Lady Gaga‘s new project with Tony Bennett, Love For Sale, comes out on Friday, and now we’ve got an inside look at the recording of the album, which will be the 95-year-old legend’s final one.
In a new Love for Sale trailer, Gaga reveals that as soon as their first duets album, 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, came out, Bennett called her and told her he wanted to do another album with her of Cole Porter tunes.
“Anything I do with her, I’m comfortable about it,” shares Bennett. “Because she’s so talented, I know it’s gonna come out good.” “That’s very kind, Tony,” an emotional Gaga responds. “That’s very true,” he adds.
In the trailer, we see Gaga and Tony in the studio with a small combo, recording classics like “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love),” “Just One of those Things” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” Gaga is in full glam mode for each session, complete with elaborate hairpieces and retro outfits.
“I hope that I can make Tony proud throughout my career by carrying jazz forward and continuing to sing it,” Gaga says. “This has been really special and it’s a time that I’ll never forget. And I can only hope and pray that when people hear this record, they know the value of that kind of inter-generational friendship.”
The trailer ends with Bennett and Gaga sitting together. Bennett says, “I love her.” “I love him, too,” adds Gaga. “I really do. So much.” The two then adorably kiss each other’s hands, with Gaga singing the song, “Do I Love You” — but we know the answer.
It’s unclear exactly when the sessions took place; Bennett’s family revealed earlier this year that the crooner was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016.
Mickey Guyton still can’t get over the gift that Carrie Underwood gave her son.
Over the summer, Mickey shared a video of her seven-month-old son Grayson playing a baby grand piano sent to him by the superstar.
“I swear that woman is an angel sent from heaven,” Mickey praises to CMT, adding that he “loves” the toy. “I just couldn’t believe that she thought of him like that.”
The new mom says that her baby already is a fan of music, a bond that started forming long before he was born, as Mickey was pregnant with him while recording her debut album, Remember Her Name.
“When I put him to bed at night, I’ll sing him a lullaby and that’s what always calms him and then he goes right to sleep,” she describes.
The singer also says that she would be supportive if Grayson were to one day follow in her footsteps and enter the music industry — but she would advise him to have a backup plan.
“I would definitely support him. If it’s in your DNA to do something like that. If music is your passion, then do it, and I 100 percent support him,” she states. “Dreams are dreams.”
Ringo Starr has debuted a music video for his uplifting new song “Let’s Change the World,” the lead track from the former Beatles drummer’s recently released Change the Word EP.
The clip features scenes that Starr shot with a variety of children, teens and young adults at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hills Park at the site of Ringo’s Peace Sculpture, and on a soundstage.
The video was created in collaboration with Kids in the Spotlight (KITS), a nonprofit organization that offers young people in the foster care system the chance to make films that tell their stories, giving them the opportunity for healing and growth while preparing them for potential future job opportunities.
Many of the young people in the KITS program contributed their ideas for the video and also participated or assisted in the clip’s directing, lighting, choreography and photography.
The video shows the young people dancing, singing, flashing peace signs and playing instruments, and the clip also features images and footage that illustrate the song’s message of helping make the planet a better place in the face of pollution, global warming and social unrest.
“I wanted to make this video with kids because they are our future and this is for them,” Ringo says in a statement. “They deserve clean water and fresh air. I believe we should leave this planet in better shape than we found it for our kids, and right now we are not doing that…We have got to change, and I believe we can. Peace and love.”
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, who co-wrote “Let’s Change the World” with his band mate Joseph Williams, also appears in the clip.
The Change the World EP is available now on CD, cassette and digital formats. A 10-inch vinyl version will be released on November 19.
(NEW YORK) — On the latest episode of the “Behind The Table” podcast, former co-host of “The View” Lisa Ling and current co-host Sara Haines spoke candidly about their biggest regrets while co-hosting the show and how they learned to speak openly at the Hot Topics table.
Haines was a co-host of “The View” from 2016 to 2018, for seasons 20 and 21. She left to co-host ABC News’ “GMA 3: Strahan, Sara & Keke,” and returned to “The View” panel again in 2020, for season 24.
On the podcast, Haines said she is a “huge fan” of Ling and always admired her time on the Emmy award-winning daytime talk show and as a “hardcore” journalist.
Ling’s career began at age 21, when she covered the civil war in Afghanistan as a correspondent on Channel One News. In 1999, at 26, she became a co-host of “The View” and got to work alongside show creator Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira and Star Jones. She was one of the youngest co-hosts on the show.
