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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Pascal Champions Trans Rights With Viral ‘Protect the Dolls' T-shirt at Marvel's ‘Thunderbolts' London Premiere
Pedro Pascal is voicing his support for the transgender community once again. The actor attended the London premiere of Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' on Tuesday, wearing the viral 'Protect the Dolls' T-shirt, which he had previously worn on his 50th birthday celebration on April 6. The T-shirt was created by Conner Ives, who debuted the design while closing out his fall 2025 runway show during London Fashion Week in February. The message written in it, 'Protect the Dolls,' shows support to trans women, who are affectionately referred to as 'dolls' in the LGBTQIA+ community. More from WWD Florence Pugh Embraces Gothic Romanticism in Sheer Elie Saab Gown for 'Thunderbolts*' London Premiere Nicole Scherzinger Brings Shimmering Details and Statement Jewelry to the Red Carpet for the Entertainment Community Fund Gala Sarah Jessica Parker Ushers in Subdued Spring Styling While Out in New York City After his show, Ives made the T-shirt available on pledging to donate all proceeds from the sale to the Trans Lifeline, an organization that delivers life-saving services to trans people in the U.S. 'Given the U.S. Federal government's current hostility towards trans people, support like this is needed now more than ever,' Ives wrote on his website. According to The New York Times, Ives has sold about $252,600 of the T-shirt since its release. He also invested in infrastructure to meet the online demand. The style is out of stock, but shoppers can preorder it at 75 euros (about $99). Other celebrities, including singer Troye Sivan and fashion designer Haider Ackermann, have also worn the 'Protect the Dolls' T-shirt recently. Pascal has long been a supporter of the trans community. His sister, actress Lux Pascal, came out as a transgender woman in 2021. The actor's appearance at the 'Thunderbolts' premiere comes a week after Britain's Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is someone born biologically female. The decision is being highly criticized by trans groups and supporters who believe the ruling would undermine trans rights. View Gallery Launch Gallery: 'Thunderbolts' Red Carpet Premiere: Florence Pugh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Pedro Pascal and More Celebrity Style Moments [PHOTOS] Best of WWD Gigi Hadid Turns 30: Her Style Evolution Through the Years, PHOTOS Every Celebrity Skims Campaign: Donovan Mitchell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Abby Champion and More [PHOTOS] Victoria Beckham's Style Through the Years: From Her Spice Girls Era to Today [PHOTOS]
Otago Daily Times
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Obituary: David Johansen, musician
American singer, songwriter and actor, David Johansen, poses for a portrait circa 1980 at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco, California. Inspired by British glam rock and inspirational to the emergence of punk rock, David Johansen was the face of influential United States band the New York Dolls. A New York native, Johansen gravitated to Andy Warhol's Factory scene. Having cut his teeth in several bands and the theatre industry, Johansen's break came in 1971 when the Dolls then singer Johnny Thunders opted to stick to his bass. Their raucous lifestyle, androgynous look and wild-eyed hard rock earned them a cult following but not commercial success. The band's last show was in December 1976, just before the many bands who had taken their cue from the Dolls look and sound started to make it big. Johansen went solo, with limited success, although his blues/swing alter ego Buster Poindexter did trouble the lower reaches of the charts and one single, a cover of Hot Hot Hot, made the US top 20. The surviving New York Dolls reformed in 2004 for a London festival, touring until 2011. Johansen was also an accomplished actor whose credits included appearances in the films Scrooged and Freejack, as well as TV shows Oz and The Equaliser. David Johansen died on February 28 aged 75. — APL/agencies
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Goo Goo Dolls Fans Lose Their Minds Over 'Incredible' New Release
Fans of the Goo Goo Dolls just got the surprise of their lives when the beloved band released never-before-seen footage from the 1998 music video of one of their biggest hits, and they can't believe the performers have been "hiding" it from them all this time. Alongside a preview posted to X of "a brand new lyric video" posted to YouTube for their fan-favorite track "Iris," the band revealed they dug "deep into the archives" for video that was shot for the original production but never used. Listeners were completely gagged by the 26-year-old glimpse at the musicians, who hit it big in 1995 after their breakthrough single "Name." There was enough footage in their archives to make a full-length video of lead vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik, bassist and vocalist Robby Takac, and former drummer Mike Malinin, with one fan calling out how much they loved that it was done to "the full version and not the radio edit." "Why have you been hiding this?!" one demanded before adding, "I absolutely 💯 love the behind the scenes footage ❤️😊🔥." "Babe John 🥹," another fawned over the then-33-year-old. "Yes! Yes! Yes! 😍," others celebrated. "25 years later and we are still getting fed with UNRELEASED FOOTAGE!" someone on YouTube wrote excitedly, adding, "What a time to be alive." "Incredible quality," someone else praised. "It is really cool to see additional footage. Love it.""Interesting visual changes," another observed, noting the contrast between the original version. "Love this.""Crying over a song from the '90s like it just broke my heart today," someone else admitted, adequately describing the state of mind for Dolls fans everywhere.
