“Be My Baby” is as universal as a pop song can be. It’s the song that made Ronnie Spector a timeless rock & roll legend, a teenage girl from Spanish Harlem who packed a lifetime of raw power into three minutes. Ever she belted out “Be My Baby” in 1963, it’s been the classic that sums up the whole Sixties girl-group era, with Phil Spector’s lavish Wall of Sound production. But it’s never left the airwaves. On Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, “Be My Baby...
- 5/8/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
After exiting Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County over a decade ago, Alexis Bellino appears set to rejoin the reality series for season 18. She previously appeared on the series from 2009-2013. Here are all the details of the reality star’s potential return, which is sure to set the series on fire.
‘Dynamic’ Alexis Bellino’s return to ‘Rhoc’ is imminent, says insider
Real Housewives of Orange County alum Alexis Bellino has reportedly received a formal offer to rejoin the series for Season 18. However, she has yet to accept it.
Page Six reports that Bellino is set to return due to her relationship with John Janssen. He is the ex of Rhoc vet Shannon Beador.
“Her relationship with John is certainly interesting,” an insider told the news outlet. “But it’s not the only reason producers want Alexis back.”
They continued, “She’s a dynamic personality with a...
‘Dynamic’ Alexis Bellino’s return to ‘Rhoc’ is imminent, says insider
Real Housewives of Orange County alum Alexis Bellino has reportedly received a formal offer to rejoin the series for Season 18. However, she has yet to accept it.
Page Six reports that Bellino is set to return due to her relationship with John Janssen. He is the ex of Rhoc vet Shannon Beador.
“Her relationship with John is certainly interesting,” an insider told the news outlet. “But it’s not the only reason producers want Alexis back.”
They continued, “She’s a dynamic personality with a...
- 1/11/2024
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”, “On Broadway”, “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82.
Weil’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music’s most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest...
Weil’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music’s most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest...
- 6/3/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Beyoncé took time out to honour a legend.
On Monday, the singer was performing at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when she paid tribute to the late Tina Turner with a rendition of one of her most iconic songs.
Read More: Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Tina Turner During Paris Concert: ‘I Wouldn’t Be On This Stage Without Her’
For the tribute, Beyoncé sang a stripped down take on the 1966 classic “River Deep – Mountain High”, written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry with producer Phil Spector.
“I want you guys to help me sing one of my favourite songs,” Beyoncé said before launching into the song. “We love you, Tina.”
Beyoncé pays homage to the late, great Tina Turner in #London, with a performance of “River Deep, Mountain High.”
https://t.co/gQt79tz5wy #RWT2023 pic.twitter.com/Dt07Ft3OW7
— BEYONCÉ Legion (@BeyLegion) May 29, 2023
Read More: Mick Jagger...
On Monday, the singer was performing at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when she paid tribute to the late Tina Turner with a rendition of one of her most iconic songs.
Read More: Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Tina Turner During Paris Concert: ‘I Wouldn’t Be On This Stage Without Her’
For the tribute, Beyoncé sang a stripped down take on the 1966 classic “River Deep – Mountain High”, written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry with producer Phil Spector.
“I want you guys to help me sing one of my favourite songs,” Beyoncé said before launching into the song. “We love you, Tina.”
Beyoncé pays homage to the late, great Tina Turner in #London, with a performance of “River Deep, Mountain High.”
https://t.co/gQt79tz5wy #RWT2023 pic.twitter.com/Dt07Ft3OW7
— BEYONCÉ Legion (@BeyLegion) May 29, 2023
Read More: Mick Jagger...
- 5/30/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Exclusive: A+E Studios and Range Media Partners have prevailed in a competitive auction surrounding Swedish crime novelist Christoffer Carlsson’s International bestseller Blaze Me a Sun and its follow-up, Under the Storm, securing film and TV rights to both titles.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Good Morning America‘s naming of Blaze Me a Sun as its Buzz Pick of the Week. The title, first published in the U.S. by Hogarth Books on January 3, tells the tale of a small town’s collective guilt when a serial killer commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated. Under the Storm has not yet been published in the U.S., though it’s currently available in Sweden.
