Recording Academy chief Neil Portnow has clarified his controversial statement about the Grammy’s decades-long failure to acknowledge and award female musicians. When asked about it after Sunday night’s show, Portnow told a reporter that “[women need] to step up because I think they would be welcome,” a statement that incited
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My life can be divided into two eras: Before I demanded to play Phantom Thread at a pregame, and after.Jonny Greenwood’s incredible score alternates between spooky and sprightly, elusive and extravagant. Not even the sound of buttering one’s toast (which, for the record, usually does sound as grating as riding
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Lorde was the lone woman nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys this year and she went home empty-handed, like most women did last night. Adding insult to injury, hours before the show it was reported that Lorde was the only artist in the AOTY category denied the
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Eyes, hair, mouth, figure, dress, voice, style, movement, hands, magic, rings, glamour, face, diamonds, excitement, spon-con. Before appearing at the Grammys last night to casually slay “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” Patti LuPone stopped by the Grammy gift lounge, a magical place where celebrities smile next to products they will
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We often ask if art can change the world. A fascinating case of the world changing art just cropped up in an incident initiated by the Trump White House. Last year the Guggenheim Museum received a request from First Lady Melania Trump and the Office of the Curator of the
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Very few woman went home with a Grammy last night. And, according to Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, the way to solve that problem is through women stepping up.Alessia Cara was the only woman presented with a televised Grammy, taking home the award for Best New Artist; Lorde, the only
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Suddenly, all of those U2 performances at this year’s Grammys make sense — they just needed multiple opportunities to see Cardi B. She wasn’t to be found on that barge in the middle of the Hudson because Cardi, a native New Yorker, knows that would be risking life and limb.
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Kate Winslet seems to have addressed sexual-abuse allegations against her Wonder Wheel director Woody Allen. While accepting a prize at the London Critics’ Circle film awards, Winslet alluded to Allen, who has been accused of molesting his daughter Dylan Farrow: “I wouldn’t be able to stand here this evening, and
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