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Spirit Awards Surprise: French Legend Isabelle Huppert Wins Again– Will She Take the Oscar, Too?

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Spirit Awards Surprise: French Legend Isabelle Huppert Wins Again– Will She Take the Oscar, Too?

French legend Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress in a Lead Role today at the Independent Spirit Awards for the movie “Elle.” Last December she also won the Gotham Awards prize for the same movie, “Elle.” Each time she had just arrived by plane from Paris, walked into a room and won an award. She must think America is a great place!

Huppert has turned out to be a spoiler for Emma Stone, who is tipped to win the Oscar on Sunday for “La La Land.”  Now will Huppert spoil Stone’s chances for an Oscar? Crazy, no? Stone must be thinking, What the heck is going on here? But there does seem to be huge momentum for Huppert.

At the Spirit Awards, Warren Beatty confirmed for me he will be presenting Best Picture tomorrow night with Faye Dunaway. It’s the 50th anniversary of their landmark film “Bonnie & Clyde.”

The Spirit Awards were very, very good this year– hosts Nick Kroll and John Mullaney were hilarious, Gary Clark Jr. provided amazing blues music, and Molly Shannon stole the show when she won Best Supporting Female for “Other People.”

“Moonlight” won a lot, deservedly so. But I would have given Best Screenplay to Kenny Lonergan for “Manchester by the Sea.”

Ben Foster was a pleasant surprise as winner of Best Male Supporting for “Hell or High Water.” Good for him.

PS (maybe exclusive) Mahershala Ali and his wife have named their newborn baby girl Bari Najma.

Best Feature: 

Moonlight (A24)

Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski

 

Best Director: 

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight (A24)

 

Best Screenplay: 

Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Story By), Moonlight (A24)

 

Best First Feature: 

The Witch (A24)

Director: Robert Eggers

Producers: Daniel Bekerman, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond,

Rodrigo Teixeira

 

Best First Screenplay:

Robert Eggers, The Witch (A24)

 

John Cassavetes Award (For best feature made under $500,000):

Spa Night (Strand Releasing)

Writer/Director: Andrew Ahn

Producers: David Ariniello, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Kelly Thomas

 

Best Supporting Female:

Molly Shannon, Other People (Vertical Entertainment)

 

Best Supporting Male: 

Ben Foster, Hell or High Water (CBS Films/Lionsgate)

 

Best Female Lead:

Isabelle Huppert, Elle (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Male Lead:

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)

 

Robert Altman Award: 

Moonlight (A24)

Director: Barry Jenkins

Casting Director: Yesi Ramirez

Ensemble Cast: Mahershala Ali, Patrick Decile, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders

 

Best Cinematography:

James Laxton, Moonlight (A24)

 

Best Editing:

Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders, Moonlight (A24)

 

Best International Film: 

Toni Erdmann (Germany and Romania– Sony Pictures Classics)

Director: Maren Ade

Best Documentary: 

O.J.: Made in America (ESPN Films)

Director/Producer: Ezra Edelman

Producers: Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Nina Krstic, Erin Leyden, Tamara Rosenberg, Connor Schell, Caroline Waterlow

Indie Spirit Awards TODAY: “Moonlight,” “Manchester” Top Nominations, Set for Wins

Roger Friedman
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Indie Spirit Awards TODAY: “Moonlight,” “Manchester” Top Nominations, Set for Wins

Here are the nominees. The show begins at 5pm Eastern. The show airs live on IFC and streams live on www.ifc.com. Check back for updates

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer) 

American Honey

PRODUCERS: Thomas Benski, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Lucas Ochoa, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg

Chronic

PRODUCERS: Michel Franco, Gina Kwon, Gabriel Ripstein, Moisés Zonana

Jackie

PRODUCERS: Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel, Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell

Manchester by the Sea

PRODUCERS: Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Stewart, Kevin J. Walsh

Moonlight

PRODUCERS: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the producer and director)

The Childhood of a Leader

DIRECTOR: Brady Corbet

PRODUCERS: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Chris Coen, Ron Curtis, Helena Danielsson, Mona Fastvold, István Major

The Fits

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Anna Rose Holmer

PRODUCER: Lisa Kjerulff

Other People

DIRECTOR: Chris Kelly

PRODUCERS: Sam Bisbee, Adam Scott, Naomi Scott

Swiss Army Man

DIRECTORS: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

PRODUCERS: Miranda Bailey, Lawrence Inglee, Lauren Mann, Amanda Marshall, Eyal Rimmon, Jonathan Wang

