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Jane Morgan Weintraub, singer, nightclub entertainer, Broadway performer and ubiquitous TV presence in 1950s and ’60s, died Monday of natural causes in Naples, Florida. She was 101.

Her family announced her death, saying, “Our beloved Jane passed away peacefully in her sleep.”

As Jane Morgan, the singer was a popular and ubiquitous presence on television variety shows from the Golden Age of the 1950s well through the 1960s and even into the early 1970s. She appeared on The Johnny Cash Show in 1971, where she answered the Man in Black’s “A Boy Named Sue” with “A Girl Named Cash,” which was written for the show by Martin Mull.

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She is thought to hold the record for female singers appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show – 50 times in all.

Born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1924, Morgan raised by a...

Hugh Jackman earned an Oscar nomination for his work as Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” but things didn’t go so well decades ago while belting out the musical’s “Stars” when he had to sing for the first time at an audition.

“I read first and I could tell it was going well,” Jackman said Saturday night during a performance of “An Evening With Hugh Jackman” at the Hollywood Bowl. “Then I sang and I cracked on the final note so spectacularly. Like it was the worst crack you could have ever imagined. Whatever excitement was on the panel, it just deflated immediately. I was about to run out, just humiliated.”

“But then the guy goes, ‘Whoa, hold on a second. Why did you sing that song?’” Jackman continued. “I said, ‘It’s the only thing I had music for. I’m sorry.’ And he said, ‘Well, you can throw that away.

American Idolseason 23 runner-up John Foster has announced a major career milestone that's been a dream for him since he started playing music. During the American Idol season 23 finale, Jamal Roberts won, while John placed second, and Breanna Nix placed third. John, an 18-year-old college student from Addis, Louisiana, was a frontrunner in the competition for the whole season due to his old-school country music style and his charming personality. He's now released his single, "Tell That Angel I Love Her," which he wrote for his late friend, Maggie Dunn, and sang on the show.

American Idolseason 23 runner-up John Foster has announced a major career milestone that's been a dream for him.

In an Instagram post, John announced that he'll be making his Grand Ole Opry debut on June 7, 2025. John wrote, "Tonight I had the pleasure of singing with Grand Ole Opry member Craig Morgan, and I’m incredibly honored to...

American Idolseason 23 has come to an end, and one of the Top 3 finalists--Jamal Roberts, John Foster, or Breanna Nix--was crowned the champion. American Idol season 23 welcomed season 4 winner Carrie Underwood as a new judge on the panel alongside Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan. Together, they discovered Jamal, a 27-year-old physical education teacher from Meridian, Mississippi; John, an 18-year-old college student from Addis, Louisiana; and Breanna, a 25-year-old stay-at-home mom from Denton, Texas, and now one of them is the next American Idol.

Jamal Roberts won American Idol season 23, while John Foster was the runner-up, and Breanna Nix placed third.

Jamal won American Idol season 23, while John was the runner-up, and Breanna placed third. During the first round of the finale, the Top 3 finalists competed with two songs each, including Jamal's "First Time" by Teeks and "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" by The Temptations, John's "Courtesy of the Red,...

The 23rd season of American Idol has ended. While the competition boiled down to Louisiana’s John Foster and Meridian’s Jamal Roberts, the latter took home the trophy. However, Foster gave a compelling performance during the grand finale, with a cover of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads, and his original single.

Foster’s performance of his single Tell That Anger I Love Her impressed judges and audiences alike and was one of the highlights of the finale. The performance was special to Foster as the singer had based it on the death of his high school friend Maggie Dunn, who was killed in a car accident in 2022.

John Foster’s American Idol finale performance has a tragic backstory John Foster in American Idol | Credits: ABC

John Foster rode into American Idol with all his Country glory, with an Elton John cover during auditions in LA. He quickly became a favorite,...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains details of the ‘American Idol’ Season 23 finale.

Only three American Idol hopefuls made it to the finale night, and one was crowned the winner on ABC.

The three singers who made it to the Top 3 were John Foster, Breanna Nix, and Jamal Roberts.

On the final night, the finalists performed one last time in front of the judges and the American public. John performed Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Jamal performed Teeks’ “First Time” and the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me).” Breanna performed Katy Nichole’s “In Jesus Name (God of Possible)” and Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb.”

