LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocker Steven Tyler on Thursday bowed out of his job as a judge on top-rated television singing contest 'American Idol' for the coming season, saying he wants to dedicate himself to his band, Aerosmith.
Tyler's departure comes as his fellow judge, Jennifer Lopez, also weighs whether to return to the program that once reigned supreme atop U.S. TV ratings but has seen its audience shrink in recent years. Third panelist Randy Jackson seems a likely bet to return this fall for the program's 12th season as either a judge or in a mentoring role.
'I strayed from my first love, Aerosmith, and I'm back,' the band's lead singer said in a statement.
'I've decided it's time for me to let go of my mistress 'American Idol' before she boils my rabbit,' Tyler added, in a reference to the thriller movie, 'Fatal Attraction.' 'I got two fists in the air, and I'm kicking the door open with my band.'
Tyler, 64, and Aerosmith had amassed numerous hits like 'Walk This Way' and 'I Don't Want To Miss a Thing' since gaining fame in the 1970s, but the group had reached a lull a few years back when the singer decided to join 'American Idol' as a judge.
The addition of Tyler and Lopez to the judging panel in the season that began in January 2011 sparked great interest in the Fox TV network's hit show.
But the most recent season that ended in May had the lowest-rated finale in 11 years with just 21.5 million Americans tuning in to watch Phillip Phillips win the title and recording contract that comes with it. More than 30 million viewers watched the show's finale in its heyday in 2006 and 2007.
Mark Darnell, president of alternative entertainment for Fox, called Tyler 'a terrific judge, a true friend, and great mentor' on the show.
'We are very sad that Steven has chosen to focus more on his music, but we always knew when we hired a rock 'n roll legend, he would go back to music,' Darnell said in a statement.
Indeed, Tyler's return to performing seemed foremost on his mind in March when Aerosmith announced it would go on a North American tour that began June 16, and release their first album in eight years, 'Music From Another Dimension,' on November 6.
The flamboyant rocker's departure leaves a big hole on the 'American Idol' judges panel as he has been a fan favorite. He helped create one of this past season's dramatic moments when young Jessica Sanchez was voted off by fans, then saved from elimination after Tyler and fellow judge Jackson stormed the stage in her defense. Sanchez went on to the finals.
Still in doubt is the fate of Lopez, another music superstar, who just this morning on NBC's 'Today' show seemed still undecided about her next move.
'It's been on my mind a lot, as you can imagine,' she said. 'You know, I signed on to 'American Idol' to do one year, and ... I wound up doing the two years. And now it's like, 'OK, do we continue on this journey?''
(Additional reporting by Courtney Garcia; Editing by Jan Paschal)
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber highest paid young celebrities
Bieber, who brought in an estimated $55 million, was the only male among the top five earners, who included Rihanna at No. 3 with $53 million, followed by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.
'We are seeing a convergence of these talented women who know how to work the system,' said Dorothy Pomerantz, the Los Angeles bureau chief for Forbes.
'The things they have in common, obviously they write great hits, are strong personalities. That really helps them from a publicity point of view. They connect with their fans,' she added.
Kristen Stewart, who was the highest paid actress last year with an estimated $34.5 million in earnings, captured the No. 7 spot and was the only actress in the top 10.
Stewart, a lead player in the 'The Twilight Saga' films, also had a hit with 'Snow White and the Huntsman' and is considered one of Hollywood's up-and-coming stars.
Her co-star in the 'Twilight' films and real-life boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, came in at No. 10 with earnings of $26.5 million.
''Twilight' has done wonderful things for these kids' bank accounts,' said Pomerantz, adding that they are now making $12 million per film in the franchise. 'What will be telling is how they do post-'Twilight.''
To compile the list Forbes analyzed album and concert sales, movies earnings, profit participation, advertising work and endorsements between May 2011 and May 2012. Managers, lawyers, agents and other insiders were also consulted.
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Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour
As part of the festivities guitarist Ronnie Wood told Reuters in an exclusive interview that the Stones are set to reveal their plans for future live gigs this week.
'What we do is live in hope and hopefully this week we'll unfold some plans,' Wood said, adding that the band had recently spent a number of days rehearsing in a studio in New York and that getting together was like 'being back at school'.
Richards said this week that the Stones have met up for 'a couple of rehearsals', but would not go so far as to say when the quartet comprising himself, Jagger, Charlie Watts and Wood would be performing in public again.
'We're playing around with the idea and had a couple of rehearsals - we've got together and it feels so good,' Richards told Britain's publicly funded broadcaster the BBC.
The 65-year-old Wood, who joined the Stones in 1975 to replace Mick Taylor, also refused to rule out the possibility of a return appearance by Bill Wyman -- bass guitarist for the band from 1962 until 1993.
'I saw him last week and he was in top form, rocking,' Wood said. 'We also did a rehearsal with him a few weeks ago. It's like he'd never been away.'
The exhibition of photos at London's Somerset House and the accompanying book track the rise of a group of fresh-faced British boys who played their first gig at Oxford Street's Marquee Club in 1962, became the scourge of the establishment in the 1960s, the titans of 70s music and finally the elder statesmen of rock and roll in the 21st century.
'There was no sort of master plan,' Richards says on the band's official website rollingstones.com. 'We were flying by the seat of our pants. That is what amazes me, that the whole thing was improvised.'
The relationship at the heart of the Stones' success remains the working friendship of singer Jagger and Richards, whose long musical partnership goes back to the days when they roomed with the late guitarist and former Stones founding member Brian Jones, hustling gigs wherever they could find them.
'You have to put yourself back into that time,' Jagger says on rollingstones.com. 'Popular music wasn't talked about on any kind of intellectual level. There was no such term as 'popular culture.' None of those things existed.'
RIFT AND RECONCILIATION
But the Jagger/Richards partnership has also had its chillier moments.
Earlier this year, Richards apologized to Jagger for derogatory comments he made about the lead singer in his 2010 memoir 'Life', which caused a rift within the band.
In comments reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the two agreed it was time to settle their differences, leaving fans keen for another world tour breathing a sigh of relief.
'I got very involved with the business side of the Stones, mainly because I felt no one else was interested, but it's plain now from the book that Keith felt excluded, which is a pity,' Jagger was quoted as saying. 'Time I reckon to move on.'
Richards added: 'Mick's right. He and I have had conversations over the last year of a kind we have not had for an extremely long time and that has been incredibly important to me.'
Some industry sources had put a tour delay down to the argument, but Rolling Stone said it may be more closely linked to concerns over Richards' health.
'The quality of the guitarist's performances declined after he suffered a head injury on vacation in Fiji in April 2006, midway through the Bigger Bang tour,' the magazine said.
A Bigger Bang, the Stones' last tour, played to 4.5 million people in 32 countries over two years before it finished in London in 2007.
'The Rolling Stones: 50' picture book also hit the shelves on Thursday to correspond with the golden anniversary and were showcased at a Champagne-fuelled London party on Thursday attended by the Stones and other celebrities.
The new book features 700 illustrations, 300 of them in color and many taken from the archive of the Daily Mirror tabloid, which contains the largest newspaper collection of Rolling Stones photography.
'This is our story of 50 fantastic years,' Jagger, Richards, guitarist/bass player Wood and drummer Watts said in a joint statement.
'We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago.'
The photographic autobiography, which also features words from the band, includes images taken by Philip Townsend, the photographer for the band's first ever shoot.
The 352-page hardback edition published by Thames & Hudson in Britain, will retail at 29.95 pounds ($48).
The Stones have said they also plan to release a documentary film in November chronicling their history.
The last studio album by the group was in 2005. They have released two live albums, 'Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981)' and 'L.A. Friday (Live 1975),' so far this year.
Richards said on rollingstones.com that he is grateful for the hallowed place that he and the band have carved into the hearts of their fans and in rock history, but was still striving to improve, half a century into his career.
'If you say I'm great, thank you very much, but I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?'
(Reporting By Josie Cox, writing by Paul Casciato, editing by Steve Addison)
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Chris Brown's "Fortune" tops Billboard album chart
'Fortune' sold 134,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a considerably lower debut than the singer's previous album 'F.A.M.E.,' which also reached No. 1 with 270,000 copies in its debut week last year.
Brown's was the only new album in the top 10 this week.
A surprise entry from pop star Katy Perry took the No. 2 slot on the album chart. Her 'Teenage Dream' record, released almost two years ago in August 2010, notched 80,000 unit sales last week, fueled by her new movie 'Katy Perry: Part Of Me' and Amazon.com's offer of the album for 99 cents on July 3.
