18 December 2020
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Tom Hanks has shared his surprise that Priscilla Presley had positive words to say about Elvis Presley s manager Colonel Tom Parker, who he is set to play in an upcoming film.
Hanks told The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that as part of his research for the role as Parker in Baz Luhrmann s Elvis, he and his wife Rita Wilson had dinner with Priscilla Presley.
Referring to the music entrepreneur s notorious reputation, Hanks remarked: He was both a genius and a scoundrel. He was a very disciplined man, but also a guy who you might want to check your wallet to make sure you still have all those fives and 10s, he explained.
He had written “Breathe” after Eric Garner’s killing by New York police in 2014; it was his reflection on the notion of breath as a great equaliser, and as the source of Harris’ own powers as a trombonist. But at the start of this video, he turns to those affected by COVID-19. He offers the suite as “a sonic reflection for those who have passed, and those who are born,” Harris says. “We have to think about the lives of the people who are born in this period now. That’s a whole thing, the beginning and the end.”
The performance was recorded in May, before George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis and its nightmarish resonance with Garner’s death. By the time Harris’ video was released in June, protesters were constantly in the streets, and the suite’s original message had become painfully relevant again. But even in this new light, the poise and sensitivity that Harris had intentionally brought to this performance didn’t feel out of place.
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Surprised the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed attacking Jill Biden’s preference to use the title “Dr.”? So was Jill Biden.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” incoming First Lady Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden responded to Joseph Epstein’s controversial essay for the newspaper, which has been widely criticized as sexist.
“That was such a surprise,” Jill Biden told Colbert. “It was really the tone of it. . He called me ‘kiddo.’ And one of the things I’m most proud of is my doctorate. I mean, I’ve worked so hard for it.”
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Surprised the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed attacking Jill Biden’s preference to use the title “Dr.”? So was Jill Biden.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” incoming First Lady Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden responded to Joseph Epstein’s controversial essay for the newspaper, which has been widely criticized as sexist.
“That was such a surprise,” Jill Biden told Colbert. “It was really the tone of it. . He called me ‘kiddo.’ And one of the things I’m most proud of is my doctorate. I mean, I’ve worked so hard for it.”