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Like the coronavirus pandemic, 9/11 brought Broadway to a standstill — until NYC’s mayor took incredible steps to save it. The New York Post’s Broadway columnist MICHAEL RIEDEL recounts the inspiring tale in this excerpt from his upcoming book “Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway.”The summer of 2001 was a heady time for “The Producers.” The show was sold out for the duration of co-stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick’s contracts.

Sir Elton John and his ex-wife Renate Blauel have finally resolved a legal dispute that was caused after the release of the Rocketman biopic and the singer’s autobiography.The couple had a four-year marriage and divorced in 1988, agreeing to follow a series of specific legal arrangements following the separation, however both the book and the acclaimed movie featuring Taron Egerton and Bryce Dallas Howard, discussed some of the topics that were supposed to be kept private between the star and

This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield has addressed a row that happened before former co-presenter Fern Britton exited the daytime TV show.Fern fronted the show alongside Phillip until 2009, before being replaced by Holly Willoughby, though Phillip has shed more light on their falling out ahead of her quitting.Writing in his new autobiography Life's What You Make It, Phillip claims he and Fern had a row in 2009 that he believes led her to quit, the presenter recalling that he was "stunned"

“The Gucci Mane Guide to Greatness.”But it’s not as if the trap music pioneer hasn’t put in his 10,000 hours: He’s put out 20 albums, dozens of mixtapes and a best-selling autobiography. In his newest book (out October 13, Simon & Schuster), Mane, 40, gives self-help a spin, spitting out the facts of life.“People always ask me, ‘Gucci, why don’t you go speak at schools … or do seminars?’ This is my way of doing that,” he writes.

 Priyanka Chopra  had a “very productive” quarantine amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, now that she finally finished her memoir, as she has been working on the project for the last two years, however her schedule would always get in the way.

new book makes it official: We are in the golden age of the celebrity memoir.“The Meaning of Mariah” — published Tuesday and already a critically acclaimed best seller — follows three recent, blockbuster confessionals by female superstars: “Inside Out,” by Demi Moore, “Open Book,”  by Jessica Simpson, and Michelle Obama’s “Becoming.”All four women have broken barriers. Carey holds multiple Guinness World Records, including the most No.

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her much-anticipated memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” out on Tuesday. It’s the first release of a big Mimi week: She’ll also drop a new album, “The Rarities” — a collection of previously unreleased recordings — on Friday.But by then, loyal Lambs — as Carey’s faithful fans are called — will know a lot more secrets about the star from reading her book.

Confess: The Autobiography,” out Tuesday — that California cops covered up for his long-ago arrest for “public indecency” at a Venice Beach restroom.In a book excerpt from Rolling Stone, the heavy-metal legend also relates a tasty affair from the early 1990s, when a then-closeted Halford would head to Camp Pendleton in California for threeways with a bisexual Marine sergeant and his wife — the only woman Halford says he has ever had sex with.“Once the door was shut, we would go at it for hours,”

“I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds” (Harper One), out Tuesday.Judgment about her race happens at work, too. “It really irritated me,” she writes, referring to colleagues who tell her she isn’t black enough or Latina enough.Hostin, whose full first name is Asunción, grew up “really poor” in the South Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and black father who were both teenagers when they had her.

The Venerable Vincent Beattie,” based on his own tween and teen years at posh prep schools.

“The Rock: Through the Lens: His Life, His Movies, His World” (St.

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 Channing Tatum  can add now author to his resume! The “Magic Mike” actor’s latest Instagram post stopped us in our tracks. The 31-year-old posted a photo of his shirtless self wearing a paint-splattered apron, pink wings, a crown eye mask, and blue pants surrounded by unicorn stuffed animals and Barbie dolls.In the photo, Tatum is seen reading a book titled, “The One and Only Sparkella” to one of the unicorns next to him.

 Mariah Carey  is currently promoting her Rarities album and an upcoming memoir called The Meaning of Mariah Carey. For the last two years, Carey has shared stories with her co-writer, Michaela Angela Davis that she hopes will help the world finally understand her.

get romance as a literary genre. But, honestly, if you answered anything else, there's still something for you in your own little corner of the romance novel universe.

