A new spot for the upcoming film All the Money in the World offers the first look at Christopher Plummer portraying J. Paul Getty in a role previously occupied by Kevin Spacey. The new commercial is dedicated almost entirely to Plummer, who stepped in to film his scenes less than …
Read More »Hear Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. Combine George Harrison, Christmas Songs
Albert Hammond Jr. reimagined “The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot,” the 1937 Christmas song popularized by Vera Lynn and Nat King Cole, as part of Amazon’s annual Indie for the Holidays music series. Midway through the track, the Strokes guitarist segues into the chorus fromGeorge Harrison’s 1970 hit “My …
Read More »Watch Sia's 'Santa's Coming for Us' Video With Kristen Bell, J.B. Smoove
Sia stages a quirky Christmas Day party in her celebrity-packed “Santa’s Coming for Us” video. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard star as the husband and wife of a massive family; Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things), Sophia Lillis (IT) and Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) appear as the children; …
Read More »Billy Joel to Appear on CW Superhero Series 'Arrow'
A Billy Joel concert will be the target of a terrorist plot in the upcoming Thanksgiving episode of the CW superhero series Arrow, which will feature footage from one of the Piano Man’s gigs. Arrow executive producer and diehard Joel fan Marc Guggenheim wrote a letter requesting permission to feature …
Read More »Elon Musk on His Fears, Dreams, Morality, Mars and Twitter
The New York Times has called Elon Musk “arguably the most successful and important entrepreneur in the world.” It’s an easy case to make: He’s probably the only person who has started four billion-dollar companies – PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City. But at his core, Musk is not a …
Read More »'Generation Oxy': Inside New True Crime Memoir
It’s Saturday night and Blake Shelton’s “Redneck Girl” echoes throughout a country dance club in Tampa, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Douglas Dodd and his friends from Hudson High are snorting oxycodone pain pills and drinking rum. A bouncer spots the teenagers and escorts them outside, where he denies their fake drivers licenses. …
Read More »'The Voice': See Addison Agen Sing John Prine's 'Angel From Montgomery'
Indiana native and Voice hopeful Addision Agen, a high school junior, has spent a lot of time at her father’s Fort Wayne record store, and it shows. On Tuesday night, the Adam Levine team member sang John Prine’s regret-tinged “Angel From Montgomery” in the show’s Playoff rounds, displaying a maturity …
Read More »Foo Fighters' Cal Jam Fest to Return in 2018
After successfully reviving the long-forgotten California Jam festival in October, Foo Fighters announced Monday that “Cal Jam” will return in 2018. The festival will be back at San Bernardino, California’s Glen Helen Regional Park & Festival Grounds on October 5th and 6th, 2018, organizers announced. Foo Fighters will once again …
Read More »Louis C.K., Roy Moore, and How America Is Reacting to #MeToo
Thursday’s news cycle was a non-stop horror show of sexual abuse allegations against prominent men. FirstThe Washington Post dropped a bombshell storyalleging that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore molested a 14-year-old girl and “dated” three other girls between the ages of 16 and 18 when he was in his …
Read More »Does Trump Want a New Middle East War?
Does Donald Trump want a new Middle East war, pitting Saudi Arabia against Iran in a conflict that could lay waste to the world’s oil region and drag the United States into a conflict that would make the war in Iraq look like a minor skirmish? It sure looks like …
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