Here’s a really heartwarming clip from the 1991 film The Scorsese Machine in which Martin Scorsese sits down to dinner with his parents Charles and Catherine, both of whom spoke of their son with wonderful pride and love. I kinda expected Robert DeNiro to come out with a plate of spaghetti.
And Now…Bob Odenkirk Playing Stephen Colbert Playing Bob Odenkirk
‘Late Show: The Movie’ might be Bob Odenkirk’s Colbert-iest performance yet.
Love Has No Labels And This Video Proves It
For years, kiss cams have been a big part of American sports culture. This year, Love Has No Labels puts a twist on the kiss cam by turning it into a symbol for unbiased love. In the stadium, fans cheered for love in all its forms – regardless of race, gender, disability, age or religion.
Love Has No Labels is a movement to open our eyes to unconscious bias. While the vast majority of Americans consider themselves unprejudiced, many of us unintentionally make snap judgments about people based on what we see – whether it’s race, age, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability. By becoming aware of our own biases, we can work to end bias in ourselves, our families, our friends, and our communities.
Show the world you’re a Fan of Love by submitting a photo in their Faces of Love tool here.
https://youtu.be/b-xScLIevw0
Where Is Everyone Going To Be Sunday Night? Yeah, “Big Little Lies” Starts On HBO
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, and featuring tour de force performances by several top Hollywood actors, Big Little Lies is a darkly comic drama set in Monterey, CA that begins with a suspicious homicide at an elementary-school fundraiser. Though the victim and the perpetrator initially remain a mystery, it seems likely that the murder was spawned by rivalries and secrets surrounding three mothers: type-A stay-at-home mom Madeline Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon), who harbors jealousy towards her ex’s new, younger wife Bonnie (Zoe Kravitz), a yoga instructor with a Zen attitude; Madeline’s best friend Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman), a former corporate lawyer with a seemingly perfect marriage to a younger man (Alexander Skarsgård); and Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley), a single mom with a dark past, whom Madeline and Celeste take under their wing.
Intercut with interrogation-room insights of other parents and school staff – who offer up a Greek chorus of gossip on the town’s allegiances and rivalries, particularly revolving around Madeline and her nemesis, tech-exec career mom Renata Klein (Laura Dern) – the story unspools over seven tense yet subversively funny episodes, revealing how each of the women had something to hide leading up to that one fateful night. Also starring Adam Scott, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling, Big Little Lies is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Wild) and written by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal).
Big Little Lies debuts Sunday, February 19, at 9 pm Eastern on HBO.
Chris Stapleton Announces Tour Dates And Ideas For New Music
“Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show” will bring the acclaimed musician to cities across North America this year, including stops at L.A.’s The Forum, Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Toronto’s Budweiser Stage.
After a breakout 2015 and 2016, Stapleton will release new music on May 5—exactly two years to the day since the release of Traveller. Additional details to be announced in the coming weeks.
Exclusive Stapleton Fan Club pre-sales will begin next Tuesday, February 21 at 10:00am local time. Public tickets for the newly announced concerts begin Friday, February 24 at 10:00am local time.
American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, February 21 at 12pm local time through Thursday, February 23 at 10pm.
The tour will offer two premium VIP packages on tour, including an interactive collection of instruments and memorabilia. The extensive 2017 tour follows a series of seminal years for Stapleton since the release of his breakthrough double Platinum solo debut album Traveller. Released last May 2015 on Mercury Records Nashville, Traveller initially debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart with more than 27,000 albums sold, making it one of the best-selling first weeks by a debut country artist in 2015.
Following a historic turn on the 49th Annual CMA Awards—where Stapleton became the first artist to win Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the same awards – Traveller became the first album to re-enter the Billboard 200 all-genre album chart at No. 1, where is stayed for two straight weeks. The album went on to win multiple Grammy and ACM Awards and was the #1 selling Country album of 2016 and the fourth-highest selling album of 2016 across all genres.
Most recently, Stapleton was nominated for three awards at the 52nd Annual ACM Awards, including Male Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year (“Tennessee Whiskey”) and Video of the Year (“Fire Away”).
