Elton John says he has been helping American rapper Eminen fight drug problems for more than a year.
John told BBC Radio Saturday that as a recovered drug abuser he is happy to help people if they want the assistance but drugs make people so cocky and arrogant that they often reject help.
John says Eminem is succeeding in his well-publicized battle against substance abuse.
British writer Ali Shaw drew inspiration from fairy tales for his debut novel and to magical effect, with “The Girl With Glass Feet” published to great acclaim.
The novel will be published in the United States in January.
The novel, which has been short-listed for the Costa First Book Award, is a set in a snowbound, remote land where winged creatures and albino animals live and Ida MacLaird is slowly turning into glass when she falls in love.
Terry Gilliam has endured so many obstacles on his films, his life story could be the stuff of some cosmic filmmaker’s wild fable about a hamstrung artist, titled “The Curse of Gilliam.”
His latest, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” seemed doomed after star Heath Ledger died midway through the shoot.
Tiger Woods is reportedly yachting to the Bahamas for the holidays to escape the firestorm over his sex scandal while his wife Elin is said to be off back to Sweden for Christmas with her family.
“Hes devastated at everything he has lost,” the magazine quoted the source as saying. “He will go through some dark times.
Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with “A Single Man,” the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California.
“It’s funny, because everyone was so supportive,” Ford said. “And now that I’ve made the film, quite a few people have said to me, ‘Isn’t it nice you did that when everyone was laughing at you?’”
The John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting team broke up 40 years ago but their influence lives on in music, pop culture and now in two prominent new books about music.
Hilburn, 70, is a throwback to when music writers such as himself carried enormous influence, and had the access and longevity to get to know musicians better than few in the media do today.
When Peter Sarsgaard looks back on his training, he philosophically says, “I really swallowed that pill.”
Today, he acknowledges a far broader range of influences. As a supporting actor in “An Education,” the low-budget British film about a young girls relationship with an older man, he says he drew on a host of other sources to create his morally ambivalent character.
At 29, Nick Cannon has been a standup comedian, movie star, TV show host, comedy show star, producer and rapper - he may have Diddy beat for the title of mogul with the most hats.
In an interview this week, Cannon talked about the TeenNick Halo Awards, what it’s like to be a network chairman, and trading ideas with his wife, Mariah Carey.
Protests, ads pulled, reported threats — and the second episode hasnt even aired yet.
DiSanto started at MTV as an intern two decades ago, and his team is responsible for hits such as “The Hills” and “Americas Best Dance Crew.” Along the way hes seen the network navigate the occasional controversy.
Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected “Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane,” arrived June 9 on Hear Music.