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No Time to Die, No Time to Show Up: Pop Star Billie Eilish Wins Award for Best Song But She’s in Alabama

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No Time to Die, No Time to Show Up: Pop Star Billie Eilish Wins Award for Best Song But She’s in Alabama

The Society of Composers and Lyricists had their third annual Awards dinner Tuesday night, not the dreaded “V’ word, meaning virtual but in person and the SCL thankfully did everything right! The evening was beautifully paced with the awards and truly artistic musical numbers and videos. It was also the perfect storm of a setting for complaining about the Academy Awards moving the Best Score category out of the main show this year. No one restrained themselves from chiming in.

The evening began with composers Diane Warren, singer Siedah Garrett, songwriter Jeymes Samuel, (“The Harder They Fall,”  and Seal’s brother in case you didn’t know,) hobnobbing with each other along with SCL president Ashley Irwin.

Aloe Blacc hosted the show, and of course started in on the Academy Awards who have made the still controversial choice of not televising best score, along with 7 other categories, at the Oscars.  He welcomed the crowd and quipped calling it “an awards show so great we actually honor them live.” He then noted “80 musicals having been released over the past five years, 77 of which were made by Lin-Manuel Miranda!” Lin, alas, was not there.

The event did gain a serious note when winner “Encanto” composer Germaine Franco asked for a moment of silence in support of Ukraine.   Irwin did speak about the unfairness of having the scores cut from the Oscars.  The SCL showed a video montage of music scores and songs through the decades that was literally brilliant and that was Oscar worthy.  Oscars, this is what audiences love!

Carter Burwell was honored with The Spirit Of Collaboration Award along with Filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.  Burwell, when he’s not scoring a movie (over 100 now) is a volunteer fireman on Long Island.  He has given out a quick congrats shout out by Trevor, a fireman from Amagansett, in the Hamptons, joking,  “fireman can be curt.”

Burwell talked about how being a volunteer fireman was his way of de-stressing ironically from the pressure of composing films.  He then conducted a beautiful rendition of his work.  But not before he got his one dig in.  “Joel, Ethan and I are New Yorkers, they couldn’t be here but in case there are any other New Yorkers, I’m going to translate Ashley’s speech for you…” Fuck the Academy Awards!” Burwell spoke eloquently about his collaboration with the Coens.  He described it as “threads knotted together that connects to others.  As Orson Welles said, it takes an army to make a film and we all know that it sometimes takes an army to make a score.”

Congrats SCL on a truly spectacular, classy and thankfully in person event!

PS Best song went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, for “No Time to Die.” They had no time to attend, however. They were doing a gig in Alabama.

Winners below.

3rd SCL AWARDS 2022 – Winners in Bold

 

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM:

 

Germaine Franco             ENCANTO                                     Walt Disney Pictures

Nicholas Britell                  DON’T LOOK UP                            Netflix

Hans Zimmer                    DUNE                                             Warner Bros.

Alexandre Desplat             THE FRENCH DISPATCH                 Searchlight Pictures

Jonny Greenwood              THE POWER OF THE DOG              Netflix

 

 

 

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM:

 

Daniel Hart                     THE GREEN KNIGHT                     A24

Kubilay Uner                     AMERICAN TRAITOR:                     Vertical Entertainment

                                         THE TRIAL OF AXIS SALLY

Rachel Portman                 JULIA                                             Storyville Films/CNN

Alberto Iglesias                  PARALLEL MOTHERS                    Sony Pictures Classics

Jonny Greenwood               SPENCER                                       Neon/Topic Studios

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A MUSICAL/COMEDY:

 

Nicholas Britell                “Just Look Up”                                 Netflix

Ariana Grande                 DON’T LOOK UP

Scott Mescudi

Taura Stinson

Jamie Hartman                  “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” MGM/United Artists

Jennifer Hudson                 RESPECT

Carole King

Amie Doherty                    “Fearless”                                         Dreamworks Animation

                                        SPIRIT UNTAMED

Kris Bowers                       “Together All the Way”                      Netflix

Siedah Garrett                   DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

Lin-Manuel Miranda          “Home All Summer”                           Warner Bros.