The American Idol Season 23 finale also had special guest performers like Salt-n-Pepa, Good Charlotte, Kirk Franklin, Goo Goo Dolls, Brandon Lake, Jennifer Holliday, Jelly Roll, Myles Smith, Pj Morton,...

Tonight on American Idol, the top three give their final performances in a star-studded night filled with music legends and top stars. After the nationwide vote, host Ryan Seacrest reveals this year’s American Idol winner. Will John Foster, Breanna Nix, or Jamal Roberts take the crown? Follow our live blog to see each performance and up-to-the-minute results below.

The three-hour finale of American Idol airs live coast-to-coast beginning at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on ABC. Judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan will cheer on the contestants as "Artist in Residence" Jelly Roll mentors the finalists ahead of their last performance.

Each of the top 14 contestants return to make an appearance on tonight's finale along with superstar guests Brandon Lake, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Jennifer Holliday, Jessica Simpson, Kirk Franklin, Myles Smith, Patti Labelle, and Salt-n-Pepa.

See New singles released from Top 7 American Idol finalists

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If there’s one singular moment that stands above all the gruesome opening catastrophes and over-the-top deaths in the Final Destination film series, it’s the logging truck and the deadly highway pile-up it caused in Final Destination 2.

The original Final Destination set the bar high with a harrowing plane explosion mid-air. Its direct follow-up, released in 2003 and set one year after the first film’s events, upped the ante in terror with a far more statistically probable catastrophe that hits closer to home. Director David R. Ellis and screenwriters Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber (The Butterfly Effect) expanded upon their predecessor’s elaborate kills as well as Death’s rules.

Armed with an almost entirely new cast and set of characters, Final Destination 2 unceremoniously kills off Final Destination’s protagonist and premonition wielder Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) off-screen between films, noted via newspaper clipping and details by the sole returning character,...

Jelly Roll and Lana Del Rey are together once again.

The “Wild Ones” singer brought Del Rey out to perform alongside him during his headlining Stagecoach performance Saturday night, closing out his set as the two performed “Save Me” together.

Del Rey was one of several major guests who hit the stage with Jelly on Saturday night, as Machine Gun Kelly, Shaboozey, BigXthaPlug, Jessie Murph, Alex Warren, Wiz Khalifa and Brandon Lake all came out as well.

Lana Del Rey joins Jelly Roll at Stagecoach for a duet of ‘Save Me.’ pic.twitter.com/5pu4aoV8dW

— Lana Del Rey Merch (@lanadelreymerch) April 27, 2025

This wasn’t the first time the two joined joined forces, as Del Rey brought out Jelly Roll last year at the Hangout Music Festival in Alabama, where the two sang a duet to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”

The performance comes a day after Del...

A night after headlining the Palomino stage, Lana Del Rey hung around Stagecoach Saturday for Jelly Roll’s headlining set, joining that singer for a rendition of “Save Me.”

“This is my favorite crooner of all time. Lana Del Rey is with me, y’all,” Jelly Roll said welcoming her to the stage, with Del Rey filling in for the song’s original featured guest, Lainey Wilson.

Lana Del Rey joins Jelly Roll at Stagecoach for a duet of ‘Save Me.’ pic.twitter.com/5pu4aoV8dW

— Lana Del Rey...

Lana Del Rey’s country era is here. Ahead of the upcoming release of a new country-tinged album, the pop star performed at Stagecoach on Friday night, unveiling several new songs and making a claim that countless country fans wish they could: that she “kissed Morgan Wallen.”

The moment happened during the second-to-last song of the night, a new composition titled “57.5”. At one point in the song, the arrangement came down and she told the crowd she would only say the next line only once, at which point she made the reveal. “I kissed Morgan Wallen,” she sang, more like a confession than a sung lyric.

In response, the audience roared with excitement, so much so that it almost drowned out Del Rey’s next few lines. Through the noise, though, she stood strong, pivoting to poking fun at Wallen with raised eyebrows and a comical, advice-giving sparkle in her eye.

Lana Del Rey is singing about kissing Morgan Wallen!

The 39-year-old Born to Die singer-songwriter performed an hour-long set at the 2025 Stagecoach Festival on Friday night (April 25).

