Actress of Frozen, Idina Menzel Sings For The National Anthem

 

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The opera rendition from Fleming, a four-time Grammy winner, was uncommon for Super Bowl lead-ups because the role is traditionally reserved for a pop star (see video gallery, below). In 2013, Alicia Keys played piano while singing the national anthem (watch, below), which hadn’t been done since Billy Joel in 2007. Kelly Clarkson sang the song in 2012, a year after Christina Aguilera flubbed the song’s lyrics at the previous Super Bowl.

Menzel, the voice of the inescapable Frozen song “Let It Go,” will sing the National Anthem, while Golden Globe winner Legend will take on “America the Beautiful.”

Those performances will lead into the game and Katy Perry’s big halftime show. Lenny Kravitz is the first announced guest to join Perry’s medley.

Last year, soprano Renée Fleming delivered a riveting national anthem with help from a military chorus. The opera rendition from Fleming, a four-time Grammy winner, was uncommon for Super Bowl lead-ups because the role is traditionally reserved for a pop star (see video gallery, below).

In 2013, Alicia Keys played piano while singing the national anthem (watch, below), which hadn’t been done since Billy Joel in 2007. Kelly Clarkson sang the song in 2012, a year after Christina Aguilera flubbed the song’s lyrics at the previous Super Bowl.

Other past performers include Whitney Houston, Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey, Faith Hill, Neil Diamond, Diana Ross, Jewel, Harry Connick Jr., the Dixie Chicks and Cher.

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Lea Michele Joins Fox’s Comedy-Horror Anthology “Scream Queens”

 “Glee” alum Lea Michele has joined Ryan Murphy’s “Scream Queens.”

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Fox made the announcement during its presentation at the Television Critics Association press tour, and Michele also confirmed the news on Twitter.

The actress is officially joining Scream Queens, a comedy-horror anthology set to debut this fall.

Also added to the cast: True Blood alum Joe Manganiello, Abigail Breslin and Keke Palmer.

No details were given regarding the quartet’s roles on Scream Queens, whose first season will be set in a sorority house, as several murders begin to rock a college campus.

Last month, Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis were the first actors to join the series.

After its panel, Fox chairman and CEO Gary Newman brushed off concerns that Scream Queen‘s broadcast home would prevent Murphy from replicating the same shock-based success that shot FX’s American Horror Story to the top of must-watch lists.

“Creatively, I’m not sure it’s that big of a difference,” he said. “Obviously, there are different standards for what you can do on FX and what you can do on Fox, but Ryan proved on Glee that he can tell very edgy stories that have real cultural relevance on network television, and I expect him to do that with Scream Queens. I think it’s going to be an amazing, suspenseful, fun ride.”

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20 movies turning 20 in 2015 | Must Watch


 

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You’re old — get over it. As if.

Movies can act like cultural timepieces, bringing us back to the year of their debut. But when you think back to a classic hit like Clueless, it’s hard to imagine that Cher Horowitz like totally graced screens 20 long years ago.

Take a convertible ride down movie memory lane to the wonderful year of 1995, when Bill Clinton lived in the White House and people used cell phones to make telephone calls.

1. Casper

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          “All I want’s a friend.” – Casper (Malachi Pearson)    IMAGE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

2. Jumanji

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“Don’t worry. I’ve done this before. Once.” – Allen Parish (Robin Williams)  IMAGE: INTERSCOPE COMMUNICATIONS

3. Seven

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“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” – William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)

4. Casino

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“Listen to me very carefully. There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it. You understand?” – Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) IMAGE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

5. Apollo 13

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“I don’t care about what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.” – Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) IMAGE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

6. Babe

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“That’ll do, pig.” – Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell)  IMAGE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

7. Toy Story

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          “To infinity, and beyond!” – Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen)   IMAGE: DISNEY

8. Braveheart

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“They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” – William Wallace (Mel Gibson) IMAGE: ICON PRODUCTIONS, THE LADD COMPANY

9. Billy Madison

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“Chlorophyll? More like bore-ophyll.” – Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) IMAGE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

10. Batman Forever

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“Riddle me this, riddle me that, who’s afraid of the big, black bat?” – The Riddler (Jim Carrey) IMAGE: WARNER BROS

11. The Usual Suspects

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“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. ” – Verbal (Kevin Spacey) IMAGE: BAD HAT HARRY PRODUCTIONS, BLUE PARROT

12. Pocahontas

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           “Keep both eyes open when you shoot. You see twice as well.” – John Smith (Mel Gibson) IMAGE: DISNEY
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