Elvis Costello, LL Cool J, Journey, Patti Smith Join NYC Central Park Homecoming Concert: Clive Davis Announces Full Line-Up

Boris Johnson has launched a £77. 4m-a-year pot to help the British athletes prepare for the 2024 games in Paris.

Chris Willman Music WriterGlobal Citizen has unveiled lineups for three of the international settings for its 24-hour “Global Citizen Live” broadcast for Sept. 25.

New York City is getting another shot in the arm this summer with Free Shakespeare in the Park’s happy Merry Wives, playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s embraceable adaptation of the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor starring Watchmen‘s Jacob Ming-Trent as that great, rotund creation Falstaff.

Linda Fairstein over her portrayal as a racist and unethical villain in “When They See Us,” a 2019 series about the Central Park Five case.US District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said Fairstein had plausibly alleged defamation as to five scenes, including that she withheld evidence, coerced confessions and directed a racially discriminatory police roundup of young men in Harlem.“The average viewer could conclude that these scenes have a basis in fact and do not merely reflect the creators’

Global Citizen Live is a wonderful progression from our partnership during the Vax Live campaign, event, and primetime broadcast,” Katie Hill, senior vice president of Global Citizen, said in a press release.

Wordtips assessed the number of unique words used in the lyrics of 100 music “legends” and 100 modern pop stars. (Rappers were excluded as they had their own survey a few years ago and the result showed that they are, to use the scientific term, extremely wordy.

Amy Cooper — perhaps one of the most infamous “Karens” of them all — is sharing her side of the story months after she was pegged the “Central Park Karen.”

and that the newsletter itself is part of Puck. He described the venture as “a new digital media company focused on the inside conversation at the nexus of Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley.”“Puck is a platform for smart, engaging (and, yes, occasionally dishy) journalism owned and operated by the journalists themselves,” he wrote.

K.J. Yossman The BBC has announced it is broadcasting a star-studded concert live from Wembley Stadium to celebrate Team GB’s return from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.The 90-minute concert, which will include artists such as Nile Rogers, Laura Mvula and Yungblud, will take place at The SSE Arena on Sunday, Aug.

NEW YORK -- Carlos Santana, LL Cool J and Barry Manilow are among the performers who will join previously announced headliners Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Hudson at next month's Central Park concert to celebrate New York City's recovery from COVID-19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.The Aug. 21 concert will be broadcast worldwide on CNN and will also include performances by Elvis Costello, Andrea Bocelli, Wyclef Jean and Cynthia Erivo, the mayor said.

end-of-summer Central Park show celebrating New York City’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing the internationally broadcast “concert of a lifetime” to Woodstock.The mostly free Aug.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorClive Davis and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the artists who will be joining Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson at the New York City “homecoming concert” in New York’s Central Park on August 21: Andrea Bocelli, LL Cool J, Kane Brown, Elvis Costello, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Cynthia Erivo, Jimmy Fallon, Wyclef Jean, Journey, the Killers, Gayle King, Don Lemon, Barry Manilow, Polo G, Patti Smith, Rob Thomas with

Welcome back! The Sex and the City cast is filming the revival series, And Just Like That, and the photos have fans more excited than Carrie Bradshaw at a Manolo Blahnik sale.

All Points East Festival, with the former hosting the 6 Music Stage at this year’s festival.All Points East is set to return from August 27-30 at Victoria Park in London, with the likes of Foals, Jamie xx and Jorja Smith headlining.The 6 Music Stage will operate across the festival weekend, with highlights from the stage set to be broadcast on 6 Music and BBC Sounds.6 Music presenters Tom Ravenscroft, Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs will each curate a day on the stage, with the likes of

superbly funny season 2 of continues to roll out on Apple TV+, ET has an exclusive sneak peek of episode seven, “A Decent Proposal,” during which Bitsy (Stanley Tucci) unexpectedly befriends Molly (Emmy Raver-Lampman). The latest episode is another showcase for Tucci, who recently earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for the season 1 episode, “A Fish Called Snakehead.”On the animated series, Bitsy, who recalls the late real-life “Queen of Mean” Leona

Viola Davis is telling her story. The Oscar-winning actress is working on a memoir, to be released next year in partnership with Ebony Magazine Publishing, announced HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Wednesday.Described as «a true hero's journey,»  will encompass the actress's childhood in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to her defining career as a trail-blazing Tony, Oscar and Primetime Emmy Award-winning actress, philanthropist and CEO/CoFounder of JuVee Productions.

Chris Willman Music WriterElvis Costello and the Imposters, who had to interrupt a spring 2020 U.K. tour when the pandemic kicked in, will be picking up where they didn’t leave off — as kings of America, hitting the U.S.