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New York Post
5 days ago
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- New York Post
Justin Timberlake screams at crew mid-show onstage in wild outburst
Cry me a river. Justin Timberlake, 44, was caught screaming at his stage crew earlier this month during a show at the Lytham Festival in Lytham St Annes, England. The wild outburst unfolded after the 'SexyBack' singer's set was temporarily cut short due to a sound issue at the Lytham Green venue on July 5, according to a TikTok video shared by a fan in attendance. Advertisement In the surprising clip, Timberlake is approached by two crew members who appear to tell the pop star that it will take some time to fix the issue. Timberlake seems to raise his voice at the two men before making angry gestures and shaking his head. Advertisement The incident occurred early in Timberlake's set and came as he performed his 2002 hit 'Cry Me a River,' which has long been rumored to be about his nasty split from ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. 9 Justin Timberlake appears to yell at two members of his stage crew after a sound issue. 9 Justin Timberlake appears to raise his voice before making angry head gestures and shaking his head. But despite the sound cutting out and Timberlake's shocking outburst, another video showed the audience cheering and singing along to finish the song for the frustrated *NSYNC alum. Advertisement Once the sound issue was resolved, Timberlake returned to the Lytham Festival stage and jumped into his 2024 hit 'No Angels' without a problem. However, the 'Rock Your Body' singer still faced backlash after the shouting video went viral. 9 Justin Timberlake after the sound cut out during his show at the Lytham Festival in Lytham St Annes, England, on July 5. 9 Justin Timberlake at the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin, Germany on July 12. Action Press/Shutterstock Advertisement Several of Timberlake's fans rushed to social media to slam him over the 'unprofessional' outburst. 'Losing it with your support crew is considered highly unprofessional in the world of stage performance,' one person commented on TikTok. 'He's mad about anything and everything,' another fan wrote. 'How embarrassing!' tweeted a third. 9 Justin Timberlake performing at the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin, Germany on July 12. BACKGRID 9 Justin Timberlake during the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin, Germany on July 12. Action Press/Shutterstock Other fans defended Timberlake and argued that the singer's frustrations were justified. 'He hardly looks like he's losing it. Just annoyed. I would be too,' one person wrote on the TikTok video. 'I don't blame him for being a bit peeved he's trying to entertain his fans that paid money to see him,' a second fan added. 'It was great that the fans stepped in to help him.' Advertisement 'As he should. He's a professional. This is his craft,' commented a third person. The Post has reached out to Timberlake's reps for comment. 9 Justin Timberlake mid-song during the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin, Germany on July 12. Action Press/Shutterstock 9 Justin Timberlake during the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin, Germany on July 12. Action Press/Shutterstock Advertisement Meanwhile, the 'Mirrors' singer's surprising festival blowup came just a few months after he faced backlash for abruptly canceling his final stop on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour in Ohio after coming down with the flu. 'You guys. I'm heartbroken,' he wrote on Instagram in February, just minutes before the show was scheduled to start. 'I have to cancel the show tonight. I went into soundcheck battling the flu and now it's gotten the best of me.' Despite promising refunds, fans still slammed Timberlake for the last-minute notice. 9 Justin Timberlake and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, relax during a break from the pop star's Forget Tomorrow World Tour. jessicabiel/Instagram Advertisement The 'Selfish' singer also made headlines just over a year ago when he was arrested for suspicion of DWI in Sag Harbor, New York, in June 2024. Timberlake ended up pleading guilty to a lesser charge of driving while ability impaired in September. Timberlake has been married to actress Jessica Biel, 43, since 2012. The pair shares two sons – Silas, 10, and Phineas, 4 – with Biel recently revealing the 'scary' about raising kids with the 'Suit & Tie' pop star.
