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Global News
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Why many music fans are having more ‘remember when' conversations
Episode 15 of Season 6 of The Sopranos features a scene where Tony and Paulie are out for dinner with some friends. After Paulie's endless stories about the old days, Tony becomes irritated and declares that ''remember when' is the lowest form of conversation.' He then gets up and leaves in a low-level huff. It's understandable that some people find certain types of reminiscing annoying. They believe in living in the moment and looking forward to the future, not rehashing the past. Nostalgia was, in fact, a medical condition that described a particular kind of melancholy fused with sentimentality. Things got quite melancholic and nostalgic for me on Friday night when I attended a reunion of dozens of people who worked in Winnipeg radio over the decades. These were mentors, peers and followers from a time when AM radio still played music and FM had time to play 20-minute album tracks. There was even a special session entitled 'War Stories' where it was all 'remember when.' Much time was devoted to those who are no longer with us. Story continues below advertisement It's so easy to get lost in thoughts about 'the good old days' when life was simpler and so many possibilities lay ahead. The older we become, the more we have conversations that include the phrase 'remember when.' Music fans are not immune to this, of course, especially those getting on in years, increasing every time a rock star passes away. In the last 10 days, we lost funk/rock master Sly Stone, Beach Boy Brian Wilson and industrial dance pioneer Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb. 'Remember when Hot Fun in the Summertime blared out of AM radios during the hottest days of the year?' 'Remember when you heard Good Vibrations for the first time and your concept of music changed?' Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'Remember when we all danced to Join in the Chant in dark clubs where everyone was wearing the blackest clothes they could afford?' I confess to saying all those things over the past week. Those conversations dovetailed into other related topics. It's been a 'remember when' kind of time. Rock stars are supposed to be immortal. After all, the things they do seem superhuman, so why should they be subject to the frailties of human existence? How many millions (billions?) of people have lived their entire lives knowing that Brian Wilson walked the earth? It's constantly said that the world has gone downhill since David Bowie and Prince died in 2016. Story continues below advertisement But death, they say, is undefeated. It will come for all of us one day. In the not-too-distant future, there will be no more living Beatles. We'll never get to see a proper version of Fleetwood Mac onstage ever again. Bob Dylan will transition to become an ex-Dylan. Jimmy Page will no longer pick up a guitar. And the Rolling Stones will stop touring, Keith and Mick will shuffle off. It's sobering stuff, this slow-moving mass extinction event. 2:34 Lost Beatles demo discovered by Vancouver record shop owner Music fans will have no choice but to deal with the loss of so many of their heroes. All we'll be left with is our records and CDs, band T-shirts and 'remember when' memories. There will be new 'remember when' opportunities. ABBA's Voyage avatar continues to gross hundreds of millions at its purpose-built theatre in London. Kiss is set to join the singularity with a Las Vegas simulation. Virtual reality tech will continue to improve, too, allowing the estates of artists who have died (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Buddy Holly, Ronnie James Dio, Roy Orbison et al.) to continue with productions featuring holograms fronting a live band. Story continues below advertisement There are other reasons this music will live on far longer than that of previous generations. Normally, an artist's popularity will peak, wane, and be forgotten as they're supplanted by the next generation of artists. Today, streaming is keeping older music alive far beyond its expected best-before date. Unlike their forebearers, today's music fans are extremely ecumenical in their tastes when it comes to era and genre. Is it a good song? Does it make them feel something? Then they'll listen. And then there's this: Over the past decade, companies with names like Primary Wave, Sony Music Entertainment and Concord Music have been buying up the publishing rights to the greatest music ever made. Billions of dollars have been spent acquiring these catalogues, resulting in some incredible payouts (I've been keeping track of them here). With the way copyright works, these companies have up to a hundred years (or longer!) to recoup their investments. How? By making sure these songs never slip from the public's consciousness and continue to generate revenue. Old songs that would have once been pushed aside by something new are now going to be heard for many decades to come. That means the original recordings, covers, samples, interpolations, and more. They will outlive their creators and the fans who remember when they were first released. Here's the brutal truth. If you have an opportunity to see a favourite older artist one more time, do it. You'll participate in a mass 'remember when' experience, plus you'll be able to say you saw them that last time.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Reacher Season 3's Brutal, Final Brawl ‘Might Be TV's Best Fight Sequence Ever,' Says ‘Dutch Giant' — Grade It!
