Over its four-season run, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend gave us more than 150 original songs paying homage to every musical genre out there, courtesy of writers Adam Schlesinger, Jack Dolgen and the show’s two co-creators, lead actor Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna.
The series used its musical conceit to take audiences along for the ride as Rebecca Bunch (played by Bloom) abruptly leaves her high-powered New York life and moves to small-town California to be near her childhood crush. And while the songs all expanded the lives of Rebecca and her friends in hilarious, introspective and occasionally self-aware ways, the best of them can be listened to again and again, even outside the context of the episodes they appear in.
Suffice to say, the bar for creating this list of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs was high — but the result is...
The series used its musical conceit to take audiences along for the ride as Rebecca Bunch (played by Bloom) abruptly leaves her high-powered New York life and moves to small-town California to be near her childhood crush. And while the songs all expanded the lives of Rebecca and her friends in hilarious, introspective and occasionally self-aware ways, the best of them can be listened to again and again, even outside the context of the episodes they appear in.
Suffice to say, the bar for creating this list of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs was high — but the result is...
- 5/2/2024
- by Jessie Mooney
- Tudum - Netflix
Rachel Bloom has signed with WME for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively. She continues to be repped by Sugar23, Ginsburg Daniels Kallis Llp, and April Tombs at Ymu.
Bloom is perhaps best known for the CW musical dramedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” Bloom co-created, executive produced, and starred in the series. It aired for four seasons at the broadcaster, with Bloom earning the Golden Globe for best actress in a TV series — musical or comedy in 2016.
Bloom and her songwriting partners Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen won the Emmy for best original music and lyrics in 2019 for the song “Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal,” which was featured in the fourth season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” Bloom and the show’s cast also performed the hit touring stage show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Live,” followed by the taped concert “Yes: It’s Really Us Singing: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Concert.”
Bloom...
Bloom is perhaps best known for the CW musical dramedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” Bloom co-created, executive produced, and starred in the series. It aired for four seasons at the broadcaster, with Bloom earning the Golden Globe for best actress in a TV series — musical or comedy in 2016.
Bloom and her songwriting partners Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen won the Emmy for best original music and lyrics in 2019 for the song “Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal,” which was featured in the fourth season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” Bloom and the show’s cast also performed the hit touring stage show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Live,” followed by the taped concert “Yes: It’s Really Us Singing: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Concert.”
Bloom...
- 3/12/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Drew Barrymore has reacted to Hugh Grant’s brutal complaint about her.
The actor co-starred with Grant in the romcom Music & Lyrics as a songwriter paired with a washed-up pop star to create a chart-topping hit for a teenage pop star (Haley Bennett).
Earlier this week, Grant was asked about the film during an interview segment that saw him answer “the web’s most-searched questions”. One of these was: “Does Hugh Grant actually sing in Music & Lyrics?”
He told Wired: “Yes, well I do, but I’m auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true – I’m auto-tuned a bit, but not as much as some.”
Grant then said of his co-star: “Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous. I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”
The actor acknowledged...
The actor co-starred with Grant in the romcom Music & Lyrics as a songwriter paired with a washed-up pop star to create a chart-topping hit for a teenage pop star (Haley Bennett).
Earlier this week, Grant was asked about the film during an interview segment that saw him answer “the web’s most-searched questions”. One of these was: “Does Hugh Grant actually sing in Music & Lyrics?”
He told Wired: “Yes, well I do, but I’m auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true – I’m auto-tuned a bit, but not as much as some.”
Grant then said of his co-star: “Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous. I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”
The actor acknowledged...
- 3/19/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Drew Barrymore has reacted to Hugh Grant’s brutal complaint about her.
The actor co-starred with Grant in the romcom Music & Lyrics as a songwriter paired with a washed-up pop star to create a chart-topping hit for a teenage pop star (Haley Bennett).
Earlier this week, Grant was asked about the film during an interview segment that saw him answer “the web’s most-searched questions”. One of these was: “Does Hugh Grant actually sing in Music & Lyrics?”
He told Wired: “Yes, well I do, but I’m auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true – I’m auto-tuned a bit, but not as much as some.”
Grant then said of his co-star: “Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous. I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”
The actor acknowledged that...
The actor co-starred with Grant in the romcom Music & Lyrics as a songwriter paired with a washed-up pop star to create a chart-topping hit for a teenage pop star (Haley Bennett).
Earlier this week, Grant was asked about the film during an interview segment that saw him answer “the web’s most-searched questions”. One of these was: “Does Hugh Grant actually sing in Music & Lyrics?”
He told Wired: “Yes, well I do, but I’m auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true – I’m auto-tuned a bit, but not as much as some.”
Grant then said of his co-star: “Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous. I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”
The actor acknowledged that...
- 3/17/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Ivy crafted one of the Nineties’ great lost indie-pop gems with their 1997 cult classic Apartment Life. It’s one of the decade’s sharpest portraits of modern urban romance: exquisitely moody adult love songs, all purred by Paris-born chanteuse Dominique Durand in her groovy French accent. And now is a great time to discover it, with the the new 25th Anniversary Edition featuring two superb outtakes. The whole album has the vibe of the excellent cover photo—a mod French woman putting on her makeup, maybe for a touch of glamour,...
- 3/5/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
A sitcom episode stretched out to snapping point, “Bar Fight!” may have made for a mildly amusing 22 minutes. But you may need a few drinks to get through the full hour and a half.
It certainly doesn’t help that there’s not a single person here worth the hang. The entire concept hinges on abrasive talent agent Nina and blandly hipsterish carpenter Allen, who have just executed the most enlightened breakup since Gwyneth and Chris consciously uncoupled. But when they unexpectedly show up at the same dive bar — the one they happily shared for five years — the gloves come off.
It’s decided that they’ll compete for custody, with one triumphantly “keeping” the bar and the other conceding defeat and moping off to another neighborhood. The staff tosses some suggestions in a Santa hat (it’s December), and the competition begins.
