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...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...
...(Politico) Lunch with the FT: Rahm EmanuelWhen it comes to pressing the flesh, Rahm Emanuel, who turns 60 on November 29, learnt from the best....
...Mr Daley, son of former mayor Richard J Daley and brother of former mayor Richard M Daley, conceded defeat on Tuesday night, putting an end to his ambitions to extend a political dynasty that has held the...
...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....
...“We don’t have a person to waste in America,” says Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s outgoing mayor. “Too many kids are still slipping through the cracks.”...
...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....
...Follow David J Lynch on twitter: @davidjlynch...
...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....
...The play was written in response to a wave of school closures initiated by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel....
...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.)...
...President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said in the wake of the global economic meltdown that “you never let a serious crisis go to waste”. Crises are opportunities to learn....
...Other donors included Steven Spielberg and David Geffen – courtesy of Ari Emanuel, Rahm’s younger brother, a Hollywood agent, who is as big in entertainment as Rahm is in politics....
...Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew would not feel out of place in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago. Sugar is the new tobacco, we are told. How soon before we get to caffeine?...
...Richard J. Daley, Chicago’s legendary mayor from 1955 to 1976, is chiefly remembered for two things: old-school, rough-and-tumble machine politics; and abuse of the English language....
...“Rahm has a lot of his plate,” he said....
...“He is an excellent chief of staff …The one thing I’ve always been impressed with about Rahm is that when he has a job to do he focuses on the job in front of him....
...An “anyone but Rahm” movement has started to build....
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