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So 'Dancing With the Stars' just started Monday night. My hat's off to every single person that puts on their dancing shoes, hits the floor and boogies 'til they can't boogie no more. It takes skill, talent and a huge amount of athleticism to compete on that show.
I try to watch it every season, but I just can't. After the third or fourth dance I'm exhausted and then I have to go to bed.
Can't they make a show called "Slow Dancing with the Stars"? I'd be able to watch that without getting winded.
Be Well,
Steve
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Daisy Ridley confirms talks for 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' reboot
Daisy Ridley may indeed star in a Lara Croft: Tomb Raider reboot.
The 23-year-old English actress confirmed she's in early talks to play Lara after being linked to the much-hyped project this month.
"[There] have been conversations," the star told The Hollywood Reporter at the Empire Awards on Sunday before clarifying she hasn't been offered the role.
"I'm waiting for someone to say, 'I want you, let's do it,'" she said, also revealing there isn't a script yet. "[I would] absolutely [do it], I'm trying to fill up my calendar."
Ridley, who plays Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has a strong proponent in co-star John Boyega, who portrays Finn. The 24-year-old actor voiced his support for Ridley at the ceremony, saying he immediately envisioned her as Lara.
"I played Tomb Raider the game, it's a new take and I think the movies are going to be based on that version," he speculated. "I texted Daisy [and] was like, 'This is you!' and 'You need to get on that because you could be Lara Croft.' She should be."
Angelina Jolie played Lara in the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. The films are based on the Tomb Raider video game series, which debuted in 1996.
"I think making Lara Croft feel like a real human being, that's definitely something we want to bring to the big screen as well," director Roar Uthaug told IGN this month. "I think we'll want to make people relate to Lara as a character."
Uthaug confirmed the reboot will be an origin story, similar to the 2013 video game Tomb Raider. Ridley is presently filming Star Wars: Episode VIII, which opens in theaters Dec. 15, 2017.
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"I get physically ill when I have to leave the kids now."
--David Beckham, on the struggles of balancing work and family life, to GQ
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Which music legend's memoirs will be published in 2017?
Drew Barrymore to star in new Netflix comedy series 'Santa Clarita Diet'
Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant are to star in a single-camera comedy series called Santa Clarita Diet, Netflix announced.
Created and written by Victor Fresco, the show is expected to premiere in 2017.
Olyphant and Barrymore will play married realtors "leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita, until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending both their lives down a road of death and destruction... but in a good way," a synopsis teased.
"The genius casting of Timothy and Drew combined with Victor's unique comedic sensibility will delight, and definitely surprise, our members around the world," Cindy Holland, Netflix's vice president of original content, said in a statement Friday.
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Which music legend's memoirs will be published in 2017?
Prince will publish his autobiography in fall 2017, his publisher announced.
The memoir, tentatively titled "The Beautiful Ones" is promised to be "an unconventional and poetic journey through his life and creative work" and "the stories behind the music that changed the world," publisher Spiegel & Grau said in a statement. The publisher is an imprint of Random House.
The 57-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer told the audience at music industry event last week, his brother Dan is helping him with the first edits of the book. But what will be covered exactly is not clear.
"We're starting from the beginning, from my first memory, and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl," he said.
Prince's first hit came in 1978 and and began a career that has so far spanned five decades, sold millions of records, earned him seven Grammys, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar.
"Millions of words have been written about Prince," said Spiegel & Grau Executive Editor Chris Jackson, "but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice."
The book could detail his rise in the Minneapolis-St. Paul scene in the 1970s, the many women in his life, his public battle with Warner Bros. and the making of classic 1980s album Purple Rain.
The memoir will come after Prince's recent string of solo Piano & A Microphone performances, where he has begun to share stories about his life and recent show included a tribute to his late muse, Vanity.