Dolly Parton is taking herself out of the running for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The country legend, who was nominated for the first time for the Rock Hall honor this year, explained in a post on her socialmediasites that she wanted to be removed from consideration for induction.
“Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” the music legend wrote Monday. “I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”
However, Dolly doesn’t rule out being nominated again in the future. She goes on to say that releasing a rock album has been a dream of hers and that the nomination has “inspired” her to potentially record one “at some point in the future.”
“I do hope that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again — if I’m ever worthy,” she continued. “I wish all of the nominees good luck and thank you again for the compliment. Rock on!”
It was announced in February that Parton was nominated for induction into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class alongside Beck, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, DEVO, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Judas Priest, Fela Kuti, MC5, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and ATribe Called Quest. The 2022 inductees will be announced in May.
Dolly has been a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame since 1999, and she also has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Campion and Cumberbatch on set — Netflix/Kirsty Griffin
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Jane Campion spelled out what she thought of Western veteran Sam Elliott‘s criticism of her film The Power of the Dog. Literally.
“I think he’s being a bit of a B-I-T-C-H,” she told Variety on the red carpet of the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Saturday night. “He’s not a cowboy; he’s an actor,” Campion went on.
As reported, the Lonesome Dove veteran and 1883 star recently told Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast that, although he called Campion a “brilliant director,” in his opinion, the award-winning film “a piece of s***.” He also took offense at the portrayals of cowboys in the movie, as well as its “allusions to homosexuality.” Benedict Cumberbatch plays a grizzled rancher in The Power of the Dog, who is also repressing his gay identity.
Campion continued, “The West is a mythic space and there’s a lot of room on the range,” adding of Elliott’s headline-grabbing critique, “I think it’s a little bit sexist.”
Elliott appears to be in the minority in his blunt disdain for The Power of the Dog, at least where critics are concerned. Campion was named best director at the DGA Awards, officially making her the frontrunner to win best director honors at the Academy Awards, airing live March 27 on ABC.
(NEW YORK) — A pregnant woman and her unborn child who were evacuated from a bombed children’s hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, has died, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She was captured in a photo taken by an Associated Press photographer after a Russian airstrike destroyed the hospital. She was carried out from the rubble of the hospital on a stretcher.
In the now internationally known photo, the woman can be seen covered in dust, holding her lower abdomen as she was carried through the wreckage.
She died after medics at a nearby hospital attempted to save her and her baby’s life.
Another pregnant woman evacuated from the wreckage, Marianna Podgurskaya, gave birth to a girl Sunday, Voice of America reporter Asya Dolina said.
Ukrainian officials said the attack initially killed at least three people, including a child, and wounded at least 17 people. Mariupol Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov said that at least 1,207 people have died in the city because of shelling and aerial attacks since the Russian invasion began.
Half of those killed were ethnic Russians. Among the casualties was a child who died from dehydration, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy had posted a video on social media last Wednesday, which he said showed the heavily damaged children’s hospital and maternity ward in the southeastern Ukrainian port city.
“Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital,” he said, calling on the international community again to impose a “no-fly” zone over Ukraine. “People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?”
The city has been burying its dead in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol as it endures heavy shelling, officials said.
If you’re a fan of the 2000s indie rock scene, then your week is off to an exciting start.
First, Arcade Fire has announced a concert in support of Ukraine amid its continuing fight against Russia’s invasion. The show, which is advertised as “pay what you can,” takes place Monday night in New Orleans.
Arcade Fire hasn’t played a full-length, full-band show since February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Last December, band members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne performed together at a cryptocurrency event in Las Vegas.
Meanwhile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a pair of U.K. concerts for this June, marking the trio’s first club performances in England in nine years. Not only that, but Karen O and company will apparently be debuting some new material at the shows.
“We’ve got some tunes so fresh and so NEW to try out on you!” the band says.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs haven’t released a new album since 2013’s Mosquito.
This year’s edition of the ’70s Rock & Romance Cruise took place last month, and now details about the 2023 installment of the the star-studded seagoing music festival have been announced.
