Month: January 2022

John Stamos last saw his co-star Bob Saget just one month before the comedian’s untimely death and noticed something “odd” during their time together. In a candid interview with The New York Times, Stamos said his fellow “Full House” cast member, who was found dead in a Florida hotel room on Jan. 9, was finally “at peace.” Saget’s cause of death hasn’t been revealed. “Bob was always worried about everyone else, but he talked about death a lot,” Stamos told the Times. “His wife, Kelly Rizzo, said she had a premonition. I didn’t see it. The last time we were all together, we went on a double date to Nobu, maybe a month before he passed away.” Saget, he said, “didn’t look like a guy who was going to die, but he was very calm, which was odd for Bob.” “He was at peace somehow,” Stamos explai...

Steve Sladkowski, the guitarist for Canadian rock band Pup, gave one explanation why, tweeting, "It rocks that Neil can take his music off [Spotify] but the fact remains that the vast majority of us can't afford to do that because the (very meagre) royalties are one of the few ways to cobble together any semblance of a living."

Minnie Mouse is getting a wardrobe change.  On Tuesday, Disneyland Paris announced that Minnie Mouse will wear her first pantsuit at the French theme park for its 30th anniversary in March. Stella McCartney designed the custom pantsuit. In a statement in the Disneyland Paris press release, the British fashion designer said Minnie will wear the pantsuit in honor of Women’s History Month in March. DISNEY REVEALS WHERE GINGERBREAD DISPLAYS GO AFTER THE HOLIDAYS IN VIRAL TIKTOK "I am delighted to be working with the one, the only, the iconic Minnie Mouse," McCartney said in the statement.  "Minnie has always had a special place in my heart," she added. "We share the same values. What I love about Minnie is the fact that she embodies happiness, self-expression, authenticity and that she...

(NEXSTAR) – Neil Young’s music is coming off of Spotify after the singer penned an open letter saying the streaming service could have Joe Rogan’s podcast or his music, “not both.” On Monday, Young posted the letter to his website. While it has since been deleted, Rolling Stone reports Young called on his management team and record label to remove his songs and albums from the streaming service. Young wrote, “Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.” He added that Spotify can have “[Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both,” Rolling Stone reports. Neil Young wants his music off Spotify over vaccine misinformation: reports According to the streaming service, the “H...

A theme park based around the work of legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli will open on November 1st in Nagakute, Japan, the company’s official Twitter account has announced. Plans for the park, which shouldn’t be confused with the existing Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, were initially announced in 2017. Ghibli Park will be located on the site of the 2005 World’s Fair in the city of Nagakute, around 90 miles east of Kyoto and 150 miles west of Tokyo. A recreation of Satsuki and Mei’s house from My Neighbor Totoro was already built on this site for the fair, but the new park will expand on this with new attractions based on other Ghibli films. The Ghibli Twitter account has shared photographs of the attractions under construction. There are antique shops modeled after thos...

Japanese Breakfast has shared a cover of Yoko Ono’s “Nobody Sees Me Like You Do,” from the album Season of Glass, in advance of the release of Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, a tribute album to the artist. The compilation, out Feb. 18, is spearheaded by Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and will be released in conjunction with Ono’s 89th birthday. It also features contributions from artists including Sharon Van Etten, Death Cab for Cutie and David Byrne and Yo La Tengo. Accompanied only by a simple piano progression, the Grammy-nominated outfit, led by Michelle Zauner, transforms the avant-garde artist’s original composition — breezy and lush, punctuated by choir harmonies and a soaring guitar solo — into a much more intimate affair. In stripping away the bombast of Ono’s re...