Boston Globe
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Arthur Hamilton, who wrote the enduring ‘Cry Me a River,' dies at 98
It was one of the three songs he wrote for the 1955 film 'Pete Kelly's Blues,' which starred Jack Webb as a jazz musician fighting mobsters in Prohibition-era Kansas City, Missouri. At the time, Webb was also playing his most famous role, Sergeant Joe Friday, on the television series 'Dragnet' (1951-59). Advertisement Peggy Lee, who played an alcoholic performer in the film, sang Mr. Hamilton's 'Sing a Rainbow' and 'He Needs Me.' Ella Fitzgerald, who was also in the film, sang 'Cry Me a River,' but her rendition was cut by Webb, who was also the director and producer. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'Arthur said to me that the irony was that when Ella recorded it' -- years later, for her 1961 album 'Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!' -- 'he thought she made one of the greatest recordings of it ever,' Michael Feinstein, the singer and pianist, said in an interview. 'But Jack felt she didn't have the emotional bandwidth to do it justice.' Mr. Hamilton quickly made the song available to London, a friend from high school who was also Webb's ex-wife. It became a hit, rising to No. 9 on the Billboard singles chart in 1955. Advertisement The song is a bitter rebuke from a jilted lover: Now you say you're sorry For being so untrue Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 2010, Mr. Hamilton explained why he used the phrase 'cry me a river.' 'Instead of 'eat your heart out,' or 'I'll get even with you,' it sounded like a good, smart retort to somebody who had hurt your feelings or broken your heart,' he said. The song has been covered by Barbra Streisand, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles, Aerosmith and, in 2009, the crooner Michael Bublé, who sang it before Queen Elizabeth II. Bublé told The Wall Street Journal in 2010 that the song stood out for its lack of sentimentality. 'There's almost a darkness that sort of distinguishes it from so many other songs,' he said. 'Even if you listen to Julie London's version, it's very dark.' London's 'Cry Me a River' was added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in 2015. 'Delivered in a soft, breathy style, 'Cry' is basically a revenge anthem, but it nevertheless becomes a romantic come-hither,' Cary O'Dell wrote in an essay for the registry. Arthur Hamilton Stern was born on Oct. 22, 1926, in Seattle, and moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was a baby. His father, Jack Stern, wrote songs for several films, including 'Folies Bergère de Paris' (1935), which starred Maurice Chevalier, and was also a publicist for Irving Berlin. His mother, Grace (Hamilton) Stern, was a singer who occasionally wrote lyrics for her husband's songs. Advertisement Mr. Hamilton learned to play on the pianos in his house and received a further education from watching performances by the cabaret pianist and singer Bobby Short in a club in Beverly Hills. 'I told people many times, 'I didn't go to college. I went to Bobby Short,'' he said in 2020 on 'The Paul Leslie Hour,' a podcast. Mr. Hamilton wrote the score for a stage musical, 'What a Day,' that was telecast live on the Los Angeles television station KTTV, in 1949; worked for a music publishing company; and signed a contract to write songs for Webb -- first for 'Dragnet,' where his tune 'Any Questions?' was sung in an episode by Peggy King, and then for 'Pete Kelly's Blues. Composing music for 'Pete Kelly's Blues' was a big break for Mr. Hamilton. 'Four years ago,' according to a 1955 article in The Oakland Tribune, 'he was delivering drugs for a chain of local pharmacies. He was a frustrated songwriter who spent his spare time scribbling lyrics on the backs of prescription blanks.' Lee's recording of 'He Needs Me' was included in the album 'Songs From 'Pete Kelly's Blues'' (1955), and the song was later covered by Cleo Laine, Nina Simone and others. Both Bobby Darin and Marvin Gaye recorded it as 'She Needs Me.' In 1970, Mr. Hamilton collaborated with Riz Ortolani on 'Till Love Touches Your Life' for the movie 'Madron,' a western filmed in Israel, which starred Richard Boone as a cowboy and Leslie Caron as a nun. It was nominated for an Oscar for best original song but lost to 'For All We Know,' from 'Lovers and Other Strangers.' Advertisement Mr. Hamilton and Pat Williams were nominated for Primetime Emmys for their songs for the TV movies 'Blind Spot' (1993) and 'The Corpse Had a Familiar Face' (1994). Mr. Hamilton's survivors include his wife, Joyce (Maurer) Hamilton, and a daughter, Claudia Hamilton. His marriage to Mildred Winter ended in divorce. Feinstein, an expert on the Great American Songbook who wrote songs with Hamilton about 15 years ago, said that 'Cry Me a River' resonates in part because its emotional intensity builds throughout. 'Songs that are simply not about the clichéd expressions of love,' he said, 'have the potential to endure longer than the garden variety love song, because they express something that is a catharsis for people.' This article originally appeared in
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Arthur Hamilton, 'Cry Me a River' Songwriter, Dies at 98
