Friday, January 16, 2026

Music

Gwyneth and Mom Headed to Broadway’s Night Music?

Stranger things have happened. There’s some talk on Broadway that replacements are being sought for Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury in “A Little Night...

Saturday is Record Store Day

http://www.recordstoreday.com/ Saturday is Record Store Day around the country. Support your local independent record store! Here in Manhattan the situation is tragic. With the demise...

Whitney Houston Struggles For a Comeback in the UK

Whitney Houston is not having an easy time of it. She opened her tour last night in Birmingham, England after a brief hospitalization in Paris...

Aretha Franklin: New Album, Movie, and (Successful) Diet

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, is on a roll. She’s lost 23 pounds on a new, healthy diet and she looks fantastic. “I’m working on...

Justin Bieber Private Show: Girl Faints, Singer Is So So

Justin Bieber put on a private show last night at the Highline Ballroom in New York City. The 16 year old passing fad — or...

Elvis Is in the Building at Million Dollar Quartet

Elvis is back; did he ever leave? Last night, Mr. Presley arrived on Broadway along with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. “Million...

Spider Man Broadway Show Promised for Fall (Or Winter)

“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” is coming. Really. This fall. Original producer David Garfinkle tells me the $45 million Julie Taymor-U2 extravaganza...

Carly Simon’s Dad Had the JUMP on Everyone

Carly Simon ’s dad, Richard Simon , was the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster (like you didn’t know that). One of Simon’s famous successes was editing and publishing a book by famed Latvian photographer Phillippe Halsman called The Jump Book.” It featured pictures of the great celebs of the day–from Marilyn Monroe t0 Danny Kaye to Richard Nixon, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin –all, well… jumping