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  • Shia LaBeouf Healed By ‘Man Down,’ Says Making Film Was ‘Like Therapy’

    After controversies and treating alcohol problems, Shia LaBeouf is now back with his new drama thriller movie, Man Down.

    LaBeouf is currently working with director, Dito Montiel, who previously worked with him in the 2006 drama A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.

    The movie came at the right time according to LaBeouf, and he felt like he’s now back on track.

    “He (Montiel) came to my house when I was in a really low place and offered it to me like therapy, like ‘here’s a healing process so we can jump into together and get well,’” LaBeouf  said. LaBeouf plays the role of a traumatized U.S. Marine who is looking for his wife and son. According to Montiel and LaBeouf, the film is not about war but a story about a man who wants to get his son back.

    Shia LaBeouf made headlines in the past for yelling from the audience during a Broadway show and wearing a paper bag on his head to a movie premiere. He was also treated for alcohol problems.

    But according to LaBeouf, now that he’s back, he only intends to work with people he has connections with.

    “I want to work with people that I have a connection with,” LaBeouf said. “I think for a while I was chasing the 10 list, right? The 10 directors you want to work with, and that didn’t fare well for me…so I’m trying to make friends now and work with those people.”

    LaBeouf also said he does his best work when he is surrounded by people who love and support him.

    “I do much better with loving, familial environments where you feel like you can fail and the dude will get you on the other side. So I’m trying to make friends now and work with those people.”

  • Lynn Anderson, Singer Of 70s Hit ‘Rose Garden’, Dies at 67

    Lynn Anderson, singer of the 70s classic hit (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden, died July 30 at a hospital in Nashville at the age of 67.

    According to her publicist, Lynn Anderson died of cardiac arrest.

    A fixture in the 1970s country music scene, the young Lynn Anderson garnered attention as a young singer on “The Lawrence Welk Show” between 1967 and 1969. That exposure helped land her a record deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

    In a 1987 interview with the Associated Press, Anderson said Welk felt county music was coming into its own and deserved to be featured on national television.

    “At that time, I was the only one singing country music on national TV every week,” said Anderson. “He’s one of my heroes and always will be.”

    Although she received plenty of attention, it was the single, Rose Garden, that sealed her country music legacy, earning her a Grammy and Country Music Association’s female vocalist of the year award in 1971. It also crossed into mainstream music.

    “It was popular because it touched on emotions,” Anderson told the AP. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.

    Other hits included Rocky Top, You’re My Man, How Can I Unlove You?, What a Man, My Man Is and Top of the World, which was also recorded by the Carpenters.

    Born Sept. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lynn Rene Anderson grew up in Sacramento, California. She was the daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson began performing at the age of 6.

    As a teenager, Lynn Anderson was an award-winning equestrian and was voted California Horse Show Queen in 1966.

    Facing some legal battles in her later years while living in Taos, New Mexico, she was issued a restraining order in 1995 by a Taos judge after her boyfriend said she had threatened him following the end of their 12-year relationship.

  • Lynn Anderson: Country Singer Known for ‘(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden’ Dead at 67

    Lynn Anderson, the country singer best known for her 1971 hit song “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,” died on Thursday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was 67 years old. A publicist for the singer says her cause of death was cardiac arrest.

    It was on The Lawrence Welk Show back in 1967 and 1969 that Lynn Anderson first gained national attention. The exposure helped her sign a deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

    “He was absolutely wholesome,” Lynn Anderson said of Lawrence Welk in a 1987 interview with The Associated Press. “He felt country music was coming into its own and deserved to be on national TV. At that time, I was the only one singing country music on national TV every week. He’s one of my heroes and always will be.”

    “Rose Garden” was Lynn Anderson’s biggest hit ever.

    “It was popular because it touched on emotions,” she said in that 1987 interview. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.”

    “This song stated that you can make something out of nothing. You take it and go ahead. It fit me well and I’ll be proud to be connected to it until I die,” she added.

    Sadly that day has come.

    Lynn Anderson is survived by her father, her partner Mentor Williams, and her three children–Lisa Sutton, Melissa Hempel, and Gray Stream.