Déjà vu pervades the study on gender in the music business released Tuesday by USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative: The report — which finds that only one-sixth of the top 100 songs last year were made by female artists, with even glaringly lower percentages in the behind-the-scenes of the industry — …
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RegularRuPaul’s Drag Raceviewers already know that Valentina sees herself as a megastar. With her forthcoming role as Angel Dumott Schunard forRent: Live,Fox’s live production of the musicalthat debuts Sunday, January 27th, she’ll come one step closer to dominating the world outside of drag. “I started with a dream — always …
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At Purdue Pharma’s launch party for OxyContin in 1996, one of the company’s owners, Dr. Richard Sackler, told the audience to imagine a series of natural disasters — an earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane — before gleefully predicting that the opioid painkiller would generate “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury …
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ABC News will be airing a new two-hour documentary that details the scandal surrounding former President Bill Clinton and his former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The documentary, Truth and Lies: Monica, marks the 20th anniversary of Clinton’s impeachment and will air on Thursday. In the new trailer, Lewinsky is …
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In 2018, pot reached a tipping point. A clear majority of Americans now wants to see the drug made fully legal. California and Canada began selling marijuana to anyone over 21. Corporate behemoths like Altria (parent company of Marlboro cigarettes) and Constellation Brands (parent of Corona beer and Svedka vodka) …
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Reba McEntire played the dual roles of host and performer at the 2018 CMA Country Christmas special, an all-star event that airs on ABC Monday night. In a bonus video from the show’s taping, McEntire sings a version of “Hard Candy Christmas” that adds a touch of melancholy to the …
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When Hugh Jackman takes the stage for his one-man global arena tour next year, he’ll be ready to perform hits fromThe Greatest Showman,Les Misérablesand other Broadway and film projects from his past — as well as a number of fresh, never-before-heard songs. “I really want to do some original music …
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