Confirming their engagement, Cyrus told PEOPLE, “I’m so happy to be engaged and look forward to a life of happiness with Liam.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth, who plays Gale in The Hunger Games, met while working on the 2009 movie, The Last Song. With The Hunger Games still performing well in theaters and a batch of films in the works, Liam Hemsworth’s career is on the rise. Meanwhile, Cyrus is concentrating on her music at this time (her most recent film project, LOL, failed to find an audience in limited release).
Muse is following up the success of their 2009 Grammy-winning album The Resistance with their sixth album, The 2nd Law, coming this September. The group chose to confirm the album’s title – and that it is definitely scheduled for a 2012 release – with a freaky trailer debuting today on Youtube. The video features images of oil wells and tanks, stock prices escalating, and Wall Street panicking, but doesn’t have any specifics on the album itself.
From the Miss Universe Organization: “Olivia Culpo is a 19 year-old from Cranson, Rhode Island and is a sophomore at Boston University where she has made the Dean’s List every semester. She grew up in a musical environment. Culpo has played cello for 13 years, sings, and plays the piano. As a cellist, Olivia won seats in Boston Symphony Hall and New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.”
The panel of judges included Chef Cat Cora, Ali Fedotowsky, Arsenio Hall, Marilu Henner, Joe Jonas, Rob Kardashian, George Kotsiopoulos, and Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza.
The Final Results:
First Runner Up: Miss Maryland USA, Nana Meriwether, will assume the duties of Miss USA 2012 if the titleholder is named Miss Universe 2012 or if for some reason Miss USA cannot fulfill her duties.
Second Runner Up: Miss Ohio USA, Audrey Bolte
Rest of Top Five:
Miss Georgia USA, Jasmyn “Jazz” Wilkins
Miss Nevada USA, Jade Kelsall
Rest of Top Ten:
Miss Alabama USA, Katherine Webb
Miss Oklahoma USA, Lauren Lundeen
Miss Texas USA, Brittany Booker
Miss Colorado USA, Marybel Gonzalez
Miss New Jersey USA, Michelle Leonardo
Rest of Top Sixteen:
Miss Tennessee USA, Jessica Hibler
Miss Michigan USA, Kristin Danyal
Miss Louisiana USA, Erin Edmiston
Miss Maine USA, Rani Williamson
Miss South Carolina USA, Erika Powell
Miss Arkansas USA, Kelsey Dow [Winner of the Fan Vote]
MISS PHOTOGENIC USA(TM) Award: Miss Oregon USA, Alaina Bergsma.
MISS CONGENIALITY USA(TM) Award: Miss Iowa USA, Rebecca Hodge.
Crosby, Stills & Nash may be getting older, but they’re not slowing down. The group has scheduled 60 concert dates this summer, kicking off on June 7th in Philadelphia, PA and finishing up in San Diego, CA on September 30th. CSN recently finished up touring Australia, New Zealand and South America, and they’re set to release their first live video in more than 20 years next month.
Per CSN, CSN 2012 will feature “new, unreleased songs, a rare performance of ‘Suite: Judy Blues Eyes,’ a conversation with David, Graham and Stephen, and interviews with the band and crew.”
Joining Crosby, Stills and Nash on their summer tour are Todd Caldwell (organ), Shane Fontayne (guitar), Steve DiStanislao (drums), Kevin McCormick (bass), and James Raymond (keyboards). $1 from each ticket sold will be donated to charity.
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH 2012 U.S. DATES
June
7 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
8 Johnstown, PA Cambria County War Memorial
10 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
12 Canandaigua, NY Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
13 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion
15 Providence, RI Providence Performing Arts Center
16 Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre
18 Boston, MA The Wang Theatre
20 Westbury, NY Theatre at Westbury
21 Westbury, NY Theatre at Westbury
23 Erie, PA Presque Isle State Park
24 Bethlehem, PA Sands Bethlehem Event Center
26 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre
27 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre
29 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
30 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Event Center
July
2 Baltimore, MD Pier Six Pavilion
3 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap
5 Charlottesville, VA nTelos Wireless Pavilion
7 Portsmouth, VA nTelos Wireless Pavilion
8 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center
11 Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre
13 Biloxi, MS IP Casino Resort & Spa
14 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
27 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
28 Paducah, KY Carson Center
30 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
31 Toledo, OH Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre
August
2 St. Louis, MO Fox Theater
3 Chicago, IL Ravinia Festival
5 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
6 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
8 Lincoln, NE Pinewood Bowl Amphitheater
9 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
11 Wichita, KS Hartman Arena
12 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre
14 Dallas, TX Verizon Theatre
15 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
17 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre
18 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Live
20 Albuquerque, NM Route 66 Casino
21 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
23 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden
24 Boise, ID Idaho Botanic Gardens
September
4 Phoenix, AZ Symphony Hall
5 Tucson, AZ Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre
7 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
8 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium
11 Eugene, OR Cuthbert Amphitheater
12 Portland, OR Schnitzer Hall
14 Woodinville, WA Chateau Ste. Michelle
15 Airway Heighys, WA Northern Quest Resort & Casino
17 Arcata, CA Van Duzer Theatre
19 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
20 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
22 Reno, NV Reno Events Center
23 San Rafael, CA Marin Center
25 Modesto, CA Gallo Center For The Arts
28 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
29 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s By The Bay
30 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s By The Bay
House at the End of the Street is about a mother and daughter who move into a new community and find themselves next door to a house in which a psychotic young girl murdered her parents. While the locals insist the girl vanished after the brutal murders, the young newcomer befriends the surviving son and discovers the sinister story is far from over.
