The world should value consent. However, Madonna‘s “Erotica” was banned from MTV for depicting consensual roleplay. The Queen of Pop had a surprising reaction to this development. One of the musicians behind Madonna’s album Erotica also had some perceptive things to say about the controversy.
Madonna’s ‘Erotica’ was pulled from MTV for being ‘repellent’
Madonna’s music video for “Erotica” looks like a rediscovered print of a black-and-white silent film about the Folsom Street Fair. It’s grainy, disorientingly edited, and niche in a way that’s generally anathema to a mass-market pop offering. The video has a lot of images that nobody would want to watch with their grandma. The Material Girl had previously explored Bdsm in her music videos for “Express Yourself” and “Justify My Love,” but she took things to a new level of explicitness with “Erotica.” After all, the music video had to...
Madonna’s ‘Erotica’ was pulled from MTV for being ‘repellent’
Madonna’s music video for “Erotica” looks like a rediscovered print of a black-and-white silent film about the Folsom Street Fair. It’s grainy, disorientingly edited, and niche in a way that’s generally anathema to a mass-market pop offering. The video has a lot of images that nobody would want to watch with their grandma. The Material Girl had previously explored Bdsm in her music videos for “Express Yourself” and “Justify My Love,” but she took things to a new level of explicitness with “Erotica.” After all, the music video had to...
- 5/23/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
With the arrival of the Paramount+ documentary miniseries “Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza,” alt-rock fans who attended the era-defining Lollapalooza festival in its national heyday will experience a rush of nostalgia, and viewers from Gens Z and Alpha will see and hear what Gen X has been crowing about since 1991. That’s the year Perry Farrell created a touring farewell party for his Jane’s Addiction, invited still-new bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Ice T’s Body Count for the ride, and found a tribe of like-minded rebel youth enthralled with his tribal gathering.
Farrell and the series’ director, Emmy nominee Michael John Warren, spoke with Variety about the new documentary in separate interviews. Warren is more naturally prone to rhapsodize about Lollapalooza’s rich history than Farrell, who isn’t so nostalgically inclined and has his sights set very much on what he believes could happen under...
Farrell and the series’ director, Emmy nominee Michael John Warren, spoke with Variety about the new documentary in separate interviews. Warren is more naturally prone to rhapsodize about Lollapalooza’s rich history than Farrell, who isn’t so nostalgically inclined and has his sights set very much on what he believes could happen under...
- 5/21/2024
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour touched down Monday night at the Sanger Theatre in New Orleans. The venue is just a little under six miles from Lake Pontchartrain, which is probably why Dylan decided to break out the 1947 Hank Williams classic “On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain” for the first time in his career. It was a tender rendition that he delivered in a remarkably clear voice.
Dylan became a fan of Hank Williams at a very young age. “I remember hearing’ Hank Williams one or...
Dylan became a fan of Hank Williams at a very young age. “I remember hearing’ Hank Williams one or...
- 4/2/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
On the opening night of Bob Dylan’s 2024 tour, a fan reportedly got under his skin by screaming out, “Play something we know.” The fact that he followed the heckle up with a brand new arrangement of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” that echoed Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On The Ritz” (or possibly “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by the Four Lads) is surely coincidence since such things are worked out in advance, but later in the night he did pull out a surprise by covering the 1956 Jimmy Rogers song “Walking By...
- 3/8/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Tina Turner played for many dignitaries throughout a music career that spanned over six decades. Her fans spanned far and wide, including Princess Diana and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. However, did she ever have the chance to perform for Queen Elizabeth and the members of the royal family? Here’s what we know.
Queen Elizabeth and Tina Turner in side-by-side photographs | Samir Hussein/WireImage/Steve Rapport/Getty Images Tina Turner once performed for the royal family in the late 1980s
In 1989, Tina Turner was a guest of the royal family and a special guest at the Royal Variety Performance. The event took place at the London Palladium.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attended the musical and variety show at the time. The event took place in November 1989.
The performers of the historical evening included a mix of actors, entertainers, singers, and musicians. Turner was joined by a who’s who of talent,...
Queen Elizabeth and Tina Turner in side-by-side photographs | Samir Hussein/WireImage/Steve Rapport/Getty Images Tina Turner once performed for the royal family in the late 1980s
In 1989, Tina Turner was a guest of the royal family and a special guest at the Royal Variety Performance. The event took place at the London Palladium.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attended the musical and variety show at the time. The event took place in November 1989.
The performers of the historical evening included a mix of actors, entertainers, singers, and musicians. Turner was joined by a who’s who of talent,...
- 5/25/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Rip singer, actress "Tina Turner", who was part of Mattel's signature "Barbie" doll collection, honoring 'trailblazing women', that sold out in its first day of release:
The doll depicted Turner...
.... from the 1985 music video "What's Love Got To Do With It?"...
"Tina", the documentary feature, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin follows the life and career of Tina Turner, now streaming on HBO Max.
"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
Click the images to enlarge...
The doll depicted Turner...
.... from the 1985 music video "What's Love Got To Do With It?"...
"Tina", the documentary feature, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin follows the life and career of Tina Turner, now streaming on HBO Max.
"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
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- 5/25/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
I’ve been a fan of Tina Turner — the electrifying rock and soul goddess who died Wednesday at 83 after several lifetimes’ worth of legendary performances — for as long as I can remember. Probably since “Nutbush City Limits” hit the airwaves when I was a kid and those swaggering guitar riffs and Moog synthesizer sirens sunk into my bones.
