collette is the titular Tara, a suburban wife and mother who deals with stress in a unique way: She just busts out one of her four personalities, which include a June Cleaver-ish mom, a boozin’, motorcycle-ridin’, strip club-lovin’ guy named Buck and a pot-smoking, shoplifting teen. (Jan. 18)
7. Lost
We know Jack, Kate, Aaron, Hurley, Sayid and Sun made it safely off the island in season 4, and now season 5 of the ABC drama will explain why the “Oceanic Six” have to go back. Or attempt to go back, rather, as Jack, after being convinced by Ben that he and his pals have to return, finds out that’s easier said than done. The island has moved, not only to a different place, but to a different time, and producer Damon Lindelof says that will mean fewer of the series’ trademark flashbacks and flashforwards. Instead, the action which mostly switch back and forth between the present-day Oceanic Six and the plane crash survivors who are still on the island. (Jan. 21)
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8. Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island, Incredibad
You know Samberg and his Lonely Island cohorts Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer from Saturday Night Live (Samberg’s a regular, Taccone and Schaffer are writers), where their digital shorts “Dick in a Box,” “Chronicles of Narnia (Lazy Sunday)” and, most recently, “Jizz in My Pants,” became Internet sensations. Now the comedy troupe is releasing its first CD/DVD, which includes the videos for “Dick,” “Lazy Sunday” and “Space Olympics,” as well as musical collaborations with T-Pain, Norah Jones, Julian Casablancas, Natalie Portman, Jack Black, and, of course, Samberg’s “Dick in a Box” co-star, Justin Timberlake. (Feb. 10)
9. Dollhouse
OK, so it’s not a Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-do, but Buffy creator Joss Whedon is behind this Fox midseason drama about the Dolls, a group of people who have had their personalities removed so they can be “imprinted” with new ones and rented out to commit crimes, play out fantasies and various other deeds and misdeeds. The head Doll: another Buffy alum, Eliza Dushku, as Echo, whose personality has been wiped, but who is also starting to become self-aware. And that’s a problem since an FBI agent bent on proving the existence of the illegal Dolls operation has zeroed in on Echo. (Feb. 13)
10. Breaking Bad DVD (Season 1)
Wanna see why Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston was the surprise Lead Actor Emmy winner in 2008? Check out the first season DVD box set of this AMC drama, in which he plays Walter, a milquetoast high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has terminal lung cancer and decides to become a crystal meth dealer to earn cash to secure his family’s future. Much crime and dark comedy ensue, as Walter teams up with one of his former students to sling the drugs Walter cooks. And season 2, premiering Mar. 8, promises to be just as good, as Walter’s brother-in-law, a DEA agent, intensifies his hunt for the local drug kingpin, which, unbeknownst to him, is Walter. (Feb. 24)
11. Eminem, Relapse
The Slim Shady rapper has been MIA from the music scene since he entered rehab for a sleep drug dependency problem in late 2005, though he dipped his toe back into the public scene with the October release of his autobiography, The Way I Am. In a phone interview with Carson Daly during the series finale of TRL, Eminem confirmed his sixth studio disc would be called Relapse and would be released sometime during the first three months of 2009. He’s been stingy with additional details, though various sources have reported that the album will include collaborations with Jay-Z, 50 Cent, DMX and T.I., and will be produced largely by Dr. Dre. (Spring 2009)
12. Britney Spears, The Circus World Tour
The title refers to the pop star’s upcoming concert series, though it would certainly be an apt summation of the last few years in her life as well. Needless to say, Britney is continuing what appears to be a comeback with this trek across North America in support of her new CD Circus. Kicking off in New Orleans on Mar. 3, Spears stops in Atlanta, Miami, Toronto, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Las Vegas before heading off to London in June. And, lest you think Brit Brit is completely controversy-free these days, the choreographer for the Circus tour is Wade Robeson, aka the alleged “other guy” in her breakup with Justin Timberlake. (Mar. 3)
13. Watchmen
