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John Ashton, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Actor, Dead at 76
John Ashton, the character actor who starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the Beverly Hills Cop series, has died at the age of 76.Kris Kristofferson, Songwriter Whose Poetic Lyrics Transcended Genre, Dead at 88 The actor’s rep confirmed his death to TMZ, adding that Ashton died Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado after a battle with cancer. Ashton was best known for portraying Sgt. John Taggart alongside Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley and Judge Reinhold’s Det. Billy Rosewood in three of the four Beverly Hills Cop films: 1984’s original, the 1987 sequel Beverly Hills Cop II, and this year’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,...
Rapper Chino XL Died by Suicide, Family Says in Statement
The family of Chino XL has announced that the rapper died by suicide in July.'My Brother in Rhyme & Art': Chuck D, Czarface, Bun B, and More Remember Chino XL “With the most profound sadness imaginable, we share the news that our beloved father decided to end his own life,” his family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “It’s been the most painful and personal experience of our lives but in honor of Suicide Awareness Month, we decided to share this truth. Dad would hope that this news may help someone else stay alive.” The family added that the New York...
Thousands of Music Videos, Including Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ Removed From YouTube Amid Copyright Dispute
Thousands of songs and music videos by hundreds of artists have vanished from YouTube after the video site failed to reach a new agreement with publishing rights organization SESAC.Dame Dash's Roc-A-Fella Auction Paused in a Rift Over Rights to Jay-Z's Debut Album Artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Green Day and hundreds more were impacted by the impasse created as SESAC’s deal with YouTube nears expiration. “We have held good faith negotiations with SESAC to renew our existing deal. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we were unable to reach an equitable agreement before its expiration,” a YouTube...
Why Neil Young Will Never Give Up on the Road
This week Neil Young did two amazing club shows at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, with his new band the Chrome Hearts. He began both nights with “I’m the Ocean,” one of his fiercest songs, from the 1995 Pearl Jam collaboration Mirror Ball. “People my age, they don’t do the things I do” — that was a great line when he was on the edge of turning 50, but it’s a whole other experience hearing him snarl it now at 78. On Monday night he sang that verse twice, then ripped the wires out of his...
The Best Things We Saw at Life Is Beautiful 2024: Day 2
Under the looming eyes of the Plaza and Golden Nugget hotels, Life Is Beautiful returned for the second night of its “Big Beautiful Block Party,” and this night was all about the tracks: music tracks and train tracks. The festival grounds sit adjacent to an active rail line, giving several train conductors a drive-by view of the side-by-side stages. On multiple occasions throughout the two-day festival, freight trains ploddingly rolled by during sets, prompting conductors to honk their horns and spark revelrous applause from the crowd.The Best Things We Saw at Life Is Beautiful 2024: Day 1 In some ways,...
Conservatives Test Whether the Supreme Court Will Do Literally Anything They Want
If you are in the business of seeking out public information, it can be frustrating when an agency denies your public records request or refuses to waive any fees it might require before handing over documents. Trump Suggests Giving Cops 'One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime It’s normal to call up the agency and say, Hey! This is important! If you’re a journalist, you might write a story about how the government is blocking access to information the public urgently needs. You might even sue to try to get the records released. If you work at a right-wing think tank —...
See Chris Martin and Ed Sheeran Play Surprise Set Together at Global Citizen
The 2024 Global Citizen Festival took place Saturday in New York’s Central Park, and in addition to performances by Post Malone, Jelly Roll, Doja Cat, and Blackpink’s Lisa, the concert featured a surprise acoustic set by Ed Sheeran and Coldplay’s Chris Martin.PnB Rock Murder: Dad of Alleged Shooter Gets 31 Years to Life in Prison The duo played four songs together, switching between Coldplay and Sheeran hits: They opened with a rendition of Coldplay’s “Yellow” with Sheeran on lead vocals, then turned Sheeran’s “Shape of You” into a duet. Both artists, acoustic guitars in hand, next joined forces for a take on...
Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the ‘Soul of the Internet’
In the old chapel of a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, late-afternoon sun pours orange through the windows and several giant servers are hard at work. The tall, black towers fill two large alcoves and their cooling fans emit a serene, industrial hum as blue lights blink. Each flicker, says the man in charge of this operation, Brewster Kahle, is a virtual patron of the enormous digital library called the Internet Archive.Netflix's Motion to Dismiss 'Baby Reindeer' Lawsuit Denied by Judge Across the room, near where the pulpit would be, sits a sculpture of chunky, red, antiquated computer...