Among the veteran pop and rock acts slated to perform on next year’s cruise are former Eagles guitarist Don Felder, ex-Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, The Hollies, Foghat, Jefferson Starship, Bay City Rollers, Exile, Climax Blues Band and one-time Journey singer Steve Augeri.
The week-long event is scheduled to set sail from Miami on March 16 and will stop at Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, on March 18; at San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 19; and on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands on March 20, before returning to port on the March 23.
Other performers include Electric Light Orchestra spinoff group The Orchestra, and cover bands that play the music of Queen, The Bee Gees and more. Additional artists will be joining the bill in the coming months as well.
In addition to the many performances, the ’70s Rock & Romance Cruise will feature Q&A sessions and panel discussions with some of the artists, themed parties, wine tastings, trivia contests, game shows, karaoke, pool parties and more. Married couples also will have the opportunity to renew their wedding vows.
To book a cabin on the cruise, and to find out more information, visit RockandRomanceCruise.com or call 844-466-7625.
(NOTE LANGUAGE)Jeff Bezos Blue Origins company on Monday officially confirmed a rumor that Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is heading to space.
The stand-up and King of Staten Island star will be aboard the space exploration company’s fourth human flight of its New Shepard rocket on March 23, along with Party America CEO Marty Allen property developer Marc Hagle and his wife Sharon Hagle, who runs a science education non-profit; entrepreneur Jim Kitchen; and Commercial Space Technologies president Dr. George Nield.
The 20th flight of the New Shepard is scheduled for a 9:30 a.m. Eastern time lift off.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Page Six reports Pete Davidson is “done being quiet” when it comes to online postings from Kanye West about Pete’s relationship with ‘Ye’s estranged wife, Kim Kardashian.
The publication says it has confirmed texts from Pete to Kanye in which Davidson reportedly urged West to “calm down,” and noted, “Kim is literally the best mother I’ve ever met. What she does for those kids is amazing and you are so f***ing lucky that she’s your kids mom.”
Pete added, “I’ve decided im not gonna let you treat us this way anymore and I’m done being quiet. Grow the f*** up.”
And when West asked him where he was, Davidson reportedly showed a shirtless selfie, twisting the knife with, “In bed with your wife.”
Pete’s many tats were on display, and fans spotted a new “KIM” tattoo among the sea of ink.
A court earlier this month granted Kardashian’s request to be legally declared single while her divorce from West is finalized.
(NEW YORK) — As we celebrate Women’s History Month, ABC News’ Good Morning America is taking a closer look at the gender pay gap.
The latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor show that women make 82 cents on the dollar compared to men. And for women of color, the pay is even lower: Black women make 63 cents on the dollar while Latina women make 53 cents.
So what can women do to advocate for themselves and make sure they are being paid fairly?
GMA spoke to TIAA President and CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett, who shared some strategies that can help bridge the gap:
(NEW YORK) — Just 40 days after Tom Brady announced his retirement, the quarterback called an audible on his previous plan and said his place is still on the football field.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion posted on social media Sunday, one day before NFL free agency negotiations start, that he was coming out of retirement for a 23rd season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“These past two months I have realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady wrote. “I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. We have unfinished business.”
ESPN NFL insider Jeff Darlington weighed in on the 44-year-old’s reversal, telling ABC News’ Good Morning America that Brady left the window of opportunity open.
“I’d love to say that I was shocked, but just understanding the fact that the Bucks themselves sort of knew in the last few weeks that Tom Brady wasn’t exactly fully committed to retirement, that there was some willingness to believe that ultimately Brady would come back,” Darlington said.
When Brady said he would retire in January, the sports world celebrated him as the greatest quarterback that ever played the game. But even after his career seemed to be closing, Brady opened the door to playing almost immediately in an episode of his podcast.
“You know, you never say never,” he hinted on “Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray.”
“It does feel a little bit surprising from the standpoint that Brady is always so methodical about his decision-making, always so decisive,” Darlington said. “And in this case, ultimately just felt like he wasn’t done yet. And maybe he was premature by ultimately thinking he was.”