“We are delighted to be working with Christoffer to adapt Blaze Me A Sun and Under The Storm,” said Range’s Co-Heads of International, Oliver Riddle & Thomas Daley.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Good Morning America‘s naming of Blaze Me a Sun as its Buzz Pick of the Week. The title, first published in the U.S. by Hogarth Books on January 3, tells the tale of a small town’s collective guilt when a serial killer commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated. Under the Storm has not yet been published in the U.S., though it’s currently available in Sweden.
“We are delighted to be working with Christoffer to adapt Blaze Me A Sun and Under The Storm,” said Range’s Co-Heads of International, Oliver Riddle & Thomas Daley.
- 1/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed actress, writer and producer Antonia Desplat for management.
Desplat most recently starred opposite Charlie Hunnam in Apple TV+’s series Shantaram, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts. Prior television credits include ITV’s The Durrells and Victoria, as well as the Netflix drama The Letter for the King.
Desplat’s most recent big-screen role came as part of the ensemble of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which had her appearing alongside Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Additional film credits include MGM’s Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Mélanie Laurent, and the French short film Naissance d’une étoile, in which she starred alongside Oscar nominee Catherine Deneuve.
Desplat is best known on the filmmaking side for producing and starring in the short Held for a Moment. The film won her...
Desplat most recently starred opposite Charlie Hunnam in Apple TV+’s series Shantaram, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts. Prior television credits include ITV’s The Durrells and Victoria, as well as the Netflix drama The Letter for the King.
Desplat’s most recent big-screen role came as part of the ensemble of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which had her appearing alongside Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Additional film credits include MGM’s Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Mélanie Laurent, and the French short film Naissance d’une étoile, in which she starred alongside Oscar nominee Catherine Deneuve.
Desplat is best known on the filmmaking side for producing and starring in the short Held for a Moment. The film won her...
- 1/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Filmmaker William Brent Bell has signed with Range Media Partners for management in all areas.
Bell is a writer, director and producer who most recently helmed Paramount Players’ Orphan: First Kill, a follow-up to the fan-favorite horror-thriller Orphan, released worldwide by Warner Bros. in 2009. The film picks up with Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) — the Estonian murderer with the appearance of a child — after she orchestrates a brilliant escape from a psychiatric facility, watching as she travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Julia Stiles also stars.
Bell’s feature directorial credits also include the cult classic 2006 horror film Stay Alive; the box office smash The Devil Inside, which he also co-wrote; and the horror Wer, as well as The Boy and its sequel Brahms: The Boy II.
Bell is currently in post-production on his latest feature, Lord of Misrule — a contemporary folk horror starring Tuppence Middleton,...
Bell is a writer, director and producer who most recently helmed Paramount Players’ Orphan: First Kill, a follow-up to the fan-favorite horror-thriller Orphan, released worldwide by Warner Bros. in 2009. The film picks up with Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) — the Estonian murderer with the appearance of a child — after she orchestrates a brilliant escape from a psychiatric facility, watching as she travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Julia Stiles also stars.
Bell’s feature directorial credits also include the cult classic 2006 horror film Stay Alive; the box office smash The Devil Inside, which he also co-wrote; and the horror Wer, as well as The Boy and its sequel Brahms: The Boy II.
Bell is currently in post-production on his latest feature, Lord of Misrule — a contemporary folk horror starring Tuppence Middleton,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed acclaimed writer and playwright Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who recently became the first Black woman to pen a feature screenplay for Marvel Studios with the upcoming Blade, starring Mahershala Ali as the titular vampire hunter first brought to life on the big screen in 1998 by Wesley Snipes.
Osei-Kuffour won a WGA Award in 2020 as part of the writing staff behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series Watchmen, from creator Damon Lindelof. She was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for her work on the “Anan Ishii Peters” episode of Hulu’s hit comedy series, PEN15.
Additional television credits on Osei-Kuffour’s part include HBO’s Run and Prime Video’s Hunters, as well as the latter service’s upcoming series The Power, which boasts an all-female writers’ room and will star Rob Delaney and Alice Eve.
Before turning to writing, Osei-Kuffour studied acting at New York University’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting,...
Osei-Kuffour won a WGA Award in 2020 as part of the writing staff behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series Watchmen, from creator Damon Lindelof. She was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for her work on the “Anan Ishii Peters” episode of Hulu’s hit comedy series, PEN15.
Additional television credits on Osei-Kuffour’s part include HBO’s Run and Prime Video’s Hunters, as well as the latter service’s upcoming series The Power, which boasts an all-female writers’ room and will star Rob Delaney and Alice Eve.
