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Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited autobiography is going to be released next month. Fans of Streisand have been waiting for her book for decades. In the 1980s, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, editor at Doubleday, tried to use her celebrity to get Streisand to pen her memoirs, but the diva demurred, waiting for decades before releasing her story, My… Read more: Her Name Is Barbra

With the massive success of her latest hit, “Padam Padam,” Kylie Minogue has proven that she has longevity and is still able to do battle on the pop radio with starlets who grew up listening to her music. Like her peers Madonna and Janet Jackson, Minogue has created some of the most indelible and fabulous… Read more: We Can’t Get Her Out of Our Heads

I’ve been writing for the Vault, on and off (mostly on), for 25 years. My 25th anniversary is sometime this month. I wanted to do something to commemorate the occasion, as frankly it was against the odds that I’d even still be here. I considered several ways to celebrate; skywriting was too expensive, a Times… Read more: 25 Desert Island Discs

A documentary film, obviously, is meant to tell a story. A good documentary keeps the viewer locked into every moment, and leaves them disappointed when it finally ends. Dio: Dreamers Never Die is not a good documentary. It is a great one. Anyone who has read Ronnie James Dio’s autobiography will probably not find many… Read more: Dio: Dreamers Never Die

The best songwriters are natural storytellers with an intuitive grasp of how to frame and describe an idea or situation in a way that draws the listener in with a handful of carefully chosen words. That holds true whether they are writing about the lives of imaginary characters, real people, or themselves. Beyond that particular… Read more: If It Takes A Lifetime