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It isn’t just that Mariska Hargitay has been waiting to tell this story for a long time, it’s that she also wasn’t certain exactly what story it was that she had to tell. That uncertainty, and her decades-long process of grappling with her identity, has resulted in an introspective, searching documentary so accomplished you’d never know it was Hargitay’s first feature film as a director.

“My Mom Jayne” has the longtime “Law & Order: Svu” star turning her lens on the mother she never knew, the actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, who died in 1967 when Hargitay was just three years old. She had only one memory of her mom, and even that she suspects she might have dreamed up. She had been in the car with two of her brothers when her mom had her fatal wreck, suffered a head injury herself, and was...

Law & Order: Svu star Mariska Hargitay was only 3 years old in 1967 when a horrendous car accident took the life of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, as she and two of her siblings slept in the back seat. The chauffeur and Mansfield’s lawyer boyfriend also were killed that night, and Hargitay was found injured under the passenger seat. Now, nearly 60 years later, Hargitay, an Emmy-winning star in her right, is coming to terms with not only losing her mom at such a young age but also getting to discover just who she was, a parent she says she has no memory of ever knowing.

To do this, she has directed and narrates a new HBO Films documentary My Mom Jayne, which explores her very personal and highly emotional journey to meet the woman the public knew well as a blond bombshell movie star of the 1950s and ’60s but also a...

Dick Capri has sadly passed away, but was able to spend one final Christmas with his family.

The legendary comedian and Broadway actor passed away on Thursday morning (December 26) at the age of 93.

Dick‘s family tells TMZ that he knew his “time was coming to an end” after a recent diagnosis and he died in his sleep.

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The comedian was “diagnosed with a bleeding enlarged aorta that was rendered inoperable because of his age.” After spending Christmas with his family, Dick went to bed and didn’t wake up in the morning.

Dick spent the holiday with his life partner, his son, and his daughter-in-law in Florida while other family members spent time with him on FaceTime. He also ate food from his favorite restaurant for his final meal.

“The world is not as funny today as it was yesterday,” Dick‘s son said in a statement.

Vic Flick, the famed British session guitarist who picked out the twangy riff for the James Bond theme song introduced to moviegoers on Dr. No, has died. He was 87.

His death on Thursday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease was announced by his family on Facebook.

Flick also played on No. 1 hits for Peter and Gordon (“A World Without Love”) and Petula Clark (“Downtown”); performed on Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual” and “Ringo’s Theme” (This Boy) for A Hard Day’s Night (1964); and collaborated with the likes of Jimmy Page, George Martin, Herman’s Hermits, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, Dusty Springfield and Engelbert Humperdinck.

“He was a musician’s musician,” Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues wrote in the foreword to Flick’s 2008 memoir, Vic Flick Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond.

“He always stood up to play! Yes, I know it sounds obvious — but you...

It’s a notorious freak moment in daytime television. On Sept. 13, 1978, one of the three competing bachelors on “The Dating Game” was Rodney Alcala, who turned out to be a serial killer; he was captured the following year. It’s no joke — or maybe it’s a meaningful one — to say that Alcala had the looks and personality of a 1970s ladykiller. He was coiffed like one of the Hudson Brothers, with a chiseled grin redolent of Engelbert Humperdinck. He practically beamed good vibes — along with some semi-submerged bad ones, answering his “Dating Game” questions in a way that was so confident it was…aggressive.

TV, of course, never got much kitschier than “The Dating Game.” I used to watch it as a kid, marveling at the fact that the entire show, with its Herb Albert-on-happy-pills theme music and its flower-power décor, was a kind of leering, smirky put-on that...

Jerry Fuller, a hit-making songwriter whose works were recorded by Ricky Nelson, Gary Puckett, Reba McEntire, Sam Cooke, Lawrence Welk, the Kingston Trio, Billy Eckstine, Engelbert Humperdinck and more, died July 18 at his home in Los Angeles at 85. The cause was complications of lung cancer, his wife, Annette Fuller, said to the New York Times.

Fuller specialized in pop love songs. His first major hit was “Travelin’ Man,” which Ricky Nelson took to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

Fuller and friend Glen Campbell were major players in the Los Angeles recording-studio scene of the 1960s. In 1968, his output included O.C. Smith’s recording of “Little Green Apples,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart.

