Paisley, Underwood host CMAs 8th time

Paisley, Underwood host CMAs 8th time

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Country stars Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will return to host the Country Music Association Awards on ABC this fall for an eighth straight year.

The 49th annual awards show will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on Nov. 4.

Paisley, who currently is out on his Crushin’ It World Tour, has won 14 CMA awards in his career, which makes him No. 5 on the list of top CMA winners of all time. Underwood, who put out a greatest hits album last year celebrating her first decade as an artist, has seven Grammy Awards and five CMA awards.

The final nominees in each of the 12 categories will be announced Sept. 9.

Former Owl City musician charged with trying to lure teen

MAYS LANDING, N.J.

A former backing musician for electronica act Owl City has been charged with criminal sexual contact and attempting to lure a 14-year-old girl to his hotel room while they were playing in Atlantic City in 2013.

Thirty-year-old Daniel Jorgensen, of Minneapolis, was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in New Jersey.

Authorities say he committed criminal sexual contact on the beach, then tried to lure the girl to his hotel room and the band’s tour bus to have sex.

Bail was set at $100,000. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. The second-degree attempted luring charge carries a potential penalty of five to 10 years in prison.

Jorgensen played guitar in Owl City. A spokesman said in 2013 that Jorgensen was terminated when the allegation first arose.

‘Bullets’ tour to kick off in Cleveland

NEW YORK

The musical based on Woody Allen’s crime caper “Bullets Over Broadway” is going far from Broadway.

A national tour of the Tony-nominated show kicks off Oct. 6 in Cleveland, with stops scheduled for Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Seattle; Nashville, Tennessee; Memphis, Tennessee; Dallas; Houston; St. Paul, Minnesota; West Palm Beach, Florida; and Dayton, Ohio.

The tour will star Michael Williams, Emma Stratton, Jeffrey Brook, Bradley Allan Zarr, Michael Corvino and Hannah Deflumeri.

Written by Allen and Douglas McGrath, the story follows a struggling young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his latest drama. A 1994 film version starred John Cusack. The songs include “Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do” and “Let’s Misbehave.”

Johnson: I had a big ego during ‘Vice’ days

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

Time has humbled Don Johnson.

It’s been 30 years since his TV cop hit “Miami Vice” went on the air, and the actor says he’s changed since then.

“I was a brash, terrified, young man with a big ego and a lot of ambition,” Johnson, now 65, told a panel of TV critics Wednesday.

“I would like to think that since then, I’ve let those things that don’t really serve you kind of fall to the wayside, and really for me, it’s about the joy and enthusiasm that comes with being given the opportunity that comes with being here to do this.”

Johnson was promoting his ABC drama, “Blood & Oil.” It’s set against the biggest oil find in American history in a North Dakota town, where a millionaire is said to be made every day.

“Blood & Oil” premieres Sept. 27 at 9 p.m.

Associated Press