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“Power of the Dog” Director Jane Campion Apologizes (Unnecessarily) to Serena and Venus Williams

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“Power of the Dog” Director Jane Campion Apologizes (Unnecessarily) to Serena and Venus Williams

“Power of the Dog” director Jane Campion is apologizing to Serena and Venus Williams today.

For heaven’s sake, it’s not necessary

On the Critics Choice Awards last night, when Campion won Best Director, she said, “Venus and Serena, you’re such marvels. However, you don’t play against the guys, like I have to.”

The tennis star sisters were there to celebrate the movie “King Richard.” Campion had first praised them, then in a moment of a little hubris, added that line. She meant nothing by it, but the audience groaned en masse.

The Williams sisters didn’t mind. They came to the Netflix after party and danced with Campion and stayed til the end. Venus hugged Campion and posed for pictures. Serena was a little cooler, but she was having fun nonetheless.

We live in a world now where good people are made to apologize for nothing, and bad people refuse to apologize for anything!

Campion’s apology reads, “I made a thoughtless comment equating what I do in the film world with all that Serena Williams and Venus Williams have achieved. I did not intend to devalue these two legendary Black women and world class athletes. The fact is the Williams sisters have, actually, squared off against men on the court (and off), and they have both raised the bar and opened doors for what is possible for women in this world. The last thing I would ever want to do is minimize remarkable women. I love Serena and Venus. Their accomplishments are titanic and inspiring. Serena and Venus, I apologize and completely celebrate you.”

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NBC Posts Lowest Sunday Non Football Ratings Ever, Cancels Popular “New Amsterdam” After Upcoming 5th Season

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NBC Posts Lowest Sunday Non Football Ratings Ever, Cancels Popular “New Amsterdam” After Upcoming 5th Season

NBC is kinda in a lot of trouble.

Last night the network scored its lowest non football Sunday ratings ever. The total was just over 1 million viewers.

The opening show, “The Courtship.” at 8pm, had just 587,000 viewers. The next two shows had 1.45 million and 1..11 million apiece.

Those are lower numbers than “Days of our Lives,” which runs at noon everyday.

For NBC, one of the three major networks, to post numbers that low, it’s as if they just gave up. They could have run any of their Peacock shows instead and done at least twice that amount.

To commemorate this disaster, the network is also giving up on hospital drama, “New Amsterdam.” Now in its fourth season, the network will allow it to wrap up a 13 episode 5th season and then say goodbye. Canceled.

Soon NBC will bring back low rated comedies, “Kenan,” and “Young Rock.” They will also lose their only hit, “This Is Us,” which is coming to a weepy end. NBC will stand for No Body Cares. Yikes.

Too bad they didn’t keep “The Gilded Age” instead of letting it move to HBO. It does seem that soon all NBC will have will be shows they own but no one watches (“The Blacklist”) and game shows and throwaways.

 

Dolly Parton Asks For Name to Be Removed from Rock Hall Consideration, Doesn’t Think She’s Qualified

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Dolly Parton Asks For Name to Be Removed from Rock Hall Consideration, Doesn’t Think She’s Qualified

Say what now?

For some reason, Dolly Parton doesn’t think she’s qualified to be in the Rock Hall. She’s asked for her name to removed from the voting.

How very strange. She says now she’s inspired to put out a great rock and roll album. But what Dolly doesn’t seem to get is that country music is one of the many roots of rock and roll. And she is the gold standard in country. Country, like blues, R&B, bluegrass, Cajun, all of it is one of the many ingredients in the rock and roll meal.

I do hope the Rock Hall ignores the request.

Critics Choice Awards Pick “Power of the Dog” Best Feature, Setting Up Path to Academy Awards

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Critics Choice Awards Pick “Power of the Dog” Best Feature, Setting Up Path to Academy Awards

For the second time Sunday, Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” won Best Picture, this time at the Critics Choice Awards seen live on TBS and the CW Network.

In a well produced three hours plus hosted by Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer the CCAs anointed “Dog” plus reaffirmed the four actors who won Screen Actors Guild Awards last week: Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur, and Ariana De Bose.

The ballroom at the Fairmont Century Plaza was packed to the gills with celebrities and A list stars. But there was also a video hook up to London, where CCA nominees who’d attended the BAFTA awards could participate in the Hollywood show.

“The Power of the Dog” now has a clear path to Best Picture at the Academy Awards after winning these two events on the same day. Campion won Best Director at the Directors Guild on Saturday might. The next hurdle is the Producers Guild Awards next week. If “Dog” can swing that honor, its coronation is a foregone conclusion.

After the show, Netflix hosted an ebullient victory party at the new Century Plaza’s Lumiere restaurant. Both Serena and Venus Williams attended, even though their movie “King Richard” about their father, lost to “Dog.” The Williams sisters danced up a storm with Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, director of “the Lost Daughter,” also a Netflix film, and studio chief Ted Sarandos. Also at the party: Lin Manuel Miranda, Jamie Dornan, Nat Wolff, Kaitlyn Dever, Joshua Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith, among others.

Some of the other winning films and actors had their own private gatherings throughout the hotel.

