GLADYS KNIGHT is backed on "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., through the magic of CGI, to promote Tropic Thunder back in 2008.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Alvvays, Bonny Light Horseman, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Broken Bells, Dungen, and more.

POM POM SQUAD shares "River."

WILL SCHEFF, After Okkervil.

BOB DYLAN's audio book has all-star voices.

MERCH can make or break an indie band's career.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Nickelback's unkillable radio-rock monster "How You Remind Me," the last hard rock song ever to top the Hot 100.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Smile repeats atop the chart with 17.6MM on a 22 percent drop, the best hold for a horror movie since 2017’s Get Out. Lyle, Lyle placed with an 11.5MM debut, probably judged as "meh."  Amsterdam, which was already repositioned from Oscars bait to the mass market, showed with a 6.5MM debut, with audience scores suggesting little legs.

WILL "HOUSE OF THE DRAGON" overtake "The Rings of Power" in the streaming rankings?

KANE WEST's Instagram account was restricted after a post that was criticized as anti-Semitic. He's also locked out of Twitter.

KEANU REEVES will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City.”

MILA KUNIS, getting booed by the Tonight Show crowd, then turning it around.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE talks about losing control when her careeer took off.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO defends Martin Scorsese.

JOHN WATERS is returning to filmmaking.

MICHAEL SHANNON & JESSICA CHASTAIN, as George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

NIKKE FINKE, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness. She was 68.

PARKOUR! BARKOUR!

A PUPPER with ducklings.

A BABY GIRAFFE & A BABY HIPPO, falling in love.