                                        IN THE HEIGHTS

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY

 

Billie Eilish                       “No Time To Die”                            MGM/United Artists Releasing/ Eon

& Finneas O’Connell          NO TIME TO DIE

Diane Warren                    “Somehow You Do”                           Vertical Entertainment

                                         FOUR GOOD DAYS

Rufus Wainwright               “Secret Sister”                                  Discovery+

                                         REBEL HEARTS

Diane Warren                    “(Never Gonna) Tame You”               Virgil Films

                                        THE MUSTANGS:

          AMERICA’S WILD HORSES

Shawn Carter                    “Guns Go Bang”                                Netflix

Scott Mescudi                    THE HARDER THEY FALL

Jeymes Samuel

 

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR TELEVISION:

 

Cristobal Tapia de Veer   THE WHITE LOTUS                        HBO

Natalie Holt                      LOKI                                              Disney+

Jung Jae-il                         SQUID GAME                                 Netflix

Nicholas Britell                  SUCCESSION                                  HBO

Christophe Beck                 WANDAVISION                              Disney+

 

OUSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA:

 

Hildur Guđnadóttir               BATTLEFIELD 2042                    Digital Illusions CE

& Sam Slater                                                                         Electronic Arts

Austin Wintory                   ALIEN FIRETEAM ELITE              Cold Iron

Germaine Franco               KUNG FU PANDA:                        Universal Beijing Resort

                                        LAND OF AWESOMENESS            & Dreamworks Animation

DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT:

Stephanie Economou        JUPITER’S LEGACY                      Netflix

Joy Ngiaw                         BLUSH                                         Apple TV+

Anne-Kathrin Dern             THE CLAUS FAMILY                     Netflix

 

 

THE SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD

 

Composer Carter Burwell and Filmmakers Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

TV: Nick Cannon’s Talk Show Gets Swift Cancellation After Just Six Months, Jerry Springer’s Judge Show Cut Too

Roger Friedman
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TV: Nick Cannon’s Talk Show Gets Swift Cancellation After Just Six Months, Jerry Springer’s Judge Show Cut Too

The world of TV syndication is tough, kids.

Nick Cannon’s talk show began last fall and never garnered more than 500,000 viewers. On most weeks it was 400,000. And now the show has been cancelled by Debmar Mercury Productions in March,. They clearly see that no one else is coming to the audience.

Cannon’s show was postponed for a whole season after his anti-Semitism scandal got him temporarily fired by Viacom and MTV. Cannon went on a big PR campaign to win back Hollywood executives, dragging in a rabbi and so on to his podcast. But he never really disavowed Louis Farrakhan.

Why did Debmar Mercury go through with it? Maybe they had to contractually. But there was no promotion and little interest when the talk show debuted. Cannon himself made headlines when he announced his 2 month old son had died. Then came the announcement that he was expecting an 9th child with another woman. The first part was tragic, the second part was, uh, something else. But this is not what draws in an afternoon audience.

Debmar Mercury has had other issues this season with “The Wendy Williams Show.” The host disappeared, guest hosts had to come in, and now it will be retitled “The Sherri Shepherd Show.” So how much mishegos can you deal with in one season? Especially when you have new heavy hitters like Jennifer Hudson coming in September.

Also cancelled is Jerry Springer’s “Judge Jerry” show which made a mockery of the already questionable court shows. That Jerry Springer and his ilk are still on TV is a sad comment on feeding the public piles of garbage. It’s beneath McDonald’s, and that’s saying something.

More cancellations are going to come as the syndie world is not sustainable at low audience levels. “Drew Barrymore” may be next to go. She hasn’t risen above 500,000 viewers in almost two seasons. CBS has tried everything since they own the show, but even putting Drew on “60 Minutes” wouldn’t save her from competition with Kelly and Ryan at 9am.

TV Exclusive: Over at CBS’s “The Good Fight” Word of a Bad Fight Backstage as Producer-Director Departs

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TV Exclusive: Over at CBS’s “The Good Fight” Word of a Bad Fight Backstage as Producer-Director Departs

I’m hearing it’s not such a good time at CBS’ s “The Good Fight.”