Working as an A&r producer for Columbia Records, Fuller discovered Puckett performing in a San Diego bowling alley. Together, they produced four singles that sold 1 million or more copies for the band: “Woman,...

Jerry Fuller, the songwriter and producer whose stellar career included such hits as “Travelin’ Man” for Ricky Nelson, “Young Girl” for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, “Show and Tell” for Al Wilson and “Little Green Apples” for O.C. Smith, has died. He was 85.

Fuller died Thursday at his home in Sherman Oaks of complications from lung cancer, publicist Bobbi Marcus told The Hollywood Reporter.

Fuller’s first production for Puckett was the million-selling “Woman, Woman,” which was released in 1967 and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. He then wrote and produced the band’s next three multimillion sellers, “Young Girl,” “Lady Willpower” and “Over You” — all top 10 songs, too — as the band outsold The Beatles in 1968.

“What can I say about a guy whose vision defined my musical identity and destiny,” Puckett wrote in a statement. “What can Anyone say about a man who gave So much to...

Kim Gwizdala and Nikka Markarian have driven four hours to be here today. They’ve dressed in Dallas-style outfits (cropped jackets and black suede cowboy boots) and are sporting Reagan-era ’dos (blown out and heavily feathered). And now, these best friends from Las Vegas, both 32, will spend several more hours in line at a hotel in Burbank, waiting to meet the 83-year-old actress who, decades ago ­— before Gwizdala and Markarian were even born — played J.R. Ewing’s long-suffering wife. The character who tried to buy a baby on the black market, spent the better part of a season locked away in a sanitarium and whose sister shot her husband.

“Linda Gray!” they chime in unison, as if reciting a holy incantation.

And those are just two of the more than 2,500 rabid fans who have converged at the Burbank Marriott on this hazy weekend in March for The Hollywood Show,...

Not too long ago, it would have been considered a box office suicide mission to pit any new release against a superhero movie.

But this weekend’s showdown of Sony’s comic book adaptation “Madame Web” versus Paramount’s musical biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” demonstrates that’s no longer the case — superhero tentpoles no longer hold all the power.

“One Love,” a PG-13 drama that’s aimed at older female audiences, towered over the newest Marvel (adjacent) flick, earning $52 million over the extended holiday weekend. Suspense thriller “Madame Web,” a “Spider-Man” spin-off starring Dakota Johnson as a paramedic with psychic abilities, generated a paltry $26 million over the same six-day period. It cost $80 million, so it will have a tough time turning a profit in its theatrical run since theater owners get to keep roughly half of ticket sales. The Bob Marley biopic carries a $70 million price tag so it...

John Schneider's participation in The Masked Singer helped him heal after his wife's death. The judges' emotional responses to his performances were the most healing part for him. John's wife encouraged him to do the show, and his performances showcased his talent and helped others dealing with grief.

For The Masked Singer season 10 runner-up John Schneider (Donut), the show was a healing experience after the tragic death of his wife, Alicia Allain, at age 53 on February 21, 2023, from breast cancer. As Donut, John moved everyone to tears with his heartfelt performances that were dedicated to his wife, whom he called, "My Smile." He bravely and proudly shared their story throughout the season, keeping her memory alive.

In an interview with EW, John spoke about how his Masked Singer season 10 journey helped him heal after Alicia's passing. John shared that "watching the judges respond to the story and to the songs,...

The Season 10 finale of “The Masked Singer” took place Wednesday, December 20. Cow, Donut, Gazelle and Sea Queen each rocked the stage before audience members and panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger voted for their favorite. After the first round of voting, Sea Queen and Gazelle were eliminated and revealed to be Macy Gray and Janel Parrish, respectively. After a final showdown with Cow, Donut was announced as the runner-up. The delicious crooner was revealed to be “The Dukes of Hazzard” star John Schneider.

“I’m a theater brat,” he told host Nick Cannon during his unmasked interview. “I started in theater when I was a kid. I’ve done theater for a very long time. I have always considered myself a singer who will act for food. Robin, I’ve had five number one songs, so I have sold millions of records, but nobody knows it,...

