The following article contains spoilers for "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off."
In the new Netflix anime, "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off," things don't happen in quite the same manner as they do in the 2010 film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," based on the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is a version of the story that happens within the world of the anime, and events wrap up very differently. Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) doesn't just fight her evil ex Roxie (Mae Whitman). In the show, she actually apologizes for how she treated her college girlfriend. They end up friends, though in one scene in episode 3, Roxie does mention wanting to get back together or at least to become friends with benefits. When Ramona says no, she immediately pivots to asking Kim (Alison Pill), the drummer from Scott's (Michael Cera) band Sex Ba-Bomb, if she would want to hook up. They kiss,...
In the new Netflix anime, "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off," things don't happen in quite the same manner as they do in the 2010 film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," based on the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is a version of the story that happens within the world of the anime, and events wrap up very differently. Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) doesn't just fight her evil ex Roxie (Mae Whitman). In the show, she actually apologizes for how she treated her college girlfriend. They end up friends, though in one scene in episode 3, Roxie does mention wanting to get back together or at least to become friends with benefits. When Ramona says no, she immediately pivots to asking Kim (Alison Pill), the drummer from Scott's (Michael Cera) band Sex Ba-Bomb, if she would want to hook up. They kiss,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
The inaugural London Action Festival had its opening night at the Royal Geographical Society (Rgs) on Thursday 28th July. The evening featured a screening of Die Hard (celebrating its 35th birthday) followed by an in-person interview with its director John McTiernan, and live music from actor/Die Hard co-star Robert Davi, who is also a professionally trained opera/jazz singer.
Davi performed four songs with his band, including Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life and You Make Me Feel So Young followed by Roger Miller’s King of the Road, before finishing with festive belter Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
After rousing the crowd, Davi was interviewed by film journalist Ian Nathan, during which he reminisced about his early acting days; appearing in his first film, Contract on Cherry Street (1977), with Frank Sinatra, and relocating to Florida after 45 years in LA.
Davi suggested to Richard Donner that his Goonies character,...
Davi performed four songs with his band, including Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life and You Make Me Feel So Young followed by Roger Miller’s King of the Road, before finishing with festive belter Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
After rousing the crowd, Davi was interviewed by film journalist Ian Nathan, during which he reminisced about his early acting days; appearing in his first film, Contract on Cherry Street (1977), with Frank Sinatra, and relocating to Florida after 45 years in LA.
Davi suggested to Richard Donner that his Goonies character,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Roger Miller’s profound musical legacy will be celebrated on Sunday, March 22nd, at the Grand Ole Opry House, as a host of artists influenced and inspired by him are set to participate in a one-of-a-kind concert event.
“King of the Road: Celebrating the Music of Roger Miller” will feature performances by Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Wynonna, Rodney Crowell, Chris Janson, Lee Ann Womack, Larry Gatlin, Cake, and the War and Treaty. More participants are expected to be announced soon. Americana icon Buddy Miller...
“King of the Road: Celebrating the Music of Roger Miller” will feature performances by Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Wynonna, Rodney Crowell, Chris Janson, Lee Ann Womack, Larry Gatlin, Cake, and the War and Treaty. More participants are expected to be announced soon. Americana icon Buddy Miller...
- 1/22/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
In spite of an experience with a Shetland pony her dad gave her at 5 years old, country icon Tanya Tucker would most likely list horses as her favorite mode of transportation. “He bucked me off so many times and tried to kill me so many times,” she told the Humane Society in 2009. The singer’s track record with automobiles and their horsepower has also been a bit challenging through the years. In 1973, the 14-year-old and her parents were injured in a wreck near Brady, Texas. And two years later, she...
- 8/24/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station Wsm sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such correspondence they had ever received from someone tuning into the country station from the Caribbean island nation. Yet with two Tennessee stations carrying a powerful clear-channel signal over thousands of miles — the other being Nashville’s Wlac, which programmed country music mainly on Saturdays in the early Forties — the hillbilly and early Countrypolitan sounds most associated with Music City had been available to,...
- 7/2/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts and Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
“We wanted to celebrate the closing of True West with something beginning,” Ethan Hawke said Saturday night at a New York City party celebrating both the closing of Hawke and Paul Dano’s performance of Sam Shepard’s drama True West and the album release party of singer-songwriter Ben Dickey.
Dickey, a longtime friend of Hawke who came to prominence in his lead role in last year’s Hawke-directed biopic Blaze and is now signed to Hawke’s label, led his five-piece band at the “Departures and Arrivals”-themed album release party through a blistering,...
Dickey, a longtime friend of Hawke who came to prominence in his lead role in last year’s Hawke-directed biopic Blaze and is now signed to Hawke’s label, led his five-piece band at the “Departures and Arrivals”-themed album release party through a blistering,...
- 3/24/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Some of Hollywood’s top comedians are remembering the life and career of Bob Einstein, the comic actor known for his characters Super Dave Osborne and Marty Funkhouser on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” who died Wednesday at 76.
“Never have I seen an actor enjoy a role the way Bob did playing ‘Marty Funkhouser’ on ‘Curb.’ It was an amazing, unforgettable experience knowing and working with him,” Larry David said in a statement. “There was no one like him, as he told us again and again. We’re all in a state of shock.”
