Jack Black announced that it was cancelling the remainder of the Tenacious D world tour after bandmate Kyle Gass made a joke about Gass’s failed assassination Donald Trump which left him “caught off guard”. The band members were performing in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday night when a cake was brought on stage to celebrate Gass’ birthday. When Black asked Gass to make a wish and blow out the candle, Gass replied, “Don’t miss Trump next time” — a reference to assassination attempt on former president at a rally in Pennsylvania the day before — as the audience laughed. As the show continued that night, Black released a statement Tuesday, canceling the remainder of the tour and suspending any future work with Gass. “I will never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,” Black wrote. “After careful consideration, I no longer believe it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative projects are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.” The story continues below the advertisement Tenacious D was scheduled to perform at further concerts in New Zealand and Australia, as well as a series of “Rock D Vote” concerts to benefit the non-partisan organization Rock the Vote ahead of the US presidential election. The email you need for the day The top news from Canada and around the world. Australian Senator Ralph Babet has called for the the group is withdrawn from the country in a statement released on X on Monday. “Advocating and/or wishing for the assassination of a president is blatant, disgusting, dirty, evil and unacceptable “In any case,” Babet wrote, “it was not a joke, he was completely serious when he wished for the death of the president.” The story continues below the advertisement There is no place in Australia for those who wish to murder others. pic.twitter.com/wuvgQxeeDS — Senator Babet (@senatorbabet) July 16, 2024 “I call on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately,” Babet continued. Fashionable now What are the requirements to bring a dog to the United States from Canada starting August 1? Trump shooter: Former classmates share details about shy, but ‘normal’ gunman “Any action short of expulsion would be an endorsement of the shooting and attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump,” he said. Gass apologized for the comment on Instagram, saying it was a “serious lack of judgment.” The story continues below the advertisement He wrote: “The line I improvised on stage on Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake. “I do not condone violence of any kind against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I am deeply sorry for my serious lapse in judgment. I sincerely apologize to those I have let down and truly regret any pain I may have caused.” 4:34 Violent attacks on politicians: could we see more of them? Previous video Next video © 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. Source link

Reduce the font size of the article Increase the font size of the article The next time Wiz Khalifa is in RomaniaThe rapper said it would be “without a big ass joint.” Wiz Khalifa (born Cameron Jibril Thomaz) was arrested early Sunday in Costinești, Romania, on drug possession charges after the 36-year-old musician was seen smoking a joint on stage while headlining a music festival. Romania’s Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism, known as DIICOT, said Khalifa, who is a U.S. citizen, had 18 grams of cannabis in his possession when he was arrested. He is being investigated for “the offence of illegal possession of high-risk drugs”, including cannabis. According to DIICOT, criminal proceedings have already been launched. If found guilty, Khalifa faces a 10-year prison sentence, AFP reported. On the X-rated show, Khalifa admitted to using marijuana on stage during his performance on Saturday. The story continues below the advertisement “Last night’s show was amazing,” the rapper wrote. “I didn’t mean to disrespect Romania by going on stage. They were very respectful and let me go.” Latest news from Canada and around the world sent to your email address, as it happens. “I’ll be back soon,” he promised. “But next time I won’t have a big joint.” Last night’s show was amazing. I didn’t mean to disrespect Romania by going on stage. They were very respectful and let me go. I’ll be back soon. But without a big joint next time. — World leader of the Taylor gang (@wizkhalifa) July 14, 2024 Fashionable now Shannen Doherty, Star of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ and ‘Charmed,’ Dies at 53 Witnesses to Trump shooting say they tried to warn police about gunman on roof Khalifa and his music are often synonymous with cannabis use. During his set at Beach Please! festival on Saturday night, Khalifa rapped while AV onstage delivered messages in English such as “Smoke one if you love yourself,” “Soccer moms love pot” and “Weed is the new wine.” A video shared on social media showed Romanian authorities escort Khalifa out of the room after his performance. The story continues below the advertisement Khalifa is no longer in custody. The investigation is ongoing. 5:55 Maestro Fresh Wes: Hip-hop icon on being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame © 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. Source link