During the performance, Lana debuted new songs called “Husband of Mine” and “Quiet in the South” (read the lyrics inside!) and covered Tammy Wynette‘s “Stand by Your Man” and John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” as was she performed on a porch and a rope swing in front of a cabin.

Keep reading to find out more…

In another new song called “57.5″ premiered at the festival, she declared: “I got 57.5 million listeners on Spotify.”

Later in the song, she declared: “I kissed Morgan Wallen…” as the crowd roared.

“I guess kissing me kind of went to his head / If you want my secret to success, don’t go ATVing with him when you’re out west,” she continued.

Lana also...

When Jim Nabors found out that his Gomer Pyle character from The Andy Griffith Show was getting a spin-off in which the filling station attendant becomes a U.S. Marine, he researched how to act like a young recruit. “I started visiting Marine bases in Southern California,” Nabors told the Chicago Tribune, as reported by MeTV. “I studied training manuals as though the drill instructor were really looking over my shoulder.”

Getting advice from actual Marines makes sense. But Nabors also got some unexpected training from the guy who played Barney Fife, the deputy who carried a bullet in his pocket because he couldn’t be trusted with a loaded pistol. “I had to learn how to handle a rifle,” Nabors revealed. “You'll never guess who gave me pointers — Don Knotts, good old Barney Fife from the Griffith Show. Don was an army drill instructor during World War II and...

Quick LinksFinal Destination 2 Revealed the Fates of the Original SurvivorsAlex Browning Deserved BetterCould Bloodlines Bring Alex Back?

Final Destination is a franchise comprised of five relatively unique horror movies, with a sixth film, Final Destination: Bloodlines, nearing its May 2025 release date. Each movie in the series follows the same premise, spotlighting the intricacies of death. They all center around a specific person who has a premonition of some catastrophic mass-casualty event that will kill them and their friends. They naturally freak out and convince a handful of people to leave, and while they think they’ve been saved, they break Death’s design, and the survivors start dropping like flies.

The first Final Destination opens with Devon Sawa’s Alex Browning getting ready to board Volée Airlines Flight 180 for a class field trip to Paris, France. When he gets to the airport, the signs start popping up, like the song...

Hold on to your cowboy hats, it’s Grand Ole Opry night on The Masked Singer.

Boogie Woogie, Griffin, and Pearl channelled iconic country superstars while performing in front of panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, and comedian Casey Wilson (who sat in for Rita Ora). The hoedown closed with an epic Battle Royale that determined which mystery superstar would be unmasked. Nick Cannon hosted the all-new “Group B Finals” episode of The Masked Singer on Wednesday, March 19 (8 p.m. Et/Pt) on Fox.

Pearl

Country night got started with the one and only Pearl. Here's a few clues she dropped before taking the stage: "The biggest stars have performed at the Opry, but there's one that shines brighter than the rest — Dolly Parton. Like everyone, I was dazzled by her. So when I was invited to share the stage with her, you can imagine my first thought: What would I wear?...

Spoiler Alert: Details follow for Season 13, Episode 6 of “The Masked Singer,” “Grand Ole Opry Night,” which aired March 19 on Fox.

I don’t want to wait, for this episode to be over. I want to know right now who will it be… and indeed, it was “Dawson’s Creek” star James Van Der Beek. The Beek was the latest celebrity to be unmasked Wednesday on Fox’s hit music competition series, having performed as Griffin.

Van Der Beek was eliminated after singing John Denver’s “Take Me Home (Country Roads).” During the episode, he alluded to his recent colorectal cancer diagnosis: “Recently, we got some news that changed everything. It’s been a really tough year. But fortunately, we’ve been able to face this challenge together, in our home. I would not have gotten through all of this without them. They make me smile through the tough days and are...

The Masked Singer is back!

A new episode of season 13 of the hit Fox singing competition series aired on Wednesday night (March 19).

The show, which began in South Korea, features celebrities singing songs while wearing costumes and face masks concealing their identities until they’re eliminated. Throughout the season, the contestants provide clues to try and help the judges and fans figure out who is under the mask.

This season includes the new costumed character Detective Lucky Duck, who will help panelists “uncover who’s behind each mask.”

During the episode, Group B contestants Boogie Woogie, Griffin, and Pearl gave their latest performances of the season.

