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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Daredevil group debuts for the summer at Holiday World
SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (WEHT) — Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Holiday World is welcoming a summer-long attraction to the park. The Nerveless Nocks will be putting on the stunts, and it's promising a Las Vegas-caliber show. Soaring through the sky, jumping rope four stories in the air, bending in all different fashions, defying gravity: this is just a sneak peek into what Holiday World unveils at the park. Replacing the park's dive show and a group coined by Queen Elizabeth, The Nerveless Nocks is spending the entire summer at what's considered America's first theme park. 'It's so beautiful here, and I guess that's why people come here. It's like a hidden jewel in the forest, and we just love it. Looking forward to a great summer,' The Nerveless Nocks President Michelangelo Nock says. The seventh generation owner says his group predates all of us, establishing in 1840 in Switzerland and traveling the world before eventually sharing the same stage with The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Meanwhile in Santa Claus, the Holiday World staff say they were looking to improve their guest experience and believed it was time for a change. Beginning last fall, the park started talking with The Nerveless Nocks about bringing its show to Holiday World and some park guests attending the first show Friday morning tell me it's a worthwhile decision. Parkgoers couldn't help but look in awe — or look aware in anxiousness — and capture the act on their smart phones. The daredevils hailing from Florida, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Mexico even grabbed the attention of others waiting in lime for a nearby ride. For thirty minutes at a time, they go into the spinning wheel 40 feet off the ground, inside the sphere of fear with motorcycles and put on a jet pack and soar 30 feet in the air. 'It was wonderful. And the jet ski. That was my favorite. The jet ski — the jetpack was awesome,' says Jessica Hare visiting the park from Henderson. 'I had to leave, and I came running back when I saw it.' 'I love it a whole lot — the circus — more than the dive show,' says Madison Woodard from Evansville. 'A whole lot more.' There's still plenty of time for the Tri-State to see these performers for themselves. They go on stage three times a day each day the park is open from now until Labor Day. 'When we get performing as a team, we see the smilies on people's faces — the fun they're having,' says performer from Wisconsin Troy Stowe. 'We have so much fun as well. So, it's great to be out here and going live with these guys.' Daredevil group debuts for the summer at Holiday World Gibson County visionaries cut the ribbon on the Toyota Indiana YMCA Posey County's first inclusive playground opens in Mt. Vernon Union County residents 'still processing' Friday tornado Evansville business owners work to build a partnership with city officials Eyewitness News. Everywhere you are. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joan Rivers' tribute to bring out the stars including Aubrey Plaza
"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Things are happening." ~ Joan Rivers A new comedy special will bring Joan Rivers back from the dead, at least for one night. NBC will honor the life and legacy of the late comic with "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute," an hour-long television special set to air May 13. It will be available to stream on the Peacock network later this month. "Given that I'm dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me," Rivers said in a letter she left for her daughter, Melissa Rivers. "Well, it's about time." The comedy special, which stars Delaware's own Aubrey Plaza and cameos from many famous comics, was filmed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on the opening night of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival, NBC said in a news release. You won't get far down the list of most influential comedians of the 20th century without landing on Joan Rivers. The comedy pioneer, died in 2014 at the age of 81. Here's what to know: Joan Rivers was a comedian and television personality who was a regular on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and made frequent appearances on other shows, including "The Ed Sullivan Show." Rivers also served as host of daytime talk show "The Joan Rivers Show," for which she earned her first and only Emmy Award. She later hosted Fox's version of "The Tonight Show," dubbed "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers." Rivers is best known for her fashion commentary on E! Network's "Fashion Police" and "E!'s Live from the Red Carpet" telecasts before every major award show, from the Golden Globes to the Grammys. She discussed the dos and don'ts of celebrity fashion from 2010 up until her death in 2014. Rivers also famously coined the phrase, "Who are you wearing?" Rivers also was a