Month: May 2022

Laine Hardy’s performance on Monday night’s The Great Idol Reunion will still air, despite his recent arrest. Representatives for Laine Hardy and American Idol confirmed to Music Mayhem that the “Memorize You” singer’s performance alongside Laci Kaye Booth will still appear on the much-anticipated reunion show. While Hardy has reportedly been released from prison, his performance with Booth will continue as planned as The Great Idol Reunion special was pretaped in early April, prior to Hardy turning himself in to Louisiana State University Police. When taping the episode, Hardy, alongside fellow Idol alumni such as Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Kris Allen, David Cook and more, spoke with media about taking part in the iconic 20th Anniversary of the hit show. “...

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The woman behind Régine’s mystique was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, on Dec. 26, 1929, to emigrants from Poland, Joseph Zylberberg and Tauba Rodstein. In an unhappy, unstable childhood, she never knew her mother, who abandoned the family and went to Argentina, but recalled her father as a charming gambler and drinker who ran a small eatery in Paris. Rachelle, as she called herself in an interview with The Boston Globe, had a brother, Maurice, and a half sister, Evelyne. As a child, she waited on tables in her father’s restaurant near Montmartre. After the Germans occupied Paris in 1940, her father was arrested and sent to a prison camp. She hid for two years in a Catholic convent, where she said she was beaten by other girls because she was Jewish. Her father escaped, and by one account she...

Kid Rock and Bruce Springsteen are going head-to-head in a very unofficial fan poll taking place on the internet -- and wouldn't you know it ... it's politics as usual, yet again. Somebody posed the strange question this weekend ... asking Twitter quite simply, "Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock" -- and boy, did the bird app people give her a piece of their mind. Lo and behold, this turned into political mudslinging -- as these things often do. Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock pic.twitter.com/NSxXAtIc3b— Kelly Kay (@AromaLady2) April 29, 2022 @AromaLady2 Of course, Kid is mu...

The actor Bill Murray said that a movie in which he was set to star was suspended because an attempt at humor had been taken amiss by a female co-star, addressing publicly for the first time an episode that has gotten widespread attention. “I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way,” Murray said in an interview on Saturday with CNBC’s Becky Quick, during coverage of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Murray, who is 71, labeled the episode a “difference of opinion” and did not apologize. While limiting his discussion of what happened to generalities and without going into detail, he spoke contritely about unwittingly “insensitive” behavior. “I’ve been doing not much else but thinking about it for the last week or two,” he said. “The world’s differen...