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Stevie Nicks is recalling the single-most valuable advice she ever gave Katy Perry. The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer recently sat down for an expansive interview with Rolling Stone and discussed politics, death and the internet. One particular tidbit about modern-day pop star rivalries has already taken social media by storm. “About 10 years ago, Katy […]

Nicole Scherzinger is paying tribute to Liam Payne with a poignant look back at their shared history in the entertainment industry. On Friday, the former Pussycat Dolls member shared a pair of playful selfies on Instagram showing her and Payne ― who died last week at age 31 ― posing with fellow pop singer Kelly […]

Beyoncé declared that it’s “time to sing a new song” as she endorsed Kamala Harris at the vice president’s campaign rally on Friday. “The old notes of downfall, discord, despair no longer resonate. Our generations of loved ones before us are whispering a prophecy, a quest, a calling, an anthem,” said the singer at the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. Lesh’s death was announced on his Instagram account. Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest […]

“Veteran political strategist James Carville, famous for his colorful language, confidently predicted that Kamala Harris will win the election even though he’s previously admitted this race is, and this is a real quote, ‘tighter than a mosquito’s behind,’” Fallon said on “The Tonight Show” Thursday. That was the setup for Fallon to introduce a phone […]

Zachary Levi has come under fire from members of the Broadway community after a bizarre online rant in which he uses his former co-star Gavin Creel’s death to promote a conspiracy theory about COVID-19 vaccines. In a video posted Monday to Instagram, the “Shazam!” actor said he believed Creel, with whom he co-starred in the […]

“Late Night” host Seth Meyers on Wednesday talked about how Donald Trump’s antics during the home stretch of the 2024 election have at times felt like a fever dream. A case in point, said Meyers, was the GOP nominee’s proud showing off of a “French Fries Certification” pin during a presser in North Carolina that […]

The tall, musclebound played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan” died Sept. 29 in Los Alamos, California, according to his daughter.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in court in New York on Wednesday for a hearing ahead of his retrial on sex crimes charges stemming from his landmark #MeToo case. Among other things, Judge Curtis Farber is expected to address a request from prosecutors to consolidate that case with a newer charge […]

Ariana Grande is apologizing for an apparent mixup, but some sense serious shade in her wording. The Grammy winner reacted Monday after horror icon Elvira shared at a Knott’s Berry Farm event over the weekend that she once gave Grande and her family 21 tickets to attend one of her performances, but the singer turned […]

Although it’s unlikely that Meghan Markle will participate in a “Suits” reboot anytime soon, her former co-star Patrick J. Adams can’t help but imagine what has happened to their characters. Adams played Mike Ross in eight seasons of the legal drama between 2011 and 2019. Markle’s character, Rachel Zane, ended the series living in Seattle […]

Joni Mitchell didn’t hold back as she slammed Donald Trump and encouraged her fans to vote in this year’s election at a show in Los Angeles on Saturday. “’Fuck Donald Trump’ — I love that song,” the legendary singer-songwriter said, according to Billboard, in an apparent reference to YG’s 2016 rap protest song “FDT” featuring […]

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds gathered Sunday in London’s Kensington Gardens to mourn Liam Payne as fans around the world grieved for the One Direction singer who died this week. Directioners, as supporters of the massively successful boy band are known, left tributes in London, Glasgow, Paris, Sydney and New York this weekend as they celebrated […]

“Real Time” host Bill Maher says “it’s not deranged” to fear former President Donald Trump. On Friday’s episode of Maher’s HBO show, guest Joe Scarborough reviewed some of the distressing comments Trump has made as he seeks to retake the White House. “Donald Trump said that he was going to use the military and the […]

The women of “The View” had a lot to say Friday about Donald Trump’s jabs at their show. The former president attended the annual Al Smith charity dinner Thursday in New York and roasted his critics, to mixed results. During his speech, he name-dropped “The View” in a self-aware joke about his longstanding feud with […]

Andrew Garfield spoke to Elmo about his late mother Lynn Garfield and the “joy” she brought to loved ones in her lifetime in a viral, heartfelt clip shared by the “Sesame Street” character on Friday. The actor opened up about remembering his mom, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2019, after the Muppet offered to […]