Before turning to writing, Osei-Kuffour studied acting at New York University’s Stella Adler Studio of Acting,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners has hired Thomas Daley as Co-President of their International division based in London.
Daley joins Oliver Riddle as Co-President and the plan is for them to oversee the development and production of the growing U.S. management firm’s international TV and film content.
The division is working with Range clients to option IP, develop material and produce international-skewing projects. In addition to their first look deals with A+E Studios, FilmNation and Anton Capital, the division has 12 projects with UK and European firms in active development.
Daley joins Heather Kadin (President of Scripted TV) and Mark Herwick (President of Unscripted) as the heads Range Studios.
The executive recently left Universal International Studios, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of UK Creative, as Deadline revealed in June. As part of the senior leadership team he worked closely with Carnival Films, Heyday Television, Working Title, Matchbox Pictures and Lark.
Daley joins Oliver Riddle as Co-President and the plan is for them to oversee the development and production of the growing U.S. management firm’s international TV and film content.
The division is working with Range clients to option IP, develop material and produce international-skewing projects. In addition to their first look deals with A+E Studios, FilmNation and Anton Capital, the division has 12 projects with UK and European firms in active development.
Daley joins Heather Kadin (President of Scripted TV) and Mark Herwick (President of Unscripted) as the heads Range Studios.
The executive recently left Universal International Studios, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of UK Creative, as Deadline revealed in June. As part of the senior leadership team he worked closely with Carnival Films, Heyday Television, Working Title, Matchbox Pictures and Lark.
- 9/14/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Almost nine months to the day after the surprise Deadline scoop that CAA would acquire ICM Partners, the deal finally got government approval and closed. This creates a mega agency in the biggest linkup in the space since the Wma-Endeavor merger. Sources close to the situation said the Department of Justice finally approved the deal late last night or this morning, and it closed. It is valued around 750 million, and a combined enterprise value around 5 billion. The merged company’s leadership is expected to address staff at a town hall Thursday, with the newly combined departments set to begin their integration process with get-togethers on July 11, we hear.
First, though, comes the pain.
Around 105 positions will be eliminated, all from ICM, and coming from all areas. There will be 425 ICM agents and staffers from the agency joining CAA, meaning around 80 will be retained by CAA. These conversations will happen quickly.
First, though, comes the pain.
Around 105 positions will be eliminated, all from ICM, and coming from all areas. There will be 425 ICM agents and staffers from the agency joining CAA, meaning around 80 will be retained by CAA. These conversations will happen quickly.
- 6/28/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Longtime ICM Partners agent Jeff Barry has joined Range Media Partners, where he will head up the company’s international TV department.
He arrives at the management company — founded by a trove of top representatives who defected from the legacy agencies over the past two years — as a partner. He will be tasked with building out numerous Range verticals including literary and scripted studio divisions.
Barry had been with ICM since 2008, where he specialized in helping international writers, directors and actors crossover into Hollywood. Barry is one of many stalwart agents expected to find other gigs as ICM awaits a formal acquisition by CAA.
“If the last few years have taught us anything, it is that the future of television and film is international. There is a strong demand and interest in global content, and for the dynamic creators who tell these stories,” Barry said of the new gig. “Range...
He arrives at the management company — founded by a trove of top representatives who defected from the legacy agencies over the past two years — as a partner. He will be tasked with building out numerous Range verticals including literary and scripted studio divisions.
Barry had been with ICM since 2008, where he specialized in helping international writers, directors and actors crossover into Hollywood. Barry is one of many stalwart agents expected to find other gigs as ICM awaits a formal acquisition by CAA.
“If the last few years have taught us anything, it is that the future of television and film is international. There is a strong demand and interest in global content, and for the dynamic creators who tell these stories,” Barry said of the new gig. “Range...
- 2/7/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Jeff Barry is heading to Range Media Partners as partner and will lead the company’s international TV efforts, as well as building out their lit department, scripted studio and verticals.
Barry has been working as an agent for ICM Partners since 2008, repping writers, directors, and actors with a specialty in the international space, where he’s identified and transitioned talent from abroad to Hollywood.
