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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Wu-Tang Clan Bringing Time Capsule on Tour & Dave Chappelle Already Added His Own Wu Memorabilia
Wu-Tang really is forever. The legendary Staten Island crew is set to embark on their final tour this summer, and the Wu-Tang Clan will be bringing a time capsule on the road. One lucky fan at each tour stop will be able to donate one rare piece of Wu memorabilia to the Wu-Tang Forever Time Capsule. Fans will be able to check out the epic collection of Wu artifacts at the Shaolin Temple VIP Experience, which will turn a lifetime of memories into a timeless treasure. More from Billboard Wu-Tang Clan's RZA Gets His Own Bobby Digital Action Figure Reneé Rapp Says Her Name Was Designed for Pop Stardom John Butler Returns With New Solo Album 'PRISM' 'From the basements of Staten Island, we created something timeless,' RZA said in a statement. 'And now we invite you to be part of that inspiration. In every city, we will be putting something new inside this time capsule.' The Wu-Tang frontman continued: 'Something from your city to connect with all the Wu cities and Wu fans around the world. This Wu-Tang Forever Time Capsule will only be seen in the Shaolin Temple VIP. We invite you to be part of this legacy.' Dave Chappelle had the honor of being the first to donate to the time capsule, and he gave a signed vinyl from the group. The Wu-Tang Clan surprised a recent Chappelle Soundcheck Series show with a performance at the comic's YS Firehouse in Yellow Springs, Ohio, last Friday (May 23). 'Thanks to the Wu for showing Ohio love,' Chappelle said. 'They brought the time capsule with them. Each city has a chance to put something in it in the Shaolin Temple VIP experience. I repped for YS.' The 27-date Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chapter Tour is set to kick off on June 6 in Baltimore and will make stops in Tampa Bay, Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York City and Toronto, and will wrap up in Philadelphia on July 18. 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
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4 days ago
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2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries
RELATED: More from Deadline Marcel Ophuls Dies: 'The Sorrow And The Pity' Filmmaker Was 97 Sacha Jenkins Dies: Journalist Behind Wu-Tang Clan, 50 Cent & Louis Armstrong Docs Was 53 Mara Corday Dies: 'Tarantula' Cult Film Star & 'Playboy' Playmate Was 95 Best of Deadline 2024 Hollywood & Media Deaths: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Remembering Shelley Duvall: A Career In Photos Martin Mull's Film & TV Career In Photos
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Marcel Ophuls Dies: ‘The Sorrow And The Pity' Filmmaker Was 97
Marcel Ophuls, the director of the seminal 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity that explored the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II, died at his home in in France over the weekend. He was 97. His death was reported to The New York Times by his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, who declined to provide further details. More from Deadline Sacha Jenkins Dies: Journalist Behind Wu-Tang Clan, 50 Cent & Louis Armstrong Docs Was 53 Mara Corday Dies: 'Tarantula' Cult Film Star & 'Playboy' Playmate Was 95 Jeff Margolis Dies: Prolific Emmy-Winning Director & Producer Of Awards Shows And Specials Was 78 Born on November 1, 1927, in Frankfurt, Germany – his father was film director Max Ophüls and his mother was actress Hildegard Wall, Ophuls was 11 when he and his parents fled France after the country was invaded by the Nazis. The family settled in Hollywood but returned to France in 1950. Back in France, Ophuls found work in the city's film industry, including assisting his director father, and on John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1952). Other credits during the '60s include the hit comedy-detective film Banana Peel (1964) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jeanne Moreau. In 1967, Ophuls began work on the two-part four-hour-plus film that would become his signature endeavor. The Sorrow and the Pity was intended for television but the film was banned from airwaves after conservative politicians criticized the film for its depiction of France's Vichy regime collaborating with Hitler's Nazi regime. Released to theaters as a feature film in 1969, the film upturned France's then-accepted self-image as overwhelmingly resistance. Among his post-Sorrow credits, Ophuls directed the Oscar-winning 1988 documentarey Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. The film opened to acclaim, but would not replace The Sorrow and the Pity as Ophuls' signature work. In 1977 Woody Allen paid tribute to the film with a classic comedy scene in Annie Hall: It was while in line to see Ophuls' film that Allen's character shames a loud-mouth know-nothing by presenting Marshall McLuhan to correct the man's speechifying. According to The Guardian, Ophuls, at the time of his death, was working on a documentary about Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far
Indian Express
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
‘P Diddy would rather die than let go of rights to Biggie Smalls' music': How Diddy was at the epicentre of both Tupac and Biggie's death
When DJ Kool Herc invited his friends to help him MC a party for his sister, an important branch of hip-hop was born: rap. A genre that has facilitated revolution and restitution for half a century, a genre that introduced the world to Lauryn Hill's cadence, Wu-Tang Clan's collaborative precision, Eminem's controversy and Tupac's honesty. Among the greatest to ever pick up the pen and mic was Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or The Notorious B.I.G. A chubby and angry kid from New York, who decided to take over the world of storytelling and music, 16 bars at a time. Just like so many other artistes, though, there was a man behind the curtain, pulling all the strings, and for Biggie, that man was Sean Combs, better known as Diddy. Biggie naturally took to creative writing, something that took Diddy decades to realise he couldn't do. It's a tale as old as time that budding artists with rough childhoods have an affinity for being discovered by manipulative executives, and Biggie's first demo tape found its way to the desk of Diddy, who was, of course, an upstanding and law-abiding man by all standards. After being fired from Uptown Records (of course, no fault of his own), Diddy decided to helm Bad Boy Records, a label that decided to take RnB and rap artists from the streets of the East Coast to the big dance. He signed Biggie, and he took this opportunity by the throat, as his first breakout