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Toronto Raptors global ambassador and semi-famous musician
of note Drake thought he could escape the NBA's tentacles by recruiting
concert attendee Kevin Durant to Toronto in the safe confines of
thousands of fans at OVO Fest in Toronto. He was sorely mistaken.
"Hearing Raptors fined $25,000 for comments Drake made at a concert
about Kevin Durant that were seen as violation of anti-tampering rules" (SB Nation)
Footage of Drizzy making his plea for KD to join his Raptors in the future went viral last week.
"Before we leave, I just want to show one of my brothers
something," Drake announced to the crowd. "You know, my brother Kevin
Durant was kind enough to come to the show tonight and watch us. I just
want him to see what would happen if he came to play in Toronto. Let him
know what would happen." The Oklahoma City Thunder star and reigning
NBA MVP then received an ovation from the crowd, which reportedly
launched into a "KD" chant. (ESPN)
Durant becomes an unrestricted free agent in the summer of
2016 and various teams -- notably his home-state Washington Wizards as
well as the New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers -- are
already known to be positioning themselves to have sufficient
salary-cap space to make a run at him. (ESPN)
The hip-hop star will also launch a clothing line in
conjunction with the team. Most intriguingly, he is being asked to
consult on a complete redesign of the club's image to coincide with the
20th anniversary of the franchise in the 2014-15 season. According to
sources at MLSE, everything about the team is on the table . . . aside
from the name. Give up your Huskies dreams. MLSE and Drake are sticking
with dinosaurs. Going forward, this will be more than a business
arrangement. It would be wrong to call what comes next a renaissance.
That would imply that the Raptors have a legacy to build on. After 18
years, all they have is one playoff series win and Vinsanity to draw
from. That's it. It's within Drake's power to change that. (The Toronto Star)
Rebekah Alperin
has been named senior vp of marketing and communications, moving on
from a parallel position at Kobalt Music Group. Alperin will report to
UMPG North American president Evan Lamberg and Will Tanous, the company's executive vp and head of global communications.
“Rebekah’s depth of experience and the strength of her reputation
make her a great addition to our communications team,” said Tanous in a
statement released this morning (August 11). "Her global marketing
skills coupled with her being one of the best PR experts in the music
publishing business is a real win for us,” said Lamberg.
Alperin joins UMPG at a time of significant change at the company. On August 1, UMPG announced that Zach Horowitz was stepping down as the head of UMPG, ending a thirty-year career with Universal Music Group. Horowitz was to be replaced by Jody Gerson, who moved to the company from Sony/ATV, where she was mentored and highly respected by well-known industry leader Martin Bandier. It was rumored that Lucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of UMG, had been courting Gerson for some time before the move was made official.
Alperin joins UMPG as it -- as the publishing arm of the world's
largest record label but second-place in publishing market share -- no
doubt sets out to challenge Sony/ATV's dominance in the space. "I'm so grateful to Evan and Will for this opportunity to work
alongside some of the most creative and progressive executives in the
business on behalf of so many of the most important artists, writers and
music catalogues in the world," said Alperin in a statement.
Former Terror Squad member Remy Ma continues her march back to the mainstream spotlight after calling up The LOX's Jadakiss and Bad Boy Records' French Montana for their new "Megadeath."
Remy Ma is back with a vengeance. After guesting on a remix to DJ Khaled's
"They Don't Love You No More," the Bronx rapper joins French Montana
and Jadakiss on "Megadeath." Over a crushing beat produced by Swizz
Beatz, the Ruler reps her clique and shuts down her haters with witty
punchlines. "So actually I practically raised you b*tches / I got a
wallet in my pocket with your baby pictures," she spits. (Rap-Up)
"I want to do little stupid things that people may even be
surprised about. I want to go to an amusement park. I want to get my
hair done, my nails done. I want to get some Popeyes, for real. But more
than anything, I want to get back in the studio. When you've wanted to
say something for years, and couldn't, and didn't have that
platform--that's all I want to do. I'm not rapping about popping bottles
and being in the club, because it's different experiences. But I'm
ready to go in. I want people to know Rem is back." (The FADER)
On August 11, 2014, at approximately 11:55 a.m, Marin County
Communications received a 9-1-1 telephone call reporting a male adult
had been located unconscious and not breathing inside his residence in
unincorporated Tiburon, CA. The Sheriff’s Office, as well as the Tiburon
Fire Department and Southern Marin Fire Protection District were
dispatched to the incident with emergency personnel arriving on scene at
12:00 pm. The male subject, pronounced deceased at 12:02 pm has been
identified as Robin McLaurin Williams, a 63-year-old resident of
unincorporated Tiburon, CA. An investigation into the cause, manner, and circumstances of the
death is currently underway by the Investigations and Coroner Division s
of the Sheriff’s Office. Preliminary information developed during the
investigation indicates Mr. Williams was last seen alive at his
residence, where he resides with his wife, at approximately 10:00 pm on
August 10, 2014. Mr. Williams was located this morning shortly before
the 9-1-1 call was placed to Marin County Communications. At this time,
the Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide
due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed
before a final determination is made. A forensic examination is
currently scheduled for August 12, 2014 with subsequent toxicology
testing to be conducted.
