Pinkett Smith has deal for memoir
Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she’d like to set down.
The actor, singer, entrepreneur and co-host of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk” has a deal for what Dey Street Books is calling an “honest and gripping memoir” that will cover her “complicated marriage to Will Smith,” among other topics.
“Jada Pinkett Smith chronicles lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting journey — a roller-coaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and the celebration of authentic feminine power,” read Thursday’s announcement by Dey Street, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The untitled book is scheduled for next fall.
Pinkett Smith, 51, is known for such films as “Collateral” and “The Matrix Reloaded,” as well as being vocal about her battles with depression and the hair-loss disorder alopecia areata.
Moderators for Obama tour revealed:
Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the celebrity moderators joining former first lady Michelle Obama on tour for her upcoming book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.”
Other guests include Conan O’Brien, Tracee Ellis Ross, journalists Gayle King and Michele Norris, “Today” show host Hoda Kotb, poet Elizabeth Alexander and advocate Heather McGhee.
“For me, ‘The Light We Carry’ book tour will be about starting important conversations and digging deeper into the questions that all of us are grappling with as we live through uncertain times,” Obama said in a statement
released Wednesday by her publisher, Crown, and the tour’s producer, Live Nation.
McBryde invited to Grand Ole Opry:
Garth Brooks surprised fellow country musician Ashley McBryde on national television Thursday with an invitation to the Grand Ole Opry.
Both singers became emotional as Brooks delivered the invite live on “CBS Mornings” where McBryde was in the middle of promoting her new album, “Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville.” McBryde closed her eyes and took a deep breath before responding: “It would be the great joy and the great honor of my life.”
Met Opera to livestream performances:
The Metropolitan Opera is expanding its live telecasts to directto-home streaming in areas that don’t have movie theater transmissions.
The company recently
said that operas will be available for streaming in 171 countries and territories beyond the 50 that have had movie-theater access. The cost will be $10 to $20 per opera, which will be available for replays in a seven-day window.
About 2,000 movie theaters currently show the telecasts, and broadcasts will be available in the U.S. through location services to areas not near the movie transmissions.
Sales for home streaming start Oct. 17 ahead of this season’s first telecast Oct. 22.
Oct. 7 birthdays: TV personality Joy Behar is
80. Musician John Mellencamp is 71. Actor Mary Badham is 70. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 67. Singer Michael W. Smith is 65. TV personality Simon Cowell is 63. Singer Toni Braxton is 55. Singer Thom Yorke is 54. Actor Nicole Ari Parker is 52. Actor Omar Benson Miller is 44. Singer Nathaniel Rateliff is 44.