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Graziadaily
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
Meet Alex Warren's Influencer Wife Who Took A Huge Risk Six Months After Meeting Him Via Snapchat
The world of social media has created a whole new class of celebrity, which includes singer, YouTuber and influencer Alex Warren and his wife Kouvr Annon. After meeting through Snapchat in 2018, they both joined the Hype House – a collective of young TikTok personalities based in California – a year later. Fast forward to now and they are happily married with Alex dedicating his recent song 'Ordinary' to his wife. If you want to know more about Kouvr and their relationship then you've come to the right place. Kouvr is a social media influencer who found fame on TikTok. She is known for creating content with her husband Alex. With more than 2.5 million followers on Instagram and 16 million followers on TikTok, she has built up a loyal fanbase with her modelling, travel and promotional content. Kouvr is 25 years old. She was born on 31 May 2000. Alex Warren and his wife Kouvr Annon at the 51st American Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP) They met via Snapchat after Alex messaged Kouvr's friend to say she was cute. 'I felt I could tell her everything,' Alex said of their relationship in March, 'just after our first conversation.' When they met Alex was still living out of his car. His father died of cancer when he was nine years old and his mother allegedly suffered with an alcohol addiction and kicked him out of the house. Four months after they started talking, Kouvr moved to California from Hawaii to join Alex and they both lived in his car. 'There was no one else I would've wanted to go through that with,' he wrote on Instagram. Like many influencers, Alex and Kouvr have evidently been through some difficult times and have shared their experiences with millions of followers. They moved into the Hype House just before the pandemic took hold and both featured in Netflix's 2022 series, Hype House. That year the couple decided to 'move on to the next chapter' in their lives and leave the house share. Alex and Kouvr have been together since 2018. They got engaged on New Year's Eve in 2022. 'After running around for hours and almost losing the ring on a gondola, I found the perfect place to ask her to marry me,' Alex told People. 'I remember how terrified I was even though I knew she was going to say yes because I wanted it to be perfect for her.' The duo married in June 2024 in California. Kouvr said marriage signifies her 'commitment and response of protecting someone'. She added, 'I couldn't image what my life would be without him, and I'm so happy that I don't have to.' Not yet, but they have both been vocal about their desires to start a family. 'I know that Alex is going to be the best father that there ever could be in the world but I can't wait to be a mom,' she said. Yes, Alex's 2025 single 'Ordinary' is about his experience of falling in love with Kouvr. Of course, she is an influencer. She is @k0uvr on TikTok and @kouvr on Instagram. Nikki Peach is a writer at Grazia UK, working across entertainment, TV and news. She has also written for the i, i-D and the New Statesman Media Group and covers all things pop culture for Grazia (treating high and lowbrow with equal respect).
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alex Warren's Debut Album Is the Sound of a Chart-Topping Artist Finding His Way
Is it too early for 2010s nostalgia? Singer-songwriter Alex Warren doesn't seem to think so — and neither do the streaming listeners and radio programmers who have made his sweeping love song 'Ordinary' an unlikely pick for 2025's song of the summer. The ballad has had a stubborn grip on the Hot 100's top spot for six of the past seven weeks — it briefly ceded Number One to Sabrina Carpenter's twangy, fizzy 'Manchild' in June — thanks in part to its an amalgam of Imagine Dragons' brute-force rock and The Lumineers' 'hey'-along folk-pop, with a frisson of Hozier's religious imagery adding to the tension. Warren's song might be a surprising hot-weather hit, but he's been preparing himself for stardom since he was a teen posting skateboarding videos online. Becoming a social media sensation was partly a survival tactic; his father passed died of kidney cancer when he was nine, and his relationship with his mother deteriorated in the ensuing years to the point where she kicked him out of the house when he turned 18. Shortly after that, the Southern California native helped found the Hype House, a Los Angeles where upper-echelon TikTokers lived and created together. More from Rolling Stone Alex Warren's Not-So-Ordinary Rise to the Top Why Does Everything Sound Like an Audition Song for 'The Voice'? WNBA All-Star Players Wear 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' T-Shirts During Warm-Up In 2021, Warren began releasing music, and his debut single, 'One More I Love You,' laid out what would become his musical aesthetic pretty clearly: It's a tense folk-pop ballad with a big chorus and lyrics that glance at his troubled past ('Mom's knees deep in alcohol/But I'm drowning,' he sings on the pre-chorus) led by his voice, a sturdy burr that's accented by a judicious use of vibrato. 