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Mick Jagger Released 2 New Songs 10 Days Ago and They’ve Sold Two Thousand Copies Apiece

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Mick Jagger Released 2 New Songs 10 Days Ago and They’ve Sold Two Thousand Copies Apiece

It pains me to write this because I’m a fan of a lot of Mick Jagger’s solo work. But the famed Rolling Stone has treated his career like a hobby, and it’s rarely been attended with much follow up.

So that’s the story of the two singles he dropped and no one picked up on July 27th. Mick spontaneously released “Gotta Get a Grip” and “England Lost” with no warning and no promotion. And it wasn’t like they were spur of the moment projects. They were accompanied by handsome short films– videos– that took time to prepare.

Nevertheless, 10 days later, Mick needs to “Get a Grip.” Each single has sold 2,000 copies or less. “Grip” is slightly more successful because it’s better. “England Lost” is a sonic mess. Both tracks, though mixed and remixed by top contemporary producers, sound a little like U2 circa “Mysterious Ways.”

Radio has pretty much ignored the tracks, as well. But that happens to every legacy artist. Classic rock stations hypocritically play all the old music by Rock Stars, but refuse to support their new material. It’s really stupid– they’re killing the future of their own business.

as for Mick, I wish he had gone more in the direction of covers a la the Stones’ last and very successful album, “Blue and Lonesome.” Instead of blues he could have revived some soul hits. Or country. Alas, this experiment seems as though it will be marked as a two-off souvenir for the summer of 2017.

Exclusive: Snoop Dogg Will Play Himself in Matthew McConaughey-Harmony Korine Surfing Movie

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Exclusive: Snoop Dogg Will Play Himself in Matthew McConaughey-Harmony Korine Surfing Movie

First– Harmony Korine is making a movie called “The Beach Bum.” Matthew McConaughey will play the lead character named Moondog, a surfer who’s frittered his life away.

You know, a character named Moondoggie was very famous in novels, movies and a TV series starring Sally Field called “Gidget.” Moondoggie, famously played by James Darren, was a surfer who frittered his life away. Frederick Kohner was the author, and Gidget was based on his daughter, Kathy Kohner, who’s 76 and very much alive in Pacific Palisades, California. Just sayin…

Anyway, into “The Beach Bum” comes Snoop Dogg, who I am told will play himself or someone just like him. Maybe he’ll be the Big Kahuna in Moondog’s life.

Snoop Dogg– who literally walks around in a cloud of weed smoke– he sure gets around!

Let’s hope this movie improves on some of McConaughey’s latest duds including “The Dark Tower,” out now.

The Greatest Cult Album of the 90s, by the New Radicals, Is Finally Available on (Gold) Vinyl

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The Greatest Cult Album of the 90s, by the New Radicals, Is Finally Available on (Gold) Vinyl

Back in 1998, no one was listening to vinyl much. So when the New Radicals’ “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too” was released, it came out only on CD and cassette tape. It became the greatest cult album of the 1990s with two massive radio hits still heard today, “You Get What You Give” and “Someday We’ll Know.”

The singles were monsters. The album was a big hit. So where was the follow up? Gregg Alexander wrote or co-wrote all the songs and sang them. His sometime collaborator was Danielle Brisebois, known to TV audiences from “Archie Bunker’s Place” and “Knots Landing.” They had it made in the shade.

But after all the publicity and hype, Alexander just wanted to be a songwriter. No more New Radicals. They went the way of the Bay City Rollers and The Knack, into trivia books. Alexander scored “Game of Love” for Santana and Michelle Branch among his many penned hits. Then he and Brisebois wrote the song for John Carney’s sleeper film, “Begin Again.” Adam Levine sang “Lost Stars,” which earned an Oscar nomination. And life went on.

At Clive Davis’s Grammy dinner this past February, Joni Mitchell lit up when I asked if she wanted to meet Alexander. She said: “When I heard that song, I changed my mind about quitting the business. I was done. I wasn’t going to do anything more. But that it is the most brilliant song. I am so happy to meet you.”

Gregg told Joni that around that time he’d had a dream about her. Like most great songwriters, Alexander holds Joni in high esteem. He said, “I don’t want to sound stalkerish. But I knew all this had something to do with you.”

Joni was pleased to hear it. “I’ll tell you, I was really going to quit. But that song gave me hope.”

