Chris Azzopardi
Graffiti Fix
Gorgeous, talented and British – of course Jamie Scott has a gay following. The 27-year-old dreamboat fronts U.K. group Graffiti6, a folktronica hybrid rooted in Motown and trippy art-pop that dropped their full-length debut, "Colours," this [...]
INTERVIEW: Madonna Talks 'Tired, Old' Reinvention Label, Being Judged
With all of Madonna's metamorphoses throughout her balls-out career, slipping in and out of cultural zeitgeists (and accents), the queen chameleon is still the master of reinvention. Just don't tell her that. "Please don't throw those tired, old [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Glenn, Close Up
Man, Glenn Close feels like a woman, but she sure doesn't look like one in her new gender-bending movie. In "Albert Nobbs," the actress – known especially to gay audiences for her role in the 1995 film "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe [...]
Hear Me Out: Graffiti6 shows true 'Colours'
Graffiti6, 'Colours' Everyone's talking about the hotness of Jamie Scott, frontman for breakout duo Graffiti6. And sure, the boyish-cut fella could probably get away with slapped-together crap as long as he sang it in that pudding-smooth bluesy [...]
Meryl Streep talks being a gay icon
Nothing can stand in the way of the almighty Meryl Streep – except on this particular afternoon. At a New York City hotel, in front of a room full of journalists from mainstream press, she braces herself for what could be the ultimate career [...]
Hear Me Out: Special LIVE Edition
Adele, 'Adele Live at the Royal Albert Hall' Adele sings sad love songs, but when she speaks? The British belter is a cursing firecracker (so much so that there's an "edited" version of this package; don't get it) with a biting sense of humor and [...]
Hear Me Out: Top 11 Albums of 2011
11. Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' Music masterpiece? Not quite. But the Lady of the dance-pop pantheon sure knows how to do brain-raping hooks – you got me, "Edge of Glory" – and indulgent throwbacks to '80s schlock. For goodness sake, she sings about [...]
The Help' DVD Review
Come Jan. 15, one film – Disney's adaptation of best-selling book "The Help" – could walk away with four Golden Globes (it's nominated for five, but two in the same category). Its chances? Damn good. Besides being socially conscious and [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Mary J. Blige Talks Gays, God and Going to Strip Clubs
You could say this is Mary J. Blige's second life. Her first, candidly chronicled on her confessions-of-a-wreck album "My Life," was an early glimpse into one of the biggest singing superstars in the world, who not only went public with her pain [...]
Rihanna's worst album yet. Plus: Mary J. Blige's second 'Life'
Hear Me Out Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk' Rihanna doesn't beat around the bush – and that's not meant to be a dirty-minded pun, though her sixth, and worst, studio album is full of them. She's sex on CD, recording some of her raunchiest come-ons [...]
Michelle Williams shines in 'My Week With Marilyn'
Some like it hot, and some like it with a little more oomph. "My Week With Marilyn," an Oscar shoo-in for the ever-fabulous Michelle Williams, is remarkably made to appeal to whatever Marilyn you adore. This Marilyn, shooting a feature by Sir [...]
DVD Lowdown: 'Beginners' gets to the heart of the matter
Beginners Love is at the quirky core of writer/director Mike Mills' brilliantly heart-on-sleeve "Beginners." Feeling it, expressing it, avoiding it – they're themes heartedly woven into a narrative about grief, starting over and how to react [...]