In December of 2002, Ling decided to leave the show to further pursue her journalism career as a correspondent for National Geographic’s Explorer. She went on to become an award-winning journalist reporting hard-hitting stories from numerous countries.
“What you do is emotional at times, but you just are so immersive and the stories you tell are so powerful,” Haines said of Ling’s impressive journalism career.
Ling sat at the Hot Topics table for three years before becoming a field correspondent at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and pursuing her journalism career.
Though Ling called “The View” a “tangent” in her career, she said being on that table is how she found her voice, and her time there was “instrumental in helping me to get to where I am today.”
But that’s not to say she hasn’t had to grapple with some regretful remarks she made on the show.
One evening in December 2001, Ling bumped into Monica Lewinsky, who had a relationship with former President Bill Clinton during her time as a White House intern working in the office of the chief of staff, Leon Panetta. The two spoke about Lewinsky’s college tour, and Ling said that she told her about how disappointed she was that the questions being asked of her weren’t more intellectual.
On Dec. 19, 2001, one of “The View” co-hosts asked Ling about her night. She told viewers about her conversation with Lewinsky and commented that she doesn’t know what’s intellectual about being on your knees.
“My heart sunk,” Ling told Haines. “It was so not me to say something like that about someone who had kind of confided in me about something personal that she had experienced.”
“I felt deflated and sad and hurt,” she continued. “It was, it was a horrible, horrible moment where I sacrificed my own character right for that laugh.”
Ling said that soon after her comment, she “profusely apologized” to Lewinsky and years later had the opportunity to interact with her even more. While she said Lewinsky was “gracious and forgiving,” she also “wasn’t afraid” to tell her how hurt she was by Ling’s comment.
Haines related to Ling’s story and looked back on comments she made about Taylor Swift after her “Reputation” album was released in 2017.
After she watched Swift’s “Miss Americana” documentary, Haines said she “recognized” that she was a part of “a media problem” with Swift and was upset by the realization.
“I had made jokes before about how many boyfriends she’d had or writing a song about them,” Haines said. “They actually were all innocently motivated. I wasn’t going for a laugh.”
Now, Haines said she realized she was a part of the conversations that hurt Swift.
“I private messaged her on Instagram and kind of communicated what I had done, what I saw in the documentary and that I hoped I was a part of the stronger narrative from that point on in defending what someone might feel like in those moments.” Haines said it was “no surprise” that she didn’t hear back from Swift, but she “needed to let her know that I was sorry.”
Prior to making regrettable comments on “The View,” Ling told Haines that she had to overcome the Asian etiquettes she learned growing up.
Ling said she “was taught that you have to be respectful of your elders,” but one thing that’s “imperative on ‘The View’ is you have to fight for space. You have to fight for time. You have to fight to get a word in edgewise.”
Sitting alongside Walters, Behar, Vieira and Jones,” Ling felt it was “mortifying” to speak up “because culturally, I would always wait until they said their piece and then I would offer my thoughts or my insights.”
While Ling said it felt like a “fight every day just to express an opinion,” she wouldn’t be able to do what she can now had it not been fro those three years at “The View.”
In the third episode of “Behind The Table,” Ling and Haines discuss the challenges they faced on the show, fond memories of Barbara Walters. Ling also looks back on her decision to leave “The View” and Haines reflects on her early days guest co-hosting the show and her decision to come back on the panel after leaving in 2018.
“‘The View’ has become a real force. It’s an important outlet and it’s smart. It can be irreverent. It can be silly. It can be funny,” Ling told Haines on the podcast. “It is comprised of smart women expressing their feelings and their opinions about things that are happening in this country and in the world.”
BTS will finally be reunited with their beloved ARMY — at least, the North American branch of it — in November, as they perform four in-person shows at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium.
BTS Permission to Dance On Stage — LA will take place November 27, November 28, December 1, and December 2. This will be the group’s first chance to perform live for their fans since their 2019 world tour. Since the pandemic, BTS has spoken many times about how upset they’ve been about the fact that they haven’t been able to connect with their fans in person.
Fans who bought VIP tickets to the group’s canceled 2020 Map of the Soul tour will get first access to presale tickets for the new shows.
For fans who can’t get to L.A., BTS will also do a livestream concert, BTS Permission to Dance On Stage, on October 24.
