Recording Academy Invites 2,710 Music People ‘From Wide-Ranging Backgrounds’ to Become Members

MEXICO CITY -- The slogan “¡Patria y vida!” — “Homeland and life!” — is heard loudly during the demonstrations in Cuba.

This is 58! Lisa Rinna celebrated another year around the sun in Mexico with husband Harry Hamlin this week — and shared a sizzling birthday selfie in a plunging white swimsuit on Instagram on Monday, July 12. To celebrate 58, the actress rocked a white one-piece from designer Norma Kamali and yellow-tinted aviator sunglasses from Tom Ford, captioning the post: “This is 58,” complete with celebratory emojis.

Christina Haack and new boyfriend Joshua Hall appear to be getting along together just fine, thank you very much. Photographers in Tulum, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, recently spotted the couple sharing some time together – including in the water.

amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ABC announced on Thursday the first 19 singles who will head to Mexicolater this summer.Matt James and Peter Weber's castoffs make up most hopefuls with six each.

Warner Bros. TV will have panels for their DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Roswell, New Mexico during San Diego Comic-Con@Home which runs July 23-25.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBrent Smith has left WME and joined Wasserman Music, the new company formed after Casey Wasserman acquired Paradigm’s North American music representation business, as executive vice present and managing executive, the company announced Tuesday (July 6).“As many of you know, the senior leadership team and I have been spending time with Brent Smith, and today I am pleased to share that he is joining Wasserman Music as EVP and Managing Executive,” Casey Wasserman wrote

On July 2 of 2020, when the initial spring surge of Covid-19 was fading, health officers and local elected officials across Southern California ordered virtually every beach shut down from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Cities around California cancelled fireworks displays. Governor Gavin Newsom closed bars and mandated masks in public spaces. What officials couldn’t stop, however, were household gatherings and travel over the Fourth of July weekend.

Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn, who took Supporting Actress in April for Minari, along with a number of her recent fellow acting nominees including Maria Bakalova, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Leslie Odom Jr., Paul Raci, and Steven Yeun, are among the new class of 395 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Clayton Davis The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the 395 artists and executives that have been invited to join this year — about half the number of last year’s class. The 2021 class is comprised of 46% women, 39% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and 53% international from 49 countries outside the United States.

here.It’s important to note that of the new invites, not all are voting members for the Grammys, with some just serving as “Professional Members.” In 2019, the Academy set a goal that by 2025 it would add 2,500 women to its voting members specifically. Within the last two years, 831 women of its stated 2,500 goal have joined, and for 2021, another 882 women were invited as voting members.

Not only does that top the $47.5 million 3-day opening of “A Quiet Place — Part II” and the $60 million opening of the “Fast & Furious” spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw,” but it also tops the openings of all the 2020 films that became hits before the pandemic, including the $62.5 million start for “Bad Boys for Life.” The $5.5 million grossed by “F9” on IMAX screens is the highest domestic weekend total for the format since “Bad Boys for Life” launched in January 2020.

This is just heartbreaking…

a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that accused the Academy of corruption and included accusations that the Academy’s private counsel, Joel Katz, sexually harassed her (Katz denied those claims) and said that she learned her predecessor, Neil Portnow, was accused of raping an unnamed female recording artist following a performance at Carnegie Hall (Portnow called the accusations “ludicrous and untrue” and said an independent investigation had exonerated him).Dugan also