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Golden Globes telecast draws near-record low audience
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – NBC’s telecast for the 80th Golden Globes on Tuesday averaged a near-record low of 6.25 million viewers, the second-smallest audience for the annual ceremony, and only slightly better than the viewership garnered by the Globes press conference held during the 2008 writers’ strike. After a diversity and ethics scandal caused NBC ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jeff Beck, guitar god who influenced generations, dies at 78
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock “˜n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, has died. He was 78. Beck died Tuesday after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” his representatives said in a statement ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge tells Detroit museum: Don’t move van Gogh painting
By Ed White, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
DETROIT (AP) – A judge on Wednesday ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh in response to a lawsuit by its owner, who claims it has been missing for nearly six years. The painting, titled “The Novel Reader” or “The Reading Lady,” is part of a rare van ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dr. Dre, Missy, Lil Wayne to be honored at pre-Grammy event
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott and Lil Wayne will be honored at the Recording Academy’s second annual Black Music Collective event during Grammy week next month. The academy announced Wednesday that the three Grammy winners and executive Sylvia Rhone will receive the Global Impact Award for their personal achievements in the music ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US official warns of risks posed by heavy electric vehicles
By Tom Krisher, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
DETROIT (AP) – The head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressed concern Wednesday about the safety risks that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles. The official, Jennifer Homendy, raised the issue in a speech in Washington to the Transportation Research Board. She noted, by way of example, that an electric ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mattea Roach to appear on “Jeopardy! Masters” spinoff show
By The Canadian Press on January 11th, 2023
TORONTO – Canadian “Jeopardy” champion Mattea Roach will face off against other elite players in a new spinoff picked up by ABC. “Jeopardy! Masters” will pit six recent super-champions against each other. A different combination of competitors will play two “high-stakes games” in each hour-long episode. The first class of “masters” will also include Matt ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tatjana Patitz, supermodel of ’80s and ’90s, dies at 56
By The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) – Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90″ music video, has died at age 56. Patitz’s death in the Santa Barbara, California, area was confirmed by her New York agent, Corinne Nicolas, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tatanja Patitz, classic supermodel of ’80s and ’90s, dies
By The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) – Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90″ music video, has died at age 56. Patitz’s death in the Santa Barbara, California, area was confirmed by her New York agent, Corinne Nicolas, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Speech groups criticize Florida school for scrapping play
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Free speech groups have condemned the abrupt cancellation by Florida administrators of a high school student production of Paula Vogel’s play “Indecent,” which explores a flashpoint in Jewish and queer theatrical history. The National Coalition Against Censorship, PEN America, and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund urged school officials to rescind their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!SAG Awards nominate ‘Banshees,’ ‘Everything’ and Zendaya
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – In nominations to its 29th annual awards, the Screen Actors Guild heaped honors on the casts of the anarchic indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and the Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin,” while throwing some curve balls into the Oscar race. The awards contenders, voted on by the Hollywood ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Film helps renew search for 1st Black Navy pilot’s remains
By Thalia Beaty, The Associated Press on January 11th, 2023
The film “Devotion” reignited efforts to repatriate the remains of Jesse Brown, America’s first Black Navy pilot, who died in 1950 after having to crash land his damaged plane during the Korean War. Fred Smith, the founder of Memphis-based FedEx, financed the film about Brown because he thought Brown deserved wider recognition, a feeling his ... Read More »
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