It’s scenes from an Italian living room. Long Island rockstar and Billy Joel collaborator Mike DelGuidice opened a concert hall that’s become a home away from home, featuring his family piano, furniture, and a touching section dedicated to his late dog and “best friend,” Max. “I really wanted this to be a family,” DelGuidice told … Read more
Nell Smith, the young Canadian singer who collaborated with The Flaming Lips, has died at the age of 17. Her family confirmed the tragic news on Monday in an Instagram statement. “It pains us so much to say that our feisty, talented, unique, beautiful daughter was cruelly taken from us on Saturday night,” began the … Read more
The feeling when one of your biggest hits is played, 35 years later, in the biggest blockbuster of the summer. That’s the kind of puffed-out chest you’d expect Patrick Leonard would be flexing right about now — after “Like a Prayer,” the 1989 smash that he co-wrote and co-produced for Madonna, was featured in an … Read more
Richard Simmons was famous for revolutionizing the workout world by “Sweatin’ to the Oldies.” And before his death on July 13 — a day after celebrating his 76th birthday — the fitness guru was toning up tunes for a musical about his legendary life with longtime Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard. “He had sent me some … Read more
Fred Roos, a casting director and producer who championed the early careers of A-list actors like Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Carrie Fisher, and whose long collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola and his family, stretching from “The Godfather” (1972) to this year’s “Megalopolis,” earned him an Oscar and an Emmy, died on Saturday at his … Read more
Rapper Theophilus London, who has collaborated with Kanye West and other big-name musicians, has been reported missing by family and friends who say they haven’t heard from him since July. London, 35, hails from Trinidad and Tobago and recently called Los Angeles home. His family filed a missing person’s report Tuesday with the LAPD, according … Read more