His clients at ICM included Ed Berger, Joe Barton (upcoming Cloverfield sequel; Giri Haji; upcoming Half Bad), David Nicholls, Guy Bolton (Untitled Bad Robot/DC Dark Universe TV Series), Matthew Carnahan, Julie Andem (Skam), Lusia Puenzo, Quoc Dang Tran, Stephen Schiff (The Americans), Paul & Michael Clarkson, Andrew Cividino...
Barry has been working as an agent for ICM Partners since 2008, repping writers, directors, and actors with a specialty in the international space, where he’s identified and transitioned talent from abroad to Hollywood.
His clients at ICM included Ed Berger, Joe Barton (upcoming Cloverfield sequel; Giri Haji; upcoming Half Bad), David Nicholls, Guy Bolton (Untitled Bad Robot/DC Dark Universe TV Series), Matthew Carnahan, Julie Andem (Skam), Lusia Puenzo, Quoc Dang Tran, Stephen Schiff (The Americans), Paul & Michael Clarkson, Andrew Cividino...
- 2/7/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In an utterly accidental way, a box set devoted to the Archies, the infamous TV cartoon band of the Sixties, couldn’t have arrived at a timelier moment. Earlier this month, we lost the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith. The band’s musical gatekeeper, the one most preoccupied with the TV-generated combo being allowed to write its own songs and play on its own records, Nesmith famously rejected “Sugar, Sugar” — a bubblegum pop song as basic as it gets, brought to them by producer Don Kirshner.
As the late Kirshner told Rs...
As the late Kirshner told Rs...
- 12/22/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Robin McNamara, a struggling New York singer-songwriting in the late 1960s who answered a casting call for a new show called Hair and landed a starring role with the replacement cast on Broadway, died Oct. 21. He was 74.
His death was announced today on his official website, though additional details were sparse.
Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery
“On October 21, 2021, Robin McNamara gained his angel wings,” a statement on the page says. “This gentlest of gentle souls was predeceased by his loving wife, Suzie, who departed the earthly plane on May 16, 2018. Robin and Suzie are now reunited for all eternity. Robin will be greatly missed, for his talent but especially for his kind and loving spirit.”
In addition to his run as Hair‘s Claude from 1969-71, McNamara had a big radio hit...
His death was announced today on his official website, though additional details were sparse.
Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery
“On October 21, 2021, Robin McNamara gained his angel wings,” a statement on the page says. “This gentlest of gentle souls was predeceased by his loving wife, Suzie, who departed the earthly plane on May 16, 2018. Robin and Suzie are now reunited for all eternity. Robin will be greatly missed, for his talent but especially for his kind and loving spirit.”
In addition to his run as Hair‘s Claude from 1969-71, McNamara had a big radio hit...
- 10/27/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Santa Claus blows a mean sax.
The high point of Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 comes at its least festive moment. The young and grieving teen Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is mistaken for a runaway and taken away by airport authorities–while being lost in time–all the flights on Logan International Airport’s big board turn from hour-long delays to outright cancellations, and joy in that small part of Boston drops to 7 percent. People are all up in each other’s grills, nerves are frayed, and complimentary hotel stays are not going to cut it. They are not a merry bunch. If ever there was a time for a holiday miracle, this would be it. Only now, when things are at their darkest, does a flustered ticket agent named Grace (Darlene Love) reach for the public address microphone–and deliver “The Spirit of Christmas.”
Darlene Love...
The high point of Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 comes at its least festive moment. The young and grieving teen Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is mistaken for a runaway and taken away by airport authorities–while being lost in time–all the flights on Logan International Airport’s big board turn from hour-long delays to outright cancellations, and joy in that small part of Boston drops to 7 percent. People are all up in each other’s grills, nerves are frayed, and complimentary hotel stays are not going to cut it. They are not a merry bunch. If ever there was a time for a holiday miracle, this would be it. Only now, when things are at their darkest, does a flustered ticket agent named Grace (Darlene Love) reach for the public address microphone–and deliver “The Spirit of Christmas.”
Darlene Love...
- 12/1/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
"Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married," sang The Dixie Cups in "Chapel of Love," written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. In Come As You Are, three young men with disabilities are most definitely not going to a chapel intending to marry. Instead, per the official synopsis, they "flee their overbearing parents on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs." Hmm, this really does not sound like The Dixie Cups. The synopsis continues: "Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), a traveling nurse, drives the three guys across the border as they go on this trip to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. A remake of the award winning,...