You can register for the presale now through October 2 at 6 p.m. PT via Ticketmaster. Here is the schedule for who can get tickets when:
10/5 3pm PT Day 1 – VIP Purchasers: MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR PRESALE
10/6 3pm PT Day 2 – Ticket Purchasers: MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR PRESALE
10/7 3pm PT Day 3 – BTS GLOBAL OFFICIAL FANCLUB ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE
10/8 3pm PT Day 4 – General Verified Fan Presale
10/9 3pm PT Day 5 – General Public Onsale
(NEW YORK) — Recreational pot has become legal for more Americans, but despite that ease of access, marijuana use hasn’t ignited, a study released Monday found.
An article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found there was no increase in cannabis use among the general population or among previous users after their states legalized marijuana.
Researchers surveyed about 830,000 Americans over age 12 on their reported cannabis use, both before and after recreational marijuana was passed in their state. The study looked at data between 2008 and 2017.
Washington state and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2021, after which marijuana use saw a slight increase among Hispanic and white participants, researchers said.
The study also found there were no changes in cannabis use or cannabis use disorder for individuals between the ages of 12 and 20 in the states that legalized the substance.
As of Sept. 27, 18 states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana use for adults over 21. In this year alone, four states, New York, New Mexico, Virginia and Connecticut, legalized the substance.
ABC News’ Dr. Ronnye Rutledge contributed to this report.
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Perhaps as a response to the quasi biopic Aline, which is hitting theaters in 2022, Celine Dion has authorized the production of a documentary about her life and career.
The documentary from Oscar-nominated director Irene Taylor will be “the definitive feature” about Celine, and has the diva’s “full participation and support.” It will follow her “incredible” life story and include all her career highlights.
“I’ve always been an open book with my fans, and with her sensitivity and thoughtful creativity I think that Irene will be able to show everyone a part of me that they haven’t seen before,” Celine says in a statement. “I know she’ll tell my story in the most honest and heartfelt way.”
“Going on this journey with a legendary artist such as Celine Dion is an extraordinary opportunity for me as a filmmaker,” adds Taylor. “Having access to examine her life and inimitable career, will allow me to create a multifaceted portrait of an iconic, global superstar, which I look forward to sharing with the world.”
Celine will kick off her new residency show at Resorts World Las Vegas on November 5. She’s set to resume her Courage world tour in 2022.
As previously reported, Aline is a French movie that’s a thinly veiled biopic of Celine. Its director, writer and star, Valerie Lemercier, claims Celine’s French manager signed off on the film, but told her that Celine didn’t want to read the script.
(NEW YORK) — Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist gymnast, said she should have quit competing “way before” the Tokyo Olympics, where she had to withdraw from several events due to mental health struggles.
“If you looked at everything I’ve gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team,” Biles said in a new interview with LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images). “I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry Nassar was in the media for two years.”
“It was too much,” she said. “But I was not going to let him take something I’ve worked for since I was 6 years old. I wasn’t going to let him take that joy away from me. So I pushed past that for as long as my mind and my body would let me.”
Biles, 24, was on track at this summer’s Olympics to win an unprecedented six gold medals during the Games, with the aim of also becoming the first woman since 1968 to win back-to-back titles in the all-around.
After stumbling on a vault landing in the team competition final, Biles withdrew from three of her event finals, citing her mental health.
Earlier this month, while testifying before Congress, Biles tied her performance in Tokyo to her struggle to recover mentally after being abused by Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics team doctor who is now serving up to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting hundreds of girls and women.
In the interview with New York Magazine, Biles said she is back in therapy and calls her recovery from the abuse she suffered a frustratingly long “work in progress.”
“You get surgery, it’s fixed. Why can’t someone just tell me in six months it’ll be over?” Biles said. “Like, hello, where are the double-A batteries? Can we just stick them back in? Can we go?”
Leading up to the Tokyo Games, Biles said she “didn’t feel as confident as I should have been with as much training as we had.”
Once there, Biles said she faced what in gymnastics is called “the twisties,” when one loses sense of where they are in the air or in their routine.
“If I still had my air awareness, and I just was having a bad day, I would have continued,” Biles told the magazine. “But it was more than that.”
“It’s so dangerous,” she said. “It’s basically life or death. It’s a miracle I landed on my feet. If that was any other person, they would have gone out on a stretcher. As soon as I landed that vault, I went and told my coach: ‘I cannot continue.’”
Biles faced criticism from some when she withdrew from her Olympic events, but she was mostly applauded for listening to her body and prioritizing her mental health.
To those critics who said she went to Tokyo and quit, Biles compared what she went through to suddenly waking up blind one day.
