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Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The upcoming holiday season just got a little more merry and bright. “Family Guy” creator, director and long-time crooner Seth MacFarlane is dropping a holiday album with Liz Gillies of “Dynasty” and “Victorious” fame — and you can listen to their title track, “We Wish You The Merriest” right now. The velvety pipes of Gillies paired with MacFarlane’s baritone is the enough to soften even the most resolute of grinches.

Jack Dunn Robert “Robin” MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93 MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times. Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer.

Alison Herman TV Critic The protagonist of “Grimsburg” looks and acts nothing like Jon Hamm, though the actor lends his voice — and backing as an executive producer — to the lead of Fox’s latest animated sitcom. Detective Marvin Flute is a scruffy, potbellied deadbeat who’s somewhat skilled at solving crimes, if nowhere near as much as he thinks he is.

Stuart Miller When George C. Wolfe was casting his civil rights movie “Rustin,” he got Colman Domingo for the titular Bayard Rustin, and then added Michael Potts and Glynn Turman in smaller, but crucial roles. “It was wonderful the way he got the band back together,” says Turman, who plays labor leader A.

Elizabeth Holmes is weighing in on the hoarse, baritone voice and unique persona she’s become so famous for in media portrayals and the public consciousness.

A.D. Amorosi As news spread May 1 of Canadian songwriting and singing legend Gordon Lightfoot’s death, realizing the full impact of his artistry and the breadth of his catalog felt all the more jolting. To hear Lightfoot’s virtuosic work is to have been pierced by its beauty. In a 2020 interview with this writer, Lightfoot rhetorically questioned his own storied craft. “Am I psychologically invested and involved?” he quizzed himself. “Yes. Are these songs me? I guess. It’s very important that I do the work that I do to get me there, writing these songs. All the poetic license allowed me from those around me helps. But when they ask where it is that all of this comes from, I still always say it is my imagination.” Then, with a sense of gallows humor, Lightfoot teased, “When I croak, will people remember that, remember my work?”

The world premiere of The Passion sung and spoken in Scots was a sell-out success in Dalry Parish Church on Easter Saturday.

This week, Alex Lee Thomson is approving some artists he checked out at last month’s SXSW showcase festival in Austin.If hard work breeds success then Enjoyable Listens are onto something. This band seemed to be everywhere at SXSW last month, and that’s no mean feat.They certainly don’t disappoint when it comes to their name – just one of their self aware tactics to dazzle you with showmanship and suck you into their odd world.

For those beady eyed chart fans keeping an eye on the Official Chart First Look - which gives an exclusive glance at how the Official Singles Chart is shaping up at midweek mark - there might have been a bit of surprise yesterday. 

Naveen Kumar The cannibalist startup in “Sweeney Todd” kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. For Mrs. Lovett, who laments that alley cats were too quick and meager to carve up anyway — well, it’s a living, innit love?  Slitting throats and baking bodies into pies is a wild and wicked business. But in the stately and star-filled revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s macabre 1979 musical that opened on Broadway Sunday night, the people-to-pastries pipeline quickly assumes a grim air of mundanity.  For its stars Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, this lushly orchestrated and opera-scale production, from “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, proves a magnificent showcase for their respective, jaw-dropping talents. Groban’s weighted-blanket baritone makes the prospect of reclining in his company and never waking up again seem like a great way to go. And Ashford’s fleet, agile instinct for comedy, which earned her a Tony Award for “You Can’t Take It With You,” is like a dippy bird for dopamine. But only one of them is a genuine thrill.

Thania Garcia Marshmello is helping Manuel Turizo get over his ex in a new music video for the duo’s first cross-genre collaboration titled “El Merengue.” On Thursday, the duo premiered the track that puts a fresh spin on merengue with layered electro beats and Turizo’s rich baritone vocals. The video, directed by Chadrick Preuss and Sandeep Vadlamudi, follows a lovestruck Turizo who is hung up on an ex-flame that he casually runs into one night at a crowded nightclub. In the heat of the moment, the Colombian singer and his ex sway to the rhythms of the sultry merengue beat. Overtaken by rekindled emotions — and liquid courage — Turizo ends up retching into the nightclub’s toilet while an unmasked Marshmello listens from the next stall over.

distinct tonal difference between how and how he speaks now, after imitating the King's idiosyncratic baritone every day for so long. Butler responded to these claims in a Yahoo! Australia interview on June 8, acknowledging that, yeah, sometimes he gets stuck doing the Elvis voice by accident. “Certain situations trigger it, I think,” he said with a smile, like being surrounded by Elvis's name at all times.