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- 12/17/2019
- Screen Anarchy
If you don’t know what a “unicorn” is in the parlance of the bedroom, the title of this film may come as a bit of a surprise for you. A romantic comedy through and through, it explores a cute and fairly commonplace cinematic relationship, with the added bonus of throwing in something new. Despite the sexy title, which is code for a person who wants to engage in an encounter with a couple, just know that if you’re bemoaning the lack of rom coms in the marketplace these days, this movie is a tonic. It’s here to make the strong case that the genre has some life left in it. A fun little independent flick, it offers more than its fair share of smiles. The film is a romantic comedy about a couple who inadvertently learns that they need to spice up their relationship. Caleb (Nick Rutherford...
- 1/31/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
On a punishingly hot day in August of 1963, Darlene Love walked into L.A.’s Gold Star Studios with producer Phil Spector to lay down the vocals for a new song he’d just written with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich called “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” It had the ill-fortune of arriving in record stores on the exact day that President Kennedy was assassinated and didn’t fare well on the charts since America wasn’t exactly in a celebratory mood at the time. But over the years the song became a holiday classic,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Diamond will always be a classic gem in the rock business.
With over 130 million albums sold, multiple Grammy wins and a spot in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the 76-year old singer is currently celebrating more than half a century in the music industry with his 50th Anniversary tour. To join in his festivities, here are the stories behind some of Diamond’s biggest hits.
1. “Red Red Wine” (1967)
Though the song was first recorded by Diamond, UB40 recorded this song as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version.
UB40 didn’t realize until after it topped...
With over 130 million albums sold, multiple Grammy wins and a spot in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the 76-year old singer is currently celebrating more than half a century in the music industry with his 50th Anniversary tour. To join in his festivities, here are the stories behind some of Diamond’s biggest hits.
1. “Red Red Wine” (1967)
Though the song was first recorded by Diamond, UB40 recorded this song as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version.
UB40 didn’t realize until after it topped...
- 8/21/2017
- by Brianne Tracy
- PEOPLE.com
Chris Cummins Jan 24, 2017
A look-back at the previous attempts to bring Archie to TV before they got it right with Riverdale...
When Riverdale premieres on the CW on January 26th, it will mark a milestone for Archie Comics - the first time in the company's 75-year history that its characters will truly shine on television. A mix of gleefully ridiculous kitsch with standout performances and some truly smart writing, the series is poised to be 2017's breakout TV hit.
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That said, it took a while for Archie to get to this point. There have been many attempts to bring Archie and his friends to TV before, but these all suffered for either being shoddily animated (the various 1960s cartoons), misguided (1990's Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again), or just plain, um, weird (the X-Files cash-in Archie's Weird Mysteries...
A look-back at the previous attempts to bring Archie to TV before they got it right with Riverdale...
When Riverdale premieres on the CW on January 26th, it will mark a milestone for Archie Comics - the first time in the company's 75-year history that its characters will truly shine on television. A mix of gleefully ridiculous kitsch with standout performances and some truly smart writing, the series is poised to be 2017's breakout TV hit.
See related Shane Black: a career retrospective Zack Snyder interview: Batman V Superman
That said, it took a while for Archie to get to this point. There have been many attempts to bring Archie and his friends to TV before, but these all suffered for either being shoddily animated (the various 1960s cartoons), misguided (1990's Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again), or just plain, um, weird (the X-Files cash-in Archie's Weird Mysteries...
- 1/22/2017
- Den of Geek
An American television classic is about to get a fresh remix for a new generation.
One Day at a Time, the groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcom about a divorced mother of two, is being rebooted for Netflix, with season one premiering on Jan. 6. The show, which originally ran for nine seasons between 1975 and 1984 with stars Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington Jr., is now set in Los Angeles with Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as the matriarchs of a three-generation Cuban-American family.
More: 'One Day at a Time ' Star Pat Harrington Jr. Dead at 86
If the original’s bold storylines are any indication, the reboot of One Day at a Time will also give a current voice to countless struggling and striving families around the country and offer laughter through tears and tough times. Meanwhile, the most important life lessons learned from the original series still endure:
1. A great song is a timeless...
One Day at a Time, the groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcom about a divorced mother of two, is being rebooted for Netflix, with season one premiering on Jan. 6. The show, which originally ran for nine seasons between 1975 and 1984 with stars Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington Jr., is now set in Los Angeles with Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as the matriarchs of a three-generation Cuban-American family.
