Dusty Hill, who was the bassist of legendary rock group ZZ Top for five decades, died at 72 years old, the band confirmed.
The band’s Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons shared a statement on the ZZ Top social media accounts today (July 28), writing, “We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX. We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’. We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle In C.’ You will be missed greatly, amigo.”
ZZ Top recently kicked off their 2021 tour, and last week, the band performed without Hill for what is believed to be the first time since he joined the group. At the time, the band said in a statement that Hill returned to Texas “to address a hip issue.”
Hill was born in Dallas, Texas on May 19, 1949. After performing with local bands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, he joined ZZ Top when he replaced founding member Billy Ethridge in 1969. He and the group went on to cement their place in rock history with a number of top-10 albums, including 1973’s Tres Hombres, which is often considered one of the best albums of all time. The band is also known for singles like “La Grange,” “Cheap Sunglasses,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” and “Legs.”
The most recent ZZ Top album is 2012’s La Futura, the band’s 15th LP. In 2019, Hill spoke about the possibility of another ZZ Top album, saying, “We’ve got a lot in the can. It depends on how we would want to put it together or re-do it or whatever, because it’s years of stuff. We just record everything, and then we go, ‘Well, no, this didn’t quite feel right right now.’ […] Suffice to say, we’ve got a lot in the can and we keep talking about it.”
Amymarie Gaertner shared a revealing video she created about how difficult it is for people with ADHD to clean the house and many are saying it perfectly describes the disorder.
Gaertner admits that she’s “never been professionally diagnosed but it’s pretty damn evident I’ve had it since I was little.” But her behaviors mirror those described by ADHD blogger Katy Rollins, who says that “many people who have attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) have difficulty with tasks like household cleaning and organization.”
“The requirements of these tasks often max out our ability to logically and emotionally even start them, never mind follow them through to completion,” she adds.
Gaertner is a dancer, actor, and musician who’s “in love with all forms of creative expression.”
In the video, she attempts to clean her home on a Saturday afternoon but hops from task to task without completing any of them. By the end of the video, all of the unfinished tasks make her home even more chaotic than before she started the project.
“I think I just understood ADHD in 30 seconds,” a commenter named Ganesh said. “Pretty much sums it up nicely, ” Gaertner agreed.
“This is so unbelievably accurate,” TikTokker Ashley said. “Literally my life,” commented Kristen.
Since Simone Biles backed out of the team final at the Tokyo Olympics two days ago, the question everyone’s been asking is “What the heck happened?”
After two botched vaults, Biles took herself out of the competition, later saying, “I had no idea where I was in the air.”
Former gymnasts recognized her wording and have taken to social media to explain a condition known as “the twisties.” On a basic level, the twisties is a mental state where your muscle memory shuts down in the air mid-twist. It can happen to any gymnast at any time, but is more likely under intense pressure. It might seem like a mental block is not something that could happen to the unrivaled Simone Biles, who routinely performs incredibly well under pressure, but brains are fickle things.
This explanation from former gymnast and diver Catherine Burns lays it out:
Hi, your friendly neighborhood former gymnast and diver here to attempt to explain the mental phenomenon Simone Bil… https://t.co/6ayXPmJQqB
Hi, your friendly neighborhood former gymnast and diver here to attempt to explain the mental phenomenon Simone Biles is experiencing: the dreaded twisties. 💀
When you’re flipping or twisting (or both!) it is very disorienting to the human brain. When training new flips and twists, you need external cues to learn how it feels to complete the trick correctly. (In diving, a coach yells “OUT” and you kick your body straight and pray).
Once you’ve practiced a trick enough, you develop the neural pathways that create kinesthesia which leads to muscle memory. Your brain remembers how your body feels doing the trick and you gain air awareness.
Think about something that took you a while to learn and required a lot of concentration at the time to get it right, but now is second nature. Driving a car is a good example (especially stick!)
Suddenly, in the middle of driving on the freeway, right as you need to complete a tricky merge, you have totally lost your muscle memory of how to drive a car. You have to focus on making you foot press the pedal at the right angle, turn the steering wheel just so, shift gears.
It’s terrifying. You’re moving way too fast, you’re totally lost, you’re trying to THINK but you know you don’t usually have to think to do these maneuvers, you just feel them and do them.