The following contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale, now streaming on Prime Video. Reacher pulled no punches in the Season 3 finale — and neither did his XXL adversary, Paulie. More from TVLine Survivor's [Spoiler] Explains That Risky Pre-Tribal Decision: 'I Trusted the Wrong Person' Why The Conners' Final Season Revolves Around Roseanne's Death The Studio's Seth Rogen Details 'Crazy Energy' of Shooting the High-Stakes 'Oner' Episode - Watch The Prime Video hit's latest run, based on Lee Child's Persuader novel, ended with Reacher (played by Alan Ritchson), Neagley (Maria Sten) and DEA agents Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) and Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) barely surviving an ambush at a junk yard. They then made tracks for the birthday bash at Beck's estate, where Julius McCabe aka Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee) aimed to seal a deal with the latest buyer of his smuggled guns. While Neagley (using Villanueva's white shirt and Beck's tuxedo vest to pose as a cater waiter), Duffy and Villanueva headed inside — to respectively keep an eye on Quinn, rescue kidnapped/drugged CI Teresa, and protect Beck's son Richard — Reacher hung back to deal with Paulie (Olivier 'The Dutch Giant' Richters). What followed, between Reacher and Beck's supersized security guard, was a sprawling, multi-stage fight sequence that in all totaled nearly 10 minutes. It involved lots and lots of flying fists, crotch shots… a shovel and a garden rake, an avalanche of bagged lawn seed, the near-lynching of Reacher… a tumble off a cliff into the raging eddy below, and an underwater brawl… Paulie's seeming drowning, followed by his resurrection and a slow foot chase leading back to the guard house. There, Reacher and Paulie fought for control of the belt-fed machine gun hanging from the ceiling. Paulie wound up getting the drop on his rival, aimed the barrel at Reacher and pulled the trigger — only to have the round blow up in his face, fatally. (Reacher, proving himself the 'smarter' fighter, had deftly pulled a bullet from the belt and plugged the barrel.) Reacher's besting of Paulie was exhausting to watch, so how was it for the actors involved? 'The battle was so great, I had to recover for several months,' Richters shared with TVLine. 'That's how amazing the fight was. It was epic.' The magnitude of the mano a mano melee was not lost on the actors in the moment, especially the instant that filming it wrapped. 'Alan and I hugged at the end — 'We did it, we pulled it off,'' Richters recalled. 'It was the physically hardest thing we both ever did. And it might be the best fight sequence we've ever seen for a television show.' With Paulie dead, Reacher went to the barn to pinch a Persuader shotgun from Quinn's stash, and then joined the others inside the mansion. Susan had found Teresa and neutralized the redhead's would-be rapist/gun runner with a bullet to his frank-and-beans, while Villanueva nearly met his match in one of the gun-running goons. Quinn had riddled Zachary Beck with bullets, taken Richard at gunpoint and was making a run for it when the Russian mobsters to whom he owed money arrived at Beck's doorstep. Interrupting that face-off, Reacher demanded that the Russians leave Quinn for him to deal with. There was push-back, but a quick-thinking Neagley arrived with the duffel of cash that the gun runners brought, and offered it in trade for Quinn — lest she blow it up with a (fake) grenade (she grabbed from Beck's study). The Russians agreed, took the cash and left. Duffy, Villanueva and Neagley then found other things to tend to inside, purposely leaving Reacher to deal with Quinn privately. Still a bit amnesic about his past, Quinn said that he was puzzled by Reacher's vendetta. 'All you need to know it that her name was Dominique Kohl,' Reacher said, naming his onetime 110th colleague whom Quinn had years ago tortured and killed. The instant that Quinn's eyes registered a flicker of recognition, Reacher put a round into his face. In the aftermath the next day, Villanueva went home to his relieved wife (and an awaited retirement)… Duffy gave Reacher the 'I don't do relationships' speech that is his trademark, before planting on the big lug a goodbye kiss… and Reacher nudged Richard to grab any cash that's in the house and embark on the life the lad has wanted to live. Richard did so and drove away, while Reacher grabbed a hog from Beck's barn and rode off into the New England horizon….Best of TVLine Mrs. Maisel Flash-Forward List: All of Season 5's Futuristic Easter Eggs Yellowjackets Recap: The Morning After Yellowjackets Recap: The First Supper
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Reacher Season 3's Brutal, Final Brawl ‘Might Be TV's Best Fight Sequence Ever,' Says ‘Dutch Giant' — Grade It!
