During Monday’s episode of “The Voice,” Season 16 winner Maelyn Jarmon stopped by to give advice to the aspiring new artists. “I know you guys are feeling pretty nervous right now,” she said after being introduced by host Carson Daly. “I was in this room and before I went out there I was like, if I do my best and I give everything that I can give I will be proud of myself. I know you’re excited and you’re gonna go out there and you’re gonna kill it today.” Are you happy Maelyn is back on “The Voice” paying it forward to the new artists? Sound off down in the comments section.
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While backstage Maelyn interacted with several of the contestant including Johnny Sanchez, who went on to receive no chair turns,...
See‘The Voice’ rivalry heats up as Kelly Clarkson blocks Blake Shelton during Marybeth Byrd’s 4-chair turn blind audition [Watch]
While backstage Maelyn interacted with several of the contestant including Johnny Sanchez, who went on to receive no chair turns,...
- 10/1/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Blake Shelton has triumphed as the winning coach on “The Voice” six times already, but many season 17 artists are turning him down. Why are these singers going for rivals Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and even his girlfriend Gwen Stefani this time? Look back over our fascinating live blogs from the blind auditions for Night 1 on September 23 and Night 2 on September 24 to see what’s happened so far.
Legend is the reigning champ among coaches. Clarkson won the previous two seasons. Shelton has six championships under his belt. Stefani isn’t a rookie by any means, but she has yet to have a winning singer. Longtime coach Adam Levine is missing his first season ever for the program.
See‘The Voice’ fans want Adam Levine to return as soon as possible: ‘Bring Adam back!’
All throughout this season, enjoy our live updating blogs while each episode is airing on the East coast.
Legend is the reigning champ among coaches. Clarkson won the previous two seasons. Shelton has six championships under his belt. Stefani isn’t a rookie by any means, but she has yet to have a winning singer. Longtime coach Adam Levine is missing his first season ever for the program.
See‘The Voice’ fans want Adam Levine to return as soon as possible: ‘Bring Adam back!’
All throughout this season, enjoy our live updating blogs while each episode is airing on the East coast.
- 9/30/2019
- by John Benutty and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Actor-comedian Johnny Sanchez has joined Fox's late-night sketch comedy show Mad TV as a regular.
Additionally, comedian Anjelah Nicole Johnson has been added to the cast for four episodes.
Mad TV is returning for a 13th season in the fall.
Sanchez recently voiced Lombardo in Warner Bros. Pictures' animated feature Happy Feet. He also headlined a Comedy Central Presents ... stand-up special and had development deals with the Littlefield Co. and Fox.
He is repped by APA.
Johnson, whose stand-up routine includes a popular bit about a visit to a Vietnamese nail salon, is managed by Generate.
Additionally, comedian Anjelah Nicole Johnson has been added to the cast for four episodes.
Mad TV is returning for a 13th season in the fall.
Sanchez recently voiced Lombardo in Warner Bros. Pictures' animated feature Happy Feet. He also headlined a Comedy Central Presents ... stand-up special and had development deals with the Littlefield Co. and Fox.
He is repped by APA.
Johnson, whose stand-up routine includes a popular bit about a visit to a Vietnamese nail salon, is managed by Generate.
Screened at South by Southwest
AUSTIN -- Shouldn't an overwrought drama about the life-shattering effects of gambling addiction make some effort, before delivering its moral, to show why people gamble in the first place? Even back in the days when Hollywood demanded that vice must always end in tears, audiences usually had some vicarious fun before the other shoe dropped.
Not so in "Even Money", where the first scene offers an unconvincing Kim Basinger, mumbling anxiously to herself, pulling a slot machine's lever and despairing at the outcome. The film's main stab at capturing gambling's allure is a few candy-colored shots of casino action. Because many less glamorous scenes also are drenched in barely justified colored lights, one assumes that this is less a narrative device than a predilection of the cinematographer. With so little fun and such unconvincing pathos on hand, it's hard to imagine much boxoffice potential.
Like Basinger, most of the protagonists in this ensemble cast are up to their necks in something, but the script has little notion how to generate an appropriate level of drama. Forest Whitaker is in hock to his bookies so badly that he's willing to beg his beloved kid brother (a basketball star in the making) to shave points and throw games so he can win some dough back. Grant Sullivan plays one of the bookmakers in question, doing fine financially but about to lose his new girlfriend because, as bookies tend to do, he hurts people who owe him. Ray Liotta suffers indirectly, as his wife Basinger neglects him in favor of the slots.
Circling among these losers are outsiders: Kelsey Grammer, who wears a prosthetic chin the size of Nevada and has been told he's the lead gumshoe in a film noir, and Tim Roth, a gambling entrepreneur who may or may not be the elusive kingpin "Ivan". Roth chews the scenery, or rather nibbles it and licks his fingertips, in a Eurosleaze performance that is the film's most entertaining ingredient. Somewhere in there is Danny DeVito, a washed-up magician who does sleight-of-hand for tips from retirees and might just inspire Basinger to write the novel she's been pretending to work on for months.