The twisties are like this, and often happen under pressure. You’re working so hard to get it right that you stop trusting your muscle memory. You’re getting lost in the air, second-guessing your instincts, overthinking every movement.
It’s not only scary and unnerving, it’s incredibly dangerous even if you’re doing basic gymnastics. The level of skills Simone throws combined with the height and power she gets can lead to catastrophic injury if you’re not confident and connected to your kinesthesia.
This isn’t as easy to fix as just sleeping it off and hoping for a better day tomorrow. It can look like retraining entire routines and tricks. I never mastered my front 1.5 with a full twist because I’d get the twisties and it would mess with my other twisting dives.
So. When Simone says she’s taking it day by day, this is why. She’s not soft. She didn’t choke. She isn’t giving up. It’s a phenomenon every gymnast and diver has experienced and she happens to be experiencing it at the Olympics. Can you imagine the frustration? The heartbreak?
I’ll also add that @Simone_Biles choosing to bow out pushes back against a dark narrative in gymnastics that you sacrifice yourself for the sake of the sport; you are the product of your coaches and you owe them wins, no matter the personal cost.
No. You owe nobody anything, and you especially don’t owe them your body, your health, or your autonomy. I hope every single tiny baby gymnast got that message on self-advocacy and setting boundaries loud and clear. Thank you, @Simone_Biles.”
Biles herself retweeted a post that reiterated how dangerous her situation truly was:
“For non-gymnasts, the fact that she balked mid-air and accidentally did a 1.5 on her first vault instead of a 2.5 is a big deal. It’s terrifying. She could have been severely injured getting lost in the air like that. The fact that she somehow landed on her feet shows her experience and is incredible The margin for error on a skill like that is insanely low. A very small wrong move, and career-ending or even worse, life-threatening injuries can occur.”
From a gymnast friend regarding Simone Biles 🐐❤️ https://t.co/4eWPIgi4yf
And other gymnasts have weighed in with attempts to explain to people outside the sport what the twisties mean and how real the mental block is.
One particularly sobering response came from Jacoby Miles, who was paralyzed after a gymnastics accident at age 15.
“I experienced those mental blocks throughout my career as a gymnast,” she wrote, “and to be quite blunt, it only took one bad time of getting lost (or what they call the “twisties”) in the air in a big flip to break my neck and leave me paralyzed…most likely for life…so I’m SO SO glad she decided not to continue until she’s mentally recovered.”
A post from former gymnast Jacoby Miles on Instagram about how dangerous the “twisties” can be.
Many armchair commentators have attempted to explain why Biles backed out of the team competition and what it means about her as a competitor, but the only people whose commentary counts are those who have experienced what she’s going through. Arguably, no one knows what it’s like to be in Simone Biles’s shoes, but other gymnasts understand the mental elements of the sport and what can happen if everything isn’t aligned just right.
It’s an act of wisdom to acknowledge when you’re faced with a limitation out of your control, and an act of courage to sacrifice a dream in order to protect your well-being as well as your teammates. Good for Simone Biles for setting an example to other athletes to know when it’s time to call it.
This is true on the court, where Morant has established himself as one of the league’s boldest, most daring players after just two NBA seasons. As the face of an up-and-coming Memphis Grizzlies team, Morant is the engine that makes them go. When he’s on the court, something — an audacious dunk attempt off the dribble, catching a lob from a teammate, throwing a no-look pass — is guaranteed to happen.
Off the course, Morant has started to tell his own story. Out now on Crackle, Morant is the subject of a six-part documentary titled Promiseland that dives into his rise from unknown at Murray State to No. 2 Draft pick to one of the NBA’s biggest young stars.
“I just want to show my journey, go deeper into it, and show people things they don’t know about me,” Morant told Dime. “It comes from people that might want to tell someone else’s story and just add things in or just have some stuff that’s not true, so I thought if I’m telling my story and it’s coming from me, more people are going to believe it.”
“He can look back and have a timeline for everything in his life,” says Tee Morant, Ja’s father.
According to the younger Morant, Promiseland began production during his rookie season, after he started with the Grizzlies and embarked on what would become a Rookie of the Year campaign. Production involving director Dexton Deboree and a crew flying to Memphis to do interviews with Ja and others around him continued well into the 2019-20 season. Deboree also traveled to interview the likes of Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson, the rapper Moneybagg Yo, and Carmelo Anthony for the series.