I still can’t hear that song, or other early classics I discovered later, like the volcanic “River Deep — Mountain High,” or Turner’s cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit “Proud Mary,” with its teasing slow start and Richter scale-busting explosion into hyper-speed frenzy, without wanting to drop everything and dance.
But I only ever saw her once in concert.
That was at London’s Wembley Arena in June 1987, a month after the U.K. paperback release of her autobiography, I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder. A friend in marketing at...
I still can’t hear that song, or other early classics I discovered later, like the volcanic “River Deep — Mountain High,” or Turner’s cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit “Proud Mary,” with its teasing slow start and Richter scale-busting explosion into hyper-speed frenzy, without wanting to drop everything and dance.
But I only ever saw her once in concert.
That was at London’s Wembley Arena in June 1987, a month after the U.K. paperback release of her autobiography, I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder. A friend in marketing at...
- 5/25/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Tina Turner was at a place of peace in the last few years before her death, comparing herself to a “lotus flower, blooming over and over again against all odds, emerging stronger each time.”
Those were the words that appeared in Turner’s 2020 book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, which offered up wisdom for readers on how to find true contentment and peace.
Tina Turner was at a place of peace in the last few years before her death, comparing herself to a “lotus flower, blooming over and over again against all odds, emerging stronger each time.”
Those were the words that appeared in Turner’s 2020 book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, which offered up wisdom for readers on how to find true contentment and peace.
- 5/24/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Sirulnick spent nearly three decades at MTV, helping launch the signature “Week in Rock” news franchise and overseeing “Total Request Live” — as well as reality series including “Laguna Beach,” “Cribs” and “My Super Sweet 16.” He spearheaded MTV’s Video Music Awards, as well as its ground-breaking “Choose or Lose” presidential campaign coverage and news programming stemming from world events such as Hurricane Katrina, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2003 war in Iraq. Sirulnick rose to executive vice president for multiplatform production, news and music for MTV before departing in 2015 as part of a major Viacom reorg. With the news that Paramount Global has eliminated the last vestiges of MTV News (which had already been significantly downsized), Variety asked Sirulnick — now president of entertainment at RadicalMedia — to share his thoughts.
I walked into MTV’s offices at 1775 Broadway in May 1987, having been hired as a producer to create and develop...
I walked into MTV’s offices at 1775 Broadway in May 1987, having been hired as a producer to create and develop...
- 5/16/2023
- by Dave Sirulnick
- Variety Film + TV
In the ever-evolving youth-culture carnival that was MTV in the late Eighties and Nineties, MTV News anchor Kurt Loder was the one constant, as well as the network’s only indicator that being a grown-up might actually be cool. With MTV News officially ending its 36-year run last week, Loder — also a longtime Rolling Stone writer — looks back on covering Kurt Cobain’s death, interviewing Prince, Madonna, and Axl Rose, and much more.
(The full conversation, including Loder’s thoughts on his Rolling Stone work, along with interviews with John Norris and Tabitha Soren,...
(The full conversation, including Loder’s thoughts on his Rolling Stone work, along with interviews with John Norris and Tabitha Soren,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Kurt Loder, the original MTV News anchor (and a longtime Rolling Stone writer) was both taken aback and pleased by the outpouring of affection he received online this week after MTV News officially ended its 36-year run. “I think a lot of those people are just remembering their own youth,” he says in the new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “Saying, ‘Wow, that was a great time because, well, I was 15 years old.'”
Find the episode here at the podcast provider of your choice, go...
Find the episode here at the podcast provider of your choice, go...
- 5/15/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
In the late 1980s, a group of grumpy music journalism vets and fresh-faced 20-somethings came together for a radical media experiment: the launch of a cable news division programmed for, and largely run by American youth. On May 9, 2023 — 36 years after its inception — Paramount announced that the fruits of their labor, MTV News, had been shuttered for good.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to many of MTV News’ star reporters — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, Alison Stewart, Chris Connelly, SuChin Pak and Gideon Yago — and visionary executives Doug Herzog and Ocean MacAdams to reminisce about the glory days of the outfit, where one day you might be hanging backstage with Prince in Paris, the next chasing a pre-White House Bill Clinton through the snowy streets of New Hampshire.
For each of them, it was a bittersweet journey they were more than happy to take.
Alison Stewart I tell my nieces,...
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to many of MTV News’ star reporters — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, Alison Stewart, Chris Connelly, SuChin Pak and Gideon Yago — and visionary executives Doug Herzog and Ocean MacAdams to reminisce about the glory days of the outfit, where one day you might be hanging backstage with Prince in Paris, the next chasing a pre-White House Bill Clinton through the snowy streets of New Hampshire.
For each of them, it was a bittersweet journey they were more than happy to take.
Alison Stewart I tell my nieces,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like most pop stars, MTV found that it needed to reinvent itself every decade in the race to stay relevant. However, from its early never-ending jukebox days through the TV animation hits, the Total Request Live era, and finally the reality show years, one constant remained: MTV News. Starting in 1987 with The Week in Rock, MTV News anchor Kurt Loder brought Generation X teens music news, treating it with the same gravity as the PBS Newshour and his audience’s intelligence with respect. For many of us, he was our first news anchor, and MTV News was the way to stay informed.
- 5/11/2023
- by Ani Bundel
- Primetimer
Thirty-six years after MTV News was created to expand the stable of programming that defined the cable channel MTV, it is no more.
MTV News was shuttered this week as part of larger layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.
What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn’t cutting it.
Correspondents like Loder, Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart and others covered music, pop culture, politics and other topics with an eye toward the younger generation that was tuned to MTV, rather than the network evening newscasts.