Katee Sackhoff and Robert Taylor in 'Longmire' - Photo by Ursula Coyote / A&E Networks
Robert Taylor stars in A&E’s one-hour crime drama Longmire premiering on June 3, 2012. The series follows Taylor as Walt Longmire, a man who’s coming to terms with life following his wife’s death.
Season one also stars Cassidy Freeman as Cady, Katee Sackhoff as Vic, Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry Standing Bear, Adam Bartley as The Ferg, and
Bailey Chase as Branch.
The Plot: Widowed only a year, Longmire is a man in psychic repair that buries his pain behind a brave face and dry wit. Struggling since his wife’s death and at the urging of his daughter, Cady, Longmire knows that the time has come to turn his life around. With the help of Vic, a female deputy new to the department, he becomes reinvigorated about his job and committed to running for re-election. When Branch, an ambitious young deputy, decides to run against him for sheriff, Longmire feels betrayed but remains steadfast in his dedication to the community.
Longmire often turns to close friend and confidant Henry Standing Bear for support as he sets out to rebuild both his personal and professional life, one step at a time.
Nero is joining one of 2012’s biggest tours: Madonna’s MDNA Tour. The British group (made up of Dan Stephens and Joe Ray) will be opening for Madonna on her North American leg of the tour in support of their debut album, Welcome Reality, released in December on Cherrytree/Interscope Records.
In addition to supporting Madonna, Nero will be performing at this summer’s IDentity Festival, Lollapalooza in Chicago, and Hard Summer Los Angeles in August.
Nero’s Upcoming Festival Dates:
07/19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center/Identity
07/20 Detroit, MI Phoenix Theater/Identity
07/21 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre/Identity
08/03 Chicago, IL Grant Park/Lollapalooza
08/04 Los Angeles, CA State Historic Park/Hard Summer
08/10 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion/Identity
08/11 Woodlands TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion/Identity
Madonna The MDNA Tour with Nero:
08/28 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
08/30 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
09/12 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
09/13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
09/15 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
10/13 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand
10/14 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand
10/16 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
10/18 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
10/20 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
10/21 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
10/24 Houston, TX Toyota Center
10/25 Houston, TX Toyota Center
10/27 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
10/30 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
11/01 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
11/03 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
11/04 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
11/06 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
11/08 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
11/10 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
11/12 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11/15 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
11/17 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
11/19 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
11/20 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
Clive Barker - Photo Courtesy of Amazon StudiosClive Barker has come on board the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, as writer. Amazon Studios director Roy Price made the announcement today, stating: “Zombies vs. Gladiators is now in the hands of someone who has written genre-defining material throughout his career. We are excited to see how Clive will add his unique narrative to capture the essence of this story and propel the project into something unique and original that could one day be enjoyed by all audiences.”
“I’m excited by the opportunity to interweave two very rich narrative threads,” said Barker. “One of them concerns itself with the reality of the decadence of Rome and its rise and fall. The other is a fantastical narrative element – the living dead. My brief to myself on this project is to give the audience not only zombies they have never seen before but also a Rome they have never seen before.”
Barker added, “Amazon Studios offered up the dream ticket with this project. In twenty five years of working in this town, I’ve rarely had people listen to what I had to say as closely and as carefully as they did and then simply give me the freedom to go do it. Amazon Studios is an innovative creative concept. I am looking forward to providing my own perspective to make Zombies vs. Gladiators a highly commercial and entertaining movie.”
The Plot:
Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies. It’s up to a gladiator to stop the spread of the zombie horde and save Rome.
Anna Silk stars as seductress Bo, a Succubus (a powerful female entity in folklore) who feeds off sexual energy. Raised by human parents, Bo had no reason to believe she was anything other than the girl next door – until she “drained” her first boyfriend to death.
Bo discovers she is one of the Fae, creatures of legend who pass as humans while secretly feeding off them. Faced with choosing between an allegiance to the Dark or Light Fae clans, Bo takes the middle path between the human and Fae worlds while embarking on a mission to unlock the secrets of her origin.
