“As a country artist, you can really keep your audience for 20 or 30 years,” muses Chely Wright . “That’s how I was with the country music artists that I liked. They didn’t have to still be on the radio for me to buy their records. If they had me at any point, they had me for life.” Related: Readers’ Poll: The 10 Best Country Songs of 2014 So Far That good karma is coming back to Wright as she preps her next album. The singer-songwriter took the increasingly popular step of funding the project through a Kickstarter campaign. Soliciting donations from her loyal fan base not only guarantees contributors a copy of the record once it’s available, but it also means Wright is able to properly promote the album upon its release, effectively becoming her very own record label. It’s a method that allowed Jo Dee Messina, one of Wright’s country contemporaries, to release her own most recent album, Me , earlier this year. For Wright, the 45-day campaign, which ended earlier this … [Read more...] about Chely Wright Fans Break Kickstarter Record in Funding New Album
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‘Your Honor’ Finale: Peter Moffat Explains The Shakespearean Downfall Of Bryan Cranston’s Judge Desiato
SPOILERS AHEAD! Don’t read further if you haven’t watched the finale of the Showtime series Your Honor, which wraps its 10-episode limited series run tonight. What follows is a recap of the final episode of the drama that got Bryan Cranston nominated for a Golden Globe, followed by an interview with British writer Peter Moffat –the BAFTA winning creator of Criminal Justice, which was adapted into the American series The Night Of . Moffat developed and ran Your Honor and here explains how he transplanted some elements of an Israeli TV series but went mostly his own way after borrowing a killer concept. He set the drama in New Orleans and got Cranston to play a righteous judge who turns all kinds of wrong, betraying everyone and everything he held dear, in a desperate effort to cover up his son’s hit and run accident, a decision he made in a hot second after discovering the father of the victim is ruthless mob boss Jimmy Baxter. Related Story 'Your Honor': … [Read more...] about ‘Your Honor’ Finale: Peter Moffat Explains The Shakespearean Downfall Of Bryan Cranston’s Judge Desiato
Trevor Noah And The Daily Show Say Texas Regulators Are Playing The Blame Game
The freak winter storm in Texas is seeing people still waiting for the heat to come back on after three days. And it’s no longer fun, notes Trevor Noah on The Daily Show . “All right, this is awful,” said the show host. “I know people were praying for Texas to go blue, but not like this.” Under freezing conditions that would be too much for Frozen ‘s Elsa, some people have resorted to scotch taping blankets to the windows in an effort to keep heat in the house. Noah was appalled. “That’s how you hide the weed smell from your R.A.” Luckily, some leaders in Texas have stepped up. Save for one mayor, who told his constituents to “stop bitching.” “Damn, that’s one way to be a leader, telling your people to fend for themselves during a disaster,” said Noah. “Why did this guy want to be a mayor if he didn’t want to help people.” It’s like a doctor telling people to take out their own livers, Noah said. The real problem is the blame game, Noah noted. The Texas … [Read more...] about Trevor Noah And The Daily Show Say Texas Regulators Are Playing The Blame Game
Billie Eilish’s New Doc ‘The World’s a Little Blurry’: 8 Things We Learned
In AppleTV’s new documentary Billie Eilish : The World’s a Little Blurry , director R.J. Cutler captures the type of chaotic, thrilling year in the life of a pop star that few filmmakers get to access. The doc follows Eilish from the final weeks of recording her massive debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go to the 2020 Grammys, where she swept the four main categories. Much of the feature flows like home-video footage, with Eilish’s parents and brother-producer Finneas O’Connell taping some of the more intimate moments of her rapid rise to the top of the charts. The World’s a Little Blurry offers a window into the teenage superstar’s private world, even the parts she’s previously kept hidden from the public eye. Related Billie Eilish to Host 'The World's a Little Blurry' Livestream Event Billie Eilish Teases New Album Made in Quarantine on 'Colbert' Related The Best Audiophile Turntables for Your Home Audio System 'Silence of … [Read more...] about Billie Eilish’s New Doc ‘The World’s a Little Blurry’: 8 Things We Learned
Remarkable Docu ‘Dear Mr. Brody’ Hopes For New Cinematic Life Past Cancellation Of Telluride Film Festival World Premiere
EXCLUSIVE: The Telluride Film Festival was expected to start next week on September 3 and play, as usual, all through the Labor Day weekend. Sadly, the coronavirus pandemic curtailed those plans and the festival was forced to cancel this year’s edition . However, Telluride did put out the schedule of films that had been selected, and on September 11 will host a “drive-in” screening at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena of the new Fox Searchlight film, Nomadland starring Frances McDormand directed by Chloe Zhao. And they actively hope that some of the other films on their list find an audience, and in some cases even distribution in order to find that audience. I caught one of those films, the fascinating new documentary Dear Mr. Brody , which was to have had its world premiere at Telluride and was planning to use that showcase to entice buyers. Cinetic is selling it and is just beginning to show it to prospective distributors this week. The hope is one will bite and … [Read more...] about Remarkable Docu ‘Dear Mr. Brody’ Hopes For New Cinematic Life Past Cancellation Of Telluride Film Festival World Premiere