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Ethan Hawke “all in” on ‘Moon Knight’, his first superhero project

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ethan Hawke explains why he’d always been hesitant to take a role in the superhero genre, and why he decided to go “all in” with his first — Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ show Moon Knight.

“The comic book world meant a lot to me when I was younger,” says the Oscar-nominated actor, who plays the cult leader-like baddie Arthur Harrow.

“I was always a little apprehensive; there’s a certain kind of actor that really excels in that universe, and I’m still not sure I’m one of them,” Hawke notes.

However, Moon Knight himself changed his mind. “Oscar [Isaac] asked me, and I really respect him,” Hawke says. “And I knew that if he went in, he was going to go all in, and it’s fun to do any genre with people who are all in.”

Hawke says he also appreciated that Moon Knight isn’t a household name — yet. “[I]f you do Batman or Superman or Hulk…it’s like playing Hamlet. Ninety percent of people there have an opinion about how Hamlet should be played.”

However, the Training Day vet admits he had “always been nervous about” playing the heavy.

“I’ve always had this theory that when you teach an audience how to see the demon inside you, they don’t unsee it for the rest of your career,” Hawke explains. “Jack Nicholson can be playing an accountant, and you’re still waiting for him to explode like he did in The Shining.”

Having said that, the 51-year-old actor notes, “But I realized I’m on the other side of 50, and it’s time to put a new tool in the tool kit,” adding, “Villains might be my future.”

Moon Knight debuts on Disney+ on March 30.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Dolly Parton now has her own cake mix line, and her custom baking collections sold out in just hours

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Dolly Parton fans can have their cake and eat it, too. The singer just launched a partnership with baked-goods line Duncan Hines, offering two cake mix flavors and buttercream icing to match.

The mixes, Southern Style Coconut Flavored Cake Mix and Southern Style Banana Flavored Cake Mix, will hit shelves this March. Plus, Dolly has assembled special baking collection boxes, including both flavors of cake mix, plus buttercream and chocolate buttercream icings, a custom spatula and a tea towel. Those boxes went on sale Wednesday morning, and by 10:30 a.m. ET, they had sold out.

Dolly, who also recently announced the second round of her Jeni’s Splendid custom Strawberry Pretzel Pie ice cream flavor, tells People that sweets were a rare treat in her home growing up.

“Growing up poor, we didn’t have a lot of sugar, so we didn’t have cakes all the time,” she remembers. “So when Mama made special cakes, we loved being in the kitchen.”

The singer still loves cake, but she admits that her biggest culinary weakness isn’t necessarily a dessert.

“If I’ve been on a low-carb diet or something for a while, the first thing I want to do when I break it is have some cake — or potatoes. That’s my weakness,” she admits. “Usually that’s why I fall off any diet, is for the love of some sort of a potato.”

Dolly’s also got a new book coming out. Her first novel, Run Rose Run — which she co-wrote with James Patterson — will be published in March. She’s also releasing a companion album of the same name.

Liam Payne reveals COVID diagnosis, postpones show

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne is recovering from COVID-19 and, in a message to fans Wednesday, he revealed that means he needs to postpone an upcoming performance.

“I’m so sorry to announce that I’m having to push back next Here’s To The Future show… Unfortunately I had COVID and will not be ready in time to give you the show you all deserve,” the singer announced via Instagram.

Liam knew fans would be disappointed, so he decided to more than make it up to those who were hoping to see him perform. “We’ve decided to now do something extra special,” he teased, “and move the show back a few weeks to Saturday 12th February, just in time for Valentine’s Day!!”

The “Strip That Down” artist vowed tickets for his original date will be good for his new show and he told fans he will “see you soon.”

Liam’s Here’s To The Future virtual showcase is meant to highlight new and emerging acts that have his seal of approval. The upcoming date will feature artists Madilyn Bailey, Just Stef, Lyn Lapid and iamnotshane. Tickets for the 3 p.m. EST show are on sale now for $15 on his website.

Mudvayne’s Chad Gray had COVID symptoms during comeback show: “It…wiped me out”

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Mudvayne‘s Chad Gray has revealed that he was experiencing COVID-19 symptoms during the band’s first comeback show at the Inkcarceration festival last September.

In an interview with Danny Wimmer Presents, Gray shares that he didn’t know he had COVID during the festival, only that he “couldn’t figure out what the f*** was going on with my body.”

“That day, [I was] super short of breath,” Gray says. “My voice didn’t seem to wanna warm up. My throat was f***ing super dry all day.”

Gray later tested positive after the performance, which forced Mudvayne to cancel their set at the Louder than Life festival in late September.