Fans of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel have been waiting for a film version of Watchmen for a couple of decades, and now the movie has become one of the most anticipated releases of 2009. Well, turns out that some pesky legal wrangling between Fox and Warner Bros. may push that Mar. 6 release date back even further. However, assuming the movie does hit theaters on Mar. 6 (ohpleaseohpleaseohplease), it’s likely to be one of the year’s first hits, as 300‘s Zack Snyder directs an ensemble cast that includes Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino and Jackie Earle Haley as a group of vigilante superheroes living in a world that has outlawed vigilante superheroes. (Mar. 6)
14. Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted
The music industry is a fickle place, meaning first American Idol winner Clarkson needs a hit after the controversy surrounding her 2007 album My December. Not only did the pop star have a very public feud with label honcho Clive Davis about what he perceived as a lack of hit tunes on the CD (which proved to be true), but Clarkson ultimately had to downgrade a planned arena tour to smaller venues after lackluster ticket sales. But hopes are high for her as-yet-untitled fourth studio album, with Rolling Stone calling the pop CD “totally awesome,” and comparing the disc to Clarkson’s Grammy-winning Breakaway album. The first single from the new disc, “My Life Would Suck Without You,” hits radio on Jan. 19, and Clarkson has collaborated with hot producer/songwriter Ryan Tedder (he co-wrote Leona Lewis‘ “Bleeding Love”) on at least one potential single. (Mar. 17)
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15. Monsters Vs. Aliens
Technologically, it’s bound to be fantastic — as the first computer-animated movie shot in 3-D. But the movie, a sci-fi spoof that harkens back to 1950s B-movies, also features a clever story and perfectly cast voice actors, like Reese Witherspoon playing Susan Murphy, a California woman who’s hit by a meteor and transforms into the 49-foot-tall Ginormica on the day she’s supposed to marry local weatherman Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd). Hugh Laurie is Dr. Cockroach (body of a human, head of a cockroach), Seth Rogen is B.O.B. (an indestructible gelatinous blob with no brain) and Will Arnett is the Missing Link (an ape/fish hybrid from the Ice Age), and these “monsters” have to band together to fight invading aliens, including Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson), the alien leader who wants to take control of Earth. Also starring: Stephen Colbert as the President of the United States and Kiefer Sutherland as W.R. Monger, who plots the monsters’ attack against the invaders. (Mar. 27)
16. State of Play
Political flicks haven’t fared so well at the box office lately, but this remake of the BAFTA-winning 2003 BBC miniseries, co-written by Michael Clayton and The Bourne Supremacy screenwriter Tony Gilroy, could be the one to break that streak. Ben Affleck stars as Stephen Collins, a U.S. Congressman whose Presidential aspirations are jeopardized when his mistress is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Collins’ former campaign manager Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crowe), now an investigative reporter, begins probing the death, along with a series of other murders, while also romancing Collins’ estranged wife (Robin Wright Penn). Among the rest of the cast: Helen Mirren as McCaffrey’s editor, Rachel McAdams as his protégé and Jason Bateman as informant and bisexual club owner who sports a Mohawk, wears leather and is addicted to OxyContin. (Apr. 17)
17. The Soloist
Originally scheduled for a fall 2008 release to put it in awards contention, The Soloist was pushed to April so Paramount/DreamWorks could cut its fourth quarter ad/marketing budget. But the fact-based movie still has award contender written all over it, as Best Actor Oscar winner Jamie Foxx stars as Nathaniel Ayers, a gifted musician who becomes schizophrenic during his second year at Julliard, and eventually becomes a homeless man living on the streets of L.A. Robert Downey Jr. plays Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times reporter who sparks a friendship with Ayers when he begins writing about him in the paper. Lopez’s columns are the basis of the movie, which also stars Catherine Keener as Lopez’s Times editor. (Apr. 24)
18. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The highly anticipated X-Men prequel flick stars Hugh Jackman as the titular Wolverine, whose story unfolds 20 years before the action of the X-Men movies, when he was a subject in the Weapons X program that resulted in his bones being coated in Adamantium. Liev Schreiber is Wolverine’s half-brother/nemesis Victor Creed/Sabretooth, while the rest of the cast includes Danny Huston as William Stryker, Ryan Reynolds as wise-crackin’ Deadpool, Friday Night Lights‘ Taylor Kitsch as Gambit and will.i.am (in his movie debut!) as mutant Kestrel. (May 1)
19. Star Trek
