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Pharrell is still full of tears of joy — even after that viral interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The producer-rapper-singer was teary-eyed after he performed a medley of his hits at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and earned the innovator award for his contributions to music.
“I never dreamt in a million, million, million years as a producer that I would be standing here as an artist,” the 41-year-old told the crowd Thursday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. “All I did was write the songs and you guys did all the heavy lifting, all the hard work.”
Pharrell performed his songs “Happy” and “Come Get It Bae,” as well as two of last year’s biggest hits that he was a part of — Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.”
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Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, who made comic gold out of showbiz shenanigans in "The Producers," will team up again, in an updated version of Terrence McNally's comedy "It's Only a Play," with Jack O'Brien directing.
Broderick will portray a nervous playwright suffering through the opening-night party for his play “The Golden Egg,” while Lane will play his envious, backbiting friend, a role assumed by James Coco when the play was presented at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1986.
A spokesman for the production said Thursday that it would open in September at a theater still to be announced. Tom Kirdahy, McNally’s husband, is the lead producer. (The pair’s “Mothers and Sons” was nominated for a Tony award for best play this week.)
“I’ve wanted to do the play for a while, but so much has changed,” McNally said. “So I did a rewrite.” He said a reading with the actors in his living room “went off like a speeding bullet.”
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Fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez will receive a National Design Award this year from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, along with 10 other top names in design.
Rodriguez designed the memorable black and red dress worn by first lady Michelle Obama in Chicago on election night in 2008. The dress recently went on display for the first time at the National Archives to represent her signature style in history. Earlier, Rodriguez designed Carolyn Bessette’s wedding dress for her 1996 marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr.
The New York City-based Cooper-Hewitt museum announced this year’s recipients of the design awards last week. The museum said Rodriguez “redefined American style for the past two decades, playing a singular role in global fashion through his structured and elegantly minimal designs.” He has also been named one of the nation’s most influential Hispanics by Time magazine.
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