Marley experience coming to US
A massive immersive experience celebrating Bob Marley is heading for its U.S. premiere next year, complete with photographs, lots of music and even a pair of the reggae giant’s footwear.
The multiroom exhibit “Bob Marley: One Love Experience” will open
Jan. 27 in Los Angeles, following runs in London and Toronto. The 15,000-square-foot experience includes photographs, concert videos, lyric sheets, rare memorabilia like guitars, a soccer jersey, sneakers and art that highlight Marley’s influence. There are also a Marley-branded jukebox and a few foosball tables. One area celebrates the Marley family’s legacy and philanthropy.
A 2,000-square-foot One Love Forest promises to take visitors on a trip to Jamaica in a multisensory environment, which also features a cannabis garden. Fans are greeted with headphones at the Soul Shakedown studio to groove out to the curated playlist in the silent disco.
Marley rose to stardom in the 1970s with hits like “No Woman, No Cry,” “Get Up, Stand Up” and “I Shot the Sheriff.” He died from cancer in 1981 at age 36.
“It’s going to be amazing bringing the experience here to the U.S. for the first time and just steps from Daddy’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” Cedella Marley, CEO of Bob Marley Group, said in a statement. The exhibit is produced by the Marley Family and Terrapin Station Entertainment.
John to play Glastonbury:
Elton John is scheduled to perform June 25 at the annual Glastonbury Festival, in what organizers say will be his farewell show in Britain.
The festival tweeted Friday: “We are incredibly excited to announce that the one and only @EltonOfficial will headline the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night at Glastonbury 2023, for what will be the final U.K. show of his last ever tour.”
Glastonbury draws upward of 200,000 people to Worthy Farm in England to see dozens of the world’s biggest stars.
John is set to conclude his Farewell Yellow Brick Road in Sweden in July.
Documentarian Reichert dies:
Julia Reichert — the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker whose movies explored themes of race, class and gender — has died at age 76. She died Thursday in Ohio from cancer, her family said Friday through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage 4 urothelial cancer in April 2018.
Often called the “godmother of American independent documentaries,” Reichart told the stories of ordinary Americans, from autoworkers dealing with plant closures (“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”) and foreign investors (“American Factory”) to members of the American Communist Party (“Seeing Red”) and female labor activists in the 1930s (“Union Maids”). In her 50 years of filmmaking, Reichert won two Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for four Oscars, winning one with her partner Steven Bognar for “American Factory.”
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41. Actor Dascha Polanco is
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