While on stage, Griffin performed “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver.

Keep reading to see all of the clues and guesses for Griffin…Keep scrolling to check out the clues and guesses…

First Performance Clues:

- Holds up a sheriff’s badge.

Celebrities may no longer be winning at the Big Game.

An array of Super Bowl advertisers turned up with creative ideas that shunned the typical famous faces making quick-paced jokes in favor of concepts meant to inspire.

Nike burnished a host of female athletes backed by the Led Zeppelin chestnut “Whole Lotta Love.” Pfizer took to the Super Bowl screen to rally viewers to fight against cancer. Google tried to push consumers past their ambivalence toward artificial intelligence by showing how the technology helped a man spend meaningful children. Frito-Lay avoided the typical line of “snack-vertising” when it did an ad for Lay’s potato chips that saluted the farmers who grew the tubers that make the product every year, T-Mobile, which for years has relied on A-list cameos from John Travolta and Jason Momoa, in 2025 talked about technology and utility. Rocket Cos. used a version of John Denver’s “Country Roads,...

Rocket pulled off something that has never been attempted with a Super Bowl commercial – a live sing-along component.

The mortgage company put together a commercial that celebrated what unifies Americans for the 2025 Super Bowl. It was all pulled together by John Denver‘s iconic country anthem “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

Keep reading to find out more…

Rocket’s commercial featured people from all walks of life, coming together to sing the massive anthem.

“Everyone deserves their shot at the American Dream,” the company wrote.

As the clip ended, it rolled over into a live singalong inside Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the game is taking place.

Speaking to USA Today, Jonathan Mildenhall, the company’s chief marketing officer, revealed that the idea for a singalong was floated during a brainstorming meeting.

After some initial hesitancies from Fox Sports, the network agreed to pull it all together. This...

Like Coca-Cola once did, Rocket Cos. tried to use a commercial to teach the world to sing — in perfect harmony.

The company, which offers mortgages among other financial services, orchestrated an in-stadium sing-along during Fox’s Sunday broadcast of Super Bowl Lix, cajoling a crowd at New Orleans’ Caesars’ Superdome to come together and belt out John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” just after a 60-second commercial used the popular tune to talk about helping people fulfill a dream of achieving home ownership.

“We are using the Super Bowl as a moment of unity,” says Jonathan Mildenhall, Rocket’s chief marketing officer, during a recent interview. “Let’s be honest,” he added. “’Take Me Home, Country Roads’ is one of very few songs, probably — I can only think of “Sweet Caroline’ — that when you play it anywhere in the world, everyone sings.”

Rocket’s effort was ambitious. Yes,...

Movie lovers, rejoice! Warner Bros. has quietly made 31 full-length movies available to stream for free on YouTube. This move allows viewers to enjoy classic and lesser-known films without a subscription, though they do come with ads unless you have YouTube Premium.

Over the years, Warner Bros. has experimented with different ways to make money from its vast catalog of films. It launched FilmStruck, a subscription streaming service, in 2018, but shut it down less than a year later. Since then, the company has focused on licensing movies to free, ad-supported platforms like Roku and Tubi.

Now, Warner Bros. is trying a new approach—releasing movies directly on YouTube. This move allows the studio to generate revenue through digital ads while making films more accessible to a wider audience.

The selection of movies is quite diverse, covering different genres and decades. Some of the highlights include:

Classic films: Mutiny on the Bounty...

Over the years, Warner Bros. has tried to monetize its catalog of older movies through different subscription streaming services, including FilmStruck — which it shut down less than a year after it launched in 2018.

Now, Warner Bros. Entertainment has quietly taken a new approach to bringing its content to YouTube to farm its film catalog for digital ad revenue.

Since the start of 2025, the company has released 31 movies on Warner Bros.-owned YouTube channels, all available for free. The movies include ads, unless you are a YouTube Premium subscriber. Warner Bros. has published a YouTube playlist with the free movies, available at this link.

The titles are varied and cut across genres, with some films on the list dating back decades. The movies include “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando, “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” starring Eddie Murphy, “Oh, God!” featuring George Burns in the titular role, “The Mission” starring Robert De Niro,...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known for his work in the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, whose career was later overshadowed by a conviction for molesting a 14-year-old girl, has died at the age of 86.

