Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features guitarist Jim Weider.
According to conventional rock wisdom, the Band ended on Thanksgiving 1976 with The Last Waltz, the most famous farewell concert in music history.
According to conventional rock wisdom, the Band ended on Thanksgiving 1976 with The Last Waltz, the most famous farewell concert in music history.
- 10/30/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
This month marks 50 years since Bruce Lee’s sudden death at the age of 32, and likewise the semicentennial anniversary of his highest-profile feature, Enter the Dragon. Released by Warner Bros. on Aug. 17, 1973, director Robert Clouse’s action film stars Lee as a Shaolin monk recruited by British intelligence to compete in a martial arts tournament and track down a crime boss named Han (Shih Kien). The stakes are raised when Lee learns that the man who killed his sister is working as a bodyguard for Han.
Before Enter the Dragon, Lee was known for playing Kato on the 1960s ABC series The Green Hornet and Batman, and for starring in several kung fu films in the early 1970s, including The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972). But it was Dragon — his second Hollywood movie after a small role in 1969’s James Garner-led Marlowe — that became his signature title and made him a global icon.
Before Enter the Dragon, Lee was known for playing Kato on the 1960s ABC series The Green Hornet and Batman, and for starring in several kung fu films in the early 1970s, including The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972). But it was Dragon — his second Hollywood movie after a small role in 1969’s James Garner-led Marlowe — that became his signature title and made him a global icon.
- 8/17/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dolly Parton Day began in the Queen of Country’s hometown of Seviervielle, Tennessee in 1970. That first year included several festivities, including a parade with Dolly serving as the grand marshal. The event and accompanying live album made the “Coat of Many Colors” singer proud, but it made her family “uneasy.”
The Queen of Country was proud of Dolly Parton Day, but her family felt uncomfortable
Dolly Parton Day was largely put on by Porter Wagoner, the “Jolene” singer’s then-new boss at The Porter Wagoner Show.
“He insisted that the event be produced as a live album, and he arranged for many well-known Nashville musicians to be a part of it,” Dolly wrote in her 1994 memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business.
The album was a success. The whole affair made the singer feel “very proud.” But her family had a different experience.
“I can remember, though, how...
The Queen of Country was proud of Dolly Parton Day, but her family felt uncomfortable
Dolly Parton Day was largely put on by Porter Wagoner, the “Jolene” singer’s then-new boss at The Porter Wagoner Show.
“He insisted that the event be produced as a live album, and he arranged for many well-known Nashville musicians to be a part of it,” Dolly wrote in her 1994 memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business.
The album was a success. The whole affair made the singer feel “very proud.” But her family had a different experience.
“I can remember, though, how...
- 7/21/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Dolly Parton and her siblings got new shoes once a year. Their father, Robert Lee Parton, would make the trek into town with his childrens’ foot sizes marked in sticks and pick out 12 pairs of shoes to last through the fall and winter. Whether the shoes actually fit or not, the Parton kids would always tell their dad the shoes fit perfectly.
Dolly Parton | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images How Robert Lee would buy his kids’ shoes
Every year, the Parton kids needed new shoes. But there wasn’t a good way to haul all 12 of them into town to try them on.
“Transportation was a big problem, and Daddy was not about to try to drag all of us into town with him,” Parton wrote in her first memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. “He usually only went about once every six weeks or so, and it...
Dolly Parton | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images How Robert Lee would buy his kids’ shoes
Every year, the Parton kids needed new shoes. But there wasn’t a good way to haul all 12 of them into town to try them on.
“Transportation was a big problem, and Daddy was not about to try to drag all of us into town with him,” Parton wrote in her first memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. “He usually only went about once every six weeks or so, and it...
- 6/3/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
We’ve learned the sad news today that two-time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon, known for playing “Mother Parker” in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, has passed away at the age of 83.
The actress passed away on Monday, January 9, the family announced today.
Melinda Dillon was nominated for Academy Awards in 1978 and in 1982, first for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. Jillian ends up joining Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) on his adventure.
Later in 1982, Dillon was nominated in the same category – Best Actress in a Supporting Role – for her performance as Teresa in Sydney Pollack’s film Absence of Malice.
Melinda Dillon is also known for her decades-spanning roles in Bound for Glory, Slap Shot, Harry and the Hendersons, Captain America (1990), Magnolia, and Reign Over Me.
Dillon’s film credits also include The April Fools,...
The actress passed away on Monday, January 9, the family announced today.
Melinda Dillon was nominated for Academy Awards in 1978 and in 1982, first for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens. Jillian ends up joining Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) on his adventure.
Later in 1982, Dillon was nominated in the same category – Best Actress in a Supporting Role – for her performance as Teresa in Sydney Pollack’s film Absence of Malice.
Melinda Dillon is also known for her decades-spanning roles in Bound for Glory, Slap Shot, Harry and the Hendersons, Captain America (1990), Magnolia, and Reign Over Me.
Dillon’s film credits also include The April Fools,...
- 2/3/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
It doesn’t take long for the newly revamped version of “MythBusters” to take part in some mythmaking of its own. For anyone who might stumble on the title in a program guide and wonder why former hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman aren’t the lead scientists on this unscripted TV mainstay anymore, there’s a handy introduction of new faces Jon Lung and Brian Louden. Specifically chosen as part of the “MythBusters: The Search” competition series from earlier this year, the quick intro to the newest “MythBusters” season (premiering Wednesday night on Science Channel) feeds into the idea that these two were destined to take the reigns and shepherd the series forward.
The result is Lung and Louden now heading up a show that’s a slightly revamped, but still true to its predecessor, a thoroughly enjoyable romp through surface-level scientific inquiry that’s still a valuable part of the TV world.
The result is Lung and Louden now heading up a show that’s a slightly revamped, but still true to its predecessor, a thoroughly enjoyable romp through surface-level scientific inquiry that’s still a valuable part of the TV world.
- 11/15/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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