The 94th Oscars celebration has officially kicked off with the official red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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Chris Willman Music WriterThe return of the Jazz Foundation of America’s annual benefit at Herb Alpert’s Vibrato club saw lifetime achievement awards being presented to four musical legends whose careers date to the ’60s or before, Randy Newman, Smokey Robinson, jazz fusion figure Bennie Maupin and producer Lou Adler. Homage was paid at the intimate nightspot in Bel Air by singers and actors including Jackson Browne, Merry Clayton, Herbie Hancock, Jeffrey Wright and Danny Glover.Drummer Steve Jordan — currently between Rolling Stones pickup gigs — led a house band out of the fantasies of anyone who scanned liner notes during the last 60 years, joined by Stones backup singers Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler among the serenaders, and jazz players Tom Scott, Billy Childs and Davell Crawford also taking the lead on tribute numbers during a two-and-a-half hour dream jam.
The annual Jazz Foundation benefits at Vibrato (picking up three years after the last, when Joni Mitchell was celebrated in 2019) stand in complement and contrast to the much larger shows the JFA puts on each year at the Apollo in New York, although the musical starpower in L.A. tends to be just as significant, even with a tiny fraction of the east coast’s audience size.
And the money raised can be as vivacious at Vibrato. Sunday night’s show raised $430,000 from only about 120 people squeezed into the hilltop venue, between admission prices for the dinner, an auction of rock photographer Henry Diltz’s work, and a late call for attendee largess.If there was any intrigue going into the show, it was whether honoree Newman would be up to playing, after he made headlines just days earlier saying he needed to cancel spring dates in Europe because he’d broken his
.The 94th Oscars celebration has officially kicked off with the official red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Elaine May was the last to arrive and the first to leave at the Governors Awards on Friday in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Elaine May was the last to arrive and the first to leave at the Governors Awards on Friday in Los Angeles. Her fellow honorees, Samuel L. Jackson, Liv Ullmann and Danny Glover, all arrived hours earlier, each holding court at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, posing for photos and enjoying their moment amid the lead-up to the 94th Academy Awards.
Academy Awards.It was a celebration, after all. They were about to get something for the first time in their long Hollywood careers: An Oscar statuette of their own.Jackson, whose right foot was in a walking cast boot and his left in a black velvet slipper, sat at the base of an oversized Oscar statuette as everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Magic Johnson came over to congratulate him.But May, the 89-year-old writer, filmmaker and comedy legend, walked into the Ray Dolby Ballroom arm in arm with Bill Murray long after attendees had finished their chicken pot pies, accepted her honorary Oscar with grace and wit, then departed soon after — still linked to Murray.Yes, it’s the kind of move that could upend a live broadcast.
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When The Worst Person in the World premiered in competition in Cannes this year there was the sense of an arrival, notably in the case of its leading lady, Renate Reinsve, who won the festival’s award for best actress. In actual fact, the film was closer to a destination, being the third part of an unofficial triptych begun by Norwegian director Joachim Trier with his 2006 feature debut Reprise, about two young bohemian writers living in Oslo. He followed it in 2011 with Oslo, August 31st, in which Reprise’s star, Anders Danielsen Lie, by day a successful medical doctor, played a melancholic drug addict and Reinsve made her acting debut with just one line of dialogue (“Let’s go to the party!”).
The summer is known for big studio blockbusters, but for many fans of The Criterion Collection, releases are in store for something special in June as they’ve announced six additions are coming in glorious 4K UHD. Criterion presents a group of films that includes Joachim Trier’s charming Oscar contender, “The Worst Person in the World”; Hong Kong master Stanley Kwan’s romantic ghost story, “Rouge”; Ekwa Msangi’s remarkable debut feature debut, “Farewell Amor”; and “Shaft,” the blaxploitation action-hero classic from Gordon Parks that helped launched serious black-led action films, now on 4K UHD.
ITV, STV and Livewire Pictures are joining forces with Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) andGlobal to stage a two hour fundraiser concert to raise money for the humanitarian appeal in Ukraine. Concert for Ukraine, which will take place on Tuesday 29 March, will see a star-studded musical line-up and will raise funds for the ongoing DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
Janet Jackson, 55, took a stroll in Central London on Thursday, March 10, marking the first time the superstar’s been seen in public in nearly one year. The “Rhythm Nation” hitmaker was photographed all smiles while exiting a florist shop in England’s capital where she now lives. Janet, whose life was showcased in the new tell-all documentary on Lifetime and A&E, was dressed in a casual black sweatshirt and matching sweatpants. She also rocked a gray scarf, a black head scarf, black sunglasses, and a pair of white sneakers.
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, a UK artist managed to both raise money for war victims and dump on Vladimir Putin by selling a portrait of the Russian president made out of dog poop. “I did a portrait of Putin using dog s – – t,” Dominic Murphy told the Welwyn Hatfield Times of his odiferous opus, titled “Poo-tin’s a S – – t” on his site.
Paris Jackson, 23, flaunted an epic look in Paris, France on March 6. The daughter of the late Michael Jackson wore a multi-colored long sweater with various designs as a mini dress along with black thigh-high platform boots as she was photographed walking in the popular city. She added to her look with a black necklace and dangling earrings as her shoulder-length blonde hair stayed down.
SoHo grifter — whose elaborate cons were recently dramatized in Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” series.In a new episode of “Inventing Chloe,” Fineman put on Anna Sorokin’s trademark Céline eyeglasses and designer outfits, and became emboldened to boss around and disparage her co-workers.“This food, is like basic, you know? Chips, are like broke ass. We need something more exclusive, like Nobu.
James Bond movies, he finds himself aiding Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader of Gotham in The Batman. While the timing seems so perfect it had to be planned, that's not exactly why Wright took his exit along with Craig. As he promoted his new role of Jim Gordon in this weekend’s box office frontrunner, Wright recounted how the end of an era marked the closing of a chapter in his acting history.
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has teamed up with actors David Tennant and Adrian Lester to support an urgent Ukraine humanitarian campaign. The trio of stars will appear in TV and radio clips filmed by the Disasters Emergency Committee launched on Thursday March 3.The DEC brings together 15 UK aid charities to raise funds which will be distributed to charities responding on the ground, providing Ukranians with food, water and shelter.Trigger Point star Adrian, 53, said: “It is easy to feel powerless in the face of so much catastrophic human need, but you can help.” He added that the charities involved in the DEC were already working in Ukraine or neighbouring countries, “preparing to scale up their operations.” The UK Government will match pound-for-pound up to £20 million donated by the public to this appeal.The Queen is already known to have given a "generous donation" to the appeal.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.Hollywood stars are fundraising for Ukraine on Cameo.As Russian troops continue to attack major Ukrainian cities, displacing more than a million refugees from their homes, actors such as Olivia Colman, Busy Philipps, Denise Richards and Maggie Wheeler have committed to donating a portion of their proceeds from the video-sharing platform to the organization Choose Love.The nonprofit will use the funds to support projects providing vital aid and services to those still in and fleeing Ukraine, including emergency medical care, food, shelter, clothes, legal support, support for the LGBTQIA+ community and mental health resources.More than 400 stars have joined the platform’s fundraising efforts, such as John Bradley West, Jay Sean, Montell Jordan, Dule Hill and Carson Kressley. Starting at $100, fans can buy personalized messages from the site’s long list of bold-faced names, a portion of which, for a limited time, will go to Choose Love’s relief efforts.
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