Thursday, May 5, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
A Message From E.G. Daily
In the middle of one wild & crazy day yesterday, fielding what seemed like my millionth call, what to my wandering ears did I hear? But the familiar beep of a text message coming in...well it was from none other than my friend E.G. asking me this:
"Hi Sweety ! I wanted to see if you could do a little FYI to your peeps about my gig coming up at the Whisky July 22 I will be headlining w Missing Persons for a fun 80's night!"
Done and I am so in! You should be too E.G. slayed when she performed there last in November and I expect she will again since Ms. Thang is a natural born entertainer.
Also there is the bonus of an 80's theme that brings Missing Persons along for the ride.
Forget penciling it in, use a pen, how about sending a text to yourself about it. Whatever you do you won't want to miss this date! Hope to see you there!
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Rock-n-Roll Legend: Bobby Rydell
From his vivid childhood on the fabled mid-20th-century streets of South Philadelphia, to his reign as the Justin Bieber of the “Camelot” era, his battles with alcoholism, and his lifesaving double-transplant surgery, multi-talented entertainer Bobby Rydell has one hell of a story to tell.
And tell he did, here for an exclusive chat with Entertain Me about his autobiography, Teen Idol On The Rocks is none other than Rock-n-Roll legend: Mr. Bobby Rydell!
MS: Hi Bobby. A friend of mine performed with you at the Hollywood Bowl for Y-Day in 1963.
BR: Oh my God. Who was it?
MS: Do you remember Mike Clifford?
BR: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember tell him "Hi" for me.
MS: What compelled you to write Teen Idol On The Rocks?
BR: Being on the road for many years, after the show you get together sit down, talk to people and you start relating stories. This had been going on for quite a few years and everybody who I kept company with would say: Bobby, you have such great stories, why don't you write a book? I'd always be like: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To make a long story short my wife said: Why don't you seriously think about putting your life together in a autobiography? I thought maybe it isn't such a bad idea. So, I got together with a friend of mine Allan Slutsky, he's a Grammy winner and wrote a book called Standing in the Shadows of Mowtown, we sat for eighteen months. He was here with a tape recorder, a piece of paper and a pencil, I just poured my heart out to him and lo and behold, here's the book.
MS: Mike mentioned that you performed the song "Forget Him" at Y-Day. I didn't realize I had actually heard the song until I pulled it up online.
BR: That was my third million selling hit. I recorded it in London, England. The song was written by a gentleman named Tony Hatch, who also wrote "Downtown" for Petula Clark. We got together while I was over in the UK and not only did we record "Forget Him" we recorded a whole album, we released the single which became a big hit, so the album was of course titled " Forget Him." (laughs)
MS: When did your alcoholism start? Was that your whole career or later in it?
BR: Later in my career. Prior to becoming a really heavy drinker I was more or less a social drinker. Going out to dinner having a cocktail, maybe a liqueur after. But what actually led to all the drinking was back in 2003 my wife of thirty-six years passed away from breast cancer. She was a very important and loving part of my life. When she passed I just couldn't handle it. I was weak and depressed so I turned to alcohol. I thought a couple of drinks a day would be OK. But a couple of drinks became four, than eight, eight became twelve, I drank my ass off. It went on for quite a few years and that's what led to my double transplant, a new liver and a new kidney.
MS: It's pretty amazing that you received both of those.
BR: There was a Doctor in 2010 who said: Bobby if you don't stop drinking you're going to be dead in two years. I laughed and said: Well I have another two years. He was right on the money, because in 2012 I had the surgery.
MS: Something cool I read was that The Beatles paid homage to you in one of their songs. Also I read that they all but killed your career. Please explain that.
BR: Well not only me, but quite a few American artists. When they hit not only them, but a whole bunch of artists from the UK came to America, we called it the British Invasion. Basically that's what it was. Everybody has their day an God Bless them. Before The Beatles became anything I was traveling with a young woman, Helen Shapiro who was a big singer in the UK. We were doing a tour, traveling on a bus through the UK doing different cities. One night in front of the bus there was a car and Helen yelled out "There's The Beatles!"
I didn't know what she meant I started looking around the bus for cockroaches. Anyway the bus stopped, the car stopped, the four guys got on the bus. Now they knew me, and I just shook their hands, they're The Beatles, their a band, that's cool, they were on the road too. They went their way, we went our way. Then I come home, now it's 1964 and I am watching Ed Sullivan and there are The Beatles! I go "Jesus I met those guys!" it would have been such a great picture, before they made it they came on the bus in the middle of the UK ten or eleven o'clock at night, no picture. That would have been fantastic! Then later Paul McCartney would they got "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from me. That's like a feather in my cap. (laughs)
MS: I've always been familiar with the name Bobby Rydell. In fact when I saw that the name of the High School in the movie "Grease" was Rydell High, I knew it was named for you.