Bethany Joy Lenz is getting candid about her days as a member of an insular Christian group called The Big House Family. Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Lenz opened up about her decadelong involvement with the group, which she readily describes as a cult. It was during that time, the […]

Louis Tomlinson made a special vow to his late One Direction bandmate Liam Payne to be there for his only son in a heartfelt tribute on Thursday following the singer’s death. “I want you to know that if Bear ever needs me I will be the Uncle he needs in his life and tell him […]

Singer Zayn Malik remembered his “brother” and One Direction bandmate Liam Payne in a heart-wrenching Instagram post on Thursday, Malik seemed shattered as he shared a tender photo of himself and Payne, whose sudden death on Wednesday at age 31 has shaken the music world. “Liam, I have found myself talking out loud to you, […]

TMZ is facing backlash for publishing images said to show parts of Liam Payne’s body after the former “One Direction” singer died in a fall on Wednesday. The celebrity gossip tabloid published cropped images showing a tattooed arm and stomach, saying it had identified Payne via the body ink. TMZ said the images showed the […]

You probably didn’t notice that Kristen Bell snuck in a naughty joke in 2013’s “Frozen,” but according to her, she “slid it under the radar.” In a TikTok video posted by Vanity Fair on Tuesday, the actor, 44, who played Princess Anna in the animated film, sings a few lyrics from the song “For the […]

Trevor Noah suspects Donald Trump is particularly irked by Jimmy Kimmel because the late-night comedy host was a big deal during the years that the former president was more focused on entertainment media. Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Tuesday, the former “Daily Show” host suggested that Trump doesn’t pay him much attention because “I’m […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asked a New York judge Tuesday to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers in his sex trafficking case. The lawyers wrote in a letter to a Manhattan federal court judge that the hip-hop music maker needs to know the identities of his alleged […]

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said Donald Trump’s “cognitive decline was on full display” at a series of rallies and other events in recent days. “Trump also held a rally in Arizona where his brain continued to die a very public death,” Colbert said, then rolled footage of Trump attempting to shoutout a group of […]

Demi Moore has shared a health update on her ex-husband Bruce Willis years after his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis. While accepting an award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York over the weekend, Moore, 61, revealed that the “Die Hard” star, 69, is in “stable” condition. “You know, I’ve said this before. The […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Honored for his devotion to a basketball team that doesn’t have a Hall of Fame history, Billy Crystal couldn’t help but note the irony. “How strange to be getting a ring before any of the Clippers,” he said. The actor is being added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s […]

JoJo Siwa is getting candid about the “brutal” backlash she has faced for posing with a fake bulge for a recent magazine cover. While appearing last week on the “Talk Tuah” podcast hosted by Haliey Welch, who’s known as the viral “Hawk Tuah Girl,” the singer and dancer said it was “really hard” being criticized […]

“I’m going to ask you again. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” Garcia-Navarro asked. “I’ve answered your question with another question,” Vance replied. The Ohio senator had previously responded with talk of Hunter Biden’s laptop and questioned if technology companies worked to “censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump […]

Bill Maher couldn’t help but rank the “insane” things former President Donald Trump has said in only the past week, after right-wing “Real Time” guest Buck Sexton argued on Friday’s show that Vice President Kamala Harris flip-flops too much on policy to be taken seriously. When Sexton claimed Harris has changed her mind on “a […]

Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni helped kick off NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, Thursday with the East Coast premiere of their new romantic comedy, “A Nice Indian Boy.” Directed by Roshan Sethi, the film is a tender cross-cultural love story between an Indian American doctor, Naveen (Soni), and Jay (Groff), a white photographer who […]

Julia Stiles is taking a heartfelt look back at her breakout role in “10 Things I Hate About You” in honor of the movie’s 25th anniversary. In a Yahoo Entertainment interview published Thursday, Stiles said appearing in the beloved coming-of-age comedy was a “refreshing” experience given the “unapologetic” attitude of her character, Katarina “Kat” Stratford. […]

The former president declared he was done with debates hours after the conservative channel proposed a second chance for him to battle Kamala Harris. His first time didn’t go so well by many accounts. A CNN deadline to secure a debate expired on Thursday as well. “There will be no rematch!” the Republican nominee wrote […]