Along the way MTV News created some pop culture moments itself, perhaps none moreso than in 1994, when President Clinton appeared on MTV’s Enough is Enough, a...
MTV News was shuttered this week as part of larger layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.
What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn’t cutting it.
Correspondents like Loder, Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart and others covered music, pop culture, politics and other topics with an eye toward the younger generation that was tuned to MTV, rather than the network evening newscasts.
Along the way MTV News created some pop culture moments itself, perhaps none moreso than in 1994, when President Clinton appeared on MTV’s Enough is Enough, a...
- 5/9/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Season 2 of the Showtime series Yellowjackets (read our review of the new season Here) is scheduled to begin airing on Showtime on March 26th, but fans can also catch the first episode of season 2 streaming and On Demand as of today. As we head into the second season, Showtime has unveiled two cool pieces of marketing that’s very fitting for a show that partially takes place in 1996: a ’90s-style MTV News video (complete with Kurt Loder!) that covers the news of the disappearance of the titular Yellowjackets, and directs viewers to a ’90s-style website, WhereAretheYellowjackets.com. If you were watching MTV or surfing the web back in the ’90s, these marketing materials will definitely press your nostalgia buttons. The MTV News video can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis star in Yellowjackets, which is is described as “equal parts survival epic,...
Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis star in Yellowjackets, which is is described as “equal parts survival epic,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” returns for Season 2 beginning tomorrow, March 24, 2023, and today Showtime has kickstarted a brilliant new campaign that’ll hit your nostalgia bone.
Showtime heads back to the 1990s for a faux MTV News broadcast featuring Kurt Loder(!), and they’ve also launched a retro website that’s ripped right from the time period. Both the video and the site – found at WhereAreTheYellowjackets.com – imagine the 90s-set plane crash from “Yellowjackets” as a real event, transporting us back in time in the process.
If this doesn’t make your day, well, you probably don’t have much fondness for the 90s!
Season 2 will return starting Friday, March 24 on streaming and on demand for all Showtime subscribers, before making its on-air debut on Sunday, March 26 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.
Showtime heads back to the 1990s for a faux MTV News broadcast featuring Kurt Loder(!), and they’ve also launched a retro website that’s ripped right from the time period. Both the video and the site – found at WhereAreTheYellowjackets.com – imagine the 90s-set plane crash from “Yellowjackets” as a real event, transporting us back in time in the process.
If this doesn’t make your day, well, you probably don’t have much fondness for the 90s!
Season 2 will return starting Friday, March 24 on streaming and on demand for all Showtime subscribers, before making its on-air debut on Sunday, March 26 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.
- 3/23/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
While the Yellowjackets soccer team forges in the Wilderness, MTV is on the case for their missing plane.
As part of a marketing campaign for “Yellowjackets” Season 2, MTV issued a vintage ’90s-inspired news bulletin alert featuring anchor Kurt Loder.
“Hi, I’m Kurt Loder with an MTV news brief. Today marks three months since the disappearance of the Wiskayok High Yellowjackets, the New Jersey girls soccer team whose plane — bound for the U.S. Championship in Seattle — seemingly vanished,” Loder says in the clip, with footage dated to October 1996 of the team playing.
“What happened to the plane and the team’s whereabouts are still unknown. If you have any information about the missing plane, log on from your computer to the web address below,” Loder continued. “Coming up, could it be the start of a worldwide pandemic? Put down that cheeseburger: Mad Cow disease is reportedly spreading to humans.
As part of a marketing campaign for “Yellowjackets” Season 2, MTV issued a vintage ’90s-inspired news bulletin alert featuring anchor Kurt Loder.
“Hi, I’m Kurt Loder with an MTV news brief. Today marks three months since the disappearance of the Wiskayok High Yellowjackets, the New Jersey girls soccer team whose plane — bound for the U.S. Championship in Seattle — seemingly vanished,” Loder says in the clip, with footage dated to October 1996 of the team playing.
“What happened to the plane and the team’s whereabouts are still unknown. If you have any information about the missing plane, log on from your computer to the web address below,” Loder continued. “Coming up, could it be the start of a worldwide pandemic? Put down that cheeseburger: Mad Cow disease is reportedly spreading to humans.
- 3/23/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
"Tina Turner", part of Mattel's signature "Barbie" doll collection, honoring 'trailblazing women', has sold out everywhere in its first day of release:
The doll depicts Turner from the 1985 music video "What's Love Got To Do With It?"...
...retailing originally for 55 at Mattel’s online store, Walmart and Target retail stores.
"Tina", the documentary feature, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin, follows the life and career of Tina Turner, now streaming on HBO Max.
"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
Click the images to enlarge...
The doll depicts Turner from the 1985 music video "What's Love Got To Do With It?"...
...retailing originally for 55 at Mattel’s online store, Walmart and Target retail stores.
"Tina", the documentary feature, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin, follows the life and career of Tina Turner, now streaming on HBO Max.
"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
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- 10/20/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
According to Jewel, even her mythical origin story — that she lived in her car to pursue music — was mired in the misogyny and sexual harassment that plagued her early years.
The singer previously broached the subject in both pre- and post-#MeToo interviews, as well as in her memoir. However, speaking to Stereogum, Jewel went into more detail regarding the situation and the overall harassment she faced from male journalists in the Nineties.
“My whole career, the slant that the media gave it was through a really, I dare say,...
The singer previously broached the subject in both pre- and post-#MeToo interviews, as well as in her memoir. However, speaking to Stereogum, Jewel went into more detail regarding the situation and the overall harassment she faced from male journalists in the Nineties.
