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Maurice Hines, who tap danced his way to a Tony nomination during a long stage career and was a frequent TV guest, has died at the age of 80, according to reports from friends and family.

There are few producers in live television with the kind of career Don Mischer has had in television, a career spanning six decades and just about every major event from the Oscars to the Olympics to Obama and all in between. Just a sampling of his credits include the Opening Ceremonies of both the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics; the Super Bowl Halftime Shows with Michael Jackson, Prince, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen; the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial; Motown 25; the Democratic National Convention; the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Hall; the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards; and so many many other events in our lives.

Kylie Minogue has hinted that she would like to do “one amazing stadium show” before the end of her career. The singer is currently on a break from her ongoing Las Vegas residency, which kicked off on November 3 at the Voltaire stage at the Venetian Resort. She has described the set as being “a mix between a 1930s club and a 1970s kind of Frank Sinatra, Elvis venue where there were booths and lamps and cocktails”.

Billie Eilish starred alongside Kate McKinnon in a Christmas Saturday Night Live sketch this weekend about a cat adoption campaign.The pop star and SNL alum played cat ladies at the ‘Whiskers R We’ pet store for a pun-filled sketch on Saturday (December 16), which saw them show off cats available for adoption during their “Holiday Cat-tacular”.The pair barely kept it together as Barbara DeDrew (McKinnon) and intern Paw-bree Hep-Purrn (Eilish) introduced cats with names like Cindy Claw-ford and Furr-ell Williams.Musical guest Eilish also appeared in another pre-recorded skit on the episode, the second being an acoustic song about a group of women (McKinnon, Eilish, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Paula Pell) working on a tampon farm.Check out both of the sketches below.Elsewhere on Saturday’s episode, Eilish performed her Barbie soundtrack hit ‘What Was I Made For’ and a stripped-back rendition of Frank Sinatra‘s ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.The singer has previously appeared as a guest on SNL, performing a memorable rotating rendition of ‘Bad Guy’ in 2019, followed by a 2021 visit to play ‘Male Fantasy’ and ‘Happier Than Ever’ from her second album.In other news from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ singer, Eilish recently announced her third album is nearly done.This weekend’s episode of SNL also featured an ABBA spoof –starring McKinnon, Wiig, Rudolph and current cast member Bowen Yang – during which they posed as the Swedish pop legends in a skit about the band promoting a holiday album.Longtime SNL performer McKinnon announced she was leaving the show last year after a decade, later sharing that she “felt like it was time”.Meanwhile, Jacob Elordi and Reneé Rapp have been announced for the first Saturday Night Live of

Billie Eilish has sung two songs as the final musical guest of 2023 for Saturday Night Live – watch the footage below.The popstar visited Studio 8H last night (December 16) to give two intimate performances. Eilish opened with her Barbie soundtrack hit ‘What Was I Made For’, which was recently nominated for a Golden Globe.

Michael Westmore is ready for his career closeup.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here viewers have been asking 'how' in some degree of amazement as they continue to be divided over Josie Gibson's time in camp. The This Morning star is among the eight celebrities still Down Under as the week-long eliminations continue.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is not proceeding with its planned limited series about Sammy Davis Jr., starring Elijah Kelley as the Candy Man, from Lee Daniels and 20th Television.

Dancing with the Stars” is reaching its conclusion, with the series finale scheduled to air next week. Five couples will take the dance floor next Tuesday, preparing two performances that encapsulate and showcase the work they’ve done over the past months.

Maureen Nolan has revealed she can’t afford to retire despite selling millions of records at the height of her fame.

Nomination are being announced Friday morning for the 66th Grammy Awards, ahead of the ceremony set for February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles.

A.D. Amorosi Seventy years since his first Capitol Records sessions for the single “Lean Baby” and the “Songs for Young Lovers” 10″ album… 62 years since his first Reprise LP, “Ring-a-Ding-Ding!”… and 25 years since his passing, the legend of Frank Sinatra still looms large.

The couple 'most likely to win' Strictly Come Dancing this year has been named - according to their body language. Week five of the BBC One dance contest is fast approaching and wills see the 12 remaining couples return to the ballroom following the recent exit of Paralympic champion Jody Cundy.

Justin Bieber’s divergent styles. Lest we forget all the that collected around the launch of Rhode’s strawberry glaze lip treatment, for which she wore a little red dress with strappy stilettos and he wore Crocs.

Hailey and Justin Bieber are starting out the week with a jolt of caffeine.

Taylor Swift‘s “Eras Tour” concert film in Los Angeles. “I appreciate you being here because this night is a core memory for me and you’re a part of it,” Swift said introducing the highly-anticipated movie before a packed auditorium of Swifties, celebrities (and celebrity Swifties), including Adam Sandler, Julia Garner, Maren Morris, Flava Flav, Karamo Brown, Hayley Kiyoko, Becca Tilley, Simu Liu, Molly Sims, Jennifer Meyer and Mariska Hargitay, as well as the Grove owner Rick Caruso.

Kylie Minogue has shared that the Las Vegas venue where her residency will be taking place “hasn’t even finished its build yet”.The ‘Can’t Get You Of My Head’ singer is set to kick off her Sin City residency on November 3, and will be the first performer to grace the brand new Voltaire stage at The Venetian Resort. Minogue has revealed she is getting nervous because the Voltaire venue she is set to launch has yet to be built and could go “down to the wire”.She’s quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column (via Music News) as saying: “I open at the start of November.

Wind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival.

Ethan Shanfeld Forest Hills Stadium could have been a condominium. The legendary Queens, New York, tennis-stadium-turned-amphitheater — longtime home of the U.S. Open, which would later host outdoor concerts by the likes of the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones — had gone decades without live music and was casually courting offers from developers to knock down the stadium and build housing units.