And then there were four. Season 10 of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” airs this Wednesday with finalists Donut (Group C champion), Sea Queen (Group B winner), Cow (Group A victor) and Group A “Ding Dong Keep It On” recipient Gazelle. Variety has a first look at Donut’s emotional finale performance, dedicated to his late wife. Scroll down for a preview.

Here’s who has been unmasked so far in Season 10: John Oates as Anteater, Keyshia Cole as Candelabra, Sebastian Bach as Tiki, Ginuwine as Husky, Ashley Parker Angel as S’more, Metta World Peace as Cuddle Monster, Luann de Lesseps as Hibiscus, Tyler Posey as Hawk, Billie Jean King as Royal Hen, Michael Rapaport as Pickle, Tom Sandoval as Diver, Anthony Anderson as Rubber Ducky and one-time special guest Demi Lovato as Anonymouse.

According to the show, Season 10 contestants “boast a combined 40 medals, 33 Grammy nominations, seven hall of fame awards,...

HeBGB TV was among my favorite films I saw at Salem Horror Fest earlier this year, so I’m delighted that the frenetic horror-comedy anthology has made its way to Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting’s streaming service Screambox in time for Halloween.

In my review, I called it “a high-camp blend of the wistful glow of Wnuf Halloween Special, the uninhibited hyperactivity of Rick and Morty‘s “Interdimensional Cable” episodes, and the absurd unpredictability of Adult Swim’s Too Many Cooks.”

What I didn’t mention was all nods to genre favorites peppered throughout the film.

Here are 17 horror references in HeBGB TV.

1. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

HeBGB TV’s opening credits are inspired by the Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers title sequence, which perfectly captures the autumnal atmosphere.

2. Creature from the Black Lagoon

The boy in the opening scene is playing with a Creature from the Black Lagoon figure.

Music is an important part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Specifically pre-existing music. Artists like Led Zeppelin, Redbone, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Cat Stevens have underscored the most memorable sequences across this franchise’s movies and TV shows in both diegetic and non-diegetic forms. These tunes can very quickly establish the tone of an ensuing movie or big set-piece while also plucking at the nostalgia of audience members. However, across countless movies and TV shows, one particular artist has never been referenced once in a Marvel Cinematic Universe production: Taylor Swift.

James Fitzgerald, a Hollywood publicist and manager who represented his wives Jane Powell and Erin O’Brien as well as Rock Hudson, Louella Parsons, Chuck Connors and Howard Keel, has died. He was 91.

Fitzgerald died Sunday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Canoga Park, his son Greg Fitzgerald told The Hollywood Reporter.

Fitzgerald also assisted the careers of John Raitt, Engelbert Humperdinck, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jimmy Van Heusen and The Burgundy Street Singers, among others. And when he was promoting the Sammy Cahn song “High Hopes” — a big hit for Frank Sinatra that won an Oscar in 1960 — he got to meet Eleanor Roosevelt, who performed the lyrics during an interview with him, as she did here.

Fitzgerald was married to singer-actress O’Brien (77 Sunset Strip, Onionhead) from 1951 until their 1963 divorce and to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers standout Powell from 1965 until their 1975 divorce (he was the third...

Alan Copeland, the songwriter, Grammy-winning arranger and ultra-smooth vocalist known for his many years with The Modernaires and performances on Your Hit Parade and The Red Skelton Hour, has died. He was 96.

Copeland died Dec. 28 in an assisted living facility in Sonora, California, his friend Bob Lehmann told The Hollywood Reporter.

As recently as this fall, Copeland was still singing and playing keyboards in a quartet called Now You Hazz Jazz. “It was his dream to play in a small group until the last curtain, that’s how he termed it,” said Lehmann, the drummer.

Copeland wrote or co-wrote songs including “Make Love to Me” — Jo Stafford’s version made it to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1954 — “Too Young to Know,” “High Society,” “This Must Be the Place, “Darling, Darling, Darling” and “While the Vesper Bells Were Ringing.”

After taking arranging lessons from Henry Mancini, he arranged vocals for...