The word is that producer-director Brooke Kennedy has left the show and King Sized Productions after about a dozen years.

CBS reps went cold Wednesday when I asked for confirmation that Kennedy suddenly exited during production of the first episode for Season 6. She was said to be directing the episode, too. I asked and asked. But sources tell me this is what happened. A new director, Nelson McCormick, was subbed in for her from another King Sized show shooting in New York, “Evil.”

Kennedy was clearly divisive at “The Good Fight,” where she ran the show after segueing from “The Good Wife,” the show’s predecessor. Some people who worked with her sang her praises, but others were not complimentary. This may be a reason long time regulars Cush Jumbo and Delroy Lindo left the series at the end of Season 5.

The overall temperature now is “cooled off” for many who were waiting for Kennedy to leave the show, which is produced by Robert and Michelle King. Kennedy was the essential show runner, so that leaves questions about who will take over.

Today, “The Good Fight” announced they were adding Andre Braugher to a cast that starts with Christina Baranski — now also starring in HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age” —  and includes Mandy Patinkin. “The Good Fight” is on Paramount Plus formerly CBS All Access. (I wish it were on CBS, but no one asked me.)

Kennedy isn’t the first top producer to exit a New York based hit show. Two weeks ago Ilene Chaiken departed NBC’s “Law & Order Organized Crime.” That TV world is not for the faint of heart, that’s for sure!

If anyone wants to tell me more, email me in confidence at showbiz411@gmail.com.

Broadway: Great News as Tony Awards Returning to Radio City, Live Across the US on June 12th

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Broadway: Great News as Tony Awards Returning to Radio City, Live Across the US on June 12th

The Tony Awards are back to normal!

Returning to Radio City June 12th on CBS. What great news!

The 75th anniversary show will also air live across the country with no delays in any time zones.

The fun starts at 7pm on Paramount Plus and then moves to the network at 8pm.

No host yet but the shows and stars will include Hugh Jackman with “The Music Man,” Patti Lupone with “Company,” and Beanie Feldstein with “Funny Girl.”

Plus, we’ll see “MJ The Michael Jackson Musical,” and plenty of other big entertainments. I’m hopeful “Girl from the North Country” will be featured. It should win Best Musical or at least be nominated.

And Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga will there for “Macbeth.” So CBS has a chance to some nice ratings!

Telling you now: There will also obviously be some kind of all star tribute to Stephen Sondheim.

Oscars: Academy Awards Announce Head Writer Who Worked on Shows Hosted by Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Hugh Jackman

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Oscars: Academy Awards Announce Head Writer Who Worked on Shows Hosted by Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Hugh Jackman

The Oscars executive producer Will Packer has announced members of the behind the scenes team for the March 27th broadcast.

The team starts with head writer Jon Macks. Macks returns for his 25th Oscars telecast. An eight-time Primetime Emmy nominee and two-time Writers Guild of America Award winner, Macks has been head show writer for numerous Oscars telecasts and served as head writer or co-head writer for hosts Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Hugh Jackman. In addition, he has been on the debate prep team for five Democratic presidential nominees, was a lead writer on the 2020 Democratic National Convention and the “Celebrating America” inauguration special.

 

Dave Boone is a three-time Emmy- and three-time Writers Guild of America Award-winning writer and producer. Returning for his 12th Oscars telecast, he served as head writer for Neil Patrick Harris on the 87th Oscars. The head writer of 17 consecutive Tony Awards telecasts, his other credits include multiple “The Kennedy Center Honors,” “Primetime Emmy Awards,” “Daytime Emmys,” “Academy of Country Music Awards” and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” He is responsible for more than 100 hours of live television each year. Boone is also a sought-after script doctor for Broadway.

 

Dana Eagle joins the Oscars production team as a first-time writer. Eagle was previously a creative consultant on Wanda Sykes’s Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy special “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal.” Her book “How to Be Depressed: A Guide” has been published in four languages. As a comedian, she has been seen on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and Comedy Central. Her one-woman show “Stones from Glass Houses” premiered at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

 

Mitch Marchand returns to the writing staff for his third Oscars telecast. His credits as a comedy writer include such awards shows as “BET Awards,” “Hip Hop Awards,” “UNCF Evening of Stars,” “MTV Video Music Awards,” “NAACP Image Awards” and “Primetime Emmy Awards.” He has penned jokes for such A-list talent as Jamie Foxx, Anthony Anderson, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock; and created presentations for Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Quincy Jones and Kerry Washington. Marchand is currently a co-producer on the Netflix series “The Upshaws,” starring Mike Epps and Wanda Sykes, which is currently in production on its second season.

