Courted

If you see Molly Lewis at a soiree and ask her to whistle a tune, she’ll probably decline. After a martini her game can be off – just as you might have slurred when making the request.Generally she’s not precious. “As long as I can breathe, I can whistle,” Lewis says with an ever-present smile. “I knew this whistler who wouldn’t kiss his wife two weeks before a competition. I think kissing is beneficial, actually. It strengthens the lips.”When you don’t write lyrics, this is the alternative analysis one must…

Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, who shot to fame in 1990 with a shaved head and the Prince-written hit “Nothing Compares 2 U,” then cemented her place in pop culture by shredding a picture of the pope on “Saturday Night Live,” has died.The death of the soulful, complicated star, whose mental health struggles often eclipsed her art, was announced in a family statement Wednesday issued to the BBC. She was 56. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are…

via Gramercy Pictures Having presumably run out of viable Japanese horror movies to remake, Hollywood decided to build one of its own from the ground up with 2016’s The Forest, only to walk headlong into controversy. Unfolding in the Aokigahara forest, criticisms were aimed at director Jason Zeda’s film for trivializing the number of suicides to have taken place on the grounds, as well as being disrespectful to those who died there. Racial insensitivity and the uneasy mining of countless tragedies were a…