ABC/Eric McCandless(NEW YORK) — Norman Lear will receive the Carol Burnett Award at the 2021 Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press announced Thursday.
The 98-year-old television writer and producer, who created the genre-defining sitcom All in the Family, will be honored during the 78th annual ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 28.
“Norman Lear is among the most prolific creators of this generation,” HFPA president Ali Sar said in a press release. “His career has encompassed both the Golden Age and Streaming Era, throughout which his progressive approach [of] addressing controversial topics through humor prompted a cultural shift that allowed social and political issues to be reflected in television.”
Sar continued, “His work revolutionized the industry.”
Lear will become the third person to receive this award, succeeding Burnett, and Ellen DeGeneres. The honor is given each year to a person, “who has made outstanding contributions to the television medium on or off the screen.”
The television pioneer — whose other shows include Maude, Sanford and Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman — is best known for addressing and raising awareness of important social and political topics through his work and the medium of television.
Lear is a World War II combat veteran who began working in the industry in 1950. He has won six Emmys and was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for Divorce American Style.
He has won several other career-spanning honors, such as a National Medal of Arts in 1999, a Peabody Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, and he was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.
The 2021 Golden Globes airs Sunday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. ET live on NBC.
(NEW YORK) — The NFL has named three frontline coronavirus “heroes” as honorary captains for Super Bowl LV.
The captains, who include an educator, a nurse manager and veteran, were chosen due to their “dedication and selfless commitment to helping others,” the NFL said in a statement. They will take part in the coin toss ceremony before kick-off Feb. 7.
Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis was recognized by the league for his efforts to ensure both his students and members of their households had devices and internet access amid the pandemic to “help bridge the digital divide,” according to the NFL.
Davis secured hotspots, laptops and tablets for his students and hosted workshops for families to learn how to use the devices.
“Throughout his career, Trimaine has prioritized the academic success of Black students through his work with the CSU Northridge Black Male Initiative, San Diego State’s Student African American Brotherhood, Afrikan Student Union and more,” the NFL statement read.
Davis was lured onto a Zoom call by former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin and Angela LaChica, president and CEO of public relations firm LaChica Sports, under the pretense of talking about the work the NFL is doing to combat the digital divide. He appeared shocked when told he had been picked to participate in the league’s biggest event of the year.
“I don’t even know what to say,” Davis said, smiling. “… Listen, I need a moment. I need about two hours to just take this in. Aw, y’all really got me. You got me good with this one.”
Suzie Dorner, a nurse manager at Tampa General Hospital, will not only be cheering for her hometown football team but will be honored on the field as well.
Dorner has been working in Tampa for more than eight years and has “worked selflessly, as all nurses do, to prioritize others and work endless hours” throughout the pandemic, according to the NFL. She lost two grandparents to COVID-19 as well.
Dorner was “speechless” upon hearing the news, she told Derrick Brooks, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and chair of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV host committee.
The pandemic has been “really mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting” for all health care workers, Dorner said.
“To be honored at the Super Bowl makes everything that we’ve all been through this year, it makes it a little bit more tolerable and something to celebrate everything that we’ve been through, the good and the bad things,” she is seen telling Brooks in a YouTube video posted by the NFL.
James Martin, a Marine Corps veteran who lives in Pittsburgh, has worked supporting veterans, high school athletes and local youth amid the pandemic and has helped to virtually connect more than 1,800 fellow veterans and their families to one another through the Wounded Warrior Project, according to the NFL. He also opened his home to children in need in his neighborhood.
Martin, who immediately recognized Bettis when the Zoom call began, took several seconds to collect himself before he finally responded that he would be “deeply honored” to participate.
“I appreciate everything. I appreciate the family, the community,” he said. “If there’s anything I’ve learned in this life, it’s much like the team. The team represents the city. We put it on your back. So, I do the same thing for my family, and it just keeps repaying itself forward. And that’s the best we can do.”
The NFL has also chosen National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who captivated the country when she read a poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, to read another original poem before the coin toss ceremony begins.
“These heroes are symbolic of the thousands of health care professionals, educators and veterans throughout our country who continue to care for, heal and support those in need during this pandemic,” the statement read. “Together they embody our season-long message of ‘It Takes All of Us.'”
Courtesy of LiveXLive/Essential Broadcast MediaTrace Adkins’ 25th anniversary of being in the music business is just around the corner, and the singer’s planning to celebrate with an hour-long livestreamed show revisiting some of his all-time greatest hits.
Hosted by CMT’s Cody Allan, the show will be Trace’s first-ever livestreamed show with a full band. The event will air live from Franklin, Tennessee. In addition to his performance, Trace will share some of the stories behind his songs.
The show is a partnership with LiveXLive, and tickets are available now. Packages include a 24-hour rewatch pass, as well as an assortment of merch items and a limited number of VIP options that include a virtual meet-and-greet with Trace.
The show takes place on February 27 at 8PM ET.
In addition to a slew of hits that includes “You’re Gonna Miss This,” “Every Light in the House” and many more, Trace recently released his newest EP, Ain’t That Kind of Cowboy. The lead single from the project is “Better Off.”
“Firefly Lane” – Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) Katherine Heigl may have left Grey’s Anatomy years ago, but that didn’t stop her from offering up her opinion on the show’s shocking twist involving Alex and Izzie.
The shocking twist being referred to here is the season 16 reveal that Justin Chambers’character Alex left Seattle and his wife, Jo, to be with his former flame, Izzie Stevens, which is the character Heigl portrayed while appearing on the ABC medical drama.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the 42-year-old actress revealed that she hadn’t seen the episode, which aired on March 5, 2020.
“I didn’t see it,” she admitted before being brought up to speed on what happened.
“Wasn’t he with someone?,” she then asked before adding, “Listen, isn’t that an a**hole move?”
Heigl appeared on Grey’s Anatomy as Izzie for six seasons from 2005 until 2010. Currently, the show is airing its seventeenth season, which has seen the return of past stars like Patrick Dempsey and T.R. Knight, but it doesn’t seem that fans should expect her to join them.
When asked if she would make a cameo, Heigl explained that she’s “super focused” on her new show Firefly Lane.
“I would never say never,” she teased, but quickly stated that “it’s not likely.” Given how she left the show — amid a flood of bad blood, criticizing the writing staff on the Shonda Rhimes-created hit — it’s safe to say she’s probably right.
In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rhimes said of her shows: “I don’t put up with bulls**t or nasty people, I don’t have time for it.” She added that there were “no Heigls” working on her current shows, which also included Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder.
ABCBack before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down large-scale in-person events, Miranda Lambert was out on the road for her 2019 Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour.
Like the rest of the country music industry, Miranda has now been off the road for nearly a year, with tour plans still on hold until it’s safe to gather in large numbers again. But in the meantime, she’s revisiting the magic of live music by releasing the performance video for “Tequila Does.”
“Filmed this at a show before everything shut down,” Miranda commented on social media. “Miss singing with y’all. But love that you have given this song a life of its own since day one.”
The clip shows every aspect of a live concert, from fan tickets being scanned at the door to the singer taking a shot with her band mates backstage before the show.
“Tequila Does” comes off of Miranda’s latest studio album, Wildcard. The project features her single, “Bluebird,” which was her first chart-topping hit since 2014.
ABC/Eric McCandless(NEW YORK) — Norman Lear will receive the Carol Burnett Award at the 2021 Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press announced Thursday.
