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This cover image released by Warner Records shows "I Just
Wanna Live," by Keedron Bryant.
Associated Press
AP's song of the year:
Keedron Bryant's
'I Just Wanna Live'
By MESFIN FEKADU the window, to the walls,
AP Music Writer 'till the sweat drops down
NEW YORK (AP) — The my... Chloe x Halle took
top 10 songs of the year us to the clubs — aka the
by Associated Press Music living room — during a
Editor Mesfin Fekadu (a pandemic year when we
playlist of the songs can desperately needed an
be found here ): epic dance tune to help
1. Keedron Bryant, "I us get through the day.
Just Wanna Live": Dur- 3. Mickey Guyton, "Black
ing times of turmoil and Like Me": Digging deep
unrest, people respond to write personal lyrics
differently. Some pro- about her upbringing —
test. Some cry. And some and being that rare Black
sing. Following the grue- singer on the country
some death of George music scene — Mickey
Floyd, Johnnetta Bryant Guyton birthed a beau-
turned to God and asked tiful, touching song that
for a pray — and the lyr- is bound to become a
ics to "I Just Wanna Live" country music classic.4.
were born. She asked Kelly Rowland, "Coffee":
her son, then 12-year-old A smooth, sexy number
Keedron Bryant, to sing from a R&B goddess.
the song and the rest 5. Charlie Wilson featuring
is for the history books. Smokey Robinson, "All of
Keedron Bryant's power- My Love": Uncle Charlie
ful performance about plus Uncle Smokey equals
being a young Black man musical bliss. The soul
in today's world went vi- icons joined forces for
ral, with everyone from one of the year's best col- stares out into nothingness. outing as a director and
Barack Obama to LeB- laborations that will surely
ron James praising the put a smile on your face.
future superstar and his 6. Roddy Ricch, "The Box":
family for their strength Insert fire emoji here.
and positive message. 10. BLACKPINK featur-
The song not only helped ing Selena Gomez, "Ice
Keedron Bryant land a re- Cream": K-pop all-stars
cord deal, it helped heal BLACKPINK came out
the world at a time when swinging with this trap-
music is a language that pop bop that was as
unites us all. sweet and irresistible as
2. Chloe x Halle, "Do It": To ice cream.q
This image released by Netflix shows Caoilinn Springall, right, and George Clooney in a scene
from "The Midnight Sky."
Associated Press
George Clooney makes a moving
'The Midnight Sky'
By MARK KENNEDY Until now, he's been drink- Alexandre Desplat is rich
AP Entertainment Writer ing whiskey, playing chess and evocative and the
Netflix is on a roll this year, against himself and under- addition of Neil Diamond's
with "Mank,""Ma Rainey's going transfusions. "I'm the "Sweet Caroline" and Chris
Black Bottom,""Da 5 Bloods" wrong person," he tells her. Stapleton's "Tennessee
and "The Trial of the Chi- To contact the astronauts, Whiskey" feel natural and
cago 7" all garnering Oscar the scientist and the girl integral. There's even a nod
buzz. Well, hold onto your must travel across icy to "On the Beach," Stanley
spacesuits for the latest — wastes to reach another Kramer's post-apocalyptic
"The Midnight Sky." station with a more power- sci-fi drama.With five calm
George Clooney directs ful signal, in a sort of nod to and capable astronauts in
and stars in this feature film "The Road." The film alter- the sky and two characters
adaptation of Lily Brooks- nates between the pair on in the Arctic, "The Midnight
Dalton's novel "Good Morn- Earth and the five-person Sky" touches on themes of
ing, Midnight" and what he crew in the heavens, the regret, parenting, fragility,
has done on both sides of story switching from the familial responsibility and
the camera is astounding. white of Arctic snow to the the conflict between love
He has managed to craft blackness of space. and career. It's also a film
two intimate, connected Clooney's filmmaking is about an environmental
stories set against the vast- unrushed, poetic and el- disaster whose final edit-
ness of the cosmos and egant, admiring beauty in ing had to be done during
the white sprawl of the its extremes — the ballet of a global pandemic. Felic-
Arctic. He has turned in a manmade machines spin- ity Jones and David Oy-
tragic but yet hopeful tale ning slowly in space and elowo play husband-and-
grounded in, of all things, the austerity of a blizzard wife astronauts with a cool
Earth's destruction. in empty wilderness. Mark and sexy playfulness, while
"The Midnight Sky" opens L. Smith's script is equally Demián Bichir is deeply
with a grizzled Clooney spare, letting every word moving in his scenes as a
eating a microwaved meal count. wistful and grieving mission
in an empty cafeteria. He This is Clooney's seventh specialist. q
It is 2049 and three weeks there are artistic touches Solution Sudoku
after an unclear disaster everywhere, like a tiny 12/10 Difficulty Level
has befallen Earth. bright spacecraft against 6 2 4 3 5 9 8 7 1
Clooney plays a cancer- the darkness dissolving into 8 7 5 2 4 1 3 9 6
ridden astrophysicist who is a dark tent on an endlessly 3 1 9 6 8 7 4 5 2
waiting out his days alone snowy plain. One scene in
in an Arctic lab, trying to which blood droplets float 2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. 5 9 2 8 1 6 7 4 3
warn a returning spaceship in zero gravity is horrific 1 6 3 7 9 4 5 2 8
about what has happened and beautiful at the same 4 8 7 5 3 2 1 6 9
back home. Then he dis- time. His camera lingers 9 3 8 4 6 5 2 1 7
covers he's not alone — a on the space station like a 2 5 1 9 7 8 6 3 4
girl is also in the outpost proud dad showing off his 7 4 6 1 2 3 9 8 5
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