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Analysis: ‘A League of Their Own’ series remake aims for a home run

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August 13, 2022

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With a lot dangerous information within the ether nowadays, I have been eager about this a fantastic deal. I used to be lately studying and listening to some classical music whereas ingesting some chamomile tea, and I felt so very content material. I consider we’d like extra of that.

I’m torn about remakes.

“Nobody requested for this,” I typically really feel like saying. “Why cannot Hollywood be extra artistic?”

However I am not mad on the debut of a collection based mostly on the hit 1992 movie about a World Conflict II-era professional ladies’s baseball workforce, as a result of proper now celebrating ladies feels fairly darn good.

“A League of Their Personal” is streaming now on Amazon Prime.

‘RuPaul’s Secret Celeb Drag Race’ season 2

You higher work, stars!

Within the second season of this actuality spin-off, a gaggle of celebrities “endure an unbelievable drag transformation” to compete and discover new identities, whereas being mentored by previous “Drag Race” queens. Nobody entertains fairly like RuPaul, so I am all in for this new season as a result of … the shade of all of it!

The primary episode of “RuPaul’s Secret Celeb Drag Race” season two premiered Friday on VH1.

‘The Princess’

Beloved, haunted and hunted.

That is the impression I’ve at all times had of the late Princess Diana, and the extra I find out about her life, the extra that’s strengthened.

This new HBO Max documentary “attracts solely from contemporaneous archival audio and video footage to take audiences again to key occasions in Diana’s life as they occurred,” together with her seemingly fairy-tale romance with Prince Charles that led to a contentious divorce.

Sure, she’s been the topic of movies, reveals and documentaries earlier than, however there stays a lot to unpack with Princess Diana. Her life and legacy might be seen by way of a special lens now amid new and extra nuanced discussions concerning the therapy of feminine celebrities and girls within the public eye.

“The Princess” premieres Saturday on HBO Max (which is owned by CNN’s mother or father firm, Warner Bros. Discovery).

Two issues to take heed to

‘Cheat Codes’ by Hazard Mouse and Black Thought

When Hazard Mouse was a teen rising up in Atlanta, he was an enormous fan of the rap group The Roots.

“I bear in mind paying somebody to steal (The Roots’ 1995 album) ‘Do You Need Extra?!!!??!’ from Turtle’s Information And Tapes,” he advised NME. “It was a kind of albums that most individuals in my highschool did not actually learn about, so I had much more of a reference to it as a result of it was ‘my factor.’”

So think about his pleasure upon releasing “Cheat Codes,” an eagerly awaited collaboration with the group’s longtime MC and rapper, Black Thought.

“‘Cheat Codes’ is probably the most introspective I have been in a very long time,” Black Thought mentioned of the album in the identical NME interview. “It is a few of my most sincere writing.”

“Cheat Codes” dropped on Friday.

‘Greater. Messier.’ by Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman could also be greatest referred to as the composer for such hits because the theme music for “The Simpsons” and the rating for “The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas” (amongst different collaborations with Tim Burton), however he is bought one thing new to share. Effectively, form of new.

“Greater. Messier.” is a remix album that follows his 2021 studio launch, “Huge Mess.”

Elfman’s collaborators on the document embody Iggy Pop and Trent Reznor.

“I requested the identical factor of each artist: ‘specific me by way of your individual eyes,’” American Songwriter reported Elfman saying. “Not solely was I stunned on the artists that needed to take part, however utterly blown away by what everybody contributed. … This document turned such an enjoyment of experimentation and relinquishing management of my very own work in a means that I’ve by no means completed earlier than.”

“Greater. Messier.” additionally debuted Friday.

One factor to speak about

I’ve been watching a tribute to singer-songwriter Amy Grant by her husband, Vince Gill, time and again.

Grant was injured in a bicycle accident in late July, and through a current live performance Gill had their daughter Corrina carry out “When My Amy Prays,” a music he wrote for Grant years in the past.

It is likely one of the strongest examples of susceptible songwriting I’ve ever heard from Gill, as he expresses that he did not at all times have the identical kind of relationship with God that his spouse does.

I bear in mind the controversy a long time in the past when the couple first bought collectively — Grant is likely one of the most profitable Christian artists ever and there have been some followers who weren’t completely satisfied about her divorce from her first husband, songwriter Gary Chapman.

Listening to the lyrics of Gill’s tune jogged my memory that all of us have our personal path, and that nobody is ideal. Nice lesson.

One thing to sip on

She was at all times the one which we needed.

The dying of Olivia Newton-John this week on the age of 73 had me working to look at “Grease” and take heed to “Bodily.”

Newton-John outlined the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties for thus many and was a powerhouse of a star.

She additionally was fairly the survivor, having battled most cancers a number of occasions. By sharing her breast most cancers journey over the previous 30 years, she helped to coach the general public, at the same time as she fought to dwell.

Her race is run now. Could she relaxation effectively.

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