Q: Ariana Grande's song "7 Rings" is a blatant copy of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music." How can she do this? Is "The Sound of Music" in the public domain?
Neither the 1959 stage musical "The Sound of Music" nor any of the songs from its book are in the public domain. So Ariana Grande got away with using its most famous song the old-fashioned way: by ponying up for it.
And no one gives their "Favorite Things" away cheaply, including the estates of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Reportedly, 90% of the proceeds from Grande's pop hit "7 Rings" go to the estates of the legendary duo who wrote the original musical.
FBI: Most Wanted, on CBS
Agent Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon) and his highly-mobile, undercover Fugitive Task Force take on the most dangerous and elusive criminals, tracking down and checking off the FBI's Most Wanted list in this spinoff series. Kellan Lutz also stars.
FBI: Most Wanted, on CBS
Agent Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon) and his highly-mobile, undercover Fugitive Task Force take on the most dangerous and elusive criminals, tracking down and checking off the FBI's Most Wanted list in this spinoff series. Kellan Lutz also stars.
Dispatches From Elsewhere, on AMC
Don’t miss the shocking conclusion to this weird and whimsical series, as Peter (Jason Segel), Simone (Eve Lindley), Janice (Sally Field) and Fredwynn (André Benjamin) solve one final mystery from the Jejune Institute in this season finale.
Q: Did Kenny Rogers and Burt Reynolds ever do a movie together? They were around at the right time, and they seem like they would have made a good pairing.
Burt Reynolds had a varied career, but enough of his movies were at least country-adjacent (think 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit" and 1972's "Deliverance") that it was almost inevitable his path would cross with one of the biggest country stars of all time. And it did, twice.
Q: Did Kenny Rogers and Burt Reynolds ever do a movie together? They were around at the right time, and they seem like they would have made a good pairing.
Burt Reynolds had a varied career, but enough of his movies were at least country-adjacent (think 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit" and 1972's "Deliverance") that it was almost inevitable his path would cross with one of the biggest country stars of all time. And it did, twice.
New Releases for the week of April 26 - May 2
The Rhythm Section
After her family dies in a plane crash, Stephanie (Lively) spirals into hopelessness, ultimately finding herself working in a skeevy London brothel. Her path towards self-destruction is interrupted by Keith Proctor (Jaffrey), an investigative reporter who claims that the crash that ruined her life could not have been an accident, and was, in actuality, a terrorist attack covered up by the government. This revelation sends Stephanie on a mission that spans multiple continents and pits her against assassins, MI6 and the CIA. Running almost exclusively on Proctor's case notes and the help of an ex-federal agent (Law), Stephanie will see how close her grief and anger can get her to the truth.
Director: Reed Morano. Stars: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, Raza Jaffrey, Max Casella, Daniel Mays, Richard Brake, Geoff Bell, Tawfeek Barhom. 2020. 109 mins. Action.
Guns Akimbo
Miles (Radcliffe) is a video game developer and internet sleuth who loves to humiliate online trolls on any forum he can find. This hobby leads him to the website of a criminal organization called Skizm, where he antagonizes members of the radically violent underground community. Soon, on the order of Skizm's leader, Nix (Weaving), Miles is beaten senseless and his ex-girlfriend, Nova (Bordizzo), is kidnapped. Waking up in a daze with two guns taped to his hands, Miles realizes that he's been forcefully made a part of one of Skizm's signature murder games. With Nix as his competitor, Miles plays a match that could end up costing him and Nova their lives.
Director: Jason Lei Howden. Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Rhys Darby, Ned Dennehy, Mark Rowley, Grant Bowler, Hanako Footman. 2019. 95 mins. Action.
The Assistant
Right out of college, aspiring movie producer Jane (Garner) lands a promising job as an assistant to well-known entertainment executive Wilcock (Macfadyen). At first her duties go as she imagined. However, between the coffee runs and scheduling, she begins to notice the abhorrent, abusive behavior to which her boss subjects multiple women. Horrified, she decides to blow the whistle, only to find out just how untouchable men like Wilcock are.
Director: Kitty Green. Stars: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth, Dagmara Dominczyk, Makenzie Leigh, Noah Robbins, Purva Bedi. 2019. 87 mins. Drama.
'Nailed It!': Netflix series revels in dessert disasters
A questionable creation from "Nailed It!"
Have you ever come across an image of a dish or dessert and thought to yourself, "I could do that"? (We all have. That's why cooking shows have been a staple of television for decades.)
Family first: Relatable motherhood reigns in ABC's 'American Housewife'
Meg Donnelly, Julia Butters, Diedrich Bader, Katy Mixon and Daniel DiMaggio star in "American Housewife"