'Releasing art that relates to people who share that struggle with anxiety and mental health issues, a struggle that can feel lonely and confusing, feels really powerful and beautiful to me,' he told Rolling Stone in 2022. You'll Be Alright, Kid, Warren's debut, is a 21-track double album, although he's not making an audacious of a statement as that description makes it seem — last fall he released the 10-track EP You'll Be Alright, Kid, and it makes up this record's second half. Just by looking at the first disc's track listing, one can see how Warren's star has risen in the past 10 months; it includes cameos from catharsis crooner Jelly Roll and shape-shifting BLACKPINK member ROSÉ, in addition to the blockbuster single that's placed smack in its middle. Warren is an appealing personality, but it doesn't always translate on You'll Be Alright, Kid, which too often feels mired in the self-seriousness of hoary post-grunge and stomp-and-holler folk-pop. Choruses like the refrain of the ROSÉ collab 'On My Mind' don't arrive as much as they explode; backing singers overpower every emotional moment on tracks like 'First Time on Earth' — which is a biblically inspired note of forgiveness to his parents, a sentiment that's more than able to stand on its own without the musical equivalent of neon signs alerting listeners to its importance. When he switches things up a bit, the record comes up for air. On the punchy 'Getaway Car,' Warren possesses enough swagger to make his curled upper lip audible; 'Everything' is a swirling piano-led cut that doesn't overpower its heightened lyrics ('You might as well/Take the breath from my lungs/The stars from the sky') with theatrics; the first-dance candidate 'Heaven Without You' shows how his tenderness can shine when not surrounded by cavernous drums and campfire singers. Too often, though, the material he's working with sounds reheated, reminding one of the days when the first iteration of American Idol was dominated by guitar-toting troubadours like Philip Phillips and when Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men ruled the alt-rock charts. Warren is still young — he turns 25 in September — and he still has time to chart his own artistic course in ways that show off his charm and musical curiosity while not discounting the trials he's endured en route to pop's highest heights. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Irish Times
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
You'll Be Alright, Kid by Alex Warren: expressive, exhaustive, angsty man-croon
You'll Be Alright, Kid Artist : Alex Warren Label : Atlantic Alex Warren feels like the culmination of several trends in music. The 24-year-old Californian – best known for his blockbusting power ballad Ordinary – sings in a husky, over-emoted folk-pop style de rigueur among male singers who wish to communicate authenticity while also moving units by the freight-load – think Noah Kahan or Rag'n'Bone Man . These artists have conjured a specific modus of plaid-shirt corporate pop – the backwoods as the main stage, the campfire as the spotlight, sincerity as commodity. Yet for all these commercial trappings Warren's life has been marked with real tragedy. His father died of cancer when Warren was nine, while his mother was an abusive alcoholic who threw her son out of the house when he was 18 before she passed away four years ago. That's a lot of heartache, and he channels it effectively across a sprawling double album marked by a pain that glimmers through the playlist-friendly production. The other component of Warren's success is that he gained internet fame before achieving significant musical success. By the time his mother showed him the door, he had already built an online following courtesy of prank videos with titles such as 'Well that was embarrassing', which saw him amass two million YouTube subscribers. It also primed him for a new level of celebrity when TikTok came along. He duly achieved it when co-founding content creators' collective, Hype-House (with other members including soon-to-be-huge Addison Rae) – which, in turn, spawned a Netflix spin-off. A background like that suggests an artist hungry for overnight fame and willing to do anything to get in. But You'll Be Alright, Kid defies his billing as a TikTok urchin who has blagged his way into a music career. Heavy