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November 24, 2019
American Music Awards: Taylor Swift Performs Medley of Past Hits Without Too Much Controversy
Taylor Swift performed a medley of her past hits at the American Music Awards, after saying on social media earlier this month that her old label, Big Machine Records, prevented her from playing her old songs.
Big Machine refuted Swift’s claims, and eventually reached an agreement with dick clark productions, the producer of the AMAs, to approve Swift’s performance for Sunday’s show.
And perform she did. Taking the stage in a white button-up with the names of her early albums written on it, she sang “The Man” surrounded by young girls. “‘Cause if I was a man, then I’d be the man,” the pop star belted, seemingly a message to Scooter Braun, the manager who bought Big Machine Records and controls the rights to her early catalog.
She tore away the shirt to reveal a glimmering, golden bodysuit before descending into her greatest hits: “Love Story,” “Trouble,” “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” (with Camila Cabello and Halsey).
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Swift then took to the piano to perform her latest hit, “Lover.”
Afterward, she accepted the Artist of the Decade Award from songwriter Carole King, one of her idols.
“All any of the artists want is to create something that will last, whatever it is in life,” Swift said. “The fact that this is an award that celebrates a decade of hard work, and of art and of fun and of memories.”
Addressing the recent controversy in her acceptance speech, Swift continued. “All that matters to me is the memories that I’ve had with you guys, with you the fans over the years…thank you for being the reason why I am on the stage from the very first day of my career until tonight. I’m so lucky I get to do this.”
Later in the evening, upon winning the Artist of the Year award, Swift added, “The last year of my life has had the most amazing times and some of the hardest things in my life that I’ve gone through. This year for me has been a lot. A lot of good. A lot of really complicated. On behalf of my family and me, thank you so much for being there and for caring.”
With her wins Sunday evening, Swift became the most-awarded artist in AMAs history, surpassing Michael Jackson.
The American Music Awards, the world’s largest fan-voted award show, features performances from today’s hottest artists and presents fan-voted awards in the music genres of Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Inspirational, Latin, EDM and Soundtrack, and the categories of Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Collaboration of the Year, Tour of The Year, Favorite Social Artist and Favorite Music Video. The show is produced by dick clark productions.
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‘Watchmen’ EP Breaks Down the Major Reveal That Upends Alan Moore’s Original Comic
(Warning: The following story contains MAJOR spoilers from the sixth episode of “Watchmen” titled “This Extraordinary Being.”)
Well, “Watchmen” just went there.
Sunday’s episode was dedicated entirely to unraveling the mystery behind Will Reeves (Louis Gossett Jr.), courtesy of Angela Abar (Regina King) ingesting the entire bottle full of her grandfather’s “Nostalgia Pills.”
And what we found out about Reeves included a pretty major change to Alan Moore’s original graphic novel: Reeves was none other than Hooded Justice, one of the founding members of The Minutemen and the first costumed vigilante in “Watchmen’s” alternate universe.
“I know it’s a scary choice and very radical. To me when I see it, it’s like ‘Oh, of course that would make sense.’ That’s the one character that would never reveal his identity,” Nicole Kassell, who directed a handful of episodes and serves as an executive producer on the series, told TheWrap.
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Hooded Justice was one of the few characters from Moore’s work whose civilian identity was never before revealed. In the world of “Watchmen,” it was believed that Hooded Justice was East European strongman Rolf Muller, who disappeared in the mid-1950s, around the same time that Hooded Justice left the public eye.
Kassell explained that the mystery surrounding the real identity of Hooded Justice made it ripe to ask the question of why, in a world full of masked vigilantes, would that be the one character that we never saw unmasked? “Why was Hooded Justice never revealed? You take that period and you think of the issues in our country. Why would someone hide who they are, forever?” Kassell continued.
The reveal that Hooded Justice was actually a black man, who would put makeup around his eyes so the rest of the world would assume he’s white (in the in-universe TV series, “American Hero Story,” he is portrayed by Cheyenne Jackson), dovetails with Lindelof’s intent to have race relations at the center of his story. Reeves gets the idea for putting a hood and a noose over his face from the fact that as a young police officer he was lynched as a warning from his fellow white police offers to stay in line.
