(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — This year’s Masters Tournament will take place without any guests or patrons, Fred Ridley, Chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, said Wednesday.
The tournament, initially set for April, was rescheduled due to the pandemic and will be held Nov. 9 to Nov. 15.
“We determined that the potential risks of welcoming patrons and guests to our grounds in November are simply too significant to overcome,” Ridley said in a statement.
A statement from Augusta, the exclusive club which hosts the tournament annually, said 2020 ticketholders will be guaranteed entry for the 2021 Masters to take place “hopefully in April 2021.
ABC/Image Group LABrothers Osborne are going live for a good cause. The superstar brother duo will play a free livestream show on Friday, August 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET on YouTube.
Called Brothers Osborne: Let’s Play Live, the free event will encourage fans to donate to the ACM Lifting Lives’ COVID-19 Relief Fund, an organization supporting music industry professionals affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is produced by Lightning Link.
The show will likely include a bit of new music: Brothers Osborne’s third studio album, Skeletons, is due for release on October 9, and they’ve already shared the lead single “All Night” and another tune, “Hatin’ Somebody,” off the project.
Brothers Osborne previously explained to ABC Radio that in fact, they made Skeletons specifically with live performance in mind.
“We thought, ‘Man, let’s have some songs that we can play to thousands of people and just kind of get the party going and have a good time,’” the group’s TJ Osborne says. “And we knew people would eat it up.”
But with the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, the band has had to settle for a life off the road — for now. In the meantime, the livestream show they’re planning will provide a little bit of the live experience, both for the band and for the fans that can’t wait to see them in concert again.
CW(LOS ANGELES) — After Ruby Rose dropped the bombshell in May that she was departing Batwoman after one season, the actress candidly revealed what led her to make the difficult decision.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 34-year-old actress explained how the COVID-19 pandemic inspired her to leave the CW series.
Rose suffered a serious back injury when shooting Batwoman, which she disclosed to fans back in September.
The Australian actress said on Instagram last year, “A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming paralyzed. I had herniated two discs doing stunts, and they were close to severing my spinal chord [sic].”
“Being the lead of a superhero show is tough,” Rose told EW. “But as far as being a lead of a show or a film — regardless if it’s action or if it’s emotional — in whichever ways it’s taxing.”
“The challenge is sort of outweighed,” she furthered. “The accomplishment and the trust that people put in you to do that role and then there’s also the vibrancy of being able to come on set and set the mood and the tone and the trust being put into it is something that’s been such an honor.”
The actress admits that, injuries aside, having her life put on pause due to COVID-19 allowed her to really think about her career.
“You know, you have time in quarantine and sort of isolation to just think about a lot of different things and what you want to achieve in life and what you want to do,” detailed Rose.
While Rose is “very honored to have been able to play” Batwoman on the pioneering superhero series, she is confident that Javicia Leslie, who is next to don the bat suit, will be “fantastic.”
Courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and MuseumThe Country Music Hall of Fame announced its 2020 class of inductees on Wednesday, and the three legends who made the cut are Hank Williams Jr., Marty Stuart and singer/songwriter Dean Dillon.
“Bocephus has been eyeing this one for a while. It’s a bright spot during a difficult year,” said Hank Jr., who’s going in as the Hall’s Veterans Era inductee this year. “I have been making Top 10 records for 56 years…I’ve got to thank all those rowdy friends who, year after year, still show up for me. It’s an honor to carry on this family tradition.”
“It is the ultimate honor in country music,” added Marty, who represents the Modern Era this year. “…To be officially inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame is beyond words. I’m not usually at a loss for words.”
For his part, Dean Dillon, who’s the 2020 Non-Performers category inductee, also struggled to find the right words to describe his reaction to the news.
“I was just speechless,” he recalled. “Trying to soak in the words I had just heard. My life flashed before my eyes. You could’ve knocked me over with a feather.”
Typically, the Hall of Fame inductees are announced each year in an in-person ceremony at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hall of Fame broke its news virtually this year. The formal induction event, called the Medallion Ceremony, usually takes place in October. It remains to be seen if that will be the case in 2020.
Redstone in 2013 – Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Sumner M. Redstone, the media mogul who turned his father’s drive-in theater into National Amusements, a powerhouse company the assets of which span nearly every aspect of the entertainment industry, has died.
The WWII veteran and Harvard Law graduate was 97, and reportedly died at his home in Beverly Hills, according to a statement from ViacomCBS.
Redstone served as chairman of Viacom from 1987 to 2016, and as CEO from 1996 to 2005. “Under his leadership, Viacom acquired brands that make the ViacomCBS portfolio strong today — including MTV in 1985, Paramount Pictures in 1994, and BET in 2001,” the statement reads, noting his passing “with profound sadness.”
Redstone — whose mantra “content is king,” along with his business savvy, built one of the largest portfolios of assets in the world of motion pictures and television — was a self-made billionaire whose legacy and influence will continue through his daughter, Shari, who is the chair of ViacomCBS, and son Tyler. The pair will continue to oversee National Amusements’ portfolio.
In a statement from ViacomCBS, Shari Redstone said, “My father led an extraordinary life that not only shaped entertainment as we know it today, but created an incredible family legacy. Through it all, we shared a great love for one another and he was a wonderful father, grandfather and great-grandfather. I am so proud to be his daughter and I will miss him always.”
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