“Say up until you’re 30 years old, you have your complete eyesight,” she said. “One morning, you wake up, you can’t see … but people tell you to go on and do your daily job as if you still have your eyesight. You’d be lost, wouldn’t you? That’s the only thing I can relate it to. I have been doing gymnastics for 18 years. I woke up — lost it. How am I supposed to go on with my day?”
In the nearly two months since she returned home from Tokyo, Biles said she has had time to come to terms with what happened, though she said it still feels in many ways like she “jumped out of a moving train.”
“Everybody asks, ‘If you could go back, would you?’ ” Biles told New York Magazine. “No. I wouldn’t change anything because everything happens for a reason. And I learned a lot about myself — courage, resilience, how to say no and speak up for yourself.”
After almost two decades together, Miguel and actress/model Nazanin Mandi have separated.
A rep for the couple confirmed the news to People stating, “After 17 years together, Miguel and Nazanin Mandi have decided to separate and have been for some time now. The couple both wish each other well.”
It was not specified how long the pair had been apart or what led to the split.
Miguel and Mandi, both 35, dated for 10 years before getting engaged in 2016. They tied the knot in November 2018. The couple has no children.
Following news of the split, the “Adorn” singer took to his Instagram Story to share a thought-provoking message.
“What do you desire? Have certainty and clear intention about your desire,” the post read. “Clarity is key…Only take action on things that relate to, and excite positive emotion to your desire.”
Mandi also shared a cryptic message to her page, which read, “Someone once said: ‘You know you have a big heart when you feel bad for doing what’s best for you.’ And I felt that.”
(WASHINGTON) — Top White House climate negotiator John Kerry said in an interview with ABC News Live that every country needs to act to reduce emissions and address climate change faster than ever before, especially after warnings the upcoming climate summit in November could be a failure if more countries don’t increase their commitments to the Paris Agreement.
Kerry said Mother Nature “did a hell of a job whipping up enthusiasm to get something done” after the extreme events and record-high temperatures around the world this past year and said leaders are starting to feel the anticipation for the upcoming COP26 summit where countries will re-examine what they need to do to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees Celsius.
“Every country has to go faster. None of us can say we’re really fast,” Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview with ABC News Live. “There are very few countries, you can get them on one or two hands, that are in keeping with the Paris numbers.”
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said there’s a “high risk of failure” from the COP26 climate summit in November if countries don’t drastically increase commitments to reducing emissions.
The latest report from the United Nations found the world is on track to warm an average of 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, failing the goals of the Paris Agreement and triggering consequences from global warming like more extreme heat waves, droughts that would increase impacts on agriculture in some parts of the world and intensifying severe weather events. Even with every country’s current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they’re expected to increase 16% by 2030, according to the U.N. report.
“The 191 countries that have all put in their plans together, whether they’ve changed them, improved them or kept them the same, that 191 result in a 16% increase in emissions,” Kerry told ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee.
“That is a big F — that fails, it fails for everybody,” he added.
Kerry was appointed to the role as special envoy for climate by President Joe Biden to help re-establish the country’s role as a leader in international climate negotiations after former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.
Kerry, who previously served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama and for 28 years as a senator, has traveled to countries like India and China, which generates about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, to speak with leaders about increasing their commitments to reducing the use of fossil fuels.
During the U.N. General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the country will stop financing new coal power projects abroad and will provide more financial support for developing countries to build renewable energy infrastructure. Kerry said that is a good start, but he acknowledged it sends a mixed message when the country continues to use fossil fuels and build new coal power plants inside the country.
“I think now there’s a growing awareness in China,” said Kerry, who recently returned from his second trip to speak with leaders there. “And I think President Xi is personally very invested in this issue. And my hope is that President Xi is going to help us all to come together around certain choices we can each make. It is possible that China could do more to peak earlier or to reduce coal.”
Kerry said he understands frustration from climate activists like Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who recently tweeted that “whatever our so-called leaders are doing, they’re doing it wrong.”
“A lot of them have failed, but I think it’s unfair. I think it’s a little much of a reach to say that, ‘so-called leaders,’ there are a lot of real leaders around and they are trying very, very hard to move this process,” he told ABC News.
Kerry said he understands Thunberg’s frustration and anger, and he is also angry that some people are getting in the way of action on climate change.
“What we need to do is behave like adults and get the job done. And she’s absolutely right to be pressing the urgency of our doing that. But there are leaders out there trying to get some things done, just too slowly in some cases, and we’ve got to speed it up,” he said.
