The notion that media pits women entertainers against each other more explicitly and extremely than it does men is tried and true enough to be a cliche. The supposed bad blood between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj immediately comes to mind, as does Ryan Murphy’s 2017 limited series Feud, which examined how powerful men…
Though Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Whitney was commissioned and technically authorized by Whitney Houston’s estate (whose executor is the late singer’s sister-in-law, Pat Houston), the film is nonetheless the subject of a thorough and at times scathing statement released by Whitney’s mother, Cissy Houston.
“You want our blood, but you don’t want our pain,” is how Whitney Houston assessed the public’s interest in superstars in a 1991 interview with Ebony. This was years before her problems with drugs were common knowledge, and decades before her 2012 death from drowning (in which cocaine, per the Los Angeles County…
The estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, premiered on Wednesday at Cannes, and with it came a set of devastating revelations about the late singer’s life.
The teaser for the estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, seemed like it wouldn’t be stacked with new revelations about the beloved singer. But the latest trailer offers a few more moments of reflection, sorrow, and shade.
“You don’t know her story until you hear the truth,” read title cards in the just-released trailer for the estate-approved Whitney Houston doc, Whitney, due out July 6. The warm and fuzzy preview touts “unprecedented access to her family and friends,” perhaps to contrast with last year’s Nick Broomfield/Rudi Dolezal…
People (by which I mean humans, not the magazine) pounced on Lorde late Thursday after she posted a photo of a [positively gorgeous] bathtub with the caption, “And iiiii will always love you.” While the singer, currently in the middle of her Melodrama tour, made it fairly clear that the photo was about good old R&R…
Whitney Houston’s estate has reportedly agreed to a settlement with the IRS that reduces the amount of back taxes the estate was originally ordered to pay.
The Waiting to Exhale soundtrack was released 22 years ago today—so congrats on your year of legal drinking age, Exhale! I know 22 years isn’t a nice, rounded milestone in our arbitrary understanding of important anniversaries, but I did want to take the excuse to briefly reflect on a benchmark ’90s R&B album that I…
The soundtrack to the 1992 movie The Bodyguard was about as ubiquitous as oxygen itself in the early ’90s. The soundtrack stayed on the Billboard 200 albums chart for over two and a half years (141 weeks) and spawned five Whitney Houston singles, three of them Top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including what would…
TV One could be temporarily blocked from airing its Bobbi Kristina Brown biopic in October as scheduled, following a lawsuit from her estate and her father Bobby Brown.
Bobby Brown, and now the estate of Bobbi Kristina Brown, have filed a $2 million lawsuit against TV One to prevent the network from airing a Bobbi Kristina biopic that’s set to air on October 8.
The trailer for TV One’s Bobbi Kristina Brown biopic, Bobbi Kristina, is one extremely sad scene after another, about how Bobbi Kristina dealt with the death of her mother Whitney Houston, felt overshadowed by greatness and stayed in a toxic relationship with her boyfriend Nick Gordon.
Madonna said something stupid again—we just happen to be learning it about 25 years later.
At last, here is the trailer (via E! News) for the documentary about Whitney Houston that her estate doesn’t really want anyone to see.
Before the Wednesday evening premiere of Whitney. “Can I Be Me” at the Tribeca Film Festival, its co-director (and documentary legend) Nick Broomfield announced that his film had been in jeopardy of being yanked from the festival slate—he’d been given final the go-head to screen less than three hours before. Since…
As sure as she can wail, Aretha Franklin can also talk piles of shit on her diva peers. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack, Natalie Cole, Luther Vandross, and Celine Dion are just a few of the bold-faced names who’ve felt Aretha’s wrath and/or shade. Aretha? Sometimes it’s more like A-beef-a.
Ciara paid homage to Whitney Houston on Instagram this Saturday with a dance and lip-syncing routine to the tune of the late singer’s rendition of Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman.” The video features Ciara doing normal household activities like singing into a spatula and dancing up on the living room door frame, done…
Nick Gordon has been ordered to pay $36.25 million in damages in the wrongful death lawsuit against him brought by the estate of Bobbi Kristina Brown.
