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Galt MacDermot, who composed the hit Broadway musicals Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona, died Monday, a day before his 90th birthday.His death was confirmed toPlaybillby his granddaughter, though a cause of death was not revealed. After cutting records in the early part of the Sixties, including the Grammy-winning “African …

A few days before Thanksgiving, Jered “Threatin” Eames, a waifish, black-clad 29-year-old with a whip of Ariana-length hair, sinks into his hotel-suite chair in West Hollywood. He looks pale and sickly, recovering from a 13-hour Frankfurt red-eye and the craziest week of his life — when he tried living out …

To many, she’s a myth, not a person, so we must ask the age-old question: How does one choose a favorite version of Cher? Luckily for her fans, withThe Cher Show —the new bio-musical that’s now on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre — they don’t have to. We have …

Shakira Kennedy was 27 years old and living in Brooklyn when she found out she was going to have twins. While many women experience morning sickness in their first trimester, Kennedy’s unrelenting cycle of nausea and vomiting was so severe that she ended up in the emergency room multiple times …

Kim Kardashian West discussed the backlash to her White House visit and Kanye West‘s brief relationship with President Donald Trump during an interview with Van Jones at Rolling Stone and Variety‘s Criminal Justice Reform Summit on Wednesday. Over the past few years, Kardashian has become an advocate for criminal justice …

The June 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard captured headlines not simply because of its brutality —Blanchard was stabbed 17 times — but the bizarre story that motivated her killers. Days after 48-year-old Blanchard was found dead in her Springfield, Missouri, home, her daughter, Gypsy Rose, and her daughter’s …

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a controversial new form of the powerful synthetic opiate sufentanil for managing acute pain in adults, just weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee warned that doing so would lead to “diversion, abuse and death.” Sufentanil has been used intravenously since the …

Julien’s Auctions, undeterred by Banksy’s latest prank, announced plans to auction off more works by the street artist in November. “We can’t guarantee that our four Banksy’s will automatically shred or explode but they will sell to the highest bidder,” the auction house’s Darren Julien said in a statement. On …

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio signed a bill that adds a third gender option to birth certificates in the city. Denoted as “X,” the option is intended for gender nonconforming citizens. DeBlasio called the law “an essential example of freedom.” “If you’re denied the right to express …

On Monday’s CBS This Morning, anchor Norah O’Donnell offered the first public comment from the network on the forced resignation of her now former boss, Leslie Moonves. Moonves stepped down as chairman, president and CEO of CBS Sunday night, after the New Yorker revealed that a total of 12 women …