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It certainly doesn’t help that there’s not a single person here worth the hang. The entire concept hinges on abrasive talent agent Nina and blandly hipsterish carpenter Allen, who have just executed the most enlightened breakup since Gwyneth and Chris consciously uncoupled. But when they unexpectedly show up at the same dive bar — the one they happily shared for five years — the gloves come off.
It’s decided that they’ll compete for custody, with one triumphantly “keeping” the bar and the other conceding defeat and moping off to another neighborhood. The staff tosses some suggestions in a Santa hat (it’s December), and the competition begins.
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- 11/9/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
A jukebox musical based on the songs of Adam Schlesinger will play at this year’s Adirondack Theatre Festival, August 5th through 14th.
Titled Traffic & Weather, after the 2007 album from Schlesinger’s band Fountains of Wayne, the stage performance will feature the work of the late musician to tell a meet-cute story of two people falling in love.
Broadway director and Atf co-founder Martha Banta credits the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic — the same pandemic that tragically took Schlesinger’s life — with what would eventually become Traffic & Weather. In the wake of his death,...
Titled Traffic & Weather, after the 2007 album from Schlesinger’s band Fountains of Wayne, the stage performance will feature the work of the late musician to tell a meet-cute story of two people falling in love.
Broadway director and Atf co-founder Martha Banta credits the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic — the same pandemic that tragically took Schlesinger’s life — with what would eventually become Traffic & Weather. In the wake of his death,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The Bedwetter, a new musical based on Sarah Silverman’s bestselling memoir, will make its world premiere in an Off Broadway production next Spring, the Atlantic Theater Company announced today.
With a book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Silverman and Schlesinger, The Bedwetter will begin performances at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater on April 30, 2022, with an opening date of May 23, 2022. The engagement will run through June 19.
Originally set to premiere in the spring of 2020 but delayed due to the Covid shutdown, The Bedwetter was among Schlesinger’s final projects: The Fountains of Wayne frontman died at 52 on April 1, 2020, from complications of the illness. At the time of his death, Schlesinger also had written music for an upcoming stage adaptation of the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny.
The Atlantic production will be directed by Anne Kauffman and choreographed by Byron Easley.
With a book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Silverman and Schlesinger, The Bedwetter will begin performances at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater on April 30, 2022, with an opening date of May 23, 2022. The engagement will run through June 19.
Originally set to premiere in the spring of 2020 but delayed due to the Covid shutdown, The Bedwetter was among Schlesinger’s final projects: The Fountains of Wayne frontman died at 52 on April 1, 2020, from complications of the illness. At the time of his death, Schlesinger also had written music for an upcoming stage adaptation of the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny.
The Atlantic production will be directed by Anne Kauffman and choreographed by Byron Easley.
- 6/15/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, with video Despite the Covid death last year of its announced co-composer Adam Schlesinger, The Nanny Broadway musical is “almost ready to launch,” Fran Drescher said on The View today.
And no, Drescher won’t be taking the stage as her ’90s sitcom incarnation Fran Fine.
“I really can’t sing,” Drescher said on today’s episode of ABC’s The View. “This is going to be a very heavy singing part, so we’re going to have to find basically the next Barbra Streisand, I think.”
Drescher, who is writing the show’s book with her The Nanny co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson, first revealed the development of a musical adaptation more than a year ago. At that time, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rachel Bloom and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger were set to write the music, but Schlesinger died several months later of Covid-19 at the age of...
And no, Drescher won’t be taking the stage as her ’90s sitcom incarnation Fran Fine.
“I really can’t sing,” Drescher said on today’s episode of ABC’s The View. “This is going to be a very heavy singing part, so we’re going to have to find basically the next Barbra Streisand, I think.”
Drescher, who is writing the show’s book with her The Nanny co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson, first revealed the development of a musical adaptation more than a year ago. At that time, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rachel Bloom and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger were set to write the music, but Schlesinger died several months later of Covid-19 at the age of...
- 6/9/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Monkees have survived many logical endpoints. They first seemed like they were done when their TV show went off the air in early 1968, and then again multiple times after: when they disbanded as a recording unit in 1971, when their reunion tours fizzled out amid bitter infighting in the early 2000s, and when Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork followed in 2019.
But they’re (probably) ending for real this year when surviving members Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz head out on a farewell tour. It kicks off September 10th in Spokane,...
But they’re (probably) ending for real this year when surviving members Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz head out on a farewell tour. It kicks off September 10th in Spokane,...
- 5/19/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The tempo of the song chosen for the In Memoriam segment was one of many unconventional choices by the producers of this year’s Oscars.
The fast beat of Stevie Wonder’s “As” divided fans Sunday, with many taking to Twitter to complain, some using memes, including the candy factory scene from I Love Lucy, to illustrate the breakneck speed of the video and photos that were hard to follow on the ABC telecast.
Still, despite the quickly flashing names on the screen, viewers spotted a few that were missing from the montage, most notably songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who received an Oscar Best Song nomination for That Thing You Do! in 1997.
To account for any omissions, the ceremony’s site always links to the full “In Memoriam“ gallery at Oscars.org, as it did this year. Watch the 2021 one here:
While Schlesinger is listed online, three actors not featured in...
The fast beat of Stevie Wonder’s “As” divided fans Sunday, with many taking to Twitter to complain, some using memes, including the candy factory scene from I Love Lucy, to illustrate the breakneck speed of the video and photos that were hard to follow on the ABC telecast.
Still, despite the quickly flashing names on the screen, viewers spotted a few that were missing from the montage, most notably songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who received an Oscar Best Song nomination for That Thing You Do! in 1997.
To account for any omissions, the ceremony’s site always links to the full “In Memoriam“ gallery at Oscars.org, as it did this year. Watch the 2021 one here:
While Schlesinger is listed online, three actors not featured in...
