Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” sold millions of copies worldwide and was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Julia Roberts. Gilbert’s newest novel, “City of Girls,” explores the life of a young woman coming of age in New York City’s glamorous, and sometimes scandalous, theater …
Read More »RuPaul on drag: Why RuPaul isn’t trying to make drag “acceptable” and how the Met Gala was “a fancy bar mitzvah”
When you tell RuPaul Charles that he’s made drag queens acceptable with his hugely popular, award-winning reality competition show, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” he quickly lets you know that’s not what he’s out to do. “By who? Who’s accepting them? Drag is naughty. Drag is not politically correct,” he told “CBS …
Read More »Elvis Costello talks new album and sets the record straight on cancer scare
In 40 years of making music, Elvis Costello has often collaborated across genres like with fellow Liverpudlian Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach, and Questlove and the Roots. He continues that tradition of collaboration with his new album, “Look Now,” which Rolling Stone said “finds him squaring his restless artistic impulses with …
Read More »Janelle Monáe on the meaning of “Dirty Computer” and what she promised her grandmother
For her latest project, singer, actress and activist Janelle Monáe is encouraging millennials to vote. She calls it a tribute to her grandmother, who didn’t always have that right growing up in the segregated South. Monáe is on a mission to make sure everyone with a voice has the ability …
Read More »Oscars’ “popular film” category backlash: Critics call it a “second
The motion picture academy is facing backlash over major changes meant to boost TV ratings on Hollywood’s biggest night. The academy said Wednesday it will hold the show earlier in the year to shorten the awards season and shorten the telecast of the ceremony to three hours. But it’s the …
Read More »Comedian Bo Burnham explores coming of age in a digital world in “Eighth Grade”
Comedian and director Bo Burnham was one of YouTube’s first viral stars. In 2006, when he was 16, Burnham began posting videos of his satirical songs from his bedroom. He went on to perform standup comedy around the country, star in his own TV show and film four comedy specials, …
Read More »Jennifer Lopez says there’s “just something different” about a Las Vegas residency
The marquee lights on the iconic Las Vegas strip have not always been so bright. Decades ago, they glowed with the names of famous headliners like Tony Bennett and Wayne Newton, but the lights faded and the Strip came to be known as a place for performers to play their …
Read More »Couple who bought “American Horror Story” house suing seller over fan harassment
A California couple living in a Los Angeles mansion featured in the first season of the hit TV show “American Horror Story” is suing the former owner and the real estate company because they say they were never told that crowds of obsessive fans travel to see it. The couple …
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