‘SNL’: Watch Jelly Roll Perform ‘Liar’ and Unreleased Song ‘Winning Streak’
Country singer and rapper Jelly Roll debuted on Saturday Night Live with performances of “Liar” and “Winning Streak,” both from his forthcoming 10th studio album, Beautifully Broken, which is set for release Oct. 11.'SNL': Mark Robinson Fails Miserably Playing The $100,000 Pyramid The Tennessee native is coming off nominations for the CMA Awards’ Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year. His most recent album, Whitsitt Chapel, was also nominated for best album at the CMAs. The winner of last year’s CMA for New Artist, Jelly Roll has had high-profile performances in recent months, like at the Emmys and Wrestlemania....
‘SNL’: Mark Robinson Fails Miserably Playing The $100,000 Pyramid
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (Kenan Thompson) competed on The $100,000 Pyramid against Saturday Night Live host Jean Smart, with the actress playing a woman married to a chimpanzee.'SNL': Watch Jelly Roll Perform 'Liar' and Unreleased Song 'Winning Streak' The scandal-plagued Republican gubernatorial candidate had no shortage of incorrect answers to prompts given by rapper Bad Bunny (Marcello Hernandez). Rather than answer “dancing” when asked about the most common thing to do in a club, Robinson replied, “Cheat on your wife.” And when the prompt was, “It feels good in the moment, but you always regret it,” Robinson didn’t guess the correct phrase “Getting too drunk.” Instead, he said, “Commenting ‘I’m a black Nazi‘ on a pornographic website.” Yet Robinson’s competition–Smart teaming up with podcaster Haliey Welch–didn’t do much better. 'SNL' Weekend Update Tackles Trump Assassination Attempt, P Diddy & Eric Adams Indictments Smart’s answers in the category “things babies need” all had something to do with primates: “banana” instead of “pacifier,” “cage” rather than “crib,” and so on. One answer was correct, though: “breastfeeding.” Cut to Smart feeding her chimpanzee husband.'SNL' Cold Open: Kamala Dances While Trump Longs For Old Biden
‘SNL’ Weekend Update Tackles Trump Assassination Attempt, P Diddy & Eric Adams Indictments
SNL‘s Weekend Update addressed the assassination attempt of Donald Trump in July, as well as the more recent indictments of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and rapper Sean Combs.Trump Suggests Giving Cops 'One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime Co-anchor Colin Jost first called attention to how Trump earlier in the day delivered his latest smear against Vice President Kamala Harris when he called her “mentally disabled.” “I cannot believe that Trump admitted he lost the debate to a mentally disabled person,” Jost reacted. “You can really tell Trump is worried about this election because now he’s just lashing out, hoping anything will work,” he went on,...
‘SNL’ Cold Open: Kamala Dances While Trump Longs For Old Biden
Saturday Night Live‘s 50th season premiered with show alum Maya Rudolph reprising her role as “fun aunt” Kamala Harris, this time holding a jovial campaign rally while Donald Trump and JD Vance try not to bore attendees at theirs.Trump Suggests Giving Cops 'One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime Rudolph, whose portrayal of Harris was announced in July, first played her five years ago when the then-California senator was seeking the Democratic nomination. The following year, she returned to the late night show as Biden’s running mate. Now, Rudolph has a running mate of her own: Tim Walz, as depicted by...
Frances Bean Cobain and Riley Hawk Welcome Baby Boy
Frances Bean Cobain and Riley Hawk have announced the arrival of their baby boy, Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk. He was born on Sept. 17.Frances Bean Cobain: 'I Wish I Could've Known My Dad' Cobain shared three black-and-white photos via Instagram on Saturday: the first snapshot features a swaddled Ronin. In the second photograph, Ronin is seen grasping his mother’s index finger; and in the third, Hawk lovingly looks at Ronin as he cradles his son in his arms. “Welcome to the world most beautiful son,” Cobain captioned the post. “We love you more than anything.” Hawk also shared the same...