Einstein’s brother, writer-director-actor Albert Brooks, called him “a great brother, father and husband,” but also a “brilliantly funny man.” In addition to his work on TV, several comedians also held up Einstein’s scene in the Brooks-directed comedy “Modern Romance” as a clerk at a running store calmly pressuring Brooks into spending a fortune on running gear...
“Never have I seen an actor enjoy a role the way Bob did playing ‘Marty Funkhouser’ on ‘Curb.’ It was an amazing, unforgettable experience knowing and working with him,” Larry David said in a statement. “There was no one like him, as he told us again and again. We’re all in a state of shock.”
Einstein’s brother, writer-director-actor Albert Brooks, called him “a great brother, father and husband,” but also a “brilliantly funny man.” In addition to his work on TV, several comedians also held up Einstein’s scene in the Brooks-directed comedy “Modern Romance” as a clerk at a running store calmly pressuring Brooks into spending a fortune on running gear...
- 1/3/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Bob Einstein, a two-time Emmy winner who has recurred on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm since its launch and created the wacky Super Dave Osborne character, died today in Indian Wells, CA. He was 76 and recently had been diagnosed with cancer.
Best known to today’s viewers for playing the serious, often surly but always hilarious Marty Funkhouser on Curb, Einstein was a foil for its creator-star Larry David. He appeared in nearly two dozen episodes of the series dating from 2004 to the most recent season.
Einstein’s younger brother, actor-director Albert Brooks, tweeted today, “R.I.P. My dear brother Bob Einstein. A great brother, father and husband. A brilliantly funny man. You will be missed forever.”
A comedian’s comedian, Einstein first made his name as a writer. His career dates to the 1960s, when he won his first Emmy as part of the writing team for The...
Best known to today’s viewers for playing the serious, often surly but always hilarious Marty Funkhouser on Curb, Einstein was a foil for its creator-star Larry David. He appeared in nearly two dozen episodes of the series dating from 2004 to the most recent season.
Einstein’s younger brother, actor-director Albert Brooks, tweeted today, “R.I.P. My dear brother Bob Einstein. A great brother, father and husband. A brilliantly funny man. You will be missed forever.”
A comedian’s comedian, Einstein first made his name as a writer. His career dates to the 1960s, when he won his first Emmy as part of the writing team for The...
- 1/2/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Genre borders weren’t a thing for Roger Miller, a songwriting phenomenon and enthusiastic smoker who died of lung cancer in 1992. He’s best known for his ‘65 hit “King of the Road,” which topped the country charts here, the pop charts in England and Norway, and would be covered years later by an evidently inebriated R.E.M. But that was hardly Miller’s only hit, and his charm so transcended red/blue state divides, he got himself a network TV show years before Johnny Cash. It’s fitting, therefore,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
The British Invasion vibes of Aaron Lee Tasjan, the pop-rock country of Cassadee Pope and the self-aware lyricism of Carson McHone help make up the 10 country and Americana songs you must hear now.
Paul Brandt (featuring Lindsay Ell), “Bittersweet”
Backed by guitar hero (and fellow Calgary native) Lindsay Ell, singer-songwriter Paul Brandt shines a light on life’s great balancing act with “Bittersweet.” The song celebrates the ups, downs and in-betweens of our everyday existence, with plenty of anthemic, arena-ready atmospherics from Ell’s Fender.
Flatland Cavalry, “Honeywine”
Like the Turnpike Troubadours,...
Paul Brandt (featuring Lindsay Ell), “Bittersweet”
Backed by guitar hero (and fellow Calgary native) Lindsay Ell, singer-songwriter Paul Brandt shines a light on life’s great balancing act with “Bittersweet.” The song celebrates the ups, downs and in-betweens of our everyday existence, with plenty of anthemic, arena-ready atmospherics from Ell’s Fender.
Flatland Cavalry, “Honeywine”
Like the Turnpike Troubadours,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Few sounds in popular music are as instantly familiar and welcoming as that of Willie Nelson’s guitar. His offbeat picking style is the first thing one can hear on Nelson’s new recording of “Old Friends” with Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard, to be featured on the upcoming Roger Miller tribute King of the Road.
Penned by Miller, the song served as the title track of his collaborative 1982 album with Nelson. The original version, featuring additional vocals by Ray Price, went on to peak at Number 19 — Miller’s highest-charting...
Penned by Miller, the song served as the title track of his collaborative 1982 album with Nelson. The original version, featuring additional vocals by Ray Price, went on to peak at Number 19 — Miller’s highest-charting...
- 8/23/2018
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
In the latest sneak peek of a track from King of the Road, the tremendously entertaining and star-packed tribute to songwriting legend Roger Miller, honky-tonk queen Loretta Lynn delivers a vintage performance of Miller’s “Half a Mind” that’s as much an homage to Miller’s lyrical genius as it is a tribute to the artist who first made it a hit 60 years ago.
Lynn’s delivery of “Half a Mind” – a hit for Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours in 1958 – complements the crying steel guitar of the song...
Lynn’s delivery of “Half a Mind” – a hit for Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours in 1958 – complements the crying steel guitar of the song...
- 7/26/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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