Grammy Award winning performer, a Tony Award-nominated actress, bestselling author, playwright, screenwriter, film director, columnist, lecturer, radio host, jewelry designer, entrepreneur and the renowned creator of the modern-day red-carpet interview show. As first reported by Deadline, the tribute to Rivers next month will feature a long line of comedians including Aubrey Plaza, Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Chelsea Handler, Howie Mandel, Patton Oswalt and many more. With her sharp tongue and daring wit, Rivers didn't hold back, and neither will the tribute special. Other celebrities on the bill for "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute'' include Nikki Glaser, Bill Maher, Rachel Brosnahan, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Joel McHale, Jean Smart and Rita Wilson. Also featured in the special, which was recorded at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City last fall, will be Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers. According to NBC, "Performers will deliver a mix of classic Rivers zingers and modern stand-up, and there will be musical bits, as well.'' The group, including Chelsea Handler, will "pay homage to Rivers' razor-sharp humor and impact on pop culture" through standup, musical bits and tributes. They will also revisit "Rivers' legendary cabinet of jokes" but add their own personal spin to the material to make it timely and a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "Given that I'm dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it's about time,' Rivers wrote in a letter she left for her daughter, Melissa Rivers, NBC reports. "This tribute is everything my mother would have wanted — hilarious, unfiltered and filled with people she respected (and roasted). And as usual, she was still the funniest person in the room," Melissa Rivers said in a statement. "It's incredibly moving to see so many iconic comedians come together to celebrate her legacy, especially the women whose careers she helped make possible by breaking down so many doors." Aubrey Plaza has been keeping a low profiile since the death of her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, who died earlier this year at the age of 47. Plaza made her first public appearance since Baena's death on Feb. 16 when "Saturday Night Live" celebrated turning 50 that weekend. The Wilmington actor Plaza once interned for "SNL,'' served as a page for NBC and also hosted the show in 2023. Plaza, who stars in Marvel's "Agatha All Along,'' also appeared in previously recorded Super Bowl commercial for Ritz crackers. The award-winning actress has several films due out later this year including Ethan Coen's "Honey, Don't,'' and Zach Woods' "The Accompanist,'' starring Susan Sarandon. You can watch the Joan Rivers tribute on NBC on May 13 at 10 p.m. EST, and subscribers also will be able to stream an 'extended and uncensored version' of the special on Peacock on May 14. The longer version will include more artists to be announced. And on June 5, an encore presentation of the original special will air on E! You can learn more by visiting Delaware and Hollywood: What movies & TV shows were made in Delaware? If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 988. The United States' first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors. Text 'HOME' to 741741 in the U.S. and Canada to reach the Crisis Text Line. This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: How to watch 'Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute,' Aubrey Plaza
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Paul McCartney's Rare Photos to Feature in Special L.A. Exhibition
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Paul McCartney: Ringo rehearsing at the Deauville for our second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (light leak), Miami Beach, 15 February 1964 - Credit: © Paul McCartney/ Courtesy the artist and Gagosian This spring, the art gallery Gagosian LA will exhibit 36 of Paul McCartney's recently rediscovered photos, including some that featured in the former Beatle's Eyes of the Storm book and many that have never been shown before. The photos were taken between December 1963 and February 1964. And the exhibition, titled 'Rearview Mirror: Photographs, December 1963–February 1964,' opens April 25 and runs through June 21. More from Rolling Stone One never-before-circulated shot (above) is an artistic view of Ringo Starr in a loose-fitting white shirt, drumming at Miami Beach's Hotel Deauville ahead of the the Beatles' second Ed Sullivan Show appearance. McCartney took the photo on Feb. 15, 1964. Poolside at the Pollaks', Miami, 15 February 1964 'The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein arranged for the band to play two live appearances on the popular Sunday television program, The Ed Sullivan Show: the first on Feb. 9 from the show's New York-based studio, and the second a week later, on Feb. 16, from Miami,' Joshua Chuang, director specializing in photography at Gagosian, tells Rolling Stone. 