“Even the first meeting we had, when I flew out to Memphis to meet Ja and his dad and just had a pitch, right from the jump, I saw that there was a family dynamic that I wanted to tap into,” Deboree says. “We clicked in that meeting and saw that there was something there.”
But then the pandemic hit, and production changed.
“It was tough, not being able to be face-to-face for certain parts of the documentary,” Ja says. “Having to find ways to be able to knock out videos was hard, but worth it.”
Deboree, in fact, was scheduled to fly to Memphis and do a slew of interviews with Morant on March 13, 2020, just two days after Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 and our new reality rapidly set in. They opted to keep those dates for the project, but pivoted to recording on Zoom. As he interviewed Ja, Tee, and Ja’s uncle, Phil Morant, he realized the video quality wasn’t up to the standard they wanted. So, after working with some of his crew, Deboree shipped the Morants higher-quality cameras.
“I shot another 30 or 40 days and never went physically back to him again,” he says. “We did send crews in at the later stages, but from April to the end of 2020, it was remote. Even in the Bubble, he took the kit into it. And we had to do it to keep the look and feel.”
For Deboree, the appeal of the project largely came from wanting to work with an athlete just entering the league instead of someone reflecting back on their career. Deboree’s previous projects include an Air Jordan 1 documentary called Unbanned: The Legend of the AJ1 that featured interviews with Anthony, Russell Westbrook, and Spike Lee, among others.
“Guys and gals would always reflect back on their rookie season and their early experiences and things like that,” Deboree says, “but I never felt like we got an intimate look at what this is like. What are the thoughts? What are the fears? And what are all of the inner experiences a 19-, 20-year-old goes through when they get into the league?”
The first episode opens with Morant detailing what his parents gave up for him in order to pursue his dream and what it was like for him growing up in Sumter, South Carolina. It also features a look at his childhood bedroom, where a quote attributed to LeBron James — “You can’t be afraid to fail, it’s the only way to succeed.” — has been displayed above his doorway.
It’s the shot in the documentary that tells the viewer what Ja is about and what it took for him to get to Murray State, then the Grizzlies and whatever heights are still to come.
“As a message of hope and inspiration for any kid with any dream and any obstacle, this is a radically powerful message,” Deboree says. “For [Ja], that idea resonated more than wanting to tell his story or get it out there or even having a story to tell.”
“I’ve embraced everything that I’ve been through and continue to push and get through it,” Morant says.
The US music industry has had a strong presence at the ongoing 2020 Olympics. Jessica Springsteen, an elite equestrian and daughter of Bruce Springsteen, is competing at the games. John Legend was part of a group that covered John Lennon’s “Imagine” during the Opening Ceremony. It turns out that it almost went deeper than that, as Lady Gaga was apparently nearly involved in the Opening Ceremony as well.
It seems Gaga, who is known all over the world as her albums have gone No. 1 in dozens of countries, was close to making a Nintendo-themed cameo. According to Japanese publication Bunshun (as Stereogum notes), leaked documents from October 2020 describe a plan to have Gaga remotely disappear into a green warp pipe (from the Mario series) while wearing a red Mario hat. She would have then re-appeared through a different pipe in the Japanese arena, except instead of Gaga herself, it would have been Japanese comedian Naomi Watanabe (who is best known for her Beyonce impression).
The bit would have been similar to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance at the 2016 Olympics closing ceremony. By this spring, however, all mentions of Gaga were entirely removed from planning documents.
Despite some folks still not being able to get their hands on the coveted console, the PlayStation 5 is proving to be a triumph and bestseller for Sony Interactive Entertainment. Earlier this week, Sony’s global sales and business operations SVP Veronica Rogers took to the company’s official blog to announce that Sony has sold more than 10 million PlayStation 5 units globally as of July 18. According to Rogers, this makes the PlayStation 5 the fastest-selling console in Sony history.
After thanking fans for their “amazing response” to the PlayStation 5, Rogers went on to address the console’s infamous supply issues due to the ongoing global pandemic. First and foremost, Rogers thanked the various Sony teams who worked during the pandemic in order to make the console’s launch successful in spite of the countless challenges. Rogers also stated that Sony is currently “making steady progress with available global supply and can’t wait for the day when everyone who wants a PS5 can easily get one.” While that’s not much in the way of a plan, fingers crossed it means all the folks still wanting a PlayStation 5 will be able to purchase one soon.
