Idris Elba isn’t the only name being thrown around as Daniel Craig’s successor as James Bond, but it looks like another star rumored to be in contention is just that — a rumor. Soccer star, model, and occasional actor David Beckham was asked about the idea that he could possibly become the next 007 once Craig retires. (Recent odds list him as a longshot, at 250/1.) Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Beckham shot down the idea, but expressed he was flattered by the consideration. Read More...
”It’s a tech version of me,” David Bowie says of the new Internet venture that bears his name, and he isn’t kidding. The striking visuals, an ambitious creative agenda, the quixotic, serendipitous amalgam of the serious and the playfully vapid that are BowieNet (www.davidbowie.com) all evoke Ziggy Stardust. ”It’s such a body of madness, with the chaos of decentralized structure,” Bowie, 51, continues, speaking via phone from his Caribbean retreat. ”Personally, I find it a perfect representation of how I think. Read More...
Don't touch him, he was a real live wire: David Byrne is looking back at Talking Heads' unceremonious split in the early 1990s, admitting that he was a "little tyrant" who could have handled the band's breakup better. "As a younger person, I was not as pleasant to be around," Byrne says in this week's issue of PEOPLE. "When I was working on some Talking Heads shows, I was more of a little tyrant. Read More...
