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Although Gilmore Girls is often regarded as a classic comfort watch, revisiting even the show’s happiest moments proves that the series always balanced comedy and drama. The cast of Gilmore Girls faced a lot of drama over the years, but the stakes of their adventures were never life and death. There is a reason that Milo Ventimiglia was shot down when he suggested that Jess’s Gilmore Girls exit should come at the end of a mugger’s knife or by being hit with a bus. Gilmore Girls simply wasn’t that sort of show, largely eschewing anything remotely traumatizing or upsetting.

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While Gilmore Girls had its dramatic moments, the dramedy also had some truly laugh-out-loud funny episodes in its original run. The cast of Gilmore Girls were perpetually falling in and out of love, so, although the show maintained a fairly low-key tone throughout, there was never any lack of drama. Admittedly, the series was hardly a soap opera, and it is no surprise that actor Milo Ventimiglia’s suggestion that his character should be brutally killed off was ignored by the showrunners. However, whether it was Luke’s secret daughter or Rory’s choice of college, there was plenty of conflict in Stars Hollow.

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George Maharis, a big TV star in the sixties but probably best known to JoBlo readers from his role in Albert Pyun’s The Sword and the Sorcerer, is dead at 94. According to social media posts via the actor’s caretaker, he actually passed away on Wednesday, with the cause of death not revealed. Maharis was a pretty trendy leading man in his day, with him having starred in the hip TV series Route 66, in which he co-starred with Martin Milner as two young men driving across the United States, getting involved in adventures. Taking a page from Jack Kerouac, the show made Maharis a star, but he left it prematurely due to being diagnosed with hepatitis. In 1965 he starred in a pretty good spy thriller called The Satan Bug, which came from the director of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, John Sturges, in which he played...

George Maharis, the star of “Route 66” who went on to appear on “Fantasy Island” and other shows, died Wednesday in Beverly Hills.

His friend and caretaker Marc Bahan announced his death on Facebook, writing that he was “above all a great guy who would do anything for anyone. My dear friend, you will be terribly missed.”

Maharis co-starred with Martin Milner in the early 1960s series “Route 66,” and received an Emmy nomination for his role as Buz, a handsome beatnik-adjacent working class man. Shot on location across the U.S., the adventure series portrayed two young men who travel around in a Corvette, looking for work and adventure as they struggle to find themselves. Part way through the third season, Maharis left the show after being hospitalized for hepatitis. He asserted later in an interview that his departure wasn’t because he wanted a higher salary or wanted to get into movies,...

George Maharis, who starred as the brooding Buz Murdock on Route 66 before he quit the acclaimed 1960s CBS drama after contracting hepatitis, has died. He was 94.

Maharis died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, his longtime friend and caregiver Marc Bahan told The Hollywood Reporter.

Route 66, created by Stirling Silliphant and Herbert B. Leonard, featured the Hell’s Kitchen native Murdock and Martin Milner‘s Yale dropout Tod Stiles touring the highways of America in Tod’s Chevrolet Corvette, encountering adventure along the way.

The show “was really kind of a searching or what you may have seen hundreds of years ago where the people came over the mountains to go from one place to the other to find a better life, a place where they belonged, and they didn’t rely on anybody else to do it for them,” Maharis told The Seattle Times in 2008.

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Nearly 50 years after she portrayed Tommy’s mother in the big screen adaptation of the Who’s rock opera Tommy, Ann-Margret is reuniting with Pete Townshend for a cover of the Everly Brothers classic “Bye Bye Love.” It will appear on her upcoming LP Born To Be Wild, arriving in stores on April 14.

“Being offered an opportunity to work with Ann-Margret, especially on an Everly Brothers song, was just too romantic to pass,” Pete Townshend said in a statement. “Ann-Margret’s work on the Tommy movie back in 1974 (when she...

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Helen Grayco, the pop singer and actress who appeared on records, tours, radio programs and TV shows as a classy contrast to her zany bandleader husband, Spike Jones, has died. She was 97.

Grayco died Saturday of cancer at her home in Los Angeles, her son, longtime Creative Arts Emmy Awards producer Spike Jones Jr., told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jones Sr. was about to embark on a tour with his City Slickers bandmates when he approached Grayco with a job offer after watching her perform with Stan Kenton’s orchestra at the Hollywood Palladium in 1946.