Even the most zealous Trekkies are excited about this J.J. Abrams production, which Paramount hopes will reboot the franchise and draw in new fans. The prequel movie follows Captain James T. Kirk as he enrolls in the Starfleet Academy, meets Mr. Spock for the first time and then joins with his new pointy-eared pal to battle Romulans from the future. And, aside from a controversial decision not to give original Kirk William Shatner a role in the movie (it’s a controversial decision to Shatner, anyway), Abrams has assembled a top notch cast to populate the Enterprise, including Chris Pine as young Kirk, Heroes star Zachary Quinto as young Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Karl Urban as Bones, John Cho as Sulu, Zoe Saldana as Uhura and original Spock Leonard Nimoy as back-from-the-future old Spock. (May 8)
20. Bruno
Borat, make way for Bruno, the second Da Ali G Show character Sacha Baron Cohen is bringing to the big screen. Bruno, like Borat, is all about getting his interview subjects to make themselves look stupid on camera, though unlike the Pamela Anderson-loving Borat, Bruno is a flamboyantly-dressed gay fashionista. His disruptive effect is the same though, as some of the stunts Bruno has reportedly filmed for the movie include getting 1,500 people in Arkansas to attend a fake cage match event, halting production of the NBC drama Medium when he was working as an extra during one episode and getting kicked out of a Milan fashion show after he managed to make it down the runway before security guards nabbed him. (May 15)
21. Terminator Salvation
First he was Batman, now Christian Bale is John Connor, the last hope for humanity after much of the world’s population has been wiped out by Skynet. This fourth Terminator film is set in 2018, as thirtysomething Connor and the mysterious human resistance fighter Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington, who was recommended for the part by Terminator creator James Cameron) “embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they find out a terrible secret that may lead to the possible annihilation of mankind,” according to Warner Bros. plot synopsis. Charlie’s Angels director McG directs the sci-fi thriller, which also stars Anton Yelchin as the young Kyle Reese (John Connor’s papa), Bryce Dallas Howard as John Connor’s wife Kate, rapper Common as Connor’s right-hand man Barnes and Helena Bonham Carter as the villainous Serena Kogen. (May 22)
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22. Ghostbusters: The Videogame
Ghostbusters movie star Dan Aykroyd, who co-wrote the game’s storyline with Harold Ramis, says the PC, Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is “essentially Ghostbusters III.” Ackroyd and Ramis, along with movie co-stars Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton and Annie Potts, did the voice work for the characters, who once again find themselves battling the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. The action is set during Thanksgiving 1991, when a recent rise of paranormal activity around New York City calls the Ghostbusters gang back into action, aided by a new recruit (the game player). The ‘Busters take on Vigo the Carpathian, Slimer and Gozer, and in one level, shepherd the Ecto-1 through the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Jun. 1)
23. The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien
Not since Letterman fled to CBS has the NBC late-night line-up sparked such drama. Conan O’Brien officially takes over as host of The Tonight Show on Jun. 1, with Jay Leno‘s final Tonight gig airing on May 29. That would have been the end of his stint on the peacock network … until a Dec. 2008 deal saw NBC shake up not only late-night, but also primetime TV with the announcement that Leno will host a new, five-nights-a-week talk show in the 10PM time slot. Meanwhile, O’Brien’s Late Night show will be taken over by new host Jimmy Fallon on Mar. 2 (with The Roots as his house band), though TV watchers are most concerned with the far-reaching effects Leno’s primetime job could cause if the show proves to be a success and the other networks decide to ditch entertainment programming in the 10PM hour and produce less expensive chat shows. (Jun. 1)
24. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Michael Bay‘s back as director, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman again wrote the script and Shia LaBeouf, despite his hand-crushing 2008 car accident, is back as Sam Witwicky, the geeky hero caught in the middle of a war between the Autobot and the Decepticon Transformers. Witwicky, in fact, is nabbed by the Decepticons when he finds out a secret about the Transformers’ time on Earth, which leads to a blowout climactic battle that takes place in Egyptian pyramids. With a bigger budget for the sequel, all the special effects and battle scenes should be amped up, while returning stars include Megan Fox as Witwicky girlfriend Mikaela, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Optimus Prime and Megatron. (Jun. 26)
