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Yahoo
23-07-2025
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Marvin Winans' ‘Forgiveness,' From Justin Bieber's ‘SWAG,' Debuts at No. 1 on Hot Gospel Songs Chart
Marvin Winans, of the legendary Winans family, launches at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs chart (dated July 26) with 'Forgiveness.' The song is the last track on Justin Bieber's new LP, SWAG, which opens at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart, as well as Top R&B Albums, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200. (Of the set's 21 cuts, the other 20 are by Bieber, eight with co-billed guests.) SWAG starts with 163,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States July 11-17, according to Luminate. 'Forgiveness' (at a tidy 1:30 in run time) drew 3.8 million official U.S. streams in that span and concurrently tops Gospel Streaming Songs. More from Billboard Justin Bieber's New Album Is First of More to Come: Everything We Know Ciara Talks 'CiCi' Album & Why She Shouldn't Make Music With Russell Wilson ('Dad Is Crazy!') in Chat With 8-Year-Old Daughter Bad Bunny Gets Adam Sandler's Stamp of Approval as 'Funnier Than Me' in 'Late Night' Chat About 'Happy Gilmore 2' 'Forgiveness' was written as a worship song by Rick Founds. It was initially titled 'Let My People Go' and is from the Winans' LP by that name, which led Top Gospel Albums for a week in 1986. They've since added three more leaders on the chart, through 1999. 'Forgiveness' becomes Winans' second No. 1 on Hot Gospel Songs (which began in 2005), and his first as a lead act. He topped the list the first time as featured on Andrae Crouch's 'Amen,' for four frames starting in April 2012. As 'Forgiveness' enters Hot Christian Songs at No. 3, it becomes the Detroit native's first top 10, in his initial appearance on the chart. Winans is one of the founding members of the Winans, along with his brothers Carvin, Michael and Ronald. The group released its first album, Introducing the Winans, in 1981. The siblings are among 10 born to Delores and David, also known as 'Mom' and 'Pop' Winans. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100 Solve the daily Crossword
Time of India
14-06-2025
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- Time of India
Justin and Hailey: Justin Bieber sparks speculation as he posts about 'Forgiveness' while Hailey marriage rumors swirl online
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21-05-2025
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‘Eleanor The Great' Review: June Squibb Is Quietly Powerful And Touching As A 94-Year-Old Woman Caught Up In A Lie In Scarlett Johansson's Impressive Directorial Debut
Don't let the title fool you. Eleanor the Great is not some royal costume epic set in 1566. Instead Scarlett Johansson's wonderful and richly textured feature directorial debut is a small but beautifully realized story of a 94-year-old woman named Eleanor Morgenstern who, at the point in life where most have just given up, instead packs her bags and moves from Florida to New York City to be closer to her daughter and grandkids. RELATED: More from Deadline Scarlett Johansson On Why The Script For Her Directorial Debut 'Eleanor The Great' Made Her Cry: 'It's About Forgiveness' – Cannes Cover Story Scarlett Johansson's Directorial Debut 'Eleanor The Great': Watch Exclusive First-Look Clip Sebastián Lelio Talks Musical Film 'The Wave' About Chile's 2019 Feminist May Protests: "It Was An Iconic Moment" She is played by 95-year-old June Squibb, who has done the impossible: start a whole new career in her mid-90s as a leading motion picture star. After last season's hit Thelma, in which she showed her action chops in the title role, now she finds a very different kind of title role as a woman who is determined to be on her own but caught up in a little white lie that careens out of control. The Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures release had its world premiere today in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Grieving after the sudden death of her roommate, Bessie (a riveting Rita Zohar), with whom she lived for 11 years, she now feels so alone in the big city despite a daughter (Jessica Hecht) looking to put her in a home. She is too independent for that and one day, looking for people to talk to, she accidentally stumbles into a Jewish Holocaust survivors group. Bessie was one of those survivors, and Eleanor had heard her devastating story of the camps and Nazis many times. Eleanor did not grow up in the Jewish religion but did convert when she married her husband, but when invited in to sit with the others, she doesn't resist the opportunity to tell Bessie's story. Only one small problem: She makes it her own, and here is where a lie can roll down the hill with no one to stop it. RELATED: As it turns out, there is also a young student, Nina (Erin Kellyman) who is doing an article on this group for her college class and approaches Eleanor to be the highlighted survivor after hearing her (actually Bessie's) life experience. At first reluctant, the lonely Eleanor thinks perhaps Nina could be a friend, so she agrees to interview sessions. Taking this all one step further is the fact that Nina's father, Roger (Chiwetel Ejiofor), happens to be a top local news anchor. After seeing his daughter's article on Eleanor, he decides to make it a featured report on the news, giving the lie even wider exposure. From this point on, it gets even more complicated. Johansson, working with Tory Kamen's screenplay, keeps this all very delicate and a reminder of those wonderful contained New York City-set movies about the human condition, and with the expertise of her cinematographer Helene Louvart, she really captures the city. The most recent example I can think of a NYC tale like this one was Melissa McCarthy starring in Can You Ever Forgive Me? which was about a writer who started falsifying letters from famous people. That one got a few Oscar nominations, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear a lot about Eleanor the Great during awards season, especially when it comes to Squibb, whose moving performance is simply exquisite; there is no other word for it. She completely inhabits this character, and you really feel for her because all she is really doing is keeping the memory of Bessie alive, her grief over her loss so deep. It just gets out of hand. RELATED: Zohar as Rita has a couple of scenes near the beginning but gets a stunning monologue telling her own story to Eleanor in a flashback later on. As Nina, British actress Kellyman sparkles in the role of an eager young journalist who befriends who she believes is a Holocaust survivor. Ejiofor plays her dad with reserved power, never letting his own pent-up and unresolved grief over the loss of his wife and her mother surface. In some ways he and Eleanor are both in denial and each processing their grief in ways that will have consequences. Props to casting directors Ellen Lewis and Kate Sprance for their work here including, at Johansson's urging, the request to have actual Holocaust survivors cast as the members of the group Eleanor joins. Using Shoah Foundation recommendations, they did just that, and it gives this lovely movie even more of a sense of authenticity. There won't be a dry eye in the house for this one. Producers are Jessamine Burgum, Kara Durrett,Trudie Styler, Celine Rattray, Johansson, Jonathan Lia, Keenan Flynn RELATED: Full List Of Cannes Palme d'Or Winners Through The Years: Photo Gallery Title: Eleanor the GreatFestival: Cannes (Un Certain Regard)Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics (in association with TriStar Pictures)Director: Scarlett JohanssonScreenwriter: Tory KamenCast: June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rita Zohar, Erin Kellyman, Jessica HechtRunning time: 1 hr 38 min Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