with angst, burnished with melodrama and propelled by a Hozier/Noah Kahan/Rag'n'Bone man-croon, it's expressive and exhaustive – a blizzard of woe that now and then cuts through the sheen and communicates genuine spiritual turmoil. READ MORE If there's a weakness, it's that the songs often feel like a singular idea revisited from different angles. Warren's vocals stay in the same register, and the tracks all take a more-or-less identical trajectory, where the angst builds and builds and then a dam bursts. In terms of lyrics, he wears his heart on his cuffs, with a storyteller's flair for melodrama and a hint of religious fervour (he is a practising Catholic, and his fan base is fixated by the degree to which his faith informs his writing). The Outside tells the tale of a young person seeking fame only to discover that it is a fruitless chase that leaves you hollowed out inside. 'She moved away when she turned eighteen/In search of home, didn't know what that means,' he sings. 'She thought she'd find it somewhere on the big screen ... Hollywood wasn't all that she thought.' His talent for big moments is showcased throughout the 21-track LP. Typical of that strategy is On My Mind, a Coldplay-esque ballad with backing vocals from Blackpink's Rosé (fresh from her internet slaying get-together with Bruno Mars, APT). [ New Irish albums reviewed: Sons of Southern Ulster, Poor Creature, Darragh Morgan, The Swell Season and California Irish Opens in new window ] There are occasional tweaks to the formula. Bloodline – a collaboration with country rapper Jelly Roll – has the stomping energy of a 16-wheeler with an overheated carburetor. Elsewhere, Troubled Waters lands like a barn dance restaged for the Grammys, while Chasing Shadows is sprinkled with minimal guitar. Warren's mentors have included Ed Sheeran , who has guested with him on live performances of the inescapable Ordinary. However, if he lacks something, it is Sheeran's everyman pop chops. You'll Be Alright, Kid is an agreeably portentous album. But it cries out for a lightness of touch – a sprinkling of pop stardust amid the bombast. It marks Warren as quite the paradox. Behold, the TikTok star who needs to learn how to play to the gallery.
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alex Warren Has Written the Perfect Song to Sing With Billie Eilish, But He's Sure She'll ‘Never Do It'
Alex Warren is having an amazing year that deserves to be celebrated. But in a chat for Billboard with Wine About It podcaster QTCinderella, the 24-year-old singer said he hasn't really had time to process his rocket ride to fame, including his breakthrough song 'Ordinary' reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to nine weeks atop the Billboard Global 200 and seven at the peak of the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. 'I didn't do anything, actually,' Warren admits about the lack of a party to mark his achievements in the video chat you can see in full above, during which he reveals he's already written a song for his ultimate dream collaborator. 'It didn't feel real, that's the thing,' he adds, making fun of the viral 'industry plant' rumors that have dogged the former Hype House member who began his career as a skateboarding YouTuber at age 10. More from Billboard Alex Warren's 'Ordinary' Continues No. 1 Run on Billboard Global Charts Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' Leads Apple Music's 500 Most-Streamed Songs of the Decade List Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan Cover Blink-182's 'All The Small Things' at Festival d'été de Québec The pair met up at an In-N-Out Burger for a meat-and-potatoes breakfast and a chat, where QT 'bullied' the singer about his fussy order of 'burger well-done, bun extra toasted, add chopped chilis, no cheese, no tomato, add whole grilled onion, animal style, with sauce.' Warren also describes his pre-fame days of filling up water cups with soda at the beloved burger franchise when he briefly lived in his car before his pop blow-up. In addition to touching on how Warren met his wife — fellow former Hype House member Kouvr Annon — when he was 18, QT notes that Warren wrote 'Ordinary' about the couple's admittedly 'out of the ordinary' relationship. 'The problem is, when I write songs my wife hears them through the walls and the choir on all my records is just me and my friends, so for an hour and a half it's just me and my friends making noises,' Warren explains about his wife's patience with his unusual recording process. 