Guy Faulconbridge
By Guy Faulconbridge
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Fast Forward George Michael, British Pop Star With Jewish Roots, Dies at 53
British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday. He was 53. In the mid-1980s, “Wham! was one of the most successful pop duos ever,…
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Fast Forward Queen Elizabeth Caught Performing Nazi Salute as Girl
Buckingham Palace criticized the top-selling Sun tabloid on Saturday for publishing a previously unknown film from 1933 that appears to show Britain’s Queen Elizabeth performing a Nazi salute as a young girl. The black-and-white film from the year Adolf Hitler came to power purports to show the future Edward VIII teaching his nieces, the current…
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