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| Charli xcx releases 'Rock Music,' first single from new album | Charli xcx is back with new music. The singer-songwriter, 33, released a single and music video for the song "Rock Music" on Friday. The "Rock Music" video shows Charli xcx party, smoke cigarettes and rock out as she sings, "I think the dance floor is dead / So now we're making rock music." The song is the first to debut from Charli xcx's forthcoming eighth studio album, which is not a rock album, she clarified last week on Instagram. "a video of me making a song called 'rock music' that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album," she wrote. |
| Mick Jagger, Diane Kruger, more step out at New York City Ballet gala | Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger walked the red carpet Thursday at the New York City Ballet spring gala. Jagger, 82, and his fianc, retired ballerina Melanie Hamrick, attended the star-studded event at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Other celebrity guests included actors Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus, model Ashley Graham, and actress Emmy Rossum. This year's spring gala had the theme "Set in Stone -- Creation & Preservation" and featured a performance by principal dancer Tiler Peck set to douard Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" in D Minor. The event took place days after Jagger and the Rolling Stones announced a new album, Foreign Tongues, and released two songs from the album, "In the Stars" and "Rough and Twisted. |
| Paul Bettany: Salieri is the 'bad-guy every man' of 'Amadeus' | Avengers, A Beautiful Mind and A Knight's Tale icon Paul Bettany says he approached the historic role of Antonio Salieri in the limited series, Amadeus, the same way he has his other characters -- by first considering what he wants and what he is afraid of. Premiering Friday on Starz, Joe Barton's adaptation of Peter Shaffer's stage play casts Will Sharpe as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an outrageous 25-year-old maestro who takes 18th-century Vienna by storm, much to the chagrin of Salieri (Bettany), the city's devoutly religious court composer. |
| Famous birthdays for May 8: David Attenborough, Bill Cowher | Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. |
| Shannon Gisela: Etta's smart, has a real sense of justice on 'M.I.A.' | Newcomer Shannon Gisela says her M.I.A. character, Etta Tiger Jonze, is a young woman who loves her family, but feels conflicted about the way they make their living. Premiering on Peacock Thursday, the show is set in the Florida Keys and follows Etta as she tries to avenge the deaths of her drug-running parents, played by Danay Garcia and David Denman, as well as her brothers and their wives. "She's whip-smart. She has a huge heart. She has a real sense of justice and wants to fight for what she believes in and loves her family and she's also a bad-ass," Gisela told UPI about Etta in a recent Zoom interview. |