Tonight’s CMT Music Awards show will endeavor to emphasize what’s currently flameworthy, to borrow a word that has long since been retired from the telecast’s original name. Prime performance slots have been given to country music figures who are still on the ascent, from still-fairly-freshly-minted superstars Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson to up-and-comers who really seem fresh out of the oven, like Megan Moroney and TikTok sensation Dasha.
To a less emphatic extent, “we also know that we have to pay homage to the artists that got us here,” says executive producer John Hamlin, which for the 2024 show means paying tribute to two icons of ’90s country. “So we’re thrilled to be honoring Trisha Yearwood this year, something that Margaret Comeaux and Leslie Fram [his fellow producer] spent a lot of time orchestrating to make happen for the show. So having Trisha and then having Brooks and Dunn do...
To a less emphatic extent, “we also know that we have to pay homage to the artists that got us here,” says executive producer John Hamlin, which for the 2024 show means paying tribute to two icons of ’90s country. “So we’re thrilled to be honoring Trisha Yearwood this year, something that Margaret Comeaux and Leslie Fram [his fellow producer] spent a lot of time orchestrating to make happen for the show. So having Trisha and then having Brooks and Dunn do...
- 4/7/2024
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Country music’s biggest stars are stepping out for the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards.
The event, which is being held at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, is the first country music awards show where winners are chosen entirely by fans. There will also be two honorary awards presented Thursday night; Wynonna Judd will receive the Country Champion Award, while Tony Keith will receive the Country Icon Award.
Little Big Town will serve as hosts and will also perform. Others slated to hit the stage include Keith, Judd, Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Hardy, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini.
The show will air Thursday night on NBC and Peacock.
And check out all the People’s Choice Country Awards red carpet arrivals below.
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Toby Keith and Tricia Lucus
(Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)
Kelsea Ballerini
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Jimi Westbrook and...
The event, which is being held at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, is the first country music awards show where winners are chosen entirely by fans. There will also be two honorary awards presented Thursday night; Wynonna Judd will receive the Country Champion Award, while Tony Keith will receive the Country Icon Award.
Little Big Town will serve as hosts and will also perform. Others slated to hit the stage include Keith, Judd, Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Hardy, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini.
The show will air Thursday night on NBC and Peacock.
And check out all the People’s Choice Country Awards red carpet arrivals below.
(Getty Images)
Toby Keith and Tricia Lucus
(Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)
Kelsea Ballerini
(Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)
Jimi Westbrook and...
- 9/28/2023
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, Hardy, and Jelly Roll are the top nominees at the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards, airing live Sept. 28 from Nashville’s Opry House, the home of the Grand Ole Opry.
Wallen leads the field with 11 nominations, including multiple nods in categories like The Song of 2023 (“Last Night,” “Thinkin’ About Me”) and The Collaboration Song of 2023 (“Cowgirls” featuring Ernest, “Red” with Hardy, who picked up nine nominations). Wallen is also up for The People’s Artist of 2023, Male Artist of 2023, and The Album of 2023 for One Thing at a Time.
Wallen leads the field with 11 nominations, including multiple nods in categories like The Song of 2023 (“Last Night,” “Thinkin’ About Me”) and The Collaboration Song of 2023 (“Cowgirls” featuring Ernest, “Red” with Hardy, who picked up nine nominations). Wallen is also up for The People’s Artist of 2023, Male Artist of 2023, and The Album of 2023 for One Thing at a Time.
- 8/16/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
2023 has been a landmark year for country music, largely thanks to the success of artists like Luke Combs, Zach Bryan, Lainey Wilson, and, yes, Morgan Wallen. Such success also comes, perhaps coincidentally, in a year when other typically popular genres like pop and hip-hop have been struggling to push out true smash hits. This country dominance raises the question of whether it will be reflected come Grammy time.
The Grammys have been a bit snobby towards country music in the last few years. The last time a country song was nominated for Record of the Year was in 2013, when Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” got in. That song was submitted in the Grammys’ pop categories though, so if we go by Grammy classification, the last country song to get a Record nomination was actually Lady A’s “Need You Now,” which won in 2011. Since then,...
The Grammys have been a bit snobby towards country music in the last few years. The last time a country song was nominated for Record of the Year was in 2013, when Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” got in. That song was submitted in the Grammys’ pop categories though, so if we go by Grammy classification, the last country song to get a Record nomination was actually Lady A’s “Need You Now,” which won in 2011. Since then,...
- 7/28/2023
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
John Travolta certainly knows the value of a having a casting director in his corner.
If not for the faith a legendary one named Lynn Stalmaster had in his talent, the enduring star might never have won the role of "Sweathog" Vinnie Barbarino in the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" ... which set him on a course of fame that exploded soon afterward with the successes of such movies as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease." Travolta is among those paying tribute to "my beloved Lynn" (as he puts it) and others in the documentary "Casting By," which has its HBO debut Monday, Aug. 5.
"I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Lynn and his so believing in me," Travolta recalls for Zap2it. "At age 18, I was up for the movie 'The Last Detail,' in the part Randy Quaid eventually played. Lynn was just hellbent to get me cast in that,...
