Quick Hits

• Dolly Parton's passing on Tuesday has become a global singalong. Rolling Stone reports her streams are up more than 2,000% (with "Jolene" and "9 to 5" leading), the Buckingham Palace band covered "9 to 5," and the American Federation of Musicians revealed she was a member in good standing of Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. Fifty-eight!
• J. Cole canceled his Sacramento show after a member of his touring crew — an equipment driver, per TMZ — was killed in a trucking accident Thursday morning. Absolutely devastating.
• Three years after Coyote vs. Acme was canceled in 2023, the film has finally premiered — and the protester who spent 2025 marching in a Wile E. Coyote costume unmasked himself in celebration. His name is Marco Vaccaro, an LA performer, and the internet is giving him his flowers.
• Emmy voting is officially closed, and Variety's anonymous ballots are as feral as promised — one voter literally asked, "Who has time to watch all this crap?"
• KATSEYE dropped out of Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival — set for Saturday in SoCal — after a member sprained an ankle. One ankle. Whole group benched.

What's Trending

The Coyote vs. Acme saga gets its ending. This story is genuinely unhinged in the best way: a film shelved in 2023, one man so committed he dressed as Wile E. Coyote to protest in 2025, and now — with the movie actually premiering — he's revealed himself as Marco Vaccaro. Per Reddit's r/popculturechat, the unmasking was a celebration. Persistence, baby.

Brides are sharing the moment they knew it was over, and BuzzFeed compiled the wreckage. The headline entry: a bride who caught her husband-to-being-intimate with her maid of honor on the wedding day — after her friends had been trying to warn her. I have no words either.

Gen Z is telling older generations to knock it off. BuzzFeed's roundup of what younger people want boomers to stop doing is making the rounds, including this scorcher: "STOP telling me to 'enjoy my youth while it lasts'... When you were my age, you didn't have to work two part-time jobs, attend college at the same time, and live paycheck to paycheck."

Golf's meme economy runs on "Good Good." Reddit's r/OutOfTheLoop is trying to explain why Dick's Sporting Goods is pulling Good Good product from shelves while the brand takes over everyone's feed. The people demand answers.

And BuzzFeed is threatening your Disney+ subscription with a DCOM title-unscrambling quiz. "MCPA KROC" took me nine seconds and I'm not proud. (It's Camp Rock. You're welcome.)

Music

The Dolly tributes keep coming. Rolling Stone says her most-played songs since Tuesday are "Jolene" and "9 to 5" — and speaking of "9 to 5," the Buckingham Palace band performed it with a tribute honoring the "millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library." The AFM's Local 257 revelation that she'd been a dues-paid member for 58 years might be the most Dolly detail of all.

J. Cole's team confirmed the Sacramento cancellation after Thursday morning's accident, with Rolling Stone and TMZ both reporting the tragic news. The show was cut the same day. Just awful.

Bruno Mars is not done being romantic. Billboard reports 27 — twenty-seven! — new stadium shows across Asia, Australia, and New Zealand in 2027 on the "Romantic Tour," plus a fifth Mexico City date because apparently three years from now still isn't enough Bruno.

Sting is headed to Venice to narrate "Nino – A Film About Nino Rota," the documentary about The Godfather composer, directed by Walter Fasano — per Variety, it world-premieres at the festival.

Manga victory lap: Yasuhisa Hara's Kingdom Vol. 80 hit No. 1 on Billboard Japan's Book Hot 100, sweeping both print and e-books in the series' 20th anniversary year.

Movies & TV

The Emmy ballots are in, and the voters were feeling chaotic. With voting closed, Variety rounded up 10 anonymous ballots from the Television Academy's 27,000+ members — and the prevailing mood appears to be "too much television, not enough hours." Honest!

Godzilla is back. Toho and GKIDS unveiled a behind-the-scenes clip for "Godzilla Minus Zero," the follow-up to Yamazaki Takashi's Oscar-winning "Godzilla Minus One."

Screen-to-stage alert: A "Nanny McPhee" musical written by Emma Thompson — who starred in and wrote the 2005 film — opens in London's West End next summer, per Variety.

Back to Hogwarts, but make it charitable: Ahead of the annual Sept. 1 celebration, the "Harry Potter" initiative is donating over 200,000 books to schools and hospitals.

Festival season check-in: Sabu's "Arrested Memory" heads to Venice and Toronto with a freshly debuted trailer after a nearly two-decade journey to screen; Ireland selected Damian McCann's Irish-language heist thriller "Aontas" for the international feature Oscar race; and Venice is also hosting "London," the Cronenberg-coded queer BDSM drama from Brazil's Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli. Venice said "go feral," apparently.

Celebrity Tea

Stockard Channing is back on a red carpet just weeks after telling the world she's "happy being a recluse" in London following the death of her longtime partner, per BuzzFeed. A recluse who serves. We love a complex queen.

And over at TMZ, it's business as usual: they've posted a lacy-lingerie "guess the celebrity" photo promising the "BIG reveal will satisfy all your needs." Some things in this economy remain reliable.