 

Suli McCullough joins the Oscars production team as a writer. A stand-up comedian, comic actor and writer-producer, he was a writer on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and served as a consultant writer for the “14th Annual ESPY Awards.” His writing credits include “The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards,” a sketch for Jamie Foxx for “Saturday Night Live,” “Lopez Tonight,” “MTV Music Awards,” “BET Awards,” “American Music Awards” and “Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards.” His producing credits include “The Amber Rose Show” on VH1, “Def Comedy Jam” and “Last Comic Standing,” and the feature documentary “Dying Laughing.” McCullough is also known for his roles in “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood” and “The Jamie Foxx Show.”

 

Agathe Panaretos returns to the Oscars show for the second time as a writer. She has written for a variety of shows including “2021 MTV Video Music Awards,” “Graduate Together: American Honors the High School Class of 2020” and “The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.” She previously wrote for Netflix’s first talk show, “Chelsea,” as well as “Crank Yankers” and “What Just Happened??! With Fred Savage.” In addition, she was a writer-at-large for The Onion and her work has been featured on E!, Team Coco and Funny or Die.

 

Danielle Schneider joins the Oscars production team as a writer. She is currently a co-executive producer for the upcoming HBO Max series “Clone High.” Most recently, Schneider was a co-executive producer for “Kenan,” alongside her writing partner Dannah Phirman, and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Along with Phirman, she created, executive produced, wrote and starred in Hulu’s “The Hotwives of Orlando” and “The Hotwives of Las Vegas.” Schneider’s other writing credits include “Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2,” “I’m Sorry,” “Telenovela” and “Marry Me.”

Chuck Sklar returns as a writer for his fourth Oscars telecast. Originally a stand-up comic, he has written for Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Chris Rock Show” and “Everybody Hates Chris,” among others. In addition, Sklar co-created the FX series “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” and served as the executive producer on the film “Tom of Your Life.

Rob Paine has been associated with the Oscars telecast for more than 20 years and returns as supervising producer. Paine has more than 200 credits to his name and has earned 11 Primetime Emmy® Award nominations and a Peabody Award. He has specialized in live, large-scale television events and his credits include Super Bowl Halftime Shows, “Celebrating America: An Inauguration Night Special,” “The Kennedy Center Honors,” political conventions, concerts and comedy specials.

 

Production designer and creative director David Korins returns to the Oscars, having been the designer in 2019. Korins’s prolific work for Broadway includes the Tony® Award-winning musicals “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen,” as well as “Beetlejuice.” Korins was the creative director and designer of “Immersive Van Gogh” and “Hamilton: The Exhibition”; and has collaborated with Sotheby’s, USC Shoah Foundation, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, TED and Gagosian. His television credits include “The 2020 Heisman Trophy Ceremony,” “Elton John: I’m Still Standing – A Grammy® Salute,” one episode of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and “Grease: Live!,” for which he won an Emmy Award.

 

Lighting designer Robert Dickinson returns for his 33rd Oscars show. During his three-decades long career, he has won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, including three for Oscars telecasts, and has over 1,500 on-screen television credits. His credits include “The Kennedy Center Honors,” “GRAMMY Awards,” “Primetime Emmy Awards,” “Tony Awards,” “Golden Globe® Awards,” “American Music Awards” and “Academy of Country Music Awards”; Olympics ceremonies in Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Athens and Vancouver; Super Bowl Halftime Shows; and the specials “Peter Pan Live!” and “The Sound of Music Live!” Dickinson has also worked on numerous television music specials for the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and more.

