Amy Winehouse’s dad wanted George Clooney to play him in biopic: “Eddie fucking Marsan!”

Marisa Abela walks and talks with Eddie Marsan on the set of Back to Black in London, England on Friday afternoon (March 10).

NME about the recent 20th anniversary celebrations for the venue and the current plight of live music in the UK.The 400-capacity Goldsmith Street venue opened on 22 February 2003 and has since served as a pivotal stepping stone in the rise of artists including Amy Winehouse, Stormzy, The Killers, The National, Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris, Charli XCX, The Libertines, Fontaines D.C. and Nottingham’s own Jake Bugg.The week-long series of celebrations, which also included a Do Nothing DJ set and a performance by Nottingham’s Amber Run, culminated last week with a headline performance from Frank Turner and the one-off show from local metallers Panchiko.A post shared by Rescue Rooms (@rescuerooms) Speaking to NME, Anton Lockwood, the Director of Live Music at the DHP Group, the company behind Rescue Rooms that also runs Rock City and the Bodega in Nottingham, was keen to outline the continuing importance of mid-sized music venues to the lifeblood of the UK music scene.“When we do these anniversary things, the natural thing is to go, ‘Oh yeah, Dua Lipa played, or The Killers played and didn’t even sell out’.

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treated contestant Sara Beth Liebe, a happy-go-lucky 25-year-old mother of three, on Sunday’s episode of the singing competition singing. The red-headed, quirky California native openly admitted that she’s not much of a musician except in her church choir and on karaoke nights. Perry, who made an off-color remark about being such a young three-time mom, loudly interjected, “Is this your dream?”“Um,” the seemingly already nervous Liebe muttered.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor In the final stretch to the Oscars, Hollywood’s A-List and industry insiders get their party on in the days and nights leading up to the big show. From Gina Prince-Bythewood being among the honorees at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Awards and a Friday night Versace fashion show to a celebration of Kerry Condon, Jessie Buckley and Eve Hewson at the Oscar Wilde Awards, this year’s Academy Award soirres and events are in full swing. Of course, the partying continues into the wee hours after the awards are handed out. Here, Variety gives you this year’s ultimate Oscar party guide.

Chris Rock has slammed Will Smith over the Oscars slap, joking he “took that hit like Pacquiao”.The comedian made the comment during his Netflix special Chris Rock: Selective Outrage at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, which was the company’s first foray into live streaming.The 58-year-old kicked off his stand-up special joking: “I’m going to try and do a show without offending nobody. You never know who might get triggered. “Anybody that says words hurt have never been punched in the face.” Rock’s material immediately dovetailed into the 2022 Oscars, joking about “wokeness”, hypersensitivity and what he called “selective outrage”, after Hollywood actor Smith stormed the stage and slapped him.

Pete Doherty and wife Katia de Vidas have confirmed they are expecting their first child together later this year. The couple made the announcement during an interview with the French magazine Society, where they revealed Katia's due date was sometime in May. They also added that they are expecting a baby girl.

Amy Winehouse actor Marisa Abela was seen swigging from a bottle of vodka as she roamed the streets at night, in new set pictures from the upcoming biopic about the late singing star.The snaps show Marisa, 26, wandering in London wearing a leopard print top and black tracksuit bottoms along with some pink satin ballet pumps, which were favoured by Amy, who tragically died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, aged just 27. In character as the troubled star, Marisa could be seen drinking from a small bottle of vodka and looking dishevelled, with her black hair falling past her shoulders and black makeup smudged around her eyes.The actress wore large hooped earrings and had a forlorn look on her face as she filmed the scenes for the biopic, which is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.

Amy Grant is releasing new music after a decade-long break!

K.J. Yossman U.K. network Channel 4 has commissioned a new documentary from Curious Films about TV host and author Paula Yates, who died following a heroin overdose at the age of 41 in 2000. The two-part doc, titled simply “Paula,” will explore the “life and legacy” of the wildchild presenter, whose relationships with Boomtown Rats’ vocalist Bob Geldof and rockstar Michael Hutchence dominated the headlines in the late 1990s. Yates and Geldof’s daughter, model Peaches Geldof, also died of a heroin overdose at the age of 25 in 2014. The doc promises to “reveal the real Paula Yates behind the tabloid-driven narrative, drawing on an extraordinary set of never-before-heard interviews, the words of some of those who knew her best and a wealth of archive to tell her story in her own words.” Yates was a Channel 4 staple during her prime, fronting shows including “The Tube” and “The Big Breakfast” for which she interviewed stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Robbie Williams.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz will be this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay for She Said, the Universal film about the New York Times reporters who broke the story that exposed disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. The guild said Thursday that she will be honored at the WGA Awards’ Los Angeles ceremony March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.

EXCLUSIVE: Smokehouse TV and 101 Studios have made a multiyear overall deal for original scripted and unscripted content for television.

Marisa Abela gets into character to play Amy Winehouse on the set of Back to Black on Wednesday (February 22) in London, England.

According to Variety, McCartney has recorded bass parts during recording sessions that took place in Los Angeles in recent weeks, and Starr is also slated to play drums.It’s currently unclear whether McCartney and Starr will end up on the same track or which songs will make the final tracklist. The album, produced by 2021 Grammy Producer of the Year Andrew Watt, is getting close to the mixing phase and has “a lot of tracks done,” Mick Jagger shared in 2021.Last month, guitarist Keith Richards shared with fans in an Instagram video that “There’s some new music on its way.”It’s thought that the album will feature recorded parts from the late founding drummer Charlie Watts, who died “peacefully” in Aug.

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Home to lush rainforests, vast stretches of white sands and fabulous Creole cuisine, Saint Lucia deserves its reputation as one of the most dazzling jewels in the Caribbean crown. In the north, the island’s capital, Castries, is cradled by emerald hillsides sprinkled with pops of ice-cream coloured houses.

Penn Badgley saying no to sex scenes in YOU Season 4 has gone down well but would an actress have had the same luxury? If you are as eagle-eyed as Joe Goldberg from Netflix’s psychological thriller YOU, you may have noticed the subtle but significant dialling down of raunchier scenes the show was famous for in earlier seasons. It turns out this is because the former Gossip Girl star asked to do as few sex scenes as possible out of respect for his wife Domino Kirke.

EXCLUSIVE: Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever, Defending Jacob) has joined the cast of the untitled Apple Original Films thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt from writer, producer, and director Jon Watts.

Studiocanal has boarded development on part English-language thriller Smiling Hacker which is currently being written by Audrey Diwan.

Fuzzy fit! Brad Pitt looked extra stylish while out and about in New York City.