Shawn Mendes cancels the rest of world tour for mental health break - CBC News

Canadian pop star Shawn Mendes has cancelled the rest of his Wonder world tour to care for his mental health, the singer announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday.

"After speaking more with my team and working with an incredible group of health professionals, it has become more clear that I need to take the time I've never taken personally to ground myself and come back stronger," the 23-year-old singer wrote. 

"I unfortunately have to cancel the rest of the tour dates in North America, and the UK/Europe."

More than 70 performances were cancelled, including four in Canada: two shows in Toronto on July 31 and Aug. 2, and two shows in Montreal on Aug. 15 and 16.

The scrapped concerts would have stretched into mid-2023. To date, only seven shows on his tour were actually performed, including shows in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg.

Mendes, who was born in Pickering, Ont., assured fans that the cancelled tour won't affect his plans to make new music — or to perform onstage again in the future.

"I promise I will be back as soon as I've taken the right time to heal," he wrote.

Earlier this month, Mendes told fans that he would be taking a three-week break from the tour, postponing a string of shows in the U.S., saying that he had "hit a breaking point" after touring steadily since he was 15.

The singer has long been open about his mental health struggles and has said that he hopes his honesty helps and empowers others.

In 2018, he told Tom Power, host of CBC's q, about writing music to cope with anxiety.

"The only way progression is going to happen is by talking about it and by allowing everybody to talk about it," Mendes said. "It just becomes more of a normal thing, and hopefully in 10 years from now, nobody is really worried about it."

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Tony Dow, 'Leave it to Beaver' star, dead at 77 - CTV News

After sharing a statement on his verified Facebook account Tuesday morning that Tony Dow, an actor and director best known for his role as older brother Wally Cleaver on "Leave It to Beaver," had died, Dow's management team has removed the statement.

According to Judy Twersky, a longtime friend of Dow's, he was still alive as of 3:30 p.m. ET, when she spoke to Dow's wife, Lauren Dow.

Lauren Dow told Twersky he is still breathing and receiving hospice care. Dow was unclear what happened with the statement from his management team earlier today, Twersky told CNN.

Dow was thrust into stardom at age 12, when he was cast on the soon-to-be-smash sitcom "Leave It to Beaver." In the role, Dow helped create the archetype of a suburban nuclear family and became a household name to millions of viewers. The show ran from 1957 to 1963.

In a January interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Dow recalled learning over a hamburger and malt that he was offered the part after auditioning on a whim.

"There went my life," he said.

Wally Cleaver, the straight-arrow teenage son, star athlete and Boy Scout, became inextricably tied to Dow, who said he struggled to stand on his own.

"It's sad to be famous at 12 years old or something, and then you grow up and become a real person, and nothing's happened for you," he told CBS.

Dow, who said he experienced undiagnosed depression from age 20 to age 40, spoke out for decades about his mental health challenges, long before it was common for celebrities to disclose that information publicly. In 1993, he was an honorary speaker at a convention for the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association.

"I realize there's a perceived irony about this," he told the Baltimore Sun of his depression in 1993. "You know, the fact that I was in a TV program that epitomized the supposed ideal world of the '50s, and here I'm suffering from depression. But I'm just one of millions."

Dow told CBS that once he accepted his diagnosis and began treatment, he found hope. He channeled that hope into art, too, sculpting ornate pieces at his home studio.

"I think people should take the leap of faith that they can feel better," he said.

Dow continued to work in Hollywood, taking parts in TV series and even reprising his role in "The New Leave It to Beaver" in the 1980s. He also directed episodes of series like "Harry and the Hendersons," "Coach" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

Jerry Mathers, who starred opposite Dow as Beaver on their hit sitcom, told fans earlier this month that he'd been in contact with Dow, whose managers said had been "in and out of the hospital with various complications and treatments."

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Samantha Bee's late night show cancelled at TBS after seven seasons - CBC News

Toronto native Samantha Bee's late-night talk show has been cancelled by TBS.

Bee tweeted that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee won't return to the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned station this fall.

The show, which aired on CTV Comedy Channel in Canada, began its seven-season run in 2016.

Bee has been nominated for 18 Emmys, including a nod in the outstanding short form non-fiction or reality series category this year for Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents: Once Upon A Time In Late Night.

After 7 seasons, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will not be returning to TBS this fall. We’re so thankful for our loyal audience, our amazing team, and that we got to annoy the right people every week—that there wasn't wrestling or baseball or a very special episode of Big Bang.

—@FullFrontalSamB

She won outstanding writing for a variety special in 2017 for Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Spokespeople for TBS and the show's production company, Jax Media, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Actor Paul Sorvino, known for roles in Goodfellas, Law & Order, dies at 83 - CBC News

Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on Law & Order, has died. He was 83.

His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes.

"Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino," his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement. "He was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage."

In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty's Reds, Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's Nixon and mob boss Eddie Valentine in The Rocketeer. He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.

Paul Sorvino (centre) between Robert De Niro and Jon Stewart at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival’s closing night marking the 25th anniversary of Goodfellas. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival)

Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theatre. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in Bajour and his film debut in Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? in 1970.

With his imposing stature, Sorvino made an impactful presence no matter the medium. In the 1970s, he acted alongside Al Pacino in The Panic in Needle Park and with James Caan in The Gambler, reteamed with Reiner in Oh, God! and was among the ensemble in William Friedkin's bank robbery comedy The Brink's Job.

In John G. Avildsen's Rocky follow-up Slow Dancing in the Big City, Sorvino got to play a romantic lead and used his
dance training opposite professional ballerina Anne Ditchburn.

