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Mick Jagger’s NFT Auction Sells for $50,000 to Block Chain Entrepreneur with a Checkered Past

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Mick Jagger’s NFT Auction Sells for $50,000 to Block Chain Entrepreneur with a Checkered Past

Mick Jagger may have mixed emotions about the auction winner of his NFT for charity.

Brock Pierce, a self proclaimed block chain entrepreneur with a checkered past, paid $50,000 for an animated video accompanied by a loop of music from Mick’s new single, “Easy Sleazy.” The money goes to Music Venue Trust, a UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues, Back-up, which provides financial support to entertainment technology industry professionals who are seriously ill or injured or to their surviving family members, and National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), an organization working to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of independent live performance venues and promoters throughout the United States. A portion of proceeds will also be going to environmental causes.

“Easy Sleazy” is the new single released this week by Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl. The title may have appealed to Pierce, who was involved in some questionable activities of his own years ago. The last time I wrote about him his representative threatened to sue me. But Pierce’s activities were well d0cumented in the press and not just by me going back more than two decades.

You can read the whole thing here.

Since then, Pierce — who was a child actor in “The Mighty Ducks” — has become very involved in the bitcoin/blockchain world. He also declared a presidential campaign last year. I’m not sure exactly what he gets for $50,000 since the Jagger video art can easily be downloaded from Jagger’s website into anyone’s computer. But that’s my overall question about the NFT market, frankly. Pierce, who loves publicity, gets more out of this. So I guess it was worth it.

RIP Helen McCrory, Dynamic Actress from “Harry Potter” and “Peaky Blinders,” Dies at Age 52 from Cancer

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RIP Helen McCrory, Dynamic Actress from “Harry Potter” and “Peaky Blinders,” Dies at Age 52 from Cancer

Tragic news: The wonderful actress Helen McCrory, wife of Damian Lewis, has died at age 52 in the UK from cancer. Lewis announced the sad news on Twitter today. McCrory starred in “Harry Potter” on film and “Peaky Blinders” on TV among her many credits.

Lewis, the star here of “Billions” and “Homeland,” wrote:

“I’m heartbroken to announce that after a heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family. She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.”

The British actress also starred in the James Bond film “Skyfall,” Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” and played Cherie Booth, wife of U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, in “The Queen” and “The Special Relationship.”

In addition to her film and TV roles, McCrory began her career on stage and appeared in more than 25 productions during the 1990s through the mid 2010s. Her stage credits included “Macbeth,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “As You Like It,” “Medea” and many more.

J.K. Rowling, author of the “Harry Potter” series, Tweeted: “I’m devastated to learn of the death of Helen McCrory, an extraordinary actress and a wonderful woman who’s left us far too soon. My deepest condolences to her family, especially her husband and children. Simply heartbreaking news.”

McCrory’s many awards included Best Actress at the London Film Critics Circle, the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, the Critics’ Circle Theater Awards and theater actress of the year at the Glamour Awards. She was nominated for a Critics Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award for best supporting actress in a drama for “Penny Dreadful.” For her role in “Macbeth” in 1995, she was named most promising newcomer at the Shakespeare Globe Awards.

McCrory and Lewis were married in 2007, and had a son and a daughter. Condolences to all of them. What a loss.

On a personal note, I really enjoyed her work, she was someone I looked forward to seeing on stage or in film. Just terrible.

 

 

TV Review: Thursday Night Pitted Still Comatose Meredith on “Greys” vs. Dark “SVU” and Older Actresses in Distress

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TV Review: Thursday Night Pitted Still Comatose Meredith on “Greys” vs. Dark “SVU” and Older Actresses in Distress

I wonder what the rest of the actors think on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Every week they run around in scrubs and face shields pumping chests, removing organs, crying, shouting, kvetching.

Meantime, Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith, lies on a gurney and says nothing. Or she’s on a beach in a $1000 sweater, flirting with Patrick Dempsey, who plays her dead husband, or other characters Shonda Rhimes shoved overboard for one reason or another.

Last night, there was no beach, just gurney, as Meredith lay comatose in the longest COVID sleep known to man.  Pompeo must be in some wild contract negotiations. The show is clearly setting itself up to go forward next fall without her. If Pompeo does finally sign on the dotted line, Meredith will have to be in a rehab center. It’s all very peculiar.