With Dave Grusin's maple-syrup jazz chords doing their best to build tension, director Mark Rydell shows each protagonist trying to fix his or her predicament. We have a hard time identifying with their problems, as we weren't along for the fun part of the ride and it's clear from the start that their solutions will fail.
Overlong and overstuffed with cliches -- ever heard the one about the bookie who swills Pepto for his ulcer? -- the movie doesn't seem to realize how close it comes to comedy. First-time screenwriter Robert Tannen evidently has big ambitions here, hoping to wrap his Big Issue up in a "Crash"-style tapestry of interwoven plots. Suffice to say that "Crash" producer Bob Yari, whose logo also adorns "Even Money", won't be suing anybody for credit come Oscar time next year.
EVEN MONEY
Jumpshot Films
Bob Yari Prods./ApolloMedia/Three Wolves Production
Credits:
Director: Mark Rydell
Screenwriter: Robert Tannen
Producers: David S. Greathouse, Mark Rydell
Executive producers: Jorg Westerkamp, Bob Yari, Michael Zaltstein
Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Music: Dave Grusin
Co-producers: Henry Boger, Rita Branch, Betsy Danbury, Robert Katz, Johnny Sanchez, Roger Zamudio
Costumes: Wendy Chuck
Editor: Hughes Winborne
Cast:
Carol Carver: Kim Basinger
Walter: Danny DeVito
Detective Brunner: Kelsey Grammer
Godfrey Snow: Nick Cannon
Tom Carver: Ray Liotta
Clyde Snow: Forest Whitaker
Veronica: Carla Gugino
Murph: Grant Sullivan
Augie: Jay Mohr
Victor: Tim Roth.
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 116 minutes...
AUSTIN -- Shouldn't an overwrought drama about the life-shattering effects of gambling addiction make some effort, before delivering its moral, to show why people gamble in the first place? Even back in the days when Hollywood demanded that vice must always end in tears, audiences usually had some vicarious fun before the other shoe dropped.
Not so in "Even Money", where the first scene offers an unconvincing Kim Basinger, mumbling anxiously to herself, pulling a slot machine's lever and despairing at the outcome. The film's main stab at capturing gambling's allure is a few candy-colored shots of casino action. Because many less glamorous scenes also are drenched in barely justified colored lights, one assumes that this is less a narrative device than a predilection of the cinematographer. With so little fun and such unconvincing pathos on hand, it's hard to imagine much boxoffice potential.
Like Basinger, most of the protagonists in this ensemble cast are up to their necks in something, but the script has little notion how to generate an appropriate level of drama. Forest Whitaker is in hock to his bookies so badly that he's willing to beg his beloved kid brother (a basketball star in the making) to shave points and throw games so he can win some dough back. Grant Sullivan plays one of the bookmakers in question, doing fine financially but about to lose his new girlfriend because, as bookies tend to do, he hurts people who owe him. Ray Liotta suffers indirectly, as his wife Basinger neglects him in favor of the slots.
Circling among these losers are outsiders: Kelsey Grammer, who wears a prosthetic chin the size of Nevada and has been told he's the lead gumshoe in a film noir, and Tim Roth, a gambling entrepreneur who may or may not be the elusive kingpin "Ivan". Roth chews the scenery, or rather nibbles it and licks his fingertips, in a Eurosleaze performance that is the film's most entertaining ingredient. Somewhere in there is Danny DeVito, a washed-up magician who does sleight-of-hand for tips from retirees and might just inspire Basinger to write the novel she's been pretending to work on for months.
With Dave Grusin's maple-syrup jazz chords doing their best to build tension, director Mark Rydell shows each protagonist trying to fix his or her predicament. We have a hard time identifying with their problems, as we weren't along for the fun part of the ride and it's clear from the start that their solutions will fail.
Overlong and overstuffed with cliches -- ever heard the one about the bookie who swills Pepto for his ulcer? -- the movie doesn't seem to realize how close it comes to comedy. First-time screenwriter Robert Tannen evidently has big ambitions here, hoping to wrap his Big Issue up in a "Crash"-style tapestry of interwoven plots. Suffice to say that "Crash" producer Bob Yari, whose logo also adorns "Even Money", won't be suing anybody for credit come Oscar time next year.
EVEN MONEY
Jumpshot Films
Bob Yari Prods./ApolloMedia/Three Wolves Production
Credits:
Director: Mark Rydell
Screenwriter: Robert Tannen
Producers: David S. Greathouse, Mark Rydell
Executive producers: Jorg Westerkamp, Bob Yari, Michael Zaltstein
Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Music: Dave Grusin
Co-producers: Henry Boger, Rita Branch, Betsy Danbury, Robert Katz, Johnny Sanchez, Roger Zamudio
Costumes: Wendy Chuck
Editor: Hughes Winborne
Cast:
Carol Carver: Kim Basinger
Walter: Danny DeVito
Detective Brunner: Kelsey Grammer
Godfrey Snow: Nick Cannon
Tom Carver: Ray Liotta
Clyde Snow: Forest Whitaker
Veronica: Carla Gugino
Murph: Grant Sullivan
Augie: Jay Mohr
Victor: Tim Roth.
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 116 minutes...
- 3/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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