Universal has issued “Brainwashed” as a two LP set on gold vinyl. The beauty of the album is that it’s not just a two hit wonder. All the tracks could have been hit singles. If you love pop music, “Brainwashed” is to the 90s what the Raspberries were to the 70s. It’s like a lavish delicious dessert with lots of nutrition.

Here’s Gregg singing “Game of Love” — a rarity–

Broadway: Amy Schumer Will Make Debut this Fall in Steve Martin’s New Play “Meteor Shower”

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Broadway: Amy Schumer Will Make Debut this Fall in Steve Martin’s New Play “Meteor Shower”

Steve Martin’s new play, “Meteor Shower,” is getting an all star cast.

Amy Schumer will make her Broadway debut this fall in the comedy, directed by Jerry Zaks. And get this: her co-stars are Laura Benanti, Keegan Michael Key and Alan Tudyk.

Producers are Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, and John Johnson.

Previews begin November 1st with an opening night of November 29th.

A press release describes “Meteor Shower”: It’s a hot night in Ojai, California, and Corky (Schumer) and her husband Norm (Tudyk) are having another couple over for dinner.  Laura (Benanti) and Gerald (Key), though, aren’t looking for a casual evening of polite small talk with new friends.  Eventually, the two couples find themselves in a marital free-fall matched in velocity and peril only by the smoldering space rocks tearing through the sky. 

It’s a shame we won’t get to hear Benanti sing, but this sounds like the perfect late fall season comedy.

Galaxy Unguarded: Chris Pratt Announces Split from Actress Wife Anna Faris on Facebook (Where Else?)

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Galaxy Unguarded: Chris Pratt Announces Split from Actress Wife Anna Faris on Facebook (Where Else?)

Hollywood is no place for marriage, especially when two ambitious actors are involved. Now Chris Pratt, star of “Guardian of the Galaxy” and “Jurassic World” and Anna Faris, star of TV’s “Mom,” are calling it quits. They were married eight years and have a four year old.

Another one bites the dust. On Facebook– where else?– Pratt made the announcement:
Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward. We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another.

Chris Pratt and Anna Faris

Well, this was a hyped celeb coupling, that’s for sure. It was used to promote a lot of interviews. Except for one– curiously, last January Pratt mentioned Faris only in passing in his Vanity Fair cover story. That should have set off alarms. It was like she didn’t exist. That must have gone over big time.

In March Buzzfeed– cynical Buzzfeed— even profiled the happy couple.

In April, Faris gushed all over the place when Pratt got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

Pratt also really played up being a Born Again Christian. He was ‘saved.’ That didn’t seem to help his marital situation. Of course, it shouldn’t be forgotten that when this couple met, she was married to another actor.

So much PR gone to waste. Who’s next? (And best song from that album– Won’t Get Fooled Again.)

TV Review: Everything Happened Tonight on “Game of Thrones,” Nothing Happened on “Twin Peaks”

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TV Review: Everything Happened Tonight on “Game of Thrones,” Nothing Happened on “Twin Peaks”

This is just a rant. But hey– two hours of my life are gone.

“Twin Peaks” was the usual WTF? Nothing happened, as usual. In the first 20 minutes, there was a lot of the two Agent Coopers– Dougie Jones and evilCoop. Don Murray, bless his heart, 88, years old, was the best actor on the show.

During the first part, nothing happened in “Twin Peaks” proper. I guess it was all in Las Vegas, where Dougie’s been living and working in a walking coma. Tom Sizemore — alive, well, not in jail– had dandruff. There was lots of meta talk about coffee and cherry pie. EvilCooper arm wrestled the Jolly Green Giant to death, then killed Ray, who thought he’d killed EvilCooper in Episode 8. There was some significance about a ring and the Red Room.

In the second part, there is an actual return to Twin Peaks. Grant Goodeve, the eldest son on “Eight is Enough,” seems to have franchised Norma’s diner using cheap ingredients. (This is some kind of artistic metaphor.) Norma and Ed are still not together after 25 years. Ed’s eye patched wife Nadine has gotten electic curtains. James sings like Lou Christie at the Roadhouse. It’s awful. Audrey is still debating going to the Roadhouse to find “Billy” from last week. Her husband, a strange little man, indicated that she may be in a coma, hallucinating, or a character in some kind of fiction he’s writing.

For the second week in a row, Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) has a long, odd scene of no particular meaning. She smokes and drinks a lot.