The Amazon.com offer, which saw several albums priced at 99 cents for one day only, also pushed Gotye's 'Making Mirrors,' Fun.'s 'Some Nights' and the Black Keys' 'El Camino' albums back into the top 10 of the Billboard 200, at No. 6, No. 7 and No. 10 respectively.
Justin Bieber's 'Believe' held steady at No. 3, Maroon 5's 'Overexposed' notched No. 4, and Linkin Park's 'Living Things' fell from the top spot last week to No. 5.
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EU copyright law plan angers Radiohead, Pink Floyd
The Commission announced a draft law on Wednesday designed to make sure that the firms collecting music royalties on the behalf of artists also hand them over to the performers, composers and producers involved in making a piece of music.
'We are deeply disappointed by your choice to defend the interests of a minority of managers and stakeholders,' said a letter signed by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, British singer Sandie Shaw, producer CJ Bolland and the director of Younison, an artists' lobby, Kelvin Smits.
By the Commission's own assessment, collection societies -- up to 250 of which operate in Europe -- keep 'substantial amounts of money' on their books, pending distribution.
In an impact assessment made ahead of Wednesday's announcement, the Commission said that in 2010 major societies owed 3.6 billion euros ($4.41 billion) in royalties to the creators.
Artists say that figure is in fact much higher and that societies have no incentive to pay up quickly, because of the returns they can make on the money in their hands.
Some 5-10 percent of payments are kept for as long as three years after they were collected, the Commission said.
The draft law, which will need approval from the European Parliament and the EU's 27 member countries, says societies have 12 months after the financial year in which a song was played to pay royalties.
And funds whose royalty-owner remains unidentified could be kept by the collecting society after five years.
'You have broken your promises and encourage the management of collecting societies to keep the fruits of our creativity,' read the artists' letter to the Commission.
'You stole our hopes.'
The artists say the five-year grace period will only encourage the collecting societies to keep the money they owe, and reduces the incentive to find the rights-holder.
'You thus legitimize one of the most problematic forms of embezzlement adopted by some collecting societies in Europe,' their letter reads.
Societies say they try to pay rights-holders as quickly as they can and that many already pay their members much quicker than the draft law demands.
PRS in Britain makes payments every three months, said Veronique Desbrosses, the secretary-general of GESAC, which represents 33 collecting societies in the European Union.
'And sometimes it's difficult to find the rights-holders because they are all over the world,' she added.
The law also aims to tackle piracy by expanding the amount of music which can be played by online companies like Apple's iTunes that need licenses from the societies before they can offer their services.
To date, iTunes is the only online mainstream music vendor available in all 27 EU member states, the Commission report says. ($1 = 0.8160 euros)
(Editing by Rex Merrifield and Mark Heinrich)
Gilberto Gil, South Africa's "Voice" premiere Viramundo
Teaming up with South African folk star Vusi Mahlasela also on guitar, Gil's 'Viramundo' concert offered a sneak preview of an upcoming documentary on his road trip rich in cross-cultural collaboration.
South African Paul Hanmer was on piano, along with Brazilians Gustavo Di Dalva on drums and guitarist Sergio Chiavazzoli, for the nearly two-hour set in Miles Davis Hall, which was backed by a Swiss orchestra, the Lausanne Sinfonietta.
'We are Africans in Brazil, especially when it comes to music. We are very African already in Brazil,' Gil told Reuters in an interview in the chalet of festival founder Claude Nobs hours before the show.
'What we sing about, our subjects, we have lots of things in common like the apartheid situation, hunger, poverty, submission, humiliation and exploitation - all of that. The black slaves in Brazil went through the same thing that tribes had to go through when they worked in the gold mines in South Africa.'
'Ba Kae', 'Lamento Sertanejo' and 'Raca Humana' were among the tracks performed by the duo, who opened for American chanteuse Melody Gardot.
Gil arrived a few days early in Switzerland for his 10th appearance at one of Europe's most prestigious music festivals.
Last weekend in a Swiss studio, he recorded 10 songs for the soundtrack of 'Viramundo - a Journey with Gilberto Gil,' which follows him on a musical tour of the southern hemisphere, via Brazil, South Africa and Australia, while examining racial issues.
The 95-minute film, now due to be released early in 2013 in Switzerland, France and Belgium, is directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, whose award-winning documentary 'Return to Goree' features Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour.
'I was completing some recording requirements that we had from the film's soundtrack. Definitely I think that the producer has the intention to release probably a soundtrack of the film,' Gil said.
Referring to the anti-apartheid activist Mahlasela, known as 'The Voice', he said: 'Vusi is an outstanding performer and songwriter, a very interesting musical personality in Africa.'
On stage, Mahlasela, a strapping man in an African shirt, towered over the slight, grey-haired Gil, who turned 70 last month.
'I not only sing the beauty of my country but also some of the disturbing things we saw, the brutality of the police playing with old corpses,' Mahlasela told the crowd after singing the track 'The Beauty of Our Land'.
'Our grandfathers of humanity, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and another man who lived in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi, planted a seed of reconciliation and taught us there is wisdom in forgiveness,' he said.
Peter Garrett, former frontman for Midnight Oil and now Australia's education minister, and indigenous singer Shellie Morris appear in film scenes shot in the Northern Territories.
'Aborigine is a local, ancient culture that was all of a sudden struck by the colonizers. They almost lost completely their identity and natural forms of relating to themselves and their environment,' Gil said.
'The whole long struggle they have been having to endure, and to survive is also very similar to the situation of South Africans and the situation of blacks and Indians in Brazil.'
Gil, celebrating 50 years in the music business, was culture minister under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Seated in Nob's chalet in a village overlooking Montreux and Lake Geneva, he was surrounded by souvenirs collected by the Swiss founder of the festival, now in its 46th edition, which ends on Saturday.
A red, flowered kimono that belonged to the late Freddie Mercury was displayed behind him in a glass frame.
'I was first here in Montreux when Queen was recording their second album in 1978. They hired a studio in the mountains during the whole festival and were recording there,' Gil said. 'One night we both went to the same restaurant and shook hands.'
His European tour began in London followed by Brussels, and continues in France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Patricia Reaney)
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Rihanna sues ex-accountants, says she lost millions
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that surfaced on Thursday, the 24-year-old singer and her tour company, Tourihanna, is seeking an unspecified amount of compensatory damages and loss of earnings from accountancy firm Berdon LLP and former employees Michael Mitnick and Peter Gounis.
The suit, first filed late in Tuesday ahead of the July 4 U.S. holiday, claims the accounting firm caused 'significant financial losses' between 2005 and 2010 by charging 'exorbitant' commissions from Rihanna's 2010 'Last Girl on Earth Tour.' It also accuses Berdon of mishandling Rihanna's foreign and domestic taxes and failing to monitor unpaid song royalties.
'Between 2005 and 2010, Tourihanna suffered significant losses due to defendants' financial mismanagement and other acts and omissions,' the lawsuit said.
Ron Storch, a partner at Berdon, said the company could not comment on pending litigation. Mitnick and Gounis have since left the firm and could not be reached for comment.
Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, has produced a string of worldwide hits including 'Umbrella' and 'We Found Love.' She is referred to in the suit as a financial novice who found fame at a young age and relied heavily on her accountants.
Her music management introduced her to Berdon in 2005 when she was a 16-year-old and 'a minor with a booming music career and no knowledge or understanding of financial matters whatsoever.'
The lawsuit said the accountants concealed facts regarding her finances and, in a deal Rihanna's lawyers called unusual, earned commissions based on a percentage of Rihanna's gross receipts that were 'exorbitant and expensive.'
In addition, the firm assumed control over the singer's affairs beyond the industry standard and failed to maximize her personal net worth and long term wealth, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit said several of the Barbados-born singer's national and international tours between 2005 and 2010 suffered losses compared with her last tour, 'Loud', that was a financial success after she parted ways with Berdon.
The lawsuit said Rihanna lost millions of dollars during 'The Last Girl On Earth' tour after the firm failed to reconcile costs versus revenues while still paying itself millions in fees.
It estimated that between 2007 and 2010, the accountants earned millions in commissions on tour gross receipts in an amount equaling 23 percent of total tour income, compared with 6 percent for Rihanna.