BR: People have brought that up many times. I don't know why they picked me. It could have been Presley High or Fabian High, or anything really.
MS: Rydell sounds like an actual High School.
BR: Does it really? Well, maybe it does. Yeah, I guess it does. (laughs)
MS: I don't think Fabian or Presley High sounds real.
BR: Yeah, yeah you're right, not even I thought those names sounded right for a High School when I said them. (laughs)
Teen Idol On The Rocks will be available tomorrow, May 4th on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
Keep Rocking With Bobby at:
MS: Hi Bobby. A friend of mine performed with you at the Hollywood Bowl for Y-Day in 1963.
BR: Oh my God. Who was it?
MS: Do you remember Mike Clifford?
BR: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember tell him "Hi" for me.
MS: What compelled you to write Teen Idol On The Rocks?
BR: Being on the road for many years, after the show you get together sit down, talk to people and you start relating stories. This had been going on for quite a few years and everybody who I kept company with would say: Bobby, you have such great stories, why don't you write a book? I'd always be like: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To make a long story short my wife said: Why don't you seriously think about putting your life together in a autobiography? I thought maybe it isn't such a bad idea. So, I got together with a friend of mine Allan Slutsky, he's a Grammy winner and wrote a book called Standing in the Shadows of Mowtown, we sat for eighteen months. He was here with a tape recorder, a piece of paper and a pencil, I just poured my heart out to him and lo and behold, here's the book.
Forget Him
MS: Mike mentioned that you performed the song "Forget Him" at Y-Day. I didn't realize I had actually heard the song until I pulled it up online.
BR: That was my third million selling hit. I recorded it in London, England. The song was written by a gentleman named Tony Hatch, who also wrote "Downtown" for Petula Clark. We got together while I was over in the UK and not only did we record "Forget Him" we recorded a whole album, we released the single which became a big hit, so the album was of course titled " Forget Him." (laughs)
MS: When did your alcoholism start? Was that your whole career or later in it?
BR: Later in my career. Prior to becoming a really heavy drinker I was more or less a social drinker. Going out to dinner having a cocktail, maybe a liqueur after. But what actually led to all the drinking was back in 2003 my wife of thirty-six years passed away from breast cancer. She was a very important and loving part of my life. When she passed I just couldn't handle it. I was weak and depressed so I turned to alcohol. I thought a couple of drinks a day would be OK. But a couple of drinks became four, than eight, eight became twelve, I drank my ass off. It went on for quite a few years and that's what led to my double transplant, a new liver and a new kidney.
MS: It's pretty amazing that you received both of those.
BR: There was a Doctor in 2010 who said: Bobby if you don't stop drinking you're going to be dead in two years. I laughed and said: Well I have another two years. He was right on the money, because in 2012 I had the surgery.
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| Bobby Today |
BR: Well not only me, but quite a few American artists. When they hit not only them, but a whole bunch of artists from the UK came to America, we called it the British Invasion. Basically that's what it was. Everybody has their day an God Bless them. Before The Beatles became anything I was traveling with a young woman, Helen Shapiro who was a big singer in the UK. We were doing a tour, traveling on a bus through the UK doing different cities. One night in front of the bus there was a car and Helen yelled out "There's The Beatles!"
I didn't know what she meant I started looking around the bus for cockroaches. Anyway the bus stopped, the car stopped, the four guys got on the bus. Now they knew me, and I just shook their hands, they're The Beatles, their a band, that's cool, they were on the road too. They went their way, we went our way. Then I come home, now it's 1964 and I am watching Ed Sullivan and there are The Beatles! I go "Jesus I met those guys!" it would have been such a great picture, before they made it they came on the bus in the middle of the UK ten or eleven o'clock at night, no picture. That would have been fantastic! Then later Paul McCartney would they got "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from me. That's like a feather in my cap. (laughs)
MS: I've always been familiar with the name Bobby Rydell. In fact when I saw that the name of the High School in the movie "Grease" was Rydell High, I knew it was named for you.
BR: People have brought that up many times. I don't know why they picked me. It could have been Presley High or Fabian High, or anything really.
MS: Rydell sounds like an actual High School.
BR: Does it really? Well, maybe it does. Yeah, I guess it does. (laughs)
MS: I don't think Fabian or Presley High sounds real.
BR: Yeah, yeah you're right, not even I thought those names sounded right for a High School when I said them. (laughs)
Teen Idol On The Rocks will be available tomorrow, May 4th on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
Keep Rocking With Bobby at:
Official website: www.bobbyrydell.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialBobbyRydell
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/BobbayRydell
Monday, May 2, 2016
Dolly Parton Comes Out, Tomorrow
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| Never Fear, Dolly's Here |
Dolly Parton comes out tomorrow. Just in time for all you mothers!