- 4/26/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
With a longer Oscar season than ever before, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences had even more people to remember in the annual In Memoriam segment. But inevitably, there are complaints on social media that some people were omitted. This year, nether “Arrested Development” star Jessica Walter nor “Glee” star Naya Rivera was included, both of whom had careers primarily on television. Walter, however, was a Golden Globe nominee for “Play Misty for Me” and had many other film roles. Walter was included on the Academy’s In Memoriam website, while Rivera was not.
Those who were not included in previous years, such as Luke Perry and Cameron Boyce in 2020, also worked more often in television. In 2019, Carol Channing and Stanley Donen were among those omitted from the segment. This past year, several actors, musicians and craftspeople died of Covid-19, such as Broadway actor Nick Cordero and composer and musician Adam Schlesinger,...
Those who were not included in previous years, such as Luke Perry and Cameron Boyce in 2020, also worked more often in television. In 2019, Carol Channing and Stanley Donen were among those omitted from the segment. This past year, several actors, musicians and craftspeople died of Covid-19, such as Broadway actor Nick Cordero and composer and musician Adam Schlesinger,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon, Mickey Dolenz, and more will perform an Adam Schlesinger tribute concert on May 5th.
Held virtually with performances filmed at New York City’s Bowery Electric, the show will feature musicians covering songs from the late Fountains of Wayne frontman’s catalogue. Patrick Carney, Peter Buck, James Iha, Mike Viola, Taylor Hanson, Ben Lee, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre, and more will appear.
Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter,...
Held virtually with performances filmed at New York City’s Bowery Electric, the show will feature musicians covering songs from the late Fountains of Wayne frontman’s catalogue. Patrick Carney, Peter Buck, James Iha, Mike Viola, Taylor Hanson, Ben Lee, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre, and more will appear.
Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The late rocker and TV/theater composer Adam Schlesinger, who died from complications of Covid-19 in April 2020, will be feted by dozens of musicians and actors in May in an online tribute being produced by Jody Porter, his longtime bandmate in Fountains of Wayne.
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Ajr appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their recent single “Way Less Sad.” The song, which comes off the band’s recent fourth album Ok Orchestra, got a lively performance in the woods rather than on Kimmel’s stage, accompanied by some trippy lights.
The dance-fueled rendition of “Way Less Sad” brings up memories of late-night music festivals, with the trio of brothers replicating the feeling of a party in the forest.
Ok Orchestra, a follow-up to 2019’s Neotheater, dropped in March. Last year, the band shared a cover...
The dance-fueled rendition of “Way Less Sad” brings up memories of late-night music festivals, with the trio of brothers replicating the feeling of a party in the forest.
Ok Orchestra, a follow-up to 2019’s Neotheater, dropped in March. Last year, the band shared a cover...
- 4/1/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Los Angeles, March 15 (Ians) The Grammys went a step ahead this year to honour musicians who passed away over the last year.
Apart from the usual display of names and photos of the artistes, which is the annual feature, this year the honour also included performances of songs by four musicians -- Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, John Prine and Gerry Marsden -- who died in the past year.
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak (or Silk Sonic) performed "Long tall Sally" and "Good golly, Miss Molly", two of the biggest hits of Little Richard, as a tribute to the rock 'n' roll pioneer, who died of bone cancer in May.
Lionel Richie sang "Lady", his 1980 song that was first recorded by Kenny Rogers, who died last March. "I miss you Kenny," he said after the performance.
Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile performed John Prine's "I remember everything". Country-folk singer Prine died of Covid complications in April.
Apart from the usual display of names and photos of the artistes, which is the annual feature, this year the honour also included performances of songs by four musicians -- Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, John Prine and Gerry Marsden -- who died in the past year.
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak (or Silk Sonic) performed "Long tall Sally" and "Good golly, Miss Molly", two of the biggest hits of Little Richard, as a tribute to the rock 'n' roll pioneer, who died of bone cancer in May.
Lionel Richie sang "Lady", his 1980 song that was first recorded by Kenny Rogers, who died last March. "I miss you Kenny," he said after the performance.
Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile performed John Prine's "I remember everything". Country-folk singer Prine died of Covid complications in April.
- 3/15/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak paid tribute to the artists who died last year during the 2021 Grammy Awards’ In Memoriam segment.
Introduced by Grammys host Trevor Noah, the lengthy 12-minute block kicked off with Mars and Paak — who performed earlier in the night as the duo Silk Sonic — roaring through “Long Tall Sally” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” in honor of Little Richard. Mars handled vocal duties, while Paak backed him up on drums. Little Richard, the architect of rock & roll,...
Introduced by Grammys host Trevor Noah, the lengthy 12-minute block kicked off with Mars and Paak — who performed earlier in the night as the duo Silk Sonic — roaring through “Long Tall Sally” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” in honor of Little Richard. Mars handled vocal duties, while Paak backed him up on drums. Little Richard, the architect of rock & roll,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Netflix has given a 10-episode order to a multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen, Doug Mand and Doogie Kamealoha, MD creator Kourtney Kang.
Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin are set to star in the show, with veteran comedy helmer Pamela Fryman (Call Your Mother) on board to direct.
Created and written by Dolgen and Mand, the Untitled Dolgen/Mand/Kang Project centers on a snooty, self-proclaimed intellectual (Osment) forced to move in with her carefree sister and her sister’s lovably eccentric friends, one of them played by Sulkin.
Osment’s Chelsea is an Ivy league educated intellectual who is book-smart and quick witted but lacks the real world skills she needs to have a functional life. She finds herself living in LA without any...
Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin are set to star in the show, with veteran comedy helmer Pamela Fryman (Call Your Mother) on board to direct.
Created and written by Dolgen and Mand, the Untitled Dolgen/Mand/Kang Project centers on a snooty, self-proclaimed intellectual (Osment) forced to move in with her carefree sister and her sister’s lovably eccentric friends, one of them played by Sulkin.