During the Television Critics Association press tour in July, Lindelof said he expected “Watchmen” to have a divided response among fans.
“Whether or not the show feels like it’s ‘Watchmen’ is in the eye of the beholder,” he said. “Some people who have an intense relationship with the source material might say, ‘This feels like ‘Watchmen’ to me,’ [while] others might say, ‘This is an aberration and I wish it never existed.'”
We wonder if he had this specific episode in mind when he said that.
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Third ‘Walking Dead’ Series Gets Title and a New Trailer – and Julia Ormond (Video)
AMC finally named its third “Walking Dead” series on Sunday, when the cable channel also released a new trailer for the Spring 2020 launch. “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” also just cast Julia Ormond as a series regular.
Ormond will play Elizabeth, the charismatic leader of a large, sophisticated and formidable force, according to AMC. Co-created by Scott M. Gimple and showrunner Matt Negrete, “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” also stars Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Annet Mahendru, Nicolas Cantu, Hal Cumpston and Nico Tortorella.
“The Walking Dead: World Beyond” will focus on the first generation raised in the zombie apocalypse, according to AMC. Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.
Produced and distributed by AMC Studios, “World Beyond” is executive produced by Gimple, Negrete, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert and Brian Bockrath.
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“We are thrilled to have Julia join our merry band. I’m grateful for the talent, grace, intelligence, and humor she has brought to our set, our show and to this role,” Gimple said on Sunday. “We — and the audience — are very lucky to have Julia helping bring this new world of the ‘Walking Dead’ to life.”
“I’m so thrilled to be working with ‘The Walking Dead’ team — I absolutely love how they write for women in particular; a lovely, talented cast and great to be back with AMC,” Ormond said.
Ormond isn’t the only new name we got tonight. Natalie Gold, Al Calderon, Scott Adsit and Ted Sutherland will join “World Beyond” in recurring roles, AMC said in a press release. While we got character names for each — Calderon is Barca, Adsit is Tony, and Sutherland is Percy — only Gold’s got a description: Lyla is a mysterious figure operating in the shadows on behalf of the cause she believes in.
Watch the “Walking Dead: World Beyond” trailer via the video above.
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‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ Theater Review: Aidan Quinn Enters Willy Loman’s Turf
Aidan Quinn and Kristine Nielsen take radically different approaches to introduce their respective characters in the new Signature Theatre’s production of Horton Foote’s “The Young Man From Atlanta.” The new revival opened Sunday at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center.
Those first two scenes in Foote’s 1995 play, set in 1950, are a challenge for any actor, crammed as they are with clunky exposition about an affluent Texas couple whose adult son recently drowned in a lake.
Quinn manages to present Will Kidder (a character also seen in Foote’s multiplay saga “The Orphans’ Home Cycle”) as the proud, stolid, self-congratulatory successful businessman that he is, and it’s quite a slog of “remember that” and “let me tell you this” speeches. Nielsen goes a different route. She manages to distract us from the religious, grieving, deluded, self-absorbed housewife Lily Dale Kidder (also from “Home Cycle”) by unleashing every comic mannerism in her considerable arsenal of acting tricks. Amid all the eye-popping and triple takes, Nielsen’s character doesn’t appear until Act 2.
Quinn is being honest. Nielsen is out to entertain. Her approach is the more attention-grabbing, and, considering the poor execution of exposition on Foote’s part, is entirely warranted.
Fortunately, melodrama thrives under capitalism gone amok, and “The Young Man From Atlanta” is ultimately an effective indictment of it. A son is blackmailed, a husband is fired, a wife is bamboozled by a virtual stranger from Atlanta. Money can make an American family go round and round, to paraphrase Kander and Ebb, and it can also bring them down.
Foote isn’t telling a complicated story here, but he takes two long scenes to set it up. Michael Wilson’s direction doesn’t solve the problem, and his lead actors are left to their own very different devices to give us the backstory. When the capitalistic pieces are finally in place, however, Foote’s story engages. We watch as Will asks Lily Dale for money from her own bank account, which has been radically depleted, unbeknownst to Will, forcing Lily Dale to ask her stepfather (the beautifully understated Stephen Payne) for a loan only minutes before Will requests the same thing of his in-law. It’s a very noisy plot, but one that fascinates because of, rather than in spite of, its cheap mechanics.
