Show-biz in the pandemic

Music

Tens of artists published new songs this year, many of them dedicated to fans and the difficult period, when millions were quarantined during the peak of the coronary pandemic. In February, pop music sensation, Billie Ellish, who had just kidnapped a Grammy Award and performed on the Oscar Awards evening, just published the song that would be the voice column of James Bond's long-awaited film, my “No, my own to die”. The 4-minute Balada, which bears the same name as the film, is a song about betrayal and despair, written by Elish and his brother, Finneas, and performed by instrumental music.

Meanwhile, young film protagonist James Bond, British actress Lashana Lynch, spoke of his offer to play the first role of an agent 007. Lynch plays the role of Nomi, a patented spy to kill. One of her most famous expressions in the movie is “Bota moved ahead of”, as Bond returns from the asylum and asks if Nomi is also a secret agent of MI6.

In an interview for the magazine “Vatity” in the month of January, producer Barbara Broccoli also spoke about the question they all ask: Who will James Bond be in the future? “may also be colory, but it will without question be male”, Broccoli said. “I'm not particularly interested in whether it will be female or male, but 007 should be a male”.

In March, pop star Lady Gaga published the song that would turn into a hit, “Stupid love”, part of her 6 “Chromatica” album, accompanied by a video shot with an iPhone. On May 22nd, she launched another hit, in her first co-operation with Ariana Grande, under the title “Rain on with”. The song, a dance music hit, won the 2020 song award at TV Video Music Award.

On April 23rd, “The Rolling Stone” fulfilled the fan's wishes, giving the song, entitled “Living in a Ghost Town”, with the video being performed in a totally devastated city during quarantine days.

The song, even more powerful thanks to the text written by Keith Richards, and in the sound of powerful music, is accompanied by images from empty streets and subway stations in London, Los Angelos, Kyoto, and other cities, traditionally loaded every day of the year. On September 9th, fans were able to visit even the first Rolling Stone store in London on the famous “Carnaby Street”. Rolling Stone leader singer Mick Jagger said the project was designed for 2021, but decided to accelerate, conditioned by pandemic. Asked why they chose “Carnaby Street” for their shop, Jagger said he was very close to where the band used to be trained.

In London, the census studio “Abbey Road”, the world's most famous, reopened on June 4th after closing its doors in March due to national quarantine, for the first time in its 90-year history.

On August 14th, Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Lil Durk published their collaboration in the “song. lag Now Cry Lander”. Drake secured first place in Billboard World Championships R&B/Hip-Hop, with his 21st hit over the years, passing the record previously held by Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder.

Bruce Springstein wrote the story, after the song “Letter to You” became an undisputed hit throughout the United Kingdom on October 30th, after his new album was placed first in sales. Meanwhile, even the song “The Boss”, the artist's solo hit stands first in terms of sales of albums in Great Britain for five decades, according to official song classification companies and albums, based on market sales.

Michael Jackson's daughter follows her father's steps in music, after successfully publishing on October 30th her hit, “Let Down” With the text written by Paris Jackson himself, in the songs relate a story that breaks hearts, with alternative and folk music, in its first solo album, “Wilted”.

Australian pop singer Kylie Mingoue returned to the music market after a several-year absence with her disco songs, with a new album, which 52-year-old girl concluded during quarantine days. Its 15th market album is called “Disco” and was launched, November 6th. Immediately, it was turned into the best-selling album in Great Britain and is the first female artist whose album has been sold in Britain for more than four decades.

On November 20th, the South Korean band of music, BTS, published the album “EU” The 7-boy musical band has become a reality sensation over a year, not only in South Korea but worldwide, for which a global fan base has been established, even though the group had been created and marketed since 2013. During 2020, BTS was ranked first in the United States for their hit, “Dynammite”, part of their album, published in August.

The group of boys managed to grab a full 4 prizes at FTV Europe Music Awards on November 8th, including the award for best song of the year with “Dynammite” and the best band of music year, positioning BTS in the world's largest right group.

On December 18th, Paul McCartney published “McCartney III”, a collection of his old, performing and produced by former Beatles, 50 years after publishing his first solo album. Recorded during 2020 in Susexx, south of England, “McCartney III” was built mainly with Paul's live performance, accompanied by guitar or piano, with little bass and battery. The 12th and last album recorded by the legendary group “Beatles”, “Lett it Be” turned 50 in May 2020, while in October, the legend of the group, the late man, John Lennon, would be full of 80.