“My whole career, the slant that the media gave it was through a really, I dare say,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
This article contains spoilers for Archive 81.
Like all great horror stories, Netflix’s Archive 81 starts off small.
Film conservator Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) is approached by a mysterious corporate benefactor, Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan) to restore some tapes from the ‘90s. Somehow this simple job escalates into a pulse-pounding supernatural mystery that incorporates a Roaring Twenties era demonic cult, mold that bends time and space, and an honest-to-goodness Lovecraftian horror.
It’s easy to see why Archive 81 has caught on with viewers. The show spent several days in the number one spot on Netflix’s “Top Ten” feature before Ozark bumped it down to two. This story, based on a podcast of the same name, slowly unspools into something properly huge. By the time Dan wakes up in the ‘90s in the final moments of season 1 to watch MTV’s Kurt Loder announce Kurt Cobain’s death,...
Like all great horror stories, Netflix’s Archive 81 starts off small.
Film conservator Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) is approached by a mysterious corporate benefactor, Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan) to restore some tapes from the ‘90s. Somehow this simple job escalates into a pulse-pounding supernatural mystery that incorporates a Roaring Twenties era demonic cult, mold that bends time and space, and an honest-to-goodness Lovecraftian horror.
It’s easy to see why Archive 81 has caught on with viewers. The show spent several days in the number one spot on Netflix’s “Top Ten” feature before Ozark bumped it down to two. This story, based on a podcast of the same name, slowly unspools into something properly huge. By the time Dan wakes up in the ‘90s in the final moments of season 1 to watch MTV’s Kurt Loder announce Kurt Cobain’s death,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
In a polarized and fractured society, the truth can be a subjective thing. In this panel, Rolling Stone Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief Andy Kroll talks to Vice journalist Anna Merlan (Republic of Lies), writer and producer Billy Ray (The Comey Rule), PBS News Hour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and writer and director Cullen Hoback (Q: Into the Storm) about how the challenges of presenting the truth have transformed in modern society, and why people have such a hard time exiting...
- 8/27/2021
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone and Variety are pleased to announce additional programming for the inaugural “Truth Seekers” virtual summit on August 26th, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. RZA will participate in a keynote conversation about creating, executive-producing, and composing Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a series that examines the Wu-Tang Clan’s formation, mega-success, and cultural influence.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes will take part in a keynote conversation about his new documentary feature, The Velvet Underground, and give an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his creative process in telling the story of the legendary rock band.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes will take part in a keynote conversation about his new documentary feature, The Velvet Underground, and give an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his creative process in telling the story of the legendary rock band.
- 8/6/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Even before they revved themselves up into synth-boosted MTV hitmakers in the Eighties, Zz Top were never an ordinary blues-rock band. After Cream and Jimi Hendrix warped electric blues into psychedelia, Zz Top pulled it back to the dusty ground of Texas, but they weren’t as straight-ahead as they seemed: The rhythm section of drummer Frank Beard and late bassist (and sometime vocalist) Dusty Hill could groove so uncannily hard that a song like “Jesus Just Left Chicago” could feel otherworldly — and then the interdimensional squall of Billy Gibbons’ lead guitar would arrive.
- 7/28/2021
- by David Browne, Kory Grow, Brian Hiatt, Joseph Hudak, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Variety and Rolling Stone are pleased to announce programming for the inaugural Truth Seekers virtual summit on August 26th, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. Keynote speakers will include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War), with panels from documentarians behind Allen v. Farrow, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, and more.
Stanley Nelson will receive the Truth Seeker Award. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Peabody Award recipient,...
Stanley Nelson will receive the Truth Seeker Award. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Peabody Award recipient,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Today, Variety and Rolling Stone announced that the iconic brands will bring together documentary filmmakers, journalists, and other tastemakers for the inaugural Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. The virtual event will feature key conversations, panel discussions and the first-ever “Truth Seeker Award,” honoring a documentarian or journalist for their essential work in the pursuit of the truth. The inaugural virtual summit will be accompanied by a special joint issue and new website verticals on Variety.com and RollingStone.com.
“For over a century, Variety has been the most trusted source in entertainment,...
“For over a century, Variety has been the most trusted source in entertainment,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
By Glenn Dunks
Tina Turner does not like to talk about herself and her life with abusive ex-husband and artistic collaborator Ike Turner. She notes this in Tina, a new HBO documentary about her life. But she is aware that public interest in it, which is why she has to keep on telling us all about it. This is show business after all, and if she doesn’t, somebody else will. First it was People magazine. Then it was Kurt Loder’s I, Tina. That was followed by a film adaptation, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
One would have hoped that that film would have been the end of it for Turner, her story of abuse and late career triumph captured on film to great acclaim and with an Oscar-worthy performance by Angela Bassett. Nearly 30 years later, however, Tina is back as the subject of T.J. Martin and Daniel Lindsay’s documentary.
Tina Turner does not like to talk about herself and her life with abusive ex-husband and artistic collaborator Ike Turner. She notes this in Tina, a new HBO documentary about her life. But she is aware that public interest in it, which is why she has to keep on telling us all about it. This is show business after all, and if she doesn’t, somebody else will. First it was People magazine. Then it was Kurt Loder’s I, Tina. That was followed by a film adaptation, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
One would have hoped that that film would have been the end of it for Turner, her story of abuse and late career triumph captured on film to great acclaim and with an Oscar-worthy performance by Angela Bassett. Nearly 30 years later, however, Tina is back as the subject of T.J. Martin and Daniel Lindsay’s documentary.