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After all the clanging around in the first act, Foote delivers a sensitive portrait of a severely damaged marriage in the second act, and Wilson’s direction finds the right balance with his two leads. Nielsen’s theatrical dithering coalesces into genuine maternal despair. In a series of scenes, Quinn’s face never stops changing color and his neck appears ready to explode more than once. Money problems have pushed Will to his physical limit, and Quinn’s depiction of that toll is harrowing. This actor would make a great Willy Loman.
Act 2 is also enhanced by the graceful restraint of Pat Bowie. She plays a former domestic who visits the Kidders to offer her condolences and kind memories of their son. (Will and Lily Dare never mention that dead son’s sexual orientation, as fitting for the time.)
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Best Looks From the 2019 American Music Awards Red Carpet (Photos)
The American Music Awards, the world’s largest fan-voted award show, features performances from today’s hottest artists and presents fan-voted awards in the music genres of Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Inspirational, Latin, EDM and Soundtrack, and the categories of Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Collaboration of the Year, Tour of The Year, Favorite Social Artist and Favorite Music Video. The show is produced by dick clark productions.
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American Music Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List
Here are all the winners from the 2019 American Music Awards, denoted with the word “WINNER” next to their name.
Artist of the Year
Drake
Ariana Grande
Halsey
Post Malone
WINNER: Taylor Swift
New Artist of the Year
Luke Combs
WINNER: Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Ella Mai
Collaboration of the Year
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, “Shallow”
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, “Old Town Road”
Marshmello & Bastille, “Happier”
WINNER: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello, “Señorita”
Post Malone & Swae Lee, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”
Tour of the Year
WINNER: BTS
Ariana Grande
Elton John
P!nk
Ed Sheeran
Favorite Music Video
Billie Eilish, “Bad Guy”
Ariana Grande, “7 Rings”
Halsey, “Without Me”
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, “Old Town Road”
WINNER: Taylor Swift, “You Need to Calm Down”
Favorite Social Artist
WINNER: BTS
Billie Eilish
EXO
Ariana Grande
Shawn Mendes
Favorite Male Artist – Pop/Rock
Drake
WINNER: Khalid
Post Malone
Favorite Female Artist – Pop/Rock
Billie Eilish
Ariana Grande
WINNER: Taylor Swift
Favorite Duo or Group – Pop/Rock
WINNER: BTS
Jonas Brothers
Panic! At The Disco
Favorite Album – Pop/Rock
Billie Eilish, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
Ariana Grande, “Thank U, Next”
WINNER: Taylor Swift, “Lover”
Favorite Song – Pop/Rock
WINNER: Halsey, “Without Me”
Jonas Brothers, “Sucker”
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, “Old Town Road”
Panic! At The Disco, “High Hopes”
Post Malone & Swae Lee, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”
Favorite Male Artist – Country
WINNER: Kane Brown
Luke Combs
Thomas Rhett
Favorite Female Artist – Country
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris
WINNER: Carrie Underwood
Favorite Duo or Group – Country
WINNER: Dan + Shay
Florida Georgia Line
Old Dominion
Favorite Album – Country
Kane Brown, “Experiment”
Dan + Shay, “Dan + Shay”
WINNER: Carrie Underwood, “Cry Pretty”
Favorite Song – Country
Luke Combs, “Beautiful Crazy”
WINNER: Dan + Shay, “Speechless”
Blake Shelton, “God’s Country”
Favorite Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop
WINNER: Cardi B
Drake
Post Malone
Favorite Album – Rap/Hip-Hop
Meek Mill, “Championships”
WINNER: Post Malone, “Hollywood’s Bleeding”
Travis Scott, “Astroworld”
Favorite Song – Rap/Hip-Hop
WINNER: Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, “Old Town Road”
Post Malone, “Wow.”
