The Academy Awards can be a fraught affair. When many of the world’s biggest stars gather to be validated for their artistry, the tension of parsing...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube In seemingly every crevice of the 97th Academy Awards, there was music, or a reminder...
Most Gravity Defying Opener: ‘Wicked’ When it was announced that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo would perform at the Oscars, it was assumed they would sing...
In the words of Glinda, pink goes good with green. After months of method dressing, “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo both arrived on the...
Who is nominated? The Spanish-language narco-musical “Emilia Pérez” leads the pack with 13 nominations, followed by Brady Corbet’s epic drama “The Brutalist” and the gravity-defying musical...
Who is nominated? “Wicked,” which leads all films with five nominations, will go up against the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” (four), ““Emilia Pérez” (three),...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. Ariana Grande: “R.E.M.” Singer Grande, to fans; three letters. Thanks to the commonly used collections of letters...
In “Love Hurts,” Ke Huy Quan plays a cheery, cookie-baking real estate agent who has tried hard to forget his past life as an assassin. Ariana...
Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, who lives in Lisbon and owns a graphic design business, said writing parody songs is a longtime passion of hers, and she often pens...
Sometimes, when I poll Oscar voters about the films and performances they plan to nominate, they turn the tables on me. “What do you want to...
