Empire Cast - Chasing The Sky ft. Terrence Howard, Jussie Smollett, Yazz
EmpirestarJussie Smollettuses real-life matters of the heart as hismusefor "Hemmingway," an original song that will be featuredon tonight"s episode of Fox"s***t musical drama(May 11).
"The saying is don"t date a writer, you"ll become a storyline. Don"t date a lyricist, you"ll become a lyric. Don"t date Jussie Smollettbecause you"ll become an entire song," he says in the clip.
Here,Smollett, who plays R&B singer-songwriter Jamal Lyon onEmpire,sings of picture-perfect love."I know I lovedyou from the first day/ Don"t know just how you turn the gray skies to blue," he croons. "But it"s true that I"m gonna keep on loving you."
He also explains that the track was aballad born before the show.""Hemmingway"was written beforeEmpireexisted.It"s a fairy tale put to a beat. It is one of those classic love songs," he says. "Anybody who has ever felt just an inkling of love can understand what I"m saying and how I feel in the song."
Get a behind-the-scenes look into the making of "Hemmingway" below beforeEmpireairs tonight at 9 p.m. ETon Fox.
Miami Heat vs Toronto Raptors - Game 5 - Full Game Highlights | May 11, 2016 | 2016 NBA Playoffs
Miami Heat point guard Goran Dragic has been fined $2,000and assessed a technical foul after getting tangled up and swingingat Toronto RaptorsCory Joseph. He did not connect with the punch and nothing was done during thegame.
MIAs G. Dragic assessed Technical Foul upon league office review (2:17, 4th qtr) from game on May9.
NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) May 11, 2016The Miami Heat won the game 94-87 and tied the series at two games each againstthe Toronto Raptors. They will play Game 5 tonight in Toronto.
Lena Dunham Dedicates Instagram Post As Tribute After Death of Former Girls Co-Star Nick Lashaway
El actor Nick Lashaway, quien particip en series de televisin como Glee y en la cinta The Last Song, falleci el domingo en un accidente vehicular. Tena 28 aos.
Lashaway interpret a Frank, el medio hermano de Jessa, en Girls, serie de HBO creada por Lena Dunham.
Apenas me enter de la noticia increblemente triste de que Nick Lashaway muri en un accidente de auto el 8 de mayo. Nick era una persona talentosa, divertida y linda y fuimos afortunadas de tenerlo como parte de nuestra familia de "Girls" cuando interpret a Frank en el episodio 207. Siempre recordaremos la semana que compartimos con l, su sonrisa juguetona, sus instintos naturales, cunto nos hizo rer incluso cuando tenamos que estar despiertos toda la noche en el bosque. Enviamos amor a su familia y amigos y un sentimiento de gratitud por sus dones. Descanse en paz, dulce Nick, escribi Lunham en su cuenta de Instagram junto a una fotografa de ella con el actor.
El actor inici su carrera en 1998 al interpretar a un joven Fox Mulder en The X-Files, tambin particip en la serie The Office.
WCSF: St. Louis Blues vs Dallas Stars Game 3 - Playoffs May 3 2016
Mattias Janmark, Vladimir Tarasenko
St. Louis Blues" Vladimir Tarasenko front, of Russia, and Dallas Stars" Mattias Janmark, of Sweden, battle for a loose puck during the second period of Game 6 of the NHL Western Conference semifinals, Monday, May 9, 2016, in St. Louis. (AP Photo | Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars meet in a winner-take-all Game 7 in theirNHL Western Conference playoff seriesat American Airlines Arena in Dallas on Wednesday, May 11, 2016.
We"ll have up-to-the-minute scoring and stats here throughout the game. Check the scoreboard and stats link above.
Dallas avoided elimination with a 3-2 win at St. Louis on Monday.
Here"s what you need to know:
Who:St. Louis Blues at Dallas Stars
What: Game 7, Western Conference playoffs (best of seven)
Where: American Airlines Arena, Dallas
When:Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Start:8 p.m. Eastern
TV:NBC Sports Network
Livestream:NBC Sports Live Extra
Line:Stars -1.5 (Over/under: 5.0)
Home ice belongs to the Stars, but the visiting team has dominated so far.
"I have the benefit of the match at home," Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. "I don"t know if that"s going to make any difference in the game, though."
The Stars led 3-0 in the first period and held on for the third consecutive victory in the series by the visiting team and fourth overall.
"We"ve been able to put some good road games together, some simple road games together,"Bluesright wing Troy Brouwer said.
TheBlues, who finished only two points behind Dallas in the regular-season standings for the Western Conference"s top seed, are 4-2 on the road this postseason and have already played a seven-game series. St. Louis won its first-round clincher at home, when Brouwer scored the Game 7 winner against defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago.
"We obviously know the stage,"Bluesdefenseman Alex Pietrangelo said. "It"s going to be a little different now that we"re on the road, but I think overall, we know what the pressure is, we know what it"s going to be."
Brouwer is playing in his NHL-record eighth consecutive playoff series to go seven games. He also had Games 7s with Washington and Chicago the previous five seasons.
"Same mindset we had last series, going to take one more win to finish the series and it"s what we want to do," Brouwer said.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Pokemon Sun and Moon First Trailer - Starters, Alola Region, Legendaries and Theories!
The Pokemon Company has released a new video for Pokemon Sun and Moon, revealing the three starter Pokemon that players will be able to select in the 3DS title. Additionally, it has also been confirmed the game will launch on November 18.