Osment’s Chelsea is an Ivy league educated intellectual who is book-smart and quick witted but lacks the real world skills she needs to have a functional life. She finds herself living in LA without any...
- 3/5/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
It was definitely an evening of “soul” at the second annual Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards, as the Pixar film “Soul” and the Latvian film “Blizzard of Souls” took the top prizes for outstanding original scores for 2020 films.
The “Soul” composing trio of Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste won for outstanding original score for a studio film, their second such prize in 48 hours after winning the Golden Globe Sunday night. Should it maintain this momentum through other ceremonies in the weeks to come, “Soul” could be the film to beat at Oscar time.
Batiste, music director for TV’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” contributed the jazz material for the story about an aspiring jazz pianist whose life is cut short by an accident. Reznor and Ross wrote the dramatic score. Reznor and Ross, who were also nominated this year for “Mank,” are best known for their Nine...
The “Soul” composing trio of Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste won for outstanding original score for a studio film, their second such prize in 48 hours after winning the Golden Globe Sunday night. Should it maintain this momentum through other ceremonies in the weeks to come, “Soul” could be the film to beat at Oscar time.
Batiste, music director for TV’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” contributed the jazz material for the story about an aspiring jazz pianist whose life is cut short by an accident. Reznor and Ross wrote the dramatic score. Reznor and Ross, who were also nominated this year for “Mank,” are best known for their Nine...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo gallery above.
Among those who passed during 2020 were big-screen Hollywood legends from Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland to Sean Connery and Chadwick Boseman, sitcom favorites Jerry Stiller and Dawn Wells and two of the all-time showbiz multihyphenates in Carl Reiner and Buck Henry. Other actors who left us include Diana Rigg, Max Von Sydow, Brian Dennehy, Kelly Preston, Fred Willard, Naya Rivera, Nick Cordero, Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Indian stars Irrfan Khan and Soumitra Chatterjee.
The movie world also mourns filmmakers Alan Parker, Joel Schumacher and Kim Ki-duk, along with a man who would be on a Mount Rushmore for film composers: Ennio Morrocone.
Also gone this past year were such admired TV personalities as Regis Philbin,...
Among those who passed during 2020 were big-screen Hollywood legends from Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland to Sean Connery and Chadwick Boseman, sitcom favorites Jerry Stiller and Dawn Wells and two of the all-time showbiz multihyphenates in Carl Reiner and Buck Henry. Other actors who left us include Diana Rigg, Max Von Sydow, Brian Dennehy, Kelly Preston, Fred Willard, Naya Rivera, Nick Cordero, Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Indian stars Irrfan Khan and Soumitra Chatterjee.
The movie world also mourns filmmakers Alan Parker, Joel Schumacher and Kim Ki-duk, along with a man who would be on a Mount Rushmore for film composers: Ennio Morrocone.
Also gone this past year were such admired TV personalities as Regis Philbin,...
- 12/31/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Looking back over the beloved stars we lost in the past year is always emotional, and this year has been especially devastating, given how many members of the entertainment community died due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The pandemic hit the music community especially hard, but television and film performers, as well as stage actors and below-the-line workers were also affected. Singer-songwriter John Prine, record producer Hal Willner and “Nashville” actor Allen Garfield all died of coronavirus on April 7. Broadway actor Nick Cordero died on July 5 after a four-month battle with the disease.
Adam Schlesinger, a composer and co-founder of Fountains of Wayne, died on April 1 at 52. Charley Pride, remembered as country music’s first Black superstar, died on Dec. 12 of coronavirus complications.
Movie greats
Chadwick Boseman‘s death due to colon cancer rocked the entertainment industry on Aug. 28. The “Black Panther” star was just 43, and his death came as a...
The pandemic hit the music community especially hard, but television and film performers, as well as stage actors and below-the-line workers were also affected. Singer-songwriter John Prine, record producer Hal Willner and “Nashville” actor Allen Garfield all died of coronavirus on April 7. Broadway actor Nick Cordero died on July 5 after a four-month battle with the disease.
Adam Schlesinger, a composer and co-founder of Fountains of Wayne, died on April 1 at 52. Charley Pride, remembered as country music’s first Black superstar, died on Dec. 12 of coronavirus complications.
Movie greats
Chadwick Boseman‘s death due to colon cancer rocked the entertainment industry on Aug. 28. The “Black Panther” star was just 43, and his death came as a...
- 12/29/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
2020 was a year of painful losses, and the music world was no exception. Our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast spotlighted the lives of some of the many musicians we lost this year, including one of rock & roll’s founders and two of rock’s greatest-ever virtuosos. Press play on the episodes below to listen now, or hear any episode and subscribe iTunes or Spotify.
We played never-before-heard audio of an interview with Eddie Van Halen, and interviewed biographer Greg Renoff, along with tributes from Tom Morello, Steve Vai, and Gene Simmons.
We played never-before-heard audio of an interview with Eddie Van Halen, and interviewed biographer Greg Renoff, along with tributes from Tom Morello, Steve Vai, and Gene Simmons.
- 12/29/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Fair warning: Our Year in Review is about to take a somber turn, as we remember the TV stars that left us in 2020.
In a year defined by heartache and loss, the deaths of so many beloved television personalities hit particularly hard, including the passings of Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire staple Regis Philbin and Seinfeld scene-stealer Jerry Stiller.
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Unexpected losses...
In a year defined by heartache and loss, the deaths of so many beloved television personalities hit particularly hard, including the passings of Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire staple Regis Philbin and Seinfeld scene-stealer Jerry Stiller.
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Unexpected losses...
- 12/27/2020
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
For four years on the CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” Rachel Bloom mined some of her own life, including her journey with mental health, for her fictional character of Rebecca Bunch. But, that character quickly became an amalgam of herself, her co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna and various people they knew and writers in their room as time went on.
