Month: July 2020

Singer Sia opened up about her relationship with Maddie Ziegler, sharing in a recent interview that she once protected the dancer from disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein. In discussion with Zach Sang on his eponymous radio show, the 44-year-old talked about how she loves Ziegler, who starred in her 2014 video for “Chandelier,” as “a mother” and acts sort of like her “bodyguard.” “As soon as I met Maddie, I felt this extreme desire to protect her and I think that it was part of my own healing,” said Sia in the interview. “I felt just extreme compulsion to protect her and yet the irony is that I didn’t want to be famous and I threw this child into the spotlight and she would say to me, ‘Don’t be silly, I was already famous and I wanted to be famous.’ And I say, ‘And you know i...

We do have to provide just a bit of a warning though, especially if you’re a newcomer whose been in quarantine with a Hamilton fan through the past couple of months. If you haven’t experienced any of the songs, plot points, and memes that have overtaken the internet in the past couple of years, this could be you while your companion rocks to every note they’ve memorized by heart:

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The smash-hit Broadway musical Hamilton arrives in movie form on Disney+ this weekend, making it accessible to more people than ever before. And with this glossy composite recording of the show comes a long-standing public debate: Is Hamilton a brilliant, visionary reframing of the narrative of America; a revisionist apologetic paying undue worship to the founding fathers; or an unholy mix of both? The timing of the film adaptation’s arrival helps to renew this argument. Disney+ is releasing Hamilton just in time for the Fourth of July, appropriate for the musical’s trappings of lavish patriotism. It also drops in concert with the most intense US political protests in recent memory — protests whose spirit the musical, by centering actors of color in a racebent narrative about revolu...

Canadian sportscaster Dan O’Toole announced that his 1-month-old daughter Oakland is safe hours after revealing she had gone missing Thursday night. “My baby Oakland has been found and is said to be safe,” he wrote on Twitter. “Police informed me at 12:07am. I still have not seen Oakland or held her. To those that have decided to attack me for fearing for my daughters safety, I don’t know what to say.” The good news came after O’Toole, 44, a former Fox Sports personality and current TSN host, posted a photo of Oakland with a plea later Thursday evening. “My baby Oakland. I’m praying that whoever has you, is holding you. That whoever has taken you from me, is protecting you,” he wrote on Instagram. “That however [sic] has you, let’s you come back into my arms. I love you Oakl...