Harry Connick Jr., who turns up on screen in Independence Day
as a drawling, alien-hunting fighter pilot, also has a new album, Star
Turtle, which just happens to have an extraterrestrial theme. The jazz-funk
record describes a cosmic terrapin's landing in New Orleans and his
evening of club crawling with local lounge lizards. But those looking for a
link between movie and album are lost in space, Connick says. "The two
are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff." The seeming coincidence
can be chalked up to that secret something known as cross-promotion.