Bloom found herself diving deeper into her own early development experiences for storytelling shows around Los Angeles, and in doing so, she began to realize she had a lot more to say that she couldn’t cover in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — especially when it came to the concept of “normalcy.” Through her new book, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are,” out Nov. 17 from Grand Central Publishing, she explores how the quest to be quote-unquote normal in her youth shaped her and what the concept means to her today.
“Because I...
Bloom found herself diving deeper into her own early development experiences for storytelling shows around Los Angeles, and in doing so, she began to realize she had a lot more to say that she couldn’t cover in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — especially when it came to the concept of “normalcy.” Through her new book, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are,” out Nov. 17 from Grand Central Publishing, she explores how the quest to be quote-unquote normal in her youth shaped her and what the concept means to her today.
“Because I...
- 11/13/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Legend has it that vampires can’t expose themselves to sunlight, but Mike Viola begs to differ. He’s a pool-lazing vampire in the new video for “Drug Rug,” a track off his upcoming LP Godmuffin.
Directed by Caitlin Gerard, the video opens with Viola lying on a float in Mandy Moore’s pool. “This again?” she asks herself, catching him through her glass window. “What the fuck? Get out of here!”
Viola walks around Los Angeles, saunters by Capitol Records, and takes a selfie with a tourist (Christian Lee Hutson...
Directed by Caitlin Gerard, the video opens with Viola lying on a float in Mandy Moore’s pool. “This again?” she asks herself, catching him through her glass window. “What the fuck? Get out of here!”
Viola walks around Los Angeles, saunters by Capitol Records, and takes a selfie with a tourist (Christian Lee Hutson...
- 10/6/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” co-creator and star Rachel Bloom talked frankly about the experience of losing her good friend Adam Schlesinger and giving birth to her daughter at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in an upcoming episode of Lemonade Media’s “Good Kids” podcast.
Despite the sad subject matter, Bloom takes a hopeful tone, noting that the amount of time she’s spent thinking about “the life cycle and the death cycle, and how they’re linked” had profoundly changed her.
“I gave birth in the middle of Covid and then my daughter was also in the Nicu, and then a week later, my friend died of Covid,” Bloom says in the podcast, which drops with the new season Sept. 29 on Apple podcasts. “The second she came into the world, I found out my friend Adam was on a ventilator. And actually, they were on a ventilator at the same time,...
Despite the sad subject matter, Bloom takes a hopeful tone, noting that the amount of time she’s spent thinking about “the life cycle and the death cycle, and how they’re linked” had profoundly changed her.
“I gave birth in the middle of Covid and then my daughter was also in the Nicu, and then a week later, my friend died of Covid,” Bloom says in the podcast, which drops with the new season Sept. 29 on Apple podcasts. “The second she came into the world, I found out my friend Adam was on a ventilator. And actually, they were on a ventilator at the same time,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Many TV legends and contributors were included for the “In Memoriam” segment on Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony for ABC. But producers are always forced to omit some of the 100+ insiders who died since the last ceremony. Who was left out of the group that was honored?
With dozens of television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, people certainly included were these six TV Academy Hall of Fame members:
Diahann Carroll
Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)
Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)
Regis Philbin
Carl Reiner
Fred Silverman
SEECelebrity Deaths 2020: In Memoriam Gallery
Even though he wasn’t known for his TV work, blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman was featured in the final slot. NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was not mentioned, even though the event was being held in the Staples Center.
With dozens of television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, people certainly included were these six TV Academy Hall of Fame members:
Diahann Carroll
Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)
Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)
Regis Philbin
Carl Reiner
Fred Silverman
SEECelebrity Deaths 2020: In Memoriam Gallery
Even though he wasn’t known for his TV work, blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman was featured in the final slot. NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was not mentioned, even though the event was being held in the Staples Center.
- 9/21/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
For Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on ABC, producers will have the always difficult task of assembling a memoriam segment. Even though the event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel will be virtual, it’s a certainty they will include the popular “In Memoriam” on the show.
With over 100 television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, those expected to be honored would include such TV legends and TV Academy Hall of Fame members:
Diahann Carroll
Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)
Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)
Regis Philbin
Carl Reiner
Fred Silverman
SEECelebrity Deaths 2020: In Memoriam Gallery
Even though they weren’t known for their TV work, it’s very likely NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman will be honored. Also among the dozens most likely included since they...
With over 100 television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, those expected to be honored would include such TV legends and TV Academy Hall of Fame members:
Diahann Carroll
Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)
Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)
Regis Philbin
Carl Reiner
Fred Silverman
SEECelebrity Deaths 2020: In Memoriam Gallery
Even though they weren’t known for their TV work, it’s very likely NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman will be honored. Also among the dozens most likely included since they...
- 9/20/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Emmy nomination ballots are now closed, but in scouring this year’s entries, I was sad to see that “Succession” composer Nicholas Britell didn’t submit the show’s seminal Season 2 rap, “L to the Og.”
Featured in the “Succession” episode “Dundee,” the song was one of the cringiest, most memorable moments of the last TV season: At a black-tie dinner celebrating mega-mogul Logan Roy’s 50th year running Waystar Royco, his son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) — dressed in a baseball jersey, which had been under his tuxedo — stuns the crowd by rapping about his dad’s career. That embarrassing moment solidified for many viewers why they love to hate and hate to love the deliciously dysfunctional family at the heart of “Succession.”
From that moment on, I’ve been looking forward to the Emmys figuring out a way to recruit Strong to re-create that performance on the telecast. Even...
Featured in the “Succession” episode “Dundee,” the song was one of the cringiest, most memorable moments of the last TV season: At a black-tie dinner celebrating mega-mogul Logan Roy’s 50th year running Waystar Royco, his son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) — dressed in a baseball jersey, which had been under his tuxedo — stuns the crowd by rapping about his dad’s career. That embarrassing moment solidified for many viewers why they love to hate and hate to love the deliciously dysfunctional family at the heart of “Succession.”
