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[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine documentary series The Defiant Ones coming to HBO

Hip-hop moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are one of music’s most successful yet unlikely tandems. HBO is telling their story with a huge documentary event.

The cable network announced The Defiant Ones, a four-part documentary from director Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) on the longtime business relationship between Dre and Iovine. The series will follow Iovine, “the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman,” and Dre, who came “straight out of Compton,” through their solo careers and their partnership, which led to founding Aftermath Records, finding Eminem, and creating the instantly recognizable Beats Electronics brand.

Hughes filmed the pair over a three-year period and also interviewed Bono, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, and more. Unearthed footage of old recording sessions from their early years — including moments with Springsteen, N.W.A, Eazy-E, and Stevie Nicks — will also appear in the documentary.



http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08...y-defiant-ones

It seems Stevie will appear also in an interview in the documentary:

HBO documentary tracks bond between Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine

PASADENA, Calif. — The Defiant Ones focuses on an unlikely relationship between two of the most influential people in popular culture.

The four-part HBO documentary, which premieres this spring, looks at the bond between two entertainment icons: rapper and producer Dr. Dre, a Compton native known for N.W.A. and Death Row Records, and music mega-producer Jimmy Iovine, son of a Brooklyn longshoreman. The pair founded the multi-billion-dollar entertainment entity, Beats Electronics.

Defiant follows their paths through recording studios, giant mansions, corporate boardrooms and even criminal courts.

"It's about the relationship of a white guy and a black guy who both grew up in racially charged areas. There was something about it and we just hit it off," Iovine told television critics Saturday (Dre wasn't present for the panel.). The pair dealt with "some pretty tough times and some pretty dangerous times (and) some circumstances that were never in entertainment before. We got through it."

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He hopes the relationship between two very different people can provide an example in "a country in this moment that is so screwed up in this area. We stayed together under some of the most difficult circumstances you have."

Iovine, who has produced John Lennon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and U2, says he was taken by Dre's brilliance immediately.

"The day I met Dre and saw what he does and heard what he does, he couldn’t shake me with a stick," says Iovine, who then related some advice he had received: "If you bump into a genius on a beach, never let him go."

As for the Beats partnership, Iovine said the two wanted to make headphones that sounded great and looked cool. "All the headphones at that time looked like medical equipment."

The Allen Hughes-directed documentary, which was filmed over three years, features interviews with a hall of fame of music stars and moguls, including Bono, David Geffen, Eminem, Nas, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani, Jon Landau, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen and will.i.am.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/t...vine/96585588/

[FuzzyPlum]

What shall I wear to Donald Trump’s inauguration if ‘all the dress shops are sold out’?
The Guardian online
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/...fashion-advice


I’m going to the inauguration in DC this week. What should I wear?
Rose, by email


Will Melania Trump copy Stevie Nicks’s look for the Trump inauguration?

Something waterproof, obviously. What? I was referring to DC’s famously poor winter weather. Look what happened to William Henry Harrison when he didn’t wear weather-appropriate clothes at his inauguration – the man died nine days later! So honestly, I was just thinking about everyone’s good health and in no way making some cheap reference to #watersportsgate (the only -gate this column accepts).

So! You’re going to the inauguration, Rose. Well, I don’t think you’ll have trouble getting a seat, put it that way. Despite a lifetime of desperation to be near celebrities, a desperation that has resulted in him appearing in such classy fare as Home Alone 2 and being a guest at QVC’s Oscars party in 2011 alongside Kim Kardashian, Trump is now insisting, from his gold-plated Manhattan penthouse, that he doesn’t care about those elites.

“The so-called ‘A’ list celebrities are all wanting tickets to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!” he tweeted last month, sounding adorably like a seven-year-old who didn’t actually want any of those people he begged to come to his birthday party to turn up. He totally planned all along to celebrate with two teddy bears, a set of Lego and his mother.

And, indeed, Trump proceeded to prove how little he cares about these A-listers by tweeting about how many more people watched him on The Celebrity Apprentice compared with its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Keeping it real for the PEOPLE there.

Anyway, the team around Trump continues to use language in a way that the pigs in Animal Farm can only admire. The head of his inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, said last week that they don’t need any celebrities because “we have the greatest celebrity in the world … ”

“Which is the president-elect.” Oh. “So what we’ve done, instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers, is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circus-like celebration that’s a coronation.”

Wait. You’re going to have to run that by me again: “We are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place.”

