Hints and tips:
...The $1.4bn-grossing film won only one award, for best song, which went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, for “What Was I Made For?”....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...An object I would never part with is my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Director R.J. Cutler started shooting in distant 2016; early scenes find Eilish juggling new success and average teenage stuff at her low-key family home in Los Angeles....
...Boseman’s co-star Viola Davis is nominated for Best Actress alongside Andra Day, the breakout star of The United States vs Billie Holiday....
...When the pandemic hit, some of the world’s biggest pop stars, including Billie Eilish, BTS, David Guetta and Kiss, rushed to programme elaborate livestream concerts in order to reach fans while they were...
...“Push The Button” – Sugababes “Bounce It” – Juicy J “1979”– The Smashing Pumpkins “Anywhere”– Rita Ora “Eternal Spring” – Grazhdanskaya Oborona “Your Loving Arms” – Billie Ray Martin “Les and Ray”...
...It’s de rigueur to have fierce talons these days: Kylie Jenner with her acrylics dripping in neon pink; J-Lo waving nails encrusted with Versace bling; even Billie Eilish – who defies every girly cliché...
...P.J. Morton tried to channel Fats Domino and Wonder; Rapsody took on Queen Latifah, Roberta Flack and Lauryn Hill; and Sheléa crudely belted Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin....
...I like classical music — Bach, Beethoven — and the music from when I was young: Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I have been inspired by a record player my children bought for me....
...Billie Piper’s portrayal of a woman in despair at her inability to have children in Yerma won her the best actress award, her first Olivier....
...He is especially moving about Billie Holiday, the jazz singer persecuted for her heroin habit by the sadistic and racist Anslinger — in stark contrast with Judy Garland, whose heroin addiction Anslinger...
...In 1945, FBI director J Edgar Hoover was sent a typically inaccurate memo alleging the singer was a Communist sympathiser.)...
...Mann, writing, directing and producing, offers the extra contrariness of casting Marion Vie en Rose Cotillard as Dillinger’s girl Billie Frechette....
...I admire Achille Castiglioni, Enzo Mari, Sori Yanagi and Hans J Wegner, and unknown designers who make lovely anonymous objects.”...
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