Patti Perret/Orion Pictures(NEW YORK) — A brand-new peek at a scene from Bill & Ted Face the Music introduces us to our knuckle-headed heroes’ new guide, and also includes a sweet nod to the late George Carlin.
In 1989’s Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Carlin played Rufus, Bill and Ted’s guide and mentor as they traveled through history to gather historical figures for their history class final project presentation. The comedy legend reprised the role in the 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.
Carlin, of course, died in 2008. Which brings us to the new Bill & Ted Face the Music clip, which introduces Kristen Schaal in the former Rufus role, arriving in a time-traveling pod to greet Bill and Ted.
“Do we know you?” Ted asks.
“I’m Kelly,” answers Schaal’s character.
“Wait — you’re Rufus’ daughter!” Bill exclaims.
“I am,” Kelly replies. “And I’ve been wanting to meet you my whole life!”
The name Kelly is no accident. It’s an intentional tribute to Carlin, whose only child is his daughter, Kelly Carlin.
Bill & Ted Face the Music, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, will be in theaters and available on demand August 28.
ABC/Image Group LAMaddie & Tae have set a new record on the BillboardCountry Airplay chart with “Die From a Broken Heart.”
When “Broken Heart” hit number one this week after 54 weeks, it marked the longest summit to the top spot by a female act in the Country Airplay chart’s 30-year history.
Maddie & Tae have also become the first female duo to have multiple number ones on the chart, as their debut single “Girl in a Country Song” clinched the top spot in 2014. That track was the second debut single by a female country duo to hit number one following The Wreckers‘ “Leave the Pieces.”
“Die From a Broken Heart” also makes for the sixth song by a female artist to peak at number one on the chart this year — the highest amount since 2016 when eight female-led songs topped the chart.
Maddie & Tae are second only to The Chicks as all-female duos or groups to have multiple number ones on the Country Airplay chart.
ABC/Image Group LAEli Young Band are reimagining their song “Saltwater Gospel” with a special guest, and they’re asking fans on social media to guess who it is.
Yesterday, the group revealed via Instagram that they’ll be releasing a new version of the song, which was originally a single off their 2017 album Fingerprints, as a collaboration with a surprise artist.
In addition to citing this person as “an incredible legendary artist that we’re so excited about,” the band has been offering clues as to who it could be.
Clue #1 reveals that it’s a male artist who’s sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, while the second hint states that in addition to being a musician, he is also a best-selling author.
Each clue is featured against a beach backdrop of crystal clear water crashing onto the white sand shore.
Fans have turned to the comment section to share their guesses that include George Strait, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett and Kenny Chesney.
They’ll find out who it is when the song is released on Friday.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Survivors of rapes committed by Joseph DeAngelo, the man now known as the “Golden State Killer,” are making their voices heard in victim impact statements in court.
“I want you to look at me, DeAngelo … I want you to remember what I have to say,” Jane Carson-Sandler loudly said in court Wednesday as DeAngelo sat silently in a white face mask.
In October 1976, Carson-Sandler was home with her 3-year-old son when a knife-wielding DeAngelo broke in. DeAngelo bound her, blindfolded her and gagged her, and did the same to her son.
“Then you repeatedly threatened to kill us,” Carson-Sandler said. “The fear escalated when you started tearing sheets and clothes. I had no idea what you were planning to do with all that cloth. Strangle us, maybe?”
“Yes, I was frozen in fear beyond description,” she continued. “My attention was not on the rape, but fully on where did you put my son when you removed him from the bed? Where did you put him and what were you going to do to him?”
“If it wasn’t for the trauma I endured, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. And I am proud of what I have accomplished. I am blessed beyond words,” she said, pausing her prepared marks to say to DeAngelo, “I see your eyes are closing.”
Carson-Sandler said that now, decades later, scars from her attack remain. Seeing a ski mask or hearing someone yell “shut up” will “forever cause me anxiety,” she said.