The Witch

DIRECTOR: Robert Eggers

PRODUCERS: Daniel Bekerman, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond, Rodrigo Teixeira

BEST DIRECTOR

Andrea Arnold, American Honey

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Pablo Larraín, Jackie

Jeff Nichols, Loving

Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women

BEST SCREENPLAY

Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney (story by), Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Mike Mills, 20th Century Women

Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Little Men

Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Robert Eggers, The Witch

Chris Kelly, Other People

Adam Mansbach, Barry

Stella Meghie, Jean of the Joneses

Craig Shilowich, Christine

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Award given to the best feature made for under $500,000, given to the writer, director and producer)

Free In Deed

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Jake Mahaffy

PRODUCERS: Mike Bowes, Mike S. Ryan, Brent Stiefel

Hunter Gatherer

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Josh Locy

PRODUCERS: Michael Covino, April Lamb, Sara Murphy, Isaiah Smallman

Lovesong

WRITER/DIRECTOR: So Yong Kim

WRITER/PRODUCER: Bradley Rust Gray

PRODUCERS: David Hansen, Alex Lipschultz, Johnny Mac

Nakom

WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: T.W. Pittman

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Kelly Daniela Norris

WRITER/PRODUCER: Isaac Adakudugu

PRODUCER: Giovanni Ximėnez

Spa Night

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Andrew Ahn

PRODUCERS: David Ariniello, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Kelly Thomas

BEST MALE LEAD

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

David Harewood, Free In Deed

Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Jesse Plemons, Other People

Tim Roth, Chronic

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Annette Bening, 20th Century Women

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Sasha Lane, American Honey

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash

Ben Foster, Hell or High Water

Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Shia LaBeouf, American Honey

Craig Robinson, Morris From America

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Edwina Findley, Free In Deed

Paulina Garcia, Little Men

Lily Gladstone, Certain Women

Riley Keough, American Honey

Molly Shannon, Other People

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ava Berkofsky, Free In Deed

Lol Crawley, The Childhood of a Leader

Zach Kuperstein, The Eyes of My Mother

James Laxton, Moonlight

Robbie Ryan, American Honey

BEST EDITING

Matthew Hannam, Swiss Army Man

Jennifer Lame, Manchester by the Sea

Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders, Moonlight

Jake Roberts, Hell or High Water

Sebastián Sepúlveda, Jackie

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Aquarius (Brazil)

DIRECTOR: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Chevalier (Greece)

DIRECTOR: Athina Tsangari

My Golden Days (France)

DIRECTOR: Arnaud Desplechin

Toni Erdmann (Germany/Romania)

DIRECTOR: Maren Ade

Under the Shadow (Iran/United Kingdom)

DIRECTOR: Babak Anvari

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer)

13th

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Ava DuVernay

PRODUCERS: Spencer Averick, Howard Barish

Cameraperson

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Kirsten Johnson

PRODUCER: Marilyn Ness

I am Not Your Negro

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Raoul Peck

PRODUCERs: Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck

O.J.: Made in America

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Ezra Edelman

PRODUCERS: Nina Krstic, Tamara Rosenberg, Caroline Waterlow

Sonita

DIRECTOR: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

PRODUCERS: Gerd Haag

Under the Sun

DIRECTOR: Vitaly Mansky

PRODUCER: Natalya Manskaya

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Award given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)

Moonlight

DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins

CASTING DIRECTOR: Yesi Ramirez

ENSEMBLE CAST: Mahershala Ali, Patrick Decile, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Thodes, Ashton Sanders

Hollywood Horror: Biggest Worldwide Box Office Releases So Far This Year Come From China, Japan

Roger Friedman
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Hollywood Horror: Biggest Worldwide Box Office Releases So Far This Year Come From China, Japan

The worldwide box office is hot so far this year. But so far this year, the movie with the largest worldwide box office is one you’ve never heard of and hasn’t been released here: “Your Name,” a Japanese  animated film, has made $327 million. Almost all of that was earned in Japan, with China as a runner up.

At number 4 on the top 10 worldwide box office for 2017 stands “The Great Wall.” A bust here, the Matt Damon starrer racked up most of its $271 million in China.

Number 5 is “Kung Fu Yoga,” with $245 million raked in, in China.

Number 6 is “Journey to the West,” with $237 million from Chinese audiences. Sony released it in the US on February 3rd, and it’s made less than a million bucks.