Williams' publicist Mara Buxbaum told The Hollywood Reporter: "Robin
Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe
depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family
respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very
difficult time."
His wife, Susan Schneider, said: "This morning, I lost my husband and
my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists
and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of
Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound
grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on
Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave
to millions." Williams, a four-time Oscar nominee, won a supporting actor Oscar for
Good Will Hunting for his portrayal of a wise and morose psychologist.
He most recently starred in CBS' comedy The Crazy Ones, which lasted only one season.
His next project is the feature film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, the third film in the trilogy, which is set to hit theaters Dec. 19.
A dazzling comic force whose career extended from stand-up to a major
acting career, Williams' comedic talents were so quick and brilliant
that he often intimidated other comedians. His improv skills were
meteoric and stupefying: Williams could wing off the cuff better than
any of his peers. He burst through the stand-up world into television,
captivating audiences with his portrayal of the endearing
extraterrestrial Mork in the '70s series Mork and Mindy. He first limned the Mork role as a guest star on Happy Days.
He fractured movies audiences with his comedic and endearing performance in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). He delighted audiences in the box-office hit The Birdcage
(1996), playing a gay club owner who tries to convince his
conservative, future in-laws of his heterosexual mainstream values. He
tapped into a fey side and feminine side, as well: He delighted with his
slapstick values as a hausfrau in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). His rapid-fire delivery bespoke a warp-speed, associative intelligence.
“The mystery is in the motion: What miracle of the synapses got him
from point A to point Z? At once a satirist, a comedian and a superb
actor, this one-man repertory company dashes from mask to mask, voice to
voice, like a man possessed by comic demons,” David Ansen wrote in
Newsweek in 1986.
As a dramatic actor, he delivered stirring performances in such films as Dead Poets Society
(1986), where he played an inspirational prep-school teacher who takes
on the stuffy administration He also portrayed serious and complex
characters in Awakenings (1990) and The Fisher King (1991). He could tap into a dark side, limning psychologically maladjusted characters in Insomnia and One-Hour Photo.
Williams also won Oscar nominations for Best Actor for his varied roles in Good Morning, Vietnam, The Fisher King and Dead Poets Society. He could play morose, wise men, such as his turn as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting.
He showed his versatility in a wide range of films, including: The World According to Garp (1982), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Hook (1991), Patch Adams (1998), Flubber (1997), Toys (1992) and Jumanji (1995).
He won four Grammy Awards. He also won Emmy Awards for his TV specials Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin and ABC Presents a Royal Gala.
He vocalized many films: He did the vocal work for a bat in the animated movie Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest (1982) and he voiced the Genie in Aladdin (1992).
Given his child-like charm, he played boy-ish characters in Toys (1992), Jumanji (1995) and Jack (1996). He did a number of movie cameos: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), Dead Again (1991) and The Secret Agent (1996).
Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago on July 21, 1952. He was
raised in affluence, but he was brought up, as he admits, by the maid.
He developed comedy to please his mother. He mimicked Jonathan Winters.
The family moved to San Francisco where he graduated from high school.
He studied political science at Claremont Men's College and entered
College of Marin to study theater. He won a scholarship to student at
The Julliard School in New York, where he spent three years under the
tutelage of John Houseman and other. He returned to San Francisco before
graduating. His goal was to become a dramatic actor but could not get a
foot in the door. He turned to stand-up comedy, supporting himself by
tending bar and working at an ice-cream parlor.
Williams moved to Los Angeles and enthralled at open-mike nights. He
became a regular at such clubs as the Improv and the Comedy Store. He
got spots on such TV shows as the Richard Pryor Show and America 2-Night.
His big break came when the producers of Happy Days decided
to add an alien to the show. Williams won an audition. He guest-starred
on a 1978 episode that brought in avalanches of fan mail. Based on the
outpouring the network decided to create a spin-off series Mork & Mindy.
The sitcom, featuring Williams as a good-natured alien from the planet
Ork. The show afforded him great opportunity to improvise. It was hugely
popular and generated such crazes as the Mork doll, with such Orkian
words as “nanu nanu” for hello.
Williams's spellbinding delivery vaulted him from being a complete
unknown to national fame.
Self-admittedly, fame arrived too fast and he
careened through a period of drug and alcohol abuse. His first movie
role in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980) was disappointing. In his second role, he showed his charm as a young writer in The World According to Garp (1982).
He performed in the mid-1980s in a series of mediocre movies: The Survivors (1983), The Best of Times (1986) and Club Paradise. He excelled as a Russian saxophone player who defects in Bloomingdale's in Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson (1984).
He hit his movie stride with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) where his comic versatility as an anti-authority G.I. Disc jockey played to his manic, improvisational strengths.
He executive produced and starred in Jakob the Liar (1999), a story of life in a Nazi-occupied Polish ghetto.
Like the best of comics, Williams, at heart, was utterly serious. He
was a driving force in Comic Relief to benefit the homeless.