The firm did not do monthly planning reports and performed little record-keeping of Rihanna's personal and business expenses, including those for Tourihanna. For example, during 2008 and 2009, the accountants kept only 2 percent to 4 percent of all receipts for expenses charged on the singer's personal credit card, the suit said.
It also failed to uncover millions in unpaid royalties and problems with the way in which Universal Music Group (UMG) label Recordings was tracking song royalties. The suit did not mention Rihanna's direct label, Def Jam, also owned by UMG.
Accountants mishandled foreign and domestic taxes by withholding more funds than necessary, leading to 'a significant losses of tax benefits' and failed to file taxes on time, causing late penalties.
The singer further claims that, as a result, the IRS is now auditing her because Berdon mishandled tax returns between 2008 and 2010. The suit includes claims of breach of contract, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.
(Reporting By Christine Kearney; editing by Bob Tourtellotte, M.D. Golan and Andre Grenon)
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Country singer Wynonna Judd marries for third time
Judd, 48, told Us Weekly magazine on Wednesday that the wedding took place on June 10 on her farm at Leiper's Fork in Tennessee.
'I felt a joy that hasn't been there before,' Judd told Us Weekly of the wedding.
Judd and Moser, 55, a drummer in the singer's band The Big Noise, announced their engagement in December 2011. It's the third marriage for the flame-haired singer, who found fame as a teenager on the country circuit in the 1980s with mother Naomi Judd.
Us Weekly said neither Naomi Judd, nor Wynonna's half-sister actress Ashley Judd, attended the wedding.
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Beach Boys musical looking to catch a wave in Vegas
'Surf the Musical,' a 90-minute production showcasing 35 Beach Boys songs that embody the essence of California's surf culture, begins previews on Friday at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino before opening on July 17 for an indefinite run.
The show, featuring a live band and hit songs like 'Good Vibrations' and 'Surfin' USA', revolves around a surfer who leaves his California beach town for the big city, regrets his choice, and returns home to what he loves the most: waves, boards, and of course, a woman.
'Surf the Musical' is the fruition of a dream for producer J. Burton Gold, 69, a California businessman who has been a fan of the band since he was a teenager in the 1960s, and saw them live on their reunion tour in May.
Gold licensed the stage rights for dozens of Beach Boys songs for the show and brought in Kristin Hanggi, the Tony-nominated director of the hit Broadway musical 'Rock of Ages,' to bring it to the theater.
It's not the first time the Beach Boys have inspired a musical. 'Good Vibrations,' which followed three high school friends who drive to California, had a short-lived run on Broadway in 2005 after being savaged by New York theater critics.
But Gold said he wanted 'Surf the Musical' to 'honor and deliver the music,' without embedding it in an overly stylized production.
'I didn't want to 'Broadway-ize' it. I wanted to keep it Hawthorne,' he said, referring to the Southern California city where The Beach Boys was founded in 1961 by Brian Wilson, his late brothers Dennis and Carl, cousin Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine.
SCENES, SOUNDS OF THE 60S
'Surf the Musical' uses giant digital screens to project brightly colored backdrops of boardwalks, sunsets and 60's-era advertising.
Hanggi grew up in Huntington Beach - one of California's prime surfing spots - and when she was seven years old, she 'wore out' a cassette with the Beach Boys hit, 'Surfer Girl,' she said.
The new show was 'a homage to my family,' she said.
'I'm a So Cal girl and want to make a connection with people about what a real beach experience is like,' she said.
Hanggi said that the Las Vegas Strip was a natural choice for the show, especially given the brightly colored sets, which chime with the glare of the casinos and their glossy stage shows and larger-than-life musical arenas.
But Hanggi is nervous about one small group of spectators - the Beach Boys themselves.
The Beach Boys have had no practical involvement in the show and haven't been to rehearsals. Instead Brian Wilson, Love, Jardine and early band members Bruce Johnston and David Marks are busy on the U.S. leg of their 50th anniversary reunion world tour and have just released their first album of new material since 1989.
The album, 'That's Why God Made the Radio,' debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard chart last week, the highest-charting Beach Boys album in 37 years.
'They captured the optimism and heart of the beach, and the love and the fun,' said Hanggi. 'Wouldn't it be scary if they didn't like it?' she said.
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Singer Bobby Brown remarries in Hawaii
Photos of Brown, 43, a member of the New Edition band, his new wife and manager, Alicia Etheridge, and their wedding party were posted on Instagram by the singer's teenage son, Bobby Jr.
People magazine said the couple tied the knot on Monday, a day after Brown performed a New Edition concert in Honolulu.
Brown and Etheridge have a young son together and became engaged on stage in 2010 - three years after Brown's acrimonious divorce from 'I Will Always Love You' singer Houston.
Brown and Houston were married for 15 years, during which Houston developed a heavy addiction to cocaine, marijuana and crack. In an April TV interview, Brown hit back at suggestions that he got Houston hooked on drugs, or that he somehow played a role in her death.
Houston, 48, died of accidental drowning in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub in February. White powder and drug paraphernalia were found in the bathroom where she died.
Brown has five children, one with Houston, three from previous relationships, and one with Etheridge. (Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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Monday, June 18, 2012
David Geffen to get the "American Masters" treatment
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - He helped bring Nirvana to the mainstream, co-founded DreamWorks SKG, and backed seminal Broadway shows like 'Cats' and 'Dreamgirls.'
Now David Geffen is receiving the 'American Masters' treatment courtesy of PBS, joining the likes of Woody Allen, Martha Graham, Norman Rockwell and Johnny Carson.
In addition, PBS said that it will air segments on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and poet Carl Sandburg and Joffrey Ballet, the dance company founded by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino.
Unlike those other subjects, Geffen's contributions come not for his art, but for his keen eye for finding talent and for deal-making. He created both Geffen Records and Asylum Records, the homes to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Aerosmith and Sonic Youth.
But he did not just remain a music titan. Geffen produced films like 'Interview with the Vampire' and 'Risky Business,' before joining with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg to launch DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
In its early years, while Geffen was still involved, the studio fielded such commercial and critical successes as 'American Beauty' and 'Saving Private Ryan.'
In addition to his work as a media mogul, Geffen, who was openly gay long before it was fashionable, let alone safe to be so, is also frequently linked with liberal causes and politicians like Bill Clinton.
He has also given money to AIDS groups and art foundations. Geffen's 'American Masters' episode will air on November 20 at 8 p.m.
The Sandburg segment will air on September 24 at 10 p.m. and the Joffrey Ballet episode will air on December 28 at 9 p.m.
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Now David Geffen is receiving the 'American Masters' treatment courtesy of PBS, joining the likes of Woody Allen, Martha Graham, Norman Rockwell and Johnny Carson.
In addition, PBS said that it will air segments on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and poet Carl Sandburg and Joffrey Ballet, the dance company founded by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino.
Unlike those other subjects, Geffen's contributions come not for his art, but for his keen eye for finding talent and for deal-making. He created both Geffen Records and Asylum Records, the homes to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Aerosmith and Sonic Youth.
But he did not just remain a music titan. Geffen produced films like 'Interview with the Vampire' and 'Risky Business,' before joining with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg to launch DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
In its early years, while Geffen was still involved, the studio fielded such commercial and critical successes as 'American Beauty' and 'Saving Private Ryan.'
In addition to his work as a media mogul, Geffen, who was openly gay long before it was fashionable, let alone safe to be so, is also frequently linked with liberal causes and politicians like Bill Clinton.
He has also given money to AIDS groups and art foundations. Geffen's 'American Masters' episode will air on November 20 at 8 p.m.
The Sandburg segment will air on September 24 at 10 p.m. and the Joffrey Ballet episode will air on December 28 at 9 p.m.
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Blondie, Devo tap into 1980s nostalgia for upcoming tour
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blondie and Devo, two pioneering bands of new wave music played different styles during their heyday, but more than three decades later, they've found common ground for an upcoming U.S. tour that vibrates with 1980s nostalgia.
Blondie, formed by Deborah Harry, guitarist Chris Stein and drummer Clem Burke in 1975, came up through the ranks of New York City's punk rock scene in the late 1970s, breaking into mainstream pop with their album 'Parallel Lines.'
Devo, formed in 1972 by brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and named for their concept that people of Earth were in a stage of 'de-evolution,' gained a loyal following with their wild costumes and high-energy music epitomized by the 1980 hit 'Whip It.'
The pair plan to 'Whip It to Shreds' - the name of their brief U.S. tour of 13 cities starting September 7.
