Shirley Eikhard, the Canadian songwriter who penned Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning “Something to Talk About, has died, the AP reports. She was 67.

According to her publicist Eric Alper, Eikhard passed away Thursday in Orangeville, Ontario, due to complications from cancer.

In addition to Raitt’s 1991 hit, Eikhard wrote for a number of country and pop musicians, including Cher, Emmylou Harris, Chet Atkins and Anne Murray.

“I’m deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my friend Shirley Eikhard, the wonderful Canadian singer/songwriter who wrote my hit song, ‘Something to Talk About.’ My condolences go out to her family and friends,” Raitt wrote on Twitter. “Another one, gone too soon,” she continued in a follow-up message. “I will be forever grateful for our beautiful connection and friendship.”

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Eikhard, a singer and instrumentalist herself, released 18 full-length albums spanning 1972 to 2021. In October 2020, she was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters’

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Disney+ is getting most of the seasonal action, though, with its ”Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special“

In a crowded field of top movies on streaming, two slots went to holiday-inspired movies.

“Spirited” on Apple TV+ ranked seventh overall for the weekend. The Christmas musical, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, has been a holiday hit for Apple, with the film ranking among the 10 most-streamed movies each week since its release last month, per Whip Media’s viewership data, which is based on the responses of U.S. users of the TV Time app, its movie and TV show tracking app with more than 24 million global registered users.

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Eddie Izzard is a Pip in the new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” which opened Thursday at Off Broadway’s Greenwich House Theater. She’s also a Miss Havisham, a Magwich, an Estella and a dozen-plus other characters from the classic 1861 novel.

The actor-comedian, who recorded the entirety of “Great Expectations” several years ago for an Audible edition that clocked in at just over 20 hours, delivers a live stage version that runs a fleet two hours and 15 minutes (with an intermission). The adaptation, by Izzard’s older brother, Mark, captures the spirit of the original — jettisons subplots and condenses some of the more meandering Dickensian language for modern ears, to mostly good effect. (The best lines, including some of the best punchlines, remain Dickens’ own.)

Purists may balk at this CliffsNoted treatment of a beloved Dickens story, but the streamlined script serves its star, who proves adept

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As part of TheWrap’s Power Women Summit 2022 on Dec. 13, panelists Vasquez-Lavado, Lo Bosworth, Tembi Locke and Jessica Knoll discussed their experiences with doubters on their journeys to become published authors as well as adapters, during the “Let’s Get LITerary: Authors Roundtable.”

For Lo Bosworth, whose book “ Love Yourself Well: An Empowering Wellness Guide to Supporting Your Gut, Brain and Vagina,” comes out December 27, the hurdles stemmed from her early childhood career on reality television. 

“It’s like Pandora’s box. It’s open and it can never be closed again. And so for me a really long time ago I had to decide ‘okay, Lauren, you know, what is the life that you want to live? How do you want to leave your mark on this earth?’” she said. “When I first started the company, the press that came out was very like ‘wink wink,’ you know, ‘Oh, this

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Demand for shows from Germany has stagnated since the series finale of the streamer’s first German-language show in 2020

Netflix’s “1899” is behind a new record-high demand for German content around the globe in November, according to Parrot Analytics‘ data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement.

It has been about two years since Netflix’s first German-language original series, “Dark,” helped drive higher demand for German content around the world. By the time the third and final season of the show premiered at the end of June 2020, total global demand for shows from Germany was more than three times what it had been in January 2019. However, in the two years since the finale of “Dark,” global demand for German content has largely stagnated without seeing the clear gains of previous years. A recent upward trend could signal

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Mariah Carey dazzled the crowd at her sold-out Christmas show with some help from her 11-year-old daughter, Monroe, who joined her superstar mother on stage for their first duet, “Away in a Manger.”

The Queen of Christmas and her daughter donned matching white dresses and tiaras for their performance of the “beautiful” 19th-century hymn on Friday evening at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.

“This is my baby girl, here,” Carey said by way of introduction. “Eleven years ago, I got the greatest gift. You know what, I don’t have birthdays, but the birthing day was the greatest gift ever when I had my twins, Roc and Roe [Moroccan and Monroe].”

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Carey noted that this was the mother-daughter duo’s first time performing together, saying, “We’ve been working on this one for a minute.”

To kick off the song, Carey showed off her vocal range with some of her signature whistle tones before Monroe

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Kenny Leon began his 2014 Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” with a recorded interview featuring the voice of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry. The director begins his current revival of “Ohio State Murders” with a recorded interview featuring the voice of Adrienne Kennedy, now 91 years old. The effect in both productions blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, and here with the Kennedy play, which opened Thursday at Broadway’s newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre, it is also reflected in the deeply empathetic performance of Audra McDonald.

Hers is clearly a performance that goes beyond the written words in the script. McDonald’s performance also has that veracity that comes from basing her character on a living person, in this case, Kennedy herself. The actor replicates the playwright’s halting, carefully modulated delivery. It’s as if McDonald is rewriting every line a few times before she actually says

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This review originally ran Sept. 3, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

“Retrograde,” director Matthew Heineman’s searing, intimate look at the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, opens with an aural collage of speeches from four U.S. Presidents (George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden), which offers a stark reminder of the two decades of this “forever war,” a time period starkly underlined when a Green Beret asks a 20-year-old soldier if he was even born when this war started. 

That 20 years was abruptly cut short in 2021 when President Biden was inaugurated and swore to bring the troops home. While it sounds good on paper, or in a political speech, as we found out, and as Heineman’s film — making its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival — carefully details, it was far, far more

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The Roku Channel will be the exclusive English-language broadcast partner for the 71st Miss Universe competition, the Miss Universe Organization announced Tuesday.

The live event will take place on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“For the first time ever, Americans are watching more streaming TV than cable. With this profound shift in the way audiences watch content underway, we’re thrilled to partner with The Roku Channel
 to bring the Miss Universe competition to the streaming world and reach previously untapped audiences across the United States,” said Amy Emmerich, CEO of The Miss Universe Organization.

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“The Roku Channel also ranked first in reach amongst AVOD/FAST services in the U.S. and Canada  according to TiVo’s most recent quarterly Video Trends Report, and we are elated to be partnering together to find more innovative, new ways to tell the stories of these incredible women,” said Emmerich.

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