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Juan Rodriguez: The modern hit factory runs on the sound of science
“Ordinary domestic life needs its bliss points,” New Yorker writer John Seabrook says in his new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. These bliss points, so essential to a three- or...
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Doug Camilli: Seniors may be taking over 50 Cent's palace
Rapper 50 Cent, scrambling around desperately to find the money to pay his creditors, has finally found a buyer for his 52-room mansion in Farmington, Conn. But he’ll get only US$8 million for the...
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In Entertainment: Adams' guitar defaced by Cairo officials, BET to honour...
Bryan Adams is less than impressed with customs officials at the Cairo airport: they defaced his 1946 Martin guitar with a green paint inscription when he was leaving Egypt. Adams had been in Cairo for...
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Doug Camilli: Why did the Weeknd abandon Rihanna?
What’s the deal with the Weeknd ditching Rihanna’s tour? You saw the news, right? Officially, he’s blaming “unforeseen changes with upcoming projects.” He had been scheduled to open for RiRi at 32...
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Review: Rihanna's show more coronation than pop-music disruption
Although billed as the Anti World Tour, Night One of a pair of Rihanna shows at the Bell Centre did not rage against the conformist pop machine as much as our host had perhaps intended. In front of a...
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Doug Camilli: 50 Cent buys his way out of trouble
There’s bankrupt, and then there’s bankrupt. Consider 50 Cent, who filed for protection from creditors last year, after some adverse court decisions left him liable to pay out millions. But now he has...
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Doug Camilli: Cufflinks reveal the real Trump, Charlie Sheen says
Charlie Sheen tells British talk show host Graham Norton that he has Donald Trump figured out: “I was once in a restaurant with my then-wife Brooke and he came up … to say that he would like to give me...
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Céline Dion impersonates Sia and other pop stars with Jimmy Fallon
Céline Dion was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night where the host invited the singer to perform musical impressions of popular artists. Dion was a good sport playing the Wheel of...
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Doug Camilli: Stranger Things star gets an agent, but no bonus
Millie Bobby Brown’s father was demanding an up-front $100,000 from talent agencies, remember? Well, the Hollywood Reporter says the young star of Stranger Things has now signed with William Morris...
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Celebrity Rap: Rihanna and Prince Harry in Barbados, Gomez rules Instagram,...
Rihanna takes HIV test with Harry Prince Harry joined Rihanna in celebrating 50 years of independence for her native Barbados. The prince, visiting the sixth of seven nations on a two-week Caribbean...
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