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LOS ANGELES — Did he jump or was he pushed?
In the matter of Lindsey Buckingham's departure from Fleetwood Mac, the answer isn't yet clear.
On Monday, the veteran rock band issued a statement announcing that Buckingham — the singer and guitarist with whom Fleetwood Mac made such genre-defining albums as “Rumours” and “Tango in the Night” — would not be performing with the group on its upcoming tour.
Rolling Stone said that Buckingham had been fired over a disagreement pertaining to the tour; Variety cited a source who said Buckingham's leaving was harder to classify. (A representative for the band said she wasn't authorized to speak on Buckingham's behalf.)
Either way, the speed with which the guy was replaced — on tour, Fleetwood Mac will be joined by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House — suggests that Buckingham's former band mates weren't exactly tripping over themselves to keep him off the ledge.
Whatever friction led to his departure, it wasn't the first time Buckingham had experienced misgivings about playing in Fleetwood Mac. In the late '80s, of course, he quit after “Tango in the Night,” only to come back a decade later.
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NEW YORK — Elaine May — the iconic actress, comedian, writer and director who first emerged in Chicago in the 1950s alongside her partner Mike Nichols — is to return to Broadway next season.
May, 85, will star in the first Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan's “The Waverly Gallery,” a poignant and timely drama about an elderly gallery owner in Greenwich Village determined to cling to her independence and fight off the effects of aging. “The Waverly Gallery” was first seen off-Broadway at the Promenade Theater in 2000, where it starred the late Eileen Heckart. “The Waverly Gallery” was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
“I have always Elaine wanted to play this part,” said Lonergan, in a telephone interview. Lonergan, a prolific screenwriter and playwright who won an Academy Award for his original screenplay for the 2016 movie “Manchester by the Sea,” said that he and May were longtime friends.
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NEW YORK — Kate Gosselin is set to star on a new TLC reality series, “Kate Plus Date,” that centers on her search to find love eight years after her divorce, People reported.
“I'm nervous, I'm excited, and I'm forcing myself to do this,” Gosselin told the magazine.
Gosselin rose to fame over a decade ago on the TLC series “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” which chronicled her and her former husband Jon's lives as they parented eight children. The series was rebranded as “Kate Plus 8” in 2010 after Gosselin, 43, split from her husband.
The original “Jon and Kate Plus 8” was a revelation when it first premiered in 2007, but interest waned toward the end of the show's initial run. The series went on a lengthy break in 2011 but returned for a new season in 2015, with several new episodes airing in 2016 and 2017 as well.
By Tribune News Service
