…my deeply held beliefs did not prevent me from accepting a role a few years back in a student film called “Standing Still,” which was set in a dystopian future where everyone is…covered in bruises.
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The Year Without Music: To Natalie…With Love
…when NARAS held its 58th Annual Grammy Awards on February 16, 2016, there was an expectation among family, fans, and the industry that the organization would pay tribute to the nine-time Grammy winner in a manner befitting her unique multi-generational, multi-genre status.
Mariah Carey’s Times Square Meltdown: Shit Happened
Toward the end of the number, she partially executes an ambivalent, stiff dip, as if to say, “Hey everybody, I’m not even going to attempt to sing without the track, but I have a different trick, I will now bend backwards thirty degrees with assistance.”
Wing’s “Beat It” Kicks 2016 in the Ass!
Happy New Year Stargayzers! I cannot think of a better way to welcome in the feeling of renewal and flush away the heartburn and heartache of ’16 than by sharing a rathe stunning live Wing…
Twins Stella and Ella Interpret “Silent Night”
Stella and Ella Brown were more than twin sisters with a shared devotion to their faith. They were also into pantomime; early minimalists, whose interpretation of Perry Como’s laconic “Silent Night” suggests they very well may…
Florence Henderson Sings “That Old Black Magic” on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
I assure you that there is absolutely nothing quite as wonderfully awful as the fetid, foppish, phoniness of The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, which ABC brewed in a low-budget cauldron and unleashed upon an…
“Christmas Melody”: The Evolution of a Song
It began with an idea: for many years, I had wanted to create a song inspired by The Carpenters’ Merry Christmas, Darling—one of the all-time great holiday classics that was written by Richard Carpenter and Frank Pooler and recorded in 1970
Willie Nelson on How to Make a Great Record
“Simplicity is the always the key. Get in there. Sing the song. Get out. I’m not big on a hundred takes and a thousand overdubs. My kind of singing isn’t meant to be perfect.…
Which Famous Celebs Like to Gamble?
Celebrities have a disposable income so there is no wonder that they like to gamble just as much as the next person. Some have been known to be intimidatingly high rollers at the betting table…
Joan Crawford’s 1968 Drunken Airport Interview: “I’m a Shtrong Dame”
“Where did you find her, Miss Crawford?” the interviewer asks of Carol, the terrified six-year-old placed on Joan’s lap as a prop—sort of like the crumpled flowers. One feels for the bewildered child, whom Joan now asphyxiates in the fetid brew of her alcohol- perfume- and cigarette-drenched plane ride. “Oh, I just always pick up children,” the star replies without a hint of irony, clearly unaware that George Cukor is not, in fact, the man behind the camera and that it is no longer 1940.
Remembering the “Record Store”
In today’s digital era, where songs have become “tracks,” we have access to most everything but we all program our playlists in isolation.
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