Pitt laughs over New Orleans mayor T-shirt push
The idea of Brad Pitt running for New Orleans mayor has generated a lot of buzz around the city even though he isn't eligible. It also generated some laughs for the actor in a Thursday television interview. Many residents have been sporting "Brad Pitt for Mayor" T-shirts since mid-June, when a Tulane University professor and two brothers who own a New Orleans T-shirt shop joined forces to launch a quasi-campaign to persuade Pitt to run. The actor founded the Make It Right organization in 2007 to build houses for low-income residents who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina. "He's a family man, and you won't have to worry about him being corrupt," said Drew Cambre, 26, who works at a New Orleans pastry shop and has a "Brad Pitt for Mayor" sticker on his laptop computer. "Plus, he'll help the movie industry here in New Orleans and keep a light on the city." Pitt said on NBC's "Today" that he's noticed the shirts but laughed off the idea of running: "I don't have a chance."
Dan Tyminski Band leads bluegrass nominees
Dan Tyminski sure made the most of his time off from Alison Krauss' group Union Station. Tyminski, a guitarist and singer, and his band are the top nominees for this year International Bluegrass Music Awards with nine, including entertainer of the year. The nominations were announced Thursday in Nashville. The duo Dailey & Vincent have seven and comedian-actor Steve Martin got six. A longtime banjo picker, Martin burst onto the bluegrass scene with his first music album this year. With Krauss busy working with Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, Tyminski and two other Union Station members - Adam Steffey and Barry Bales - released an album last year and toured as the Dan Tyminski Band. "Wheels" is nominated for album of the year and the title track for song of the year. The group's other nominations are for instrumental group and male vocalist. Band members Ron Stewart, Bales and Steffey are also nominated for individual instrumental skills, with Stewart nominated both in the banjo and fiddle categories.
Kourtney Kardashian expecting a child in December
Kourtney Kardashian has a baby on the way. The 30-year-old reality TV star said in an appearance Thursday on NBC's "Today" show that she's due in December. Kardashian says the father is her on-again boyfriend Scott Disick, who appeared on the E! series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Kardashian says she and Disick are "really happy" being together again. They broke up last year on the show. Kardashian appears with her family on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." She and her sister Khloe co-star in the E! spinoff show, "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami."