The former president declared he was done with debates hours after the conservative channel proposed a second chance for him to battle Kamala Harris. His first time didn’t go so well by many accounts. A CNN deadline to secure a debate expired on Thursday as well. “There will be no rematch!” the Republican nominee wrote […]

New York is still reeling from the pandemic. Almost 35,000 people have died from covid in the city; temporary morgues, in the form of refrigerated vans, were set up to store victims’ bodies. Many residents have left dense urban areas for leafier suburbs elsewhere in the state or in New Jersey. To some, the future […]

On October 7th the Swedish Academy awarded Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian writer based in Britain, the Nobel prize in Literature for 2021 for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. He became the first black African writer to win […]

Entering the White Cube gallery in London, visitors can hear the whirr of busy machinery. It is not difficult to locate the source of the noise: 100 vintage sewing machines have been lovingly restored and mounted on wooden school desks. A mix of Singer and Butterfly models, they come to life in groups, with those […]

It would be wrong to say that Irish people do not commemorate the Great Famine. Since Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom a century ago, generations of schoolchildren have learned that, between 1845 and 1855, the island’s population fell by perhaps a third after a million people died of starvation and disease, and perhaps […]

Funny business, the suspension of disbelief. Some disbeliefs are more suspendable than others. In six decades on screen, James Bond has been played by seven actors. He has barely aged. He has hopscotched on the backs of crocodiles, surfed a tsunami and enjoyed a run of enemies who, after capturing him, go in for windy […]

Hollywood loves making films about the movie industry. In this genre, the peculiarities of Tinseltown are sent up—from the enormous egos of the stars to the preciousness of the screenwriters—but the message is that there really is no business like show business. “Sullivan’s Travels” (1941), for example, ridicules its protagonist, a socially liberal director who […]

The scene is familiar. Ranked rows of seats face a small platform, with desks full of administrative clutter: laptops, files and water bottles. A projector screen in the corner shows a PowerPoint slide. After the drama of scandal or the anguish of tragedy, it is this sort of banal setting which plays host to the […]

Be careful how many episodes you watch in a sitting. As the old joke says of Scotch whisky, one hour of “Succession” is fine. Two may be too many: without intending to, you are liable to start mimicking the foul-mouthed way the characters all talk, threatening to “beast” a housemate for leaving the top off […]

EVERYONE THINKS they know Vincent van Gogh until they see “The Potato Eaters” (pictured). Painted in the Netherlands in 1885, it is as far in tone as could be imagined from the blazing sunflowers of his later work in the south of France. Five members of a farming household huddle round the table, sharing a […]

The opening caption is too emphatic for standard punctuation. “While the events of this story are fictionalised,” it declares, “These. People. Existed.” The statement is true in that some of the characters in “The Harder They Fall”, Jeymes Samuel’s stylish revenge western, share their names, if not much else, with actual historical figures. However, Mr […]

Orwell’s Roses. By Rebecca Solnit. Viking; 320 pages; $28. Granta; £16.99 Literary critics have been studying George Orwell’s novels and essays for almost a century, and it is well-established by now what political ideologies and ideas the writer was against. But by paying attention to one of his passions—horticulture—readers can get a sense of what […]

The return of ABBA may be the biggest event in pop music so far this century. On November 5th the Swedish group, which quietly disbanded four decades ago, released a new album, entitled “Voyage”. With a Beatles reunion or a Michael Jackson comeback impossible, it is hard to envision anything else that might be so […]

IT IS HARDLY hyperbole to call the cultural fascination with Diana, Princess of Wales, cultish. Nearly a quarter of a century after her death in 1997, the stream of intrigue, betrayal, exploitation, obsession and recrimination seems in no more danger of running dry than it was during her lifetime. The past year has seen a […]

MUSIC AND art have an entwined history. Nat King Cole sang of his appreciation for Leonardo da Vinci’s painting in “Mona Lisa”; Don McLean wrote the song “Vincent” after reading a biography of Van Gogh. (For his part, the Dutch artist hoped to use his work “to say something comforting in the way that music […]

