KISS may be ready to say goodbye to the road in December, but it’s not like they’ll be completely gone. In fact, we’re about to learn a whole lot more about their early years, courtesy of a new KISS biopic that’s in the works.
The news of the biopic was confirmed by the band’s manager, Doc McGhee, during an interview with The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn, in which he discussed things coming up for KISS once they retire from the road.
“We have a movie getting ready to be filmed … it’s a biopic about the first four years of KISS,” McGhee said. “We’re just starting it now. We’ve already sold it, it’s already done, we have a director. That’s moving along and that’ll come in ’24.”
As for those two final shows, taking place December 1 and 2 at New York’s Madison Square Garden, it sounds like fans who couldn’t snag tickets may eventually get a chance to see what went down. When asked if the shows would be filmed or recorded for a DVD or pay-per-view special, McGhee noted, “I’m sure we’ll come up with something. We want to do something very special. We’re working on it right now.”
(DENVER) — A student who was under a “certain agreement to be patted down each day” at school allegedly shot and wounded two school administrators at East High School in Denver, authorities said.
The suspect, a juvenile armed with a handgun, fled the school after the Wednesday morning shooting, but Denver police said they know who he is and a search for him is ongoing. The gun has not been recovered, police said.
Both faculty members are in serious condition, according to the hospital. One underwent surgery and the second was able to speak to authorities, officials said.
The suspected shooter was required to be searched at the beginning of each school day, officials said. He allegedly shot the school administrators as they patted him down Wednesday morning in the school’s office area, which officials said is away from other students and staff.
The suspect’s daily searches were part of a “safety plan” that was a result of “previous behavior,” officials said, though they did not elaborate on the previous behavior.
Police described the suspect as an African American teenager wearing an Astronaut hoodie. Police warned the public to not approach him, calling him armed and dangerous.
East High School was placed on lockdown in the wake of the shooting. Denver Public Schools later said it received clearance to start releasing students.
Last month, East High School students went to a city council meeting to call for action on school safety and gun violence after a 16-year-old student was fatally shot near the school, according to ABC Denver affiliate KMGH.
The superintendent said Wednesday that the school will be closed the rest of this week, and that the building will now have two armed officers present through the end of the school year.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in a statement said removing school resource officers was a “mistake” and said they should be quickly returned.
“We all have to step up as a community and be a part of the solution,” he said.
Hancock also called on Congress to pass “common sense” gun legislation.
“Parents are angry and frustrated, and they have a right to be,” he said. “Easy access to guns must be addressed in our country — Denver cannot do this alone.”
This shooting comes two years to the day after a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, that claimed 10 lives.
Losing a loved one can be hard on a family, but apparently that wasn’t the case for the cast of The Goldbergs. As reported, Jeff Garlin‘s Murray was killed off between seasons 9 and 10 to cover for the actor having parted ways with ABC after accusations of bullying and other behavior.
The show’s matriarch, Wendi McLendon-Covey,just admitted to Sirius XM’s Radio Andy host Andy Cohen the situation was “a long time coming.”
“That it finally happened, it was like, ‘OK, OK. Finally, someone is listening to us,'” she continued.
However, McLendon-Covey did admit the loss of Murray was compounded by the real-life death of her Goldbergs TV dad, George Segal, who died in 2021.
“To have to go through another loss on a sitcom, you know, you can’t keep asking your audience to mourn people,” she said, adding, “That’s not why they tune in.”
That said, after shedding some light on the obviously touchy topic, the actress asked Cohen if they could change the subject, and he complied.
She explained it was exhausting recapping the events, because of the “PTSD of it all.”
The star of the upcoming comedy Paint also added, “I feel like the less people know about [the situation], the better. No one … benefits from knowing anything.”
In 2022, Garlin announced he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
It was recently announced that the current 10th season of The Goldbergs would be the show’s last.
A posthumous single from Juice WRLD will be out soon. The late rapper’s friend and collaborator DJ Scheme announced the news in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
“New Juice tmrw..ok good night,” he tweeted. Lil Bibby, the founder of Juice’s record label, Grade A Productions, later shared a post confirming the news on his Instagram Story.
Juice passed away January 22, 2020, due to toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine in his system. His team has since released two posthumous albums — Legends Never Die and Fighting Demons — and is working on the release of Juice’s third and final album.
“We want this album to feel like a Celebration/Party! Let’s celebrate the life of Juice,” Bibby wrote. “No more mourning, I want everyone that Juice loved while he was here to help celebrate, especially his fans who he loved! You guys have been the best fans an artist can have (Minus the death threats to Bibby).”
Wet Leg, The Smile and Jack White are among the nominees for the 2023 Libera Awards, which honor the best in independent music.
The “Chaise Longue” duo will compete in six categories, including Record of the Year and Best Alternative Rock Record for their self-titled debut. The Smile is also up for Record of the Year with their debut, A Light for Attracting Attention, while White is nominated for Best Rock Record for Fear of the Dawn.
Other nominees include The Linda Lindas for Breakthrough Artist/Release and Best Punk Record; and Spoon‘s Lucifer on the Sofa for Best Rock Record.