When asked what more he has to prove after his initial retirement announcement, Brady previously told GMA: “I don’t think proving it for me is the motivation. Like I still want to play. I got like a little sickness in me that just wants to throw a frickin spiral. You know what I mean? Also about football once you stop you cant go back and do it. I got some more football in me. Not a lot and I know that, but what I got left I’m gonna give it everything I got.”
Brady is not the first to change his mind about coming back to the gridiron; Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre came out of retirement twice after his first attempt in 2008 to continue his 20-year NFL career that ultimately ended with the Minnesota Vikings in 2010.
Plus, Brady’s 2021 stats speak for itself; he set a career-high 5,316 passing yards and led the league with 43 touchdown passes.
Longtime teammate Rob Gronkowski came out of his retirement when Brady first made the move from New England and followed him to Tampa Bay in 2020. Now, with free agency opening in just hours, fans of the football duo have speculated what this will mean for the tight end.
ABC News’ T.J. Holmes also addressed the timing of Brady’s update that upset some sports fans who thought the news took the spotlight from the student athletes playing in March Madness.
“The free agency opens at noon today and there is a suggestion that he was trying to get the news out there so the Tampa Bay Buccaneers could be in a better position to maybe resign some of the guys,” Holmes explained. “Now it makes Tampa Bay more attractive. That might have something to do with it.”
Since learning of Traci Braxton‘spassing Saturday after a private battle with esophageal cancer, celebrities, fans, friends and family have expressed their condolences in messages posted on social media.
The Braxton family shared the sad news in a statement posted to her sister Toni Braxton‘s Instagram, along with a black and white photo of all five of the Braxton sisters.
“It is with the utmost regret that we inform you of the passing of our sister, Traci,” the statement reads. “Needless to say, she was a bright light, a wonderful daughter, an amazing sister, a loving mother, wife, grandmother and a respected performer. We will miss her dearly.”
“She fought to the end and today she’s at peace,” Traci’s son, Kevin Surratt Jr. said in an Instagram post, sharing an image of the two hugging. “I love my mother forever and this hurts so much but I’m at peace knowing she’s isn’t in pain anymore…”
Gabrielle Union, Mary J. Blige, Tyrese, MC Lyte and many more stars left sympathetic and encouraging messages in the comments section.
Viola Davis took to Twitter to express her condolences, saying, “I am sooo sorry! What a light you were Traci!! Condolences to the Braxton Family, her son and husband. Rest well!”
Beyoncé posted a picture of the late star on her official website, with the message, “Rest in Peace Traci Braxton.”
“My sincere condolences to The Braxton family.. Traci was talented, funny and a joy to be around.. prayers of comfort to all,” comedian Loni Lovesaid on Twitter.
Missy Elliotre-tweeted a snippet of a video from the Braxton Family Values reality show, saying, “It’s like she left these words with her sisters to always remember… May God give the family STRENGTH Rest in Paradise Traci you will not be forgotten.”
Hailey Bieber is on the mend after experiencing what she described as “stroke-like symptoms” last week.
Over the weekend, the 25-year-old model told her fans what happened on her Instagram Stories and said it was “one of the scariest moments I’ve ever been through.”
“On Thursday morning, I was sitting at breakfast with my husband when I started having stroke-like symptoms and was taken to the hospital,” Bieber wrote. “[The doctors] found I had suffered a very small blood clot to my brain, which caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed it on its own and I recovered completely within a few hours.”
In the U.S., strokes are the fifth cause of death and leading cause of disability, according to the American Stroke Association. It occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either “blocked by a clot or bursts.” Usually when this happens, the American Stroke Association says, part of the brain can’t get the blood and oxygen it needs.
Board-certified emergency medicine physician and ABC News contributor Dr. Darien Sutton said there are three types of strokes. He said he believes Bieber had a transient ischemic attack, sometimes called a “mini-stroke.”
“That’s when blood supply is temporarily reduced,” Sutton said. “And that can cause symptoms lasting anywhere from minutes to up to 24 hours.”
Bieber’s health scare comes one month after her husband, Justin Bieber, contracted COVID-19. The singer, who has since recovered from the disease, had to postpone multiple concert dates on his Justice World Tour, including a show in Las Vegas, which was later rescheduled to June.