Shannen DohertyTHE Beverly Hills, 90210 The star, whose life and career were devastated by illness and scandal-ridden press reports, has died aged 53. After years with breast cancerDoherty died Saturday, according to a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by loved ones and her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace,” Sloane said Sunday. first report by People magazine. Her illness was publicly revealed in a 2015 lawsuit against her former business managers, in which she claimed they mismanaged her money and let her health insurance lapse. She later shared intimate details of her treatment after a single mastectomy. In December 2016, she posted a photo from her first day of radiation therapy, calling the treatment “scary” for her. The story continues below the advertisement In February 2020, Doherty revealed that the cancer had returned and she was at stage fourShe explained that she came forward because her health condition could be revealed in court. The actress had sued insurance giant State Farm after her California home was damaged by a fire in 2018. 0:44 Shannen Doherty reveals her breast cancer is spreading “I have no idea how long my chemotherapy will last. It’s not something I can predict, nor can my doctors. And it’s scary, it’s like a big wake-up call,” Doherty said in an episode of his podcast released in late June. Let’s be clearadding that a recent change in the shape of her cancer cells meant there were new treatment protocols to try. “For the first time in probably a few months, I feel hopeful because there are a lot more protocols now, whereas before I was hopeful – but I was still preparing.” The story continues below the advertisement Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Doherty moved to Los Angeles with her family at age 7 and within a few years became an actress. The email you need for the day The top news from Canada and around the world. “It was completely my decision,” she told The Associated Press in a 1994 interview. “My parents never pushed me to do anything. They supported me. It wouldn’t have really mattered if I was a professional soccer player — they would still be just as supportive and loving.” As a child star, she worked regularly in television series such as Little House on the Prairiein which she played Jenny Wilder. She took a detour to the big screen as a teenager in Girls just want to have fun (1985) and Heathers. In 1990, the doe-eyed, dark-haired actress landed her role as Brenda Walsh in producer Aaron Spelling’s hit teen melodrama set in upscale Beverly Hills. She and Brenda’s twin brother Brandon, played by Canadian actor Jason Priestley, are Midwestern fish out of water. But Doherty’s fame came with media attention and accounts of temper tantrums, alcoholism, and impulsiveness—the latter particularly notable after a very brief marriage to actor George Hamilton’s son Ashley. Doherty’s second marriage, in 2002, was to Rick Salomon and was annulled after a year. In 2011, Doherty married photographer Kurt Iswarienko. She filed for divorce in April 2023. She left Beverly Hills, 90210 at the end of its fourth season in 1994 (the series aired until 2000), apparently canceled by Spelling due to conflicts with his co-stars and chronic lateness. The story continues below the advertisement But in his 1994 interview with AP, Doherty described his life as peaceful. “That must be the case, if you pick up the Enquirer and find out the only thing they can write about me is that I set up a pay phone next door and was seen at Stroud’s (a discount bedding and bath chain) buying $1,400 worth of bed sheets and wouldn’t go to a luxury store,” she said. “It must be quiet if they get that stuff out of their heads.” Three years later, in 1997, Doherty was ordered to undergo anger management therapy by a Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge after she allegedly smashed a beer bottle on a man’s windshield during an argument. After a drunken driving arrest in 2001, she pleaded not guilty and was ordered to serve five days of rehabilitation in a work release program. Doherty reunited with Spelling when he cast her in the role of Prue Halliwell in 1998’s CharmIn an interview with AP that year, the actress expressed regret about her past. Fashionable now Witnesses to Trump shooting say they tried to warn police about gunman on roof Alberta woman born with IUD suffers from rare diseases “I was responsible for a lot of those mistakes,” Doherty said. “I don’t think I can point the finger at someone and say, ‘Oh, that’s your fault.’ And I don’t blame myself for that either. Because I was growing up.” His personality had been “grotesquely misinterpreted” by the media, Doherty added. Spelling said at the time that their relationship was never as bad as some suggested. The story continues below the advertisement “We had some bumps in the road, but boy, who doesn’t?” said Spelling, who died in 2006. “Everything Shannen did was exaggerated by critics.” Doherty starred with Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano in Charm from 1998 to 2001, when her character was replaced by one played by Rose McGowan. Doherty appeared in 90210 series continued seven years later and competed on Dancing with the stars in 2010. She also worked on the third Beverly Hills, 90210 to restart, BH90210a meta-parody that reunited most of the original cast and aired for one season in 2019. She also appeared in a tribute episode of Riverdale dedicated to the star of this show — and to his late Beverly Hills, 90210 on-screen love interest — Luke Perry. Doherty fought to get it back Beverly Hills, 90210 star status, but has worked in big-screen films, including The Mall Rats And Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and in TV movies such as A…