In Bullet Train, a half dozen assassins, the screw-up kid of a Russian crime lord and a lethally venomous snake are among the passengers on the titular mode of transport travelling from Tokyo to Kyoto. Balancing the sheer volume of characters and orchestrating the intricately choreographed tussles of action maestro David Leitch (John Wick and Atomic Blonde) already present ample challenges for an editor. For Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir, the Icelandic cutter of both Wick and Blonde, the degree of difficulty was further embellished by an array of flashbacks, Thomas the Tank Engine metaphors, surprise cameos and Engelbert Humperdinck needle drops. With […]

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A musical hint comes at the very start of “Bullet Train,” out now, when a new version of the Bee Gees’ disco classic “Stayin’ Alive” is sung in Japanese – because an American assassin code-named Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is going to spend the next two hours attempting to do just that, battling half a dozen other killers on a high-speed train from Tokyo to Kyoto.

An over-the-top movie like “Bullet Train” demanded an over-the-top score, composer Dominic Lewis (“The King’s Man”) decided, and he spent more than a year not only writing the entire score but also producing (and in several cases co-writing) the songs heard throughout David Leitch’s action thriller.

Leitch’s previous movies have been littered with songs, Lewis knew (“he’s a needle-drop guy”), so his concept became: “Can I write something in the style of a needle-drop, that feels like a song but is doing the job of scoring,...

1997 called and wants its Quentin Tarantino knockoff back. That’s the bottom line on Bullet Train, a new dark comedy/thriller directed by David Leitch. Overlong, tedious, and endlessly self-satisfied, this is a movie that thinks it’s funny to score a montage of violence to an Engelbert Humperdinck song (which is announced as it happens).

Even 25 years ago, the idea got stale fast as one Tarantino wannabe after another tried and failed to emulate the original. The film thinks it’s being clever, but the mix of pop culture-drenched, faux-savvy dialogue, ironic and plentiful needle drops, “look at me” cameos, and cartoon-y violence was a lot better back when Qt was first doing it.

Based on a novel by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka, the movie is slightly enlivened by hard-working performances from Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, and Brian Tyree Henry, as well as some striking design and cinematography, but...

Engelbert Humperdinck is a British singer best known for such songs as ”Release Me” and ”The Last Waltz.” Engelbert Humperdinck Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education Arnold George Dorsey was born on May 2, 1936 (Engelbert Humperdinck: age 86) in what was then referred to as Madras, British India, but is now known as Chennai, […]

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“Moon Knight” has landed.

Marvel Studios’ latest original series for Disney+ (and its first since “Hawkeye” last Christmas) stars Oscar Isaac as the title character and Ethan Hawke as his shadowy nemesis. Not the most well-known or popular comic book character, that means there is a true black slate and an opportunity to create a beloved MCU icon almost from scratch. But every hero’s journey has a beginning and this week we get the start of the “Moon Knight” saga.

Shall we break down these first steps?

Major spoilers for “Moon Knight” episode one follow.

A Man Without Love

The premiere episode opens not on Oscar Isaac but rather Ethan Hawke, playing Arthur Harrow. We didn’t know much about his character before the show and we honestly don’t know all that much after the first episode. But this initial scene certainly sets the stage: we see him at a desk.

I’ve discovered that my favorite Marvel TV shows are the ones that feel the least like a Marvel TV show. Not since WandaVision have I enjoyed a comic-book romp as much as in Moon Knight, where the always-appealing Oscar Isaac (of Star Wars franchise and prestige TV/movie fame) does double duty as two halves of a heroic soul trapped in the same body. From Jeremy Slater, who memorably brought The Exorcist to TV on Fox, the series presents an immediately amusing dichotomy within Isaac’s Steven Grant. By day he’s an adorably meek and lonely museum gift-shop worker—he’s introduced with Engelbert Humperdinck’s catchy lament “A Man Without Love'” on the soundtrack. Steven’s nerdy zeal for Egyptian history comes in handy when he inadvertently crosses paths with his alter ego, the ruthless mercenary Marc Spector, who takes over Steven’s body (or is it vice versa?...

Dallas Frazier, the songwriter behind such country hits as The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” The Hollywood Argyles’ “Alley Oop” and Emmylou Harris’ “Beneath Still Waters,” has died, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CEO Kyle Young. He was 82.

“Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time. He could convey infectious fun with ‘Elvira,’ and then write something as stunningly sad and true as ‘Beneath Still Waters.’ His songs helped Connie Smith to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame,” said Young in a statement published the Country Music Hall of Fame’s official website. “He was a man of kindness, generosity and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us. He lived a beautiful life of a beautiful mind.”

Born in Spiro, Oklahoma on October 27, 1939, Frazier released albums throughout his career including Elvira,...

It’s not quite as arduous as Hobbits venturing to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson’s immersed himself for four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of The Beatles. The result is the seven-hour The Beatles: Get Back, which Jackson culled and restored from 60 hours of studio sessions and a rooftop concert. All of it was shot in 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for his film Let It Be at a time when Apple forbade him from including much that created understanding and context of the group’s creative process and difficulties that led to estrangement and breakup. A fan of the hits from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr since he was a pint-sized Kiwi, Jackson used the technical clean-up process that breathed life into his WWI documentary They Shall Not Grow Old to make it seem...

Patricia Healey, who was married to singer Engelbert Humperdinck for 56 years and had a strong UK acting career, has died. She was 85 and died Thursday from complications related to Covid-19.

Humperdinck, 84, announced in a social media post shared Friday that his family was “heartbroken over the loss of my darling wife,” who died “surrounded by our children, Louise, Jason, Brad, with Scott on FaceTime.”

“Her earthly limitations no longer hold her down as she is freely running the glorious gardens of Heaven, reunited with so many loved ones,” Humperdinck wrote. “We prayed as a family, blessed her with the water from Lourdes and off she went … ushered into the arms of Jesus with help from the generous heart filled prayers from all around the world.”

Healey had Alzheimer’s disease for more than a decade, Humperdinck said. On Jan. 26 he revealed that he, Healey, their son Jason and two of...

It’s been precisely a decade since the first edition of “Life in a Day” debuted at Sundance, though in internet years, that amounts to several eons. YouTube was young, Facebook was the hip subject of a hot movie, and TikTok was not yet a glimmer in a millennial developer’s eye. The film’s concept was simple but seemed quite radical: A fully crowdsourced documentary, assembled by director Kevin Macdonald and editor Joe Walker from a vast haul of amateur footage shot on a single day by over 80,000 international applicants, it sought to elevate the scrappy YouTube video into art. Since then, however, the ultra-short-form online video has become its own art form, free of assistance from prestige filmmakers. YouTube is now the old-school daddy of such faster, flashier platforms as Vine (Rip), TikTok and Triller, exploited with increasing wit and invention by content creators who were still watching...

Alan Zweibel clearly knows funny. He’s accrued multiple Emmy wins and nominations for his time on the comedy writing teams of “Saturday Night Live” and “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” the latter of which he co-created, plus writing credits on several hit films, books, theater works and comedy/variety specials for mega-talents such as Paul Simon, Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal and Steve Martin.

In his book “Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier” (Abrams Press), which was published April 14, Zweibel’s life lessons, tricks of the trade and insights on how to chart the path from your brain to someone’s laugh center are all revealed. Don’t be deceived: Zweibel makes it sound easy, but that’s after nearly 50 years toiling at funny bone tickling. He was first in the pages of Variety in 1973, when one of his jokes for Borscht Belt comic Freddie Roman got quoted in a review.

The Mavericks find a unique, eye-popping way to appear together in a music video during quarantine — the animated clip for “Blame It on Your Heart” casts the band members as interstellar explorers traveling through space, time, and under the sea.

The band covered the Harlan Howard and Kostas composition, made famous by Patty Loveless in 1993, for their latest album Play the Hits, a collection of cover songs like John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart,” and Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” In the video, Mavericks singer...

Onstage in recent years, Michael Bolton routinely introduces a number he’s about to sing by first announcing its composer, Bob Dylan. The reaction is usually muted: “Bob Dylan should elicit this enormous response,” he says. “But I don’t get that.” Then the piano-based melody starts up, Bolton works his way into the soothing melody, and the crowd melts. “It makes people feel good and they give it up at the end the song,” Bolton says. “It’s the audience’s response to the song that turns it all around.

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Director Osgood Perkins brings full flavor to a familiar fairy tale with Gretel & Hansel.

