Dale Hawkins passed away at 73 yesterday after battling colon cancer, reports the Shreveport Times. The rockabilly pioneer was best known for the 1957 hit “Susie Q,” which featured a 15-year-old James Burton on guitar and was the first release by Chess Records of a white artist. After Hawkins had sold his share of the rights to the song, “Suzie Q” later became a hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Rolling Stones.
Talk about bittersweet: Netflix has renewed Sweet Tooth for a third and final season. The fantasy series, which follows human-animal hybrids Gus (Christian Convery) and Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) as they adventure through a postapocalyptic world, will return for a final send-off in 2024, the streaming service announced Wednesday. Its next installment has already been filmed in New Zealand. Series creator, showrunner, and executive producer Jim Mickle previewed the pair's forthcoming journey while speaking with Netflix's Tudum.
NBC Olympics swimming commentator Dan Hicks wound up in some hot water — figurative hot water, that is — for some statements he made Sunday regarding Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú and her husband and coach, Shane Tusup, and is now regretting and further explaining his remarks. As Tusup cheered and beat his chest following Hosszú’s gold medal race in the 400-meter individual medley — during which she smashed the standing world record — Hicks referred to him as “the guy responsible” for her current success.
If it weren’t for Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa’s career never would’ve made it off the ground. In 1976, Rocky was the story of an underdog who, when given the opportunity, gave his everything simply to stand toe-to-toe with the boxing champion. And once he did, his life was never the same. Now, more than 30 years later, the Rocky-Creed story has been given a second life with the creation and success of Ryan Coogler’s Creed, which has Sylvester Stallone feeling nostalgic.
It's a dark, confusing time in the United States of America — which conversely means, in the grand tradition of Marvel comics, that it might be a great time for Captain America stories. The most iconic superhero to wear the American flag as a costume has often proven his worth most at times of real-life crisis for the country he represents. Viewers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe fell in love with Captain America through Chris Evans' portrayal of Steve Rogers, which lasted until Avengers: Endgame when the character passed the star-spangled shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie).
The RuPaul's Drag Race main stage has long been a space for fashion statements, but Symone — a front-running contender for the season 13 crown — took that notion to the next level during Friday's episode with a runway creation that asked audiences to confront a difficult reality via jaw-dropping fashion that was impossible to look away from. After the queens were tasked with impersonating celebrities for the Snatch Game (Symone performed a genius interpretation of Harriet Tubman) and creating looks spotlighting "
“Every album anyone’s ever written is an emo album,” Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara told EW in an interview earlier this summer, “because there’s a lot of emotion that goes into all of that…I don’t like being pigeonholed.” The Long Island-born rocker is well-aware of the limitation ascribed to anyone marked by the three-letter word—it might as well be a nasty, four-letter one—and on Taking Back Sunday’s seventh full-length, Tidal Wave, he intends to destroy expectations.
Tamron Hall's wedding ring unexpectedly divorced her finger, flying off into the studio audience on live TV on Wednesday. As the 53-year-old, Emmy-winning journalist and talk-show host made her way to the stage for the latest Tamron Hall Show broadcast, a brief shot showed the ring slipping off her finger and rolling out of frame across the floor of the set. Hall played it off in the moment, but she addressed the crowd once they finished applauding the show's opening.
While Tamzin Merchant is deep into filming season 2 of Amazon's Carnival Row, she's also about to roll out a new fantasy world that's wholly of her own creation: her debut fantasy novel, The Hatmakers. The young-adult tale, which recently garnered a rave advance review from Kirkus, follows a girl in an alternate 18th-century London who comes from a long line of hatmakers who imbue their headwear with magical attributes. When an ancient rivalry begins to surface and the threat of milliners' magic is used to start a war, it is up to the young girl to find out who's behind it and why.
The upcoming ”Kill Bill — Vol. 2” may not be the last installment in the ”Kill Bill” saga. The way Quentin Tarantino talks about it, his brainchild is practically unkillable, running rife with possible prequels, sequels, and spinoffs. ”Yeah, I?ve been thinking about revisiting the story in a couple of ways,” he told England’s Empire magazine. ”I?ve been thinking about doing it as an anime feature that would tell the entire origin of Bill, the marked-for-death crimelord played by David Carradine in the two films.