Number 9 is “Duckweed” — $143 million, nearly all of it in China.

From number 10 to 20 there are several more including a Bollywood film and a Jackie Chan entry. That’s Jackie Chan, who will get a Governors Award Lifetime Achievement Oscar on Sunday night.

By the way. “Your Name” will be released in April not by a big American studio but by FUNimation, founded in Fort Worth Texas by Japanese American entrepreneur Gen Fukunaga. He’s suddenly the most successful exec in Hollywood.

 

 

Meryl Streep Addresses Glittering Women in Film Gala: “You have to feel the Earth move under your feet and act”

Leah Sydney
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Meryl Streep Addresses Glittering Women in Film Gala: “You have to feel the Earth move under your feet and act”

Meryl Streep Dress Story Rings False, Sounds Like a Trump Retaliation–Chanel Said to Be Furious with Lagerfeld

Roger Friedman
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Meryl Streep Dress Story Rings False, Sounds Like a Trump Retaliation–Chanel Said to Be Furious with Lagerfeld

Meryl Streep turn down a red carpet dress for a designer who would pay her to wear theirs? PREPOSTEROUS. Yet WWD.com– Womens Wear Daily– says Karl Lagerfeld, working for Chanel, claims this happened, that Streep turned him down for a designer who would cough up sponsorship bucks for the Oscars.

This doesn’t just ring false but it’s a lie, says Streep’s camp. And I have to think this has the fingerprints of Donald Trump, the king of vendettas. The connection? Lagerfeld is dressing Melania Trump, already has for a state visit, and Lagerfeld has also voiced support for Trump.

Trump hates Meryl Streep, especially after her Golden Globes speech. He has probably been looking for a way to get her back. Don’t forget he called her a “Hillary Lover” and “overrated” among other things on Twitter.

The problem is Streep is unassailable. She wears off the rack clothes. I remember how we laughed years ago when she bought a dress at the Cherry Hill mall to wear to her Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award. This is a woman who takes the subway daily. She is the definition of unpretentious. We’ve talked about her fashion disinterest for years.

Plus, the idea of Meryl Streep being paid to wear a dress is ludicrous. Many actresses do, but not at her level, and not her. Insane.

I’m told this incident has caused a huge internal problem at Chanel. My sources say the Chanel people will disown Lagerfeld’s story. “They know it’s not true,” says my source.

I do, too.

 

Jeff Bridges Pledges $250K, Jack Black Urges Meryl Streep to Say More “Sh*t” About Trump At All Star Haiti Fundraiser

Roger Friedman
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Jeff Bridges Pledges $250K, Jack Black Urges Meryl Streep to Say More “Sh*t” About Trump At All Star Haiti Fundraiser

Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges pledged $250,000 last night to director Paul Haggis’s Haiti charity, Artists for Peace and Justice, at rockin’, swanky fundraising dinner in Hollywood. Jack Black rocked the room with the exceptional house band after urging Meryl Streep to say more “shit” about Donald Trump.

Jackson Browne curated the amazing night– called “Songs from the Cinema”– at a small club in Fairfax Village called the No Name. But there were plenty of names. Quincy Jones was the evening’s sort of honoree, or at least oracle, while celebs like Petra Nemcova, Maxwell, and actor Jeremy Renner waited tables for the $2,500 a plate dinner prior to the all star concert.

Among the performers: Moby, Rita Wilson, Bridges, Judith Owen (who stole the show with “Goldfinger”), Black (doing a number from “School of Rock” as if his life depended on it), Jonathan Wilson (tremendous version of Bob Dylan’s “Billy 4”),  Jenny Lewis (in a gorgeous duet with Jackson Browne), and Browne himself who gave Leonard Cohen’s “A Thousand Kisses Deep” a soulful and memorable reading.

Among the guests was Olivia Harrison, widow of Beatle George, who danced up a storm with Jeff Bridges, his wife (as he noted– now 40 years), and Rita Wilson and pals. Rita got big points for leading the crowd in ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and on a song she wrote and sang in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” called “Even More Time” that recalled the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt.

There were some not as famous singers too, who made big impressions including Catero Colbert, whose Philly R&B take on the Delfonics’ “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time” was wonderful, plus Haitian singer Paul Beaubrun on “Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World.”

The versatile, knockout house band for the night is called the Hot Club of Los Angeles. If you live there, find them online. They are a gem, discovered by Jackson Browne playing a local bar.

