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30.06.2023 - 17:45 / deadline.com
Tino Gagliardi has been elected international president of the American Federation of Musicians. Gagliardi, president of AFM Local 802 in New York City, succeeds Ray Hair, who had been international president since 2010 but chose not to seek reelection at the union’s 102nd convention this week in Las Vegas.
“In the wider world, collaborating with our friends and allies – inside and outside our profession – is the key to winning legislation, winning at the bargaining table, and getting us the pay and the respect we deserve at work,” Gagliardi said.
According to the union, issues presented to the delegates during the four-day convention included artificial intelligence, musician replacement technology; building stronger electronic dance music, DJ and hip hop artists; mental health aid training for AFM officers and staff; assistance to small locals; investment in organizing and education; and growing the 80,000-member union.
In other elections, Dave Pomeroy, president of Local 257 in Nashville was elected vice president; Alan Willaert of Local 149 in Toronto was elected vice president from Canada, and Ken Shirk of Local 99 in Portland, Oregon, was elected international secretary-treasurer. Like Hair, their predecessors chose not to seek reelection.
Elected to the union’s international executive board were Luc Fortin of Local 406 in Montreal; Ed Malaga of Local 171-610 in Washington, DC; John Acosta of Local 47 in Los Angeles; Tina Morrison of Local 105 in Spokane, and Dusty Kelly of Local 149 in Toronto.
Mont Chris Hubbard of Local 99 and Tracey Whitney of Local 618 in Albuquerque were elected as AFL-CIO delegates.
Founded in 1896, the AFM is the largest organization in the world representing professional instrumental
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Again.Ryan Seacrest, 48, was named the new host of “Wheel of Fortune” on Tuesday. He will succeed Pat Sajak, who recently announced he’s retiring next year.This is not Seacrest’s first game show, nor, of course, his first TV hosting gig.The Georgia native left the University of Georgia when he was just 19 years old to pursue a broadcasting career — which has been prolific.Let’s look back on Seacrest’s life on air.In 1993, Seacrest started his career as the host of “Radical Outdoor Challenge” on ESPN, according to US Weekly.The adventure-themed program featured kids competing against each other in challenges at Camp Thunder in Georgia.A year later, the young Seacrest landed yet another hosting role, this time as the co-host of the kids’ show “Gladiators 2000,” a spinoff of “American Gladiators.” The star got a big break when he scored a slot as a DJ on Los Angeles radio station KYSR-FM in 1995, per US Weekly.He left his post there briefly for a job in San Francisco, according to The Los Angeles Times, but returned in 1997 to co-host a popular afternoon radio show with Lisa Foxx.“People have asked me, ‘Why do you still want to do radio if you have an opportunity to do [more] TV?’ ” Seacrest told the LA Times in 2002.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has a succinct take on what’s wrong with American politics: “We’re electing idiots.”
died. He was 89.The actor's daughter, Dinneen Coster, shared the news on social media.«There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital,” Dinneen wrote on Facebook.
“All The President’s Men” and “All My Children” actor Nicolas Coster died on Monday at a Florida hospital.He was 89.His daughter Dinneen Coster shared the tragic news on Facebook, penning: “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital.”“Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor,” she went on. “I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father,” she wrote.The British-American screen star’s cause of death has yet to be released.Coster was born in London to a British mother and a father from New Zealand.
Nicolas Coster, the British-American actor who played an evasive lawyer in All The President’s Men (“I’m not here,” he insisted to Robert Redford’s Bob Woodward as the two sat in a courtroom), a fiendish kidnapper in All My Children, zany businessman Lionel Lockridge on Santa Barbara, and the father of Lisa Whelchel’s Blair Warner in The Facts of Life, died Monday at a hospital in Florida. He was 89.
In an unprecedented show of solidarity, SAG-AFTRA’s two leading political factions have joined forces to form a unity slate to endorse the reelection of president Fran Drescher and secretary-treasurer Joely Fisher in an election will be held later this summer.
In an unprecedented show of solidarity, SAG-AFTRA’s two leading political factions have joined forces to form a unity slate to endorse the reelection of president Fran Drescher and secretary-treasurer Joely Fisher in an election will be held later this summer.
