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Steve Guttenberg, Christie Brinkley Film Gets Release

Steve Guttenberg, Christie Brinkley Film Gets Release

Published by Daniella Wilson

American Summer is heading to theaters at just the right time. Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to writer-director Michael W. Gray’s family comedy American Summer and will release it theatrically on Sept. 4, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy) and Christie Brinkley (National Lampoon’s Vacation) star in the coming-of-age indie film. American Summer centers on Mikey (Guttenberg) as he reflects on a standout summer from growing up, when he met a special girl, made the travel baseball team and navigated the uncertainty of his dad going missing overseas while with the U.S. Army. The cast includes Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years), Logan Gray (Surfside Girls), Mia Talerico (Good Luck Charlie), Cullen Moss (Outer Banks), Erinn Ruth (Billions), Maximus Virgili and Major League Baseball legends Lee Mazzilli and Luis Sojo. Gray helmed the movie from a script he wrote, with additional writing by Jennifer B. White and Marc Prey. Gray, Michael Cuomo and Ann M. Gray serve as producers. The trailer can be seen below. “We made this movie in tribute to …

Steve Martin: Disneyland, Diane Arbus, and Me

Steve Martin: Disneyland, Diane Arbus, and Me

Published by Daniella Wilson

When I was 17, I worked at Fantasyland’s magic shop as a magician demonstrating Svengali decks, cups and balls, and the Incredible (their word) Shrinking Die. I loved working to exhaustion, and I was proud to become the shop’s youngest night manager. When Disneyland’s summer hours were extended to 9 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends, I was in heaven. I could watch date night unfold, allowing me to observe and absorb teen romantic norms. One night, however, a chance encounter with a renowned artist was to grip me more than 60 years later, setting my nostalgia for Disneyland in dramatic black and white. Explore the July 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More A summer evening in 1962: The fireworks were over, the crowds dwindled, and the store emptied. I counted out the registers, turned out the lights, and locked the hand-carved sorcerers’ doors behind me. My usual route out was through Sleeping Beauty’s castle, over the moat via a working drawbridge. But …

New Scientist recommends Steve Brusatte’s brilliant take on the evolution of birds

New Scientist recommends Steve Brusatte’s brilliant take on the evolution of birds

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The Story of BirdsSteve Brusatte, Picador (UK); Mariner Books (US) Steve Brusatte is three for three. His debut book for general audiences, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, was a big hit, and he followed it with The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, which I enjoyed very much. Now comes his third palaeontological tale, The Story of Birds and, once again, he manages to combine a rigorous account of the science with a readable narrative. Brusatte is a palaeontologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who has worked extensively on the fossils of dinosaurs, birds and mammals. He has excavated on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, where the bones and footprints of Jurassic-era animals are beautifully preserved. Alongside this, he has built up a career as a science communicator: partly by acting as palaeontology consultant to the Jurassic World films, and partly through his books. An artist’s impression of Compsognathus Florilegius/Alamy The Story of Birds, subtitled An evolutionary history of the dinosaurs that live among us, does exactly …

Will there be an Alice and Steve season 2?

Will there be an Alice and Steve season 2?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alice and Steve has finally landed on Disney+, giving viewers a peek inside a calamitous romance that risks tearing a family apart. Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement star as the title characters, who have been friends for decades when a shocking revelation pits them dramatically against each other. That is, when Steve reveals that he’s struck up a relationship with Alice’s daughter, Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith), who is three decades his junior and someone he’s known since she was very young. The series raises an interesting debate regarding whether 26-year-old Izzy should be free to make her own choice in life partner, whatever the cost, or if she and Steve should suppress their feelings to end her mother’s immense discomfort. Your loyalties may wander over the course of six scandalous episodes, with the finale very much leaving the door open for more. If you’re eager to see Alice and Steve season 2, here’s everything we know so far about the future of the Disney+ comedy. Will there be an Alice and Steve season 2? Jemaine …

Sonny Rollins on Steve Schapiro’s Unseen Photos of Jazz Giants

Sonny Rollins on Steve Schapiro’s Unseen Photos of Jazz Giants

Published by Sam Flores

Miles, Red Garland. I mean, these pictures take me back into a time which will never be like that again. Everybody was working. Everybody was contributing. Everybody was being appreciated. Jazz was appreciated. Of course, many of these guys aren’t here anymore, and that’s emotional for me, too. Here I am, the last guy standing. And I’m sure that the habits I established around that time – healthy habits – were responsible for my good fortune. It’s hard for me to look through these pictures with anything but great feeling: Coleman Hawkins, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Heath, Pete La Roca. All these guys represent a family that’s special to me. I was lucky, because I always had a great family life with my wife at home. But these guys, you could say that they were a family, too. The photos that Steve Schapiro took of me at the Apollo have special meaning for me. I spent my life going to the Apollo. As a youngster, I used to go there every week and catch the …

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen to retire after Republican-led redistricting in Tennessee

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen to retire after Republican-led redistricting in Tennessee

