Archive: December 2011 (91-94 of 94)

Dec 1 2011 10:00 AM ET

Kristin Chenoweth: What's On My iPod

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Categories: Country, Y'all!, Music, What's on my iPod?
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Kristin Chenoweth is a busy gal: The pocket-size actress and singer released her fourth studio album, Some Lessons Learned, back in September; is currently shooting ABC’s soapy drama GCB, which will debut in March; and has been tapped to host the second edition of the American Country Awards this coming Monday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. on Fox.

Amid all that, though, Chenoweth found time to tell EW about her musical tastes, by revealing what’s on her iPod. For starters, Chenoweth admits: “My iPod music is all over the place.” Honestly, whose isn’t? From Dolly to Adele and Dusty to Chely, here’s a sampling of who trips Chenoweth’s musical trigger:

BLOSSOM DEARIE She’s a jazz artist that I adore. She was way before Diana Krall and could sing a lyric like no one else. I love “A Fine Spring Morning” and “Thou Swell.” What can I say? I was born in the wrong time.

DOLLY PARTON At least once a day, every day, I listen to “Little Sparrow.” I also like [1995's] Something Special. I covered her song “Change” on my recent album. She is the epitome of the word entertainer. And what a great human. Real heart.

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Dec 1 2011 09:57 AM ET

Trey Parker and Robert Lopez on 'Book of Mormon' Grammy nod

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Categories: Grammys, Stage, Things That Are Awesome

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Paging Tracy Jordan — South Park duo Trey Parker and Matt Stone just got one step closer to EGOTing.

When the Grammy nominations were announced last night, it was no surprise that Broadway darling The Book of Mormon, which swept the Tonys over the summer, picked up a nomination for Best Musical Theater Album (check out the full list of nominations). After the nominations were announced, EW chatted with Parker and Robert Lopez, who, along with Stone, are responsible for the killer book, music and lyrics, to find out more about their incredible, whirlwind year.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congratulations, first of all. You guys must be so excited. I love this show, and I can’t stop humming the songs.
TREY PARKER: Yeah! That’s the cool part, we actually started writing the show as an album first. We sat down and came up with the songs first. Because we wanted the songs to dictate the show and not just have it be a show and break for a song once in a while. We wanted the show to be motivated by the songs. Really what we did is we got together and made a demo of an album, so the songs are really what we are most proud of, so that’s why this is cool. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 1 2011 09:19 AM ET

Pregnant Mindy McCready risks arrest in custody dispute

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Categories: Country, Y'all!, Mindy McCready
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Image Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin/NY Daily News/Getty Images

Country singer Mindy McCready said Wednesday she will probably not be able to bring her 5-year-old son back to Florida to fulfill a judge’s order by Thursday afternoon — because she is nearly seven months pregnant with twins. By not returning as ordered, she risks arrest.

Speaking exclusively to the Associated Press, McCready said that she and her mother have had a long custody battle in Florida over Zander. Her mother was awarded guardianship in 2007. The battle became more public this week, when the Florida Department of Children and Families said a missing person report was filed with police after McCready took Zander from her father’s home. McCready was able to visit with the boy there under a court order and the 36-year-old singer said she had spent much of the past month with her son at the home. Her mother and father are divorced.

McCready alleges that her son suffered abuse while living at her mother’s home and that is one of the reasons why she left with the boy last week. “I’m a mom first,” said McCready from Nashville, Tenn. “No matter what happens, I’m going to protect my kid. If I have to go to jail, so be it.” READ FULL STORY »

Dec 1 2011 02:52 AM ET

On the scene at the 2012 Grammy Nominations Concert: Best and worst moments

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Categories: Country, Y'all!, Grammys, Hip-Hop/Rap, Indie Rock, Lady Gaga, Music, Nicki Minaj, Pop, R&B, Rock, Television
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Just before the Grammy Nominations Concert hit the airwaves on CBS last night, the show’s executive producer Ken Ehrlich appeared on stage and made quite the proclamation to those of us fortunate enough to be seated in the live studio audience: “This is a mini Grammys show,” he said. And if that was the goal, then: success! Performances! Presenters! Thank you, lucky stars, that “mini” also is code for: No speeches or exhausting monologues!

The show — which is designed to announce the year’s Grammy nominations but functions mostly as an hour-long concert — was indeed a “mini Grammys,” in that way that the Grammys has always managed to provide a mixture of performances that run the gamut from shocking…to boring. In that spirit of good and bad — and since I was there in the audience — I thought it only appropriate to provide a look at the live show in terms of best and worsts. Here goes:

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