- 4/2/2021
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
A native of West Tennessee’s cotton-rich Haywood County, Tina Tuner was born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 and would go on to become a household name in the Sixties and Seventies, performing alongside her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Ike Turner. Her extraordinary career would take her to the pop charts and around the world on tour, but Turner, who died Wednesday at age 83 at her home in Switzerland, could’ve wound up on a different trajectory with her first solo album.
In the same way that Ray Charles, the Supremes, and Bobby Womack had done before her,...
In the same way that Ray Charles, the Supremes, and Bobby Womack had done before her,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
One of the most famous lines from Tina Turner’s career came in her introduction to the version of John Fogerty’s “Proud Mary” released by Ike & Tina Turner in 1971. “We never ever do nothing nice and easy,” she said in a sultry snarl. “We always do it nice and rough.”
“Tina,” the documentary about Turner that premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, has moments where it tries to be nice and easy, sliding over difficult portions in Turner’s life in an attempt to find a celebratory tone. But the film, too, mostly settles for nice and rough, which fits a woman who says in the film, “It wasn’t a good life. It was in some areas, but the goodness didn’t overcome the bad.”
The bad is mostly wrapped up in the years Tina Turner spent with her mentor, Svengali and abusive husband, Ike, whose dark...
“Tina,” the documentary about Turner that premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, has moments where it tries to be nice and easy, sliding over difficult portions in Turner’s life in an attempt to find a celebratory tone. But the film, too, mostly settles for nice and rough, which fits a woman who says in the film, “It wasn’t a good life. It was in some areas, but the goodness didn’t overcome the bad.”
The bad is mostly wrapped up in the years Tina Turner spent with her mentor, Svengali and abusive husband, Ike, whose dark...
- 3/27/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
More films with Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench is something that the world needs. They starred together in Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul in 2017 and now they reunite in the Andy Goddard-directed Six Minutes To Midnight which will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on demand starting today.
Written by Izzard, Goddard and Celyn Jones, Six Minutes To Midnight is based on true events from 1939. The film follows teacher Thomas Miller (Izzard) who has taken a last-minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high-ranking Nazis at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England.
Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood.
When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a...
Written by Izzard, Goddard and Celyn Jones, Six Minutes To Midnight is based on true events from 1939. The film follows teacher Thomas Miller (Izzard) who has taken a last-minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high-ranking Nazis at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England.
Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood.
When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a...
- 3/26/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most buzzed-about documentaries of the year is finally premiering this weekend on HBO. First teased almost three years ago, and officially announced in February, the Tina Turner doc, Tina, hits the small screen this Saturday on HBO and HBO Max. The documentary promises an intimate and revealing look into the life and career of the global superstar, who now lives in Switzerland and has largely stayed out of the public eye in recent years.
Tina Turner Documentary Date, Time, Channel
Tina premieres Saturday, March 27 at 8pm Et...
Tina Turner Documentary Date, Time, Channel
Tina premieres Saturday, March 27 at 8pm Et...
- 3/26/2021
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
"Tina" is the new documentary feature, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin, following the life and career of musician Tina Turner, streaming March 27, 2021 on HBO Max:
"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
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"...from 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Tommy', the film follows the life and career of musician Tina Turner, with Turner appearing in the film alongside Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Loder, Katori Hall, Erwin Bach, Carl Arrington, Jimmy Thomas, Le'Juene Fletcher, Rhonda Graam, Roger Davies and Terry Britten, described by Turner as a parallel story to her memoir 'Happiness Becomes You'..."
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- 3/12/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"I had an abusive life. There's no other way to tell the story... Buddhism was a way out." HBO has debuted an official full-length trailer for a new music doc called Tina, profiling the legendary singer Tina Turner. This definitive documentary just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last week, and arrives on HBO for viewing later this month. Rave reviews already! Made by the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind the docs Undefeated, I Am Dying, and L.A. 92 previously. Featuring a wealth of never-before-seen footage, audio tapes, photos, and new interviews, including with the singer herself, Tina presents an unvarnished and dynamic account of the life and career of a music icon. Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, journalist Kurt Loder, playwright Katori Hall and Tina's husband Erwin Bach are among the interviews in the intimate documentary. This looks superb! The final shot is epic. "Get to know the woman behind the name.
- 3/10/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
HBO has shared its first full look at Tina, the upcoming documentary focused on the life and legacy of Tina Turner.
While last month’s teaser for film tackled Turner’s tumultuous childhood, the new preview traces the singer’s decision to leave her abusive husband and bandmate Ike Turner, her struggling early solo years, and her platinum-selling career renaissance in the Eighties.
“The divorce, I got nothing. No money, no house,” Turner says in the trailer. “So I said: I’ll just take my name.”
Tina, directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin,...
While last month’s teaser for film tackled Turner’s tumultuous childhood, the new preview traces the singer’s decision to leave her abusive husband and bandmate Ike Turner, her struggling early solo years, and her platinum-selling career renaissance in the Eighties.
“The divorce, I got nothing. No money, no house,” Turner says in the trailer. “So I said: I’ll just take my name.”
Tina, directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in the midst of a renaissance moment in pop-music documentaries. For a while, it seemed like they’d gone away, sucked up into the whole packaging-of-CDs-with-extras thing. But the streaming era, with its endless appetite for product, has been a boon to music docs. A lot of them, like “Zz Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” (2019) or “Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams” (2018) or last year’s exceptional “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind,” fly mostly under the radar but find their fan base.
I, however, am always on the lookout for a music documentary that can get a whole lot of people buzzing because it’s about an artist who seems like an old friend, whose story we may already think we know, yet it re-assembles that story with enough hindsight big-picture vision that it can blow you...
