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| JMSN demands Trump stop using his song in taxpayer-funded ads | Musician JMSN is demanding that the Trump administration immediately stop using his music in campaign-style television advertisements after his song Love Me was featured in a recently aired ad promoting President Donald Trump ahead of November's midterm elections. Attorneys for JMSN, whose real name is Christian Berishaj, sent a cease-and-desist letter to White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles on Monday night demanding that it stop using his song. The attorneys said the use of JMSN's music in the ad also raises legal questions over taxpayer funds being used for campaign-style advertising. |
| Famous birthdays for Sept. 30: T-Pain, Maddie Ziegler | Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include: -- Writer Rumi in 1207 -- Pope Nicholas IV in 1227 -- Entrepreneur William Wrigley Jr. |
| Charlie Sheen, dad Martin to star in AMC comedy 'Happy Jack' | Two and a Half Men alum Charlie Sheen and his West Wing icon dad Martin are set to star in a new AMC comedy, Happy Jack. The actors will play father and son in the show, which is expected to premiere with a six-episode first season in 2027. Production is slated to begin early next year in Los Angeles. The co-showrunners will be Jim Patterson and Matt Ross, who previously worked together on Two and a Half Men and The Ranch. "I've always heard the moments that truly matter happen when they're supposed to. The good folks at AMC have played a huge hand in deciding that moment is now," Charlie Sheen said in a statement Tuesday. |
| Katherine Waterston: 'Uprising' character was 'queen not heard' | Katherine Waterston says it was a fascinating challenge to play a royal medieval woman trying to influence her powerful son without verbally articulating her intentions in The Uprising. "In the makeup trailer one morning, I said, 'Queen and not heard,'" Waterston, 46, told reporters in a recent virtual press conference. "But, actually, I really wasn't complaining. It was one of the great treats of the character that she's there and unable to speak and what that communicates and what it accurately, I think, portrays about the period," she explained. |
| Owen Wilson discusses his 'walk-the-plank' moment in 'Rolling Loud' | Night at the Museum, Zoolander, Wedding Crashers, Armageddon and Cars icon Owen Wilson said it was nerve-wracking to take the stage with rapper Travis Scott in front of 100,000 screaming fans for a scene in the comedy, Rolling Loud: The Movie. "It was a little bit terrifying. Had my two boys not been there backstage, I might have chickened out," the 57-year-old father of two sons told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "These guys, I'm always making them do stuff that they're uncomfortable [with] or don't want to do, so, when it was my time to go out there, I had no choice," he said of his dancing and stage-diving. "It was kind of a 'walking-the-plank' that I felt like out there. |