The three Pokemon are Rowlet (a flying grass type), Litten (a fire type) and Popplio (a water type). See them all in action in the trailer above.
In related Pokemon news, the Pokemon National Championships will be shown across three Twitch channels, providing coverage of the Pokemon Trading Card National Championship, the Pokemon Video Game National Championship and Pokken Tournament Championship. The dates, along with the Twitch channels, can be found below:
Event Dates
14-15 May: Liverpool, UK (Exhibition Centre Liverpool)
As previously announced, Sun and Moon will offer traditional and simplified Chinese as language options, which is a first for the series. Both games will also come with Pokemon Bank support, allowing players to move Pokemon wirelessly from the classic Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, as well as more recent Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, X and Y, to Sun and Moon. Further details on how this works are available here.
February 27 was the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise"s debut in Japan in 1996. To celebrate, Nintendo hosted a 24-hour animation livestream event on Twitch, along with releasing classic Pokemon games Red, Blue and Yellow for the 3DS eShop.
The last brand-new Pokemon games in the series for 3DS were Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, which came out in November 2014.
It was Week 8 and it was a bit weird, from the opening number with the pros dancing around what looked like lighted stripper poles, to the call of who was in jeopardy right after the introductions (What?!), to the first-ever "Judges" Team Challenge," which followed the individual dances.
It was the quarterfinals of Season 22 and it happened again -- a celeb who performed their best dance of the season was eliminated, due to the previous week"s scores. The pairs are doing some of their best work and the scores reflect that. Two couples -- Jodie Sweetin and Keo Motsepe, and Ginger Zee and Val Chmerkovskiy -- received 10s from all judges for perfect 30s, and three others were close behind with only Wanya Morris and Lindsay Arnold getting a low of 25. Declared in jeopardy were Wanya and Lindsay, Jodie and Keo, and Antonio Brown and Sharna Burgess, and it was Jodie and Keo who bid the ballroom farewell.
"You are leaving on such a note," co-host Erin Andrews said to Jodie. "You yelled, "I did it! I did it!" to your mother (after the 30), and this was such a wonderful night for you."
"It was!" agreed Jodie, with a huge smile. "And you know what, I couldn"t think of a better way to say thank you that I got to do this. I got to go out on all 10s, it"s amazing! I got that, and I start production on "Fuller House" tomorrow at 8." Turning to Keo, she added, "This has been an incredible experience. I can"t thank you enough, Keo. And I"ve made some beautiful, wonderful friends."
TOP THREE DANCES
I hate to keep repeating myself, but one of my favorite dances was that of Nyle and Peta. Their paso doble with a short section danced to no sound was amazing. Peta explained that they wanted hearing people, especially the dancers, to know how it"s been for Nyle to deal with the choreography without music. They carried it off well with four of the pros, and the rest of the performance was terrific. As judge Bruno Tonioli said, "It was mind-blowing -- five men dancing to the sound of a single heart," and in tears, judge Carrie Ann Inaba described it as "profound." The scores showed it -- two 10s and a 9 for 29 out of 30.
I loved the Argentine tango of Ginger and Val, especially since Ginger is always smiling and upbeat but had to become fierce with a bit of an angry scowl. The choreography was great and very complicated, and they did well enough to impress the judges, who gave them 10s.
The third favorite is a tie between all three of the performances in Judges" Team Challenge. In the challenge, each judge had two couples to mentor and to choreograph as a group dance, and then the other judges plus viewers voted on each performance. Team Bruno -- Jodie, Keo, Nyle and Peta -- danced a fantastic Argentine tango. The best part was when the women danced together, then the men danced together (with a lift of Nyle by Keo), and then Nyle danced with Jodie. It was great. Team Len Goodman was silly fun with Ginger, Val, Wanya and Lindsay doing a deserted island/sexy island girls-themed samba. Len even got in on the dance at the end. Finally, Team Carrie Ann -- Antonio, Sharna, Paige Vanzant and Mark Ballas -- performed a paso doble with tons of imagination.
OH DEAR
The problem with props -- Wanya and Lindsay danced a jive with a Western theme and they were doing great. At one point, however, they pulled off bandannas to do a slide step but Lindsay didn"t pick hers up and Wanya slipped on it. It wasn"t until the end of the dance that he finally got back in step after nearly falling. Lindsay felt terrible, and they ended up on the bottom of the leader board.
The scores for the judges" challenge were ridiculous. The scores from the judges were all 10s and the viewers" live scores were 9s -- for every dance! Bruno"s team did a far better job than either of the others, and Len"s team dance was funny and silly -- and definitely not a 10. Besides, when the challenge scores were added to the individual scores, the couples were in the same places on the leader board. It didn"t affect anyone"s standing and only required more hours of work by the celebs and pros.
Finally, I didn"t like the way that the couples who were safe and in jeopardy were announced throughout the show. It must have been great to dance after finding out that they were safe, and miserable and stressful to perform after knowing that they had one foot out the door. Those announcements should all be at the end of the show for dancing interrupted only by commercials.
Next week will be the semifinals and will include the infamous trio dances. Each couple will add one pro to their choreography -- in the past, sometimes it"s great and sometimes it"s awful. I understand that there will be a double elimination to get the number of pairs down before the finals, which are set for Monday and Tuesday, May 23 and 24.
Jacquie Oliverius is a retired newspaper editor and columnist and longtime chronicler of "Dancing With the Stars."