From that moment on, I’ve been looking forward to the Emmys figuring out a way to recruit Strong to re-create that performance on the telecast. Even...
- 7/16/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
While promoting his latest film Greyhound in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, actor Tom Hanks admitted that he’s never been particularly obsessed with death, not even in the face of the coronavirus. His comments are quite remarkable, too, not only because the virus has infected over thirteen million people worldwide already, but also because Hanks himself was, at one point in time, included in that number.
While filming a project in Australia earlier this spring, he and his wife Rita Wilson both tested positive for the virus. As international travel bans were put in place, the two stayed behind on the island continent, where they eventually recovered. Hanks was one of the first celebrities to be stricken by the virus, and news of his infection helped much of the western world understand the serious problem that this still-infantile pandemic poses.
Although Hanks and Wilson eventually recovered,...
While filming a project in Australia earlier this spring, he and his wife Rita Wilson both tested positive for the virus. As international travel bans were put in place, the two stayed behind on the island continent, where they eventually recovered. Hanks was one of the first celebrities to be stricken by the virus, and news of his infection helped much of the western world understand the serious problem that this still-infantile pandemic poses.
Although Hanks and Wilson eventually recovered,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” has an enviable batting average when it comes to Emmy Awards for music supervision — the past two have gone to the team of show creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino and music supervisor Robin Urdang. But this year, the “Maisel” crew has its sights on the original song competition, unfamiliar territory for the Amazon Prime Video hit.
While the soundtrack to season three contains the showtunes, classical music, Klezmer and iconoclastic standards of the era, the showrunners set about creating a palette of new music for Shy Baldwin (LeRoy McClain), the singer for whom titular comedian Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) serves as an opening act.
The creators sought to give Baldwin a unique musical personality, someone rooted in a ’50s crooner style with a taste for the burgeoning soul music, and tasked songwriters Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore to listen to Johnny Mathis and Sam Cooke...
While the soundtrack to season three contains the showtunes, classical music, Klezmer and iconoclastic standards of the era, the showrunners set about creating a palette of new music for Shy Baldwin (LeRoy McClain), the singer for whom titular comedian Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) serves as an opening act.
The creators sought to give Baldwin a unique musical personality, someone rooted in a ’50s crooner style with a taste for the burgeoning soul music, and tasked songwriters Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore to listen to Johnny Mathis and Sam Cooke...
- 7/2/2020
- by Phil Gallo
- Variety Film + TV
Bruce Springsteen originally planned on devoting his biweekly SiriusXM show From My Home to Yours to songs that celebrated summer this week. But the mounting death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic caused him to switch gears and record an episode offering prayers to everyone impacted by the ongoing tragedy.
“With 100,000 plus Americans dying over the last few months and the empty, shamed response from our leaders, I’ve been simply pissed off,” he said at the top of the show. “Those lives deserve better than being simply inconvenient statistics for our president’s reelection efforts.
“With 100,000 plus Americans dying over the last few months and the empty, shamed response from our leaders, I’ve been simply pissed off,” he said at the top of the show. “Those lives deserve better than being simply inconvenient statistics for our president’s reelection efforts.
- 6/17/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Ajr have shared a cover of Fountains of Wayne’s “Hackensack” in honor of frontman Adam Schlesinger, who died in April from complications related to Covid-19.
“Fountains of Wayne have been one of our biggest inspirations as a band,” Ajr said. “With a song like ‘Hackensack,’ to be able to write about the most mundane suburban lifestyle and turn it into something important and emotional is exactly what we try to do in songs. We were so upset to hear about losing Adam Schlesinger to Covid-19, so we wanted to...
“Fountains of Wayne have been one of our biggest inspirations as a band,” Ajr said. “With a song like ‘Hackensack,’ to be able to write about the most mundane suburban lifestyle and turn it into something important and emotional is exactly what we try to do in songs. We were so upset to hear about losing Adam Schlesinger to Covid-19, so we wanted to...
- 6/17/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
A tribute album to Adam Schlesinger being released today on Bandcamp includes cover songs by two actors who collaborated with the late songwriter on projects, Rachel Bloom and Sarah Silverman, as well as contemporaries of Schlesinger’s from the rock world like Kay Hanley, Nada Surf and Tanya Donnelly.
“Saving for a Custom Van,” which takes its name from the title track of the essential Fountains of Wayne album “Utopia Parkway,” is a 31-track collection that covers the breadth of Schlesinger’s performing and songwriting career. Besides familiar FoW songs from the late ’90s and 2000s, the collection also includes songs from his six-season run as the core house writer for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the films “Music and Lyrics” and “That Thing You Do!,” and Schlesinger’s other long-standing band, Ivy. Even two of the songs he wrote for “Josie and the Pussycats” figure into the expansive track list.
“Saving for a Custom Van,” which takes its name from the title track of the essential Fountains of Wayne album “Utopia Parkway,” is a 31-track collection that covers the breadth of Schlesinger’s performing and songwriting career. Besides familiar FoW songs from the late ’90s and 2000s, the collection also includes songs from his six-season run as the core house writer for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the films “Music and Lyrics” and “That Thing You Do!,” and Schlesinger’s other long-standing band, Ivy. Even two of the songs he wrote for “Josie and the Pussycats” figure into the expansive track list.
- 6/16/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Rachel Bloom, Sarah Silverman and Charly Bliss have all contributed songs to a new tribute album to late songwriter Adam Schlesinger, Saving for a Custom Van, out Tuesday, June 16th, on Bandcamp via Father/Daughter Records and Wax Nine.
The extensive 31-song compilation boasts an array of artists covering songs Schlesinger wrote with his bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, as well as material he penned for TV shows and films like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, That Thing You Do and Music and Lyrics. The compilation’s lead single is Letters to...
