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Billie Eilish Books Colbert for Next Week, Posts Snippet of Electronic Sounding “Open the Door” from New Album Coming Tomorrow Night

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Billie Eilish Books Colbert for Next Week, Posts Snippet of Electronic Sounding “Open the Door” from New Album Coming Tomorrow Night

UPDATED: Billie will appear on next Tuesday’s Stephen Colbert Late Night show. She taped two songs last night in front of his audience including “Lunch” and “The Greatest.” The audience didn’t know she was going to perform until she started. Pretty cool.

EARLIER:
Billie Eilish has found tikTok. She’s posted a song called “Open the Door” from her new album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” which will arrive tomorrow night at midnight.

Eilish and brother Finneas will hold listening sessions live tomorrow night in New York and Friday in Los Angeles. They’ll be beamed to AMC Theaters.

Expect “Hit Me” to knock Taylor Swift off her perch at number 1. But that’s ok. Swift has sold 3.5 million copies of “The Tortured Poets Department,” plus she’s made several billion from her tour.

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Meryl Streep Says She Was Frightened At First Cannes 35 Years Ago: “I’m not a rock star, I lead a boring life”

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Meryl Streep Says She Was Frightened At First Cannes 35 Years Ago: “I’m not a rock star, I lead a boring life”

Meryl Streep says when she came to Cannes 35 years ago, she was frightened.

Streep picked up Best Actress in 1989 in the middle of winning three Oscars. The award then was for Fred Schepisi’s “Evil Angels,” a movie no one remembers.

But she says here in an interview from this afternoon that there was little security and that the paparazzi mobbed her. She returned to her hotel room, shaking.

She was shocked. “I’m not a rock star, I live a boring life,” she said. “Not boring. But not one filled with hyperbole.”

You have to love her.

“Wicked”: Here’s the Trailer for Part 1 of the Much Anticipated Musical — Oscar Contender?

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“Wicked”: Here’s the Trailer for Part 1 of the Much Anticipated Musical — Oscar Contender?

“Wicked” Part 1 is coming on November 27th.

The film adaptation of the incredibly successful Broadway musical is much anticipated. Universal actually broke the show into two pieces for movie release.

There’s a big all star cast. You know we’ll be seeing one of these people — probably Cynthia Erivo — at the Oscars. Plus an original song, and lots of production nominations.

Broadway: “Death Becomes Her” Musical on the Way, So Are George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., More Stars

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Broadway: “Death Becomes Her” Musical on the Way, So Are George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., More Stars

The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway.

Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star in a stage version of his movie, “Good Night and Good Luck” next spring for 2025 Tony Awards season. Downey will be here this fall at Lincoln Center in a play called “McNeal,” directed by Bartlett Sher.

Clooney will play legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow on stage. In the film, which he directed, David Straithairn played Murrow and Clooney was Fred Friendly. Patricia Clarkson played my old friend, Shirley Wershba. (Shirley and husband Joe were CBS News legends.) If Clooney can get Straithairn to play Friendly, and Clarkson to reprise her role, there will be lines around the block.

Also on the schedule now: “Glee” star Darren Criss will open a new musical called “Maybe Happy Ending,” this fall.

Rocker Elvis Costello is aiming toward Broadway when his musical adaptation of “A Face in the Crowd” opens at London’s Young Vic Theater this fall. The great Ramin Karimloo stars as the Andy Griffith character Lonesome Rhodes. (I’ve heard the songs– they are spectacular.)

But the big news this morning: the Meryl Streep comedy “Death Becomes Her” is also a musical. Coming this fall, “Death” stars Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child fame. They will play the parts originated by Meryl, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini.

Broadway sick or dying? Never! Nearly every new show on the boards is selling out right now thanks to the Tony nominations. And also, it’s been the best season in years!

Hit the Road, Jack: Kennedy Grandson Posts New Video, Prompts Comparisons to Famed Eccentric Ancestor

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Hit the Road, Jack: Kennedy Grandson Posts New Video, Prompts Comparisons to Famed Eccentric Ancestor

Caroline Kennedy’s son, Jack Schlossberg, won’t stop posting strange videos.

In the new one, Jack — grandson of John F. Kennedy — plays a character named Reginald, who sings Joe Biden’s praises with an English accent.

Add Reggie to a list of characters with various accents whom Schlossberg plays in these videos. They are all pro-Biden and anti-Trump and cousin Robert Kennedy Jr. If they were set up in a professional manner, they might be effective. But Schlossberg is coming off now like a clown.

Most comments on the videos suggest these things: that he’s as mentally unwell as his grandmother, Jackie’s, famously eccentric cousin Little Edie Beale, of “Grey Gardens”; that his continued videos from a beach setting suggest he has no actual job and is out of touch with reality.

All of this points to Schlossberg actually maybe doing Biden hard, not good. He clearly knows his facts about Biden’s accomplishments. But to keep presenting them in a cavalier way is just tempting ridicule. One commenter said: “The ambassador [Caroline is US Ambassador to Australia] must be embarrassed with these undignified and embarrassing posts. Put a suit and tie on Sir.”

Another said: “Caroline Kennedy – get him into rehab.”

Comparisons to Edie Beale are not favorable. In the legendary Maysles brothers documentary, the Beales mother and daughter — Jackie Kennedy’s cousins — are living in a rundown Hamptons mansion called Grey Gardens. Little Edie’s famous line is “I’m a staunch person.” Now TikTokers are using that meme in videos covering Schlossberg’s postings. It’s not a good look.