Travis Scott, “Sicko Mode”
Favorite Male Artist – Soul/R&B
Chris Brown
Khalid
WINNER: Bruno Mars
Favorite Female Artist – Soul/R&B
WINNER: Beyoncé
Lizzo
Ella Mai
Favorite Album – Soul/R&B
Chris Brown, “Indigo”
WINNER: Khalid, Free “Spirit”
Ella Mai, “Ella Mai”
Favorite Song – Soul/R&B
WINNER: Khalid, “Talk”
Lizzo, “Juice”
Ella Mai, “Trip”
Favorite Artist – Alternative Rock
WINNER: Billie Eilish
Imagine Dragons
Panic! at the Disco
Favorite Artist – Adult Contemporary
Maroon 5
P!nk
WINNER: Taylor Swift
Favorite Artist – Latin
Bad Bunny
WINNER: J Balvin
Ozuna
Favorite Artist – Contemporary Inspirational
WINNER: Lauren Daigle
For King & Country
MercyMe
Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music (EDM)
Avicii
WINNER: Marshmello
The Chainsmokers
Favorite Soundtrack
“A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
WINNER: “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Artist of the Decade
Taylor Swift
The American Music Awards, the world’s largest fan-voted award show, features performances from today’s hottest artists and presents fan-voted awards in the music genres of Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Inspirational, Latin, EDM and Soundtrack, and the categories of Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Collaboration of the Year, Tour of The Year, Favorite Social Artist and Favorite Music Video. The show is produced by dick clark productions.
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‘SNL’ Spoofs Democratic Debate With All-Star Lineup of Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Woody Harrelson and More
“Saturday Night Live” packed more all-star cameos into a single sketch about the NBC News Democratic presidential debate than we’ve seen in some entire seasons — and that’s not even counting the appearance of Ryan Reynolds and Tracy Morgan during guest host Will Ferrell’s opening monologue.
In addition to Ferrell as billionaire Tom Steyer, we saw the return of Larry David’s Bernie Sanders, Woody Harrelson’s Joe Biden, Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris. Plus “SNL” alums Rachel Dratch as Amy Klobuchar and Fred Armisen as soon-to-be candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Given the sheer number of performers on stage, the sketch was understandably a bit of a grab-bag. Harrelson’s Biden noted his proneness to verbal gaffes, saying that Americans were “scared I’ll say something off-color. Or even worse, on-color.”
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David’s Sanders did a coffeehouse riff on economic disparity: “Is it fair that only the top 2% often get a free biscotti with their coffee?”
And Dratch’s Klobuchar couldn’t stop her shaking.
But current “SNL” cast members walked off with some of the best lines, including Colin Jost as Pete Buttigieg saying that he was wearing his “First Communion” suit and Kate McKinnon’s Elizabeth Warren poking fun at her previous claims of Native American ancestry while acknowledging her “mom-hosting-Thanksgiving engergy.”
“Of course this Thanksgiving I’ll be cooking … the food of my ancestors — should I say it? I’m gonna say it — maize,” she joked.
The crowded stage also included Bowen Yang as Andrew Yang, Chris Redd as Cory Booker (Chris Redd), Cecily Strong as Tulsi Gabbard and Melissa Villasenor as MSNBC moderator Rachel Maddow.
Watch the full sketch above.
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Goo Hara, Korean Pop Singer in Group Kara, Dies at 28
Goo Hara, the Korean pop singer best known for her work in the K-pop girl group Kara, was found dead Sunday at her home in Seoul, the BBC reported. She was 28.
Authorities said the cause of death was still under investigation. The performer, who debuted with the five-member Kara in 2008, had appeared in a series of comeback performances last week following her hospitalization in May after a suspected suicide attempt.
The young star and outspoken advocate against cyberbullying in June said she said she was struggling to overcome depression and pleaded for positive comment on social media, Reuters reported.
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In her final Instagram post, sent Saturday to her 1.5 million followers, she showed a selfie in bed with the caption “Good night.”
Goo’s work with Kara was part of the wave of K-pop acts that led to worldwide popularity for the music genre. She also performed as a solo artist, with a 2015 EP that hit No. 4 on the Korean charts and a new single, “Midnight Queen,” released earlier this month.