According to a representative, Yarrow died on Tuesday, January 7th, following a prolonged battle with bladder cancer.

Yarrow began performing while a student at Cornell University in New York. After graduating, he became immersed in the city’s fledging folk scene, eventually crossing paths with music manager Albert Grossman, who pitched him on the idea of forming a new age folk group. Yarrow was soon paired with Mary Travers and Noel Stookey to form Peter, Paul & Mary, and the trio released their eponymous debut album through Warner Brothers in 1962. Featuring songs including “Lemon Tree,” “500 Miles,” and a cover of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer,” the album proved a mammoth hit, spending seven weeks at No.

Peter Yarrow, a five-time Grammy winner who co-founded the hitmaking folk-pop trio Peter, Paul & Mary and co-wrote its memorable “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday of bladder cancer at his New York City home. He was 86.

His daughter Bethany announced the news via reps. “Our fearless dragon is tired and has entered the last chapter of his magnificent life,” she wrote. “The world knows Peter Yarrow the iconic folk activist, but the human being behind the legend is every bit as generous, creative, passionate, playful, and wise as his lyrics suggest.” Read a statement from bandmate Paul Stookey below.

Born on May 31, 1938, in Brooklyn, Yarrow teamed with Stookey and Mary Travers as Peter, Paul and Mary and rode the folk-pop tsunami of the early 1960s. The group scored six Top 10 singles that culminated with their sole chart-topper, the young John Denver-penned “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” in 1969.

The trio...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon, died today, The New York Times reports. He was 86.

Yarrow died from bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan. His death was confirmed by his publicist, Ken Sunshine.

Yarrow had reportedly been battling bladder cancer for several years. Recently, his children, Bethany and Christopher Yarrow, set up a “living tribute” for their father on his website, asking fans, friends, and others to submit short messages,...

This article contains some spoilers for "Nosferatu."

For the most part, a trend that emerges during any particular year of cinema doesn't have anything genuinely competitive about it. Sure, there may be the "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano," "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" years, where highly similar projects are developed to compete with each other, but most trends that occur are less about an intentional duel and are more an indication of where the culture's head is at. Remember 2017, when a John Denver song turned up in no less than five separate movies? While there's no one catch-all explanation for such a thing happening, it's intriguing and potentially illuminating to identify the trend and see what, if anything, it speaks to in the contemporary real world.

When identifying a trend in art, especially cinema, it's important to remember that films are made on a time delay — the movies of 2024 were shot, for the most part,...

The Muppets and holiday entertainment go hand-in-hand with a rod attached to it. Obviously, there’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, which some would say is the greatest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic story (the worst being that musical with Kelsey Grammer). And then there was A Muppet Family Christmas, which teamed up the Muppet Show characters with the Sesame Street gang — only to have it all ruined by a bummer of a teaser for Nightline.

But the Muppets also starred in a number of other holiday specials, including a musical show with John Denver and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. Yet, while all of those shows mostly kept their shit together, the 2002 TV movie It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie went to some truly weird places.

Okay, first of all, the most notorious aspect of this movie, which we’ve talked about before, is that it popularized the “Muppets did 9/11” conspiracy theory.

Sister Wives star Janelle Brown has left Flagstaff behind for good. After Garrison Brown passed away in March, many fans suspected it was just a matter of time. The city held many painful memories for Janelle, including a broken marriage.

Several of Janelle’s children now reside in Las Vegas, while Maddie Brown Brush and her family live in North Carolina. Maddie is also expecting her fourth child, making North Carolina an attractive location for Janelle.

Read on to get the scoop about Janelle’s new home and see where she plans to build a new life.

Janelle Brown Feels Excited To Call North Carolina Home Now

Sister Wives fans know that Janelle Brown has a natural entrepreneurial spirit. Few were surprised when she formally announced she and her daughter Maddie Brown Brush would launch Taeda Farms. In fact, many fans suspected the business meant that Janelle was about to relocate to North Carolina full-time.

Travis Barker delivered a 13-minute, uninterrupted solo drum performance — that included a pair of classic Blink-182 songs — on Kai Cenat’s marathon Twitch stream.

