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For Ari Leff, success brought with it anxiety, loneliness and alcohol dependence. It took accepting himself, and exploring his sexuality, for him to rediscover the joy of creating music An hour before we meet for lunch, I watch the LA-based pop star Lauv make his return to the Radio 1 Live Lounge. On the eighth floor of BBC Broadcasting House, he performs a stripped-back, two-track set: the first song, one of his own, Love U Like That, released in August, is followed by a heart-wrenching cover of Miley Cyrus’s coming-of-age ballad Used to Be Young. “The more I sing it,” Lauv says of his...

Ever since he was a boy, the director has wanted to make a gory movie about the holiday. “Thanksgiving” is adapted from his 2007 faux trailer.

A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.

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