The following contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale, now streaming on Prime Video. Reacher pulled no punches in the Season 3 finale — and neither did his XXL adversary, Paulie. More from TVLine Survivor's [Spoiler] Explains That Risky Pre-Tribal Decision: 'I Trusted the Wrong Person' Why The Conners' Final Season Revolves Around Roseanne's Death The Studio's Seth Rogen Details 'Crazy Energy' of Shooting the High-Stakes 'Oner' Episode - Watch The Prime Video hit's latest run, based on Lee Child's Persuader novel, ended with Reacher (played by Alan Ritchson), Neagley (Maria Sten) and DEA agents Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) and Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) barely surviving an ambush at a junk yard. They then made tracks for the birthday bash at Beck's estate, where Julius McCabe aka Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee) aimed to seal a deal with the latest buyer of his smuggled guns. While Neagley (using Villanueva's white shirt and Beck's tuxedo vest to pose as a cater waiter), Duffy and Villanueva headed inside — to respectively keep an eye on Quinn, rescue kidnapped/drugged CI Teresa, and protect Beck's son Richard — Reacher hung back to deal with Paulie (Olivier 'The Dutch Giant' Richters). What followed, between Reacher and Beck's supersized security guard, was a sprawling, multi-stage fight sequence that in all totaled nearly 10 minutes. It involved lots and lots of flying fists, crotch shots… a shovel and a garden rake, an avalanche of bagged lawn seed, the near-lynching of Reacher… a tumble off a cliff into the raging eddy below, and an underwater brawl… Paulie's seeming drowning, followed by his resurrection and a slow foot chase leading back to the guard house. There, Reacher and Paulie fought for control of the belt-fed machine gun hanging from the ceiling. Paulie wound up getting the drop on his rival, aimed the barrel at Reacher and pulled the trigger — only to have the round blow up in his face, fatally. (Reacher, proving himself the 'smarter' fighter, had deftly pulled a bullet from the belt and plugged the barrel.) Reacher's besting of Paulie was exhausting to watch, so how was it for the actors involved? 'The battle was so great, I had to recover for several months,' Richters shared with TVLine. 'That's how amazing the fight was. It was epic.' The magnitude of the mano a mano melee was not lost on the actors in the moment, especially the instant that filming it wrapped. 'Alan and I hugged at the end — 'We did it, we pulled it off,'' Richters recalled. 'It was the physically hardest thing we both ever did. And it might be the best fight sequence we've ever seen for a television show.' With Paulie dead, Reacher went to the barn to pinch a Persuader shotgun from Quinn's stash, and then joined the others inside the mansion. Susan had found Teresa and neutralized the redhead's would-be rapist/gun runner with a bullet to his frank-and-beans, while Villanueva nearly met his match in one of the gun-running goons. Quinn had riddled Zachary Beck with bullets, taken Richard at gunpoint and was making a run for it when the Russian mobsters to whom he owed money arrived at Beck's doorstep. Interrupting that face-off, Reacher demanded that the Russians leave Quinn for him to deal with. There was push-back, but a quick-thinking Neagley arrived with the duffel of cash that the gun runners brought, and offered it in trade for Quinn — lest she blow it up with a (fake) grenade (she grabbed from Beck's study). The Russians agreed, took the cash and left. Duffy, Villanueva and Neagley then found other things to tend to inside, purposely leaving Reacher to deal with Quinn privately. Still a bit amnesic about his past, Quinn said that he was puzzled by Reacher's vendetta. 'All you need to know it that her name was Dominique Kohl,' Reacher said, naming his onetime 110th colleague whom Quinn had years ago tortured and killed. The instant that Quinn's eyes registered a flicker of recognition, Reacher put a round into his face. In the aftermath the next day, Villanueva went home to his relieved wife (and an awaited retirement)… Duffy gave Reacher the 'I don't do relationships' speech that is his trademark, before planting on the big lug a goodbye kiss… and Reacher nudged Richard to grab any cash that's in the house and embark on the life the lad has wanted to live. Richard did so and drove away, while Reacher grabbed a hog from Beck's barn and rode off into the New England horizon….Best of TVLine Mrs. Maisel Flash-Forward List: All of Season 5's Futuristic Easter Eggs Yellowjackets Recap: The Morning After Yellowjackets Recap: The First Supper
Forbes
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
What Time Is Alan Ritchson's ‘Reacher' Season 3 Finale This Week?