For the past month, Cenat’s been doing his non-stop “Mafiathon 2” stream, trying to break the record for most paid Twitch subscribers (with some of that money going to charity, too). Snoop Dogg, Glorilla, and Lil Uzi Vert have all made cameos, and yesterday Barker stopped by to celebrate another subscriber milestone.

The drummer entered the stream wearing a Marshmello head, introduced by Npc Miles Morales (a.

Lana Del Rey has some plans for the spring.

The singer-songwriter will release her 10th studio album The Right Person Will Stay on May 21 for Interscope/Polydor Records.

“So grateful that my 13 tracks came together with my beautiful work between Luke, Jack, and Drew Erickson amongst others,” the 11-time Grammy nominee wrote on Instagram. “Happy for you to hear a few songs coming up before Stagecoach. Starting with Henry. Love always.”

The folks cited in her post are producers Jack Antonoff and Zachary Dawes — who worked on her 2023 disc Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — Luke Laird and Erickson. Laird is known for his work with country acts including Eric Church and Kasey Musgraves, and Erickson has worked on Del Rey’s past two LPs. Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd was up for the Album of the Year Grammy...

In the 1982 comedy classic Tootsie, Teri Garr plays Sandy Lester, a struggling actress and close friend of Dustin Hoffman’s Michael Dorsey. Between her chosen profession and her many bad choices in men, she has been conditioned to be life’s doormat. In an early scene, she vents that she was trapped in Michael’s bathroom for a half-hour during a party while no one noticed, then admits that, yes, everyone seems to be having a good time. Later, when Michael stands her up for a dinner date, she somehow winds up apologizing to him.

Teri Garr has sadly passed away at the age of 79, but she left behind an incredible body of work that includes some of the greatest (and funniest) movies ever made. Before Garr retired from acting in 2011, she had enjoyed a long and prosperous career. She appeared in a wide range of films and TV shows and amassed a trophy cases worth of accolades. Throughout her storied career, Garr received an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination (both for the timeless 80s comedy Tootsie), and won a National Board of Review Award.

Before Garr passed away, she worked with Mel Brooks on one of the best comedies of all time, she worked with Steven Spielberg on one of the best science fiction movies of all time, and she played Phoebes birth mother in Friends. Renowned New Yorker critic Pauline Kael described Garr as the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on...

Teri Garr, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her work in hit comedies like Tootsie and Young Frankenstein, died Tuesday, Oct. 29, at her home in Los Angeles, The New York Times reports. She was 79.

Garr’s publicist confirmed her death, saying it was caused by complications from multiple sclerosis. Garr was diagnosed with Ms in 1999 and revealed it publicly in 2002. In 2006, she suffered a brain aneurysm that left her in a coma for several days, though she eventually regained her ability to speak.

Over four decades, Garr enjoyed a wildly successful and multi-faceted career,...

Teri Garr, the Oscar-nominated actress who capitalized on her adorable flightiness in such films as Tootsie and Young Frankenstein before her career was derailed by multiple sclerosis, died Tuesday. She was 79.

Garr, who started out as a background dancer working alongside Elvis Presley in several 1960s party films, died at her home in Los Angeles “surrounded by family and friends,” publicist Heidi Schaeffer told The Hollywood Reporter.

Garr revealed that she had Ms, the chronic, degenerative disease of the nervous system, on Larry King’s CNN show in October 2002, and she survived emergency surgery to treat a brain aneurysm four years later. Her final onscreen appearance came in 2011.

Garr’s career breakthrough came as Gene Wilder’s comely Transylvanian lab assistant in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974). She received her supporting actress Oscar nomination for playing Dustin Hoffman’s insecure actress friend in Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie (1982).

Those films ranked Nos.

Teri Garr, the comic actress and singer who brought her buoyant personality to “Young Frankenstein” and was Oscar-nominated for “Tootsie,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with Ms. She was 79.

An influential performer to comedians including Tina Fey, Garr was a familiar face in dozens of TV shows and films of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The actress revealed in 2002 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.

After starting her career as a dancer, Garr first gained attention as Inga, the saucy assistant in Mel Brooks’ 1974 “Young Frankenstein,” who greeted Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frederick Frankenstein with the memorable “Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay?”

On “Friends,” she played Phoebe Abbot in three episodes in 1997 and 1998.