As for politics, Jack Black got the biggest ovation of the night, urging Meryl Streep and other stars to keep talking about Donald Trump. But the focus of the night was on Haiti, and the continuing work that has to be done there.  When Haggis ran a short fundraising moment, several hands went up, but the biggest donation came from Bridges, who pledged $50,000 a year for the next five years. That got a lot of applause.

 

AllDef Movie Awards “Batman v. Superman” Movie You Wish Could Unsee, Sends Up Hollywood

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AllDef Movie Awards “Batman v. Superman” Movie You Wish Could Unsee, Sends Up Hollywood

Wednesday night, downtown LA, the ornate Belasco Theater– Russell Simmons and co. sent up the Oscars as Black Hollywood handed out the second annual All Def Movie Awards.

You may recall this started last year as a serious effort because of #Oscarsowhite and the lack of black nominees.

This year, with so many black nominees, instead of celebrating them, AllDef went the comedy route. The outcome can be seen Sunday on Fusion TV.

Mike Epps hosted, as he did last year, and handed out a variety of awards with categories that were a spoof at best. Forget Best Actor and Actress. They chucked those conventional items and went for things like Best Bad Muh F*cka in a Movie, or Movies You Wish You Could Unsee.

The latter went to “Batman v. Superman.”

Ice Cube received a Lifetime Achievement Award from one of the guests in the audience, Snoop Dogg. Snoop sat at a table in the front of the small ballroom, high as a kite, with a cloud of pot smoke over his table. Snoop Dogg defies all conventions, as I learned a long time ago. But he’s always smiling while he does it. The smell of marijuana was strong enough that many dry cleaners were probably busy this morning.

I did meet Blac Chyna, supporting player in the Kardashian family’s public hi jinks.She was clad in a cherry red sort of plastic looking one piece plastic ensemble that seemed as if it could be cleaned with a moist dish rag. It was futuristic and practical.

There were some actual movie people mixed in with an eclectic lot. Famed director and actor Bill Duke sat quietly in the back. Donell Turner, a good actor who’s currently on “General Hospital,” walked the red carpet. But there wasn’t a single Oscar nominee of any color from this year, and no mention of “Moonlight,” “Fences,” “Hidden Figures,” or even “Birth of a Nation.”

BEST BAD MUH F*CKA AWARD
DONNIE YEN
BAD ASS BOSS CHICK
TIFFANY HADDISH for KEANU
BEST SMASH IN A MOTION PICTURE
MIKE EPPS AND QUEEN LATIFAH – BESSIE
BEST SUPERHERO TOKEN SIDEKICK
LESLIE UGGAMS- DEADPOOL
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
ICE CUBE
MOST OUT OF PLACE WHITE PERSON IN A MOVIE
THE GREAT WALL (MATT DAMON)
THE LAST SAMURAI (TOM CRUISE)
DR. STRANGE (TILDA SWINTON)
ALOHA (CAST)
GODS OF EGYPT (CAST)
BEST EDGES
INDIA LOVE
BEST PICTURE
POP STAR
BEST COMEDY WITHOUT MADEA OF KEVIN HART
KEANU
MOVIES YOU WISH YOU COULD UNSEE
BATMAN V SUPERMAN
BEST SQUADD AWARD IN A MOTION PICTURE
BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT
BEST LATINO NOT IN A SERVICE INDUSTRY ROLE
LUIS GUZMAN – KEANU
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ASIAN NOT ASKED TO USE AN ACCENT
JIMMY O YANG- PATRIOT’S DAY
VANGUARD AWARD
AMBER ROSE

 

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” Spoilers for Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner and His Son

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“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” Spoilers for Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner and His Son

Disney — which just had the biggest year any studio could hope for– is tuning up for the 5th “Pirates of the Caribbean”  film to be released on July 7th. Johnny Depp — sorely in need of  a hit– returns as the star with a big cast including Geoffrey Rush and Javier Bardem. Paul McCartney is said to have a cameo role.

But the real question is what happened to Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner, aka Davy Jones. Bloom was heavily featured in the first three “Pirates” movies, but was absent from Chapter four. It’s been announced that he’s in “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” but no one knows much about it.

SPOILERS AHEAD Now I’m told that Bloom will appear just in the beginning of the new film as a set up for his son, played by Brendan Thwaites. He also appears again at the end, possibly as a set up for a sixth installment that will focus on father and son. (Of course, Depp’s Jack Sparrow will never be far from sight.) This should be a kind of Sean Connery moment for Bloom (think Indiana Jones and his dad) although of course he’s far younger. No one makes a better swashbuckler than Bloom.