Williams was awarded the Chicago international Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. More recent film credits include: Deconstructing Harry (1997), Patch Adams (1988), Bicentennial Man (1999), Death to Smoochy (2002), The Final Cut (2004), House of D (2004), The Big White (2005), Everyone's Hero (2006), Man of the Year (2006), Night at the Museum (2006) and its sequel (2009), License to Wed (2007), August Rush (2007), World's Greatest Dad (2009) and Happy Feet (2006) and its sequel (2011).
Diehard fans hoping to learn who will portray N.W.A. members MC Ren and DJ Yella can breathe a sigh of relief as reports claim the main casting has come to an end.
Aldis Hodge (Leverage) will play MC Ren, and Neil Brown Jr.
(Suits, The Walking Dead) will play DJ Yella, joining the already-cast
leads of O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Ice Cube), Corey Hawkins (Dr. Dre), and Jason Mitchell
(Eazy-E). The film is currently slated for release next August, and
will examine the incredible rise of the N.W.A., one of the most
influential groups in hip hop history. (Complex)
Earlier this month, late member Eazy-E's son/rapper Lil Eazy-Eblamed gossip site TMZ for misquoting him about not being cast in the flick.
Earlier this week, TMZ wrote that Lil E was "outraged" that Ice Cube
had cast his own son in the movie but did not cast Lil E to portray his
father. The younger rapper claims he was misquoted and that he has no
ill will for Ice Cube. "[TMZ] just asked me, 'You're not mad? Everyone
in the office is mad,'" he said. "I said, 'OK, well, why don't you put
it that "TMZ is mad at Cube?"' 'Oh, we can't do that politically.' If
they can understand the political value in that, how can you not
understand the political value of what's going on in the situation in
why I did not get the role? (Rolling Stone)
"I'm not upset about [the casting]," adds the rapper. "What
Cube did was a great thing and a loving father, that you're supposed to
do for your family and your legacy." As for how he feels about Ice Cube,
Lil E said, "Besides my father, that's the person I was inspired by;
that's like an idol to me." (Rolling Stone)
A photo of Cube, Dr. Dre and director F. Gary Graywith the new cast surfaced last month.
Dre will be played by classically-trained actor Marcus Callender, Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. will fill in for his famous father, and Jason Mitchell (Broken City, Contraband) will take on the role of the late Eazy-E.
Cube and Dre posed alongside the actors and director F. Gary Gray.
"Finally found the cast for the NWA movie. Me, Gary Gray, Dre w/ Cube,
Eazy & Dre #StraightOuttaCompton coming 8/14/15," tweeted Cube.
Straight Outta Compton hits theaters on August 14, 2015. Production is
set to begin this summer. (Rap-Up)
According to Abdul-Jabbar's suit, he initially agreed to allow the
Beverly Hills auction house to sell 400 of his items, but the deal fell
through when he decided not to part with some of the memorabilia, TMZ reports. Among the items Abdul-Jabbar wants back is a signed poster for Game of Death,
the 1973 film he made with Lee. Other items include a McDonald's "Top
Faces of Black History" Award, five pairs of Los Angeles Lakers
sweatpants and a script for Chevy Chase's 1985 comedy Fletch. Abdul-Jabbar recently told THR that fans still consistently ask him questions about working with Lee, even more than they do about his time in the NBA. (See him talk about the late martial artist here.) Julien's did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Australasian collecting societies APRA AMCOS
have struck an agreement to represent peermusic in licensing the
independent music publisher’s digital rights throughout Asia, excluding
Japan.
Under the new agreement, announced Wednesday (July 30), APRA AMCOS
will represent peermusic’s catalog on a multi-territory, non-exclusive
for licensing its repertoire to digital music services.
Both parties are confident the arrangement will help facilitate more
business -- and generate greater revenue -- at a time when the digital
business (driven particularly by smartphones) is showing signs of growth
across the region.
Right now, says Mary Megan Peer, peermusic’s president of
Asia-Pacific and strategic markets, licensing “our catalog to digital
services is increasingly important. By leveraging the APRA AMCOS team’s
experience in digital licensing and strong back-end systems, we expect
to be able to license and collect more efficiently, creating a better
experience for licensees and increased income for our writers.”
The new agreement broadens the scope of APRA AMCOS’s existing
Pan-Asian digital licensing and administration initiative, which was
announced in July 2013 following a "groundbreaking" deal with Universal Music Publishing.
Click to Hear Palace Hot 100 Radio Mix "Monday Night Heater" That UMP arrangement follows similar pacts struck in recent years
with French authors’ collecting society SACEM for Europe to streamline
international rights clearance procedures for music.
“Users are consuming music in more ways than ever before and we are
working hard to ensure songwriters are fairly compensated for the value
their work creates – no matter where, how or when it is delivered or
consumed,” adds APRA AMCOS CEO Brett Cottle in the statement. “We’re
excited to increase the opportunity for peermusic’s diverse catalogue to
reach audiences throughout Asia as new legal mobile and online music
and audiovisual platforms gain traction.”