Published by Sam Flores

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., announced Friday that he won’t be running for re-election this fall after a redistricting push in Tennessee carved up his Memphis-based district. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “This morning, I announced my decision not to run in any of the three gerrymandered congressional districts carved out of the 9th District that I have represented for more than 19 years,” Cohen said in a statement. “Last week Tennessee Republicans silenced the Black vote here in Memphis to make Republican victories likely,” the congressman added. The new district map, which the Republican-led state Legislature and GOP Gov. Bill Lee enacted last week, divides Cohen’s majority-Black district three ways. Tennessee’s new map comes just weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision in Callais v. Louisiana, which gutted parts of the Voting Rights Act and sharply limited the use of race in drawing congressional districts. In the wake of the decision, lawmakers in several states across the South have moved forward with redistricting in ways that …

Legends’ Steve Coogan argues Margaret Thatcher shouldn’t be “sanctified”

Legends’ Steve Coogan argues Margaret Thatcher shouldn’t be “sanctified”

Published by Daniella Wilson

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. “We’re not the police. We’re not the spooks. There’s no safety net,” Steve Coogan’s Don – a lugubrious Mancunian, who’s himself a former undercover officer – tells a group of dissatisfied, but ambitious, employees of HM Revenue and Customs gathered in his dusty 1990s classroom. In reality we’re at a private school in St Albans, which is shuttered for the spring 2025 half-term, where Coogan and his fellow cast members are filming Legends, a new six-part true-crime thriller by writer and showrunner Neil Forsyth (The Gold, Guilt). Tom Burke’s Guy, among others, has passed the test to join a secret anti-drugs taskforce, set up by the historical Customs and Excise after Margaret Thatcher declared war on the gangs flooding Britain with heroin. Before they can go under cover, though, Don explains that this dangerous work means the new recruits have to leave their old lives behind and take on new identities – the “legends” of the show’s title. And then they’re sent off into the field: Guy …

Steve Carell and Charly Clive talk new show Rooster’s generational divide

Steve Carell and Charly Clive talk new show Rooster’s generational divide

Published by Daniella Wilson

In the new comedy Rooster, from Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) and Matt Tarses, Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a best-selling author who becomes a writer-in-residence at the New England college where his daughter Katie (Charly Clive) teaches. Katie’s husband Archie (Ted Lasso’s Phil Dunster) recently cheated on her with one of his graduate students and Greg wants to make sure she’s alright. Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), John C McGinley (Scrubs) and Lauren Tsai (Legion) also star. The series is HBO’s most-watched comedy debut in over 10 years and focuses on Greg and Katie’s father-daughter relationship. There are plenty of jokes about Greg, a Gen X professor, being out of touch with his Gen Z students, who frequently challenge him, with misunderstandings leading to disciplinary action for Greg. Meanwhile, he’s navigating how to relate to Katie as an adult. “They both make mistakes in the relationship. It’s not perfect, and they don’t always like each other, but they always love each other,” Carell tells Radio Times exclusively. We also asked Carell how he’s experienced …

Former SBC president Steve Gaines dies at 68

Former SBC president Steve Gaines dies at 68

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Steve Gaines, a Tennessee megachurch pastor who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016 to 2018, died Friday (March 20), his former congregation announced. He was 68. “It’s with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of our beloved Pastor Emeritus, Dr. Steve Gaines,” Bellevue Baptist Church said in a post on its Facebook page. After a two-year long battle with cancer, Bro. Steve stepped into eternity earlier this afternoon, and he is now fully healed in the presence of the Lord.”  Gaines led Memphis-area church, one of the SBC’s largest congregations, for 19 years. He stepped down as the congregation’s pastor in 2024, 10 months after being diagnosed with kidney cancer. Gaines was born December 31, 1957 in Corinth, Mississippi, and grew up in Dyersburg, Tennessee, according to Baptist Press, an official SBC publication. He earned degrees at Union University and  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and pastored churches in Tennessee and Texas while in school. He was elected president of the SBC in 2016, during a period of …

Steve Perry debunks rumors of rejoining Journey

Steve Perry debunks rumors of rejoining Journey

Published by Daniella Wilson

Steve Perry has denied rumors that he will rejoin rock group Journey for their upcoming farewell tour. Perry, 77, joined the San Francisco-based band in 1977 and was their singer during their most successful era, performing on hits including 1981’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Journey went on hiatus in 1987 following the death of Perry’s mother, but reunited with him for their 1996 album Trial By Fire. However, after Perry learned he had a degenerative bone condition he decided against touring the record and was replaced by singer Steve Augeri in 1998. Augeri was himself replaced by Filipino cover band singer Arnel Pineda in 2007, who is now the band’s longest-serving frontman and is expected to lead the farewell tour. In an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock earlier this week, Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain said that Perry had been invited to join the tour as well and was “thinking about it.” “I hope he comes out,” continued Cain. “It’s never too late. We’ve got 100 shows, so he’s welcome at any one of them. He didn’t …