MORNING REPORT - News from Dec. 21, 2000

POP/ROCK

The Promised Land for Boss Fans: A video survey of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s career that includes some storied concert performances, unreleased music videos and television appearances will be available on DVD on Jan. 16. “Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-2000,” a double disc, will feature 33 performances spanning 22 years, including “The River” from the 1980 No Nukes concert, “The Ghost of Tom Joad” from an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and a “Hungry Heart” music video released only in Europe. The documentary “Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Blood Brothers,” previously available on VHS, will also be released Jan. 16 on DVD.

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Stars Assist on Benefit Album: Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Ray Charles will all contribute new material to “Music of Hope,” a benefit album for the American Cancer Society that also features newly recorded performances by the New York Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. The CD will feature new classical compositions and orchestrations from both McCartney and Joel, while Charles sings “Amazing Grace” accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. That famed orchestra also performs with McCartney on his new composition, “Nova,” which is devoted to the former Beatle’s wife, Linda McCartney, who died in 1998 after a battle with breast cancer. The album will be available Feb. 13 on Tim Janis Ensemble Records.

FILM

From Chappaqua to Sundance?: The president’s daughter is the inspiration for “Chelsea’s Chappaqua,” a low-budget digital video created by actor and amateur screenwriter Jack Nasi, 28, of Manhattan. It’s the fictional story of Nicky Casso, who is obsessed with trying to get a date with Chelsea Clinton. Before the Clintons closed on their $1.7-million colonial home in upstate New York and the Secret Service had taken over, Nasi strolled onto the grounds and sneaked the house into a few exterior scenes, using colleagues from his Manhattan actors’ troupe. A spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton, Erica Batcheller, declined comment on the film. Nasi has submitted it for next year’s Westchester County Film Festival, as well as Sundance and other festivals.

QUICK TAKES

A plane carrying actress Sandra Bullock and three others skidded off a runway while landing in icy conditions in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Wednesday, but no injuries were reported. . . . “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” director Ang Lee’s award-winning martial arts film, will screen on the six-story Imax Theater screen at Universal CityWalk beginning Friday. The film will screen daily at 5 and 8 p.m. through Monday. . . . Guitarist and engineer Les Paul, the inventor of the solid-body electric guitar, will be honored with a technology Grammy at the February awards show. Paul is credited with inventing the eight-track tape recorder, the electronic reverberation effect and the overdubbing recording technique. . . . Britney Spears fans searched for her more than any other person, place or thing typed into the Lycos online search engine this year. In Lycos’ Top 50 searches of 2000, Spears narrowly beat the popular Japanese cartoon Dragonball Z.