'It seemed like a nice, complimentary fit because it takes us back all the way to the very beginning,' Devo singer Mark Mothersbaugh told Reuters as tickets went on sale last Friday.
Harry, the lead singer of Blondie, echoed Mothersbaugh's sentiments, adding that their music may resonate even deeper with today's audience - both young and old.
'I've always really loved their songs and their music and their crazy style,' Harry said about Devo. 'Back in the day, it was very fresh and advanced. I think it's more contemporary today than it was back then.'
Harry, 66, who has toured annually for the past 15 years and launched her own solo career, said she still loves hitting the road to play live.
'I love performing even more now. I've been doing it for long enough that it's completely heartwarming to walk out on stage and have people going crazy for you and wanting to hear your music, especially if you've written it yourself,' she said.
While audiences at Blondie shows often expect to hear the big hits - the band has sold over 40 million records worldwide - Harry said her favorite songs to perform are from the band's lesser-known albums, like 'Cautious Lip' and 'Bermuda Triangle Blues' from 1978's 'Plastic Letters.'
She maintains Blondie's live shows will be 'straight ahead rock 'n' roll,' but the band will incorporate some new elements such as visual projections and a 'technical look on stage' for their tour with Devo.
'Even when we were at the peak of our exposure and popularity, we never had a show with multiple costume changes and back-up singers and dancers,' Harry said.
Devo's portion of the show? That's a different story.
'DEVO HAS MARINATED THROUGH THE DECADES'
Known for their electro-pop sounds, creative outfits and frenzied stage shows, the dads of de-evolution bring back the synthesizers and guitars of decades ago, alongside newer technologies, to create their sound live.
Mothersbaugh, 62, promised some costume changes in their hour-long set and music that has never mellowed with age. If anything, it's only dug deeper into the Devo philosophy.
'Devo has marinated through the decades and become more scarier and intense, and if anyone wrote it off as quirky or a joke, now they can see that we were obsessed with a particular viewpoint of life on planet Earth,' he said.
The singer said Devo, whose first album 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' was produced by experimental music master Brian Eno, has seen a resurgence in recent years led by the popularity of electronic music and people discovering them on the Internet.
'Kids nowadays are more sophisticated about music,' Mothersbaugh said. 'They can find a band they're a fan of, and if the band says they listen to old Devo music, kids have enough information to get them interested and listening to things. The Internet had a lot to do with Devo's staying power here.'
Blondie reunited in 1997 due to the popularity of new bands like No Doubt and Garbage, which had a sound similar to Harry's group. Blondie released the album 'Panic of Girls' in 2011. Harry credited their longevity to their passion for music.
'I never thought we'd be working and making music this long, but the people I always really admired, the musicians like BB King or the Stones or Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan, music is their life,' Harry said. 'It's not just something you did in your youth. It's something that you live for.'
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Blondie, formed by Deborah Harry, guitarist Chris Stein and drummer Clem Burke in 1975, came up through the ranks of New York City's punk rock scene in the late 1970s, breaking into mainstream pop with their album 'Parallel Lines.'
Devo, formed in 1972 by brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and named for their concept that people of Earth were in a stage of 'de-evolution,' gained a loyal following with their wild costumes and high-energy music epitomized by the 1980 hit 'Whip It.'
The pair plan to 'Whip It to Shreds' - the name of their brief U.S. tour of 13 cities starting September 7.
'It seemed like a nice, complimentary fit because it takes us back all the way to the very beginning,' Devo singer Mark Mothersbaugh told Reuters as tickets went on sale last Friday.
Harry, the lead singer of Blondie, echoed Mothersbaugh's sentiments, adding that their music may resonate even deeper with today's audience - both young and old.
'I've always really loved their songs and their music and their crazy style,' Harry said about Devo. 'Back in the day, it was very fresh and advanced. I think it's more contemporary today than it was back then.'
Harry, 66, who has toured annually for the past 15 years and launched her own solo career, said she still loves hitting the road to play live.
'I love performing even more now. I've been doing it for long enough that it's completely heartwarming to walk out on stage and have people going crazy for you and wanting to hear your music, especially if you've written it yourself,' she said.
While audiences at Blondie shows often expect to hear the big hits - the band has sold over 40 million records worldwide - Harry said her favorite songs to perform are from the band's lesser-known albums, like 'Cautious Lip' and 'Bermuda Triangle Blues' from 1978's 'Plastic Letters.'
She maintains Blondie's live shows will be 'straight ahead rock 'n' roll,' but the band will incorporate some new elements such as visual projections and a 'technical look on stage' for their tour with Devo.
'Even when we were at the peak of our exposure and popularity, we never had a show with multiple costume changes and back-up singers and dancers,' Harry said.
Devo's portion of the show? That's a different story.
'DEVO HAS MARINATED THROUGH THE DECADES'
Known for their electro-pop sounds, creative outfits and frenzied stage shows, the dads of de-evolution bring back the synthesizers and guitars of decades ago, alongside newer technologies, to create their sound live.
Mothersbaugh, 62, promised some costume changes in their hour-long set and music that has never mellowed with age. If anything, it's only dug deeper into the Devo philosophy.
'Devo has marinated through the decades and become more scarier and intense, and if anyone wrote it off as quirky or a joke, now they can see that we were obsessed with a particular viewpoint of life on planet Earth,' he said.
The singer said Devo, whose first album 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' was produced by experimental music master Brian Eno, has seen a resurgence in recent years led by the popularity of electronic music and people discovering them on the Internet.
'Kids nowadays are more sophisticated about music,' Mothersbaugh said. 'They can find a band they're a fan of, and if the band says they listen to old Devo music, kids have enough information to get them interested and listening to things. The Internet had a lot to do with Devo's staying power here.'
Blondie reunited in 1997 due to the popularity of new bands like No Doubt and Garbage, which had a sound similar to Harry's group. Blondie released the album 'Panic of Girls' in 2011. Harry credited their longevity to their passion for music.
'I never thought we'd be working and making music this long, but the people I always really admired, the musicians like BB King or the Stones or Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan, music is their life,' Harry said. 'It's not just something you did in your youth. It's something that you live for.'
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Radiohead Toronto show canceled after fatal stage collapse
TORONTO (Reuters) - A concert by the British rock band Radiohead was canceled after the roof of an outdoor stage collapsed during sound checks and rehearsals before the show on Saturday, killing one person and injuring three others, police and fire officials said.
Radiohead was not on stage at the time, police said, and a spokeswoman for the band confirmed that no member of the group was hurt in the accident, which occurred at about 4 p.m. local time at Downsview Park, about 5 miles north of downtown Toronto.
A Canadian musician named Dan Snaith, who performs under the name Caribou, had been set to open for Radiohead on Saturday, according to his website, but there was no immediate word on whether he was near the stage when the mishap occurred.
Representatives for the sold-out concert's promotion company, Live Nation, declined to comment. Downsview Park officials had no comment on the incident except to confirm that the Radiohead concert had been canceled as a result.
Toronto police spokesman Sergeant Tim Burrows told Reuters that about 20 people were in the direct vicinity of the stage, conducting rehearsals and sound checks, when it gave way.
A police statement issued on Twitter said one man in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene and a 45-year-old man was taken to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening head injury. It said two other males were treated on the scene for less serious injuries.
Burrows said investigators were still unsure what caused the mishap, which was under investigation by the Ontario Ministry of Labor and the Toronto police.
'The roof part of the stage collapsed,' Toronto Fire Services spokesman Captain Mike Strapko told Reuters.
'It's like an arch made out of round piping similar to what they use for scaffolding,' he said, adding that the structure was rigged with lighting and other equipment. 'So that's what came down and did crush the one individual.'
Laura Eldeiry, a band spokeswoman, said Toronto was Radiohead's last stop on its North American tour.
Pictures of the scene posted on social media sites showed a large section of twisted metal scaffolding over and around the stage that had collapsed in the middle of the concert platform.
Radiohead, an alternative rock group led by singer Thom Yorke and famed for such hits as 'Creep' and 'Paranoid Android,' is scheduled to go on tour in Europe this summer.
Their 1997 album 'OK Computer' established the band as one of the top musical acts of the decade. The group made waves with its 2007 collection 'In Rainbows,' which the band ambitiously released first as a digital download while allowing customers to set their own price for it.
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Radiohead was not on stage at the time, police said, and a spokeswoman for the band confirmed that no member of the group was hurt in the accident, which occurred at about 4 p.m. local time at Downsview Park, about 5 miles north of downtown Toronto.