The extensive 31-song compilation boasts an array of artists covering songs Schlesinger wrote with his bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, as well as material he penned for TV shows and films like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, That Thing You Do and Music and Lyrics. The compilation’s lead single is Letters to...
- 6/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Pearl Jam, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Brandi Carlile and Macklemore are among several artists from the Seattle area who are uniting to perform a virtual Covid-19 relief concert benefitting All In Wa, as Seattle Times reports. The event will broadcast on June 10th at 7 Pt/10 Et via Amazon Music’s Twitch channel as well as on Seattle-area NBC affiliates. The concert is presented by sponsor Amazon and will be available on Amazon Prime after it has initially aired.
Dave Matthews, Ciara, Russell Wilson, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Allen Stone,...
Dave Matthews, Ciara, Russell Wilson, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Allen Stone,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Sharon Van Etten will perform a livestream of her 2009 debut album, Because I Was in Love, on May 29th. Tickets are currently available and a portion of the event’s ticket proceeds will benefit the National Independent Venue Association (Niva) as well as her band and crew. Each ticket holder will also be entered in a raffle to win a signed copy of the original vinyl pressing of the LP. The singer will perform the record solo in its entirety and the stream will be available to ticket holders for 24 hours.
- 5/22/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s not just your old high school and college buddies that are using stay-at-home quarantines during the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to reconnect with you over Zoom. The casts and teams behind over a dozen beloved shows or films have reunited remotely in recent weeks just to pass the time. Many of the stars are doing conversations for charity, while others are staging full remote episodes or special performances just to perk up a fan’s day. In case you missed them earlier, here are all the reunions that took place since the shutdowns began, and we’ll add more as they inevitably take place.
“Chuck”
EW rallied the cast and crew of the NBC comedy series “Chuck” to not only reminisce about the show but also perform a table read of a fan-favorite episode from, the ninth episode of Season 3, “Chuck Versus the Beard.” Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski,...
“Chuck”
EW rallied the cast and crew of the NBC comedy series “Chuck” to not only reminisce about the show but also perform a table read of a fan-favorite episode from, the ninth episode of Season 3, “Chuck Versus the Beard.” Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Magazine making is an intensely collaborative effort among writers, editors, researchers, designers, and photographers — yet in March, and now into April, we, like many Americans, were forced to work in isolation, communicating over phone, email, Slack and Zoom, as we adapt to this terrifying, temporary new global reality.
As I write this, many staffers have been working for weeks alone in a hushed and fearful New York City, with ambulance sirens as the sonic backdrop. Others are scattered: Staff writer Suzy Exposito was grounded in Miami en route to Puerto...
As I write this, many staffers have been working for weeks alone in a hushed and fearful New York City, with ambulance sirens as the sonic backdrop. Others are scattered: Staff writer Suzy Exposito was grounded in Miami en route to Puerto...
- 5/5/2020
- by Jason Fine
- Rollingstone.com
Billie Joe Armstrong added a power-pop spin to Kim Wilde’s 1981 hit “Kids in America” with the latest installment of his quarantine cover series “No Fun Mondays.” The frontman belts the track over distorted guitars that build from palm-muted chugging to surging chords.
The singer dedicated the track to “the one, the only Mike Dirnt,” Green Day’s bassist and his bandmate of over two decades. “Play this one loud just for him,” Armstrong wrote in the video’s caption. The clip features an animated unicorn bassist bouncing along as...
The singer dedicated the track to “the one, the only Mike Dirnt,” Green Day’s bassist and his bandmate of over two decades. “Play this one loud just for him,” Armstrong wrote in the video’s caption. The clip features an animated unicorn bassist bouncing along as...
- 5/5/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Last week, the surviving members of Fountain of Wayne — Chris Collingwood, Jody Porter and Brian Young — performed their 2003 song “Hackensack” with Sharon Van Etten as a tribute to the band’s vocalist, bassist and songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who died last month due to complications from Covid-19.
It was the first time the band had performed together in over seven years and was part of the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund’s Jersey 4 Jersey benefit livestream.
On Friday, Fountains of Wayne released the new recording to Bandcamp, on the same day...
It was the first time the band had performed together in over seven years and was part of the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund’s Jersey 4 Jersey benefit livestream.
On Friday, Fountains of Wayne released the new recording to Bandcamp, on the same day...
- 5/1/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, along with his sons Joey and Jakob, performed a cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” on Tuesday’s Late Late Show With James Corden.
Performing via the singer’s recording studio, the Armstrongs delivered a fiery punk-pop take on the Tommy James and the Shondells single.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Tommy James said of the cover, “I am honored that Billy Joe Armstrong covered my hit of ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ – I have always been a huge fan of Green Day...
Performing via the singer’s recording studio, the Armstrongs delivered a fiery punk-pop take on the Tommy James and the Shondells single.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Tommy James said of the cover, “I am honored that Billy Joe Armstrong covered my hit of ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ – I have always been a huge fan of Green Day...
- 4/29/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The world has gotten used to condensing several years’ worth of grief into a handful of months in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and the day that Tom Hanks announced he and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted the infection back in early March was no different than any other. The couple was in Australia for a film shoot when they both tested positive, but have since returned to the Us after self-quarantining and receiving treatment.
Even as his condition is vastly improving, though, Hanks continues to make the news. Keeping up his reputation as one of America’s friendliest stars, he was recently lauded for writing a heartwarming letter to an Australian boy who was being bullied for his name, which has received a new and nasty connotation as a result of the pandemic.
As reported by 7News Gold Coast, Corona De Vries wrote Hanks and Wilson a...
Even as his condition is vastly improving, though, Hanks continues to make the news. Keeping up his reputation as one of America’s friendliest stars, he was recently lauded for writing a heartwarming letter to an Australian boy who was being bullied for his name, which has received a new and nasty connotation as a result of the pandemic.
As reported by 7News Gold Coast, Corona De Vries wrote Hanks and Wilson a...