Arthur Hamilton, the Oscar-nominated songwriter best known for his smoky torch-song classic 'Cry Me a River,' memorably recorded by Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Cocker and many others, has died. He was 98. His death was announced this week by ASCAP and the Society of Composers and Lyricists; details were not immediately available. More from The Hollywood Reporter Enzo Staiola, Child Star in Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves,' Dies at 85 Jason Constantine, Lionsgate Co-President, Dies at 55 Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor, Dies at 59 After Shooting Hamilton received his Oscar nom for best song (shared with composer Riz Ortolani) for 'Till Love Touches Your Life' from Madron (1970), performed by Richard Williams and Jan Daley for the movie Western that starred Richard Boone and Leslie Caron. For Warner Bros.' Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), starring and directed by Jack Webb, Hamilton created two wistful songs for Peggy Lee, who played an alcoholic jazz singer in the musical crime film — 'He Needs Me' and 'Sing a Rainbow,' which would evolve into a children's classic. 'Cry Me a River' was sung by Fitzgerald for the film but did not survive the cutting room floor. However, London — the actress and Webb's ex-wife — recorded it for her 1955 debut album, 'Julie Is Her Name,' and it soared to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. (London and Hamilton had gone to the Hollywood Professional School together, and he took her to the senior prom.) Performed from the perspective of a jilted lover, the sparse 'Cry Me a River' opens with: 'Now you say you're lonely / You cried the whole night through / Well, you can cry me a river / Cry me a river / I cried a river over you.' Fitzgerald released her version on her 1961 album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, and Cocker performed his on his 1970 Leon Russell-produced live album Mad Dogs & Englishmen. 'Cry Me a River' also would be recorded by Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Harry Connick Jr., Susan Boyle, Michael Bublé, Jeff Beck, Diana Krall, Björk and Aerosmith, among many others. 'I just liked the combination of words,' Hamilton told The Wall Street Journal in 2010. 'Instead of 'Eat your heart out' or 'I'll get even with you,' it sounded like a good, smart retort to somebody who had hurt your feelings or broken your heart. 'Its general use as a put-down phrase has continued to delight and amaze me. Whenever my wife and I are watching a film or TV show and the phrase is used, we laugh and gently punch each other.' Arthur Hamilton Stern was born in Seattle on Oct. 22, 1926. His father, Jack Stern, was a songwriter and orchestrator who worked on films including His Night Out (1935), Jane Withers' Little Miss Nobody (1936) and Sweetheart of the Navy (1937). His mother, Grace Hamilton, wrote lyrics for her husband's songs. He came to Los Angeles with his parents when he was an infant, learned to play piano and in 1949 wrote a live stage musical, What a Day, for local station KTTV. He then spent a couple years working for a music publishing company. Hamilton said he was inspired by legendary cabaret performer Bobby Short. 'I told people many times, 'I never went to college, I went to Bobby Short,' ' he noted in 2016 on an episode of The Paul Leslie Hour podcast. Bobby Darin recorded 'He Needs Me' as 'She Needs Me' in 1959 for his second album — the one with 'Mack the Knife' and 'Beyond the Sea' on it — and Hamilton's résumé also included 'Rain Sometimes,' 'One Look' and 'The Best I Ever Was.' He earned Emmy noms in 1993 and '94 for his tunes 'Good Things Grow' and 'Something Is Out There' from the respective TV movies Blind Spot and The Corpse Had a Familiar Face. London's version of 'Cry Me a River,' backed only by Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass and released on the newly founded Liberty Records label, became her signature song. It was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2015. 'So fully does London's image, persona and, of course, her voice convey and encompass the world of smoky nightclubs and intimate stages, that every would-be chanteuse, whenever they take to the stage to sing out a song, are (whether they know it or not, whether they credit her or not) both channeling and paying homage to Miss Julie London,' the Library of Congress' Cary O'Dell wrote. Hamilton served as the second president of the Society of Composers and Lyricists from 1985-87 and was a music branch governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scientists and a member of the ASCAP Foundation Board. Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025 Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pippa Scott, Actress in ‘The Searchers' and ‘Auntie Mame,' Dies at 90
Pippa Scott, who played one of abducted daughters alongside Natalie Wood in John Ford's The Searchers and the secretary of Rosalind Russell's title character in Auntie Mame, has died. She was 90. Scott died peacefully May 22 of congenital heart failure at her home in Santa Monica, her daughter Miranda Tollman told The Hollywood Reporter. More from The Hollywood Reporter Arthur Hamilton, "Cry Me a River" Songwriter, Dies at 98 Enzo Staiola, Child Star in Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves,' Dies at 85 Jason Constantine, Lionsgate Co-President, Dies at 55 Scott's film résumé also included Gower Champion's My Six Loves (1963), Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), Norman Lear's Cold Turkey (1971) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg's The Sound of Murder (1982). On television, the redhead portrayed the wife of a Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) transported back in time in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode 'The Trouble With Templeton'; was the wife of a rabbi helping Morey Amsterdam's character with his very belated bar mitzvah on the 1966 Dick Van Dyke Show installment 'Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy'; and