Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake has added to its cast.
24.06.2022 - 17:55 / variety.com
A.D. Amorosi When Sir Bryson Robert Hall II – aka Bobby Hall, aka rapper-producer-mental health activist Logic – talks about the self-titled “fuck-it-have-fun” moment when his gleeful, new, return-to-rap’s-old-school album, “Vinyl Days,” was conceived, he doesn’t mince words about its motivation: leaving Def Jam for BMG.Signed to Def Jam since 2014, Logic made a splash at the label in 2017 when he dropped his “Everybody” album and its five-times platinum single, “1-800-273-8255” (National Suicide Prevention Hotline), featuring Khalid and Alessia Cara.
The emotive track not only rocketed Logic to fame and fortune (including the authorship of 2019’s New York Times Bestseller, “Supermarket”), “1-800-273-8255” made him an early advocate for mental health issues. Since the time of his first hit, however, Logic has grown tired of the music industry, and even announced his retirement in July 2020.
While that hiatus didn’t last long (his “YS Collection Vol. 1” was released less than a year later), the end of his contract with Def Jam – fulfilled by “Vinyl Days,” a record containing his most committed, furious freestyles – comes with contradictions, a love of those at the label who helped him get ahead (listed on the 10-minute-long “Sayonara”), and a feeling of discontent for what he feels should have been.Signed to BMG in a licensing deal with marketing and distribution (technically the new deal starts in nine months, with management working to shorten that length of time), Logic will have ownership of his masters.“Vinyl Days” is more about your love for hip-hop than the more issue-oriented tracks you’ve recorded. How did the idea of spitting free verse come to mind for this project?I really just wanted to be off Def Jam, to be
.Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake has added to its cast.
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departed the project.The show — executive produced by Portman and Har’el — is an adaptation of Laura Lippman’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. Set in 1960s Baltimore, it follows housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman), who is pushed to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist following an unsolved murder. She then crosses paths with Cleo Sherwood (Ingram), a dedicated mother who is juggling several jobs, along with a commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black community.
Moses Ingram, fresh from starring in Disney+’s Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, has joined the Apple TV+ and Endeavor Content limited series Lady in the Lake.
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Tom Hanks has recalled the time he took off his trousers in front of the Mona Lisa while filming The Da Vinci Code.In a recent interview with The New York Times, the actor said that the memorable moment made up for the general disappointment of his Robert Langdon movies, which were adapted from Dan Brown’s novels.“It was my 40th-something birthday. We were shooting in the Louvre at night.