A Canadian musician named Dan Snaith, who performs under the name Caribou, had been set to open for Radiohead on Saturday, according to his website, but there was no immediate word on whether he was near the stage when the mishap occurred.
Representatives for the sold-out concert's promotion company, Live Nation, declined to comment. Downsview Park officials had no comment on the incident except to confirm that the Radiohead concert had been canceled as a result.
Toronto police spokesman Sergeant Tim Burrows told Reuters that about 20 people were in the direct vicinity of the stage, conducting rehearsals and sound checks, when it gave way.
A police statement issued on Twitter said one man in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene and a 45-year-old man was taken to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening head injury. It said two other males were treated on the scene for less serious injuries.
Burrows said investigators were still unsure what caused the mishap, which was under investigation by the Ontario Ministry of Labor and the Toronto police.
'The roof part of the stage collapsed,' Toronto Fire Services spokesman Captain Mike Strapko told Reuters.
'It's like an arch made out of round piping similar to what they use for scaffolding,' he said, adding that the structure was rigged with lighting and other equipment. 'So that's what came down and did crush the one individual.'
Laura Eldeiry, a band spokeswoman, said Toronto was Radiohead's last stop on its North American tour.
Pictures of the scene posted on social media sites showed a large section of twisted metal scaffolding over and around the stage that had collapsed in the middle of the concert platform.
Radiohead, an alternative rock group led by singer Thom Yorke and famed for such hits as 'Creep' and 'Paranoid Android,' is scheduled to go on tour in Europe this summer.
Their 1997 album 'OK Computer' established the band as one of the top musical acts of the decade. The group made waves with its 2007 collection 'In Rainbows,' which the band ambitiously released first as a digital download while allowing customers to set their own price for it.
(Reporting by Frank McGurty in Toronto and Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Anthony Boadle)
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Lindsay Lohan tweets about "cute" paramedics after exhaustion bout
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan has taken to Twitter to explain a bout of exhaustion that led paramedics to be called to her hotel room, and she joked that emergency medical service personnel dispatched in such instances should at least be 'cute.'
The incident on Friday set celebrity websites and Twitter buzzing with unconfirmed reports the 25-year-old Lohan, who has struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, was rushed to a hospital. Her spokesman denied she was hospitalized and said she was treated at the hotel for exhaustion and dehydration.
In a humorous Twitter message posted on Lohan's site early on Saturday morning, the actress gave further explanation.
'Note to self: After working 85 hours in 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you might pass out from exhaustion and 7 paramedics might show up at your door,' read the post. 'Hopefully they're cute. Otherwise it would be a real let down.'
Lohan had been working on a television movie, 'Liz and Dick,' about the storied romance of actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
In his statement on Friday, Lohan's spokesman, Steve Honig, said the actress had been taking a nap and that producers called paramedics out of concern when she did not emerge from her room on Friday morning.
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The incident on Friday set celebrity websites and Twitter buzzing with unconfirmed reports the 25-year-old Lohan, who has struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, was rushed to a hospital. Her spokesman denied she was hospitalized and said she was treated at the hotel for exhaustion and dehydration.
In a humorous Twitter message posted on Lohan's site early on Saturday morning, the actress gave further explanation.
'Note to self: After working 85 hours in 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you might pass out from exhaustion and 7 paramedics might show up at your door,' read the post. 'Hopefully they're cute. Otherwise it would be a real let down.'
Lohan had been working on a television movie, 'Liz and Dick,' about the storied romance of actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
In his statement on Friday, Lohan's spokesman, Steve Honig, said the actress had been taking a nap and that producers called paramedics out of concern when she did not emerge from her room on Friday morning.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Singer Scherzinger named judge on UK's X Factor
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Nicole Scherzinger has been named as a judge on the British version of ratings juggernaut 'The X Factor', less than six months after being fired from the U.S. edition of the TV show.
The 33-year-old American is replacing compatriot Kelly Rowland, and joins Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow and Tulisa Contostavlos, all of whom appeared last season.
'I can't wait to see what talent the UK has to offer and to help inspire and bring out the best in these artists,' the former Pussycat Dolls singer said on Friday on the official website of the hit show.
'The X Factor' is aired in Britain on the commercial channel ITV and has faced increasing competition from the publicly funded BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing', which regularly eclipsed it in the viewer ratings last year.
British media attributed the decline in viewers to the fact that the show's creator and star judge Simon Cowell, a television personality known for his acerbic on-screen style, left the show to launch the U.S. version.
'The X Factor' USA failed to meet Cowell's expectations, prompting the firing in January of Scherzinger, judge Paula Abdul and host Steve Jones.
In Britain, Scherzinger is well known as the girlfriend of Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton.
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The 33-year-old American is replacing compatriot Kelly Rowland, and joins Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow and Tulisa Contostavlos, all of whom appeared last season.
'I can't wait to see what talent the UK has to offer and to help inspire and bring out the best in these artists,' the former Pussycat Dolls singer said on Friday on the official website of the hit show.
'The X Factor' is aired in Britain on the commercial channel ITV and has faced increasing competition from the publicly funded BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing', which regularly eclipsed it in the viewer ratings last year.
British media attributed the decline in viewers to the fact that the show's creator and star judge Simon Cowell, a television personality known for his acerbic on-screen style, left the show to launch the U.S. version.
'The X Factor' USA failed to meet Cowell's expectations, prompting the firing in January of Scherzinger, judge Paula Abdul and host Steve Jones.
In Britain, Scherzinger is well known as the girlfriend of Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton.
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Thai culture chiefs go Gaga over singer's "offensive" show
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government has hit out at pop sensation Lady Gaga for a second time in as many weeks by filing a police complaint over the singer's 'offensive' use of its national flag during her sellout concert last month.
The Culture Ministry said Gaga's use of the flag, tied to the back of a motorcycle while dressed in provocative outfit, was 'inappropriate' and disrespectful to its people, a ministry official told Reuters, requesting anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media.
Lady Gaga performed before 50,000 fans in Bangkok on May 25 as part of a world tour that caused controversy in the Philippines and South Korea and prompted organizers to cancel her show in Indonesia after Islamic groups objected to her 'vulgar' style.
The Grammy Award winner had already upset some Thais when she Tweeted to her 24 million followers upon arrival in Bangkok her plans to buy a fake Rolex watch at one of the city's ubiquitous street markets.
The Tweet stirred debate in Internet chat rooms and on web boards, resulting in the Commerce Ministry lodging a complaint with the United States embassy, saying Gaga was undermining its efforts to stamp out piracy.
Many of Bangkok's indoor and outdoor markets are renowned for selling cheap replicas of coveted designer handbags and accessories. Gaga has made no comment on her Tweet.
The Culture Ministry said police would not prosecute Lady Gaga but it filed the formal complaint to show dissatisfaction.
The ministry has long been criticized for being overzealous in its censorship of films, music, television and some Western cultural practices in an attempt to preserve the traditional conservative values of a country that also has a reputation for racy night life and neon-lit go-go dancing bars.
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The Culture Ministry said Gaga's use of the flag, tied to the back of a motorcycle while dressed in provocative outfit, was 'inappropriate' and disrespectful to its people, a ministry official told Reuters, requesting anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media.
Lady Gaga performed before 50,000 fans in Bangkok on May 25 as part of a world tour that caused controversy in the Philippines and South Korea and prompted organizers to cancel her show in Indonesia after Islamic groups objected to her 'vulgar' style.
The Grammy Award winner had already upset some Thais when she Tweeted to her 24 million followers upon arrival in Bangkok her plans to buy a fake Rolex watch at one of the city's ubiquitous street markets.
The Tweet stirred debate in Internet chat rooms and on web boards, resulting in the Commerce Ministry lodging a complaint with the United States embassy, saying Gaga was undermining its efforts to stamp out piracy.
Many of Bangkok's indoor and outdoor markets are renowned for selling cheap replicas of coveted designer handbags and accessories. Gaga has made no comment on her Tweet.
The Culture Ministry said police would not prosecute Lady Gaga but it filed the formal complaint to show dissatisfaction.
The ministry has long been criticized for being overzealous in its censorship of films, music, television and some Western cultural practices in an attempt to preserve the traditional conservative values of a country that also has a reputation for racy night life and neon-lit go-go dancing bars.
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Singer Chris Brown attacked in NY club: spokesman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B star Chris Brown was attacked in a fight at a New York club early on Thursday morning, his spokesman said, as rapper Drake was on his way out of the nightspot.
