Rosalía Rules the Latin Grammys and Dolly Parton's Last Song

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Coming up on Spotlight: Rosalía takes the top prize at the Latin Grammys, Dolly Parton's last recording closes out a new U2 album, and the Star Wars you saw in 1977 is finally coming back to theaters.

Rosalía owned Las Vegas last night. At the twenty-seventh Latin Grammys, the Spanish singer won Album of the Year for Lux, her third time taking that award, and Song of the Year for La Perla. Lux is the big orchestral one, built on her classical training and inspired by the lives of female saints. She opened the show with a medley from it, on a stage dressed as clouds, with dancers wearing halos. When La Perla won, she thanked Mexico and brought her collaborators on the song, the trio Yahritza y Su Esencia, up to share it.

Record of the Year went to the Argentine rapper Milo J. Daddy Yankee, honored as Person of the Year, tore through nine of his hits, Gasolina included, and took his trophy from Janet Jackson. His closing line, in translation: "Puerto Rico is not small. The map is small."

And the strangest speech of the night belonged to Bobby Pulido, who won best Tejano album a few days after winning a seat in Congress from Texas. He used his thank-yous to retire from music.

Rosalía isn't slowing down, either. She's joined the cast of Wet, the next film from Honey Boy director Alma Har'el, alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem and Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie. It shoots in January.

U2 released an album overnight, Carnaval de Luz, their first collection of new songs in nine years. The song everyone will go to first is the last one. It's called Torn, a duet between Bono and Dolly Parton, and it holds the final vocal she ever recorded.

Parton sang it in June. She died in August, at eighty. Bono told Rolling Stone that she got out of her sickbed to do it, and that he can't listen to it now. "She sang her heart out," he said, "and I cannot believe that's an eighty-year-old woman." Billboard reports she approved the final mix herself.

The song is about a family split down the middle, and one line is pure Dolly: "Nothing hurts a mother more than a family at war." It's streaming now, and a tour is planned for next year.

Star Wars turns fifty next year, and Lucasfilm is marking it with the thing fans have requested for about three decades. The original 1977 version of the film has been restored and returns to theaters February nineteenth. Since 1997, the Star Wars in circulation has been George Lucas's revised edition, with its added creatures and its much-argued cantina shootout. This is the earlier one.

It will play in IMAX seventy millimeter, regular seventy millimeter, thirty-five millimeter and digital, so there's a format for every level of devotion. On May fourth, Disney Plus adds The Hero Awakens, a making-of documentary from R.J. Cutler assembled entirely from footage and audio recorded during the 1977 production.

Opening today: Ebenezer, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge in a Christmas Carol from horror director Ti West. The reviews are in, and they split about down the middle. The Guardian found Depp "rather good," theatrically bad-tempered. The Boston Globe called him "easily the worst Scrooge I've ever seen."

The most useful review may be Vulture's, which says Depp is the worst part of a movie that is, inconveniently, pretty good. Critics keep praising the supporting cast and the ghosts, especially Andrea Riseborough's Christmas Past, a sort of corpse bride all in white. The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck calls it possibly the first version of the story that isn't suitable for young children. So, a Christmas Carol for people who like to be a little scared, and who can live with a very large lead performance.

Mike Myers says a fourth Austin Powers is underway. Asked at a premiere in New York this week, he told The Hollywood Reporter, "I'm writing it right now. I'm having a great time." He wouldn't go further: "He's a secret agent, so I can't really say too much." The last one, Goldmember, came out in 2002. There's no studio announcement and no date, but the screenplay has an author and the author sounds happy.

And finally, your weekend radio pick has a crown. King Charles is the guest on Elton John's Rocket Hour tomorrow on Apple Music 1, the day he turns seventy-eight. The two of them play records and trade stories to mark fifty years of the King's Trust, the charity Charles founded for young people. One of its early grants went to a band that needed sound equipment. The band was Muse. The hour repeats free through Sunday.

That's Spotlight for Friday. Put on Torn, and maybe keep a tissue nearby. See you tomorrow.