James Corden has set a very high standard with his Carpool Karaoke TV pieces. Only a million or two viewers watch him on CBS’ The Late Late Show when it’s broadcast, but YouTube and other social media sites extend Corden’s reach phenomenally.
A new one showcasing Sir Paul McCartney stands above all others.
In only a few days, it’s been viewed on YouTube more than 14 million+ times – and with very good reason. Not only does it have all the happiness and goofiness you expect Corden to deliver but this McCartney karaoke is also unexpectedly tender, touching and meaningful.
James Corden heads to Liverpool for a special day with Paul McCartney spent exploring the city of Paul’s youth, visiting his childhood home where he wrote music with John Lennon, performing songs in a local pub and of course driving around singing a few of Paul’s biggest hits.
Inspired by a true story, a working-class community is awakened when its high school theater program takes on an unconventional new leader
As dedicated teacher and family man Lou Mazzuchelli takes over the lagging department, he encourages his students to unleash their creativity and explore new means of self-expression.
But even though the students discover talents and ambitions they never knew they had, not everyone in town is thrilled. Upset by challenges brought by change, enraged faculty and skeptical parents contest Mr. Mazzu’s galvanizing efforts.
But with passionate fervor running through the town’s veins, no one can deny a revolution is underway.
~Wikipedia~
Canadian singer Alessia Cara’s hit “Scars To Your Beautiful” was covered on Tuesday night’s episode, April 24, of The Voice.
The cast of TV series Rise performed the song ahead of its May 11 release on
Rise Season 1: The Album.
“Scars To Your Beautiful” was written by Cara with Warren Felder, Coleridge Tillman and Andrew Wansel.
On Dancing with the Stars, Cheryl Burke, the Mirror Ball Trophy-winning professional dancer returns to the show during the ninth week of performances. Cheryl will give an emotional sneak peek at her own live stage show, “Love on the Floor.” She brought the show to Japan first, in 2016, with Olympic gold medalist figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi who won Season 6 (2008) with Mark Ballas.
Cheryl says “Love on the Floor” is all “the relationships we go through – the romance, the passion, the hurt.” That said, she reassures fans that there is a happy ending in “Love on the Floor.”
Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan about the relationship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a straight interior designer.
It was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons. During its original run, “Will & Grace” was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters.
~WIKIPEDIA~
Cast of ‘Will & Grace’ reunites to get out the vote
The cast of “Will & Grace” has reunited to get voters to the polls in a way only they could. Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally all appear in the video posted Monday, which is presented as a “new scene” from their hit NBC show.
It takes place in present day and centers on their characters discussing the presidential election.
The cast’s reunion comes as Hollywood flexes its political muscles leading up to the November election.
Ten years after the finale of “Will & Grace”, the cast reunites for the first time ever to take on the 2016 Presidential Election in their own inimitable way.
The level to which election cycle process has dropped to is totally unbelievable.
From ‘Lyin’ Ted, to sweaty and thirsty Marco, to comparing size of certain anatomy areas, to insults about wives, to face tans and small hands, to declining endorsements and then caving in …
we’ve seen the complete gamut of low level thoughts and behavior from ‘future leaders’.
Late Late Show host James and Barack’s wife to crooned along to at least one Stevie Wonder track as Michelle credits the singer for influencing her perspective on the world.
Michelle, 52, revealed in March 2016:
‘The very first album of my whole life was Talking Book. My grandad – we called him Southside because he lived on the south side of Chicago, not very imaginative – loved music.
‘He was a carpenter and collected jazz. He had turntables all around the house and reel-to-reels. I used to go to his house and play with his dog called Rex – again, not very imaginative – and play music with him.’
During her Carpool jaunt, it’s likely Michelle will mention her upcoming trip around Liberia, Morocco and Spain to as part of her Let Girls Learn Initiative which fights against the fact there are 62 million girls around the globe who aren’t in school.
James Corden’s White House tour takes an unthinkable turn when First Lady Michelle Obama joins him for a drive around the grounds singing Stevie Wonder and Beyonce. Surprise guest Missy Elliott drops in to sing “This Is For My Girls.”
We ALL are connected through MUSIC!!
Each week night, THE LATE LATE SHOW with JAMES CORDEN throws the ultimate late night after party with a mix of celebrity guests, edgy musical acts, games and sketches. Corden differentiates his show by offering viewers a peek behind-the-scenes into the green room, bringing all of his guests out at once and lending his musical and acting talents to various sketches.
Additionally, bandleader Reggie Watts and the house band provide original, improvised music throughout the show. Since Corden took the reigns as host in March 2015, he has quickly become known for generating buzzworthy viral videos, such as Carpool Karaoke.”
