Personal effects and memorabilia belonging to the late Tony Bennett are set to go up for auction in April.
Julien’s Auctions will host Tony Bennett: A Life Well Lived on April 18 and 19 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The auction starts the day after Josh Groban hosts an all-star tribute to Bennett at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual gala fundraiser.
The auction includes several paintings, including a David Hockney portrait of Bennett estimated to sell for between $20,000 and $30,000, as well as Bennett’s portrait of Hockney, signed “Benedetto,” estimated to sell for $3,000 to $5,000.
There’s also a red leather scrapbook featuring over 100 messages sent to Tony for his 75th birthday, from the likes of Martin Scorsese, Elton John, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Bill Clinton and more. It is estimated to sell for $8,000 to $12,000.
The auction will also feature clothing, gold record awards and more, including a letter sent by Martin Luther King Jr. thanking Bennett for entertaining demonstrators at the March on Selma, dated April 5, 1965, with an estimate worth of $20,000 to $30,000, and Bennett’s Kennedy Center Honors award, with an estimated worth of $5,000 to $7,000.
And fans will be able to get a chance to view the collection at two exhibitions being held ahead of the auction: at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco from April 8 to 10 and at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York from April 10 to 16.
Engines on a long-in-development fourth Star Trek film with the reboot cast of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and Zoe Saldaña are warming up again with the co-creator of Max’s The Flight Attendant behind the keyboard.
In an extensive feature story on the booming state of the Star Trek universe on both the big and small screens, Variety reports Steve Yockey is writing a follow-up to 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, which is meant to be a “final chapter” for the cast that first went “where no one has gone before” in 2009’s Star Trek.
The fourth film has seen directors come and go: At one point Quentin Tarantino was toying with directing a Star Trek film — which Variety revealed had “a 1930s gangster backdrop” — and WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman was on board, too, before dropping out to call the shots on Marvel Studios’ forthcoming Fantastic Four.
No director has been linked to Yockey’s “final chapter” for that cast, however.
On Wednesday, Peacock announced that Jessica Biel will star in and produce the thriller series The Good Daughter for the streaming service.
Based on Karin Slaughter‘s book of the same name, Biel will play Charlotte Quinn. She and her sister Samantha “have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence.”
The tease continues, “When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, both she and Samantha find themselves wondering if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.”
Slaughter will write all episodes of the show and co-produce alongside Biel, and veterans of Pieces of Her and Big Little LiesBruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver.
Most recently, Biel played infamous ax killer Candy Montgomery in Hulu’s true crime limited series Candy. She recently signed onto BATSO, the fact-based mountain climbing drama in which she’ll star with Ethan Hawke and Daniel Radcliffe.
Big Sean‘s Tiny Desk performance is now live for his fans to see.
Released days after he teased it on Instagram, his episode sees him perform songs from his discography with the help of some “talented musicians and vocalists.” He kicks off the show with his song “Memories” and later performs classics including “Blessings,” “All Me,” “Bounce Back” and “IDFWU.” He also teased a new record, “On Up,” dedicated to his son, and shared some of the highlights of being a father.
Sean’s Tiny Desk concert comes on the heels of his new single, “Precision,” his first solo release in two years. An accompanying music video is available on YouTube, as is the Tiny Desk performance.
Grateful Dead is celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of their album From The Mars Hotel with a new deluxe edition of the album.
The new release, dropping June 21, will include a remastered version of the album, along with demos of “China Doll” and “Wave That Flag,” the latter of which eventually became the Mars Hotel track “U.S. Blues.” The set will also come with a previously unreleased concert recorded May 12, 1974, at the University of Nevada-Reno, featuring performances of songs from Mars Hotel, along with classics like “Truckin’” and “Sugar Magnolia.”
Originally released on June 27, 1974, From The Mars Hotel was the follow-up to Wake of the Flood and was released less than a year after it came out. In addition to “China Doll” and “Wave That Flag,” the album featured such songs as “Scarlett Begonias” and “Ship of Fools,” along with “Pride of Cucamonga” and “Unbroken Chain,” which turned out to be the final two songs with lead vocals by Phil Lesh on a Grateful Dead studio album. Mars Hotel peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200.