This should have been the first episode. Shelly spoke to the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) she has with Bobby about pie. Bobby had the second most important line when he told Norma and Ed that he’d found some things belonging to his father. For some reason, the late Major Briggs is key to solving the grueling 18 hour puzzle.

So basically nothing happened unless you really knew “Twin Peaks” minutiae.

Meanwhile, everything happened on “Game of Thrones.” Best battle scene ever. HBO actually paid for real dragons. The harrowing fight left Jaime Lannister’s life as a cliffhanger. When the west coast hears all this and tunes in, ratings will be astronomical. We’ll get them on Tuesday.

Box Office: Apathy Toward Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” (And No Stars) Brings a Meager $7 Mil Weekend

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Box Office: Apathy Toward Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” (And No Stars) Brings a Meager $7 Mil Weekend

Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” is dead at the box office. Despite glowing reviews, the story of the 1967 Detroit riots brought apathy– just a $7.7 total after a second weekend– the first in wide release.

What happened? Annapurna Films turns out quality movies and this was no exception. But it seems like a lot of mistakes were made– no stars, for one thing. And then, the timing– right after “Dunkirk,” which is a smash, another serious film. And right in the middle of a hot summer.

Of course, everyone involved wanted to tie “Detroit” into the 50th anniversary of the incident. But “serious” movies like this one require attention and a lot of preparation. The fall and winter are better times generally to get that attention.

“Detroit” also had odd press rollout. No New York premiere. A Detroit premiere and one in Atlanta– those are nice, but not where you capture press attention. So “Detroit” counted on the great reviews. And they didn’t work.

Now what? Bring it back in November for Oscar consideration. For now, however, “Detroit” is gone. Try and see it before it leaves theaters. Bigelow and Mark Boal should never be ignored.

Television Critics Awards: Scientologist Elisabeth Moss Walked Out of Room As Leah Remini Won Reality Award for “Aftermath”

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Television Critics Awards: Scientologist Elisabeth Moss Walked Out of Room As Leah Remini Won Reality Award for “Aftermath”

The Television Critics Awards last night apparently had some drama after all. According to a Tweet from Ellen Thompson, the wife of TV Line’s Dave Nemetz, actress Elisabeth Moss– a Scientologist since birth — walked out of the room when Leah Remini won the award for reality TV. Remini’s A&E TV series “Aftermath” tells the story of how brutally Scientology has treated its followers.


Moss has never been a vocal Scientologist, unlike Tom Cruise, John Travolta and a number of other celebrities. She’s kept it mostly to herself. But Remini’s series obviously hit a sore spot for her.

Here are the winners of the TCAs, which don’t really affect anything but they distract us from the chaos in the world:

PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
Atlanta, FX
Big Little Lies, HBO
Stranger Things, Netflix
WINNER The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu
The Leftovers, HBO
This Is Us, NBC

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Better Call Saul, AMC
Stranger Things, Netflix
The Americans, FX
The Crown, Netflix
WINNER The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu
This Is Us, NBC

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
WINNER Atlanta, FX
black-ish, ABC
Fleabag, Amazon
Master of None, Netflix
The Good Place, NBC
Veep, HBO

OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM
Atlanta, FX
The Crown, Netflix
The Good Place, NBC
The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu
Stranger Things, Netflix
WINNER This Is Us, NBC

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES, MINISERIES & SPECIALS
WINNER Big Little Lies, HBO
Fargo, FX
FEUD: Bette and Joan, FX
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Netflix
The Night Of, HBO
Wizard of Lies, HBO

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
WINNER Carrie Coon, The Leftovers and Fargo
Claire Foy, The Crown
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange, FEUD: Bette and Joan
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Susan Sarandon, FEUD: Bette and Joan

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Kristen Bell, The Good Place
WINNER Donald Glover, Atlanta
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Issa Rae, Insecure
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, TBS
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, HBO
The Lead With Jake Tapper, CNN
WINNER O.J.: Made in America, ESPN
Planet Earth II, BBC America
Weiner, Showtime

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY PROGRAMMING
The Circus, Showtime
The Great British Baking Show, PBS
The Keepers, Netflix
WINNER Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, A&E
Shark Tank, ABC
Survivor: Game Changers, CBS

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN YOUTH PROGRAMMING
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, PBS
Doc McStuffins, Disney Junior
Elena of Avalor, Disney Channel
Odd Squad, PBS
Sesame Street, HBO
WINNER Speechless, ABC

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Ken Burns

HERITAGE AWARD
Seinfeld, NBC

Eric Bolling Yanked from Fox News After Allegations That He Sent Dirty Pix to Female Colleagues

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Eric Bolling Yanked from Fox News After Allegations That He Sent Dirty Pix to Female Colleagues

Eric Bolling has been suspended from Fox News. There are allegations inside 1211 Sixth Avenue that he sent photos of male genitalia to female colleagues.