Sorvino was especially prolific in the 1990s, kicking off the decade playing Lips in Beatty's Dick Tracy and Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, who was based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, and 31 episodes on Dick Wolf's Law & Order. He followed those with roles in The Rocketeer, The Firm, Nixon, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet as Juliet's father, Fulgencio Capulet.

Beatty would turn to Sorvino often, enlisting him again for his political satire Bulworth, which came out in 1998, and his
2016 Hollywood love letter Rules Don't Apply. He also appeared in James Gray's The Immigrant.

Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. When he learned that his daughter had been among the women allegedly sexually harassed and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein in the midst of the #MeToo reckoning, he told TMZ that if he had known, Weinstein, "would not be walking. He'd be in a wheelchair."

He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1996. He told the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn't have the words to express how he felt.

"They don't exist in any language that I've ever heard -- well, maybe Italian," he said.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s first trailer introduces Namor - The Verge

More so than any of Marvel’s other big reveals at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s first trailer’s something to legitimately get hyped about.

During Marvel’s big Hall H showcase today, actress Letitia Wright said that her and the rest of the cast and crew’s goal with Wakanda Forever was to honor the legacy that Chadwick Boseman left following his passing. Wakanda Forever’s trailer doesn’t directly acknowledge what’s become of T’Challa in the MCU, but his absence and the recent discovery of a new underwater nation once again have the world — Wakanda in particular — on edge. While Wakandans like Shuri (Wright), Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), and Okoye (Danai Gurira) are seen mourning and seemingly trying to figure out how they’re going to move on, the trailer also spotlights a new group of amphibian humanoids — one of whom is born with winged feet.

In Marvel’s comics, the kingdoms of Wakanda and Atlantis have clashed on a number of occasions to calamitous effect as their respective monarchs’ egos clashed. Here, the MCU’s Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and the other Atlanteans appear to have ties to Mayan cultures, and their arrival seems to prompt some sort of confrontation with the humans of the surface world. Along with M’Baku (Winston Duke), Ayo (Florence Kasumba), and the rest of the Dora Milaje, Riri Williams (Dominque Thorne) is seen gearing up for the battle Wakanda’s about to face, and judging from the trailer’s shots of mayhem they’re going to need her help.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever also stars Florence Kasumba, Michaela Coel, and Martin Freeman. The movie hit theaters November 11th.

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She-Hulk gets a new preview with Daredevil during SDCC 2022 - Polygon

She-Hulk is heading into the courtroom in the newest trailer for Disney Plus’ upcoming series. The trailer, released at San Diego Comic-Con, shows Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, as well as a few of the show’s many guest actors like Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) and Mark Ruffalo. She-Hulk is set to premiere on Disney Plus on Aug. 17.

The series will follow Walters as she battles charges (and some villains), defending clients from across the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including a few familiar faces. We already know that Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) will star in the show as Abomination, a role he first played in 2008’s mostly canonical The Incredible Hulk film, as well as in a cameo for Shang Chi. Benedict Wong will also reprise his role as Wong for the series. And at the end, there’s a teeny-tiny snippet of another superhero with a law degree...

Along with these returning actors and Maslany, She-Hulk will also star Ginger Gonzaga (Togetherness), Griffin Matthews (The Flight Attendant), and Josh Segarra (Arrow). The series is created and showrun by Jessica Gao (Rick and Morty, Silicon Valley).

You can find all of Polygon’s coverage of SDCC 2022 news, trailers, and more here.

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Your daily horoscope: July 22 - The Globe and Mail

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

The message of your birthday chart is that it isn’t possible to follow two very different paths and so the time has come to choose between them. One of those paths is morally superior to the other, so it really isn’t much of a choice at all.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20):

As from today everything will start going right for you again. Well, maybe not everything, but the things that truly matter will go from being a source of worry to a source of joy. The best time of the year to get creative starts now.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21):

Upheavals on the home front are likely over the next few days but they probably won’t affect you directly. You will though have to help loved ones with whatever emotional problems they are struggling with. Yours must be the voice of reason.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21):

Someone you helped on a personal level not so long ago will go out of their way to repay you for your kindness today. Their efforts may not mean that much to you but you must act as if they do. It’s good politics to be gracious.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23):

The sun leaves your birth sign today but that is not an excuse to slow down. Use the momentum you have built up in recent weeks to keep moving toward your ultimate goal. If your rivals are smart they won’t stand in your way!

LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23):

As the sun moves into your birth sign today you hold all the aces, but you won’t be the only one playing a good hand. Instead of stirring things up and creating opposition try working on an equal basis with people who share your overall aims.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23):

You may not have accomplished as much as you wanted to in recent months but there is no need to beat yourself up about it. One thing you have done is to lay solid foundations, and there is still plenty of time to build on them.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23):

A recent addition to your social scene is fated to bring about a life-changing event, so be open to new people and new ideas over the next few days and don’t reject what they tell you just because it sounds too fantastic to be true.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22):

Someone who thinks they can push you around or pull rank on you is going to learn the hard way that no one, but no one, dictates to a Scorpio. The only direction you intend to move in is the direction you have chosen for yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21):

As the sun moves into the most adventurous area of your chart today you will be even more inclined than usual to go your own way and do your own thing. The only rules that matter are those you have created for yourself. Follow them and honour them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20):

You want to break free of the restrictions you have been labouring under in recent weeks but are not sure how best to go about it. Keep your eyes and ears open today and over the weekend because the universe is about to send you a clue.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19):

Do whatever it takes to avoid disputes large and small, because if you get involved in any kind of disagreement it could fester for weeks and take the gloss off all the good things that are going to happen. Strive to be at peace with the world.

PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20):

As the sun enters the work area of your chart today this would be a good time to think about the methods and routines you use on a day-to-day basis. Even if something has worked well for you in the past there is almost certainly a better way.

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