If not for the faith a legendary one named Lynn Stalmaster had in his talent, the enduring star might never have won the role of "Sweathog" Vinnie Barbarino in the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" ... which set him on a course of fame that exploded soon afterward with the successes of such movies as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease." Travolta is among those paying tribute to "my beloved Lynn" (as he puts it) and others in the documentary "Casting By," which has its HBO debut Monday, Aug. 5.
"I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Lynn and his so believing in me," Travolta recalls for Zap2it. "At age 18, I was up for the movie 'The Last Detail,' in the part Randy Quaid eventually played. Lynn was just hellbent to get me cast in that,...
- 8/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Model and movie star whose life story was the inspiration behind the film Funny Face
In 1944, the 21-year-old Richard Avedon, just starting out as a professional photographer after leaving the Us merchant marine, walked into a bank in Manhattan, New York, and saw a 19-year-old clerk called Dorcas Nowell. It was love at first sight. He called her Doe because of her deer-like eyes, and they soon married. Doe Avedon, who has died aged 86, was the first muse of the man who was to become America's leading fashion and portrait photographer.
Richard Avedon, who had begun to get work as a photographer for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, made his wife into a top model, against her own inclinations. Although Doe gradually backed out of the limelight as a model – one of the last photos Richard took of her was posing in a fur-lined Christian Dior coat and hat at...
In 1944, the 21-year-old Richard Avedon, just starting out as a professional photographer after leaving the Us merchant marine, walked into a bank in Manhattan, New York, and saw a 19-year-old clerk called Dorcas Nowell. It was love at first sight. He called her Doe because of her deer-like eyes, and they soon married. Doe Avedon, who has died aged 86, was the first muse of the man who was to become America's leading fashion and portrait photographer.
Richard Avedon, who had begun to get work as a photographer for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, made his wife into a top model, against her own inclinations. Although Doe gradually backed out of the limelight as a model – one of the last photos Richard took of her was posing in a fur-lined Christian Dior coat and hat at...
- 12/27/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Actress Doe Avedon Siegel has died at the age of 86.
The veteran star passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles, according to Variety.
Avedon Siegel was married to actor Dan Mathews, photographer Richard Avedon and later to Dirty Harry director Don Siegel, with whom she adopted four children before their divorce.
While she was married to Avedon, the couple's friend - playwright/screenwriter Leonard Gershe - based his popular musical Funny Face loosely on their relationship.
Avedon Siegel started her career on Broadway, touring with Mae West, before going on to star in films such as The High and the Mighty with John Wayne and Stanley Donen's Deep in My Heart.
Her TV roles included appearances in Big Town, The Ford Television Theatre and Climax!, and her last big screen appearance came in John Cassavetes' 1984 film, Love Streams.
The veteran star passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles, according to Variety.
Avedon Siegel was married to actor Dan Mathews, photographer Richard Avedon and later to Dirty Harry director Don Siegel, with whom she adopted four children before their divorce.
While she was married to Avedon, the couple's friend - playwright/screenwriter Leonard Gershe - based his popular musical Funny Face loosely on their relationship.
Avedon Siegel started her career on Broadway, touring with Mae West, before going on to star in films such as The High and the Mighty with John Wayne and Stanley Donen's Deep in My Heart.
Her TV roles included appearances in Big Town, The Ford Television Theatre and Climax!, and her last big screen appearance came in John Cassavetes' 1984 film, Love Streams.
- 12/21/2011
- WENN
By Harris Lentz, III
Adele Mara was an actress in films in the 1940s and 1950s, and was John Wayne’s leading lady in the films Wake of the Red Witch and Sands of Iwo Jima. She also starred in the 1945 Republic horror film The Vampire’s Ghost with John Abbott and Peggy Stewart, and The Catman of Paris (1946) with Carl Esmond.
She was born Adelaide Delgado in Highland Park, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. She began her career in her teens as a singer and dancer with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra in Detroit. She traveled to New York with Cugat, where she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. She appeared in a handful of films over the next several years including Alias Boston Blackie (1942) with Chester Morris, Vengeance of the West (1942) with Tex Ritter, and Crime Doctor (1943) with Warner Baxter. She subsequently signed with Republic Studios, and continued her...
Adele Mara was an actress in films in the 1940s and 1950s, and was John Wayne’s leading lady in the films Wake of the Red Witch and Sands of Iwo Jima. She also starred in the 1945 Republic horror film The Vampire’s Ghost with John Abbott and Peggy Stewart, and The Catman of Paris (1946) with Carl Esmond.
She was born Adelaide Delgado in Highland Park, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. She began her career in her teens as a singer and dancer with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra in Detroit. She traveled to New York with Cugat, where she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. She appeared in a handful of films over the next several years including Alias Boston Blackie (1942) with Chester Morris, Vengeance of the West (1942) with Tex Ritter, and Crime Doctor (1943) with Warner Baxter. She subsequently signed with Republic Studios, and continued her...
- 5/20/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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