'The second performance was broadcast from the Deauville Hotel, the beachside resort in Miami Beach where the Beatles also stayed. At this point, Beatlemania was officially gaining steam in America and cheering fans were a constant; the press nicknamed the hotel 'Beatle Central,' as fans milled about the grounds and wrote the band messages in the sand below their balconies. 'The Beatles rehearsed for their performance in the hotel's 'cool room' near its outdoor pool, wearing hotel-issued toweling shirts,' Chuang continues. 'McCartney took photographs of his bandmates as they practiced their six-song set. Lennon, ever-so-cool, strums his guitar while wearing sunglasses, while Starr is framed in a psychedelic fog — an inadvertent interaction of light and chemistry that resulted in a one-of-kind image.' The exhibition includes other photos taken at the Deauville, as well as early selfies and images of Beatlemania. Prices for the photos, which are individually signed, will range from $15,000 to the high five figures. Proceeds from the sales of the photos will benefit recovery efforts for those affected by the recent southern California wildfires. An exclusive video from Gagosian shows McCartney reflecting on the photos and signing them, as well as sharing stories behind songs like 'Yesterday' and the Beatles' visit to the States. 'We didn't really know how important Ed Sullivan was,' he says. 'We hadn't heard of him. … By the time we got to America, that was the coolest thing. But when we went on this show, we didn't realize the significance. It's just another TV show, we thought.' Gagosian's exhibition complements the 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm' exhibit, currently showing at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Chuang says the photos show McCartney's natural inclination toward visual art, citing the singer-songwriter's collaboration with artists like Peter Blake and Jann Haworth on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Richard Hamilton on the cover of 'The White Album.' He also notes that McCartney came up with the cover image for Abbey Road. 'Of course Paul is very much associated with the medium of photography — I'm thinking of the well-known photographs of him taken by the likes of David Bailey, Harry Benson, and Richard Avedon, and the fact that his first wife Linda and daughter Mary were and are photographers,' Chuang says. 'What isn't as well known, however, is Paul's own engagement with photography. There are a number of images from the mid-1960s of him with a camera, but his photos were never made public; he even forgot about them for a while! Their rediscovery is a major event, and working with Paul and his team to bring them into the world has been a privilege.' In his opinion, Chuang believes the photos provide an 'indispensable perspective' of the Beatles. 'I can't think of another time when a figure of such importance — not just musical but also cultural and historical — captured the very moment their impact was first being made with such compelling photographs,' he says. Best of Rolling Stone Sign up for RollingStone's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Chicago Tribune
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
‘Music is not a recipe': Violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about putting his life into an autobiographical show
For once, Itzhak Perlman was in the audience, not onstage. Years ago, the violinist, conductor and pedagogue attended Billy Crystal's autobiographical one-man show, '700 Sundays.' He left inspired. 'I thought that it might be fun to do this with my life and music,' Perlman says. That seed sprouted into 'An Evening with Itzhak Perlman,' an autobiographical recital coming to the Chicago Theatre April 21. Technically, it's not a one-man show — Perlman will be joined by pianist Rohan de Silva, a longtime collaborator — but it's every bit as intimate, interspersing musical selections with personal anecdotes, photos, and clips from the 2017 documentary 'Itzhak.' If anything, the challenge will be confining Perlman's story to a single evening. A polio survivor, he was born in 1945 to Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Tel Aviv. Israel is now a major player in the world of classical music, churning out many a high-flying musician, but in Perlman's day, that wasn't so. That, atop Perlman's disability — he uses crutches and a motorized scooter — made him, in the eyes of many, an underdog. 'The Ed Sullivan Show' changed his life overnight. Appearing on the show for the first time in 1958, as a preteen, Perlman was brought to the attention of the faculty at Juilliard in New York, where he himself now teaches. His career since has more than proved his naysayers wrong, building a résumé and name recognition rivaled by few others in classical music and beyond. At nearly 80, Perlman still giddily transcends genre, whether playing klezmer, duetting with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson or appearing onstage with Billy Joel. Perlman connected with the Tribune from his home in New York to talk about his upcoming show at the Chicago Theatre. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Q: So much of your career is about interpreting the works of other artists — in your case, composers. For this show, in a way, your life is the artwork you're interpreting. How did you decide what you wanted to include, as opposed to what you wanted to keep private? A: That's a good question. All I know is that I know what I don't want to do and I know what I do want to do. When you think about it, there's so much stuff about anybody that you can read online. There's very little privacy. What this show does is give my personal point of view as to what was happening in my life. Q: It seems challenging to pick just a few pieces for this program. How did you begin to curate this show? A: Well, I don't want to tell you everything … but we tried to make the music fit the story. There were some stories from when I was developing as an artist, so of course I had to play those pieces: pieces I played for a contest, pieces I studied when I was 6 or 7 years old, pieces my teacher (the legendary Dorothy DeLay, who taught Perlman at Juilliard) gave me when she first met me, and so on and so forth. Q: You used the word 'development.' One of the things I admire about you is that you've continued to develop musically during your whole career, sometimes very publicly. For example, the documentary 'In the Fiddler's House' captured your experience learning klezmer for the first time, at a point when your classical career was already well established. How did you go about letting people into this intimate experience of learning an art form for the first time, with cameras rolling? A: When I was approached by PBS to host a show about klezmer, I had absolutely no experience playing it. But to be the host of a show sounded very, very good. There were three or four klezmer groups participating in the show. I met with them, and they asked, 'Would you like to jam with us?' I said, 'Gee, I don't know; I've never done it before.' But I'd heard that kind of sound growing up; it was not foreign to me at all. One thing led to another, and we started to play. (Eventually) they said, 'Why don't we do some (live) shows, and instead of being the host, you could be part of the show!' That's how it started to develop, and now it's been almost 30 years. We did a couple of concerts just two days ago, in Cleveland and near Washington. We're still having a fantastic time. There is a kind of improvisation involved in klezmer, (whereas) in classical music, there is very little improvisation. Instead, the improvisation is very subtle — it's musical improvisation, not so much a note improvisation. So, for me, this is something that I always look forward to. Q: Are there ways in which that freedom has inspired or changed your classical playing? A: I always say to my students, you don't play something now the same way you did yesterday. If you repeat the same piece over and over again, that's when the improvisation (becomes) so important: you still keep the interest of the piece in your head. To play a recital for the first time is good, but to play it for the second or third time? That's when it becomes a little bit of a challenge. … How do we play the Beethoven C minor Sonata or Kreutzer Sonata today, as opposed to five years ago? I always say that it's not like baking a cake, where you have that much flour, that much sugar. Music is not a recipe. It's maybe like an eating contest! It becomes spontaneous. Q: You mentioned your students. In fact, a former student of yours I'm excited about, Randall Goosby, is playing in Chicago soon. Being so attuned to the younger generation of violinists coming up, I'm curious if there's anything you've noticed about them that differs, maybe, from the students you taught when you first began teaching decades ago. A: I don't know if there is anything absolutely different today than before. All I can tell you is that the level of playing today is absolutely incredible. I've been lucky to teach extremely good musicians at the Juilliard School and Perlman Music Program, (which) my wife and I started 30 years ago. We always listen to the audition tapes, and they're mind-boggling. But that special 'thing' is just as rare as it used to be — this thing that makes you cry. Every now and then, you get that. Q: You're turning 80 this year. Why did you feel this stage of your career was the right time for an autobiographical show? A: Well, I've been doing this show for a while — like, two, three years. It's so I can give people a choice of what I can do. I can do a straight recital, or I can do something like this, (because) I love to talk to the audience. When I first started talking to the audience, there was a concert where I just felt like I wanted to play, and I didn't say anything. Then, I got a letter: 'I heard you play, and you didn't say anything.' People got so used to to me talking! So, this is just another experience of mine. So far, the audience has liked it. Well, either that, or they pretended that they liked it. (Laughs) Hannah Edgar is a freelance critic.