'By the end of it she's heard the song in every variation, every voice crack, me learning the song, the stupid verses we have and then we fix them, so by the end she's like, 'wow, honey super nice!,'' he says, noting that with 'Ordinary' Annon was 'super into it.' The singer, who talks about the pain of losing both his parents, says he feels like his struggles have made it so he can write music 'for everyone. I've been on both sides. I've now been able to find some success and do really well for myself and my wife and I've also been able to not have any money and not know who I was going to feed my wife,' he says. 'When you write a song you want it to apply to as many people as possible.' His mouth full of a giant bite of his bespoke burger, Warren excitedly talks about the upcoming (July 18) release of his debut full-length studio album, You'll Be Alright, Kid, which he confirms is a continuation of his 2024 EP, You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1). 'The first one did so well I really don't want to go downhill,' he explains. 'Really just sticking on to it. It's like when there's a sequel and there's four versions of it and they don't know when to stop.' He says the EP was all the songs he'd written up to this point, while the 21-track album is about 'trying out different sounds' and, if he's being honest, is the equivalent of the answer to what he would say to his younger self if he could talk to him now. 'It sounds like I'm gonna cry when I listen to it,' QT says. 'Only a few times,' Warren assures her. Asked to manifest a bucket list collab that would make his 'life complete,' Warren says without hesitation that it is Billie Eilish. 'She's never going to do it,' he says. 'I wrote this song I think she'd sound perfect on, but it's just something that I don't think will ever happen.' The interview also touches on Warren's upbeat track with his neighbor Jelly Roll on 'Bloodline,' his album's duet with BLACKPINK's ROSÉ on 'On My Mind' and jamming with his all-time idol Ed Sheeran at this year's Coachella, where they played Warren's 'Ordinary' at Ed's 'Old Phone Pub' pop-up. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alex Warren has a chart-topping hit with 'Ordinary.' So why is he his own 'No. 1 hater'?
Of all the pop hits vying to become the song of the summer, Alex Warren's 'Ordinary' might be the most improbable: A stark and brooding ballad full of lurid Christian imagery — 'Shatter me with your touch / Oh Lord, return me to dust,' goes one line — it's about a guy seeking the kind of sexual-spiritual fulfillment not typically found on the beach or at a barbecue. Yet the song, which has more than 720 million streams on Spotify, just logged its sixth week since early June atop Billboard's Hot 100 — more than a month longer at No. 1 than Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild,' to name one of the sunnier tunes soundtracking the season. (Among Warren's other competitors: Drake, who posted an image of the current chart on Instagram on Monday showing his song 'What Did I Miss?' at No. 2 behind Warren's hit. 'I'm taking that soon don't worry,' the rapper wrote.) 'Ordinary's' somber tone is all the more striking given that Warren — whose father died when he was 9 and who grew up in Carlsbad with a single mother he's described as an abusive alcoholic — first made a name for himself as a founding member of Hype House, the early-2020s conclave of TikTokers known for beaming out goofy bite-size content from a rented mansion in Los Angeles. Half a decade later, Warren is still a faithful user of his TikTok account (with its 18.8 million followers), though these days he's mostly driving attention — often with the help of his wife, fellow influencer Kouvr Annon — to his music, which combines the moody theatrics of early Sam Smith with the highly buffed textures of Imagine Dragons. On Friday, Warren will release his debut LP, 'You'll Be Alright, Kid,' featuring guest appearances by Blackpink's Rosé and by Jelly Roll, who brought Warren to the stage at April's Stagecoach festival to sing 'Ordinary' and to premiere their duet 'Bloodline.' Warren, 24, discussed his journey during a recent trip to L.A. from his new home in Nashville, where he lives not far from Jelly Roll and Teddy Swims. 'I was just texting Teddy,' Warren says as we sit down. 'I got off tour and immediately was like, 'Oh, I want to buy a go-kart.' Teddy FaceTimes me, he goes, 'You a—hole. I'm trying to buy a go-kart right now too.' Apparently, I bought the last go-kart in Tennessee.' These are excerpts from our conversation. 