Just in time for Mother's Day, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the critically acclaimed film Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors on DVD for the first time on May 3, 2016. Experience the magic and warmth of the television movie event that is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee. In support of the DVD release, Dolly will head out on the promotional trail and appear on Access Hollywood on April 30th, CMT After Midnite on April 30th and CMT’s Hot Twenty Countdown on April 30th and May 1st, CBS This Morning and Yahoo TV on May 2nd, CMT Radio Live on May 2nd, Entertainment Tonight Canada on May 3rd, GAC’s Great American Playlist on May 3rd and May 12th, CBS This Morning on May 5th, CBN’s 700 Club on May 6th, PBS’s Metro Focus on May 5th and May 8th with additional features with Parade, People Magazine, Huffington Post, Fox411, Rolling Stone Country and more.
“It is my true belief that if you're lucky enough to have a good mother, that is the greatest gift that you will ever know,” said Dolly. “So many people responded to my Mother in the "Coat of Many Colors" movie not only because of the wonderful job that Jennifer Nettles did portraying her, but the love and attention that Mama gave to all of her children.”
To date, the initial broadcast of Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors has delivered 15.9M total viewers (Live+7), becoming the #1 movie on broadcast with total viewers in more than 6 years.* Furthermore, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors has the highest total viewer L+SD to L+3 increase (2.548 M) ever!** The family-oriented faith-based movie stars Jennifer Nettles (award-winning singer/songwriter and lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland), Ricky Schroder (NYPD Blue, The Lost Battalion, 24), Gerald McRaney (Agent X, Mike & Molly, Longmire, House of Cards), and Alyvia Alyn Lind (Transparent, Revenge, Blended). Dolly Parton introduces the film and serves as narrator. Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors also contains an alternate version of the movie, deleted scenes and heartwarming extras.
This once-in-a-lifetime special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome a devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat — vividly described in the well-known song of the film's title — that helped make Parton who she is today. Set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955, this poignant and uplifting family-friendly story follows the incidents in Dolly and her family's life around the time she was nine years old.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Coat of Many Colors: Bringing the Song to the Screen (Featurette) – This featurette explores the early life of Dolly Parton, the “Queen of Country Music.” Ms. Parton talks about the origin of her hit song “Coat of Many Colors” and the journey of bringing this story of love and forgiveness to television.
• Deleted Scenes
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www.dollypartonentertainment.com
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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Cool Riders: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
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| I'll Drive Next Time Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper |
Gaga & Bradley cool rode on a motorcycle recently to have dinner at Giorgio Baldi Italian restaurant in Santa Moinca, CA. I wonder what they could be up to, I'd love to know, wouldn't you?
Collaboration perhaps? Talking about the Gay Agenda? Gaga giving Cooper some fashion tips? Or perhaps Cooper is going to be Gaga's maid of honor when she weds Taylor Kinney?
Whatever the reason this image is crazy cool like a Sunday should be.
Yeah, I went there.
So, the next time you think to yourself: "What would Lady Gaga do?" Well getting on a motorcycle and having dinner with someone seemingly random is one of those things.
Have a Succulent Sunday!!!
Go Gaga at:
www.ladygaga.com/
Fly the Cooper at:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0177896/
Saturday, April 30, 2016
James Durbin Rocks Autism!
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| James & His Band On The Jumbotron |
My buddy James Durbin of American Idol was headlining it. James definitely rocks!!!
His latest single Smackdown really hits it out of the park. Hey, check out the photos I took of last night's show, it was awesome!
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| Rock Star! James Durbin |
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| Shooting James Heidi Durbin 
Everybody Loves James
A True "American Idol"
Me & James Before The Show
Keep On Rocking With James at:
Autism Rocks at:
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Film Buff Friday: Ray Harryhausen
I remember begging my Dad to take me to see "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" and how excited I was to see "Clash of the Titans"
Ray Harryhausen was my spirit animal as a kid.
The remarkable career of the movie industry's most admired and influential special-effects auteur, the legendary Ray Harryhausen, is the subject of Gilles Penso's definitive documentary Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan.
Leaving no doubt as to Harryhausen's seminal influence on modern-day special effects, the documentary features enlightening and entertaining interviews with the man himself, Randy Cook, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Phil Tippet, Terry Gilliam, Dennis Muren, John Landis, Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and many more.
These filmmakers, who today push the boundaries of special effects movie-making, pay tribute to the father of Stop Motion animation and films such as 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms', 'It Came from Beneath the Sea', 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad', 'Mysterious Island', 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' - the films that enthralled them as children and inspired them to become filmmakers in their own right.
Bonus Materials
Interviews with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Peter Lord, Rick Baker
12 Interview outtakes with Joe Dante, John Lasseter, Nick Park and more!
A message to Ray
Deleted Scenes
On the set of Sinbad
Paris Cinematheque Q&A
London Gate Theater Q&A
Audio commentary with the filmmakers
Original Trailer
Ray Harryhausen Trailer Reel
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