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Roberta Flack, the R&b innovator known for songs like “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” has died at the age of 88.

“We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025,” the singer’s representative said in a statement. “She died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator.” A cause of death was not disclosed; however, Flack had been battling Als since 2022.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on February 10th, 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and was raised in Arlington, Virginia. Her mother was a church organist, and a young Roberta began singing with churches of different denominations — including the historic Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — just to enjoy their music. She started playing piano at age nine, and by her teenage years,...

Hello again, everybody. JoBlo.com here bidding you a big Wahoo welcome to Wtf Happened to This Movie?! That’s right, the Cleveland Indians are well on their way to clinching the Al East – which means the 1989 sports comedy Major League is well on its way to becoming a classic of the genre.

But how did Major League reach this status? How did it become one of the most quotable comedies of the decade? How did the cast pull off pitching, swinging and winning like a professional baseball team? How did it go on to represent Cleveland even though it wasn’t even shot there? And why did they have to make those sequels? Well, let’s go juuuuuust a bit outside to find out: Wtf Happened to this Movie?!

You might be surprised to know that Major League comes courtesy of the same guy who won an Oscar for writing The Sting.

Ellis Marsalis Jr., New Orleans jazz legend known as a pianist and teacher as well as the father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis, died Wednesday from complications of Covid-19. He was 85.

According to his son, Ellis Marsalis III, Marsalis died after developing pneumonia. “I was with him in the hospital for six or seven hours yesterday. Branford was with him Monday, I was with him yesterday and Jason was with him today. He passed right after Jason departed,” Ellis Marsalis III told the Associated Press.

Born in 1934 in New Orleans, Marsalis studied at Dillard University and later Loyola University New Orleans, and after graduation established himself as a highly sought after teacher, instructing people who would go on to become some of the biggest names in contemporary jazz. Among his famous students are Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr., and Marlon Jordan.

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In Sunday’s The Walking Dead, Alpha made Daryl and the Hilltoppers an offer that they couldn’t shouldn’t refuse. “Your people crossed into our lands,” she said. Yet “there will be no conflict. Your people killed our people. There will be no conflict.” But if they didn’t hand over Lydia to the Whisperers Pdq, oh baby, “there will be conflict.” And was there? Read on and find out.

‘I’M Gonna Be A Daddy, Your Majesty!’ | As “Bounty” began, we flashed all the way back to before Jesus’ death and even Maggie’s departure to join Ezekiel,...

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (Atlantic, 1969)

I don't profess to have the deepest critical knowledge of jazz, especially with managing editor Steve Holtje being our resident expert, but I definitely have a deep appreciation. Regardless, Swiss Movement by Les McCann and Eddie Harris remains of one of my favorite live jazz albums. I just picked up a super-clean used copy of it at one of my favorite vinyl shops in Akron, Ohio.

The above track -- "Compared to What," written by Gene McDaniels, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in1969 -- was one of my favorite soul jazz tunes when I was just getting into jazz. And I still never tire of this timeless classic, nor the album. The rest of the set burns with the same ferocity sans vocals. And while I thought I knew everything about this album, I recently discovered that saxophonist Eddie Harris...

Charlie Sheen is gonna make "Major League" fans and baseball collectors lose their minds -- he's slapped his autograph on a limited number of baseball cards to mark the awesome movie's 25th anniversary ... TMZ Sports has learned.You may have heard ... Topps just released a series of cards with the main characters -- featuring Charlie, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen -- but our sources gave us the scoop ... some of the rare cards are actually signed by the stars.

Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard, Peter Fonda and Alexz Johnson are set to star in Alex Merkin's indie thriller "House of Bodies" at Flavor Unit Studios reports Variety.

Eddie Harris' script follows a deaf child who enjoys chatting online with Nicole (Latifah), a relay operator at a telephone service for the hearing-impaired.

The kid comes upon a voyeur website based out of the former home of a serial killer (Fonda) now on death row. Howard plays a detective trying to solve a string of grisly copycat murders.

Production has just kicked off on the project which Shakim Compere will produce.

He first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie of 80s and 90s teen sensations New Kids on the Block, earned a number one hit with ‘Good Vibrations’ as onetime rapper Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, and modelled Calvin Klein underwear with Kate Moss. Now Mark Wahlberg is a bona fide Oscar-nominated Hollywood star and a successful producer for the big (The Fighter) and small screen (Entourage) to boot. His breakthrough role as alter ego ‘Dirk Diggler’ in Paul Thomas Anderson’s depiction of the 70s porn industry, Boogie Nights launched a career as the go to guy for gritty and pulsating action crime thrillers (The Departed), and buddy cop comedies (The Other Guys).

March 16th sees Wahlberg appear in his latest role as Chris Farraday in Baltasar Kormákur’s Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about the cut-throat underground world of international smuggling. It gives us the perfect...