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Bob Elkins, who had a small but pivotal role as a radio disc jockey in Coal Miner’s Daughter, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Cold Spring, Kentucky, a publicist announced. He was 89.
In the 1980 Michael Apted-directed drama, nominated for best picture, Elkins’ Bobby Day is eventually convinced by Loretta Lynn (Oscar winner Sissy Spacek) and her husband, Doo (Tommy Lee Jones), to play her first record, which sends the country singer on her way to superstardom.
A native of West Virginia who was well known in Cincinnati’s theater community, Elkins also appeared with Soupy Sales in This Train (2001), with Lynda Carter in Tattered Angel (2008) and in such other films as The Dream Catcher (1999), April’s Fool (2001) and The Greater Good (2006).
He received a best actor award from the Dublin Film and Music Festival in Ireland for his turn as a homeless man in the independent short film Homefree (2002).
Also in 2002, he played the father of a trapped coal miner in the ABC telefilm The Pennsylvania Miners’ Story and a German admiral in James Cameron’s Expedition: Bismarck for the Discovery Channel. Later, he showed up on a 2011 episode of Showtime’s Homeland.
This article originally appeared in THR.com.
The music world’s beloved “Hizzo” is alive and well, as Lizzo recently joined Harry Styles for his headlining set at Coachella Weekend 2 on Friday (April 22), where the duo performed One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”
Lizzo recently sat down with Audacy’s Kevan Kenney, where she discussed taking the desert’s main stage with her superstar pal. “Well, first Harry was going to do a Tupac hologram, and I was like, ‘I don’t know, I feel like somebody already did that,’” she joked of Styles’ set and how their collaboration came to be. “The crazy thing is, it really was genuinely a surprise. I found out Wednesday night. I was genuinely going to Coachella to see Harry, I love his music, that’s my guy, I’m a fan. I’m going to pull up, celebrate my birthday early. Wednesday night, it was like, ‘Do you want to come and rehearse ‘I Will Survive’, we ran it three times in his trailer, and we just did it…He did a cover of ‘Juice’, and I did a cover of ‘Adore You’, and then we did ‘Juice’ together, and I was going to do a show with him, and his show got rained out by hurricane rain in Miami, so we never got to scratch that itch, and we finally did it three years later.”
“It was really, ‘Are we doing this thing?’ He’s very poetic, and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, we’re doing it,’” she added to Ryan Mitchell of Channel Q. “Hee was like, ‘Let’s sing ‘I Will Survive,’ and the next day I was in his trailer. I got a taste of the main stage, I want the whole thing.”
Lizzo is also released her highly-anticipated new single, “About Damn Time,” on April 14, which serves as an introduction to her upcoming album, Special, set to release on July 15.
“I know when it’s mastered,” she said of the upcoming album. “I sat in the mastering room and listened to all the levels. I chose the exact right time stamps for when it should end and begin. The overlap and how the flow of the album goes, and you’re like, ‘It’s done now.’ I didn’t do that on ‘Cuz I Love You’. I was too much in a whirlwind to do the time. There’s some songs ’til this day that go in too fast, because I just didn’t have the time.”
Listen below.
The seventh annual Black Music Honors will celebrate the achievements of some of the biggest names in music during a two-hour ceremony on May 19, live from the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.
R&B group Dru Hill will receive the Urban Music Icon Award, after landing five hit albums on the Billboard 200 chart and 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. “Can We Talk” hitmaker Tevin Campbell will be honored with the R&B Icon Award after placing four albums on the Billboard 200 and 13 tunes on the Hot 100. Sister duo Mary Mary, who released four No. 1 projects on the Top Christian Albums chart, will be presented with the Gospel Icon Award.
Fan-favorite singer Karyn White, who placed three albums on the Billboard 200 and released eight Hot 100 hits, will be recognized with the Soul Music Award. “Pretty Girl Rock” songstress Keri Hilson, behind two Billboard 200 albums and 10 Hot 100 hits, will receive the Music and Songwriter Icon Award. And for their decades-long discography and influence, iconic R&B group The Whispers will receive the Legends Award. The legendary singers have released 16 Billboard 200 albums and 12 Hot 100 hit songs.