Choked-Up Jon Stewart Says He Can’t Tell Jokes After Charleston Massacre Too much to handle for the funnyman.
“I have one job, and it’s a pretty simple job,” Jon Stewart said on “The Daily Show” on the night after the #CharlestonShooting “I come in in the morning, and we look at the news and I write jokes about it.”
But that’s not what happened last night.
What follows is a heartfelt appeal to America on the issue of race and our strangely inconsistent application of outrage. He noted that two wars and trillions were spent to fight a force far less dangerous that domestic shootings and American racial terror — Islamic radicalism. He would go on to highlight some of the lower-level forms of abuse, from the confederate flag over South Carolina to the residual heritage of slavery.
“We have roads named after confederate generals.
Black people have to drive on roads named after those who would prevent them from driving.
That’s insanity.” As America renews its debate over the use of Confederate imagery,and its pernicious effects on black society, his point is an urgent one, indeed.
~~Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Charleston shooting~~
‘This was a terrorist attack’
~~Published on Jun 18, 2015~~
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart has slammed America’s response to the mass shooting in a South Carolina church, predicting that nothing would be done in the wake of a “terrorist attack” that left nine people dead.
In a sombre opening to a show he promised would contain no jokes, Stewart said some people were already working hard to discount the idea that racism was the motive behind the massacre.
Prior to introducing his guest – Nobel peace prize-winner Malala Yousafzai – Stewart told viewers: “I have nothing other than just sadness that once again we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other, and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal but we pretend doesn’t exist.
“I’m confident, though, that by acknowledging it, by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t do jackshit.
“Yeah. That’s us.”
The reluctance to label domestic shootings of this kind as terrorism, he went on, led to what he called a “disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves”.
“If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism … we invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives, and now fly unmanned death machines over, like, five or six different countries …
“Nine people. Shot in a church. What about that?
Eh. What are you gonna do?
Crazy is as crazy is, right?”
The media response had been too slow to acknowledge the culture that made such violence possible, Stewart said: “I heard someone on the news say, a tragedy has visited this church. This wasn’t a tornado. This was racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater … This one is black and white. There’s no nuance here.
“And we’re going to keep pretending: I don’t get it, what happened, there’s one guy lost his mind. We are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it, and I cannot believe how hard people are working to discount it.”
Stewart pointed to what he called the “racial wallpaper” of South Carolina, where a confederate flag continues to be flown within the grounds of the capitol building: “The confederate flag flies over South Carolina. And the roads are named for confederate generals.
“And the white guy’s the one who feels like his country’s being taken away from him.”
Grab a tissue and watch this tearjerker video of Ellen hosting the two male high school students – one gay, one straight – who are going to their prom together because they’re best friends.
Anthony Martinez didn’t have a date for the prom. What his straight friend Jacob Lescenski did about that surprised everyone.
Ellen knew she had to hear their incredible story.
“You’re hella gay, I’m hella str8, but you’re like my brother so be my d8!,” Jacob wrote on a sign happily held by friends.
Those friends and many more rented a bus to join Anthony and Jacob on Wednesday on “The Ellen Show,” where Ellen DeGeneres interviewed the best friends and commended them for being great role models.
She also handed each of them a $10,000 check for their education, to help reinforce and show the world that gay or straight, nothing beats friendship.
Grab a tissue and watch this awesome video!
Ellen DeGeneres had a generous surprise in store this week for the gay-straight “couple” whose colorful proposal went viral last week in the blogosphere.
DeGeneres rewarded Jacob Lescenski and Anthony Martinez, who are juniors at the Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a check for $10,000 each for the headline-making gesture.
“I just wanted to say I know that there are some schools out there that don’t support this and wouldn’t allow this to happen and it’s really a shame because prom is very important to a lot of people,”
she gushed in the interview, video of which can be found.
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Lescenski, who is straight, revealed that he was initially apprehensive after he learned that the openly gay Martinez had a crush on him.
Still, the two struck up a seemingly unlikely friendship.
“At first I was kinda scared,” he said in the interview. “I didn’t support gay rights then, but I also wasn’t against them … [but] Anthony, actually, was the reason that I began to support gay rights. He’s such a convincing person, he can convince anyone of anything. He’s such a great speaker.”
Anthony Martinez didn’t have a date for the prom. What his straight friend Jacob Lescenski did about that surprised everyone. Ellen knew she had to hear their incredible story.
Google Doodle celebrates ‘Little House’ author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 148th birthday
TODAY Google celebrates the 148th birthday of ‘Little House on the Prairie‘ author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with a doodle on its homepage to commemorate the occasion.