Whatever is going on, maybe someone close to Schlossberg can put and end to it. Maybe that person would be the girl in the bikini who seems to be filming the videos. Her reflection turns up in one of them. He’s definitely JFK’s grandson.

Cannes: Old School Hollywood as Meryl Streep Gets Her Palme D’or Honor, Jane Fonda Rocks the Red Carpet

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Cannes: Old School Hollywood as Meryl Streep Gets Her Palme D’or Honor, Jane Fonda Rocks the Red Carpet

Cannes 2024 opened with a bang.

Who says old school Hollywood is dead? To make it a glamorous night, Meryl Streep was given her Palme D’or honor, presented by another Oscar winner, Juliet Binoche.

On the red carpet, Jane Fonda, 86, literally stole the show. Sacre bleu!

You do know the connection between Streep and Fonda: Meryl’s first ever movie was “Julia,” starring Jane and Vanessa Redgrave. It’s one of the great films of all time. Rent it ASAP.

No Way Back Now: Kristi Noem Book Deader than Her Dog After One Week, Falls to Number 1,446 on Amazon

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No Way Back Now: Kristi Noem Book Deader than Her Dog After One Week, Falls to Number 1,446 on Amazon

There is really No Way Back now.

After one week in release, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s book, “No Way Back,” is completely dead.

This is also 10 days after her regrettable interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The book has dropped to number 1,446 on amazon. For contrast, another book released last Tuesday — Jen Psaki’s “Say More” — is at number 52.

Noem revealed in her own book and the audio version that she killed her own dog in cold blood. She also claimed to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un while visiting South Korea. That was a lie, and the section had to be removed by the publisher, Center Street, from the ebook version.

Noem thought this book would help launch her campaign to being Donald Trump’s running mater this fall. But with the book dead, and her reputation in tatters, that would seem unlikely now.

(Watch) First Full Pre-Cannes Teaser Trailer for Coppola’s Biggest Gamble Ever with Astonishing “Megalopolis” Images

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(Watch) First Full Pre-Cannes Teaser Trailer for Coppola’s Biggest Gamble Ever with Astonishing “Megalopolis” Images

With Francis Ford Coppola, it’s go big or go home.

How many times has he bet the house on a hugely expensive movie?

He’s done it again with “Megalopolis,” premiering on Thursday in Cannes. The first official teaser trailer offers astonishing images and real excitement.

Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito lead an all star cast. Coppola has financed the movie itself, kicking in $100 million of his own money. It’s futuristic and philosophical and will nou doubt be the film everyone talks about in 2024.

Coppola says on Instagram: “Our new film MEGALOPOLIS is the best work I’ve ever had the privilege to preside over.” And he made “The Godfather” trilogy, “Apocalypse Now,” and several other classics.

Play this a couple of times. The trailer is dense with information.

James Franco Will Try for a Comeback After Sex Scandals, $2.2 Mil Settlement, in Movie with Tommy Lee Jones

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James Franco Will Try for a Comeback After Sex Scandals, $2.2 Mil Settlement, in Movie with Tommy Lee Jones

James Franco wants to come back. Will he be uncancelled?

Franco is set to star with Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones in a movie called “The Razor’s Edge.” This is not connected to the famous W. Somerset Maugham novel of that name which has been made into a movie twice.

Producers Red Sea Media are taking this dull blade to the Cannes market where they hope they can scare up business. They are counting on foreign money not knowing that Franco, in 2022, came to a $2.2 million settlement with students who claimed he abused his power as an acting teacher by coercing several women into unwanted sexual encounters while he was an acting teacher in Los Angeles.

There was more that expedited Franco’s expulsion from Hollywood including accusations from Ally Sheedy (he directed her in an off Broadway play). Franco also admitted to texting and trying to meet up with an underage girl. He was clever: he did all of this while making movie after movie with gay themes, making the actresses think he wasn’t interested in them. It was quite the contrary.

“The Razor’s Edge” will be directed by Demian Lichtenstein (“3000 Miles to Graceland”) from a screenplay co-written by Lichtenstein and Vance Duplechin. What’s the plot?  “After a mob hitman vows to leave his deadly past behind, he faces an impossible choice when his daughter is kidnapped and the woman he loves becomes a target of the syndicate.   He is forced to undertake one final, perilous mission while being pursued by an assassin even more lethal.

Who will be the American distributor of this B movie? This has Vertical Entertainment written all over it. Can Franco come back? Or will he wind up in Mel Gibson hell? The latter is likely. He has one other movie in the can, in which he plays Fidel Castro. But his previous victims will probably not remain silent. They’re just waiting for the right time.

RIP David Sanborn, 78, Legendary Musician, 6 Time Grammy Winner, Played Sax on Dozens of Hits

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RIP David Sanborn, 78, Legendary Musician, 6 Time Grammy Winner, Played Sax on Dozens of Hits

Sax player David Sanborn was a rock and roll legend. He died today at 78 after battling prostate cancer since 2018.

Sanborn was incredibly prolific and leaves a huge legacy. Among the hits he played solos on: David Bowie’s Young Americans, James Taylor’s How Sweet It Is, and so many more.

His family posted to Facebook:

“It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications.
Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently. Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025.
David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music. It has been said that he “put the saxophone back into Rock ’n Roll.”

Sanborn was beloved by all. He had so many credits I can’t list them. He’s played on all your favorite records. Here’s a link to his Wikipedia page.

Condolences to his family. Thank you, David.

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