Taylor Swift was up. Elon Musk was in, out, and in. Tom Cruise was back. BTS stepped aside, and so did Serena Williams, and Tom Brady too -- oops, scratch that. OK, so maybe it wasn't on the level of a moon landing, or selection of a pope.
It was a year of celebrity #MeToo cases like Harvey Weinstein , R. Kelly , Kevin Spacey, Paul Haggis, Danny Masterson. And the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, its every excruciating turn captured on TV. Will audiences one day find Cruise -- or the Stones, for that matter -- too wrinkled and past the sell-by date? Maybe so, but not this year.January It's Golden Globes time. But is a Globes with no telecast, boozy celebs or red carpet a Globes at all? The embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association, reeling from stunning failures over diversity, holds a private event and plans a comeback in 2023.
April It's Grammy time, and Jon Batiste wins big, taking five statuettes. The musician's huge year will later include performing at the first state dinner of the Biden administration, for French President Emmanuel Macron. The next day Macron will meet with Musk who begins his acquisition of Twitter this month, leading to untold -- and still unfolding -- changes at the social media giant.
July Only one wedding, Britney? Bennifer has two! Maybe what happens usually stays in Vegas, but not when you have 227 million followers on Instagram. With a winking reference to being a"Sadie" Jennifer Lopez directs fans to her newsletter where she shares pics of her quickie wedding to Ben Affleck."Love is beautiful," she writes."And it turns out love is patient.