Published 9:28, Sat, February 7, 2015
By JOSHUA FORD
On February 7, 1867, Laura was born in a log cabin near Pepin, Wisconsin to parents Charles and Caroline – she was one of five children which later became four after the death of her younger brother at just nine months.
Growing up, Laura and her pioneer family would continuously move from one Midwestern town to the next, moving from Wisconsin to Walnut Grove, Minnesota in 1874 – this became the setting of the Little House on the Prairie television show from 1974 – 1982, a show based on Laura Wilder’s own life.
Having moved so often, Laura and her siblings would teach themselves and each other attending local schools where and when they could.
Laura decided to become a teacher, and in 1882, passed the test to obtain her teaching certificate, she then signed on to teach 12 miles from her parents’ home at just 15.
Family friend Almanzo Wilder was often sent to pick Laura up and bring her home for weekend visits, over the course of their rides home – the two fell in love and were married on August 25, 1885 in South Dakota.
Laura later quit teaching to raise children and help Almanzo work on the firm. She gave birth to her daughter Rose the year after she and Almanzo were married, she gave birth to a son three years later in 1889, only to have him pass away tragically within a month of his birth.
Soon after this, Almanzo contracted diphtheria and was partially paralyzed, the Wilders’ home was burned to the ground in 1890.
The Wilders’ bought a 200-acre farm in 1894 in Missouri, which later became known as Rocky Ridge Farm, it was here the Wilders built a farmhouse, raised livestock, and did all of their own farm work.
The Wilder’s daughter Rose grew up to become a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin in the 1910s, she encouraged her mother to write about her childhood.
Laura’s first attempt at her autobiography ‘Pioneer Girl‘ was rejected by publishers, however, she went on to publish Little House in the Big Woods in 1932 – a recant on her life in Pepin, Wisconsin and the memorable places she’d lived, Wilder completed the last book in the ‘Little House‘ series in 1943 at the age of 76.
Laura’s husband Almanzo died in 1949, she stayed at their home on Rocky Ridge before dying eight years later on February 10, 1957.
Following the death of her mother, Rose edited and published several posthumous works based on her mother’s diary and incomplete manuscripts.
Google Doodle is dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder on February 7th of 2015. Google celebrates the 148th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer. She is most notably as the author of the Little House series. The TV series “Little House on the Prairie” is based on her books. Google created an awesome Google Doodle for her birthday.
Robin Williams was my friend. He was the star of the first movie I ever did called The World According To Garp. It was his second feature film and he was wildly popular because of his years in the TV show, Mork and Mindy. George Roy Hill was our director and he believed in Robin’s transcendent talent.
I watched as the two of them worked on ridding Robin of all the mannerisms he had taken on while playing a brilliantly funny, spontaneous alien.
Robin was seriously determined to become a film actor and George took his desire seriously. It was wonderful to watch. Robin was incredibly sensitive to the crew, to the people who don’t always get the recognition they deserve for the various jobs they do during a shoot. Robin knew everyone’s name and could always get a laugh — not a laugh aimed at himself, but a laugh that recognized others.
He gave various favorite crew members special nicknames. Our camera operator had famously combed-back, black hair that had considerable amounts of product in it, keeping every hair in place in all kinds of weather. Robin dubbed him “Teflon Man” and would do hilarious rifts as an archeologist in the distant future finding “Teflon Man” with his hair still perfect.
Robin was incredibly sensitive and gentle and loving. He was very self-critical. During Garp we had a press conference and I was asked to go along with Robin. I watched this quiet man, who I’d never seen reading a newspaper or magazine or watching TV, explode into the press room and do an amazing turn on all the most current events, people and issues. He wove it all into a cohesive whole with no notes, nothing but his genius.
It was breathtaking in its spontaneity and brilliance. Everyone was completely blown away. When we walked out of the room together, Robin turned to me with a worried look and asked in a whisper, “Was that all right?” I gave him a long hug and said, “Yes! You were incredible” He checked to make sure I really meant it and then went to his trailer.
Robin was a world treasure.
As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights — though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty — connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile … how human we are … how we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair. Robin had it all.
I am so deeply thankful that this dearly loved man graced this particular planet.
Robin Williams plays John Irving’s quirky everyman, a wistful writer wrestling with our screwloose modern age. Award-winning performances by Glen Close and John Lithgow.
When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving’s novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams’ dramatic work in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar® winning performance in Good Will Hunting will also savor his Garp, a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism and eerie coincidence. Glenn Close (in her film debut) as Garp’s formidable mother and John Lithgow as a transgender ex-NFL receiver give impressive support, earning Oscar® nominations and critics’’ laurels galore.
It Is What It Is 