Ringo Starr plays drums on a brand-new song by Men at Work frontman Colin Hay called “Now and the Evermore,” which is the title track of Hay’s forthcoming solo album.
Hay, who happens to be a current member of Ringo’s All Starr Band, will release the new album on March 18, while the song is available now as a digital single.
“‘Now and the Evermore’ is a reminder to myself, to make the most of what time I have left walking around on top of the planet,” Colin says about the tune. “When I listen to it, it transports me back to when I thought I had all the time in the world. It is a song which is unashamedly inspired by the majesty of The Beatles, and the gift they gave us all. Having Ringo Starr play on the track, is more than icing on the cake.”
Hay wrote and recorded the Now and the Evermore album in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles. A press statement describes the 10-track collection as “a defiantly joyful celebration of life and love, one that insists on finding silver linings and reasons to smile.” The record finds the 68-year-old singer-songwriter reflecting on loss and mortality, while exploring such genres as vintage pop, pub rock and folk.
You can pre-orderNow and the Evermore now. Hay will support the album with a solo U.S. tour that’s mapped out from a March 18 concert in Fort Collins, Colorado, through a May 12 show in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Colin also will be hitting the road this year with Ringo’s All Starr Band, which kicks off a U.S. trek on June 2 in Boston.
Here’s the album’s full track list:
“Now and the Evermore”
“Love Is Everywhere”
“Into the Bright Lights”
“The Sea of Always”
“Starfish and Unicorns”
“A Man Without a Name”
“Undertow”
“All I See Is You”
“Agatha Bell”
“When Does the End Begin?”
L-R: Mickey Sumner, Katie McGuinness, Daveed Diggs; David Bukach/TNT
The third season of TNT’s Snowpiercerdebuts Monday night at 9 p.m. ET. The action-packed drama concerns a massive train carrying the last remnants of humanity on a non-stop journey around the globe, after the entire planet becomes a frozen wasteland. It’s a high-concept plot, but star Daveed Diggs believes that everyone can see themselves in Snowpiercer‘s diverse cast.
Diggs plays Andre Layton, a former detective who leads a rebellion against the train’s oppressive class system and its maniacal designer, played by Sean Bean. “There are a lot of points of entry for people,” Diggs tells ABC Audio.
“Every actor on there is giving these characters really full, lived experiences…and so I think there are a lot of ways to find yourself on Snowpiercer,” he explains. “It’s a pretty representative group of people…[and] if you have an ‘in’ to a story, then all of a sudden you can participate in it.”
And that representation has literally changed lives. Mickey Sumner plays security guard-turned-rebel Bess Till, who’s gay. Sumner says, “I had actually a woman reach out who was a cop, and she told me that because of Bess Till, she was able to come out to her colleagues at work and her family.”
Sumner’s amazed by the show’s fan engagement: Viewers create Snowpiercer-inspired artwork and dissect every plot detail online.
“People become really attached to these characters and really own them,” she says. “And I love that.”
But Snowpiercer‘s also a cautionary tale.
“This is an allegory of the present,” says Sumner ruefully. “There’s a lot of warnings about what not to do. And there’s also, sadly, lot, of similarities about how we treat people and how leadership fails people. So it’s been really interesting, at this time, to be part of this show.”
The Big Game is just weeks away and we are learning more about Megan Thee Stallion‘s hotly anticipated Super Bowl commercial about Frito-Lay’s Flamin’ Hot snacks. It was revealed on Monday that the advertisement will also feature Charlie Puth.
While the full commercial has yet to drop, Frito-Lay has shared several sneak peeks of the upcoming commercial. For Charlie’s teaser, he’s seen scrolling through his phone and beatboxing as he walks over to his trailer. He quickly notices something is amiss when he looks up to see the door open and evidence that someone has been in his space.
The commercial ends with Charlie discovering two open bags of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Doritos on the table, as well as incriminating bright orange animal paw-prints all over the furniture. He also picks up a bright orange feather and begins saying, “What the–” before the screen turns black.
As for Megan’s teaser, the “Body” rapper finds that she is locked out of her respective trailer. After she knocks on the door, a sloth’s arm slowly emerges and knocks her nameplate off the trailer. “Ah,” she cries out as the trailer door locks again, “Excuse me?!”
The full commercial goes live on February 13, which is Super Bowl Sunday.