Boston Globe
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Boston rock group the Remains, ‘America's Lost Band,' subject of new short film
Their son, Daniel Tashian, is a respected songwriter and producer in his own right. He recently served as a co-producer on Ringo Starr's latest album, a country record called 'Look Up.' According to Holly, when Daniel asked Ringo if he remembered the three weeks the Remains opened for the Beatles, the droll drummer replied, 'Nope. I don't remember anything.' Advertisement 'And that was that,' Holly said with a laugh in a recent phone interview with the Globe. Almost 60 years since their brush with mega-stardom, the Remains are back in the spotlight. 'America's Lost Band,' a tidy half-hour documentary based on one of the band's periodic reunions (this one around 2006), begins streaming April 8 through The short film is a reworked version of a feature documentary of the same name, which debuted at the Boston Film Festival in 2008. Licensing issues around the use of Beatles material and a guest spot by the Remains on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' prevented the film from distribution beyond its handful of festival appearances. Advertisement Producer Fred Cantor grew up in Connecticut enamored with the Remains. In 1998, a friend invited him to catch the group during one of its reunion tours. 'That was mind-blowing,' Cantor recalled recently by phone. 'I was immediately transported back to the age of 13, sitting in my bedroom listening to my portable record player.' Cantor quickly resolved to try to ensure that the band's legacy would last. First he wrote a stage musical about the group. Then he enlisted his friend Michael Stich, longtime director of the daytime soap opera 'The Bold and The Beautiful,' to make the documentary. Barry Tashian and Vern Miller of the Remains head out to the stage at Dodger Stadium. Ed Freeman Now, years later, Cantor and Stich have repurposed the reunion footage from their original film to make the new version. The band members — Tashian, keyboardist Bill Briggs, bassist Vern Miller, and drummer Chip Damiani — came together at Boston University in 1963. They honed their considerable chops playing the school's fraternity parties and at the Rat in Kenmore Square. In the documentary, one fan enthuses about how good the band still sounded: 'If you close your eyes and throw some beer on the floor, you're at the Rathskeller.' The Remains broke up after Damiani quit the band over the frustrations of touring. By then, Tashian was eager to explore other kinds of music. Miller went on to form other Boston bands (including Advertisement Jon Landau, the rock critic who went on to become Bruce Springsteen's longtime manager, helped immortalize the Remains when he 'People think there's some mystery around why the band broke up,' said Holly Tashian, who now lives in Nashville. Her husband was disappointed that Damiani chose to leave the group: 'Without him, it just wasn't the same. Barry also saw what it was like to be so famous, like the Beatles, and he just said, 'This is not a way to live.' It's totally understandable.' A few years ago, Holly noticed that Barry's memory was slipping. Tashian, who is 79, has since been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Holly recently made the difficult decision to put him in a memory care facility near their home in Nashville. 'It progressed to the point where I could not handle it at home anymore safely,' she said. 'He seems to be happy. I think we look at Alzheimer's and we're kind of afraid of it. Yet I also see that people all have their own paths. And this is part of Barry's path. 'And it's part of my path to go on without him and see what that's about.' They met while attending high school together in Westport, Conn. Tashian was actually dating Holly's best friend at the time. Several years later, after the Remains broke up, they bumped into each other on a Connecticut beach. 'I loved his music, always had,' she said. 'I decided I would learn guitar and play with him, and he was patient enough to let me do that.' Advertisement Other than Tashian, Miller is the only surviving member of the Remains. Damiani, who ran a home improvement company, Rewatching the footage of the new Remains documentary has been 'delightful,' said Holly Tashian. 'It's really evident what a great friendship they had together,' she said. 'That to me is part of the magic of that group.' James Sullivan can be reached at .
