#Toby Bryan

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Hanky Panky ('15'): "The whole thing was just weird. Every tiny detail."

#onemannsmovies of "Hanky Panky". #HankyPankyMovie. A schlock comedy/horror with Seth Green as an evil hat. You'll either love it or hate it! 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Hanky Panky” (2024). I sometimes get sent screeners for movies that – erm – will normally struggle to get a cinema release. Many of them are almost unwatchable pants (hmmm… killer pants… where is my scriptwriting pad?) But sometimes they become quirky, strangely watchable oddities. “Hanky Panky”, sent to me by Actor/Writer/Co-director Nick Roth and soon to be…

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Helen, Gilbert and Arthur in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" 1968 version (left) and 1996 version (right).

Both of these versions were produced and aired on BBC. These are the only TV adaptations of said title.

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Toby Keith Dies at 62

Country singer Toby Keith has died at 62.

Keith, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2022, died Feb. 5 with his family around him, per a statement.

“He fought his fight with grace and courage,” said the statement, which asked for privacy.

“Damn, RIP, Toby,” Luke Combs said. “Can’t believe it.”

Keith released 19 studio albums starting with his 1993 self-titled debut and running through 2021’s Peso in My Pocket.

“Too many rides in my old man’s car listening to Toby Keith,” Zach Bryan wrote on social media. “Really hard thing to hear. Rest in peace, friend, we love you.”

Among Keith’s 20 No. 1s are “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “As Good as I Once Was,” “My List” and “Beer for My Horses,” a joint with Willie Nelson, for whom Keith wrote “Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again.”

“Toby Keith helped make Oklahoma the coolest place in the nation,” Okla. Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement. “His legacy will forever be in the hearts of Oklahomans and fans around the world.”

Country singer William Michael Morgan called Keith’s death “heartbreaking” in a post on social media.

“Thanks, Toby, for being a badass and someone a singer like me could look up to,” he said. “RIP, Big Dawg.”

2/6/24

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Billions (2016)

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Toby Keith: American Icon (2024)

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So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), we weill talking about the latest Country Music Special to honor the late & great Toby Keith. This tribute show took place on Wednesday August 28th, 2024 on NBC (Where I am at) and at 9pm EST (Eastern Standard Time). Here is how they honored Toby and what they played for him/us. This tribute seemed to be hosted by Jelly Roll & Priscilla Block.

Set list. Carrie Underwood - A little less talk and a lot more action. Eric Church - As good as I once was. Darius Rucker - God love her. Riley Green & Ella Langley - Who's your daddy? Ashley McBryde - Wish I didn't know now. Lainey Wilson & Jamey Johnson - Beer for my horses. Luke Bryan - Should've been a cowboy. Jordan Davis & Clay Walker - I love this bar. Jelly Roll - My list. Tyler Hubbard, Jordan Davis, Jelly Roll, HARDY, & friends - Red solo cup. HARDY & Brantley Gilbert - How do you like me now?! Toby Keith's last performance - Joe Diffie Cover - Ships that don't come in. Krystal Keith - Don't let the old man in. Trace Adkins - American soldier. Parker McCollum - Courtesy of the red, white, & blue (The angry American) with everyone getting up on the stage.

And on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I will not be giving a tribute show a review. And it was good in my opinion to give it 2 hours. It is fair to say all of those involved gave their own way to pay tribute to Toby, the best way that could think of. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

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Toby Leonard Moore as Bryan Connerty in "Billions"

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David Browne at Rolling Stone:

OVER THE LAST few years, the Gulf Coast Jam, a multi-day concert blowout held every spring in Panama City Beach, Florida, has become one of country music’s leading festivals, pulling in headliners like Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, and Kenny Chesney. But recently, festival producer Rendy Lovelady has noticed something unusual backstage. “Ten or 15 years ago, everybody would sit in a circle around the table, pull out their guitars and start singing old country songs,” he says. “There was a lot of camaraderie. Whereas now, the camaraderie has definitely lessened. They tend to stay in their own community.” Part of Lovelady wonders if it’s the lingering after-effects of Covid-19, which forced touring performers to interact as little as possible with anyone outside their circle. But it’s also possible that the drop-off in backstage hangtime is a sign of something else: the national culture wars seeping into the traditionally close-knit country community, a space where artists often take pains to refer to their peers as “my good buddy” or compliment one another.

From less personal interaction backstage to public online feuds, country music is slowly being pulled into the same battles that have infiltrated nearly every aspect of American life and entertainment. “It really is weird right now,” says one leading country manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the moment. “Country music has aways been this kind of neighborhood where everyone gets along. We had everyone’s back. But it doesn’t feel that way anymore. The heels are dug in more than ever. It’s pretty heavy.” The manager has also witnessed the same backstage chilliness that Lovelady recounts. However, he says it is unquestioningly due to opposing political ideologies and beliefs. “I’ve always enjoyed seeing people in the hallways backstage,” he says. “But it’s not like that. You tend to avoid people, because everyone talks politics backstage. Everyone used to leave their dressing room doors open. The doors are shut now.”