I toggled between “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Law & Order SVU,” but mostly to see Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen, who are sisters in real life, in the episode. It was disappointing in the end. They did not share a scene. Also, Phylicia Rashad, one of our best actresses, was relegated to giving a stirring speech lying in bed wearing a surgical mask. This was pretty insulting to the actress and to the audience. And still she made that speech work!

“SVU,” meantime, was very dark, and too hard to watch all the way through. I skipped “Organized Crime” because it’s really all about Dylan McDermott as a non-Italian Italian mobster named Sinatra. DIck Wolf said last week “Organized Crime” is not about “ripped from the headlines” but a mob cat and mouse show. I don’t think that’s going to work.

Over on “Rebel,” at 10pm on ABC, Katy Sagal plays Erin Brockovich in the TV version of the famed movie. For some reason last night Mary McDonnell, an Oscar winner and just recently star of her own TV series, “Major Crimes,” turned up in small role looking like Katy’s grandmother. They are a year apart in age. McDonnell should sue ABC and “Rebel.” She didn’t deserve that. In “Dances with Wolves,” McDonnell played a character called “Stands with Fists.” She should have punched these people in the make up room.

I’m wondering if McDonnell and Rashad took their gigs to meet their SAG health insurance minimums for the year. If that’s the case, Gabrielle Carteris has a lot to answer for.

Good news! Meredith is back on the beach next week in a creamy cable knit sweater. The other doctors are stopping a typhoon or something from swallowing Seattle.

Chrissy Teigen is Back on Twitter After Leaving Abruptly: I’ve spent weeks just saying tweets to shampoo bottles”

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Chrissy Teigen is Back on Twitter After Leaving Abruptly: I’ve spent weeks just saying tweets to shampoo bottles”

One of the funniest best Tweeters is back on Twitter. Chrissy Teignen, a multi hyphenate, has returned to the fray after about three weeks’ absence.

Chrissy Tweeted today: “I’ve spent weeks just saying tweets to shampoo bottles.” She added: I choose to take the bad with the good!!turns out it feels TERRIBLE to silence yourself and also no longer enjoy belly chuckles randomly throughout the day and also lose like 2000 friends at once lol”

Chrissy is married to pop star John Legend and is considered a witty contributor to social media. But I guess she got some heat from “trolls”– anonymous critics– and decided to exit the forum. I’m glad she’s reconsidered. She’s considered by many, meaning me, the Dorothy Parker of Twitter.

Welcome back, Chrissy!

 

Paul McCartney Reveals Recording Track with Justin Bieber Producer Andrew Watt, Releases Imagined “McCartney III” with Phoebe Bridgers Covering “Seize the Day”

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Paul McCartney Reveals Recording Track with Justin Bieber Producer Andrew Watt, Releases Imagined “McCartney III” with Phoebe Bridgers Covering “Seize the Day”

updated Friday morning April 16th

Paul McCartney just finished basically interviewing himself on Instagram Live with singer St. Vincent aka Annie Clark. This was to promote “McCartney III Imagined” which releases tonight and includes a remix of McCartney’s song “Women and Wives” by St. Vincent. Back to that in a minute.

McCartney is in L.A., he said, to attend a screening tonight of Peter Jackson’s “Let it Be” documentary, “Get Back,” which we will see in August. He said Ringo and other friends would be there. You can surmise Ringo’s brother-in-law Joe Walsh will attend, and maybe Olivia and Dhani Harrison.

Paul also revealed that he’s recording a track with 2021 Grammy Producer of the Year Andrew Watt, who’s worked a lot trying to make Justin Bieber seem like a recording artist. The song has something to do with spotting a girl in a window as he walks by her house.

The “Get Back” project is late by a year or more but McCartney says he’s happy with what he’s seen so far. The original “Let it Be” movie directed Michael Lindsay-Hogg accentuated the Beatles at odds with each other, looking grim as they made that album in 1969. However, they went on to make “Abbey Road.” And Jackson was given all the extra footage, which actually showed the band enjoying themselves. McCartney didn’t come off well in the original film so maybe this will rewrite history and fix that idea.