Chris Stapleton Tour Dates:
March 9—Houston, TX—Rodeo Houston
March 18—London, ON—Budweiser Gardens*
March 19—Ottawa, ON—Canadian Tire Centre*
March 22—Winnipeg, MB—MTS Centre*
March 24—Calgary, AB—Scotiabank Saddledome*
March 25—Edmonton, AB—Rexall Place*
March 27—Vancouver, BC—Rogers Arena*
March 28—Seattle, WA—Key Arena†
March 30—Las Vegas, NV—Pearl Theater – Palms Casino Resort†
April 6—Columbus, GA—Columbus Civic Center†
April 8—Ft. Lauderdale, FL—Tortuga Music Festival
April 20—Roanoke, VA—Berglund Center‡
April 21—Pikeville, KY—East Kentucky Expo Center‡
April 22—Pikeville, KY—East Kentucky Expo Center‡
April 27—Columbia, MO—Mizzou Arena+
April 28—Cape Girardeau, MO—Show Me Center+
April 29—Bloomington, IL—U.S. Cellular Coliseum+
May 5—Alpharetta, GA—Verizon Amphitheatre§
May 11—Virginia Beach, VA—Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at VA Beach§
May 12—Raleigh, NC—Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek§
May 13—Charlotte, NC—PNC Music Pavilion§
May 18—San Diego, CA—Mattress Firm Amphitheatre§
May 19—Phoenix, AZ—Ak-Chin Pavilion§
May 20—Los Angeles, CA—The Forum§
May 23—Denver, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre§
June 1—Fresno, CA—Save Mart Center at Fresno State§ (on-sale March 10)
June 2— Mountain View, CA—Shoreline Amphitheatre§
June 3—Wheatland, CA—Toyota Amphitheatre§
June 9—Southaven, MS—BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove#
June 10—Birmingham, AL—Oak Mountain Amphitheatre#
June 15—Charleston, WV—Charleston Civic Center#
June 16—Cincinnati, OH—Riverbend Music Center#
June 17—Indianapolis, IN—Klipsch Music Center# (on-sale March 3)
June 22—Tulsa, OK—BOK Center#
June 23—Manhattan, KS—Country Stampede
June 24—North Platte, NE—Nebraskaland Days
June 29—Chicago, IL—Wrigley Field†
July 5—Milwaukee, WI—Summerfest††
July 6—Milwaukee, WI—Summerfest††
July 14—Mansfield, MA—Xfinity Center#
July 15—Hartford, CT—The XFINITY Theatre#
July 16—Darien Lake, NY—Darien Lake Performing Arts Center#
July 20—Holmdel, NJ—P.N.C. Bank Arts Center#
July 21—Wantagh, NY—Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater#
July 22—Bristow, VA—Jiffy Lube Live#
July 28—George, WA—Watershed Festival
July 29—Central Point, OR—Country Crossings Music Festival
July 30—Mountain Home, ID—Mountain Home Country Music Festival
August 3—Duluth, MN—AMSOIL Arena**
August 4—Prairie Du Chien, WI—Country on the River
August 5—St. Louis, MO—Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre**
August 10—Hershey, PA—Giant Center**
August 11—Pittsburgh, PA—KeyBank Pavilion**
August 12—Philadelphia, PA—BB&T Pavilion**
August 17—Toronto, ON—Budweiser Stage**
August 18—Cleveland, OH—Blossom Music Center**
August 19—Clarkston, MI—DTE Energy Music Theatre** (on-sale March 3)
August 25 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion**
*with special guest Lindi Ortega
†with special guest Maren Morris
‡with special guest Brent Cobb
+with special guest Lucie Silvas
§ with special guests Brothers Osborne and Lucie Silvas
#with special guests Anderson East and Brent Cobb
**with special guests Margo Price and Brent Cobb
††with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Ricky Gervais Announces Fist Worldwide Stand-Up Tour In Seven Years
Ricky Gervais has announced the first American, Canadian and European dates of Humanity, his first worldwide stand-up tour in seven years.
2017 hails the British comedian’s return to stand-up comedy on an international stage, as Ricky Gervais brings Humanity to the USA with shows in New York, LA and Chicago, as well as new dates announced in Europe, with Gervais playing Reykjavik, Dublin, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Copenhagen this year.
After selling out his first few UK shows instantly, Ricky Gervais has added the second leg of the UK tour with fourteen new dates, including four nights at London’s Hammersmith Apollo this October.
Ricky Gervais said: “Thousands of people paying hard earned cash to come and see you live is such a privilege. You’d better have something different, interesting and funny to say. Humanity is my angriest, most honest and I think my best tour yet. It’s probably my most personal too. I feel I may as well tell you everything before I die. Hope you enjoy it. Or not. There are no refunds. Just like life, I guess.”
He also added: “I’m thrilled to be able to take this tour around the world and look forward to performing stand-up to a Canadian audience for the first time. Watch this space for even more dates being added too. I’m coming to your town! (If your town has an arena and a 5-star hotel with a helipad.)”.
Gervais has had a busy couple of years with the international theatrical and DVD release, alongside the exclusive partnership with Netflix USA, of mockumentary comedy feature film David Brent: Life On The Road. 2016 also marked the debut album release of David Brent & Foregone Conclusion – Life On The Road, which became a Top 10 UK hit on the iTunes chart. Special Correspondents, which Gervais wrote, directed and starred in alongside Eric Bana, was launched on Netflix worldwide, and Gervais also hosted the Golden Globes for a 4th time.