Wall Street Journal, the former Walt Disney Studios chairman has become “an influential outside adviser” to the White House and has given President Biden advice on how to counter his public image as being too old to be reelected in 2024. This past April, Katzenberg was named one of seven co-chairs for Biden’s re-election campaign.
Naman Ramachandran The performance show “Tarantino Live” has officially been updated based on Quentin Tarantino’s last film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” for its London run. For The Record, the production company behind the rock musical (whose repertoire includes shows based on the works of John Hughes, Baz Luhrmann, the Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Robert Zemeckis and Garry and Penny Marshall) has also revealed plans for a U.S. tour in 2024. “Tarantino Live: Fox Force Five and the Tyranny of Evil Men” — its full title — combines Tarantino’s most iconic film scenes with live rock ‘n’ roll renditions of songs pulled from their soundtracks, merging the worlds of Hollywood and musical theater into a 360-degree live-concert experience.
“rude” — coaching methods during the show’s 21st season.In the video, which was posted to the official “Idol” Instagram, Perry, 38, Luke Bryan, 46, and Lionel Richie, 73, are sitting at the judge’s table when the “All Night Long” singer remarked on his co-judges outfit by saying “we have cat woman with us.”Richie’s joke elicited laughter from Bryan who called his co-judge “Katy Purry.” Taking both comments in stride, the “Peacock” singer hopped up on her chair and extended her left leg before returning to a crouching position and holding her hands up like paws.“I’m ready to prowl for talent,” purred the singer. Perry then began to paw at Bryan’s shoulder while the country singer seemingly ignored the “I Kissed a Girl” singer’s antics.
American Auto may be gone, but costar Ana Gasteyer will always remember it with gratitude.
Emma Roberts had a special set visitor on the set of American Horror Story: Delicate.
Angelique Jackson “Cinnamon” and “A Song From the Dark” were two of the big winners at the “Best of the ABFF Awards” presented Saturday during the American Black Film Festival. Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, “Cinnamon” continued its festival run at ABFF in Miami Beach, Fl., where it was awarded the prize for best narrative feature and best director for writer-director Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr. The Tubi original film stars Hailey Kilgore, Damon Wayans, Pam Grier, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris. Kilgore plays Jodi, a struggling small-town gas station attendant with “killer pipes and big dreams,” who falls hopelessly in love with a hustler (Iacono) and falls foul of a local crime lord (Grier) and her murderous family. The noir thriller serves as the inaugural project filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema banner, co-founded by NBA all-star Kevin Garnett. Veteran producer Oz Scott oversees the content slate, which also includes “Murder City,” a film starring Mike Colter, Antonio Fargas and Stephanie Sigman that made its world premiere at ABFF.
If Arnold Schwarzenegger weren’t constitutionally barred from entering the race, he’d be the next president of the United States.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has opened up about if he would run for President of the United States.
Eva Longoria couldn’t contain her emotions while listening to U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks during a screening of the film Flamin’ Hot on the South Lawn of the White House on June 15, 2023, in Washington, DC.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to get into politics again. The Hollywood star says he “could win” the presidential election if he was eligible to run, as he has many ideas from his previous experience as governor of California between 2003 and 2011, and thinks he could “bring the nation together.”The 75-year-old actor would not be eligible as a candidate as he was born in Austria, and he is required to be a natural-born US citizen to participate in the election. During a recent conversation with Chris Wallace, the star was asked if he would consider running for president if he was allowed.
People Magazine. “I think the field was wide open in 2016. And I think the field is open right now.”Schwarzenegger, 75, was born in the village of Thal, Austria, and moved to the U.S.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Arnold Schwarzenegger would throw his name into the race for U.S. president if he was eligible, the actor and former California governor told Chris Wallace on a recent episode of Max and CNN’s “Who’s Talking?” interview series. The action movie icon already has a history in U.S. politics, as he served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011. “The Constitution says that the President has to be a natural born US citizen. If not for that, would you have run for president?” Wallace asked Schwarzenegger. “Well, yes, of course,” Schwarzenegger responded. “I mean, I think the field was wide open in 2016. And I think the field is open right now. I mean, think about it right now. I mean, who is there? There is really not a person that can bring everyone together. Who is here today that people say okay, he’s not too old or he’s not too this or too that, or is that because it’s now a question about who do you vote against then who do you vote for?”