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Sum 41 farewell show to hit city next year

Ontario pop-punk group Sum 41 will play the Canada Life Centre on Jan. 20, 2025 as part of its worldwide farewell tour.

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster with presales beginning today. Prices were not announced.

Sum 41 formed 27 years ago in the Toronto suburbs and had a No. 1 hit with Fat Lip in 2001, and the album In Too Deep reached triple-platinum status in Canada.

The group has dates in Asia, Europe and the United States scheduled throughout 2024 before winding up the tour with concerts in Canada next January. Sum 41’s final album, Heaven :x: Hell, comes out Friday.

And just like that … show loses actress

And just like that … the Sex and the City revival has lost yet another star as Karen Pittman exits the show ahead of its third season.

“It has been a joy to have Karen Pittman play the smart and stunning Professor Nya Wallace on the first two seasons of And Just Like That…,’ a spokesperson for Max, the HBO-owned streamer behind the series, told the Daily News.

While AJLT producers and the Broadway alum had every intention of continuing the fan-favourite character into Season 3, “due to her commitments to two other streamer series, it has become apparent that filming three shows at once isn’t possible.”

Pittman, 37, has been a series regular on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show since 2019 and was tapped to star in the upcoming Netflix drama series Forever, currently in production.

News of Pittman’s departure comes not long after Sara Ramirez, who starred as controversial character Che Diaz, was allegedly axed from the show for vocally supporting Palestine in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Tony winner.

Joni Mitchell’s music back on streamer Spotify

Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify more than two years after the songwriter pulled it off the platform in protest of other content available on the popular streaming service.

Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify in January 2022 in solidarity with fellow Canadian music icon Neil Young, who removed his catalogue to protest the company’s decision to give controversial podcast host Joe Rogan an exclusive platform.

Young had given Spotify an ultimatum over concerns Rogan was spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on his show.

Young announced earlier this month he was coming back to Spotify, saying on his website that the same “disinformation podcast” is now featured on various streaming platforms and he can’t leave them all.

Rogan signed a new deal with Spotify in February, which the Wall Street Journal estimated was worth as much as US$250 million over several years.

Love Story sexiest Taylor Swift song

A new analysis of songs people listen to while having sex reveals Taylor Swift’s Love Story supposedly has the top slot.

First released in 2008, =Love Story was the country-pop lead single off Swift’s sophomore album Fearless and tells the story of a troubled romance that ends in a marriage proposal.

It is objectively not a sexy song.

But try telling that to the sex experts at Bedbible.com, a sexual wellness site that used Spotify’s Playlist Miner Tool to analyze which songs appeared the most in users’ sexy-time playlists. Once they narrowed down a list of songs, they cross-analyzed those to see which of them clocked in at 119 beats per minute — evidently the best tempo for intimacy according to Bed Bible.

Apparently, Love Story has the right tempo and appeared in 31 playlists with keywords including “sex,” “sexy,” “romance,” and “intimacy.”

Following Love Story, Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance came in second place appearing in 27 playlists and especially in playlists with “sexy” in the title followed by Gaga’s Just Dance tied in third with Lana Del Rey’s Sad Girl.

Adam Sandler developing Happy Gilmore sequel

Adam Sandler is working on a sequel to his hit comedy film Happy Gilmore” and already has a script written, according to actor Christopher McDonald, who played golf pro Shooter McGavin in the original film.

McDonald’s comments came during an interview on Cleveland, Ohio radio station 92.3 The Fan on Friday, and while he was hesitant to reveal the news “because I don’t want to be a liar,” he said, sources close to the matter confirmed to Deadline the film is being developed for Netflix.

“I saw Adam about two weeks ago, and he says to me, ‘McDonald, you’re gonna love this,’” the 69-year-old actor revealed in his interview. “I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘How about that,’ and he shows me the first draft of Happy Gilmore 2.”

“I thought, ‘Well, that would be awesome.’ So, it’s in the works. Fans demand it, dammit!” McDonald added.

When Sandler released Happy Gilmore in 1996, the film grossed over $82 million worldwide and has become one of his most popular films in the years since. In addition to co-writing the film, he starred as the film’s main character, a down-on-his-luck hockey player with a temper, who discovers a hidden talent for golfing.

Neither Sandler nor Netflix have commented yet on the reported Happy Gilmore sequel.

— staff/wire services