Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas O’Connell have received Grammys, an Oscar and just about every award and honor and tribute and kudo young recording artists can imagine in the six years since her debut EP in 2017, but even they can still be awed by a tribute from a respected influence. That happened at Variety’s Hitmakers celebration in Los Angeles on Saturday, when Elton John’s lyricist of 56 years, Bernie Taupin — who has written the lyrics for everything from “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” to “Bennie and the Jets” and “Candle in the Wind” — paid tribute to their songwriting partnership when rewarding them with the Film Song of the Year honor for “What Was I Made For?,” their song from the summer blockbuster film “Barbie.” Before an audience that included Boygenius, Joan Baez, Olivia Rodrigo, Victoria Monet and many others (SZA hadn’t arrived yet), the following exchange took place: Taupin’s tribute and Eilish’s response (Finneas just said “Thanks guys!”) follows in full.
Capitol Hill Chaos: Congressman Tim Burchett Accuses Kevin McCarthy Of Elbowing Him; Bernie Sanders Breaks Up Near Brawl Between GOP Senator And Teamsters Leader
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Members of Congress are seeking to avoid a government shutdown by the end of the week and thousands of demonstrators have gathered on the Capitol lawn in support of Israel, but the real theatrics have been in the resentments that have come to near physical or actual blows.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidney as Burchett was doing an interview today with NPR. Burchett was one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy as speaker last month.
The NPR congressional correspondent, Claudia Grisales, posted a play-by-play of what she saw happened. She wrote that as she was interviewing Burchett, McCarthy walked by with his security detail and “McCarthy shoved Burchett.”
Burchett lunged toward her, she wrote, but she thought it “was a joke.”
She wrote, “Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy kept walking, ‘Sorry Kevin didn’t mean to elbow –‘ then seriously yelled, ‘why’d you elbow me in the back Kevin?! Hey Kevin, you got any guts!?'”
Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill:
While talking to @RepTimBurchett after the GOP conference meeting, former @SpeakerMcCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued…
She wrote that Burchett then took after McCarthy. “I chased behind with my mic,” she wrote.
Burchett then yelled at McCarthy after catching up with him, she wrote. “Hey Kevin, why’d you walk behind me and elbow me in the back?”
McCarthy, though, denied doing so.
Burchett yelled at him. “You got no guts, you did so, …the reporter said it right there, what kind of chicken move is that? You’re pathetic man, you are so pathetic,” he said to McCarthy, per Grisales.
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