More: 'One Day at a Time ' Star Pat Harrington Jr. Dead at 86
If the original’s bold storylines are any indication, the reboot of One Day at a Time will also give a current voice to countless struggling and striving families around the country and offer laughter through tears and tough times. Meanwhile, the most important life lessons learned from the original series still endure:
1. A great song is a timeless...
- 1/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
When was the last time you thought about The Iron Horse? Or The Time Tunnel? How about The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.? All are television shows that premiered the second week of September in 1966, and all have effectively faded from memory. Not so with The Monkees, the groundbreaking TV-music-performance project that ran amok across the late '60s pop cultural landscape like Frankenstein's multimedia monster. 50 years later, it's still very much alive.
Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger – a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the brilliant...
Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger – a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the brilliant...
- 9/30/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh, @jordanruntagh
- People.com - TV Watch
When was the last time you thought about The Iron Horse? Or The Time Tunnel? How about The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.? All are television shows that premiered the second week of September in 1966, and all have effectively faded from memory. Not so with The Monkees, the groundbreaking TV-music-performance project that ran amok across the late '60s pop cultural landscape like Frankenstein's multimedia monster. 50 years later, it's still very much alive. Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger - a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the...
- 9/30/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh, @jordanruntagh
- PEOPLE.com
New projects from Pakalnina, Louhimies and Kilmi at Tallinn market.
New films from Laila Pakalnina (Dawn), Aku Louhimies (True) and Jaak Kilmi (Heroes from the East) are among 12 projects from 11 countries selected for this year’s Baltic Event co-production market which will be held in Tallinn from November 27-29.
Local Estonian film-maker Kilmi will be at the Baltic Event for the second year in a row after presenting another feature project, The Hoppers, which won the Screen International Best Pitch Award last year.
As the Baltic Event’s organisers point out, the 2013 line-up has a large number of feature debutants – six in total – ranging from Romania’s Botond-Csaba Püsök (Miracle in Cluj) through Ukraine’s Marysia Nikitiuk (When The Trees Are Falling) to Finland’s Jussi Hiltunen (Law of the Land).
In addition, Julietta Sichel, the former programme director of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, is coming to Tallinn with her company 8Heads Production and Stanislav Babic of Croatia...
New films from Laila Pakalnina (Dawn), Aku Louhimies (True) and Jaak Kilmi (Heroes from the East) are among 12 projects from 11 countries selected for this year’s Baltic Event co-production market which will be held in Tallinn from November 27-29.
Local Estonian film-maker Kilmi will be at the Baltic Event for the second year in a row after presenting another feature project, The Hoppers, which won the Screen International Best Pitch Award last year.
As the Baltic Event’s organisers point out, the 2013 line-up has a large number of feature debutants – six in total – ranging from Romania’s Botond-Csaba Püsök (Miracle in Cluj) through Ukraine’s Marysia Nikitiuk (When The Trees Are Falling) to Finland’s Jussi Hiltunen (Law of the Land).
In addition, Julietta Sichel, the former programme director of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, is coming to Tallinn with her company 8Heads Production and Stanislav Babic of Croatia...
- 11/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Chew on this: Of all the different genres of rock music, nothing has been more maligned than bubble gum music.
The name itself implies sugary confections designed for cheap mass consumption by a youthful audience that presumedly doesn't appreciate something more musically substantial. It's a term that has been used to dismiss artists that appeal to youngsters from the Monkees back in the late 1960s to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.
"Bubble gum music" as a recognized form of music is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, and in honor of what some might call a dubious historical event, three of the top bubble gum acts of the late 1960s are performing together at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York on April 22.
The acts are Ron Dante, who sang lead for all the hits of The Archies including their 1969 No. 1 hit "Sugar Sugar"; Joey Levine, who wrote...
The name itself implies sugary confections designed for cheap mass consumption by a youthful audience that presumedly doesn't appreciate something more musically substantial. It's a term that has been used to dismiss artists that appeal to youngsters from the Monkees back in the late 1960s to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.
"Bubble gum music" as a recognized form of music is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, and in honor of what some might call a dubious historical event, three of the top bubble gum acts of the late 1960s are performing together at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York on April 22.
The acts are Ron Dante, who sang lead for all the hits of The Archies including their 1969 No. 1 hit "Sugar Sugar"; Joey Levine, who wrote...
