Well, this sounds special (special): London-based performance artist/writer Bryony Kimmings says she has written the first draft of a screenplay based on Wham!’s holiday chestnut “Last Christmas,” which was released in 1984 but will loop perennially until the earth overheats and melts the very last Bluetooth speaker…
Tiffany Haddish became a superstar in 2017 thanks to both Girls Trip and the perfect promotional tour surrounding it (including this phenomenal story about Groupon and an A+ SNL appearance), and it appears her celebrity will only expand in 2018. At the very least, she’s on track to make a hell of a lot of money.
George Michael: Freedom calls on so many talking-head rock-doc tropes, it’s as though it’s following an instruction manual. Earnest interview footage of its subject that seeks to deepen and humanize the common public perception of him? Check. Fawning interviews from his famous friends, collaborators, and admirers?…
In 1990, George Michael risked throwing his immense fame away for the sake of his artistry. He was tired of being a commodity, and instead of merely complaining, he actually did something about it. Coming off the phenomenal global success of his solo debut Faith, he recorded a mostly downcast, singer-songwriter album …
When George Michael died late last year, a big talking point in the ensuing internet tributes was the pop icon’s sex positivity. Many people pointed to his refusal to apologize to the public after being outed as gay when he was arrested for masturbating in a Beverly Hills public bathroom in front of an undercover cop…
Some two and a half months after George Michael’s death, its cause has been determined. According to Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, the pop icon died of a dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, reports the BBC. Given the “natural cause of death,” the coroner determined there’s no need…
The George Michael tribute at this year’s Grammys was handled by none other than Adele, who performed a radically stripped- and slowed-down version of Michael’s 1996 ode to cruising, “Fastlove” (a fitting tribute in every way, given Michael’s unabashed love of gay sex). Well, actually, Adele performed it, then…
The Grammys are airing this weekend and, unsurprisingly, they will air a tribute to both Prince and George Michael, two of the biggest names among the slew of musicians who died in 2016. Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow, aka the scold who interrupts the Grammys to deliver the same boring lecture on piracy every…
Pop icon George Michael died more than six weeks ago, but there’s still no date in sight for his funeral, because toxicology reports to determine his exact cause of death have not been completed, according to The Sun. In fact, it may take several weeks before they are.
Dreamgirls’ Jennifer Holliday previously stated that she withdrew from the Trump inauguration performance lineup to demonstrate solidarity with the LGBT community. Now sources say that, in fact, she and her family received death threats after she agreed to perform.
In a Billboard cover story tribute/retrospective of George Michael’s career, the singer’s former manager Rob Kahane reveals that Michael’s death on Christmas day came as a surprise after the recent contact he’d had with the pop star:
After her anxiety dream New Year’s Eve performance, Mariah Carey said, “Shit happens.” Now she supposedly thinks, “Shit happens when everyone’s out to get you.”
Hey, were you wondering what Lindsay Lohan has been up to since breaking up with her billionaire fiancé and cultivating an inscrutably European accent? Rest easy, friends, for now we know: she’s been working on a treatment for a sequel to Mean Girls, the movie that made her a Famous.
After George Michael’s death at 53 on Christmas Day, stories began pouring in about the ways the pop icon privately supported fans and charities. Like Prince, Michael was largely uninterested in recognition but focused on doing good in the world, wielding his immense financial privilege in small ways that would change…
In 2011, James Corden was not yet dominating late night with musical comedy bits, but he was well-known and loved in the UK as, amongst other things, a character named Smithy of British comedy Gavin and Stacey. As Smithy, Corden was already workshopping his future viral content with cultural icons.
George Michael, who began his career in the ’80s singing in Wham! and went on to have a successful solo career in pop music, died peacefully at his home in Oxfordshire at the age of 53 on Sunday. Michael sold more than 100 million albums over a career spanning four decades.
Christina Aguilera covers Billboard Magazine this month to promote her newest album, Lotus, featuring the single "Your Body." In the interview, she recalls the pressure that music studios put on her image in the early-aughts, something she's not standing for in these P.B. (Post-Burlesque) days:
My Size Barbie and Ken Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds put on the My Wedding Dream Clothes™ that came in the box with them and stealthily got married on a plantation in South Carolina yesterday. Their friend Bell Sleeves Florence Welch was there to sing in honor of their love, and so—more importantly!—was Hollywood's…
Pippa Middleton's been hanging out in New York with Andre Balazs and Roger Federer but, ultimately, the highlight of Pippa's stay here came when she and Chace Crawford "didn't party together, but spoke for 10 minutes." About what? About conditioners?
Kate Moss co-stars with a flock of white doves in this, George Michael's latest music video. The supermodel drives in a car and looks bored, stands on a dance floor and looks bored, and tosses her hair around in black-and-white slo-mo and looks smolderingly bored. Moss says because of her age she "just missed" out on…