St. Vincent did ask Paul about the magic of writing songs. I’m paraphrasing, but I’d say McCartney is stumped about where his genius comes from. It’s just, well, magic. He did say it’s easier now with an iPhone remember things he came up with. Although in the old days, he said, he and John Lennon would remember ideas the next day pretty easily. “I guess we didn’t have too many forgettable songs,” he said. No kidding!

“McCartney III Imagined” drops tonight, and the track to listen for is Phoebe Bridgers covering “Seize the Day.” Only Bridgers, Dominic Fike, and Beck, a little bit, really covered songs. The rest are remixes– all interesting and cool, but Phoebe could have a hit if Capitol Records puts some elbow grease into it.

I like St. Vincent. I think she needs better marketing or something. She needs some PR attention. Maybe a manager.

Anyway, I’m a big of both “McCartney III” albums, check them out if you haven’t already.

UPDATE Mick Jagger Auction So Far $10K for 3D Digital Image and Music Loop of New Song as NFT

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UPDATE Mick Jagger Auction So Far $10K for 3D Digital Image and Music Loop of New Song as NFT

Mick Jagger is going Bitcoin for charity. So far, the bidding is up to $10,000. Click here to see what’s being bid on.

Using his new single with Dave Grohl, “Easy Sleazy,” Jagger has added 3D artist Oliver Latta aka Extraweg. Jagger & Extraweg have collaborated on an audio-visual charity NFT featuring a loop of ‘Eazy Sleazy’ – set to drop Thursday, April 15th through Gemini-owned Nifty Gateway. Starting at 10AM PST / 1PM EST / 6PM BST, the 1-1 piece will go live as an auction for 24 hours & all proceeds will go to charity.

Of course, we’re still not sure what an NFT is. But The Weeknd made over $2 million last week selling video graphics with a bit of a new song. For a better understanding click here.

Minted in collaboration with Berlin-based art director and artist Oliver Latta, also known as EXTRAWEG, the 30-second audio visual piece evokes a surreal essence of breaking through the barriers of the human mind and pushing forward on the brink of social collapse to provide a much needed moment of artistic relief as the world slowly transitions out of lockdown.

100% of the proceeds from the NFT sale are being divvied up between Music Venue Trust, a UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues, Back-up, which provides financial support to entertainment technology industry professionals who are seriously ill or injured or to their surviving family members, and National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), an organization working to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of independent live performance venues and promoters throughout the United States. A portion of proceeds will also be going to environmental causes.

As a continued demonstration of this cause, neither musician is monetizing off revenues from the track, which can be played on Mick’s socials and YouTube channel.

The NFT visual was created by Oliver Latta AKA Extraweg and produced by Pink Salt, with special thanks to Guia Quaranta.

Simply the Best: Tina Turner Jumps into First Place in Rock Hall Fan Vote, Jay Z is Dead Last with Less than 100,000 Votes

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Simply the Best: Tina Turner Jumps into First Place in Rock Hall Fan Vote, Jay Z is Dead Last with Less than 100,000 Votes

Roger Davies, Tina Turner’s manager, gets a pat on the back today. His decision to make that HBO documentary “Tina” has proven to be a win win win.

Our beloved Tina has jumped into first place in the fan voting for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’s about doubled her votes since the documentary premiered on HBO. (Applause.)

Tina now has more than 463K votes, and leaps ahead of world music influencer Fela Kuti, who was leading the vote until the doc aired last month.

The Go Gos’s, Iron Maiden, and the Foo Fighters round out the top 5. Number 6 is Carole King, the only other act to have more than 300,000 votes.

Dead last? Rapper Jay Z, with just 99,512 votes. If Jay Z gets in via the Nominating Committee there will be an outcry. Jann Wenner, who used to manipulate the vote, isn’t in charge anymore but I wouldn’t put it past him to try some trickery from the outside. RRHOF: don’t do it.

Tina’s ascent to number 1 is really lovely. She’s already in the RRHOF with ex husband Ike Turner. But her solo career far outweighs the one with Ike, and Ike’s history of abuse would almost qualify him for expulsion. (Almost, because his musical contributions can’t be overlooked, even by Tina.)

It’s unlikely Tina would come to the Hall induction in Cleveland given the pandemic and her health. But the show’s producers can get the great Adrienne Warren from Tina’s Broadway show, to do the honors.

