Hugh Martin
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" songwriter Hugh Martin has died. He was 96.
Martin is best known for composing the score to the 1944 musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland famously performs the song that became a seasonal classic. Martin and songwriting partner Ralph Blane received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for writing the film's "The Trolley Song."
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Garth Brooks by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com
Get out your finest 10 gallon hat and most rugged pair of boots because country legend Garth Brooks (now un-retired and back on the scene) will be performing live tonight on CBS from Los Angeles. The best part? It’s a greatest hits concert (you know what that means—a sing-along to “Friends in Low Places”). Consider this promo your formal invite for Garth’s show. Watch it now! | More online videosYour take: Anyone have a favorite tune they’re hoping he’ll play tonight?
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Celine Dion by Cliff Lipson/CBS
Recording behemoths Garth Brooks and Celine Dion will perform in one-hour CBS specials airing Friday, Jan. 25, and Friday, Feb. 15, respectively.The first of the specials (both of which air at 9 pm/ET), Garth Brooks: Live in LA!, will be telecast from his live show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Variety reports. All proceeds from his concerts will be donated to the Southern California 2008 Fire Intervention Relief Effort, to which TV viewers will be able to call in donations.Celine Dion: That's Just the Woman in Me was taped Jan. 12 in front of a live audience at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre, and included a mix of greatest hits as well as songs from Dion's most recent album, The Prayer. In her first concert since ending her five-year Vegas run, Dion will be joined by artists such as Josh Groban and Black Eyed Pea will.i.am, who, we know, will appreciate Celine's lovely lady lungs.While concert specials have not been the highest ratings-reapers in recent months, these two show...
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The Starter Wife by Matthew Rolston/USA Network Photo
USA has renewed The Starter Wife, thus enlightening me to the fact that miniseries even could be renewed. Debra Messing will return in the title role.... Per Reuters, on Nov. 14, the last in Garth Brooks' string of nine sold-out pre-retirement concerts will be simulcast from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, to over 300 movie theaters.... Jenna Elfman and, like, half the creative team behind Dharma & Greg are suing 20th Century Fox for $15 million they claim they are owed in profit-participation payments.Wednesday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
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"I now pronounce y'all husband and wife." With those words, country greats Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood were hitched Saturday in an intimate ceremony at their home in Oklahoma. It's her third marriage but only his second, meaning that, gosh dern it, he still falls two ceremonies shy of the four required for Kay Jewelers' bulk discount on wedding bands.
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