French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler has died, a statement on his official Instagram account confirmed Sunday. He was 73.
The cause of his death was not disclosed.
Mugler was known for his adventurous, theatrical designs, which have been worn by supermodels, Hollywood royalty and fashionistas all around the world.
Model Bella Hadid reacted to the post in a comment on Mugler’s Instagram. “Nonononono,” she wrote, along with a sad-face emoji.
“Fashion visionary and one of the most influential and admired designers of his generation Manfred Thierry Mugler passed away today,” the CFDA tweeted, along with a photo of supermodel Iman wearing one of Mugler’s designs on the runway.
“Gone to soon … God of fashion .. a rarely REAL, kindness , sweetest .. u ll be always missed by your Russian…,” model Irina Shaykwrote in an Instagram post, alongside a photo of herself with Mugler.
His death comes less than a week after fellow industry icon and former Vogue editor André Leon Talley died, also at age 73.
Mugler was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1948. While he was always interested in design, he was also passionate about classical dance, theater and cinema, and practiced ballet. His love of fantasy and Hollywood drama carried into his couture designs, making him an international sensation.
It was in the 1980s and 1990s when his career truly thrived, though in recent years, several of his inventive designs caused shockwaves on the red carpet. In 2019, he was responsible for Kim Kardashian‘s “wet look” dress for the Met Gala, and that same year dressed Cardi B in a pink and black “stormy Venus” dress for the Grammy Awards.
The designer also released various popular perfumes and a cosmetics line, Thierry Mugler Beauty.
He was also an author and artist. In 1988, his book of photography hit the stands, and 10 years later, he published Thierry Mugler: Fashion Fetish Fantasy, which offers an overview of his work as a designer and creator.
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Kelly Clarkson‘s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock scored a minor legal victory over their hotly contested ranch in Montana. The two have been locked in a months-long battle over the Warren Peak Ranch property.
According to legal documents obtained by People, the “Piece by Piece” singer agreed to give Blackstock 5.12 percent of the $17.7 million property — roughly translating to $908,000. The documents also made it clear that Kelly retains sole ownership of the property adjoining the ranch and that Brandon is not entitled to any property ownership interest.
This comes after Kelly was awarded the spacious ranch in October, but Brandon refused to vacate the property and continued living there under the claim it was “marital property.” A judge rejected his argument that he was entitled to 50 percent of the ranch and referenced the pair’s prenuptial agreement. But, the singer failed to evict her husband in December following another legal battle.
Kelly and Brandon ended their seven-year marriage in June 2020. The former couple share two children, River Rose and Remington Alexander.
(LOS ANGELES) — Students in Los Angeles public schools must wear a non-cloth mask with a nose wire at all times, including during sports, beginning Monday, the district announced in a letter to families this weekend.
Schools will give surgical-style masks to students and employees who need them, Los Angeles Unified’s interim superintendent, Megan K. Reilly, wrote on Saturday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this month that loosely woven cloth masks provide the least amount of protection.
LA County schools will also continue weekly testing for students and staff through February, Reilly said.
The interim superintendent said “in-school case rates dropped 7% since our baseline testing and current rates of students and staff are half of those in the general community due to the safety measures in place.”
COVID-19 cases in LA County remain high, with 39,117 new daily cases reported Saturday.
As Los Angeles County schools ban cloth masks, masks will be optional starting this week at Fulton County schools in Atlanta.
In-person learning resumed in Fulton County last week.
“Maintaining face-to-face instruction is a top priority for our district,” the school system said. “Though some employees have been out due to COVID, we intend to stay open, providing we have the staff to safely operate our schools.”
Of everyone PCR tested in Fulton County between Jan. 3 and Jan. 16, 2022, 25.2% were positive, according to county data.
