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Marvel Finds Its Ms. Marvel Lead in Newcomer Iman Vellani
Ms. Marvel (Marvel) and Iman Vellani (photo via TIFF) Marvel has found the latest hero to bear its name. Newcomer Iman Vellani has been cast as the title character in the upcoming Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. Vellani is a complete unknown in Hollywood, with her only notable connection being her spot on the Toronto International Film Festival’s Next Wave Committee last year. As Deadline reports, Marvel was determined to find the perfect actress for the role, regardless of their usual A-list casting habits. After a long and thorough process, Vellani nabbed the coveted part. The plan is to have her debut in the Disney+ show before she transitions to the big screen. Ms. Marvel debuted in 2014 as Marvel’s first Muslim hero to headline their own comic series. The character is Kamala Khan, a Pakist...
Kylie Jenner’s Bikini Photos Result in 50,000 New Voter Registrations
Credit where credit is due: a pair of Kylie Jenner bikini photos resulted in nearly 50,000 new voter registrations. On Monday, Jenner posted the photos to her Instagram alongside a call to her 200 million followers to register to vote. “but are you registered to vote?” Jenner wrote in the caption. “click the link in my bio.. let’s make a plan to vote together 🤍🤍” According to Vote.org, Jenner’s posting boosted the site’s traffic by a whooping 1,500% and ultimately resulted in 48,000 people registering to vote ahead of the 2020 presidential election. (For comparison, on a usual day Vote.org registers about 2,900 voters.) If you’re not already registered to vote, you can follow Jenner’s lead and sign up here (it takes just 30 seconds). But whatever you do, don’t waste your vo...
Dolly Parton’s A Holly Dolly Christmas Invites Everyone over for the Holidays: Review
The Lowdown: Christmas means different things to different people. For some, it holds great spiritual significance. For others, it’s one of the few times a year where they are able to reconnect with the ones they love most. And for others still, it’s a much-needed day off work, an excuse to spoil each other with gifts, or even a cue to snuggle up next to someone special. The holidays can mean any number of things, and if Nashville legend Dolly Parton’s new Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas, has one consistent message for her eclectic fan base, the “Cult of Many Colors,” it’s come all ye … well, everyone. In other words: the more the merrier. [embedded content] The Good: In that spirit, Parton throws a Christmas party with a little something for everyone. She opens with a playful tri...
BTS Perform “Black Swan” as Tonight Show Residency Rolls On: Watch
On Wednesday night, BTS continued their world domination weeklong residency on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This time, the beloved Bangtan Boys served as the episode’s lead guest, as they participated in a dance competition and sat down for an interview with Fallon, in addition to performing their song “Black Swan”. Night one of their residency saw the K-pop boyband deliver “Dynamite” in front of the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, while Tuesday’s “Home” performance was built around a cozy sleepover theme. As for Wednesday night’s performance of “Black Swan”, the boys took BTS Army to church as they set danced amid the shrubbery of a dilapidated cathedral. Earlier in the episode, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook faced off against Fallon in a competition c...
Stevie Nicks Says Harry Styles ‘Is Definitely in the Running’ for Mini-Series on ‘Rhiannon’ Folklore
Harry Styles has been dipping his toes in the acting world recently, as he’s set to star in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. But will he also make his way to the big screen to help his mentor Stevie Nicks? In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Nicks shared that she hopes to make a movie about the Celtic deity Rhiannon, ever since a fan sent her four novels on the folklore in a Manila envelope, author Evangeline Walton’s adaptation of the ancient British Mabinogion. Nicks bought the rights to the work, soon decided to make it a television miniseries and wrote 10 unreleased songs specifically for the project. And while she didn’t have a dream cast lined up, Nicks told the publication that Styles “is definitely in the ...
Cardi B Talks Pressure on Female Rappers to Put Out New Music, Says She Won’t Release a Song ‘Just Because’
Ever since Cardi B released “Press” in 2019, she’s been taking her time working to share music she knows her fans will love. That’s why she waited almost a year before dropping “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion. But even someone as openly confident as the “Bodak Yellow” rapper admits that she feels the pressure to crank out hits. She discussed the topic in an interview with SiriusXM on Wednesday (Sept. 30), admitting that “at one time, I felt like I was putting out too much music and I took a little break.” “Throughout this whole time people were making rumors like, ‘Oh she’s having problems with her label,’ ‘Her label is shelving her,’ ‘Her label is tired of her and they’re getting more female talent,'” she continued. &#...
