Good Monday evening, kids. Hope you all had a good weekend. I'm still fighting the damned sinus crud- which is trying to make it's way into my chest. Then again, that's how I know the holidays are coming, even without a calendar.
Tickets for Time and Time Again: A Celebration of Pat DiNizio sold out within minutes of going on sale this morning.
The show be held at the Basie Performing Arts Academy on January 13th, and benefit the Pat DiNizio Musical Performance Scholarship at the school.
The show, hosted by Steven Van Zandt, had been scheduled before DiNizio's death last week- with the Smithereens as one of the headliners.
"I was set to host this Smithereens and Patty Smyth and Scandal show as part of Citi’s Underground Garage at the Basie series," Van Zandt said. "With the sudden, tragic passing of Pat DiNizio, I think it’s appropriate that we take this moment to pay tribute to him. I will be honored to sing a few of his songs with the band, and I’m asking any friends of mine if they can make themselves available for a song or two. We’ll see who’s around and announce them shortly."
Jazz vocalist Keely Smith, one-time musical partner and wife of Louis Prima, died over the weekend at her home in Palm Springs.
Smith began performing with Prima's band when she was a teenager, and married him in 1953. Together, they won a Grammy in 1959 for That Old Black Magic, and had three records hit the Billboard pop charts.
Smith was 89.
Two-hundred-twenty million dollars. That's how much Star Wars: The Last Jedi made at the box office over the weekend.
Fox's latest foray into live television, A Christmas Story Live was the lowest rated and least watched of all of the recent efforts in the live musical genre, averaging just a 1.5 rating in Nielsen's overnight rating- though that number did show a 25% improvement over Fox’s typical Sunday night.
Personally, I wouldn't have watched it if you'd stapled my eyes open and sewed me to a chair.
I can't be the only person on the planet who just figured it was only a matter of time before Gene Simmons was accused of sexual assault, can I?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the names of the 70 songs in contention for nominations in the best original song category. Voting members of the Academy’s music branch will be asked to vote, in order of preference, for up to five picks. The five songs with the most votes will then go out as nominees for general voting.
Final nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 23.
The list of selections, in alphabetical order by film:
U.N.I (You And I) from And the Winner Isn’t
Love And Lies from Band Aid
If I Dare from Battle of the Sexes
Evermore and How Does A Moment Last Forever from Beauty and the Beast
Now Or Never from Bloodline: Now or Never
She from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go from The Book of Henry
Buddy’s Business from Brawl in Cell Block 99
The Crown Sleeps from The Breadwinner
World Gone Mad from Bright
Mystery Of Love and Visions Of Gideon from Call Me by Your Name
Captain Underpants Theme Song from Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Ride and Run That Race from Cars 3
Tell Me How Long from Chasing Coral
Broken Wings from City of Ghosts
Remember Me from Coco
Prayers For This World from Cries from Syria
There’s Something Special from Despicable Me 3
It Ain’t Fair from Detroit
A Little Change In The Weather from Downsizing
Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home) from Drawing Home
All In My Head; Dying For Ya and Green from Elizabeth Blue
Can’t Hold Out On Love from Father Figures
Home from Ferdinand
I Don’t Wanna Live Forever from Fifty Shades Darker
You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way from Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
This Is How You Walk On from Gifted
Summer Storm from The Glass Castle
The Pure And The Damned from Good Time
This Is Me from The Greatest Showman
The Hero from The Hero
How Shall A Sparrow Fly from Hostiles
Just Getting Started from If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Truth To Power from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Next Stop, The Stars from Kepler’s Dream
The Devil & The Huntsman from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Have You Ever Wondered; I’ll Be Gone and We’ll Party All Night from Lake of Fire
Friends Are Family from The Lego Batman Movie
Found My Place from The Lego Ninjago Movie
Stand Up For Something from Marshall
Rain from Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Myron/Byron from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Longing For Summer from Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
Mighty River from Mudbound
Never Forget from Murder on the Orient Express
Hold The Light from Only the Brave
PBNJ and Tuff Love (Finale) from Patti Cake$
Lost Souls from The Pirates of Somalia
How A Heart Unbreaks from Pitch Perfect 3
The Promise from The Promise
Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe and Maanathe Maarikurumbe from Pulimurugan
Stubborn Angel from Same Kind of Different as Me
Dancing Through The Wreckage from Served Like a Girl
Keep Your Eyes On Me from The Shack
On The Music Goes from Slipaway
The Star from The Star
Jump from Step
Tickling Giants from Tickling Giants
Fly Away from Trafficked
Speak To Me from Voice from the Stone
Walk On Faith from Year by the Sea
Birthdays today include: Christina Aguilera (37); Sia (42); DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit (45); DMX (47); Elliot Easton of The Cars (64); and Keith Richards of Rolling Stones (895 or 74, depending on what you believe). #MusicalBirthdays
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