PEOPLE
Beyoncé has deigned to be interviewed, and it was her Beyhive of fans who were given the rare honor.
The pop superstar fielded burning questions submitted via email and social media for the January 2020 issue of Elle magazine. The cover story, published Monday, was formatted as an “Ask me anything” Q&A rather than a traditional profile.
Still, the text (and subtext) was very much governed by the notoriously image-controlling artist. The open-ended questions and answers focused on her legacy, specifically when it comes to running an empire and a household.
“The Lion King” star, 38, opened up about why she, as the chairwoman and CEO of Parkwood Entertainment, keeps a firm grip on her projects (or as the fan put it, “own your narrative as an artist and creator”): “The more I mature, the more I understand my value,” the “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” singer said. “I realized I had to take control of my work and my legacy because I wanted to be able to speak directly to my fans in an honest way. I wanted my words and my art to come directly from me. There were things in my career that I did because I didn't understand that I could say no. We all have more power than we realize.”
Fox News has named Bill Hemmer to succeed Shepard Smith as the anchor of its afternoon program “Fox News Reporting.” Hemmer has been with Fox News since 2005, joining from CNN, where he made his reputation covering the Gulf War. He has been co-anchor of the Fox News mid-morning program “America's Newsroom.” Hemmer will move to the 3 p.m. Eastern broadcast on Jan. 20, when the program will be renamed “Bill Hemmer Reports.”
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo and Albania say they will boycott the Nobel Literature Prize ceremony Tuesday to protest the award being given to Austrian writer Peter Handke who both countries link to the war in the former Yugoslavia.Handke was an opponent of NATO's airstrikes against Serbia in the Kosovo War of the late 1990s and spoke in 2006 at the funeral of autocratic Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.Kosovo's outgoing foreign minister, Behgjet Pacolli has instructed the ambassador in Sweden “to boycott the ceremony,” adding that “a writer who supported Milosevic and his genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo does not deserve the Nobel Prize.”In solidarity with Kosovo Albanians, Albania's ambassador to Sweden won't attend Tuesday's Nobel ceremony, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