'Chris, Karrueche (Brown's girlfriend) and his friends were victims of a brutal attack last night at WIP. They sustained several injuries. Chris and his party are cooperating with NY authorities who are pursuing this incident further,' Brown's spokesman, Jeff Raymond, said in a statement
Drake's spokeswoman Allison Elbl Striegel issued a statement saying the 25-year-old singer 'did not participate in any wrongdoing of any kind last night at W.i.P. He was on his way out of the club when the altercation began. He did not engage in any activity which resulted in injury to person or damage to property.'
Details were not released by New York City police, who said they were investigating the incident at Manhattan club WIP in which eight men and women had cuts, bruises and other injuries.
An NYPD spokeswoman would not say if Brown, who won a Grammy for his album 'F.A.M.E.,' or Drake, whose hits include 'Take Care,' were involved. Brown tweeted a picture of his face with a cut on his chin, then deleted it.
Pictures of the nightclub with shattered glass and furniture strewn around a cavernous room were posted on the Internet, and celebrity websites carried reports from unnamed sources about a fight between friends and associates of the two singers.
Police said the injured were treated at a hospital and released.
Several celebrity media outlets reported that the fight broke out between Brown and Drake over singer Rihanna, who they both dated.
Brown, 23, was previously arrested and pleaded guilty to beating Rihanna in February 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation.
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'Chris, Karrueche (Brown's girlfriend) and his friends were victims of a brutal attack last night at WIP. They sustained several injuries. Chris and his party are cooperating with NY authorities who are pursuing this incident further,' Brown's spokesman, Jeff Raymond, said in a statement
Drake's spokeswoman Allison Elbl Striegel issued a statement saying the 25-year-old singer 'did not participate in any wrongdoing of any kind last night at W.i.P. He was on his way out of the club when the altercation began. He did not engage in any activity which resulted in injury to person or damage to property.'
Details were not released by New York City police, who said they were investigating the incident at Manhattan club WIP in which eight men and women had cuts, bruises and other injuries.
An NYPD spokeswoman would not say if Brown, who won a Grammy for his album 'F.A.M.E.,' or Drake, whose hits include 'Take Care,' were involved. Brown tweeted a picture of his face with a cut on his chin, then deleted it.
Pictures of the nightclub with shattered glass and furniture strewn around a cavernous room were posted on the Internet, and celebrity websites carried reports from unnamed sources about a fight between friends and associates of the two singers.
Police said the injured were treated at a hospital and released.
Several celebrity media outlets reported that the fight broke out between Brown and Drake over singer Rihanna, who they both dated.
Brown, 23, was previously arrested and pleaded guilty to beating Rihanna in February 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Mary J. Blige sings for Justice in "Rock of Ages"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning R&B singer Mary J. Blige has always sung from her heart, telling of personal struggles on albums such as 'No More Drama' and 'Stronger with Each Tear.' She also has dabbled in acting with guest roles on TV's 'Ghost Whisperer' and in the Tyler Perry film 'I Can Do Bad All By Myself.'
On Friday, her acting and singing skills will both be on display in her most high-profile film role yet - Justice, owner of the Venus Gentlemen's Club in the rock musical 'Rock of Ages.'
In the adaptation of the Broadway musical, Blige belts out tunes like Journey's 'Any Way You Want It' and Pat Benatar's 'Shadows of the Night' while taking in an aspiring young singer named Sherrie (Julianne Hough) whose own Hollywood dreams have hit a low point.
Blige, 41, sat down with Reuters to talk about the role, her strong desire to mentor young women and the recent scandal that has plagued her female empowerment foundation.
Q: You play the owner of strip club in the film. Did you try and find some commonality between yourself and your character?
A: We have a lot in common. She was a protector of young women in that environment. She saw herself in Sherrie and wanted Sherrie to be better than her. And not be stuck in a place like a strip club.
Q: How does that relate to you?
A: The back story I gave Justice was that some man took the power from her when she was younger. And they kept taking it from her to the point that she ended up in place like (a strip club) to take the power back from them. A lot of that is Mary.
Q: Explain taking the power back?
A: Stand up for your rights, learning to not let your environment control how you feel about yourself, staying confident no matter where you are. Nurturing young women, being an inspiration to them. That's Mary.
Q: You lent one of your songs, 'Need Someone to Love You,' to the upcoming documentary 'The Invisible War,' which is about the rape of women within the U.S. military. How did that happen?
A: When they approached me about it, I was like, that's fine because people are hurting. It was a way of giving back. When you're lending your voice, you're saving a life.
Q: Why is helping others so important to you?
A: I think the more you have, the more you're supposed to give. It would be real selfish of people like myself not to give, not to want to help someone. I remember when I was that girl, so why wouldn't I want to help? To sit and be selfish, to sit on all (your success), what are you doing with it? It's not moving, it's not going anywhere, so you're not growing. When you help others, you grow.
Q: With that said, it must have been tough to learn last month that your charity, The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation For the Advancement Of Women Now Inc, was being accused of mishandling funds and cheating scholarship students.
A: The lives of young women are at stake. I feel what they feel. I don't want them to suffer. I promised them something and I'm gonna deliver. Period.
Q: For your music fans, when will you deliver the sequel to last fall's album, 'My Life II ... The Journey Continues (Act 1)'?
A: We already have songs for 'Act 2' and we're still recording a couple of new ones. Right now, we're rehearsing a tour for 'Act 1,' which starts in August. The sequel will be next year.
Q: Any more plans to act?
A: I'm going to do a Lifetime movie called 'Parallel Lives' about the lives of Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, the widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. It's about what they had to deal with when their men were fighting for freedom. It's powerful.
Q: Who will you play?
A: 'I'm supposed to play Betty but I'm on the fence. Betty, or Coretta? We'll figure it out. It's Betty for now, but when you see the movie and I'm Coretta...(laughs)
Q: Getting back to 'Rock of Ages,' what do you hope to get out of it? It's your first time as part of such a high-profile cast with actors like Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin.
A: This is my big break for people to see me not as the greatest actress but as someone who is on her way to doing something great. Because she's trying to do the work.
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Bill Trott)
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On Friday, her acting and singing skills will both be on display in her most high-profile film role yet - Justice, owner of the Venus Gentlemen's Club in the rock musical 'Rock of Ages.'
In the adaptation of the Broadway musical, Blige belts out tunes like Journey's 'Any Way You Want It' and Pat Benatar's 'Shadows of the Night' while taking in an aspiring young singer named Sherrie (Julianne Hough) whose own Hollywood dreams have hit a low point.
Blige, 41, sat down with Reuters to talk about the role, her strong desire to mentor young women and the recent scandal that has plagued her female empowerment foundation.
Q: You play the owner of strip club in the film. Did you try and find some commonality between yourself and your character?
A: We have a lot in common. She was a protector of young women in that environment. She saw herself in Sherrie and wanted Sherrie to be better than her. And not be stuck in a place like a strip club.
Q: How does that relate to you?
A: The back story I gave Justice was that some man took the power from her when she was younger. And they kept taking it from her to the point that she ended up in place like (a strip club) to take the power back from them. A lot of that is Mary.
Q: Explain taking the power back?
A: Stand up for your rights, learning to not let your environment control how you feel about yourself, staying confident no matter where you are. Nurturing young women, being an inspiration to them. That's Mary.
Q: You lent one of your songs, 'Need Someone to Love You,' to the upcoming documentary 'The Invisible War,' which is about the rape of women within the U.S. military. How did that happen?
A: When they approached me about it, I was like, that's fine because people are hurting. It was a way of giving back. When you're lending your voice, you're saving a life.
Q: Why is helping others so important to you?
A: I think the more you have, the more you're supposed to give. It would be real selfish of people like myself not to give, not to want to help someone. I remember when I was that girl, so why wouldn't I want to help? To sit and be selfish, to sit on all (your success), what are you doing with it? It's not moving, it's not going anywhere, so you're not growing. When you help others, you grow.
Q: With that said, it must have been tough to learn last month that your charity, The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation For the Advancement Of Women Now Inc, was being accused of mishandling funds and cheating scholarship students.
A: The lives of young women are at stake. I feel what they feel. I don't want them to suffer. I promised them something and I'm gonna deliver. Period.
Q: For your music fans, when will you deliver the sequel to last fall's album, 'My Life II ... The Journey Continues (Act 1)'?
