Elton-JohnBritish singer, and Benny AndersonSwedish Abba-Musicians, both 75, copy a copy of their own songs. The two posted a video together on Tiktok, which first shows Andersson playing a well-known sequence from the piano on a piano Abba-Classic “Chiquitita” plays, then Elton John, who plays the Abbatune with tones from his song “Bernie and the Jets” while grinning at the camera. The musicians were reacting to a Tiktok user’s video that had previously gone viral with the mix of the two 1970s hits. “Heard about this little mashup of ‘Bennie and the Jets’ with @Abba and had to get involved,” John wrote on Tiktok. The 13 second clip raises loud Peoplemagazine marks the first musical collaboration between the two artists.
Jane Fonda, 84, US actress warns against cosmetic surgery. “I had a facelift and I stopped because I didn’t want to look distorted. I’m not proud of it,” Fonda told the American Vogue. “I’ll admit that and I’ll say, okay, you can get addicted. Don’t keep doing this.” She assumes that many women are addicted to cosmetic surgery. Money can be helpful if you want to keep your body young for a long time, said the Oscar winner, who is also known for her fitness videos. But “I think we all know a lot of women who are rich and who have had all kinds of facelifts and things like that and they look awful.”
Friedrich Merz, 66, amateur pilot and politician, likes the sound of engines. “Flying was always the dream of my youth,” said Merz brightly colored. “When you push through the cloud cover, see the blue sky and the engines run peacefully – that’s a great joy for me.” He used to not be able to afford a pilot’s license, so he promised his anxious wife that he wouldn’t get his pilot’s license until the children were out of the house. “So it wasn’t until I was 53 that I was able to fulfill that dream.” The fact that his wife Charlotte now also likes to fly with him is “really the icing on the cake” for him. At the beginning of July, the CDU leader and his wife flew to Sylt on a private plane to the wedding of Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner. The flight had triggered a lot of criticism that Merz was sending the wrong signal in times of climate change and global warming.
Mickey Krause, 52, pop singer, never wants to be a father again. In the Sat.1 program “Unser Mallorca – mit Birgit Schrowange” the Ballermann musician reported that he had been sterilized. When asked if he wanted more children with his Uschi (actually Ute), he replied, according to the broadcaster: “Nah, it doesn’t work for me anymore either. If men don’t want children anymore, then you do a vasectomy. I did that.” During a vasectomy, the two vas deferens in the scrotum are severed and the loose ends are closed. This means that sperm can no longer get into the semen.
Janet Yang at the 2014 Huading Film Awards.
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Janet Yang, 66, US film producer, has been elected the new president of the Oscar Academy. The film association, which awards the Oscars every year, announced that Yang will succeed David Rubin, who has held the post since 2019. Bill Kramer, executive director of the Oscar Academy, said in a statement that as an Academy member, Yang has championed diversity, equality and inclusion, among other things.