Marlee Matlin, star of “CODA,” arrived but left as soon as the show was over. She was mourning the death of her original co-star, William Hurt, from “Children of a Lesser God.” They were an item in the mid 80s. Hurt, 71, died from prostate cancer it was announced earlier Sunday.

Me? I got to meet Amber Ruffin. My night was made!

More notes from the CCA show later Monday…


FILM

BEST PICTURE
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

BEST ACTOR
Will Smith – King Richard (Warner Bros)

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Belfast (Focus Features)

BEST COMEDY FEATURE
Licorice Pizza (MGM/UAR)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (MGM/UAR)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car (Sideshow/Janus Films)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story (Warner Bros)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Troy Kotsur – CODA (Apple Original Films)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast (Focus Features)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jude Hill – Belfast (Focus Features)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune (Warner Bros)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – Dune (Warner Bros)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan – Cruella (Disney)

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)

BEST EDITING
Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn – West Side Story (Warner Bros)

BEST SONG
No Time to Die, from No Time to Die (MGM/UAR)

BEST SCORE
Hans Zimmer – Dune (Warner Bros)

TELEVISION

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Succession (HBO)

BEST COMEDY SERIES
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST LIMITED SERIES
Mare of Easttown (HBO)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets (Showtime)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Michael Keaton – Dopesick (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES
What If…? (Disney+)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Squid Game (Netflix)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Oslo (HBO)

BEST TALK SHOW
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix)

Updating BAFTA Awards: “Power of the Dog,” Will Smith, Jane Campion, “CODA” & “Pizza” Screenplays, “Belfast” Best Brit Film, Troy Kotsur, Ariana DeBose Supporting Wins, “Drive My Car” Foreign, “Encanto”

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Updating BAFTA Awards: “Power of the Dog,” Will Smith, Jane Campion, “CODA” & “Pizza” Screenplays, “Belfast” Best Brit Film, Troy Kotsur, Ariana DeBose Supporting Wins, “Drive My Car” Foreign, “Encanto”

The BAFTA Awards are going on in London.

They are meaningless in relation to the real Oscars, but fun anyway.

Best Picture: “Power of the Dog”

Best Director: Jane Campion, “Power of the Dog”

Best Actor: Will Smith, “King Richard”

Best Actress: Joanna Scanlan ‘After Love’ Brit movie none us know a thing about.

Already Ariana DeBose has won Best Supporting Actress for “West Side Story.”

“Belfast” is Best british Film.

“CODA” won Best Adapted Screenplay.

“Licorice Pizza” Best Original Screenplay.

“Encanto” is Best Animated Film. “Summer of Soul” Best Documentary

“Cruella” won Best Costume Design.

“Dune” has picked up four craft awards including cinematography and score.

“West Side Story” got the casting award for Cindy Tolan.

“Drive My Car” is best film in a foreign language.

Keep refreshing… and watch the Critics Choice Awards tonight at 7pm LIVE on the CW and TBS Networks…

UPDATED: Mick Jagger Teases, The Rolling Stones Announce 60th Anniversary Tour and New Album, New Logo

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UPDATED: Mick Jagger Teases, The Rolling Stones Announce 60th Anniversary Tour and New Album, New Logo

The Rolling Stones are going out on a 60th anniversary tour! New album, too.

Even without Charlie Watts — or in his memory. We’re down to Mick and Keith and Ronnie Wood with lots of special guests. But in the end we still want to see and hear them. I know I do.

Keep refreshing for more details…I think it’s hilarious they dropped all this in the middle of the BAFTA Awards!

UPDATED Here’s the official announcement today, Monday, followed by the earlier teases:

Happy Birthday Sweet 83, Neil Sedaka, Pop Genius Who Belongs in the Rock Hall NOW

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Happy Birthday Sweet 83, Neil Sedaka, Pop Genius Who Belongs in the Rock Hall NOW

Happy Birthday Neil Sedaka!

I actually ran into the great pop genius on Friday night at A list star eatery Craigs LA on Melrose. He was out celebrating his birthday early with his grandkids in the back room. When Sedaka emerged into the main room, he drew audible cheers from the tables including a big one captained by Lance Bass from NSync.

Neil wrote his first hits in his teens, then scored a huge and lasting solo smash with “Calendar Girl” in 1961. His other hits included the great “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” and “Oh Carol,” named for Carole King before she added the “e”.

All through the 60s, Neil wrote tons more hits, but the Beatles and the British invasion knocked out his early solo career. That didn’t stop him. In 1975, with his album, “Sedaka’s Back,” and an assist from Elton John, Neil triumphed like never before. He wrote “Love Will Keep Us Together,” sung by the Captain and Tennille. It was number 1 for weeks and remains one of the great pop hits of all time.

But even more: the album, “Sedaka’s Back” yielded massive hits: “Bad Blood,” with Elton John, the amazing “Laughter in the Rain,” a re-record of “Breaking Up” that sent the song to the top of the charts, plus “Solitaire,” one of the most covered brilliant anthems of all time.

Neil capped all this with “The Hungry Years,” a stunning song that has become his signature.

So why isn’t Neil Sedaka in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? This year, the group should just induct him. It’s embarrassing that it’s taken so long.

