Dolly Parton’s got a brand-new, never-before-heard song on the way — and if you wait around until 2045, you can hear it.
During a sit-down on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Dolly explained that the song is part of a time capsule that she created for her theme park, Dollywood.
But the country legend admits she sort of regrets including a piece of unreleased music in that box. “I tell you, you have no idea how that has bothered me. I wanna go dig that up,” Dolly says, pointing out that she’s concerned the tape might disintegrate underground before it gets a chance to be unearthed.
“I need to use that song! It’s a really good song,” she continues. “I’ll be 99 years old when they open it … they weren’t expecting me to be there when they open it, and I probably won’t be.”
Dolly and her fans might have to wait for another decade or so to hear that particular song, but she’s still got plenty of other music coming out before then. For one thing, the singer is hard at work on an album of rock music, which she was inspired to make after her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The country legend also added to her acting repertoire this year, starring in the NBC holiday movie Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas. The film aired earlier this month.
Life of Agony has announced a U.S. tour celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary.
The outing, which also features Sick of It All, is dubbed the 30 Sick Years of Agony tour. It’ll run from March 9 in Albany, New York, to April 1 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Life of Agony will perform their 1993 debut album, River Runs Red, in full for each night of the tour.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit LifeofAgony.com.
In addition to being a seminal release in New York City metal, River Runs Red is also the album Dwight played Ryan in the “Initiation” episode of The Office.
Life of Agony’s most recent album is 2019’s The Sound of Scars.
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the eligible nominees in 10 categories for the 95th Academy Awards, and it looks like Wakanda may be going back to the Oscars.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was recognized in five categories: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Song for Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
In 2019, the original Black Panther became the first Marvel movie to win Oscar gold, snagging statues for Best Production Design, Best Costuming and Best Score.
Other feature films to get recognition included The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, and the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony will be held live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Here are the nominees to make the short list for the announced categories, listed alphabetically.
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front Amsterdam Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Blonde Crimes of the Future Elvis Emancipation The Whale
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Devotion Don’t Worry Darling Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Nope She Said The Woman King Women Talking
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Time” from Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon” from Spirited
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up” from Till
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Moonage Daydream Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Jurassic World Dominion Nope Thirteen Lives Top Gun: Maverick
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Black Slide The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse The Debutante The Flying Sailor The Garbage Man Ice Merchants It’s Nice in Here More than I Want to Remember My Year of Dicks New Moon An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It Passenger Save Ralph Sierra Steakhouse
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
All in Favor Almost Home An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille The Lone Wolf Nakam Night Ride Plastic Killer The Red Suitcase The Right Words Sideral The Treatment Tula Warsha
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Bad Axe Children of the Mist Descendant Fire of Love Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song Hidden Letters A House Made of Splinters The Janes Last Flight Home Moonage Daydream Navalny Retrograde The Territory
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton Anastasia Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison As Far as They Can Run The Elephant Whisperers The Flagmakers Happiness Is £4 Million Haulout Holding Moses How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Nuisance Bear Shut Up and Paint Stranger at the Gate 38 at the Garden
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Argentina – Argentina, 1985
Austria – Corsage
Belgium – Close
Cambodia – Return to Seoul
Denmark – Holy Spider
France – Saint Omer
Germany – All Quiet on the Western Front
India – Last Film Show
Ireland – The Quiet Girl
Mexico – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco – The Blue Caftan
Pakistan – Joyland
Poland – EO
South Korea – Decision to Leave
Sweden – Cairo Conspiracy
While Netflix has already reported its spooky series Wednesday is one of its biggest shows of all time, Nielsen has now weighed in, reporting the Jenna Ortega-starring show scored the second-biggest week on streaming ever recorded.
According to Nielsen Streaming numbers quoted by Variety, Wednesday was watched for nearly 6 billion minutes during its first week on Netflix, which corresponded with the ratings company’s November 21-27 viewing window.
It managed that feat despite the fact that Wednesday actually dropped on November 23 — in the middle of that week.
Incidentally, the only other show to beat this record was also on Netflix, the fourth season of Stranger Things, which logged 7.2 billion minutes viewed in its debut week in May.
It should be noted, Netflix and Nielsen evaluate viewership differently; the streaming service clocks “hours watched,” claiming Wednesday attracted 341.2 million in its first week. Its second week had a viewership of 411.3 million hours watched as word of mouth spread.