I, however, am always on the lookout for a music documentary that can get a whole lot of people buzzing because it’s about an artist who seems like an old friend, whose story we may already think we know, yet it re-assembles that story with enough hindsight big-picture vision that it can blow you...
- 3/3/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
March honors the trailblazing women of history, and television is joining in by highlighting their triumphs and life stories.
Each day of March, Msg Networks will showcase a legendary woman in sports, including the University of Hawaii’s historic volleyball team from the early ‘70s and tennis icon Billie Jean King, for example, while Syfy is airing a series of autobiographical video shorts about female animators.
HBO Max, meanwhile, will debut a limited series about best-selling author Isabel Allende and a documentary about powerhouse Tina Turner. The streamer also curated several lists of their titles that feature unforgettable, on-screen women characters, such as Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum” and “I May Destroy You.”
Ovation is also recognizing Women’s History Month through a curated on-demand programming lineup, which includes documentaries “Beyonce: Queen B” and “Dolly Parton: Queen of Country” and episodes of “Inside the Actors Studio” and “Stars of the Silver Screen.
Each day of March, Msg Networks will showcase a legendary woman in sports, including the University of Hawaii’s historic volleyball team from the early ‘70s and tennis icon Billie Jean King, for example, while Syfy is airing a series of autobiographical video shorts about female animators.
HBO Max, meanwhile, will debut a limited series about best-selling author Isabel Allende and a documentary about powerhouse Tina Turner. The streamer also curated several lists of their titles that feature unforgettable, on-screen women characters, such as Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum” and “I May Destroy You.”
Ovation is also recognizing Women’s History Month through a curated on-demand programming lineup, which includes documentaries “Beyonce: Queen B” and “Dolly Parton: Queen of Country” and episodes of “Inside the Actors Studio” and “Stars of the Silver Screen.
- 3/2/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
In the first look at the HBO documentary film “Tina,” Tina Turner recalls losing her mother when she was young, having watched her look out the window of their home until one day she wasn’t there and never came back.
Turner explains how this memory shaped her and helped the music legend overcome hardship throughout her career.
“I wanted her to come for me. I waited. She never did,” Turner says in the trailer. “And it’s all right. You know why? I’m a girl from a cotton field. I pulled myself above the destruction and the mistakes, and I’m here for you.”
“Tina” comes from directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin, who are the directors of the Oscar-winning “Undefeated,” and it will document Turner’s early rise to fame, her personal and professional struggles and her resurgence as a phenomenon in the 1980s. The documentary debuts on...
Turner explains how this memory shaped her and helped the music legend overcome hardship throughout her career.
“I wanted her to come for me. I waited. She never did,” Turner says in the trailer. “And it’s all right. You know why? I’m a girl from a cotton field. I pulled myself above the destruction and the mistakes, and I’m here for you.”
“Tina” comes from directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin, who are the directors of the Oscar-winning “Undefeated,” and it will document Turner’s early rise to fame, her personal and professional struggles and her resurgence as a phenomenon in the 1980s. The documentary debuts on...
- 2/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
HBO has released the first teaser trailer for “Tina,” a new documentary about legendary musician Tina Turner. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen footage spanning 60 years, audio tapes, personal photos, and new interviews with Turner herself, “Tina” promises an intimate and fresh look at the notoriously private icon. The broad strokes of Turner’s life have been pop culture fodder before, from her 1986 autobiography “I, Tina,” and the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” which drew from the book and starred Angela Bassett in an Oscar-nominated turn as the singer. However, “Tina” represents the first authorized feature documentary on Turner.
Turner first rocketed to stardom in the 1960s and ’70s, performing alongside her then-husband Ike. Off-stage, the partnership was violent, though the extent of the abuse wasn’t known until after the pair divorced and Tina began to speak publicly about her experiences. “Tina” will prominently feature the...
Turner first rocketed to stardom in the 1960s and ’70s, performing alongside her then-husband Ike. Off-stage, the partnership was violent, though the extent of the abuse wasn’t known until after the pair divorced and Tina began to speak publicly about her experiences. “Tina” will prominently feature the...
- 2/23/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
HBO has released the first trailer for its upcoming documentary on Tina Turner, Tina, set to premiere March 27th.
The clip is centered around a snippet from a new interview Turner gave for the film, in which she tells a story about her mother, who ran off when Turner was still a child. Turner recalled simply watching her mother through the window as she cooked — “I thought she was so pretty” — until one day, her mother was no longer there.
Against a triumphant montage of archival clips and a booming rendition of “Proud Mary,...
The clip is centered around a snippet from a new interview Turner gave for the film, in which she tells a story about her mother, who ran off when Turner was still a child. Turner recalled simply watching her mother through the window as she cooked — “I thought she was so pretty” — until one day, her mother was no longer there.
Against a triumphant montage of archival clips and a booming rendition of “Proud Mary,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
"I'm here for you." HBO has revealed the first teaser trailer for a new music doc called Tina, profiling the legendary singer Tina Turner. "Simply the best." This documentary will be premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in a few weeks, then will debut on HBO for streaming later in March. Made by the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind the docs Undefeated, I Am Dying, and L.A. 92 previously. Featuring a wealth of never-before-seen footage, audio tapes, personal photos, and new interviews, including with the singer herself, Tina presents an unvarnished and dynamic account of the life and career of music icon Tina Turner. Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, journalist Kurt Loder, playwright Katori Hall and Tina's husband Erwin Bach are among the interviews in the intimate documentary. It's described as "the defining and inspirational record of one of the greatest survivors in modern music" by Berlinale. This is going to be good.