Hunter Biden’s Confessional Book “Beautiful Things” Is a Sales Bust After First Week Despite PR Push

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Hunter Biden’s Confessional Book “Beautiful Things” Is a Sales Bust After First Week Despite PR Push

The book is a lonely Hunter.

“Beautiful Things,” the confessional memoir by Presidential ne’er do well son Hunter Biden is a flop after one week.

NPD Book Scan says the book, in Hunter whines about being a drug addict who slept around and has no memory of fathering a child, has sold just 10,000 copies in its first week. For a celebrity book with so much PR, TV appearances, etc, that’s not a lot.

On Amazon, “Beautiful Things” is ranked at number 130 now 177, now 208.

Nevertheless, an early surge of sales based on Biden’s appearance on “CBS Sunday Morning” puts “Beautiful Things” at number 4 on the New York Times Bestseller list that comes out today. But that will be short lived. Last week, “Rock Me on the Water,” a terrible book about cultural trends in 1974, hit the list after its “Sunday Morning” plug. It’s gone this week.

Hunter’s TV appearances on CBS were embarrassing. He came off like Eddie Haskell from “Leave it to Beaver”: cloying, unsympathetic, whiny, sycophantic. Hunter has a sad story, certainly: when he was a child his mother and sister were killed in a car accident. As an adult, his brother died from cancer. So Hunter turned to crack cocaine, slept with his sister-in-law, and fathered a child with a woman he doesn’t remember. Forget about his questionable business life. The guy is a creep. Instead of honoring his family, he brought them disgrace.

Meantime, NPD Bookscan reports that four of the bestselling books so far this year, and also in March, were by Dr. Seuss. They are: “The Cat in the Hat,” “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” and “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.” This was after Dr. Seuss’s estate withdrew six of his old books because they had outdated racist images. That decision turned out to be the best sales PR ever!

Hunter should have called his book, “Oh the Places I Went!”

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“Moulin Rouge” Star Karen Olivo Says Won’t Return to Broadway Show Because of Scott Rudin: “Unacceptable. That’s a monster”

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“Moulin Rouge” Star Karen Olivo Says Won’t Return to Broadway Show Because of Scott Rudin: “Unacceptable. That’s a monster”

OMG Standing ovation for Karen Olivo! The Tony winning actress (“West Side Story” 2009 she was incredible) says she will not return to Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge” because of “monster” producer Scott Rudin. She is amazing. Watch this video she posted to Instagram!

I hope every producer hires her for the fall or winter or spring. wow.

She writes: “Humanity is more important than my bank account.”

Full transcript coming. Wow. Wonderful!

By the way Karen is a Tony nominee for “Moulin Rouge” for Best Actress in Musical. They’ve never given out the award, maybe she’s a permanent nominee!

Justin Bieber Million Dollar Paris Publicity Blitz, Full Court Press for Tour That May Not Happen

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Justin Bieber Million Dollar Paris Publicity Blitz, Full Court Press for Tour That May Not Happen

There’s a yin and a yang to Justin Bieber’s trajectory right now.

Despite the fact that tickets aren’t selling to his 2021 concert commencing in less than two months, Bieber is on a PR tear.

He’s on the cover of GQ babbling about Jesus and whatever, Hailey Baldwin, etc. It doesn’t matter. He’s rich, he’s lonely, he’s depressed. He used to be an asshole, now he feels he isn’t. That’s his mantra.

Meantime, yesterday, Bieber and a pretty extensive crew flew to Paris and put on a “show” on the rooftop of the Hotel Crillon, which he calls the Krill-on. The wife went, all the pals, etc. The Crillon is about the most expensive hotel in Paris, so this trip, including private planes, had to cost a million bucks. Maybe more.

And the result? Odd. After about 24 hours, well under 1 million views on YouTube for the full video. Something billed as the Afterparty, on YouTube premium, has just 42,315 views. The individual songs averaged about 360,000 views. So it wasn’t a breaking down of doors to see this expensive croissant play itself out.

Promoters are telling me they’re still waiting to get the word that the 2021 tour, which was the 2020 tour, will be the 2022 tour. What if Paris and GQ and all the rest of it ends up with another postponed tour?

Hey, be a Belieber! Anne Frank was.

 

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