Happy Brithday, Neil! And we can listen to him on his new Sirius Radio talk show, too!

Number 3 at the Box Office: Concert Film by KPop Sensations BTS Earns $6.8 Mil in US

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Number 3 at the Box Office: Concert Film by KPop Sensations BTS Earns $6.8 Mil in US

Yes, “The Batman” is up to $238 million after this weekend.

And “Uncharted” rose to $113 million.

But it was the number 3 box office movie that should get your attention. That was “BTS Permission to Dance on Stage Seoul — Live Viewing.”

With hits like “Butter” and “Dynamite,” the Korean KPop sensations BTS (which stands for Buy This Soon) raked in $6.8 million over the weekend. The concert film was playing in 800 theaters where it took in $8,518 at each location. Ka ching!

“Permission to Dance” is from Trafalgar Releasing, which has already had success with previous BTS concert films and ones by other groups as well. “PTD” has a total worldwide take of $32.6 million making it their biggest offering yet.

Will we adults ever see this movie? I don’t think so. But it doesn’t matter. The kids love it, some kids, who are bracing themselves to spend tons more on BTS in the coming year.

 

 

Surprise at DGA Awards as Stanley Nelson’s “Attica” Wins Best Doc, Leaps Forward in Oscar Race

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Surprise at DGA Awards as Stanley Nelson’s “Attica” Wins Best Doc, Leaps Forward in Oscar Race

There was one big surprise in Saturday night’s Director’s Guild Awards: Stanley Nelson won Best Direction of a Documentary for “Attica,” a movie made for Showtime but eligible for the Oscars this year. Nelson beat Questlove, who made “Summer of Soul,” an archival film that has picked up several awards already. But “Attica” is a real documentary, and it’s leapt ahead in the Oscar race.

Netflix picked up the two big feature film awards for directing. As expected, Jane Campion won for “The Power of the Dog.” Maggie Gyllenhaal won for Best First Feature for “The Lost Daughter.”

HBO triumphed on the TV side, with wins for “Succession” and “Hacks.”

Barry Jenkins picked up an award for his work on “The Underground Railroad” on Amazon Prime.

Don Roy King, the long time director of “Saturday Night Live” who retired at the end of 2021, won an award for the show featuring Keegan Michael Key as host and Olivia Rodrigo as musical guest. “SNL” has yet to acknowledge King’s retirement on air.

This is King’s 16th DGA Award nomination. He previously won the DGA Award in this category for Saturday Night Live episodes: Dave Chappelle; Foo Fighters” in 2020, E. Murphy; Lizzo” in 2019, “Adam Driver; Kanye West” in 2018, “Host: Jimmy Fallon” in 2017, “Host: Dave Chappelle” in 2016 and for “Host: Justin Timberlake” in 2013. Mr. King also won the DGA Award for Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials for SNL 40th Anniversary Special in 2015. He was previously nominated for Saturday Night Live episodes in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and in 2015 in the Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming category for the Saturday Night Live episode, “Host: Tracy Morgan/Musical Guest: Demi Lovato.”

Other awards went to Paul Dugdale for directing the special, “Adele One Night Only” on CBS.  Awards also went to Bradford Young, Adam Vetri, and Smriti Mundhra.

HONORARY LIFE MEMBER & SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS

Renowned director Spike Lee was the recipient of the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Feature Film. This award, which is given to a Director in recognition of distinguished achievement in motion picture direction, is the Guild’s highest honor and the recipient is selected by the present and past presidents of the Guild.

Joseph P. Reidy received the Frank Capra Achievement Award, which is given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the Directors Guild of America.

Garry W. Hood received the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award, which is given to an Associate Director or Stage Manager in recognition of service to the industry and to the Directors Guild of America.

SUNDAY: WATCH THE CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS 8PM EASTERN ON THE CW AND TBS NETWORKS

Ukraine War No Help to ABC Evening News, Down 500K From Last Year, Only Lester Holt Holding Steady

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Ukraine War No Help to ABC Evening News, Down 500K From Last Year, Only Lester Holt Holding Steady

Someone is intent on slagging Norah O’Donnell and the CBS Evening News to the New York Post.

The Post is obsessed with the idea of somehow destroying O’Donnell until CBS fires her and replaces her with, who knows? LL Cool J maybe!

Well, ratings for “CBS Evening News” are only off a bit from last year at this very time.  The difference is about 400,000 viewers.

More surprisingly, ABC’s popular “Evening News” with David Muir is down by more, even with the Ukraine War. Last year at this time, Muir averaged 9.223 million peeps. Last week, Muir’s numbers were 8.735 million. That’s significant.

Of the three major networks, only NBC stayed on keel. Lester Holt had an average of 7.319 million last week. Last year, it 7.44 million. I’m not surprised. The NBC News is my go to, with CBS and then ABC my choices when news is breaking these days.

The Post’s obsession with O’Donnell is curious, and sexist. O’Donnell does a great job, and CBS News is always the best written report around. I don’t know who’s planting those stories, but they should cut it out already. And PS I do not know any of these people personally. I’m just going by the numbers and watching their shows.

 

 

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