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Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Daniels dies at 83 – Tennessean
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Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Daniels dies at 83 – Tennessean

Charlie Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame best known for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," died Monday morning after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 83. Daniels' death was confirmed by his publicist, Don Murry Grubbs. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and son Charlie Daniels Jr. By the time the Charlie Daniels Band topped the charts with “Devil” in 1979, the instrumentalist, singer and songwriter had long established a remarkable, multifaceted career in Music City. As a session musician, he played on three of Bob Dylan’s albums – including the revolutionary “Nashville Skyline” – as well as recordings for Ringo Starr and Leonard Cohen.   At the other end of that 60-plus year career, Daniels used more of his voice in support of U.S. veterans, and was known to speak...
James Gunn Shares New Guardians of the Galaxy Ride in Disney World Will Be Utterly Mind-Blowing – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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James Gunn Shares New Guardians of the Galaxy Ride in Disney World Will Be Utterly Mind-Blowing – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Fans can go on Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout in California, but for Disney World natives, there’s a new attraction featuring these heroes coming to the theme park EPCOT. Here’s what we know about the upcoming ride in EPCOT, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, and what Guardians of the Galaxy creator James Gunn had to say about it. Actor Dave Bautista poses with Groot outside the Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT! attraction | Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort via Getty ImagesThere’s a new ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ ride coming to EPCOT in Walt Disney World Sure, you can take a trip around the world with Soarin, or test drive a car on Test Track. For the first time ever, a Marvel-themed rollercoaster is coming to EPCOT in the Walt Disney World. ...
Talking Heads Drummer Chris Frantz on His New Memoir and the Last Time He Saw David Byrne – Rolling Stone
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Talking Heads Drummer Chris Frantz on His New Memoir and the Last Time He Saw David Byrne – Rolling Stone

Before Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz started writing his new memoir, Remain in Love (out July 21st), he had to figure out one very important thing. “I kept thinking to myself, ‘What’s the tone going to be?'” he tells Rolling Stone. “The last thing I wanted tone-wise was for it to be a book by a whiny drummer beating up on the lead singer. That’s not me and I just didn’t want to be like that.” He has quite a few reasons to beat up on the lead singer. Talking Heads frontman David Byrne took the band off the road right at its commercial peak in 1984, broke it up seven years later, and has refused all offers to reunite in the intervening years, with the sole exception of a three-song set at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2002. Frantz and Byrne haven’...
Nick Cordero, Broadway actor who battled COVID-19, has died at age 41, wife says – CBS News
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Nick Cordero, Broadway actor who battled COVID-19, has died at age 41, wife says – CBS News

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who had been hospitalized for three months and had his leg amputated after contracting the coronavirus, has died, his wife, Amanda Kloots, said Sunday. He was 41. "My darling husband passed away this morning," Kloots said in an Instagram post. "He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth." "I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere," Kloots added. "My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him." View this post on Instagram God has another angel in heaven now. My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth. ⠀ I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere. My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives...
Netflix’s The Kissing Booth 2 Trailer Brings Back The Streaming Romantic Comedy – CinemaBlend
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Netflix’s The Kissing Booth 2 Trailer Brings Back The Streaming Romantic Comedy – CinemaBlend

After the events of The Kissing Booth saw Elle (King) and her boyfriend Noah (Jacob Elordi) heading into a summer of love, the pair are now trying to make it work on a long distance basis. As Elle’s embarking on her senior year of High School in California, and Noah’s starting out at Harvard, it’s going to be difficult, but it feels doable. At least, until the OMG clique starts to sow the seeds of doubt, Lee (Joel Courtney) begins to take Elle’s thoughts of going to Harvard herself to heart, and a new heartthrob named Marco (Taylor Perez) enters the picture.
Queen Drummer Roger Taylor on Lockdown Life, Slim Odds of a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Sequel – Rolling Stone
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Queen Drummer Roger Taylor on Lockdown Life, Slim Odds of a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Sequel – Rolling Stone

Roger Taylor’s original plans for 2020 called for him to spend the evening of June 29th drumming with Queen and Adam Lambert at the 15,000-seat Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany, as part of their ongoing Rhapsody world tour. Instead, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he spent that night watching the Netflix documentaries Trump: An American Dream and Magnetic. During much of the lockdown, he’s divided his time between his two homes in England, but right now he’s in Croatia with other members of his family. “I have a boat and I managed to get on it and I’m in the middle of the Mediterranean,” he says, “which has managed to have almost no COVID. We’re very lucky to be there. We managed to escape. It’s a beautiful, underrated country.” Taylor phoned up Rolling Stone to chat about his life d...
Matthew McConaughey tells fans to wear the damn mask in new video – CNN
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Matthew McConaughey tells fans to wear the damn mask in new video – CNN

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Colin Kaepernick Signs First-Look Deal With Walt Disney – Variety
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Colin Kaepernick Signs First-Look Deal With Walt Disney – Variety

Colin Kaepernick’s journey from San Francisco 49ers quarterback to civil-rights activist will be chronicled in a documentary series developed by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal between Walt Disney and Kapernick’s Ra Vision Media production company. Under terms of the pact, announced Monday, Disney and Ra Vision will emphasize scripted and unscripted stories that deal with race, social injustice and the quest for equity, and work to showcase directors and producers of color. Disney said the agreement would extend across its units, including Walt Disney Television, ESPN, Hulu, Pixar and The Undefeated, an ESPN venue that focuses on matters of race in sports. Kaepernick is slated to work closely with The Undefeated, which Disney said would expand its portfolio across the co...