Pink Singer

Can recording artist Pink and "Star Wars" composer John Williams do for "NBC Sunday Night Football" what country music star Hank Williams Jr. did for ABC's "Monday Night Football" with his rowdy and now indelible "Are You Ready for Some Football"? NBC will announce today that the opening song on its NFL telecasts will be sung by the two-time Grammy-winning Pink and that the ensuing theme music has been written by film composer Williams, an 18-time Grammy winner.

Singer Pink is in line to star as Janis Joplin in a big-screen biography to be directed by Penelope Spheeris, according to Variety. The movie could start filming this summer, ahead of another film about the Texas blues-rock vocalist that actress Renee Zellweger has in the works. It would be the acting debut for Pink, whose given name is Alecia Moore.

"Feel Good Time" might be a fine summer single and the flagship song from the "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" soundtrack, but for Pink, the feisty singer who fronts the quirky, catchy record, it's a between-albums reassertion that her career isn't about to fall into a predictable pattern. In terms of timing and direction -- returning Pink to action with a left-field sound well before her next album comes out in November -- it looks like a nice piece of career strategy.

When she arrived on the pop scene three years ago with the name Pink and hair dyed to match, Alecia Beth Moore was a marketing director's dream and a critic's joke. With an R&B-pop sound as manufactured as her image, the 20-year-old Philadelphia-area native combined Madonna's tease, a punkette's rebellion and Looney Tunes flair. Critics were so dismissive that her "Can't Take Me Home" album finished a hapless No. 780 on the Village Voice's annual best-album poll of U.S.