CELEBRITIES Fonda: ‘Exercise your right to vote’
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Thirty-eight years after Jane Fonda released her first workout video in 1982, the acting and exercise icon has slipped back into her leotard and headband to get out the vote.
Fonda has teamed up with Register2Vote to lead Exercise That Vote, a celeb-filled video promoting voter registration and voting on Nov. 3.
“Hello, class, we’re bringing back the movement,” Fonda says as neon graphics fill the screen and ’80s music plays in the background. “We need you to be in shape in the upcoming race. I need you to be strong, I need you to be laser focused, I need you to be fully committed to the task at hand, so let’s get ready to exercise our right to vote.”
The video features a montage of celebrities, including Kerry Washington (in full 1980s exercise clothes), Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Vanessa Hudgens, Amy Schumer, Ken Jeong and Ashley Benson. Shaquille O’Neal turns his back to the camera to showoff his glute clenches.
“SNL” election boost:
The big debate — the one between Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey — was a winner in the ratings. “Saturday Night Live” scored its biggest season premiere audience in four years and second best in 12 years, emphasizing the importance of presidential election time for the NBC comedy show.
Its “cold open” featured Baldwin, portraying President Donald Trump, satirizing last week’s debate performance. Carrey debuted with his impersonation of Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
With 8.24 million viewers, it was the second mostwatched “SNL” episode since May 2017, with the exception being last December’s triumphant return of Eddie Murphy. It was also a return to its familiar New York studio for the comedy show, which did a few remote episodes last spring because of the pandemic.
Singer Johnny Nash dies: Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem “I Can See Clearly Now,” died Tuesday, his son said.
Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., said. He was 80.
Nash was in his early 30s when “I Can See Clearly Now” topped the
charts in 1972, and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering “Darn That Dream” and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis.
A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley.
Nash peaked commercially in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had hits with “Hold Me Tight,” “You Got Soul,” an early version of Marley’s “Stir It Up” and “I Can See Clearly Now,” still his signature song.
Oct. 8 birthdays:
Actor Paul Hogan is 81. Actor-comedian Chevy Chase is 77. Actor Sigourney Weaver is 71. Comedian Darrell Hammond is 65. Singer CeCe Winans is 56. Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon is 50. Actor Nick Cannon is 40. Singersongwriter Bruno Mars is 35. Actor Molly Quinn is 27. Actor Bella Thorne is 23.