Cinematography

On March 11 of this year, a Manhattan court sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape. The decision was issued by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Burke. On February 24th, a jury at the Manhattan court announced the producer, once one of Hollywood's most powerful and important figures, guilty of charges of sexual assault on his former production assistant, Mimi Haley, and of raping Jessica Mann, the girl who aspired to become an actress. Weinstein gave a confusing speech in court, when he expressed his sympathy for the males, prompted by the movement that had started in a part of the world, #MeToo, originally by women who accused the former professor of sexual harassment. Weinstein told the court he was trying to be a better man. More than 100 women, including famous actresses, publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, lying in decades. In court, the 68-year-old appeared at the last sessions on wheelchairs or crutches, due to poor health conditions, which unable to walk. Weinstein denied all charges at his address and denied having relations with any female, contrary to her will. Later, in March, Weinstein had a positive result with Avid-19 and moved to serve his sentence at a New York detention centre, to have him under control because of his serious health.

Another storm swept through Hollywood from June to September. While expected for publication in May of a new chapter “The Ickabog”, on the board of J.K. author's stories and stories. Rowling, everything seems to turn against.

Everything was overshadowed by accusations against the famous “author Harry Potter”, for the transphobe, which she denied, but started just from several posts on her own Twitter. Rowling criticised the use of phrases “Men with menstruation” on social networks. Daniel Radliffee, who plays the role of the new magic hero, in the “Harry Potter”, said that “Transgjiral women are women”, following the widespread protest on social networks, following what J.K. himself wrote. In an essay published in June, Rowling defended her right to talk about the issues of transgirators and genders in general, with no fear that her words would be so abused, confessing for the first time that she herself had been the victim of physical and sexual abuse. She wrote in detail how much concerns women's lack of rights, even transgiar ones.

One of the characters in her latest novel, “Troubled Blood”, where a killer kills a woman, is dedicated precisely to a real event of her previous life. In a widespread debate on social media, there were many who opposed the publication of a new novel by it on September 15th, since earlier the British newspaper “Telegraph” had written in a critical, that the morality of the new book was: “Never trust a man in a suit”. Critics of the author of “Herry Potter” accused her that she had openly expressed her prejudice through the transphobia as her supporters defended the author's right to write a “worth”, without fearing public conclusions. “Troubled Blood”, the 900-page book, is the fifth series of its books, published under the name Robert Galbraith.

The famous host Ellen DeGeneres started the new season on television on September 21st, with a public apology to her staff, following news that the media occupied during the summer, that Ellen creates a toxic environment at work in public squares. The 62-year-old herself said things would change and start with her staff, a new chapter. The 3 executive producers of her programme “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” officially left, Warner Bros said in August, after Ellen exercised on them and the rest of the staff, lullism, racism and sexual harassment. During the summer, videos and messages that clearly spoke of the presentation's conduct, where, above all, its inhuman behavior with fellow workers were published. A campaign was launched on social networks, where staff and fans demanded that 62-year-olds be replaced and these requests were publicly supported by famous artists, among them Katy Perry, Kevin Hart, Alec Baldwin and Ashton Kutcher.

The sudden death of the famous Bollivud actor Sushant Singh Rajput, on June 14th, caused a heated debate on mental health, the wild world of Bollivud, while the media mainly in India accused Rajput and girlfriend's family of the death of the actor. Initially, police reported his death as accidental, while local media called it suicide. But the federal police agency has already launched investigations into a possible murder and has asked his girlfriend and other people who may be involved in the event.

On September 8th, my girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Indian Narcotics Department, investigating a drug case that could link him to the death of the actor. She has denied accusations and involvement in drug cases, while her lawyer has called the arrest a principle of justice. Over the months, this story has become an obsession for the media in India, with thousands of reports dedicated to the death of 34-year-old actor found dead in his Mumbai apartment.

Racism in Hollywood

Social media wore black on June 2nd, after the entire music industry and its stars, including Rihanna, Drake, Katy Perry and dozens of others, demonstrated their support for “Baclut Tjeday”. The leading music agencies, which were joined by hundreds of other companies, pledged to interrupt their businesses and co-operate with communities to fight racial inequality, following protests erupted throughout the United States, following George Floyd's death, during police arrest 25 May.

Meghan, Susexx Duchess told of the events that followed Floyd's death, stressing that she herself is concerned about the fact that her children will grow up in a world where racism still exists and strikes hard as violent protests in the United States and further, described them as devastating. Meghan spoke through a recorded video of graduating students at her old school in Los Angeles, which was broadcast on television on June 3rd.