This year Ricky Gervais returns to his first love of stand-up comedy, with the British comic taking his new show Humanity on a 37-date tour around the world.
The creator and star of The Office, Extras & Derek, Ricky Gervais, has won three Golden Globes, two Primetime Emmy Awards and seven BAFTA’s. The award-winning stand-up comedian also has four international tours under his belt. His 2007 stand-up show ‘Fame’ was the fastest selling UK stand-up show in history, with 100,000 tickets for the London dates selling out in just 9 minutes.
Ricky Gervais Tour Dates
Bristol: 21st – 23rd February (Sold Out)
York: 28th February – 1st March (Sold Out)
Cardiff: 6th – 7th March (Sold Out)
Manchester: 13th – 14th March (Sold Out)
Liverpool: 15th March (Sold Out)
Bournemouth: 22nd – 23rd March (Sold Out)
Belfast: 28th – 29th March (Sold Out)
Sheffield: 3rd April
Portsmouth: 11th April
Iceland (Reykjavik): 20th April
Plymouth: 25th April
Glasgow: 2nd May
Brighton: 9th May
USA (New York): 21st May
USA (Chicago): 24th May
Newcastle: 5th June
Edinburgh: 8th June
Oxford: 13th June
Southampton: 18th June
Dublin: 24th June
Birmingham: 28th June
Sweden (Stockholm): 1st July
Canada (Toronto): 14th July
Netherlands (Amsterdam): 8th September
Denmark (Copenhagen): 29th September
London (Hammersmith Apollo): 4th – 7th October
USA (Los Angeles): 28th October
Midnight Oil Announce World Tour Plus Major Archival Releases
Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil today announced their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow Tank” which will contain more than 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
“The Great Circle 2017” World Tour will see the group’s classic lineup literally circle around our overheating planet for 6 months, starting and ending with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig (details to be announced closer to the date). Midnight Oil will then perform 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer, playing iconic venues from Sao Paulo’s Espaço das Americas and the Wiltern in L.A. to London’s Hammersmith Apollo and The Olympia in Paris. They will share festival stages with artists like Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years. This long-awaited World Tour will climax with 18 special homecoming concerts through October and November, 2017.
These will be Midnight Oil’s only shows in the last 15 years apart from two stadium benefit concerts (and their related small warmup gigs) in Australia in 2005 and 2009. It will also be the group’s most extensive world tour since their classic late 80’s/early 90’s albums like “Diesel & Dust”, “Blue Sky Mining” and “Earth & Sun & Moon” sold over 10 million copies around the globe.
All dates, venues and ticket information are listed below. Exact on sale times are deliberately being staggered from show to show to reduce website congestion so fans should pay careful attention to all the details at www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates. Extensive anti-scalping measures are being taken around this tour so fans are also formally advised to only buy tickets from the official ticket agencies listed on the band’s website to avoid possible fraud and needless overpayment via so called “reselling” sites.
In a unique press conference on Sydney Harbour today the band also announced the impending release of a remastered CD box set called “The Full Tank” featuring all of their existing albums and EP’s plus a mammoth new 4 CD/8 DVD trove called “The Overflow Tank” which will include over 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material. Both of these box sets will be housed in replica miniature water tanks like the one featured onstage at so many ‘Oils’ gigs. The band also unveiled their first ever complete Vinyl collection which will feature 11 remastered LP’s and two 12″ EP’s all cut at Abbey Rd Studios in London. The three box sets will be released around the start of the tour but full tracklistings and pre-orders are available now here.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Australian culture knows the basics of Midnight Oil’s story. They are the incendiary post-punk band from Sydney’s northern beaches who shunned pop TV shows, forging a fierce bond with their audience through nonstop gigging and jagged Ozrock classics like “Back On The Borderline”, “Bus To Bondi” and “Don’t Wanna Be The One”. They are the musical innovators who turned high tech, anti-jingoistic polemic into hits like “Power & The Passion”, “U.S. Forces” and “When The Generals Talk”. They are the activists whose social justice campaigning includes “The Dead Heart”, “Redneck Wonderland”, “Beds Are Burning” and hijacking the 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony with their “Sorry” suits. They are the committed humanists and environmentalists who brought us anthems like “Blue Sky Mine”, “Forgotten Years” and “Say Your Prayers” plus a string of protests from the Tasmanian wilderness and the Jabiluka Uranium mine near Kakadu to mid-town Manhattan where they unforgettably stopped traffic outside the Exxon building after the Alaskan oil spill.