"Bad Feminist" sitting in a pile by my bed. Some of the books on this list will teach you about Black history, while others will just make you laugh out loud.

the Telegraph reported.The scholars chronologically ordered the prolific playwright’s 182 sonnets — 154 standalone sonnets as well as the 28 sonnets found in his plays.

three lists of Essential Reads on Feminism.The lists are compiled by age, with one intended for children, one for teens and one for adults. The adult list contains more than 100 nonfiction titles, from former slave Anna K.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight companion novel Midnight Sun has exceeded sales of one million copies in its first week in stores.The new book, a retelling of the supernatural love story from the point of Edward Cullen instead of Bella Swan, reached the total in North America after just one week, publisher Hachete Book Group and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced Thursday.The combined sales figure includes pre-orders, sales of print books, ebooks and audiobooks.

 Adele  has been focusing on herself and finding ways to truly live her best life. Earlier this year, the Grammy award-winning artist made headlines from working with a personal trainer and watching what she ate which led to a drastic weight loss.

Twilight books and that the planning process has already started for both. "There are two more books I think in the world that I want to write," she said during the Q&A, according to .

 Rihanna  has proved that she excels at any venture she undertakes.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight companion novel Midnight Sun has exceeded sales of one million copies in its first week in stores.

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Xena: Warrior Princess.”You would say, “Yes, Katie Hill—the one who resigned after her pictures were leaked.” If you know of Hill, you know a handful of the most traumatic and personal facts about her life. You don’t know that she identifies with a protagonist (Sir Alanna of Trebond, of course) or that she has or that in a which included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, it was she who was elected to represent the group to leadership.

Twilight. Bella was drawn to Edward's mysterious nature and Edward became slightly obsessed with Bella after realizing he couldn't read her mind.

Catherine Conelly is a former beauty editor turned freelance writer whose work has appeared on Shape, Thrillist, PopSugar and more. “For the last few months, I've been raving to anyone who will listen about Writers & Lovers by Lily King.

Twilight “TEAM EDWARD” t-shirt that would express the seriousness with which I would give my body to a fictional vampire if he came to life and arrived in my 8th grade classroom? Would the world finally understand why I HEARTED Edward and did NOT heart Jacob? Could eternal truths be imparted via a men’s medium?The first book of the Twilight came out in 2005, and for a certain group of people—a diverse, obsessive cohort dominated by young women—it quickly became more important than food, more

will be published by Penguin Random House in October.“It seemed fitting because ‘Goodnight Moon’ takes place exclusively in one room or home, and that is how I felt about quarantine,” Rechler, who’s been quarantining with a 2- and a 4-year-old in a Manhattan apartment since March, told Jewish parenting site Kveller.

in a 2019 blog post of the convention, “you have here my formal written permission to imprison me in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid, until I’m done.

Obsession and other bad movies and a shared interest in denim skirts.Since then, as Friedman has returned to California and Sow has found her professional footing in New York, they’ve forged what they call a big friendship—one that has changed them both, made them interrogate their own behavior, and helped them become better friends not only to each other but to others as well.

If we've learned anything at all from Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and Elite, it's that high-school drama is never just high-school drama: Frequently there's murder involved! And okay, maybe (thankfully) that trope doesn't stand up to reality, but in the context of fiction, is there honestly anything juicier than beach parties gone bad? "Rich prep-school kids with skeletons in their closets" is one of our favorite genres here at Cosmo.

A Star is Bored” by Byron Lane (Henry Holt & Co.), out Tuesday, is about an assistant and his famous boss, this book is more of a sweet goodbye and an ode to friendship than a skewering — yet it delights nonetheless.The book is a roman a clef based, in part, on Lane’s experience as a personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, who died in December 2016 at age 60.

Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. The book will be available for purchase on August 11.

based on the book by Curtis Sittenfeld, comes from “The Affair’ co-creator Sarah Treem, Fox 21 Television Studios and studio-based the Littlefield Company.“Rodham” imagines an alternative history where Hillary Rodham never marries Bill Clinton and asks what would have happened to her life and our country, if she had made a different choice.