"A fairy tale has a way of getting into your head," promises the new Gretel & Hansel trailer. "Even before you hear it." Directed by Osgood Perkins, the upcoming adaptation of the classic cautionary story from the Brothers Grimm looks like it will leave a trail of breadcrumbs to the dark subconscious. And the oven hasn't even been pre-heated.

Orion Pictures’ Gretel & Hansel stars Sophia Lillis as Gretel, and Sammy Leakey as her hungry little brother. The huntsman is played by Charles Babalola. Holda, the culinary crone, is played by Alice Krige. Jessica De Gouw plays the Young Holda. The screenplay was written by Rob Hayes.

Gretel & Hansel Trailer

Check out the new trailer for Gretel & Hansel, which showcases a more complex telling of the Grimms' classic cautionary tale...

Booked at a location that once rang with the dulcet tones of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Dionne Warwick and, of course, the great Engelbert Humperdinck, and now better known as a casino with a theater attached, the revue Magic Mike Live opens this week at London's Hippodrome for a long engagement, taking bookings through next October. It’s an apt setting for a show transferring from Las Vegas, where it was created and directed by Channing Tatum, the inspiration for and star of Steven Soderbergh's 2012 film about dancers at a Florida male strip club....

Booked at a location that once rang with the dulcet tones of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Dionne Warwick and, of course, the great Engelbert Humperdinck, and now better known as a casino with a theater attached, the revue Magic Mike Live opens this week at London's Hippodrome for a long engagement, taking bookings through next October. It’s an apt setting for a show transferring from Las Vegas, where it was created and directed by Channing Tatum, the inspiration for and star of Steven Soderbergh's 2012 film about dancers at a Florida male strip club....

The HBO series “Sharp Objects” benefits from one hell of a blunt object: the hammer of the gods that is Led Zeppelin, whose music recurs throughout all eight episodes. Director Jean-Marc Vallée scored a coup by licensing four Zeppelin tracks for the Amy Adams-led mystery tale, which he considered an essential component, even though “Led Zeppelin II” played zero part of Gillian Flynn’s source novel. Getting a four-fer from Robert Plant and Jimmy Page was especially sweet after he was denied even one song for an earlier film, as he relates in an interview with Variety.

Vallée also spoke about some of his other recurring music choices — including the electronic music quartet the Acid, and the roots-based indie rockers M. Ward and Hurray for the Riff Raff — amid a soundtrack that includes everything from LCD Soundsystem and the War on Drugs to Perry Como and Engelbert Humperdinck.

Engelbert Humperdinck is one of the best-known singers in the world, despite rarely being in the top charts these days. One lesson he’s learned from his decades-long career is to make sure your agents and handlers always have your best interests at heart. “I have been handled by some of the wrong people, and my […]

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Music legend Engelbert Humperdinck‘s new album The Man I Want To Be is dedicated to his wife Patricia Healey, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. “She can’t follow me to concerts anymore like she used to, but we have hope in our hearts that she will one day very soon, because we’re working on a cure for her. And music is one […]

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The Backstreet Boys have officially kicked off their long-awaited 'Larger Than Life' residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and one fangirl fulfilled her 16-year dream to come face-to-face with her idols again -- 96-year-old Bsb devotee Adeline Stevens!

The longtime fan rocked up to The Axis Theater with her 61-year-old daughter, Karen, and 32-year-old granddaughter, Kim, where she was thrilled to meet the group before their show.

“That was amazing! It was a fantastic,” Adeline told Et afterwards, still a little shell-shocked from the meet-and-greet. “I love those guys!”

Watch: The Backstreet Boys Serenade Lance Bass Onstage During Vegas Show

Unlike many of us, who discovered the boy band in their teens and will still be rocking up to their shows in their nineties, Adeline was the ripe ol’ age of 80 when she first fell in love with Nick Carter, Aj McLean, Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson and B­rian Littrell.

And while the...

Many of us, during this election cycle, have found us switching from live TV to our Netflix queues in search of escapism. But because the two people currently running for president of the United States have been in the public eye for decades, there’s always a danger that you might be reminded, on-screen or through some clever joke, that November 8 is coming.

By the numbers, odds are pretty good that between the two candidates, the one you’ll see will be Donald Trump. According to IMDb, since 1981 Donald Trump has made over 230 film and television appearances — 219 as “Self” and 20 as an actor usually playing “Donald Trump,” though there may be some overlap between the two.

