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Post-Big Game Monday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 08, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DUSTY SPRINGFIELD covers "People Get Ready."

NEW RELEASES: Paste points you to Foo Fighters, Sun June, The Staves, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Oh-OK, the Weather Station, TV Priest, and more.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS played "Kyoto" and "I Know The End" in her SNL debut, including an attempted guitar smashing.

THE BLACK ROOTS OF ROCK & ROLL, Part 1.

MASSIVE ATTACK: Robert Del Naja, of the Bristol pioneers, talks about the power and danger of nostalgia as well as his work collaborating with Adam Curtis.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Huey Lewis And The News' "Jacob's Ladder," an attempt at a sincere social-issues song co-written by Bruce Hornsby.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE?  The Little Things topped the Super Bowl weekend chart with 2.1MM on a 55 percent drop; Croods: A New Age placed with 1.8MM on a 3 percent drop; and The Marksman showed with 1MM on a 20 percent drop.

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, the Canadian-born Shakespearean actor who starred in films including "The Sound of Music," “12 Monkeys,” “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” and "Beginners," died on Friday morning at his home in Connecticut. He was 91. BONUS: Captain Von Trapp, war criminal.

ARMIE HAMMER has been dropped by his agency WME amid a growing scandal involving allegations of misconduct.

COREY FELDMAN joins the list of Marilyn Manson accusers.

AARON RODGERS is engaged... to Shailene Woodley?

OLIVIA WILDE & HARRY STYLES seem serious.

SUZANNE SOMERS was doing a Facebook Live makeup tutorial when it was interrupted by a home intruder.

CHEER: The troubled Netflix docuseries saw two more of its subjects arrested in separate criminal cases related to alleged sex misconduct involving minors.

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT Your TV Doesn't Work Right.

JACK PALLADINO, a private investigator who had worked for Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly and others, died lst week. He was 76.

 

A 33-YEAR-OLD BAT, humored by humans.

CATS AND DOGS, living together...

COWS figure out how to go on the lam.

MARILYN MONROWL pays homage to The Seven Year Itch.

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JB, Jim Weatherly, and Friday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, February 05, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JAMES BROWN! The Godfather of Soul, y'all, with his star time from the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964; your setlist includes "Out of Sight", "Prisoner of Love", "Please, Please, Please" and "Night Train."

MUZZ plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

LAURA JANE GRACE visits with World Cafe.

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 shares "One + One."

SAINTSENECA shares “All You’ve Got Is Everyone.”

 

JIM WEATHERLY, a former star quarterback at the University of Mississippi who moved to Nashville and authored megahits such as "Midnight Train to Georgia" in a prolific career as a singer-songwriter, died at his home Wednesday. He was 77. 

DAVE GROHL, on recording in a haunted house.

LANGHORNE SLIM finds peace in the chaos.

JULIEN BAKER talks about beating her demons.

JANE BIRKIN on Grief, Jealousy, And Her Most Personal Album Ever.

ALTERNATIVE BANDS, re-imagined as Saturday Morning Cartoons.

 

THE SAG AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats!

DONALD TRUMP resigned from SAG-AFTRA in a grievance-filled letter.

EVAN RACHEL WOOD is using Instagram to bolster her case against Marilyn Manson.

ARMIE HAMMER's Hollywood Career Is in Freefall as Scandal Explodes on Social Media.

RYAN SEACREST is stepping off the red carpet.

MICHELLE WILLIAMS will star in a Peggy Lee biopic directed by Todd Haynes.

SALMA HAYEK is producing a show about a woman whose boobs talk to her.

 

WHEN THE DEER show up for snack time.

HAWK vs Duck Decoy.

A DOG, on his hog.

LIDDIE THE DOG got reunited with her human after going lost for three weeks.

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Crazy Office Day, Thursday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 04, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TALKING HEADS: A vintage clip of "Psycho Killer" from the OGWT.

LOCAL NATIVES: Wide Eyes, Airplanes and Stranger Things.

UNEARTHED, VOL. 14: The Boarding House has plenty of bootleg jams.

JULIEN BAKER's "Favor" features her boygenius bandmates, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus.

PALEHOUND shares "How Long" (not the Ace tune.)

FLOCK OF DIMES shares "Two."

TRENT REZNOR denounces MARILYN MANSON.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Bon Jovi's unkillable hook-monster "Livin' On A Prayer."

 

THE GOLDEN GLOBES nominations went to these folks. Congrats! Plus, the snubs and surprises.

COMING 2 AMERICA has a second trailer online.

MEGXIT: The Duke of Sussex is determined to keep his honorary military titles and wants to spend more time in the UK.

JEFFREY WRIGHT will star in a Batman podcast titled Batman: The Audio Adventures, a comedic take on the property.

JARED LETO & DARREN ARONOFSKY are set to reunite on the aquatic thriller Adrift.

ANGELINE JOLIE is selling a Winston Churchill painting bought for her by Brad Pitt.

SEINFELD meets Twin Peaks: The Return.

WANDAVISION: Elizabeth Olsen has teased a cameo crossover from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

SMILE... the camera is on.

EASING into the day like...

THE SQUIRREL THREAT needs brushing.