- 2/23/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A new documentary about Tina Turner, Tina, will premiere on HBO on March 27th at 8 p.m. Et.
Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Tina is described in a release as “a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life, and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the Eighties.”
The film will feature a new interview with Turner, conducted at her home in Zurich,...
Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Tina is described in a release as “a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life, and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the Eighties.”
The film will feature a new interview with Turner, conducted at her home in Zurich,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
HBO will launch a new documentary on the life of the rock ‘n roll and soul icon Tina Turner from the directors of the Oscar-winning “Undefeated,” and the film will debut on March 27.
“Tina” comes from directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin and Lightbox, and it will document Turner’s early rise to fame, her personal and professional struggles and her resurgence as a phenomenon in the 1980s.
Tina Turner — who on Wednesday was just added to the list of nominees for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame after in the hopes of being a two-time inductee after being inducted alongside Ike Turner — herself sits down for an interview as conducted from her hometown of Zurich, Switzerland. And the documentary also features new footage, audio tapes and personal photos that show the queen of rock ‘n’ roll’s complexity.
“Tina” begins in the fall of 1981 when she sits down for...
“Tina” comes from directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin and Lightbox, and it will document Turner’s early rise to fame, her personal and professional struggles and her resurgence as a phenomenon in the 1980s.
Tina Turner — who on Wednesday was just added to the list of nominees for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame after in the hopes of being a two-time inductee after being inducted alongside Ike Turner — herself sits down for an interview as conducted from her hometown of Zurich, Switzerland. And the documentary also features new footage, audio tapes and personal photos that show the queen of rock ‘n’ roll’s complexity.
“Tina” begins in the fall of 1981 when she sits down for...
- 2/10/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Tina, a feature documentary about musical icon Tina Turner, is set to air on HBO later this spring.
The WarnerMedia cable network will premiere the film, from directors Tj Martin and Dan Lindsay and produced by Lightbox on March 27 at 8pm.
Universal Pictures Content Group has taken world rights (minus UK and U.S.) to the doc and will roll the pic out theatrically-first in the early summer before it heads to digital, TV, SVOD and further home ent platforms. Altitude, which brokered the sales deals, will release in the UK.
The film, which has been in the works for a few years, is a look at the life and career of the Private Dancer star, charting her rise to early fame, her professional and personal struggles and her resurgence during the 1980s.
It will feature interviews with Turner herself, conducted in her hometown of Zurich, Switzerland and features never-before-seen footage,...
The WarnerMedia cable network will premiere the film, from directors Tj Martin and Dan Lindsay and produced by Lightbox on March 27 at 8pm.
Universal Pictures Content Group has taken world rights (minus UK and U.S.) to the doc and will roll the pic out theatrically-first in the early summer before it heads to digital, TV, SVOD and further home ent platforms. Altitude, which brokered the sales deals, will release in the UK.
The film, which has been in the works for a few years, is a look at the life and career of the Private Dancer star, charting her rise to early fame, her professional and personal struggles and her resurgence during the 1980s.
It will feature interviews with Turner herself, conducted in her hometown of Zurich, Switzerland and features never-before-seen footage,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
When Brad Elterman met Miley Cyrus, the photographer felt as if he’d gone back to his early days on the Sunset Strip, where he’d cut class as a teenager to take a candid shot of David Bowie walking down Fairfax Avenue and followed his runaway muse and friend — Joan Jett — from the Tropicana Motel to the Santa Monica Pier. “When I was taking her picture: It’s interesting. She turns her head a certain way in a certain pose, and she really reminded me of Joan back in the seventies,...
- 12/4/2020
- by Natalli Amato
- Rollingstone.com
As the owner of the Paramount movie studio, Viacom is often on the lookout for drama. Who knew its newest potboiler would come from one of the units it got paired with as a result of its merger with CBS?
CBS News is in the business of producing “60 Minutes” and “Face The Nation,” but in recent days the division has had its collective hands full with some kind of soap opera: Gayle King, one of its most prominent on-air journalists, was threatened online by Snoop Dogg as well as others after a snippet of an interview she conducted with Wnba player Lisa Leslie about the death of former basketball great Kobe Bryant went viral. The short clip that got passed around online, just one short exchange in a much longer interview, showed King asking Leslie about sexual-assault charges levied against Bryant in an earlier part of his career. After Snoop Dogg’s threats,...
CBS News is in the business of producing “60 Minutes” and “Face The Nation,” but in recent days the division has had its collective hands full with some kind of soap opera: Gayle King, one of its most prominent on-air journalists, was threatened online by Snoop Dogg as well as others after a snippet of an interview she conducted with Wnba player Lisa Leslie about the death of former basketball great Kobe Bryant went viral. The short clip that got passed around online, just one short exchange in a much longer interview, showed King asking Leslie about sexual-assault charges levied against Bryant in an earlier part of his career. After Snoop Dogg’s threats,...
- 2/10/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the disastrous Woodstock ’99, please join us for a look back to six months ago, when we talked on the “Shoot This Now” podcast about how the disastrous festival could be the basis for a movie about misplaced rage. You can listen on your favorite podcast app below, or right here:
It’s the subject of our latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, which you can listen to on Apple or right here:
Why now? Not just because of the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries that came out in January, or the Ringer podcast, “Break Things,” that came out a few months after ours. Or because the events of Woodstock ’99 hang over the struggle to organize a Woodstock 50th anniversary festival this year.
Also Read: The Anti-'Citizen Kane': How Art Beal Built Nitt Witt Ridge, a House Made of Trash in the Shadow of...
