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Screen Queens
Oz the Great and Powerful We’re off to see the wizard (but not Dorothy) as filmmaker Sam Raimi gives top billing to the great man behind the smoke screen, a circus fraud who becomes
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A Grant Gesture: Musician’s Tell-All Interview on HIV, Addiction and Revealing New Album
John Grant’s head is like a prison, and inside are words waiting to get out. These words flood the melodies of the songs on his second LP, the critically praised Pale Green Ghosts, and
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Belinda Carlisle: Still Go-Going
In the ’80s, Belinda’s Carlisle’s career demonstrated that, for some, heaven really is a place on earth. As the lead singer of the supremely successful girl group The Go-Go’s – they had the beat,
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Screen Queen: Guilt Trip, Bachelorette and more!
The Guilt Trip Playing down the divadom, Barbra Streisand masticates a mammoth steak and wears mom jeans for her first leading-actress role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. Babs nags, dotes and hilariously
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Behind the ‘Candelabra’: Director Talks About Liberace Movie
Steven Soderbergh knows who’s significantly responsible for the major success of his male-stripper romp Magic Mike: gay men eager to ogle the barely-covered bits of Channing Tatum and his hunky posse. The Oscar-winning director’s
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Natalie Maines Gets Real
To quote a Dixie Chicks song, fearless frontwoman Natalie Maines has “been a long time gone.” Seven years after one of the most successful country music acts released Taking the Long Way, and its
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Hear Me Out: Patty Griffin, James Blake
Patty Griffin, American Kid Ever since her rootsy 1996 debut Living with Ghosts, Patty Griffin has found inspiration in the deep, dark corners of life. Written in the midst of her father’s death, American
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On Interviewing Amy: Why the Christian Music Icon’s First Gay Interview Almost Didn’t Happen
Back in the mid-’90s, I watched from my seat at The Palace of Auburn Hills, just outside Detroit, as kids circled Amy Grant onstage with overzealous glee while she sang “Say You’ll Be Mine.”
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Heart in Motion: A Conversation with Christian Music Legend Amy Grant
A call from Amy Grant started as these promo chats usually do. Hellos were exchanged, small talk was made and questions about her first studio album of all-new material in 10 years, How Mercy
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Murs Invasion: British Crooner on Exhibitionism, Gay Rumors and Cracking America
Olly Murs isn’t your average straight dude. The U.K. X Factor alum, who recently released his proper stateside debut Right Place Right Time, has stripped down to a thong for an all-queer crowd, championed
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