At a moment when Broadway shows are set to the lives or music of Jimmy Buffett, Carole King and, very soon, Donna Summer, the just-announced musical based on the songs and story of Cher has everything one would expect in a jukebox musical. Set to open on Broadway in November …
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Did the entire world set ablaze when it was announced John Mulaney would host Saturday Night Live? I’m guessing no. Did I do a jig? Possibly, but there’s no video so no one can prove it. As the writer of Stefon and countless other SNL sketches, Mulaney helped shape some …
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The Parr family struggles to balance family life with fighting crime in Pixar’s new trailer for The Incredibles 2. The clip opens with the Parrs sitting down to Chinese take-out, as Violet bickers with her brother, “Dash,” about not washing his hands. Then they address the “elephant in the room”: …
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John Boehner is now an unexpected ally in the fight for legal weed. The Republican, who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives between 2011 and 2015, joined the board of advisors for Acreage Holdings, a company that cultivates, processes and dispenses cannabis in 11 states. Seven years …
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Over its 50-year history, Fleetwood Mac has seen just about as many people come and go as the Harlem Globetrotters. Drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie have been there from the start – the group’s moniker is a combination of their last names – but they’ve had a hell …
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The Weeknd claimed his third straight Number One release as the singer’s surprise My Dear Melancholy opened atop the Billboard 200. Despite little warning before its March 30th arrival, the six-song mini-album still sold 169,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the bulk of that total – …
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Two weeks before Sarah Shook and the Disarmers were set to go into the studio to record their new album, the intuitive Shook sensed something important was missing. “I was looking at a list of songs that we had, that we’d been practicing and rehearsing religiously for months and months …
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Stevie Wonder tapped a Barack and Michelle Obama, Paul McCartney, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen and many more for an inspiring video to honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Wonder opens the “Dream Still Lives” video with a simple, but powerful message: “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s …
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Jimmy Kimmel tried to find out if children could spell as poorly as President Donald Trump during the first “Make America Great Again Spelling Bee” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. For the bit, Kimmel brought in three young Los Angeles spelling champs – Vaishnavi, Samuel and Amira – and asked …
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Eagles of Death Metal‘s Jesse Hughes apologized to “the youth of America” on Saturday for criticizing the March for Our Lives protest. The apology came five days after Hughes labeled the surviving students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting as “disgusting vile abusers of the dead.” “Recently I made …
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