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Kate Hudson on her “Glorious” album
The music coming from a North Hollywood studio might not be familiar – yet – but you’ve definitely heard that voice. Recently Kate Hudson was fine-tuning her songs, for her new album, “Glorious.” It’s a role the singer-songwriter was born to play.
Asked how long she’s been writing songs, Hudson replied, “Really poorly, my whole life! I guess I wasn’t ready for it until now.”
And why is she “ready for it” now? “Because I just don’t care anymore about what people think, probably. It was never right, whether it was my own stuff or feeling afraid to mess up my movie career – just never felt right. Until now. I’m just doing it.”
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She made her stage debut this year at a few small-ish events, but she didn’t sound like a novice – maybe because she’s always been on stage (or very close to it).
Her first really big film role was as “band aide” Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” which earned her an Oscar nomination:
Smith asked, “How fitting is it that your breakout role was in this movie that’s essentially a love letter to rock ‘n’ roll?”
“It kind of makes sense,” said Hudson. “Probably a reason why Cameron hired me.”
She could act, but she also had the pipes: As the daughter of Bill Hudson, of the ’70s band The Hudson Brothers, you might say that music is in her blood. “Those Hudson Brothers are crazy-talented musicians and wonderful songwriters. My dad’s a great songwriter.”
Bill Hudson and wife Goldie Hawn split when Kate was a toddler, so she grew up with her mom’s longtime partner, Kurt Russell, and has been estranged from her father for some time.
Asked what her relationship is now with her dad, Kate replied, “I don’t really have one. But it’s like, you know, it’s warming up. There’s warming up [with] this all happening. But it’ll be whatever it will be, you know? I have no expectation of that with my father. It’s like, I just want him to be happy.”
And what makes her happy is singing – on stage, on camera, or both. “Any musical that you’ve seen in the last 15 years, I have auditioned for it!” she laughed.
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Like? “Oh, oh God, I’ll never forget one of my favorite auditions of all time was ‘Moulin Rouge’ with Baz Luhrmann. And we had so much fun. And at the time, it was written for – I was like 19 at the time – it was actually written for a young girl, and Nicole [Kidman] ended up doing it — she wanted to do it! And I was like, Oh well, my chances are gone!
“I mean, all of them, a ton. That’s what we do: we audition!” she laughed.
And between auditions, life happened: relationships, children, and the kinds of things that inspire songs. Maybe not surprisingly, the one song of Hudson’s that truly rips her heart out, “Live Forever,” is about Ryder, her son with her former husband, Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson.
You and I will be forever
You will walk off on your own
Down the streets that you’ll call home
And I’ll watch in wistful wonder
As you’ll meet your destiny
I’m there, why don’t you be free
Take it over, take your time
Oh, I was just a little girl
Gone deep into the world
Thought I could take it on
And you showed up right by my side
My witness and my light
Now, we’ve grown up in stride
Hudson said, “It’s the strongest love I ever had. So, when you have your first child, I was so young, and when I was writing this album, which was two years ago now, Ryder was leaving for college. … I was like, oh my God, my whole adult life, I’ve had this incredible partner, and now I have to like, say goodbye? So, that’s really like all of the things I was thinking about in the song.”
The album’s out next month, and she’s definitely going on tour: in her words, she can’t wait to get back on the bus. “It just feels, like, normal,” she said. “They say like, when you’re ready to solo for the first time you should be kicking the instructor out the plane, like, Get out of here! I’m ready! And that’s kind of what I feel like right now. I just feel like I’m ready to do it. I don’t have the fear. I just have excitement. It’s wild.”
At 45, she’s still very much involved with acting projects, but for Kate Hudson, following one dream doesn’t mean giving up on another.
She remembers when someone said to her she couldn’t do music: “There was someone who said to me – and it kind of jarred me a little – it was when I was in my early thirties, and they basically said, ‘It’s done, it’s passed. You can’t, you’re too old.’ And you know, for me it wasn’t just about being a performer, it was about wanting to write music. So it kind of, like, kind of resonated there for a bit.
“And then I was like, ‘Eh, **** you,'” she laughed. “No, no one tells me what to do!”
To hear Kate Hudson perform the single “Gonna Find Out,” from her new album, “Glorious,” click on the video player below:
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TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs at same Brooklyn detention center that held R. Kelly, Sam Bankman-Fried, other high-profile inmates
A second judge refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday and he could remain in federal custody at a Brooklyn detention center until his trial for sex trafficking charges. Combs joins other high-profile inmates, such as singer R. Kelly, fallen cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, rapper Ja Rule —even Al Sharpton served a brief stint— who were held at the same federal detention center.
Notorious for its horrible conditions —inmates won a $10 million class action settlement after enduring frigid conditions during an 8-day blackout in 2019— the waterfront industrial complex, MDC Brooklyn, houses 1,200 inmates.
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Violence and corruption have long plagued the facility; U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown of the Eastern District of New York wrote the detention center had “dangerous, barbaric conditions” in a recent sentencing opinion. Two inmates were stabbed to death in recent months and several correction officers have been convicted for smuggling contraband and accepting bribes.
Combs joins a list of high-profile personalities that have landed at the MDC Brooklyn, partly because the city’s other federal detention center, MDC New York, closed in 2021, also due to horrible conditions. The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in his cell there in 2019. “Numerous and serious” instances of misconduct among corrections staff gave Epstein the opportunity to kill himself, a subsequent federal watchdog investigation found.
Kelly sued the federal detention center in 2022 for wrongly putting him on suicide watch after his sentencing. Kelly sought $100 million because he said the detention center knew he wasn’t suicidal after he was convicted in 2021 for racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which bars transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
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Former crypto billionaire Bankman-Fried survived on bread, water and sometimes peanut butter when he was in the MDC Brooklyn, his attorney said, because the detention center continued to serve him a “flesh diet” despite requests for vegan dishes.
Ja Rule stayed at the MDC Brooklyn for a brief time before being released after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession. Most of his prison time was spent in a state prison in New York.
Sharpton served a 90-day sentence in 2001 and went on a hunger strike for protesting the U.S. Navy bombing of the island of Vieques, in Puerto Rico.
Combs was taken into custody on Monday and according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday he was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.
His attorney Marc Agnifilo told CBS News, “It’s impossible to prepare for a trial from where he is,” after a first federal judge denied Combs bail on Tuesday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky agreed with prosecutors who argued the hip-hop mogul, who is accused of using his business empire as a criminal enterprise to conceal his alleged abuse of women, is a flight risk and poses an ongoing threat to the safety of the community.
Agnifilo said the part of the detention center where Combs is being held is “a very difficult place to be.”
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