I’m sorry, have you ever been to DC? I have, many times, and let me tell you, of all the adjectives that come to mind when I think of the place (“clean”, “white”, “clean”), “soft sensuality” does not appear very high in the list. In fact, I genuinely don’t think anyone has sex in that city (too dirty, too little possibility of politics chat.) So the tactic seems to be, instead of surrounding Trump with people, he will instead be surrounded by air, which is totally what I’m going to say to waiters when they give me grief about dining on my own.

“What, you’re eating by yourself?”

“Instead of trying to surround myself with what people consider to be other people I’ve decided to surround myself with the soft sensuality of the restaurant. Can’t you see the poetic cadence?”

Anyway! There is, amazingly, a point to all this, and that is to suggest you try to match this mood board by looking for clothes that convey soft sensuality and poetic cadences. I’m seeing a very Stevie Nicks look here, all flowing sleeves and sheer materials. Honestly, I can’t think of a better look to celebrate this incoming administration than one associated with a band known for self-destruction and in-fighting.

But you must sort your look out fast, Rose, because Trump has said that his inauguration is going to be so popular that “all the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.” Now, you’ll never believe this, but some DC stores have cast doubt on this claim (“We have a wonderful assortment of dresses and gowns,” Bloomingdale’s, a US department store with two locations in DC, has said), but doubtless that is just fake news from the elites, or something something word salad something.

The person who really needs to get a move on is Melania Trump. Some Trump supporters have criticised those designers, such as Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, who have said they won’t give clothes to her. I must have missed the part in the constitution where it says fashion designers are obliged to give free clothes to the president’s wife, even if she is married to a man who appoints a raging homophobe as his VP, a man who objects to everything about these designers’ lives.

But never mind Marc and Tom, I honestly reckon a bit of Stevie Nicks fringing would suit Melania a treat. A little dancing across the stage, waving her shawl and shouting in Don’s face: “You can go your own way.”

For once, I think Melania would be speaking for Republicans and Democrats alike. Roll on, bipartisanship!

[lilyfee]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

What shall I wear to Donald Trump’s inauguration if ‘all the dress shops are sold out’?
The Guardian online
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/...fashion-advice


I’m going to the inauguration in DC this week. What should I wear?
Rose, by email


Will Melania Trump copy Stevie Nicks’s look for the Trump inauguration?

Something waterproof, obviously. What? I was referring to DC’s famously poor winter weather. Look what happened to William Henry Harrison when he didn’t wear weather-appropriate clothes at his inauguration – the man died nine days later! So honestly, I was just thinking about everyone’s good health and in no way making some cheap reference to #watersportsgate (the only -gate this column accepts).

So! You’re going to the inauguration, Rose. Well, I don’t think you’ll have trouble getting a seat, put it that way. Despite a lifetime of desperation to be near celebrities, a desperation that has resulted in him appearing in such classy fare as Home Alone 2 and being a guest at QVC’s Oscars party in 2011 alongside Kim Kardashian, Trump is now insisting, from his gold-plated Manhattan penthouse, that he doesn’t care about those elites.

“The so-called ‘A’ list celebrities are all wanting tickets to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!” he tweeted last month, sounding adorably like a seven-year-old who didn’t actually want any of those people he begged to come to his birthday party to turn up. He totally planned all along to celebrate with two teddy bears, a set of Lego and his mother.

And, indeed, Trump proceeded to prove how little he cares about these A-listers by tweeting about how many more people watched him on The Celebrity Apprentice compared with its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Keeping it real for the PEOPLE there.

Anyway, the team around Trump continues to use language in a way that the pigs in Animal Farm can only admire. The head of his inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, said last week that they don’t need any celebrities because “we have the greatest celebrity in the world … ”

“Which is the president-elect.” Oh. “So what we’ve done, instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers, is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circus-like celebration that’s a coronation.”

Wait. You’re going to have to run that by me again: “We are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place.”

I’m sorry, have you ever been to DC? I have, many times, and let me tell you, of all the adjectives that come to mind when I think of the place (“clean”, “white”, “clean”), “soft sensuality” does not appear very high in the list. In fact, I genuinely don’t think anyone has sex in that city (too dirty, too little possibility of politics chat.) So the tactic seems to be, instead of surrounding Trump with people, he will instead be surrounded by air, which is totally what I’m going to say to waiters when they give me grief about dining on my own.