- 4/19/2012
- by David Moye
- Huffington Post
Chew on this: Of all the different genres of rock music, nothing has been more maligned than bubble gum music.
The name itself implies sugary confections designed for cheap mass consumption by a youthful audience that presumedly doesn't appreciate something more musically substantial. It's a term that has been used to dismiss artists that appeal to youngsters from the Monkees back in the late 1960s to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.
"Bubble gum music" as a recognized form of music is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, and in honor of what some might call a dubious historical event, three of the top bubble gum acts of the late 1960s are performing together at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York on April 22.
The acts are Ron Dante, who sang lead for all the hits of The Archies including their 1969 No. 1 hit "Sugar Sugar"; Joey Levine, who wrote...
The name itself implies sugary confections designed for cheap mass consumption by a youthful audience that presumedly doesn't appreciate something more musically substantial. It's a term that has been used to dismiss artists that appeal to youngsters from the Monkees back in the late 1960s to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.
"Bubble gum music" as a recognized form of music is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, and in honor of what some might call a dubious historical event, three of the top bubble gum acts of the late 1960s are performing together at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York on April 22.
The acts are Ron Dante, who sang lead for all the hits of The Archies including their 1969 No. 1 hit "Sugar Sugar"; Joey Levine, who wrote...
- 4/19/2012
- by David Moye
- Aol TV.
Nick Jonas will take part at the 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The one-third of the Jonas Brothers has got the honor to perform a 1959 song written by this year's inductee Mort Shuman and previously-inducted musician Doc Pomus titled "A Teenager In Love".
The 17-year-old singer joins other performers set for the show, including Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train. He will take the stage at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Monday, March 15.
Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges are among those to be inducted this year. Music producer David Geffen and seven songwriters, including Jeff Barry, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jesse Stone and Otis Blackwell, are also included on the induction list as well.
The 17-year-old singer joins other performers set for the show, including Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train. He will take the stage at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Monday, March 15.
Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges are among those to be inducted this year. Music producer David Geffen and seven songwriters, including Jeff Barry, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jesse Stone and Otis Blackwell, are also included on the induction list as well.
- 3/15/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Nick Jonas is expected to perform at the 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The youngest member of the Jonas Brothers reportedly is scheduled to sing "A Teenager In Love", a 1959 song written by this year's inductee Mort Shuman and previously-inducted musician Doc Pomus.
The gig will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 15 and is going to be broadcast live at 8:30 P.M. on Fuse. Other musical guests include Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train.
This year's inductees are Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges. They will be presented by Bee Gees' members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb, Trey Anastasio, Wyclef Jean, Steven Van Zandt and Joe Armstrong respectively.
Additionally, producer...
The gig will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 15 and is going to be broadcast live at 8:30 P.M. on Fuse. Other musical guests include Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train.
This year's inductees are Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges. They will be presented by Bee Gees' members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb, Trey Anastasio, Wyclef Jean, Steven Van Zandt and Joe Armstrong respectively.
Additionally, producer...
- 3/15/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Abba, Genesis, The Stooges, Jimmy Cliff and The Hollies will be inducted into the Us Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame next year. The artists have been invited to the ceremony in New York on March 15 after being selected from a longlist featuring Kiss and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billboard reports. Producer David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers. Of the possibility of a performance at the ceremony, (more)...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Nominees LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kiss didn't make the cut for 2010.
By Gil Kaufman
The Stooges' Iggy Pop
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2010 runs the gamut from the progenitors of bloody-knuckle punk rock, the Stooges, to the group that made candy-colored disco sing-alongs a worldwide obsession, Abba.
According to Rolling Stone, the Detroit-bred architects of "Raw Power" and the Swedish pop tarts are among a group of inductees that also includes long-running prog-rock-turned-radio-pop group Genesis, reggae icon Jimmy Cliff and 1960s English rock group the Hollies.
The 25th annual induction ceremony will return to New York's Waldorf Astoria on March 15, 2010, after taking a detour to Cleveland — home of the actual Hall of Fame building — for last year's ceremony, which enshrined Metallica, Run-dmc and Jeff Beck. The induction of the Stooges will end a long journey for Iggy Pop's band,...
By Gil Kaufman
The Stooges' Iggy Pop
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2010 runs the gamut from the progenitors of bloody-knuckle punk rock, the Stooges, to the group that made candy-colored disco sing-alongs a worldwide obsession, Abba.
