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If Yellowstone was a country song, Kevin Costner’s exit would be the bitter, twangy melody of a broken relationship. There’s a famous lyric from the song Take This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck that rings true here: “I ain’t workin’ here no more.” Sure, the song’s about a disgruntled employee, but it’s fitting for Costner. Doesn’t it?

The actor, who breathed life into John Dutton, the grizzled patriarch of the Dutton clan, was done—walking away from a show that had made him a legacy figure once again. The fallout? Well, it seems like Taylor Sheridan took a bit of a personal swing, delivering an on-screen death for John Dutton that felt almost like a payback rather than a narrative choice.

Kevin Costner as John Dutton in Yellowstone | Credits: Paramount

Sheridan, for all his talent in creating gripping stories, seems to have...

William J. Immerman, a veteran movie producer who held senior executive positions at studios including 20th Century Fox, died June 24 at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes, his widow, Ginger Immerman told TheWrap on Friday. He was 85.

He began his career in 1965 at American International Pictures, then in 1974 moved to Twentieth Century Fox, where he served as vice president of Business Affairs and senior executive vice president. He oversaw hits including “Star Wars,” “Young Frankenstein” and “The Omen.”

At Cinema Group, where he was Chairman of the Board and President, he also executive produced the comedy “Take This Job and Shove It” for Avco Embassy and Walter Hill’s action film “Southern Comfort,” both in 1981.

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Johnny Paycheck would have turned 83 this past Monday. In 1977, he scored three consecutive Top 10 country songs, including his biggest hit, the No. 1 “Take This Job and Shove It.” But while Paycheck, who died at age 64 in 2003, is synonymous with the song about sticking it to — and flipping off — The Man, it was actually written by David Allan Coe. Coe cut his version for his 1978 Family Album and performed it frequently in his shows, including on the latter-day concert document Biketoberfest ’01: Live From the Iron Horse Saloon.

Recorded live in 2001 in Daytona Beach,...

[Editor’s note: This article is presented in partnership with Cinemax in support of Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus, which premieres on September 22nd at 10:00 pm Et/Pt on Cinemax.]

Mike Judge is behind a new TV show this month, with Cinemax’s “Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus,” an animated eight-episode series looking into the lives and times behind some iconic country music performers.

Some of these folks are household names from Nashville to Norway, but others are lesser-known figures from the country music world. They all have distinct styles and, as “Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus” shows, they all led very different lives away from the stage.

We’ll leave the prime anecdotes and animated hijinks to the experts (the series premieres Friday, September 22 at 10pm Et/Pt on Cinemax), but in the meantime, here’s a primer on the musicians that make up the backbone of this illustrated look at country music history.

Johnny Paycheck

A rebel among rebels in the country music world, Johnny Paycheck is probably best known for his...

When Mike Judge began work on Tales From the Tour Bus, a new country-music docuseries for Cinemax that premieres on September 22nd, he did so with a mission. "I like converting people who don't like country into going, 'Ok, maybe this is Ok,'" he says. So the Silicon Valley, King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head mastermind began collecting the wildest, most hilarious stories about Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Jerry Lee Lewis and other hellraisers he could from their friends and family and animating them.

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We can’t sign off for the long weekend without saluting the men and women who put the labor into Labor Day. There’s been no shortage of songs written about the drudgery of working 9-to-5, and below, here’s a list of the 15 finest songs (oops, that just reminded us that we didn’t include R.E.M.’s “Finest Worksong”) devoted to describing how we spend most of our lives. So clock out, grab a beer, salute your fellow worker, and enjoy. And, if it’s not too much work, add your favorite song about work in the comments. 1. “9 to 5,” Dolly Parton (1980) A deceptively upbeat melody and Parton’s sweet delivery run counter to the dark sentiment of such lyrics as “Barely getting by/It’s all takin’ and no givin’/they just use your mind/and they never give you credit.” 2. “She Works Hard For The Money,...

On this Hart of Dixie installment, viewers witnesses two different sides of the Breelands. From Lemon proving why she's the most in-depth character on the show to finding out why Brick has been so bitter towards Zoe, the hour provided some major insight into these two characters.

Yes, "Take This Job and Shove It" was the best of Hart of Dixie Season 3 and I can only hope it's a sign of fun things to come.

After watching the episode I found myself actually happy, a feeling the series hasn't given me for some time. Sometimes this show pulls you in and breaks your heart - and, like getting over a recent break up, you take awhile to get over the things that have happened.

Overall, I was so happy with the character progression and lightness, as noted in the following individual highlights:

Brick Breeland

Brick was his Hart of Dixie Season 1 self,...

Joel is literally the worst. 

In addition to delaying the inevitable reunion between Zoe and Wade (it's clearly going to happen, because how can it not?), that's not the only reason why he's the worst on "Hart of Dixie" -- though it certainly is enough. He's also making Zoe's life in Bluebell as hard as it can possibly be, which was evident in Monday (Oct. 21) night's all-new episode, "Take This Job and Shove It." So what exactly did Joel ruin for Zoe?

The New York transplant (who just can't seem to get life in Bluebell down pat) almost ruined any chance for Zoe to get her old job back at the practice with Brick. Since she signed over her half of the practice to Brick when she had decided to stay in New York, when she returned to Bluebell she didn't have a job anymore ... and Brick was not eager...

Business is booming for "Hart of Dixie's" Rammer Jammer, as it just booked its first musical guest for Season 3.

Indie band The Head and the Heart will guest star in the third episode of the new season, THR reports. 

The episode, "Take This Job and Shove It," will feature performances of two songs off the band's upcoming album, "Shake" and "My Friends," at the Rammer Jammer, owned by Lemon and Wade. The six-person band consists of members Josiah Johnson, Jonathan Russell, Charity Rose Thielen, Chris Zasche, Kenny Hensley, and Tyler Williams.