America’s Funniest Home Videos, the long-running ABC series that Bob Saget helped launch in 1989, will honor its original host for the rest of the season with a regular segment showcasing memorable moments from his time on the ABC series, according to Variety. “I’d forgotten how whimsical and crazy his host bits were — very physical and very visual,” executive producer Vin Di Bona tells the outlet. The segments will run at different times in this season’s 12 remaining episodes. Each will open with a quick-cut montage of Saget AFV moments and the chyron “AFV Remembers the Saget Years”…
Julian McMahon, star of FBI: Most Wanted, is exiting the CBS crime drama after almost three seasons, according to Deadline. The show is expected to introduce a new character later this season who will fill the void left by McMahon’s Jess LaCroix, an “agent’s agent” and head of the team from the FBI’s Most Wanted Unit. It is unclear yet how McMahon’s character would be written off. LaCroix is currently going through changes in his personal life, with his daughter Tali leaving for a boarding school in Canada. McMahon’s final episode is slated to shoot next week and will air March 8…
Sharyn Moffett, the child actress who starred alongside Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in 1948’s Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Body Snatcher, died December 23 of natural causes in a hospital in Pittsburgh, her brother Gregory Moffett, tells The Hollywood Reporter. She was 85. Moffett appeared in just 12 features during her career, which spanned seven years from 1944-51, ages 8 to 15. Her other credits include My Pal Wolf, A Boy, a Girl and a Dog, Rusty Leads the Way and Child of Divorce…
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Amid deepening anxiety over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States announced it’s pulling out diplomats’ families and some staff from its embassy in the country. Meanwhile, NATO announced it was putting extra forces on standby.
As Russia continues to mass tens of thousands of troops close to Ukraine’s borders, NATO said the alliance was sending a small number of ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe to strengthen its “deterrence” presence there and reassure its eastern members,
Denmark is sending a frigate to the Baltic Sea and four F-16 warplanes to Lithuania. At the same time, France is ready to send troops to Romania under NATO command, and Spain is considering deploying fighter jets to Bulgaria, NATO said in a statement. The Netherlands has agreed to send two F-35 jets to Bulgaria and has put a ship and land-based forces on standby for a NATO response force, officials said.
“NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all Allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the Alliance,” NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement.
The NATO announcement coincided with a report in The New York Times that the Biden administration may be preparing to send up to 5,000 American troops to Eastern European members of the alliance.
The White House and the Pentagon have not confirmed the report, though the administration has previously said sending more U.S. troops to Eastern Europe is on the table if Russia attacks Ukraine.
NATO on Monday said the “United States has also made clear that it is considering increasing its military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance.”
The steps to boost NATO’s readiness came as the U.S. State Department announced Sunday it was ordering the families of its diplomats at its embassy in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv to leave the country over security fears.
The State Department said it has also authorized non-emergency staff at the embassy to depart voluntarily.
The United Kingdom on Monday followed suit, with its Foreign Office saying some embassy staff and their dependents would be withdrawn “in response to the growing threat from Russia.”
Ukraine’s government criticized the U.S. evacuation calling them “premature” and “excessively cautious.”
“While we respect right of foreign nations to ensure safety & security of their diplomatic missions, we believe such a step to be a premature one & an instance of excessive caution,” Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry, tweeted.
Ukrainian officials are unhappy with the message the evacuations send by suggesting that a Russian invasion could be imminent. In general, they are much more skeptical that Russia is planning to launch a major attack and worry that western countries risk helping Moscow by exaggerating the risk and spreading panic.
Privately, American officials acknowledge there is a gap between the Ukrainian and U.S. assessment of the level of threat. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. official told ABC News this weekend that Ukraine was “p—– off” over the evacuations.
A senior State Department official on Sunday insisted the embassy drawdown did not undermine America’s commitment to Ukraine, saying they were just “prudent precautions” given the heightened fear of a Russian attack.
The official said the decision was “based on this military buildup, based on how we see these developments,” calling it the “right moment.”
Those leaving the embassy will do so on commercial flights, the State Department has said, indicating it is not an emergency evacuation.
The State Department were scarred by the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan, where thousands of Americans were stranded after the sudden Taliban takeover there caught the U.S. off guard. Officials are anxious to avoid a similar situation in Ukraine, should the worst happen.
Russia has repeatedly insisted it has no intention of attacking Ukraine. However, its military buildup continues near Ukraine’s eastern border and now in Belarus, where trainloads of Russian tanks and artillery have been arriving for joint exercises there.
A top commander of Russian-controlled separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine on Monday also accused Ukraine’s military of preparing to launch an offensive against the separatist areas.
The U.S. and Ukraine are concerned that a false claim of a Ukrainian offensive against the separatists could be used as a pretext for Russia to launch an invasion.