“It f***ing wiped me out,” Gray says of the virus.

“That’s one thing, too, about COVID,” he adds. “One day you might have this sinus thing going on, the next day it’s in your chest. The next day it’s in your throat, the next day you’re really lethargic and tired, and then it’s back in your chest. You can’t f***ing wrap your head around it.”

The Inkcarceration set marked Mudvayne’s first live performance together since 2009. They also played last fall’s Aftershock and Welcome to Rockville festivals.

Interpol announces US headlining shows

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Interpol has announced a U.S. tour for this spring.

The headlining outing kicks off April 25 in Dallas, and will wrap up with a two-night hometown stand in New York City on May 14 and 15. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit InterpolNYC.com.

Following the headlining dates, Interpol will play the previously announced 2022 Just Like Heaven festival, taking place May 21 in Pasadena, California. The bill also includes many other bands from the 2000s indie scene, including The Shins, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party.

Along with the tour announcement, Interpol has released a video showing the group working on new music at Battery Studio in London. Their most recent record is 2018’s Marauder.

Megan Thee Stallion stars with Jennifer Lopez in new Coach spring fashion campaign

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Megan Thee Stallion joins Jennifer Lopez in the new Coach spring 2022 “That’s My Ride” fashion campaign which was unveiled Tuesday.

The “Hot Girl Summer” stars in a 30-second commercial modeling Coach designs as she has fun riding bumper cars at a seaside amusement park to the music of Patrice Rushen‘s 1982 Grammy nominated track, “Forget Me Nots.”

“THEE main attraction. Riding with @coach’s iconic Horse and Carriage print for Spring 2022,” Megan commented on Instagram. “What’s your ride hotties?”

Coach is one of several endorsements for the three-time Grammy winner. She will also appear in a Super Bowl commercial for Frito-Lay. In a comical teaser she posted this week, as Meg walks toward her trailer and attempts to enter, she is shocked to see the long arm of an animal reach out the door, knock her name plate on the ground, and lock the door from inside.

Last year, the Glamour Woman of the Year honoree became a partner with the Popeye’s chicken franchise, and signed a production deal with Netflix. In 2020, the “Body” rapper was named a Revlon global ambassador.

In March, Thee Stallion will join the Dupa Lipa “Future Nostalgia” tour, and in April, she will perform at the Coachella Festival.

“Maybe I wasn’t so cool”: Tim McGraw reacts to his old music videos

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Mutton chops, “mad farmers who can’t get to their fields” and “me trying to be GQ”: Tim McGraw takes a walk down music video memory lane in a new reaction video the singer posted to his YouTube channel.

The singer looks back at three videos — 1994’s “Down on the Farm,” 2003’s “She’s My Kind of Rain” and 2016’s “Humble and Kind” — in the clip. He takes plenty of cracks at his fashion sense and youthful sensibilities throughout the video, but Tim has some sentimental stories to share, too, like how Oprah Winfrey helped inspire the music video for “Humble and Kind.”

“I knew that when we did the video, we had to figure out some way to make it special,” he remembers.

He got inspired after watching the trailer for Oprah’s Belief documentary series, which featured footage of people across the world, from a variety of different cultures.

“I thought, ‘Boy, that’s the way I want this video to look,’” Tim explains. So he sent the song to [producer, director and actor] Tyler Perry, a partner in Oprah’s OWN network, asking if it would be possible to use some of the footage from Belief for his video.

“I sent him the song, and he called me back, and he was crying on the phone about how wonderful the song is,” the singer recounts. “And he said, ‘I just sent it to Oprah, I hope you don’t mind, and she said you can have any of the footage that you want.’”

Tim concludes, “I just think it’s one of the most beautiful videos that we’ve ever shot.”

“Humble and Kind” won several awards, including Video of the Year at the 2016 CMT Music Awards.

Chris Martin jokes about working with BTS: “We look like their gym teachers”

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is a big fan of his band’s “My Universe” collaboration with BTS and, in a new interview, he joked the stylish septet has a “bizarre” effect on his group. According to the British singer, BTS makes Coldplay look like a gang of awkward older men.

“It’s quite a bizarre,” he laughed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday as he pointed to a photo of them all posing together. “We look like their gym teachers.” Still, Chris has nothing but nice things to say about the Grammy nominees.

“I genuinely love these people,” he stated. “It was cool to see how their life is. It’s a very different kind of band to us. And it’s much more disciplined in a certain way.” Chris added that Coldplay might not adapt very well to their strict schedule, but said he enjoyed being a part of their world when they spent time in Korea to work on “My Universe.”