Bolling’s suspension follows Bill O’Reilly’s dismissal, Roger Ailes’s ouster and death, Bill Shine’s exit, and so on. Fox News is now “run” by Suzanne Scott, who I guess has no choice but to kick to the curb anyone associated with sexual harassment now. Fox also recently removed Fox News president Jamie Horowitz. It’s a new world.

Meantime, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been linked with Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Director of Communications. On Saturday I reported that she tried to help The Mooch buy a $9 million apartment in her tony building, the Beresford. He was rejected. Co-op board members were confused whether was his wife, girlfriend, or what.

Oh, Fox. The only scandalous thing that went on when I was there was Judith Regan having an affair with former police commish Bernie Kerik. That did not end well.

Bolling will not be missed. He’s an unrepentant racist. Search him on YouTube. There are clips galore. Buh bye Eric. Another one bites the dust.

Anthony Scaramucci Went Co-op Shopping with Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Before Divorce– And Was Rejected!

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Anthony Scaramucci Went Co-op Shopping with Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Before Divorce– And Was Rejected!

scaramucciEXCLUSIVE: The Mooch was mooching on his close friendship with Fox News’s Kimberly Guilfoyle’s well before his wife filed for divorce. I’ve confirmed that in June — a few weeks before his life blew up publicly– Anthony Scaramucci was turned down by the co-op board at the tony Beresford apartment house on Central Park West. The woman with whom he approached the board was not his wife, but Fox News’s Kimberly Guilfoyle, who lives in the building on the 3rd floor in a $3.4 million apartment.

Scaramucci actually bought the apartment–on the 20th floor with breathtaking views and eight rooms (three bedrooms, three bathrooms)– for $8.9 million. The apartment is still marked “In Contract” on Street Easy. The Mooch was getting a good deal, too. The original asking price in March 2016 was $10.5 million.

Past and present tenants of the Beresford include Jerry Seinfeld, John McEnroe and Patti Smyth, Calvin Klein, and Meryl Streep. It’s one of the poshest buildings in the city and among the top two or three addresses on the Upper West Side (the Dakota still outranks it).

After he was turned down, Scaramucci is said to have approached other similar buildings on the Upper West Side with Guilfoyle by his side. Sources I’ve talked to were confused, thinking Guilfoyle — ex wife of Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco– was his wife. (This was before the Mooch’s fame skyrocketed him to a national platform.) That seems to have been one reason, at least, for the Bereford turn down.

“They didn’t understand if he was in the middle of a divorce, or what was going on,” says a source. “It seemed like she was his girlfriend and he was getting divorced.”

Another source observed: “If he was turned down in June, he was looking for a place at least in May.”

As it turned out, Scaramucci’s actual wife, Deidre Ball, filed for divorce on July 6th on Long Island. At the time she was nine months pregnant with their second child. Their older kid is three years old.

It’s unclear if Ball knew her husband was shopping for a new apartment in June, and that Guilfoyle was involved. Her attorney had no comment yesterday and could not be reached today. When I emailed Guilfoyle today, I received a mobile phone call from someone named “Sean” who asked who I was and said he’d received a text to call me. On checking, the number– which came up as “Fox News Channel”– belongs to Sean Hannity.

Scaramucci was appointed White House communications director in late July. An incendiary interview he gave to The New Yorker , coupled with news of his divorce, followed immediately. He lasted 10 days on the job. The Mooch was removed by new Chief of Staff General John Kelly with approval of Donald Trump, who appointed him.

Trump and Scaramucci were together at the Boy Scouts Jamboree speech on July 24th when Ball delivered their child. Scaramucci sent her a congratulatory text. According to reports, he didn’t see the baby for six days.

In the Jamboree speech, Trump said: “As the Scout law says, a scout is trustworthy, loyal — we could use some more loyalty I will tell that you that.”

Updates will be added as needed…

 

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