The Head and the Heart's "Lost in My Mind" and "Winter Song" have previously been featured on the CW series.

"Hart of Dixie" Season 3 premieres Monday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. Et on The CW.

The CW's Hart of Dixie has landed its first musical guest for season three. Indie folk-pop band The Head and the Heart — who broke through with its 2011 self-titled debut album — will drop by Bluebell in the new season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The group will appear in the third episode, "Take This Job and Shove It," where they will perform two songs off its upcoming follow-up album, "Shake" and "My Friends," at the Rammer Jammer. (Check out The Head and the Heart's "Shake" below.) Story: 'Hart of Dixie' Recruits

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Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch play two clashing highway road workers in Prince Avalanche, a goofy but rich comedy that adapts an obscure Icelandic film titled Either Way from 2011. Shot with a small crew and featuring a diabolical mustache from Paul Rudd, the film is written and directed by David Gordon Green.

Like a select few before him, Green is an intriguing creative force in Hollywood for his disinterest to stand still, and in the same place. He originally gained recognition by making indie film darlings like George Washington and All the Real Girls, but later challenged any type of genre categorization by following up the dark film Snow Angels with Pineapple Express. From there he went on to direct two raunchy comedies back to back, Your Highness and The Sitter, released in the same year. His latest, Prince Avalanche, continues his interest in comedy, but doesn’t feature the...

On Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy, Jackson faces so many obstacles as Seattle Grace’s new Big Kahuna that it’s a wonder he doesn’t sing a chorus of “Take This Job and Shove It.” But, bless his heart, he hangs in there, and before the hour’s over, he not only begins to get the hang of things, he even wins over his resentful fellow doctors/board of directors. How does he do it? Read on and find out!

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George Lindsey, the Alabama native who played Goober on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry Rfd and Hee Haw, died early this morning in Nashville after a brief illness. He was 83. Goober was the cousin of the character Gomer Pyle played by Jim Nabors. Griffith issued a statement: “George Lindsey was my friend … Our last conversation was a few days ago … I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our eighties, we were not afraid to say `I love you.’ That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. `I love you’.” Best known as Goober, Lindsey had a long TV career that included roles in Gunsmoke, Mash, The Wonderful World of Disney, CHIPs, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Real McCoys, The Rifleman, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Twilight Zone. Movie roles included Cannonball Run II, Take This Job and Shove It...

Last June, when Yoda, a 15-year-old, 1.8-pound Chinese Crested/Chihuahua mix, won the 23rd Annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest, dog owners everywhere thought to themselves, “When 15-years-old my pooch reaches, look as bad she will not.” The time for such Star Wars-related puns is sadly over because Yoda’s hometown newspaper reports that the mutt died in her sleep Saturday.

When Hanford, Calif., resident Terry Schumacher first saw her pet, abandoned behind an apartment building, she thought the scruffy little dog was a rat. Yoda’s blotchy coat, bald patches, crooked teeth, and raggedy ears, made her look...

Tonight I find myself tending to agree with all sorts of Fox-y people with whom I otherwise have very little in common about National Public Radio's sudden firing of Juan Williams. I am not a dedicated Juanhead nor any friend of Bill O'Reilly, but in this instance it seems like NPR played politically correct bully at least as much as Williams played politically incorrect bully. It now sounds like Williams will profit handsomely from NPR's rush to judgment, but that doesn't make it right -- even for a PC liberal like me. Take This Job And Shove It - Johnny Paycheck High & Dry - Radiohead Fired - Ben Folds Out Of Work - Gary U.S. Bonds Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions On The Radio - Donna Summer Trouble - Lindsay Buckingham That's A Lie - TV on the Radio Radioactive - Kings of Leon My Big...

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater's mother Diane, whose battle against lung cancer has reportedly been stressful for her son in recent months, has leaped to his defense - saying she might have behaved even more outrageously in his position. "Nobody should be abusing anybody, and I understand why he snapped," Diane, 75, herself a former flight attendant, tells the New York Post. "I would have snapped, too. In fact, I probably would have snapped more." Slater's ex-wife, Cynthia Neithamer, said she was shocked by the dramatic, potentially criminal way in which Slater, 38, walked off the job Monday after an altercation...

Steven Slater developed an instant cult following when he abruptly quit his job as a JetBlue flight attendant Monday, cursed over the loudspeaker, grabbed some beers, then bolted via the emergency chute. But the flamboyant flight attendant's crash landing seemed to cap off what appears to be a gleeful 20-year career in the friendly skies. According to photos posted on his Facebook and MySpace sites, Slater began his career at SkyWest Airlines. "I was 19!!! And Thin!!!" wrote Slater, whose father was also reportedly in the airline industry. Photos: Take This Job and Shove It! 8 Memorable QuittersGigs at Twa and Delta...

Straight up now: I've known and liked Paula Abdul since way back last century when she was making MTV videos with animated co-stars like Mc Skat Kat and Keanu Reeves. So let me simply say this about that lady: Paula is always interesting, and her presence as a constant if wonderfully unstable element has helped make American Idol the remarkable phenomenon that it's become. I heard the news today, oh boy. So here's my loving playlist for a woman who is very beautiful, consistently intriguing and occasionally crazy -- even if she can get a little pitchy sometimes. "Bad Day" - Daniel Powter "Take This Job And Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck "Coldhearted" - Paula Abdul "American Woman" - Guess Who "I Can't Quit You Babe" - Led Zeppelin "Get Back"- The Beatles "Out Of Work" - Gary U.S. Bonds "Good Morning Judge" - 10Cc "Fired" - Ben...