track, 'Party and Bullshit', appeared on the soundtrack for the film Who's The Man (1993). ALSO READ: Remembering Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright: A pioneer of hip-hop gone too soon Biggie started climbing the stairs to success almost too fast, and a 21-year-old kid needs guidance in order to deal with that kind of fame and money. Just like Jerry Heller for NWA and the Colonel for Elvis, Diddy stepped into that role. He became Biggie's consigliere, and though the setting and intensity of this story might be similar to The Godfather, Diddy was no Robert Duvall. All this would soon start coming to light, as Biggie became more of a household name and his contemporaries and peers started seeing him for who he really was, one of the most gifted MCs to ever pick up the microphone. To put Biggie's relationship with Tupac in the Indian context, Mirza Ghalib, one of the most recognisable Urdu poets of all time, had Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq as a competitor. A court poet of the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, Zauq and Ghalib often used to take shots at one another, and while it wasn't exactly like the rap battles at the end of 8 Mile, both pushed each other to be better. As Biggie made a name for himself with his debut album, Ready to Die, Pac started viewing him as a peer, even though he already had two successful albums making the rounds of every music store in the country. While both men are considered by many to be equals, when it comes to storytelling through music, there was one thing that Tupac was better at than Biggie, and that was reading people. He saw through Diddy from their very first meeting, and according to hip-hop photographer Monique Bunn, Pac viewed Diddy as a 'corny executive', and even after several attempts made by the latter to befriend the California rapper, Pac wasn't interested. His relationship with Biggie grew stronger, but as the months passed, a certain incident would sow the first seed in one of the biggest and most destructive feuds in hip-hop history. ALSO READ: Frank Sinatra 'facilitated' John F Kennedy's other life, but couldn't outrun his mafia connections: The rise and ruin of their unlikely friendship While fighting a trial for sexual abuse, Pac travelled to Quad Records in Manhattan in order to record a few songs in order to manage his growing expenses. Here, the rapper was confronted by three armed men, who robbed him and shot him 5 times, and it did not help that this happened on Biggie's turf. Like it or not, the West and the East division matters in hip-hop; it is a line in the sand, which only a few rappers have dared cross, and Pac getting shot 'behind enemy lines' was a major step back in relations between the two coasts. After recovery, Pac was found guilty and was jailed, and on the other side of the wall, Biggie was now surrounded by only yes-men and, of course, Diddy, who had his golden goose all to himself. The fallout of the shooting was bad for safety but good for business, as Biggie and Pac both released diss tracks, and both songs broke the charts. The feud continued until September 7, 1996, when Pac was shot dead while travelling in his BMW with Death Row record label exec Suge Knight. Though reports suggested that Diddy's associated were involved in the shooting, he was never convicted. Just like his contemporary on the other side of the country, Biggie's career was short-lived too, as the rapper was assassinated just a year later, in Los Angeles, California. After his death, Diddy fought to regain the rights to Biggie's music, and according to an exec from the record label, he went on record and said, 'I will never give it up until I'm dead and my bones are crushed into powder.' After Pac's death, Biggie had started wising up, and wanted to leave Bad Boy Records, but Diddy wouldn't let him. Rolling Stone magazine had even offered putting Biggie on the cover after his death, but Diddy refused, and said he wanted to be on the cover to promote his debut album, 'No Way Out.' At the end of it, no matter how tragic their deaths were, all one wants to do is remember the things they did when they were alive. None of them were close to perfect, but somehow a gangster and a fiend found themselves perched up right at the top of hip-hop history. Most artists or rappers have multi-decade careers, their fan base spanning across several generations due to their longevity. But Pac and Biggie were active for a combined 8 years, and yet they did more for the genre than anyone ever could. While we acknowledge what manipulative managers or record executives have done to the careers and personal lives of artists, no one will remember the Colonel or Yeller, just like no one will remember Diddy for being an exec. We will remember Biggie, though. We will pray that on a cold winter evening, when our joints are old and hearing is weak, someone from the next generation will ask us, Who was he? The chubby, angry kid from New York, who ruled the world from his 'Life After Death'.
USA Today
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Bob Odenkirk returns as suburban assassin in 'Nobody 2': Trailer, release date
Bob Odenkirk returns as suburban assassin in 'Nobody 2': Trailer, release date Prepare for another dose of suburban dad rage. Bob Odenkirk is back as workaholic assassin Hutch Mansell in the sequel to 2021's sleeper hit "Nobody." Universal Pictures dropped a trailer May 14 for the movie, out this summer, which sees Hutch four years after taking on the Russian mob, still working off a $30 million debt through a string of hits. Amid a fraught relationship, Hutch, his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen) and family decide on a waterpark vacation. The family eventually crosses paths with a corrupt theme-park operator (John Ortiz), his sheriff (Colin Hanks) and a terrifying crime boss (Sharon Stone) before chaos ensues. Christopher Lloyd returns as Hutch's dad, and Wu-Tang Clan's RZA returns as Hutch's brother, joining the fun. A surprise blockbuster during the pandemic, "Nobody" topped the box office and earned $57 million globally, on a $16 million budget. Read on for the trailer and release date for "Nobody 2." Review: Bob Odenkirk livens up formulaic 'Nobody' as a middle-aged 'John Wick' type 'Nobody 2' trailer The "Nobody 2" trailer sees Hutch take off for a family vacation, only to run into some smalltown bullies. After physically taking them down, the assassin quickly runs into trouble. But Hutch refuses to let his work interfere with and ruin his vacation. Watch the NSFW trailer here. 'Nobody 2' cast The film features a starry cast, including: Bob Odenkirk Connie Nielsen John Ortiz RZA Colin Hanks Christopher Lloyd Sharon Stone Gage Munroe Paisley Cadorath 'Nobody 2' release date "Nobody 2" is set to hit theaters Aug. 15, 2025.
