September 17, 2019

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Google is celebrating what would have been the 94th birthday of blues legend B.B. King with a Doodle.

King, who is nicknamed "The King of Blues," was born in 1925 near Berclair, Miss. The singer and guitarist grew up performing gospel music in church and on street corners before he hitchhiked to Memphis and got a job at a radio station.

First called the "Beale Street Blues Boy" by Memphis locals followed by "Bee Bee" and lastly "B.B.," King earned his first hit in 1949 with "Three O'Clock Blues."

Other hit songs released by King include "The Thrill is Gone," and "Every Day I Have the Blues."

King, throughout his career, was internationally acclaimed, won 15 Grammys, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and has performed at the White House.

He died at the age of 89 in May 2015.

Google's homepage features animated artwork of a young King performing in front of a glowing Google sign. The Doodle was illustrated by Steve Spencer and animated by Nayeli Lavanderos.

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The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek dead at 75

The Cars lead singer Ric Ocasek has died in New York. He was 75.

A police spokesman told TMZ Ocasek was pronounced dead at his Manhattan townhouse.

The New York Post said Ocasek's estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova, discovered the musician's body Sunday afternoon.

Variety also confirmed Ocasek's death.

The cause has not yet been determined.

Ocasek and Porizkova split up in 2018 after 28 years of marriage. They have two children together. Ocasek also has three other children from other relationships.

The Cars was a New Wave group known for the 1970s and '80s hits "Drive," "Let's Go," "My Best Friend's Girl," "Good Times Roll," "Just What I Needed," "Magic," "You Might Think" and "Bye Bye Love."

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.

Ocasek's death comes just days after that of another '80s music icon -- Eddie Money. Money died of cancer on Friday at the age of 70.

Rachel Bloom pregnant with first child

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend actress Rachel Bloom has announced she is pregnant with her first child, a girl.

"I'm pregnant!" UsMagazine.com said the 32-year-old actress told reporters backstage at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday. "So, that's what's next for me. I might as well do it at an Emmy press conference. I was going to post an Instagram, [but] ... I'm three months pregnant."

Bloom, who has been married to writer Dan Gregor since 2016, won an Emmy for Best Original Music and Lyrics for her show earlier in the evening, People.com said.

Bloom also posted a brief video on Instagram, showing her with her Emmy statuette.

"WE WON AN EMMY!!!!!!!!!!!" also btw I'm pregnant," Bloom captioned the clip.

She is touring with a stage show called What Am I Going to Do with My Life Now? My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wrapped its four-season run in April.

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"I just, out of the blue, got a phone call saying that HBO was going to significantly raise my salary. And, I'm going to be totally honest here, the first feeling I had was I felt kind of guilty. I just had this windfall: 'You know, wait, that's not fair.' But that's where I'm brainwashed. ... It took me maybe a day to go like, 'No, no, no, this is payback for a long time. When have I ever been paid the same as my male costar?'"
--Maggie Gyllenhaal, on overcoming her initial reaction of guilt after learning HBO would be paying her the same as her Deuce costar James Franco, on SiriusXM Insight

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'DWTS: Christie Brinkley's daughter to replace model in Season 28

Christie Brinkley's daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook will replace the model in Dancing with the Stars Season 28.

ABC News confirmed Monday that Brinkley-Cook, 21, will take her mom's place in the ABC reality competition due to Brinkley's recent injury.

Brinkley, 65, broke her arm during rehearsals and required surgery on her wrist and arm.

"Showbiz is all about getting a break, and Sailor and I both got one on Dancing with the Stars this season," Brinkley jokingly said in a statement. "Sailor joined the cast when I got mine... ouch somebody stop me, it hurts to laugh!"

Brinkley-Cook is racing to learn her mom's routine ahead of the Season 28 premiere Monday evening.

"I'm doing this for my mom! I just want to make her happy and make her proud," she told Good Morning America. "She loved doing this, she loves dancing and she loves performing and getting hurt was her worst nightmare."

Brinkley had shared a video of herself in costume just Sunday evening. ABC News said the outfit fit Brinkley-Cook perfectly.

"I'm so excited for tomorrow's show! @dancingabc," Brinkley captioned the post on Instagram. "'To live without risk is to risk not living.' - Pope Pius."

Brinkley-Cook is a burgeoning model who appeared with Brinkley and sister Alexa Ray Joel in the 2017 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Brinkley-Cook also posed for the 2018 issue.

'Game of Thrones,' 'Chernobyl' win Creative Arts Emmys

HBO's Game of Thrones and Chernobyl won multiple Creative Arts Emmys at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Game of Thrones took home a leading 10 Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday with Chernobyl coming in second with seven wins.

The honors were handed out on the second night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony. Free Solo, Queer Eye and Leaving Neverland won big on Saturday.

Game of Thrones, which ended it's eight-season run in May, won for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour), Outstanding Visual Effects, Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes, Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited Series or Movie, Outstanding Main Title Design, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, Outstanding Sound Mixing for Comedy of Drama Series (One Hour) and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series.

Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries that dramatizes the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, won awards such as Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More), Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie.

Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won six awards including Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Luke Kirby and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Jane Lynch.

Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Cherry Jones and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Bradley Whitford.

The Emmys will be broadcast live Sunday on Fox on at 8 p.m. ET.

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Which film won the top prize at the Toronto Film Festival?

Writer-director-actor Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit won the top honor of the Grolsch People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.

The Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award went to Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's The Platform and Feras Fayyad's The Cave earned the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award.

Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden won the Toronto Platform Prize.

"TIFF 2019 was a stellar year," Cameron Bailey, TIFF co-head and artistic director, and Joana Vicente, TIFF co-head and executive director, said in a joint statement. "The films and talent featured in this year's festival have left us inspired, awestruck, and excited for the future of cinema."