“I was terribly insulted when Spike first asked to hire me,” Grayco recalled in a 2009 interview. “He had just done ‘Cocktails for Two’ and all that stuff that he was known for. ‘I don’t know where I could possibly fit in in your group. I’m not a comedienne,...

James Taylor appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers to perform his recent single “Teach Me Tonight.”

The song, which comes off his recent album American Standard, is a jazz classic by Gene De Paul and Sammy Chan that’s been performed by everyone from Amy Winehouse to Aretha Franklin to Frank Sinatra. In this version, Taylor transforms the track into an acoustic ballad with the help of a few backing musicians.

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James Taylor will take on the Great American Songbook on the singer’s upcoming album American Standard, due out February 28th. The LP is Taylor’s first since 2015’s Before This World and 19th overall.

“I’ve always had songs I grew up with that I remember really well, that were part of the family record collection — and I had a sense of how to approach, so it was a natural to put American Standard together,” Taylor said in a statement. “I know most of these songs from the original...

The Music Supervision category at the 2018 Emmys is now one year old, with “Big Little Lies” winning the inaugural trophy last year. Now in its second year of existence, Best Music Supervision honors the best in television soundtracks. It is the music supervisor’s job to attain the rights to licensed songs and generally oversee the usage of music in a series. This year’s nominees include “Atlanta,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Stranger Things,” “This Is Us” and “Westworld.”

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Armed with a series of color-coded iPods filled with thousands of songs, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” showrunners Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino had a blast needle-dropping tunes for their acclaimed ’50s comedy about New York stand-up comic Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan). And for their creative brilliance, they’ve snagged an Emmy for the pilot’s music supervision (shared with Robin Urdang).

It’s not only about finding the right song for Midge, but also bringing that late ’50s vibe to life, bridging Upper Manhattan and The Village with show tunes, pop, jazz, and early rock. Even if they cheat a little bit by including songs from the early to mid-’60s, they’re still capturing the period ethos and the thematic notion of Midge as the female Lenny Bruce ahead of her time.

“We really look for something that feels right for the moment [1958], a song the usual show would not use,...

Aretha Franklin released her cover of Adele’s hit “Rolling in the Deep” on her new album Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics, and she performed the track live on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Aretha Franklin Auto-Tune In "Rolling In The Deep"?

Franklin’s cover of “Rolling in the Deep” is the first single off her new album. And, while the cover has been well received, some fans are calling foul, suspecting Franklin of using auto-tune.

Aretha Franklin's cover has a world of autotune. They couldn't have made it more subtle?

— Kristine (@spel_teeny) September 30, 2014

Whoever put auto tune on Aretha Franklin's cover of Rolling In The Deep should be banished from the recording industry.

— Kastra (@KastraMusic) September 30, 2014

Over the past decade, auto-tune has become a staple of any studio music, but in 2006 Franklin gave an interview in which she claimed never to have heard of auto-tune.

As part of her new album, Aretha Franklin took on one of the biggest hits in recent memory: Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." The Queen of Soul digs in during this rollicking cover, which segues and mashes up into Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." The tune is featured on "Aretha Franklin Takes on the Great Diva Classics," the 72-year-old's new covers album due on Oct. 21. Clive Davis oversaw production on "Great Diva Classics," with producers like Andre 3000 and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds helping on songs like Etta James' "At Last," the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On," Alicia Keys' "No One," Dinah Washington's "Teach Me Tonight" and a version of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" that blends with Destiny's Child's "Survivor."...

Dinah Washington (8/29/24-12/14/63) was one of the last great examples of female blues singers regularly working in a jazz band context. Many aficionados would say that she was surpassed in this style only by Bessie Smith. First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story, the two-cd set that proudly features the commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 1993 to mark the 30th anniversary of her premature death at age 39 (from an overdose of alcohol and diet pills), offers the finest overview of Washington's artistry, ranging from her first records under her own name in 1943 to her classic material for the Verve, Mercury, EmArcy, and Wing labels from 1946 through 1961 (with at least one item from every year in that span), missing only her last two years, when she was on Roulette.

As vocalist expert Chris Albertson's liner notes observe, "Dinah was a gospel, blues, pop, and jazz singer all rolled into one,...