He revealed how Coldplay and BTS’ worlds collided, saying the septet “asked [us] to do a song with them,” and Chris wondered, given their different sounds and styles, “How are we going to fit these two things together?”

“Then the idea started to seem really attractive in its weirdness, and then one day the right song arrived,” he continued. “It felt really natural.”

“My Universe” went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the British group’s first chart topper since 2008’s “Viva La Vida.”

Looking ahead to Coldplay’s future, Chris confirmed the band has three more albums in them — and one will be a musical — and they’ll all be out by 2025. “I think that’s what feels right, to us,” he clarified, adding they’ll still go on tours together, but, “the story of our albums ends then.”

Billie Eilish is calling on her creative fans to design her tour merch

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Billie Eilish is giving her artsy fans something to talk about — she’s hosting an art contest where one lucky winner will have their artwork predominantly displayed during her tour.

Taking to her Instagram stories on Wednesday, the “bad guy” hitmaker announced, “I’m going on tour this year and designing merch right now and I know how creative all of you guys are, so I wanted to see if you guys would like to be involved!”

The Grammy winner excitedly continued, “I am going to pick out my favorite piece of fanart to be on one piece of official merch on my tour.” She added she “cannot wait” to start judging submissions because “I know it’s gonna be amazing.”

Billie has teamed with the art program, Adobe, for her ongoing contest that aims to find the perfect design for her tour t-shirt. “Your creativity could be on display in the merch booth and onstage before her show,” the Billie Eilish X Adobe disclaimer adds.

In addition, the grand prize winner will be hooked up with $10,000 and will be flown to one of Billie’s shows, where they can bring a friend to enjoy the concert. Plus, for all you artsy folk, the big winner will also cash in on a full-year free subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, which grants full access to their numerous apps.

There will be 10 runners-up, who will be awarded $1,000 each and also be able to fly to one of Billie’s upcoming tour dates with a friend. Those who make the cut will also be able to see their artwork up on the stage.

To enter, designs must be made using an Adobe app and be posted to Instagram using the two hashtags “#BillieXAdobe” and “#Contest.” The deadline is February 15.

SpaceX rocket segment on course to hit the moon

January 26, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — A segment of a SpaceX rocket that launched seven years ago is currently on course to crash into the moon.

The booster was part of the Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a space-weather satellite more than a million miles from Earth.

However, after a long burn to release the satellite at a specific position in space, the booster didn’t have enough fuel to return to Earth’s atmosphere, meteorologist Eric Berger explained in Ars Technica.

Additionally, its orbit was not high enough to escape the gravity pull between Earth and the moon, leaving the booster in a “chaotic orbit.”

Bill Gray, creator of Project Pluto, which supplies astronomical software that tracks objects near Earth to amateur and professional astronomers, wrote in a blog post that he’s calculated the impact likely will occur on the far side of the moon on March 4 around 7:25 a.m. ET.

“It’s been up there — just an inert piece of space junk — for the past seven years,” Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told ABC News. “Because of its orbit, it keeps coming somewhat close to the moon and that changes its orbit unpredictably, and so the moon keeps tugging on it and changes it orbit.”

He explained that the “last tug” the booster got from the moon in January set it on a path that it will come back near the Earth in early February, go beyond the moon in late February and then start falling back toward it in early March, causing the crash.

It’s not clear exactly where the booster will hit because sunlight can “push” it to slightly change course, but the four-ton segment is going to crash at 5,600 mph, likely creating a crater with a diameter several feet wide.

However, McDowell, who publishes a regularspace report, said the collision is nothing to worry about.

“This is not the the first time that we’ve smashed rocket stages into the moon,” he said. “We used to do it deliberately back in the days of Project Apollo to actually do scientific experiments to basically ring the moon like a bell and look for the interior structure with seismometers — sort of an artificial earthquake if you like — and that didn’t do any damage to the moon.”

Additionally, in 2009, NASA’s LCROSS spacecraft purposely slammed into the moon to collect data about the impact.

The impending crash also should have positive implications for science — it will offer researchers a rare opportunity to study and observe how craters are formed on the moon.

“The advantage you have of smashing a rocket into the moon and creating an artificial crater, instead of letting nature throw a rock at the moon and making an actual one, is that you know exactly what you’re throwing at the moon, you know what it’s made of and how heavy it is,” McDowell said. “If you know a four-ton aluminum rocket stage makes this big a crater, then that gives you a sense of how big a rock must have made this other crater.”

He added that the new crater created by the booster may uncover material and give a better idea of the composition of that part of the moon.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.

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