It’s the subject of our latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, which you can listen to on Apple or right here:
Why now? Not just because of the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries that came out in January, or the Ringer podcast, “Break Things,” that came out a few months after ours. Or because the events of Woodstock ’99 hang over the struggle to organize a Woodstock 50th anniversary festival this year.
Also Read: The Anti-'Citizen Kane': How Art Beal Built Nitt Witt Ridge, a House Made of Trash in the Shadow of...
- 7/25/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
In April 1969, Bob Dylan went to Nashville to record his ninth studio album. It would be his third time recording there with local session pros and producer Bob Johnston, but this time it would be different: Unlike the “thin, wild mercury sound” of 1966’s Blonde on Blonde and the ominous acoustic folk of 1967’s John Wesley Harding, his next LP would be a traditional country record. He called it Nashville Skyline.
While experimental bands like New York’s Velvet Underground and San Francisco’s Grateful Dead were pushing boundaries in music,...
While experimental bands like New York’s Velvet Underground and San Francisco’s Grateful Dead were pushing boundaries in music,...
- 4/9/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
CBS viewers Sunday will have to run through a wall to get to the Super Bowl Liii — specifically, the Donald Trump-envisioned border wall the president is certain to discuss when he speaks with “Face the Nation” prior to the game.
Trump’s insistence on nearly $6 billion in spending for the border wall led his partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which ended on Friday. The Congressional Budget Office says the shutdown cost the U.S. economy $3 billion that will never be recovered.
Expect “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, who will be conducting the interview, if it was all worth it. Other likely topics include the State of the Union address, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
Also Read: When Fred Durst and Kurt Loder Faced Off for the Soul of Rock 'n' Roll (Podcast)
Democrats in Congress denied Trump the wall funding, arguing that the wall is wasteful and ineffective.
Trump’s insistence on nearly $6 billion in spending for the border wall led his partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which ended on Friday. The Congressional Budget Office says the shutdown cost the U.S. economy $3 billion that will never be recovered.
Expect “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, who will be conducting the interview, if it was all worth it. Other likely topics include the State of the Union address, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
Also Read: When Fred Durst and Kurt Loder Faced Off for the Soul of Rock 'n' Roll (Podcast)
Democrats in Congress denied Trump the wall funding, arguing that the wall is wasteful and ineffective.
- 1/29/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst’s onstage behavior at Woodstock ’99 led to years of accusations that he had incited horrific behavior from the crowd — and one of Durst’s leading critics was MTV’s voice of reason, Kurt Loder. How Woodstock ’99 became a disaster is the focus of our latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, which you can listen to on Apple or right here:
Woodstock ’99 was marked by rioting, fires, and accusations of sexual assault. If the recent Fyre Festival documentaries on Netflix and Hulu made you think Fyre was as bad as a festival could get, think again.
Also Read: Move Over, Fyre Festival: Woodstock '99 Was Even Worse (Podcast)
“There was a hateful, hostile [feeling] coming off the crowd in waves — kids were throwing bottles at each other and at security guards and stagehands. It was just ugly and out of control, and Fred Durst just exploited that and jacked it up,...
Woodstock ’99 was marked by rioting, fires, and accusations of sexual assault. If the recent Fyre Festival documentaries on Netflix and Hulu made you think Fyre was as bad as a festival could get, think again.
Also Read: Move Over, Fyre Festival: Woodstock '99 Was Even Worse (Podcast)
“There was a hateful, hostile [feeling] coming off the crowd in waves — kids were throwing bottles at each other and at security guards and stagehands. It was just ugly and out of control, and Fred Durst just exploited that and jacked it up,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
It’s been a long time since the “M” in MTV stood for music, but cable network Axs TV is trying to fill the void with a boomer/Gen X-heavy mix of shows hosted by venerable rockers Sammy Hagar and Eddie Money, as well as concerts, rock and country documentaries and — shades of Kurt Loder — legendary newsman Dan Rather interviewing the likes of Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Toby Keith, Joan Baez, Buddy Guy, Dickie Betts, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kansas.
“We’re a brand that celebrates classic rock in all its forms, a pure music channel for what we like to call the ‘salt and pepper’ demo,” says the channel’s Chief Marketing Officer Dena Kaplan. “Fans are starting to find us, and when they do, they like what they see and continue to come back.”
But with rock ‘n’ roll on the wane as a cultural barometer, one has to...
“We’re a brand that celebrates classic rock in all its forms, a pure music channel for what we like to call the ‘salt and pepper’ demo,” says the channel’s Chief Marketing Officer Dena Kaplan. “Fans are starting to find us, and when they do, they like what they see and continue to come back.”
But with rock ‘n’ roll on the wane as a cultural barometer, one has to...
- 12/4/2018
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
For an older millennial - someone typically born between 1980 and 1990 - watching music award shows can be a glaring reminder of your mortality. I know I sound dramatic, but nothing has made me feel older in the past year than trying to tell the difference between Lil Xan, Lil Yachty, Lil Pump, and Lil Uzi Vert. And while watching the MTV VMAs on Monday night, I felt like I was finally understanding what it must have been like for those older than me, watching the same show in the late '90s and early 2000s and side-eyeing me for bopping along to the boy bands and pop princesses who were seemingly taking over the music scene. I found myself feeling particularly nostalgic for the VMAs of my youth: Britney Spears dancing with a python; Diana Ross jiggling Lil' Kim's boob; Fiona Apple telling the crowd that "this world is bullsh*t.
- 8/27/2018
- by Britt Stephens
- Popsugar.com
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