Directed by Tim Burton, Wednesday also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Wednesday’s mom, Morticia, and Luis Guzmán as her adoring dad, Gomez, as well as Addams Family movie vet Christina Ricci and Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie.
LCD Soundsystem‘s “New Body Rhumba” has made the short list to be nominated for Best Original Song at the 2023 Oscars.
The track, which James Murphy and company recorded for the new film White Noise, is among the 15 tunes to earn a spot on the short list, which was cut down from 81 eligible entries.
Other short-listed songs include Lady Gaga‘s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, The Weeknd‘s “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water, Rihanna‘s “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Taylor Swift‘s “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing.
The final Best Original Song nominees will be unveiled January 24. The 2023 Oscars will take place March 12.
“New Body Rhumba,” which was released in September, is the first new LCD Soundsystem song in five years. It’s also nominated for Best Song at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards.
White Noise, meanwhile, is currently showing in select theaters and will premiere on Netflix December 30. The film, which is based on the 1985 Don DeLillo novel of the same name, stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association
The Scotts album — a potential joint effort with Kid Cudi and Travis Scott — will no longer come to be, according to a recent tweet from the Entergalactic star.
Responding to a fan who asked if the album is “still on the cards,” Cudi replied, “Naw im not doin that. The moment has passed.”
The update comes two years after the rappers released their single “The Scotts,” which was supposed to be the lead single to their album of the same name. In September 2021, when asked if the project was “still in the works,” Cudi said, “It’ll happen. Not sure when, but it will.”
Though the ship has sailed for The Scotts album, Cudi assured followers that there will be other collaborations with Travis.
When a fan asked if “we still going to get collabs with you and Travis?” Cudi responded, “Def!!”
R.E.M. announced they were calling it quits back in 2011, and since then we’ve only heard sporadic music from the band’s frontman, Michael Stipe. Well, that’s about to change.
In an interview with Departures, Stipe reveals that he’s working on his first-ever solo album, which he says “should come together next year.”
“I’m working on a solo album, my first,” he says. “I’m collaborating with a bunch of different musicians and each of those songs, if I get my way, which I think I will because I’m paying for it, will be very different.” Stipe adds that he currently doesn’t have a manager or label, “So I get to do whatever I want.”
“Anyway, there will be a visual representation for each of the songs, and it should come together next year,” he explains. “I’m hoping to build slowly.”
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees in 10 categories for the 95th Academy Awards, and Wakanda is officially going back to the Oscars.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was nominated in five categories: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Song for Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
In 2019, the original Black Panther became the first Marvel movie to win Oscar gold, snagging statues for Best Production Design, Best Costuming and Best Score.
Other feature films to get recognition included The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
All nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, and the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony will be held live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Here are the nominees for the announced categories, listed alphabetically.
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front Amsterdam Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Blonde Crimes of the Future Elvis Emancipation The Whale
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Devotion Don’t Worry Darling Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Nope She Said The Woman King Women Talking
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Time” from Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon” from Spirited
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up” from Till
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Moonage Daydream Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Jurassic World Dominion Nope Thirteen Lives Top Gun: Maverick
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Black Slide The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse The Debutante The Flying Sailor The Garbage Man Ice Merchants It’s Nice in Here More than I Want to Remember My Year of Dicks New Moon An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It Passenger Save Ralph Sierra Steakhouse
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
All in Favor Almost Home An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille The Lone Wolf Nakam Night Ride Plastic Killer The Red Suitcase The Right Words Sideral The Treatment Tula Warsha
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Bad Axe Children of the Mist Descendant Fire of Love Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song Hidden Letters A House Made of Splinters The Janes Last Flight Home Moonage Daydream Navalny Retrograde The Territory
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton Anastasia Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison As Far as They Can Run The Elephant Whisperers The Flagmakers Happiness Is £4 Million Haulout Holding Moses How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Nuisance Bear Shut Up and Paint Stranger at the Gate 38 at the Garden
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Argentina – Argentina, 1985
Austria – Corsage
Belgium – Close
Cambodia – Return to Seoul
Denmark – Holy Spider
France – Saint Omer
Germany – All Quiet on the Western Front
India – Last Film Show
Ireland – The Quiet Girl
Mexico – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco – The Blue Caftan
Pakistan – Joyland
Poland – EO
South Korea – Decision to Leave
Sweden – Cairo Conspiracy
(NEW YORK) — A grieving mother’s fight to find answers about the death of her son has helped to shed light on a suspected rash of druggings and robberies affecting New York City’s gay nightlife scene.