Eduard Basurin, the head of the militia of the separatists’ self-declared ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ (DNR), in local media warned it “firmly recommends the enemy to give up its criminal intentions,” promising the Ukrainian army “will suffer irreparable damage, after which it will not be able to recover.”
Ukraine’s government has insisted it will not launch any offensive and there is no evidence Ukraine is preparing to.
(NEW YORK) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday he is “as confident as you can be” about the prospect of most states reaching a peak of omicron cases by mid-February.
“You never want to be overconfident when you’re dealing with this virus,” Fauci told ABC This Week co-anchor Martha Raddatz, adding that the COVID-19 virus has “surprised us in the past.”
“Things are looking good. We don’t want to get overconfident, but they look like they’re going in the right direction right now,” he said.
Fauci said there are states in the northeast and in the upper midwest where cases have already peaked and declined “rather sharply” but that cases are still rising in southern and western states.
“There may be a bit more pain and suffering with hospitalizations in those areas of the country that have not been fully vaccinated or have not gotten boosters,” he warned.
When Raddatz asked “what should life look like” going forward and about the “long-term strategy” for dealing with future peaks and variants, Fauci said the hope is the level of infection will be below what he calls an “area of control.”
“Control means you’re not eliminating it, you’re not eradicating it, but it gets down to such a low level, that it’s essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with.”
Fauci said the aspiration is that future variants won’t “disrupt society” or “create a fear of severe outcomes that are broad” but that the country should still be “prepared for the worst-case scenario.”
“We’d like it to get down to that level where it doesn’t disrupt us in the sense of getting back to a degree of normality. That’s the best-case scenario.”
As the Biden administration begins to ship out free COVID-19 tests to Americans and provide free masks across the country, Fauci told Raddatz these kinds of protections could help keep future variants at a “lower level.”
“What about the next booster shot?” Raddatz pressed, noting that it’s now been five months since some Americans received their booster. “How soon should we get another one?”
“We don’t know,” Fauci responded, adding that it’s unclear whether an additional booster shot will be recommended since scientists are still trying to determine how much protection is provided by the first booster. But, he said, it’s “quite conceivable, and I hope it’s true, that the third shot boost will give a much greater durability of protection.”
“We may need to boost again, but before we make that decision, we want to determine what the durability is,” Fauci added.
Data released on Tuesday shows that nearly 1 million children tested positive for COVID-19 last week, according to new a weekly report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, and 28.8 million eligible children still remain completely unvaccinated.
Some schools in the U.S. are opting to remove mask mandates, and when asked by Raddatz if it is “safe to send your kids back to school without masks,” Fauci stressed their importance, along with other mitigation efforts.
“You surround the children with people who are vaccinated. For the children who are eligible to be vaccinated, get them vaccinated. And provide in the school masks where you can have children protected, as well as ventilation to make sure that you can get a respiratory infection at its lowest level of infectivity. All of those things go together. And masking is a part of that.”
The two-part HBO documentary Phoenix Rising — Part One: Don’t Fall premiered virtually at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, and in it, actress Evan Rachel Wood speaks in detail of the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her former fiancé Marilyn Manson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
When she first testified about her abuse to Congress in 2018 to support a bill benefiting sexual assault survivors, Wood didn’t directly name Manson, born Brian Warner, as her abuser. In the film, she explains that was because she was afraid that Warner or one of his fans might harm her, her child or her family if she did so.
She later publicly named Warner in a February 2021 social media post. At the time, he responded with a statement saying “recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality.”
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in Phoenix Rising, Wood describes Warner’s physical, sexual and psychological abuse, including how he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted her while filming the video for “Heart-Shaped Glasses.”
However, The Hollywood Reporter notes that the movie is less about excoriating Warner and more about “helping others recognize warning signs in their own troubled relationships” and “influencing lawmakers.” Indeed, the movie is named after the Phoenix Act, which increases the time that survivors have to bring charges against their abusers. The law passed in the California State Senate in 2020, following the testimony of Wood and other victims.
Since Wood spoke out, more women have come forward with accusations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against Warner, including actor Esmé Bianco, model Ashley Morgan Smithline, and Warner’s former assistant, Ashley Walters, all of whom filed lawsuits against him. Through lawyers, Warner has denied the allegations.
For anyone affected by abuse and needing support, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or if you’re unable to speak safely, you can log onto thehotline.org or text LOVEIS to 1-866-331-9474.