Bloom meanwhile hasn’t been wasting any time making more movies. He’s just finished Michael Apted’s “Unlocked,” with Noomi Rapace, Michael Douglas and Toni Collette.

(PS Off subject a little– isn’t Michael Apted ready for a Governor’s Award from the Academy?)

Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac “The Promise”: Thanks to Late Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian All Proceeds to Charity Starting with Elton John AIDS Foundation

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Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac “The Promise”: Thanks to Late Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian All Proceeds to Charity Starting with Elton John AIDS Foundation

The Elton John AIDS Foundation– the best of all these celebrity charities, I think– gets a huge boost this Sunday at their annual Oscar party. They’re the first beneficiaries of late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s proceeds from the Terry George directed “The Promise.”

Kerkorian put aside over $100 million for George to make this romance set against the Armenian genocide. Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac vy for the same woman in a film that Open Road will open later this year– and was shown for the first time last fall in Toronto. Indeed, all proceeds from “The Promise” will go to charity. EJAF is just the first non profit organization to participate. More will be announced soon.

This is unprecedented and very cool, and only possible because Kerkorian never planned on making the money back. It’s just a drop in the bucket for his estate. The idea was to tell the story of the tragedy of the Armenian genocide in a pedigreed film. Terry George et al have done that.

Donations to EJAF are also going to be matched the film’s production company, Survivor Films, via text and online pledging during the EJAF Oscar party. And there will be LOTS of celebrities there– David Furnish and Elton John manage to pull this event off every year and it gets better and better.

Also, unlike other charities EJAF is very pro-active and very transparent in their work. They are also not about having parties and wasting sponsors’ money shlepping celebs etc around the world. Their money goes to the real work of stopping AIDS worldwide and aiding those with the illness.

Jay Z in the Songwriters Hall of Fame? All of His “Songs” Are Based on Samples of Other People’s Work

Roger Friedman
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Jay Z in the Songwriters Hall of Fame? All of His “Songs” Are Based on Samples of Other People’s Work

Yesterday’s news that Jay Z was being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame was pretty shocking. Jay Z– Sean Carter– is a great entrepreneur, influencer, inspirer, producer. But songwriter? No. Rapper? Yes. Poet, true. But composer of original songs that can in any way be covered by other people? Nope.

All of Jay Z’s “Songs” are sampled from other material. He doesn’t have one copyright that he wrote himself. That’s because he doesn’t write music. He finds existing music and puts his words to it.

His “Hard Knock Life” is from the musical “Annie.” His “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys– comes from the R&B classic “Love on a Two Way Street.”

The whole underpinning for Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”–which Jay Z assembled– comes from a Chi Lites song by he late great Eugene Record. “Crazy in Love” wouldn’t exist without Gene’s horn section and melody from  “Are You My Woman?”

All the actual songwriters being inducted in June should take umbrage. Max Martin, Kenny Babyface Edmonds, the guys from Chicago, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis– they have massive catalogs. I haven’t checked, but it’s possible Jay Z has sampled all of them. Berry Gordy is getting in as the Motown mastermind– how many Motown songs has Jay Z sampled?

And this doesn’t mean that I don’t know how important Jay Z is in pop culture. Trust me, I do. He is a great impresario. He makes things happen. He’s a role model. But songwriter? Go ahead, “sing” one of his songs, right now.

But this is what’s happened to the SHOF. Once a great group, they’ve fallen prey to music publishers who push to have their artists in. There has been a lot of politicking over the years for Madonna and for Led Zeppelin, each of whom are derided as songwriters, too. But they’ll get in eventually.

And oh yes the sampling thing: believe me, the music publishers who support the SHOF are all for it. Sampling– if paid for– revives old copyrights. Songs no one has thought of in 30 or 40 years suddenly earn money when they are repurposed for sampling. Take Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” The whole thing is based on Timmy Thomas’s 1973 hit “Why Can’t We Live Together.” That sample is money in the bank for the publisher. But “Hotline Bling” is not an original song. It’s an adapted cover.

Hey– maybe they’ll call all the people up on stage who really wrote those songs. That will be funny.

If the SHOF wants “young blood” — and R&B composers– there are so many they could choose from who actually write music and original songs. And PS Luther Vandross is still NOT in the SHOF.

 

 

 

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