Coachella's 2027 Lineup, and Farewell to Stacy Keach

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Coming up on Spotlight: Coachella names its 2027 headliners and sends Madonna back to the dance tent, we remember Stacy Keach, and ABC has a game show about hiding Shaquille O'Neal.

The Coachella lineup landed late last night. Dua Lipa headlines Friday, Tame Impala Saturday and SZA Sunday, with Daddy Yankee billed as a fourth headliner staging a special production of his own. The festival runs two weekends in Indio, California: April ninth through eleventh, and the sixteenth through eighteenth.

The fun is further down the poster. Madonna is playing the dance tent, the same place she played in 2006, when Confessions on a Dance Floor was new. Phoebe Bridgers and Weezer sit near the top. Pinegrove, on hiatus since 2023, are back. Giorgio Moroder, the producer behind Donna Summer's I Feel Love, is on the bill alongside punk lifers the Damned and Social Distortion. Stereogum's rundown put an exclamation point after exactly one name: Fetty Wap. And the French duo Justice get their own installation in the bunker space that held a Radiohead exhibit last time.

Passes go on sale Friday at noon Pacific. If the desert isn't in your budget, YouTube is streaming both weekends again.

Stacy Keach died Tuesday at his family's home in Poland. He was 85. His wife, Malgosia, said he'd fought heart failure for a long time.

Most people knew him as Mike Hammer, the fedora-wearing private eye he played on CBS in the eighties. In his memoir, Keach wrote that his mother told him to stop reading Mickey Spillane's Hammer paperbacks as a kid because they were trash, and that it only took him thirty years to get into that world himself.

But the range was the thing. The New York Times critic Clive Barnes once called him the finest American classical actor since John Barrymore. He was also Sergeant Stedenko, the narc in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, and the voice of American Greed. His last film role was George Clooney's father in Jay Kelly.

The one to watch is Fat City, John Huston's 1972 film, with Keach as a washed-up boxer in Stockton, California, opposite a very young Jeff Bridges. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Keach was knocked out cold shooting one scene. Huston kept it in the movie.

Warner Bros. is developing a new You've Got Mail. Deadline broke the news, and the Hollywood Reporter adds that it won't retell the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan plot. It's a new story, still under wraps. Jason Orley, who made I Want You Back, is directing and rewriting a script by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, the team behind Josie and the Pussycats.

Before anyone objects to remaking Nora Ephron: her movie was already a remake. It updated The Shop Around the Corner, the 1940 Jimmy Stewart film, which came from a 1937 Hungarian play. Every generation gets the anonymous pen pals its technology deserves. The harder puzzle is the villain. In 1998, Hanks ran a giant bookstore chain that was crushing Ryan's little shop. These days the giant bookstore chain is the underdog.

Garth Brooks is buying a radio station, sort of. His company has a deal for 100.1 FM in Nashville, currently home to Lightning 100, a beloved independent rock station. Variety reports that Lightning 100 isn't going away. It's moving up the dial to 106.3 with the money from the sale.

The backstory is very Garth. He says he saw a "Save Our Station" post from Lightning 100 last year and got in touch, not realizing the post was about five years old. What he wants to build is a country station that plays legends next to newcomers, puts live local people on the air, and gives women far more airtime than country radio usually does, going back to the artists of the sixties. As he put it, "We need both sides telling the story of country music." The sale still needs FCC approval.

Now, the Shaq show. It's called Can You Hide Shaq, and that is the entire premise. Eight contestants try to hide a seven-foot-one basketball legend in plain sight around Dallas, using disguises and distractions. The fewer times he gets spotted, the better, and the prize money goes into, yes, the Shaq-pot. Nicole Byer hosts. Shaq says he has wondered for years whether somebody could actually make him disappear. It premieres Thursday, December third on ABC, and streams on Hulu the next day.

And one for anyone who has ever alphabetized a game shelf. IGN spotted a job listing at Nintendo of America for a digital archivist, someone to organize the engineering records, source materials and institutional knowledge behind the company's old systems. Game preservationists have asked for this kind of attention for years. It's a twelve-month contract in Redmond, Washington, paying thirty-five to fifty-five dollars an hour.

That's Spotlight for Wednesday. Coachella passes go on sale Friday, and Fat City is waiting whenever you have a free evening. See you tomorrow.