Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east

The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired Here is a documentary that has a very important story to tell, maybe more important than it feels comfortable admitting. It’s about two separate subjects – or maybe three: Wham!, China and film-maker Lindsay Anderson. A superpower nervously edging towards western-style openness, a pop band nervously doing what needed to be done to make it big in the US, and a great film director, needing the money, taking on a project he didn’t really believe in. In 1985, Wham!’s beetle-browed manager Simon Napier-Bell had a cunning plan for how George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley could break the US: Wham! would be the first ever western pop band to perform in mainland China. They would play where the Beatles, the Stones and Elvis had never played, and the resulting global publicity would launch them into the US. (He was right – it did.) In our modern ag...

Amber Heard spoke about the persecution and threats due to the trial with Johnny Depp

Amber Heard said that she was persecuted and humiliated because of the trial with Johnny Depp. Actress and model Amber Heard spoke about the bullying and threats she faced because of the trial with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. The Wrap reports it. The artist said that she was constantly harassed and humiliated. "People want to kill me and tell me about it every day," she said. According to Heard, her child was threatened to be put in a microwave oven, and Depp promised that if she left him, he would make her remember him "every day of her life." "It may be easy to forget, but I am human. And although Johnny said that I deserved it, I don't deserve it," the actress concluded. In court, Heard stated that Depp cheated on her and used physical and psychological violence. Her sister Whitney Henriquez recalled that there were always fights between the stars when the actor was drinking or using drugs. At first, Amber was Amber: she was loud, funny, funny, very funny, very happy, bright, funny, and loving. The changes took a long time. It was like watching a slow-motion shot. According to Enriquez, the stars were initially "incredibly in love," but whenever Depp took drugs, a fight broke out between them. The woman claims that the artist beat her and his wife. She says Amber Heard has changed a lot because of her husband's control. In addition, Heard's sister revealed that she spent the night at the couple's penthouse in 2015. They had another quarrel, during which Depp first hit his nurse and threw a can of energy at her and then hit Enriquez in the back. Later, he began to pull Heard by the hair and beat her in the face, calling his wife and her sister whores. Enriquez claims that after the incident, Depp left a non-disclosure agreement on her desk, which she did not sign.

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