Goo’s death comes one month after the death of Sulli, a former member of the K-pop girl group f(x) in a suspected suicide. Sulli was a close friend of Goo’s and had also spoken out against cyberbullying.
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‘SNL': Will Ferrell’s Gordon Sondland Shows Up to Ruin Things for Alec Baldwin’s Trump
At the top of Saturday’s episode of “SNL,” host Will Ferrell showed up in the cold open as EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who ruined Donald Trump’s post-impeachment hearing press conference by continuously being terrible at lying about quid pro quo.
The Sketch began as a parody of Donald Trump’s wild Wednesday press conference, during which he held a weird note written in black magic marker to remind him of his talking points. But the sketch avoided actually joking about that note. Instead it focused on Trump’s insistence that the impeachment hearing testimony given by Sondland fully exonerated him.
Naturally, Alec Baldwin returned to play Trump in the sketch, which saw him repeating his claim that there was no quid pro quo in his Ukraine dealings, followed by Baldwin-Trump also denying that he has any idea who Sondland is. At which point Will Ferrell’s Sondland showed up to ruin the whole thing.
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As he walked out, Baldwin-Trump said “it’s great to finally meet you for the first time,” and Ferrell’s Sondland agreed they were meeting for the first time as they both laughed.
Shortly after that, Ferrell’s Sondland’s started to admit Trump committed a crime, before hastily saying “keep that quid pro quo on the low-low-low.”
Sondland then got Baldwin-Trump’s back. “I just wanna on the record and say you guys need to lay off my boy. Everybody loves his ass. Ukraine, Russia. They’ll do anything for this man. I know, I asked.”
A nervous Baldwin Trump hastily shushed Sondland before saying that “in conclusion, there was no quid pro quo ,” followed by the traditional “live from New York” kick off of the opening credits.
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Even ‘Fantastic Four’ Director Josh Trank Agrees His 2015 Reboot Was Just ‘Alright’
The 2015 “Fantastic Four” reboot was widely panned by critics and fans for making major changes to the source material, and now, four years later, it’s being panned by its own director, Josh Trank.
Trank wrote a review of his movie on Letterboxd Friday, and in the first sentence, he summed up what most critics have been saying for almost half a decade: “Huh.”
“Okay first of all, I thought it would be GREAT if I searched FF2015 and the shit wasn’t even on here. Low key I kinda was hoping it wasn’t. But it was! And I’m here. Anyway. Where to begin… the movie is ALRIGHT,” he wrote.
He, like others before him, praised the “great cast” of the film. But his critique went downhill from there.
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“Everyone in the film is a great actor, and overall there is a movie in there, somewhere. And that cast deserves to be in THAT movie,” he wrote. “Everyone who worked on Fant4stic clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But…. ultimately… It wasn’t.”
On the eve of the 2015 premiere of “Fantastic Four” — which stars Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell – Trank tweeted and then quickly deleted his opinion of the film, saying, “A year ago, I had a fantastic version of this. And it would have received great reviews. You’ll probably never see. That’s reality though.”
That tweet may have helped sink the box office for Fox’s $120 million Marvel superhero reboot, which had been tracking for a $40 million opening weekend, but instead pulling in a feeble $26.2 million.
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Trank noted in his review posted Friday that he hadn’t watched the movie since two weeks before its initial release, when he “was in a heavily f—ing traumatized state of mind,” a comment he didn’t elaborate on.
But he did go on to compare himself to (and praise) director Zack Snyder, who has done blockbuster comic adaptation films with heavy-hitting ensemble casts (like “The Suicide Squad” and “Wonder Woman 1984”). “Zack Snyder is a storied, iconic, legendary filmmaker who has been knocking it out of the f—ing park since I was in high school,” he said.
Trank was just 29 years old when he made “Fantastic Four,” only the second film to his credit and, as he would say, “in a situation more complicated than anything a 2nd time filmmaker should’ve walked into.”
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“That said… I don’t regret any of it. It’s a part of me,” he said. “And I just hope Peyton Reed makes the next Fantastic Four and crushes it. And that I get a cameo.”
Reed will return to direct Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man 3,” which will likely release in 2022.
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