'Ordinary' is clearly drawing on your identity as a Christian. Yet there's something almost sacrilegious about the song. I get that criticism a lot. To me it's what makes the song interesting — the erotic energy in a line like 'You got me kissing the ground of your sanctuary.' I'm worshiping my wife in a way — she's the best thing that's ever happened to me. You can't just write a song like that and be like, 'Oh, baby, you're my everything.' Everyone's already done 'You're my world,' you know? I wanted to do something different — almost Hozier-esque. I wrote into it being like, I really love my wife, and I have a relationship with God — that's something I can compare it to. As the song has gone out, I've heard a lot of Christians' opinions on it, and some people are like, 'F— this guy.' There's also so many people who think it's a super die-hard Christian song and don't like it either. I have to be OK with both sides hating me. You've led a peculiar life, which obviously lends context to your music for anyone who knows the details. Yet 'Ordinary' is big enough now that many listeners — maybe most listeners — are hearing it without knowing anything about new song I've been teasing ['Eternity'] is about grief, and people are like, 'I can't wait to play it at my wedding.' It's cool that people are making it their own. It reminds me of Lewis Capaldi's 'Someone You Loved,' where people were like, 'Oh my God, this is a breakup record.' No, he wrote it about his grandma. Are you a Capaldi fan?I love Lewis. I don't look like a Justin Bieber/Shawn Mendes traditional pop star, but it's cool because Lewis kind of made it popular to not give a f—. Lewis and Ed [Sheeran], I would say — I mean, I've seen Ed's closet, and it's just nine white Prada T-shirts. Read more: Justin Bieber is a chill, God-fearing bro on the messy yet beautiful 'Swag' You have an unusual you — I think? It's deeper than most pop voices right now. Does it seem unusual to you?No. I asked my wife, 'Do I have a basic voice?' She was like, 'What are you talking about?' I was like, 'I live with this voice, and I think it just sounds like every other bitch.' But I'm my No. 1 hater. I went back and looked at the series Netflix made about Hype House.I'm so sorry. There's some significant fluctuations in your weight, and I was wondering how working in a visual field from a pretty young age shaped your ideas about eating and I started making money, I didn't know what to do with it and I just used DoorDash every second I could. As time went on, especially in Hype House, you have so many people's opinions and everyone's pointing out your flaws, and the weight was definitely one of them. After that I was like, "OK, how do I fix this?" I'm 24 now — I was 22, 21 at the time, and I was like, "I should be in the best shape of my life." But it definitely does take a toll on you. Even now, if you go look at my TikTok comments, thousands of people are loving me. You go on Twitter, the first 400 comments are like, 'He's so ugly,' 'His nose is crooked,' all these things. It hits a point where you have a thousand people loving you, but those two people not — you're like, "Wait, are they the ones telling me the truth? Is everyone else just gassing me up?" Kind of such a strange career. I have the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, and I'm like, "Should I be eating this the next few days?" Would you say you're in a good place in terms of how you think about your physical appearance?Looking in the mirror, probably not. But when it comes to having to approve a photo, I don't give a s—. I'll approve whatever, double chin and all. Is that true?Truly, I don't mind, because I don't think people are watching my videos for my attractiveness. That being said, if I was lighter, I think I'd be happier looking at myself. But at the same time, I don't care because these songs to me are more about what they're about and less about how I look. Also, it gives me some leeway if someone catches me lacking at In-N-Out. You've said you don't really drink or do drugs but that you get drunk once a year. What would be the occasion?I just got drunk with Ed Sheeran — I drank two Modelos and I got put on my ass. This was at Santa's Pub [in Nashville] — me, Noah Kahan and Ed Sheeran. They had just played something, and Ed was like, 'Do you want a drink?' I was like, "If I'm getting drunk this year, it's getting drunk with Ed Sheeran." So he gave me a Modelo, and I was like, 'Whoa, I'm feeling this.' He's like, 'OK, dude, I'm on my 11th.' He hands me a second one, and my wife had to drive me home. So I've been getting a little loose with it. But it's always beer — I don't really drink any hard stuff. Nothing against it, I've just always preferred Diet Coke. I wish I liked alcohol. I mean, you can cultivate this. It's easy to do.I've been trying. I had a sip of my friend's old fashioned. I thought it was interesting — sugary, but I liked it. Your song 'The Outside' on this new record talks about the illusory nature of happiness and success.I went into it wanting to write about the things that people go through to turn to God or another power or something to get out of their own heads. I wanted to depict people finding a sense of purpose. 