According to Rolling Stone, the Detroit-bred architects of "Raw Power" and the Swedish pop tarts are among a group of inductees that also includes long-running prog-rock-turned-radio-pop group Genesis, reggae icon Jimmy Cliff and 1960s English rock group the Hollies.
The 25th annual induction ceremony will return to New York's Waldorf Astoria on March 15, 2010, after taking a detour to Cleveland — home of the actual Hall of Fame building — for last year's ceremony, which enshrined Metallica, Run-dmc and Jeff Beck. The induction of the Stooges will end a long journey for Iggy Pop's band,...
- 12/15/2009
- MTV Music News
It took a while, but the Stooges will finally be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Abba, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis (Maybe the folks in Cleveland were listening to us?), and the Hollies. Non-performer inductees will include David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Elle Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell....
- 12/15/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
The blond bouffant wasn’t in vogue for all that long in American beauty-parlor history, but it has taken on outsized significance as an emblem of the bubbly, frothy, teenybop Sixties of the pre-hippie era: a time of perfectly crafted two-minute pop singles rife with the word “baby.” And if ever there was a woman who embodied the blond bouffant, it was Ellie Greenwich, the marvelous Brill Building songwriter who died on Wednesday at the age of sixty-eight. While such colleagues as Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Gerry Goffin, and Carole King all exuded a certain professional cool as they went about their writing and recording business, Greenwich was irrepressible. She was a congenitally upbeat sorority girl from Long Island with a talent for melody that was as expansive as her turbine hairstyle, and she couldn’t help but get excited over the job of recording the songs she wrote with her then-husband,...
- 8/31/2009
- Vanity Fair
Rock 'n' roll songwriter Ellie Greenwich has passed away from a heart attack Wednesday morning in St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York where she had been treated for pneumonia. Greenwich became one of the U.S.'s top songwriters in the sixties, and she is most famous for having co-penned classics such as "Be My Baby," "Chapel Of Love," "River Deep, Mountain High," and "Maybe I Know." With her Brill Building contemporaries -- Gerry Goffin, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Carole King, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka, and former husband Jeff Barry--she supplied a soundtrack for half a decade, heavily contributing to and influencing what would become known as the "Girl Group" sound. Ellie Greenwich first dabbled with music on the accordion, switching to piano on which she started writing in her teens. She scored a record contract with RCA Records...
- 8/27/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
Pop singer/songwriter Ellie Greenwich has died of a heart attack after being admitted at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York for pneumonia. She was 68.
Greenwich, best known for co-writing The Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" in 1963 and The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" in 1963, recorded her first single for RCA Records at the age of 17. She met her future husband and songwriting partner, Jeff Barry, while still in college.
In 1984, a musical that celebrated her life and music, "Leader of the Pack," opened at Bottom Line. It was revamped for Broadway the following year. The musical, which included many of her pop hits, was nominated for Tony and Grammy Awards.
Her 50-year career included numerous gold and platinum discs and a Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction in 1991.
Greenwich, best known for co-writing The Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" in 1963 and The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" in 1963, recorded her first single for RCA Records at the age of 17. She met her future husband and songwriting partner, Jeff Barry, while still in college.
In 1984, a musical that celebrated her life and music, "Leader of the Pack," opened at Bottom Line. It was revamped for Broadway the following year. The musical, which included many of her pop hits, was nominated for Tony and Grammy Awards.
Her 50-year career included numerous gold and platinum discs and a Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction in 1991.
- 8/27/2009
- icelebz.com
An invitation-only staged reading of the new play Under My Skin will be presented January 26th at 3 p.m. at Ripley Grier Studios 520 Eighth Avenue 16th Floor, New York, NY. The New York premiere reading of Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser's outrageous new comedy about "sex cancer and the health care business" is being produced by Heather Provost ( [title of show], reasons to be pretty, "Reality Check") after a successful reading in Los Angeles. Best known for their many successes as writer/producers for network television, Sternin and Fraser have written shows for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and the WB, producing hundreds of episodes of primetime television. They have also created and developed over a dozen series. Credits include "Alice," "Three's Company," "Who's the Boss?" "The Charmings," "Married People," "Live-In," "The Simple Life," "Run of the House," and "The Nanny," which they co-created and executive produced with series star Fran Drescher. Sternin...
- 1/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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