From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be released as a three-CD and digital set. The remastered version of the album will also be released as a single black vinyl; a limited-edition neon pink vinyl; a limited-edition “Ugly Rumors” custom vinyl, sold exclusively on Dead.net; and a specially designed zoetrope picture disc, which when viewed by a camera or strobe appears to animate.
And to celebrate the announcement, the ninth season of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast will premiere Thursday, March 28, with an episode dedicated to From The Mars Hotel.
Good Times, the classic Norman Lear sitcom, gets animated in a new trailer from Netflix.
Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s J.B. Smoove, Community‘s Yvette Nicole Brown, black-ish alumna Marsai Martin and more lend their voices to the project, which was co-produced by the late TV icon’s production company, Steph Curry‘s Unanimous Media and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door.
According to Sony Pictures Television, the “animated reboot of the Norman Lear series finds the latest generation of the Evans family, cab driver Reggie (Smoove) and his wife, the ever-aspirational Beverly (Brown), scratching and surviving in one of the last remaining housing projects in Chicago along with their teenage artist son, Junior (Jay Pharoah), activist daughter Grey (Martin), and drug dealing infant son, Dalvin (Gerald “Slink” Johnson).”
Yes, a drug-dealing infant.
The producers continue, “It turns out the more things change the more they stay the same and keeping your head above water in a system with its knee on your neck is as challenging as ever. The only thing tougher than life is love, but in this family, there’s more than enough to go around.”
Wanda Sykes is also heard in the trailer, playing Junior’s teacher, who suggests the flunking student should turn to OnlyFans instead of hoping for a degree.
All 10 episodes will be available on Netflix Friday, April 12.
Eric Clapton married Pattie Boyd, ex-wife of his good friend, TheBeatle‘s George Harrison, in Tucson, Arizona.
The two met while Clapton and Harrison were writing music together in the late ‘60s and Clapton fell in love with Boyd. Songs on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, including the iconic track Layla, were inspired by his love for Boyd.
Boyd eventually left Harrison in 1974, and she and Clapton subsequently married, all the while remaining good friends with Harrison.
But Clapton and Boyd’s relationship had problems. The rocker was an alcoholic during their time together and he even admitted to abusing her and being unfaithful. Boyd left him in 1987, and they were divorced in 1989.
Earlier this month, Boyd auctioned off several personal items, including love letters written to her by Clapton. She made over $3.6 million from the auction.
(NEW YORK) — Global households are discarding an exorbitant amount of food every year, despite food insecurity remaining one of the top concerns in several regions around the world, according to a new report by the United Nationals Environment Programme.
Households across all continents wasted more than 1 billion meals per day in 2022, according to the UNEP’s Food Waste Index Report, released Wednesday. The annual cost of the food wasted is estimated to be worth more than $1 trillion and weigh in at 1.05 billion tonnes, according to the report.
Nearly one-fifth (19%) of the food available to consumers at the retail, food service and household level was wasted, according to the report.
Most of the world’s food waste comes from households, accounting for approximately 60% (631 million tonnes) of the total food waste in 2022. Food service and retail sectors accounted for around 28% and 12% respectively, the authors estimated.
An individual wastes, on average, approximately 79 kilograms — or about 174 pounds — of food annually, the report found.
The UNEP estimates that approximately 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are due to food waste and loss — almost five times the total emissions from the aviation sector, according to the report.
There is more food waste per capita in households that are located in typically hotter countries around the world, the report states. Factors such as extreme heat events and overall higher seasonal temperatures make it more challenging to store, process, transport, and sell food safely, often leading to a significant volume of food being wasted.
The report also highlights that there are food waste disparities between rural and urban populations. In middle-income countries, rural populations are generally wasting less compared to more urban areas.
The report recommends focusing efforts to strengthen circularity in cities and enhance food waste reduction programs.
Only four G20 countries — Australia, Japan, the U.K. the U.S. — and the European Union have food waste estimates suitable for tracking progress to 2030, according to the report.