25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter fans were peeved when the sixth flick in the franchise was pushed back from its original Nov. 2008 release date, but the penultimate Potter picture should be worth the wait. Readers of the book already know that Half-Blood Prince features one of the most heartbreaking deaths in the series, as well as the revelation of what appears to be a sinister friend of Voldemort. On a lighter, more comical note, Half-Blood Prince is also the book/movie where the teenage students of Hogwarts find their hormones running amuck, with Harry’s pals Ron and Hermione beginning to realize they’ve got a thang for each other. (Jul. 17)
26. Mad Men DVD (Season 2)
Despite winning six Emmys, including the first ever Outstanding Drama Series Emmy win by a basic cable show, Mad Men hasn’t got a third season start date on AMC, as the network continues to negotiate with series creator Matthew Weiner. Fans have a second shot at seeing the dramatic second season unfold again with the season’s DVD release, which reveals more about the mysterious background of slickster ad man Don Draper (Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm), surprises from ambitious career girl Peggy (the award-worthy Elisabeth Moss) and marital discord for ladies’ man Don and his Sterling Cooper cohort Roger (Emmy-nominated John Slattery). (Summer 2009)
27. The Cleveland Show and Sit Down, Shut Up
Quahog resident Cleveland Brown confirmed it himself, when he told pal Quagmire in the Nov. 2 episode of The Family Guy that he was getting a spin-off series. Specifics have been kept hush-hush, but series creator Seth MacFarlane has confirmed that Cleveland will head to California, end up back in his Virginia hometown and rekindle his relationship with a high-school love. That may explain how he ends up with a new wife (Sanaa Lathan), a new step-daughter (Nia Long) and neighbors that include a family of talking bears (with the wife voiced by Arianna Huffington) and a hipster doofus type voiced by Saturday Night Live‘s Jason Sudekis. And another animated show on tap at Fox: Sit Down, Shut Up (April 19) a remake of an Australian sitcom about the extracurricular lives of a group of “unconventional” high school teachers. Produced by Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, the ‘toon features the voices of AD stars Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler, as well as Will Forte, Kenan Thompson, Nick Kroll and Cheri Oteri. (Fall 2009)
28. Quantum of Solace DVD
The frenetic opening car scene hinted that this second Daniel Craig 007 flick would be as exciting as the first, and the movie that followed proved that to be true. It’s funny now to think about how dead set against the “blond Bond” some fans were when Craig’s casting was first announced, since he’s gone on to help reinvent the franchise and draw in a whole new legion of 007 fans. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly‘s Mathieu Amalric adds to the fun as a baddie who wants to control the water supply in Third World nations, and Olga Kurylenko is definitely Bond-girl-worthy as Russian agent Camille Montes, who, like Bond, is bent on revenge against Amalric’s Dominic Greene. (Fall 2009)
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29. The Wolfman
It’s a remake of the classic 1941 monster movie, as Benicio Del Toro takes over for Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence Talbot, a man who meets his father (Anthony Hopkins), falls in love with his brother’s girlfriend (Emily Blunt) and gets bitten by a werewolf. Oscar-winning special effects makeup artist Rick Baker was in charge of Del Toro’s transformation into the Wolfman, which he says wasn’t easy to pull off. “Going from Benicio to Benicio as the Wolf Man isn’t a really extreme difference,” says Baker. “When I did An American Werewolf in London, we went from this naked man to a four-legged hound from hell, and we had a lot of room to go from the transformation and do a lot of really extreme things. Here we have Benicio Del Toro, who’s practically the Wolfman already, to Benicio Del Toro with more hair and bigger teeth.” (Nov. 6)
30. Oprah’s OWN Network
It’s her world … the rest of us just maneuver in it. And now the Big O — Oprah Winfrey — is getting her own cable TV network. It’s called OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), in fact, and it will replace the Discovery Health Channel in cable line-ups. No details yet on specific shows that will populate the channel, though it’s said to be mostly “non-fiction” programming (read: reality TV), that will “inspire and entertain people around issues of money, weight, health, relationships, spirit, helping people to raise their children and give back, teaching people to be all that they can be in the world,” according to Oprah. (Fall 2009)