Their music makes you feel. Their lyrics make you think. And the combined impact live onstage is nothing less than a call to action.
In a dangerously warming world of Trump, Hanson, Petry and Le Pen the voice of Midnight Oil clearly takes on renewed relevance; they have always been a band that both reflects and shapes “the temper of the times”. Clarion calls like “it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees” may have been intended for earlier eras but they resonate more than ever in these days of ‘alternative facts’.
In keeping with the band’s longstanding commitments, their carbon footprint during “The Great Circle” World Tour will, of course, be fully offset and sustainability initiatives will be undertaken at all shows. Midnight Oil will also continue their collaborations with local and international environmental organizations including Greenpeace, supporting their campaigns on crucial issues like dangerous climate change and the imminent threats to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
At one level “The Great Circle 2017” simply reflects the geographic reality that the tour will loop around the world and circle Australia. At another level the name clearly implies the planet itself but it has a further meaning too. Sailors, and airmen use “the great circle” to navigate the globe because on a sphere the shortest distance between two points is not usually a straight line. How appropriate for a group who has always been deeply engaged with the world around them but whose career path has never been linear.
Midnight Oil is more than just a rock’n’roll band. In 2017 they will finally bring things back to where they all began. The circle remains unbroken.
SOUTH AMERICA
April 25 — Pepsi on Stage, Porto Alegre
April 27 — Live, Curtiba
April 29 — Espaço das Americas, São Paolo
April 30 — Vivo Rio, Rio De Janeiro
April 2 — NET Live, Brasilia
NORTH AMERICA
May 6 — Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
May 9 — The Filmore, Silver Spring, MD
May 11 — House of Blues, Boston, MA
May 13 — Webster Hall, New York City, NY
May 16 — Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
May 18 — The Vic, Chicago, IL
May 20 — Danforth Theatre, Toronto, Canada
May 23 — Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO
May 25 — The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
May 27 — Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA
May 29 — Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
May 31 — Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
June 2 — The Commodore, Vancouver, Canada
EUROPE + UK
June 21 — E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
June 23 — Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
June 25 — Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
June 27 — Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 29 — Rockafeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
July 1 — Furuviksparken, Gävle, Sweden
July 4 — Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK
July 6 — Olympia, Paris, France
July 7 — Festival de Beauregard, Hérouville-Saint-Claire, France
July 9 — Les Deferlantes Festival, Argeles-sur-Mer, France
July 12 — Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland
July 14 — Musilac, Aix Les Bains, France
July 16 — Les Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, France
July 18 — Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany
July 21 — Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
NEW ZEALAND
Sept. 9 — Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ
Sept. 11 — Horncastle Arena, Christchurch, NZ
AUSTRALIA
Oct. 2 — ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs, NT (w/ Dan Sultan & Apakatjah)
Oct. 4 — Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT (w/ Dan Sultan & Irrunytju Band)
Oct. 7 — Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns, QLD (w/ Urthboy)
Oct. 10 — Townsville Ent. Centre, Townsville, QLD (w/ Urthboy)
Oct. 12 — Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton, QLD (w/ Urthboy)
Oct. 14 — Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast, QLD (w/ The Living End & Jebediah)
Oct. 15 — Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD (w/ The Jezabels)
Oct. 19 — Hockey Fields, Coffs Harbour, NSW (w/ Jebediah & Jack River)
Oct. 21 — Hope Estate, Hunter Valley, NSW (w/ Birds of Tokyo & Ash Grunwald)
Oct. 24 — AIS Arena, Canberra, ACT (w/ Something For Kate)
Oct. 26 — The Village Green Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA (w/ Spiderbait & Bad//Dreems)
Oct. 28 — Perth Arena, Perth, WA (w/ Spiderbait)
Oct. 1 — Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, TAS (w/ The Jezabels)
Oct. 3 — Gateway Lakes, Wodonga, VIC (w/ The Living End)
Oct. 4 — Hanging Rock, Mt Macedon, VIC (w/ John Butler Trio, Something for Kate, Frank Yamma & David Bridie)
Oct. 6 — Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC (w/ The Jezabels & Adalita)
Oct. 8 — WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW (w/ Abbe May)
Oct. 11 — The Domain, Sydney, NSW (w/ John Butler Trio & A.B.Original)
Touring Nick Offerman’s Wood Shop
Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor visits Nick Offerman in Los Angeles to tour the comedian’s woodworking shop.
One Man Performs Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ All By Himself
Dominic Fragman plays guitar, drums and sings simultaneously on the Rush classic Tom Sawyer. Mean, mean pride.
Michael Bolton Sings Coffee Orders to Unsuspecting Customers
Michael Bolton, one guy who doesn’t mind taking one for the laughs, works as a barista and sings out the names of unsuspecting customers.