 

Adam Blackstone joins the Oscars production team as the show’s music director. An Emmy-nominated music director and GRAMMY Award-nominated writer, Blackstone has held music directing positions with such artists as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5 and Eminem, and collaborated with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez on the Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He also was the musical director for the Super Bowl LII Halftime Show (2018) and this year’s Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. His other credits include “A Grammy Salute to The Sounds of Change,” numerous “BET Awards,” “Soul Train Awards,” VH1 and MTV specials, and the Fox shows “The Four: Battle for Stardom” and “The Masked Singer.” He also appeared on season one of NBC’s “The Voice” as an advisor for coach Adam Levine. In 2009, Blackstone partnered with his wife, Kaisha, to start the company BASSic Black Entertainment, LLC (BBE).

 

Taryn Hurd rejoins the Oscars for the ninth consecutive year as talent producer. She also has served as talent producer on the past six Governors Awards ceremonies along with numerous television variety specials and award shows.

Bustle About: HBO’s “The Gilded Age” Catching On Now. Has Risen 62% Since Premiere, Christine Baranski Heading for Emmy

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Bustle About: HBO’s “The Gilded Age” Catching On Now. Has Risen 62% Since Premiere, Christine Baranski Heading for Emmy

HBO’s The Gilded Age is catching on like crazy.

Monday night’s episode was 10% higher than the previous week. The show from Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes brought in a robust 750,000 viewers on HBO Prime.

Since the premiere, “The Gilded Age” has shot up 62% altogether. That’s amazing considering how clunky it was in the first couple of installments.

Little by little the period piece has settled down, with the soap opera plots coming together and character becoming more defined. The real winners are Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon as the batty van Rhijn sisters, Morgan Spector as Mr. Russell, and Denée Benton as Peggy Scott. Louisa Jacobson has been terrific, too, as the show’s ingenue. The other standout in the main cast is Simon Jones as Bannister.

“The Gilded Age” has been renewed for a second season. There are a couple of actors who should work on their cadences during that time. They’re good actors but their speaking style is sticking out like sore thumbs. Otherwise, HBO has a hit on its hands. Baranski and Spector are headed to Emmy Awards. The question is, how will HBO handle a Baranski vs. Zendaya race at the Emmys? A bounty of riches!

 

Exclusive: “Law & Order Organized Crime” Will Get Special Appearance by Dann Florek, aka “SVU” Captain Cragen

Roger Friedman
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Exclusive: “Law & Order Organized Crime” Will Get Special Appearance by Dann Florek, aka “SVU” Captain Cragen

I’m told there’s a big effort now to re-organize the very disorganized Chris Meloni show, “Organized Crime.”

One step in the right direction will be an appearance — probably for May sweeps — by Elliot Stabler’s old boss, Captain Cragen from “SVU.” Dann Florek will be checking in. The last time Cragen was seen was via Zoom on the “SVU” 500th episode.

This is just one of many course corrections taking place on “Organized Crime” now that Stabler’s nemesis, Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott) is gone. Sources say that it’s time to get “Organized Crime” back in line with the “Law & Order” franchises.

In the last couple of weeks, Dick Wolf Productions ousted showrunner Ilene Chaiken and replaced her with Barry O’Brien, whose credits include “Castle.” O’Brien’s mandate, sources on the west coast say, is to bring Stabler into the real world and away from the lone ranger he’d become in pursuit of his wife’s killer.

Chaiken, says a Wolf insider, “didn’t understand about the Law & Order formula. She was also allowing Chris Meloni to rewrite dialogue and scripts. She was a chaotic showunner catering to an egotistical star.”

“Organized Crime” loses 1 million to 1.5  million viewers at the end of “SVU” on Thursday nights. More and more viewers were abandoning it because they couldn’t figure it out or just didn’t like it. Chaiken, I’m told, didn’t care. And Meloni, sources in the Wolf organization say, had no idea about the show’s poor reception.

At the same time. NBC has insisted that both shows have the same number of episodes, and line up. “You’re never going to see an Organized Crime without an SVU before it,” I was told.

The good news is that the revived “Law & Order” with Hugh Dancy, Jeffrey Donovan, and the returned Anthony Anderson is a hit, and everyone seems to like it. If all parties can realign “Organized Crime,” Thursdays will be calm, cool, and collected on NBC.