A: We already have songs for 'Act 2' and we're still recording a couple of new ones. Right now, we're rehearsing a tour for 'Act 1,' which starts in August. The sequel will be next year.
Q: Any more plans to act?
A: I'm going to do a Lifetime movie called 'Parallel Lives' about the lives of Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, the widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. It's about what they had to deal with when their men were fighting for freedom. It's powerful.
Q: Who will you play?
A: 'I'm supposed to play Betty but I'm on the fence. Betty, or Coretta? We'll figure it out. It's Betty for now, but when you see the movie and I'm Coretta...(laughs)
Q: Getting back to 'Rock of Ages,' what do you hope to get out of it? It's your first time as part of such a high-profile cast with actors like Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin.
A: This is my big break for people to see me not as the greatest actress but as someone who is on her way to doing something great. Because she's trying to do the work.
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Bill Trott)
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Magazine apologizes to Morrissey over "racism" slur
LONDON (Reuters) - Music magazine NME has apologized to Morrissey for a 2007 article which the former Smiths frontman complained suggested he was a racist.
Morrissey, 53, sued the publication for a story titled 'Morrissey: Big Mouth Strikes Again' in which he discussed the issue of immigration in Britain.
The case had been due to go to court after the singer won a pre-trial hearing at the High Court in October where the publication had sought to strike out his claim on the grounds of delay.
'NME is pleased that it has buried the hatchet with Morrissey in respect of the libel case he brought against us in 2007,' a statement from the magazine said.
'Morrissey sued over an article based on interviews with him which he believed accused him of racism.
'After an on-going dialogue with Morrissey and his representatives, NME today (Tuesday) publishes a clarification in the magazine and online which makes it clear that we do not believe we ever called Morrissey a racist and nor do we believe he is.
'We have said sorry to Morrissey for any misunderstanding that may have arisen.'
The publication added that the settlement did not involve payment of damages or legal costs to the singer. A 'small' sum was paid by NME last year on the court's orders.
In the original article, Morrissey was asked if he would ever move back to England, and was quoted as saying in reply:
'With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.'
Morrissey's lawyer, John Reid, of Russells Solicitors, said: 'My client is obviously pleased that the NME have finally and publicly apologized to him.
'This claim was never about financial damages, and no money was sought as part of a settlement. The NME apology in itself is settlement enough, and it closes the case'.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Morrissey, 53, sued the publication for a story titled 'Morrissey: Big Mouth Strikes Again' in which he discussed the issue of immigration in Britain.
The case had been due to go to court after the singer won a pre-trial hearing at the High Court in October where the publication had sought to strike out his claim on the grounds of delay.
'NME is pleased that it has buried the hatchet with Morrissey in respect of the libel case he brought against us in 2007,' a statement from the magazine said.
'Morrissey sued over an article based on interviews with him which he believed accused him of racism.
'After an on-going dialogue with Morrissey and his representatives, NME today (Tuesday) publishes a clarification in the magazine and online which makes it clear that we do not believe we ever called Morrissey a racist and nor do we believe he is.
'We have said sorry to Morrissey for any misunderstanding that may have arisen.'
The publication added that the settlement did not involve payment of damages or legal costs to the singer. A 'small' sum was paid by NME last year on the court's orders.
In the original article, Morrissey was asked if he would ever move back to England, and was quoted as saying in reply:
'With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.'
Morrissey's lawyer, John Reid, of Russells Solicitors, said: 'My client is obviously pleased that the NME have finally and publicly apologized to him.
'This claim was never about financial damages, and no money was sought as part of a settlement. The NME apology in itself is settlement enough, and it closes the case'.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Former music royalties executive dies in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Frances Williams Preston, who worked with top songwriters as president of the royalties company Broadcast Music Inc., died Wednesday. She was 83.
Preston was president of New York-based BMI, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, from 1986 to 2004. Before that, she was head of the company's office in Nashville, where she was born and grew up.
Family spokeswoman Caroline Davis said Preston died at home of congestive heart failure.
During her career, Preston worked with dozens of artists including Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings and Tammy Wynette. As BMI president, she oversaw a company that represented Paul Simon, Janet Jackson, Sting and others.
In 1998, Preston received the highest Grammy award given to a non-performer, the National Trustees Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
She was a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Preston was credited with coining the Nashville songwriter's creed, 'It all begins with a song.'
A 1986 Fortune magazine article called her 'one of the true powerhouses of the pop music business.'
She retired from BMI in 2004 and returned to Nashville in 2007.
During her tenure as BMI president, the company enjoyed a consistent record of increasing revenues and royalty distribution to its more than 300,000 songwriters and music publishers. She also helped pioneer the licensing of new digital media.
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Preston was president of New York-based BMI, which collects and distributes royalties to songwriters, from 1986 to 2004. Before that, she was head of the company's office in Nashville, where she was born and grew up.
Family spokeswoman Caroline Davis said Preston died at home of congestive heart failure.
During her career, Preston worked with dozens of artists including Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings and Tammy Wynette. As BMI president, she oversaw a company that represented Paul Simon, Janet Jackson, Sting and others.
In 1998, Preston received the highest Grammy award given to a non-performer, the National Trustees Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
She was a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Preston was credited with coining the Nashville songwriter's creed, 'It all begins with a song.'
A 1986 Fortune magazine article called her 'one of the true powerhouses of the pop music business.'
She retired from BMI in 2004 and returned to Nashville in 2007.
During her tenure as BMI president, the company enjoyed a consistent record of increasing revenues and royalty distribution to its more than 300,000 songwriters and music publishers. She also helped pioneer the licensing of new digital media.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Grammy Awards to the Emmys: hey, notice us!
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Grammy Awards, which typically get no respect the Television Academy, have launched an Emmy campaign in an attempt to get Emmy voters to recognize an historic year for what Grammy staffers say is the biggest, most difficult awards show of all.
The tricky part is that one of the things that made the 2012 Grammys stand out is that they took place a little more than 24 hours after the death of Whitney Houston - and by drawing attention to the way in which the show responded to that event, Grammy organizers run the risk of appearing to use the tragedy as a campaign tactic.
At an event at the Television Academy in North Hollywood on Monday night, 32-time Grammy executive producer Ken Ehrlich admitted that he had never before done any kind of campaigning for the show.
Over the years, the Grammys have been nominated for 55 Emmys, but have only won 17, short of the 19 won by the Tonys and the Kennedy Center Honors, and far short of the 46 won by the Oscars.
'It is definitely the hardest show that I've ever done,' said director Louis J. Horvitz, a veteran of numerous Oscars, Kennedy Center Honors and other awards shows. 'It's like a bullet train: 5,4,3,2,1, and you just hope to come out the other end and arrive in one piece.'
Although it is the largest-scale production, usually staged in L.A.'s enormous Staples Center and consisting of two dozen often-lavish performances and only about 10 awards, the Grammys have never won the top award in the genre, Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special - or the current category in which they compete, Best Special Class Program.
The Kennedy Center Honors have won seven times, including the last three in a row in their category; the Tonys have won four times and the Oscars twice.
'Obviously we'd like to have you consider us when you vote,' said Ehrlich to a theater full of voters on Monday night. 'We have been nominated before, and not won.'
The idea, he said, came out of a meeting with CBS executives, who said, 'Look, you have a great story to tell this year.'
In addition to reacting to the death of Whitney Houston, this year's show included the first performance of Adele after microsurgery on her throat, and a jam session on the medley that ends the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album, with Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and Joe Walsh.
The show attracted 39 million viewers and beat the Oscars in the ratings for the first time.
To tell that story, Ehrlich prepared a 26-minute film, entitled 'A Death in the Family: The Grammys Show Goes On,' recapping the events of February, in which show officials learned of Houston's death late the afternoon before the show.
After screening the film, which is also available to Emmy voters online and to the public at grammy.com, Ehrlich participated in a lengthy Q&A with Horvitz, host LL Cool J, Grohl, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, co-producer Terry Lickona and talent producer Chantel Sausedo. It was moderated by the show's writer, David Wild, who called the Grammys 'far and away the most ambitious event of the year.'
The film focuses on how well the Grammy staff responded to the death of Houston, which at times made it feel vaguely exploitative. It also pushes hard for Academy recognition for LL Cool J's performance as host, and tries to emphasize how difficult the show always is to pull off.
'It can be, at its best, a document of record about what music is,' said Ehrlich.
'I think of it as a celebration of music,' added Lickona, who went so far as to suggest that the awards themselves aren't always that important at the Grammys - that some artists, in fact, 'are almost embarrassed when they win.'