'Hollywood wasn't all that she thought / City of Angels but her wings got caught / She got high enough to think she met God.'You move to L.A. to pursue a dream and you see God after doing a hallucinogenic — that's referencing a friend of mine who's now a Christian buff who did ayahuasca. The other [verse] is about health care — watching my friends who don't have it because it's so expensive. ''It's just stress,' so the doctor says / His young heart's beating out of his chest / Student loans and medical debt.'The Luigi Mangione case happened around the time we wrote that record. Luigi was in your head as you were writing?That second verse is literally about Luigi Mangione. Not to get political, but the things that I feel are necessary in life — you have to pay for it, and it causes people to turn to something like God. The song ends with me being like, 'I talk to my dad in the sky, hoping he talks to me back.' That song means a lot to me. Read more: Why Parker McCollum's new country album might be the best he'll ever make Your music is extremely tidy, which stands in contrast to the singer-songwriter mode of the Zach Bryans —And the Noah Kahans, where they're flat in some parts and it doesn't matter because the emotion's there. Why is your instinct as a musician to go for something neater?Because I don't have the luxury of being able to make what some people view as mistakes. Coming from TikTok to music, I feel like it needs to be neat — it needs to be, 'Oh my God, this guy can do this.' The next album I'm working on, it's more rugged. I'm finding different parts of my voice. I've been listening to a lot of older music too, which has been really good. Such as?Hall & Oates — dude, 'Rich Girl'? Billy Joel too. Is there still a Hype House group chat?I have a group chat with not all of them but the ones that — I'm not gonna name-drop them, but the ones getting popular with music. It was formative years in my life — my college experience, I guess. We're able to look back on it and have a moment of, like, 'That sucked, but it was also awesome.' Would people in the house have called that you and Addison Rae would be the ones to break out as musicians?No, I don't think so — especially not me. Maybe Addison — Addison has always been cool. Everyone loved Addison, even in the house, and she's always been so kind. Even to this day, she's a good friend of mine. But no one would have guessed me. I don't think anyone liked me. In the house?Just in general. The Netflix show — a lot of it was fake, but looking at that, I feel like I'm such a better person now. Are you glad that 'Ordinary' happened after the influencer moment in your life — that there's a bit of separation?I started this in 2020, 2021 — I put out my first song then, and I was still an influencer, vlogging, doing all those things. Everyone's like, 'He came out of nowhere,' and I'm like, I've been doing this for five years. But nobody cared until well after your time as an influencer — which might be a good thing, right? I'm not sure the overlap served Lil Huddy. In a weird way, you might've gotten lucky.I think about that often. I made videos with my wife — I never really made videos with the content house — and those videos were successful in their own right. I think a lot of my fans today were watching me at that time, but not for the Hype House. Actually, no, that's not true. It's hard to generalize about the audience for a song this I do is put my head down and promote the records. I'm not paying attention to the scope of things. Of course you're checking the numbers.I'm not understanding the scope besides the numbers. My monthly listeners [on Spotify], someone told me it was 50-something million — that's sick. But I can't contextualize that. If I'm walking down the street, how many people have heard the song and how many people know who I am? I know the song is big, but I'm under the assumption that the record's bigger than I am. That seems so what does that mean? I can compare it to a Lola Young, or is it a Benson Boone? I think that's two separate things right now. Also, I don't know the age demographic. If I walk into a bingo night, are they gonna know who I am? A bingo night?You know what I'm saying. The song is No. 1 on Hot AC — that's adult contemporary. Is it someone's mom? I don't know who's listening to the record. But I write songs about people passing away, and most people — no matter rich, poor, whatever — it's typically gonna be your 40-and-up who are gonna relate to that record. Kids don't necessarily deal with loss the same way. Is it weird to think that a significant portion of your audience is people twice your age?No, that's f—ing rad to me — the older audience is the hardest to grab. I think it's safe to say that most people judge notoriety on whether their mom knows who they are, right? If that's where I start, that's cool. Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Solve the daily Crossword