A New Mexico judge brought a sudden and stunning end Friday to the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin, by dismissing it in the middle of the actor’s trial and saying it could not be refiled. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice because of police and prosecutor misconduct in withholding evidence from the defense in the murder of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust.” Baldwin wept, hugged his two attorneys, gestured toward the front of the courtroom, then turned to his weeping wife, Hilaria, to hug her for 12 seconds. He got into an SUV outside the Santa Fe courthouse without speaking to the media. “The late discovery of this evidence at trial prevented the effective use of the evidence in a manner that impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings,” Marlowe Sommer said. “If this conduct does not rise to the level of bad faith, it certainly comes so close to bad faith that it shows signs of burning.” The story continues below the advertisement The evidence that derailed the case, revealed Thursday during the trial’s second day of testimony, was the existence of ammunition brought to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in March by a man who said it might be linked to Hutchins’ killing. Prosecutors said they considered the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin’s attorneys claimed they “buried” it. The defense filed one of several motions it had filed to dismiss the case on evidentiary grounds. All others were denied. But this one took hold. 0:36 ‘Rust’ gunsmith convicted of manslaughter in fatal shooting on film set The judge’s ruling ends the criminal culpability of Baldwin, 66, after a nearly three-year saga that began when a gun he pointed at Hutchins during a rehearsal went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. The email you need for the day The top news from Canada and around the world. “Our goal from the beginning was to obtain justice for Halyna Hutchins, and we fought to have this case tried on its merits,” District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said in a statement. “We are disappointed that the case did not go to a jury.” The story continues below the advertisement The career of the “The Hunt for Red October” and “30 Rock” star and frequent “Saturday Night Live” host — who has been a household name for more than three decades — was in doubt, and he could have faced up to 18 months in prison. Baldwin and other producers still face civil lawsuits from Hutchins’ parents and sister. Prosecutors nevertheless obtained a conviction in Hutchins’ death. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter, a conviction she is appealing. His attorney, Jason Bowles, said Friday that he would also file a motion to dismiss his client’s case. “The judge upheld the integrity of the system by dismissing the case,” he told The Associated Press in an email. Marlowe Sommer adjourned the trial earlier Friday and sent the jury home for the weekend so she could spend the day hearing testimony and arguments on the motion to dismiss. Troy Teske, a retired police officer and close friend of Gutierrez-Reed’s father, Thell Reed, who is a firearms trainer and gunsmith in films, was the person who brought the ammunition to the sheriff’s office in March, the same day the guilty verdict in his case was read. Teske and the ammunition he said might be relevant had been known to authorities for weeks after the shooting, and special prosecutor Kari Morrissey had met with him last year, but they determined it was not relevant. The story continues below the advertisement The evidence was collected but, crucially, it was not filed with the rest of the Rust case and was not presented to Baldwin’s defense team when it reviewed the ballistics evidence in April. The defense argued that it should have been given a chance to weigh the significance of the evidence and that the prosecution “buried” it. Fashionable now Tourist killed by elephants while taking photos in South Africa Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette Goes Viral for Openly Flirting With Trade: ‘I Want to Win’ The issue arose Thursday during defense questioning of sheriff’s crime scene technician Marissa Poppell, who acknowledged receiving the ammunition, a moment the judge watched on a police supervisor’s body camera Friday. Morrissey claimed the appearance of the ammunition was part of an attempt by Reed to shift the blame onto his daughter. “This is a wild goose chase that has no probative value,” Morrissey told the judge at the hearing. “This is just a man trying to protect his daughter.” 0:37 Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Trial Begins in New Mexico The other special prosecutor in the case, Erlinda Ocampo Johnson, resigned from the case earlier Friday. Baldwin’s attorney, Alex Spiro, questioned whether she resigned because of the evidentiary issues being discussed. Morrissey said she believed it was because of the public hearing itself. The story continues below the advertisement Speaking outside the courthouse doors, Morrissey said she respected the judge’s decision, but there was no reason to believe the undisclosed evidence in question was connected to the filming of “Rust.” The trial had barely begun when it was adjourned. Prosecutors had barely begun to present their arguments and none of the witnesses to the shooting had yet testified. Stephen Baldwin, Baldwin’s younger brother, and Elizabeth Keuchler, his older sister, both actors, sat behind him in the gallery next to his wife each day of the trial, which was broadcast live by AP and Court TV. Reporters from both coasts filled the small courtroom and had stations outside for the arrivals and departures of the trial’s actors. The judge dealt a serious blow to the prosecution when she ruled on the eve of trial Monday that Baldwin’s role as a producer of the film was irrelevant and should be left out. Still, prosecutors continued their investigation, describing Baldwin in opening statements as…