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Bye bye, Miss American Pie.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 03, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.  It's the anniversary of the passing of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, IA, and it is still bringing people to the historic Surf Ballroom (now a National Historic Landmark), as well as the Riverside Ballroom, where the Winter Dance Party made its penultimate stop. So it's worth linking to an MPR audio feature on the Winter Dance Party and a Weekend Edition piece on Buddy Holly's old classmates.. We'll start with some video of Buddy Holly playing "That'll Be the Day," and "Peggy Sue."  There's even less video of Valens, outside this lipsync of "Ooh, My Head!", but there's rare live audio of "La Bamba" and "Donna" on the Tube. And no survey would be complete without the Bopper's signature song, "Chantilly Lace."  The tragedy has echoed through the years in movies like The Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba.  The latter featured Los Lobos, who would make "La Bamba" a hit again almost 30 years later, with Marshall Crenshaw as Holly, who can be seen here covering "Crying, Waiting Hoping", introduced by Wolfman Jack.

ARLO PARKS plays for KEXP.

GANG OF FOUR shares their previously unreleased "Elevator" demo.

THE BEST PIXIES COVERS, according to Cover Me.

DOLLY PARTON turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom, twice, but not for political reasons.

CABARET VOLTAIRE, from Abrasive Industrial to Acid-Soaked Dance.

THE VELVET MAFIA: The gay men who helped shape music in the 60s.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Madonna's dizzy dance-pop classic "Open Your Heart."

 

HAL HOLBROOK, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendor and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died on Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95. 

MARILYN MANSON is getting axed by two TV shows and his agent after Evan Rachel Wood and others made allegations of abuse.

FRASIER: A reboot may be coming to Paramount+ (CBS AllAccess).

MOXIE, starring Amy Poehler, has a trailer online.

SHAILENE WOODLEY and... Aaron Rodgers?

EMMA STONE is reuiniting with Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) to play "a volatile, oversexed, emancipated woman and a female Frankenstein."

STEVEN SPIELBERG is bullish on movie theaters.

ETHAN HAWKE wrote another novel.

KEVIN SMITH theorizes that WandaVision hints at the Fantastic Four's entry point to the MCU.

 

AN EAGLE plucks a drone out of the sky and flies off with it.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Life imitates Up.

PUPPERS, waking up in sync.

DOG, sledding.

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It's Groundhog Day... Again.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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I got flowers...in the Spring...

First D.J.: "Rise and shine, campers and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today."

Second D.J.: "It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?"

First D.J.: "Not hardly. So the big question o­n everybody's lips..."

Second D.J.: "O­n their chapped lips..."

First D.J.: "...their chapped lips is, 'Does Phil feel lucky?' Punxsatawney Phil! That's right, woodchuck chuckers, it's...

(IN UNISON): GROUNDHOG DAY!!!"

Saturday, Punxsutawney Phil ---  the Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary will predict whether we will have six more weeks of winter.  According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Phil has seen his shadow 103 times, and hasn't seen it (predicting an early spring) only 18 times.  Phil's track record is hotly disputed, though he's has had a pretty good run recently.  Nevertheless, thousands will await the sunrise and the groundhog at Gobbler's Knob in the tiny Pennsylvania hamlet that has become known as the "Weather Capital of the World," due in no small part to the movie that makes every day Groundhog Day.

This is o­ne time where the Internet really fails to capture the true excitement of a movie about a large squirrel predicting the weather. However, you can see the trailer as a refresher (while BuzzFeed compiles trivia).

In 2005, Roger Ebert revisited Groundhog Day, declaring that the film "finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is."

At the other end of the political spectrum, Jonah Goldberg's equally effusive movie meditation grabbed the cover of National Review: "When I set out to write this article, I thought it'd be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, o­ne I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research -- how much reporting do you need for a review of a twelve-year-old movie that plays constantly o­n cable? -- I discovered that I wasn't alone in my interest. In the years since its release the film has been taken up by Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and followers of the oppressed Chinese Falun Gong movement."

Indeed, a 2004 article mentioned by Ebert (but not linked) from London's Independent observes that the Harold Ramis comedy has been hailed by some religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time. More examples can be found at the NYT and the Christian Science Monitor.

As Phil Connors ultimately observed: "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."

ACCORDINGLY, we conclude:

...with Sonny & Cher o­n Hullabaloo and famously o­n Letterman years later, plus UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, not to mention The Cynics (from the Bonograph tribute CD), and David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull.

FONTAINES DC visit with World Cafe.

BLACK THOUGHT also visits World Cafe.

JULIA STONE & MATT BERNINGER duet on “We All Have.”

EVAN RACHEL WOOD claims MARILYN MANSON abused her in a Vanity Fair story with four other female accusers. Manson has been dropped by his label. He called the accusations "distortions of reality."

M WARD, on why Billie Holiday endures.

SPARKS are the subject of a new documentary by EDGAR WRIGHT, who shares a couple of minutes and talks to Uproxx about the project.

SGT. PEPPER'S: Rarely has someone been so written out of pop history than Jann Haworth, the co-creator of one of the most famous album covers in history.

TONY BENNETT's Battle With Alzheimer's.

 

DUSTIN DIAMOND, best known for playing Samuel “Screech” Powers on the hit NBC sitcom, “Saved by the Bell,” has died at 44 of lung cancer.

ARMIE HAMMER's estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, made her first lengthy statement since he came under fire for his alleged direct messages.

ANA de ARMAS deactivated her Twitter account over the weekend, though her Instagram account still remains up.

DOMINIC WEST looks to have rekindled his marriage after claims of a fling with Lily James.

WAKANDA is headed to Disney+.

WHAT IF THE KARATE KID isn't the hero?

THE MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK: Still inspiring after 50 years.

JAMIE TARSES, who broke the glass ceiling for female TV executives as the first woman to run a network entertainment division, passed away from complications stemming from a cardiac event she suffered in early fall. She was 56.

 

GIANT PANDAS enjoy a snow day at the National Zoo.

A BEAR, chasing a skier.

A COW and a DOGGO, chillin'.

AUSTRALIA: Spiders.

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