Returning for season three are Kris Holden-Ried as “Dyson”; Ksenia Solo as “Kenzi”; Zoie Palmer as “Lauren”; Rick Howland as “Trick” and K.C. Collins as “Hale.”
Joining the Lost Girl cast this season is Rachel Skarsten in a recurring role as “Tamsin,” a thrill-seeking, sexy new Fae who ruffles many feathers. Emmanuelle Vaugier will reprise her role as “The Morrigan,” the leader of the Dark Fae.
Books, souvenirs, LPs, CDs and much more Country Music memorabilia line the walls and fill the bins at Ernest Tubb Record Shop. - Photo Credit: Tom Andrews
It was a typical afternoon in March at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Downtown Nashville. Browsers thumbed through CDs and vinyl rarities, arranged neatly in the middle of the room. Books lined the east and west walls — biographies, songbooks, cookbooks, histories — as well as coffee cups, T-shirts, bumper stickers and more, all tied to the theme of Country Music.
At the back, where Sissy Spacek performed in a scene from the Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show was broadcasting his radio show, “Old Time Hour with Ketch Secor,” aired live once a month over WSM. A dozen or so visitors sat on folding chairs as he introduced his guest, Ken Berryhill, as “the world’s oldest living DJ.” They batted a few creaky jokes back and forth, with Berryhill observing, “It’s nice to be back in Nastyville … I mean Nashville,” before spinning a Carter Family track.
Listening from his office a few steps behind the stage, Rick Luningham, GM, Ernest Tubb Record Shops, reflected on the importance of live music at the store. When Country Music Hall of Fame member Ernest Tubb opened it in 1947, he launched the “Midnite Jamboree” as a means of promoting it. The live program aired every Saturday night, just after the Grand Ole Opry over WSM Nashville.
“I used to listen to the ‘Midnite Jamboree’ as a kid,” he recalled. “I got to see it for the first time in 1973, on this stage right out here. In fact, ET (Tubb) was here that night. I was hanging around this hallway and he came by. I didn’t bother him because so many people were grabbing at him and calling him ET like they were old friends. And then, all of a sudden, they moved all the racks on me, and my brother and I were trapped backstage. Boy, what a thrill! I was backstage at the Jamboree!”
Since then, that hallway and that stage have become a second home for Luningham. He was here when the store celebrated its 60th anniversary. “The year before, during Fan Fair, Eddie Stubbs was interviewing David McCormick, our CEO, out here on the stage. He said, ‘David, you’ve got your 60th anniversary coming up. Are you going to have a big deal?’ ‘Well, we’re gonna try.’ ‘When are you going to start planning it?’ And David said, ‘We probably better start next week!’”
Whatever they do schedule to mark this year’s milestone, it’ll be happening right in the thick of CMA Music Festival, at 417 Broadway. Even on non-anniversary years, Ernest Tubb Record Shop does its best business during those four days. “That’s our holiday,” said Stephen Bowen, Manager of the Downtown location. (Other branches operate at Opryland, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and in Fort Worth, Texas.) “Just today, we had a bit of a line at the door, about 10 or 15 deep. I told a new employee, ‘See that line? Now, come Fan Fair, start it at 9 AM and it’ll stay that long until midnight.’”
During the Festival, live music usually starts in the early afternoon at the Downtown store and lasts until around 10:30 PM. At the Opryland location (2416 Music Valley Drive, Suite 110), the music happens next door at the Texas Troubadour Theatre, from where the “Midnite Jamboree” and the Sunday morning “Nashville Cowboy Church” now broadcast. In 2010, though, the “Jamboree” moved to Robert’s Western World in Downtown Nashville during CMA Music Festival, where fans filled the venue to hear Rhonda Vincent and the Rage along with other performers.
Luningham admits to not remembering any particular highlights during recent CMA Festivals, though not for any lack of great music. “Quite honestly, the employees here don’t have a lot of time to pay attention to what’s going on with the show because we have a lot of customers in the store,” he said. “We really don’t know what’s happening onstage.”
During those four days and nights, the staff runs full speed on all cylinders. “We have around 20 to 25 employees, part-time and full-time,” Luningham estimated. “We have maybe another eight out of shop and at least another eight in the Troubadour Theatre. And during that week, everybody doubles up. Even when I was in mail order, I was usually here seven days that week. In fact, there’s an unwritten rule: Nobody cashes in their days off during Fan Fair.”
The good thing is that it’ll be just as hectic — and memorable — each year to come. “In fact, David and I were talking the other day about how we’d probably better get ready to start working on the 75th anniversary, if he and I are still around by then,” Luningham said, as both men laughed. “It’ll be here before we know it!”
