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...Later Gypsy Rose Lee, a phenomenally successful burlesque entertainer of the 1930s and ’40s, wore fishnets as costume, as did pin-up Bettie Page in the 1950s....
...From May 15 to 26; further information and tickets here ‘Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”’, CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre Tony-winner Bartlett Sher directs Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Harper Lee classic...
...Among her highlights are the off-site projects this year, including sculptures on show at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open tournament and performance works, by Tamar Ettun...
...The character I play, Meilin Lee, is a 13-year-old Asian-Canadian girl growing up in Toronto in the early 2000s....
...What began as a low-key series became a podcasting smash, with artists including Billie Eilish, Björk, Janelle Monáe and Iggy Pop lining up to appear on it....
...“The boning details and vertical lines echo a curved female form and look incredible on all bodies, including men – Dion Lee shows this in his genderless collections.”...
...For Lee Daniels, seeing the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues in 1972 was a life-changing experience that set him on the path to becoming a film-maker....
...Lee Daniels’ last project as a director was called Lee Daniels’ The Butler....
...In “Yeah Right”, she goes from arena-sized cries to a concluding passage of Billie Eilish-style whisper-singing. But the actual lyrics are hard to make out....
...Boseman’s co-star Viola Davis is nominated for Best Actress alongside Andra Day, the breakout star of The United States vs Billie Holiday....
...And Byrne says the key figure in the change was 18-year-old Billie Eilish....
...She names Billie Eilish’s stylist Samantha Burkhart as a designer who’s approaching face masks with imagination, putting lace and crystal-studded mesh designs on her clients. ————— Justin McGuirkChief...
...Accounts of Gentry since the 1980s are shadowy but point to a normal life lived outside the public eye rather than a hermit-like withdrawal into seclusion — more Harper Lee than JD Salinger....
...This is the photograph that inspired “Strange Fruit”, the poem written by Bronx-born Abel Meeropol, and made indelibly famous by Billie Holiday....
...Singers also offered tributes to Billie Joe. Gentry was ahead of the “rebel-country” movement and fellow insurgent Lee Hazlewood was an early adopter of her song in 1967....
...(A small musical sidestep finds soul singer Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings The Blues.)...
...Photographs by Dorothea Lang, Margaret Bourke-White and Russell Lee portray the rural poverty of the south and the urban streets of the north....
...For the transfer Lucy Punch replaces Billie Piper as news editor Paige Britain....
...For “Billie Jean”, we see a substantial part of the original video on the back-projected screens....
...He wrote that Dalton was his favourite singer in that Greenwich Village scene: “[She] had a voice like Billie Holiday’s and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it.”...
...Their single ‘Billie Holiday’ is out on Monday in the UK...
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