This immediately caught LL Cool J's attention. 'Embarrassed when you win?' he asked, incredulous. 'Who feels that way?'
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The tricky part is that one of the things that made the 2012 Grammys stand out is that they took place a little more than 24 hours after the death of Whitney Houston - and by drawing attention to the way in which the show responded to that event, Grammy organizers run the risk of appearing to use the tragedy as a campaign tactic.
At an event at the Television Academy in North Hollywood on Monday night, 32-time Grammy executive producer Ken Ehrlich admitted that he had never before done any kind of campaigning for the show.
Over the years, the Grammys have been nominated for 55 Emmys, but have only won 17, short of the 19 won by the Tonys and the Kennedy Center Honors, and far short of the 46 won by the Oscars.
'It is definitely the hardest show that I've ever done,' said director Louis J. Horvitz, a veteran of numerous Oscars, Kennedy Center Honors and other awards shows. 'It's like a bullet train: 5,4,3,2,1, and you just hope to come out the other end and arrive in one piece.'
Although it is the largest-scale production, usually staged in L.A.'s enormous Staples Center and consisting of two dozen often-lavish performances and only about 10 awards, the Grammys have never won the top award in the genre, Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special - or the current category in which they compete, Best Special Class Program.
The Kennedy Center Honors have won seven times, including the last three in a row in their category; the Tonys have won four times and the Oscars twice.
'Obviously we'd like to have you consider us when you vote,' said Ehrlich to a theater full of voters on Monday night. 'We have been nominated before, and not won.'
The idea, he said, came out of a meeting with CBS executives, who said, 'Look, you have a great story to tell this year.'
In addition to reacting to the death of Whitney Houston, this year's show included the first performance of Adele after microsurgery on her throat, and a jam session on the medley that ends the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album, with Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and Joe Walsh.
The show attracted 39 million viewers and beat the Oscars in the ratings for the first time.
To tell that story, Ehrlich prepared a 26-minute film, entitled 'A Death in the Family: The Grammys Show Goes On,' recapping the events of February, in which show officials learned of Houston's death late the afternoon before the show.
After screening the film, which is also available to Emmy voters online and to the public at grammy.com, Ehrlich participated in a lengthy Q&A with Horvitz, host LL Cool J, Grohl, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, co-producer Terry Lickona and talent producer Chantel Sausedo. It was moderated by the show's writer, David Wild, who called the Grammys 'far and away the most ambitious event of the year.'
The film focuses on how well the Grammy staff responded to the death of Houston, which at times made it feel vaguely exploitative. It also pushes hard for Academy recognition for LL Cool J's performance as host, and tries to emphasize how difficult the show always is to pull off.
'It can be, at its best, a document of record about what music is,' said Ehrlich.
'I think of it as a celebration of music,' added Lickona, who went so far as to suggest that the awards themselves aren't always that important at the Grammys - that some artists, in fact, 'are almost embarrassed when they win.'
This immediately caught LL Cool J's attention. 'Embarrassed when you win?' he asked, incredulous. 'Who feels that way?'
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Slipknot unveils songs, art, on new "best-of" album
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning heavy metal band Slipknot unveiled the artwork and tracklist for their upcoming 'best-of' album on Monday, their first release since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray.
'Antennas To Hell,' due out on July 24 in the United States, will encompass some of the band's best-known singles from their last four studio albums, including 'Spit It Out,' 'Left Behind' and 'Vermilion.'
'I think every song Slipknot has ever written is a greatest hit, so it was hard (to narrow it down), but at the same time there's only four records, so we did stick a couple of live songs on,' band member Shawn 'Clown' Crahan told Reuters.
'It all falls together the way it needs to.'
Slipknot, founded by Gray and Crahan in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995, has eight members -- Crahan and Chris Fehn on percussion, lead singer Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson on turntables, guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson, Craig '133' Jones on sampling and drummer Joey Jordison.
Following Gray's death from an accidental overdose in 2010, the band's future has been hotly debated in the world of music with media outlets posting conflicting reports on the end of Slipknot, something Crahan said has amused him.
'We as a band have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it; it's not even a question. The only question was how long it was going to take each individual member to accept what's happened and feel comfortable with moving on in the record area,' said Crahan.
'Paul was the major part of writing records. It's not only my brother that I'm not seeing, but it's also what he brought to the table,' added the percussionist.
Crahan said the band will be stepping away from the spotlight after playing a series of summer festivals, so that band members can go through 'the healing process' and work on a new record. He said the lyrics were already being written for the next album and the artwork would be 'severely involved.'
The band released four studio albums over the years, 1999's self-titled debut, 2001's 'Iowa,' 2004's 'Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)' and 2008's 'All Hope Is Gone,' selling more than 20 million records worldwide.
'Antennas To Hell' packages notes on their career with a DVD of a live show at 2009's Download Festival, video montages of Slipknot and its members, and the 19-song compilation.
Along with the album, the band is headlining festivals over the U.S. summer before taking the helm of their very own, the first annual Knotfest, taking place in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 17 and in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 18.
'Now is the best time to exercise the philosophy of this beautiful art thing that we're going to make known as Knotfest,' said Crahan. 'The community is what we want to bring back, I want to bring back the intimacy of concerts.'
The tracklist for 'Antennas To Hell' is as follows:
1. (sic)
2. Eyeless
3. Wait And Bleed
4. Spit It Out
5. Surfacing
6. People = Shit
7. Disasterpiece
8. Left Behind
9. My Plague (New Abuse Mix)
10. The Heretic Anthem (live)
11. Purity (live)
12. Pulse Of The Maggots
13. Duality
14. Before I Forget
15. Vermilion
16. Sulfur
17. Psychosocial
18. Dead Memories
19. Snuff
(This version of the story has been corrected to fix a typo in second paragraph)
(Editing by David Brunnstrom)
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'Antennas To Hell,' due out on July 24 in the United States, will encompass some of the band's best-known singles from their last four studio albums, including 'Spit It Out,' 'Left Behind' and 'Vermilion.'
'I think every song Slipknot has ever written is a greatest hit, so it was hard (to narrow it down), but at the same time there's only four records, so we did stick a couple of live songs on,' band member Shawn 'Clown' Crahan told Reuters.
'It all falls together the way it needs to.'
Slipknot, founded by Gray and Crahan in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995, has eight members -- Crahan and Chris Fehn on percussion, lead singer Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson on turntables, guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson, Craig '133' Jones on sampling and drummer Joey Jordison.
Following Gray's death from an accidental overdose in 2010, the band's future has been hotly debated in the world of music with media outlets posting conflicting reports on the end of Slipknot, something Crahan said has amused him.
'We as a band have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it; it's not even a question. The only question was how long it was going to take each individual member to accept what's happened and feel comfortable with moving on in the record area,' said Crahan.
'Paul was the major part of writing records. It's not only my brother that I'm not seeing, but it's also what he brought to the table,' added the percussionist.
Crahan said the band will be stepping away from the spotlight after playing a series of summer festivals, so that band members can go through 'the healing process' and work on a new record. He said the lyrics were already being written for the next album and the artwork would be 'severely involved.'
The band released four studio albums over the years, 1999's self-titled debut, 2001's 'Iowa,' 2004's 'Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)' and 2008's 'All Hope Is Gone,' selling more than 20 million records worldwide.
'Antennas To Hell' packages notes on their career with a DVD of a live show at 2009's Download Festival, video montages of Slipknot and its members, and the 19-song compilation.
Along with the album, the band is headlining festivals over the U.S. summer before taking the helm of their very own, the first annual Knotfest, taking place in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 17 and in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 18.
'Now is the best time to exercise the philosophy of this beautiful art thing that we're going to make known as Knotfest,' said Crahan. 'The community is what we want to bring back, I want to bring back the intimacy of concerts.'
The tracklist for 'Antennas To Hell' is as follows:
1. (sic)
2. Eyeless
3. Wait And Bleed
4. Spit It Out
5. Surfacing
6. People = Shit
7. Disasterpiece
8. Left Behind
9. My Plague (New Abuse Mix)
10. The Heretic Anthem (live)
11. Purity (live)
12. Pulse Of The Maggots
13. Duality
14. Before I Forget
15. Vermilion
16. Sulfur
17. Psychosocial
18. Dead Memories
19. Snuff
(This version of the story has been corrected to fix a typo in second paragraph)
(Editing by David Brunnstrom)
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