More than 300 film actors and producers, including Idris Elba, Queen Latifah and Billy Porter, asked Hollywood to invest in films and products, which make up the message of antiracism. In an open letter, addressing Hollywood “Aleates”, they attacked what they name “the heritage of white primacy” in this industry, and also say Hollywood has encouraged over the years, the epidemic of police violence and a culture entirely against colored people. The letter, written by a group of Hollywood actors and artists, grouped later in what was called “Hollywood 4 Black Lives” condemned cultural and political racism in the US, a type of systematic racism over the years and called for mass protests against the murder of colored people. Earlier in June, the film dedicated to the civil war, which won an Oscar award, <x6Gone With the Wind”, was removed from broadcasting at HBO Max Streaming. 24 hours later, The movie DVD was the most popular in Amazon.

The film, production of 1939, returned to the HBO broadcast, prompting a debate on its historical context, denouncing the description of the word <x0-racist”>.

The same month, fans of the South Korean group BTS launched a social networking campaign titled #MatchAMilion, aiming to raise funds to seek social justice on many issues in the United States. Called “ARMY”, BTS fans managed to collect $1m on a single day, which in the name of the musical band went as donations to the “Black Livings Matter” movement.

The music Trio “country”, winner of the Grammy Award, Dixie Chicks, changed their name on June 25th, to simply “The Chicks”, in a simple attempt to join the national movement against racism. “We want to become part of the” movement, music bands wrote on its official website, without giving any more explanation. The word “Dixie” was dedicated to the southern states of America, where slavery was legal and then separated, fought as the Confederate of the American States during the Civil War.

The body running the Oscar Awards Academy on September 8th published details about the inclusion and diversity that producer directors will have to meet as criteria so that their work may be worthy to compete for an Oscar award starting in 2024. The Academy of Moion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has been criticised for honouring very few films, actors or colored directors at prices, said these new standards would make Hollywood a new stage for the next five years, in an effort to promote diversity, before and after camera. The new regulations clearly define the number of actors, production staff, marketing or technical staff, which should be color, men and women, people with different abilities or LGBT communities.

American rapper Canye West, once a staunch supporter of American President Donald Trump, announced on 4 July his official candidacy, declaring he will race for the post of US president, in a challenge facing Trump himself and the other rival, from the Democrat camp, Joe Biden. At the first election meeting on July 19th, West spoke harshly against social media, pornography, and abortion, strongly rejecting certain laws that he called inappropriate, and at one point began to cry.

The following day, the American rapper posted a series of talks on social networks, complaining that even his wife, the star of <x0-reality show”, Kim Kardashian, had tried several times to close her husband at medical treatment centres, comparing himself with Nelson Mandela while suggesting that the film “Get O” was based on his real life. All the fury caused in social networks, on charges of his family, but what social media today can do is make a man's life, came just a day after West officially announced the US presidential candidacy in Charleston, South Carolina.

TV show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”, through which Kim and her family became famous but also wealthy since 2007, will end in 2021. The news was reported on September 8th on Kim himself social networks. The show was enough to launch in the fashion world and above all, business, famous Sisters Kyle, Kendall, Khloe and Courtney, along with their mother, Chris Jenner.

In October, Kim Kardashian posted pictures of her 40th birthday celebrations on social networks, stressing that she felt blessed to be able to celebrate her birthday with people who had helped her become the woman she was today.

Kim organized the party, with a close circle of friends and family on a private island, after asking guests to quarantine for two weeks. At the time of quarantine imposed by Coddy-19 and preventative measures to restrict its spread, Kim's luxurious holiday also sparked reactions among the Kardashian family fans.

Hollywood Couple Secrets

On November 2nd, the Hollywood actor Johnny Depp lost the legal battle against the British Pillido “The Sun”, which had earlier named 57-year-old “Dhunting the wife”, following the Supreme Court's decision in London that convicted Depp after constantly hitting his former partner, Amber Herd, and putting her life in danger. In a decision that will greatly damage the career and reputation of the famous actor, Judge Andrew Nicole said she admitted his former husband's accusations, Amber Heard, under which Johnny was violent and had beaten him several times and even exerted psychological pressure on her during the five-year relationship. After the news, the famous actor of the “Caribbean Pearats” indicted the British picture “The Sun” and one of her journalists, Dan Wootton, for an article in 2018, stressing that Depp had been practicing violence against His wife. On 3 weeks, starting on July 7th, at a long session at the London Supreme Court, judges became familiar with the evidence they said Johnny Depp had exercised violence and constant pressure on his wife under the influence of various drugs and alcohol. Depp said after the decision, that she would appeal it, denying the accusations and evidence submitted by actress Amber Heard to the court.

