Gordon in the morning: Kravitz to be Gaye for pay

Lenny Kravitz is being lined up for the role of Marvin Gaye in Julien Temple's biopic.

I guess he could lip-sync to the songs.

If the casting wasn't bad enough, the focus of the film doesn't sound that great, the way Gordon describes it:

Lenny will portray Marvin in the early 1980s when he had moved to London while struggling with booze and tax bills.

Part of me really wants to see Lenny Kravitz pretending to be a drunk man struggling to balance his deductibles column for an hour and a half. Most of me doesn't.

Dr Feelgood: Movies and music

Julien Temple's made a movie about Doctor Feelgood, which will provide some winter cheer to (mainly) men of a (mostly) certain age. Even more likely to cause a gentle, gleeful, pub-rockist jig is the planned launch event:

A ground breaking rock ‘n’ roll cinema event live from Camden‘s Koko
Julien Temple‘s ‘Oil City Confidential’ film on the legendary Dr Feelgood,
with a live show by Wilko Johnson and very special guests.

Go on, then: here's the trailer:

Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!

According to Julien Temple, Mick Jagger apparently once covered his penis in bees. The idea being, apparently, that they'd sting it and make it bigger.

Well, of course they would. It's hard to see why he would be surprised by that.

Temple suggests it was an early viagara-like idea:

“It involved putting bamboo over the male member and filling it with stinger bees so the member attained the size of the bamboo. Mick spent months in the jungle in Peru. He was going mad out there I think.”

While it might be bigger, surely a stung cock would also be painfully unusable?

Last week, Janice Dickinson had been telling all and sundry that Mick's bits, with or without the aid of bees, aren't up to much:

Mick has been ridiculed by old flame Janice Dickinson, 52, who told interviewer Jonathan Ross last week that Mick “has a very small penis”.

But, to be fair, Janice Dickinson would make anyone shrink a little.