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He truly is the Piano Man. Billy Joel himself gave a group of onlookers the show of a lifetime when he began playing a ragtime tune on a piano kicked to the curb in Huntington, Long Island, Newsday reports. Cellphone video sneakily taken of Joel shows the 71-year-old, five-time Grammy winner casually performing a complicated …
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Not even a pandemic can stop the BET Awards. The show will go on Sunday at 8 p.m. on BET and CBS with its first-ever virtual ceremony hosted by comedian Amanda Seales. And there are still plenty of A-list acts on the musical lineup, including Alicia Keys, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Usher and Lil Wayne. …
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The 2021 Golden Globes will take place on Feb. 28 — about eight weeks before the 93rd Academy Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the announcement Monday morning. Just a week earlier, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the 93rd Academy Awards telecast has been postponed by two months to …
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Do not throw away your shot because the “Hamilton” trailer is here. Launching on Disney Plus on July 3, the minute-long trailer shows off footage from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical. The film features footage with the original cast, including Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Anthony Ramos, Jonathon …
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The academy is still trying to get past its #OscarsSoWhite problem. On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the Oscar statues, unveiled the “next phase” of its program to boost the representation of women and people of color in the entertainment industry and the annual awards. The plan, titled …
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The Grammy Awards will cease using the term “urban” in its awards and language as part of the latest round of annual changes to its rules and guidelines, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday (June 10). Along with the changes, which include updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap fields, Nominations Review …
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MTV won’t be serving any golden popcorn this summer: The network’s annual Movie & TV Awards, which were expected to air later this month, have been postponed indefinitely due to coronavirus concerns. Per our sister site Variety, which broke the postponement news, MTV has long been considering moving the annual awards show to December, instead of …
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Sunday was supposed to be the 74th Tonys. The first broadcast was on WOR in 1947. First on TV was in 1967, on ABC, from the Shubert Theatre. For the first time ever, they are postponed indefinitely. So no Radio City, no long speeches, no long gowns, no red carpet, no p.r. man Rick Miramontez’s …
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A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 – the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards – has been postponed in the wake of national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd. “We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” said an executive producer of …
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Could Catherine O’Hara be any more fabulous? On Wednesday night, the 66-year-old “Schitt’s Creek” actress took home the Canadian Screen Award for best lead actress, comedy, giving a hilarious acceptance speech from home during the coronavirus pandemic. “Wow, thank you kind Canadian Screen Academy members,” O’Hara — who won the award for the fifth time …
He truly is the Piano Man. Billy Joel himself gave a group of onlookers the show of a lifetime when he began playing a ragtime tune on a piano kicked to the curb in Huntington, Long Island, Newsday reports. Cellphone video sneakily taken of Joel shows the 71-year-old, five-time Grammy winner casually performing a complicated …
