The saga about a mostly deaf family "CODA" won Best Picture at the 2022 Oscars. Both "Don't Look Up" and CelebStoner Kristen Stewart were nominated for Academy Awards. Michael Keaton's depiction of Dr. Sam Finnix in "Dopesick" earned numerous awards, including a Golden Globe.
It's been quite the awards season for Troy Kotsur, who plays pot-smoking fisherman Frank Rossi in "CODA." He won the Oscar for the film about a "Child of Deaf Adults."
The Colombian publication SEMANA is reporting Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of a drug overdose on March 25. The band was in Bogota to perform at the Esteréo Picnic festival.
Blues Traveler drummer Brendan Hill on his Paper & Leaf pot shop on Bainbridge Island and the jam-band's Grammy-nominated 2021 album, "Traveler's Blues": "I like to keep things separate."
Mike Tyson sells flowers named Toad and is now marketing a gummy brand called Mike Bites that pokes fun at one of the worst moments in sports history: When he bit the ear of Evander Holyfield during a heavyweight championship fight in 1997.
William Hurt, who died at 71 on March 13, got his start playing psychonaut Dr. Eddie Jessep in Ken Russell's 1980 film, "Altered States."
Jack Kerouac's centennial reminds me that the beat writer of "On the Road" prompted my generation to do some serious road-tripping of our own, which I did in the pre-Internet '70s.
A former first-round draft pick and Rookie of the Year, Tyreke Evans is seeking work in the NBA after a two-year drug-related suspension.
