Barry Manilow says hiding his sexuality was a ‘burden’: ‘Didn’t want my career to go away’

Robert Downey Jr. opened up about losing at the Academy Awards.

Mary J. Blige has clarified that her inclusion in the lineup poster for Las Vegas’ Lovers & Friends festival “was an error”, and will not be performing there.The R&B singer took to her Instagram stories today (January 26), two days after Lovers & Friends festival revealed their 2024 edition’s lineup on Instagram.

Lil Nas X opened up about his family, sexuality, public image and more in his new documentary Long Live Montero.

Ozzy Osbourne has recalled meeting Paul McCartney, saying that coming face-to-face with the Beatles icon “was like meeting Jesus Christ”.In the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Ozzy remembered his first meeting with Macca, saying: “I’m a big Beatle fan and when I first met Paul McCartney, it was like meeting Jesus Christ.He added: “He was a very nice man. And when I got a Grammy, he followed up with my producer to congratulate me.

Zayn Malik has told fans that he is “fine” after a viral video appeared to show his foot being run over by a car.The video seemingly shows the former One Direction singer being run over while in a crowd of fans outside the Kenzo presentation during Paris Fashion Week on Friday (January 19).He later shared a picture of his white Kenzo trainers covered in black scuff marks and credited them with protecting his foot.Taking to Instagram, Zayn shared a photo of a black scuff mark on his shoes from the car, and said: “Thanks for a great show! My foot is fine !! Thanks to my incredibly well made shoes.”See the post and the viral video showing the incident below.A post shared by Zayn Malik (@zayn)A car appears to run over Zayn Malik’s foot while he attended the Kenzo fashion show in Paris. pic.twitter.com/k6wRoDxiAD— Pop Base (@PopBase) January 20, 2024Last week, Zayn partnered with Pakistani group AUR to remake their popular track, ‘Tu Hai Kahan’.“I was incredibly humbled when AUR reached out and asked me to collaborate on their song ‘Tu Hai Kahan’,” said Malik.

Oliver Stone has a lot of opinions about the current film industry and says movies like Barbie are contributing to the “infantilization of Hollywood.”

HBO‘s anticipated documentary on Lil Nas X, titled Long Live Montero, has been released – watch it below.Released last night (January 18), the HBO trailer sees Lil Nas X – real name Montero Lamar Hill – at his most vulnerable and candid as he reflects on his career, and his struggles with coming out as a gay man to his family, as well as his rise to fame and more.“Some people think my music is dope. Some people see me as, like, this Satanic devil,” the rapper says to begin the trailer.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nicole Kidman revealed on the “Radio Times Podcast” (via Business Insider) that she was once told she would never have a career in Hollywood because of her height. Long before she became a star in the U.S. and an Oscar winner for “The Hours,” Kidman was an aspiring actor in Australia and said her height was often challenged during auditions as a teen.

Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on Sunday, February 4.

A chance meeting at a New York City hotel brought together multi-award-winning actor Gael García Bernal and Roger Ross Williams, an Academy Award-winning director who wanted to discuss Mexico’s Luchadores Exóticos, specifically trailblazer Saúl Armendáriz, better known as Cassandro.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jo Koy is once again weighing in on his divisive stint hosting the 2024 Golden Globes, which received mostly negative reviews from critics and viewers. After previously telling “GMA 3” that he “fell a little short” as host and had an “off night,” the stand-up comedian now joined the Los Angeles Times to weigh in on the biggest controversies generated by his hosting job.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kristen Stewart is Variety’s Sundance cover star and said while recording a “Know Their Lines” video that she “hated” making “Charlie’s Angels,” the Elizabeth Banks-directed action-comedy that flopped at the box office in fall 2019. Stewart was joined in the film by Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska. While reviews were mixed, Stewart’s performance as the rebellious Sabina earned widespread acclaim.

With Marvel Studios having an incredibly rough 2023, you have to wonder if any of the previous films will get a bit of a reconsideration. The one that springs to mind most is “Eternals.” At the time, there were people who swore “Eternals” was the worst thing Marvel had ever produced.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Barry Keoghan has successfully made the jump from Oscar-nominated actor to internet thirst trap/boyfriend thanks to the success of “Saltburn.” Emerald Fennell’s thriller has turned the 31-year-old actor into a new kind of sex symbol thanks to scenes in which he slurps Jacob Elordi’s bathwater, has sex with a grave and goes full frontal for an extended long take in which he dances to “Murder on the Dancefloor.” The actor told GQ magazine that he’s finally being seen as a man and not just a “freak child” in the aftermath of “Saltburn,” and it feels good. Sometimes you just have to let your manhood all hang out. “It’s nice, man,” Keoghan said.

GQ, the Saltburn star recounted the ordeal, which took place just before production started on his BAFTA-winning movie The Banshees Of Inisherin.The 31-year-old shared one in five cases of the disease are fatal and that amputation was a potential option. He reportedly said to the doctors: “But I’m not gonna die, right?” to which they responded, “Well, we don’t know.”Necrotising fasciitis is usually caused by an infected wound, and is often known as the ‘flesh-eating disease’ as it results in the death of parts of the body’s tissue.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Manilow opened up about those days, clearing up some misconceptions about his time in the baths.“What do you think, they were fucking in front of us?” the singer asked the interviewer, perhaps joking. He went on to say that those in attendance were “just an audience. A great audience, too.”Why did Manilow decide to perform in such a sexualized venue? It’s simple – like so many other musicians trying to make it, he needed the money.

graveyard scene in his brand-new film “Saltburn” was fully improvised. “I wanted to see what Oliver would do next,” Keoghan, 31, said on the red carpet for the 2024 Golden Globes, per Deadline. “I wanted to see what the next level of obsession was.”“And by that [I mean], I just wanted the camera to roll,” the “Dunkirk” star continued.

Barry Manilow is revealing what it was like keeping his sexuality a secret for decades.

Apparently, Brittany Mahomes isn’t as generous as her new best friend, Taylor Swift, when it comes to tipping at times!

Stuart Miller Da’Vine Joy Randolph had grown weary of scripts that offered her shallow or one-dimensional characters. “I’ve felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself,” she says. Then she was sent David Hemingson’s script for “The Holdovers,” for the role of Mary Lamb, who works in the cafeteria of a prep school for the wealthy, soldiering on even as she mourns the death of her sonin Vietnam. “I was so overjoyed to read this character, someone who was really struggling, but also trying to persevere in spite of her situation,” says Randolph, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for her performance in “Ghost: The Musical.” She has since appeared in everything from “Dolemite Is My Name,” “High Fidelity” and “Only Murders in the Building” to “The United States vs.