Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Peter Bart: An Autopsy Of Dead-On-Arrival ‘Amsterdam’ Reveals Worries For Other Grownup Fall Releases
deadline.com“Every movie needs a rabbi,” the great and grumpy Robert Altman once warned fellow filmmakers. “You need at least one important critic to champion your cause.” Altman found Pauline Kael as his advocate for Nashville, but his warning seems relevant this week given the disastrous opening of Amsterdam, an $80 million-plus project that failed to find either a champion or an audience ($6.5 million opening weekend).
Having worked with Altman from time to time, I personally witnessed his quarrels with studio management over budgets, schedules and inept marketing strategies.
With a gifted cast and an accomplished director, Amsterdam is a darkly entertaining movie — its opening scene is a disturbingly meticulous autopsy.
Its dead-on-arrival box office total, however, has prompted deep concerns for other films aimed at post-Marvel ticket buyers — even The Fabelmans from Steven Spielberg.
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