Alan Ritchson in "Reacher" Season 3. Reacher Season 3 ends this week with an episode that features Reacher's big showdown with Paulie. Read on to get a preview of the episode and when it begins streaming. Starring Ritchson as Jack Reacher, Reacher Season 3 is based on Lee Child's best-selling novel Persuader, which is the seventh book in the acclaimed author's Jack Reacher series. Reacher is an original series produced by Prime Video. All 16 episodes from Reacher Seasons 1 and 2 are available on the streaming platform, as are Episodes 1-7 of Season 3. The finale of Reacher Season 3, Episode 8, begins streaming Thursday, March 27, at 3 a.m. ET/12 p.m. PT on Prime Video. Prime Video is one of the components of an Amazon Prime membership, which costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year. Prime Video memberships are also available separately for $8.99 per month. Viewers can elect to get ad-free programming on Prime Video for an extra $2.99 per month. Alan Ritchson and Sonya Cassidy in "Reacher" Season 3. Reacher Season 3 begins with Reacher in Boston, where he becomes part of an undercover operation run by Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy). Searching for the whereabouts of a confidential informant who went missing while working for luxury rug importer Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall), Duffy is certain that Beck is running a drug smuggling operation. Reacher is involved in the operation, though, because he's looking for revenge against Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), an ex-military intelligence member who brutally murdered one of Reacher's colleagues while conducting an Army Military Police probe. Quinn, who received a gunshot to the head from Reacher years before, miraculously survived the attempt on his life but suffered retrograde amnesia. Operating under the alias Julius McCabe, Quinn doesn't recall Reacher immediately but once the ex-MP's cover is blown, he's out for blood. Olivier Richters and Alan Ritchson in "Reacher" Season 3. While Reacher wants to get revenge on Xavier Quinn/Julius McCabe, perhaps the most-anticipated showdown in Season 3 is the inevitable fight between the 6-foot 5-inch Reacher and Zachary Beck's hulking 7-foot 2-inch bodyguard Paulie (Olivier Richters). Reacher makes it clear from the first time he meets Paulie in Episode 1 that he does not like the bodyguard and has no problem getting in his new adversary's face at every turn. 'Given the grammar of thrillers, the viewer knows that these two are going to have to fight at some point, and [their first meeting] builds this huge suspenseful thread into it that asks, 'When is this going to happen?' especially because Reacher taunts the guy at the beginning, which is typical of how Reacher uses his humor,' Lee Child said in an Zoom conversation prior to Reacher Season 3. 'He uses it as a weapon.' In a pair of other Zoom conversations with Alan Ritchson and Richters before the beginning of Reacher Season 3, Richters said that he desperately wanted to give details about the showdown between Reacher and Paulie, but for obvious reasons, he kept details under wraps. 'I can't give spoilers, but it might be the best fight ever created for a television show,' Richters said. During the elaborately-staged fight scene (which took three weeks to film, Ritch told The Hollywood Reporter), the two strongmen desperately tried not to connect when throwing their punches. However, as Ritchson found out, things can go awry when the punches are being thrown so fast and furiously. 'I'm not gonna throw him under the bus or anything, but you know, accidents happen,' Ritchson said. 'But yeah, I got hit in the face one time by accident [by Richters]. It was not a lot of fun … He's a strong guy and this kind of action is, you know, a little new to him. But he worked really hard. He spent months training and he laid it all on the line for us … I really appreciate the effort he put in.' Richters was grateful that Ritchson was graceful after the mishap. "The thing is, when you put two titans in one room and they're not trying to hit each other, it will happen instead,' Richters explained. 'We were devastated at the end, physically, but we both recovered. I just spoke to him [about it and said] it was all worth it. Now the whole world is going to see it.' Also excited about the world seeing the showdown between Reacher and Paulie is Maria Sten, who is back as Reacher's closest confidant, Frances Neagley, in Season 3. 'It was so wonderful to see. Once you see them square off together, you're like, 'Wow, he is big,'' Sten said of Ritchson and Richters throwdown in a Zoom conversation. 'This is, of course, what we wanted, for the show to have him come in so that Reacher can finally feel like a little bit like an underdog. The fight between the two of them is so epic.' Reacher Season 3, Episode 8, begins streaming Thursday at 3 a.m. ET/12 p.m. PT on Prime Video.