Singer and actress LeToya Luckett will co-host the event alongside actor/comedian DeRay Davis.
“We are more than excited to return to in-person taping for the first time in nearly three years with a live audience,” Don Jackson, founder and executive producer of the Black Music Honors, said in a statement. “The pandemic had an unprecedented impact on the music industry and we’re honored to celebrate, commemorate and honor music trailblazers who have paved the way for the next generation of music and culture.”
Tickets to attend the live taping on May 19 are available for purchase via Ticketmaster. The TV special will air via national broadcast syndication from June 4 to July 3. It will also air on Bounce TV on June 25 amid Black Music Month.
James Corden is speaking out about his decision to depart CBS’s The Late Late Show after next season.
In Thursday’s (April 28) monologue, the late-night host addressed the news that he has signed a one-year contract renewal, and will then depart. Corden noted that while the show, which he has hosted for seven and a half years, has “changed” his life, it was never intended to be his “final destination.”
“This will be my last year hosting the show,” said Corden in his monologue. “When I started this journey, it was always going to be just that. It was going to be a journey, an adventure. I never saw it as my final destination, you know? And I never want this show to overstay its welcome in any way. I always want to love making it. And I really think in a year from now that will be a good time to move on and see what else might be out there.”
During his tenure, Corden introduced signature segments on The Late Late Show, such as the ever-popular “Carpool Karaoke,” “Drop the Mic” and “Crosswalk the Musical,” which regularly feature guests from the world of pop culture.
Corden went on to say in his monologue that he is “determined” to focus on the year ahead and to go out with a bang. “We still have a year to go and we are all determined to make this the best year we have ever had making this show. We are going to go out with a bang. There is going to be Carpools, and Crosswalks, and sketches and other surprises.”
Though teasing much to come, the late-night host admitted departing was the “hardest decision” he’s ever had to make. “I’ve never taken this job for granted,” he said. “Ever. Not once. And… the fact that you watch us at home. Or you watch us online. Wherever you are, all over the world. The fact that we get to try and entertain you and spend time with you is an absolute privilege for me and every single person who makes this show.”
Concluding the segment, Corden declared: “Here’s to the next 12 months and it’s going to be a blast, I promise you that.”
Watch the whole monologue below.
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
TikTok has announced the launch of a new program dubbed #Rompiendo, which is meant to “highlight the success and impact” of Latinx music and artists on the app. According to the social media company, the program includes promotion, playlisting, inclusion on TikTok radio and a feature on @MusicOnTikTok socials.
The first #Rompiendo artist to be featured in the new program is Brazilian star Anitta, whose “Envolver” has been used in more than 2 million videos after the song and its dance challenge went viral on TikTok. A new #Rompiendo artist will be announced every two weeks.
Most recently, Anitta made her Coachella debut with an epic set that brought Brazil to the desert and featured surprise guests such as Snoop Dogg, Saweetie and Diplo. In mid-April, she dropped her long-awaited album Versions of Me, which includes “Envolver.” The cheeky reggaeton track peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart earlier this month, marking the first leader on the list by an artist from Brazil.
#Rompiendo is TikTok’s latest effort to propel Latinx creators on the app. Last year, during Hispanic Heritage Month, TikTok and MACRO — a media company that represents the voices and perspectives of Black people and persons of color — teamed up to launch a new incubator called TikTok Latinx Creatives in an effort to help further grow the Latinx creative community on the platform. The 10-week program focused on “nurturing and developing” 150 talented Latinx creators and music artists.
“We’re driven to spotlight and support Latinx talent with a platform that amplifies their voices and a community that is moved by them,” TikTok said in a statement at the time of Latinx Creatives’ launch.
According to TikTok, popular Latinx community hashtags — including #Latino, #Latina, #Familia, #Hispanic — generate “significant” community engagement and have accumulated billions of video views.
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