The Gremlin Shockingly Unmasks Himself on ‘The Masked Singer’
The Masked Singer had its very first self-elimination on Wednesday night (Sept. 30) when the Gremlin surprised viewers at home by unmasking himself. Partially due to the understandably unbearable heat in the fuzzy grey costume, the Gremlin is heard in the clip below telling host Nick Cannon, “I want to take this off right now.” He then lifts up his mask to reveal former boxer, actor and screenwriter Mickey Rourke to the surprise of judges Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy. “This is a ‘Masked Singer’ first,” Cannon said. “We didn’t get to vote, the other people didn’t get to come out. Mickey said, ‘Dammit, it’s hot. I’m taking it off.'” When asked why he did The Masked Singer, Rourke replied, “I was in the neig...
Chrissy Teigen Suffers Miscarriage After Recent Hospitalization
Chrissy Teigen shared Wednesday evening that she has suffered a miscarriage following a recent hospitalization. The cookbook author and wife of John Legend shared a solemn black-and-white photo of herself crying in a hospital bed on social media, along with the following message: “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough. “We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital,” she continued. “But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my be...
DIMMU BORGIR’s SILENOZ Is Open To Writing Autobiography
In a new interview with the “Scars And Guitars” podcast, DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Sven Atle Kopperud (a.k.a. Silenoz) was asked if he would ever consider writing his autobiography. He replied (hear audio below): “Absolutely. I’m totally open for that idea. And there’s been a few writers already that have been contacting us. But that’s more, I guess, band-related stuff, not necessarily just me as an artist. But yeah, I’m totally open for anything.” Pressed about whether music author Joel McIver is one of the writers that have approached DIMMU BORGIR about writing a book, Silenoz said: “No. This was a couple of Norwegian guys, actually. Or maybe McIver also did that, like, 10 or 15 years ago, but then I felt that was a bit too soon.” ...
PHIL DEMMEL: DAVE MCCLAIN Was ‘Ready’ To Leave MACHINE HEAD Before I Was
During an appearance on “The Ex-Man” podcast hosted by Doc Coyle (BAD WOLVES), former MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel said that he wants to remember all the positive things that happened during his 15-year stint with the band. “I spent a good year letting out a lot,” he said, reflecting on some of the early interviews he gave after his departure from MACHINE HEAD. “I think that I kept my lips pretty tight, actually. There were some things that needed to be shared, a lot that doesn’t need to be talked about. And I spent a year talking. And then I looked back and said, ‘A year is good enough.’ It’s coming up on two years that I quit now. “There was so much good and there was so much fun and so much learning and so many good exper...
DAVID ELLEFSON On Upcoming MEGADETH Album: ‘The Songs Are Terrific’
MEGADETH‘s David Ellefson recently spoke to SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser and bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. as part the weekly “SepulQuarta” Internet series. You can watch the chat below. Speaking about MEGADETH‘s approach to making the follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” LP, Ellefson said: “We were scheduled to be in working on a new MEGADETH album. We’ve been writing it now for, like, three years — we’ve been taking our time with it. “One of the things Dave [Mustaine, MEGADETH mainman] said, he goes, ‘We just go in. We write. We record it. And then we just put it out, and we’re back on tour.’ And he said, he goes, ‘One of the things I wanna do is just really take the time to sit back and listen to s...
ALICE IN CHAINS To Be Honored With 2020 Museum Of Pop Culture Founders Award
On December 1, ALICE IN CHAINS will be presented with this year’s Museum Of Pop Culture (MoPOP) Founders Award. This one-night-only benefit will feature performances by ALICE IN CHAINS, as well as an acclaimed lineup of guest and youth musicians who will put their own twist on some of the band’s most iconic songs. For the first time ever, this annual event will be moving from MoPOP‘s Sky Church to an online platform where it will be accessible and open for all, giving pop culture lovers across the world an opportunity to connect and become a part of its creative community. While this year’s Founders Award will stream for free and be open to all, like many arts organizations around the country, MoPOP has been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis. As a community supported ...
