67 Celebrities You Might Not Know Are LGBTQ+ - Stacker
Mar 22, 2023 · Ariana Grande has been a controversial figure in the LGBTQ+ community ever since her song "Monopoly" came out in 2019. For many it raised the question of whether or not the pop star herself was bisexual, while others criticized her for "queer baiting," which is when celebrities drop subtle hints at identifying somewhere on …
Songs That Dominated Billboard Charts the Longest | Stacker
Mar 13, 2020 · - Weeks at #1: 7 - Total weeks on chart: 28 - Topped the charts from Nov. 17, 2018, to Jan. 5, 2019. In 2019, Ariana Grande admitted to Vogue that she doesn't remember recording "Thank U, Next" because she was dealing with alcohol abuse and depression following the September 2018 overdose of ex-boyfriend Mac Miller. Recorded a month after Miller's death, the empowering song lyrics, based on ...
100 Greatest Movie Quotes From 100 Years of Film | Stacker
Aug 13, 2020 · - Quote: "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." - Character: George M. Cohan - Actor: James Cagney. Released in 1942, this story about the composer of America's most patriotic songs, became easy propaganda to get the U.S. in a rousing mood for World War II.
Top 100 TV Shows of the '60s - Stacker
Apr 21, 2023 · On May 9, 1961, the newly elected chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Newton Minow, gave his first speech at a meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C.After praising the professionals in the broadcasting industry and laying out his belief that television should uphold the public interest, he infamously slammed the state of the medium as a "vast ...
The Best Movies of 2024 So Far - Stacker
Feb 20, 2024 · Despite predictions that the domestic box office would take a huge hit in 2024 thanks to the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes that dominated much of the second half of 2023, the movie business has chugged along just fine. As of Dec. 11, total ticket sales currently sit at roughly half a billion dollars less than last year, but it's projected that 2024 will end up ...
Best Christmas movies of all time, according to critics
Dec 6, 2023 · - Director: Joe Swanberg - IMDb user rating: 5.4 - Metascore: 70 - Runtime: 82 minutes. Mumblecore extraordinaire Joe Swanberg turned in another mostly improvised film with "Happy Christmas," which stars Anna Kendrick as an irresponsible woman named Jenny moving in with her older brother (Swanberg) and his wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey).
50 Best Space Movies of All Time - Stacker
Mar 23, 2023 · - Director: George Lucas - Stacker score: 79.3 - Metascore: 75 - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Runtime: 86 minutes "THX 1138" was a failure. That is, until George Lucas gained notoriety for "Star Wars" and fans went back to watch his first film, which depicts a totalitarian dystopia controlled by mind-altering chemicals and an android police force.
100 Best Movies of All Time - Stacker
Sep 22, 2023 · - Director: Marco Tullio Giordana - Stacker score: 90.6 - Metascore: 89 - IMDb user rating: 8.5 - Runtime: 366 minutes "The Best of Youth" follows middle-class Italian brothers Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni) over nearly 40 years, as they come of age and search for meaning amid post-World War II upheaval.
100 Best Movies Based on Books - Stacker
Aug 29, 2020 · Movie adaptations of books have become some of the biggest box office draws around. In the spring of 2024, audiences flocked to theaters for "Dune: Part 2," based on Frank Herbert's iconic 1965 sci-fi novel, making it one of the top-grossing movies of the year with $282 million domestically. Even more recent is the film "Wicked," whose adaptation lineage runs deep: It's based on the hit 2003 ...
Lyrics to 60 famously misunderstood songs, explained - Stacker
Dec 28, 2022 · Every year, when May 1 comes around, there's a meme on the internet that's almost impossible to escape: the misheard lyrics of NSYNC's hit song "It's Gonna Be Me." The joke sees "me" replaced with the commonly misheard "May," due to lead singer Justin Timberlake's exaggerated pronunciation, which was at the request of the song's writers, as he revealed in September 2023.