Read More: Donald Trump: By Roasting Him, We May Have Validated Him

This includes talk shows and news programs, but it’s still more than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who has 196 listed appearances as “Self,...

Artist: Delta Deep; Members-Phil Collen-all guitars, lead vocals (Def Leppard, Manraze); Robert DeLeo-bass guitars (Stone Temple Pilots); Forrest Robinson-drums/percussion (TLC, India.Arie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Joe Sample & The Crusaders); Debbi Blackwell-Cook-lead vocals (background singer with Luther Vandross, for Michael Buble and the late Gregory Hines, among others) Single: Take Me Home For Christmas Heedlessly rebelling against the expectations placed upon you by society and your family is an enticing prospect that many young adults happily embrace as they strive to determine what direction they want to take their lives. Phil Collen, who is most well known for garnering success during the 1980s and early 1990s as the lead guitarist of Def [ Read More ]

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The X Factor is apparently shaking things up once again with plans to introduce guest fifth judges during the live shows. Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart's names have already been thrown out there, and - of course - this gives Louis Walsh his chance to return.

In the face of dipped ratings, Simon Cowell needs to find a sensational hired gun each week. These are the stars who'd make the show utterly unmissable (and no, Sinitta, you can't have a go).

1. Sir Tom Jones

What better way to get back at The Voice UK than to jump ship to The X Factor? Sir Tom would presumably love to waggle two fingers at the BBC, who earlier this week he declared can "go f*ck themselves". In fact the Silver Bear seems to have gotten particularly outspoken recently - take his views on Engelbert Humperdinck: "Once a c**t,...

Evander Holyfield is in serious danger of losing his 1998 Father of the Year Award ... and it's all because he allegedly defaulted on a $600,000 loan to a famous business mogul.  The man suing Evander is Yank Barry -- the CEO of VitaPro Foods. He's also a musician who wrote the song "Christmas Time Again" for a 1977 Engelbert Humperdinck album. According to the suit, Barry loaned Holyfield $621,133 back in 2013 ... which Evander promised to pay back by June 1st,...

The Big Allotment Challenge: BBC Two, 8pm

Fern Britton hosts a new show where nine pairs of gardeners compete to produce the best fruit and vegetables from their allotment. Filming took place over several months, so throughout the six-part series, the cameras will flit back and forth to show the contestants' progress. While they play the long game with their gardening, the competitors are also tasked with more immediate tasks, such as flower arrangement and production of jams and jellies.

Gardening experts are on hand to judge the hopefuls: Royal Horticultural Society judge Jim Buttress, floral designer Jonathan Moseley and food writer Thane Prince will give their verdicts on the efforts and decide which of the teams will have to leave the competition.

Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic: Channel 4, 9pm

The Embarrassing Bodies team of Drs Christian Jessen, Dawn Harper and Pixie McKenna return with a live series,...

Since the dawn of entertainment itself, those who aspire to rise above the rest and have their name go down in history have strived to do anything and everything possible to make sure that us mere mortals remember them. For some, that is as simple as just being really talented, as in, they’re actually good at what they do immediately and don’t need any extra help in achieving fame. But for others, the name can either be just the start, or even the key to their success lasting the years.

Take that not in any way plastic-surgery-ravaged gentleman in the picture above. That esteemed fellow is Englebert Humperdinck, a crooner who is, if we’re being honest, only remembered in terms of musical contribution for “Release Me” in the sixties. But what a name he has, and I guarantee to you that most who hear his name never forget it,...

London, May 19: Denmark has been crowned the winner of Eurovision song contest 2013 that were held in the Swedish city of Malmo.

Emmelie de Forest, 20, won the title with 281 points thanks to her splendid rendition of the song 'Only Teardrops', while Azerbaijan stood second 234 points, the BBC reported.

UK entrant Bonnie Tyler, 61, who is best known for her 1983 hit 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', had high hopes for her chances but came 19th which was an improvement on 2012's result, where Engelbert Humperdinck came second from last.

Ukraine followed in third and Norway in fourth.

De Forest, who sang her up-tempo tune.

