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10 Old Hollywood Stars Who Became Queer Icons

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Hollywood is poison – and few films understand its horrors like Sunset Boulevard

INSIDE FILM: Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

The Independent UK

Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions

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Nicole Scherzinger thinks fame in her 20s prevented her from growing

Nicole Scherzinger believes that finding fame with the Pussycat Dolls during her 20s denied her an important "time of growth" during her life.

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Nicole Scherzinger on battling her demons, vanity and her critics: ‘I’ve had therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists'

Nicole Scherzinger has gone from pop princess to Tony award-winning stage star. She talks about battling demons, playing the Royal Albert Hall and mastering Scottish humour

Evening Standard

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Scherzinger bows out of Sunset Boulevard

Pop star Nicole Scherzinger has bowed out of Sunset Boulevard following a successful run on Broadway with the singer admitted the show has "has changed me forever".

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Nicole Scherzinger Shows Off Drastic Transformation As Doctors Note Possible Ozempic Side Effect

An expert claimed Nicole Scherzinger may have used a weight-loss medication and used cosmetic injectables to offset the loss of volume in her face.

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Highlights of the Tony Awards: Radio City becomes the room where it happens for a 'Hamilton' reunion

Cole Escola of “Oh, Mary!”

The Independent UK

My work ethic is in my blood, says Nicole Scherzinger

Nicole Scherzinger thinks her heritage is responsible for her work ethic.

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Nicole Scherzinger honoured to be among 'true masters' in Tony Award nominations

Nicole Scherzinger's "heart was full" when she received her first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical .

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Nicole Scherzinger 'trained like an Olympian' for her role in Sunset Boulevard on Broadway

Nicole Scherzinger "trained like an Olympian" for her role in 'Sunset Boulevard' and thinks that the part is the culmination of everything she has "fought" so hard to do in her career.

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Nicole Scherzinger shares thoughts on Pussycat Dolls reunion after cancelled tour

The girl group was founded in 2003 and topped the charts with songs like Buttons, Don’t Cha, and Jai Ho

Evening Standard

Demi Moore in The Substance and five other stars who made self-referential comebacks

Demi Moore played a character close to home in her career-reviving The Substance, but she’s far from the only one, as Will Rogers-Coltman reveals...

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The Guardian - US

‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?

A new Oscar-tipped Netflix film sheds light on the later years of the opera legend, played by Angelina Jolie, and the problems she faced

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss Daisy, Ed Harris takes on Sam Shepard

The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger dazzles audiences in Baku as she takes break from Broadway rehearsals

The singer will reprise her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard in NYC in September

The Guardian - AU

Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical

In her first theatre role in decades, the soprano is simply not up to the task of playing Norma Desmond

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Ready for my close up: Sunset Boulevard makes a return

Renowned singer Sarah Brightman makes her return to the theatre with Sunset Boulevard, the first Australian production of the musical in almost 30 years.

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Nicole Scherzinger Wins Big At London's Olivier Awards

London's Olivier Awards celebrate 'Sunset Boulevard' revival's success with 7 wins, highlighting top talent in theater and concerns over industry challenges.

The Guardian - UK

Wrong Norma by Anne Carson review – unjoined-up thinking at its best

The poet’s new collection of mainly prose pieces on subjects as diverse as Flaubert, snow and Roget’s Thesaurus is a nonstop triumph

Tom’s Guide

5 new to Paramount Plus movies with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

These critically acclaimed hits have arrived on Paramount Plus this month including "Past Lives", "12 Years a Slave" and more.

Evening Standard

Sir Elton John, Nicole Scherzinger, Ruth Wilson and Sir Sam Mendes star at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Nicole Scherzinger shared her delight at winning in our starry celebration of the London stage

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger: Sunset Boulevard ‘truly changed my life’

In Jamie Lloyd’s production of the 1993 musical, Scherzinger plays Norma Desmond, a delusional silent movie star discarded by Hollywood amid the arrival of talking pictures

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