Quentin Tarantino loves his story Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. There was a three hour movie, a novelization of the film, and a spin-off TV series. And now Tarantino said in a recent interview, “Believe it or not, I’ve written a play version. I wanted to write a play, and stuff that’s not in the book… I wanted it to exist as a play.”
The fedora Harrison Ford wore in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom sold for $300,000 at auction – exceeding estimates. While there were numerous hats made for the movie, this specific hat “originated with a member of the production team who worked on filming done in the U.S.
“The View” has lost MEGHAN MCCAIN who announced yesterday that she’s leaving, because she wants to stay with her husband and daughter in D.C., where she’s been doing the show during the pandemic. She called her co-hosts, “The most talented women on all of television,” and said the gig was “hands down one of the greatest, most wonderful privileges of my life.” She also said it was her father, Senator JOHN MCCAIN, who convinced her to join the show in the first place. “It was one of the last things he told me to do before he died.” McCain said she’s leaving at the end of the season, and told her co-hosts, “If you guys want to fight a little bit more, we have four more weeks.”
CHRIS HEMSWORTH’s trainer shared some secrets for getting Chris in “Thor” shape – it comes down to consistency, hard work, and eating. Lots of eating. His trainer said, “When we go into prep for movies like ‘Thor’, it’s a massive increase in food . . . he eats like six to eight meals a day.” Keep in mind Chris is 6-foot-3, so he needs a lot of calories to build muscle mass. He does this by eating every few hours and 450 calories each time. His trainer stays on set to make sure he eats at the right times . . . with the help of a chef, of course, whether it’s protein shakes or a bigger meal like steak, chicken, or sweet potatoes and rice. Okay now the muscles . . . Chris does heavy weight lifting at least once a day . . . sometimes twice . . . for no more than an hour. Sometimes he mixes up the routine with boxing or high intensity interval training. Chris and his trainer recently came out with a 10-week workout routine for you to achieve Thor muscles at home . . . it’s all on his Centr app.
TYLER FARR’s “Cover Girl” is an important song. Tyler used to be a therapist at a rehab facility for youth that dealt with abuse and trauma. He saw first-hand the damage caused by domestic violence. Back then he would sing to help with the healing. He said, “It took them to a different place where they didn’t have to think about the bad things they went through. They didn’t have to think at all. They could escape. The song is sort of sad starting off, but it leaves you with hope. This guy is telling this girl, you need to get away from this guy. This is not how love is and you deserve better. It’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever been a part of. [It’s] for the people that are stuck in a bad place, and the people that don’t think there’s any way out. Maybe this gives them some courage, some hope, some peace, some escape. I’ve been getting so many messages from these girls saying, ‘you don’t know how much this song means to me.'”
I think “Hoda & Jenna” called it right: WALKER HAYES’ “Fancy Like” is turning into the country song of the summer. And I’m not even talking about the TikTok clip, which passed eight million views a while back. “Fancy Like” has made it to Number One on the “Billboard” Country Digital Song Sales chart, and Number Four on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart. It also hit Number One on the iTunes all-genre Top Songs chart.
Amber Heard has a new baby daughter . . . and for reasons that have not been disclosed, she named her OONAGH. Seriously . . . her name is Oonagh Paige Heard. It’s not clear where the baby came from, but it sounds like this is now a solo project for Amber. “I hope we arrive at a point in which it’s normalized to not want a ring in order to have a crib.”
This week’s country releases include a seven-song EP from Riley Green called “Behind the Bar”, and a five-song EP from Lanco called “Honky-Tonk Hippies”.
LAUREN ALAINA has announced the release date of her self-help book. It’s titled “Getting Good at Being You” and it’ll be out November 2nd. And this is cool, the foreword was writing by Trisha Yearwood.
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton got their marriage license on Tuesday.
The “Gossip Girl” reboot hits HBO Max next Thursday. And if it does well enough to get a second season, you might see some cast members from the original series.
Margot Robbie is 31. Harley Quinn in “Suicide Squad”, “Birds of Prey”, and this year’s “The Suicide Squad”.
Lindsay Lohan is 35.
Ashley Tisdale is 36
Polly Holliday is 84. Flo on “Alice” and its spin-off “Flo”. “Kiss my grits!”
Richard Petty is 84. NASCAR legend.
