Bateman gets Hasty Pudding award
Jason Bateman was named the 2022 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Thursday, the first recipient of the award since 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bateman, an actor, producer and director on the Netflix series “Ozark,” who also played a starring role in “Arrested Development,” will be given his pudding pot at a roast Feb. 3, the theater troupe said in a statement.
“We are stoked to present Jason Bateman with the 55th annual Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award. It’s been a hot minute since we’ve handed one of these out, so we figured we’d give it to the guy who all our moms have crushes on after watching ‘Ozark,’ ” organization President Nick Amador said.
The last Man of the Year was Ben Platt in 2020. Past recipients include Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson.
The Man of the Year Award has been handed out since 1967. Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year Award was established in 1951. The 2022 Woman of the Year has not been announced yet.
The awards are given out to people who have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.
Coldplay will stop making
music in 2025: Coldplay is set to stop making music in 2025, lead singer Chris Martin has confirmed.
The vocalist made the announcement during a pre-recorded BBC radio show. Although the show is set to broadcast Thursday evening, a clip in which Martin confirmed the band’s retirement was trailed on the BBC during a separate Radio 2 breakfast show earlier in the day.
“Will there come a time when Coldplay stop?” host Jo Whiley asked Martin in the clip.
“Well, I know — I can tell you,” he replied haltingly. “We’re going to do — I think we have 3 more — our last proper record will come out at the end of 2025. And I think after that we’ll only tour — and maybe we’ll do some sort of collaborative things or... — but the Coldplay catalogue as it were finishes then.”
Composed of Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion, Coldplay was formed in London, U.K., in 1996 and have altogether released nine albums.
Sheeran breaks Spotify
record: On Wednesday, Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” the first single from his third studio album, “÷”, became the first song to reach three billion streams on Spotify.
While the songs with a billion-plus streams aren’t that uncommon, three billion is a first.
Sheeran posted a video on Instagram talking about it.
“[‘Shape Of You’] Wasn’t really meant to make the album,” he says, “but when I finished making the song, Ben Cook, from my label, said it had to be a single — but I wanted ‘Castle on the Hill’ to be the single. We put both songs out at once and … I was wrong. Here we are with ‘Shape of You’ at 3 billion.”
Dec. 24 birthdays: Actor Clarence Gilyard is 66. Actor Stephanie Hodge is 65. Actor Wade Williams is 60. Actor Diedrich Bader is 55. Actor Amaury Nolasco is 51. Singer Ricky Martin is 50. Author Stephenie Meyer is 48. TV host Ryan Seacrest is 47. Actor Michael Raymond-James is 44. Singer Louis Tomlinson is 30.