The major signs that Nashville is visibly fracturing have all happened fairly recently. In August of last year, country and alt-pop singer Cassadee Pope, and then Maren Morris, took Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany to task for making seemingly transphobic comments. (“I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase,” Brittany Aldean posted.) This summer, her husband’s song “Try That in a Small Town,” and especially its controversial music video, led to Americana songwriter Jason Isbell tweeting, “Dare Aldean to write his next single himself. That’s what we try in my small town.” On X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter), Jake Owen, a mainstream country singer, seemed to side with Aldean. He clapped back at Isbell by writing in part, “Jason, you’re always the first to get behind your keyboard and spout off with this stupid shit.” (He since posted that he “came in hot on the conversation because I’m passionate about” songwriters.) The public tiffs also included Zach Bryan, whose duet with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” is on track to be the Number One song in the nation, taking a shot in April at country acts “insulting transgender people.” The comment was prompted by veteran Travis Tritt’s tweet that he would be “deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider” following a Bud Light promotion that featured transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Bryan, who said that he wasn’t aiming directly at Tritt, later talked it out in person with the Nineties star at a music festival in Texas, with Bryan calling Tritt “a good guy” and Tritt saying, “So glad we had a chance to chat, Zach.”

Although these feuds haven’t dominated the genre, they also haven’t gone unnoticed. “Like all industries, we’re not immune from the external pressures and the world at large,” says R.J. Romeo, president of the Romeo Entertainment Group, a leading talent agency that books country acts. “So naturally, there’s more divisiveness in the country now than ever before. That’s going to show up in opinions on music and everything.” The history of country music hasn’t been without its share of fights and rumbles; ask anyone who’s worked on an awards show or at a festival and you’ll hear tales of artists grumbling about their peers’ egos, sales figures, or place on the bill. In 2013, Zac Brown made waves when he called Luke Bryan’s song “That’s My Kind of Night” the “worst song I’ve ever heard.” They later hammed it up and hugged it out on live TV at the CMA Awards.

Public quarrels over politics, meanwhile, have been as rare as synthesizer solos in the genre. The then-Dixie Chicks’ feud with Toby Keith, which started when Chicks singer Natalie Maines criticized one of Keith’s songs in a 2002 interview and caught fire after Maines dissed George W. Bush onstage in the U.K. over the 2003 Iraq invasion, was one of the few times in recent memory when open warfare broke out among country artists over political matters. Such quarrels may become more common. “With everything heating up with the presidential race, people are beginning to have very distinct opinions,” Lovelady says. And the shift, involving country stars of different generations and accelerated by social media, has been jarring for longtime observers. Country acts, Romeo says, “all go through media training, and they’re usually very diplomatic or middle of the road with a lot of their responses. But I’ve seen more artists come out of what we call ‘the artist bubble’ and show more of their true self, you could say — or their less polished self.”

Rolling Stone explores how the culture wars are roiling the once-tightknit community of country music fans.

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For @ehjiw0rth ❤️

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I got a Toby Keith song stuck in my head and now I’m sad :( he was one of my fav singers growing up like I loved country music growing up my mum a huge fan and that’s just part of my childhood and listening to the older artists like Reba and Carrie Underwood and Toby Keith is nostalgic and I miss those days cause the new country singers they’ve had for like the past idk 6 years just ain’t it at all. Maddie & Tae are the last ones that I listened to they had a good song, and I did like Hunter Hayes in the beginning but now it’s just shit. But anyway when my mum and I was watching the people’s country choice awards Toby Keith was there in the audience and he even performed but it was a newer song and idk when it came out but shit had me crying my ojos out into my ice cream, even he cried I swear we all did but he didn’t smile often. He looked so tired and sad and it’s just hard to see him like that and it makes me really sad. I love Toby Keith and when he dies that’s just another person from my childhood and my memories gone and :( I’m really sad about it.

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Bad movie I have You Don't get to 500 Million Friends without making a Few Enemies aka The Social Network

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The Saint: When Spring is Sprung (5.26, ITC, 1967)

"Let me tell you something about Simon Templar: the more he smiles, the more helpful, the more cooperative, the more honest and charming he is, the more you can be sure he's plotting something diabolical."

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Two Lane BK3 Top

On Bruce Kulick's Fate (2010) the enraptured listener is presented with a wildly pimped and out-of-control rogue kind of automobile.

Kiss' War Machine (1982) and Jungle (1997) roar out of the speakers simultaneously and blend into an insanely loud mash of sound, in the middle of a rally in the middle of somewhere and nowhere, trying to shake off its competitors, who are invisible to us and only to us, in a determined yet unsuccessful manner (1).

At least that's how it looks from the outside and from a distance, but if you enter the cockpit of the vehicle as a virtual observer, an unexpectedly controlled and equally alert mind sits inside with both hands firmly on the wheel, only with a whole lot going through its head. How the world around him perceives and assesses this is merely a trivial accessory and has already become something like the normal state of moving from point A to point B in this material wasteland (2).

The true skills of the nonetheless somewhat tense driver are finally revealed shortly before the already spinning tires seem to completely lose their grip, and he and his speedy hot rod threaten to plunge into an abyss that seems to appear out of nowhere, only to be able to avoid it at the last second with skidding tires and pull it around in a most daring manoeuvre. But even that, just routine (3).

If you were to look at the overall picture from an even greater distance from above, you could easily see that the driver of the car had something more in mind all the time than just the pure thrill, and also wrote something in the ground with the spun tire tracks. Three large and legible characters:

BK3.

Now that's what I call a signature track.

Side Note:

(1) Intro & main riff.

(2) Verses.

(3) Refrain.

Fate (2010)

Jungle (1997)

War Machine (1982)

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heart like a truck

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Toby Leonard Moore as Bryan Connerty -- Billions

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