 

CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS ANNOUNCE PRESENTERS FOR SUNDAY ON THE CW

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today the star-studded lineup of presenters who will take the stage at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards. The show airs Sunday on TBS and on the CW Network at 8pm Eastern.

Issa Rae will present the SeeHer Award to Halle Berry, while Jimmy Kimmel will take the stage to honor Billy Crystal with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional presenters include Ava DuVernay, Carey Mulligan, Jamie Dornan, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Kristen Wiig, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mandy Moore, Zoey Deutch, Joel McHale, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, J.K. Simmons, Ray Romano, Ken Jeong, Alan Kim, Angelica Ross, Annie Mumolo, Dominique Jackson, Dylan O’Brien, Hailie Sahar, Indya Moore, Jacob Bertrand, Jung Ho-yeon, Kaci Walfall, Lee Jung-jae, Maria Bakalova, Mayim Bialik, Nasim Pedrad, Park Hae-soo, Ralph Macchio, Robin Thede, LA Rams Coach Sean McVay & Veronika Khomyn, Shawn Hatosy, Sonequa Martin-Green, and more.

 

 

Bob Dylan Collection of Essays on Modern Songs: Who He Will Include or Exclude Could Be An Issue

Roger Friedman
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Bob Dylan Collection of Essays on Modern Songs: Who He Will Include or Exclude Could Be An Issue

Bob Dylan has something to say about his favorite songs.

He’s publishing a collection of around 60 essays reviewing them, from songwriters like Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, Australian rockabilly singer Alis Lesley, Eddie Cochran, Stephen Foster, and probably Little Richard.

Dylan’s favorite song writers include Peter Seeger, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and George Harrison, so most of them are probably included. I would guess John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon, as well.

Simon & Schuster will publish “The Philosophy of Modern Song” in November. It’s Dylan’s first book in 18 years. Apparently that’s when “Chronicles, Vol 1.” came out. It feels like yesterday.

An audiobook will be available, with Dylan reading some portions and “a mix of other voices” doing the narration on others.

According a press release, the book will constitute “a master class on the art and craft of songwriting,” as Dylan “analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal.” The announcement further declares that while the essays “are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition.”

I’m betting now that a lot of top songwriters will be hoping Dylan has included them in the book, and the ones who don’t appear will feel slighted. This should be interesting. Knowing Dylan, he’ll leave out someone like Carole King but include Metallica’s “Enter the Sandman.” Just watch.

“SNL” Suffers Lowest Ratings So Far This Year with Oscar Isaac, Charli XCX Outing

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“SNL” Suffers Lowest Ratings So Far This Year with Oscar Isaac, Charli XCX Outing

“Saturday Night Live” is in another ratings decline.

The return show on January 15th scored just over 5 million viewers. But ever since then, it’s been all downhill.

This past Saturday was the worst outing yet. Just 4.4 million tuned in for Oscar Isaac as host and Charli XCX as musical guest.

That’s the fourth decline in a row and down 300,000 viewers from the previous week with John Mulaney.

This coming weekend will feature Zoë Kravitz With Musical Guest Rosalía, cashing in on Kravitz’s starring in the mega hit “The Batman.” Will it work? Only if there’s a good parody of “The Batman.” And maybe a guest cameo from either Kravitz’s father, Lenny, or boyfriend, Channing Tatum with his dog.

Morgan Wallen Wins Best Album, Forgiven by Academy of Country Music for Using the N Word

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Morgan Wallen Wins Best Album, Forgiven by Academy of Country Music for Using the N Word

Morgan Wallen’s time in purgatory is over.

Last night, Wallen won Album of the Year from the Academy of Country Music. His “Dangerous Double Album” took the big prize.

Last year, Wallen was momentarily ostracized for using the “N” word, caught on a video tape that wound up on TMZ. His record label and manager temporarily suspended him, then forgot about it because he was making millions for them.

Country music fans didn’t care much either. They kept buying “Dangerous” by the boatload, so much so that it was the best selling album of the year. So far, “Dangerous” has sold about 5.7 million copies, most of it streaming equivalent. Actual sales are around 305,000 according to MRC Music Connect.

So all is forgiven. What the heck? Money talks, and that’s the bottom line.

 

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