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Garr was the wife of Richard Dreyfuss’ character. She...

There sure has been a lot of discourse this year about who can play country music. But at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s annual Medallion Ceremony on Sunday, officially inducting this year’s class, the answer was “anyone who showed up.”

That included two members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Keith Richards and Elvis Costello; Nashville’s latest pop arrival, Post Malone; bluegrass pioneer Del McCoury; Americana poet Lucinda Williams; and genre pillars Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris.

All of them, along with Eric Church, Blake Shelton,...

Jelly Roll Morton, a country music sensation, has long been frank about his personal troubles. During a recent appearance on ‘On Purpose’ with Jay Shetty, the 39-year-old singer discussed his criminal history, which has troubled him since his adolescence.

Reflecting on his early years, Jelly Roll, born Jason Bradley DeFord, shared how insecurities plagued him from a young age. “I was always a bigger kid,” he said, explaining how that led to challenges.

Raised in Antioch, Tennessee, a neighborhood he describes as “active,” the young Jelly sought acceptance, often turning to the streets for the validation he craved. “The streets will always give it to you,” he remarked.

Recalling Early-Age Troubles

One incident in particular landed Jelly Roll in the juvenile justice system. He recounted a fight with another boy, during which he grabbed a chain wallet to use as a weapon.

This act led to charges of strong-arm robbery,...

Jelly Roll and Mgk took over The Tonight Show stage to showcase their song “Lonely Road” with the help Travis Barker and a group of musicians and back-up singers. The singers joined forces around a flaming trash can, which Barker temporarily used as a drum set. The musicians later sat down at Jimmy Fallon’s desk to croon a few verses.

“Lonely Road” is a collaboration between Mgk and Jelly Roll, which was released earlier this summer. The anthemic song was produced by Barker, Charlie Handsome, BazeXX, and SlimXX, and interpolates “Take Me Home,...

90 Day Fianc: Happily Ever After? star Big Ed Brown has a brand new partner hes revealing on Instagram, a year since his split with Liz Woods. Big Ed and Liz broke up in August 2023. He canceled the wedding after Liz lost her temper in front of his family after making her daughter eat spicy taco pasta. Big Ed wished for Liz to stay single all her life, but she met new boyfriend Jayson Zuniga in October 2023. Meanwhile, Liz caught Big Ed using dating apps a month after their split when hed claimed he wanted to stay single.

Big Ed has been spending a lot of time with mystery women and documenting his dates on social media for all and Liz to see.

While Big Ed doesnt say how he meets his potential girlfriends, he likes showing off his friends on Instagram.

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The 68th BFI London Film Festival has announced the films screening in the Official Competition and contending for the Best Film Award.

From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.

Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.

Also in news – Asa Butterfield & Molly Windsor added to cast of series ‘Out of the Dust’

The 11 films in Official Competition are:

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Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...

Barry Keoghan, Nick Cave, and the voices of Sarah Snook and Eric Bana will feature in the competition lineup of the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), held this fall in partnership with American Express. The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the new film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, known for their Cave movie 20,000 Days on Earth, and the Luca Guadagnino-produced April from Georgia’s Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose feminist debut feature Beginning drew rave reviews, will be among the 11 movies competing for the best film award in London.

So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.

Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...

The Democratic National Convention continued on Tuesday with another slate of speakers advocating for Vice President Kamala Harris. They weren’t all Democrats. The DNC’s second day also featured the delegation roll call, in which delegates representing American states and territories announced their selection for president. It was way more exciting than it had any right to be.

As DNC Secretary Jason Rae called on each delegation from the stage, DJ Cassidy cued up a song for each state — except in the case of Georgia, when Atlanta native Lil Jon...

Bob Dylan will provide a rendition of the oft-covered, Cole Porter-penned classic “Don’t Fence Me In” for an upcoming Ronald Reagan biopic.

Reagan, which stars Dennis Quaid as the titular president, will also feature Gene Simmons’ take on the 1930s standard “Stormy Weather,” as well as Clint Black taking on John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” Spin reports.

“Don’t Fence Me In” was popularized by cowboy crooners like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry; the latter happens to be Quaid’s late third cousin. Dylan’s...

With his country pivot now in full swing, Machine Gun Kelly has released a cover of The Chicks’ “There’s Your Trouble” for the Spotify Singles series. Stream it below.