31. The Shield DVDs (The Complete Series)
Phew, we’re still thinking about that Shield series finale, with the shocking ending that befell the conflicted … uh, you-know-who … and the oh-so-appropriate fate for … uh, the other you-know-who. Lest we spoil anything in what was one of the best drama series finales ever, we’ll skip the specifics and say that this is one of the few complete series sets worthy of several inches on your home entertainment shelf. Gritty, shockingly violent and always engrossing, The Shield was creator Shawn Ryan‘s incredible story of a group of corrupt cops who should have been totally unlikable, but who managed to be sympathetic even in the face of corruption, murder, selfish acts that tore apart their families and backstabbing plots against each other. Seven seasons of The Shield add up to dramatic television that’s as good as anything on the tube today, and it’s no small feat that the show managed to turn sitcom reject Michael “Daddio” Chiklis into a sex symbol. (Fall 2009)
32. The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson steps out of J.R.R. Tolkien land to helm the movie adaptation of Alice Sebold’s bestseller about a girl whose kidnapping and murder tear her family apart. Fourteen-year-old Susie watches over her family from Heaven, and is distraught to realize they’re not doing well in the aftermath of her murder. Her dad (Mark Wahlberg) is bitter and guilty about not being able to protect his child, her mother (Rachel Weisz) begins an affair with another man and Susie’s killer (Stanley Tucci), who her father suspects, turns out to be a serial killer who continues to prey on young girls. (Dec. 11)
33. Avatar
Director James Cameron re-teams with his Aliens star Sigourney Weaver for this 3-D sci-fi adventure, which revolves around the battle for a planet called Alpha Centauri B-4, a biologically diverse planet that’s rich with life in all forms. When a group of scientists and visitors from other planets attempt to mine the planet for its resources, well … there are consequences. Cameron’s latest — his first major directorial release since 1997’s Titanic — stars Australian actor Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a paralyzed retired Marine who becomes an alien-like avatar to help command the efforts on Alpha Centauri B-4, while Weaver plays his mentor Grace, Michelle Rodriguez is another retired Marine and Zoe Saldana is an alien who falls in love with Sully. (Dec. 18)
34. The Road
It was a good move to cast easy-on-the-eyes Viggo Mortensen in this film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling book, because there’s nothing else easy about the post-apocalyptic tale. (It’s been delayed from its previously intended Nov. 2008 release.) Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play the Man and the Boy, a father and son who travel, by foot, across the southeastern United States, looking for other human survivors of an occurrence that wiped out most of the population. The Man is dying, and his hope is to get his son to a warmer climate, where he is more likely to survive the harsh conditions. Weather isn’t the only worry, though; there are many human dangers surrounding the Man and the Boy, as cannibalistic behaviors (one grisly scene in the book involves a decapitated baby being roasted on a spitfire) abound. No spoiling the ending of the powerful, devastating story here, though we’ll say your feelings about the plot’s end will depend on whether you’re a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty type. (TBD 2009)
35. Whitney Houston, (Alleged) New Album
Are they or aren’t they? Is she or isn’t she? That first one refers to Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, the divorced trainwreck of a couple who, in Dec. 2008, were rumored to be rekindling their tempestuous relationship. The truth about those rumors might affect the answer to the second question: Is Houston going to release a comeback CD in 2009? The album has reportedly been in the works since Houston did some rehabbing in 2006 and reconnected with her mentor, music industry honcho Clive Davis. Reports of Whitney releasing an album that would have fans proclaiming her personal antics hadn’t taken anything away from her incredible voice have trickled down for more than a year, with the pop diva collaborating with Ne-Yo, John Legend, will.i.am and Akon for the CD. At last update, a Whitney song called “Like I Never Left,’ produced by Akon, leaked onto the Internet in summer 2008, but no release date for the single, or Houston’s album, has been set. (TBD 2009)
