Oscars:

While every Academy

Award nominee didn't go home with a golden statue on Sunday, each one did get

an Oscars gift bag worth $217,000 from marketing firm Distinctive Assets that

included

MUSIC

The music catalog of the

late The Notorious B.I.G. might soon be sold. 

The Black Crowes

guitarist Rich Robinson says if his band does get inducted into the Rock and

Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2025, the band wants Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page to

give their induction speech

Brent Smith of Shinedown says their eighth album will be out in late

July or early August.

An R.E.M. tribute show hit the band's hometown of

Athens, Georgia on Thursday and Friday nights, and that led to a one song

reunion by the full band.

Luke Combs is the first country artist of all time to have

two songs pass the billion-stream mark on Spotify.  A couple weeks ago,

Luke's song "When It Rains It Pours" passed the

billion-stream mark . . . and now his song "Beautiful Crazy" has

eclipsed a billion as well. 

RIP: David Johansen,

who went from the frontman of New York Dolls to a crooner named Buster

Pointdexter, is dead. He was 75.

RIP: Badfinger's Joey

Molland has passed at 77.  His cause of death wasn't given but he had been

battling pneumonia.

TV

Ashley Cano, who often

thrifts pieces and sells them on Poshmark, shared her latest find on

TikTok, which appears to be the Vera Wang dress that Carrie Bradshaw

(played by Sarah Jessica Parker) wore during her bridal-themed Vogue photoshoot

before her (almost) wedding to Mr. Big.

MOVING ON INTO MOVIE

NEWS:

Whoopi Goldberg appeared

at the Academy Awards and broke news about a third Sister Act movie.

An examination of Gene

Hackman's pacemaker shows he most likely died on February 17th, nine days

before the bodies of him and his wife were discovered.  And tests have

determined they did not die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

MISC

 Kourtney Kardashian says her 15-year-old son Mason is NOT a father.  

AND FINALLY

The Razzie

Award results are in!  Francis Ford Coppola is thrilled to

accept his trophy for Worst Director, for "Megalopolis".

He said he accepted it, quote, "against the prevailing trends of

contemporary moviemaking!" He added, quote, "In this wreck of a world

today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose

to NOT follow the gutless rules . .

AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!

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