Rachel Leviss – formerly known as Raquel – has raised a good chunk of money for charity.
29.09.2023 - 10:55 / nypost.com
Carlos Santana was the O.G. hippie in the ’60s, think again.In fact, the 76-year-old guitar hero was once an anti-weed warrior as his namesake band was huffing — and puffing — to succeed in the San Francisco scene alongside groups such as the Grateful Dead.“I’d been around marijuana all my life since I was a child, but I never toked,” reveals Santana in the new documentary “Carlos,” which opens in theaters on Friday.Indeed, the “Smooth” operator was that guy who was a downer to the doobies — in part, to protect his own good name and reputation.“You’re building a band around me, and I noticed that they smoke weed.
And I don’t smoke weed,” he recalls in the film.“And every time that they smoke weed, they don’t play the same song twice. They play it differently, and they forget things.
I wish they wouldn’t smoke pot, man, so they could learn the damn song right and play it correctly.”But Santana’s then-managers put the pot pressure on their cannabis-averse client one day at the legendary Fillmore rock club.“They looked at me like, ‘Damn,’” he recalls. “So they rolled a [big] joint … and just left it there and said, ‘We’re gonna go get some lunch.
We’ll be right back. ‘”It was then that Santana finally sucked it up and gave in to the toking temptation.“I finally went, ‘OK,’” says Santana, who would eventually become such a marijuana aficionado that he launched his own brand, Mirayo, in 2019.That’s one of “Carlos” director Rudy Valdez’s favorite stories in the documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June before hitting theaters nationwide this weekend.“It was calling to him, and he finally smokes,” Valdez told The Post.
Rachel Leviss – formerly known as Raquel – has raised a good chunk of money for charity.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief VVS Films, a leading Canada-based film distributor, will expand its operations to Australia and New Zealand. A24’s Nicolas Cage-starring comedy “Dream Scenario” is set as its first title for the new markets and will release on Jan. 1, 2024.
Martin Short joins the cast of “Death Rattle Dazzle” onstage and delivers one of his signature, hammy show-stopping performances.Short’s silly physical antics are a perfect reminder of his comedic gifts and a great sales pitch for his recently extended ‘The Dukes of Funnytown Tour’ with Steve Martin.On the run of shows, the pair will make a number of stops at New York and New Jersey venues.First up, the “Three Amigos” co-stars hit Red Bank, NJ’s Hackensack Meridian Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 26 and Verona, NY’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino Event Center on Sunday, Nov.
Julia Fox opened up about auditioning for a role in Madonna‘s biopic.
Matthew Heineman’s documentary profiling Grammy and Oscar winning musician Jon Batiste and the medical struggles for his wife that have marked trying times in their marriage leads the pack of nominees for the 8th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six. The inspiring docu from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground was picked up by Netflix after premiering and winning acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival last month. Not far behind are a trio of docus each with 5 mentions including 20 Days In Mariupol, Kokomo City, and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. And not to be ignored, this weekend’s boxoffice champ, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour which landed a nomination as Best Music Documentary. The CCDA nod marks the first awards recognition for the film (however it is not eligible for a Documentary Oscar) which only just had its first premiere screening on Wednesday of last week and came in just under the eligibility wire.
Manic Street Preachers and Suede have added an Eden Sessions show to their joint 2024 UK and Ireland tour – find out how to get tickets below.The bands, who toured Europe together in 1993 before recreating the line-up for a North American tour in 2022, recently announced a joint UK and Ireland tour for next year. Both acts head to Japan, Singapore and Taiwan this winter for other shared dates.Today (October 16) the Manics and Suede have revealed a fresh date for the tour, which sees them stop by Cornwall to play the Eden Sessions on June 29, 2024.
Jada Pinkett Smith has more to say about the aftermath of the infamous Oscars slap.
The 10-episode fourth season of Apple TV+ space drama For All Mankind will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, November 10, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through January 12, 2024.
Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, and Gal Gadot are hard at work on their upcoming movie In the Hand of Dante and we have some action-packed photos from set!
Brent Lang Executive Editor Gillian Anderson paid tribute to Terence Davies, the British filmmaker who directed one of her most acclaimed performances for “The House of Mirth,” crediting him with giving her “my first ‘proper’ film job.” Davies died on Oct. 7 at the age of 77 following a short illness.
Queen is back on tour with Adam Lambert providing lead vocals and the setlist is pretty incredible!
Ethan Shanfeld It’s been a decade since Walter White parked his car, popped open his trunk and planted bullets into the neo-Nazis that stole his fortune, murdered Hank and kidnapped Jesse. In what is widely considered one of television’s finest series finales, “Breaking Bad” laid its unlikely drug kingpin to rest and tied up the right amount of loose ends — while leaving enough intrigue to propel a Netflix movie and equally rich AMC prequel series.
Netflix subscribers watching the new David Beckham documentary have made the same unusual realisation about the footballer.
SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, is attending New York Comic Con on Oct. 14 for the panel “AI in Entertainment: The Performer’s Perspective”.
A really wet Friday in New York – National Weather Service flash flood warning wet – is likely to take a bite out of specialty film in one of its biggest markets this weekend. Alamo Drafthouse shut its NYC locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island until further notice due to “severe flooding in and around the area,” saying “Please everyone stay dry & stay safe, and we hope to have you back at the movies very soon.” Subways are jammed up and the water makes it hard to get around.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are enjoying being empty nesters.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards kicked off the first of two nights on Wednesday in New York, with CNN, Vice and the New York Times as among the big winners. CNN led the news portion of the Emmys, with ten wins — followed closely by Vice, with nine, and then the NYT with five.
CNN, Vice, and the New York Times were among the big winners on the first of two nights for the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. CNN led the news portion of the Emmys with ten wins, with trailing Vice winning nine and the New York Times with five.
This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Emma Stone will be back on television this fall in the new series The Curse, which is a co-production of Showtime and A24.