Hollywood legend James Caan died Wednesday night. The cause of death has not been revealed. He was 82. He was in so many great movies, including “The Godfather”, “Brian’s Song”, and, of course, “Elf”, where he played Will Ferrell’s dad. He also did the TV series “Las Vegas” from 2003 to 2007, and kept working right up to the end. He even has a few movies due for release next year.
An actress from “One Tree Hill” named Bevin Prince lost her husband to a lightning strike last weekend. He was boating with friends in North Carolina when he was hit. He was only 33 years old.
Backstreet Boys are coming out with their first Christmas album called “A Very Backstreet Christmas”. It drops October 14th and will include three original songs.
Tyler Hubbard’s video for his song “35’s” shows him digging up a time capsule box. But it wasn’t a prop. He buried the real thing when he was around eight years old. He posted a show-and-tell explaining the significance of what he put in it. There was a Bible, which he considers his life map . . . and a toy car. It had childhood photos, including a pic of him and his dad, whom he lost when he was 20. He included the debut album of BlackHawk, which was one of the first CDs he ever owned, and wore out. And lastly, there was a note written by his younger self. He didn’t read the actual note, but he did explain what it represents. “It was a reminder to stay young and remember where you came from and make sure you stay rooted in your values and who you know you are. And this, for me, kind of represents a lot of the work I’ve done over the years.”
Zac Brown Band brought in Cody Johnson to help out on a new cut of “Wild Palomino”. The original version was on Zac’s album “The Comeback” last year, and the new one with Cody is out next week.
Morgan Wade had to “educate” someone who saw her post about working out, and said she should be writing songs instead. She wrote, “Grumpy little man, without me working out and taking care of myself, there would be no new music.”
You don’t often hear “Los Angeles” and “Country Music Hall of Fame” in the same sentence. But L.A. was a hotbed of country rock in the ’60s and ’70s . . . and it gave us acts like the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris. If you’re interested, the exhibit is called “Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock”. It opens September 30th.
Denzel Washington couldn’t accept his Presidential Medal of Freedom in person yesterday because he has COVID.
Drew Barrymore got strangely overexcited a couple weeks ago when she opened up a wall in her apartment and uncovered a window.
Former America’s Got Talent finalist Jackie Evancho has revealed that she has the bones of an 80 year old woman after the 22 year ol singer’s years-long battle with anorexia led to osteoporosis
Rosie O’Donnell was one of the players in the movie “A League of Their Own”. . . and now she’ll play a bar owner in Amazon’s reboot series. It premieres next month, on August 12th.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrated their 76th wedding anniversary this week
Jaden Smith is 24.
Sophia Bush is 40. Detective Erin Lindsay on “Chicago P.D.”,
Toby Keith is 61.
Kevin Bacon is 64.
Anjelica Huston is 71.