The 2023 Libera Awards will take place June 15. For the full list of nominees, visit LiberaAwards.com.
The Jonas Brothers helped boost Broadway’s box office totals thanks to their five-night residency.
Deadline reports the singers’ sold-out set of shows, titled The Jonas Brothers on Broadway, earned them $1.6 million between March 14 and March 18.
The official number was $1,556,128; ticket prices averaged $192.35.
In all, this buoyed Broadway’s overall haul, which saw a 20 percent boost in its box office total over the past week.
Another show that helped inflate its numbers was The Phantom of the Opera, which is fast approaching its expected April 16 closing date. The musical earned $3 million over the past week, which is apparently its best total yet: it marks the first time the show pulled over $3 million in a week.
Overall, Broadway made $34,124,422 over the past week and saw a 13 percent jump in its audience, entertaining 259,832 people.
So far this year, the Great White Way has made $1,275,614,164 and has seated nearly 10 million people across its theaters.
Get a peek into Dolly Parton‘s wardrobe and signature fashion style with her upcoming new book, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones.
Arriving on October 17, the special publication will chronicle Dolly’s longtime love for fashion, and share how her quintessential and universally beloved Dolly style came to be. Fans will also get stories about the global icon’s life and career, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at her private costume collection, which includes memorable wigs and high heels.
“I am happy, proud, and excited to present my book Behind the Seams to the public,” Dolly shares in a statement. “It is my hope that you will enjoy a look at my life in costume and hair and get to know some of the great people who have helped shape my life and my look. Enjoy!”
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones serves as the second installment in a trilogy of books that started with 2020’s Songteller: My Life in Lyrics.
Dolly’s Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones is available for preorder now.
RapCaviar Presents, a new documentary series tackling current events through the perspective of today’s hip-hop stars, is airing this month on Hulu. Ahead of its premiere, a trailer has been released that features snippets of interviews with Megan Thee Stallion, Tyler, the Creator, Vince Staples and radio personality Big Boy.
Also expected in the six-part series are City Girls, Polo G, Roddy Ricch and Coi Leray. City Girls will discuss celebrating wealth and sexuality in a world steeped in misogyny and judgment; Polo will tackle the mental health crisis; Roddy will discuss the gift and curse of social media; and Coi will talk about proving herself as more than a TikTok artist, but rather a female rapper in hip-hop.
Bobby Shmurda, Fivio Foreign and Maino will also appear in the series, joining Killer Mike in an episode that touches on law enforcement’s surveillance of rappers, their lyrics and social media to build court cases.
RapCaviar Presents, based on the Spotify playlist of the same name, airs March 30.
Paul McCartney has never been one to play it safe in his career, but amongst all the risks he’s taken, he now reveals forming Wings was one of his biggest.
“The main question I had was whether to keep going after The Beatles, because it was a hard act – some might say, an impossible act – to follow,” he shares on his website in response to a question on Twitter. “Once that band had finished, I didn’t know what to do with myself, and trying something new was really risky.”
Paul notes that then deciding to put wife Linda in Wings was another big risk, because “she was not a ‘musician.’” He describes early reviews about her as hurtful: “But I rationalized it by thinking about when we started The Beatles and none of us knew our chords – over time we got better and picked things up.”
McCartney describes the beginning of Wings as going “back to square one.”
“I’d doubled back to almost being nothing – just some guy in the band – and now I was earning my fame again,” he says. “By the time the mid-70s came around when we were doing a big American tour, that was the vindication of it. We were so tight and had come up together, as it were. The risk paid off.”
He says his bandmate John Lennon was a much bigger risk-taker than he was, noting, “If there was a cliff to be jumped off, John would jump!”
“Obviously, I’m not completely square,” he says. “I do a lot of zany stuff! That’s in my character too, but I don’t live my life as a risk-taker. I try and work it out to some extent.”
In an interview with The New York Times, Oscar-winning screenwriter and the Emmy-winning creator of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin, revealed he suffered a near-fatal stroke last fall.
Sorkin explained to the publication that months before he began rehearsals for a Broadway revival of Camelot, he woke in the middle of the night and couldn’t walk straight down his hallway.
His doctor recommended he get checked out immediately and quickly informed Sorkin his blood pressure was so high he was “supposed to be dead.”
The 61-year-old had suffered a stroke, his doctor informed him. For weeks Sorkin slurred his words; he feared he was “never going be able to write again.” He’s still having trouble signing his name and can’t taste food.
A heavy smoker for decades, Sorkin called the health scare “a loud wake-up call.”
He admitted, “I thought I was one of those people who could eat whatever he wanted, smoke as much as he wanted, and it’s not going to affect me. Boy, was I wrong.”
He began eating right and exercising, and quit smoking cold turkey — which proved difficult for the prolific writer. “[The cigarette] was just part of it, the way a pen was part of it,” he said.
Sorkin was hesitant about revealing his health situation, but reconsidered, saying, “If it’ll get one person to stop smoking, then it’ll be helpful.”
