Stapleton the big winner at CMAs
Chris Stapleton was the big winner with six trophies including song and album of the year and Luke Combs claimed the biggest prize with entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night.
Stapleton won song and single of the year for “Starting Over” and album of the year for his record of the same name. He walked away with two more trophies as a producer on the single and album.
He then won male vocalist of the year for the fifth time, and it appeared he would sweep the night before Combs swooped in and kept it from becoming a coronation.
He came into the night the top nominee along with Eric Church, who was shut out.
Crystal returning to Broadway:
Billy Crystal is planning to bring “Mr. Saturday Night” to Broadway.
The comedic icon will star in a theatrical musical based on his 1992 film about the rise and fall of a borscht-belt comedian Buddy Young Jr.
Set to start performances at New York City’s Nederlander Theatre on March 1, the 73-yearold Hollywood veteran wrote the stage adaptation with his film’s co-writers, Lowell Ganz and Marc “Babaloo” Mandel.
He will star opposite Tony Award-winner Randy Graff, Chasten Harmon and David Paymer.
The “Soap” alum made his Broadway debut in 2004 with the box office smash “700 Sundays.”
Markle apologizes for misleading court on book:
The Duchess of Sussex has apologized for misleading a British court about the extent of her cooperation
with the authors of a sympathetic book about her and Prince Harry.
The former Meghan Markle, 40, is embroiled in a court battle in London over a British newspaper’s publication of portions of a letter she wrote to her estranged father after her 2018 marriage to Harry.
She sued the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline website for breach of privacy and copyright. Publisher Associated Newspapers is trying to overturn that decision at the Court of Appeal. The publisher argues that Meghan wrote the letter knowing it might be published, and made private information public by cooperating with Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, authors of “Finding Freedom.”
Stiller, Blanchett teaming up: Ben Stiller and Cate Blanchett are teaming up to turn the 1960s espionage television series “The Champions” into a movie.
Stiller is acting and directing the upcoming film adaptation. Blanchett and Stiller will both be producing as well.
“The Champions” movie, paying homage to the TV show, follows three United Nations agents whose plane crashes into the Himalayas. Upon being rescued by an advanced civilization, they are granted enhanced intellectual and physical abilities. When the agents return to the outside world, they use their new superhuman abilities to become champions of law, order and justice.