From Relix…

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a new biopic is in the works profiling the life of Jerry Garcia. The film is expected to focus on the guitarist’s early years, including the formation of the Grateful Dead Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa and Eric Eisner have signed on as the film’s producers and are currently searching for an actor to play the party of the young Garcia.

The young Jerry….

Know anybody that can pull that one off?

This batch of pictures of Swedish dance bands of the ‘70s comes via The Daily Swarm.

That’s really the small tip of a large, unsettling iceberg. Better go look.

If you’ve been following along, here and here, you will know that Mohammed Bello…

…is an 84 year old guy with 86 wives.

Mr. Bello says…

“A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them,”

When we last looked in, a Nigerian court had ordered Bello to divorce all but four wives. They charged him with “insulting religious creed” and “unlawful marriages” and put him in the slam.

Now, according to Reuters, Bello may be set free.

“The Federal High Court granted Bello unconditional release yesterday,” defense lawyer David Ikotun told Reuters by phone from Abuja….

… Before his detention, the preacher had filed a petition at a Federal High Court in the Nigerian capital Abuja seeking to enforce his rights and to be protected from local chiefs and Muslim leaders who threatened to banish him if he failed to divorce 82 of his wives.

“The judge also ordered that the inspector general of police provide him with adequate protection to ensure that his fundamental human rights are not infringed,” Ikotun said, adding that Bello was still in custody.

So, still in custody and still an appeal process but, things are looking up for the guy with 86 wives.