An additional two G20 countries — Canada and Saudi Arabia — have suitable household estimates with Brazil’s estimate expected later this year. This is related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 to “end poverty, reduce inequality and build more peaceful, prosperous societies by 2030.”
Some countries, such as the U.K. and Japan, show that change on a national scale is possible. In Japan, total food waste has been reduced by 31% since 2008.
In the U.S., food is the single most common material sent to landfills, encompassing more than 24% of municipal solid waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Organic materials, including food waste, are responsible for 58% of fugitive methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills, the EPA estimates.
Fugitive methane emissions include all of the methane that is released into the atmosphere from various sources. Like carbon dioxide, methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and is actually much more potent and effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere compared to carbon dioxide.
Methane is over 28 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, according to the EPA. While methane only accounts for about 16% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, according to the International Energy Agency.
The concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere reached record levels in 2022 and there is no end in sight to the rising trend, according to a 2023 report by the World Meteorological Organization.
Reducing methane emissions is seen as especially important because it is one of the most effective short-term ways to limit global warming. Unlike carbon dioxide, methane gas has a short lifespan in the atmosphere, decomposing in about a decade, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
A growing number of governments are embracing public-private partnerships to reduce food waste and its impacts on climate and the environment, according to the report, which suggests that governments, cities, municipalities and food businesses of all sizes should work together to reduce food waste and encourage households to take action.
But very few countries have collected robust food waste data, according to the UNEP, which calls on them to use the Food Waste Index to measure food waste in a consistent manner, track progress and develop national baselines. This enhanced data would help better understand the scale of the problem, target hotspots, and investigate the efficacy of possible interventions, according to the report.
“Food waste is a global tragedy. Millions will go hungry today as food is wasted across the world,” said Inger Andersen, executive director of UNEP. “Not only is this a major development issue, but the impacts of such unnecessary waste are causing substantial costs to the climate and nature. The good news is we know if countries prioritize this issue, they can significantly reverse food loss and waste, reduce climate impacts and economic losses, and accelerate progress on global goals.”
First published in 2021, this year’s Food Waste Index Report, co-authored with WRAP, a climate action nonprofit, provides the most accurate global estimate on food waste at retail and consumer levels. The report also provides guidance for countries on improving data collection and suggests best practices in moving from measuring to reducing food waste.
The 2024 report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale of food wasted worldwide.
While promoting his next project, Guy Ritchie‘s action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer spilled some tea about the next Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The latter, Bruckheimer tells ComicBook.com, will be a “reboot,” which could be perceived as sinking the hopes of fans who were hoping Johnny Depp‘s Captain Jack Sparrow would again take the helm of the $4.5 billion-grossing franchise.
Bruckheimer said there will be a follow-up to the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, but what’s up in the air is when, thanks to its lead, Tom Cruise. “You don’t know how they come together. You just don’t know,” the producer said.
“Because with Top Gun you have an actor who is iconic and brilliant. And how many movies he does before he does Top Gun, I can’t tell you.”
Bruckheimer added, “But we’re gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”
There was a script for a Margot Robbie-led Pirates movie at one point, but recently it was rumored ABC News’ parent company Disney was interested in The Bear Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri leading the project.
Back in 2022, Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter there were two scripts being developed, “the one with Margot Robbie and one with a younger cast,” but his most recent “reboot” comment seems to point to the latter option — particularly after Robbie’s runaway success with Barbie.
Twenty One Pilots have announced a world tour in support of their upcoming album, Clancy.
The North American leg kicks off August 15 in Denver and will wrap up October 12 in Minneapolis. A trip to Australia, New Zealand and Europe will follow in 2025.
Presales for the North American dates begin on Tuesday, April 2. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 5, at 10 a.m. local time.
Along with the tour news, Twenty One Pilots have premiered a new Clancy track called “Next Semester.” The punky tune is available now via digital outlets, and you can watch its accompanying video streaming on YouTube.
Clancy, the follow-up to 2021’s Scaled and Icy, arrives May 17. It also includes the lead single “Overcompensate.”