THERE IS A tide in the affairs of men, and in performances of Shakespeare’s plays. The pageant of demagoguery in “Julius Caesar” seemed urgent during the ascent of Donald Trump. The dilemma in “Hamlet” over how to act in a rotten state made it popular in eastern Europe at the fag-end of communism. And now, […]

FROM A HOTEL room in Brazil come the shrieks of children at play and the clangs of construction work. Sung Tieu tussles with her noise-cancelling headphones before a calm silence sets in over Zoom. The Vietnamese-born, Berlin-based artist touched down for the 2021 Bienal de São Paulo the previous night, accompanied by an entourage of […]

VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS may be two of the greatest sportspeople ever. Yet it is their father who has been granted a biopic while they are still waiting for theirs. Twenty years on from playing a champion himself in “Ali”, Will Smith stars as the middle-aged Richard Williams. At the start of “King Richard”, around […]

The Shadows of Men. By Abir Mukherjee. Pegasus Crime; 352 pages; $25.95. Harvill Secker; £12.99 Abir Mukherjee’s series of novels set in colonial India is crime fiction at its finest. The Scottish-born author’s debut in 2016, “A Rising Man”, followed two officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath “Surrender-not” Banerjee, […]

Few film books get a blurb from both an iconoclastic auteur and Variety magazine. “I have gone through the intense garden of your book with the inducement of a fruit longtime forbidden,” Luis Buñuel, a Spanish surrealist director, wrote of Amos Vogel’s “Film as a Subversive Art”. Hollywood’s industry publication proclaimed the book “the stuff […]

You might not have heard of Pierre-François Lacenaire, but thanks to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, his story may ring a bell. The two men had a lot in common: blighted youths, gambling problems, flirtation with radical politics, prison time and a fascination with the criminal underworld. Lacenaire’s key resemblance, though, is not to the Russian author but […]

Note: this list is based on British release dates “Another Round”The winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Thomas Vinterberg’s bittersweet comedy-drama has a teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) and his three best friends addressing their midlife crises by staying drunk throughout the working day. At first they are more engaged and energised under the […]

The American porn industry has been largely ignored by its more respectable film-making counterpart. Movies that have touched on the subject have mostly been derisive comedies, such as “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” (2008), or semi-nostalgic throwbacks to an earlier era, such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” (1997). A few films have taken […]

They crowded onto the stage at the Coventry Cathedral in a flurry of colour and sequins. On December 1st Array Collective, a group of 11 Belfast-based artists, were declared the winners of this year’s Turner prize, Britain’s most prestigious contemporary-art award, worth £25,000 ($33,000). The collective, who transformed a room at the Herbert Art Gallery […]

“Afrique Victime”. By Mdou Moctar The most vital, thrilling rock music of the past decade has often come not from Britain or America, but from west Africa—specifically from Tuareg musicians playing what has become known as “desert blues”. In the wake of Tinariwen and Imarhan (and others), Mdou Moctar has established himself as the new […]

The simple black-and-white animation shows a pair of legs running, soon joined by others. The perspective changes to reveal a mother pulling her child along as buildings collapse around them. A voice asks: “What does the word ‘home’ mean to you?” Softly, another responds: “Home…it’s someplace safe.” There is a pause, then the first voice […]

The new film from Adam McKay is a lot more believable than you might want a blackly comic disaster movie about the end of the world to be. In “Don’t Look Up”, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as Dr Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky, two astronomers based at Michigan State University. While researching in […]

“Little full,” says Clark Griswold (pictured) as the untethered branches of the family Christmas tree smash the windows of his living room; “lot of sap.” Soon the tree is ignited by a rogue cigar—though not before a cat has been electrocuted by its lights. A squirrel jumps out of the replacement tree, running amok and […]

“Bo Burnham: Inside”The musical comedian wrote, filmed, directed and edited this 90-minute show in his home during the pandemic. Though it never named covid-19 directly, it was a brilliant depiction of life in lockdown, particularly its strains: amusing tracks such as “FaceTime With My Mom (Tonight)” and “Looks Who’s Inside Again” gave way to darker […]

