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Hollywood for Grownups: Is Celine Dion Ready for Her Vocal Comeback?
Plus, Tina Fey teams up with Carol Burnett, and Jeff Goldblum tackles Oz
(Left to right) Tina Fey, Jeff Goldblum, Carol Burnett and Celine Dion
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These days, nothing — not even medical crises — stops Hollywood stars from reinvention.
Celine Dion in "I Am: Celine Dion."
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Will Celine Dion go back to Vegas?
The superstar chanteuse, 56, whose new documentary I Am: Celine Dion (released on Apple TV+) explores her decades-long battle with stiff person syndrome, a neurological disorder, may come back to Vegas. Her 16-year residency ended two years ago, when she also canceled a world tour. Dion’s longtime stylist Law Roach (who also dresses Zendaya, Kerry Washington and Megan Thee Stallion and who decked out Dion for her surprise moment at this year’s Grammys) sees a notable improvement in Dion’s health. Hosting the recent reopening of the famed Abbey club in West Hollywood (with appearances by Cher, Jean Smart and Ricky Martin), Roach said he was shocked Dion was able to do the Grammys, “which was a very good sign. Her doctors say physical therapy and meds are showing real progress. And she mentioned working with me on new events, concerts — even said she’s talking to Vegas promoters again. We're all praying for her!”
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Jeff Goldblum at The 2024 Met Gala on May 6, 2024 in New York City.
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Jeff Goldblum gets ‘Wicked’
At age 71, the perennially youthful Jeff Goldblum is having a full-blown “Jeffaissance,” as one Hollywood agent calls it, and not just as an actor. Goldblum plays Zeus in the new British series Kaos, a Netflix comic take on Greek mythology coming out this summer. As if one immortal wasn’t enough, Goldblum also plays the Wizard (as in Oz) in Wicked (Nov. 27), and again in Wicked Part Two, out a year later, in which he’ll belt out two songs, we hear. His early New York career included stage musicals, playing jazz piano at gigs and touring with his own Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Maybe that’s where his fashion fixation originated, though friends attribute that to his dancer/gymnast wife, Emilie Livingston, 41. They often go twinning in matching suits. In May, Goldblum wore an Edwardian brooch-covered Prada tux to the Met ball and a suit by Jonathan Anderson at the recent men’s Loewe runway in Paris. “He’s walked the Prada runway,” the agent tells AARP. “But now Jeff’s angling for a Loewe campaign. He’s also written a TV show to host — now that’s likely getting picked up.”
(Left to right) Tina Fey and Carol Burnett
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Tina Fey and Carol Burnett team up
Tina Fey, 54, and Carol Burnett, 91, are teaming up on an Apple TV+ movie from one of Burnett’s memoirs that could be comedy gold. But Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story (Simon & Schuster, 2013), is not one of Burnett’s warm and fuzzy tomes. It’s the memoir of her troubled daughter Carrie Hamilton, an actress/writer who survived addiction — only to die from cancer at age 38. Will Fey play the mother hen? The actress/writer/producer is said to be considering; she worships Burnett. Alan Alda, 88, who starred in, wrote and produced The Four Seasons (1981) with Carol Burnett, is also pitching in. And Fey has asked her husband to get involved: Composer Jeff Richmond (who’s written songs/scores for Mean Girls, Baby Mama and Saturday Night Live) has been moving into exec producer territory on several Fey projects, including her update of The Four Seasons, a new Netflix rom-com series about not-so-conscious uncoupling. “Tina’s always been the boss,” says a source who’s worked with her for many years, “but she’s happier with Jeff backing her up. Now he’s moving into the exec role, so she can concentrate on creatives.”
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