Lastly, Rogers also praised all the various components of the PlayStation ecosystem that set the system apart from competing consoles. Rogers thanked Sony’s product development team for delivering “amazing innovations including lightning-fast SSD, immersive 3D audio, and the dynamic DualSense controller with haptic feedback and adaptive triggers,” before listing some of the system’s most-anticipated upcoming games — such as Horizon Forbidden West and the new God of War title. Rogers closed the post by stating Sony is “committed to making sure that PlayStation is the best place to play.”
While this is all incredibly exciting news for the folks at Sony, the sales reflect an overall increase in growth and profitability in gaming. Earlier this week, Microsoft confirmed their new console, the Xbox Series X | S, is their fastest-selling system of all time as well, reaching 6.5 million units sold as of June 30. While the Nintendo Switch has been out for some time now, just last year Nintendo reportedly sold more than 28 million units of the portable console, bumping the total number of units sold to nearly 85 million. Clearly, regardless of where you play, there’s never been a better time to.
The influential independent label Jaguwar is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a covers album featuring plenty of artists they’ve signed over the years. The likes of Angel Olsen, Bruce Hornsby, Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade) and Jamila Woods have all joined in to cover songs that reflect influences on themselves as artist or the label as a whole. So far, the label has shared Bruce Hornsby doing “Feel The Pain,” a Dinosaur Jr. cover, and Jamila Woods covering Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” You can hear Jamila’s version of that classic above, and Hornsby doing his best Dino Jr. below.
Also check out the full tracklist for the complete project below. The album will be released on September 24th and is available for pre-order right here.
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Spencer Krug – “Red Dress” (Jad Fair)
The Besnard Lakes – “Good Morning, Captain” (Slint)
They Hate Change – “The Seeming And The Meaning” (Stereolab)
Angel Olsen – “Cold Blooded Old Times” (Smog)
Bruce Hornsby – “Feel The Pain” (Dinosaur Jr.)
Jamila Woods – “Fast Car” (Tracy Chapman)
Nap Eyes – “Car” (Built To Spill)
S. Carey – “Weight Of Water” (Low)
Pink Mountaintops – “The Concept” (Teenage Fanclub)
Cut Worms – “One For The Catholic Girls” (Simon Joyner)
Okay Kaya – “Nightswimming” (R.E.M.)
While doing the promotional rounds for his new film, Stillwater, Matt Damon has confirmed that, yes, he will be returning to the Marvel Cinematic fo a cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder. After various reports and on-set sightings from Australia, where the production’s being helmed by Taika Waititi, the cat was pretty much out of the bag. But thanks to Marvel’s notorious secrecy, nothing is ever official until you hear from the studio or the actor themselves, and Damon didn’t try to hide his MCU return during an interview with The Jess Cagle Show.
As expected, Damon is reprising his role as an Asgardian actor who portrayed Loki for a stage play in Thor: Ragnarok, but he teased that the part will be a bit more substantial this time around. Via Comic Book:
“I don’t know if it’s secret or not though everybody knows,” Damon said. “I went down there to shoot. I think they sussed out, because paparazzi took pictures of us so that they sussed out what we were doing. We were kind of reprising a cameo that we, that Luke Hemsworth and I did in the last one. And we had a ball and so Taika [Waititi] had us back again, to kind of run that joke back and upgrade it a little bit.”
Of course, one has to wonder if Damon’s Loki role will have any connection to to the Trickster God’s Disney+ series, which recently introduced Marvel fans to the concept of Loki Variants. More than likely, Thor: Love and Thunder will chart its own path, but it will be interesting to see how or if the film will address the God of Thunder’s mischievous brother, who was last seen contributing to massive multiversal destruction that will alter the very nature of reality.
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Christopher Osburn has spent the past fifteen years in search of “the best” — or at least his very favorite — sips of whisk(e)y on earth. He’s traveled to over 20 countries testing local spirits, visited more than 50 distilleries around the globe, and amassed a collection of bottles that occupies his entire basement.
In this series, he cracks open his worn “tasting diary” and shares its contents with the masses.
Unless you’re a super-rich person who doesn’t care about hand-crafted, high-quality whiskey and the painstakingly difficult work that goes into creating it, you’ll savor a super expensive glass of bourbon slowly, neat or on a deep-frozen rock. You certainly won’t use that bottle of Pappy, Weller, or EH Taylor as the base for a mint julep, Manhattan, or whiskey sour all too often. Fortunately, there are much less expensive, also-well-made bourbon options perfectly suited for mixing.