In the spring of 1967 Joan Didion was gathering material for an essay on the hippie movement. In Haight-Ashbury, a neighbourhood in San Francisco, a man named Otto promised to show her something that would “blow your mind”. He took her inside a house and pointed to a young child crouched on the floor; she […]

Walt Disney landed in France just days after the first world war ended. The 16-year-old was working as a driver for the Red Cross and spent nine months touring the country, stationed in outposts including the outskirts of Versailles and the Hôtel Régina (opposite the Louvre). When he was not shuttling military officials around or […]

Storytellers have always been fascinated by nature, particularly when it is hostile or its usual order perverted. In “Beowulf”, an Old English poem, abhorrent beings spring forth from marshes and watery caves to feast on human flesh. Gothic novelists used dark skies, whistling winds and misty moors to create a sense of unease in their […]

“This changes nothing.” Colonel Tom Parker made the now-notorious remark when his client, Elvis Presley, died in 1977. Yet the cold-blooded former fairground huckster was right: Presley would be the first of many artists to have a posthumous career that rivalled their mortal one. Death was just one more marketing opportunity. Something similar is happening […]

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. It is New Year’s Eve, and bawdy revellers are enjoying a fancy-dress party on an American train; in the baggage compartment is a caged gorilla in the care of two doofus handlers. “Trading Places”, John […]

The 79th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in the Beverly Hilton on January 9th, which means that photos of the guests’ dresses and clips of their speeches should be all over the internet by now. That’s certainly how things usually go. Organised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (hfpa), the Golden Globes are […]

On December 27th, in a series of tweets, the Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija described the president’s son as “obese”, a “fool” and an “inebriated curmudgeon”. The following day he tweeted again—to say that “gunmen are breaking into my house by force”. He has been detained ever since, in defiance of court orders. His wife has […]

It is 50 years this month since the first airing of John Berger’s documentary series “Ways of Seeing”, which scrutinised the political meanings of art. Fifty years, too, since Berger published his Booker-prizewinning novel “G.”—a portrait of Europe just before the first world war, following the exploits of a modern Don Juan. “Ways of Seeing” […]

The fifth film in the “Scream” series has a counter-intuitive title: “Scream”. That may be unhelpful to cinema-goers who are discussing the film, and to journalists who are writing about it, but it’s not unprecedented. The sequel to “Halloween” (1978), released in 2018, was called “Halloween”. Last year’s sequel to “Candyman” (1992) was called “Candyman”. […]

 Art Craft #Cécile Davidovici #embroidery #portraits #still life December 15, 2023 Jackie Andres All images © Cécile Davidovici, shared with permission Through densely embroidered still lifes and portraits, Cécile Davidovici stitches together a dialogue between time, objects, and nostalgia. Focusing on gesture and color, the Paris-based artist uses short, expressive stitches to render melons, […]

 Art #art history #painting #portraits December 15, 2023 Grace Ebert Rembrandt portraits Jan and Jaapgen. All images courtesy of Rijksmuseum/Olivier Middendorp Standing just under eight inches tall, two oval portraits rediscovered after 200 years are now considered Rembrandt’s smallest formal works. On view at the Rijksmuseum, which houses the largest collection of the Dutch […]

 Art Photography #Jason Chen #portraits #weaving December 14, 2023 Grace Ebert “Coming to an End.” All images © Jason Chen, shared with permission Rather than capture a single moment, Jason Chen (previously) weaves together photographs taken just seconds apart, creating disjointed portraits that convey movement and the passage of time. The Philadelphia-based artist often […]

 #posters and prints #sponsor December 14, 2023 Sebastian Foster Amy Dury. All images courtesy of Sebastian Foster, shared with permission Austin-based gallery Sebastian Foster continues its 2023 Fall Print Set, marking the 11th anniversary of the collection since it launched in 2012. The new release features 30 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters […]

“Sanguines.” All images © Jon Ching, shared with permission We’re thrilled to announce our next limited-edition print release with Jon Ching (previously). Longtime Colossal readers will recognize Ching’s fantastic hybrids, which seamlessly meld flora and fauna into otherworldly compositions. In “Sanguines,” blush-colored petals and feathers merge into a delicately layered crest, while “Adaptive Radiation” depicts […]