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
George Clooney gets Tony Award nomination for Broadway debut
George Clooney has said it is a "thrill" to have received his first Tony Award nomination, for his debut Broadway Hollywood actor, who is starring on stage in Good Night, and Good Luck, was one of a number of stars to receive their first Tony nods on Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, Succession's Sarah Snook and Breaking Bad's Bob Odenkirk were nominated for their roles in Sunset Blvd, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Glengarry Glen Ross Tonys reward excellence in Broadway theatre over the past 12 months. This year's nominations are led overall by the musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending, which have 10 nods each. They are all up for best musical in a crowded field that also includes Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat, which has transferred to New York from Audra McDonald received her 11th Tony nomination, for her role in Gypsy, making her the most nominated performer in history. 'Feel lucky' Clooney is up for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play, for his role in the stage adaptation of 2005 film Good Night, and Good focuses on the conflict between veteran TV journalist Edward R Murrow and US senator Joseph McCarthy. "It's a thrill to have five nominations for this play," Clooney said of the play, which he also co-wrote, according to the Hollywood Reporter."For everyone involved, this has been an incredible experience. I couldn't be more proud or feel more lucky." Snubs and surprises However, Clooney's drama was not listed in the best play category, despite being the highest grossing production on Broadway in recent contenders for that prize include English, The Hills of California, John Proctor Is The Villain, Oh Mary! and one of the most expensive productions on Broadway, Othello, led by Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, was snubbed completely in the play has been drawing in the crowds but also received mixed reviews from musical Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, was also entirely shut out, as was another musical, The Last Five Years, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren. Robert Downey Jr had less luck on his Broadway debut than Clooney, as his one-act stage play McNeal received no + Juliet was recognised for best revival of a play, but its stars Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor missed Gracie Lawrence, from TV show The Sex Lives of College Girls, received her first Tony nomination too for her Broadway musical debut in Just In Tony Awards ceremony will take place on 8 June at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, hosted by Wicked star Cynthia Erivo. See the full list of the 2025 Tony Awards nominees here.
Arab Times
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab Times
David Johansen, singer of the New York Dolls band, dies at 75
NEW YORK, March 2, (AP): David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75. Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor. The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band's style - teased hair, women's clothes and lots of makeup - inspired the glam movement that took up residence in heavy metal a decade later in bands like Faster Pussycat and Mötley Crüe. "When you're an artist, the main thing you want to do is inspire people, so if you succeed in doing that, it's pretty gratifying,' Johansen told The Knoxville News-Sentinel in 2011. Guitarist Steve Stevens, a kid from Queens who went on to work with Billy Idol and Robert Palmer, said the Dolls were never about technique: "It was always about the sound of the subway, the stinking, overflowing garbage cans, the misfits of Times Square. The Dolls did it to perfection. Safe travels David Johansen,' he wrote on X. Rolling Stone once called the Dolls "the mutant children of the hydrogen age' and Vogue called them the "darlings of downtown style, tarted-up toughs in boas and heels.' "The New York Dolls were more than musicians; they were a phenomenon. They drew on old rock 'n' roll, big-city blues, show tunes, the Rolling Stones and girl groups, and that was just for starters,' Bill Bentley wrote in "Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen.' The band never found commercial success and was torn by internal strife and drug addictions, breaking up after two albums by the middle of the decade. In 2004, former Smiths frontman and Dolls admirer Morrissey convinced Johansen and other surviving members to regroup for the Meltdown Festival in England, leading to three more studio albums. In the '80s, Johansen assumed the persona of Buster Poindexter, a pompadour-styled lounge lizard who had a hit with the kitschy party single "Hot, Hot, Hot' in 1987. He also appeared in such movies as "Candy Mountain,' "Let It Ride,' "Married to the Mob' and had a memorable turn as the Ghost of Christmas Past in Bill Murray-led hit "Scrooged.' Johansen was in 2023 the subject of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi's documentary "Personality Crisis: One Night Only,' which mixed footage of his two-night stand at the Café Carlyle in January 2020 with flashbacks through his wildly varied career and intimate interviews. "I used to think about my voice like: 'What's it gonna sound like? What's it going to be when I do this song?' And I'd get myself into a knot about it,' Johansen told The Associated Press in 2023. "At some point in my life, I decided: 'Just sing the (expletive) song. With whatever you got.' To me, I go on stage and whatever mood I'm in, I just claw my way out of it, essentially.' David Roger Johansen was born to a large, working class Catholic family on Staten Island, his father an insurance salesman. He filled notebooks with poems and lyrics as a young man and liked a lot of different music - R&B, Cuban, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding. The Dolls - the final original lineup included guitarists Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane and drummer Jerry Nolan - rubbed shoulders with Lou Reed and Andy Warhol in the Lower East Side of Manhattan the early 1970s. They took their name from a toy hospital in Manhattan and were expected to take over the throne vacated by the Velvet Underground in the early 1970s. But neither of their first two albums - 1973's "New York Dolls,' produced by Todd Rundgren, nor "Too Much Too Soon' a year later produced by Shadow Morton - charted. "They're definitely a band to keep both eyes and ears on,' read the review of their debut album in Rolling Stone, complementary of their "strange combination of high pop-star drag and ruthless street arrogance.' Their songs included "Personality Crisis' ("You got it while it was hot/But now frustration and heartache is what you got'), "Looking for a Kiss' (I need a fix and a kiss') and a "Frankenstein' (Is it a crime/For you to fall in love with Frankenstein?') Their glammed look was meant to embrace fans with a nonjudgmental, noncategorical space. "I just wanted to be very welcoming,' Johansen said in the documentary, "'cause the way this society is, it was set up very strict - straight, gay, vegetarian, whatever... I just kind of wanted to kind of like bring those walls down, have a party kind of thing.' Rolling Stone, reviewing their second album, called them "the best hard-rock band in America right now' and called Johansen a "talented showman, with an amazing ability to bring characters to life as a lyricist.' Decades later, the Dolls' influence would be cherished. Rolling Stone would list their self-titled debut album at No. 301 of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing "it's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.' Blondie's Chris Stein in the Nolan biography "Stranded in the Jungle' wrote that the Dolls were "opening a door for the rest of us to walk through.' Tommy Lee of Motley Crue called them early inspirations. "Johansen is one of those singers, to be a little paradoxical, who is technically better and more versatile than he sounds,' said the Los Angeles Times in 2023. "His voice has always been a bit of a foghorn - higher or lower according to age, habits and the song at hand - but it has a rare emotional urgency. The Dolls, representing rock at it's most debauched, were divisive. In 1973, they won the Creem magazine poll categories as the year's best and worst new group. They were nominated several times for The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but never got in. "Dirty angels with painted faces, the Dolls opened the box usually reserved for Pandora and unleashed the infant furies that would grow to become Punk,' wrote Nina Antonia in the book "Too Much, Too Soon.' "As if this legacy wasn't enough for one band, they also trashed sexual boundaries, savaged glitter and set new standards for rock 'n' roll excess.' By the end of their first run, the Dolls were being managed by legendary promoter Malcolm McLaren, who would later introduce the Sex Pistols to the Dolls' music. Culture critic Greil Marcus in "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century' writes the Dolls played him some of their music and he couldn't believe how bad they were. "The fact that they were so bad suddenly hit me with such force that I began to realize, ''I'm laughing, I'm talking to these guys, I'm looking at them, and I'm laughing with them; and I was suddenly impressed by the fact that I was no longer concerned with whether you could play well,' McLaren said. "The Dolls really impressed upon me that there was something else. There was something wonderful. I thought how brilliant they were to be this bad.' After the first demise of the Dolls, Johansen started his own group, the David Johansen band, before reinventing himself yet again in the 1980s as Buster Poindexter. Inspired by his passion for the blues and arcane American folk music Johansen also formed the group The Harry Smiths, and toured the world performing the songs of Howlin' Wolf with Hubert Sumlin and Levon Helm. He also hosted the weekly radio show "The Mansion of Fun' on Sirius XM and painted.
