Sacha Cohen Baron WON'T BE Starring, Writing, Directing, and Producing the Freddie Mercury Biopic After All

6:03 AM EDT 3/30/2015

The Queen's the band manager Jim Beach on Thursday night, March 26, at the Artist & Management Awards at London's Troxy used his acceptance speech for the Peter Grant award for outstanding achievement to announce: “You have probably followed the saga of the famous Queen-Freddie Mercury biopic which has been developing in Hollywood for the last seven years. An important breakthrough is that we have now managed to persuade Sacha Baron Cohen to write, produce, and direct this movie, and he has also agreed to star.” Apparently, he was only joking.Read more

Adam Lambert Subs at 'American Idol' Season 14 Audition Judges’ table; Re-Enacts His Own Audition

1:15 AM EST 1/19/2015

The former American Idol contestant recently came back to the show to fill in for Keith Urban, who has taken a brief leave from the show, as a guest judge. What made his guesting stint even more exciting was when Harry Connick Jr. asked the singer to re-enact his own audition, an on-the-spot trip to memory land. "I gotta get something off my chest. Since Adam has been here it's been so amazing. I cannot stop thinking about what you must be thinking sitting behind this desk because you're the only person who's done this on both sides. It's been crazy. You're doing such an amazing job as a judge. I feel like I've missed an opportunity as a judge to hear you audition," he continued. "I would kill if you would audition for us," Connick Jr. tells Lambert during the show quotes Us Weekly.Read more