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LOS ANGELES – Diane Keaton, who serenaded Steve Martin last year when he received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, will get the honor herself next year. The institute said Thursday that the Oscar-winning actress will be given AFI’s highest honor at a June 8 gala that will be broadcast on TNT. Keaton won an Oscar for her role in “Annie Hall” and has starred in films such as “Manhattan,” “The Godfather” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” She was nominated for best actress for “Marvin’s Room,” “Reds” and “Something’s Gotta Give.”
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Rolling Stones return to blues roots in new album
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Shawn “Jay Z” Carter announces the Weinstein Television and Spike TV release of “TIME: The Kalief Browder Story” during a news conference Thursday at The Roxy Hotel Cinema in New York.
Jay Z, calling juvenile solitary ‘inhumane,’ backs TV series NEW YORK – Rap superstar Jay Z is helping shine a light on prison reform by co-producing an upcoming TV documentary about a young man who spent three years behind bars without trial for allegedly stealing a backpack. The rapper teamed up with Harvey Weinstein to produce the six-part “TIME: The Kalief Browder Story,” which airs in January on Spike TV. It uses first-person accounts, prison footage and cinematic re-creations to explore what Jay Z called a system that’s “broken.” Browder was 16 when he was arrested on suspicion of stealing a backpack and sent to the Rikers Island facility in New York for three years. Browder was kept in solitary confinement for 800 days and, according to his lawyer, beaten by inmates and guards. He was never tried and was released in 2013. He killed himself last year at age 22. Jay Z, attending a news conference Thursday with Browder’s mother, the filmmakers and Weinstein, said he hoped Browder’s story “inspires others and saves other lives.” “I think it’s very clear that solitary confinement for a 16-year-old is wrong to every single person in here,” he said. “It’s inhumane.” In an op-ed written for The Washington Post, President Barack Obama cited Browder’s “heartbreaking” case to argue for a ban on the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons. The Spike series comes at a time when America’s prisons are under scrutiny. The harsh prison sentences in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 have been debated in the presidential campaign, and a new documentary by Ava DuVernay, “The 13th,” delves into mass incarceration and its deep, historical roots in America.
labored process of writing the book, which took seven years, his troubled relationship with his father, sweet memories of raising LONDON – It’s back to the blues for the his children with wife and longtime backup Rolling Stones. The band that first made its name covering singer, Patti Scialfa, and his history with songs by American blues artists announced depression, as he does in the book. “I think music was the way that I medicatplans Thursday to release a blues album on ed myself in the beginning. It was the first Dec. 2. The “Blue & Lonesome” album will thing that centered me and chased away the be their first studio release in more than a blues,” Springsteen said. decade. “I found that the experience of playing The band said the album was recorded without overdubs in just three days at Brit- cleared my mind and gave me a brief moment of respite from the things that tended ish Grove Studios in west London with the to disturb me,” he said. “I found out that goal of having a spontaneous, live feel. exhaustion was my friend, because if I got Eric Clapton, who helped popularize the blues in Britain in the 1960s during his time myself tired enough, I was simply too tired to be depressed.” with the Bluesbreakers and with Cream, plays on two of the album’s 12 tracks. Lady Gaga premieres new The album includes a version of Howlin’ Wolf’s 1966 song “Commit a Crime,” Jimmy songs at Nashville club Reed’s “Little Rain” from 1957 and “Hoo Doo NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lady Gaga showed Blues,” recorded in 1958 by Lightnin’ Slim. that she could rock a club just as hard as arenas as she showcased songs from her new album. Springsteen talks family, depression and new memoir The Grammy winner played a short set at the 5 Spot bar in Nashville on Wednesday SAN FRANCISCO – Bruce Springsteen credits his music with helping him navigate night to a small crowd of fans and guests and included three new songs from her depression and says playing marathon shows until he was exhausted helped chase forthcoming album, “Joanne.” She introduced herself as Lady Gaga from away the blues. The legendary rock star spoke to a sold-out New York City, but asked her fans “tonight crowd in San Francisco on Wednesday night if you could just call me Joanne,” which is in a one-hour, 20-minute on-stage interview the name of her aunt, who died at 19, and as part of a nationwide tour for his best-sell- is also her middle name. The album is set for release Oct. 21. The performance was ing, new autobiography, “Born To Run.” streamed live on tour partner Bud Light’s “The Boss” has a storyteller’s knack for Facebook page, as will upcoming bar shows recounting the past in vivid detail, with on Oct. 20 and Oct. 27. quick wit and humor. He discussed the
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS TV personality Joy Behar is 74. Drummer Kevin Godley of 10cc is 71. Country singer Kieran Kane of The O’Kanes is 67. Musician John Mellencamp is 65. Guitarist Ricky Phillips of Styx is 65. Drummer Tico Torres of Bon Jovi is 63. Former “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell is 57. Guitarist Charlie Marinkovich of Iron Butterfly
is 57. Singer Toni Braxton is 49. Singer Thom Yorke of Radiohead is 48. Actress Allison Munn (“One Tree Hill”) is 42. Singer Damian Kulash of OK Go is 41. Singer Taylor Hicks (“American Idol”) is 40. Singer Nathaniel Rateliff of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats is 38. Actor Jake McLaughlin (“Quantico”) is 34.
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