AOL's Entertainment Asylum Music Offers Exclusive: Song Clips from Jewel and The Spice Girls

Business Wire, Nov 13, 1998

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1998--

Only at Entertainment Asylum, Where the Fans Meet the Stars, Exclusive

Live Events With: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jerry Springer,

Friday, November 13th

Jeri Ryan, Wednesday, November 18th

AOL's Entertainment Asylum, where the fans meet the stars online, is offering exclusive song clips from Jewel and The Spice Girls and exclusive live events with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry Springer and Jeri Ryan.

The song clips and events will be available to Entertainment Asylum's audiences on AOL (Keyword: EA), AOL.com (www.aol.com/webcenters/entertainment) and Entertainment Asylum's Web site (www.asylum.com).

Atlantic Records has offered Entertainment Asylum Music a one-week exclusive window, beginning on Wednesday, November 11th, to offer fans on AOL three song clips from Jewel's new CD, "Spirit," plus the single, "Hands." The AOL.com and asylum.com audiences will be offered a preview on November 16th, one day before "Spirit" goes on sale.

Also included is exclusive use of the music video and exclusive photos of Jewel. Fans will be able to download the sound clips, watch an AOL Slideshow/RealVideo presentation of the music video, and browse through a downloadable photo gallery.

Virgin Records America has offered Entertainment Asylum Music a one-week exclusive window on the new Spice Girls single CD, "Goodbye." Beginning on Wednesday, November 18th, fans on AOL will find four song clips from "Goodbye," featuring a cover version of "Christmas Wrapping," and live versions of "We Are Family," and "Sisters (Doing For Themselves)."

Fans will be able to download the sound clips. "Goodbye" is being released on December 8th.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry Springer and Jeri Ryan will all meet their fans online, only at Entertainment Asylum on AOL, AOL.Com and asylum.com. The AOL.Com and asylum.com audiences can experience a broadcast of the celebrity event in live, streaming audio/video, and the audience is able to submit questions to the studio while chatting with other entertainment fans.

AOL's more than 13.5 million members also participate in these live celebrity events in AOL Live. The event is simultaneously transcribed for members. Questions are taken from both audiences for the celebrity.

"Entertainment Asylum EXCLUSIVE's" Calendar: November 11-17th: "Spirit" by Jewel preview, AOL (AOL.Com & asylum.com: 11/16)

November 13th: Jennifer Love Hewitt live event, AOL, AOL.Com and asylum.com: 7:00 pm PST/10:00 pm EST

This is the opening night of her new Columbia Tri-Star film, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." For this event, fans on AOL.Com and asylum.com will receive an audio-only broadcast of the chat-no video will be served.

November 13th: Jerry Springer live event AOL, AOL.Com and asylum.com: 6:00 pm PST/9:00 pm EST

Jerry is going to discuss his first movie role in an upcoming feature film.

November 18th-24th: "Goodbye" by The Spice Girls preview, AOL (AOL.Com & asylum.com: 11/23)

November 18th: Jeri Ryan live event AOL, AOL.Com and asylum.com: 7:00 pm PST/10:00 pm EST Jeri is celebrating the 100th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Entertainment Asylum, where the fans meet the stars, online, is available on AOL Keyword: EA), AOL.Com (www.aol.com/webcenter/entertainment) and Entertainment Asylum's Web site (www.asylum.com). Entertainment Asylum offers full, multimedia rich entertainment features about the latest in entertainment.

Covering news, movies, television shows, music and celebrities, Entertainment Asylum builds community around entertainment and enables unprecedented interaction between celebrities and the largest online audience of entertainment fans through Studio-i, the world's first interactive Webcasting facility.

Entertainment Asylum recently launced its first-annual online entertainment awards, You've Got Fans, where fans around the world can nominate and vote for their favorite entertainment. Now accepting nominations, voting begins December 26th and the online awards ceremony takes place on January 4th.