On November 6th, actor Johnny Depp said that at the last moment he was attracted from participating in the film “Fantastic beasts”, after losing the case against the British Pillar. Through the Instagram, the actor said that he was a film studio, Warner Bros, who had asked him to give up his role.

The famous film actress “Depressed domestic” or “Pull House”, Lori Ludlin and her husband, famous designer Mossimo Giannul, were sentenced on August 21, to 2 months in prison. The 56-year-old apologised to Judge Nathan Gorton in Boston, calling her action as a terrible “” after trying to intervene in the student selection commission, thanks to her fame and threats, unjustly. She and her husband were convicted in May because of the fraudulent scheme they had promised to provide money for the University of Southern California, since her diploma had been forged as if her daughter was an athletic champion.

Louis and Giannul were among 55 people, part of the scheme designed so skillfully by consultant William “Rick” Singer. Even the latter admitted to the court that he had cheated dozens of times on student exams for their university admission. My parents, including their other actress Felicity Huffman, were sentenced to prison from 14 days to 2 months. On October 30, Loughlin was sent to the federal prison in southern California to begin serving his sentence.

U.S. Chinese TikTok War

On November 1st, the US Department of Commerce said it would strongly protect an executive order, through which strict and immediate sanctions were imposed on the Chinese company, which owned the TikTok app, even after a federal court decided to stop the move. US President Donald Trump's administration insisted that TikTok was at national risk the data collected by more than 100 million Americans who had already downloaded and run the Chinese app. TickTok flatly denied the charges. But, throughout the U.S., the app had become famous, with millions of teenagers falling in love with it, enough to secure the company's million dollars.

According to Trump's administration, the lives of these youths were at stake. In August, Microsoft said it was in talks with the Chinese company to buy a stake in the social media company, which increased hopes that the US ban on TikTok would be contained.

Stars that joined the Instagram

Sir David Attenborough said for the first time “hello!”, on September 24th, when he joined social networks, to raise problems for environmental developments. The world-renowned British biologist and anchor, now 94 years old, arrived within a few hours in a total of 1 million followers on social networks, thus exceeding the series actress “Friends”, Jennifer Aniston and her famous nudo photo last year.

Of course, his posts and social networking management are followed by members of the team working with him in Netflix documentary, “David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet”. Through it, important environmental issues are targeted, with the message to save the planet from daily challenges. David Attenborough has spent his entire life traveling, exploring places from the most fantastic to the most dangerous on the planet, documenting the living world, its varieties, and its madness. But he is also a living witness to environmental destruction. Today, the salvation of the planet presents a challenge to the world. He wanted to share that message worldwide, even through social networks.

Pornography film actor Ron Jeremy was convicted on October 28th of 7 counts of rape and sexual harassment by 23 victims. Sentence was issued by a court in Los Angeles. Jeremy, 67, one of the biggest names of the adult film industry, was first convicted in June of raping three girls and was formally charged by a fourth for sexual violence. After them came dozens of more, 23 total sentences. Events have occurred at the timeline of 17 years. His victims were aged 15 to 54. Ron Jeremy himself said he was innocent. If he is convicted of 24 more charges weighing on him, he faces a 330-year prison sentence. Jeremy has appeared as a leading protagonist in over 2,000 adult films since the '70s.

British Prince William said he welcomes a new investigation into how the British network The BBC managed to secure the famous 1995 interview with its late mother, following accusations that the princess had been set up for that interview. The investigation will be led by a former Supreme Court judge and will focus on discovering the way the media network managed to provide an interview with Diana and how BBC leaders covered everything that went wrong in that interview.

“An independent investigation is the right step in this direction” said Prince William through a statement. “This will help reveal the truth, the actions that led to the interview in question, and the decisions made by BBC directors at that time”. During his interview with the journalist, Martin Bashir, followed himself to Great Britain at that time by over 20 million viewers, Diane shocked the nation, acknowledging that he had betrayed her husband Charles and had provided intimate details about her failed marriage to what would be the successor of Queen Elizabeth at the head of the royal throne. In November, her brother Charles Spencer said the BBC had failed in its efforts to apologise publicly for what he said was an interview based on false documents Diana was trapped for. BBC Director General Tim Davie said the interview has been completely broadcast, but the investigation will reveal the truth also on the charges of family members of the late princess. /A2