“What, you’re eating by yourself?”

“Instead of trying to surround myself with what people consider to be other people I’ve decided to surround myself with the soft sensuality of the restaurant. Can’t you see the poetic cadence?”

Anyway! There is, amazingly, a point to all this, and that is to suggest you try to match this mood board by looking for clothes that convey soft sensuality and poetic cadences. I’m seeing a very Stevie Nicks look here, all flowing sleeves and sheer materials. Honestly, I can’t think of a better look to celebrate this incoming administration than one associated with a band known for self-destruction and in-fighting.

But you must sort your look out fast, Rose, because Trump has said that his inauguration is going to be so popular that “all the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.” Now, you’ll never believe this, but some DC stores have cast doubt on this claim (“We have a wonderful assortment of dresses and gowns,” Bloomingdale’s, a US department store with two locations in DC, has said), but doubtless that is just fake news from the elites, or something something word salad something.

The person who really needs to get a move on is Melania Trump. Some Trump supporters have criticised those designers, such as Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, who have said they won’t give clothes to her. I must have missed the part in the constitution where it says fashion designers are obliged to give free clothes to the president’s wife, even if she is married to a man who appoints a raging homophobe as his VP, a man who objects to everything about these designers’ lives.

But never mind Marc and Tom, I honestly reckon a bit of Stevie Nicks fringing would suit Melania a treat. A little dancing across the stage, waving her shawl and shouting in Don’s face: “You can go your own way.”

For once, I think Melania would be speaking for Republicans and Democrats alike. Roll on, bipartisanship!

This is such an odd article. While it mentions Stevie's style throughout, I don't understand why they bring her into it at all.

[SisterNightroad]

Photo Flash: Natalie Douglas Honors MLK Day with 'STEVIE SONGS' at Birdland

The Broadway at Birdland concert series welcomed singer Natalie Douglas, who returned to her musical home on Monday, January 16 with "Stevie Songs: The Music of Stevie Nicks & Stevie Wonder," in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

The concert celebrated the artistry, vision & enduring brilliance of two towering musical influences, Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder. Natalie, her musical director Brian Nash & her band turned attention to Nicks' compositions including "Gold Dust Woman," "Rhiannon," & "Leather & Lace," in addition to songs penned by Stevie Wonder such as "You Haven't Done Nothing" "All in Love is Fair" and, "Higher Ground."

The Broadway at Birdland concert series takes place every week on the stage of the historic music room, located at 315 West 44 Street, in the heart of New York's theater district.



http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret...dland-20170119

[Steviegirl]

Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

It seems Stevie will appear also in an interview in the documentary:

HBO documentary tracks bond between Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine

PASADENA, Calif. — The Defiant Ones focuses on an unlikely relationship between two of the most influential people in popular culture.

The four-part HBO documentary, which premieres this spring, looks at the bond between two entertainment icons: rapper and producer Dr. Dre, a Compton native known for N.W.A. and Death Row Records, and music mega-producer Jimmy Iovine, son of a Brooklyn longshoreman. The pair founded the multi-billion-dollar entertainment entity, Beats Electronics.

Defiant follows their paths through recording studios, giant mansions, corporate boardrooms and even criminal courts.

"It's about the relationship of a white guy and a black guy who both grew up in racially charged areas. There was something about it and we just hit it off," Iovine told television critics Saturday (Dre wasn't present for the panel.). The pair dealt with "some pretty tough times and some pretty dangerous times (and) some circumstances that were never in entertainment before. We got through it."

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He hopes the relationship between two very different people can provide an example in "a country in this moment that is so screwed up in this area. We stayed together under some of the most difficult circumstances you have."

Iovine, who has produced John Lennon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and U2, says he was taken by Dre's brilliance immediately.

"The day I met Dre and saw what he does and heard what he does, he couldn’t shake me with a stick," says Iovine, who then related some advice he had received: "If you bump into a genius on a beach, never let him go."

As for the Beats partnership, Iovine said the two wanted to make headphones that sounded great and looked cool. "All the headphones at that time looked like medical equipment."

The Allen Hughes-directed documentary, which was filmed over three years, features interviews with a hall of fame of music stars and moguls, including Bono, David Geffen, Eminem, Nas, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani, Jon Landau, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen and will.i.am.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/t...vine/96585588/

Squee! Finally, HBO releases a decent program about music after that inane and utterly unwatchable Vinyl. So excited to see this!