The rapper-turned-pop-punk singer previously performed the cover during his CMA Fest set at Spotify House in June, when he also brought out Jelly Roll to play the latter’s hit “Need a Favor.”

Much like his recent cover of Zach Bryan’s “Sun to Me,” mgk’s rendition of “There’s Your Trouble” proves him to be capable at karaoke, but doesn’t do anything to add to the original.

Regardless, mgk’s country rollout has marched forward. In late July, he reunited with Jelly Roll for their new single, “Lonely Road,” which features a lackluster reimagining of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” As our own Mary Siroky wrote about the collaboration, “it takes more than a...

Jason Reitman's movie about the first-ever broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" has finally received a title, and it's a lot more fitting than you might think. The film is called "Saturday Night," and it's missing the word "Live" for a good reason: that part of the title didn't actually appear in the earliest episodes of the long-running live comedy series.

That's because, according to Time Magazine, a new primetime series already owned the rights to the title "Saturday Night Live" when Lorne Michaels' series was in its infancy, and its home was NBC's rival network, ABC. "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" was a short-lived musical variety show starring the sports reporter with a big personality who gave it its title. The two shows premiered around the same time, and Time's early coverage indicates that Cosell's show, filmed at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, was at...

Machine Gun Kelly and Jelly Roll have shared the video for their collaboration “Lonely Road,” which nods to John Denver’s country classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

“We worked on “Lonely Road” for 2 years, 8 different studios, 4 different countries, changed the key 4 times, and this Friday you’ll hear we finally got it right,” Mgk previously wrote on social media of the track.

The video — which features the two singers starring alongside their respective significant others, Megan Fox and Bunnie Xo — finds Mgk and Jelly Roll playing down-on-their-financial-luck car mechanics.

Machine Gun Kelly and Jelly Roll have teamed up for a new collaborative single, “Lonely Road,” which reimagines the iconic chorus from John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

According to a recent post by Jelly Roll, “Lonely Road” has been in the works for two years, and was made across “eight different studios, four different countries.” Now, it’s arrived alongside a Sam Cahill-directed music video starring the two artists and their significant others, Megan Fox and Bunnie Xo, depicting mgk as a mechanic turned bank robber. Watch the video below.

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Musically, the song features the hip-hop-country blend that both mgk and Jelly Roll have embraced with previous releases. For the chrouses, they lift the melody from Denver’s 1971 classic, but switch out the lyrics for sorrowful lines like “Lonely road take me home/ To the place where we went wrong,” ending...

Just a month after performing together at CMA Fest’s Spotify House, Machine Gun Kelly and Jelly Roll are getting ready to drop a new collab. On Thursday, the pair announced single “Lonely Road,” which features a nod to John Denver’s iconic 1971 track “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

”Countdown to KellyRoll activated,” the duo wrote on Instagram, combining their names for a cheeky duo moniker. “Thanks to John Denver for paving the way.”

The short teaser sees the artists in black suits walking slowly toward a grave with mourning faces at a funeral.

Even though Chevy Chase says he was still friends with John Belushi until the end, the two comics had several famous bumps in the road while performing on Saturday Night Live. Appearing on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast a few years ago, Chase explained how Belushi even stole drugs from him back before either of them was cast on the iconic show.

“Back then, the big drug was cocaine. And obviously, John turned out to be a cokehead,” Chase chuckled, a disturbing moment of levity considering 1) the cause of Belushi’s death, and 2) the fact that Chase was a bit of a cokehead himself. Case in point: “I had a little jar of cocaine, with a little spoon that hung from it.”

Sure, some people even wore the spoons around their necks like a cross, added Maher, apropos of nothing other than confirming he was hip to the scene,...

Patti Smith offered up an emotional rendition of Lana Del Rey’s song “Summertime Sadness” at her concert in Dublin last night. Smith, who performed at Vicar Street, played a setlist of several classics, but also took the opportunity to perform Del Rey’s 2012 hit.

Appearing with her band, Smith gave an intimate, pensive performance of the song, much to the delight of the crowd. The singer dedicated the song to her late husband and MC5 member Fred Smith, telling the audience it reminded her of their “wild youth.”

Patti...