Linda Clary’s 33-year-old son, John Umberger, was found dead in June after he was last seen walking out of a midtown Manhattan bar with two strangers. Umberger, who was visiting for work from Washington D.C., was out earlier with his friends, but was at the bar alone.
“It’s the worst phone call that any mother can ever get and ever want to get,” Clary told ABC News. “It’s the greatest pain and anguish of anything.”
Someone using Umberger’s phone and credit cards stole more than $20,000, Clary said. Lidocaine, a numbing agent, and fentanyl were both found in his system, according to police.
“Detectives presented it as, it looked like a drug overdose, and that perhaps John had gone out to the bars and had been robbed and was so depressed, he took a bunch of drugs,” Clary said.
Refusing to believe her son had done that to himself, Clary flew from Atlanta to New York, where she leaned on police and started talking to the media. Her phone started ringing from others with similar stories, many of whom have survived their ordeals.
Six months before Umberger died, Brian Luke says he was targeted by two men in a different part of the city.
“I feel like I was targeted, probably because I was alone and probably because I was already a bit drunk when I arrived at the bar. And my memory from that point is pretty fuzzy. I can’t say for sure whether or not they drugged me,” Luke said.
Luke says they stole his phone and wallet, and then made a long list of charges to his credit and debit cards — in all, about $20,000. He doesn’t feel ashamed that he took the men into his home, but says the police weren’t as understanding.
“I think they did some level of due diligence to look into what I had reported, but I don’t think I was taken quite as seriously as I would have hoped,” Luke said.
Oscar Alarcon tells a similar story. He says, more than two years ago, he went out to a bar in the same neighborhood where Clary’s son was last seen. He later woke up confused in the lobby of a nearby hotel with no memory of what happened.
“I went to the police. They never took me seriously. They made me feel like it was my fault, like I did it to myself,” Alarcon said.
Then in April, just outside the same gay bar that Alarcon went to, 25-year-old Julio Ramirez was seen getting into a cab with three unknown men. The three men disappeared, and Ramirez spent the last moments of his life alone in the back seat of the cab, according to authorities. He was a beloved social worker, and his death would bring people marching in the streets.
“People have been hurt. People feel scared and afraid, and this has gone on too long, because it is clear to me from people who have reached out to me, this has happened since 2018,” Clary said.
Despite her initial concerns, Clary added that she’s thankful for the New York Police homicide detective who’s now working the case.
New York City police declined comment to ABC News, citing that they’re dealing with an ongoing investigation.
Police have said it’s not just gay men who are getting targeted and that they know this is happening in both straight and gay nightclubs across the city.
After months of worry across New York, they say they’ve now arrested six men who are facing grand larceny, identity theft, assault and other charges. They also said that more arrests are coming.
There are many who believe that the police investigation wouldn’t have gotten this far without Clary’s help.
“Thank God for Linda. That’s what it says about her tenacity. Her strength was exactly what we needed and her conviction was what was needed here in this city,” said community organizer Christopher LeBron to ABC News.
Young Dolph‘s estate is working hard to keep his legacy alive. Days after releasing his posthumous album, Paper Route Frank, they announced they teamed up with Trap Music Museum to launch a pop-up museum tour in the rapper’s honor.
The DOLPHLAND Pop-Up Museum tour will kick off in New York City on January 13, displaying an exhibit complete with curated art and personal items that highlight Dolph’s lyrics, personality, entrepreneurship and notable career moments. It will then make its way across the country, visiting such cities as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas.
“The goal of the pop-up museum is to showcase the character of a leader and businessman and to highlight the journey of someone whose early beginnings may mirror that of many young kids and entrepreneurs starting so that they may draw inspiration to keep pushing on their own endeavors,” says Paper Route Empire CEO Daddy-O.
“Dolph has a great base of fans, and he loved going out and engaging with them,” adds Dolph’s manager, Allen Parks. “We wanted to do something that still provided a way for that engagement beyond just the music. We brought the idea to Trap Music Museum, and they were excited to help bring a dope experience to life for all who will attend.”
Tickets for the New York stop go on sale Monday, December 26, via www.thedolphlandmuseum.com; sales for other cities will be announced at a later date. All ticket holders will be entered into a raffle for a prize of $100,000 and will have an opportunity to shop for exclusive merch at the pop-up museums.
The winner of the drawing will be unveiled at the end of the tour.
