Posts Tagged “Sheryl Crow”
- A "Who’s Who" of top female singers, including Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Sheryl Crow, Rihanna, Melissa Etheridge and nine others will join to record a single to benefit the Stand Up To Cancer initiative, which will air on ABC, NBC and CBS on September 5. This bunch, including a pair of cancer suvivors in Etheridge and Crow, won’t just stand up to cancer–they’ll obliterate it with the sheer force of their collective wills…
 Avril Lavigne is having difficulty performing a concert in Malaysia, where officials say her show would be, "unsuitable to Malaysian culture" and its scheduled date of August 29 is too close to the nation’s independence celebration. Avril needs to follow the lead of Beyonce, who was in a similar situation recently–she made sure her costumes were inoffensive, her songs weren’t controversial, and her multi-zillion dollar husband was standing by just in case to write them a big check…- The Olympics have been good to Michael Phelps, and Michael Phelps has been very good to NBC–its coverage of the summer games grabbed the top 7 spots in TV ratings last week, pulling in an average audience of 28.7 million. Al Roker had better hope Phelps has no major weatherman aspirations…
 The people of Milwaukee honored one of their own–on TV at least–when they unveiled a bronze statue of Arthur Fonzerelli, better known as "The Fonz" from 70’s sitcom icon Happy Days. Most of the cast of the show was on hand, except for the guy who played Potsie–he spent the day on the show’s Hollywood set, wondering where everybody else was…- Roger Moore, who played James Bond in 7 films in the 1970’s and 80’s, writes about his experiences in a memoir out November 4 and reveals that many of the stunts left him in less than ideal conditon–including one boat-chase scene that catapulted him into a wall, cracking teeth and twisting his knee. Apparently, the villan for the rest of the movie was the stunt coordinator…
- Bobby Brown is in more legal trouble–only this time it’s from his own attorneys, who say he owes them $90,000 in fees stemming from his divorce from Whitney Houston. At least this time it isn’t any of those drug dealers he stiffed…
Tags: 2008 Summer Olympics, ABC, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Bobby Brown, CBS, Happy Days, James Bond, Malaysia, Mariah Carey, Michael Phelps, NBC, Rihanna, Sheryl Crow
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The Jonas Brothers are certainly Burnin’ Up these days–their current tour, a new CD due out on Tuesday, and plans to start filming their Disney Channel series in about two months, which looks now to be a music and comedy effort where the band says, "We can just pick up a guitar and break into song, in really funny situations." Of course, right now they could just sit around and read the telephone book and attract a big audience…
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 Katy Perry’s success with I Kissed A Girl, which has spent 6 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, was no overnight success–Katy says she’s struggled for 7 years to get a record deal and release an album that she wanted to make. Now that she has what may be the biggest song of the year, she’ll find it will be the others doing the struggling while she’ll be making the deals…
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Sheryl Crow has gone fashion designer, with a new line of denim wear that features jeans made to look just like the pricey styles–but at a more affordable price, as Sheryl explains, "My friends from home [in Missouri] are not gonna go out and spend 250 dollars on a pair of jeans, but they would like to look like they’re wearing 250-dollar jeans." The truth is that no one can afford to buy $250 jeans, only some people believe that wasting money makes them look good…
- A spokesman for a Memphis hospital says Morgan Freeman has been released as he continues to recover from surgery on his left arm and hand injured in a car accident Sunday night, and in a statment Freeman says he’s doing well and in good spirits. Considering he could be in a box inside a very cold room, he should be dancing a jig–if they’d only let him…
- The Dark Knight continues to be a white knight for Warner Brothers, who announced that their latest Batman film has taken in over $400 million at the box office in just 18 days–smashing the previous record set by Shrek 2, which took over 3 weeks longer to hit that milestone. Many are coming to see the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker, which looks to be one heck of a finale for him…
Tags: Billboard Hot 100, Disney Channel, Heath Ledger, Jesse McCartney, Katy Perry, Morgan Freeman, Sheryl Crow, The Dark Knight, The Jonas Brothers
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