Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Encanto star Stephanie Beatriz as well as The Umbrella Academy's Elliot Page are presenting awards at the Oscars alongside The Batman's Zoë Kravitz and Lady Gaga this year. The duo join DJ Khaled, Jennifer Garner, H. E.
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Chris Willman Music WriterIn announcing the postponement of some European tour dates that were to begin this month, Randy Newman revealed that he is recovering from a broken neck, and in his droll fashion referred to one of his most famous songs in discussing his diagnosis.“Recently, I noticed I was shrinking,” Newman wrote in a statement on his website. “People over whom I had towered now towered over me.
Could this be payback for having written ‘Short People’? Turns out, my neck was broken.”The singer-songwriter did not say when the broken neck was diagnosed, or how it might have occurred. (Variety was unable to immediately reach his management for further comment.) But Newman made it sound like he might be well along in his recovery.
“They operated on me successfully, I think,” he said. “For even now, I look less like an anteater and more like a folk-rock artist from the early ’60s.” (In what may or may not have been a deliberate act of whimsicality, the word “anteater” was officially tagged in the website statement.)Those fairly jocular asides were the extent of his sharing about his health, as the main purpose of his statement was to tell overseas fans that he would not be joining them as planned.Newman went on to say that “the doctor said I’m not quite ready to tour. I was really looking forward to coming to Europe to perform.
I miss performing a great deal and I look forward to a time when I can come. I’m sorry I won’t see you this time but I will see you soon.”The announcement added that ticket holders would “be contacted by their point of purchase with further information and news of their rescheduled date soon.”The postponement represents a further setback for European fans who had first bought tickets in
.Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Encanto star Stephanie Beatriz as well as The Umbrella Academy's Elliot Page are presenting awards at the Oscars alongside The Batman's Zoë Kravitz and Lady Gaga this year. The duo join DJ Khaled, Jennifer Garner, H. E.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot and KISS have been announced as headliners for this year’s Louder Than Life festival.The event, known as the world’s largest rock ‘n’ roll whiskey festival, takes place at the Highland Festival Grounds At KY Expo Center In Louisville, Kentucky, between September 22-25. You can get tickets here.Other names on the massive line-up include: Bring Me The Horizon, Yungblud, Shinedown, Rob Zombie, Alice In Chains, Alice Cooper, Incubus, Evanescence, Lamb Of God, Tenacious D, Chevelle, Papa Roach, Halestorm, Mastodon, In This Moment, The Pretty Reckless and many more.“This is how you do festivals right,” Slipknot’s Clown said of the event.
A slight executive shift here at Amazon Studios as Movies Co-Head Matt Newman goes to Prime Video’s global Sports group to develop sports docuseries, movies and scripted fare. Julie Rapaport will remain Amazon’s Head of Movies.
Nine Inch Nails have announced that Yves Tumor and Nitzer Ebb will support the band at their two UK shows this summer.Last month, Trent Reznor and co. detailed their UK comeback with a pair of shows at the Eden Project in Cornwall this June.The gigs, which take place on June 17 and 18, come sandwiched in between a recently-announced 2022 US tour which begins in April and runs through to September.On June 17, Nitzer Ebb will support the band, with Yves Tumor joining for the sold-out gig the following night.Get full details below.Support artists announced for Nine Inch Nails live at @EdenProject 2022.17 June with @Nitzer_Ebb Remaining tickets: https://t.co/8AGTbNmY0G18 June with @YvesTumor SOLD OUT pic.twitter.com/SCgkGQhNGr— nine inch nails (@nineinchnails) March 14, 2022Last year, the band cancelled their planned live shows as uncertainties around the COVID pandemic remained.
Jared Leto has never been shy about the great lengths he goes to to embody a character onscreen. Ever since his breakout film role in, when he lost substantial weight and slept on the streets, the actor has gone method for all of his iconic roles, including,, and now, . On the Apple TV+ limited series about the rise and fall of a $47 billion startup called WeWork, Leto plays its eccentric co-founder, Adam Neumann, and he tells ET’s Lauren Zima that he spent six months “immersed in the character.” In fact, it wasn’t until after filming was complete that Anne Hathaway and Kyle Marvin, who portray wife Rebekah Neumann and co-founder Miguel McKelvey, even met their co-star. “I had another chance to dive in deep and have a lot of fun with this incredibly rich character,” Leto says of playing Adam, who, by now, is a notorious figure in the business world known for his incredible charisma and unwavering determination to rise to the top.
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.
On the defensive. NBA star Russell Westbrook and his wife, Nina Earl, are speaking out as their family is being targeted by threats.
You likely are unaware of their names, but Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey have produced and/or directed some of the most influential pieces of filmed content over the past thirty years. Through their production company, World of Wonder, they have won five Emmy Awards for “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a global phenomenon that has spawned seven international spin-offs, including a BAFTA-nominated entry for the BBC.
Randy Newman is recovering from surgery.
Randy Newman, the prolific Oscar-winning songwriter, has postponed a European tour as he recovers from surgery to repair a broken neck.
“A Night With Randy Newman,” which was slated for March 2022, but will now have to be rescheduled. Commenting on his injury, the “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” singer said he first realized something was awry after noticing he was “shrinking.”“People over whom I had towered now towered over me,” the Grammy winner said before quipping: “Could this be payback for having written [Newman’s 1977 hit song] ‘Short People’?”The recent COVID-19 PSA musical composer continued, “Turns out, my neck was broken.”Fortunately, the music legend says the doctors were able to operate on him successfully, resulting in him looking “less like an anteater and more like a folk rock artist from the early sixties.” However, “the doctor said I’m not quite ready to tour,” he added.
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Tristan Thompson's son’s mother has revealed her baby boy’s name and the meaning behind it. Maralee Nichols has confirmed she has named her son Theo as the moniker has the meaning of “Gift from God”. Personal trainer Maralee gave birth in December and the basketball player, 30, initially denied that he was the father, but he later took a DNA test which confirmed the news.