played a nursery school teacher and love interest of Jack Warden's detective on the 1976 NBC drama Jigsaw John. Scott's career got off to a rousing start with she portrayed the ill-fated Lucy Edwards, older sister of Wood's Debbie Edwards, in the John Wayne-starring The Searchers (1956). And in Auntie Mame, she starred as Pegeen, who winds up falling for Roger Smith's Patrick Dennis. Philippa Scott was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 1934. Her mother was stage actress Laura Straub, and her father was Allan Scott, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936). Her uncle, writer-producer Adrian Scott, was blacklisted during the McCarthy era as one of the Hollywood Ten. (She would appear in a 1964 film written by him, The Confession.) Educated at Radcliffe and UCLA and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Scott made her Broadway debut in 1956 in Jed Harris' Child of Fortune, and in 1958, she starred as a teacher who is kidnapped in As Young as We Are. Scott guest-starred on lots of TV shows, with appearances on Mr. Lucky, The Virginian, Maverick, Thriller, Have Gun — Will Travel, Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive, Wagon Train, Ben Casey, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, F Troop, I Spy, Family Affair, Medical Center, Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mission: Impossible, Barnaby Jones, Columbo, The Waltons, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Mannix and Remington Steele. On stage, she appeared in the New York company of 1959's Look Back in Anger and 1984's Isn't It Romantic and collaborated with John Houseman at UCLA in a 1973 production of Three Sisters in preparation for the start of the Center Theatre Group. In 1964, Scott married Lee Rich, producer and founding partner of Lorimar Productions, the company behind such acclaimed shows as The Waltons, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing, Eight Is Enough and The Blue Knight. They divorced in 1983 but reconnected in 1996 and remained together until his death in 2012. As a child whose family experienced the consequences of persecution, Scott in 1993 founded The International Monitor Institute, a nonprofit that gathered evidence to assist the prosecution of war crimes in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Congo, Cambodia and Iraq and the systemic use of rape and child soldiers in genocide. The work of the IMI continues to assist war crime prosecution to this day through the Human Rights department at Duke University. Scott also founded Linden Productions to further illuminate human rights violations, and her work includes projects commissioned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee. In 1998, she produced for PBS' Frontline the documentary The World's Most Wanted Man, about the hunt for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. And in 2006, she produced another doc, King Leopold's Ghost, about the exploitation of the Congo by the king of Belgium. After two decades behind the camera, she made her last acting appearance in the indie feature Footprints (2009). Survivors include her daughters, Miranda and Jessica, and five grandchildren. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Travis Kelce's Dance With Justin Timberlake Prompts Taylor Swift Comments
Travis Kelce's viral dance video with Justin Timberlake took the internet by storm. Sure enough, as the Kansas City Chiefs star's moves caught people's attention, many also couldn't help but mention his girlfriend, Taylor Swift. The three-time Super Bowl champion recently made headlines after joining the singer's 8AM Golf Invitational in Las Vegas with fellow celebrity golf enthusiasts like Olympian Michael Phelps, skateboard icons Sean Malto and Eric Koston, as well as his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. Amid the exciting friendly competition, the participants didn't forget to have fun, especially the Chiefs tight end and the 'Cry Me a River' hitmaker. After the annual celebrity golf tournament, Timberlake shared a clip of himself dancing alongside Travis Kelce and comedian Andrew Santino on the fairway. At one point, the 10-time Pro Bowler took the lead, using his golf club as a microphone while the other two served as his backup dancers. 'We are just @killatrav's backup dancers now,' Timberlake captioned his Instagram post. Interestingly, as fans gushed over the trio's hilarious and unexpected dance moves, the internet also brought up Taylor Swift's name. Fans couldn't help but point out the influence of Travis Kelce's girlfriend on him, noting that she might have inspired his playful dance moves. '@killatrav is a certified backup dancer after the Eras Tour,' one wrote. 'All of Travis' Eras Tour training has paid off,' a fan commented. 'Nothing a swiftie loves more than this,' a social media user chimed in. In addition, fans playfully joked about the NFL star being part of Swift's tour once again. 'Taylor has built an opening act for her next tour,' a commenter said. Others also mentioned the Chiefs star's evolution outside the NFL. 'From Taylor's backup dancer to the star,' a follower said, while another added, 'Travis' new job is…..backup dancer at Taylor's next tour!!' It was during Swift's "Eras Tour" stop in London that Travis Kelce made a surprise appearance, joining the backup dancers during her outfit change between "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart." The Chiefs standout added a theatrical touch to the performance, even carrying Swift in his arms at one point. The couple sent Swifties into a frenzy when Swift blew him a kiss before he exited the stage.