When I refer to “less expensive” bourbons, I’m not talking about the plastic-handled bottom shelf swill that seems much more suited to being fuel for your lawnmower than drinking. I’m talking about the great, value bourbons that are not only functional sippers but also ideal cocktail bases. Generally, these land smack dab in the second shelf — the $20-$30 range. Not so low on the quality ladder that they ruin your drink and not refined enough to make you feel bad about mixing with them.
Below, you’ll find my eight favorite mixing bourbons in the $20-$30 sweet spot — ranked with tasting notes.
One of the most well-known names in the bourbon world, Maker’s Mark is a 90 proof, small-batch whiskey (although they spell it whisky) that’s well-known for its iconic red wax-dipped bottles. With its cheap price and mellow, rich flavor, there’s a reason Maker’s Mark is one of the most popular bourbons in the world.
Tasting Notes:
This bourbon smells the way you imagine bourbon to smell in your mind. The basic aromas of vanilla, caramel, and oak are prevalent and… that’s about it. The flavor is soft, mellow, and highlighted by notes of butterscotch, vanilla beans, and subtle cinnamon. It’s a simple, straightforward whiskey that’s always there.
No frills and no flavors you don’t anticipate.
Bottom Line:
Part of the appeal of Maker’s Mark is that it’s a sweet, corn-centric, mellow whiskey that you can sip neat, but its sticker price won’t make you feel remorse about mixing with it.
You might assume that the price for the only vintage-dated single barrel bourbon on this list would be pretty hefty. Well, It’s not. Evan Williams Single Barrel is made up of hand-picked barrels that are aged 7-8 years. Even though this whiskey retails for around $30, each bottle is labeled with its vintage date, the year it was bottled, and the barrel number.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas of cooking spices, brown sugar, charred oak, and light caramel are heavy on the nose. The palate leans into caramel apples, candied orange peels, oaky wood, and toasted vanilla beans. The finish is long and surprisingly mellow for a value bourbon.
Overall, a great whiskey for the price, but not overly complex and perfect for mixing.
Tasting Notes:
This well-priced whiskey feels like it was created to be used as a mixer. It’s sweet, flavorful, and stands up well even when mixed with bold, over-the-top ingredients.
By now, you likely know that the “Old Grand-Dad” on the bottle is none other than Basil Hayden. His face should always alert you that you’re about to crack open of the best value bourbons ever created. While you can opt for the bonded version, I feel that this high-rye, robust, oaky bourbon is better suited for cocktails.
Tasting Notes:
The first aroma that’s noticeable is vanilla. This is followed by caramelized sugar, honey, and wood char. The palate reveals hints of raisins, butter cookies, vanilla beans, caramel candy, and just a hint of cracked black pepper. It ends in a warming, sweet, slightly spicy finish that works well in drinks like the classic Manhattan or whiskey highball.
Bottom Line:
If you don’t have a lot of money to spend, or you simply don’t want to spend a lot on a mixer, you can’t do better than the crazy low-priced Old Grand-Dad. It was literally made for mixing.
Four Roses is a big name in the bourbon world and offers a portfolio of high-quality expressions. Its lowest level is Four Roses Kentucky Straight Bourbon (also lovingly known as Four Roses Yellow Label). It’s aged for five years, is 80-proof, and is noted for its fruity, rich flavor.
Also, it’s surprisingly cheap.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas include honey, cinnamon, dried apricots, and vanilla. The palate is made up of caramel apples, raisins, almond cookies, toasted vanilla beans, oak, and subtle spices. All in all a smooth, sippable, highly mixable whiskey.
Bottom Line:
The sweet honey, caramel, and slight spice make this an ideal whiskey for mixing. Use it as the base for a boulevardier and you’ll be stoked.
This award-winning whiskey is just as well-known for its consistently low price as well as its 100-proof, robust, slightly spicy flavor. Made from hand-selected barrels, its high proof and well-balanced flavor make it one of the best value choices for bourbon cocktails on the market.
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is a great mix of sweetness and spice with notes of caramel and vanilla beans mixed with almonds, freshly brewed coffee, and just a hint of baking spices. The flavor follows suit with caramel apples, dried fruits, clove, cinnamon, rich, oaky wood, and slight peppery rye at the very finish.