“My comfort at those times is remembering that you are finally going to prison and will remain there until you die,” she said.
In June, DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder as part of a plea deal, which also required him to admit to multiple uncharged acts, including rapes.
The death penalty was taken off the table in exchange for the guilty pleas.
Three days of victim and family impact statements began Tuesday. DeAngelo, who was a police officer from 1973 to 1979, will be formally sentenced on Friday to life without parole.
On March 18, 1978, Gay Hardwick was home asleep with her now-husband, Robert Hardwick, when DeAngelo broke in.
“He kidnapped me from my bed. He raped me repeatedly, he sodomized me, he forced oral copulation. He stole the few precious pieces of jewelry that I owned,” Gay Hardwick told the court Wednesday. “He ate from my refrigerator and he drank two beers while I lay bound and blindfolded … he ransacked our home and in between he tormented me with threats of death.”
“I survived those repeated attacks. The hours of terror,” she said. “However our lives were never the same.”
Gay Hardwick said she’s suffered decades of PTSD, nightmares, sleeplessness, social anxiety, flashbacks and inability to be alone.
“I became the Black Hawk helicopter of all parents,” she said.
She recounted for the court an incident two decades after the attack at a time “I thought I was fully recovered.” Her husband and four children were out of town and she was looking forward to some alone time, but pieces of duct tape left on a counter sent her fleeing in fear to her father’s home where she spent the night in her childhood bed.
DeAngelo committed 13 murders and multiple rapes and burglaries in the 1970s and 80s, terrorizing families from Northern to Southern California.
The crimes went unsolved until April 2018, when DeAngelo was arrested in Sacramento County.
DeAngelo was the first public arrest obtained through genetic genealogy, a new technique that takes the DNA of an unknown suspect left behind at a crime scene and identifies him or her by tracing a family tree through his or her family members, who voluntarily submit their DNA to public genealogy databases.
To identify DeAngelo, investigators narrowed the family tree search based on age, location and other characteristics. Authorities conducted surveillance on DeAngelo and collected his DNA from a tissue left in a trash. Investigators plugged his discarded DNA back into the genealogy database and found a match, linking DeAngelo’s DNA to the DNA found at multiple crime scenes, prosecutors said.
Since DeAngelo’s arrest, over 150 other crime suspects have been identified through genetic genealogy.
Taylor Russell and Charlie Plummer in ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’; Jacob Yakob/Courtesy LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions(NEW YORK) — Words on Bathroom Walls, based on the popular YA novel by Julia Walton, follows a teenage boy who gets diagnosed with schizophrenia. When he enters a new school, he tries to keep his diagnosis a secret but that gets harder when he meets and falls for a fellow classmate.
Charlie Plummer, who stars as Adam, tells ABC Audio he felt pressure to get his portrayal right, and to show Adam as a well-rounded teenager whose illness doesn’t define him.
“They’re still young guys. They still have dreams. They still have crushes on people,” he says of people like Adam. “[Y]es, of course, this is so draining and takes so much out of their life and is a chapter of their life. But at the same time, there’s so much else to see and [so much else] going on. And that was something that I really wanted captured.”
Taylor Russell, who plays Adam’s love interest, Maya, says she was drawn to the relationship between the two characters, who both have parts of themselves they’re trying to hide.
“One of the drawing points for me was…that they both felt so isolated in their lives and that they had to be something else in order to be accepted and that they could relate to that with one another in the end,” she says.
Russell adds that she hopes the film can take away some of the stigma from mental illness and make people feel less alone.
“Ultimately, either learning about schizophrenia more, seeing themselves in the story or seeing their loved ones represented in the story, just any way of connection, I think is, would be beautiful,” she says. “And hopefully this film can do that.”
Patti Perret/Orion Pictures(NEW YORK) — A brand-new peek at a scene from Bill & Ted Face the Music introduces us to our knuckle-headed heroes’ new guide, and also includes a sweet nod to the late George Carlin.