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Reacher' Season 3's Trio Of Villains Talk Alan Ritchson And More
Reacher Season 3 is well underway, which means a whole new set of villains are taking on Alan Ritchson's Jack Reacher. Based on author Lee Child's seventh Jack Reacher novel Persuader, Reacher Season 3 got underway with a three-episode premiere on Prime Video on Feb. 20. Episode 7 debuts on Thursday. Season 3 of the hit series finds Reacher in Boston. When Reacher spots Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee) — a once-powerful member of military intelligence who brutally murdered Dominique Kohl (Mariah Robinson) when she was under the Reacher's charge in the Army's 110th Military Special Investigations Unit — he seeks revenge. However, he is going to need some help. As such, Reacher teams up with Boston-based Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy), who needs the former MP to infiltrate the rug-importing business of Quinn's associate Zachary Beck (Hall), whom she suspects is running drugs and holding her informant hostage. But Quinn — who goes by alias Julius McCabe — and Beck aren't the only criminals Reacher has to worry about. Beck employs a 7-foot 2-inch bodyguard named Paulie (Richters), whom Reacher immediately butts heads with. For Richters, playing Paulie was a dream come true for the bodybuilder known as 'The Dutch Giant.' 'I've been waiting for a role like this for many years. As much as I liked the roles I did before, like Indiana Jones [and the Dial of Destiny], it all comes back to grunting, throwing punching,' Richters told me in a recent Zoom conversation that was also attended by Tee and Hall. 'I wanted to go to the next level and Paulie was the next level.' A big part of that next level for Richters is the dynamic he has with Ritchson throughout the season. As viewers in the series have learned throughout Season 3, the tension between Reacher and Paulie begins to mount the first time the two meet, creating a path to an inevitable showdown between the two titans. What made the role extra special for Richters was that he was already a big fan of the Reacher series when he got the audition to play Paulie. 'I got the cast halfway through watching Season 2, so it felt like I was living in The Matrix,' Richters enthused. 'As a fan, I was watching the show and six months later, I was [standing] While the forthcoming showdown between Reacher and Paulie promises to be epic ('I can't give spoilers, but it might be the best fight ever created for a television show,' Olivier Richters said), it's not the only tense encounter the former MP-turned-lone wolf investigator is facing this season. Reacher, in fact, is hyper-focused on making Xavier Quinn pay the ultimate price for murdering Dominique Kohl, so fans have plenty of reason to anticipate their face-to-face encounters. Brian Tee was certainly excited. "Reacher is a fan favorite across the world, it's a blockbuster hit show and any actor wants to be a part of something extremely big and amazing,' Tee said. Plus, the actor added, 'Alan's an incredible human being. We've actually worked together prior to this" (Tee played Shredder opposite Ritchson's Raphel in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows). This time around, Tee is playing an antagonist opposite Alan Ritchson, and he couldn't be any more thrilled. 'I just wanted to jump in and have fun playing a villain,' Tee said. 'It's good to be bad. I think you get away with so much more … I've played both villains and protagonists and always like to lean into the villain-type of characters just because there's so much fun to play.' Playing a villain opposite Ritchson was certainly thrilling to Anthony Michael Hall in Reacher Season 3. And while Hall's big break in the business came in the comedy space in such John Hughes classics as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, the showbiz veteran said he never once concentrated on having a career solely in comedy. I've always wanted a [wide-ranging] career, even as a young man. I wanted to always mix it up. The actors that I love find a way to do that, so I like doing that,' Hall said. 'I like going from light to dark and anything in between. To be honest, maybe some people like to create a perception that they chose this and chose that. I think the projects kind of choose you in a way sometimes.' The key for Hall, no matter what space he operates in, is doing good work — something his resume of over 100 screen roles would attest to. 'It's survival of the fittest, an actor's career,' Hall observed. 'There's nothing ever a given or guaranteed, so it cultivates a good work ethic and I'm just grateful that I've had a long run. This is my 49th year in the business I started when I was 8 years old. It's kind of surreal … So wow, I just feel blessed and grateful to God that have had a long career, and that's the gift in itself.' Reacher Season 3, Episode 7 is new on Prime Video on Thursday, which will be followed by the season finale next week.