Bottom Line:
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more mellow, sweet, slightly spicy 100 proof bourbon in this price range more suited for mixing into cocktails. Take a look, we dare you.
One of the most beloved bargain whiskeys by both bartenders and bourbon drinkers, Wild Turkey 101 is one of the best mixing (and sipping) value whiskeys in the world. This high proof, high-rye bourbon, has been aged the same way (in heavily charred oak barrels) for more than sixty years.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is loaded with buttery caramel, sweet cream, charred oak, and just a hint of spicy rye. The palate highlights maple candy, butterscotch, vanilla beans, cracked black pepper, and cinnamon sugar. The finish is dry, sweet, and filled with a symphony of pepper, vanilla, and cinnamon spice.
Bottom Line:
I’ll get it if you stop right here. Wild Turkey 101 is unbeatable for the price. Fans of baking spice-driven, charred oak, caramel-forward bourbons will love mixing with this high-proof expression.
Legend has it that Elijah Craig invented bourbon when he aged his whiskey in charred oak barrels. Regardless of that story’s veracity, I love the bourbon made in his honor for its versatility and value. The brand’s flagship Small Batch has won multiple awards and is known for its spicy, sweet, slightly smoky flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
Crack open a bottle and you’ll be greeted with slightly herbal aromas plus dried cherries, cinnamon sugar, and buttercream frosting. Sipping it brings forth notes of charred oak, cloves, cinnamon, treacle, and butterscotch. It all ends in a crescendo of toasted oak and sweet dried fruits.
Bottom Line:
Even though it’s around $30, Elijah Craig Small Batch is so flavorful, so nuanced, you might not want to mix with it. I implore you to push those feelings away and use this one as a base for your next Manhattan. You’ll be delighted you did.
Buffalo Trace is one of the most respected distilleries in the world. Makers of Pappy, Weller, and almost all of the most sought-after bourbons on the market, Trace also makes a flagship value bourbon simply called Buffalo Trace.
Easily the most respected bargain bourbon on the market, Buffalo Trace is a small batch, slightly spicy, sweet whiskey that demands to be used as the base for your favorite cocktails.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is exactly what you hope for in a well-made, mixing bourbon. It’s filled with scents of sticky toffee, caramel candy, almond cookies, and gentle peppery spice. The palate has flavors of caramel corn, butterscotch, charred oaky wood, chocolate fudge, and dried cherries and raisins. It ends with a nice mix of cinnamon and caramelized sugar.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to a price to quality ratio, I don’t believe there is a better mixing bourbon than Buffalo Trace. It’s spicy, sweet, and perfectly suited for mixing into Manhattans, whiskey sours, and especially summery, fresh whiskey highballs.
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Legendary TV producer Norman Lear turned 99 years old on Tuesday. To celebrate, the creator of such iconic and groundbreaking sitcoms as All in the Family announced a new project: he’ll be executive producing a reboot of his short-lived ‘70s satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, with Emily Hampshire—best known for her role as the Rosebud Motel’s sardonic desk clerk in Schitt’s Creek—taking on the title role and co-writing the project with Letterkenny’s Jacob Tierney.
Both Hampshire and Tierney will executive produce the project alongside Lear and his production partner Brent Miller, who have an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. Word of the reboot began spreading earlier this year, in February, when Lear and Hampshire were shopping the project around. Though it’s still only in the development phase, TBS was the lucky network that snatched up the rights.
The original series, which ran in syndication for just two seasons between 1976 and 1977, followed Louise Lasser as an Ohio housewife who is regularly dealing with surreal moments happening all around her. The series earned Lasser an Emmy nomination for the title role in her first season. In 1976, it took home the Emmy for Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement for its pilot episode, and co-star Mary Kay Place won for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977.
The updated version of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman will see Hampshire grabbing the attention of the social media world (a surreal thing in its own right) after footage of her nervous breakdown goes viral and turns her into something of an influencer.
“The kick of kicks as I turn 99 today is learning that TBS is developing MHMH and will allow us to make a new version of it starring Emily Hampshire,” Lear said of the announcement. “As someone who believes his 99 years on this planet is owed to the amount of laughter he enjoyed through the years, here’s to the next 99. Bless you all!”
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