U2 is kicking off their 25-night run at Las Vegas’ Sphere with U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere!

U2 kicked off their Las Vegas residency at the new MSG Sphere venue last night (September 29) – see clips from the show and the full setlist below.The Irish rock band’s residency is centred on a full play-through of their seventh album, ‘Achtung Baby’ (1991) but, as confirmed by reports, the setlist will be broken up by a secret segment focusing on a different U2 album.Variety reports that singer Bono revealed to the crowd the they plan to focus on a different album (or possibly other people’s albums, he added, teasingly), however, he didn’t clarify whether that would mean a setlist switch-up on each of the residency’s 25 shows.Last night U2 played the first eight songs of ‘Achtung Baby’ before breaking into a four-song secret segment of their a hybrid live/studio album ‘Rattle And Hum’.The band’s debut residency gig, which opened on the same day that they released their first new song in two years, ‘Atomic City’, was attended by a host of famous faces including Paul McCartney and Snoop Dogg. NME writer Damian Jones also confirmed that Dr Dre and Flavor Flav were at the concert.Ahead of performing ‘Angel Of Harlem’ from ‘Rattle And Hum’, Bono said: “The macca [McCartney] is in our prescience.

Strictly Come Dancing star Angela Rippon has been left 'shattered' after the demands of the show rehearsals.

Dick Van Dyke, Amber Riley and William Shatner have come on as contestants to great success.However, there have also been a slew of players who have caused quite the controversy when they appeared on the brightly lit soundstage. From politicians to models to actual singers, Hollywood has sure made the rounds on “The Masked Singer.”Van Dyke, 97, became the oldest person to compete on the musical series, and was unmasked as “the Gnome” on an episode that aired earlier this year.The Grammy winner performed the hit song “When You’re Smiling” by Frank Sinatra onstage in February.Once he ripped off his gnome mascot head and revealed his true identity, Van Dyke performed a rendition of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” — the iconic song from his and Julie Andrews’ 1964 “Mary Poppins” musical.Riley, 37, won Season 8 of the show last year, when she was revealed to be the Harp.The “Glee” alum sang Lady Gaga’s “The Edge of Glory” and John Mayer’s “Gravity,” which led to her victory.

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren has had emergency surgery following a fall in her Swiss home, her agent has confirmed.The 89 year old fell in her bathroom and sustained several “serious fractures” to different parts of her hip, including her femur, which needed “urgent surgery”, her agent Andrea Giusti said. Sophia’s representative also confirmed both her sons, Carlo and Edoardo Ponti, were at her bedside.The Academy-Award winning Italian actress was married to film producer Carlo Ponti Sr from 1966 until his death in 2007.

The Rolling Stones‘ Mick Jagger has shared his thoughts on the changing music landscape and the rise of streaming.Earlier this month, the British rock legends announced their new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ and shared details of first single ‘Angry’.The veteran rockers’ 24th record will be their first of original music since 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang’.Speaking in a new interview with Q host Tom Power on CBC radio, the frontman reflected on the new album and the music landscape it will be coming out in, sharing that he believes the band’s longevity has been in part thanks to “staying abreast of what’s going on”.“I’m not saying I’m slavishly trying to be at the cutting edge of everything, but you have to understand how things work, you know, in the current world,” he sad. “And that doesn’t just apply to the music industry, it applies to lots of things.“I mean, you know, driving a car is a different experience than driving a car in 1960.

The late, great Sir Michael Parkinson's funeral went ahead this week, in front of 90 of the TV interviewer's nearest and dearest. Lovingly referred to as 'Parky' throughout his career, Michael sadly passed away aged 88 last month, surrounded by his wife Lady Mary and their three sons Michael Jr, Nicholas and Andrew at the family's Berkshire home. According to the The Sun, a cricket cap sat on his coffin alongside a red and white Barnsley FC scarf - the football team he was a lifelong supporter of - before the funeral service unfolded at St Michael's Church in Bray.

Van Morrison‘s 1968 album ‘Astral Weeks’. Other non-jazz albums that featured Davis’ playing include Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘Born to Run’ (on the track ‘Meeting Across the River’), Paul Simon‘s ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ (on ‘Something So Right’) and Bo Diddley‘s ‘Where It All Began’.Davis often served as bandleader within ensembles he performed in, which includes the band put together to record ‘Astral Weeks’ with Morrison. It is believed that Davis had over 3,000 album credits across his decades as a working musician.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Quentin Tarantino’s reputed “final” film will get a $20.2 million subsidy from the state of California, the state’s film commission announced Friday. The film has been rumored to center on the life of Pauline Kael, with a working title of “The Movie Critic.” It is among 16 films to be awarded state tax credits in the latest allocation. California awards $330 million per year in state subsidies for film and TV shows in order to keep production in the state.

EXCLUSIVE: A documentary about the relationships between Frank Sinatra, JFK and the mafia has been snapped up by Channel 4.

ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus, and Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash‘s daughter, are set to work with YouTube and Universal Music on a new AI project.According to a statement regarding the project, Ulvaeus said: “While some may find my decision controversial, I’ve joined this group with an open mind and purely out of curiosity about how an AI model works and what it could be capable of in a creative process.”He continued: “I believe that the more I understand, the better equipped I’ll be to advocate for and to help protect the rights of my fellow human creators.”Other musicians that are attached to the project are One Republic‘s Ryan Tedder, composer Max Richter, record producer Louis Bell, Anitta, D4vd, American musician Don Was, Colombian musician Juanes, Rodney Jerkins,Yo Gotti and the estate of Frank Sinatra.Richter said: “Like every new technology, AI brings with it opportunities, but it also raises profound challenges for the creative community.