Jerry Lee: Last News

Hail, Caesar!, the Coens’ last proper comedy. After that, they made the Western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, then went their separate ways.Joel went full Shakespeare in 2021 with The Tragedy of Macbeth, an expressionistic exercise that was never quite more than the sum of its parts, while his brother took a hiatus from narrative filmmaking.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless and Bob McDill will be the Country Music Hall of Fame’s three 2023 inductees, it was announced in a news conference at the hall’s museum in Nashville Monday morning. Tucker will be inducted into the hall in the “Veterans Era Artist” category, while Loveless will get her entree in the “Modern Era Artist” category. McDill is to be inducted in the “Songwriter” category, which is in rotation with the “Recording and/or Touring Musician” and “Songwriter” categories, each coming up every three years. Cheers went up at the announcement ceremony as well as around Nashville, as all three have long been favored for induction, and Tucker and Loveless particularly talked up as should-be shoo-ins for their historical importance as leading women in the genre.

Lisa Marie Presley supported the Elvis biopic as she attended the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California.The 54-year-old daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley wore a long one-shoulder black dress with a golden snake feature to the awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.Lisa Marie had her dark brown hair down around her shoulders and accessorized with sparkling dangling earrings. Biopic support: Lisa Marie Presley supported the Elvis biopic as she attended the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaShe accentuated her natural beauty with full eye makeup and added a pop of color with red lipstick.Lisa Marie was joined on the carpet by Jerry Schilling, 80, a longtime friend of her late father and member of the so-called Memphis Mafia who looked after Elvis.

In a rare moment of conversation with his audience, Bob Dylan paid tribute to the late Jerry Lee Lewis before covering the keyboardist’s 1970 hit, “I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye.”

Jerry Lee Lewis, one of rock ‘n roll’s pioneers and a Hall of Fame member in several genres, died Friday morning at 87. Lewis died at a home in Memphis, TN, his publicist Zach Farnum said in a release.

Two artists who started their careers outside of country music were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as early rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and bluegrass performer-turned-country star Keith Whitley joined the ranks.Lewis, the 87-year-old artist nicknamed “The Killer,” was unable to attend the induction ceremony on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee, due to guidance from his doctor. But his fellow country stars Hank Williams Jr.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Feature documentary “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” which premieres Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, looks to answer the question: “Who was Richard Harris?” The film also contains the revelation that Harris was offered the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies, but chose to take the part of Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” franchise instead. Variety spoke to director Adrian Sibley and Richard Harris’ son Jared Harris – a distinguished actor himself, and one of the originators of the project – about how the documentary came to be made. Sibley first broached the subject of making a film about Richard Harris some 20 years ago with the man himself, who responded: “I’ll do it, but only if I can tell the truth half the time,” Jared Harris recalls.

celebrities are now living well into their 90s and beyond - although their declining years means they are not in the public eye so often So when a famous face hasn't appeared in public for a long time, fans can be forgiven they must have died.Read more: Lionesses' earnings for Euro 22 win is the same as Cristiano Ronald's daily payHowever, just like us, when they get older famous people start to take it easy, work less or retire completely and live out their years in a quiet, sedentary fashion away from the glare of publicity.And, sadly, some are alive but are just suffering from poor health and unable to be in the public eye.Here are 11 celebrities you could have sworn had died but are actually still alive.Jimmy Carter, the former US President is now 97 and, as far as we know, is in good health and going strong.He was President for just one term between 1977 and 1981 before losing out on serving a second term to Republican Ronald Reagan.His long life has earned him the title of both the oldest living President and also the longest married, as he's been with his wife Rosallyn and mother of their four children for 76 years.Famous for being a peanut farmer before turning to politics, Carter is also the only US President to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work.Now aged 86, veteran American rock star Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive and kicking - despite living a turbulent life.Famous for his 1950s hits Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire, Lewis was more often in the headlines for his private life than his music.Lewis has been married a staggering seven times - including some of them bigamous and also one to his 13-year-old cousin when he was 22.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen a documentary gets made, as an off-ramp passion project, by a noted filmmaker who normally directs fiction films, there’s a special curiosity and excitement to seeing the angle — and the kind of craft — he’s going to bring to it. “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind” is the first movie directed by Ethan Coen all by himself.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen a documentary gets made, as an off-ramp passion project, by a noted filmmaker who normally directs fiction films, there’s a special curiosity and excitement to seeing the angle — and the kind of craft — he’s going to bring to it. “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind” is the first movie directed by Ethan Coen all by himself.

EXCLUSIVE: After a long Oscar-laden movie partnership with his brother, Ethan Coen makes his solo and documentary debut on the A24 film Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, which premieres at Cannes tonight. He and wife/editor Tricia Cooke made this one while brother Joel Coen and his wife Fran McDormand were off making The Tragedy of Macbeth. Here, Ethan Coen describes the allure of making a free form docu on the firebrand singer/pianist behind hits like Great Balls of Fire. Coen worked closely with T Bone Burnett, the music man extraordinaire who collaborated with the Coens on Inside Llewyn Davis. And when the Coens will put the band back together and make another together.

Mickey Gilley, who ran one of the world’s largest honky tonks in Pasadena, Texas and was credited with helping foster country music’s revival in the late ’70s as a key part of the Urban Cowboy film, has died. He was 86 and his death was announced by the Pasadena, Texas mayor, where the club was located.

Mick Jagger and Questlove are exec producing a four-part docuseries about I Got You (I Feel Good) star James Brown for A&E.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ revealed earlier this week that it had a series adaptation of John Travolta movie Urban Cowboy in the works.

They say prison changes a person – and that can certainly be said for Jerry Lee, who was totally unrecognisable upon his release.He had spent 49 months in a maximum security federal prison after being caught trying to rob a bank.The 42-year-old was freed earlier this month but looked completely different after tattooing his own face - all from his cell.Lee endured the excruciating pain to ink himself with a skull representing death.And he was so pleased with the outcome that he now dreams of opening his own tattoo shop.In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star, Lee said: “I burned vegetable oil and mixed the soot with alcohol for the ink and used a pen spring for the needle.“I did it all in the mirror in my cell.

. «Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams… with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother.»Don and his younger brother Phil, who died in 2014 at age 74, were rock n' roll pioneers.

By Ken Ehrlich