Anne Litt Named KCRW Music Director as Search for New 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Host Intensifies

Jon Bellion is content with his professional reality: doing what he loves with his best buds, scoring hit upon hit and calling it work.The songwriter-producer is not an official member of the Monsters & the Strangerz, a group of studio veterans made up of five longtime friends (brothers Jordan and Stefan Johnson, Alexander "Eskeerdo" Izquierdo, Marcus “Marc Lo” Lomax and Clarence Coffee Jr.).

Kirk Douglas was remembered by his friends and family, including son Michael Douglas and daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones, at a private memorial on Friday, February 7, in Los Angeles.

The Rolling Loud Festival will make its European debut in July when it touches down in Portugal at Praia da Rocha Beach in Portimão. The overseas edition of the five-year-old hip-hop event that has been held in Los Angeles, New York and Oakland will feature headlining slots from A$AP Rocky, Future and Wiz Khalifa from July 8-10, as well as appearances from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Chief Keef, Dababy, Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Lil Durk and Lil Keed.

On Tommy, a new drama series premiering Feb. 6 on CBS, Edie Falco is seemingly very far from the New York City metro area she's so closely associated with thanks to her performances on The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie. She plays Abigail "Tommy" Thomas, a New York Police Department legend who moves across the country to become the first female chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

By Anita Bennett

Mick Jagger stars alongside Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland in Giuseppe Capotondi's The Burnt Orange Heresy, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival.The movie will be hitting theaters in Los Angeles and New York on March 6, and on Monday (Jan. 27), the neo-noir thriller's new trailer dropped.

Influential Los Angeles-area NPR affiliate KCRW has filled one of the positions left vacant with the exit of music director/”Morning Becomes Eclectic” host Jason Bentley last September by naming longtime on-air personality Anne Litt to the newly created position of program director of music. The job title may be different, but this puts Litt in a crucial position at the station that has been held by Bentley as well as former music directors Nic Harcourt, Chris Douridas and Tom Schnabel.

She has joined production assistant Mimi Haley and former "The Sopranos" actress Annabella Sciorra, who have both alleged assault against Weinstein, reports acesehowbiz.com.

In 2019, pop artist Mika gave some of his fans in North America the long-awaited live return they'd been waiting for with his Tiny Love Tiny Tour, during which he visited New York, Canada and Los Angeles to deliver a series of intimate shows. But in 2020, the star is finally coming back to tour North America in full force.

It's a good time to be a member of Tank and the Bangas.

Raedio, the joint venture label that Insecure star Issa Rae launched with Atlantic Records last October, has acquired the music supervision firm Bonfire Collective. Bonfire Collective founder/creative head Stephanie Diaz-Matos will now join Raedio as head of music supervision and its production music library. Bonfire’s offices in Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans will operate under Raedio.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds haven't gone to any award shows in Los Angeles yet, but the two were photographed out by paparazzi this week in New York City—something very rare for them. Lively and Reynolds were shot walking in Manhattan yesterday.

By Ted Johnson

UPDATE: The SAG-AFTRA offices in Los Angeles and New York have received an all-clear after a bomb threat was called in for the second time in three days.