- 4/25/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both pointed out during Wednesday night’s powerful Jersey 4 Jersey benefit broadcast, the great, unfairly maligned state of New Jersey has taken repeated blows over the last couple of decades, including the death of more than 700 residents on 9/11, and $30 billion worth of damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Now, the Jersey death toll from Covid-19 has reached 5,000, making it the second-hardest-hit state in the union. “I’m never more proud of this state than when we have our backs up against the wall,” Stewart said,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Fountains of Wayne reunited for their first live performance in seven years to remember Adam Schlesinger, their co-founding group member who died on April 1 due to complications from coronavirus. Musicians Chris Collingwood, Jody Porter, Brian Young and Sharon Van Etten were among dozens to participate in Wednesday's Jersey 4 Jersey concert special to benefit the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. Late-night star Stephen Colbert introduced the group, remarking, "I was lucky enough to work with one of their founding members, longtime Montclair resident Adam Schlesinger, who tragically passed away from the coronavirus. Tonight the band is reuniting for Adam, and for New...
- 4/23/2020
- E! Online
Jon Bon Jovi talked about Wednesday’s Jersey 4 Jersey benefit concert for Covid-19 relief as well as canceling his band’s summer tour due to the coronavirus outbreak during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Tony Bennett, Sza and a reunited Fountains of Wayne (with Sharon Van Etten taking part in the tribute to the late Adam Schlesinger) will all perform from self-isolation for the special, which will air tonight at 7:00 p.m. Est via Apple Music and AppleTV, E Street Radio on SiriusXM,...
Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Tony Bennett, Sza and a reunited Fountains of Wayne (with Sharon Van Etten taking part in the tribute to the late Adam Schlesinger) will all perform from self-isolation for the special, which will air tonight at 7:00 p.m. Est via Apple Music and AppleTV, E Street Radio on SiriusXM,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to the late Adam Schlesinger by covering the Wonders’ “That Thing You Do!” as part of his “No Fun Mondays” quarantine series.
Schlesinger, who died earlier this month at the age of 52 due to Covid-19 complications, wrote the title track to That Thing You Do! featuring a fictional Sixties band called the Wonders. Armstrong adds pop-punk luster to the track, giving it a 21st century update — similar to his recent cover of the Bangles’ “Manic Monday.”
The Wonders themselves reunited last week for the first...
Schlesinger, who died earlier this month at the age of 52 due to Covid-19 complications, wrote the title track to That Thing You Do! featuring a fictional Sixties band called the Wonders. Armstrong adds pop-punk luster to the track, giving it a 21st century update — similar to his recent cover of the Bangles’ “Manic Monday.”
The Wonders themselves reunited last week for the first...
- 4/20/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
As promised, the Wonders — the fictional band at the heart of That Thing You Do! — reunited via Zoom Friday night to watch and provide commentary to the 1996 film. The watch party raised money for MusiCares’ Covid-19 Relief Fund.
Actors Johnathon Schaech, Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn and Ethan Embry called in from their respective quarantines — technically their first reunion in 24 years — to reminisce about the beloved film alongside fans of That Thing You Do! who watched along with the YouTube livestream.
While the film’s director (and the band’s...
Actors Johnathon Schaech, Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn and Ethan Embry called in from their respective quarantines — technically their first reunion in 24 years — to reminisce about the beloved film alongside fans of That Thing You Do! who watched along with the YouTube livestream.
While the film’s director (and the band’s...
- 4/18/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a fine line between faux one-hit wonders and real one-hit Oneders when it comes to “That Thing You Do!,” which might be one of the most fondly remembered movies of the mid-’90s, but one that feels like an underdog, even now, 25 years later, with an entire generation’s worth of home video favoritism behind it. That it still inspires such affection and is remembered as more of a box-office success than it was is due to so many factors: Tom Hanks’ sweet script and direction; the chemistry of actor-bandmates Ethan Embry, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Everett Scott and Steve Zahn; and that thing that the late Adam Schlesinger did… a crucial title song that the whole movie was going to rise or sink on, as something you could believe was an actual mid-’60s earworm.
The coronavirus-related death of songwriter Schlesinger — who’s known about equally for being part of Fountains of Wayne,...
The coronavirus-related death of songwriter Schlesinger — who’s known about equally for being part of Fountains of Wayne,...
- 4/17/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
by Chris Feil
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, one of the past decade's best examinations of the messy terrain between mental health and romantic entanglements, hilariously gave us a number called "Sexy French Depression". Skewering the French New Wave aesthetic, the song (co-written by recently departed genius Adam Schlesinger) spoofed not only our outsized self-perceptions, but a wan glamorization of female depression in cinema. It’s a trope you’ve seen before and will see again.
That vibe is very much at play in Drake Doremus' new minor key film Endings, Beginnings, where Shailene Woodley suffers from an actually rather sexy but very Los Angeles depression. Woodley stars as art programmer Daphne, in a rut after a recent breakup sends her to her sister's poolhouse as she tries to find a job between art club sessions with Kyra Sedgwick and performing R.E.M. at karaoke. Woodley is solid, but in Doremus' hands,...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, one of the past decade's best examinations of the messy terrain between mental health and romantic entanglements, hilariously gave us a number called "Sexy French Depression". Skewering the French New Wave aesthetic, the song (co-written by recently departed genius Adam Schlesinger) spoofed not only our outsized self-perceptions, but a wan glamorization of female depression in cinema. It’s a trope you’ve seen before and will see again.
That vibe is very much at play in Drake Doremus' new minor key film Endings, Beginnings, where Shailene Woodley suffers from an actually rather sexy but very Los Angeles depression. Woodley stars as art programmer Daphne, in a rut after a recent breakup sends her to her sister's poolhouse as she tries to find a job between art club sessions with Kyra Sedgwick and performing R.E.M. at karaoke. Woodley is solid, but in Doremus' hands,...
- 4/17/2020
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
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