This mainly means the female M&M characters will be less cartoonishly sexualized, with Green exchanging her go-go boots for sneakers, and the ad campaigns dropping the occasional antagonistic relationship plot for a more supportive friendship. Also, the M&M characters will also reflect a wider range of body types.It’s 2022 so you won’t be surprised to learn that this has provoked a ton of discussion and mockery. You might be surprised however that the mockery comes from across the political spectrum.

SAN FRANCISCO -- John Adams’ version of “Antony and Cleopatra” will have its world premiere on Sept. 10 on the opening weekend of the San Francisco Opera’s 100th season.Soprano Julia Bullock sings Cleopatra, baritone Gerald Finley will be Antony, tenor Paul Appleby will portray Caesar and music director Eun Sun Kim will conduct, the company said Wednesday.The libretto was adapted by Adams, with additional passages from Plutarch and Virgil.

Bob Dole, a longtime elder statesman in the Republican party who was its vice presidential nominee in 1976 and presidential nominee 20 years later, has died. He was 98.

“The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights" by Sean Rowe (Fluff & Gravy Records)Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe's big voice is part of the reason his new album has heft, but it's not the only one.His resonant baritone is matched on “The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights” with powerful, well-made songs that range from somber to soaring.

Vikram Murthi Hulu’s “Helstrom” might sport an elaborate mythology, but like many comic book stories, it ultimately reveals a simplistic core. Loosely based on Marvel comics characters, “Helstrom” follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, two adult siblings with psychic powers and an intimate connection with the demon world.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSamuel L. Jackson’s profanity-laced persona on the Alexa voice assistant is getting a major [expletive deleted] upgrade.The actor’s voice skill on Alexa, which Amazon introduced a year ago, is adding over 30,000 new responses on the platform with new jokes, roasts, stories and other content.

took the studio to court after he was removed as a lead producer from the “Fast & the Furious” spinoff “Hobbs and Shaw,” starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, just days before shooting was set to begin.“Neal H. Moritz has been an integral part of the ‘Fast & Furious’ family since the inception of the franchise nearly two decades ago,” a Universal spokesperson said in a statement.

Also Read: Buzzfeed Sets First-Look Scripted TV Deal With Universal Television“Justin has been an integral part of the Universal family for 15 years, and his creative vision helped propel the Fast & Furious series into one of the studio’s biggest and most beloved global franchises,” Cramer said in a statement.

Colter Wall, “Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs” (La Honda Records)Colter Wall, who comes from Canadian cattle country, possesses a baritone that gives his music a distinctive brand.It's a voice as raw as the prairie wind in his native Saskatchewan, with a vibrato akin to a rusty gate on the back 40.

Also Read: 'Fast & Furious' Sequel 'F9' Moves Back Almost Full Year to April 2021“You just said something very important,” he continued. “I would say you’re very intuitive, because you said something right, but I’m not going to give it away.”“It was ‘space,’ I said ‘space,'” Cunningham responded.Ludacris then made a silly face, as if to indicate that he’s said too much.

A.D. Amorosi From his long braids, dusky baritone and cocksure cackle to an all-around Brooklyn swagger that came through on every track, rapper Pop Smoke had the sort of pointed signatures that made him unique and immensely sellable.

We really love how candid Val Kilmer is getting about his battle with throat cancer. Speaking out, literally just the act of speaking now, takes so much bravery after what he’s gone through.

He's also shared new single 'True Stereo'

Over the weekend, Drake shared “Chicago Freestyle” as part of a surprise two-track drop. Upon first listen, many fans speculated that the guest vocals on the song belonged to Sampha, who previously collaborated with Drake on “The Motion” and “4422.”

A senior member of the main U.S. union that represents opera performers resigned Monday, accusing the leadership of a cover-up in its investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against superstar Plácido Domingo.

The green sea turtle receives its giant-screen close-up in the strikingly photographedTurtle Odyssey 3D, which follows a well-traveled educational/inspirational template for Imax nature films.