Nashville, Tenn. -- Jack Greene, a longtime Grand Ole Opry star who earned fame with the hit "There Goes My Everything," has died in Nashville at 83.

The song showed off his deep voice, made him a star and earned him the single of the year and male vocalist of the year awards from the Country Music Association in 1967.

Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said Friday that Greene died in his sleep Thursday night at home from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Greene performed regularly on the Grand Ole Opry beginning in 1967.

His other hits, mostly in the late 1960s, included "All the Time," "Are My Treasure," "Until My Dreams Come True," "What Locks the Door" and "Statue of a Fool."

He was nominated for a Grammy award three straight years.

"There was a whirlwind of events," he recalled in a 1992 Associated Press interview. "I'd go from one town to another,...

Elton John continues to surprise, this time by joining Queens of the Stone Age on their upcoming album. Dave Grohl reported the news, which is perhaps not totally shocking when one realizes John's class of many collaborators includes the likes of Kanye West, Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley.

On Wednesday, the Foo Fighters' frontman and Nirvana alum revealed the news on Chelsea Handler's late-night program. Grohl is the featured drummer on the Qotsa project.

Here's what John had to say about the Stone Age collaboration, via NME:

"I was in Vegas and I flew back to La and Engelbert Humperdinck had written me a very sweet letter and asked me to sing a duet with him. He is part of my history and I couldn't say no so I went and recorded a song with him. Then I drove three blocks and went from Engelbert to Queens Of The Stone Age,...

Elton John and Chelsea Lately guest host Dave Grohl announced during last night's interview that the piano-playing pop legend will appear on the preposterous feature-packed new Queens Of The Stone Age Album, joining (inhale) Grohl, Trent Reznor, former Qotsa bassist Nick Oliveri and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears (see below).

Previously… So Is Anyone Not Appearing On The New Queens Of The Stone Age Album?

"I love that band so much," gushed Elton. "Nobody really asks me to do stuff really, they think I will say no… It was really a great track."

Elton, you should've brought Engelbert Humperdinck along with you! Now that would've been a record…

Any bets re: who else could possibly be appearing on the new Queens Of The Stone Age record... which, needless to say is by far the most aniticpated hard rock record of the year, right? Let me know in the comments below.

Sir Elton John has teamed up with Engelbert Humperdinck for the first time for a new album. The 'Release Me' singer will release a new collection of duets in early 2013, 45 years after scoring his first number one single. "We had a great time singing together," John said. "He is so quick, what I call a 'one-take singer' - 76 years old and still sounding as good as ever." Speaking about his duets project, Humperdinck said: "This album is a true labour of love. "We have a few more recordings to go, but what a cast. "I'm keeping most of it under my (more)...

Alex Reid wants to represent the UK at the 'Eurovision Song Contest'. The 36-year-old star - who recently started a music career - would like to follow in the footsteps of Engelbert Humperdinck and perform for his country in Sweden next year. Discussing his single 'Stardust', he said: ''It's as good as any of the other music out there at the moment in that genre. I would definitely do 'Eurovision'.'' Alex - who has previously won 'Celebrity Big Brother - would not be the only star from a reality TV background to represent Britain in the contest; Jade Ewen was chosen after...

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Every week we invite our readers to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week it's the turn of designer and writer Daniel Gray. Visit his website at danielgray.com.

Location

Looking out over the Ouse, slap bang in the centre of York. A pre-film riverside frittata and pint of York Chocolate Stout rewards you with one of the best views in town … as long as you can hack your way through the be-Lynxed crowds seeping from the neighbouring Megavodkaplex.

The building

The three-screen cinema/bar/gig venue was constructed out of the leftover bits of the old Yorkshire Evening Press building, throwing in elements of brutalist concrete-slabbery, red brick and zinc.

London -- The Eurovision Song Contest, billed as the world's most popular music competition, courted controversy before the territory sing-off tuned up and ended with some in the British media calling to pull out after the U.K. came in second to last, all but ignored in the highly politicized voting process. But despite the fact the U.K.'s Engelbert Humperdinck crooned his way to just 12 points, finishing next to last, the show garnered 9.6 million viewers in the country, according to figures from ratings agency Barb. Photos: Sundance London – Highlights from the Film and Music

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