On September 14th, Willie Nelson will release My Way, an album-length tribute to Frank Sinatra. While the concept of a Sinatra tribute LP isn’t new, Nelson’s approach is: He finds new, inventive ways to phrase songs like “Summer Wind” and “My Way,” both in his vocal melodies and with his …
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With the debut of Amazon’s Jack Ryan, John Krasinski will be the fifth actor to play the title character, a CIA analyst introduced in a series of best-selling Eighties novels by Tom Clancy(*). Krasinski follows Alec Baldwin in The Hunt For Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and A …
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Aerosmith recruited the Roots‘ horn section to perform two of their 1970s tracks, “Mama Kin” and “Big Ten Inch Record,” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. On “Mama Kin,” a highlight from the band’s self-titled 1973 debut LP, frontman Steven Tyler paraded around the stage with his scarf-clad mic stand and harmonized …
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Late-night hosts teased the Trump Administration over their “stupid” plans to launch a Space Force after Vice President Mike Pence gave an earnest speech about “an elite group of joint war fighters specializing in the domain of space.” “Longtime viewers of the Trump administration will remember that Space Force is …
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Some of President Trump’s most cartoonishly evil policy initiatives have come at the expense of the environment. In the past few months alone, his administration has lifted a ban importing big-game hunting trophies, sought to repeal California emissions standards and released a plan to gut the Endangered Species Act. It’s …
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Tom Cruise convinced James Corden to take part in a Mission: Impossible-worthy stunt – skydiving at 15,000 feet – on Thursday’s Late Late Show. “I’ve actually been trying to get a hold of Tom the last couple of days to cancel but I had his number saved wrong in my …
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When Gus Van Sant began working on Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot more than 20 years ago, the movie looked a whole lot different. Back then, Robin Williams, at the height of his considerable fame, had optioned the memoir of the same name by John Callahan and …
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House of CardsactressRobin Wright broke her silence about costarKevin Spacey’ssexual misconduct allegations in a new interview with Today.“I think we were all surprised, of course, and ultimately saddened,” Wright said of the accusations.Last November,Netflix fired Spacey from the political drama. Wright said she didn’t pick up on any clues of …
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