Eric Church, ‘Devastated’ by North Carolina Flooding, Postpones SiriusXM Concert
When Eric Church recorded his last album, 2021’s Heart & Soul, he decamped for the mountains of his native North Carolina and created a makeshift studio in a shuttered restaurant. Over the weekend, he watched that very region being decimated by flooding from Hurricane Helene, essentially cutting off the mountain towns of western North Carolina from civilization. Many in the area are without power, running water, and even cell service.Morgan Wallen Welcomed Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, More to His Knoxville Shows “I’m devastated by the destruction in the mountains of western North Carolina. These are our family members,...
Trump Calls Harris ‘Mentally Disabled’ in Latest Anti-Migrant Rally Rant
Donald Trump is more than doubling down on spreading unhinged lies about the United States being “occupied” by migrants, apparently — as he claimed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on Saturday — in “hundreds of towns” throughout the Midwest. Trump continued to push the idea that if he doesn’t win the election, “you’re gonna lose your culture.”Conservatives Test Whether the Supreme Court Will Do Literally Anything They Want Railing against migrants and the border has been central to Trump’s campaign, though on Saturday he ramped up the rhetoric to focus primarily on tapping into unsubstantiated fears of a “mass migrant...
Netflix’s Motion to Dismiss ‘Baby Reindeer’ Lawsuit Denied by Judge
Netflix’s motion to have the Baby Reindeer lawsuit dismissed was rejected Friday by the judge overseeing the case between Fiona Harvey — the alleged inspiration behind Martha in the hit series — and the streaming service.Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet' In June, Harvey sued Netflix for then-$50 million, claiming “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence, and violations of Harvey’s right of publicity, arising out of the brutal lies Defendants told about her in the television series, Baby Reindeer.” The following month, Netflix filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, with creator Richard...
‘The Ellen Show’ Staffers Say Ellen DeGeneres’ New Netflix Special ‘Missed the Mark’
After spending her entire career as a comedian and talk-show host consumed by what other people think of her, Ellen DeGeneres says in her new Netflix special For Your Approval that she “just can’t anymore.” Netflix's Motion to Dismiss 'Baby Reindeer' Lawsuit Denied by Judge “But if I’m being honest, and I have a choice of people remembering me as someone who was mean or someone who was beloved,” DeGeneres confesses to the audience of fans who attended the taping at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theater, she chooses beloved. While DeGeneres spends much of the special making her case to be viewed with affection...
See Jelly Roll Bring Out Post Malone for Live Debut of ‘Losers’ at MSG
Jelly Roll’s very busy weekend in New York City kicked off Friday night with a concert at Madison Square Garden, where the singer was joined onstage by surprise guest Post Malone.'SNL': Watch Jelly Roll Perform 'Liar,' 'Winning Streak' The two artists performed three tracks together: A rendition of the country classic “Friends in Low Places,” a version of Malone’s “I Had Some Help” with Jelly Roll filling in for Morgan Wallen, and the live debut of “Losers,” their collaboration from Malone’s F-1 Trillion. Malone wasn’t the only special guest at Jelly Roll’s MSG gig: Alexandra Kay stopped by for covers of...
Watch David Gilmour Play a Stunning ‘Comfortably Numb’ at World Tour Kickoff
David Gilmour kicked off his Luck and Strange world tour Friday night at Circo Massimo in Rome, Italy. The set featured six songs from the new album, multiple guest appearances by Gilmour’s daughter Romany, three tunes from 2015’s Rattle That Lock, and 12 Pink Floyd classics.David Gilmour on His New Album and Why Pink Floyd Drama Is 'Totally Irrelevant' Prior to the tour, Gilmour generated headlines all across the world by saying he had an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies,” and would instead play only songs from his era fronting the band in the Eighties and...
Oklahoma State vs. Kansas State Livestream: How to Watch the College Football Game Online
The Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas, will see a Big 12 showdown today, as the Kansas State Wildcats host the Oklahoma State Cowboys in a Saturday matchup. The two teams currently hold 3-1 records so far this season, with both teams fresh off losses last weekend.A Rare GoPro Deal Gets You Their 5K Action Camera for $50 Off At a Glance: How to Watch Oklahoma State vs. Kansas State Online Stream: DirecTV Stream, fuboTV, Sling, Hulu + Live TV Channel: ESPN Time: Today at 12 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. CT / 9 a.m. PT With a Week 5 victory on the...
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